#nebula writes

working on I Wrote Your Name Down chapter 5:

The hotel was cold and brutalist; no artwork adorned the smooth concrete walls, there was no furniture to give one a place to linger in the common spaces. Celia’s footsteps echoed loudly in the overlarge hallway, with nothing to dampen the sound. Some considered it luxurious, but it reminded Celia of a parking garage. She couldn't imagine feeling at-home in this place. Perhaps that was why Caroline Phillips had chosen it. Why would she want to stay somewhere that felt like home, when home was no longer a safe place? The woman had seen her home turned into a crime scene, her walls pierced by gunfire, her floors lacquered with blood. Of course, she wouldn't want to feel as though she were home.

arospec

a poem(?), a collection of ideas, things i have been thinking about, about relationships and the platonic/romantic binary

some citations:

arospec wiki sources, amatonormativity, instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy, my favorite poem by alok vaid-menon, aromantic manifesto, amatopunk

full text below the cut:

General info

Name: Melodi Shirabe

Pronunciation:

Melodi: The same way you say “Melody”

Shirabe: shìrábéꜜrù

Nicknames: Melo, wannabe, idol maniac, pinky

Age: 15

Bday: 12/6

Zodaic: Gemini

Gender: Girlflux

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: straight

Species: Inkling

Weapons: splat charger (main), Autobomb (sub)

Family: Her mother and father (both alive)

Friends: sapphire

Powers: None

Facts: went to the Callie vs Marie when she was EXTREMELY ill because she didn’t want to miss it and wound up throwing up in a bin. She was NOT happy when she heard the news the next morning.

Physical appearance

Height: 5,7

Figure: average body type, if a bit lanky.

Chest size: 51 (over) 41.9 (under)

Hair: pink, light to dark gradient

Eyes: pink

Skin: slightly tanned

Scars: none recently (had them lots as a kid), but has a bruise from when someone knocked her off a platform in a match and hit the floor hard

Piercings: none, but likes to pretend her ears are pierced (has tons of clip ons)

Accs: clip on earrings, her eye contacts (prescription, not colour)

Hair style: banger

Mentality

Likes: idols, cute clothes, winning, singing and dancing

Dislikes: Her bullies, school, loosing, when she trips, wearing glasses

Mental disorders: autism

Personality:

Melodi is a young inkling girl who is OBSESSED with idols, to the point where she aspires to become one. She is very confident in her abilities and has her parents support, she can become blind in her quest and become egotistical, one of many traits that makes her a victim of bullying. If she has a goal, she will abandon basically everything in order to achieve it. Melodi hates all the things about herself that she deems “not like an idol”, such as her glasses (she usually wears contacts) and the fact she trips over her words when she’s excited.

Her love of idols means she has lots of memorabilia and memories of attending splatfests. Besides this, she enjoys some non idol artists too such as Chirpy Chirps and Wet floor.

Her biases are:

Squid sisters: Callie

Off the hook: Marina

Deep cut: Shiver

Backstory (TW for bullying):

Melodi was a young girl who was friends with everyone. One day, her parents finally let her attend a splatfest and she was hooked ever since. When she returned to school, people began to pick on her for everything, from her appearance to her personality to her autism. When she read an article about Marina’s past, she got the final push to try and become an idol. Later on, she befriended Saphire and the duo have been inseparable since.

Chapters: 13/? Fandom: Undertale (Video Game), Deltarune (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Noelle Holiday/Susie (Deltarune), Susie (Deltarune) & Undyne (Undertale), Noelle Holiday & Susie & Kris (Deltarune), Alphys/Undyne (Undertale) Characters: Kris (Deltarune), Susie (Deltarune), Noelle Holiday, Chara (Undertale), Toriel (Undertale), Sans (Undertale), Papyrus (Undertale), Undyne (Undertale), Alphys (Undertale), Asgore Dreemurr, Flowey (Undertale), Kris' Red Soul (Deltarune) Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Plot Obligatory Murder, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Crossover, Undertale is a Dark World, Swearing, Hurt, Emotional Hurt, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Fluff, Comfort, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Canon Non-Binary Character Summary:

There are whispers of a legend that follows Mt. Ebott, simple folklore that states that any one who dares approaches, HUMAN and MONSTER alike, never return. Naturally, this legend attracts Kris, Susie and a very hesitant Noelle like moths to a flame, and they go to explore it.

Little do they know, an adventure of HOPES and DREAMS awaits them. Will they survive? Or will they crumble under the weight of a mirror?

formerly known as "Fallen Down (Reprise)"

kissing him every time you see an angel number 

making him take a multivitamin because lord knows he needs it 

getting him a lil keychain squishmallow to take on cases 

painting little cards for him for every occasion 

him bringing a souvenir home from cases, no matter how small

I’m a discovery writer. I have an idea and start to write without tons of planning or detailed outline. With fanfic this has never been an issues because I know more or less the story from the source material and construct my work from there. In original work however, poor planning resulted in me discovering the direction I wanted to go had changed so much from what I was originally writing that I had to scrap 6k words which was and still is so incredibly painful. (Screaming, crying, throwing up 😂)

I’m super comfortable writing dialogue, it comes so easy that I almost didn’t realize how much I lean into that to avoid describing scenery, character features and even clothing. Where is someone standing in any of my fics? What are they wearing? Shit if I know.

I love using line breaks when writing fanfics, it helps me quickly and effectively skip over parts of the story that I just don’t feel like writing. I can’t line break after every single scene in my novel to move the story along and I hate that for me.

80k words is much less intimidating when you break it down to 1,000 words per day with a break and celebration after every 10k. Realistically you could finish a draft in three months using this schedule.

The words will come, but I have to be militant in reaching my words count goals. Every single day I go over. Most times I have no idea what I’m going to write until I’m actively writing this.

Naming characters is easy for me. Most times their names present themselves immediately. Sometimes I will change them but not often.

I visualize stories like a movie inside my mind, it’s really hard to put that effectively into words when I’m seeing something no one else does.

 "Ah, you see, mister whoever-you-are, normally I would agree with you. 100%. But you're forgetting one crucial detail!" Gladstone responded, his uncle's cane held in his hand. 

 "And what detail might that be, exactly?"