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[teejaystumbles]

(Won't You) Fall For Me - Chapter 2

Rating: T Status: Complete The Sandman season 2 spoilers under the cut

Hob's thoughts were racing while his running feet carried him through London.

A shooting star. How did one follow its descent and pinpoint its probable point of impact without astronomic equipment? Hob cursed himself for not having taken a more than casual interest in astronomy so far. He was lacking knowledge in a crucial moment like this and it sucked.

“You’re a sorry excuse for an immortal, Hob Gadling,” he growled at himself as he ran along the quiet streets.

Okay, so first things first. He’d head home and grab his car, then he’d go to the observatory in-

He lost his train of thought because he didn’t really know where a working observatory was. He’d have to look it up before he set out-

No. Sod it. This was taking too much time. He’d just head in the direction he’d seen the star fall, which was, surprisingly, exactly the way he was going right now.

Why was he so sure he’d find anything, anyway? Most meteors burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere and never made it to the ground, right? That’s something he had read or heard somewhere. What if-

No, he couldn’t start thinking like that, he couldn’t get his hopes up that this star was actually his friend, and then despair that he would burn up in the atmosphere. That was insane. But then, Hob was immortal, and his friend wasn’t human, so why would he not be able to fall from the sky and live?

Because he’s already dead, his traitorous mind reasoned, and you’re wishing on a shooting star, which has never worked before, you’ve tried, remember? “Oh shut it,” he murmured and rounded the corner of his street.

There was a light in his window.

Hob slowed to a halt, his blood rushing in his ears, his heart beating overtime from the run. He heaved and stared up at the pale white glow. Had he left a light on? No, he’d dressed and gone out without turning anything on, he was sure. The light had a different quality than Hob’s daylight lamps, too, colder and more like…

Starlight.

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[pookiepies]

“you’re not being serious, right?” His voice rings through the air, as if the entire house fell silent, the music blasting through the cheap speakers dulling to a barely audible hum.

This isn’t how she planned it to go, not in a million years had she ever imagined this.

“what? of course i’m joking,” y/n laughs out the obvious lie nervously, her ears beginning to ring and his hands starting to become clammy.

“C’mon’” Niall starts, his brows narrowing in concern. It makes her sick.

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lowkey ass but if you want more let me know teehee

[fractallion]

037/366 | 🔁 Serendipity

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’Serendipity’ By 'Leonardo'

🚧

Is It catching❓Or is it just plain old serendipity❓

It was January 1st when I had the idea for the 366 series. It wasn’t fully formed, but I had to start. And, as the posts started to happen over the next few days, there were different ideas and formats running around in my head and being tried out. With the layouts, every time I locked down on a new one - I went back to the older 366 posts and adjusted. (Not the post itself - the layout.) I have never been diagnosed with OCD, but I have my suspicions.

It has now all settled down, a flow has been building, so much so that I have topics in my head that are maybe a week out.

The trouble is that some of the topics are big, and I know I don’t have time on that day and some get really big so have to flag with 🚧 - my signal that I will be coming back.

🖇️ Like this one for example, which I flagged with the emoji - but I know there is so much more to say that I even added words for more context.

Let Me Explain

I happen to share 366 posts into specific, yet different communities to solicit feedback. 🖇️ This one for example, has spawned comments applying the thinking to a game, which then moved on to applying that game to corporate workshops. Which is just brilliant really. No idea if any of that will take off - we will have to see .. I just like the idea that

a post on LinkedIN by someone I do not know resulted in

a comment from someone I do know that caused me to

write a post about how that triggered a connection to something that I bang on and on about which meant I had to

find that original post so I could share that, so it made sense

which then made the 2nd person in the chain seek to clarify the idea I was spouting

which I confirmed that it was indeed

so he then took that and suggested that a game could be developed around the process, to which I said

or maybe turn it into a framework for Corporate Workshops and ….

… and that’s where we have got to so far. In amongst all of that I have some actions I need to do to close some loops - but it’s all because of the serendipity of the different people coming together in this chain of thinking. #Awesome

But - and here’s the weird part … this wasn’t the serendipitous event that I was referencing when I first ideated the theme of this post. Not at all.

The thread started as a simple idea that as I came up with this project - so too did Om, who I follow and read anyway - but within his ‘river’, he has a sub-theme called 🔗 Project 36

I don’t really follow his photos (though they are really rather good), and I became aware of it because of 🔗this post on his blog, which ends with these words …

As I dive into the rhythm of my 365 (+1) project, I realize how challenging it can be to sustain “photography” or any creative practice for that matter. Sometimes inspiration doesn’t strike, yet you still have to create. I approach creative work like a feast or a family gathering, and this project is truly pushing my limits.

They really resonated with me. ()Om often does) and on the 3rd🖇️ January I linked to his New Years message because those words there in my mind right at that point because just three days in I was already feeling the enormity of what I had challenged myself to deliver, daily.

I also have a couple of posts in the 366 series that are very short - to maintain the flow - but they don’t take much time. Like🖇️ this one from the 28th January - it’s a quick photo!

But there’s more. fellow MicroBlogger 🔗 TeeJay seems to have also latched on to the one a day post. In his case - every single day he is putting a lovely image that he takes on that day.

Turns out - for him it is not a new idea. 🔗As his new year post points out. and now his daily photo comes into my RSS feed each and every day - reminding me to stay the course.

And to tie it all back. This whole post was one of those quick throwaways. I had the idea for a ‘serendipity’ post when I had seen Om and Teejay - it was up my sleeve to write it when I was short of time. Like today.

Short of time? What the hell happened?

The observant amongst you wil have spotted that an ‘eye candy’ image accompnies every post. In this case, I wrote my two lines and hopped over to Leonardo to generate my image.

This was the first image to come out …

Seriously? Cubes? After just writing a a long post that featured a cube. Is Leonardo watching me? Of course I had to connect those dots and unpack that serendipity.

And with that … done. Time to post. A quick check reveals the word count to be roughly 100 times my original target. I know I am hitting the send button with the post not fully proofed, which is why 🚧 is at the top.

I will come back later to make whatever inevitable fixes I will need to do. For now though … I feel I have rambled to the end of this garden path and I can sense it has come around full circle back to where it all started.

If you are still with me. Thankyou for seeing it through.

This is one of 366 daily posts that are planned to appear throughout the year of 2024. More context will follow.

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[minumi-chan]

tagged by: @teejay-kaye

last song I listened to: Vertigo by insensible, énouement

currently reading: Not reading because I am writing and I cannot read when I have the writing bug. Maybe one day I will be satisfied enough to post this 50,000 words and counting story.

currently watching: ROTTMNT for the 4654613164687546th time

currently obsessed with: ROTTMNT (it has been 500 days, they are the only thing staving my sad thoughts)

tagging (if you wanna): @tervaneula, @witchofthemoss,

get to know you better game! answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better.

(im doing this like...a month after i was tagged i kept forgetting to do it when i had the time whoops-)

tagged by: @eldritchgray

last song I listened to: Everything Moves by Bronze Radio Return

currently reading: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

currently watching: Hermitcraft? idk im not consistently a tv person so youtube stuff is the best thing i've got for this one atm

currently obsessed with: TMNT, minecraft, homestuck, my irl cats

tagging (if you wanna): @teejay-kaye @deerlydreaming @cowboy-homoerotica @vampirecrucifixion @not-a-space-alien

if you wanna do it, feel free, but dont feel obligated if its not ur thing!

[chayscribbles-archive]

so i uhhhh started writing an “apocalypse diary” for Peach

[alien-bodies]

whos this wanker

its me

Tagged by @gemvictorfromtheponyverse AND @the-deca, 2 FRESH pals bless thank

The real title is “get to know the blogger” but it’s 1am and I can’t copy more than 1 paragraph on mobile so I’m manually typin this bish!!! Gotta have fun!!!

name

ian

star sign

My mom went to the hospital 10 days past my due date and got labour induced bc I’d been in there TOO long it was TIME to GET OUT. Incidentally this was the last day of Taurus and 16 hours before Gemini began. Make of that what u will

height

In this house we round it up to 5’3”

put ur Spotify on shuffle and say the first 4 songs that show up

I share this account with my mom so I’m cheating ok we get

Frame of Mind by Tristam

Choke by IDKHBTFM (i am NOT typing that shit out are u kidding me)

Hit and Run by LOLO (HEY it’s me from the future where I finished this post. This has been stuck in my head for 20 minutes but I’m TURNT so it’s fine but also I have class in 8 hours so it’s not fine)

Dear Wormwood by The Oh Hellos (HEY again. This song for REAL showed up on shuffle I wasn’t lyin in that book question lower down This Really Exists get on my level)

have u ever had a poem or song written about you?

KIND OF YES ok I post on Facebook relentlessly and one time my dad was late coming home bc whatever and dinner was shrimp fettuccine alfredo like UHHHH YUM so I posted “Make haste father / We must partake of the shrimp fettuccine / Make haste” and my friend who makes music (goodnightgirl on Bandcamp) made a song of it bc she was so inspired I was HONOURED

when was the last time you played the guitar?

In grade 9 social studies class we had an assignment that was to make an album cover and track list about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and at the time I wanted to go into film and other Tech Stuff so instead of doing something fuckin normal like writing down “Jingle My Equality” in coloured pencil and calling it a day I kept working over winter break and wrote and recorded 8 songs including the whack-ass instrumentation using only a headset, my laptop, and Audacity. The last couple days of winter break I tried to learn some guitar cords to try and make it sound at least a little alright but I absolutely did not sing in any real key I just fucked around in my closet so that fell through real quick and the strongest instrument backup went to random tooting on my mom’s recorder

I never picked up a guitar again and those songs haunt me to this day

celebrity crush

We All Gay For Jodie Whittaker This Season

a sound you hate and a sound you love

I passionately hate when my neighbour operates his leaf blower

I love the ping sound the custom bot makes during a word war in my regional NaNoWriMo group chat, it triggers something nice and good in my brain bc it always happens when I’m writing words and having fun so even when I think the sound. I’m Good

do you believe in ghosts?

only when I’m on the clock bc my manager can see ghosts and says our Hot Topic is haunted and who am I to argue with that

aliens?

dude hell yeah

do you drive?

dude hell nah

last book you read?

fuckin. I read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

I’d elaborate but that’d take longer to explain than the guitar story, so TL;DR gay analysis plus folk fanfiction album

worst injury you’ve had?

My friend broke my arm in grade 4 when we went tubing at a birthday party because she’s a speed demon and fell on top of it

any obsessions rn?

H

Don’t @ me

do you try to hold grudges against people who have wronged you?

This is such a weird questionnaire first of all, second of all like no I don’t try but there’s one fucker out there,,, hey brxen.prxnce if u reading this block me on ravelry bitch (theres no k because theyre a doofus plain and simple)

in a relationship?

I sure ain’t but i got some dank fic recs hmu

That’s a wrap I’m tagging anyone who read this and understood what “Dear Wormwood” was referencing and/or if you’ve watched an episode of TJLCE those are tonight’s moods thank you goodnight

[hpowellsmith]

Hello! I just want to say that I'm so happy about the Royal Affairs release! And I would like to ask: do you have a face claim for an all male characters choice?

With the caveat that this is not at all exact, the ages/personality don't totally match etc etc, and often the photos I looked at inspired me more from aesthetic/vibes than exact details, here are some of the references I thought about when writing:

Asher: William Moseley (bit of Logan Shroyer also)

Beaumont: Jeenu Mahadevan

Dominique: Teejay Marquez

Hyacinthe: Lil Nas X (though much shorter and obviously a lot more demure)

Javi: Jordan Bolger

Trevelyan: Sacha Dhawan

[skambigbang]

Next on our Bang roster: "Pride, Prejudice and Penetrators" by @teejaysnow with art by @sunnywithachanceofmitch ! Can’t wait to see many of our beloved characters looking for love in this classic remake.

Teejaysnow: What inspired this story?

A long, loooooong time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was talking to a fandom friend about who the Skam characters would be in different film, book and TV universes. Fast forward a couple of years and here we are…

Sunnywithachanceofmitch: What inspired you about this story?

I love how Pride and Prejudice and Skam have been blended together and I think this makes the interactions between Isak and Even in the fic so fun and interesting. I can envision the scenes so clearly in my head because of TeeJay’s amazing writing and I can’t wait to interpret these scenes visually!

The 2023 Skam Big Bang starts posting June 21st!

[manicpixiedreamboots]

There's this story concept I've been flirting with, and I've hit a block with it. It's set on an island devastated by a recent natural disaster, and its remaining infrastructure is overseen by a military compound. There is a local rebel force that is taking advantage of the disaster to try and take control of the island away from the mainland, and they send a spy into the compound. Over the course of about a year, she starts sympathizing with the enemy, and eventually turns on the rebels. (1/2)

(2/2) The spy turns mainly because she realizes that the rebels will make things much worse for the island if they destabilize its current chain of command. I don’t have much world building set up yet, or any characters TBH, but I like the core idea. My problem is, I’m not sure how I’d write it without it turning into some kind of social/political commentary, some “gov’t good/civilian rebels bad” kind of thing, but more of a Wrong Methods Wrong Time kind of story. Any advice about that?

OMG I AM SO SORRY I DIDN’T GET A NOTIFICATION FOR THIS AND SO I DIDN’T SEE IT AND AHHH!!!! So so sorry it’s taken 12 days for a reply! 

Hmmm  interesting dilemma, I love the concept!!  I think I would approach it by building up your spy character.  Write the story with her perspective changing through her experiences, so she then has to report back to the rebels and change their minds. She needs to see both sides and make rational decisions, while maintaining her authenticity. If you make her suddenly completely switch sides, then it’ll be more “gov’t good/civilian rebels bad"  So focus instead on the inner struggle with the good vs evil that she personally experiences. She doesn’t have to be completely unbiased and she will be influenced by her surroundings.. but if you build her up as a really strong character your story will form around her.  

Goodluck and I hope you keep writing! :D 

[teejaywyatt1]

I know this comes a few days late but Happy March everyone! 💚🍀 I’m briefly checking in with a long awaited announcement because you know I can never go without one after a while.

As most of you already know John Wick: Chapter 4 is set to be released this month and I will be in attendance. 🙌🏽😭 I’ll waited for nearly three years and I can’t wait to finally see it. Not only that but I’ll have more material to write with. Now in celebration of our favorite stoic hitman being on screen once again, I plan to upload back to back Skyline chapters for the entire months of March and April. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I’ll likely update at the very least, two chapters per month, maybe even more depending on how fast I can crank them out. I’ve had this planned for about five months and already mapped out the next four chapters in advance, one of which (Chapter 35) is currently finished and set to be released at the readers discretion. If everyone would like the chapter to be released this week or next please let me know. 🙇🏽‍♀️ I’m beyond excited for you guys to see what happens both good and bad depending on how you look at it. 😂🤷🏽‍♀️ Let me just say y’all are in for a treat regardless! The story is about to take a wild new turn and we’re about to get deeper into the lore and world that is John Wick.

All I can say is…prepare yourselves. QUICKLY. TeeJay out! ✌🏾

[teejaystumbles]

(Won't You) Fall For Me - Interlude

Darkness surrounds him like an embrace. The arms of his mother are as gentle and smothering as he remembers. It feels too heavy to stir against. It feels like the lack of all choice and duty. There's nowhere else for him to go. There's nothing more for him to do. Only rest. He has earned this, he remembers her whispering to him. He can relax now, and not think anymore.

He sighs.

His breath releases a colorful burst of particles. They dance out into the darkness, billowing like a cloud to form a new nebula. He watches in wonder and feels-

Urge. To create. To DO. 

He stirs and his movements displace more atoms, create pull and gravity that forces more small swirls of dust to dance around him, colour vibrating through the dark as he shapes-

He shapes. He creates. It is his whole reason for being. He cannot fight against it, cannot stay still now he knows again what he can do.

“Oh, little one,” he hears the voice of his mother sound from around him. “Why do you always have to make a mess?”

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[bardicfool]

Day 19: The In-Between

Author: @ditzysworld​

Genre: paranormal/post-apocalyptic

What first piqued my interest: Honestly, I’ve seen so many cool posts with excerpts, mood boards, and worldbuilding details, I’m not sure how I first got pulled into this one. But I stayed for the sibling shenanigans, snappy dialogue, and Epic Paranormal Event(s).

What I want to learn more about: What caused the shift? What happened to Baby when she disappeared? How will the Arroyo kids navigate their familial relationship after five very hard years of separation? And how concerned do I need to be about this “character death” tag? 😟

What I’m excited about: Did I mention SIBLING SHENANIGANS?? Baby, Teejay, and Peach are all fully realized, charismatic characters, and I’m super excited to see how they change and grow. Also, I love me some shady government/military organizations I definitely didn’t write one of those myself or anything

WIP Intro Post

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The WIP Shout-Out Project is a challenge I created for myself to give a brief virtual high-five to one WIP every day in July. While these shout-outs aren’t super in-depth, I’m hoping they’ll still help spread a little love and encouragement to the writeblr community. If you want to follow along, I’ve tagged all related posts #wip shout-out. Feel free to give your own shout-outs, too!

[deduezine]

Get to know our Mod Team!  First up is our lovely head mod and financial mod, Sydney!  Second is our amazingly talented graphic mod, Mars! Next is our fabulous writing mod, TeeJay! More to be announced soon. 

[heart-eyes-kippen]

not to project or anything but like tj sends cyrus one direction lyrics at random times and cyrus is like ‘okay i mean ur cute bUT ITS 2AM GO THE HECK TO SLEEP’

and when i say one direction lyrics i mean the CHEESIEST ones ever about romance and love bc tj is smitten wbk!!!!!

here are some exchanges that are 100% canon (all occurring between the hours of 12am and 4am except for the last one, which is at 3pm)

~

tj: i wanna write you a song

tj: one that’s beautiful as you are sweetttt

cyrus: tj u don’t know how to write songs go back to bed

tj: 😢😢😢

cyrus: ily!!

tj: 🥰🥰🥰

~

tj: and all i can dooo

tj: is say that these arms were made for holding youuu

cyrus: zzzzz

tj: HEY i know ur not asleep 😡

cyrus: zzzzz

tj: appreciate my lyrics :(((

cyrus: zzzzz

tj: fine guess u just lost ur hand-holding privileges

cyrus: OKAY okay i appreciate ur one direction lyrics

tj: 🥰🌈✨💗💓💕

~

tj: ohh baby this is not an illusionnn

tj: there’s magic between you and meeee

cyrus: TEEJAY close ur eyes this instant and start cuddling me again

tj: i’m literally still cuddling you

cyrus: cuddle me more then >:-(

tj: ur the cutest

cyrus: no u

tj: no U

tj: okay i’m putting my phone away before this turns into another thing

cyrus: good idea bc i can go forever 😌

~

tj: you and iiii, we don’t wanna be like them

tj: we can make it till the endddd

tj: no nothing can between you and iiii

cyrus: okay i’ll let that slide bc i like that song

tj: TASTE

tj: u get free baby taters tomorrow just for that

cyrus: ...i also like every one direction song to exist ever

tj: don’t push ur luck cy 😡

cyrus: ugh fine

tj: i love uuu, get some sleep

cyrus: says the one texting me at 2am

cyrus: (i love u too)

~

tj: i don’t care what people say when we’re together

tj: you know i wanna be the one who holds you when you sleepppp

cyrus: i could actually use that rn ngl 😔

tj: bet, i’ll be right over

cyrus: tj what

cyrus: tj???

cyrus: omg-

~

tj: i wanna be last, yeah, baby let me be your, let me your last first kisssss

cyrus: i’m right next to u >:-(

tj: and??

cyrus: soooo

cyrus: kiss me

cyrus: if u want

tj: 🥺❤️

tj: okay i’m done with my phone now

~

tj: they don’t know about the things we do, they won’t about the ‘i love you’s’

tj: but i betcha if they only knew, they would just be jealous of us

cyrus: omg okay i can get behind these during the day

cyrus: they don’t know about the up all nightssss

tj: they don’t know i’ve waiTED ALL MY LIFE

cyrus: JUST TO FIND A LOVE THAT FEELS THIS RIGHTT

tj: baby they don’t know about (they don’t know about) usss

cyrus: a virtual duet wow

tj: i love us

cyrus: i love YOU

tj: thats gay

cyrus: >:-((

tj: okaaay, i love you too 🥺❤️

cyrus: :-))))

[chayscribbles-archive]

          teejay

     ↳ the in-between - character intro

full name: Theodore Josemari Arroyo

age: 27

birthday: september 6th

zodiac: virgo sun, capricorn moon, scorpio rising

where he got his nickname: derived from his initials, T.J.

superlative: the most hardworking

random fact: excellent cook

after millions, including his youngest sister, disappeared in the interdimensional shift five years go, Teejay was left searching for a sense of purpose, a reason to keep going on.

becoming a field agent for the IBIP gave him that purpose.

he worked his grief away for the organization dedicated to investigating interdimensional phenomena, earning the validation and approval he longed so hard for. but things aren’t adding up. the missions he and his team are sent on don’t make sense. those who ask too many questions are being silenced. and Teejay’s desperate loyalty to the organization that he thought had given him so much might cost him and his family more than he’s willing to admit.

the in-between official intro | the in-between character intros 

character playlist | birth chart

[celepom]

Tagged by @teejay-kaye​

Rules: Copy/paste and bold your fic preferences because why not, gotta choose one (near impossible, but go with your first gut instinct), and tag some people at the end.

slow burn or love at first sight - I don’t really believe in love at first sight. To me, something like that that’s based on an instant and purely physical isn’t love, it’s lust. Also, if you look at my own writing I have some epic slow burns.

fake dating or secret dating - YA’LL KNOW I’M A SUCKER FOR THIS SHIT

enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers -

oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance with correspondence - Oh noooo teehee

hurt/comfort or amnesia - I mean, amnesia can be part of the Hurt/comfort, so maybe both again? But I do like hurt/comfort.

fantasy au or modern au - Give me epic world building!!!

mutual pining or domestic bliss - Don’t get me wrong, pining is great, but so many times what I want from canon after they get together is to SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP. But Usually couples get together at the end, so you don’t SEE THAT and I WANT IT.

smut or fluff - Ehn, honestly it depends on my mood, but I prefer lots of fluff or, you know, Stuff before getting into smut.

canon compliant (missing scenes) or fix-it fic - Depends on the canon TBH. Sometimes you just wanna flesh out something that would fit within canon and other times you need to rip everything off the foundation and build a new house.

alternative universe or future fic - AUs ARE SO MUCH FUN! And they can be so creative and inspirational!

one shot or multi chapter - How much time to I have? Oh, this fic is 150K long and complete? Well I can read that in a day or so and then it’s 3AM and I regret everything. I’ll definitely read both, but I have more time for one-shots than Epics these days.

kid fic or roadtrip fic - I don’t really read either tbh, but I’m more likely to read a roadtrip than a kid fic.

reincarnation or character death - Going by my own writing again, yeah, reincarnation is fun. I only read character death fic when I’m in a good enough mood to handle SUFFERING, because M’BOI I get emotional reading about my favs dying.

arranged marriage or accidental marriage - I blame these idiots specifically for this one:

high school romance or middle aged romance - Bruh, I’ve been out of high school over a decade, I wanna read about people around my own age/life experiences.

time travel or isolated together - Both, but leaning more towards Isolated Together. Force those idiots to talk.

neighbors or roommates - Omigawd they were roommates...

sci fi au or magic au - I mean both are good, but I’m definitely more of a magic person than scifi.

bodyswap or genderbend - Don’t really read either, but am more likely to read genderbend than bodyswap, because the concept of bodyswap makes me uncomfortable

angst or crack - *looks at her own writing* Hmm...

apocalyptic or mundane - Somewhere in the middle? Starts mundane and becomes apocalyptic? Tho most of the time, I do like the mundane everyday life stuff.

I tag @auroblaze​ @stardustupinlights​ @indigowallbreaker​ aaaand @tarashima​