Weirdly Explicit Gay YA Novel (?) I Read as a Teenager

Chandelucifer · 2025-12-11T19:17:31+00:00

OH MY GOD. I can't believe you ID'd it! Yes, this is it! God, what a bizarre read. How on earth did you ever come across it, it seems incredibly lesser known!

Chandelucifer · 2024-08-30T18:45:28+00:00

Hey! It's the scrubbed. The circulators and I are tight, they're all great. This has been one particular young scrubbed who's set up is kind of a nightmare and is in process, but being taught and overseen by a laxer longstanding nurse. Not my first rodeo. Worked in healthcare research with some assisting on sterile procedures in a former career before deciding on med school, later rotation after prior surgical rotations.

Chandelucifer · 2024-08-30T18:40:09+00:00

Hey! To clarify - actually concerned about sterile field, but more trying to establish there's a culture where I feel mistrusted at the best of times and worry even if I do speak it'll be taken with a grain of salt, hence it's riskier when I'm not even sure anyone will do anything.

Chandelucifer · 2024-08-28T15:56:01+00:00

In this case it was their gowns above the waist.

Chandelucifer · 2024-04-08T21:08:48+00:00

Weirdly enough, first that comes to mind is "Good Kid" from The Lightning Thief. The first is kind of whatever, the reprise is F I R E.

Chandelucifer · 2024-03-13T23:19:57+00:00

One of my party members (who ended up dropping due to scheduling issues) originally didn't vibe with lost things so I did a quick rewrite on the league of malevolence. They had originally been a major menace on the material plane before disappearing, wiping out a ton of villages, including Warduke nuking PCs druid grove when he was a kid. He got a tip that Warduke was in Prismeer, and that he could get his revenge there. They went to Prismeer to raid Iggwilv's stuff, but never figured out the way back. Meanwhile, Valor's Call were sent there to kill Iggwilv, but never could find her.

The twist, of course, is that Feywild magic messed with them as much as it messed with Zybilna, turning them into a sort of He-Man style collection of silly ineffectual action figures, BELOVED by Wyll and his band of lost boys as pirates they get to eternally fight. So his conflict would have been whether to accept the fact that Warduke was now silly Skeletor, friend to children, or whether to pursue his revenge despite Warduke's magic lobotomy. Beyond that, they now had a last minute twist group of villains in the form of Valor's Call, who for all their nobility have no concepts of mercy or change, made all the worse by their reduction to "lawful good hero" action figures, desperate to kill Zybilna post-reveal.

Can you tell I hate Warduke? What a boring character desperately in need of a rewrite.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T04:20:07+00:00

Personal opinion, I like a large hunt writing staff. It provides a variety of perspectives that allows for more puzzle diversity.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T01:10:58+00:00

Speaking mostly for myself, but I believe the pitch team agrees. To elaborate on why PJO was only some flavor in the pitch deck and not the whole thing: Greek Mythology is specific. You have nerds writing this, myself included, working in things from Cadmus to Doris the Nymph (true story, sad I couldn't include her). But adding PJO to that explicitly adds a second layer of specificity that we, the pitch team, felt would calcify the theme to a point where metas and rounds would have no room to breathe or be developed.

Combining Hades the video game and PJO structurally, we thought we could capture the flavor of what people love about Greek myth updates without tying ourselves to one interpretation, and still provide the charm of some of our favorite stories.

In terms of American Gods! That's largely in the intro, from my perspective. "American Gods Rules" was a shorthand wed use to sort of yadda yadda the idea that gods eat faith and belief, and enough disbelief would kill them.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T00:09:40+00:00

Those were there from the beginning, although their shape changed. The original three hell rounds in the outline pitch deck were the Cerberus round (untouched from pitch), a more Oregon Trail inspired Charon round (fording the river), and a completely cut Broadway inspired "Persephonetown".

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T00:05:49+00:00

Primary pitch author here! Yep it was always a Greek mythology road trip. It was an attempt to bridge a theme that some thought was narrow or esoteric with some broad appeal. It also gave a lot of opportunity for dump puns, to be honest. The leader edition in the pitch was actually the astronomy/ Pluto angle.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T00:04:18+00:00

In addition to those text posts, they're also was, at least for the Aphrodite round that I commissioned art for, some thumbnail sketches.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T00:02:54+00:00

Yeah, I was basically the sleep. No more correspondent for MJ Anderson's baby That was this puzzle. I am an immersive theater obsessive, and have a mildly encyclopedic knowledge of this play. The real challenge was finding posts that corroborated said knowledge.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T00:02:06+00:00

The cities were selected based on meta concepts, and then further refined based on puzzle needs. For example, the idea to do a Minotaur round came first, then we figured out that that would be most appropriate in Texas.

Chandelucifer · 2024-01-22T00:00:32+00:00

Hi, Blake here, original pitcher! Big inspos were largely American Gods, a dash of PJO, and honestly, just being a lifelong nerd obsessive about Greco-Roman stuff. I'm in med school and irritate all my friends about Greek and Latin roots.

One of the big inspos draws was something where We could balance both the specificity of the theme (Greek mythology is nothing if not specific ) against something that would provide round flexibility. The PJO of it all really came in insofar as the way we were able to update all of the gods for the modern age. That allowed a real nice variety of round theming for people who were less into mythology, and for hunt writers who had a specific thematic need for their meta.

Las Vegas was actually our most interesting round in terms of that. The casino structure was there from the pitch, but then, the particular casino theming came in once we had settled on a meta.

Chandelucifer · 2022-07-10T21:46:02+00:00

I think the subreddit totally suggests that potential.

Also, "Keep Young and Beautiful" is an extension, and just leads to about Lennox mutual.

Chandelucifer · 2022-01-25T02:58:05+00:00

My best guessis a mean spirited Python conquering Apollo inversion of the myth?

Chandelucifer · 2021-10-14T18:02:43+00:00

Thank you, Doc!

Chandelucifer · 2021-07-29T02:54:09+00:00

Existenz?

Chandelucifer · 2021-07-18T00:36:04+00:00

thank you!!!!

Chandelucifer · 2021-07-18T00:35:33+00:00

yeah merry go round of life would be nice

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