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I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".

Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"

I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"

Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"

- Intro to me/my account .*

General:

pronouns; he/him

age range; minor.

current read; crooked kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

interests; bones, typewriters, zombies, tim burton movies, 80s goth, physical media, journaling

fandoms; creepypasta, young royals, 5sos

inspirations; hozier, luke hemmings, jeff buckley, peter murphy, & edgar allan poe

fun facts:

im autistic, thus i have a strange speech pattern, so my 'poems' may not make sense aside from in my own voice. It also means i really struggle with telling tone (ironic as a writer, i know.)

ive enjoyed writing since i learned how, and never really stopped.

idk how to write straight couples as ive never experienced it, so I do it very rarely.

i really like "The tell tale heart"; i think it solidified my want to pursue writing as a career.

i lovee jeff buckley

i own a remginton 2 typewriter, though it doesnt work rn..

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information on my writing (+masterlists) below the cut.

My writing:

wips; 2 atm, ideas for 1 other i'll focus on later on.

My main wip is shortened to "SOLS". It follows 2 boys, one human, one siren. Both of them are gay and want the other, though they arent supposed to be together for various reasons.

themes of death, friendship, love, and manipulation/abuse

will be TWs for mental/childhood abuse & mild homophobia

My side wip is shortened to "MTR". It tells the story of a lesbian princess desperate to escape being heir to the throne while simultaneously falling in love with her childhood best friend.

themes of classism, love, lgbtq, and religion

genres i write; fantasy & romance w darker themes is really it for now. id like to get into writing horror though.

tropes i use often; queer and poc casts, forbidden/disapproved love, dead or missing family member.., bittersweet endings, capturing

what i'll post; lots to do with my wips, oc stuff, headcanons for the fandoms im in, "how to write ____", mightt experiment in fanfic / oneshots, occasional goth stuff, general writing things

i do not write;

straight pairings (non oc)

smut

incest

retellings

Masterlists:

Song of lost secrets (wip)

this will be updated regularly/as needed.

the things i would do if i could draw omg; i have ideas but cannot draw them

It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip

Guy dies and has to follow a specific person from the spirit world to get his body back before somebody else possesses it

hey if you're the type of writer that's like me where you tend to write specific scenes first that vaguely weave together into a plot, you might like using obsidian as a writing app.

my frustration with other writing applications is that i will write my scenes out of order and it's hard to move things around and rearrange them on a regular document.

but with obsidian there's this canvas feature where you can just write all your scenes and plot moments on these little cards that you can freely rearrange. you can color code them and connect them too.

here's the canvas i've created for my current multi-chapter fic: (if you zoom in you can see all the text in each card this what it looks like zoomed out)

as you can see, i color code them based off chapters and will group them next to a document card with the working title of the chapter. anything not color-coded are scenes that don't have a proper place quite yet or it's just world building references. this app can also be good for note-taking and collecting research!

best of all, it's FREE!!! the only downside is that if you want your stuff to sync across devices, you do have to pay for that. i constantly hop between my laptop and desktop so i pay for the syncing. but if you write on only one device it's completely free! EDIT: some reblogs have mentioned that you can apparently link your own personal cloud storage (dropbox, gdrive, icloud, etc.) to obsidian for free! that way you can access your obsidian vaults across multiple devices without the extra fee. i don't mind supporting the devs but just something to look into if costs is a concern.

i typically use it for organizing my thoughts for a first draft. once i get all the scenes arranged and mostly written out, i will copy and paste them into ellipsus (also free & highly recommended as a google doc alternative) so that they're all in one document that i can edit.

More Than Royalty (wip intro)

I havent been called lia in 10 years. only she did that.  "You said i'd never go through that again so what the fuck happened," she snapped, stopping to catch her breath, "And are you okay."

General:

Genres; romance, YA

setting; a currently unnamed kingdom

themes of; royalty, lgbt relationships, forbidden love, classism, religeous trauma

POV; 1st person

status; character development

target length; novel duology

tag; #wip: more than royalty

CW's; religious trauma, homophobia, kidnapping,

Masterlist

Not great with summaries, be nice.

Summary:

a princess in line to a monarchy that feels outlandish escapes her palace the week before her crowning, going to look for her childhood best friend, whom she was forbidden to see for many years. In leaving, has to leave her little brother behind to be the next king, hoping she can find her girl and be free. She knows that if she doesnt go back, her people will be ruled by cruel leaders; but if she does, she'll never get the life or people she wants.

Characters:

Alia Vallence

Willow Marwah

Marian Vallence

Desmond Vallence

Wade Vallence

Navya Marwah

No matter how much you dislike your own writing, I promise you it’s better than AI

I really need to get back to writing consistently, but its been so much harder since my surgery. Hopefully soon