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Okay I need someone to confirm that I'm not crazy with this HC: Tweek bleaches his hair Blonde

I don't hc that he dyes it as a kid, but given that hair often darkens with age I could see his post-Covid hair being bleached

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forgot to post the single creek glitter gif i made!

#please take me back to neopets in the 00s where everyone made these

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hey! I’ve wondered do you know how much time passed between the mage and the assassin? I like to keep a mental timeline when reading long fics lol

No more than a few months.

I'm saying this without going back to check so excuse me if I'm saying something contradictory but basically all that happened was:

The Southern Kingdom sent scouts to see what happened in the mountains, and they found Craig (who hadn't gone anywhere) who allowed himself to be arrested. I don't think he had a real trial or anything that would take much time. Pretty much brought there to be condemned.

The Dark Kingdom was putting out search and rescue in the mountains, Clyde obsessively trying to find Craig as we see at the start. So it can't have been TOO long, ignoring (once again) how obsessive Clyde was.

La Resistance reunited with Kyle who was "HOLY SHIT GUYS YOU BETTER GO GET CRAIG BECAUSE IF HE DIES WE'RE SCREWED" except in more Kyle-like manner of speaking.

The sky is very very slowly clearing up. It's still very gray with sunny pockets in the formerly perpetual clouds at the start of The Assassin, as opposed to the climax of the story where the weather becomes pretty much normal again. (Google Year 536 if you want to know how the state of the war in The Mage is, because it's based on that.)

Main thing is that the distances between these places is far, so travel takes weeks. Which is why I say up to a few months.

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I haven’t read any of your fics yet but I’m sure they’re rlly good, will you post more??

Thank you!

I don't plan on writing new fics (I'm instead focusing on original works) but I do plan on finishing WIPs on ao3 eventually. Or at the very least, The Princess

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I finally finished the thief trilogy after rereading the thief about 3 times in the past 4 years and I can say that I cried. I’ve never been very good at ending things and letting things go but I’m so glad that I saw it all the way through. I did sit around and feel a bit empty after I finished but that’s just the way I am. I’ve also been inspired to continue writing and hopefully…eventually…post my own fic that I’ve been playing around with for the past 2 years. I initially was just planning on writing it for myself and never letting it see the light of day, but if someone can read my writing and feel even a fraction of the emotions I felt by reading this trilogy I think I’d be happy with that :]

Thank you so very much, this is such a sweet message 💕

Please do just go for it!!!! I've said this often, but i went YEARS not writing fiction out of being worried that I'd just embarrass myself.

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The Stars are the same as ever 🌟

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(FOB reposted this on their insta story and I’m still giddy abt it 💕💕💕)

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How are ya doing?^^

I'm fine! I have a new job that's much better paying but less "what I want to do" so I kinda have mixed feelings.

How are YOU anon?

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OMG IM SORRY I FORGOT THAT I DIDNT PUT THIS HERE 😭😭😭😭

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thoughts on barbarian tweek and feldspar running the bazzar (customization shop) in snow day

I haven't really been paying attention to Snow Day (I'm not a big gamer, especially not pvp) so I'm only now hearing that, but that's so cute 🥲

#asks #i was really into sot and tfbw for the plot

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Heya! Not so much an ask, but I love your work, I view The Thief as the definitive SOT fanfic, and KAYF as the best vampire-esque fic, I was wondering what was some sp fics you would recc that you view as a great example of its genre/type?

Thank you very much!!!

I haven't read any fic in a long time, but Aisle 10 is very "definitive" as a Creek fic in general.

I really liked The Bucket List by RoseyR

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Actually i will say on KAYF...

The basic premise of KAYF was an idea I first got roughly ten years ago after watching various vampire media. (Let the Right One In, Shiki, etc.) Not the whole plot, but the basic premise of a (queer) couple broken up by one becoming a vampire while their town is being destroyed by...well, vampires. Originally with my friend's and my Star Wars ocs from the MMO swtor we were obsessed with and made a billion AUs for, but very quickly it became its own thing in my head with new OCs.

But at that point in my life i was not writing fiction. I was always too self conscious of my writing because someone flamed my cringeybwriting on Neopets when I was, like...8 or something. So I literally went a full ass decade without writing fiction (with the exception of a couple attempts i immediately abandoned because I hated them) until I decided to try again with South Park fanfiction because i don't even know. Which includes The Thief, which I was shocked people liked. It was a TERRIBLE point in my life, I should say, so having people enjoy what I wrote and saying nice things about it was quite literally one of the only good things I had.

But anyway I still had that vampire idea in the back of my head, but just as random scenes that played in my head of the two main charades + the person who ended up being Estella. (Though originally her and Scott's role was combined.) The plot wasn't really defined or anything, but the basic ending was in my head from the very very beginning.

Anyway...2020. i was supposed to see MCR. Then COVID postponed it. I was very sad about this. So I extra emo-ly listened to a shit ton of MCR. And listening to MCR, suddenly I was thinking about that vampire story and their music pretty much helped me put the plot into place. The terminal illness plotline. The vampire of the pairing being obsessed to save his love and the cruelty from the other vampires regarding that. And ofc the song Kill All Your Friends itself gave me the set up of an IT-like time skip where someone died and they all go back.

They were all still 100% OCs in my head at this point. I didn't really have much confidence anyone would like these idea but, I was actively writing South Park fanfiction people liked well enough. I'd only ever written fanfiction. So I was like "huh I guess I can make this idea Creek".

So I did. And then wrote three chapters and didn't update for a full year.

But then in 2021 it became my ADHD obsession. I stopped caring about The Thief Trilogy. All I could think of was KAYF and wrote the rest of it in three or so months... Over 100k words. Pretty sure the update schedule was longer than that, but I spaced out chapters by a week long after I was finished.

And people seemed to like it. It was too dark to be as popular as the Thief Trilogy, but I knew that. It was a much more personal story, though, especially with how emotional it was, so it meant SO MUCH to me that anyone liked it. Also because The Thief Trilogy feels basically just like a bloated fanfiction adaptation of the SOT game to me, while KAYF feels like mine, so the kind words for it meant even more in a way.

Until someone I thought was a friend trashed it relentlessly. Like, I'm fine with constructive criticism but they were just horrible. Spoiled the plot for people who wanted to read it directly after i asked them not to, went on condescending rants about how there was too much filler, how Tweek in it was an awful character who deserved to die, claimed characters were all too unsympathetic, joked about parts I meant in earnest, etc. And they got really mad at me that my feelings were hurt by this. It was a whole thing.

Anyway, I'm still to this day years later obsessed with this story year. I think about it every day, which is probably more unhealthy ADHD shit. And I always think about how to make it better. I hate how I wrote it so fast and didn't think about certain details or pacing or what have you. Like, once I finished writing it, I was sad because I wanted to keep writing it. I still do.

I hate that I disappoint people by not having it out there. I want it out there, just not the version I rushed in three months.

So, for now, the fic is hidden. Indefinitely.

Anyway if you read all this tl;dr rambling congratulations I guess.

#kayf

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Hi! I was wondering why did you hide KAYF? If you want to tell us of course, I just love that fic so much

Uhh...a lot of reasons.

What made me pull the trigger was AI shenanigans on AO3 and for various reasons I haven't put it back up for more than brief windows.

At this point if i ever did put it back up, I'd feel the need to edit it heavily first because I wrote most of it in like three months and now my inner George Lucas comes out whenever I look at it. But I'm busy and have other focuses right now.

There is a chance that one day I'll be able to be less vague. Though I'd prefer people not try to guess.

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Btw i absolutely don't mind this question in the slightest, if anything it's nice that people care

But i think I'm going to have to rename my ask box because most questions i get are about this haha

Sorry for the random question but I’m curious, what happened to your “Kill all your friends” story??

It's indefinitely hidden.

It's not deleted, though

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Sorry for the random question but I’m curious, what happened to your “Kill all your friends” story??

It's indefinitely hidden.

It's not deleted, though

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🍌🐟

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barbarian tweek!

lots of close-ups cuz i don't trust tumblrs upload quality