#found this in my 'posts I won't actually post' doc and I have no idea what it was doing here

[heloflor]

Unpopular shipping headcanons/opinions for Sam and Max:

- I don’t particularly dislike Sybil and Abe being together, though it’s mostly because I’m not very into their relationship. Hell I keep forgetting Abe exists whenever I make a list of all characters (ngl he’s pretty forgettable 😅). Also the “dysfunctional straight couple” trope is a thing I’m very used to, mostly because like 90% of movies/TV shows/etc use it, so while I agree that Sybil deserves better, their relationship doesn’t bother me.

- Likewise, I don’t ship Sybil with Superball because I don’t find them to be very compatible. Idk, I feel like Sybil wants a man who gives her time and attention, like she kinda has that idea of what a perfect relationship is like. While Superball on the other hand is a lot more career-focused and to-the-point when talking. Plus, I’m not sure if Sybil can get used to the way Superball expresses his emotions differently.

- While I wouldn’t say that I ship it, if I had to pair Superball with anybody, it would be with Mama Bosco. Not only because they’re both career-focused but also because we know Mama Bosco wants a man who treats her as a person and doesn’t drool all around her, and I feel like Superball can give her that. Again, idk. I just think they have the potential for good chemistry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And if you want shipping arguments coming from the game, there’s not a lot to go by but it’s worth noting that in 204, when asking Superball if he saw Mama Bosco, he comments that he admired her spirit, and in 305 Mama Bosco is the only one going after Superball when he runs away crying. It’s also implied that they have some offscreen interactions in 301.

- I don’t ship Sameth and Maximus due to the fact that, if they were to be a couple while still having their wives and kids, then their children would technically be step-siblings. And if you go down the family line a bit, it technically makes Sam and Max cousins, which is a bit of a yikes for me.

Btw no hate whatsoever to the people who ship them, I 100% understand why you would, and the line “you could do with some female company. I hate to say it but people are beginning to talk” definitely says a lot about those two and their relationship. It’s just that I overthink the implications of their relationship and it makes me uncomfortable.

That being said, I do like the idea of them being both queer. And given that they lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s, I could definitely see a scenario of both of them being into guys and maybe even finding each other attractive, but they never realized those feelings, they just assumed every guy found other guys attractive.

- The Narrator/Superego has feelings for Sam. After all, he’s Max.

- Max doesn’t just have a crush on Hugh Bliss, he was genuinely in love with the guy (I swear Telltale Max is the reason why I see both him and Sam as poly) and would’ve asked Sam for his permission to ask Hugh out had the whole moon situation happened a few months later.

And if you’re asking, Hugh Bliss doesn’t give a shit about Max, though he possibly realized Max liked him and used it to his advantage (that scene when he separates Max’s bliss has him drop Max’s defense by sweet-talking to him).

(Also Max is genuinely in love with Flint Paper as well, just like Sam is, but that’s not an unpopular headcanon)

- Sam is omnisexual because why not. I mean given the world they live in, “being in love with people regardless of gender while still acknowledging said gender” fits Sam pretty well.

- Despite not being straight, Sam is uncomfortable with dating anything other than women. This is due to him growing up in the 70s on top of seeing Max getting heavily bullied for not showing attraction to women. And given how insecure Sam can be, especially Telltale Sam, I could see him prefer to date women, though there are some exceptions like Max obviously but also his admiration for Flint, which he doesn’t hide. And given the dialogue about finding Peppers sexy, I could definitely see him be comfortable talking about his attraction for men with Max specifically.

- While I tend to call Max gay due to being more focused on the Telltale trilogy, I’d argue that any other media outside of Telltale show Max as aromantic homosexual. And because I feel like explaining :

In the comics, Max’s romantic life is never brought up. We just know that he doesn’t like girls and have played in stag movies, which are aimed at a male audience. Btw him being a sex worker has nothing to do with his sexuality, as dating life and sex experience have nothing to do with one’s sexuality. That being said him working for a male audience means that he either wanted men to look at him, or he wanted men to focus less on him (by looking at the women instead).

In “Hit the Road”, Max shows some disgust about Bruno’s relationship with Trixie and there’s yet again the “doesn’t like girls” joke. But at the same time there’s a few romantic jokes between him and Sam, showing that Max gravitates towards men.

In “This Time it’s Virtual”, the only hint of Max’s sexuality is the corndog joke, hinting a sexual liking for men. Max is also yet again shown at the entrance of the tunnel of love to find romance gross.

In the Cartoon, Max is straight-up afraid of romance, but yet again he’s hinted to be in a relationship with Sam who he’s implied to have sex with (bonus mention for Cartoon Max being the most explicitly a masochist), plus shows some interest for Mack Salmond and his sidekick.

So overall, Max barely ever talks about romance and when he does it’s in a negative light. At the same time, he’s shown to have a consistent interest for men, but most of it is through sex jokes (his interest for Mack Salmond could also be seen as more sexual than romantic, at least I think ?). It’s also worth pointing out that aro people can date, hence his relationship with Sam.

Tbh “Sam and Max are in a queerplatonic relationship” is probably the truest canon statement regarding their relationship given how it’s presented as an incredibly strong friendship that “transcends the notions of marriage and dating”.

So yeah, while Telltale Max is very explicitly gay and is even shown to enjoy the concept of romance to some degree (he gets involved in Sybil’s relationship and by the end of S2 cares more about it than Sam does), the other versions of his character seem to be more likely on the aro spectrum, especially the Cartoon version.

[dingodad]

Does anyone remember that Lord English himself isn’t even composed of the original versions of the souls that make him? He’s the son of paradox clones, right? That means B2 Jack is the one who actually contains the original souls of Lord English, since he was directly possessed. English has been diluted by being a paradoxical copy, and being part cueball. His creation is not unlike that of breeding Genesis frogs. (The end frog does not chronologically branch off from the original frogs, he is a paradoxical copy of all of them combined. I’d argue that he’s almost like the inverse to a Genesis frog.) So the destiny of the original Caliborn, Equius, Lil Hal and Gamzee is to be decapitated by Dave and explode into a black hole. Caliborn brags about how he will become all powerful, but he will doesn’t get to do that. The paradox slime version of himself born in a lab is destined to become the laser skull epilepsy pharoah hulk man, not him. Not that any of this really matters or changes that much, I just noticed that it was odd. This all adds up right? I didn’t forget anything that would make this not make sense?

you are, on a technical level, completely right: at no point in the Pharaoh Hulk's* timeline was he ever literally Lil Cal. he emerges straight from Doc Scratch, who was only ever a clone of Lil Cal. but you're making a critical error by thinking of the Hulk and B2 Jack as if they're meant to be two different guys.

*I've always known this iteration of Lord English as the "Mobster Hulk" version - google seems to be telling me it's basically only my posts that use this phrasing but I'm guessing I must have picked it up on the forums.

I won't give you the long-winded explanation about Ultimate Selves and how it's the idea of a person that matters more than the specific body they inhabit because I already have about a dozen posts on the subject and I'm sure everyone's sick of hearing it by now. so I wanna focus on two specific and related reasons why "Real Lord English" and "Copy of Lord English" is a false dichotomy, based specifically in an area of Homestuck's worldbuilding that doesn't really get talked about so much:

Jack Noir's version of Lil Cal is just a copy too! Roxy banished the one containing Lord English's soul into nonexistence, so that in Caliborn's words it will "FLUTTER THROUGH THE SHADOWS FOR ETERNITY. SURFACING IN THE NIGHTMARES OF THE UNSUSPECTING." Gamzee is not a Thief of Void, he can't steal things back out of the darkness; he's simply a psychic whose chucklevoodoos can "amplify fears through dreams." The Lil Cal that emerges in Dave's dreams, is adopted by his Bro, and one day makes the journey to Jack's prison cell is just a manifestation of Dave's fear of puppets; the one that Roxy banished is still out there.

First rule of jujus, bro: "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!" "if there ever appears to be more than one of the same, it is only a mirage of caUsality!"

cultured readers will be able to draw the line between the two phrases i've put special emphasis on. Homestuck uses the terms existing terms "voodoo" and "juju" to deliberately evoke an anthropological concept which is found around the world but is most pop-culturally associated with African and Afro-Carribean spirituality: Lil Cal is a fetish. his power comes not from the fact that he is composed of some special material (or because, as you suggest, he has some kind of unique or special genes), but from the fact that spiritual power is ascribed to him. think of a religious idol; there can be a million idols to the same one deity, but the power of each idol will be exactly the same, because each has the same spiritual significance.

put in overly-simplistic terms which aren't necessarily accurate but speak to a recurring theme in Homestuck: a juju works because of the belief that it works.

this is what Calliope and Caliborn mean when they speak of "bad juju", some kind of mystical force which Lil Cal is filled with. the "juju" isn't the object at all; it's an enchantment associated with the object. Calliope says a juju can't ever be destroyed, and yet Lil Cal is torn to shreds and repaired on multiple occasions - it's the magic, the juju, that persists. this is the only way an object with a self-perpetuating origin could possibly exist, or else the object would just keep becoming more and more worn with each loop of its timeline.

Scratch and Caliborn both say it: "Instances of [Scratch] have spawned in countless universes", just as Lil Cal will continue to infiltrate the dreams of infinite children and take Caliborn "FROM UNIVERSE. TO UNIVERSE. TO UNIVERSE." importantly, it's implied actually quite early on in the comic that you can't really "clone" a "soul", because paradox clones kind of follow similar rules to jujus; there can only be one TRUE clone, who will always travel back in time to become their own origin, and all other clones are "MALFORMED MUTANTS" with no bearing on the timeline. so the exact circumstances through which Cal arrives in each universe, be it via ectobiology or clown voodoo, don't matter: every copy is either a) inert or b) actually the same Lil Cal at a different point in its circuitous timeline.

in other words - thanks to a time loop of his own orchestration! - all versions of Lord English have to be decapitated and/or collapse into a black hole at the end of their lifespan because they all have to ultimately return to the void. you're really not that far off the mark in that there is a tragedy in the fact that Caliborn believes he will "GET STRONGER. AND OLDER. AND BIGGER. AND BUFFER!" each time he destroys a universe. the tragedy is just that he thinks turning into Mobster Hulk is the end goal when in fact by making himself immortal he has ensured there IS no end goal: he's trapped being reborn as new Lil Cals in new universes forever and ever. no matter how many brief excursions he takes out into the universe to play the villain, his essence is trapped in the void for all time.

[alicentrasers]

Tell me about Pondu Alternative idea please? 👀

Ah, yes. The BOYS

No cut for this one, it won't be too long.

This fic spouted off in 2020 while me and my old co-author were working on a different Pondu Fic. That one is posted on my AO3, and was originally supposed to be spicy 👀

This guy is a 5 Times +1 format. Five times Ponds did something for Windu without asking and 1 time Windu did something in return. Covers a few little things that Ponds does to ease things like migraine meds, forcing him to sleep, managing the chaos, /acquiring a child/ (not the actual topics covered, this hasn't been touched in awhile). Windu wants to do something big in return for all the little things, and figured out that Ponds just wants a Found Family :)

Here's a section that I have deemed appropriate for public Consumption:

"Late night strategizing for an entire Systems Army was not how Mace pictureed spending his evening. Standing forlorn in front of a trans-parasteel display. He rubbed aching eyes and resisted the urge to check the chrono. The softshelled officers around him had long since left for bed and the ship swapping to the skeleton/night screw. Nummbers were starting to blur together- bright screens plus darkened lights are a one-way ticket to the start of a migraine."

Feel free to send follow up questions. Most Lore is covered in my Ongoing Chat Fic Landline Across the Galaxy on AO3. My WIP doc is available for public view on the 79's Discord.

[hailqiqi]

WIP game!

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Thanks for the tag, @menina89! Sorry to disappoint but I think I've actually cooled off on my unhinged wip titles; I'm very sad too.

Here's my list for Lockwood & Co (look we all know non-Lockwood wips are on indefinite hiatus):

Stevie

Cats that go Bump in the Night

crying into raspberry buns

Untitled document

Easter Time

Of Tampons and Lava Demons

Shisha Kisses oh no (prob won't get written)

Heads and Tails

Lavender and Clean Sheets

One Bed Why

Summer Warmth

A Rose by Any Other Name

Christmas Tree YASBWF

Shenanigans

So Confession time -- I completely forgot about a few of these. I've also found a file with some notes on Lucy's mum which I think I'll work into other fics.

I also found an untitle document containing the below snippet and I have no idea what it was for. Where was I going with this, past me?? I like it, it's rather good. What was going to happen?!

Lockwood’s bed was empty. The ghost-lamp flicked off, plunging the room back into darkness and George turned on his heel, leaving the door open to stomp downstairs. There was no point being quiet - Lockwood was already up, and Lucy slept like the dead. He’d have a job getting her up in a minute as it was. But when he got downstairs, the kitchen was empty. No light shone from the library or sitting rooms, and no boys slept on armchairs or sofas when he peeked in. Frowning, he turned the kitchen light on and opened the door to the basement. That, too, was quiet and dark.

That's it, that's the entire doc. Whyyyyyyy. Oh wait, I think this might be a post-aickmere's george fic that was gonna be a sequel to Worse. Maybe.

Do I have to tag 14 people?? I don't interact with enough people on tumblr nowadays!! OK let's go 1 @womaninwinter 2 @monsterbananatv 3 @the-biscuit-agreement 4 @synestheticwanderings 5 @sciroccoorion35 6 @ohmyoverland 7 @lemonsharks 8 @uptoolateart 9 @krash-and-co 10 @almostlikequake 11 @roselilac 12 @yveni 13 @justjudethoughts 14 @madamemigraine 15 for the snippet @themetaphorgirl

Sorry if I missed you but I have to leave some people for others to tag!

[annellspethraven]

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It all started here. I woke up and looked at 'my' Discord server for the bloated tic of a fanfic (hey that rhymes, neurospicy two seconds!) I write with my partner SonaBeanSidhe, Aran Thranduil's Dining Hall. There hadn't been enough tea yet so the natural response was 'wth is this?' Well, THIS was going to Hoover my next two days and counting. Just visit the post, dear friends of the writing persuasion and you would see (I'll save you time because I'm nice this way) that there are many screenshots supporting just what the meme says: This Instagram OP knows a writer who found herself in a steaming pile of mess with the Google Docs TOS (which is really also the Google Drive TOS, making it somewhat difficult to locate said TOS. I'll save you more time. Here:

This information comes from https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Csexually-explicit-material So, it was the act of sharing the files, not having created or stored them that triggered what had happened. Okay, still not reassuring. In the meantime, I was concerned enough to post what had happened to r/FanFiction. Within minutes, my post had been frozen by the mods there. I can see their concern. I believe they had only seen the meme-like first screen of the Instagram post, and it does come off like a bad Snopes Fail. They asked me for more proof. The first thing I did was a search for previous instances of Google having frozen Drive accounts previously. They are limited, but they exist. The concern here had to do with the current lack of information as to why the action happened, and whether we who collectively authored and had shared Docs with explicit content were about to have our Drive accounts fall before the scythe of an overzealous AI rollout on the part of Google. Which led to the second part of this. My first response to the mods was as follows:

A little while after I sent this, an update appeared on the Instagram OP's account (easy to find) so I added this:

The salient point of the update was that the author had received restored access to her Drive, but NOT the Doc that had started the entire difficulty. I waited for a response. And waited, and waited. In the meantime, I had no means to add to, respond to, anything to my original post or defend myself against some fairly sharp initial criticisms leveled against me by individuals who clearly hadn't read anything beyond the initial meme. Special. While I understand a sub this large likely has a lot of messages to field, I also felt that given they managed to freeze my post in a matter of minutes, they were really taking their time responding. So I weighed in on Instagram with a message of support. If nothing else is taken away, please take this: Back up your files. It's easy to create an alt Google account; this other account will have its own Drive storage. Share your folders and files with yourself. If you don't already realize, in Docs under the File dropdown menu the third option is Make A Copy. If you have shared the original document 75 times, you won't have shared that copy at all. Consider backing up your works to Indie platforms like Get Hermit, Ellipsus and The Quill. There may be others. Your own external hard drive is also a very good idea. But wait, you ask. What about just using MS Word, or having copies as a PDF file in the Adobe cloud? Not so fast, my friend. Look at Microsoft and Adobe's TOS regarding sexually explicit content...you'll get an unpleasant surprise. I did. In the meantime, a third update came from the OP on Instagram shedding far more light as to what had likely gone wrong. She had shared the Doc with she guessed 18-20 people as beta readers. The belief is now that one of these persons actually turned her in to Google via their abuse form. To quote one of the commenters on that update: "I heard from an agent that Google will only do this to your account if someone reports it. Google isn’t scanning docs for explicit content (except maybe images), but yeah, for this to happen, someone had to report her document to Google." This felt like a relief...and yet is still packaged inside a cautionary tale. How many of us have shared by 'whoever has this link'? I have, or rather, I had. I revoked all such permissions to all large stories and folders in favor of my few trusted long-time friends and beta readers. The works are on AO3. I don't need those Docs links to be free floating all over the place, not after seeing what can happen. I was on vacation in England some years prior when I realized I had lost the ability to send out all outgoing Gmail. It took me several days to figure out what had gone wrong and nearly lost me my ability to receive Covid test results at a time when that was a travel necessity...almost disastrous. Fortunately I had multiple email accounts and could work around the problem. Which brings me to the last of this.

While including the subreddit mod's responses here may seem retaliatory/petulant on my part...I'm at best miffed at their shortsightedness, maybe mildly insulted, mostly shaking my head at the fact that there is something to have been learned here that could have affected any one of us. No one was spreading misinformation. Something had indeed happened. The source of it had been unknown at the time of posting. Had they left my post alone I would have gladly redacted as it unfolded; the reason for placing it on that sub was not to create a giant stir but to let others know of the risk of this happening at all and to encourage backing up that which most writers invest a considerable amount of their emotional well-being; the safety of their written works. Yes, I'm neurodivergent. No, I don't always see the world as others do. No, I still don't think this difference allows the response to be interpreted as much other than a slight and working against the interests of authors (I'm on their side and last I checked, readers need the authors to have the things that are written in order to have the things to read. Just saying). Whatever, what really matters is, if you feel this is worth sharing, share, take away the important bits, and if someone out there just wants to write it up in 3 sentences so it isn't a tl;dr, do that too.

Have a Googly day, to all near and far, in these times in which we live...>.>

[cruorons]

Writing Process

Okay, so I thought I'd share some of my writing process here considering it is a writing blog after all. Maybe someone will find these useful or give some helpful input considering my process tends to be rather chaotic.

1. Ideas

I don't really sit down with the intention of coming up with an idea for a fic. Most of it comes to me naturally, as I go on about my day and daydream about certain dynamics or lore. However, I've noticed I tend to get inspired by:

• music - I like making playlists for fanfics I haven't even written yet, and then listen to the songs as I write. It helps me shape the plan for how the story is about to go, set the mood, in certain cases even inspire specific scenes.

• personal experiences - I noticed fics like that tend to perform well. People can tell when something is heartfelt. Do not underestimate your readers.

• ships - Already mentioned them, but about to highlight them again. Some people say that ship fics are less than but I couldn't disagree more. I've never been truly in love myself, yet find it such a fascinating thing. I could write about it endlessly from a bunch of different perspectives and never get bored of it.

Maybe it's my brain stopping me, but I never get inspired by fanart, as much as I love looking through the tags on here. Just a fun fact.

Basically, I start off with a single scene in my brain and then, I build off of it.

2. Beginning

When I realize I have something to elaborate on, that's when I boot up Google Docs and open a new document. I used to work in Word instead, but I switched to a different program for convenience. Google Docs crashes less and seems neater.

That's also when I like to think of a name for the fic. I search through synonyms for key words, phrases, famous and niché quotes. I like my titles short and concise, but also symbolic; such as with 'inferno', 'endophagy' and 'dowager'. They have to make sense within the context of the fanfic.

After I find something cool, that's when I make a document called "[fic name] PLAN".

- It's where I start writing down the idea in more detail.

- It's good to elaborate on each scene. A few sentences won't cut it; sometimes in the plan, I even put in actual paragraphs or even dialogue.

- English is not my native language, but I like to write the plan using it anyway. Ironically, it gives my brain more freedom; grammar in English is easier than the one in my native language.

- My plans usually have ~1-2k words.

- If I write a chaptered fic, I try to make a plan document for each chapter. Also, I tend to have the beginning of the story and the ending in my head, but add onto the middle as I go. So, even though I've had the idea for 'endophagy' in my head since 2021, as well as the ending (!), the chapters in between are improv.

3. The fanfic

I try to finish writing the plan in full before moving onto the actual thing, but there are exceptions.

I create a new document called the actual fic's name in another tab and start writing. I check the plan document every now and then, because oftentimes I forget about certain story beats or dialogue I wanted to include. When I finish a paragraph, I mark it in red in the plan, then switch the tab again. It's helpful to see your progress.

Now, a more controversial thing about me is that

I refuse to make multiple drafts

There are writers that make a bunch of drafts. If that works for you, amazing! Personally, it'd drive me insane. The longer I work on a fic, the more I begin to despise it. I don't write for pleasure, I write because I have things boiling in my head and it's the only way to release the tension. A such, I write the entire fic and then read through it once to catch mistakes. Then, I post and forget all about it.

If you've read through everything, congratulations! And thank you. I have found a welcoming community on ao3 and I like it there so, so much.

[sidhedust]

Hi hi :3 I have some news. I'm going to try and keep it short and sweet since it isn't that big of a deal, but this is kinda hard to condense into one paragraph.

As of a few days ago, around the 16th or so, I made the sad decision to just shelf TLGotH for a while. Working on it has been horrible for my mental health, I think. I've already kinda went into my past encounters in putting it out there and how bitter some feedback has left me with a community/process that should be fun (and this is a bad thing, as negative feedback is something I'll have to tolerate as someone putting work out there), and it's also left me disliking my artwork. I often found myself wondering why I even bothered creating the story, which is my sign to leave it for a while. I won't stop drawing for it cold turkey, but expect to see less of Luana and company in finished illustrations and comics.

HOWEVER

Not all hope is lost! I'm not giving up, just shifting focus. At the risk of (unfortunately, very heavily) spoiling a few things in the big story, I'm going to be focusing on making media about the ancestors of the characters of the big work, side characters, and other side stuff about the character's lives outside of the plot (kinda like that comic I posted 3 weeks back, but maybe more polished/colored). I already have drafts of the ancestral stories in my Google Docs, ideas for side comics, all of that.

A lot of my ideas are old, but I only just now gained the energy and time to actually act on them, and this is a good time to get some worldbuilding in as I...do something about TLGotH's debut and my attitude towards the story.

If you were here to potentially play the VN, or get to know the plot of the main story, I'm sorry! I didn't realize how BAD things were until I just couldn't lift a pen to finish Kamala's key artwork or even sketch the promo poster for the VN. I'd like to come back to it when I have the skill and positive mindset needed to make a work like TLGotH, which is not as marketable/universally digestible as the ancestral stories, and is a slower in pace than anything else I make.

Thanks for reading! I hope that the new angle will be as enjoyable as the old one was, and that my enjoyment will show through the work more as my mindset improves.

[rezzereff]

Whenever someone tell me bullshit abt Hikaru or call her ViCtİm, I always remember how my 18 y.o. enemy, made drama out of me in 2023 ( he thought that I steal his ideas ) and then threatened me with the words: "You can come to my house and try the taste of my d&ck and then people will find your c0rpse", "imagine me grabbing your hand and throwing to the wall and then I'll c%t your neck" and also made post like: how would we t0rture Sall? And there was some horrible themes including murdering and 🍇

Plus she told me her age in June-July, before that I thought she's like 14-15 bc her behavior didn't suited her age.

And also she asked me for translation of my nsfw artworks for her friends, she never told if she's uncomfortable, since I have some friends who don't like nsfw themes, so I never use it in our conversations. They don't sit with mouthes filled with water, THEY SPEAK IF THEY DON'T LIKE SMTH.

"You manipulated her to raid the server/ Ihave proof that raid was ur idea" — at first, SHE decided to spam them in June, I decided to schedule it to July so no one will find us. Then she js found a good message when I wanted to continue her idea, but text looked so great to pretend like I gave her this idea first.

"You manipulated her to cut contacts w some of her friends" — maybe I told smth like that, but it's her own decision to listen me or not, so this is completely nonsense.

She herself gave me different ideas and I just recreated that so smth else.

She also asked me to send secret things like gore art or joke art by saying: "I won't show it to anyone", I gave it to watch for 10 seconds, then she asked for more time to watch.

So I don't think like this is like grooming, bc most of messages I write to someone are jokes ( рофлы ) and silly things, I also always told her to not take my words seriously, since it's all jokes.

I think, they all had never seen an actual grooming, when a 18+ aged person literally threats a minor. I was that minor.

Fun fact — Despite that we ( I mean me and that groomer ) could have a normal conversation ( the drama started in April 2023 ) in February 2024th and what do you think happened? We both found why'd the drama started and forgave each other. ( Btw, things we've done were way much worse, he threatened me, made drama and etc. I hacked his gf's account got some info and shared to internet. )

He also raided my channel. And if BB heads had 2 raiders and one raided channel, I survived 30 people who were spamming one existing chat of my tgc with gore, horrible themes and etc.

In conclusion, I reckon that the stuff in docs was completely nonsense bullshit, they don't know what's actual grooming, I'm a minor too, now I left twitter interaction and DNI talking to people who are less than 16 years old.

Don't ask who was the person who groomed me, we forgave themselves and deleted all stuff we wrote abt each other, so I won't share that, to avoid future problems.

Plus, Sam deserved that gore art since he's is an asshole who can't shut his dirty mouth, please wash your teeth better, bc I can smell the shit from your mouth through the screen.🪥

[aelinschild]

Hey Friends,

It's been a while. It's been a very long time. And, unsurprisingly, I would guess, I'm here to announce that I am done writing here. It probably comes as no surprise, given my considerable lack of activity over the last however long I've been gone. But, I felt like it would be good to have some closure, no matter what (maybe this is just for myself, who knows). 

Long story short, I'm in a completely new stage of my life at the moment. I'm in a new country, surrounded by new people, and facing a new challenge that is the beginning of the rest of my professional life. It's been a extremely tumultuous journey to get here, but it's a privilege and a honour I'm not taking lightly. But because of that, I've been focused elsewhere, rather than on writing. I actually don't think I have opened a Google doc in over three months, nonetheless thought of writing anything - and that does sadden me a little, I won't lie. But my priorities change, and so do my passions (and the medium I exercise them on). 

So, all of this is to say that my hiatus - whenever I posted about that originally - is now going to be permanent. And this comes from more than just my disinterest in fanfiction writing, and to keep it brief; I began to enjoy a different fandom, and over the course of a year, it proved to mess with my mental health tremendously. So much so that it was a large part of my original hiatus. I was reminded of it's negative impact on me when I, completely randomly, opened the tumblr app this evening, only to feel like absolute shit after closing it 20 minutes later. And I realized that, more than just getting closure on a passion project I really loved, I needed to delete this app for the betterment of my mental health. 

I'm not sure if I have an audience left, not that I really had much to begin with, but I want to thank everyone who supported me, encouraged me, and interacted with me during my writing period. Don't think I didn't see the silent likes and reblogs from the same accounts over and over - I did. And I appreciated them more than I can explain. 

Tumblr, and my blog, was an escape for a girl who really needed to find a community and a place to get out all these ideas about this obsession she had about her favourite book series, and I'm so grateful I found this space. Truly. But, the time has come to and end, and so I want to say goodbye. 

I won't be deleting my account, but I will be deleting the app. I don't have many fics, or much of substance, but I'll keep it up for whatever reason I cannot currently provide, but selfishly have. I will not ever likely be back, but there is a chance you'll see my writing again (very slim, so don't count on it) through a fic I partnered up with a very talented other writer to work on, that also hasn't been touched in many months, but I won't say never to finishing it just yet. No promises. 

Anyways, this is my long winded goodbye, so thank you if you made it to the end here, and thank you for even sticking around this long that you are able to read this. 

Forever,

Ace

[starlightkun]

genuine question, how do you write so fast? 😭 i feel like you’re so quick with your works, both writing and putting them out!!

also i found your tumblr on ao3 and i have to say that you are carrying nct fics on ao3. i hope you never stop writing cause i could be 40 and i would still read your stuff 🫶

i think a big thing has been getting out of my head abt writing! like i only write when i want to, i don't stick to word counts (minimums or maximums), and i dont compare myself to other writers (not that i read a whole lot of fic anymore, but there's a few that i still keep up with and one of them churns out fics way faster than i do, and another who posts like maybe two or three times a year but i still love them!) like i've def said this before, but for me, writing fic is fun, it's something i do bc i want to and if i open a word doc and i'm genuinely dreading it, i'm not gonna do it (my adhd brain simply will not make me lol--tho that is a double edged sword bc i do have to chase myself into doing something i like sometimes, but the ritalin has helped a lot xx)

i also dont go into my fics completely clueless anymore. like, i for sure don't know everything, i learn a lot along the way, and tend to change stuff (and get surprised by my own fics, which is always fun!), but i definitely have more of an outline and general sort of sketch of the fic in my brain and in my word doc before i start actually writing real scenes of any sort, which has definitely helped. like, starting with one little idea isn't bad at all (strawberry sunday literally just started w the fact that i liked the title of a song that i hadn't even heard yet and it turned into like 10 fics??), but i dont just start writing head empty anymore (i used to get a tiny spark of inspiration and try to write everything start to finish immediately because i thought i'd lose it if i didn't, and it'd burn really short. now i sort of just sit with it and slowly tend to it like fire instead and it lasts a lot longer and gets a lot bigger). i ruminate a lot before anything that looks remotely like a story leaves my ideas doc and gets its own doc

idk if this necessarily makes me write faster, but i also edit as i write? like, sometimes i open a fic and i don't have anything in me to write, but i'll reread what's in the draft so far and edit, make little changes, fix continuity errors, etc. not only does it keep the whole plot so far fresh in my mind as i continue writing, but then i have a lot less to proof myself when i finally finish the whole thing because i've already caught a lot of spelling, grammatical, and plot errors! i used to find editing a slog to do bc when i finished my first draft i would be so excited and wanted to just post it! and didn't want to reread all this stuff i just wrote several times to try to find typos, and now it's usually a breeze bc my first draft isn't really my first draft, it's been continually revised as it was drafted. and sometimes i open a doc, won't feel like writing, tinker around with some editing, then suddenly have a lightbulb moment while i'm editing and jump into writing

[rosy-thorneded]

StupidPeterStory-4 and Okay so plotty plotty plot plan made me breathe slightly harder through my nose, what are those about?

I LOVE StupidPeterStory-4 (the four is only there because google docs freaked out on me with the doc and duplicated it four times. And the og wouldn't open for me, so I used the fourth) Basically Peter, as Spidey, cracked a super duper top secret code for a super weapon that everyone and their dog wants, but no one had been able to crack it. Word gets out somehow that Spider-Man of New York has the code key and everyone and their dog go after him to get it. Shield picks him up off the pavement after a fight and then put Spider-Man in protective custody with the Avengers. This was my attempt at the "domestic Avengers and Spider-Man" fics that were so popular. It's got like 6k words, but no end goal or real direction on where it was headed.

Captain America walked confidently into the room, shield on his back and mask off. Tony closely followed, who was followed by Hawkeye, Thor, and Vision. Surprise flickered across Cap’s face as he grabbed the chair directly across from Peter. “Let’s keep this brief, Fury. I have things to do and your helicarrier reeks of rules and protocols, and you know I’m allergic.” Tony said flippantly, not looking up from his phone. Before the director could reply, Peter pipped up. “I agree with Tinhead.” The way Tony’s head snapped up made Peter smirk. “Spidey? Wha-“ His eyes found the injuries. “Jeez, who kicked your ass this time?” Peter rolled his eyes. “This old lady in manhattan. Apparently, putting glue in a lady’s hair isn’t the best way to say you’re uninterested and don’t appreciate her advancements.” Hawkeye snorted, and Tony rolled his eyes. He opened his mouth to ask another question, but the director cut him off. “Where’s the rest of the team?” “Busy.” Captain America answered. “Your call was short notice and wasn’t an immediate emergency. Everyone who could make it did. What’s going on here, Director Fury?” Peter’s hand shot up like a grade schooler’s. “I am being held against my will!” The Captain blinked, and Fury scowled. Pointing at Fury, Peter continued, “you should arrest him for kidnapping, blackmail, and threatening to lock me up in the middle of Nevada with no trial.” Stark barked out a laugh. “Okay, so the usual with Shield. Sorry, Webhead, we don’t have the clearance to arrest him.” Peter slumped back into his chair dramatically, muttering, “it was worth a shot.” Peter shrunk just a little bit more under the hard, pointed look Fury was giving him. “I want you to keep in mind, Spider-Man, that I am more than willing to put you back into a holding cell for the remainder of the meeting where you will have no say in what happens next. So I suggest you watch the funny comments. Do I make myself clear?” Feeling irritated and cornered, Peter let out a resigned, “yeah.”

I miss this one and want to post it so badly, but I literally have no idea where to take it.

Okay So Plotty Plotty Plot Plan is an attempt to pull together ideas for a Danny Phantom event. It's literally just a doc of me rambling about achievable plot ideas for a crossover concept that I won't be able to use for future events if I post about it here. It was just me trying to get a full outline of a story before actually writing it. Which is..... not something I naturally do. I have not looked at that doc since writing it.

[axl-ul]

Writer Q&A Tag Game

Thank so much for the tag @mthollowell-writes (the og post here) and @dyrewrites (the og post here)!This was so sweet of you^^

And if you have time, please, read their posts, they're so beautiful and motivational.

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What motivates you to write?

Pretty much that I get to share a piece of myself. I'm not sure how to put it...but when I write I can sometimes feel my body relaxing and that I get to create something, anything from all the chaos that's sometimes in my head.

2. A line/short snippet of your writing that you are most proud/happy of. If not maybe share a line of someone else's work you love (just please credit them)

It's a snippet from The Lakebed, an episode from Ulfrika's youth while she was still under the care of Master Kogar.

“Yes, Majstre. Hm…Majstre? Did you truly want to shoot me down?“ He paused, “Never, my disciple.“ He patted the young head before diving into a quick lesson about proper fishing methods and life in lakes. In the meanwhile, the sun started to come out. Unable to resist the sunlight for long without the proper clothing and skin treatment the master and his disciple decided to come back. For the last time, the Man with No Eyes looked behind where the ice was cut out. He found the right successor. Even though she’s not the typical demon nor that it’ll be an easy path. But he sensed the potential. And she deserved to get the second chance. With unusual happiness settling down and unaware of the doom he brought upon himself on that fateful day he returned home with Ulfrika.

3. Which OC makes you smile every time you think/talk about them and what are they like?

This might be a pretty easy answer - Princess Mei from The Flight of the Western Crane. She starts out as a shy young woman who's prone to fear and crying and she gets overwhelmed pretty easily. The more the story progresses, though, she gets more self-confident and comes out of her shell to reveal what she really is like - joyous, a slight jokester with heart of gold and even a bit of a fighter (until then she was like this only around her advisor and best/only friend Lady Wolf Witch a.k.a. Márgerdra). Mei's like... such a breath of a fresh air because I don't remember writing a character like her before. Oh, did I mention she likes hugs, too? Well, if not, then be prepared for her to hug your soul out of you. Then she'll pull you away to the nearest shop because t r i n k e t s.

4. What process of writing do you enjoy the most?

Hopefully, you won't get mad at me but the outline and coming up with the plot ideas and characters. The very begining when it's up to you how the heart and soul of your story shall look like.

5. What part of writing do you think you are the best at? (Yes stroke your own ego it's okay)

I dare to say I'm pretty good at descriptions of the nature. As in the rich vocabularly and how I play around the words. I like coming up with metaphors and poetic prose sort of grew on me over the years.

6. What is something in the writeblr community is most enjoyable?

People around are truly trying to help each other. I'm still lacking quite a lot of contact but it's mostly due to me not being good with starting a conversation. But whenever I talk to is truly nice, sweet and polite which is admirable.

7. A writing tool/device you use that helps you with writing? (It could be speech to text, a writing program etc)

I'm going to be the basic bitch and say Google Docs and partialy Microsoft Word which I'll probably use sooner or later since Google Docs have problems with big files and there's also been the debate about the AI. Apart from these I also use Thessaurus a.k.a. Word Hippo and an unnamed internet dictionary. This is due to the fact that English is my 3rd language and I write my current projects in it. In other words, I sometimes can't exactly remember the word I actually want to use. So I either go and translate it for myself or I use the word hippo to find a synonym I know but I just couldn't think of in that moment.

8. A piece of worldbuilding that you like in your own story? (It could be the magic system, a particular place in the story, a law etc)

I came t like the Blackworld itself. In short, it's a non-physical place filled with eldritch horros that can manifest in the real world and from time to time some cultures came to worship these beings as their saints, gods or patrons mostly because of the slow corruption of their minds and souls. It's not only the concept of a place that's not real but also there's so many mysteries about the Blackworld - is it just a place that's a sphere for all those entities to linger? Or is it actually an organism of its own that's capable of giving birth without being exactly alive (at least in our way of understanding)? Why does it shape according to the subconscience of those who enter it? How does it know when somebody alive enters it? Just so many questions and so little answers and those answer then spark another ten new questions.

9. What piece of advice would you say to encourage others to write if they are having a rough patch?

I know this might go against the general rules but it's worked for me many times. Whenever I struggle to write I find myself a playlist, listen to it and while listening I'm re-reading my past chapters and re-editing some little details. When I can read a chapter after a chapter it's easier for me pick up on the more consistent vibe and feel of the story. And if this doesn't help either, I just take out another wip and focus on that other story.

10. Tag some people whose works you love/have been your biggest supporters

I've already mentioned the duo who tagged me so here's the follow-up: @arijensineink @minutiaewriter @rbbess110 @rubywrite @jgmartin @faelanvance @angie-j-kay (I know you can't respond right now but I wanted to mention you since you've been such a great support, thank you^^) @anthros-vanitas-archive @your-absent-father @sam-glade

[amywritesthings]

Hello! I love your writing style and I would love to know the whole process of how. Like how do you outline and do everything that comes with writing a chapter/story? The whole process basically, if it ain't too much trouble.

AHHH HELLO! It isn't trouble at all, sorry it took me a bit to get back to this. I really appreciate your kind words about my writing style. It's definitely the thing I'm most proud about as a skill, since I am also a writer in my day job!

My process is a little chaotic? I guess.

edit: this got long i'll put it under a read more, actually (w/a screenshot of my actual completed outline for a one shot!)

For new stories or new chapters, a scene that's usually mid-story will come to me out of nowhere, and I will build the story around that. I almost always exclusively write my work in bulletpoints before fleshing it out to actual (very short) paragraphs. I don't usually know the ending to fics that are beyond one shots. I tend to mold it as I understand my own characters and how they development way beyond my original concept, because I don't like pigeon-holing myself into one singular outcome.

Once I have the entire (or most of) the idea outlined, that's when I'll start going in between the bulletpoints and 'rough writing', which is literally just me pushing out anything I want. It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't even have to sound good. My strength comes with editing after I see the structure written out before me, so my goal is to just get a general chapter/one shot done before I fine tune.

For long fics, I do this chapter by chapter. Sometimes I'll even jump to a chapter 3-5 ch from now and just blurt out a 600-word excerpt that comes to mind. Storytelling doesn't need to be linear, it just needs to be passionate and well-loved.

Then comes the real doozy, which is editing. That's when my real writing happens. I tend to be dialogue-heavy, so once I'm done my first round of edits... I read the entire thing out loud. I deepen my voice (ha) for all my guys I write. I even mumble my smut lines because if Din Djarin's dirty-talkin', I won't let that poor man sound like a moron in the sheets.

Then I format on AO3, copying & pasting to wordcounter.net as I make my last-minute edits so AO3 can't eat my stuff (bc that has happened before and oh it is pain) and post!

For funsies, I went back through my doc and found my entire holiday Nanami x Reader one shot outline for ya!

You can see that I kind of talk to myself through outlines (I'm my own best friend, yes I literally do this in all of my drafts of stories and they can get v unhinged) and I will also add dialogue that comes to mind while I'm outlining that I want to keep for the end story.

If you have any other questions, I don't mind chatting or if you wanna keep sending q's that is fine, too!

[asteral-feileacan]

☁️, 💌 and 🪐 please!

Thank you! :D

☁️ - What made you choose your username?

I love this one, and I finally get to drop my username lore! This is actually quite a bit of history, so buckle up.

As a child, I was obsessed with Lassie, which is something that not a lot of people seem to really know for some reason. Anyway, my Lassie is actually split between the 1994 and 2005 movies, although I only saw the 1994 version later in my childhood and grew up with the 2005 one.

This obsession was so much so that whenever little me played make-believe, I would call myself Lassie and, well, it just kind of stuck and wouldn't go away. So when I eventually joined the internet at a once-questionable age(which started out fine because I was only using educational sites, but I still ended up on Discord just under the age requirement a couple of years later XDD)

At this time, "Lassie" for some reason morphed into "Lasspeep" and "Lassie Peep" - I think this was because of my parents, but I have no idea why XD So those variations were my usernames as I started to use the big scary internet. Eventually I did drop "peep", but Lassie has such a chokehold on me that I still use it, especially on Discord.

Fast forward to about a year or two ago, and I was looking for a name with more oomph behind it for my profiles on Tumblr, AO3 and FF.net. I had been going by Kit-Kat-of-Midgard, which I didn't really like, and so I started trying out a lot of things - username generators, random word lists, etc, but nothing was clicking. Then in a stroke of inspiration, I decided to go back to my roots, as it were. I used to use Google Docs as a kind of social media before I joined Discord, and to differentiate between the people in the group, we all picked colours and fonts to type in. Mine was cornflower blue, and that led me straight to the cornflower. While I was on that topic, I found its family name, Asteraceae, and that piqued my interest, but it still wasn't quite right. When I kept reading, I came across the order Asterales, which IMMEDIATELY made me go, "yep, that's the one."

So I had the base, and at some point I shortened it to simply Asteral. I really loved that, but I also wanted a second part, to get a message across that showed more of who I am. This one was a LOT easier, I have to say. I'm Irish, so I decided I'd go for an Irish word, and the struggle was just to figure out what word that would be.

SO I grew up being brainwashed into loving the band a-ha(I still love them), and it was a known fact that my favourite song of theirs is Butterfly, Butterfly. So my brain gremlins picked up my last remaining braincell, and translated "Butterfly" into Irish, which Google Translate(I don't speak Irish, sorry) told me was "féileacán". So, boom. Asteral Féileacán. Unfortunately, for the most part, the sites I'm on don't allow me to include the fadas, so it shows as Feileacan instead. Rest assured that the correct way is lurking somewhere behind there! But that's the admittedly long-winded explanation behind my usernames and why they're connected by a string.

💌 - How many unread emails do you have right now?

Oh. Oh no. I have several email accounts... in total, I have 337 unread emails spread out across four different emails, though they're mostly from automatic mailing lists from YouTube or AO3. My professional email account is paid much more attention, so it has no unread emails. >:) Rest assured that I will now be clearing out all my emails.

🪐 - Name three good things going on in your life right now.

Aw, this one is sweet <3

Theatre. I'm having a lot of fun engaging in theatre for the first time in my life through King Lear - I know I won't shut up about it, but I'm honestly really excited, and rehearsals are honestly the highlight two days of my week.

My writing spark. Writing has become fun again, and because of that, I've been able to post what I'm working on with less fear. This is huge for me because I stopped posted for years, and even though I was still working on things, I wasn't working on them in a capacity that was satisfying to me. I'm doing much better now, and a lot happier with what I'm doing.

Being connected outside of the internet. I have to say that this past year('23, so far '24) has been amazing. I got the chance to meet people IRL and make friends, I've been changing my very hermit-like habits and getting out more, and while it hasn't always been easy and I'm still struggling a lot with numerous things, I think I'm in a better place than I would have been two years ago. <3

[mickmundy]

Hello dutchie! I've re-read your fics multiple times now and now I want to write my own! I have to ask: do you have any writing tips or advice about fanfic in general? I enjoy your pacing but I have no clue how you manage to update every week. Cheers!

OH MY GOD EEEEE ;___; IM SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT MY FRIEND!! AND HIII ^_^ that's so awesome im so proud of you!!! hmm idk if i'm really a great person to get advice from, this is just stuff that works for me personally and my hectic irl schedule so just take it with a grain of salt!! ;-; <3 BUT i will gladly talk about it HEHE!! i'll actually just make an entire post about my writing process at some point because making long posts forces me to reflect and i'm overdue for a Self Reflection on how i write so! if/when i do that i'll link it back on this post heh ^_^ BUT ANYWAY!

i have a few Personal Rules about posting/writing fic that i must never break... and this is...:

feel free to break up your (longer) fic into parts. this prevents SO much burnout and gives you time to breathe between writing! if you're in it for the long haul like me, it's easy to get overwhelmed and feel like you're on a Crunch, which is never good! :'(

so i don't technically write a new chapter every week and post it on friday; i've had malus, for example, complete for a few months now! and so now it just "posts on a queue" where i just upload the next chapter every week! so for example, if malus is 21 chapters, at 1 chapter a week, that gives me 21 weeks (about 5 months) to write my next fic. that's a lot of time!

always finish the fic before you post it. this seems super unrealistic At First but i love the "arc/seasons/parts" style of posting, especially if it's long fics. nobody's saying you have to finish a 293849283498234 chapter fic in one day LOL but if you find that you're overwhelmed at the idea of writing Long Fics, then don't write one! write shorter parts that Combine and Create a long fic! :-) see what i mean? this is also an effective way to show time passing in your fic instead of just "~*~ two years later ~*~"-type of disclaimers.

chapters shouldn't be more than like... 3 google doc pages and paragraphs should be broken up. i like keeping my fic chapters short-ish so that they're easily digestible and force readers to Linger on the parts that i want them to. giant walls of text can sometimes put Huge Moments in your fics at the risk of getting lost!

let yourself sit on it for at least 2 days before you post it. do not read your own fic during the "sitting on it" time. let yourself back away from it and invite your mind to think about other things!! i've caught a LOT of my own mistakes or inconsistencies this way!

much easier said than done, but try not to let yourself get wrapped up in "the numbers" of posting (views, kudos, etc). obviously our goal as creatives is to get our work seen, but please remember to value yourself and your art above the numbers game! ;-; it literally took me a year (as of january lol) of constantly promoting my fics on twt (and later on here once i made an acct) before i found all of the amazing readers i have now! ^u^ and i wouldn't trade them for the world. i'd happily take 10 readers who comment and talk to me like a person over 100 hits/kudos or whatever!

that being said, don't be afraid to promote your fics. i felt annoying and stupid promoing mine but i'm ultimately so glad i did

there are probably others but i think these are my biggest ones (other than delving into like. tf2-specific "guides" i have for myself but i won't bore you with those). as far as tips for outlining or planning, i just have a channel in my gf and i's server dedicated to my fic that i post random snippet's i've written and want to include, random one-word concepts, like literally any time my brain has a Fic Related Thought i slap it in there. i'm also a huge fan of Linear/Traditional outlining too and do that with my more Complicated/Larger concepts that i want to execute in my fics so that i can stay consistent! :-)

ILYYY BEST OF LUCK ON YOUR FIC WRITING ENDEAVORS MY FRIEND! ^u^

[sugar-clovers]

Rouge - Prompt Based

I’m a bit new here, and usually stay for art and any interesting pieces of fan-fiction that are related. Funny enough, it’s not really related at all. However, I’m feeling a bit creative to actually write something. A prompt that I found on TikTok and the ideas were just brilliant that I had to share them before my brain forgot them.

Content Warning: Murder, mild blood and gore.

Please notify me if I missed anything.

Rouge - A series of mysterious deaths linked to the color red leads a young detective into the deepest rabbit hole of her life.

The color rouge, specifically red rouge. Typically any kind of red or reddish-colored make-up that's used for tinting a person's cheeks.

However, in this context, it stained the victim's body. Her dress drenched, face frozen and petrified, their body methodically placed holding the infamous bouquet of poppies. Jewelry shining with each flashing light of the camera. Her feet dirty.

The medical coroner walked with his assistant trailing behind and arrived. My partner and I greeted them.

"To whom do I have the displeasure of, Audrey?" Benji asked. "We still haven't identified them yet but this marks the 4th victim." I stated before continuing to take pictures. My eyes drifting between each of the splotches of rouge littering the plaza. "The killer has been getting more bold lately."

"So, what'd ya got Benji?" My mentor, Larissa, questioned. Benji gave them a pointed look before starting.

While doc squatted down his assistant settled down the bags while Benji spoke. "Well, I can see there's no pooling of the victim's blood but her dress is soaked in it, suggesting they were moved. The gash to her neck, slightly cleaned as well. And they positioned them to hold the flowers as we’ve seen with past victims. Their shoes are missing as well.” Benji rambled. “Some bruising is present in the shape of a hand. Maybe we can get some fingerprints.”

Larissa turned to me. “Your turn, gimme a rundown.”

“The job seems a bit sloppy than usual, rushed even, which the killer might’ve been walked in on before finishing.” My head signaling over to the maintenance workers being given interviews. “The plaza is decorated in spots of rouge.” Larissa seemed satisfied. “We can check with cameras around the plaza to get a better view of our poppy killer. And a bit later with the local bars.” Larissa told me.

Benji's gloved hands pulled out the bouquet and examined it pulling out a paint card simply titled ‘rouge’ before handing it to his assistant to bag and tag it. He began to do some other tasks before starting up again.

"The time of death occurred between 4-5am but I won't know more until I've got them on the slab." Benji said. As he and his assistant began to lift and cart the body away.

Larissa began to trek over to the maintenance workers while I stayed behind to take more pictures before calling cleaners.

It won’t be long before the press are clamoring over us.

I don’t know if I’ll do continue to add to the prompt but I know if I did certain details may be subject to change.

- Was originally posted on my Wattpad account