#I’ll be abroad

[filthyjoetini]

When do we get chapter 6?????

I just gave you chapter 5???!!!

[bloobydabloob]

I’m finally on break. Thank the lord dude

[thealogie]

Not to make this about me but I have another work trip in London + Macbeth so I’m literally in the process of getting a visa for some of my family members and trying to make it our first family vacation in literal years and now I’m actually terrified of taking my (all of us visibly middle eastern) family there

[mango-peach-strawberry]

Oh yeah I never mentioned it here but the Spanish version of Uprising is so fun. They name drop all kinds of Greek mythology (off the top of my head I remember them mentioning: Morpheus, Olympus, Tartarus, nyphms, and other things) and the nicknames the characters give to one another are pretty different.

I was translating a bit of the Spanish version in the 25 Years discord for funsies and was pleasantly surprised by the changes made in the localization!

[stuckinapril]

You guys don’t know how much yearning for Baghdad takes up of my mental real estate

[lovely-v]

Wow college was expensive and tedious but it was worth it for the *checks list of positive things that happened to me in college* septum piercing

[rooksunday]

controversy in the house barracks as fox steals cody’s jet pack for nefarious purposes (he’s going out for pizza)

[hilsonamore]

i think that having a cat would solve…at least 87 of my problems

[melancholeemars]

Ok fine maybe one more for now

[you-are-my-neverland]

writeblr introduction

this is my fifth-hundreth time doing this, but i wanted an easy introduction that i could update without many frills, so here goes.

introducing....me!

online, i go by star! (she/her)

college student majoring in foreign langauges, with a chinese (mandarin) concentration and a linguistics minor

i hope to go into literary translation of some sort, but we'll see how it goes

in my free time, i like to watch asian dramas, listen to music, and read; i also dabble in video editing

i talk about the above and more on my main @astarlightmonbebe, which i also follow from

when it comes to writing, i love reading/writing

character driven stories with lots of complicated relationship dynamics (give me more of we-used-to-be-close, estranged or otherwise multilayered found family/sibling relationships, fated to be but hate it, etc)

magical realism, especially coming-of-age

low or middle fantasy

lore/mythology/religion (love folklore, legend, especially ones that change, grow, and are more real than they seem)

what i'm working on (current as of august 2024)

wip: godhood

naying yue’s father has been missing for three years. after stabbing her bff/lover in the eye and getting expelled from college, she decides to celebrate her twenty first bday by killing herself. however, her plans are derailed when she is attacked by monsters, rescued/kidnapped, and told her father abducted her as a young child, and that her real identity is the heiress to a powerful family who is part of the mysterious Outsider World…

new adult low fantasy inspired by/incorporating wuxia elements

drafting book one right now; will likely be at least three books if i get there

comic sans ppt

other ideas bouncing around

a high school sports wip revolving around a sport called cyclone, where biking meets medieval jousting to create a very metal sport. gil reyes, once a cyclone prodigy and now on limited time, finds himself dumped and kicked out of his cyclone crew. a street tournament with a cash prize and a claim to fame leads to him starting his own crew, recruiting the scholarly sprinter, aadya; high school dropout and underground stunt rider/racer, yama; the duo of sprinter winnie and bruiser jade; a rural girl with brute strength and a boxer’s instincts, elle; and a brilliant time trialist who knows nothing about cyclone, pazu.

paper tigers

status: constantly rotating around in my head on a hot plate

when moonlil acang's father, the warlord of the north, dies in a violent explosion of which the only survivor is a mysterious girl he has apparently brought back from the mountains, moonlil is forced into a position he's never wanted. setting inspired by 1920s china/chinese history. featuring: grave robbery, complicated siblings, mythological elements, and a dose of revolutionary, imperial, and military politics.

the phosphene phenomenon

status: sketching out the details, potentially plotting

three years after witnessing a total solar eclipse and falling into a coma, diyu wakes up to find himself with New Eyes and a ghost attached to him. lalita's been dead for years, but she knows nothing but her own name. tasked by death to help other spirits move on before she, too, can find her afterlife, lalita and diyu have no choice but to team up, along with sunny, the one person diyu has never been able to stand. featuring: a super intense rivalry (swear), self discovery journeys, ghosts and mental illness, agents of death, and so on.

previously on here i’ve successfully completed the first drafts of two wips, fairbone and the metamorphosis of the lost (tmotl), which still occasionally pop up.

i’m not always the most active, especially during the school year, where my focus is on trying to write a few words a day if any at all, but i’m always excited to hear and interact with other’s work!

[ratcandy]

speaking of .I’ve been steadily getting more and more of the most random followers on here and I can only assume you people are coming in because of that funny bug names post getting around. And if that’s the case Hi Hello! Im writing a cult of the lamb fanfic at the moment about a background character that doesn’t matter. And you’ll just have to trust me as I say that and no update is posted for like a month. Ok?

so make of that what you will. OH and also zote the mighty hollow knight. If you even care

[transbutchblues]

i hate being a french classics student because i really want to read the Aeneid but i can’t find a single translation in verse. they’re all in prose and i refuse to read that. it’s an epic POEM !! give me the poetry !!

[xannerz]

☁️🌞☁️

[mayybirds]

Coming out of my cave and off queue to help rig an election real quick. Wrong fandom but if y’all help swing this tumblr poll for Glenn DnDads then I’ll bump TtVtL to the top of my work pile and pull together the new chapter for y’all within 10 days.

[mrs-jamesbbarnes]

Don’t be afraid to dream. Found this screenshot from June 6, 2014. All I wanted at the time was to visit London. I thought it would be SO COOL to see where they filmed Sherlock. I knew it was so unrealistic. My family barely leaves the state, let alone travels to other countries.

Fast forward to 5 years and 11 days later on June 15, 2019 when I took this picture in person while I was in London…

[santinacedes]

first day of classes tmrw :)))