#u: midnights-melodiverse

[cyril-v-pyromancer]

Small lil post of a thing I'm writing, might make it fully available when I'm done ;)

This clip is very out of context but I hope u enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it :3

Mention of blood - that's it

His room was bare save for the same old leather traveling bag he always carried. I put him in the bed, noticing with alarm how bloody the sheets were.

“Are you bleeding?” I whispered in panic.

Elijah barely stirred, but managed to say “mmm, probably.”

“Fuck’s sake.”

I decided to share the favor and took off his bloody tunic.

His forest green skin had been turned to a darker sage from bruises. He didn't even stir as the cool night air touched his bare skin.

A couple of scars had opened up.Old, bloody bandages were around his arms and legs. Healers always seemed to bleed more.

What was he doing? I knew I shouldn't care, but I couldn't shake the worry.

We haven't seen each other in decades, why did I care what an old school nemesis had gotten himself into?

Still warring with myself, I took the bandages he had lying around the shelf. I shouldn’t look. If he wanted to get himself killed, that was his business. He did heal me from my frostbite, and I have had no trouble. So I suppose I should return the favor before he makes me owe him.

I pried off the bandage off his forearm as gently as I could. The sticky, black blood had bled through almost everywhere.

TAGLIST BELOW - ASK TO BE ADDED :)

@midnight-and-his-melodiverse @writing-is-a-martial-art @sparrow-orion-writes @memento-morri-writes @shepardsherd @verba-writing @fearofahumanplanet @nivahiem @wip-nook @writeblrsupport @365runesofthesystem @theimperiumchronicles @kjscottwrites @thepunk-nessmonster

[albatris]

girls night!!!!! I wanted to draw something cute with riley and nat

thank u to everyone who came along to my stream uwu

hi taglist!!

@transmasc-wizard @saturn-iidae @polyaubergine @tracle0 @goosemixtapes @valence-positive @the-one-who-makes-negative-noise @ambiguousfiction @afoolandathief @softboiled-doomdesire @mecharose @vellichor-virgo @flapuflapu @jetstargenderfuckery @multi-lefaiye @writeouswriter @itisi-asimplegay @junoshusband @writing-is-a-martial-art @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @starry-winter-skies @cream-and-tea @gailynovelry @lefttigerobservation @indecentpause @somealienquilll @cannivalisms @violetfoxsketches @approximately20eggs @mohluskiepedard @desastreus

[multi-lefaiye]

[Image Description: A drawing of my OC Knives Nguyen, shown from around the thighs up and facing forward. Knives is a young man with lightly tanned skin and long, black hair, with blue eyes and a scar on his left cheek. In the drawing, Knives is wearing a dark t-shirt, fingerless gloves, dark pants, and a purple choker. He has a light patch bandage applied to his left cheek, just above the scar, and a bracelet around his right wrist. One of his hands is holding a flashlight, which he positions up and forward, while his other hand hangs by his side. The light from the flashlight is the primary light source in the image, and the background is pure black. End ID.]

last night i started doodling knives while having a bit of a Spicy Brain Moment™ and today i decided to finish it!!!!! i love u knives, my beloved

Art Taglist (ask to be added or removed): @wherearetheplants @nicola-writes @skitzo-kero @aaureus @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @approximately20eggs @albatris @jezifster

[careful-pyromancer]

HEADS UP SEVEN UP!

tagged by @talesofsorrowandofruin thank u sm!!!

Excerpt from sparrow's flight:

There was no entrance I could see in the woods. The gnarled barricades of bark intertwined around each other. Each tree desperately reached for the sleeping sun. The last time I was here, only one chunk of a tree was missing.

Now, each tree was marked with scratches. Not the kind people make, either. The trees were massive, but the scratches indicated a beast almost bigger.

TAGGING: @writing-is-a-martial-art @asher-orion-writes and @fearofahumanplanet

bothering the taglist too, feel free to jump in! I'm!

@memento-morri-writes @athenixrose @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @verba-writing

[frogqueenofmirkwood]

Six Sentence Sunday

(but on a thursday🤪)

thanks for the tag!! tis a bit late but better late than never! @axl-ul

here’s a lil excerpt from a lil fun story i’m writing

Sophies home was a rather peculiar place, not like the other young shepherds' homes. The rest all raised their sheep and lived on the ground. Sophie's mother, however, decided to put some spells into good use, and started a business selling earth. With just a few ingredients, Sophies mother could create tiny little islands in jars that could float. With a little care the islands grew and grew and grew and could become as large as a house. So that was where they lived, on an island, in the sky, in a little wooden house.

thanks for reading<3

@ashen-crest @lola-theshowgrl @charlottewritings @coffeewritesfiction @vivrune @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @monstrousfreedom @primroseprime2019 @imamuffin

no pressure to play if u don’t want to☺️

[idreamofhamandcheese]

heads up seven up

gracias as always @avocado-frog <33

this probably isnt seven lines but i write massive paragraphs bc i dont shut up and i cant be bothered to explain the concept my bad just pretend u know whats going on

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My father fancied himself the sort of Texan family man who should have a gun (in case anyone tried to break in and steal a corpse, I assumed) and as a result, I’d been his lookout in the firearm section of Walmart more times than I could count. Every time without fail. My mother would drift off toward the Pioneer Woman crockery (“I just admire her, the way she’s built that empire. Although something about her seems off-- do you think she sees someone for her chakra?”) and, inevitably, there’d be a prod at my elbow and a grin like we were both in on it and I’d be jigging from foot to foot by the counter, the flash of the clerk’s teeth glinting, fractured, kaleidoscopic, off the silver bullets lined up under the glass. They don’t, though. Name the stamp bit of the typebars after guns, that is. They’re called slugs. Which is almost as counterintuitive as my father having been to that counter hundreds of times in his life and never having placed a single purchase. Slugs. Slugs are slow things, treacly and underwater, yawning. Nothing like the gunpowder animosity a typewriter lends itself to. Slugs.

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tags:

@the-stray-storyteller @calloumii @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @foiledbymyurgetoinfodump (i know ur not a writing blog this is my reminder that your should write something because you're ~okay~ at it i guess or whatever) @no2pencilsalike @mynroli

and anyone else (i actually mean this tag me!!)

[harinawa]

get to know me tag!

tagged by @memento-morri-writes! thank u sm 🫶

favorite color: *shamelessly* pink

currently reading: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. I'm a little more than halfway done but irl recently caught up and u know 🙄 but I really do love this book and enjoying it a lot, considering I bought it on a whim.

last song: Man! I feel like a Woman! by Shania Twain. I've been listening to a lot of confidence boosting songs lately (reccs are welcome just slip into my asks or reply in a note w/e u prefer!) to help with the recent bouts of insecurities that do not really have any identifiable source.

last series: Shooting Stars starring Lee Sung Kyung! Vv light-hearted rom-com, always bickering duo that end up being that disgustingly cute couple. TW suicide though. Had fun with it (I can't process anything rn with heavy angst) though writer-wise (HAHA) I feel like the conflicts were resolved too quickly. It's just 16 episodes though so I understand why they had to be resolved that way it's just... a little unsatisfying. For me.

last movie: I haven't watched any movies lately 😭 the last one was probably that Agatha Christie movie Death on the Nile with Gal Gadot and Kenneth Branagh, and that was aaages ago.

sweet/ savory/ spicy: sweet!! all the way!!! which is probably why my teeth ache but eh

last thing you googled: st. benedict medallion (no context)

currently working on: nothing as of the moment, i have to be a bridesmaid to a coworker/friend's wedding tomorrow so i'm "resting"... but also the other tag games people tagged me on but haven't had the time to post ehe

i'm tagging @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @arowanaprincess @apollowritesstuff @pen-of-roses @asher-orion-writes but only if u guys want to! also tagging everyone who has seen this that are interested xx

[emwhyarentyouwriting]

✨ 🎶 when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 🎶 ✨

Cradle to the grave-ffdp

Call me King-AmaLee

Arsonist's Lullaby-Hoizer

Autotheist-Baby Bugs

Enter Sandman-Metallica

@imbadatnicknames1 @cap815 @araccoonthatlikesmurder @the-ghost-in-your-curtains @harps-for-days @flodgelspoff @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @rinatthemin @penguinwithagrenadelauncher @the-feral-gremlin

[parttimeghost]

Hiya Taylor, name's Midnight and nice to meet you!! Please, tell me more about both of your WIPs!

Hi Midnight, it's so nice to meet you! <3

I know you're probably referring to the two WIPs I have in my pinned post so I'll talk about those first. But I've also got a couple of other WIPs that I'm currently working on/thinking about and I just haven't gotten around to updating my pinned post so I'll chuck a little bit about them on the end as well for a bit of fun!

WIP AN ODE TO THE DESTINED (Arthurian WIP)

An Ode to the Destined is my main WIP at the moment; I just started rewrites for the second draft which I'm super excited about! It's an Arthurian-inspired fantasy told from the perspective of Morgan of Avalon, the twin sister of Prince Arthur of Camelot. The story follows Morgan as she attempts to stop King Uther's purge and prevent the veil between the worlds from unravelling, whilst also dealing with the prophecies of Taliesin (who believes she is destined to fall to darkness) and her own seer dreams, the lines between reality and vision blurring as the events of her visions draw nearer.

The magic system of AOTTD has to be one of my favourite things that I've ever come up with! The basic concept is that reality is set out like a weaver's loom, right? The warp is everything that provides the structure to reality, things that cannot be changed (like the rising of the sun, the phases of the moon, and the seasons of the year). Whilst the weft is everything else, everything human. It helps to explain the way Seer visions work in AOTTD, where the future is possibilities (the different ways in which you can weave), whilst the past cannot be changed (as it is already woven).

I'm definitely going to be posting about this story over the next couple of months: here's an excerpt from the opening that I posted for HU7U!

WIP THE SUBTLE ART OF COUNTING CROWS (Superhero WIP)

This is probably the WIP that I've been working on for the longest. I started writing about these characters in 2020 for my HSC English Extension Two major work (basically I elected to take a course for my final year that meant that I got to submit a major work, which in my case was a short story) (they didn't like it very much lol).

It follows the lives of Bran Wren, Clancy Culpa, and Melissa Kennedy (though it's mostly told from Bran's point of view) as they navigate life as newly initiated superhero-vigilantes in the city of Wrenwood.

It's very much a slice-of-life superhero story; it's told in a non-linear fashion where each chapter of the collection is based on that counting crows nursery rhyme (One for Sorrow, One for Mirth, etc.). And I'm thinking about adding a couple of 'bonus stories' in the second draft (shorter stories based on alternate versions of the nursery rhyme, maybe told from Clancy and Melissa's point of view?). It's just really fun to write and the characters are so dear to me. Here's an excerpt from one of my favourite chapters so far.

I'm currently working on the second (?) draft so I'll post some more excerpts as I get into that (and when I finally stop procrastinating).

WIP VIGNETTES OF A LIFE I NEVER LIVED VOL. ONE (Short Story Collection)

I haven't actually posted a lot about this WIP so far so I'll give a brief overview. Vignettes of a Life I Never Lived Vol. One is a collection of short stories I wrote in early 2021/22 about being unsatisfied with the direction my life was heading but being uncertain about where exactly I wanted it to go. It's a work in progress and I'm adding little vignettes every so often when I think about different lives I could've led (some of them are realistic, others less so). I'm currently writing the story in a kind of weird possible-future-tense (I'm not sure how to explain it) but it makes for a really interesting structure and reading experience.

It's more of a love letter to all the people I could have been than anything else; a way to mourn them and say goodbye. I might have to finally get around to writing up a WIP intro for this soon...

WIP DON'T PAY THE FERRYMAN (Afterlife WIP)

Don't Pay the Ferryman is my most recent WIP. I started it for Camp NaNoWriMo back in July, but uni kicked my ass that month, so I only managed to write a little bit. It's about Thea, an Afterlife guide, who ferries unmarked souls (those without religious belief) through the afterlife and is looking for a way to escape, to find her own peace in an afterlife (any afterlife really). The only way for a Ferryman to retire, and that is to get an unmarked soul to take their place by paying them before the journey is over (based on that Chris de Burgh song of the same name). So when Thea receives her first charge, she believes herself willing to do anything to reach retirement. That's when she meets Adriana. So it's a road trip romance novel but with a fantasy (and philosophy) bent.

Thank you for the ask! Have a lovely day (and lmk if you want to know anything more about any WIP in particular)! <3

[magic-is-something-we-create]

Hiya Pax!! Hope things are going well for you <3

Hi!! Thank you <3 Things are going better than they have been the last few days, and I wish the same for you :D

[cyril-v-pyromancer]

HANDS ON THE WAIST!!! HANDS ON THE WAIST PROMPT!

Did this as a warm up!! I hope u like ;3

(warning for vampire, blood, wounds, thats about it)

Hands on the waist, Castien and Wedneaday:

His hands trembled, only inches from Castien's flesh. Even the way his skin colors stitched themselves together seemed fragile. Deep brown interconnected with the green on his hips. Right where man and deer connected. Wispy deer fur clung to Castien's stomach, which Wednesday appreciated immensely.

Deer were such flighty creatures. If castien was awake, he would have stopped the staring thirty minutes ago. Wolves like Wednesday were used to stalking. Hunting. Hungering.

All night his stomach had been grumbling, but there was no reason to *startle* Castien. No. The best course of action would be to wait.

(One restful Castien nap later)

"I could feel you watching me in my sleep." Castien whispered, sleep still clogged his throat. "You kept any nightmares away. Well, the nonsense ones at least."

Even though they both had fangs, Castien felt a pang of panic when he caught a glimpse of Wednesday's canines. Unlike his own, only two were sharp enough to poke out.

"I like looking at you. You're a work of art. Any painter would love to capture all your different browns, greens, and blues." Wednesday took a half step closer.

"I don't take kindly to flattery when I wake up. Now come over here."

Wednesday obliged. This close he could smell the pungent sweetness of faerie blood. More sweet than the fruit mortals would destroy their entire lives floor.

He touched Castien's hip, right where deer met man.

"Could you indulge me?" He asked.

Before a blink could happen, Castien's razor sharp teeth met his lips. A bead of blood dripped down. It was gone before Wednesday felt it drip down his chin.

He grabbed both hips, feeling the wispy fur. Castien shivered. Wednesday's claws traced against the border of a green skin patch.

Once he dug into the skin, Castien took a breath in anticipation. The pain felt gentle yet all consuming as a familiar ache crept in. Wednesday lapped the blood before it dripped down into the deer fur.

What Castien wanted to ask was "why won't you use your teeth?"

TAGLIST ASK TO BE REMOVED/ADDED: @writing-is-a-martial-art (Sparrow is right here! Hi Sparrow/Orion!!!) @memento-morri-writes @theathenverse @verba-writing @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @albatris @fearofahumanplanet @nivahiem @lucysnotebook @wip-nook @writeblrsupport @365runesofthesystem @fairycosmos @theimperiumchronicles @cryptid-s-wips @kjscottwrites @thepunk-nessmonster

[careful-pyromancer]

last line tag, an open tag by @calicojackofficial

here's a line about castien feeling comforted by his bf and hating every second of it

Why must warmth feel nice? The absence of heat suddenly felt too unbearable ever to feel again. I cursed myself at feeling like everything would somehow work out when Wednesday wrapped his arms around me.

taglist, but feel free to jump in if u aren't tagged

@writing-is-a-martial-art @asher-orion-writes @memento-morri-writes @fictionalbullshitter @verba-writing @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @writingpotato07 @fearofahumanplanet @nivahiem @lucysnotebook @wip-nook @writeblrsupport @365runesofpassion @fairycosmos @theimperiumchronicles @cryptidsandchaos @kjscottwrites @thepunk-nessmonster

[careful-pyromancer]

♫ Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Cass, happy birthday to you~♫

I have no gift for you unfortunately, but! if you're down, we could dust off our Melodiverse and Avalon collab, as a gift hehe

thank u midnight ily!!! and yesss ofc whenever you're down and I can actually Write lol!! you know where to find me!!!

(castien picrew as a reverse birthday gift!)

[multi-lefaiye]

Hiya Multi!!

🍓 for that compliment ask game!

Hiya Midnight! :> Hope you're doing well!

Hmmmm well we haven't known each other that long, but I can confidently say that you're a very sweet and creative person!!! I really enjoy reading about your stories and characters (though apologies that I'm a lil slow about it at times!!! I need to go through and read all your stuff soon!), and I really appreciate your interest in mine!

Also? Your OC Midnight is so wonderful and I care him