Scythebelts - Blog Posts

writing porn is so hard. like. idk they hold hands. they yearn. he nuts in her. what do you want from me.

also song of solomon 6:3 (the neon orange line) is “i am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” and it was the very first connection i drew. it doesn’t get the smeary-edged overlap every other overlapped line does. i just wanted to say that. because it makes me insane.

hey is this anything

(fated relationship chart)

the trouble with practicing mindfulness and healing emotionally and getting a job and trying to be more present in my life means that my fics all suck right now. i’m not even writing the sex parts. if i can get a job in the dish pit somewhere maybe this will change and i will astral project into storytelling while my fingers get pruny.

as a psa

-i’m in the middle of changing my major and getting a new job

-my usual beta reader is in the middle of a compsci degree and busy as hell

-my other beta reader is about to give up romance/porno for lent

expect a little over 35k words of scythebelts as soon as college takes it’s boot off my neck- or, more likely, expect it with the end of lent and the return of our lord and savior jesus christ, on easter sunday.

as a psa

-i’m in the middle of changing my major and getting a new job

-my usual beta reader is in the middle of a compsci degree and busy as hell

-my other beta reader is about to give up romance/porno for lent

expect a little over 35k words of scythebelts as soon as college takes it’s boot off my neck- or, more likely, expect it with the end of lent and the return of our lord and savior jesus christ, on easter sunday.

first one to guess what i’m about to write gets five american dollars

Having an obscure OTP is a similar pain, in my opinion, to experiencing homophobia.

i don’t think any of you understand. the impetus, the fucking click behind scythebelts for me, is not strictly romantic. it is that sylnan, his entire life, has been trying to hold on to everything he can and he never gets to. and velrisa, god fucking bless her, has been waiting for someone to hold on to her like that, like nobody really has.

the impetus, the fucking spark, the starting point for everything i write for them, is based upon the gutsense fucking horror of seeing someone reach for you and not knowing if they mean to catch you for certain or just until you’re not useful.

everything else is just fluff and filler. the cleric/rogue dramatics, the high contrast, the jokes, the mutual admiration, the aesthetics- all of it is fluff and filler. good, but just not why i love it.

at core and center, they are holding on to each other until they are bleeding from the goddamn fingernails because nothing else is willing to stay as static and calm as they are. nobody else- not as though it is a personal failing on anyone else’s part, it is simply the way things go- is willing to cling on as hard for some chance at steady ground. sylnan and vel are. that’s what makes me write em.

dude why is ander’s lore so acutely stupid. what do you mean he’s a

hundred and eighty-two

that’s not how nieces work.

let’s say, hypothetically, ander is a firstborn, and his parents have him at 18. when he’s 30, his parents are 48. let’s be generous and say they stop having kids at 50, and their last kid is velrisa’s dad. he grows up. let’s be generous and say he’s 30 (we see him in middle age in the clip with vel’s sister) when he has velrisa’s sister, and 35 or 40 by the time velrisa is born.

that would make ander 85-90 when velrisa is born. he promises to protect velrisa as long as he lives when she is three. that makes him 88-93 at the time she starts living with him. she is 19 at the start of the campaign- and nobody has any mentioned birthdays so let’s consider all ages static. they all were born on january 1st.

19-3 is 16, so our estimate for ander’s age becomes 101 to 106 at the time of canon. instead, he’s

a hundred and eighty two

and like. i get it. i do. bad storytelling? found in the bad storytelling place???? fork found in kitchen!!!! dick found in ass!!!!!! nobody is surprised!

but on like. a genuine level. i made the most liberal efforts possible to defend ander being

a hundred and eighty two

and it is just not making sense. like. he and vel’s dad are described as looking to be a similar age. he and vel’s dad have a close relationship soured by ander’s championship to the goddess. ander was crowned champion long before velrisa entered the picture and probably before her dad was even born. no fucking unborn baby is gonna have beef with one of their brothers finding spiritual fulfillment.

we can infer the rest of the family doesn’t have beef with it, as ander was close enough to the rest of his family to have context on velrisa’s life and curse. why the fuck is he

a hundred and eighty two.

getting my wisdom teeth out thursday. send images of the fated. and also texts about the fated. and also-

pick! your! fic!

i’m such a slut for a big header on a post. idc. that is me starting my letter to send to you in the mail. i am saying hello.

to the point:

a poll on my next work (s?)

VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES!!!!

in fairness all of these are like. halfway done already but the projected sizes are wildly varying. please feel free to ask for more context! if i don’t get many votes i’ll probably just dick around with a bunch of different pieces till @parallasso gets up my ass about one of them lmao

hey guys i survived the show i was running!!!!!! i’m baaaaaack!!!!!! and mentally illllllllll!!!!!! tag me in everything ever i love you all so much!!!

hey shawty baes and scythebelt truthers:

as requested, here are the songs used for chapter titles in “it’ll be alright”

1) Night Shift - Lucy Dacus

2) A Month Or Two - Odie Leigh

3) We’ll Meet Again - She & Him

4) Being Alive - Eleri Ward

5) The Only Heartbreaker - Mitski

6) And Eve Was Weak - Carrie 2012 Premiere Cast Recording

7) Hey Tomorrow - Jim Croce

8) Golden Slumbers - The Beatles

9) Revenant - Anaïs Mitchell

10) I’m Sorry - Brenda Lee

11) April Come She Will - Simon & Garfunkel

my actual scythebelts playlist is pretty similar so lmk if you guys want that!!!!! okay bye forever

WAKE UP GAY PEOPLE AND BY GAY PEOPLE I MEAN BIGGAYHIMBO STANS

and a very pleasant hello to the scythebelts enjoyers.

HELLO GOOD MORNING HOLY SHIT?

scythebelts? in THIS FUCKING ECONOMY????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUVE NEVER WATCHED THE FATED HOW HAVE YOU NEVER WATCHED THE FATED. YOU JUST GODDAMN NAILED THEM. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW OTHER PEOPLE WROTE FOR THEM IM PILLAGING YOU AND OCTO’S AO3 POSTS AFTER THIS

LIKE WHAT?????

@parallasso go follow them the lola fic revival is cancelled read this RIGHT NOW this fic singlehandedly made me decide to finally workshop the second work in the “diplomat/dueler” au

this is so so good man i can’t praise it enough??? lmk if you want some good ways to consume the general fated storyline without super involving yrself with the main podcast. (although if you can get through the first few episodes the rest of it is a goddamn content goldmine and i could scream about it and the complexities of their bullshit for hours) (it is tinged by the presence of j*red and it will force you to remember that the jrwee gang is cis white guys but honestly watching them grow as people and as roleplayers is super rewarding i recommend it) (okay rant closed the work was beautiful bye)

been cooking this up all day. here’s another addition to the scythebelts fic pile + velrisa introspection (are you guys proud of me)

THIS THIS THIS. we are giving u all our mental illnessess. open ur mind to the possibility:

scythebelts.

since scythebelts is gaining more popularity (as in ive seen like 3 other ppl talking abt it, which is a huge improvement from when it was just in @jamieycomplainey 's and I's dms) i think everyone needs to know of my favorite au of them, which is the goth/country au

weve gone through many iterations of how it happens, from goth vel and country boy sylnan, to the occasional what if sylnan was a goth and vel was country, theres a lot of backstory that is trapped in our dms which axel would be able to explain better but i think the idea of this needs to exist in peoples minds

new chapters smiley face

i told y’all i’d be back on my bullshit

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read @octolingo-writes most recent fanfic ( Something There That Wasn't There Before ) with these two and it sent me back into my spiral, so i did some pose practice with them <3 one of the only ships that has grasped my attention WAUAGHhhh, go read it

references from pinterest used below the cut vvvv

months ago i was shelving romance novels and came across the realization all of them can and should be remade gay. follow to see if i will enact this realization or if i will continue to write one (1) heterosexual couple having another 6 weddings.