#(Not my main focus for my blog but I can make it be..)

[ask-jewels-against-the-sea]

Watcher anyone?

(some info about my absence below if you are curious (I'll put a TLDR at the top))

TLDR; I worked a job that gave me burn-out and now my braincell isn't as into Rain World as it was before, so it might be a long time before I continue the blog's story, if I ever do. I might make a Deltarune comic, and if I do, I'll link it here! Thank you for following me, it's been a wonderful experience. <3

---

In short, I was working a job that just kept eating away at my mental sanity, and I became extremely burnt out from drawing, writing, everything I liked doing. (Turns out waitressing is still hell even if you get paid well and have good hours.)

As much as I'd like to return to Jats' story, and as much as I'd love to do the CYOA for <invalid_user>, I'm not sure I can at the moment. I'm definitely better since quitting and having time to relax, but my rain world brain cell simply isn't here, and I don't think I'd have as much fun with it as I'd like to. I'd hate to get burnt out again by forcing myself to work on something I'm not passionate about - especially since it wouldn't be the best thing I could make.

I don't want to give you guys a crummy or half-assed story - so for right now, this is going to be all for Jats. I might (heavy might) still post art here and there, but I haven't been drawing much rain world since I managed to get back into drawing again.

(Deltarune has been the main focus of my doodles...)

That said - I had an idea for a Deltarune comic with the release of the newest chapters, so I may instead pursue that for awhile. If I do, I'll link wherever I post it here in case any of you might be interested.

Anyway, I'm gonna wrap this up. Thank you for reading, and of course, thank you all for following along! I had a lot of fun, and hope you did too! Perhaps we will cross paths again in the future. <3

[rose022]

some things are very oc-able. perfect for making ocs and oc versions of. sadly, i am compelled to do so every time. its sadly because my ideas are beyond my capabilities. also i do not have the time or energy to do them all. alas. one day, far in the future, there will be many oc projects.

[take-ya-to-the-ghey-bar]

Okay, so~... i've been thinking on it for a little while now, and i think sometime soon(-ish), i'm gonna go ahead and make another multi-muse blog-- like as a side blog to my hub blog, since i did mainly make that blog to host these muses anyways lmao-- but it would feature muses from a few visual novels i've played/spectated, and enjoyed~♡

Added rambling and muse list under the cut, to save the dash from my yapping if anyone isn't interested--

Originally i was going to give most of these muses their own side blogs, as i had been working on a few of their blogs in the past-- and even had one or two up and running-- but thanks to poor detail management, i lost access to those blogs a while back XP

So, for the sake of making things less stressful on myself-- i've decided to just lump them all into one blog, and hopefully i can figure out a way to theme it that i'll be happy with--

Current planned muses are:

Impey Barbicane {Code: Realize}

Saint-Germain {Code: Realize}

Kageyuki Shiraishi {Collar x Malice}

Yasuhiro Isshiki {Collar x Malice}

Shui/The Poet {Lamento -Beyond the Void-}

Current considered additions are:

Konoe {Lamento -Beyond the Void-}

Asato {Lamento -Beyond the Void-}

Cardia Beckford {Code: Realize}

Ib {from the game of the same name--}

I'd also like to note that when this blog gets made, it'll most likely be fairly low activity wise-- and/or run mainly via a queue-- Since i would still like to try and focus my attention toward blogs i have at current LOL

also also, while i have given some consideration to adding Ukyo from Amnesia as well... for now, he'll remain outside either list-- both because that's a series i haven't touched in ages, and because at current i lack confidence in how well i could portray him.

there's also a chance i may expand the blog to include an oc or two... (likely either for Lamento, or maybe DMMd--) but at current, my plan is to focus on canon muses-- after i revisit their respective games.

lastly, yes i know Ib isn't really a VN, but~... in the event i do decide to pick up writing her again-- i feel like she'd still fit in well enough lol

[junk-heart]

Oh how I wish to shatter myself into 10 pieces so I can create art for all the things fighting for a crumb of attention in my head

[devouund]

considering...... making this blog my bsd multi (with aku as a primary muse) and making my current multi/sideblog into a dualmuse blog for sigma & fyodor instead??

there's a few reasons for this, and i do think i'd be more satisfied with things that way atm, but i don't know if it's a pain for you guys for me to be changing things already..... tbf i haven't got any threads on this blog yet and my multi so far only has stuff from sigma on it, so that'd make the change way easier, but still. does anyone have any reservations??

[moodr1ng]

friends and mutuals.. anyone here wanting to write a visual novel? i wanna get back to creating graphics for vns since i rly enjoy it but ive become stuck w my current vn projects because im struggling to do the writing. so yeah if you have a cool idea for a visual novel and youd be up to write it but youd like someone else to handle the art, graphics and renpy coding, im up to collab :)

[radioisntdead]

I JUST GOT THE PERFECT PRANK FOR NEXT APRIL FOOLS

LORAX FANFICTION.

What if I just pull this off during like Christmas or something, like merry Christmas you thought I was going to do the Christmas thing I was ramblin' about? NO IT'S THE L O R A X or maybe the tony the tiger x the Grinch reblog fanfiction, I LOVE to haunt Moony with that post. [Kirby if your reading this you will not be spared from this, you have until December 1st to prepare. Love ya! /P]

[thedevotionaltour]

i havent even read enough gl to justify the feelings and emotions i have about kyle i just have the lovers heart and also something wrong with me. and my projection. in my mind he's just like me. and he would have loved college vending machine frozen cheeseburger and heating it up in the microwave at 1 in the morning because he was bored and didn't want to work on a drawing assignment on 20" x 30" paper that was due tomorrow in his freshman year. he would have loved going to the club to push off finals work that's creating the worst stress known to man in his brain. and he would love to annoy the fuck out of his roommate when high and avoiding homework on a saturday.

[tvrningout-a]

so!! a little housekeeping is in order!!

i'm gonna be here kinda off and on bc i'm going to work on school stuff! and bc my inspiration's been decent, i might reblog a lil spicy meme over on @tvrningon and something fluffy here, though ofc you're free to send in any meme i've reblogged in the past <3 i also have an inbox call that i'll probably work on sometime later today!

and just to kinda share where my head's at, my muse for kny hasn't been very high lately, so i'm thinking of changing my muse list in a way that reflects that. i just!! haven't figured out how exactly. i might categorize the lists by fandom and then by primary, secondary, and tertiary/request. i just want to show that my focus is on chiyo/modern muses, fantasy, and even s.piderverse stuff atm but without shoving all my other muses off the list or into the request category. i can definitely still write everybody!! the muse just isn't there like it used to be.

this doesn't affect many people here, but i may also edit chiyo's bio to make her fandomless again; i just don't interact with hq!! muses very often anymore, and her story isn't one that necessarily needs to be connected to hq!! to work.

i apologize if any of this disappoints anybody btw! i know this blog used to be very kny-centered, and a lot of people followed me for that originally. but i need to do what's going to make being here fun for me, which means changing things. if you need to soft/hardblock me, there's no hard feelings, and i wish you the best <3

[knifepikmin]

Furry Pom/Rookie and My oc!

I was going to wait until I finished Collin to post this set but I realized my main actual art blog has been neglected. So here is a little preview of what the new better polished furry security corps will look like!

[szparagus2002]

Not to trust my thoughts after 3am but God does it feel like I'm failing as a partner lately

[sol-dial]

One of my many favorite episodes of Avengers Assemble and one of my many favorite moments of this episode because Steve looks so unbothered since he’s just focusing on Tony like stop qwq

 Attuma’s guys: ATTAAAACK!

Tony: Do you hear anything?

Steve: Nothing serious.

Attuma’s guys: Come on, guys, pay attention to us.

Steve: Shhh, we’re in the middle of a conversation.

[mathmusicreading]

Blog(ger) Shift

I am, so weird and bad about original posting and about reblogging and about saving things on Tumblr and that's why my blog has been mostly inactive or the lurking consumer type. But I don't want my fears about putting myself out there, being seen and known, articulating myself well vs. having been told my whole life I'm too wordy and opinionated vs. not managing to articulate myself well enough to justify being verbose and passionate, etc. to continue to control me so much.

So for my new specific-interest sideblog that I'm not locking, I hope it being themed will help me with making more original posts and reblogging, and I'm publicizing that here to push myself and also welcome interaction.

RIP to my other public specific-interest sideblog and the fandom sideblog I took over for someone that I didn't take further and to my private sideblogs that were meant to make me reblog and save and say stuff because they would be personal and just for me. I still would like to make those happen and reblogging and posting things that matter to me here, and oh my heart for the content ideas I haven't been working on, but they're pipedreams with how I'm (not) managing my life and I keep kicking those cans down the road.

To the person who I developed a real relationship with as a beta but who by now I probably count as having disappeared on with how long it's been and my not coming back to explicitly say I still can't help and don't know when I can, I am so sorry. I'm being a coward languishing in hoping I can tell you soon that I can get back into beta-ing for you and talking, but that's turned into me not talking to you because I'm waiting to be able to say something positive. Hopefully my vaguing here can help push me into talking to you, or at least this is here for you to read if you happen to see it; and I want you to know you absolutely can talk to me, can call me out, and if you're so gracious as to still want to be friends with me and just chat despite my dropping being your beta, I'm here for you and still want to be your friend even if I don't know if I'll have the spoons to be a good one and I know my saying that preemptively isn't apology or justification enough.

Honest assessment, I'm going to curse and say my living situation and work have both become even more of a shitshow, and with those things in mind I can't begin to imagine handling a real project until basically literally a year from now.

Which segues back into the main topic of this post. My goal isn't to have my new sideblog be like an active mainblog nor to abandon this blog—people interested in that blog can and should still interact with me here given how primary vs. secondary blogs on Tumblr work, and in terms of using that blog to help make me be a better Tumblr user, I think I should make certain original posts here and reblog them there as opposed to them being original there. With my mental-emotional and time resources, I want that blog to be "active" for a given definition of active, but really I think I should see my objective as "clear out tabs and likes and photos and lists and notes and drafts, etc. from the last four months" by saving stuff there, as opposed to my goal being the original posts I want to make there, and actually my long-term goal should be to use that momentum to do the same for older digital and physical storage that hasn't been lost or stolen. In my failure to be an interesting person, do I at least manage to be fascinating as a basket-case? Ha. But, also, as expressed above the Read More, the exercise of my danmei/Chinese sideblog is supposed to be a foray into me allowing myself to be an interesting person.

[sakurarisen]

Just a heads up to pardon the dust around my blog for a few days! <3 I've had a real long, hard think about a few things and decided that I need to make a few tweaks - Namely to note Sera is a multifandom/fandomless oc, not specifically Genshin nor FF7 based. For a long time I've had her split between two blogs, this one for these verses specifically and everything else on the other blog, but I'm putting a stop to that; I've pulled her back from the other a few months ago and will be writing her exclusively here from here on, but the realizations I've been making about Sera and the expansions to her story and lore in the last month or so have made me also realize so much of this blog reads like she was 'made' for FF7/GI, and I never meant for that to be the case.

So for the next couple days, I'm going to be finishing up the original edits I've been working on that ended up delayed due to circumstances, and with them I'll be doing some minor tweaks to reitterate Sera is, indeed, fandomless at her core. This will not change my primary focuses, though! I'll remain focusing on FF7, GI, and my fully original settings, nothing's changing there! <3 I just want to make it more clear what Sera is and 'put her back together' so to speak from this whole split blogs thing I had before~!

I will not be bringing her other verses and the like over, either; there were all of two active verses on the other blog and my primary partner for them and I have already talked all this out - Those verses are for the time being either dropped or on hiatus, so all of Sera's focus can come here like deserved. <3 I never intended to make her sound like a fandom-based/only muse, so it's time to do a little more spring cleaning! <3

~Pom

[tahbhie]

Reasons Why 80% of Romantic Plots Fall Through.

Haven't you wondered why a romantic story you have so much hope for suddenly flops? Whether it's yours or not, let's see what could be the problem.

• Relying Too Much on the Outcome

Unfortunately, no romance is complete without an arc. In other words, it is more than just the intimacy. When writers don't allow the relationship to develop naturally, it feels forced. Rushing to the final romance without building a solid foundation will make the story feel shallow and unconvincing. Take your time, flesh out the idea, and follow the plot gradually.

• Creating Unnecessary Victimization

I often see writers make the mistake of portraying one character as too weak or pitiful only for the sake of it. This unnecessary victimization can undermine the character's depth and make the story less compelling. Your readers won't cry along with a female character whose decisions are pretty sour compared to a five-year-old. It's just simply annoying.

Instead, both characters should have strengths and weaknesses, make realistic decisions, making them more relatable and balanced.

• Cringy Conflict.

Realistic conflict is essential for a compelling romance. Over-the-top or contrived conflicts can make the story feel forced and cringy. Conflict should come naturally and blend perfectly into the plot. It's not advisable to pop a challenge that's definitely not necessary in the name of 'keeping the stakes high.'

Rather, focus on creating believable challenges that the characters must overcome, adding depth and authenticity to the plot.

• Neglecting Other Emotions Outside Romance.

It's not only about love, or roses, or dinner nights, or lucky dates with the billionaire. Show the other emotions fighting for dominance: the hurts, pains, joy, frustration, desperation, anger, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, or even moments when a character falls out of love with the other and can't understand their feelings.

Focusing solely on love can lead to a one-dimensional story. For a well-rounded narrative, explore these emotions to create a richer and more immersive experience for the readers.

• Underdeveloped Characters.

What's a story without a fully-fledged character, especially if they are the main character in a story?

You might have heard people talk about the importance of backstories and others saying too much of it tires them out, but here's the thing—balance. It's what people fail to incorporate. I'll try to cover this in any of my upcoming blog posts. Follow to keep up.

To better understand why we should cry for, laugh with, pity, admire, adore, scold, yell at, advocate for, and smile with your character, we need to know why they are what they are, who they are, and why they make the choices they make.

It's important to create characters with distinct personalities, backgrounds, and motivations. When readers care about the characters, they become more invested in the story and its outcome.

And that's my Christmas gift from me to you 🎁. Merry Christmas 🎄

[unladielike]

    Considering the burgers themselves were very much based on Japanese cuisine, Vivian had been excited to see Mizumachi's reaction to the food truck... and just as she had predicted, it seemed he was pretty psyched, causing her to curl both hands into fists she'll subsequently prop up through the air.

    "Right?! I knew you would like it!" came her triumphant proclamation. Why, Japan might be a much cheaper place to live in compared to Vancouver, but it does admittedly have it's charms, which was something she hopes to have sufficiently conveyed to Mizumachi. Though, given how loudly his stomach then proceeded to grumble away, Vivian supposes that was enough of an actual indicator to prove he wasn't currently feeling all that homesick, and with a laugh, she'll hastily trail after him.

    "Hey, relax! It's not as if the food truck would suddenly grow legs and run away, you know?" Vivian playfully teases before settling to an eventual halt beside him. By that point, one other individual happens to be waiting in line ahead of them due to the fact he had gotten there first after the last customer left, meaning on a rather fortunate note, they wouldn't have to tolerate a super long line. "Anyways... you good with me ordering us ten teriyaki cheese burgers?" Vivian goes on to question.

    "Oh, and while we're at it, how about some soda as well, so the salt from all those burgers won't make us dehydrated? Then again, I guess water would do a better job at quenching our future thirst... still, good ol' H20 just doesn't hit the same compared to Coke; therefore, I'm inclined to believe the more appropriate refreshment would be something less healthier. What about you, though, Kenny? Which beverage would you rather pick?"

[水]

"Haha! I know someone who could eat like 20 burgers."

Mizumachi nods his head sagely, in total agreement with her assessment about the fries. He could still eat 5 burgers along with fries on a regular day, but he did try to consume more burgers than he did fries. Eating too many oily foods weren’t good for athletes, but he had to get his source of calories and meat from somewhere!

“That’s a healthy appetite! That’s a good thing!”

He knew a few girls on the cheerleading team who basically ate like rabbits because they cared a lot for their figure, and it was a bit worrying at times. It was good to know that Vivian wasn’t going to be starving herself because she was worried about her image. The teriyaki cheese burgers sounded so good though that he was already salivating at the thought.

Was paying for the meal a manly thing? Yeah, he could see it. In many countries it was socially the norm that the guy pays for the meals if he’s out with a woman, right? Manners and all that?

“Yeah, that makes sense. Do you hang out with guys more than girls, then?”

He asked because she said something about feeling like she was ‘one of the boys,’ and it made him curious about who she normally hung out with. Of course, there was absolutely nothing wrong in his eyes for a girl to have lots of guy friends (what, with most football club managers being girls?), but he did hear some people call that a flag or whatever. Just sounds like insecure dudes to him.

“Wooww! It looks great! Smells great too!”

He was just salivating a little bit before, but now he was at risk of drooling buckets from the smell. His stomach was just as excited if the sound of his stomach grumbling loudly was any indication.

“Let’s go!”

He basically zooms over to the food truck looking for the end of the line to stand at the end. With his long legs, his strides were large and fast. Perks of being tall.