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I was saving this one for today. #fantasywipoctober day 7 asks for a motivational quote and I love this one. Dead Poet's Society is one of my all time favourite movies. It made me feel validated when I was younger as somebody who dreamed of being a wordsmith for a living. I'm still learning and exploring and developing my voice and this quote always keeps me going.
Also I miss Robin Williams 😭

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Greeting my loves! Today is day 6 of #fantasywipoctober which asks if any of my characters are mad?
Now, I personally think most of them do absolutely insane things at times but in actuality they're probably pretty sane. Drake, my manic and sadistic antagonist, is believed to be quite mad by everyone who is afraid of him. While he does often trail off into mostly incomprehensible rants when the mood strikes, he isn't the most insane of my characters, nor is he the one I wish to speak of. Nope. I want to talk about his father, the King. Istor Vislaught. I haven't talked much about the King and Queen and I've done that on purpose but I am happy to spill a little tea about the scariest mofo in my series.
Istor is a bit of a mystery. Popular opinion claims him as a demon chosen to marry Athreida by her father, the False God Ardrin but the truth is much worse. Istor isn't a demon. He is a being twisted into unnatural form by his own hubris. There is a special magic only a select few in Ardrinius can use known as Spirit magic. Istor was one of those few many many years ago, centuries in fact. But he twisted his special gift and instead of accepting the magic gifted to him by spirits in the Golden World, he dragged those spirits through the veil, trapped them in the mortal world and sucked their power into himself. He twisted those souls against their very nature and in doing so destroyed his own. The result? He is vile, evil, and quite mad. His skin is carved with runes spelling out dark magic no mortal should ever use. His eyes glow red and his skin is pale as a corpse. When he speaks, you can faintly hear the whispers of the spirits twisted up inside him. He smells of blood and his skin is cold to the touch like a demon's. He is something that shouldn't exist, a creature born of the greatest perversion of magic in history. And, the cincher? Nobody knows how to kill him; his twisted spirits keep him alive and allow him to regenerate in other bodies if his body is ever harmed beyond repair. He is a walking nightmare and there isn't a being alive who is unafraid of him.

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Good morning, afternoon or evening my loves! It's a lovely day today and it's day 5 of #fantasywipoctober which asks for the snippet challenge. Head on up to my story for snippets from Silk Sheets, my romance WIP because it's the only one long enough to make the game any fun. But since it isn't fantasy, have a couple of paragraphs from chapter 1 of The Book of Souls to make up for it 😊 Come join in the game, it's so much fun posting lines out of context 😁 If you choose wisely you might end up on a rathet risque page and either make it impossible for me or make me snicker immaturely.

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I have white hair and I am delighted with it so here's another photo of my face.
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#fantasywipoctober Day 3 asks if my MC would keep a secret or tell all. Arkan is a secret keeper. He has a lot of secrets of his own and keeps secrets for everyone else as well. It's part of his job, really.
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And day 4 asks for MC's darkest memory. I can't tell you Arkan's. And I can't tell you Drake's. Those are both massive spoilers. I can tell you a secondary main character's though. Jarden's darkest memory is losing the person he loved the most and believing he should have been there to save him, but he wasn't and he will never forgive himself 😢
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What's the most adventurous thing you've ever done to your hair? I'm curious because I have had A LOT of styles and colours over the years. I am jazzed with this white. I could cosplay as Aziraphale if I wanted 😍!!!!!!

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