Picrew tag game!- Create yourself now vs how you looked when you were a kid

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I was tagged by @cutebisexualmess for this but the chain was too long so I'm restarting!

If only that little girl could see me now (she'd probably think I was cool tbh)

uhm tagging: @b3achfagz (ik you dont do tag games so u can just ignore this but i though u might find it cool) @cassiecryptic @viktheviking1 @depressedgremlinbitch @ramencat12 @inkyslimee @the-horrifying-digital-circus @patipati @cute--thing @musicalsiphonophore @tastetherainbow290 @disenchantedwarlock @bookishcatcafe and anyone else who sees this and thinks it looks cool!!

This does indeed look super cool!

Tags: @crikey01 @sapphieissleepy @faeratil @nostalgic-bee @mostnormalaziraphaleliker and anyone else! Cmon!

Ooh I love this :3

Very different now lmao

Tagging @calkoro @jackinistafflower @s-3lliot and @andiv3r and anyone else who wishes to do this

:D i was a part of this chain already I think but heres mine

i wasnt tagged but it looked fun so shhhhhh

Open tags!

I did NOT expect this to come out so sad

But it did

@greatsouthernpansy @sparrow-the-tired-lesbian @sparrowsortadrawzzz @enbydykeism @the-genderfluid-kony @turtleneck-crowley @grass-eater-cora @professional-termite and open sorry if I forgot any of my lovely moots

Look at me- so beautiful.

@spookysplatt @midnightnautilus @aether-wasteland-s @myheadphonesareneverloudenough

And anyone else who might want to join!

Thanks Nab!!

That haircut was one of my better ideas, I'll tell you that... Uhhh, picrew people...... @sergeantnarwhalwrites , @ink-fireplace-coffee , @charlies-storybook && @carryingthebanner (no pressure) and anyone else who wants to is free to!

Nova you look so freaking cute!!!!

I was ummm not a happy child and as an adult I'm not as unhappy but still. So.

Open tag

Baking: A short story

TWs: food mention, mentions of religious symbolism, mentions of killing, killers and crime.

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The smell of brown sugar lingered in the air like a crime scene. Nothing that indicated chaos had ensued, nothing that could point out the strength of my arm as I had mixed eggs and flour, the angry tears that had threatened to drop into the dough and make it salty, a notion that would have only made me madder and angrier.

The Witch and the Beast | WIP Intro

Genre: fantasy retelling, romance, post-apocalyptic steampunk

Target: NA

Setting: our world, France; centuries in the future

POV: multi (mainly 2), 3rd person limited, past tense

Themes: family, guilt & forgiveness, trauma, oppression, power

Logline: In an attempt to save her father's life, 21-year-old Rosebelle offers herself as prisoner to the king of a forgotten realm, cursed to remain a half-human, half-wolf beast.

Literal logline: Disaster bisexual falls in love with sad wet dog (literally) while juggling his nosy siblings and practicing witchcraft.

Featuring: one-sided enemies to friends to lovers | Arabic bisexual FMC | mixed black-white family | siblings dynamics | vampires, werewolves & witches | Italian pirates | side f/f & m/m pairings

Inspiration: various iterations of Beauty and the Beast and other fairytales

CW: violence, gore, death, descriptions of corpses, blood drinking, trauma & depression, sexual harassment, self-hate & implied self-harm (no physical injuries)

Hi, folks! After ages, I'm finally introducing this project I've been mentioning for months! It really shouldn't have taken me this long to post this, but I'm a busy perfectionist.

The best way I can describe TWATB is if Once Upon a Time and The Vampire Diaries had a child. Hopefully a better written one. It's mainly a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but in book 1 you can see hints of other fairytale characters and, in book 2, all new characters come from different stories. Yes, it is a series, it seems I'm physically unable to write standalones.

Plot

After a nuclear war set technology back and filled Earth's atmosphere with gas clouds that black out the sun, vampires came out of the shadows and subjugated the humans.

Rosebelle Fortier wishes to escape the small French village where she lives, unable to pursue her thirst for knowledge and tormented by a vampire who wants to make her his. Ro's wish comes true with a catch when she offers herself as prisoner to a half-human, half-wolf Beast and his siblings to save her father's life.

Before he angered the wrong witch, Adam ruled the Kingdom of Alsace. Now, he's a monster trapped in his own castle and by a curse that will only break if he learns to love and be loved back. Time is ticking by and, even when a girl stumbles on his path, Adam knows there's no hope: no one will ever love a beast.

As a hidden threat forms, Ro and Adam must come into their own power and fall in love, all before time runs out.

Characters

(* means a character appears in book 2)

Rosebelle Fortier

she/her

Adam d'Alsace

he/him

François Guérin

he/him

Delphine d'Alsace

she/her

Julien d'Alsace

he/him

Véronique d'Alsace

she/her

Charlotte d'Alsace

she/her

Bianca Chen Hildebrandt*

she/her

Astrid Morgenstern*

she/her

Sebastiano Falconieri*

he/him

Setting

Like I mentioned in the plot, TWATB is set in an unspecified future, after a nuclear war. As a consequence, the planet is cocooned by a thick cover of gas clouds that block all sunlight. Vampires, who had previously been considered a myth, came out of hiding and started ruling over the humans. Besides that unfortunate implication, lack of sunlight also means the climate is colder and living conditions are dire. The story is set in France, but now it looks like Siberia.

The war also set technology back a couple centuries, before the discovery of electricity. There's gas lamps, railroads (not many, because, y'know, lots of ice and snow), zeppelins. And, of course, I couldn't resist the steampunk/Victorian aesthetic.

But that's not all! Even though I'm not sure how much will come across in book 1, since it's set at the castle for 90% of the time, there's more to the setting than "steampunk but cold". I've built a vampire-centric society with its own rules and spent a bunch of time researching what effects the absence of direct sunlight would have, to make everything as realistic as possible.

This is all for now. Hope this "new" project piqued your interest!

— Rose

Taglist: (lmk to be added)

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

Magnus Archives fan I see

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

Baking: A short story

TWs: food mention, mentions of religious symbolism, mentions of killing, killers and crime.

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The smell of brown sugar lingered in the air like a crime scene. Nothing that indicated chaos had ensued, nothing that could point out the strength of my arm as I had mixed eggs and flour, the angry tears that had threatened to drop into the dough and make it salty, a notion that would have only made me madder and angrier.

ID in alt text

wearing a white shirt wide leg jeans and leather jacket not in a basic way but in a distinctly dykefag way

Why is it that I sometimes struggle to get more than 300 words on paper some days, and then write a 2000 word backstory for my ffxiv character within the hour??

Would you guys actually be interested in reading parts of said backstory?

people who watch/have been exposed to social media lifestyle/makeup/fashion influencers (specifically youtube or another video-based platform): pls give me any ideas you have on how they format their videos.

i'm trying to write an influencer posting an unGRWM video update while accusing her (ex-)boyfriend of cheating and attacking the girl he 'cheated' with and am slowly realizing i don't actually know how a video like that would be formatted or the typical things that would be included.

New OC Intro: Cardea

—A low-level Southern spy who defected to the North when she was caught

—She’s the head of Livia’s domestic spy ring. Known around the court as an invisible force who knows your secrets, she’s earned the nickname Mistress of Silence

—Her role as a spy is almost a secret identity, with no one knowing exactly who she is. She’s more effective that way

—This does mean she doesn’t have time for close relationships outside of her job

—She knows something about everyone, and if she doesn’t like you, she’ll find a reason

—She’s in love with Livia

Hello again!

It's been.... wow a lot of time since I was last here, huh? I had finals sooo it's been a really difficult two months for me, but I'm back!

And not even empty-handed! Have some words from (yet another) AU of Marble and Magic because they have been rotting in my mind lately and I wanted to get back into writing!

Transcription under the cut!

Marble and Magic taglist! (ask to be +/-)

@enchanted-lightning-aes, @zonnemaagd, @alexwritesfiction, @euphoniouspandemonium, @fiercely-raging-writer, @dontcrywrite, @47crayons, @the-writing-moon, @writing-is-a-martial-art, @diphthongsfordays, @shamblingthing, @generalblizzarddreamer, @chayscribbles, @rose-bookblood

Hopping on the open tag from @jezifster to make myself in this picrew. Also hope you're doing well jezifster!

I tag: @fearofahumanplanet @outpost51 @liv-is @the-void-writes @aether-wasteland-s @cryptid-s-wips (Only if you want of course! Open tag too!)

Thanks so much for the tag!! I'm gonna pass this to... @ink-fireplace-coffee , @flock-from-the-void , @chuuyas-beloved and anyone else who wants to hop on :)

Thank you so much Nova!!! you look great!

I'm leaving this tag open since I am not on Tumblr so much atm hehe so hop in!!!