Ramblings of a disordered mind

kinger and his 4 daughters <3

My WIP novel The Azure Mirage is now on Tapas!

The timid amnesiac Lapis is desperate to remember who she was. Hoping that her music will help fill the gaps in her memory, she aims to perform as a bard- though a severe case of stage fright has stopped her plan in its tracks. When the flamboyant bard Zephyr arrives in town, glowing with a light that only she can see, she takes an apprenticeship under him to try and conquer her fears. Little does she know, unlocking her missing memories might bring even more trouble to her doorstep... Meanwhile... Laz, an assassin in service to the powerful Lady Vastra, is desperate to escape their master's clutches after a job goes horribly wrong. When an unusual encounter acquaints them with the coffee-loving barista Leon, the two plot an escape plan to break them free of Vastra's control- and avoid them getting killed in the process.

I've been slowly but surely poking at this story and I'm finally comfy enough to start posting chapters publicly! The first 4 chapters are now available to read for free, and I'll be posting chapters here periodically as I finish them!

And also, I remember seeing a short by him with him holding the Fourth Wing book and the song playing in the background with the caption above saying "Rebecca Yarros, would you put this song in your book?" or something similar to that and the comments were saying "the song is already perfect for another book" and all

So in conclusion, Alex Warren is one of us, he knows, that line was intentional, he MEANT for it to reference Shatter Me

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

You ever spend dozens of hours creating a character whose entire vibe is "I could make your day worse?"

Yeah.

Worth it.

Meet Faux Jax. Jaux for short. We can't forget the bow!

🎵 isn't she looovely🎶

✨ Original sculpt by me.

"So what about that thing Gangle does?"

so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love

(I remember in one life series I lived as Skizz, I got in a sword fight with Etho over potatoes!!)

@saturnianballad

orange is the closest though. There’s only room for one meteorologist ‘round these parts

Grab the nearest book and flip to these pages for quotes that describe your life and stuff! Then tag people! You are welcome to make people try and guess what book it is :)

17- first word is what your friends call you behind your back

42- third full sentence describes your life right now

67- random thingy for you somewhere on the page

111- last sentence is something from your life

112- first thing a character says describes you

206- first or second full sentence describes your love life

394- first thing a character says describes you

Here’s mine:

17- “Okay” (ouch 😭)

42- “I’ve spent the last few days without much information to go on.” (how does it know)

67- “Good question.” (considering 42 this makes sense)

111- “It’s the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make.” (…yeah. yeah that actually works)

112- “Good thing you already made up your mind, then.” (hehe that’s actually quite accurate)

206- “♫♪♫♪” (frick that totally gives the book away doesn’t it)

394- “I won’t do it!” (sounds exactly like me. this goes very well with 112 lol)

42- “It’s wicker basket carried one occupant— a man with wild orange hair, painted red cheeks, and deep lines drawn from the corners of his mouth down his chin in mimicry of a marionette.” (What the fuck???)

67- “a horse-drawn carriage” (what the fuck is going on in my life????????)

111- “Nova glanced up, to where Ingrid was sitting on the narrow pedestrian bridge that crossed over the tracks to the opposite platform, her long legs dangling through the rails.” (Okay I guess this is my fate 😭)

112- “I’ve been up here this whole time and not once did they think to look up.” (I don’t even know at this point)

206- “She wondered if guard duty was a full-time gig around here, or if it was a role they rotated people in and out of.” (This one actually kind of makes sense, though it’s not really accurate)

394- “They’ll have him restrained.” (And we’re back to not understanding what the fuck is going on…)

42 - "If she'd just been a little luckier, Madoc would have never realized she was still alive" (ouch)

67 - "a clay mug shaped like a snake, its tail coiling to make the handle" (actually fire)

111 - "I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since Balekin heads the profligate Circle of Grackles" (nooo not Balekin😭😭😭)

112 - "but I don't want to go among mad people" (a quote from a different book in this book :D)

206 - " "I promise." This is one vow I should have no trouble keeping" (okayyyyy not bad)

394 - "Why did he do that?" (😭🤣)

The book is The Cruel Prince by Holly Black <3

The last 5 emojis that you've used will describe how your life is currently feeling:-

🙂‍↕️💔😞😭✌

LMAO

hmm accurate

yup been feeling like this very, very often

that is very accurate lol

also ROCKYYYYYY

… what the fuck

Ok, so this is kind of like Jeopardy, but better! Say what question the prev answer belongs to, then give a different answer for the next person to assign a question to. Feel free to be ridiculous or silly—this is supposed to be fun 😛 Tag 10 of your moots to keep the chain going!

A: Marshmallows and fruit

Example and tags below the cut :)

A: Doomed yuri

Open tags

A: Blessed toxic yaoi

Taggy tags

A: One potato two potato

Ok I already tagged everyone but I’m restarting this it was fun lol

A: Michael Jackson.

A. Romantasy Novels

I am bored so I’m starting a tag game!

what languages do you speak? Do you have just one first language/language spoken when you were little? Multiple? Do you still speak them? How about ones you learned later? Are you fluent? that sort of thing

I’ll start! My first language is English (specifically American English lol) but I’ve been learning Spanish for five years and counting and I consider myself mostly fluent (not native level by any means but I can read/listen/write/speak well enough, and my abilities there aren’t much worse than in English, though my vocabulary is definitely less robust). I know a bit of French from my mom and middle school, and can figure some other things out à la Spanish. I can also swear in six languages (I don’t but I could lol)

okay that’s all! Tagging All The People to start this off!

(As always if you want to be removed from the tag game master list please lmk I don’t want to annoy ppl lol)

@genderless-spiderlily @mekayk @lunar-l30 @ivysbea @phoenixrainsfire413 @strawbxrrypies @deyna-d @ashess0 @mellohithe-musicdisc @keyriingz @peskybirdonyx @bi-r-a-r-a @monster-of-the-margins @butterfly-teacup @teoda-hesperides-garden @rainbowfeather314 @starlitnight864 @multishipper33 @error-403-sammy @ghghghostt @cee-watches @unablebagel @aries0nmars @trafficjamming9 @vividcomet @iicor @raynilikescats @smallblueowl and open tags! /nf ofc

I speak English, which is my native language, and I know a bit of German as well. Not enough to write it or have a full conversation, but basic words and phrases. I also know a few words in Spanish. And I'd love to learn ASL!!

my native language is English but I’ve been speaking mandarin since kindergarten so I’ve been speaking it a long time. I wouldn’t say I’m fully fluent but I think I can hold a conversation well enough. 你好！我叫 Alan! (hello my name is Alan) I would LOVE to learn French or ASL I know some French from being in The Scarlet Pimpernel and picking it up from dialogue but other than that I know like nothing lol

my native language is english, and i’ve been learning spanish for about 12 years. i’m not fully fluent but i’m a solid bit of the way there. i also know a little bit of asl, i can hold a basic conversation but nothing beyond small talk. i know a few random words in italian and greek. i want to learn polish and/or brazilian portuguese, next, but farsi has also interested me for a while

English in my native language, and the only language I can hold a conversation in unless you count pig Latin. I do know some random Finnish words, as well as a few songs because of our culture, a bit of Latin, a tinyyy bit of German, and some American sign language

My first language is English (and the only one Im more than conventional in). I know abit of mandarin and German. I also know some random words in Spanish ans Im taking French for the next two years.

I speak german fluently and started learning English about 4years ago but am now kinda fluent in it

I was learning dutch and russian for a while but dropped them to learn swedish instead. In the future i really want to learn a form of sign language aswell

I have two first languages, that being Russian and German, and I still speak both

I'd say I'm pretty fluent in English, though there is some way to go 🥹

I am learning French in school, though I doubt that I'll pursue or learn it to fluency

Spanish is my first language but with English I have been learning it since I was 6 so I consider myself good at speaking (at least), and I'm still learning. According to my teachers, I have a B2 level almost C1 but I don't think I'll get there yet. Anyways, I want to learn another language after finishing my English course but I dunno which one, I was thinking French but now I'm not sure.

english is my native language, i learned a bit of french for fanfics fun, i started spanish for school but never finished 💀, and my family speaks tagalog.

I learned chinese first since i speak that at home, and i actually went my first year at preschool without knowing english at all.

hey moots, i'm gonna tag yall and if you want to play tag games with me, then respond! If you don't, that's ok, and ignore this. I won't tag you in the future.

@xqdrexx @astrinyx @maru-makaru-2016 @starchaser667 @entostick @hamilltonaddict @voidheart346

Im probs going have to learn Latin so I understand the medical system

i used to be fluent in italian!

HOWEVER

if you're counting american sign language, i consider myself fluent in that aswell!!

i mostly learnt it cus I thought it looked cool and lwk never rly stopped and its rly useful to talk to my friends in class and to talk to the few deaf people ive met

The first language I SPOKE was ASL, cause I could understand and make signs before I could talk. (I was not in any way fluent though haha) The first language I could READ and SPEAK was English. I used to be fluent in the coding languages Java, JavaScript, and HTML but not anymore :(

Now, on to languages I don’t speak fluently! I know around 100 words of ASL and Spanish, and I know around 20 words of French, Italian, and German. I can also speak Pig Latin but not very well haha (also that’s not actually a language lol)

Essentials I can say in other languages:

“Hello”- ASL, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hawaiian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese

“Goodbye”- ASL, Spanish, French, Italian, Hawaiian, Portuguese

“Please”- ASL, Spanish

“Thanks”- ASL, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hawaiian, Dutch

“Yes”- ASL, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch

“No”- ASL, Spanish, French, Italian, German

“One, two, three”- ASL, Spanish, French, German

I’m a native English speaker, I speak standard American, a little Pittsburghese, and I’d consider myself fluent in the Gen Alpha dialect

I’ve been learning Spanish in school for the past 2 years, I think I’m learning Mexican Spanish, but I’m not sure. I think I’m pretty good, but I end up freezing up whenever I’m outside of class

@maniacaluwu @starfaringmagpie @khlo-khlo-in-the-car-car @thought-potion @unsalted-garlic @rushedname112 @sketchingjuliet

What is your favorite word?

I'll start by saying: vacuum. Its random but i like how it sounds idk. I also like yikes cuz it reminds me of a person jumping for some reason. On a more poetic note, i'll say paradox.

Tagging @impracticalromantic @reikodashi @cheesebunz @i-love-my-gays @epm592011phk @freshknighttiger and literally anyone else who wants to join

Okay so I do like the name Orel cuz it's just..the sound of the rolling of the R and the O it's just... peculiar idk ? I like it :) And also I like the word masochism.. I know it's weird but I like the little "chis-um" at the end kinda..lol 😭

okay anyways my favorite word is supercalifragilicexpliadocious. Idk if that’s original or not but it’s my favorite word SO SUE ME

@abbilovesqueen

@xashnicole1009x

@linketstar

@lenaaaaa97

@cxn-txm-mxn

i really like the words perceive and anemoia :P

I'm gonna be unoriginal here but i really like defenestration, aka throwing someone out a window.

Though, a word you guys probably haven't heard before, emordnilap, which is the name for a word that, when spelled backwards, are a different but normal word, like rat and tar, is my second favorite :3 and guess what, emordnilap is just palindrome spelled backwards >:3 technically it's not the official name, the official name is amadrome, but i dont caaaaaaare. also, it enables back slang, which you guys should totally look up the history of.

Splendiferous! Onomatopoeia! Pumpernickel!

I like clishmaclaver because of the sound, but I never use it. Petrichor is always a good word, and I love chrysalism. Limerence is nice too.

also hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (the fear of long words), aibohphobia (the fear of palindromes), and luposlipaphobia (the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a freshly waxed floor). These are all hilarious