#inkstainedchocolateeyes

[copperbadge]

Hello! Any idea of when the next novel will be posted for public review? I know that there have been some difficulties with it but also it's such a delightful universe that I want to dive in again. You can answer this publicly without worry. I'm not trying to rush or badger, just wondering. Thank you again for writing and please give Deebs and Dot scritches for me!

Oh, that's a nice thing to hear! I'm constantly worried that people are bored and tired of these stories so while I tell myself 1. That's not really why I write and 2. It's FINE, nobody is mad at me for being creative, it does help to hear.

I'm working away on Simon's novel, The Chicken Salad War, which is deliberately planned as a short novel, closer in wordcount to Fete rather than Royals/Ramblers. It's about 21K words currently, out of a planned 50-60K, and the vast majority of it is outlined, but writing is going a little slowly. I should do an essay at some point about how the slowdown is actually positive and to do with getting on ADHD meds, but I need to spend some time on that.

I hope to have it ready for reading by end of summer if not before; I'd love to post it in August since Reclamation Day is the novel's climax, but I can't say if I'll be able to. If I really knuckle down I might be able to post it in a pair with the football novel, but that's very ambitious.

I may have some short stories to post across the summer, not sure yet -- I'm working on one where Michaelis and Jes take Noah and Joan to Galia for Pride, but I haven't found the hook for it yet. There are a few like that really.

I appreciate the encouraging words regardless! And I will certainly cuddle the cryptids on your behalf :D

[jenesaispourquoi]

hiiii I've missed you, good to see you back. I've been following crossings con stuff on twitter, but i always love seeing the lore and content you reblog for young wizards.

omg!!! thank you <3

i hope i find a good balance between falling out of brickspace and falling out of cyberspace...

[peaceful-fury]

I posted 1,548 times in 2022

That's 147 more posts than 2021!

8 posts created (1%)

1,540 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@unpretty

@inkstainedchocolateeyes

@neverendingford

@redundantz

@amalgamads-aneacc

I tagged 1,411 of my posts in 2022

Only 9% of my posts had no tags

#queue queue queue - 1,387 posts

#pew pew pew - 1,387 posts

#kurofai olympics - 4 posts

#maine coon - 3 posts

#cats - 3 posts

#leon - 3 posts

#game changer - 2 posts

#cat - 2 posts

#photos - 2 posts

#the official cast recording - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 85 characters

#and if you want something you just have to ask and they will generally get it for you

I sent 1 gift in 2022

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

2 notes - Posted August 12, 2022

#4

Leon was being magnificent today

2 notes - Posted February 9, 2022

#3

3 notes - Posted August 9, 2022

#2

Music for The Official Cast Recording just dropped!

7 notes - Posted January 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

My Kitties!

See the full post

10 notes - Posted March 3, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[systlin]

I just read Gideon the Ninth and HEY WHAT THE FUCK

I KNOW IT WRECKED ME TOO

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

We're we here fuck we're shit queer up, please and thank you!

incomprehensible or are my eyes just fuckt at 4am???

(i’m answering old asks rn, the box isn’t open yet, im trying to get through a shitload of requests)

[quatresnuku]

Thanks so much for @princess-sas for the tag💖💖💖💖💖

I am going to tag @thisismyfangirlface @the-pirate-librarian @iris-14cheonsa @inkstainedchocolateeyes @chariot-to-somewhere @ryuunosenshi if you've already done it you don't have to do it or actually feel any obligation to do this at all 👍

1. top 3 favorite comfort foods

- ramen

-bread (any kind) and butter

- macaroni and cheese

2. top 3 favorite comfort candies

- Hershey's chocolate bar

-sour candies

- the Korean milk chewy marshmallow candy I don't know what the name of it

3. top 3 favorite comfort desserts

- homemade cookies

-pretzel jello

- macaron

4. top 3 favorite comfort drinks (non alcoholic)

- banana milk

- hot chocolate

- tea (no flowery type) with a lot of honey

5. top 3 favorite comfort tv shows

- StarGate SG-1

-2Moons2

- I don't know I usually if I need cheering up just go and watch any of the cute scenes from my favorites dramas

6. top 3 fav comfort movie(s) or genres

- Labyrinth

- Princess Bride

-StarGate

7. top 3 favorite comfort books

- the song of the Lioness quartet

- first four Harry Potter books

-.... My Lupat photobooks

8. top 3 favorite comfy places

- my bed

-my couch

- I live in a one-room apartment there's not much option between those 2 and we're not really allowed to go out right now

9. top 3 favorite comforting/encouraging songs to lift spirits.

-Shinee' Ayo ( although I can't listen to it anymore without crying but through out uni it helped me alot)

-Lady Gaga's Born This way

-Backstreet Boys' The One

10. top 5 favorite activities to do on rainy days (or during isolation)

- sleep

-cuddle with my dog

-bake

- crochet

-work on fan fics

[obsecro-ira-belayer]

21 Questions

@buff-ghost tagged me in a 21 questions thingie!

Name: Luke

Zodiac: Scorpio

Height: 6′2 

Amount of sleep: 7-8 hours

Last movie I saw: Howl (A direct to dvd British werewolf slasher movie, don’t @me) 

Last thing I googled: Monastic traditions in PA 

Favorite musician: Pertubator, the Silver Jews (yes they’re actually jews), Mastodon, The Handsome Family, and Daft Punk spring to mind. 

Song stuck in my head: “Far from any Road” by The Handsome Family

Other blogs: I played around with having a PS1 aesthetic blog 

Do I get asks: Very off, sometimes on

Blogs following:My good pals blogs, with some aesthetic blogs and some budoblr along with. 

Lucky numbers: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

What I’m wearing: My old TKD uniform because it’s really damn comfy and everything else is being washed.

Dream trip: A trip back to Honolulu for the next 20-30 years. 

Dream job: Eh. Not sure. I’d love to be a chef or something if I could make a decent living off of it. I’m working towards going into veterinary work which is still exciting!  

Favourite food: Shitty $1-$2 pasta boxes I drown in ceyenne pepper like their Egyptians being punished by God.  

Languages: English

Play an instrument: In the three months I was in a punk band I screamed and played a broken train whistle

Favourite songs: I CANNOT answer. 

Random fact: Both my middle fingers were exclusively broken at the exact same time. 

Heckin gosh, I guess I could tag @momtong-balance, @gutterband @the-rose-river @jackalope-miscarriage @roundhousechick @thespeedydeliveryrussiankid @blanchesoul @inspired-doom @inkstainedchocolateeyes @smileyfaceofdoom @thestarfishiris @makeshift-demon @vancho1 and @rosslynpaladin are all welcome. So is anyone else

[suzie-guru]

Fire, Frost, and Fable looks hella dope from the looks of your tag! Is it still being written, or is it posted somewhere?

Oh my word, bless you for saying that - every time someone expresses interest in Fire, Frost & Fable my lifespan lengthens, my hair grows more luxuriant, my teeth whiten, and my overall joy is increases tenfold. 

Right now this story is still very much in the notebooks and excerpts stage (and has been for a ridiculously long time, oh gods), and after depression gave me a solid kick in the teeth, it fell to the side along with all of my writing. I’m hoping and praying that as soon as I get back into the routine of writing (which is like pulling teeth, I swear to God) I’ll be able to get some steam going on it. 

Thank you again for this message and your interest! This story/series is so near and dear to my heart - I love getting to talk about it, and it thrills me to no end when people are sincerely interested in it! 

[unpretty]

KITTY DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN USE YOUR GOOGLE PLAY BALANCE TO BUY COINS IN POKEGO?! Thanks to your post forever ago i've been doing google opinion rewards and now i have more space and incubators.

AWW YISS google opinion rewards are a godsend and while i usually spend all of mine on LINE stickers there are definitely pokecoins in my future

[copperbadge]

Hi! Not trying to pester, but do you have an idea of when Ramblers/Royals will be polished and published? I know the Ao3 version is still up but I love seeing how it changes between Ao3 and the final copy. Please give the babies scritches for me!

Oh no worries! Hope it's okay to post publicly -- I had hoped to have rewrites done by the end of the year but I'm not quite there yet. The good news is that most of the edits are complete! I just have to go through it once more to tweak the Georgie-Monday relationship a bit, and that should be done in the next week or so (I have some time this weekend booked at the library, which is where I get the most useful rewrites done these days).

After that I have to typeset, proof, and order a proof copy from Lulu, proof that, and do the final edits. Typesetting doesn't take long, but getting a proof from Lulu can take up to two weeks, so at an estimate, we're probably looking at a publication date sometime in the first two weeks of March.

I gave the kitties lots of cheek and tummy rubs for you! Dearborn says thank.

[ID: A picture of Dearborn the tortie lying on a patterned rug; she is on her back with her head twisted around to gaze up sideways at the camera, and her fluffy front feet flopped over her chest.]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req’d by @inkstainedchocolateeyes

yea brah? this was utter incomprifuckinghensible i hope i did it justice

[quatresnuku]

🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

I was tagged by @princess-sas

The challenge is to write one song name for each letter of your nickname/username

Q~ Q by AAA

U~ Usha Usha by Shinhwa

A~ As Long As You Love Me by Backstreet Boys

T~ Tokyo Girl by Perfume

R~ Ready Steady Go! By L'arc en Ciel (FMA)

E ~Everybody by Backstreet Boys

S~ Sunflower by post Malone

N~ new rules by Dua Lipa

U~ ultimate Drive by kamen rider girls

K~Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER Medley D.A. Re-Build Mix

U~ U&I by btob

🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

Ughhh why is there so many Us. Anyway I'm going to tag @ryuunosenshi @thisismyfangirlface @the-pirate-librarian @inkstainedchocolateeyes

[portlybibliophile]

teen titans for the fandom ask meme?

Teen Titans!

my beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world fave: Raven!

my trash-shit fave: ...Blackfire.

my I love to hate them fave: Slade

my I hate to love them fave: Jinx

my I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire non-fave: Gizmo.

my I didn’t care about them either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about them now I can’t stand them non-fave: Not sure...maybe Robin?

my I could take them or leave them kinda non-fave: Robin.

my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship: BBRAE FOR LIFE!

my they’re cute together and I dig them but I’m not all that terribly invested kinda fave ship: Jinx and Wally.

my MAKE IT STOP non-fave ship: Honestly not sure, though I’ll probably edit this later.

[unpretty]

When you said you need a monster and a cigarette, I thought you meant a legit actual monster (to fuck) and a cigarette (for post fucking). Not the drink.

You are not the only one, and honestly, I would have been good with that too. If someone wants to bring me a sexy monster and some post-coital cigarettes I would be stoked.

[copperbadge]

Radio Free Monday

Good morning everyone, and Happy New Year! Welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways to Give:

punkwasp is raising funds for wisdom teeth removal and paying off some student debt; they're offering art commissions and taking donations via ko-fi as well. You can read more, reblog, and find commission and giving information here.

inkstainedchocolateeyes linked to a fundraiser for enterprisearboretum/Ellery, who is raising funds to cover top surgery; it's being billed in-network but there are always extra expenses and the deductible, and he has recently been dealing with car troubles and moving house. You can read more and support the fundraiser here.

alirhi is raising funds to help get her sister's bank account out of the negative before she starts getting hit with overdraft fees and having new bills come out; she's been struggling to keep them above water while working multiple jobs. You can read more and support the fundraiser here.

kshandra linked to a fundraiser for dean_stahl, who had the majority of his art supplies stolen out of his wife's car last month, as well as several in-progress commissions and a graphic novel he was working on. He's raising funds to replace the supplies such as Copic markers, which are not cheap. You can read more and support the fundraiser here.

Recurring Needs:

thegeeksqueaks is a high school science teacher (who has fundraised previously for supplies and comfort items for her students, particularly her neurodivergent and queer students) who has been seeking a diagnosis for ongoing migraines, vertigo, and head pain for most of the year; she now has a diagnosis and a procedure date, but needs to raise $1.5K to cover the post-insurance payment estimate. You can read more, reblog, and find giving information here, give via Paypal here, and give via Venmo here.

chingaderita's partner's family house recently caught fire and completely burned, killing his grandmother and causing extensive property loss; he has also recently lost his job due to the fire, and a number of family members have since become ill. They're raising funds to keep food on the table, and get their partner mental health aid; they also need funds for laundry to have clean clothes for interviews. You can read more, reblog, and support the fundraiser here.

rilee16 is raising funds to cover utilities, to afford medication and possibly an upcoming move without local support; they've also had expenses related to a recent incident where their roommate, who has been a problem for some time, got violent and the police got involved, and for their own safety they've had to stay elsewhere at times. Currently they are dealing with a shorted paycheck and an overdraft because of it. You can read more, reblog, and find giving information here. They are requesting particularly for reblogs, to reach a wider audience.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.

[jenesaispourquoi]

aaaaaah i'm so bummed i had to miss crossingscon, i hope it was a blast! (and maybe mark/diane/seanann's panels were filmed? *_*)

awwwww we missed you too, cousin!

anything with DD in it was recorded by the con. Mark recorded his readings and has already put them up on his YouTube. i know some attendee-cousins recorded some stuff and are hoping to share it. keep your eyes on CrossingsCon.org for updates!