@Peonytealeaf07 I've been fiddling with some other story concepts and actually have a few chapters written for a couple of them. As a way to help keep my mind fresh and not get burnt out on CoNR. Since you're my most avid reader, and because I'm indecisive, I thought I'd see what you might be most interested in reading. These wouldn't be as regularly updated as CoNR until that story finishes.
Three basic concepts I have can be surmised as follows.
-a modern reimagining of Aladdin in an urban fantasy setting with subtle deeply symbolic hidden magic. where the genie is the romantic interest,
- explores themes of power dynamics and consent when one party literally doesn't have the ability to say no.
-a more traditional swords and sorcery setting with both a hard and soft magic system, where magic can literally change who you are as a person. Focused on a 'Duke' being married to a member of a different fantasy race as part of a political alliance meant to keep the peace, but is part of a people that doesn't have a gender binary, either physically or culturally. All the while a growing danger lurks in the shadows of the mountains
- explores themes of traditional gender roles and dynamics, gender identity, what it means to be human, and the cost of forging yourself into a weapon during a peace time that might not ever end.
- a science fiction story where a mildly arachnophobic deep space planetary explorer is stranded on an alien planet that will take years to be rescued from must build a life there with an artificial intelligence, and a hive mind of giant spider like aliens that find him intensely curious and strangely endearing.
-explores themes of isolation, sacrifice, hope, and fundamental humanity. And possible spider smooching. (Pg-13 spider smooching to be clear.)
