#writers nook

[swampstew]

To celebrate the finale of What's the Magic Word? I commissioned @attyrocious for this gorgeous portriat of my King and Queen of the Pirates and Witches😍

ty Atty, Ily and kiss the back of your talented hands!

Read the full story on Tumblr | AO3 | or Wattpad <3

[laurachouettepoetry]

[ventsesh24]

[perlamaritr1]

The main characters for the Animal Crossing TV show would be: A naive boy. A video game girl(the player who has escaped from the Animal Crossing realm along with the other characters in the game). The video game girl’s lazy companion, Bob(who appears at the beginning of each episode). Isabelle. Tom Nook. The boy’s sentient Nintendo Switch companion.

Recurring characters: Rover. KK Slider. The boy’s scientist parents. Goldie. Rosie. Margie. Stitches. Timmy and Tommy. Digby. Marshal. A select few surviving human citizens such as scientists, the boy’s friends, a clumsy biologist, a cyborg farmer, the boy’s foster sister, and the mayor of New York. Various other surviving species such as robots, dogs, cats, bees, and a sentient cyborg potted plant. Carmen the rabbit. Hugh the pig. Mabel and Sable. Mr Resetti. THE VOID.

There are a ton of minor characters in the Animal Crossing TV show, so there’s always room for improvement.

The first five episodes are a prologue to the series, and are called: ��Our Population is Still Growing”, “It’s Been a Wild World”, “Remembering the City Folk”, “Turning Over a New Leaf”, and “Off to New Horizons!”.

[thereadmind]

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[hudsuns]

⭐︎ welcome to hudsuns!

// a writeblr blog reintroduction.

about me —

i’m elliot (or e), a black nineteen-year-old college student that uses they/them pronouns.

formerly petals4soho

i’ve been writing fiction since i could write. my goals here are to become more consistent with writing so i can finally finish some of my passion projects all without falling off the face of the earth again.

most (if not all) of my wips are realistic young/new adult contemporary fiction with coming-of-age & found family themes, but i’m honestly open to writing anything that piques my interest!

ask/tag game friendly! message me about your writing, tag me in your updates and please talk to me about professional wrestling or the new york rangers! i love it!

wips —

teenage vows

my main project that explores themes of growing up, loss, grief, forgiveness, and friendship. it follows Alex Ramírez, a seventeen-year-old senior in high school trying to navigate life after the death of his ex-boyfriend and best friend, Wally Fletcher. in the midst of it all, he reconnects with a former fling, Bea Mumford — a now pregnant sixteen-year-old whose boyfriend wants nothing to do with her and the baby — and attempts to earn forgiveness from Wally's little sister, Julia. if you like coming-of-age stories where the teenagers don't pretend to have everything figured out, this wip may be for you!

status: drafting

intro post | wip tag | pinterest board

more to be added…

[jaimecelesteart]

Some bookmarks I made for The Winding Stair Bookshop in Dublin, pop in and have a look round and maybe pick up a few <3

Trilled to have done some work for them:)

[geekupdated]

This detached, garden studio near Arlington, Va., was designed as a quiet writer’s retreat for a focused creative work. Love it 😍😍😍

(via This quiet garden studio is a writer’s dream workspace)

[artinandwritin]

My brain has been going "modern au modern au" every since @spacenintendogs waved her dragons off the coast wand at me

I am very thankful <333

[walks-the-ages]

idk if I mentioned it here, but any books I write are going to have Ebook editions that are completely free, with donation-based options for anyone who wants to help me out directly.

Physical books are gonna be self-published so that I control the price and markup, and all of the books will have a little note inside that say "'Hey, can't afford this book? Read it online for free! If you really like it and you want to help me, the author/editor out, you can donate later."

Why? Because the only reason we had books to read growing up is used bookshops, and libraries when we actually lived near one (which was almost never.)

Poor people deserve to read good books, too.

(plus, it's much harder for them to become lost media if they're literally everywhere.)

[swampstew]

KillerCook Chapter 11

Welcome to Raven’s Reading Nook - a small corner of this blog dedicated to cozy story times. Join us in the family room as we sit around and browse our phones, and eat some Girl Scout cookies as we begin tonight’s story. Rated Mature for language. Minors DNI

*Phone app notification goes ping*

TikTok – KillerCook has uploaded a new video. Check it out!

Title: HACKED Description: This ain’t your regularly scheduled programming punks!5 minute video. The thumbnail is a shadowed figure with a menacing looking ‘X’ mark over the body.

*Press Play?*

The video began with what appeared to be a hostage situation.

KillerCook was tied to a chair with rope and chains, a blindfold over his helmet and duct tape adhered to most of his face holes.

“Uhh, this isn’t what it looks like,” Killer was able to voice out from behind the bondage.

“No, it’s exactly what it looks like,” barked Kid as he stepped into the frame. “This effin idiot was gonna make content on HIS birthday. Not in my house. Today is technically Killer’s birthday but we’re kidnapping – shut the hell up – him so he can actually let his hair down for once in his life.”

Heat stepped into the frame on Killer’s opposite side, “Originally, we were gonna take over the channel and cook for him. BUT, Kid had a light-bulb moment and we developed a scheme to treat the birthday man. You all will be seeing this next week, but rest assured, we’ve got it covered. Wish Killer a happy birthday in the comments and he’ll read them all when we come back!”

Wire came from behind the camera shaking a can of whipped cream, stepping menacingly towards Killer. Aiming the nozzle into one of the helmet holes, he pressed down on the can until Killer began thrashing, white whipped cream oozed from behind the taped holes. “THIS IS FOR THROWING FOOD AT ME ALL YEAR!”

The video transitioned to a blue and white screen with a traditional birthday melody laid over it.

A slideshow of videos and still-shot frames from Killer’s birthday kidnapping started playing.

Killer’s hostage-wear stayed on as the crew drove to the marina, where a punk-looking yacht was moored. The bow of the ship was adorned with a skeletal body, and there were blue and red flames painted to the sides of the hull. Black cursive spelled out the beauty’s name – Victoria Punk.

“The bag over the helmet is really pointless, I know where we are,” Killer’s muffled complaint went ignored as he was marched up the boarding plank.

About 30 pictures went by with various crew members and friends posing with hostage Killer; one photo had him wearing a beer helmet over the bag over his helmet, the straws tucked underneath all the materials to give Killer some libation.

Finally liberated, Killer – dressed down into swim trunks and his helmet – took a running leap off the yacht to cannonball into the sea. As he resurfaced, the rest of the crew cannonballed after him, created a wave of water to shower down on him and the camera, which promptly died.

_______________________

Kid’s pissed-off scowl came into focus as he adjusted the new camera perspective, “{Redacted} idiots killed my phone instead of using the {redacted} GoPro.”

The next clip showed Killer relaxing with a beer bottle in hand, laying against a giant pizza slice pool float as people drifted by him, playing in the water. All was calm until Quincy, Bubblegum, and Heat swam underneath the float and flipped it over. When Killer broke the surface, the laughter tripled as his hair was plastered all over his helmet and chest, but his beer-bottle was still in one of the face holes.

“There’s sea water in my beer,” he said flatly.

A new clip had a heavy metal anthem roaring in the background as the yacht was sailing at high speed on the open ocean. Killer was standing on the bow, holding a Scottish flag, and thrashing his hair to the music.

More photos of the crew and Killer celebrating his birthday with drinking games, strength competitions, and gorging on fresh seafood flooded the TikTok video. Amongst the main crew and personal friends, there were also members of the Straw Hat crew, and even some ‘frenemy’ rivals that had been spoken of but not ever invited on to the KillerCook channel before. By the time the lighting in the photos grew darker, Killer’s helmet had been exchanged for a face mask and his cerulean eyes were noticeably glossy.

“Hap-hic-happy birthday, Kill, -hic- the best-{redacted}-friend a punk could-hic ask for,” slurred Kid as he gripped Killer’s shoulder. Both men swayed as a cake was brought out to the main deck. Sunset had long passed, the yacht was brightly lit up with swarms of bulbs on strings that hung tastefully along the walls and railings.

Everyone began to sing the birthday song and Killer might have shed a tear, shoving a palm roughly to his face.

“{Redacted}-A, I don’t even know what to say,” Killer drawled out. “All I was going to do was make a small cake and smoke my pipe. You {redacted} are so good to me. Well, not all of you, but I like most of yah. Some I don’t know how you got invited, seriously. But I’m glad you’re here celebrating anyways. I don’t have a wish to make, truly. I’ve got everything, everyone. So thanks. Alright I’m not going to get mushy on all you freeloaders!” Killer ripped off his face mask.

With deep-purple stained lips, Killer’s gorgeous smile shined brightly as he took a gulp of air and blew out the sparkler-flame candles. The party participants roared in celebration at the same time an airhorn started blowing off-screen.

The camera quickly panned to the culprit of the sound. A modest sized cruise ship with a flag waving proudly on the masts pulled up portside. On the side of the hull it’s name was proudly presented: The Baratie. The camera’s change in perspective did not allow for viewers to see who let out the strangled, high-pitched scream of excitement.

Sanji was clutching Killer’s soldiers and babbling incoherently before jumping into the water, swimming towards the restaurant ship.

Hands covering his face, Killer sobbed out, “I’m so fucking happy!! LET’S EAT!!!!”

Read on Wattpad | Read on AO3

[laurachouettepoetry]

The October rain writes cursive letters

on my window once again;

Poem after poem it has to tell,

becoming an ocean in my hands;

Words and words it asks of me to write,

while the bottle fills up with tears -

just to be emptied with sorrow

in the pale morning light.

- Laura Chouette (Books)

[a-halo-for-you]

Bookshop Buys

Today I went out to my local bookshop after having brunch with my family. It's cute and small with an upstairs area for arts and crafts as well as a non-fiction section and I always enjoy popping in because I think supporting local small businesses is great - especially when it comes to bookshops! (Don't get me wrong though I still pop in to my nearest Waterstones for a good ol' shopping spree...)

Anywho, I finished reading Coco Mellors 'Blue Sisters' the other day and found it to be so good... (like it might be a book I have to annotate which is rare for me because school ruined annotating for me. )

But I came across her other book Cleopatra & Frankenstein which I decided, upon reading the synopsis, that I would give it a go.

The second book I bought is a fantasy novel by Joanne Harris, it's called 'The Moonlight Market'. I saw it originally in Waterstones but held off from buying it because at that time I already had a stack of four or five books I was buying. I was happy to see it again, even if it was for a full price.

I think I'll try and read The Moonlight Market after I finish the book I'm currently on though. It's called 'The Knowing' by Emma Hinds which seems pretty magical already.

It's set in New York and has a pretty dark feel to it and comes with a warning at the beginning for themes conatining sexual assault so please tread carefully if any of you are triggered by that sort of thing. I might do flash reviews of books I read going forwards... I 'd like to have a place where I can record my thoughts on the books I read and maybe hear how others have reacted to the same books too.

[perlamaritr1]

If only there was a way that we could bring Animal Crossing characters to the real world…

[ennawrite]

sometimes i like to pretend that i’m a victorian woman writing absolutely gut wrenching works in my notes app

[livums]

a writeblr intro!

oops i’m posting it again... tumblr decided i wasn’t cool enough to actually show up in the tags, alas.

🌹 Liv/Olivia | she/he/they | 23 🌹

Hello 🎉! My name is Olivia (feel free to call me Liv)! I am a Black fantasy & romance author who focuses on themes of queer love & longing, sapphic intimacy, generational wounds & complicated familial relationships.

I also spend quite a bit of time creating digital art! A lot of it revolves around my WIPs these days, lol. You will certainly see art on this blog of my characters. Feel free to check out my art blog @lurrkingly​, or my art twitter here.

I am always looking for more authors/writing advice blogs to follow! Fellow writers please feel free to interact! I follow, like, and reply from my main/personal blog, @girlfriend-champion​​ :)

I am always open to ask and tag games!

I am tentatively open to critique partners–if we’re mutuals and we have similar reading/writing interests, please feel free to ask! <3

🌹 about my work 🌹

My writing tends to skew towards adult/emerging adult. I LOVE various flavors of fantasy (high, low, urban, action-adventure, Gothic). I like to spend time crafting intricate worlds (lore bibles are some of my favorite things to write) and magic systems.

My favorite works (to write and to read) all include some form of romance. I write romantic love and attraction between all genders, but ladies craving each other carnally is like music to me. LOL. So, some of my work features sexuality/intimacy, but this certainly varies widely from project to project (and I certainly will not be sharing this sort of content on tumblr, for reasons that should be obvious.lol).

I love to include elements of complex relationships in my writing–romantic, platonic, or familial. Human relationships are complicated and messy and awesome and frequently painful–and it’s important to me that my work reflects that.

I try particularly to explore in my work the lives and relationships of queer women of color (particularly Black & biracial women). I am always open to fantasy, romance, and sci-fi recs written by Black authors :)

🌹 my WIPs + tags 🌹

[More below the cut]

(Including pure writing projects AND art + writing projects)

General tag: #my WIPs

Character art tag: #character art

Weyward Blood (working title – characters & excerpt coming soon!)

Adult, novel, alternate history, Gothic, romance, low fantasy, supernatural, WLW, erotica

In an alternate history set in early modern south-central Europe, three estranged vampire-hunting sisters return to their hometown to attend the funeral of their father–the greatest hunter who ever lived. The sisters must reveal the truth of their father’s death and reckon with the resurrected remains of bygone love… before their city succumbs to the stalking evils.

Currently: [Drafting…]

Tag: #{sanguis in monte}

Taglist:

Sister Hollow (characters & excerpt coming soon!)

New adult, novel, WLW, low fantasy, action-adventure  

In a world wherein the psychic theocracy maintains strict harmony by cleansing the masses of negativity and grief, a particularly angry young  woman discovers psychic abilities of her own. When her ex-girlfriend steals away a dangerous memory, she must submit to the church’s training in order to reclaim what’s hers, and, along the way, learn what it   really means to feel her feelings. For she has much more in common with the ancient and almighty Holy Mother than she could have ever imagined.

Currently: [Drafting - HIATUS]  

Tag: #{the rival daughter}  

Taglist:  

Under the Sun

YA/New adult, short story, LGBT, romance, speculative fiction, eco-fiction

A  (tentatively) short story set in the speculative future of a certain metropolis in the American Midwest. After their parents are disappeared by the authorities for eco-sabotage, a teen endeavors to keep their head down and study their way into a better life for their little siblings. They meet a girl with a taste for uncivil disobedience, and the plan goes radically awry.

Currently: [Outlining…]

Tag: #{the daisy and the daylily}

Taglist:

BW (really working title)

New adult, webcomic (?), LGBT, romance, high fantasy, action-adventure, magic

A plucky fire mage loses her elemental abilities when her horns snap in a traumatic accident. She enlists in an empire-wide magic competition anyways.  She’s got to win her girlfriend back, after all, before she’s married off to the reclusive prince. And if, along the way, she  happens to utterly charm five other competing girls… well. That works, too.

Currently: [Drawing and daydreaming - HIATUS]

Tag: #{matrimonium}

Taglist:

🌹 about me - miscellaneous 🌹

Fun Facts?

I play too much League of Legends

I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist

If left perfectly alone, I will naturally shift to a nocturnal sleep schedule. This not as cool as it sounds.

I like D&D!

Currently reading:

Kushiel’s Legacy - Jacqueline Carey

The Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler

The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness (REREAD)

Come as You Are - Dr. Emily Nagoski, PhD (REREAD)

I look forward to getting cozy on writeblr! Feel free to ask me whatever, or interact if you’re looking for new author mutuals! <3