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IllarianRambling

@illarian-rambling

I needed a void to scream into about writing stuff, so here we are (: (she/her, twenties)
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Aw balls. I almost forgot an intro

Hi, I'm Katie! I'm a writer with four ongoing wips that I like yammering about, so ima do it here!

Pronouns: she/her

Age: 21

Other interests: art, dnd, the Magnus Archives, anything Cosmere related, martial arts, Critical Roll

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My wips are set in the same universe, on the planet of Illaros, fifth from the last star left living in the universe. There's a continent, some islands, and other assorted junk down there. The gods have a dyson ring, but they don't like to talk about it. The stars are the eyes of an ancient primordial force of destruction.

Honor's Outcasts follows a rag-tag group of delinquents trying to survive psycho pirates with family ties, a siren theocracy, magic that rots in your blood, and the Horrors. Their number includes such mighty heros as: a kid who can explode people with her mind, a buff shark lady who survives regular eldritch encounters by not paying attention, a mute aroace siren man with a bitchy attitude, and the world's sweetest gang mamber. Of course, they're one big family, and what's family without a little religious terrorism?

The Mystery of the Mortal God asks what happens when magic and science collide in a world where ethics panels haven't been established yet. Set a few decades down the line from HO, this story follows a cowboy witch with a chip on her shoulder as she discovers a mysterious robot laying broken and confused on the side of the road. At the same time, in a city on the other side of the globe, a blue blooded detective investigates a cold case suddenly gone hot. In time, all players will meet, including the mage who set this whole conundrum in motion.

The Final Voyage of the R.S. Starbreaker is sci-fi with ghosts! More accurately, as the magical societies of Illaros take their first steps into space, they don't use unmanned probes, but instead call upon the gods to send ghosts to be bound to a mighty runic galleon: the R.S. Starbreaker. This first skeleton crew consists of an honorable former Flying City pilot with a seedy past, a brash elven astronomer infamous for her incomplete work, a meticulous selkie cartographer determined to map the solar wheel, a laid-back fae man with a dangerous set of ideals, and the key to this mission's success: a former part of an eldritch hive mind on a hunt for his extinct people's missing afterlife.

Wild Type, set in the rapidly modernizing city of Juntsov, delves deep beneath the city's streets, to the dingy basement of an alchemical laboratory, where a young transductant (an animal/human hybrid, bat/human in this case) goes about his daily life of performing tests and talking to a bucket. He has never left the lab, its walls are all he knows. Meanwhile, up on top, a pair of government safety inspectors - one a career-driven siren holding her life together with grit and cigarettes, and the other a kindly old man who's worked at the RDSS for longer than anyone else - prepare to inspect a facility know as Alchemical Horizons. As they push far enough down, they find not only the hybrid kid, but a web of secrets and coverups that threatens both their lives and the life of the child they're trying to save.

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Anyways, if you're here, feel free to say hi! I'll mostly be posting whatever bullshit comes to mind, but maybe you'll get lucky and something entertaining will come out? I certainly hope so!

Have a bitchin' day <3

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An addition! Here are my characters' introductions by series (:

Honor's Outcasts: Sepo Kaiacynthus, Izjik Meautammera, Twenari Devaris, Djek Kagura

The Mystery of the Mortal God: Astra DuClaire, Mashal Darezsho, Ivander Montane, Elsind Cavernsight, Avymere Spearsong

The Final Voyage of the R.S. Starbreaker: Faalgun Falani, Nyda Burningrock, Kaulakri Ondohuroata, Pashananath, Anarac Fifth-blood

Wild Type: Dehlus Vorobey, Ozzy Chertok, Kid

(Curious as to which character you might relate to the most? Here are some quizzes that might help you out!) (First is for MG and HO, second is for Starbreaker)

Which fucked up guy from my brain are you?
Let's see what protag you get from either of my books
uquiz.com
Which Starbreaker crewmember are you?
All of these are wrong answers ngl
uquiz.com

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A second addition! Please feel welcome to check out my new Illaros library! These are short stories written (mostly) in my setting that I've shared before on here, but I figured I'd put all the links in one place :)

  • Down in the Deep Dark - 2,500 words - The tale of how Izjik and Sepo met
  • Violating the 4th - 11,000 words - Coverage of the first Surgeon case from the POV of Ceyrel (Ivander’s detective partner)
  • Rel's Haunting - 16,000 words - A story of a fallen angel, the dead god who made them, and finding wonder in the supermarket
  • Full Saturation - 2,000 words - A short horror story set on modern Earth about saturation diving and places better left untouched
  • Out of Battery - 6,000 words - Post-canon Astra and Mashal nightmare hurt/comfort (MG spoilers)
  • Trial Run - 3,000 words - [[18+]] - Post-canon Astra/Mashal smut
  • Sometimes Your Bro is a Fish - 5,000 words - Sepo and Djek navigate how to get home from the bar when one of you is a 16ft mermaid now and the other can't lift more than 80lbs
  • This is the Body Swap Episode - 18,000 words - Post-canon Elsind and Avymere shenanigans in the realm of the fae

And for some one-shots:

Again, have a bitchin' day <3

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what’s the worst injury you’ve ever spontaneously inflicted on a character?

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Snapped a character’s hand in half across the palm in a fanfic once on a whim then had it heal wrong and ache and be visibly malformed for the rest of the fic

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Believe it or not, Avymere's snapped femur was an inspired decision in the moment

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*Floats traitorously on your dash*

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Image description: a gif of Essek floating up and down against a white background. End image description.

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I accidentally did this to a guy once at a party lol, he was for sure flirting with this girl but I didn't notice at all, I just heard him say he was 6ft, but I knew that was bullshit because I'm 5'8" and he was shorter than me (the girl he was talking to was like 5'2" for the record). So I loudly call him on his bullshit and he gets all defensive. Everyone else heard though, and someone whipped out a ruler, which is how I found out that I'm actually 5'7", so he was around 5'6" - the other girl was laughing hysterically lmao

#it's okay to be 5'6#only realized hours later that I was like 100 spf cockblock lol#sorry dude but maybe next time just say you're 5'6
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niche trope I enjoy: person recounting a story of something terrible they did and the way they describe it makes it sound like an active decision where they were completely in control and knew what they were doing and enjoyed it, but if you look at the bare bones facts, it's like. are you sure about that? are you sure you didn't just panic and lash out and do something irreparable? are you sure that's what you wanted and you aren't just retroactively assigning yourself agency to cope? but you as the audience can't really know the answer to that, because the storyteller is the only one who was there and this is how they're choosing to preserve it, and that matters for how they want to be perceived going forward... but you do still wonder.

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some tags aren't quite getting my vibe: to me this specific thing isn't quite about characters who go "it was all my fault and I deserve whatever happens to me for it" when they weren't even really responsible, this is about characters twitching and pulling a trigger and getting very "...yes I meant to kill them and it was the right move and I'm very cool and calculating so you should all tremble before me" sunk cost fallacy about it. less "I'm the worst :(" and more "I'm the worst >:] ." different guyotype.

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@illarian-rambling Twenari posting?

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Yuppppp 😔

She participated in a massive criminal smuggling empire and tortured and killed people, then fought her way out with more killing and manipulation because she's a cruel person not afraid to use her power for her own gain, definitely not because she's a scared child who has no example to follow other than her smuggler mom, you should all be very afraid of her, she swears

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the most important thing you can do when writing a story is to include an alien character whos like incredibly bizzare and weird and eccentric and seems to go against like EVERY aspect of your worlds expected norms, and then later introduce more characters of the same alien species, but theyre like perfectly normal and Also find that first guy weird

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@mk-writes-stuff

Captain and her pirate shtick lmao

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Nausea Whump

  • “Wait, wait… The room is spinning, give me a second.”
  • “I’m gonna throw up…”
  • “Can you just please try to eat something?” “I’m gonna get sick, please don’t…”
  • “Lay down, you’re not doing anyone any favors by throwing up all over the room just because you’re incapable of resting.”
  • “When was the last time you ate?”
  • “You look queasy.” “I feel queasy.”
  • “I’m not a doctor, but you haven’t been able to eat in days. Maybe it’s time we get some help.”
  • “Are you feeling better yet?” “No. :( ”
  • “I’m begging you to drive calmly or I’ll throw up before we even reach the doctor.”

(Hurtcember 2025, Day 30: Nausea)

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Notes for Djek

#sorry you got the curse of throw up whenever you do magic my boy (not sorry)

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