Vale, Gavin, & Eli are having the extended found-family-friend-group over for Vale's birthday. As the birthday goth, Vale's job is to be the center of attention. Eli & Gavin do most of the organizing, which includes coordinating guest schedules across 3 different timestreams, and cooking. #VoxMortis

My cast would do well in Supernatural or The X-Files or Doctor Who. Like, any monster of the week show is probably a good fit.

But I think where they'd cause the most delightful chaos is in something like Community or Parks and Rec. #VoxMortis #LitHodgepodge

Hi! I'm Lys and I'm writing #VoxMortis, about Vale - a neophyte necromancer - navigating a newly magical world with her friends and lovers and dealing with their murderous pursuers. There's kissing. #LitHodgepodge

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What da DILF doin #VoxMortis #NSFWOCs

That poor man in way over his head. #VoxMortis

I haven't begun to think about the sound scapes of Ganzer & Gyd Goedwyth. I think at some point I floated the idea of Eli playing piano but that really sounds more culturally appropriate to the faeries. Like wind demons probably got some kinda tubular marimba they play. #VoxMortis #SongsofSeptember

#SongsofSeptember Music is important in #VoxMortis bc it's partly a tribute to the music I grew up on (pop punk, metal) & the punk ideology I've grown into.

Gavin is the former guitarist of a FOB-MCR-like band who's started a punk band that sounds kinda like this:

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Okay, so, bear with me: book one is shot like a found footage horror movie following Vale. You really miss out on Lukas’s side of things, but that's why we have a spin-off miniseries in the style of Netflix Castlevania. #VoxMortis

Eli's gotten a taste of what it's like being free of his station and he's not going back willingly.

Lukas and Emily are so DTA. Darien is happy to help them do so at their own detriment. #VoxMortis #QueerPrompts

I feel like this one's pretty fitting for the climaxes of several of the arcs I have planned out. #VoxMortis #SongsofSeptember

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So, Eli's had plenty of, like, flings. Shamash, who Vale just met in my current draft, is his most noteworthy partner other than Vale & Gavin. He's also betrothed to Aya, the Azallan lugel. #VoxMortis #ocsky #ocask

Vale, Gavin, Emily, and Eli all fit this one. #VoxMortis #SongsofSeptember

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Vale's either getting something she's never had before or she's getting like, chicken strips or a basic cheeseburger and fries lol

Gavin also likes to try new things but he generally dislikes fast food. Prefers to get food from locally-owned places.

Eli loves fries. #VoxMortis #OCAsk

Vale had a friend of a friend she chatted with daily on MSN messenger in 7th grade who she considers her 1st love. She jokes about it being Gavin but she know her crush was very parasocial.

Gavin and Eli's first loves were their best friends growing up, Shadi and Shamash respectively. #VoxMortis

Vale is doing an illustration with watercolor pens. She's not terribly well-practiced but she's having fun.

Gavin is sculpting a piece of terrain from craft foam, paint, sand/dirt/etc. He's been doing this stuff for years and he's having a great time.

Eli is painting. He's bad at it. #VoxMortis

I had to think about this one and I've come up with Fleetwood Mac for when Lukas is visiting his mother's grave. Which is not a scene I've gotten to in the current draft, if I get to it at all in this book. #SongsofSeptember #VoxMortis

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I probably used this one already but this is Gavin and Vale for much of book 1 #SongsofSeptember #VoxMortis

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That's so hard, but it's got to be someone who is comfortable telling the establishment to fuck themselves and has the musical chops for it to not JUST be two hours of yelling.

Honestly, I might pick Green Day. Make #VoxMortis a rock opera. #SongsofSeptember

My intent is to do one per book.

Character specific ones could be fun but are not likely to see me investing time into them. #SongsofSeptember

Here's the most current version of the playlist for book 1 of #VoxMortis:

I don't know enough about musicals to pinpoint the *perfect* romance song for the polycule, so we're picking this one. It's kind of fitting for one of the very late arcs in Vale's story. #VoxMortis #SongsofSeptember