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WIP INTRO - WHERE THE SKY MET THE SEA 

[ID: photo of pinks, reds and purples. Text reading: “and the silver tree glittered, our hearts collide. and the fates entangled around us until they choked us. and where the sky and sea collapse, under the silver tree, our souls will be free.” bottom text reading: “where the sky met the sea” end ID]

genre - magical realism, romance, urban fantasy, new adult tropes & features - soulmates, wlw, nblw, earn your happy ending, fates as gods, fantasy world, moderate worldbuilding, choice vs fate, mental health & illness, found family, man vs god, multiple gods, asexual main character, modern day fantasy world pov - third person

word goal: 20k draft: one

summary - we met underneath the silver tree, between the sea and the sky – you looked as lost as i was. we met underneath the silver tree, each night but could never tell each other our names. 

we met underneath the silver tree, where the sky met the sea, and we promised we would meet underneath a willow tree one day.

we did not meet underneath silver tree as one of the fates enclosed enclosed their hands around you. in your wake, did you leave messages only meant for me. 

what was your name? “my name is…”

#aspenscribbles #others wip

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cannot believe the least eventful part of 2020 for me was my grandmother poisoning my grandfather for his fortune and running off to Florida after

#i've changed my mind #the wildest part of 2020 is my buying my ex gf (who obviously i am still friends with) a maid outfit for christmas #it was a joke and then it escalated and now the order is placed #everyone in our friend group knows except her #she's terrified #personal #2020 has been too much quarantine was just. unbelievable. #and now THIS

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cannot believe the least eventful part of 2020 for me was my grandmother poisoning my grandfather for his fortune and running off to Florida after

#IF I DIDN'T GET BACK TO ANYONE ON SOMETHING #THIS IS WHY! #asfgjdhgf #personal

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Oh no Quill procrastinated on writing again. ENJOY THIS ABSOLUTELY HIGHEST QUALITY, TOTALLY PROFESSIONAL POWERPOINT.

Two Witches Woven: Book two of the Anchored Souls trilogy!

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#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #YEAH!! #LOVE THAT #other writers #quilloftheclouds

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i like to keep a tally mark for how many times my characters destroy the world, like

Ara: roughly 100 times pre-canon, only once or twice in the actual books

Ethin: 1 time but only slightly and he said sorry so it's okay

Asrian: 0 times, he'd be unbelievably upset if he killed a spider much less destroyed the world

Anya: 0 times but boy is she trying her hardest

Tilia: probably was the accomplice to multiple of Ara's times. that's just a side effect of being someone best friend

Maisy: 0 times as far as we know, and if she has destroyed the world, it probably did her wrong first, so it's fine

That one crow in the magic school parking lot: Literally Unmeasurable

#faye and fate #rambling #faf #someone gave Ara the ability to reset the world and she did not hesitate to do so #which in hindsight was like giving a toddler control over the universe #her impulse control: little to none

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It is rather simple, what is essential for all humans to live. Many would answer water, to drink, food, to nourish. Did that make me inhuman? Did that make me closer to death or some place in between? That I no longer had a need for such things?

My answer is air.

We all need air to breathe.

Dione has a bit of a temper, and… sometimes it can get out of hand. Have an excerpt from Chapter Sixteen: Storm of One Siren’s Soul. Trigger warning for blood, magic murder, and an implied explosion.

The Absence of Air - 887 word excerpt

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#🥺 #i love Dione #love love love that funky murderer #others writing #quilloftheclouds

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ace week means i go absolutely feral with Ara Questioning Her Sexuality content because this girl is trying to save the world while also dealing with being a teenager and she has no idea why she doesn't understand the word "sexy"

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this is so AWESOME and i love Quartz so much oh my gosh!! this set is so good, i just am awestruck.

Firebreathers Faux-TTRPG: Jock Deck

Here it is! The first third of that big illustration project I started a little while ago!

The main concept for this project is, essentially, D&D-style character cards, where each character has 2 special abilities based on their actual in-universe skills. Of course, these abilities had to be reworded into dice rolling terms, and I’m not about to go ridiculously in-depth on this “homebrew”, so I’m ignoring game balancing :)

Also: I feel the need to clarify, because my brother was confused, that I am NOT making an actual game, I’m just riffing on D&D mechanics and my own experience with homebrewing stuff in the past!

Image transcripts will come out with the single-card posts, down the line!

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#🥺🥺 #magic-is-something-we-create #others ocs #others art

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okay then, how’s everyone wips been going?

#this is an open question to anyone and everyone #but especially my mutuals #because i have been inactive for soo longg

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Chaotic picnic

#q #art

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hmm, in my main wip, my mc Ara’s fatal flaw is definitely her selfishness, but i wouldn’t say it’s the typical type. it’s more-so that she selfishly wants her happy ending and for all of the people she loves to be okay, to the point where she has sacrificed the stability of the world in order to make that happen. she resets her timeline every time someone she loves dies, but it’s made it so even more people are suffering, herself included, and yet she’s so self-absorbed that she doesn’t ask for any help because she thinks it’s all her fault, and so stubborn that she thinks she can fix it. all in all, she’s just sort of dumb and has a hero complex. 

hey writeblr, what’s your main character’s fatal flaw?

#i say that lovingly #someone gave a teenager the ability to reset the world and she accidentally did it so many times that the world started to fight back lmaoo #:) #vespatrix

[velvetinewitch]

i don’t think i’m going to make many posts for the wip i’m currently wrapping up, mostly because it was more of a side project than something i put a lot of time and effort into! faye and fate will always be my number 1 priority and the easiest thing for me to talk about. my current wip is just a birthday gift that was a little bit too Extra, because i do nothing half-assed

#rambling

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i’ve been inactive long enough that the porn bots are starting to follow me again oh NO

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some of the main girls of Faye and Fate! from top left to bottom right, they are: Pallet, Ara, Ella, Anya, Orange, and Tilia. not much of an artist but i wanted to draw them in bright colors, so this happened :)

excerpts for everyone but Anya below, because Anya gets left out of everything!

Orange tugged on Ara’s sleeve hard enough to pull her away from the corner. Pallet grabbed her before she could fall backwards. Ara opened her mouth to protest, but Pallet gave her a glare and her jaw clamped shut. Orange peered around the corner and down the hallway, then turned to face them. 

Someone’s over there, she signed messily. Very suspicious. Murder mystery time?

Pallet rolled her eyes. No, she replied. Probably a normal student. Why are you so dramatic?

Orange stuck her tongue out at her.

-

“Well,” Tilia said, straightening. She flashed Ara a charming grin. Ara noticed a small gap between her two front teeth that was unbearably adorable and felt her face flush. “You wanna blow this popsicle stand? I can show you to the dorms and we can grab a physics kid to bring your stuff up.“

Ara didn’t know what the latter half of that statement meant, but she didn’t particularly want to ask. “Sure,” she said, standing.

“Don’t get into any trouble,” Mr. Merrits ordered Tilia. “I don’t know about Ara, but I know you, and you cause chaos wherever you go.”

Ara’s mother sighed dramatically. “Then putting these two together was a mistake,” she said. “They’ll break the world.”

Ara’s first thought was that was an over exaggeration, but she didn’t mind the idea of breaking the world, not if it was with Tilia. She felt… familiar, in an unfamiliar way, like a story Ara had read years ago and loved but forgotten the name of. And there was this strange twinkle of mischief in her eyes that Ara felt she had seen before, a million times, maybe more. An unidentifiable emotion tugged at her, like the stomach ache she had had before the fire, or when looking at the crows in the rafter. 

“We’ll be fine,” Tilia said, waving away their concern. “I haven’t committed a crime in at least a week.”

“I’ll get you a sticker,” Mr. Merrits said.

-

“I dream of pushing you in front of a moving vehicle,” Ella said, sticking her nose in the air pompously. She was a glittering array of pinks and pretentiousness, the prime model of a bratty mean girl. 

Ara put her hands on her hips. “Funny.” She made an ugly face at her. “Not if I push you in front of one first,” she said.

“Not if I push you in front of one first,” Ella parroted mockingly.

Ara stuck her tongue out and, like clockwork, the two devolved into a squabbling mess.

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some of the main girls of Faye and Fate! from top left to bottom right, they are: Pallet, Ara, Ella, Anya, Orange, and Tilia. not much of an artist but i wanted to draw them in bright colors, so this happened :)

excerpts for everyone but Anya below, because Anya gets left out of everything!

Orange tugged on Ara’s sleeve hard enough to pull her away from the corner. Pallet grabbed her before she could fall backwards. Ara opened her mouth to protest, but Pallet gave her a glare and her jaw clamped shut. Orange peered around the corner and down the hallway, then turned to face them. 

Someone’s over there, she signed messily. Very suspicious. Murder mystery time?

Pallet rolled her eyes. No, she replied. Probably a normal student. Why are you so dramatic?

Orange stuck her tongue out at her.

-

“Well,” Tilia said, straightening. She flashed Ara a charming grin. Ara noticed a small gap between her two front teeth that was unbearably adorable and felt her face flush. “You wanna blow this popsicle stand? I can show you to the dorms and we can grab a physics kid to bring your stuff up.“

Ara didn’t know what the latter half of that statement meant, but she didn’t particularly want to ask. "Sure,” she said, standing.

“Don’t get into any trouble,” Mr. Merrits ordered Tilia. “I don’t know about Ara, but I know you, and you cause chaos wherever you go.”

Ara’s mother sighed dramatically. “Then putting these two together was a mistake,” she said. “They’ll break the world.”

Ara’s first thought was that was an over exaggeration, but she didn’t mind the idea of breaking the world, not if it was with Tilia. She felt… familiar, in an unfamiliar way, like a story Ara had read years ago and loved but forgotten the name of. And there was this strange twinkle of mischief in her eyes that Ara felt she had seen before, a million times, maybe more. An unidentifiable emotion tugged at her, like the stomach ache she had had before the fire, or when looking at the crows in the rafter. 

“We’ll be fine,” Tilia said, waving away their concern. “I haven’t committed a crime in at least a week.”

“I’ll get you a sticker,” Mr. Merrits said.

-

“I dream of pushing you in front of a moving vehicle,” Ella said, sticking her nose in the air pompously. She was a glittering array of pinks and pretentiousness, the prime model of a bratty mean girl. 

Ara put her hands on her hips. “Funny.” She made an ugly face at her. “Not if I push you in front of one first,” she said.

“Not if I push you in front of one first,” Ella parroted mockingly.

Ara stuck her tongue out and, like clockwork, the two devolved into a squabbling mess.

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writing characters with one eye

i can pretty much guarantee that ↑that↑ is not a heading you see everyday.

now i will not be giving advice on writing cyclopses, (though it may be sort of the same thing) i still hope this will be helpful for some people out there that are looking to provide a more diverse cast to their wip!

i have never ever ever read a book, watch a show movie etc etc that involves a character with one eye. (aside from those badass characters who wear eye patches bc they lost sight in one eye in some badass way)

for context: i am one of many people who was born with microphtalmia, an eye disease that results in one or both eyes develope smaller than normal at birth. i myself was born with a smaller left eye, which resulted in my left eye being removed exactly twenty days after birth.

microphthalmia (along with many other eye diseases) typically leads to being half or fully blind. i lucked out and only lost my left eye which i am so so thankful for.

i would really really love to see more representation for my community in literature, especially so people would come to see that being half blind isn’t as unusual and weird as people make it out to be.

without further ado, i present to you, a list of information, facts, and first hand experiences from yours truly!

i’ve had prosthetic eyes made to fit my eye socket for about fifteen years (i’m 16 lol) (the first 6ish months after the surgery i never had a prosthetic)

in my life i’ve had four different prosthetic eyes made because just like other people, my eye socket grew alongside the rest of me, meaning the prosthetic needed to be made bigger

i’ve had my current prosthetic for four years now, the past ones lasted about 2-3 years at a time. this one will probably last me through the rest of my life unless i need/want a new one

as opposed to most media/assumptions, my prosthetic (along with most prosthetics) is PLASTIC (people always think it’s glass) and only half a circle!!

i’ve had three surgeries related to my eye

i do not have depth perception which makes doing certain things very difficult (estimating distance, how close/far i am from something etc)

driving is not affected too much, i just have to turn my head more than other people. i believe being blind in the right eye might be more difficult, but i couldn’t say

doing my make up is kinda easy, except for eyeliner is a pain in the ASS since most people close their eye to do it on their upper lid, but clearly i can’t close my right eye whilst doing it lol

my family as well as my friends and even myself often forget i have a prosthetic, which sometimes results in awkward/funny situations

i hate walking with people on my right bc i can’t tell where they are unless i’m constantly looking down at my/their feet

i sucked at basketball bc i had such a disadvantage (no depth perception, i could only see half the court, i was constantly turning my head) but professional swimming is much easier for me since it’s not a contact sport and doesn’t really require for me to be paying attention to a million things at once

i rarely have to take my prosthetic out, and if i do, it’s either to clean it, (we do get eye crusties on our prosthetics just like other people do when they have pink eye or sever allergies) it’s bothering me/really dry, or i want to take it out to show/scare people lol

a lot of people don’t realize when i first meet them that it’s fake bc my recent prosthetic is amazing accurate to my real eye. others notice and assume i have a lazy eye since it doesn’t move

for some reason people think i can’t cry out of my left (prosthetic) eye??? i still have a tear duct??? i actually think more tears come out of my left tear duct than my right lol

i am extremely self conscious about it, but i know there are other one-eyed beauties out there who aren’t which is amazing!! i try to live vicariously through them lol

i make sooo many jokes about my eye lol, and i’m usually ok w other people making jokes as long as they aren’t like overly rude/offensive, then i’ll feel a lil bad about my self

people never really made fun of it, but kids in middle school likes to wave things in front of my left eye/on my left side that i couldn’t see which got really annoying after a while

getting custom designed prosthetics are available, but they’re really expensive (so are normal lol) they costs thousands of dollars, just like other prosthetics do

i run into things that are on my left side ALL THE TIME it’s actually kinda funny lolol

i try to hide my left eye/turn more to my left side in photos bc my eyes aren’t always looking in the same direction, which really gets to me

i wear glasses for both protection and bc my right eye is -1.75 lmao but i did used to wear non-prescription glasses purely for safety

i do have contacts to wear during the summer, swim meets etc, for when i don’t want/can’t wear my glasses but need to see. bc of this, i have a second pair of glasses that have no prescription

if doctors/scientists managed to figure out a way to fix microphthalmia (a birth defect), or do a sort of eye transplant, i would not be able to have that done to me because all parts of my left eye have been removed from my body

microphthalmia is NOT the only disease that results in the haver losing sight in one or both eyes!! there are many others, but it is not my place to share any experiences for something i have not experienced!!!

for once i just want to see a clumsy character who has one eye that WASNT a result of some tragic event.

so please please please consider including a character with one working eye in your wip. it would mean the world to myself and all the other members of the community (there’s a lot of us, trust me) plus, i wouldn’t mind starting an acting debut playing a half-blind female protagonist, that would be so dope.

that’s about all i can think of for now! please message me or reply to this post if you have any questions, i’m willing to answer any!!! and if you happen to be a member of the one eye club, please add to this post!! that would mean the world to me:)

#writing advice #writing tips #q

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[Image ID: A sparrow sitting on a black electricity cable with the words “A Sparrow’s Ghost” above it, dark green leaves are blurred in the foreground. End image ID]

A SPARROW’S GHOST ;  ❝ the bird in your chest will someday sing, it will be free. don’t breathe. let it be free. ❞

[ summary ] — some fifteen years after a fungal-like infection swept over the world, turning most of the population into the infected undead, survivors are left to form settlements and nomadic collectives in the remnants of the world they once knew. 

now, brought together by a chance encounter with this world as the backdrop, quentin—a woman on the run from the cult she was raised within for a crime she refuses to admit—and a young boy, spencer, must rely unwillingly on one another to survive the journey across the united states if they hope to finally flee the cult members on their heels, and the military force after spencer for a reason he keeps unspoken.

[ themes ] — drama, thriller, post-apocalypse but it’s not excessively dark and grim, slight gore, violence, medical experimentation, fungi zombies are fine, gruff woman adopts a kid on a whim, sometimes a family is a woman, the son she found in a wall, and this ferret her son fears, fate is biased at times and you make your own destiny, the idea that companionship is withstanding as a reason to live even among the ruins of men, bird symbolism.

[ status ] — first draft

[ characters ] — quentin “q” ross [ twenty-five, 6′1 and muscle-ly to no end, has a southern accent, almost fought a literal thirteen-year-old, is the type to adopt six puppies on a whim because one gave her puppy dog eyes, recites willy wonka and the chocolate factory by memory] | spencer olsen [ thirteen, 5′6 and 130 pounds soaking wet but has the knee jerk response to stab someone, is scared of most animals and bugs but adores birds, collects pokemon-esque cards, always wears his aviator jacket no matter what ]

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#cannot put into words the perfection of this #harehearts #others wip