#I might just need to write it myself tbh

[42questionsandaloafofbread]

look I love the red rising books minus the occasional iffy bits and whatever the author has going on...(honestly idk it's all stuff I've vaguely heard)

But my pet peeve with Morningstar is weirdly that:

SPOILER ALERT FOR BOOK 3 and 4 UNDER CUT

Darrow was not nearly insane enough after the table!!! DUDE YOU WERE TORTURED FOR MONTHS. THEN THROWN IN A TINY SPACE WITH NO LIGHT OR COMPANY OR ANYTHING FOR MONTHS. "Oh but he's so resilient he has a gold's brain or body" my ass- he's a human he should be seeing hallucinations before way month one ends not by month 8 or whatever. The head slamming should have happened way earlier tbh(and maybe jackal could notice and put some pads in or something idk). Darrow should be a raving mad man! He should be having so many more emotions! The suits they send him to space in should be way more traumatizing for even more reasons! He could be claustraphobic, scared of the dark, scared of being alone! We could have had such a wonderful fun amazing recovery arc but nahhh instead we got an excuse for why he doesn't want to go to house arrest and I miss out on all the long and painful angst I was hyped for. I mean the recovery arc we get is still fun but we could have had so much moreeeee

ehem sorry it's half past 4 AM and I'm feeling a little dramatic.

[ninawolv3rina]

Kickin’ it!

Spidersona: Cass Carver, the Uncanny X-Spider (she/her)

Finally, a casual look for my girl :3

[pastelpousay]

HI EVERYONE IK NO ONE ASKED BUT YEA!!

OKAY SO IM GOING TO BE TAKING A BIT OF BREAK FROM MY ART SO I CAN WRITE MY FIC (should probably start referring to it by it’s title 💀) but uhhh yea I’ve been microfocusing on my art for a moment 😭 I’ll probably make more Hadina art but at a much slower pace cuz I’ll be in school and ‘won’t say I’m in love’ chapter 2 will be in the works and I’m still mapping out the plot and things as it goes along.

SO YEA ILL TRY AND MAKE MORE ART BUT IM TRYING TO NOT OVERWHELM MYSELF BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS SO YEA!! :D

[ofcowardiceandkings]

the sinus headaches are already not great but Extra Shit has been added to the pile and im just sat on that right now trying to figure out what the fuck to do

[silent-scribbs]

Y’know Waterfallen Wally? I like him. He my traumatized lil baby that I made from my Cloud 9 au :3

I’m not really one for writing, since I have no stories to tell, usually. But this is something I wanted to do. I hope it’s not that bad 🥺

(I actually wanted to do the part after this, but I couldn’t get to it tonight)

I wake up to the sound of dripping water echoing around me. It’s dark, my vision a wash of blue hues. There’s tunnels, caverns, and I appear to be in… an underground cave system? It’s faint, far away, but I swear I can hear a waterfall.

That’s when I register that I’m sitting in the water, cold but warm as it rests against my legs. The ground beneath me is rough, but not immobile, as I feel what must be dirt and rocks shift when I brush it with my hands. When I stand, the water splashes beside me and drips off my hands and legs, the sound intensified by the silence otherwise surrounding me. I’m alone here.

As I stand and gather my bearings, I realize that something feels wrong… some part of me isn’t quite right. My body doesn’t feel right. It’s not because of my clothes, or lack thereof, either. I can hear light dripping behind me.

When I turn to look, I realize immediately what is wrong. My wings! I watch in shock as behind me, the lovely pair of wings are… dissolving. Wings that once made me feel weightless, like I could float on air and walk on water. It’s like watching cotton candy dissolve, a spreading as the wings get heavier, only to be released and pulled apart by the weight, falling below me into the pool I stand in. It’s… indescribable. How am I supposed to feel about this?

It’s not long until my wings are no more. I’ve never felt so heavy, so solid, and yet so weightless. There’s less mass that encompasses me, yet I feel even more burdened by the weight of my body. It’s a strange feeling, to be be weighed down by loss.

I sigh as there’s nothing I can do about this loss. The water I stand in settles beneath me, only stirred by that which drips from the ceiling or pushed around by what I can only assume is a waterfall further out. Well, it can’t hurt to find out more of the place I find myself in, can it?

It takes a bit for me to get used to walking again—after all, it takes more effort to move something that’s heavier than you’re used to. It almost makes me feel exhausted, lugging around this mass of a body now, but I trudge on. It’s not long before I’m done kicking the water around me, as I make it onto solid, dry ground nearby. I lean against a wall of rock, needing the support.

It takes a good while for me to collect myself, yet it feels like no time has passed at all, as I stand taller and look around once more. Well, may as well wander a bit. My body is no longer soaked or dripping water, but I can still feel some moisture, though I suppose that can’t be helped. Each step I take leaves tracks, wet footprints that dip into the softened ground, marking where I’ve been. I let my hands glide along the walls, brushing against the rough terrain, getting a feel for the smooth and sharp alike.

Then suddenly… I no longer feel alone.

A loud roar of some sort, a cry or wail. It sounds out from further out in the cave, from one of the tunnels. I can’t make out where specifically it comes from, though, as the sound surrounds me, bouncing off the walls… Oh no. My heart starts to race once the sound passes, and the quiet that would’ve been so peaceful before has now turned terrifying. Every little sound becomes an alert, something to keep track of, to know where and what it comes from.

Keep a level head, I tell myself. I have to, despite so much of my body saying that I’m in danger. I can’t touch the water, for fear the noise would be too loud, like the water would be screaming back and making my position known to the creature. I can’t breathe too heavily, for fear that it would be too loud, and that I wouldn’t be able to hear my surroundings. I don’t even notice my body as I take the quietest steps possible.

I suppose you can only do so much, though, before your body betrays you. My mind racing with thoughts of having to stay quiet, stay alert to every sound that’s made, keep my eyes open, and remain calm… then I take a wrong step, somehow. I’m not really sure how. But I tripped forwards.

My heart was pounding, startled from the feeling of losing control, from the sound of the loud splash. I’m almost frozen in fear, but I can’t be for long. I need to get up! Wait. As I try to pull myself up, I feel… resistance. But my hand’s not stuck in anything, is it? No, it feels like there’s open space. But somehow…

I stare at the reflection in the water below me, as realization strikes. Not that I’m looking at myself. I’m looking beyond myself. The water is deeper. I can’t see it, only feel, but it’s clear to me that wherever my hand is, it’s past the ground I am on my knees in.

Another thundering roar echoes through the cave. Panic fills my body, as I feel the fear try to take over… but I have to stay calm! And I realize, what if there’s a deeper section, just under the water’s surface? Maybe it would be able to save me from the fate that awaits me if I stay here for too long.

I reach further into the water, letting my other hand feel for the edge of the ground that may lead to this hole in it, leaning my shoulder closer to the water. Suddenly, it’s like my arm is being yanked, taking my other hand too. Then my entire body falls forwards and under the water, disappearing into the depths completely with a loud splash that rings out. I’m safe…

[bonetrousledbones]

what do you think about horrortale? idk anything about it but i've heard it has some questionable elements >_>

i'm gonna be honest horrortale has never been scary to me,, the character designs are pretty generic imo, and i get the whole concept is basically "oh yea the normal ut cast got all kinds of fucked after frisk left" but that's still just not very compelling??

i can see the concept of famine driving ppl to desperation but i cannot get behind the eating humans part because first off WHERE are they getting all those humans, second if eating humans makes monsters all Big And Scary And Fucked Up why is papyrus the only mildly interesting character design in the dang au

idk i just think it could really push the actual Horror aspect a bit more, when you've already got a buncha monsters i dont think it would hurt to really push that they ARE monsters, especially in a situation as desperate as they're in

[donuts4evry1]

The urge to spend money on so many little empty notebooks to use for creative projects

[nostalgia-tblr]

NOT NOW OTHER FIC IDEA!!!

[neverendingford]

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[byanyan]

anyway, i actually!! wrote more than i expected to today!! i'm feeling a little better, finding my balance again... aiming to finish the rest of the name prompts tomorrow 🤞

[queenerdloser]

i sent off my docs (sop, writing samples, etc) to my other potential letters of rec profs yesterday night so now i keep jumping every time my phone buzzes. it won't be the end of the world if they say no (i mostly just needed one (1) person to say yes and i've got a confirmed yes so we're set) but it will make me cringe if they say no after looking over my stuff lol. not a good sign.

[malachitezmeyka]

I have so much shit to do today and I can’t even bring myself to get up and eat something

[podraje]

A question for writers.

How long did it take you to finish a first draft of a book (I mean a proper book, around +300 pages) and did you have a full time job at the time?

Asking for a friend (Me. I am the friend, who is trying to write the first draft for over 2 years and is in a shithole).

[fortunately-bi]

...... If I went on a hiatus for who knows how long again would y'all hate me....... 👉👈

[lucy-shining-star]

Eh I shouldn't be sad because of that

[rawliverandgoronspice]

And with Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 out... Descant of Greatness is completed.

I decided to finish the story with a dual release, because I feel like they're hard to disentangle emotionally and one of them is very short and pretty conceptual.

(I don't know if people will get up in their feels like I do but with this ending, but. I'm pretty happy about the last chapter ;_; and by happy I mean going euuughhhhwaaaaa at it a bunch and going through 5 different emotions very rapidly)

(anyway thanks to everybody who read and who left me a nice comment, I will reply to the ones I didn't yet. All of the things. Thank you. <3)

◦ Descant of Greatness ◦

(The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Mature Audience - Gen, M/F - multi chapter - Part 2 of Unhallowed Vespers)

...

“I don’t fault you, Ganondorf.” Her eyes are crimson.The last seven years dried them of any tear worth holding onto, cleansed by the rain on the rampart of a kingdom that loathed them so. “Do you believe transcending godhood can save you from what you have started?"

All this stolen Power, and he still cannot stump the fear. “I have to try."

(read Chapter 1 on Ao3)

...

Finally, I'm kind of ready to start posting this fic!!

It was never meant to become such a huge thing, since I was just hoping to get the Zelda fever out of my system and handle some of the remaining frustrations about everything I couldn't touch upon in Litany of Betrayal, which is Part 1 of that series I called (after an INSANE amount of debate and hair pulling) Unhallowed Vespers.

This story is a non-linear character study of Ganondorf from OoT, with a healthy dose of liberties taken and choices made, that tries to get at the heart of why I think this character is so gosh darn interesting --but veers closer to dark fantasy than the original material even does, given, well, the kind of protagonist we have on our hands. It's a love letter that got kind of super long RIP to me being all like "yeah it's just going to be a couple of vignettes nothing crazy uwu" lol, look at you now with your 6k chapters you predictible fool

The story is a lot about legitimacy, culture, legacy and, of course, ambition and justice in the face of the divine. It's a tragedy, with a dash of existential horror that took me by surprise. It gave me an excuse to think a lot about gerudo culture!! I FINALLY wrote a scene about Ganondorf's coronation, which I've been wanting to have an excuse to do since I was like 14 years old!! There's a romance in there, though it is uhhh a little toxic because, again *gestures towards the protagonist involved*. People who are familiar with my writing will be very pleased (??) to know that this is the usual bullshit, and that I was bound to put politics in my Zelda if left unsupervised for too long. :(((

It's not 100% done yet so I don't have a set schedule of release, but it's about 75% done! I'll try to push the chapters out pretty fast (though it probably won't be fully released before TOTK :( the lore will come for me running and I'm s c a r e d)