I'm A Big Fan Of Wizards-as-programmers, But I Think It's So Much Better When You Lean Into Programming

The Deadly Game of Life (Year 1) Cover:

Summary: What happens when the survivors of the zombie apocalypse consist of mainly children? Well, they turn it into a game and adapt of course.

Genres: Post-apocalyptic, fantasy, etc.

Quotes From My Characters;

-Captain Ellora Gladstone from 'An Unfortunate Series Of Quests'.

Forsaken Falls Base (The Deadly Game of Life: Year 1):

In honor of @bitchqueen1114 's birthday, here is a post.

The Deadly Game of Life Master list (Part 1);

Edits:

The Deadly Game of Life (Year 1) Cover:

Summary: the cover for the zombie book I'm trying to write (and have been since middle school).

The Deadly Game of Life (Year 1)(Characters);

Summary: Character edits for the zombie book I'm trying to write (and have been since middle school).

Forsaken Falls Base (The Deadly Game of Life: Year 1):

Summary: the base of the characters in my zombie book.

The Deadly Game of Life (Year 1) Character Moodboards:

Summary: moodboards for the characters in my book.

Triggs Family Tree:

Summary: a family tree I made using family echo for my characters.

Art:

Camp:

Summary: a drawing of the Forsaken Falls Camp/Kingdom in year one based loosely on the edit I already made.

Kingdom Territories:

Summary: a map I drew of the kingdom territories and alignments.

Incorrect quotes/quotes:

Quotes From My Characters (Part 4):

Summary: Erica Triggs Quote.

Fan Stuff:

Birthday gift:

Summary: My friend, @ouatnextgen made a moodboard for this story as well as others of mine. So here.

Okay but I’m all about faeries? Faeries with otherwise human features but intimidating yellow goat eyes. Faeries with unnaturally long fingers and nails and long sharp teeth. Faeries who’s bodies constantly shift and change. Faeries like poison dart frogs, small and brightly colored, and highly toxic. Faeries with a fondness for collecting unsavory things, like rusty scissors, fish hooks, and syringe needles. Faeries with long, prehensile tongues.

Quote I wrote for a book I'm writing;

-Big bad towards Johanna Everstone.

As chair of the wizard- [PARRIES A SPELL] As chair of the wizard counc- [PARRIES A DIFFERENT SPELL] As chair of the wizard council, I- [PARRIES A DIFFERENT SPELL] As chair of the wizard council I think staffs should be illegal during these meetings.

Let Me Talk About Werewolves for a Second

Why is it that every werewolf book is this weird testosterone fueled alpha male/female romance thing? 

Like guys. Werewolves are family groups. They are basically big ol’ dog families. Your werewolf family wouldn’t be made up of alpha males fighting each other for dominance and subjugating females. 

If there was a werewolf in your neighborhood, they’d be that family of 10 kids always roughhousing outside and their house is the one all the neighborhood kids go to hang out at because Mr. Werewolf and Mrs. Werewolf are the Cool Parents that their kids find really embarrassing. 

First Line Prompt #5

A “THE END IS HERE” sign hangs around the neck of a zombie that limps through the view of the scope on their rifle.

I was worldbuilding two bog standard fantasy species, wise old tree dudes and impulsive little rat guys, when I realized it was far funnier if they had each other's personalities.

The rat guys think fast and talk fast, but they're incredibly conservative and like to cover all the angles before they take any action. This comes with being a prey species: their ancestral environment had lots of clever traps and devious hazards, so you get rat councils wisely working the problem.

The tree dudes speak and move slowly, but they will propose and then do the most insane things you can imagine. They can slot together a rocket in an afternoon and will then use it without so much as a test fire first. They test new potions by quaffing them down, sometimes not even waiting for it to cool (though they're tree dudes, so I guess quaffing a potion just means pouring it over their root legs). This comes from the ancestral selection process too: the tree dudes that won were the ones that took big risks, that grew faster, stronger, and tried new things without worrying about consequences. The tree dudes evolved in an era when they had no natural predators and their only competition was each other.

And this is, of course, initially confusing for any human who makes contact with them. If a giant bearded tree nods at you solemnly and tells you to go through a portal, your first thought is not that he's curious about what will happen to spacetime. And if a hyperactive little rat guy tells you with some urgency that you must accompany him into a ruined city, you won't immediately think that this is step 11 of his branching 27 step plan.