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Writeblr Intro

**edit: moved to @paradisiacalshroud

So, since I'm intending to post more of my writing on here, I've decided to join writeblr.

My name's Franklin. I'm 10 days away from turning 17. I'm trans and aroace. I use he/they pronouns and prefer he/him. Ig I could consider my self a "gifted kid", but I really I just have adhd. I wasn't sure if I should join writeblr honestly, but I do follow a good amount of writers on this account and my main account and I do write more often than I draw, so....

More About Me & My Writing:

I've always enjoyed reading a lot and storytelling. I really want to tell stories, and I'm very passionate about my writing, but it isn't something I could ever do as more than a hobby, even if I want to get anything published.

World building is my jam. I absolutely love world building. Many of my stories explore that world building, as all of them (except one) take place on the same planet, Dirt, in different countries. World building is so fun!!!

My biggest audience in my writing is myself. I do share my writing with others sometimes, but a lot of what I write is written to cater specifically to myself.

My writing style is influenced by how many of my favourite writers go about storytelling. It's hard to describe what my style is like though. I find my writing gets influenced by whatever book/writing I read last that inspires me. It also depends on what sort of vibe I'm trying to create in a piece. A collection of short stories I'm working on, for example, has a more old sort of vibe to the writing, in a way. The stories in it are sort of like fairytales, and I take inspiration from older, fairytale-esque books I read as a child to create that nostalgic fairytale feeling in my writing.

In my writing style, I also really enjoy playing with phrasing and how I use words. I like to create pictures with my writing, and I like placing words in specific orders to evoke a specific feeling in the reader. Especially in my more fantastical and fairytale-esque pieces, I like to play around with unconventional phrasing. (Google Docs hates me for it lol.)

Honestly, I don't tend to write with an audience in mind, or with a much of a genre in mind. I mostly write fantasy and science fiction, sometimes a combination of both. Even in my one piece of contemporary fiction, there are elements of science fiction and fantasy. Fantasy is a genre I cannot live without. There's so much you can do within the fantasy genre.

I try to explore different themes and genres within fantasy and sci-fi settings. Like coming of age, superheroes, murder mysteries, heists, magic, found family, corruption, nature. And like mental illness, abuse, addiction, gender, sexuality, different forms of love, and different societal norms.

I also write the occasional bit of fanfiction. I recently lost like all of my work on one of my fanfic wips, so I haven't been working much on any fanfics recently...

In addition to all that, I write poetry and prose. Mostly to process emotions and events in my life. A lot of it is pretty personal and I don't post it on here. A lot of it is also pretty incoherent and unedited. Currently, the only prose I have posted is a piece I wrote about my mum and what it's been like being out to her as trans.

I'm still exploring what mediums I want to tell different stories in, but I largely work in short stories and novels.

Current WIPs:

(* = I haven't settled on the names of some of these still... but here's what I refer to them as.)

Waldosia: After seven long years at sea, Waldo Fischer returns to the Do:chaut port town of Val:dosja to finds things gave changed just as much as he expected, and the people have changed even more than he expected. There is little time to dwell on it, or how much his ex, the smuggler Shia Grimm, detests him, with the plot that brews on the horizon, however. Waldo and Shia must team up, however reluctantly, and work together with a mysterious woman on the inside of this plot if they want to keep their loved ones (and Shia’s smuggling enterprise) safe and tidy things up before Shia’s wedding turns the corner. | High-fantasy, heists, pirates, forgiveness (or lack thereof), anger, mystery, corruption, queernorm

Timekeeper Kiddos*: After a group of teens stumble upon a VR gaming arena in a cave in the mountainside, the magic of the game begins to bleed into their lives unexpectedly. | Contemporary with elements of sci-fi/fantasy, queerness, drama, friendship, mystery

JMG*: Sora Yazuqi and his brothers learn to live and let go in a world that doesn't wany them with the help of Akira Krikorian and her found family. | High-fantasy, sci-fi, found family, abuse, healing, necromancy, corruption, love, queerness

Double A Batteries: After an accident in his dad's lab, Kesh C. McInke discovered his superpowers, and after three years of avoiding his parents while sleeping on his friends' couches and delivering vigilante justice on the side, his friends force him to get his life back together as a new rival rolls into town. As Kesh, under the name Double A, fights this new villain, he unearths the bigger, more serious plots of a villainous organization and falls unexpectedly for his new roommate. | High-fantasy setting, sci-fi, superheroes, enemies-to-lovers, corruption, drama, queernorm

Of Sea Jewels and Great Lords: A collection of short stories regarding the Astellean legend of a mage trapped beneath the Heart of Astelle and the sorcerer who put him there. And regarding the side of the story untold in Astelle, of a sorcerer and a made-mage fell in love on a journey to the Heart of Astelle. | High-fantasy, fairytale-esque, queernorm, love vs. duty, dragons

Shielda × Dlade*: A young made-mage in the Iroman military, Shielda von Bauble Kate, never intended to become the fated bearer of a high-ranking armare. (I haven't decided the plot beyond that, but this story is an exploration in friendships, love, and Iroman society. Probably some ethics as well because military.) | High-fantasy, queernorm, love, friendship, societal norms, magic swords, military

Rosy*: Rosy's already crumbling life falls apart when she gets turned into a vampire. After being thought dead for months, she works to reconnect with her fiancée and family, and to get her life into some semblance of order. With the help of those around her, she learns to heal and take care of her mental health. | High-fantasy, mental health, queernorm, healing, vampires, hurt/comfort, personal growth

Camilla Marie & Co.*: The life of a young mage coming to terms with her heritage. | No plot (yet), high-fantasy, friendship, queerness, found family, nature, corruption

Bentley*: The story of how a girl found love but not a happy ending, and the tragedies that occurred. Or: Bentley’s villain origin story. | High-fantasy, love, queerness, mystery, rivals-to-lovers, corruption, mild insanity

Finished Works:

The REX Scandal: When the country of Randia opens an easy immigration program, the Randian Emigration Exchange (or REX, for short), Janine Rognue signs up, hoping it isn't too good to be true. Which, of course, it is. She ends up stranded in a new country as part of an emigration program that works as a scheme to get more of Randia's large male population married. However, she is able to find help and safety in a similarly scammed member of the exchange, Turgul Dolx, and maybe a bit of love along the way. | Low-fantasy, strangers-to-lovers, queerness, homophobia

Future WIPs:

Seeing Ghosts*: Realyn Lockworth moves in with a new roommate, Madden Livry, in Calderine City and he’s perfect—kind, caring, gentle, a great housekeeper—but he’s not really Rea’s type. Not that it matters because she’s not in the city for long; once she’s done her practicum as a research assistant for Professor Octem, she’ll be moving on to bigger and better things than a cheap shared apartment. But when Rea begins getting haunted by literal ghosts from the past, her quiet roommate may be her only hope. | High-fantasy, ghosts, some sci-fi, hurt/comfort

So yeah. If any of that interests you, please interact! Tbh I'll probably stalk through your blog if you do. I'd love to find more writers to follow and interact with! :)

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have been thinking about waldosia a lot recently. probably because i've been working on it.

anyways, since it's been a while since i originally deisgned them, i drew how shia, wallie, and bentley will look in the story. (saying that bentley's there is probably spoilers but she shows up in the story pretty quick so is it really? plus like who cares.)

but yeah. here we have

shia grimm, they/them, non-binary butch lesbian, runs a smuggling enterprise and a bar, about to get married

waldo "wallie" fischer, he/him, sailor, gay, shia's ex, avoids confrontation like the plague and hasn't talked to any of his friends/family in 7 years because of it

bentley gruyme, she/her, a bit very mentally unstable ngl but for good reason, has inside information and is ready to do some overthrowing, just wants her wife back

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yk when you here a song and go "omg if the story i'm working on was a movie, this would be the song that plays during the opening credits"

for jmg, that song is this:

i can totally see this being in a like anime intro for jmg. i can picture it in my brain.

for waldosia, that song is this:

this would so play while the opening credits rolled if waldosia was a movie.

imagine: the opening credits begin to roll as the first chords play. we see a man walking down the boarding ramp of a ship; we don't know who he is yet, but we can tell he's been travelling a while. the shot pans up and out from him to do a wide shot of the port city as he strolls up the docks. as the man makes his way into town, the shot continues to establish the setting: the bustling do:chaut port city, val:dosja. it is a lively, sunny summer afternoon. and as the song's final chords play, the man stops in front of a small saloon and takes a breath, steeling himself before walking inside to it's familiar and inviting atmosphere.

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OC Playlists (I Have So Many):

JMG:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Keiss x Marico Playlist

Timekeeper Kiddos:

Group Playlist

Oaken's Playlist

Jungho's Playlist

Emhy's Playlist

Lydia's Playlist

Yoshi's Playlist

Chi's Playlist

Chaz's Playlist

Natalie's Friends' Playlist

Harvey's Playlist

Ginny's Playlist

ChazOak Arranged Marriage AU Playlist

Jungho at PSU AU Playlist

Camilla Marie & Co.:

Astelle Lofi Playlist

Camilla Marie & Company Playlist

Camilla Playlist

Althea Playlist

Shielda × Dlade:

Shielda & Sabine Playlist

Waldosia:

Waldosia Playlist

Bentley Playlist

Geo & Chad:

Of Sea Jewels and Great Lords

Double A Batteries:

Double A Batteries Playlist

Jet Astriak:

Sea Cowboy AU Playlist

Modern AU Playlist

Arcana AU Playlist

Red As Blood:

Rosy Playlist

Rosy, Liesel, & Lucy Playlist

ISR:

Moitra Lofi Playlist

Moitra Country Playlist

Moitra Playlist

Moitra: Then & Now Playlist

Betra Playlist

Miram, Opal, & Ivan Playlist

Tyler & Sam Playlist

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Bentley WIP :)

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writing scenes from waldosia like "how could i escalate the conflict in this scene" "how could i make things worse"

the main characters hate each other so much lmao

also i finally connected one of the scenes to the main body of writing and im feeling accomplished :)

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Realizing I haven't talked about Waldosia outside of playlists....

It all started in April 2020 (I think) with a character creation prompt from one of the Amino's I was part of. The prompt was a word from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: waldosia.

So that's what the story is named after.

The main characters are Shia Grimm (they/them) and Waldo Fischer (he/him).

Summary: Seven years after Waldo broke Shia's heart and left town without explanation, Shia is busy living as a successful owner of a bar (and illegal liquor smuggling business) and preparing for their upcoming wedding to their beloved fiancée, Devon Atlay-Gras (he/him). When Shia wants to see him the least, Waldo waltzes back into their life apropos of nothing, spinning what Shia thinks to be tall tales of a looming threat after them both. Waldo has done a lot of dumb things in his life, and leaving for seven whole years with no contact definitely ranks pretty high on the list. Yet he still doesn't want to see anyone get more hurt; Shia deserves to have a good wedding and a happy life without the threats their smuggling enterprise has gained the attention of. Luckily, Waldo has a gal on the inside, as it were, to help them deal with this impending mess: Bentley Gruyme. However, tensions run high as the past is inevitably stirred up. Will they be able to cooperate enough to clean this mess up before the wedding, or will Shia's life go spiraling down into in more chaos?