#light after dark

[uncleasad]

Another 1639 words (plus some editing) today, across several hours of writing, bringing the grand total of this fic I’m not officially writing to 2784 after two days 😂

I found myself writing to a nice cliffhanger about ⅔ of the way through what I imagined that first scene to be, and at 2089 words, it’s certainly long enough to be a chapter, so I put in a little divider and started again with the last ⅓. I’m about 75% through that now, with the rest of it basically sketched out (though I’m waiting on some minutiae that affects the course it will take).

At that point, though, I’ll be done with the everything that I’ve developed in my mind over the past few years and be back to staring at a blank sheet of paper again. If I were to try to continue (and move on to officially writing this fic, rather than capturing a scene I’ve known for years), I’m afraid that what would come out would once again traumatize @persevereforahappyending, and I’m not sure I’m ready to do that—or to actually write that!

Plus, I don’t want to get too far removed from Hosie Halloween Horror that I lose my mindset and won’t be able to get back into it…I’m hoping that this little foray into this sequel will be just enough to give my brain the break it needs to figure out how to unstick itself and move forward there again…🤞

[eefaevie]

parce qu'on s'est crié des mots qui ont sali tous nos plus beaux dessins, on a hurlé des chaudières d'encre noire sur le bonheur

j'expose ma tête, mes yeux, mon cœur et mes mains

si tu reviens

something quiet, gentle, and romantic for today. I’ve been assured it’s suggestive enough for @goodomensafterdark ‘s smut war, so enjoy this soft interlude with suggestive tummy ❤️

[learnelle]

While in Normandie my partner and I stumbled upon a salon du livre, spending an afternoon browsing through old books with a love one is so comforting 📚❤️

[valiumbehaviour]

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: coffeesoakedpages

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Resources PDFs

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Thank you to everyone who had been so encouraging about this little project.

And thank you especially to @beforeyearning for creating the site ily (please follow his blog, he's a very talented writer).

[buttercupshands]

can you even call it a warm up if I'm going to bed without drawing anything big

and a sketch I made while sitting in the park today

[missterious-figure]

More doodles of Light in the Dark Eclipse.

[uncleasad]

Need some help from my TVDU experts here (looking at you, @persevereforahappyending and @vervaincircle) for a tiny little piece of plot: do hotel/motel rooms require vampires to be invited in? 🙏

I went through the TVDU wiki, and it was only talking about houses, but IIRC when Elena and Caroline went to college and ended up with a non-Bonnie roommate, said roommate had to invite them in to their dorm room initially. And when Kai comes back from the Prison World in S2 of Legacies, he has to be invited in to the school (because people live there, in the dorms?).

I presume owned apartments are like houses, but what about leased apartments? They’re like dorm rooms, in a sense. And if dorm rooms require invites…they are then in a sense leased places of residence (pay a room fee to the school aka the owner, get to live in said room), so do hotel/motel rooms follow the same pattern, being short-term leased places of residence (pay for a room, get to stay there as long as the fee covers)?

These are the tiny details that drive my mind batty.

[johnnyshrine]

★ 162 // “hey check out how hard i can cry”

[lyxchen]

Maybe he'll pick up anyway...

This is my contribution for Sangihun week day 3: 'Phone Me' and I also tried to include 'Clothing' and so what Gi-hun is wearing over his shoulders is actually one of Sang-woo's jackets. I have more versions under the cut + a close up and I also put an explanation of some details I added if anybody is interested in reading that <3

Here some details I added and some thoughts I want to share about this one :>

So first of all this is supposed to be only a short while after the games are over and Gi-hun goes to Sang-woo's apartment and here he's lying on Sang-woo's bed trying to call him but obviously it's just going to voicemail. Very sad, now some details: I put Sang-woo in his outfit that he died in, also you can see the wound where he stabbed himself in the throat. I'm not sure if I want this to be ghost Sang-woo or just Sang-woo from Gi-hun's imagination/memory but either way Sang-woo's face is clean and he's wearing his glasses cause (wether in Gi-hun's mind or as a ghost) this is a "better"/"more free" version of him. They both have wounds/scratches on their hands from the tug of war game, also the cut on Gi-hun's face from the glass bridge game is not as visible anymore because it has started to heal. I also wanted Gi-hun's nose and eyes to be red so that it looks like he has cried. Sang-woo is looking directly at Gi-hun, while Gi-hun is looking at his phone cause he obviously can't see Sang-woo. Also I tried really hard to make Sang-woo look like he's not really there and also kinda out of place but then also I wanted him to still fit into the whole drawing and not pull the visual focus away from Gi-hun too much. I hope that worked. I also used a slightly warmer colorpalette for Sang-woo and gave him brown outlines, while Gi-hun's are blue and he has a colder colorpalette, cause Sang-woo is supposed to be like this kinda warm glowy memory/ghost from a happier place. I think that's it, I hope anybody was interested enough in my art ideas to read this

[learnelle]

A story that will haunt me forever

[fairydrowning]

in order to live a happy life, you must romanticize everything (and see a good therapist).

[xinyuehui]

They are indeed a couple, then what?

光·渊 JUSTICE IN THE DARK · 2025

[whatisamildopinion]

Kyoto- Phoebe Bridgers

Pro-tip: don't think too long about how Moonshine and Bev have ouroboros arcs with family members and devils and saving the world at great personal cost. Don't think about it too hard. I definitely haven't (lying)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories