#i hope they'll be published in my country

[anamoon63]

RL and Sims update post + a thank you note

(Warning: long post ahead, read at your own risk).

I wrote this post to thank you guys for all the likes and comments you keep leaving on my posts, even though, as you may have noticed, I can't be here as often as I used to. Real life has taken over almost completely, as I think it should. There are too many things going on, with me, my family, my country, even my sims and other games, lol.

I'm not going to bore you with daily life problems, much less with sad and depressive stuff, or with previews of a story I don't know when/if I'll ever finish, the only thing I can tell you is that I'm still busy with a lot of work, (fortunately) and family stuff; plus, I (finally) started going to therapy (yes, at my age). So right now, I'm juggling even more things than I already was.

And so I wanted to thank you for sticking with me, for continuing to read the chaotic stories of my wacky characters without judging them; thank you as well for each and every message you have sent to my inbox, be it questions, or flowers and love; and to all of you who continue to tag me both on sims stuff and cute games, knowing that I most likely won't be able to answer you, really, thank you for continuing to think of me. Your messages soothe my heart in difficult moments, and I wish to answer them all, I just don't know when I will be able to do that, hopefully someday.

Now, my sims story. For those of you who might remotely still be interested, I'm currently revising the next few episodes of Time Traveler which I wrote earlier this year. To be honest, I don't know when they will be ready, I just know the story goes on and as soon as I have reviewed these episodes, I'll start taking the pictures. When will they be published? Frankly, I don't know. It could be early 2025, but no promises, as I don't have much free time on my hands now. I manage to write in the evenings, but in-game photo shoots are quite time consuming and have to be done in peace and privacy, of which I don't have much at the moment. So, if I do decide to publish these episodes, it will likely be early next year, and at a rather slow pace.

About my gameplay, in Sims 4 we will continue with the Wilsons until the end of the season (coming soon), and then we will take a small break. As for The Sims 3, we just finished Patrick's story in Bridgeport, so now we'll go back with The Cho Brothers. First, we'll take a brief trip to Lucky Palms with Terence and Cynthia Cho; then we'll spend a rather long time in Hidden Springs and Starlight Shores, to see what has happened with Tyron, the eldest of the Cho brothers. And last but not least, we'll go back to Uni with Dale and Kelly, who I hope will FINALLY graduate this year, hahaha.

Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I am not gone (yet), that if one day I decide to retire I will make a special post about it, I won't leave without saying goodbye, but that day seems far away at least for the moment. 

Now, regarding Inzoi…

I admit Inzoi has captured my interest. As usual, I'm late to the comment party, but I still want to put my two cents about this amazing game. Seeing the trailers and all those beautiful Inzois created by other simmers got me so excited, and at the same time, terribly frustrated to see that the demo didn't contain any gameplay. I need to actually play the game to give an opinion on it! So far it looks beautiful, though I must say that the character creator disappointed me because the sliders are Sims 4 style, which I've always found a bit complicated, I'll forever prefer the Sims 3 sliders, but hey, I had a lot of fun creating my own Inzois.

Hopefully the graphics and gameplay are as good as seen in the previews and its developers won't “break” it into multiple or turn the into a malfunctioning cash cow like EA did with The Sims 4, and to a certain extent, also with the Sims 3 in its time. I hope with Inzoi they'll go for a complete game, no matter if it's expensive, if I consider it is worth it, I'll give them my money as soon as it comes out.

That being said, it is important for me to clarify that I will not abandon The Sims 3 (or even Sims 4 though I don't play it much) for Inzoi. Ever. Neither do I plan to recreate my sims OCs/games in it, because my sims are exactly that, sims. If I ever get to play Inzoi it will be with entirely new characters, although I confess, I did try to reproduce two of my most beloved sims (a boy from the future and a college girl who is a model *wink*) and they turned out pretty well, but nowhere near as adorable as they look in The Sims 3. Plus, the environments in which those two OCs currently move could not be reproduced in Inzoi, at least as far as I know.

Okay, enough of Inzoi. In short: I'm not gone, I'm still here, I'm still reading all your stories, only at a much slower pace, two or 3 simblrs per day at the most. I'm going to read them all, just bear with me, and forgive me again if I don't always comment. Sometimes I don't even have the time or the energy for that. Believe me, 2024 has been an intense year in every possible way, sometimes I really need a break, but I try to be around and will always find a way to keep in touch, even if at times it seems like I'm nowhere to be found, I'll get back to you at some point.

That's all, thanks for reading this far! Have a nice and beautiful start of the week. 💗

P.S. I wrote this post three days ago, wish I had published it earlier, that way I probably wouldn't have gotten a notification that some Simblrs Community 'removed my membership'. When I clicked in said Simblrs Community icon, it said the community was 'private'. I don't know if that's some kind of automatic Tumblr thing, if there's a committee that decides about this, or if it was just a glitch in the matrix; whatever it was, I'm so sorry I wasn't able to be here to keep said membership. I didn't even know Simblr was a private membership. For what it's worth, it wasn't neglect or lack of interest for my part, just lack of time. I hope one day to be able to qualify again and be worthy of this membership. At any rate, I thank you for thinking of me and admitting me in your community in the first place.

[karstenasha]

Hello there folks!

A major publisher in my country just published (finally!) the translation for Black Powder War this January 2024, and I wanna show you the Indonesian cover for Temeraire series so far!

I don't think the dragons are accurate and I have no idea who the fuck is that man in book 1, but I think there are very pretty, especially the gold colorings.

I also wanna explain some funny translation things, which may contain spoiler, so beware.

His Majesty's Dragon

Who the fuck are you??

So that guy clearly is not Will Laurence. And the funny thing is, the meaning of the title "Naga Sang Kaisar" is more closer to "Emperor's Dragon" than "His Majesty's Dragon"

I mean they can perfectly chose Raja (King) to translate "His Majesty", but they chose Kaisar (Emperor) instead. Maybe it is a winkwink spoilery thing to sneakily hint who the actual intended resipient for Celestial egg is.

In that case—is that Napoleon then???

Anyway, I just know that, because of this cover, the new reader in my country will always pictured Laurence with dark hair until in the book six or something when they'll be like, wait, he is bLOND??

Throne of Jade

Black Powder War

So did you see anything wrong with these two?

I LOVE the art and the color scheme, it's perfect and all, but, I think ... they get switched??

The ship and the water in book 3 cover should be for book 2. And the building in book 2 cover is resembling Istanbul's palace more than China's. Don't you think?

There is not even a ship in the book 3 other than Allegiance in the chapter one, right?

The sun shining in book 2 cover potrayed desert pretty clearly, right?

Right?

Am I going crazy?

Regardless how bonker it is, I still love 'em! And i hope you love 'em too!

[shiuefha]

Wow, so now we have four poster visuals of the movie (aside from the collaboration version with mission impossible of course), and I can't wait to watch this movie in the cinema someday...

By the way, there was a talk event which was held by the local publisher of the manga several days ago, which they streamed live on the local publisher's IG account. The event was held at the pop up cafe in a famous shopping mall in Jakarta, and when they talked about this movie, one of them (the pop up cafe's staff) pointed out that it would be released in March (in my country). I don't know if this is valid or not, but that person said it confidently, so it's probably true. Not to mention that there's no new information about the movie's release date for now...

Well, let's see if that statement is true, or probably they'll release the movie before March (I still hope that I can watch it on my birthday though... which is in January and not March). I've heard from somewhere else that the movie would be released in Singapore in February, so probably it will be soon after that.

[erosjournal]

hah! have this beautiful work :D

wood stove

important things to note:

i might be out for a bit this weekend, but i'm gonna try to write. i just can't publish on ao3 but i will once i get back. i also have a 3 day weekend so :D

i might keep up this cottage theme because it fits in with autumn well, but i do want to add in camp half-blood and new rome so idk

also !! this cottage is in new rome, idk exactly how big it is but i'd say its an hour drive from camp jupiter and in a forest of sorts. no monsters can sense them, but i might write a fight scene if i feel like trying it out

some quick placement updates are that percy and annabeth + nico and will are at camp half-blood while frank and hazel + jason and leo are in new rome/camp jupiter. piper and reyna keep traveling back and forth between camps (yes ik its across the country, but i'd do that for my gf/bf) , i havent settled on where they'll be for the remainder of this series

also i live in west coast so i base a lot of the weather off of my knowledge of that, i dont worry abt camp half-blood bc 1. its new york, and 2. theres that magical barrier that protects the weather or something

also in the future, i wont be writing explicit smut in this series, but there are tiny mentions/references. i hope u dont mind, i will tag it when explicit. speaking of that, this one has sexual mentions but no actual sex.

[kummatty]

hello. I think you have a great blog and amazing tastes and I was wondering if you had any book recommendations? fiction or non-fiction, though I tend to read more fiction. I'm afraid I do not read enough books that were written outside North America/Europe and I would love to change that. anyway, sorry for the disturbance, I hope you are well <3

hi dear anon, i hope you're well too <3 im so sorry this has been sitting in my inbox forever! i hope you see it. thank u for ur kind words, i'm happy to share some recs! they'll be a mix of authors from north america/europe as well as outside those regions, and most will be writers of color bc that's who I tend to look for and read, i also gravitate towards fiction but ill try to do both. * = i've read it and would definitely recommend, and the rest are on my tbr that ive heard good things about and/or really want to get to myself.

I would also look out for presses that publish specifically translations and non-Western stories - two lines press, europa, transit books, open books, greywolf press - and you can look to who they're interacting w as well to expand your search for these kinds of books. happy reading <3

fiction:

vagabonds! by eloghosa osunde*

annie john by jamaica kincaid*

if an egyptian cannot speak english by noor naga*

the remainder by alia trabucco zerán, trans. sophie hughes*

sula by toni morrison*

scattered all over the earth by yoko tawada, trans. margaret mitsutani*

the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhader*

a passage north by anuk arudpragasam*

the hour of the star by clarice lispector*

an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon*

the umbrella country by bino a. realuyo*

the unpassing by chia-chia lin*

aquarium by david vann*

bright by duanwad pimwana, trans. mui pooposakul

hostages of memory by haitham hussein, trans. jona fras

mother of 1084 by mahasweta devi, trans. samik bandyopadhyay

on a woman's madness by astrid h. roemer, trans. lucy scott

the wild hunt by emma seckel

ornamental by juan cárdenas, trans. lizzie davis

i stared at the night of the city by bakhtiyar ali, trans. kareem abdulrahman*

men in the sun, and other palestinian stories by ghassan kanafani (various translators)*

funny boy by shyam selvadurai

violets by kyung-sook shin, trans. anton hur

afterparties by anthony veasna so

nonfiction:

a map to the door of no return by dionne brand*

out of the sun: on race and storytelling by esi edugyan*

uncommon measure: a journey through music, performance, and the science of time by natalie hodges*

from a native daughter: colonialism and sovereignty in hawai'i by haunani-kay trask

braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by robin wall kimmerer

care work: dreaming disability justice by leah lakshmi piepzina-samarasinha

don't forget us here: lost and found at guantanamo by mansoor adayfi

the jakarta method: washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world by vincent bevins

a still life: a memoir by josie george

[ettawritesnstudies]

You look like a really happy and supportive person, do you have any tips about dealing with resentment esp. against other writers? It's something I'm noticing a lot in the community and other spaces I participate. Everybody treats it like it's righteous anger but it feels toxic. The moment they see someone thriving, the person gets hate mail and someone finds an excuse to bring them down. I guess people have reason to be hurt because everything feels hard and unfair right now. I'm also from a fucked-up third world country, I'm queer, my life feels stuck where it was before the pandemic, I can't get a job and I worry what it'll be like for me 10 years from now. But I kept saying to myself it wasn't so bad because it's really worse for so many people where I live and I tried to be upbeat... But then I saw a writer I know irl get published and I noticed I was feeling and thinking the same way those people I disliked act online. Angry at them for getting published when I don't have the skill or the luck for it. What do we do when that happens? Sorry if this is a pessimistic ask

Hey anon,

First of all, I'm really really sorry you're going through that, it sounds like a bad situation and I hope you can find some peace and stability soon. If it means anything, I'll be praying for you. <3 <3 <3

It's really hard to keep a positive outlook on things when other things in your life aren't working out. As you said, everything feels hard and unfair right now and you can't be blamed for feeling pessimistic and bitter about the way things are going for you. It's easy for me to act cheery because I'm blessed to be in a good situation with a good support network, and I'm aware that's something a lot of people don't have. You're incredibly strong for dealing with this and I'm proud of you for both surviving and trying not to let this bitterness affect the way you interact with the writing community. That's a testament to your good character and you're someone I'd like to have as a friend.

I think the biggest thing that's helped me not get bitter about other people's success is the "Holy shit, two cakes!" mindset.

I think this was made by @stuffman originally if "know your meme" tells true.

Life is a dessert table. Some people don't even like cake - some people are bringing brownies, cookies, tortes, pastries, jello puddings, fruit baskets, or whatever else suits their fancy. Chocolate cake ain't the same as lemon no matter which way you slice it.

Other writers aren't competition - everyone has their own voice and themes and stories to bring to the table. At the end of the day, I'm not trying to win over romance and grimdark true crime readers, and even within my own genre, if people like reading similar stories then they'll probably enjoy mine. A while ago I looked for comp titles to runaways and found a bunch of books that lit up all the same keywords with "sisters", "changelings," "seelie and unseelie courts", but they were nothing like the story I was trying to tell. I loved them all the same. Your words are important and meaningful and I hope this discouragement doesn't keep you from practicing your craft.

As far as publishing luck and money and time and skill goes: yeah the industry kind of sucks right now, there's no changing that. It might suck that you're not published yet, but hold onto that "yet". It's important. Hope keeps you striving, even if progress is stagnating at the moment. It's served me well through so many semesters slogging through engineering school when I didn't put a word to paper in months.

Helping other people can a tactical decision. I'm not published yet, nowhere near it. I started this tumblr (and the rest of my platform) for the sake of marketing and networking. One could argue I chat with the likes of @ashen-crest, @abalonetea, and @author-a-holmes for purely selfish reasons - if I help them out, hopefully they'll help me when the time comes. Maybe that's how it starts sometimes, but over time those connections become friendships so easily when people just want to tell stories together. I didn't have a lot of people to talk about my writing with when I was younger and I make no exaggeration when I say the community here on writeblr changed my life.

Friends make going through this painful slog of a life so much easier. I can't count the number of times I've cried in this past week about how fortunate I am to have so many people supporting me. From my sister who listened to my rambles off the top bunk every night, to my best friends in high school who helped me develop the bones of my world, to my college roommates and partners in crime who encouraged me to be more vocal about my work, to my boyfriend who patiently stood in lines for me at a book festival, to @siarven my first acquaintance here on writeblr 4 years ago, who I finally get to meet in person in a couple weeks. Maybe it sounds a little fairytales, but kindness truly does repay kindness seven times seven times over.

I'll keep writing my little fairytales. I believe in them. I hope you do too.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"[Once in solitary confinement] you start thinking about what to do now. A false sense of energy and hope seizes hold of you. Wasn't it my friend Laurie who devised about fifty different things you can do in a cell to keep your mind occupied? I can only remember two of them. [I could do] exercises. ... but it doesn't keep you going for long. Oh then, there's the Bible. Why not make up your mind to start reading it from beginning to end? Or make a study of one book? The book of Job? The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. But Job wasn't in solitary confinement. Good God, he wasn't even in prison, the lucky soandso.

You start reading, but you find you can't concentrate. Your mind wanders away to the people outside. I suppose the V.J. [Visiting Judge, who ordered punishments like solitary confinement] is looking forward to sitting down to a nice lunch. Meat and white bread and pastry, I'll bet. I hope it ties knots in his guts. Jesus Maria. How did you ever let yourself get in this position? And you make a resolution then. Never again. If it ever looks that you might get arrested, rather shoot your way out. They took you away, the police did, and locked you up. And now the screws have done it again. Take him away and lock him up. Theme song of all authority for 1,900 years. And getting worse now. Take the derelict away and lock him up.

Outside, in the world which you left behind you ages ago, there are people actually walking about the streets wondering what they'll have for lunch, worrying about some silly business problem, thinking what a time they're going to have that night with some girl. Girls, my God. While you squat here, like some bloody animal in the half-dark.

Or in the country. Actually in the country near birds and trees. Grumbling about having to milk cows. It's almost unbelievable. They ought to throw their arms round the cows' necks and hug them for the privilege of being free to milk them. Of being free to touch them. Of being free.

I'm so tied to my farm, writes one cow-cocky in the paper, that the only difference between it and a concentration camp is the height of the boundary fence.

You damn fool, you crazy bastard, you lying hound. You can go out and eat grass, can't you? You can drink the milk, you can get down on your knees and suck the cow's teats? You can do anything, you fool, you're FREE.

Try sitting in a cell in semi-darkness reading the Book of Job on an empty stomach. Try praying to God for the minutes to go, just a little quicker. Try having the smell of your own pisspot in your nostrils night and day. Try waiting through interminable hours for night to come so as you can steal a little enjoyment from a smoke as thin as the lead in a lead pencil; hoping to God a screw won't pass by and smell you out. Try being a derelict in solitary confinement. Try getting into such a degraded state that a bit of cheese, shoved under the door by a friendly cleaner, seems like one of the miracles of Christ. Try those things just once. Then get down on your knees again, but instead of sucking teats, thank God you're alive and on the right side of the walls."

- Ian Hamilton, Till Human Voices Wake Us. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1983 (first published by private subscription, 1953). p. 65-66.

[I've read a lot of prison memoirs this year, with many more to come. This may be one of the best. Hamilton was a conscientious objector in New Zealand-Aotearoa during World War 2, a pessimistic socialist humanist, a playwright, and sheep farmer. This may be one of the best, just raw but well-directed anger, utter contempt for polite New Zealand settler society and for what he viewed as a growing bureaucratization and dehumanization of society. I thought this bitter anger directed at people who use metaphors of imprisonment lightly to describe minor incovencies.]

[amaiguri]

Happy STS! Is there an aspect of your WIP that you think will start internet arguments if it gets published? 🍿

I love this ask, thank you! If I get unlucky, then I'll have a lot of shipping wars, even though I'm doing polyamory for a reason lol. Oh gosh, but I think if I get lucky and enough people take my work seriously, I think my fictional ladies will be extremely controversial. My men are objectively as controversial, but I think my women will inevitably have more people vocally mad about them.

Lucienne is bisexual, bitchy, and loves sex -- which is already a combo that could get me #cancelled lol -- BUT ALSO she's afraid of intimacy because she was taught that all her worth is IN perceptions. And so, she is ONLY mask. When the mask breaks, she feels like there is nothing. This could definitely be construed and demonized as NPD. I think some people will see her as "the mean girl/bully" and I think others might see her as "Amaiguri excuses her toxicity because she's hot and traumatized" but I hope some people will see her for what she is: A complicated person who is DOING HER BEST and sometimes, that isn't very good.

Nesa SEEMS a little healthier because she knows how to parrot mental health advice and hypothetically understands conflict navigation. She uses all these powers to gain trust and then BAMPF! Betrayal. Well, specifically, she uses this for interrogationy purposes. Is this her job? Yes. But she also doesn't really feel bad about it.

Saravanya is a mess and some people will hate her just because she hates herself. Woof.

And, of course, Arlasaire.

Ah, my controversial little protagonist! I already foresee people accusing me of doing her disability wrong, despite my best efforts. I think some people won't understand how her trauma works so they'll assume I'm endorsing all the above controversial people because Arlasaire does -- but Arlasaire fawns as her trauma response. I also think some people will think she's over the top or overreacting to things because she's unemotionally regulated in a way that isn't sexy or palatable. I think people might see her faint East Asian-coding and say I'm playing into East Asian stereotypes. I think on the other hand, some people will say that she's terrible East Asian representation cuz she doesn't look or act "Asian enough". (Of course, I'm desperately trying to ensure none of my countries have a good one-to-one comparison to real life cultures and I'm not really trying to "represent" anything other than a diverse but realistic fantasy world.)

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to fret! Now I'm gonna go back to my emotionally challenging hole and pretend the public isn't perceiving me in it 🕳🛌🏻

[damonjuicyscock]

Playlist-Chapter 4: Woman in Chains (90s Noel Gallagher X Reader)

Pairing: 90s Noel Gallagher X Reader

Warnings: Domestic violence (yes, Y/N again being beaten up by Kenneth, but it's the end of it I promise. Don't forget the rule, if you suspect anyone or you are being a victim of domestic violence, call the number in your country. This is really important lovies), mild fluff, language, maybe a few spelling mistakes.

Words: 1992 (oh just like the year, I didn't do it on purpose I swear !)

Summary: It's 1992 and you are going to Oasis rehearsals. Kenneth is still your boyfriend and is still a bastard. Soon, something happens, and this will change your way of living.

A/N: Heya, I'm back ! This chapter is still hard to read so hold tight ! But I promise this is the end of the torture. As I said in the warnings, follow the rules concerning domestic violence, I beg you. Helping each other these days is very important. I also wanted to inform you that I now have a job so Instead of saturdays, I will now publish our daily fanfic on sundays ! I'll try my best to start rewriting one-shots again and publishing them on wednesdays like before. Hope you'll like this chapter anyway !

Enjoy !

“Well I feel Deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal And I feel Somebody somewhere is trying to breathe Well you know what I mean It's a world gone crazy Keeps woman in chains

It's under my skin but out of my hands I'll tear it apart but I won't understand I will not accept the greatness of man

It's a world gone crazy Keeps a woman in chains Gone crazy, keeps woman in chains

So free her”

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March 1992:

I didn’t know how to escape Kenneth. I still didn’t have the courage to leave him.

But I decided to rebel a little bit.

My boss and I got on quite well for him to change my working hours. I started an hour earlier and finished an hour earlier. I didn’t tell Kenneth.

So, on the first day it happened, I went to see Oasis rehearsing. Noel was now their guitarist. He had dreamt so much of being in a band. I was so happy for him, and I was their N°1 fan. Or more like number 2. Mamas always are the first.

With them, I could be myself. Who I really was inside. And I’ve seen such good times and unforgettable ones. Like when Noel wrote Live Forever.

He was strumming his guitar, thoughtful, calm and quiet as he always had been.

Still haven’t found any lyrics? I asked

Hmm? He answered, raising his head

You’ve been playing this melody for years, so I’m surprised you still haven’t found any words to put on this song. I always thought it sounded beautiful.

Really?

Yeah, I mean it Noely.

Well thanks! And I started writing some stuff.

Show me.

He handed me a piece of paper, full of erasures made with a pen.

“Maybe I don't really wanna know How your garden grows 'Cause I just wanna fly Lately, did you ever feel the pain In the morning rain As it soaks you to the bone?

Maybe I just wanna fly Wanna live, I don't wanna die Maybe I just wanna breathe Maybe I just don't believe Maybe you're the same as me We see things they'll never see You and I are gonna live forever” Noely, this is brilliant!

Ye mean it?

I always do! You should pursue!

Well I already thought about repeating the verse and changing the second chorus.

And how is it going?

It goes like “maybe I will never be, everything I want to be, this isn’t the time to be sad, it’s mainly time to find out why, you are the same as me, you see things they��ll never see, you and I are gonna live forever”.

Not bad…

But?

But I think there are some lyrics to change here.

I know, I’m not done writing it.

A silence settled in, Noel hummed the melody looking for inspiration.

Teach me how you play it. I never asked but I always wanted to know what it is like to play your guitar.

Yeah sure! Come here.

I approached him and he handed me his guitar.

Careful, ye know this guitar…

Is like your wife, I know.

Noel chuckled.

Okay so put your fingers here. He said, putting his hand on mine to guide them.

Okay, got it.

And now use your other hand and strum.

I did

Ouch it hurts!

This is normal when ye’ve never played guitar before. Your fingers aren’t protected like mine. Go on, strum again.

I did again and the sound rang in the room.

Hey, not bad! he said

Thanks!

Ye’ve always been a quick learner.

Teach me the rest.

He did and soon I was playing the chords like him.

Okay stop torturing your fingers now or ye’re gonna bleed. That’s a good start anyway, one day ye’ll steal my job! He said laughing

I turned my head to face him. Our lips were so close to each other that we almost kissed. And this tension… my heart beating so fast… And his, that I could hear was beating as fast as mine… and his hand on mine, not moving…

I still loved Noel, but did he?

It was intense. It was, until we heard someone enter the room without knocking and had seen us.

Oh Kenny, hey! Noel was teaching me how to play a song on his guitar !

I knew I’d find ye here. Why weren’t ye at yer workplace?

Oh, just finished earlier today!

And why didn’t ye tell me?

I-I just…

Hello Kenneth. Noel said dryly

Y/N, we’re leaving. Now.

Oh I would regret not coming home right after work or not waiting him on spot…

I’m soz Noel… I said, fear on my face

Hey, don’t be. Ye can come here when ye want to!

I left the room and crossed Liam’s path.

Already leaving us? He asked

Yeah, I feel a bit tired.

Y/N. Kenneth said impatiently

Don’t hesitate to come here when ye want. It’s good havin’ ye here.

I hugged him and he saw them. The bruises on my shoulders. But he was high, so he wasn’t sure what he saw was right. Still, I saw it made him upset.

I left without talking and got in the car with Kenneth, not really knowing where it would get me.

*

When Kenneth and I arrived home, he locked the front door behind him.

I ran in my bedroom, knowing what was waiting for me, but forgot to lock the door.

Kenneth came in, enraged.

Did ye have fun?

Yeah, actually I did. I dared to answer dryly

He came to me and grabbed my hair, forcing me to follow his lead.

Don’t ye dare answering me like this ye fucking whore!

Kenny, you’re hurting me!

Kenneth slapped me, causing me to fall on my knees.

What were ye fucking doing with Noel ? He yelled

I started crying.

Nothing!

A punch in the face.

Don’t ye lie to me ye slut!

I swear!

Then a kick in the guts.

Yer fucking lying!

I was now in a foetal position, hurt and crying, holding my belly. I knew what Noel had felt all these years.

But Kenneth had no mercy. He kept kicking me until I fainted, before locking me in the room.

The beginning of another nightmare had started.

*

1 month later:

Noel was worried. He didn’t stop calling but I never answered. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I couldn’t.

Since that day when he witnessed the scene with Noel, I was locked in the bedroom, tied to the foot of the bed, with a bottle of water next to me, the shutters closed, and I hadn’t been able to wash for a whole month.

I was allowed one meal a day, no contact with the outside world except when my parents called, calls that always were monitored by Kenneth in case I said something. Every night, I was Kenneth’s punching bag.

He would hit me, punch me, kick me until I passed out. I was so weak that I didn’t fight back, I didn’t have the strength to.

But Noel suspected something, and not only because of Liam’s words. He had told him that he thought he saw bruises on my shoulder but wasn’t sure because he was high. So Noel decided he would come and check by himself.

He knocked at the door but nobody heard, I already passed out and Kenneth was too busy torturing me.

I felt this night was the night. My mind and my body were letting go. I was dying.

Kenneth didn’t even know that he was killing me. I tried to hard to survive but as nobody came to save me, there was no point in surviving anymore.

Noel came in without being invited, and as he was about to ask if anybody was home, he heard Kenneth’s groans.

He followed the noise and he saw me lying on the ground, bleeding, Kenneth kicking me.

He immediately reacted, entering the room and grabbed Kenneth from behind, trying to control him.

I fucking knew it! What d’ye think yer doing ye fucking trashcan?!

Kenneth was trying to fight back but couldn’t, Noel almost strangling him.

She’s mine! mine only! He yelled

Noel let go of him and punched him.

She belongs to no one but herself!

They started fighting while I was slowly dying on the floor. I opened my eyes a second and saw them and let myself go right after.

Kenneth finally collapsed on the floor, fainting.

And Noel understood something when he saw that my clothes were torn. I had been here and a victim of his kicks for a long time.

He kneeled in front of my now lifeless body, and untied me, trying to bring me back to life. I had stopped breathing only a few seconds before.

Noel did CPR and mouth to mouth so I could come back to him.

When he felt I was breathing again, he took my fainted body in his arms and called an ambulance.

*

I opened my eyes the day after, sore all over, my right wrist in a splint, because being tied up and beaten had caused me to dislocate it, bruises everywhere, a black eye, an IV hydrating and nourishing me, a blood bag giving me back the blood I’d lost, and Noel, his head lying next to my body, holding my hand.

He might have fallen over from exhaustion.

I didn’t even know what happened, how long him and I were there or why.

I understood it when I felt I couldn’t move. It hurt everywhere. My voice was broken, but I tried sto speak. The thing is, only a whisper managed to come out of my mouth.

Noel…

He didn’t hear me.

I tried to move my hand but couldn’t.

So I was forced to move my body and I cried out in pain.

This time, it woke him up.

Don’t mov, stay calm. He said, panicking

What happened? Why am I here?

It’s okay yer safe now. I think ye know what happened. The doctor said that ye almost died. He had been beating ye for like a whole month. I arrived just in time. Yer body is… pretty damaged but ye will heal. I promise. I’ll take care of ye. I f ye accept it of course. I… I have an apartment here now. Ye won’t have to come back to him Y/N. Ye can live with me. I can promise ye ye’ll be safe with me. Ye know I’ll never raise a hand on ye. Please ye have to trust me. He said, still panicking

Noely, calm down. You know I trust you. You saved me. All I want is to be away from him. And I know you will never raise a hand on me or summat. Plus, I have nowhere to go, I don’t want my parents to see me like this. You… You haven’t told them, right? I whispered

No. I know yer dad would kill him and end in prison if I did. I didn’t kill him Y/N. I could have and I wanted to but… who would have looked after ye ?

Liam?

Noel looked at me to see if I was serious when saying this and he started laughing while I tried to smile the best I could.

Ye never stop, do ye?

Not while I’m still alive.

Tears threatened to spill from his eyes, and he kissed me on the forehead.

Please then, stay alive.

[beardedmrbean]

I was wondering if I could ask for your advice on something that's been bothering me lately:

I've moved out for the first time, and I'm living in another country, new to the city I'm in. I'm a writer and want to be a published author, but I've all my stories rejected, and I'm beginning to really struggle. I feel like a massive failure, and that I won't get the job I want, or a good career.

Were you ever like this? If so, how did you move forward?

Sorry about the delay here, wanted to be sure I could give this the time it may need and a rushed 10 min isn't that.

This is a rough situation, I've never changed countries but moving from CA to Florida may as well have been doing that it's rough, job I'd been counting on when I moved out fell out from under my feet after a couple of days and I had what I had in the bank to keep me going in the hopes that I'd find something else.

In my case in retrospect, I should have just gone back to CA but I was doing ok for the first few years so no way of knowing that even when it all kicked off.

It's tough and likely gonna be tough for while,

As author stuff goes, I'm not really in the know about that kind of thing I've done fairly straight forward work most of the time, haven't had to send out things like manuscripts.

@dadpat-tactual and @robert-the-foul have books published I believe, they'll have more info on that than I will.

As for having everything collapse around you, been there a few times, keeping busy is probably the best thing I can suggest doing, be it writing or whatever it is you do, talking to a friend just a few min ago about how SeaWorld managed to contribute to me staying sane, they had a annual pass I could afford and it was a place I could go and just see things, sit and enjoy the pet show and such ride the rides.

It's likely going to suck for a while, but find something as well as someone or a group of some sort, you may not be a person of faith but honestly that doesn't really matter if you find a good church to attend, just some way to get plugged in and meet some people and have it so you're doing something.

Because if you just obsess over rejections or writers block you'll likely head down a bad path,

I'll be rootin for you, get ya on my prayer list, wish I could be more help but there's a lot there that's out of my realm of experience.

I also have a bunch of really helpful people following me that might have something to add as well, so check in on the notes on this post maybe they'll have some good suggestions for you

[illfoandillfie]

Hi sweetheart, i hope you are doing great! i think you are a beautiful person and an amazing writer, i’ve written lots of things already but i would like to hear some advice from you about writing so i can improve my skills, i really love writing 🫶🏻😩🥹🥰💌✨

lots of love from Argentina

oh gosh im 🤧🤧 thank you, thats so lovely of you to say!

First of all I keep a writing advice tag for any posts I come across with useful writing tips. Some of them are really general, some of them are about writing specific things (like kissing or children), so probably not everything in there will be useful but hopefully some of it is.

As for my own advice.... none of it is going to be groundbreaking stuff. I've never studied writing, I don't think too hard about how I write, and at the end of the day I just write silly fics about silly boys to keep myself entertained. But I'll put a few things under the cut. These are all more general sort of tips so if there are any specific parts of writing you want me to talk about let me know and I'll see what I can give you!

Number 1 is to just have fun with it. Don't get hung up worrying about if a concept is cringe or if its something no one else will like or if it sounds too much like something else you wrote. If it's an idea that interests you, then you're going to find it easier and probably more fun to write. And if you already love writing then you don't want writing to turn into a chore or something you don't enjoy.

Number 2 is to read real books. Reading fanfic is great and fun but it's very useful to read some books that have been professionally edited and published too. There is a craft to writing things that sound good and one of the fastest ways to learn what sounds good is to read books. You don't have to study them or analyse them, your brain will just pick up on patterns, on how sentences fit together, on what sounds good and what doesn't.

One of my fave examples of this is the way we describe things, at least in the English language. There is an unwritten formula for making a description sound good. opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose. It's why saying "the silly little pink French book" sounds good but "the pink silly French little book" sounds very strange. No one is taught this formula, no one does it consciously. It's just that one sounds better than the other. And it's the sort of thing you subconsciously pick up from reading.

Number 3 is don't be afraid to do some research. No one knows everything. Sometimes you'll want to write about something that isn't super familiar to you. Whether that be because you're writing is set in a different country to where you are, or you're writing a smut scene with a kink/position you've never done in real life, or you're writing a character with a kid when you don't have kids. Research it! Go on google maps and find the place you want to write about so you can see how the streets look. Find a cosmo article or a youtube video that talks about the kink. Find a site that includes those little drawings of sexual positions (or heck, find some porn if thats more helpful) so you can see how it looks. Find a blog post from a parent and see how they talk about their kid. Listen or watch interviews if you're writing RPF to see how your person talks and what their mannerisms are. Not everything has so be 100% accurate and you're absolutely allowed to make some stuff up but if there's anything you feel unsure about, see if some research helps you.

Number 4 is to read everything you write out loud, but especially dialogue. Sometimes things can sound good while you're writing it but then when you read it back you realise it sounds clunky or it doesn't flow properly. Plus it helps you pick up on mistakes you might otherwise miss (like incorrect spelling or if you meant to delete a sentance but didn't). And I say especially for dialogue because when people talk they'll abbreviate words, they include slang, they use contractions. By reading things out loud to yourself you can hear where inflections are, you can hear if something sounds too formal, or wrong for the emotion you're trying to convey. When I write I make sure that I read it out loud to myself when I'm editing. You don't have to read it to someone else and you can whisper it under your breath so no one else will hear, but it is one of the best things you can do while editing or even if you get stuck while writing a conversation. Sometimes just hearing it out loud will help you identify why its not working.

Those are all the things I can think of off the top of my head but like i said if theres any areas of writing that I haven't mentioned that you'd like my take on let me know!

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[queen-mihai]

I...

It happened again. Every few months someone reblogs this and..I mean I do have an update for all of you

My.. I'm not even sure how to start. There's a lot of good. A lot of weird. Like every few months my life looks nothing like it used to. But..I guess just, let me do the update

First a reminder that I legit only do these updates if it's been a few months and somebody reblogs this post randomly. I sometimes forget it even exists and then suddenly I'm hit with a reminder that some people actually do kinda give a crap how I'm doing. Or at least they're somewhat invested in my story just for fun

Fame...I.. look for some reason I still kinda don't feel it. Like, at Pride, I had to admit it because people asked for my autograph, and I became friends with a singer, and people kept stopping me to tell me how I inspired them. That was amazing, and never in a million years would I believe I was entitled to that kind of treatment.

I've definitely noticed that whenever I go out, if I'm able to tell people I'm coming, more people come out

But like at the same time.. it's not like any of these people are talking to me. That's the weird part of it for me. Like, a bar will be packed, unexpectedly busy following an announcement of my arrival, but still no one talks to me.

Furthermore, no one ever seems to have heard of me either, unless of course they happen to have been present at Pride. So...idk. am I famous? I guess if I'm asking, the answer is obvious, like when I was asking "am I a girl?"

Relationships. I mean..I have partners. Real, loving, lasting partners I've been with for, let's say a few updates now. But I'm still incredibly lonely because for the life of me I can't find someone to cuddle with who happens to live in the same town as me. Pride had like 2000 people present. I know I'm not the only queer person here. Don't worry, literally my partners understand.

Speaking of the local town, one disturbing thing I've run across, I'll have to say it kind of in code. I'll meet someone who is excited to hang out with me, but by the end of the night, I'll find out that they're involved in... things I can't be near.

They're... trying to find a temporary escape from reality if you will. I work as an engineer. When I see that lying on someone's table I turn around and walk out, I don't care how rude it is of me to do so.

Let's just say the appropriate people have been notified and I'm hoping they'll be very interested to help out.

I guess I'm temporarily glad I don't have a local partner if there's a risk of being anywhere near any of that anyway.

My book. Oh so I talked to a publisher about re-publishing in Norway (and using my real name). The price they gave me was 4 times what they had quoted before. I have not used that service, but I have a line on another that I intend to call asap

Events, I'm planning a festival in January but I haven't set up the meeting to dicuss it with all of the business people yet. I'll tell you how far I get on next update since I'm certain before January someone will have reblogged this again

Engineering: I came back off sick leave and.. some things are different. Some things are annoyingly the same. It's enough, barely.

But

I have to try to move into a new place because the landlord saw how much the rent has risen and wants to cash in "wants the house back to live in it"

Why does that go here? Because the houses for rent around me are expensive enough to eat up the raise I got this year and then some

Politics: I'm throwing my weight behind Kamala Harris, with a strong side-eye that she needs to recognize Palestine as a country AND stop giving a moron weapons to commit genocide.

It's not enough to say the words "two state solution"

The country. Is called. PALESTINE. SAY IT. And stop every shipment of weapons to that area. Reroute them to Ukraine if anything. Send food and aid to Palestine.

But yeah I'm still voting for her. I'm just going to keep putting my boot in her butt every time I get a chance.

Oh another thing about my book. Look I'm awful at selling things. I really am. I always feel guilty. It's not just sales for money, it's anything that makes me look too good. I get really self conscious and start reminding people that I can't juggle. But like, that said, I kinda really need and want people to start reading The Master's Quest

It's like.. kinda secretly making me sad that I'm this bad at selling that after nearly 4 years still no one knows what the book is even about

Yet another reason I don't feel particularly famous. I mean... if I was, people would know what my book was about and I wouldn't have a Fandom in the single digits

Not that I am entitled to more than that. Who am I even? Don't mind me.

Lastly how I'm doing

Well

I'm doing OK. Things are complicated right now, thus the more serious and sober update. Things are also extremely good. I've never felt so surrounded by love in my entire life. I just.. wish I had someone to share it with. I'm happy to have my job. I'm happy to have my book and the people who follow me and the people who love me. I'm happy to have "The Master's Quest: Meet Annabella", I'm happy to be throwing a festival, I'm happy to have had the dates I've had, I'm happy to keep making friends, and I'm waiting for some paperwork to come through and trying to be patient about that. But even with that, I'm happy to be in Norway and am looking forward to the future.

Oh!!! My transition! Holy mackerel I almost forgot

I... just live my life as a woman now. I still smile every time I see my face in the mirror. And... hmm..a polite way to say this..I also smile when I look a few inches below my chin. Those are coming in quite nicely and my best friend called me "she" the other day on the phone and I almost cried. He just... it was as if he'd known me as a girl forever.

I've started to be more out and actually tell people that I prefer she/her, and my bosses and most people that I meet are only happy to do so.

I'm a girl. Still very femme. Still very muscular. And I love everybody. Especially you. You reading this. I love you

You know the great thing about my Tumblr?

I'm invisible. Nobody sees me. I'm essentially talking to the void. This will get no notes.

Watch this:

I'm trans. I'm a girl and I'm SUPER bisexual. I like everybody. Girls are hot. Guys are hot. NBs are hot. Trans people are hot. I like to dress and act and be really super girly and I love flirting with people. It doesn't matter cuz this will get zero notes just like everything else I post on here.

Screw it. I'm not even done

This is me. A black trans bisexual.

I wrote an Ace/Aro person into my book. A trans person too. And one of the guys is gay. He literally has a big flirting scene with a guy in the book. It's pretty strongly suggested that they banged. As the author I can tell you; they did. It's the only sex scene even hinted at in the book and it's gay af.

Wanna know a secret? I think I've been in bed with a famous person. It's so crazy because I'm so terrible at famous people there's no way I'd have known who he was unless he straight up told me. But I did get the inkling he was somebody important by him talking about his soho apartment in New York. And the fact that he was staying in one of the nicest and most expensive hotels in Houston at the time.

And yes,bbtw. I was not aware of my being trans yet. And he was a man. This was a gay interaction. A very gay interaction. I'm bi. But you don't care cuz you're not even reading this.

Anyway yeah I love Tumblr. Nobody notices me

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

Your reblog reminded me about the massive anti voting activism that has been going on here and on Twitter that me as a non-American can see and be like "wtf is wrong with you people, it's going to be detrimental to the USA more than anyone". I get that Biden isn't the nice guy you thought he was because the internet said so 4 years ago but he is not on the same level as Trump. Get tf outside your bubble and go vote. No politician ever especially of today is an idealised nice guy, letting Trump win because you don't want to go with the lesser evil is bad for your own country.

Oh boy, I hope this ask doesn't lead to a shit show in my inbox lol. I'm a fandom blog, folks, please don't explode on me for this. I don't want this to turn into a political blog.

I'm going to try to answer this as succinctly as I possibly can in bullet points:

At my job, I regularly help immigrants who want to vote one day pass their citizenship test, and it's the absolute height of privilege to throw that right away. Women and people of color fought long and hard for that right in this country, too! I plain and simple have utter disdain for these anti-voters, who also caused us multi-generational harm with their behavior in 2016 (hello, 6-3 conservative Supreme Court). My students become better citizens than they'll ever be. I should also point out how these people don't give a flying fuck about Trump openly saying he wants to put people like my students into camps.

No politician is ever perfect and it's childish to expect otherwise, but on the internet, you can't even begin to have a conversation about any of this because people do nothing but lie about it, and you simply cannot have an honest discussion with dishonest people. I am not exaggerating when I say the vast majority of posts about American politics on this website are not true in some way, shape, or form. It's a big reason why I stopped talking about politics regularly on here a long time ago. There's Fox-News-level disinformation vomited out by the most popular blogs on here.

No one can look at even the past 8 years ALONE and conclude both sides are the same without outright lying or being detached from reality. I am not speaking with hyperbole. The two parties couldn't be further apart right now, everyone who's remotely conscious knows this, but that's inconvenient for people, so they just pretend it isn't true for the sake of the Narrative (tm).

That's as brief as I could possibly be lmao. I will quite simply never refuse to do the bare minimum of civic duty to stop the pro-forced birth, pro-mass shooting, white supremacist party from controlling the government 🤷‍♀️ I'm not going to argue with anyone over this, either, so if anyone is planning on sending me a rant, I'm not going to publish it.

[railroad-migraine]

Hey! Sorry if this is personal but I wanted to check in since you haven't posted in awhile. It alright if its writers block that's hitting ya, but i also noticed you haven't done any little posts! Again sorry if this is too personal, just wanted to see if you're alright! Hope you have a lovely week Poet!

Thank you for your concern, darling. It's very sweet of you to think of me - soft at the mention of the little posts™ because I often hesitate posting them bc I think people won't care about what day-to-day Poet has to say x

For the most part, everything is fine! I've come across a couple bumps, but I've also been recently graced by good things too.

I had three days in a row of migraines, and my meds didn't seem to help out that much

All the classes I applied for this semester have been granted to me - I am thrilled with my choices and they'll often overlap with my new best friends' timetables

I've been hired for a job that will make me so very happy and fulfilled when I'm not studying

A close relative of mine has inspired me to write new original stories (and plays), giving me full rights to their initial ideas as long as I credit them in the acknowledgements lol

I've started watching a few new TV shows and enjoying them v much in my free time

Planning a narrative for an IF game

Currently psyching myself up to be more confident in myself (socially with new people, and about my appearance and personality) bc I feel like I've lost a bit of myself recently

Also learning how to stand up for myself and not put up with people not respecting or appreciating me

My international friends are returning soon for college and have promised to bake me bread/desserts from their country bc they missed my birthday

And yes, you've guessed correctly. I do have a wee bit of writer's block.

It's something I haven't experienced in a long time. And frankly, I don't know how to handle it. It's like I know all the right words to say, but not their order. When I manage to come up with something coherent, I end up not liking it and decide not to post because I'm not happy. At the end of the day, I write for my pleasure. I don't want to publish something I don't have feelings for and don't want to re-read in the future.

That being said, I won't give up!!

My posting "schedule" (because I never really had a schedule to begin with) will be less consistent until I'm out of this mental block, but it means that whatever I DO post will be something worth reading. Give me time and I'll be good and ready again :)

Thanks again for stopping by anon, I hope your week goes well for you too 💜

Yours,

~ Poet

[junostwistedworld]

About This Blog:

Twisted Wonderland Masterlist

I completely made this blog on a whim, so I probably won't blog regularly? But I still thought I'd try and enjoy writing some stuff others can enjoy besides myself, even if it's just one shot ideas or AUs.

I hop from one fandom to another at random, just whatever catches my interest. Which means I may loop back to old obsessions on a regular basis, or they'll never see the light of day for me again. If you somehow find yourself on this obscure blog: welcome! Ask me anything, I may answer in ten minutes, or it'll be two months, who knows.

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I'm not comfortable writing male characters personally, I prefer writing female characters, but will try to write gender neutral when not writing my OCs.

If you have any writing advice or critiques, please leave a note on whatever you read, I'm hoping I might learn a thing or two by actually publishing some of my stuff.

Feel free to reblog.

Fandom I Am/Have Been In (No Particular Order):

Twisted Wonderland | Obey Me | The Arcana | Legend of Zelda | Inuyasha | Voltron | Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel | Ouran High Host Club | Black Butler | Genshin Impact | Alice in the Country of Hearts | Pokemon | Ever After High | Monster High | Spy x Family | Fairy Tail | Honkai Star Rail