#I remember niche facts about random characters but can't remember for the life of me whether I brushed my teeth or not

[wingstobetorn]

I will forget random things and then remember other random things

[amphiptere-art]

Behold! The magnificent! The skilled!

The wonderful Saros Cog!

I don't care if I made him for my own entertainment. It's been a long time since I've even wanted to make another AU. I've been going back to old ones as of recent. But this one's nice and brand new. And it's got my ADHD brain in a chokehold.

Anyways. I've been talking about him off topic. But this is Saros Cog. His name is a bit random, and even his existence. Coming out of the bored scrambling of a pencil. I just had this vague illustration of this steampunk-esque Eclipse staring out with this evil eye.

Except that saros isn't evil. In fact he's quite the opposite. Is the main personality trait is untrusting. Put the more I think about the little guy, The more interesting traits he gets. One of these traits being his crazed personality. I have basically started to embody him as some lonely fool. Again matching that gremlin Moon, with crazed Sun. Untrusting to most people in strangers. Gaming that stereotypical hostile sun and moon. But otherwise he's a rambling, kind fella.

Imagine ADHD person rambling about their favorite topic, and yet gives you the glare if you dare say anything bad about it. I think it's a funny personality. And like many other characters of mine, fills a specific niche of me.

Sure he's a bit crazy because he's been left alone in an abandoned town for a long long time. A bit more crazy than his normal. Basically speaking and shouts and tad more sun physical, and Moon gremlin. His little mouse companion that he made when he was a bit more stable. Is the only one trying to rope him in. Also just keep him sane.

Which by the way. His little mouse buddy needs a name. Apparently his nickname in my brain is wire. And that's just because he's sort of based on ... Dear God I can't remember. Some sort of mouse YN/DCA story. But he specifically has like this wire tail ears for long range communication. Little liar has been sending out signals to anyone nearby to come over. Which often results in a chaotic meeting and said visitor running off fairly quickly.

Maybe I'll open and ask for him... Anyone want that?

Anyways. I love this character. And I love this small story I have made around him. Especially his love life with Roxy. Which will probably also need their own steampunk inspired name. But for now she shall go by bone jaw. Since she looks like this. With her robotic mount being decorated by Saros.

Anyways. I love the small love life I put between these characters. Basically despite saros being an untrusted person. Roxy was basically able to just not care enough. Intruding into a space, but figuring out he's a pretty good mechanic and good guy. Saros became her greatest companion. And over time they grew away silly love even if it wasn't official.

But when the entire community decided to move because resources were getting low. Saros being untrusting and also fairly fragile given that he's broken quite a bit. His smaller body means that his engine. (The box on his back.) Has to be external and really exposed. He was just not willing to take the danger with no promise of safety by the end. Until the two were separated just by that fact. As Roxanne wasn't quite sure if she was dedicated or not. Boy did she regret it when they did find a settlement.

Anyways. I should probably stop rambling. I love this character.

[wildskissed]

GET TO KNOW ME MEME ! !

NAME — pyro, but some of you know me by my name/name PRONOUNS — she/her SEXUALITY — demisexual, which is admittedly why a few of my more popular muses are as well, because it's easy to write, lol SINGLE / TAKEN — taken

THREE FACTS

— I used to teach preschool — I’m a published author — My ideas were used for a few episodes of a very popular cult phenomenon show that ran for 15 years...

EXPERIENCE

HOW LONG — Have I been writing? Since 6th grade. My teacher added an extra credit part to our weekly homework packets for me because I was always writing random short stories in class in my free time and she thought it would be fun if we all had a chance to do that. RPing? Since 2006, and it was on a Star Trek forum that no longer exists. It was also fully comprised of OCs only, so it boggled my mind--still does--that when I came to Tumblr that was so frowned upon, because that was all I knew. WHAT PLATFORMS — A couple of forums, one for Start Trek and one that was a world that my sister and I created that took off with our friends and some other people we never met in real life, lol. We also did Twitter RP for a while for FanFic characters, and then I ended up on Tumblr, and very rarely do a I sometimes do Discord RP. BEST EXPERIENCE — I love Tumblr most days, but those forums were hands down the best. We all collaborated on ideas, and we all gushed about each other's OC's, and we genuinely wanted everyone to have a good time. We also got really into editing and manips, which was why when I was involved in said cult phenomenon, I used to make fan videos too by meshing different shows and movies together. I still do that occasionally, but mostly I just work on my own novels, lol. Honestly, probably why Eve has taken off as she has with the group of you that I've surrounded myself with because we all do the same--we collaborate and gush and protect each other.

MUSE TYPE

FEMALE OR MALE — I heavily lean towards female muses. I don't know why that is, because I do have male muses that I have used in the past, and I love writing male characters, but I have never been able to stick with one that I RPed. Because of that, I absolutely RP females constantly. FLUFF , ANGST OR SMUT — I love them all! Angst is my niche though. I've been known for it in every serious writing group I have ever been in, but I still love fluff and I do love smut if I'm in the mood for it. I try not to turn cute threads into angst too, but I know that I'm guilty of that sometimes, haha. PLOTS OR MEMES — ALL OF THE ABOVE LONG OR SHORT REPLIES — I prefer longer replies, but I understand that those can take a toll, and sometimes, I'm more in the mood for a shorter quippy thread, you know? So, it really depends on the mood, and how my partner is feeling. BEST TIME TO WRITE — When I have the muse to. That's such a response, but, it's just true. I have such limited time because of my work schedule, so I'm mostly on in the mornings or on Sundays, but honestly, you can't force writing to happen. You really gotta go with the flow. ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S) — I mean...yes and no? I have muses that I have absolutely nothing in common with, but I also feel like, most of us pick muses that we at least see one trait in common with them? Easier to write what you know? Like I write L.ove Q.uinn, but I wouldn't say I am like her. I have a mothering streak like Eve does, and I can be a bit of an arrogant brat like Y.ennefer, but I don't know that I'd ever compare myself to my muses, lol.

TAGGED BY STOLEN FROM: the dash and i can't remember from whom TAGGING: @illithidploy, @arcanecast, @shadovan, @miidnighters, @dxnse-macabre, @fereldensheroes, @altrxisme, @luposcainus, @championsofthegate, @alittlebitofmuse, @wolf-eyes-wolf-soul, and you ! !

[peterlorres21stcentury]

pictured: the ghost of Peter Lorre dictating my next work of fiction

Peter: "yeees, you should start those three different stories all at the same time. It won't be at all difficult! You can trust me." me: yessir. I just need another year or several. :3

Somewhat off topic but there's something I have wanted to say about writing and my own opinions of modern storytelling for a while, but I realize it's going to be a whole load of irrelevant waste for most, so behind a cut it goes:

I realize that I write for a pretty niche audience, namely, the Peter Lorre megafan community (hi there, all ten or twelve of y'all 😉). But in doing so, I'm not only trying to create worlds and stories well-suited to our boy's talent, even so many years after his death. I'm also attempting to keep a tradition of older storytelling alive.

What do I mean by this? Mostly it's my own irritation at almost all visual media (at least American media; I can't speak to everything in this world) made in the last 15-20 years or so, which seems designed to stifle anything that might be the least bit interesting or fresh. Or even the fact that "normal" dramas and slice-of-life stories that were commonplace in film as recently as 30 years ago, would never in a thousand years be considered for production today. And what is it replaced with? A lot of sloppy, unfocused, really bloated franchises that go nowhere and say even less in two and a half hours (??!!) than most older films and TV could convey in the average 30-60 minutes. You cannot tell me with a straight face that the kids today find older movies too "boring" or "unappealing" when absolute fuckall is happening in whatever bland shit is currently overstaying its welcome.

And maybe t'was ever thus, and mass entertainment has always been stupid, and niche voices from the past always fade into obscurity. But the loss of gold-standard, very tried and tested methods of storytelling on a really fundamental level feels especially keen to me now. It really does feel like so many screenwriters have thrown all history of good writing out the window in favor of... I dunno, the random STUFF ping-ponging around in their heads without rhyme or reason or motivation or setup, or an endless parade of unfunny jokes, or a lack of compelling characters, or a general lack of anything that made me care about writing in the first place. I first ran into this problem as a college student in a very disappointing creative writing course almost 20 years ago, and it hasn't gotten any better since.

I am not a professional. I am not here to write what is profitable. But I am highly influenced by the storytelling techniques of the past, which is why I have gotten more than one cherished comment from readers telling me that my stories "feel like movies." That is deliberate. I always said that I am a thief; I steal from many sources. At the end of the day, I am here to write the stories I want to read, as strange and niche as they may be, and share them for free with anyone who cares to remember when strong writing and well-crafted stories really meant something. I can only hope I live up to that legacy in a day and age I cannot keep up with, in my own small and extremely insignificant way.