#comet originals

[iamthecomet]

can we hear about your nanowrimo project? I know I'm super curious

Hi! Yes of course you can! Explaining it requires some backstory (it probably doesn't require it, but I like to give it). It's very much not my normal type of project (my two biggest original projects are urban fantasy/sci-fi/magicy stuff). But I actually started writing it (by hand) while I was at work at a job I hated during the pandemic. I was essential and everything was awful, and I got really nostalgic and started writing a story about a group of friends growing up in a VERY small community in the 00s (reflective of where/how I grew up). I also knew I wanted to address the way sudden (young person) death affects a small town and a community in general. Because I've been through it, and I've seen it, and it's staggering. So I knew, when I started, that one of those friends was going to die. And I didn't want it to be a book where the death hits you out of nowhere. I wanted readers to know right away that someone died, and who. Just as an effort to be like "here is this person, they're dead, here is the life they led." Sort of like how you tell people stories about people you've lost. It puts everything into a different perspective. I wanted to sort of tell this story of these kids out of order. Starting bigger (they're friends, this is the time frame, one of them dies) and then sort of narrowing down, until by the end you know them and their community and all of the ways tragedy has changed them. Sort of like being able to look at yourself before a tragedy and after it at the same time. So, my NaNoWriMo project is that book. The main characters are Del and Meg who meet in kindergarten and are best friends from day one. They drift apart a little in high school. Then further apart when dumb teenage drama drives them apart. Then a couple days after graduation Del dies (which is a real thing that happened to a friend of mine). And they never get a chance to figure it out. And that sounds fucking awful when I write it down but it's also the way real life works sometimes. I'm working on this book instead of the others because there's a local writing group I'm a part of that's full of people twice my age and the goal is that by May we will have a book that is "ready to publish". The scale of this one is much smaller than my others, and I also didn't want to send demon smut to someone my mom's age. Writing it has been wild and emotional and I still have SO much more to do. But it feels important to me for ways I can't explain yet because I don't have it totally figured out yet. I'm both very burnt out on it because of this and very proud of it. Hopefully I can figure it all out and turn it into something that actually makes sense.

TL;DR: It's a book about teens and life in a very small town in the 00s. And how tragedy effects them, and the community at large.

[auden-dahn]

"D-Don't worry about me! Focus on helping the little one, okay?" 🌠 panel redraw of @laikascomet

[puppyeared]

me when the laikas comet. is this anything

@laikascomet

[major-comet]

i wholeheartedly believe that so many of tos’ problems with bones saying weird shit to spock would have been solved if the network censors would have just let the writers swear, because so many times it just sounds like they wanted him to call spock a bitch so badly but Couldn’t

[olympain]

CONGRATULATIONS MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG FOR GOING HOME WITH 4 TONY AWARDS!

JONATHAN GROFF won Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical DANIEL RADCLIFFE won Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical JONATHAN TUNICK won Best Orchestrations MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG won Best Revival of a Musical

[jeffambrose]

Just an earth-bound misfit, I.

[valariemoon]

Anyways-

[itsmuffiiee]

@daycarefriendpickup hosted a art thing! Wow wow wow! Super fun ::D 10/10 I will be doing this again in the future! I blocked out any art I don’t own! I met such amazing people like @puffinft and @moon-m4n ! ‹𝟹

My favorite doodle of that day! Lunar Cosmic Brownie Cookie Moon and Vanilla Crème Wafer Cookie Sun!! These are close enough to trickster mode right? (I gotta draw them trickster soon!) Based off some of my favorite treats as a kid!

More Doodles Below!! ・・・・・★

!! Can’t wait to do this again >::]

[animepopheart]

★ 【comet】 「 Moonlight 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

[daylyluck]

Recently gained access to a tablet for the first time! I've used my new power to recreate my favorite moment from @laikascomet (The Piggyback Ride)

[dracononite]

✦ accretion disk - art print design ✦

[fourleafisland]

a lady... she has a secret admirer (s?) who keep leaving her flowers

[bwwhitney]

C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

About 8:15 pm EDT, full moon shining brightly, light pollution from Albany NY, slight haze in the sky, had a lot of trouble focusing.

78mm (EF70-200mm) 4 sec, f/4.0, ISO1000

[major-comet]

the biggest problem with tos’ episodic format is that the episode usually ends pretty quickly after the conflict resolves and then they never really talk about it again - no matter how intense or harrowing it was

which means that we don’t get to actually *see* the interpersonal fallout of bones being diagnosed with and cured from a previously-incurable terminal illness (that he didn’t even want to tell jim and spock he had), and then just four episodes later drugging them so that he can go be tortured (and likely die) instead of spock, and so jim doesn’t have to make the choice between them.

did they talk about it? beyond just a standard debrief and a “never fucking do that again bones i swear to god i mean it this time”? did they make it the captains’ quarters for the debrief, only for mccoy to be pulled into a crushing, trembling hug as soon as the door shut while jim tried to assure himself that bones was still here, was still breathing? spock hovering nearby - a hand gently coming to rest on his shoulder?

why didn’t mccoy want to tell them about the xenopolycythemia, anyways? to try and hold onto a few more normal-ish months before every time they looked at him their eyes would be filled with grief - mourning a man they hadn’t yet lost? the same reason he ran away; to spare them what he went through with his father?

only for him to immediately turn around and throw himself back to the wolves to (almost) die right in front of them anyways

i don’t really know how they handled it. whether they talked about it and attempted to soothe the hurt, or just resolutely tried to bottle it up.

but i do know this: spock eventually came back from gol because jim simply (though accidentally) called out for him in a moment of need. bones only came back because jim personally drafted him back into starfleet

[couch-house]

it is with a heavy heart i must announce the fankid-enjoyer has made another fankid 😔 this is comet... ive been playing with him for a while. he's a couple years younger than johnny jr and umm well I'll tell you more about him later. when i post the other pile of drawings i have of him.

[selestial-skies]

Glowing Shooting Star