#story breakthrough

[misguidedghostie]

breakthrough!

realized the reason I’ve been so stuck on my wip is because of a character who has been weaseling his way out of my original plan for him.

he needs to die for the story to progress, but he’s so fun to write that I’ve been trying to wrangle the story into a shape where he doesn’t have to, and it just isn’t working

[chalkscrub]

day 1 fav oc: i can't separate them it's not fair....they drive me to madness a little bit which is great cause i can understand them better. featuring some old stuff and some new stuff i'm workin on

[bob-artist]

So that post was almost 4 months ago, and the aforementioned story (The Clybourn House, which ended up at 40K words after edits) is fully written and has 10 of 13 chapters posted as early access to Secret Gallery patrons with weekly updates (including 3.5 nsfw chapters). After that, it's releasing to all patrons and will probably still also have some illustrations.

Whenever I do an especially obnoxious stretch of consecutive workdays, my brain goes haywire at the end and comes up with a million story ideas. Usually it's just scenes and/or dialogue snippets for my existing projects, but sometimes it's... bigger.

Anyway, yesterday was my first full day off after 21-22 straight workdays, and I've committed the sin of starting another ITS short story. 😅

[teriwrites]

About Me: A 2025 Writeblr Intro

Hello! Apparently I've made something of a habit of refreshing my introduction at the start of the new year, so here we go again!

As the url suggests, I'm Teri, and I write. Mostly novels, mostly fantasy, but a bit of a smorgasbord when it comes to short stories. What you can typically expect to find in my writing are close and complicated family/friend dynamics, playing around with worldbuilding, themes often around trust and paranoia, and more!

I've got a page for various WIPs I've posted about, a couple of which I'll briefly touch on below.

I set out a few goals for myself back at the start of 2024, and managed to accomplish 3/4. For 2025, I've been trying to piece together a few more:

Revise the 2nd and start the 3rd draft of Beyond Alder Creek

As always, try to crack 100K words worth of writing/brainstorming/etc.

Focusing more on the more formal craft side of writing/dedicating more time to actually improving my skills, which leads me into the goal I set out for 2024 and didn't finish:

Read back through my old NaNoWriMo(/whatever we're calling it now) drafts, both for entertainment and to sort of assess the kind of progress I've made over the past 14 Novembers (with the acknowledgment that November writing emphasizes quantity over quality ofc).

There are a few other goals I'd like to toss out, like going back to a few WIPs that I've set on the back-burner for the past couple years, but I think formally setting out a couple feels more realistic.

With that, here are some of the WIPs to look out for in 2025:

Beyond Alder Creek | Revising Draft 2 | Tag: #bac

When Winnie's little brother is stolen by the fae, she finds she has no choice but to risk venturing into their home, the Beyond, to bring him back. But in order to protect herself in this topsy-turvy new world, Winnie deliberately crafts a cautious deal with one of its residents, a golden fae with a grudge against her brother's kidnapper.

The Lies in the Legend | Drafting | Tag: #litl

A fictional autobiography of an elven noblewoman recalling her various, highly publicized diplomatic exploits and warning her readers about the dangers of aggrandizing and villifying figures like herself in the public eye.

Castle on the Hill | Revising Draft 1 | Tag: #coth

Five West German young men work through a year of university in the 1960s, coping with a drastically shifting political landscape as the emerging generation comes to terms with their nation's past and look ahead to its future.

With that, here's to a new year!

[bizarrelittlemew]

Not to be parasocial and project my emotions, but I really lost it when I imagined Rhys hearing the news about the cancellation. Of course I care about everyone else in the crew as well, but it hit me like a truck when I thought about him and how he might've reacted. It was *the role he was born for*. It made his friend fall in love with acting again.

This was truly a labour of love and I hope the crew is coping well (because I sure as fuck am not, and I don't even want to imagine what it feels like for someone who was involved in the series) ❤️‍🩹

yeah i can't imagine how the cast and crew are feeling, i don't think i'm ready for when Rhys eventually posts or talks about it. i hope and think he'll do more drama roles in the future, since he has shown how incredible he is at it (while still able to be hilarious at the same time), and has talked about how he wants to do more drama. hope to see so much more of him and his work

[apotelesmaa]

> looking for a tenma siblings relationship study

> ask the op if the study is actually about the tenmas or just treating saki like an accessory to tsukasa

> they don’t understand

> pull out an illustrated diagram explaining the difference

> they laugh and say “it’s a good relationship study sir”

> click the post

> it’s treating saki like an accessory to tsukasa

[itspileofgoodthings]

also re: my last post I think that’s also why I don’t love commentary (or the 2009 adaptation of Emma lol) that focuses on Emma’s loneliness in an overly sentimental way. Yes she IS lonely and Miss Taylor leaving represents a change and Emma is sad about it but she almost doesn’t feel it. Not because she’s repressing it in a conscious way but more like a kid does. because some part of her innate ability to be cold and her ability to keep herself busy with her little schemes has not been broken open yet. She almost doesn’t really feel how sad she is until later, if that makes sense.

[raiiny-bay]

monster boyz thoughts...

[fallloverfic]

So... on the subject of relative age in Delicious in Dungeon and Mithrun and fandom "jokes" I've seen folks complaining about. General manga and anime spoilers for character ages and names in the manga and anime below the read more:

On the one hand, I do get that people are (or at least were, I see it less these days) mad at the "Mithrun grandpa/old man" jokes/comments because "it's just cause he's disabled" and "relatively speaking, he's the same age as Chilchuck, and no one treats Chilchuck like he's an old man/something about how Chilchuck dislikes being treated differently, mentally, for his presumed age/state of mind".

Okay, yes. Relatively speaking, sure. There's a conversation to be had about the intersection of ableism and ageism and how we often baby (in a patronizing way) disabled people and the elderly, and how we prioritize youth and treat middle-aged people like their lives are over. (And maybe something about how he has silver hair, I don't know). On a more positive note, I love that, relatively speaking, possibly by Elvish standards, Mithrun is at/near middle-age (elvish age of maturity is 80 years, their average lifespan is 400 years), because that's a fascinating bit of world-building.

...On the other hand (please rest your pitchforks momentarily), Mithrun is literally 185 years old, he is the fifth oldest cast member for characters whose age we know as of the English release of the Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible (after the Elf Queen, who's 372, the elder Flokes, who are in their 200s, and Milsiril, who's four years older than Mithrun), and he is the oldest member of his group of the Canaries (he's literally 103 years older than his subordinate, Pattadol, and still 39 years older than Cithis, the next oldest Canary after Mithrun). And speaking of Chilchuck, who is, yes, a married father of multiple adult children... and also 29. Mithrun has lived over six times as long as Chilchuck has. (All ages come from Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible; Sissel + the other Golden Country residents don't have listed ages there, though they're at least 1000 years old, and the other elves don't show up). Mithrun was in recovery after the central watchtower dungeon for longer than at least five characters have been alive.

Age chart:

Elf Queen: 372

Tansu Floke: 210

Yarn Floke: 204

Milsiril: 189

Mithrun: 185

Cithis: 149

Otta: 137

Fleki: 130

Lycion: 126

Senshi: 112

Noor: 98

Totan: 95

Pattadol: 82

Gillin: 79

Brigan: 78

Holm: 76

Fionil: 62

Namari: 61

Daya, Invar: 58

Marcille: 50

Maizuru: 41

Chilchuk: 29

Laios, Toshiro, Hien: 26

Rin: 24

Falin, Benichidori: 23

Kabru, Mikbell: 22

Zon: 21

Kaka, Kiki: 20

Kuro, Doni: 18

Izutsumi, Inutade: 17

Leed: 14

Mithrun is older than Senshi, older than Marcille, older than Kabru's entire party, including Holm and Daya, and older than the oldest human we have an established age for, Maizuru (again, the first Adventurer's Bible doesn't list the Golden Country resident ages, and Mithrun is definitely younger than them, but also they're generally minor characters except for Yaad and Delgal). He's older than Senshi's former dwarf comrades were when they died. He's also apparently older than Flamela, the vice commander of the Canaries (she's 170, at least according to the fanwiki, which is possibly going off the Complete Adventurer's Bible).

He is of course younger than Obrin, his older brother, whose age we don't know, but we do know that Mithrun is the younger brother. He is also obviously much younger than the demon.

I also find it interesting that people are jumping to the big assumption that he's middle-aged (relatively) due to... I guess just chopping the average lifespan of elves in half and assuming that's what they think middle-aged is? We know the average lifespan of elves and when they come to maturity. We do not know what elves think of Mithrun's age or what their concept of being middle-aged is, if they have one. He could be considered young by elf standards. He could be considered old. We have no idea.

Thinking about the conversation in Volume 8, Chapter 51: Dumplings 2, it's just about total/average lifespan and how near the characters are to dying by average race age, not middle age.

Chilchuck on p.37: "What's the difference between our actual ages and how old we look?"

Laios: "Well, dwarfs do live two and a half times as long as tall-men."

Chilchuck: "If our actual ages affect our looks, then... ...I'm curious about remaining life. Will we age at the same rate we did before? Or will it match our bodies now?"

They never get an answer for this. We do get rough estimates for what one race's age means to another by comparing Laios' actual age (26) to what Senshi thinks dwarf!Laios is, age-wise (his 60s), and both ages put him near but not at assumed middle-age for the respective race (for tall-men it would be 30, for dwarfs, 100), but otherwise they don't come to many conclusions about anything. They just guess and try to change back before something worse happens. Marcille doesn't even say anything in this conversation about elf culture. She just panics because half-foots live shorter lives.

I would not personally call Mithrun a grandpa and I don't particularly connect with jokes about it. By Elvish standards, and relatively speaking, he is perhaps not, arguably, old. ...But he's no spring chicken, either, despite how strong and fast he is. By the standards of most characters he is interacting with in the story, he is the oldest person in the room, by a substantial margin (heck, the age gap between Mithrun and Cithis is more years than Chilchuck has lived). That doesn't make him a grandpa, either. But I do find people getting mad about folks pointing out this literally 185-year-old being is you know... 185 years old... odd...? Especially when he's around all these by and large substantially younger people (younger people who are adults by and large!!!) for most of the story. Again, there's definitely a conversation to be had about the intersection of ageism and ableism, and how we treat people who are middle-aged as if they're elderly even when they're able-bodied, and about the way other characters in-universe treat him (though the one time I think his age is pointed out, it's about the stuff he knows, not to mock him for it; mostly people treat him badly due to his disabilities (e.g., Fleki with his aiming in chapter 55, Cithis in the Adventurer's Bible), not because of his age)... but it does feel very much like people are ignoring that he is honestly one of the oldest characters in the story, and not by dint of being the oldest youth, but because he's a character who has lived to be nearly 200 years old.

[blunaggregator]

BLA Awards 2023 Breakthrough Actor of the Year Nominees

Bright Rapheephong Thapsuwan (I Feel You Linger in the Air, Scent of Memory)

Chun Pachchun Hiranprateep (Naughty Babe, Our Skyy 2: Vice Versa)

Hymn Elisha Triwiwatkul (Bed Friend, Step by Step, Playboyy)

Jericho Del Rosario (My Story, Tie The Not, Our Story)

Junior Chokkorn Deotrakul (My Universe: Right Time, Right You, My Universe: You Are My So(ul) Mate, My Universe: Friends Forever)

Nonkul Chanon Santinatornkul (I Feel You Linger in the Air, Scent of Memory)

Ohm Thipakorn Thitathan (A Boss and a Babe, Our Skyy 2: A Boss and a Babe, Last Twilight)

Pure Napolpong Sooksombut (Hit Bite Love, My Universe: Friends Forever)

Shell Thakrit Chaiwut (Step by Step, Middleman's Love, Playboyy, The Sign, Bed Friend)

Tang-oh Nattawat Trisomboon (Hit Bite Love, Senior Love Me?, Senior Love Me? Season 2)

[lennonandmaisyupdates]

[natjennie]

just had an idea out of nowhere for a d&d campaign that takes place really widespread across the continent? world? whatever and has the players visit a handful of specific areas in different parts of the world so they go to like the jungle and then the desert and then the snow and mountains and then the ocean or w/e and each region has it's own little intricacies and whatnot a little dungeon. a little local mystery. and there's always like a blacksmith and a temple and a druid guild or w/e, and then it turns out eventually that the druids from each region have been communicating and they've been working together to subtly manipulate the wildlife in their ecosystem to essentially wipe out certain areas and take control of the continent and in the boss fight they would all summon creatures from their different specialties so there's like rock golems and polar bears and fish monsters and desert lizard people.

[w3ird0s-0rgans]

*pats Johnny* scrunkly

I will give you all my mortal possessions

Last one before I rest, I'll continue tomorrow though cause this is really fun^^

[prettyflyshyguy]

Having a Rough One (tm) and I have NO ART to show you but here's some WIP scraps cause it's wip wednesday (miscellaneous, from the two drastically different things I'm writing right now. I'd say guess which is which but its bluntly obvious)

[eclipsecrowned]

anon if i answer that ask genuinely i'd be declaring open war on like five of my mutuals and possibly insulting their mothers in front of them don't do this to me.

[ideotape]

oc brainrot is hitting me like Truck. if i go radio silent for a few weeks it's because i'm exclusively doodling in my sketchbook and thinking about My Guys. thank you in advance for understanding🙏