This is my cozy little corner of this hellsite. Make yourself at home, have a look around, ignore the blood, that’s just... uh, anyway. Here you’ll find posts with a focus on writing and fictional suffering, but this is a main blog, so there will be a sprinkle of memes, queer stuff and everything else I feel like putting here.
An overview of my (published) writing is below the cut, more about me and my tags can be found on my about page.
🥧Pie ~ Explain one of your OC's in 5-10 ~3 word bullet points. - I'll let you choose :)
🎂Cake ~ What is one of your favorite tropes you've used in your WIPs?
Thank you for the ask! From this ask game.
🥧Pie ~ Explain one of your OC's in 5-10 ~3 word bullet points. - I'll let you choose :)
Can you guess? 😂
🎂Cake ~ What is one of your favorite tropes you've used in your WIPs?
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Forced to watch.
[ID: White text over a photo of flames. The text reads: He stepped inside shrouded in the stench of fire and fresh blood. Aurelia instinctively took a step back. “I’m sorry,” he whispered. End ID]
What's he sorry for? You can find out in *counts on fingers* 12 days!
Adding children into the equation when it comes to writing can be difficult for those of us who are not currently a parent or have experience with children.
“I want to have this one year old character… wait, how do one year olds even act? How do three year olds act? What the heck can babies do? CAN THEY EVEN VOCABULARY? I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CHILDREN!”
Well, lets see if we can find out.
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Birth - 3 Months Old [x]
4 - 7 Months Old
8 - 12 Months Old
1 Year - 3 Years Old [x]
Your child is advancing from infancy toward and into the preschool years. During this time, his physical growth and motor development will slow, but you can expect to see some tremendous intellectual, social, and emotional changes.
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Toilet Training In order for a toddler to be successfully potty trained, she needs to be able to sense the urge to go, be able to understand what the feeling means, and then be able to verbalize that she needs your help to make it to the toilet and actually go. Waiting until your child is truly ready will make the experience much faster and more pleasant for everyone involved.
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Infancy
–What to expect: Babies cry. –Needs: Basic love and care –Parents’ Need: Time off and sleep. –Special Problems: Fussy baby
Six Months
–What to expect: Child is always moving. Favorite game is dropping/throwing toys. Child puts everything into their mouth. –Needs: Same as infancy. Protection. [Never leave child unattended. Babies roll off beds, changing tables. Unless baby is on the floor, keep a hand on the baby or use a restraint system. Keep small things off the floor and out of reach.]
Nine Months
–What to expect: Baby is crawling, pulling up. Child has no concept of property. Everything is a toy. Still puts everything in mouth. –Needs: Child-proof environment. Close supervision. –Special Problems: Separation fears. [Baby is afraid to be left; wakes up during the night.]
One Year
–What to expect: Child needs to explore and is into everything. [Likes to dump things out. Child must touch everything that is new. Likes to tear paper apart and pull plants over to see what will happen. Enjoys throwing food on the floor to see what will happen. Wants to eat what others are eating.] –Needs: Lots of things. Safe environment. Firm limits. Plenty of sleep. Nutritious food.
Two and a Half
–What to expect: This is THE Age of Conflict. Child is never sure whether the child wants to be independent and separate (“Me do it”, “myself,”“no,no, no”) or dependent and treated like a baby (“Hold me”, “carry me”, “help me”). Parents never know what to expect. Temper tantrums increase and are used for attention and control. Child wants the same foods all the time, refuses any change, says “no” even when the child means “yes”. Starts to stutter or stammer. Masturbates frequently. Wants to be treated like a baby when the child gets tired. The child is just starting to learn the rules and tells himself “no, no” while breaking them. –Needed: Patient, kind, firm parents. –Parents’ Motto: This too shall pass.
Three
–What to expect: Likes to do things by himself. Can unbutton and unzip the child’s own clothes. Does not know the front from the back or which shoe fits which foot and the child doesn’t care. Favorite expression is “All by myself” but cries easily when the child can’t do it. He wants to help parents do things. Refuses to hold parent’s hand even though the child must. Wants to walk in stores instead of riding in stroller. Develops sudden fears and phobias. Resists taking naps but needs one. Can control bladder and bowel functions, but still has accidents. By 3 and ½, child whines all the time. May stammer and stutter when upset or excited. Nose picking, fingernail biting, and tumbsucking reach a peak. Child also learns to spit. Favorite lines are “Don’t look,” “Don’t laugh”, “Don’t talk” which the child uses on parents. Prime time for imaginary friends. –Needs: Patience. Time to grow. Remember, a 3 year old is a baby that looks like a child. Don’t force threes to be bigger than they can be at the moment. An enabling environment.
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Happy writing!
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Thanks for this old tag @duckingwriting! Have some Six of Crows fic.
Kaz took his time, shed his jacket, slowly loosened his tie. “The Spring Extravaganza. It’s a large party for empty-headed wealth to congregate under the moniker of welcoming in the new season. Really, it’s an excuse to parade themselves amongst society’s best. It’s a decadence, an absurdity.” “So, naturally, you’re going.” “We’re going,” Kaz corrected. “That is, if you’ll go.” Inej swung her legs back and forth. “That depends on the job, I suppose. Who will I be playing, Kaz?”
No pressure tags for @revenantlore @reneesbooks @sarandipitywrites @writeouswriter @cljordan-imperium and anyone else who'd like to share <3
Opening Task Manager to scare the programs into behaving again
Thanks @mk-writes-stuff for the tag!
My words: lost, hunt, beyond, awake
Your words: loud, lead, light, letter
Tagging @faeriecinna @mrbexwrites @lesleymoonwriter @i-can-even-burn-salad @dyrewrites @writeouswriter @sleepyowlwrites @elsie-writes @revenantlore @mysticstarlightduck + anyone else!
TSP tag list (ask to be +/-): @thepeculiarbird @illarian-rambling @televisionjester @finchwrites
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Thanks for this older one, @awritingcaitlin! Have the last thing i wrote yesterday...
She knew better than most that going through the calming motions mattered nearly as much as patching the literal wound.
Gentle tags for @nopoodles @ashfordlabs @zmwrites @charlesjosephwrites @i-can-even-burn-salad and anyone else who'd like to join <3
Sending hugs always!
💓- Is your character a hopeless romantic? Are they a pessimist, optimist, or realist?
For the character of your choice, please and thank you!
Thank you for the ask. From this ask game.
Let's pick someone who's neither aro nor traumatized (... much).
Laurent is definitely a hopeless romantic! Which is fortunate, because he's also hopelessly in love. The trust issues he had after the (very bad not good) ending of his last relationship were his biggest source of unhappiness.
He's somewhere between optimistic and realistic. As long as there's a sliver of hope, he will see it and try to work for it, but he will not turn a blind eye on a hopeless situation. Ok, perhaps sometimes he's a bit too optimistic.
Dude, you're bleeding out, stop joking.
❤️🩹!
Thank you for the ask. From this ask game.
❤️🩹- What would your character look like if they were a deity? And what would they have power of?
I think Caldyn would make an excellent god of death :) He'd look like... he looks now. And he'd have the power... of... life and death. Uh-oh.
💝- What would be the greatest gift your character could receive?
Forget if I sent this before or not
It can be a physical gift or not
Thank you for the ask. From this ask game.
You see, the fun thing about lots of my stories is that my characters do get their greatest gifts, and if I could think of something much better, I'd probably have given it as well :D
(Except perhaps for free therapy and good painkillers 😬)
It's usually nothing expensive or special — just special to them. Some examples:
Finnian gifts Eilis a glowing crystal, because she's afraid of the dark.
Cedric gives Merry a book (cipher key) as a symbol of her acceptance into his circle, but it's a book that matches her perfectly: The Merry Little Lamb.
Laurent gives Aurelia some candy making equipment piece — those are pretty rare, pretty expensive, and it also means he paid a lot of attention to what she did and what tools she used.
Josephine gives Valadan a new job opportunity 😅
🤎 [brown heart] and 🧡 [orange heart] for the ask game (any characters you want!)
Thank you for the ask. From this ask game.
How about Finnian and Caldyn :)
🧡- what's your character's worst irrational fear?
That's eas— oh irrational. You know, most of them are quite rational when you look at what I've done to them, but let's try.
Caldyn's biggest fear is that people will leave him; because he's too much of a burden, because they find they find something/someone better, because he's just not worth it. Again — it's no wonder, but it will also never happen.
Finnian's biggest fear is ... ok, I'm not sure anything he could be afraid of would be unwarranted, given his past 😅
There always is the fear that something happens to someone he loves (i.e. Eilis) and he is unable to heal her, despite all the magic within him. Which, for some reason, I can understand, but if we go the irrational route, it's that Eilis would hate him for it.
🤎- How much physical pain can your character withstand? How much mental pain?
He, that question makes it sound like they have a choice :)
Caldyn, quite a lot physical pain. He used to even before certain events, as being a healer he kind of knew it wasn't "that bad" and he could fix it and really now that pain is just annoying (but please someone hold his hand 🥺)
Then certain things happened, and he now has chronic pain (he mostly just ignores, until he can't anymore). He has fought half-dead before, and he would again. I think his body would give up before his stubborn self would.
The one thing he cannot deal with is fire. His eyes burning were the worst pain he has (and probably will) ever felt.
Finnian also has some chronic pain, but he is less lucky with shutting it out. It can easily ruin his day, but what can he do about it. I guess his breaking point, however short, was the idea of broken knees on top of it all (and Clayton so would have done it.)
Mentally... uh I plead the, actually, no idea of american laws 😂
I was tagged by @winterandwords <3
And I am leaving this one an open tag as well, because there have been so many going around, and I don't know who has or hasn't done it yet.
Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!
I still can't stop thinking about Till Death, and that's a problem for a dialogue tag, because... you see. Here we have Eilis.
💚- What does your character like to wear? Why do they wear the clothes they do? - for Laurence/Aurelia
💙- What would your character be doing if they hadn't gone through what the have?(Don't play with me I know they're probably traumatized) - 😂😂 couldn't resist this one, for Finn and Eilis even though I know it'll be depressing 🥺
Thank you for the ask. I think. From this ask game.
💚- What does your character like to wear? Why do they wear the clothes they do?
Laurent likes to wear soft pants, wide shirts with puffy sleeves (silk or similar), and over them a fashionable vest. He does not like too tight clothes or stiff fabric, so that's an acceptable compromise to keep up some resemblance of professionalism.
He does have a wider range for occasions like formal balls or casual undercover, but without such an occasion, he's so rarely seen in anything else I'm sure the people at the trading guild would jokingly ask him what he did to Laurent.
Aurelia prefers dresses, her wardrobe ranging from very plain to a bit fancy. Short sleeves on pretty much all of them, so they're not in the way when she works (her whole wardrobe is newer than her love for candy making), and she has a preference for embroideries and other tactile decoration like laces etc.
She never really grew to like pants, and while she has a skirt or two, she's less of a morning person than her schedule would suggest, and just grabbing one piece of clothing without having to worry about mix and match is her preferred solution.
💙- What would your character be doing if they hadn't gone through what the have?
Oh boy.
I mean. How early do we start? Because if we're honest, if that hadn't happened with Eilis' father, something else would. If he hadn't married her to Clayton, then to someone else of similarly questionable character. If she had spoken, no one would have listened.
Her life wasn't just a one-time thing that went wrong, there is no way it would have played out anywhere close to nice as long as her father was alive. Worst case, she would have witnessed something later, and he would have killed her as well.
As for Finnian, it also depends on what "it" was. If Luca hadn't found him? He would have died a few years later at latest, either because running out of money, or pissing off one person too many. Now if the thing with Luca's sister had never happened, he would have continued - and failed - his study at the temple.
There's a small chance he might have stayed in some other position, a janitor at the temple or returning home as a farmer, but honestly, he might have left home anyway, because he'd still be the big disappointment of... well, everyone.
Which, in the long run, might have ended similarly — alone, running out of money, dead in a winter or after some tavern brawl.
❤️- If your character was in modern day(or depending on the time period if they were in the past), what job would they aspire to have?
🧡- what's your character's worst irrational fear?
💛- is your character religious? If so to what extent?
💚- What does your character like to wear? Why do they wear the clothes they do?
💙- What would your character be doing if they hadn't gone through what the have?(Don't play with me I know they're probably traumatized)
💜- How many languages does your character speak?
🤎- How much physical pain can your character withstand? How much mental pain?
🖤- What kind of music would your character listen to?
🤍- How willing to help a stranger would your character be?
💘- Is your character addicted to anything? Or how do they cope with stress?
💝- What would be the greatest gift your character could receive?
💖- Who's your character's best friend if they have one? What makes them work so well?
💗- Who is your character's greatest influence or inspiration?
💓- Is your character a hopeless romantic? Are they a pessimist, optimist, or realist?
💞- who loves your character the most? Even if the character themselves don't know it. And why?
💕- What's your character's fatal flaw?
❣️- What show/movie/game/book universe would your character thrive in?
❤️🩹- What would your character look like if they were a deity? And what would they have power of?
💔- Does your character play a sport? If not, what sport would the play?
❤️🔥- Would you character go to heaven or hell? Where do they think they'd go?
whump writers: what if I made a little guy really sad
