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Super detailed questions about your OCs

1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything? 2. Do they have any titles? How did they get them? 3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory? 4. What is their relationship with their parents? What’s a good and bad memory with them? Did they know both parents? 5. Do they have any siblings? What’s their names? What is their relationship with them? Has their relationship changed since they were kids to adults? 6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate? 7. Did they have lots of friends as a child? Did they keep any of their childhood friends into adulthood? 8. Did they have pets as a child? Do they have pets as an adult? Do they like animals? 9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals? 10. Do they like children? Do children like them? Do they have or want any children? What would they be like as a parent? Or as a godparent/babysitter/ect? 11. Do they have any special diet requirements? Are they a vegetarian? Vegan? Have any allergies? 12. What is their favourite food? 13. What is their least favourite food? 14. Do they have any specific memories of food/a restaurant/meal? 15. Are they good at cooking? Do they enjoy it? What do others think of their cooking? 16. Do they collect anything? What do they do with it? Where do they keep it? 17. Do they like to take photos? What do they like to take photos of? Selfies? What do they do with their photos? 18. What’s their favourite genre of: books, music, tv shows, films, video games and anything else 19. What’s their least favourite genres? 20. Do they like musicals? Music in general? What do they do when they’re favourite song comes? 21. Do they have a temper? Are they patient? What are they like when they do lose their temper? 22. What are their favourite insults to use? What do they insult people for? Or do they prefer to bitch behind someone’s back? 23. Do they have a good memory? Short term or long term? Are they good with names? Or faces? 24. What is their sleeping pattern like? Do they snore? What do they like to sleep on? A soft or hard mattress? 25. What do they find funny? Do they have a good sense of humour? Are they funny themselves? 26. How do they act when they’re happy? Do they sing? Dance? Hum? Or do they hide their emotions? 27. What makes them sad? Do they cry regularly? Do they cry openly or hide it? What are they like they are sad? 28. What is their biggest fear? What in general scares them? How do they act when they’re scared? 29. What do they do when they find out someone else’s fear? Do they tease them? Or get very over protective? 30. Do they exercise? Regularly? Or only when forced? What do they act like pre-work out and post-work out? 31. Do they drink? What are they like drunk? What are they like hungover? How do they act when other people are drunk or hungover? Kind or teasing? 32. What do they dress like? What sorta shops do they buy clothes from? Do they wear the fashion that they like? What do they wear to sleep? Do they wear makeup? What’s their hair like? 33. What underwear do they wear? Boxers or briefs? Lacey? Comfy granny panties? 34. What is their body type? How tall are they? Do they like their body? 35. What’s their guilty pleasure? What is their totally unguilty pleasure? 36. What are they good at? What hobbies do they like? Can they sing? 37. Do they like to read? Are they a fast or slow reader? Do they like poetry? Fictional or non fiction? 38. What do they admire in others? What talents do they wish they had? 39. Do they like letters? Or prefer emails/messaging? 40. Do they like energy drinks? Coffee? Sugary food? Or can they naturally stay awake and alert? 41. What’s their sexuality? What do they find attractive? Physically and mentally? What do they like/need in a relationship? 42. What are their goals? What would they sacrifice anything for? What is their secret ambition? 43. Are they religious? What do they think of religion? What do they think of religious people? What do they think of non religious people? 44. What is their favourite season? Type of weather? Are they good in the cold or the heat? What weather do they complain in the most? 45. How do other people see them? Is it similar to how they see themselves? 46. Do they make a good first impression? Does their first impression reflect them accurately? How do they introduce themselves? 47. How do they act in a formal occasion? What do they think of black tie wear? Do they enjoy fancy parties and love to chit chat or loathe the whole event? 48. Do they enjoy any parties? If so what kind? Do they organise the party or just turn up? How do they act? What if they didn’t want to go but were dragged along by a friend? 49. What is their most valued object? Are they sentimental? Is there something they have to take everywhere with them? 50. If they could only take one bag of stuff somewhere with them: what would they pack? What do they consider their essentials?

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i guess this is gonna be my writing blog??

i know no one follows this blog (perhaps that is for the better, in all honesty), but i have a lot of ideas and i need somewhere to dump them

for example, there’s this story that i just kind of started to write because i was inspired by carry on. i wanted to write my own chosen one story, i guess. it’s sort of autobiographical. the main character’s name is natalya/natalie/natasha (which, admittedly, i ripped off from great co,met, but that is neither here nor there. i’ll probably change it anyways). i need to do a whole lot more planning before i do anything else with it, as i just sort of started writing without having a whole plan as to what i wanted to do with it, other than the fact that i wanted it to be autobiographical to some extent, and that i wanted it to have some sort of fantastical elements to it.

what i have so far is kind of bad. at the beginning, i kind of wanted it to be the sort of narrative that started at the end, but i didnt have an end in mind! it ended up being really vague in the beginning (it’s not like i can go back and change the perspective, i handwrote it! which is probably bad). i ended up changing the way i wanted the narrative to come across (the tense, i guess) midway through what i made chapter one. i still need to do a lot with it, really.

another story thing i have is a color soulmates au. it’s really more like fanfiction, but i think i want to change it to make it original. it’s gay (because of course it is) and, i guess, a little autobiographical as well? i’m sensing a trend here. anyways, i see a lot of myself in the main character. maybe this is some way to, like, express myself? to put myself in positions that i could never even imagine happening in my own dreadfully boring life? perhaps. that’s what i was thinking with the other story anyways. 

the story itself is based on that concept usually found in fanfiction where the whole world is in black and white until the main character (usually the narrator) kisses (or meets, but in my story they kiss and thats how they know. i’m not actually at that part yet, but) their soulmate. like yeah it’s ha.milton fanfiction but i want to change it. i really do. i’ll think about it. the working title for it is “lilting line of lyrical alliteration” (which is from something rotten lol) because. i want the love between the two of them to be poetic. i want them to be really close to kissing several times. keep the audience in suspense. they’re really just afraid that they’ll be disappointed if/when the other isn’t their soulmate after all. i guess they’re also afraid of rejection. from society, from each other. they’d probably be considered an “anomaly” because it really doesn’t make sense, from an evolutionary standpoint, for their soulmate to be of the same sex. not that it’s never been seen before, but it’s largely a societal thing. even at one of the most liberal colleges out there. (i’ll probably change the college too.) i want them to end up moving to france or something. where it’s better. i don’t know. that’s another thing i have to figure out.

another story i have is a play that i started writing last summer but never really got around to fully writing. (it’s gay too because, of course.) i have a few things planned out for it, like the fact that the princess (i think her name is marianne, i’ll have to check) is suddenly the heir to the throne at like 16 or something because her father has taken ill and is not likely to survive and is heavily advised to get married quickly so a man who knows what he’s doing can take over. (i don’t know if that’s actually how monarchies work, but bear with me.) she almost goes through with it, too. she has a few suitors, but the most prominent one is this prince (probably the third or fourth son in the family). he’s really charming, as far as i remember, but i didn’t give him a name yet.

amid all the chaos of her training to be the next monarch (her older brother died quite suddenly of some illness or other, and her mother died when she was younger), marianne flees to the forest on horseback, just to get a moment’s rest. she’s overwhelmed with all the lessons on how to lead, how to be a “proper lady” (she always sort of skipped those lessons when she was younger), and everything else. in the forest, she meets another young girl. this other girl, eleanor, i think her name was, is a sort of peasant. she’s really strong and doesn’t take any bullshit because she has to sort of provide for her mother and younger brothers. her father likely left, but she doesn’t talk about him very much. but anyways, marianne sees eleanor in the forest and she’s like “shit i am fucking gay what the fuck” she’s Smitten. meanwhile eleanor is like “oh goddammit another one of these country noblewomen wandered onto my property again” and she approaches marianne like “what is a country noblewoman like you doing here?????” and marianne almost corrects her (”such disrespect!”) but like. in that moment she realizes all she really wants is a friend who isn’t friends with her because of the fact that she is heir to the throne, so she doesn’t correct eleanor. (she probably portrays this to the audience in the form of a monologue)

over the next few months, they sort of become friends, with marianne sneaking out of her lessons and having to be fetched every time. eleanor doesn’t know she’s royalty until the day of marianne’s coronation. she feels...well, betrayed. they have a sort of falling out. i don’t really know where to go from there, but. yeah. i guess that’s the story that has the most planning.

i don’t know how consistent i’m going to be with this blog. it’s not likely that i’ll do anything with it. i just wanted to do something to pass the time for now.

anyways, until next time.

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the song of achilles by madeline miller

happy valentine’s day my dear @minnyard

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“The Iliad”           (Gr: “Iliás”) is an epic poem by the ancient Greek poet Homer, which recounts some of the significant events of the final weeks of the Trojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy (which was also known as Ilion, Ilios or Ilium in ancient times).