I never knew loneliness until I realized you weren't real.

heyo, i’m back. i’ll be slowly working on this blog, but i definitely wanted to shift to using this specific blog for posting my writing and art

my name is Kade! i’m 30+ years old, and i’m slowly getting my life back together after a long time of being a lil slime. i’ve got many, many ocs, and i must share them 👀

current major projects are: sparkle star galaxy (super mario fanproject) and personal original stories

Sparkle Star Galaxy masterpost

blog content: original writing, original characters, fanfiction. sparkle star galaxy is a pg rated project, but my other personal content definitely veers towards a mature rating depending on which cast of characters i’m working with

the original name for this blog was lexicallight!

other places to find me:

sideblog: @lifeiszestyy

bluesky: lifeiszesty

twitter: lifeiszestyy

ao3: lifeiszesty

i’ll be updating this as i post more 💕

Chapters: 21/26 Fandom: Sparkle Star Galaxy, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Paper Mario Series (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Characters/Original Characters, Original Characters & Original Characters, Dimentio & Mimi (Paper Mario) Characters: Dimentio (Paper Mario), Mimi (Paper Mario), Original Characters Additional Tags: decided not to list every oc because there's you know a lot as always, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 265 of Sparkle Star Galaxy short stories, Part 70 of 2024 Sparkle Star Galaxy Short Stories Summary:

A Sparkle Star Galaxy story: Flashbacks on the various past lives that Dimentio has lived throughout thousands of years. Small moments in time that all take place on the same day, the 12th day of the seventh month.

Chapters: 7/26 Fandom: Sparkle Star Galaxy, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Paper Mario Series (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Characters/Original Characters, Original Characters & Original Characters, Dimentio & Mimi (Paper Mario) Characters: Dimentio (Paper Mario), Mimi (Paper Mario), Original Characters Additional Tags: decided not to list every oc because there's you know a lot as always Series: Part 265 of Sparkle Star Galaxy short stories, Part 70 of 2024 Sparkle Star Galaxy Short Stories Summary:

A Sparkle Star Galaxy story: Flashbacks on the various past lives that Dimentio has lived throughout thousands of years. Small moments in time that all take place on the same day, the 12th day of the seventh month.

Chapters: 2/26 Fandom: Sparkle Star Galaxy, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Paper Mario Series (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Characters/Original Characters, Original Characters & Original Characters, Dimentio & Mimi (Paper Mario) Characters: Dimentio (Paper Mario), Mimi (Paper Mario), Original Characters Additional Tags: decided not to list every oc because there's you know a lot as always Series: Part 265 of Sparkle Star Galaxy short stories, Part 70 of 2024 Sparkle Star Galaxy Short Stories Summary:

A Sparkle Star Galaxy story: Flashbacks on the various past lives that Dimentio has lived throughout thousands of years. Small moments in time that all take place on the same day, the 12th day of the seventh month.

Love Love 2026 💕

Well, well, well, I'm back doodling my OCs.

First is a Valentine's Day card for my sister @juliettelime who requested my OC, Tanner, my food-obsessed boy who definitely doesn't have anything wrong or strange about him. He's just a guy who loves giving food-related nicknames to everyone he meets.

2025 Writing Snippets

I decided to live, so here I am, yay!

"Tell Them How It Ended" is an unfinished series of scenes based on @/rahrah's TTRPG of the same name. I wasn't feeling mentally well in uhhh late January, so I wrote a bunch of scenes of my self-insert OC, Kade, with several characters he's in a relationship in. I like all the scenes I wrote, but these two, Sid and Epiales, made me weep.

Of course, "Aeternitas" is back. I call this an epilogue, but I lied to myself. In April, I wrote a few scenes between Kade and Saleh (from Tales of Rebirth 😳). I just really like difficult characters.

"Starpoints Academy" was a really involved high school AU that I made for my Aeternitas OCs. I made a whole dice rolling system and everything so that I could randomize scenes. It was both terrible and exhilarating. I only wrote one school week before I was exhausted.

"help, my poetry was published in june, but I was too depressed to notice til september" was just me having a mental breakdown in the form of a poem. "my heart is full of you" is a poem I wrote after playing @loveafterdeath-if because i had way too many feelings about both this game and my own OCs.

"2025 Drabbles" is the continuation of my Sparkle Star Galaxy project, specifically my self-imposed challenge of writing a scene about a character on their birthday. Beau is my OC, and Seth is my sister's @juliettelime OC.

Anyway, I decided to embrace full cringe with the last scene. I just really love Zelos, he really is my number one. It's not just that he's my comfort character, but the idea of him helped pull me through every major terrible event of my life since 2004. Something about knowing his trauma helped me through my own trauma.

And so, I've decided to keep living. Let's keep going.

2025 Art Summary

File too big lmao. I focused more on my writing this year, so I mostly just doodled in my notebook. Overall, I'm a lot happier this year than last year. I don't have an audience, so posting regularly makes me enter a very fatalistic spiral that I dislike. I'm very well aware that I don't make much of an effort to connect with anyone. Unfortunately, since this is due to trauma, it's actually really difficult for me to overcome.

In general, I love talking to people! I love talking about games/books/movies!

Art vs Artist 2025

i focused more on my writing this year, but i will always be doodling my OCs

2025 playlist

And I want someone to love me different: A playlist of wishes and demands for things to be better

I have a lot of love and nowhere to put it, so I give it to my OCs and my favorite characters. Clockwise from the top right: Zelos (Symphonia), my OCs Chase, Orazio, Sapphira, Lyon (The Sacred Stone), Dist (Abyss), Saleh (Rebirth) my OCs Oreste, Vesper, Epiales, Casper (A Date with Death), and Henry (Awakening).

Change is coming, whether your eyes are open or closed.

✨Me and my sweetest lil sis💕

Wow! I've known @juliettelime her whole life and now we're both old! 🤔 nothing brought us closer than playing mario games, making ocs together, and bonding over similar woes.

*Happy Birthday to my favorite little sister of all time, @juliettelime !!

[Hexis OCs] Happiest birthday to the girl of all time, Sapphira💕

When I first starting writing her, she was just there for exposition, to explain the lore and to be a stabilizing background character. Every single theme I associate with her now, the yearning, the heartbreak, pushing down her own whimsy in order to be more in control, the recurring symbolism of moonlight, it all came through just by writing a character that only had a couple of established personality traits. She shot straight up through my hierarchy of favorite characters, and I care about her so, so much.

I actually doodled this in my notebook last year, but Kade has changed quite a bit since then.

✨It's my birthday✨

Here's a series of chibis I doodled last year that I ran out of energy before I could upload all of them. Obviously the little prince in the middle of each image is my self-insert, Kade. Everyone else except those in the the last image is part of Kade's big polycule, the inner circle. The OCs in the last image are platonic/familial friends. It's outdated now, and I have to rearrange some characters and add a few more and probably just redraw all of them, but here they are! my sweeties

~OCs under the cut~