Cryokina

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Please Keep Trying (And Be Kind To Yourself) by Neodusk, journal

Please Keep Trying (And Be Kind To Yourself)

Jun 4, 2019

First of all, if you are one of the people who responded to my last status update on DeviantArt, thank you very much for your support, and I'm sorry for not responding to your comments. I was in a very dark and panicked spot when I wrote that and, to those of you who asked, I assure you that, no, it was not a joke at the time. I regret writing and posting it, but you don't exactly make the most rational choices when you're in a state such as the one that I was in. In fact, you almost forget why you did it, or sometimes that you even did it, once you start feeling normal again. To some of you, that may seem overly dramatic and irresponsible, b

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Bionicle: Strangers in a Strange Land by Cryokina, literature

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Bionicle: Strangers in a Strange Land

The Toa strode through the tall grasses of the new world. Xiatan stood seven feet tall, adorned with armour of royal purple and deep black. He was an intricate figure of cogs and pistons, held together by rope-like muscles and steel-hard armour, topped with a intricately carved metal mask. He was a stranger in this living, natural world, and it was obvious. Xiatan knelt down to see a small creature making its way through the grass across his path. It was a pale brown spider, maybe a foot across. "I haven't seen one of these before," he said to himself. When he reached a hand out to investigate, it extended a number of razor-edged spines from

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About Cryokina

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Artist // Hobbyist // Literature

May 15
Ireland
Deviant for 12 years
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My Bio

I'm Cryokina, professional defenestrator and part-time Safety Dancer. I also enjoy writing, giant robots, and supervillainy. For the first time, you can read something I've written in dead tree format with Beyond the Breach, available this winter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/a…

Fanfiction: www.fanfiction.net/~cryokina
Twitter: twitter.com/Cryokina
Tumblr: cryokina.tumblr.com/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/Cryokina
AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/Cryo…

Fanfiction stories currently in progress:
* Bionicle: Heartlight of Darkness (5% - Sequel to Strangers in a Strange Land, planning phase)
* Bionicle: The Prophecy of Heroes (50% - Poem, may be published alone or within another piece)
* Dishonored (15% - idea led to dead end, rework later)
* FTL (40% - too many conflicting ideas to make much progress)
* Hero Factory: Invasion from Below (40% - darker adaptation, not currently in progress)
* Marvel: Visions of Yesterday (100% and uploaded!)
* Minecraft: Suicide Mission: 7 (50%)
* Minecraft: The Gamechap & Bertie Chronicles 2 (10% - currently on hiatus due to being identical to The Long Earth)
* Minecraft: The Shadow over Merrivale (20%)
* Pacific Rim: Crimson Typhoon (25%)
* Transformers: Jetfire (35%)
* XCOM: Enemy Beyond 6: Dire Prophet (45% - mid-way through the first draft)

Favourite Movies

12 Angry Men, District 9, Inception, Interstellar, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pacific Rim, The World's End

Favourite TV Shows

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Batman of the Future, Firefly, Legend of Korra, Megas XLR, Transformers Prime

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Daft Punk, Kirby Krackle, Metric, Miracle of Sound, Nico Vega, Pendulum, Tegan & Sara, Two Steps From Hell

Favourite Books

The Cosmere, The Expanse, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Monstrumologist, Skulduggery Pleasant, TimeRiders,

Favourite Writers

Terry Pratchett, Arthur C. Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, Neal Asher, Brandon Sanderson, Isaac Asimov

Favourite Games

Bastion, Cave Story, Civilization, Deus Ex, Dead Space, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Minecraft, Pokemon, Portal, Shadowrun Returns, XCOM:EU

Favourite Gaming Platform

Tools of the Trade

Laptop, ryncol, WordPad

Other Interests

Bionicle, Lego, SCP Foundation, WH40K, WHFB, xkcd

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Cryokina

Mar 4, 2017

An Apology, An Ending, and a Beginning

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So. I've been away for a long time now. Let's bite the bullet on this one: I don't think I'm ever going to finish any of my big fanfiction series. The Minecraft: Universe series, XCOM: Enemy Beyond, anything. I have all the files and information on them, and I'm thinking of uploading them sometime so people who are interested can see how things might have gone. There are exceptions: I'm still excited about the sequel to my Bionicle fanfic, and I have some Warhammer ideas rattling around. But, mostly, this is an apology. This is me admitting that I've failed at the task I set myself five years ago. And you know what? I'm okay with that. XCOM

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Cryokina

Dec 24, 2015

Merry Christmas + Novel Preview!

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Happy holidays, dear readers! Alas, my schedule this year didn't give me enough time to finish a chapter of Minecraft: Suicide Mission, but I've got something else in store. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j57s1yzer1kayv6/Bloodsinger%20-%20Part%20One.pdf?dl=0 That link right there is the first third of the novel I wrote, Bloodsinger. It's about 30,000 words long, and I hope you all enjoy it. This has been my most productive year ever, and I think I've improved as a writer drastically over the last four years of writing on here. I think it shows in what I've written. Enjoy, and give all the feedback you can! This is still a first draft.

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Dec 3, 2015

Bloodsinger is Complete! (Sorta)

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Hooray! I wrote a grand total of 50,119 words from November 1st to November 30th. (In truth, I hit 50,069 by November 29th, so I did very little on the 30th, but still.) I've officially won NaNoWriMo 2015! I am happy. It wasn't easy; I was up an hour ro two My novel, Bloodsinger, isn't complete yet, despite what that title might imply. Not only is this merely a first draft, riddled with incomplete arcs, inconsistent building heights and missing scenes, but it's only halfway there. I only wanted it to be about 50,000 words long, but in the course of writing I learned that it's going to be somewhere closer to 100,000. It could be even more tha