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Pretty sure I have at least one OC for each of these (and some for more than one). But if I had to pick one, it'd be:

"I'm secure in my butt," Hye-Su chirped. She even pulled the skirt of her bright yellow sundress taut across her rear, outlining the curve of her butt and part of her thighs. She loved to show off, but only in the privacy of their home. Anywhere else, she'd be the perfect picture of demure innocence and humility.

Su-Ji appreciatively eyed the emphasized butt. Normally she was not one to initiate physical touch... But at this moment, she couldn't resist reaching out, laying a slender hand on the soft, warm curve, and giving it a firm squeeze. "I'm secure in your butt, too."

Okay guys 😂

So my Mom gave me this old notepad where she wrote down all the unhinged shit she and her college friends ended up saying to each other like 20 years ago, and she also gave her permission to post the quotes. All my writeblr buddies, comment which of your characters might say one of these.

"If a laugh could stick it's pinkies out, yours would."

"Hi, I'm an invalid frog."

"Muffineth." (Said like in fake Old English)

"Oh! I wasn't thinking of Hamlet, I was thinking of Spaceballs."

"I'm secure in my butt." "I'm secure in your butt, too."

"So it's all proper and shit."

"Wouldn't it suck if God was a Plumber?"

No pressure tags to @queen-of-the-weenies @lordfenric-writes @kaylinalexanderbooks @morgannotlefay @stesierra

If y'all wanna do this.

Oh God oh fuck there's so many

Past:

I realize now that a Death Note fanfic is one of the few WIPs I've ever finished and it was from way back in middle school. L got turned into a cat, and Misa was a crazy cat girlie instead of a Kira stan, so she adopted Cat L. Eventually he learned how to communicate in a way she understood and she used witchcraft to turn him back (I wrote this when I was a wee bebeh stop judging me)

Present:

I have so many :,) If I had to pick just one, I'd pick either Sielsi--which was inspired by the Inheritance Cycle and my deep-seated frustration about the lack of cool shapeshifters in YA romance/fantasy--or it'd be The Bandit Queen's Bride--a self-indulgent lesbian love story full of sapphic yearning and ocean-adjacent adventures.

Future:

I just want to finish my Whitegarden story. I have it literally planned out, written snippets of scenes, made art and music playlists for the characters... And it's sat in my WIP folder for like three years without any updates. Maybe next year I'll get around to it.

Tagging @voidcreativity and @yourlocaldragondealer

Past/Current/Next WIP Game

Thanks @thepeculiarbird for the tag!

Rules: past is a WIP you stopped working on/finished; current is a WIP you're currently working on; next is a WIP you want to write

Past: unpublished fanfiction. Oh God. I was in middle school or high school. I hate it. I cringe so hard. Warriors cats is the least painful. Hamilton middle school AU. MCU au. I started a supernatural fanfic. Like one scene. Thank God. I have nothing against fanfic writers - mass respect honestly. But mine hurts it's so cringe. Maybe cause it's mine. It's certainly not for me that's for sure.

Current: two YA series: sci-fi/fantasy series The Secret Portal and fantasy fairy tale retelling School of the Legends. in short, TSP follows these adolescents discovering an interdimensional portal something something powers something something war. SOTL is what it sounds like; there's an international school for people with gifts (born with), majicks (developed), and curses (given).

Next: I'd love to write what's currently being called The Emerald of Secrets but the title may change. I've written some parts of it in the past but none are gonna be used directly, so I'm not counting it as current or past. Have something to do with the ozone layer one I mentioned on this poll. [LAST DAY VOTE NOW]. Fairy world kinda helps human world is short version.

Alright softly tagging @gracehosborn @isabellebissonrouthier @buffythevampirelover @theelfauthor @little-mouse-gardens @little-peril-stories @finxi-writes @ohnomybreadsticks @emabatis @emberlyric @reneesbooks @annetilney @unrepentantcheeseaddict @fairy-tales-of-yesterday @blind-the-winds @jezifster @ceph-the-ghost-writer @hippiewrites @jessicagailwrites and anyone else if you want to play!

No I didn't completely forget about this tag shut up

I'll do it with the cast of Whitegarden, since I've been thinking about them lately.

Rose: She's a ten, but... Fiery explosions are bad for insurance quotes. And forests. And wooden ships.

Guin: She's a ten, but... Not everything can be solved with baked goods and sassy comments.

Kieran: He's a ten, but... Sometimes you just gotta accept that she's just not that into you.

Winter: She's a ten, but... Maybe don't solve every problem with violence.

Giacomo: He's a ten, but... But nothing. The man is trash and I hate him (affectionately)

Lillianna: She's a ten, but... Maybe she needs to ask herself "Are we the baddies?" once in a while.

Zetyris: He's a ten, but... Why does the narrator keep calling you babygirl?

a ten, but... tag

thanks for the tag, @winterandwords (as i slowly work through my tags from january...)! go check out their perfect tens here - not a dealbreaker among them ;)

i'll pass the tag along to @emabatis, @daisywords, @unrepentantcheeseaddict, @zmwrites, and @rainydance91, plus an open tag for anyone else who wants in :)

i'll do this for the folks from The Art of Empty Space:

Lienzo is a ten, but he makes decisions like the impulsive Disney princess that he is.

Baz is a ten, but will ditch you in 0.5 seconds if he sees a cool plant.

Phi is a ten, but they communicate exclusively in sarcasm.

Okara is a ten, but drugs are 90% of its personality (the other 10% is Flirting)

Hauke is a ten, but she's certain that getting six hours of sleep a night means she has a healthy work-life balance.

Gerania is a ten, but fae's never wrong. Ever. You agree.

Aisha is a ten, but ze's probably been spying on you.

Murtagh is a ten, but he's never gaslit anyone in his life, why would you say that?

and a bonus: Xiro is a ten, but xe's haunting the narrative so hard, we had to call an exorcist.

Finally replying to all the tags I've missed out on. Thank you for thinking of me :)

I'll also do three WIPs, because I love to talk about the things I'll never fully finish

What has been your biggest struggle with your wip?

Whitegarden: Just finishing the damn thing ;-; I have everything planned out, from characters to plot, but the urge to actually sit and write it out continually escapes me.

Sielsi: Wrangling my original work into something less... Juvenile. The original parts I wrote were borderline plagiarized from the Inheritance Cycle, with sprinkles of Vampire Diaries mixed in there. I love the characters I made, but everything else needs a lot of work still.

The Bandit Queen's Bride: Inspiration is the biggest struggle for this one. I wrote the first handful of chapters in a blind haze, and haven't had any inspiration to keep going.

If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

Whitegarden: Something dramatic, like the Game of Thrones theme song. Maybe a cool map graphic to show off the map I made of the continent, and symbolism to represent the various characters and factions............... So the Game of Thrones intro.

Sielsi: Something that starts out hopeful and cheery, that slowly darkens over the course of the season(s), until its got a noticeably sinister quality. Perhaps later it brightens again, but never quite returns to the cheerful sound it was before.

The Bandit Queen's Bride: Taylor Swift, but make it bardcore.

What other pieces of media do you think would share a fan base for your story?

This, I have no idea how to answer. I have a really poor understanding of why other fandoms are popular, so I feel zero confidence in guessing what kinds of audiences I would have from other fandoms.

What was the first part of your wip that you created?

Whitegarden: This song. The first time I heard it, I honestly didn't like it that much. Then I kept listening, and inspiration grew from there. Now it's permanently stuck in the top 20 most listened songs for me lol. I wrote up a rough draft of two children, separated in childhood because of a cursed bloodline. That rough draft is a far cry from what I've settled on by now, but it'll always hold a special place in my memories.

Sielsi: I was in middle school when I read Eragon for the first time, and I thought to myself, "I could do that, but with shapeshifters". So I did that, with shapeshifters. Wrote almost 40k words in a word document, just making it up as I went.

The Bandit Queen's Bride: Had the idea for a story and came up with a handful of characters. Spent a solid few hours trying to decide what sort of accent to get the Bandit Queen.

Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

Whitegarden: Most of the world is populated by animals very similar to what real life has. There are also monsters of various sorts, some more animal-like than others. My favorite is the Enochria, a shadowy beast with multiple arm-like appendages that lives in dark caves in the coldest parts of the continent. They emerge once a year at mid-autumn, then migrate south for the winter/early spring. They climb trees to find mates, then gestate their offspring for variable amounts of time until they find a suitable cave in their northern habitat. Due to magic interference from [Redacted for spoiler reasons], Enochria are moving further and further south, causing many to die from overheating, starvation, or being hunted by frightened humans.

Sielsi: There are natural animals, but nothing relevant to the story. Since half of the main cast are shapeshifters, all the animal shenanigans are their fault. Also I haven't decided if I want standard earth animals, or maybe to add some monsters too.

The Bandit Queen's Bride: There is a very good, very wonderful horse named Tore. A huge bay roan stallion who is extremely loyal to Jin, the Bandit Queen. He originally belonged to Jin's mother, and was passed to her when her mother left the gang. The rest of the bandits have their own horses, but so far, Tore is the only one with any fleshing out.

What part of your wip are you working on rn?

Whitegarden: I flip flop between making more character art and thinking of new monsters to add to the world.

Sielsi: Still struggling with how to lay out the story in a new way ;-;

The Bandit Queen's Bride: Trying to figure out all the secondary/tertiary characters

How do your characters get around? (ex: trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

The answer is the same for all three. Walking or riding horses is the most common way of travel. Those who can afford it will take carriages or ships. For Sielsi, the shapeshifters can turn into birds and fly.

What are your hopes for your wip?

I just wanna finish one of them. Please I am desperate to finish something. Anything.

WIP Questions Tag

I wasn't actually tagged by anyone, but @owlsandwich opened it up to everybody so I'm giving this a try! Open tag, but also no pressure tags to @somethingclevermahogony , @queen-of-the-weenies and @sarandipitywrites !

We're gonna do my main current WIP, God-Touched, and also a couple I've tabled for a bit due to stress, which are called Gods of Steel, and Nico after the name of the MC, respectively. I copy pasted the questions and I may have missed one or two.

What has been your biggest struggle with your wip?

God-Touched: This is more of an overall writing struggle for me, but underwriting/being too concise. I tend to make unnecessary time skips when outlining and not add enough descriptive passages.

Gods of Steel: The world building. I usually enjoy complex world building, but I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this project. I'm taking it slow and building one aspect of it at a time as I'm motivated to do the necessary research, so fingers crossed that works out.

Nico: This one's kinda stupid, but keeping myself from imagining my protagonist as Nico di Angelo. She's completely different in appearance, mannerisms, etc, but I'm a rabid PJO fan and that was my first association with the name.

If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

God-Touched: Definitely something by Imagine Dragons, probably Natural.

Gods of Steel: Probably some kind of epic orchestral thing, I haven't found a specific track yet.

Nico: Song Of Women by the HU and Lzzy Hale. Going purely off of sound and vibes.

What other pieces of media do you think would share a fan base for your story?

God-Touched: Supernatural, Firefly, the King Arthur reincarnated as a space lesbian book (Once and Future) and the book Spellhacker by MK England.

Gods of Steel: This is gonna sound really presumptuous, but I'm trying to make it similar to Dune and the Na'vi Avatar movies.

Nico: Honestly, Tamora Pierce, even though my story is more sci-fi than fantasy. Also slightly the Divergent movie (haven't read the book in years), in that the MC slowly realizes just how much of a dystopia she's actually living in, even though she started out compliant.

What was the first part of your wip that you created?

God-Touched: The general concept of Christian mythology put into a queer science fantasy context.

Gods of Steel: The setting, (humanity's original non-Earth home), and some of its history.

Nico: The idea for the relationship arc between the two main characters. It was the first time I'd ever wanted to write romance, and it was an interesting challenge to come up with how that would play out.

Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

God-Touched: This is a major spoiler, but the main gang ends up adopting an iridescent rainbow baby space dragon. She looks majestic, but is actually a huge derpy goof. She's heavily based on Banana, my little sister's big ginger cat who is not exactly the sharpest crayon in the box

Gods of Steel: The main villains on this story are cyborgs, but some are cyborg animals rather than people. They started out as normal robots, but then got this virus that made them grow flesh, skin and other organic parts, but many of the animal-like ones still have working blades or guns as part of their bodies that they use when hunting humans for food.

Nico: The fauna of the setting for this one is very ice age influenced, the main character has a war mammoth that she's raised from a calf to be her mount and companion.

What part of your wip are you working on rn?

God-Touched: First draft of the first two books, if all goes well it's gonna be a five book series.

Gods of Steel: World Building.

Nico: In my first stage of outlining.

How do your characters get around? (ex: trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

God-Touched: spaceships and hover bikes

Gods of Steel: spaceships, then on foot after all their tech gets infected by the cyborgs.

Nico: Mammoth-back riding.

What are your hopes for your wip?

This is the same for all of them so I'll just do one answer: A devoted fandom that uses my books as inspiration to create their own awesome content. Fanart, fanfic, animatics, those character analysis YouTube videos, anything like that.

Thanks @unrepentantcheeseaddict for the tag and the new toy (quote generator)

I spent so long coming up with quotes. I decided to limit myself to posting only a few, but please understand, I now have a document filled with these.

Guin: I got us matching friendship bracelets, and you say I don't care about our relationship.

Kieran: These are handcuffs.

Guin: Yeah, 'cause we're partners in crime!

Winter: I love you.

Rose, not paying attention: What was that?

Winter: I said I’m selling you to the zoo-

Rose: Knock, knock.

Kieran: Who's there?

Rose: Boo!

Kieran: Boo who?

Rose: Why are you crying?

Kieran: I'm not crying.

Rose: Hello notcrying, I'm Rose.

Rose: Winter, we're hungry!

Kieran: Winter! What's for dinner?

Guin: We're hungry, Winter!

Winter, frying a bottle of ketchup over the stove: *screams*

Incorrect Quote Tag

Sorry for the repetitions, I'm going through all my tags right now! I was tagged by @elsie-writes ! Thank you! Rules: Generate Incorrect Tags for your OCs using this generator!

Istek: Well, if you're not at least a little bit gay for your friends, then what kind of friend are you?

Otilia: I am going to need you to swear- Ninma: Fuck. Otilia: Otilia: ...swear as in promise.

Ninma: I’m really glad “fight me” has replaced “sue me” in the common vernacular because I don’t have money, but I do have fists and I am always angry.

Ninma: Did you just call me a shrimp, you asshole?! I'm still growing, dammit! (This was originally generated for Narul, 9ft tall Narul, which I just thought was really funny)

Narul: No problemo! Narul, internally: But it was all problemo.

Imin: Guys, there’s a monster under my bed and it’s really ugly. Kumad, on the bottom bunk: Honestly, fuck you.

Hutbari: Can you pass the salt? Akard: Can you pass away? Hutbari: Too much salt.

Zatar: What doesn't kill me better start running, because now I'm fucking pissed.

Tagging @vyuntspakhkite-l-darling, @unrepentantcheeseaddict, and whoever else wants in!

Ooh, I love tag games

This one is for Whitegarden, my eternal obsession

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality |faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

Genuinely unsure who to tag for this so I'll leave it open to anyone who sees this :)

WIP themes tag!

Thanks @mysticstarlightduck and @buffythevampirelover (buffy I'm so sorry it's been a while since you've tagged me)

Rules: bold themes from one of your WIPs and italicize lighter themes

This is for The Secret Portal

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality |faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

Thought colors would help

Tagging @gracehosborn @theeccentricraven @theelfauthor @thepeculiarbird @unrepentantcheeseaddict @blind-the-winds @andyswritings @little-mouse-gardens @little-peril-stories @dyrewrites or anyone who sees this!