WIP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday ✍️

I'm finally making headway in draft 3 of chapter 8 😩🙌 it feels weird that so many of my WIP Wednesday posts have been on this single chapter but oh well, we ball.

He hops to his feet. "Here's how this is going to work. I'm gonna clean up, and you're going to ignore me. Don't look at me, don't talk to me. You're gonna act like you can't see me at all. If Greed's PA asks about me, say somethin' bland and boring. Say I'm sufficient or somethin'. Got it?" Seeker straightens, two hands smoothing out their dress. "Yes. I believe I can do that." Ignoring was a great margin easier than pretending to deny and demean another being, certainly, and while it was still awful, they would take this as a lesson as well. The Kalilith had a lot to learn about the surface world and it's.. Systems, for Valian’s sake as well as their own.

7C taglist belowww~

@gioiaalbanoart @biblicallyaccuratefruitbat @katenewmanwrites @lychhiker-writes @autism-purgatory

@wyked-ao3 @cowboybrunch @zackprincebooks @smellyrottentrees @tragedycoded

@aalinaaaaaa @the-golden-comet @quillswriting @nbkuhn @ddgraywrites

@desastreus @theglitchywriterboi @shanakin-skywalker @honeybewrites @sincerelydorky

(Hmu to be +/-!)

Fanart Friday~ 🎨

Happy Friday everyone!! It's been an especially long week for me and I'm so excited to gay it up and contribute a Friday Kiss 😘 for once!

Here's the incubois Kazimier and Klaus from my story 🌐7 Circles🌐 making out~

This sexy sketch was drawn by Furozoa on discord and holy fuck if the steam on this couldn't power a train engine 🥵 I love that expression on Klaus, and that he's accuratly drawn as the more broad of the two men. Ugh, and their necks 😫💦so good. It's an older version of Kazimier, hence the single triangle marking, the vibes are still immaculate tho 🤌🔥

Fanart Friday taglist: @the-golden-comet @lychhiker-writes @gioiaalbanoart @quillswriting @wyked-ao3 (hmu to be +/-)

A Musing Monday 🎐

Today i'm musing about connections and how they are often synonymous with our opportunities, our ability to survive, and our thoughts- therefor changing who we are and who will become. Also coin metaphors 🪙

Last Tuesday out of the blue one of my partners was laid off, he started a new job two days later because he knows people who work at a cabinet mill. 🙏

My family made the most healing ratatouille that we ate off of all weekend because someone I know from work had too many eggplants. 🍆📈

We got our house thanks to the efforts of a friend with a real-estate license. I got the contact info for my current therapist from a girlfriend. I have a song stuck in my head from a child I work with and I pick up catchphrases from people on tv and I know how to do pushups for the 1st time in my life bc an online friend taught me how. 🔥💪

Its fun and frightening to think about- that we are obelisks of pennies created from every person that gave us their two cents 🪙🪙

If every trait, thought, inclination, or idea of yours was a coin- which of your coins are old, passed down through the generations until they were shuffled into your hands? Which are invaluable? Like my dads tendency to accept things (like my gayness and transness and polyness) as long as no one is getting hurt, which I know he got from my grandfather ❤️. Which coins are a burden you dont know how to get rid of? Like my mother's propensity to say "It could be worse, think of__ (children in Africa, Houseless folk, etc)" which has become my tendency to minimize my own experiences and neglect to give myself breaks 🫠. Which coins did you find on the sidewalk and which sit with you in your car? Which are made of metals you're allergic to? Which are tarnished and scratched but still good? Which coins of yours are most valuable to you? 🎐

There are so many times in my life where I felt like I couldn't get a leg up, and the only way I got through was stacking pennies, adding up my connections and the ghosts of connections past to try to escape the pit..

With that in mind I want to take a moment to shout out the change (🥁) that others have gifted me with recently, cuz boy buddy have I needed to stack pennies lately, but have been so blessed to have so many new coins.

Thanks @sableglass, the fire you put into the world ignited action into me. I spent a year lamenting the loss of a job until your 'fuck it we ball' attitude inspired me to get resolved about that 🤽‍♂️. I got a job offer today. You helped me get here.

Thanks @the-golden-comet , you were one of the first writblr blogs I came across. You shaped my idea of tumblr to be something positive and uplifting during a very hard time for me 🫂. Your stories are so free and wild (🐳💦) and wonderful that they changed my outlook on being a writer and that what im 'allowed' to put in a story is anything but a limiting factor. You taught me that the course of a day can be changed with a simple frog gif and that you dont necessarily need to know someone to know how much they care. 🐸💕

Thanks to @tragedycoded for DMLS and @words-after-midnight for Libaw. Yall write the mentalscape of various conditions so well that im taking better care of myself 🧠🌿. I'm more proud of the work I've put into myself. And i'm becoming proud of the person I could have become but didn't.

Thank you to @lychhiker-writes for being my first homie on tumblr and for letting me vent my various frustrations into your dms 😏😅, and for being a brave and honest alpha reader for 7C.

Thank you @wyked-ao3 and @cowboybrunch and @gioiaalbanoart for being such great cheerleaders for my writing 😭💕 seeing yall connect and feel your feelings in my comments gives me so much hope and happiness and I honesty dont thank yall enough. I finally finished ch8 (no, really, check the doc 👀) and your encouragement helped me really embrace Seeker, who I used to think was too boring, and get that chapter finished 🏁.

There are so many others and I'm sorry for not naming them all 🙏 but if I have read your work, thank you. If I follow you or you follow me, thank you. If we have ever bonked together in a discord chat like two wayward beyblades 💞- *Thank You*

Today, I feel like I'm finally out of the pit, and it's thanks to the random 2 cents and spare change yall have gifted me. Your influence is priceless. 🥰💰

(Still no taglist for Monday posts yet, hmu if you'd like to be on it!)

WIP Wednesday ✍️

I finally finished draft 3 of chapter 8!! 🙌 I'm trying REAL hard to congratulate myself for it and savor the win because next... next is the first Kazimier POV 💋 chapter of 🌐7 Circles🌐: Ch9, Tea Time. Here's a clip of it for yall.

After letting Kazimier out in the morning, Klaus took them both out into the world and its bright, sparkling nonsense. That’s basically what came outta demon’s mouths when they had the poor taste to open them- Bright. Sparklin’. Nonsense. And Klaus is fuckin’ fluent. He had every first class dame and half of the brutes cooing congratulations over him turnin’ a century old and getting saddled with slave number one.

And oh boy, was Kazimier a favorite topic in these conversations. Just like that Demyen guy at that pompous shindig, they’d ask Klaus ‘What his first act of reformation will be’ along with what’s next- what the ‘final product’ of Kazimier would look like. And damn Klaus, he didn’t give any of them (including Kazimier) a damn thing to work with.

I AM excited to show Kazimier off! It's just going to take some extra time to finish this chapter bc there's some summarizing from Kazimier's POV, and I have to carefully balance letting Kazimier's voice in but not so much that the prose feels like it belongs to a different book than the rest 💀 Also rn it's at almost 7k words and I think it needs streamlining..

7C taglist: @gioiaalbanoart @biblicallyaccuratefruitbat @lychhiker-writes @autism-purgatory

@wyked-ao3 @cowboybrunch @zackprincebooks @smellyrottentrees @tragedycoded

@aalinaaaaaa @the-golden-comet @quillswriting @nbkuhn @ddgraywrites

@desastreus @theglitchywriterboi @shanakin-skywalker @honeybewrites @sincerelydorky

Today i'm thinking about mold, like emotionally. The feeling of moldiness vs feeling nourished and refreshed.

If you've struggled with depression & have worked at allieving it (✋️), you might relate to how unfair it is that many of the things you DO NOT WANT to do while depressed alleviate the depression. 🔀

Depression wants me to isolate, but reaching out and connecting to someone helps. 🫂 Depression doesn't want me to leave bed much less the house, but standing barefoot in my front yard for five minutes eases something in me 🌾☀️. Depression wants me to forsake myself, but damn if everything isn't easier after a long shower and a meal.🧼🍜

It almost feels like depression is a parasitic mold man that doesn't want to be eliminated and has the ability to plant strong 'don't wanna' messages into your gourd 🚫. If you stay alone and miserable the mold can really settle into your body and grow- it even tries convincing you the depresso mold is a dangerous substance like real mold is and that if you go for help you'll just hurt people.

Its so hard to not listen to my scummy little mold man! SO HARD (😏). And he has gremlin powers where if you feed the mold after midnight (or whatever 'past bedtime' is) he gets incredibly worse.

So im celebrating myself (he hates that) and listing some fuck-off-mold-guy activities I've done the past few days 💪

☀️ I made myself a beautiful ratatouille and a plum cookie cobbler

☀️ I asked my partner for back rubs

☀️ I sat in a patch of grass by the road and found a swirly rock

☀️ Watched a goose 🪿

☀️ Opened some windows and curtains and vacuumed

☀️ Redyed my hair (still green lmao 💚)

☀️ Had two friends over to share a meal and bark at Paul Hollywood

☀️ Complimented and flirted with my partner until they blushed and squeaked

☀️ Listened to Carbon Leaf in a hammock with a drink in my hand

☀️ Did paperwork I didnt want to do and then loudly congradulated myself for completing it

Like, I still hate the trend of "Oh you're depressed? You should just __". The use of 'just' is so diminishing, its so dismissive of how hard it is and how individual the depression is. Sure, I have a list of things I did lately that helped me, but im not 'cured', and I know as winter comes itll get harder and Ill need my therapist even more. It can be true at the same time that I've found some things that help me through, make the mold recede, and are worth congradulating myself over. 😊

I hope you all find some nourishment and refreshment as well ✨️

Monday taglist: @gioiaalbanoart (hmu to be +/-)

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Will probably delete this almost immediately.

Reminds me of @the-golden-comet 's plant blorbo.

how's your nonbinary eggnot

hmm taste like cimmanim