#i have multiple wips i literally wanted to post early last year so 😅

[shmooooo]

This sounds like the death of me 😭

BYEOL.

ISA!!!!!! WAIT I KNOW!!!! MY BRAIN IS THINKING THOUGHTS!! thinking maybe bf!hee and bff!gyu…

not a very “emo” song but…

like as a Valentine’s Day gift hee brings gyu in the equation for the night. could possibly end in a poly though at the end. something along the lines of someone ( gyu ) saying tonight was fun and how it was only a one time thing. and someone ( maybe the reader and hee ) share a look and says “well what if it’s not only just tonight??” “we’ve been thinking about this for a while, and we’ve seen the way you look at us and how you feel about us…”

[diggingupgrave]

Magnificently Cursed... the blog post ✨

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My writing log says it’s been exactly a year since I started writing Magnificently Cursed, my Dark Academia Inuokko Magic School AU! I find summer to be insufferable (my apologies to the sun) so I took an escape hatch to an early fall last year and immediately fell down this massive rabbit hole. Not only did I write the whole fic and make overly-intricate graphics for each chapter… I also made a ton of other content that I simply didn’t have enough time to post! (Fall is but one season… unless you’re me, and it’s two, because fuck summer) So as a little anniversary gift to me, I’m going back through the archives and finally putting everything in one place. 

Let’s start with the character mood boards, shall we? 

Toge Inumaki: 

I wanted Toge to have an earthy/natural, vintage-y feel, while Yuuta was all sleek and new. I’m still completely obsessed with this library-lizard aesthetic for Toge.

I low-key wound up buying a brown sweater after searching online for literal hours just like the one in the upper left so we could twin. That duffle coat still has my whole heart. Lavender mug inspired by Neara 🥺

Yuuta Okkotsu:

The lil ghostie patch 😭 I still think Yuuta would look hot as hell in all these clothes- especially the speckle-y fisherman sweater. Coat game is strong here as well. 

... so is it obvious that I spend too much time on Canva yet? 😅

The Timeline: 

My outline wasn’t outlining and I resorted to making an in-world calendar to make sure the dates were realistic. Each chapter is a different color, and the lines represent what days the chapters covered in-world. The corresponding stars represented each chapter’s posting dates… except the real life dates didn’t line up with the fictional dates (rude), so those thursdays were actually saturdays? I think? I'm actually not 100% sure what past me was up to here, to be totally honest 😅

(also, politely ignore that bit that says “epilogue - december” 💀i’ll get to it when i get to it. I don’t really like the idea of it being *over* so maybe i'll just gatekeep that bit forever)

⬆️ Example of aforementioned “outlining,” which, yes, is unfortunately littered with as many potential tweets as actual organization 💀

Not pictured: the outline for the first three chapters… when i thought this fic… would only *be* three chapters. 🪦

Writing Log:

I wrote all 92k between July 13th and September 13th (including 60k in August, nanowrimo style)!

Honestly would love to know what her regimen was because i immediately went back to being slow and undisciplined. I don’t foresee this coming august looking anything like this, lol.

Also, sidenote, hilarious that I took a break to work on it would make a whole in the middle of this? Because I literally just finished that piece this week and posted it today 😅

The Playlist:

Spotify proving that July 13th commitment! If you start a wip without procrastinating and making a playlist for two hours first... did you really start a new wip?

The playlist was three and a half hours and i would listen to it nearly every day, sometimes multiple times in a day 💀. Listen during a rainstorm for peak vibes.

(other favs not pictured: The Butterflly Effect’s cover of “Lay All Your Love on Me,” Sabrina Carpenter’s “Decode,” Liz Longley’s “Rescue My Heart,” and "Nothing's Gonna Happen" by The Staves) 

Bonus:

(fall baking... toge's fav pumpkin muffins of course)

(my toge sweater knockoff)

(editing buddy... clearly working very hard)

(cider donut cider... for the ✨vibes✨)

(obsessively drinking massive pots of harney and son’s victorian london fog tea as i tried to interpret my own bullshit)

(me celebrating actual halloween like i didn't start in july)

.... ANYWAY (if you made it this far 😅) many thanks to anyone who read/kudos/commented/supported this fic, because (if you can't tell already) i had so much fun writing it.

Currently, working on another longfic rn that's also promising to destroy my life... but you never forget your first 😘

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

past 20 (or however many you have) titles meme, tagged by the wonderful Aurelia @lurking-latinist! most of these are from published fics, but "frozen" and "good mistakes" are working titles for a couple of WIPs I've got going (and, in typical fashion, may or may not ever finish 😂)

• frozen

• good mistakes

• Redux

• Tumblr Minifics

• Falling Together

• space between heartbeats

• give up forever to touch you

• for the bad decisions that we made

• tell me more than just the scars I've known

• when all I own is just dust and gold

• Which Has Suddenly Been Laid Bare

• for fear of moments stolen

• Home Is Weird

• in that sleep of death what dreams may come

• Hello Cold World

• Somehow More Than Alright

• somewhere too far for us to find

• In the Drift

• In Books Written By Rabbits

• what must we do to restore

1. How many are you happy with?

technically I'm happy with all of them, bc if I wasn't then I probably would have picked something else, but... I'm not a huge fan of a couple, so I would say that I'm *actually* happy with 18.

2. How many are... not great?

just two: "Home Is Weird" and "Somehow More Than Alright" aren't my favorites

3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?

I normally title things as I'm filling out the posting form, so.... I think 16.

4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?

Four: "frozen" and "good mistakes," which are titles I've tentatively picked out for WIPs, along with "for the bad decisions that we made" and "In Books Written By Rabbits". I think I probably had a few others bouncing around in my head pretty early on, but I'm not sure tbh.

5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?

Eight of them; most of my titles are song lyrics tbh. (surprisingly, only two on that list are from Paramore songs 🤣)

6. How many are other quotes?

Five!! "Which Has Suddenly Been Laid Bare" is part of a line from Les Miserables, "in that sleep of death what dreams may come" is of course from Hamlet's soliloquy, "In the Drift" is from Pacific Rim, and "In Books Written By Rabbits" is from The Last Unicorn, which is actually worked into the fic itself. "good mistakes" is from a poem by Natalie Wee.

7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?

for obvious reasons, I'm not counting "Tumblr Minifics" in this one 😂 i would say that probably "give up forever to touch you" and "Home Is Weird" probably fit their respective fic content best, though if you know the context/full quote of "In Books Written By Rabbits," it actually says a LOT about the fic itself.

8. Which best reflects the theme of the story/fanwork?

IBWBR because the TLU quote ties directly into the fic and sets the stage for it, or "Redux," which was yoinked directly from The X-Files for... multiple reasons, mainly my own feels tbh, but also the word's definition does match the fic very well and also the connection to TXF fits pretty well within the context of both that episode and my fic. it's sorta convoluted tbh but I'm pretty proud of that 😅

9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?

"in that sleep of death what dreams may come". it's a Brax-POV introspective fic so like... duh, Shakespeare. plus, the angst of it all 😌

10. Which is your favorite?

you get one guess 👀

no but seriously you could probably guess by now that my favorite, my precious baby, is "In Books Written By Rabbits". it's just... very personal actually bc TLU is one of those very formative things for me and I'm super super sentimental, and I waited literally A YEAR to use that as a title for a fic.

the line always struck me as very Leela, "you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairytales in books written by rabbits," and I always wanted to write something about her based on that line/with it for a title and so when I finally did i just poured all that into it and i mean... I may not be the most objective on this bc it *is* my own fic after all, but I'm just super happy I got to use a quote so near and dear to my heart in what I would like to think is a pretty deep way?

I also really love "tell me more than just the scars I've known" tho bc it's my first Sylki fic and the title is from the first song I associated with that ship, plus it plays with the content of the fic itself so I think that's all-around a pretty great title.

tagging @theladyjojogrant, @magicofthepen, @thelightofthingshopedfor, and @ladyverachtung but obviously no pressure if you don't want to!