#Index Cards for Writing

[brightsun-and-darkmidnight]

Welcome to brightsun-and-darkmidnight

Before we get further...This blog is 18+ so Minors do NOT interact. This place is not for you. If you are a minor or have a blog that I suspect is a bot, your blog will be blocked. Most of my work has explicit content and I am currently trying to explore darker themes. Check the warnings and triggers to decide if you can handle that content. Things will be tagged appropriately, if you feel a tag needs to be added please let me know so it can be addressed. With that being said...

Welcome to the land of (my)Muse. Each idea produced is either as bright and cheerful as the sun, or as dark as midnight with a new moon. Some ideas that the muse finds interest in are short lived and others the inspiration seems to flow forever. 

To help keep the Muse inspired on an idea you can try to feed it! It’s favorite food is called, feedback. You can leave a comment, reblog, or send an ask anonymously to feed the Muse with what you liked about its work. Feedback may make this fickle beast latch onto the idea. The Muse is often easy to inspire and flexible with ideas. 

Cannon rarely matters in my writing -I prefer to write with Alternate Universes. My top two favorite characters are Bucky and Loki...I use them the most for writing because the Muse loves to use the appearances of Sebastain Stan and Tom Hiddleston. It’s very likely that you will see posts of those actors and tagged “muse fuel” or “for research purposes” or I tagged specific characters and/or fics of mine as well. Feel free to tag me in things with these two actors and see if the Muse is hungry for more inspiration. We can start the tag game that once happened with suggestive or filthy things and tag all that with “this is war” it was fun but Tumblr was not safe to check in public.

Keep the majestic Muse traveling wildly through Tumblr by hitting that reblog button on things you like. Tags on Tumblr are sometimes odd but could help you find things easier on your own blog! That reblog button is a feature on tumblr that will put the post to your dashboard. Reblogs are the only way that the Muse’s creations are able to be seen by others. Likes are appreciated because they are the affection that the Muse loves too, but the Muse loves to run wild. The more people who see the muse, the more likely it will be fed and be energized for more wild inspirations. The muse will not react kindly to those who repost the work it produced -reposting is copying and pasting elsewhere to make your own post. Even if you give credit to me, it is still NOT allowed!

No one is allowed to repost or translate my work. My work is only posted here on tumblr, and on my AO3 brightsun_and_darkmidnight.

AO3 stands for Archive Of Our Own. It is a library for fanfiction and it has a nice feature of being able to bookmark works so you can easily go back to things you once read before or save things for the future. The tagging system is amazing there, and easy to use. Everything the Muse makes me write is posted on my AO3. From now on a link will be shared from AO3, then to here (Tumblr), with the access to the work below the “read more” link/cut so you do not need to leave Tumblr. Each creation will be posted in one of my masterlists that I try to organize the madness and chaos that the Muse leaves for me to gather and organize for all of you lovely followers and those passing through. To keep things as organized as possible, there are two masterlists….

Main Masterlist  

-I have been working on this since I began this account a few years ago. There are many things to see here and I hope you enjoy. The Muse is hoping for affection and feedback because of the stuff you enjoyed. A reblog simply saying “I liked this” will make the Muse incredibly happy and probably prance around and show off more.

Index Card Challenge - The Cards Have Spoken! Masterlist 

-This masterlist has all the information you need as well as the work that I have created from this weekly challenge. In summary, @melodylnoelle and I, pull index cards with different information/prompts and write something on this game of chance. There have been many different things produced from this challenge and we do our best to post weekly. Melody is an excellent writer and I highly suggest you check out her work too!  

[somerabbitholes]

— index cards, moyra davey

[saturatedsinset]

somehow forgotten every word and ship you have [sorry]

so use sorry as the word

[i dont think ive done this right hah]

shield angst be upon ye (transcription in alt text; I know my handwriting is. well)

//send me a word and I'll write an index card of text about it

[boot-prints]

When my dad was a little younger than I am now he decided when he had a place of his own he wanted to have a big sturdy dining room table in his house. He couldn’t afford it at the time, and it would be nearly twenty years before he got the table he was daydreaming about back then, but he got it. At the time when I was told about this table being a dream of his I decided my thing was going to be a cuckoo clock. That’s how I would know I was settled down and grown up. I thought he had just picked some expensive furniture piece on a whim and a cuckoo clock seemed more fun. It’s only now that I’m twenty five and moving from place to place for work that I’m starting to get it.

A big sturdy dining room table means you’re living somewhere stable, first off. You don’t buy something like that unless you know you’re not going to have to leave it behind when you move again. It means you have the funds to buy it, the space for it to go, and the confidence that those circumstances aren’t going to change up on you.

More importantly, you don’t buy a big sturdy dining room table to eat alone. I grew up eating mostly in the kitchen but with regular meals around that big table with friends, family, guests of all sorts. That table has groaned under the weight of buffet foods at parties, family dinners where we crammed more people around it than even it was meant to take, birthday cakes, and celebration meals. Many of my favourite memories of extended family are meals at that table.

I don’t have the funds or the stability to have a table like that, not yet. But I think my dad had the right idea.

[killacharacterbingo]

Patient Zero

An index case, or patient zero, is the first person to present specific symptomatology. While generally it is used in regards to contagious diseases, it has other uses as well.

The term is slightly controversial due to its non-specific implications. It can refer to the first case of a disease ever, the first case in a specific location, or the first case detected. The diverse meanings of the word may lead to confusion and lack of clarity.

As such, this prompt refers to the first person to either be detected, or ever present, a specific set of symptoms. At minimum, they are the first person to experience the symptoms in a given area.

[hazyla]

New sketchbook unlocked: 3x5in index cards

[friend-crow]

Man, the last thing I need is another idea for another project.

[sylvthetic]

Angsty Storyboard

22 September 2024 // Pencil on index card

Doing a little practice storyboard, it ended up angsty. I really like drawing scenes like this, I think the tension and potential for banter is really satisfying.

[museganjin]

look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair (or, i showed this to a guy and its "demonic" energy was so potent that he promptly fell out of the chair desk he was sitting in and toppled it over with a loud noise)

mnm yaoi

[tallytals]

fic so good you’re making a conspiracy wall at 5pm on a monday

[terminallytwee]

[kogetaikid]

213/6006

On top of a jelly tree

Yeah, just some characters for WAY LATER…

[saturatedsinset]

word: sunshower

you know. I bet you thought to yourself, surely sin won't write angst based on this word that is the title of one of its sweetest fics. and unfortunately,

//send me a word and I'll write an index card about it!!

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

Finally bothered looking at my outline for Enigmatic Confections and....whoopsie, I need to fix something in the chapter I'm writing. 😂

What this means is a probably longer-than-average chapter, because I'm not taking out my favorite part.

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

was gonna post about my REVOLUTIONARY absolutely fucking breathtaking brand spanking new novel outline system and how i am an unparalleled GENIUS and then I realized i just reinvented the hipster PDA for nerds

[thebroccolination]

I always think of myself as a pantser when it comes to writing, but considering how borderline horny I felt earlier when I imagined buying a stack of index cards and neatly organizing them in long wooden boxes to keep better track of my book’s characters/plot/worldbuilding/etc., I’m starting to think it’s possible that I’ve been mislabeling myself.