Music - Inspiration

Tulips ! My favorite (:

So, writing fight scenes about actual paranormal creatures is . . . new to me.

I found inspirationo for Seraphina's fighting style thanks to my son (I wish he was back home *tears*). When he moved out he left his old Xbox games and I played a fews . . cause the guys are kind of hot. The name of the game ?

Assassin's Creed.


I like this game because the main character in this is Half-Native American like Cillian from NAF.


I also like this trailer.


But I took the song from this one.

So, I guess  you can find music-spiration everywhere ! 

PLAYLIST

 Chapter 11

+1+  Hall of Fame - Gavin Mikhail
+2 + - Bones MSSR (told ya I'd get grabby)

Chapter 12

+1+ - Say Something - A Great Big World
+2+ Turning Tables - Adele
+3+ Give Me Love - Ed Sherhan
+4+  Unconditionally - Katy Perry
+5+ Demons - Imagine Dragons (duh)

Love to Love You

See, I told you guys I wouldn't leave you hanging in the (hetro) lurve department ! I'm really pushing through this but I'm ready to clear the way for NAF. When I think about how much I want/need HMLIS I can totally relate to how you all feel

Red Hook

Just a little FYI the building the group is standing on in Chapter 7 overlooks the Hudson River (hmm, Isobel should have gone to Hudson River University like Sofia) and the ferries Paris watches are the IKEA ferries bringing people to the Red Hook IKEA. I was going to put references but it didn't transition quite right.

Cutting It short

So these are some relatively short chapters,  I've learned to stop writing around the bush. I was tempted to have another scene at Sweet Lane Bakery in Chapter 7 but in the end I couldn't figure a way in without forcing. T-DOLLing may have actually taught me something.

I know this story had a bit of a rocky start but I think I really hit  my stride with the next few chapters. There is certainly some new territory in here for me.

Another Double Chapter Post
Playlist

Chapter 9
+1+ - Iron - Woodkid
+2+ - Bulletproof Weeks by Matt Nathesnon ( stole this from Blessed Hearts. . . I think)


Chapter 10 (It's a shortie)

+1+ - Tears of An Angel - Ryan Adams *who saw this coming ?*
+2+ I Was Here - Beyonce

Give Me Something To Blog About

Hmmm . . . so I don't really have anything to blog about. I did change the ol' layout but I don't LOVE this one. I think I've done pink and black before.

I have updated the site to make it easier to navigate. Yola has sub menus so I'll be toying with those.

 Once again you all caught on to a lot of things that get explained in this chapter. There is only one reference in this chapter. . . so here we go.



Chapter 7

Playlist

+1+ - Crystallize - Lindsay Sterling
+2+ Skinny Love by Gavin Mikhail

Chapter 8

+1+ Old Skin by Olafur   and The Vigil by David Nevue
+2+Timber by Ke$ha and Pitbull
+3+ Glory and Gore - Lorde

The One With All The References

Except for one part of Chapter 6 and a chunk of chapter 10 I've pretty much finished with Lux. . .which means I looked at N:AF for the first time in  a long time. I'm so nervous that I've overhyped it but I'm excited about my playlist. It will certainly feel more like classic LiLe.

Fun With Names

I had a lot of fun coming up with names for this story. Main characters aside I wanted to the Angels and Demons names they would have chosen to adopt over the years.  So I tried to steer away from modern names and go towards ironicly biblical or literary ones. Names like Damien and Bane were leftovers from the MC name pool. Ariel (Uriel), Jonathan, Isaiah and Levit(han) are biblical/angelic. Lysander and Paris are from Shakespeare.

Scarface

It just occured to me that I gave both Paris and Clara (HOF) facial scars. However Paris' Glasglow smile was added at the very end after the entire thing was written. I did this because I realized that there had to be a reason that when Isobel saw Paris (in the pictures) that she knew he was the one who saved her father.

Chapter 6

Playlist

+1+ - Wake Me Up - Instrumental (Gavin Mikhail)
+2+ Violet Hour - The Civil Wars 
+3+ Lotifo verour skyndilega kalt  - Arnalds Olfaus
+4 +The Light - Album Leaf  

Chapter 6     

Pulling the figure up Seraphina pulls off the hood and shoves the person to my feet.

I bite my lip as the Angel pressed her gun to the saboteurs neck.

Devil take it.

It was Isobel Charter

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Going Foward

So my plan is to post this whole thing in about the time it took me to write it. Honeslty. . . I haven't looked at Nightmare in so long and I need to get back to it while I'm distracting you.  

My original plan was supposed to be pantsing NAF.  So, I'm probably going to go ahead and start posting it as soon as I can.

. . . but I  also want to do some more TDOLL. Hearing everyone talk about LL in the comments made me all nostalgic.


So who's ready for some picspirations.

*The characters ages have been translated into "human ages"





Paris Prince (28)

He has dark hair and dark eyes. I imagine him having the "always nervous" facial expressions of Cillian Murphy and the face of what I like to call Ben Barnes 2.0 Ben Barnes 1.0 looks like this. The more I look and I think about it  Cillain Murphy in this picture is more of how I imagine him.


Seraphina Grigori and Isobel Charter (28, 23)

Seraphina is supposed to look very beautiful, innocent and sweet but is actually vicious. Miranda Kerr has that girl next door look. I knew I wanted her to look like a model so of course I looked up VS Angels.  I can't believe we are the same age. I mean she's so much older than me.

As for Isobel it was a little hard finding an inspy for her,  but I like the intense yet fiesty  look singer Ha Tram has in this photo. They have amazing hair.





Ashe Burn and Jonathan Prince (28, 24)
I really just had a picspiration for Ashe which is Alex Skarsgard (you know without um, eyes) ,  but I'm stealing one of SH's picspirations for Jonathan.(is that Colton  you had ?).



Ariel (16)
So, she doesn't play that big of a part in the story but I imagine her as fashion blogger Kayture.

See more picspirations at the Lux Aeterna Juxtapost .


Playlist 

Chapter 5

+1+ - Have It All - Jermey Kay *loved this in Vice had to steal*
+2+ - Close Watch - Agnes Obel
+3+  Shelter - Birdy

Next Up : Fun With Names. 

Darker and Edgier ?

So, this image isn't helping to lighten the mood

Darker and Edgier

So I realized when I talked about N:AF (Yes, we are on that again) I used the words Darkier and Edgier. . . and I'll admit compared to Lux, N:AF looks like the Care Bear movie.  

I did realize early on that parts of this story may come off as dark and  straight up misogynistic. . .but I promise there is a method to my madness.

Okay, guys let's slowly crawl out of the dark tunnel. . .


Double Chapter Post

Playlist

Chapter 3

+1+ - Metamorphosis by Phillip Glass
+2+ What I've Done by  Marie Digby

Chapter 4

+1+ - Old Skin by Olafur Arnalds
+2+ -  Riverside by Agnes Obel

Next Up : Picspirations !

Keep The Train Movin'

I am floored by everyone's reactions and yes some of you theorist are more on the nose about tiny things !

Chapter 2 is a shortie chapter and more of a continuation of chapter 1. Chapters 1-4 were orginally all together so the break up is hard to pace.

What The Hell Hero ? *gold stars*

Yes, the characters in this story are older. They only age about once every 55-65 years and since they've been wandering for 1028 years they have only aged 16-19 years. With the main character being 8-10 at the time they began their journey he now looks around 27-28 -ish.

The narrator in this story is a bit. . . biased in his version of things. He is also some what detached from his own reality, so  some of this might start to feel like it's in third person.

I'll bring picspirations soon.

Playlist

+1+ Primavera by Ludovico Einaudio
+2+ Angel - Massive Attack


CHAPTER TWO