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January 25th-26th, 2022

Class doodle dump

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Happy Halloween!! Hope ur day is full of good and spooky vibes~~

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🦇 It’s a bit itching, someone’s getting weak in the knees-

But don’t worry! That’s a totally normal side-effect of the excitement for Flash Fiction Friday! Which is today, so get ready!

🦇 New to FFF? Let us fill you in!

Flash Fiction Friday is a fun writer event that’s meant to inspire, share and connect writings of all genres and writers of all ages. It’s designed to make people want to write, especially if they’re feeling blocked. Everyone and everything is welcome!

We always do our very best to keep the prompt’s genre open, entertaining, positive and encouraging.

Write between 100-1000 words. It can be any genre, in any text format and 18+ is fine by us, just please tag accordingly.

Use this Friday’s theme in your text. Any way you see fit.

Post on your tumblr blog and remember to tag us at @flashfictionfridayofficial!! So we’ll see it, read it and reblog it!!

Deadline is 24 hours after the prompt has been issued (12 pm CET).

And then, next Friday, we’ll mention your work in a showcase post on our main blog before the next prompt drops.

Please post your entries as regular posts, not screenshots — or provide the text as a regular post as well. Let’s keep everything as accessible as possible!

If you have a question, check out our FAQ page! If your question isn’t on there, don’t hesitate to ask! <3

You don’t need to ask for permission or need to get added to a list to join in. Just write, have fun and don’t forget to tag us!

We do not condone fiction, asks or comments that contain: direct hostility, unconstructive critique, LGBTQIA+ hate, slurs, racism and/or general no-no behaviors.

If you want to be closer to the epicenter, you can come chat on our open discord: https://discord.gg/gA6sJMB

🦇 All your amazing works from last week have been compiled HERE!

Go check them out and consider supporting your fellow FFF writers with some likes and reblogs!

🦇 And now, the new prompt!

[#FFF124 Bitten By You]

Ouch! That sounds quite vicious! Or does it hurt at all? Let’s hope you don’t catch anything from those sharp teeth! Though it might depend on what - or who - exactly bit you. Whatever you think of, write it! We want to read it! So go and bring us the words! Go, go, go, go, go!

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The Collective <3

[charlie---writes]

I'm angry a lot, but no one really believes me. Outwardly, I'm passive and accepting. I perform my gender and sexuality in ways that I believe would be palatable to others. I do this so that I feel safe. But right now, I'm applying to graduate schools and I'm challenging myself to start somewhere I can be out and open about who I am. What I didn't realize, was that my recommenders would be sent preferred name and pronouns without me checking that off first. I guess I can't blame them in some ways. But I do blame the recommender who told me you don't have to be a boy to be in science. I blame them because despite not even being out, my gender is being policed by those who are privy to my questioning. So fuck them. Fuck everyone who's made me feel like I have to be someone I'm not. I'm using he/they pronouns, and I'm using the name Charlie. Because that's what makes me feel like myself, and I deserve that.

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Calling NaNoWriMo Peeps

Hello all! I am still here and currently working on a new wip to premier for nanowrimo.... Stay tuned! And on that note!

It’s the writing time of year. If you’re participating, going for 50k or just to write what u can (like me), let’s connect on the website! I’d love to get together a nanowrimo discord for a small writing group. We can share positivity and encouragement. Will post about that later, but for now just DM if you’re interested in the discord and add me on the website!

https://nanowrimo.org/participants/jess-writes-cb67657d-2cc5-4bc3-b8a1-db972fc044f6

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Chapter Titles

Thanks for the tag, @viskafrer! I really don’t have chapter titles for Bride of Loki but I decided to try my hand at them.

Prologue

Lost Girl

Phoenix

The Mindscape

Book of Revelations

Liars and Sneaks

The Mystery Girl

Questions

True Love’s Blossom

Wildfire

Baldar’s Headquarters

Fireflies

Welcome to the Show

Everyone Deserves to Be Happy!

Red Star Burning

Paradise Lost

I’ll tag, with no pressure, @piyawrites, @andinbetweenwegarden, @ettawritesnstudies, @bbrowningbooks, @hannahs-creations, @purgatorydotexe, @vylequinne, @pluttskutt, @nora-theteawriter, @scmalarky, @aye-write, @magnoliaash, @jess—writes, @47crayons, @drippingmoon, and @ink-fireplace-coffee.

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✨ No, it can’t be. I swear we’ve been here before. It all feels the same... ...Because FFF is here once more ;)

You’re not imagining it, it is indeed Friday once again! Which I’m assuming is why that feeling of ‘Must Write’ is bubbling up again! So don’t hold back, let your feelings loose, and get those creative juices flowing to produce some great fics!

✨ New to FFF? Let us fill you in!

Flash Fiction Friday is a fun writer event that’s meant to inspire, share and connect writings of all genres and writers of all ages. It’s designed to make people want to write, especially if they’re feeling blocked. Everyone and everything is welcome!

We always do our very best to keep the prompt’s genre open, entertaining, positive and encouraging.

Write between 100-1000 words. It can be any genre, in any text format and 18+ is fine by us, just please tag accordingly.

Use this Friday’s theme in your text. Any way you see fit.

Post on your tumblr blog and remember to tag us at @flashfictionfridayofficial!! So we’ll see it, read it and reblog it!!

Deadline is 24 hours after the prompt has been issued (12 pm CET).

And then, next Friday, we’ll mention your work in a showcase post on our main blog before the next prompt drops.

Please post your entries as regular posts, not screenshots — or provide the text as a regular post as well. Let’s keep everything as accessible as possible!

If you have a question, check out our FAQ page! If your question isn’t on there, don’t hesitate to ask! <3

You don’t need to ask for permission or need to get added to a list to join in. Just write, have fun and don’t forget to tag us!

We do not condone fiction, asks or comments that contain: direct hostility, unconstructive critique, LGBTQIA+ hate, slurs, racism and/or general no-no behaviors.

If you want to be closer to the epicenter, you can come chat on our open discord: https://discord.gg/gA6sJMB

✨ All your amazing works from last week have been compiled HERE!

Go check them out and consider supporting your fellow FFF writers with some likes and reblogs!

✨ And now, the new prompt!

[#FFF119 Deja Vu]

Has this already happened once? Have you seen it all before? Is it real, surreal, fiction, or something more? What’s causing this feeling? Is it a call from the past? Or perhaps from another life? How about you get writing and tell us what you know! Go on, go go! Let those words flow~~

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The Collective <3

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It was almost a miracle, the sun that sat atop the horizon: golden and terrible and brighter than anything before. Perhaps to be touched by it's light was enough to breed a little kindness. Artie looked up at it all and at the others who had made it this far and wondered what exactly it meant to survive. Was it to breathe? Was it to stand atop the city and realize the whole world that had been kept at bay was ready to burst into view. Artie was a little afraid, but it was a comfortable fear. No, excitement? When he looked down at his hands, inspecting the scars and dust and grime, he marvelled at their trembling.

Is that you? He asked the spirit to no avail.

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Thought I'd share a little writing I managed to do between the hell that has been my week :) I've been playing with a new idea. Enjoy!

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Word find tag!

Tagged by @ashen-crest to find wash, dry, tumble, and air.

TWs for swearing, corpses, and cutting and bruising

Wash

“Jade,” a voice pleaded.

Derek was behind her, an arm guiding her back to the door.

“I almost lost you, there,” he said. “Come on, I wanted to talk more about that bad movie with you.”

“Right,” she said.

She allowed herself to fall deeper into his arm, letting the visions wash over her. She needed to see just what she was up against.

Then, Jade stepped out the door and accepted her fate.

Dry

He would have never met Amelia if he had just carried a Goddamned umbrella.

Back in New York, he would’ve kept one on him. But in Vegas, he got so used to the hot, dry nights that the summertime downpours always took him by surprise.

A hatchback had stopped at the side of the road during one of these cloudbursts, just as his suit jacket and shirt were starting to cling to his skin and his hair looked as though it had been painted to his head.

Tumble

“Throw him now,” she said.

There was that flash of orange again as the body flew through the air. Jade moved one of the stones out of the circle towards her, pulling hard, as though there was resistance.

There was a rumbling beneath them. Then, illuminated by the lights of the dam, a jet of water spouted vertically in the air, encircling and engulfing the body before it could fall further.

Jade moved another stone. A sharp rock was drawn up the water spout, cutting a gash where the bite marks on Derek’s neck had been. Other debris circled around, bumping and bruising his body as if he were tumbling around the river bed. Currents pulled at his limbs, and branches snagged his clothes.

She moved a final stone and the waterspout descended into the river, taking the body with it.

A low whistle echoed behind her. Jade whirled around, but it was only Caz, staring at where the waterspout had been.

“Jesus Christ, Shaw,” he breathed.

Air

The truck’s brakes squealed as the evening traffic in the city once again ground to a halt.

“Are you sure this thing will make it to the other side of the county?” Caz asked, tucking an arm behind his head. He laid in the back of the cab where sun visors had been placed over the windows and had his hat over his eyes.

“I thought you were trying to sleep,” Jade said.

“It’s hot,” he whined, crossing his legs and planting one foot on the ceiling. “Do you not have air-conditioning?”

“Look, it should be less than an hour even with traffic,” Jade said. She saw an opening in the left lane and gunned it.

“Fuck,” Caz said, falling to the floor.

Tagging, if you'd like, @leiwritess, @jess---writes, @emelkae, & @moononherwings to find chance, spring, reader & clean.

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‘whydunit’ instead of ‘whodunit’  👀 Sign Me Up! As in tag list pls if that’s okay! Ahh, that description really got me hooked. Thanks for sharing!! Ah! Interested to see where the second wip takes you too! 

wip intros

so i finally got to doing the intros (’: please excuse my poor excuses of banners, i’m literally the worst when it comes to anything graphic.

placeholder title: musings of a murderer

status: first draft

genres: psychological thriller/ a ‘whydunit’?? instead of a ‘whodunit’

summary: how well do you know yourself? this was a question that constantly plagued teng yi’s mind. as he began remembering the missing bits and pieces of his lost memories before 12, he realised that the children’s home he came from was a darker place than he initially believe. paired with a sudden appearance of a woman claiming to be his friend from Camelot Home, thus begins teng yi’s urgent journey to uncover more truths–about the children’s home and its owner, and that woman’s dead body in his house. is his memories as reliable as he thought, or was he just trying to twist it to fit the ‘hero’ mold he wanted to squeeze himself into?

characters: teng yi, irene, barnaby, rani

taglist// @47crayons @writing-is-a-martial-art

(ask to be added or removed!)

tags// # 一musings of a murderer

placeholder title: know your enemies (the original title was in mandarin, which is 知己知彼, basically translating to ‘know yourself and your enemies’, and is also a quote from sun tzu i’m trying to figure out a title with an equivalent meaning in english, but for now we’ll stick with that.)

status: plotting

genres: crime, psychological thriller, dark comedy??

summary: set in a fictional town in the outskirts of Beijing, detective zhang was finally stumped. serial murder cases that made no sense, no matter what angle she sees it from. along with another officer in her department that seems to have the hots for her, they swore to get down to the bottom of the bizarre happenings plaguing their beloved hometown. (… pls this is literally it, i forgot majority of the plot i figured out in the shower ,rip will update when my brain stops lagging)

characters: detective zhang zetian, officer chen heilong (placeholder names as well)

taglist// (ask to be added or removed!)

tags// # 一know your enemies

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NANOWRIMO 2020 PROJECT

Balcombe Manor (working title) 

It has been years since the local university purchased Balcombe Manor with plans to expand their campus after mysterious circumstances led to the building’s foreclosure. When the university fails to come up with the funding for the academic building that they intended to build on the property, they start renting out rooms in the manor as cheap, off-campus housing to recoup their costs. It is an unprecedented living situation for the eclectic group of students who move in but the strangeness is justified by the low rent… until they discover that the past is still living in the walls and may not be ready to be put to rest.

I don’t have enough prepped to do a full summary, but I finally decided on my November project! It is an epistolary gothic horror novel about a group of college students dealing with their ghosts (both internal and external). I’ll talk more about it as I get going, including a character list, but I’m really excited to experiment with a new genre and new formatting. 

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Lavender in Autumn

for @flashfictionfridayofficial ‘s prompt “Deceiving Fragrance”. Of course, I had to write something for Petal, Pedal for this one :D

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The smell of the lavender lotion may have not been calming, as the new nurse had told her countless times, but Abigail still paused for a moment, breathing in the light scent as she stared out of her window. The wind was pushing the branches of the trees back and forth, like some sort of dance, sending orange and yellow leaves floating down into the courtyard.

Autumn. It had been a long time since Abigail had been able to see a real autumn, the kind where the trees began to settle down and let their leaves go to the wind, where the smell of pumpkin and apples would permeate the farmer’s market she would work at, drowning out the scents of spring and summer. Like the lavender that drifted out of the lotion bottle. The autumn of home. 

For the first time in a long time, Abigail found herself missing home.

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Oh! What is that blinding light yonder? Getting closer?

It’s the light of a new Friday, of course! The light of your creativity! To write a new piece for today’s Flash Fiction Friday!

✨ New to FFF? Let us fill you in!

Flash Fiction Friday is a fun writer event that’s meant to inspire, share and connect writings of all genres and writers of all ages. It’s designed to make people want to write, especially if they’re feeling blocked. Everyone and everything is welcome!

We always do our very best to keep the prompt’s genre open, entertaining, positive and encouraging.

Write between 100-1000 words. It can be any genre, in any text format and 18+ is fine by us, just please tag accordingly.

Use this Friday’s theme in your text. Any way you see fit.

Post on your tumblr blog and remember to tag us at @flashfictionfridayofficial!! So we’ll see it, read it and reblog it!!

Deadline is 24 hours after the prompt has been issued (12 pm CET).

And then, next Friday, we’ll mention your work in a showcase post on our main blog before the next prompt drops.

Please post your entries as regular posts, not screenshots — or provide the text as a regular post as well. Let’s keep everything as accessible as possible!

If you have a question, check out our FAQ page! If your question isn’t on there, don’t hesitate to ask! <3

You don’t need to ask for permission or need to get added to a list to join in. Just write, have fun and don’t forget to tag us!

We do not condone fiction, asks or comments that contain: direct hostility, unconstructive critique, LGBTQIA+ hate, slurs, racism and/or general no-no behaviors.

If you want to be closer to the epicenter, you can come chat on our open discord: https://discord.gg/gA6sJMB

✨ And now, the new prompt!

[#FFF 118 Yonder Hills]

Hills that beckon! Why are they beckoning? What exactly is it that is special about these hills? May it be what is behind those hills? It really could be anything, so get going and type those words! Go, go, go, go, go!

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The Collective <3

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QUIET TERMS: WIP REINTRODUCTION

GENRE: fantasy POV: third limited STATUS: beginning third draft THEMES: duty vs desire, response to failure, love while having a difference of opinions, breaking down unspoken agreements or assumed understandings WARNINGS: mild violence, character death

The responsibility of leadership is thrust onto Rylee Ma when Tyren, Ermyre’s Minister and Rylee’s best friend, dies in the midst of war. Between her grief and her struggle with her new position, Rylee is left wide open to Riya the First, one of the deities who created their world, offering a path to her greatest desire. 

Tyren Cator, however, is not gone forever. Kept on Aeon by Lady Amara, the inventor of the human race with her own agenda, Tyren has to figure how to accomplish their goal in ensuring world peace while no more than a ghost.

MORE INFO & UPDATES FROM LAST DRAFT UNDER THE CUT!

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Liminal Spaces -

Genre: Dystopian / Science Fiction with post apocalyptic, thriller and romance elements

Rating: Older teen and up ( 17+)

Status: First Draft

Estimated Length: 100k words

Themes: Friendship, self discovery, found family, loss of innocence, war, greed, corruption in governing bodies, self preservation, grey morality, working class struggle, survival

Features: Gay mlm / wlw relationships, disabled characters, characters of color, trans characters, none of the gays or dogs die, cryptids, misty woodlands, cults, the mafia, immortality drugs, cottagecore vibes, dystopian society

Warnings: violence, religious abuse, homophobia, general dark themes, guns/weapons, body horror

Synopsis:

The world ended decades ago. Vast wastelands occupy the great plains of the west and nature reclaims what civilization took over for itself. Since the war and the exposure of confidential technology, the world has never been the same.

Humanity exists on as it always has though. And humanity never really learns from it’s past mistakes.

New diseases plague the small communities that sprout up, trying their best to survive in a harsh new environment. The wilderness is crawling with creatures affected by the wars, the likes of which have never walked on Earth before.

The Seventh Quadrant of Gallewood are expanding their borders, pillaging towns and killing those who don’t join take up the offer to join them. For everyone in their way, it feels like the world is ending once again. The Hawkins Militia is doing their best to fight back but there’s only so much a miniscule rebel group can do in the face of a nation intent on global domination.

In the midst of the war, three unlikely friends find themselves on the same path. Jay wants to get home. Anetha wants to find her lost lover. Nathaniel just wants a quiet place to grow old with his dogs. A scheme is concocted, and it ends in all three getting what they want; but things never go according to plan and now they are on the run from one of the biggest military groups in the country. Love wasn’t something they planned on, but after all the horrors they’ve faced together, it’s almost unavoidable. They haven’t forgotten their goals and now its more important than ever to reach them. To get there however, they’ll need to rely on their bonds with one another or die trying.

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Wecome! Nice to meet you :)

Writeblrs Hello!

Please like/reply/reblog to let me know you’re an active writeblr! It’s been a year or two since I was active and am hoping to get involved in the community once more. Feel free to let me know a bit about yourself and your wips! Or tagging writeblrs you admire! :)

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The writer formerly known as Raven Abernathy, now going by the name Kaius V. Noir, but you may address me as either. My writing doesn't stick to one main genre anymore, having ventured away from my dark fantasy roots and delved into a plethora of different areas from contemporary to science fiction and everything in between.

I am also a graphic designer and professional editor.

[Some of] My WIPS :

Something Rotten [psychological thriller] - It's been six years since true crime podcast host Quill Everest's sister was murdered and the case has long since gone cold without a single clue as to what might have happened. Things take a frightening turn when Quill finds themselves the target of a stalker who claims to know the answers they've been seeking all this time.

The Coming Storm, in collaboration with Reese Weston [pirates / medieval fantasy] - Urban Fallows is in search of a cure for the curse placed upon him by a mysterious old hag. Said to be located in the distant caverns of Fjorndal, Urban sees no choice but to rally a crew to aid him across the vast ocean--a quest that is none too easy for a man fearful of the sea. Bearing the title of Captain isn't any easier, and if not for the dashing and loyal Riggs at his side, Urban might have already given up.

Devil in the Details, in collaboration with Reese Weston [thriller] - Assassin-for-hire Ronan McCoy stumbles across an impressive thief on a job and recruits him as a member of the agency he works for, only to find himself stuck with Dakota Ramsey, a sarcastic addict who is a permanent thorn in Ronan's side ... and inevitably finds himself falling in love with the idiot.

Under Cover of Darkness, in collaboration with Reese Weston [horror, supernatural] - Felix Novak has been enamored with the paranormal since he was a child and communicated with what he thinks to have been a spirit through his Ouija board. He believes without any doubts that there is more to this world than we might think and is determined to prove it. Happenstance--or is it fate?--leads him to meet Casper Nguyen, a skeptic insomniac with a noise problem in his apartment that proves to be more ghost than rodent. Despite the evidence of paranormal activity, Cas refuses to believe he is being haunted. He finds Felix charming and intriguing enough, however, to accept his invitation to travel to rumored hauntings and prove once and for all that monsters are more than mere myth.

The Chemicals Between Us, in collaboration with Reese Weston [dystopia] - Indigo Silvius thought he had found the answers to saving the world from its downfall when in fact he set it on the path to its destruction. Responsibility weighs heavy on his shoulders when an explosion releases the chemicals he's created and shrouds the world in misery and death, seldom a tree left standing amidst the dust and debris. Weary after years of guilt and shame as his attempts to remedy his mistakes fail him time and time again, Indie sets out into the night to let the abominations he may as well have created rip him to shreds. Instead, he is discovered, barely holding on to life, by Gray Marley, a man with a tough exterior hiding a softness Indie slowly uncovers, and the potential answers to fixing Indie's mess.

Sanity's Decline [psychological thriller] - Shiloh Greaves keeps the truth of his sexuality caged behind his teeth, not out of shame but to protect Elias, because one slip might cost him his life. But in a tight knit town like Withervale, where rumors spread faster than you can confirm or deny their authenticity, it's impossible to keep a secret. The truth behind Elias' mysterious and sudden disappearance soon becomes the only secret Withervale has yet to unravel.

Jams 2.0, in collaboration with Reese Weston [contemporary] - The series follows three separate yet intertwined, one way or another, queer couples--Dash and Beckett; Cain, Ripley and Wren; Ciaran and Niall--and their struggles with addiction, romance, crime and affairs.