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[alesseia]

finally posting a WIP intro here, lmao

Alesseia is a Filipino-inspired, modern fantasy series that serves as a love letter to middle-grade children's fiction like Percy Jackson and Animorphs. It is my dearest passion project, a story spanning several books that has existed in my mind since 2010 or so. It's changed form in so many ways over the years, but I've kept the heart of it as much as I could.

Feel free to follow this blog if you're interested in it! Tags for the series can be found in my writeblr intro. Thanks for reading!

[lord-fallen]

SHARED WIP SHOWCASE: “WRITERS” 

a simple, quiet community space for writers - a cozy excuse to chase our writing goals this autumn and quickly find everyone else's wips. Add your current writing projects, connect them to your Tumblr, make them public in a shared showcase or keep them private. Set monthly writing goals, and cheer on fellow authors by liking or favoriting their works, even while they're still in progress!

features: 

overview page 

clean design

public showcase to easily find other writers' works and search by genre & common book tropes

profile page to choose your display ("author") name

network page for adding other users as "friends"

goals page to track writing progress

library page to manage your wips

note: this is still in development, therefore, your feedback and feature ideas are greatly appreciated

🙌 GET INVITED TO EARLY ACCESS: Leave a comment or reblog with "early access", if you would like to join!

[ocweek]

Announcing OC Week 2025's prompts!! This year we have an additional list for settings! You may choose whichever prompts you like to follow, you can mix up which list you like to use from, or you don't even need to use them at all - they are merely suggestions.

Be sure to tag your works with #ocweek2025 or tag this blog directly to be featured! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Have fun and happy creating!

OC Week (May 25 - 31)

Prompts: Day 1 - Original vs Current Design Day 2 - Family Day 3 - Favorite Food Day 4 - Inserted Into Different Media Day 5 - Reversal AU Day 6 - Species Swap Day 7 - Free

Fashion: Day 1 - Gala Day 2 - Historical Day 3 - Circus Day 4 - Cosplay Day 5 - Traveling Outfit Day 6 - Cleaning Outfit Day 7 - Free

Setting: Day 1 - Favorite Place Day 2 - Cemetery Day 3 - Stage Day 4 - Cat Cafe Day 5 - Inside Day 6 - Place to Seek Solace Day 7 - Free

[moondust-bard]

If your wip was a sound what would it be?

Rain falling, pages turning

Crashing waves, screeching seagulls

Soft chanting, footsteps on stone

Birds chirping, joyous laughter

Clashing metal, booming voices

Engines revving, horns honking

Urgent whispers, a clock ticking

Desperate sobs, tolling bells

Glass shattering, wood splintering

Fire crackling, goblets clinking

Wind through the trees, crow caws

Electronic beeps, mechanical whirrs

Voting ended onDec 23, 2024

[queerlilchinchin-deactivated202]

I have an idea for a new version of the "find a word" ask game.

Reblog this to receive random words. You search a random wip (only 1 wip) for said word and reply with how many times the word shows up in your wip then copy/paste your favorite one.

Doesn't matter how long the excerpt is so long as it isn't like a whole page long 😁

[queerlilchinchin-deactivated202]

I thought of another fun version. Instead of picking your favorite, post a 1-day poll with the number of them as the options (if there's 3 instances, making 1 2 and 3 the options in the poll) and using that occurrence to share.

[vacantgodling]

i always force myself back into art by doing redraws — this was a lil limited palette elf i drew in 2022 (left) redrawn 2 years later on the right

solo version of the 2024 version under the cut :3c

[ireverents]

i made this ao3 writers' wrapped template last year for fun, feel free to fill it out :-)

[multi-lefaiye]

oh no bestie you are so right, kylan DOES have two hands @vacantgodling

(not gonna tag the art taglist for this one but. i had to doodle the lil trio. the day i finally explain the gelf polycule dynamics that exist in my brain it's all ove for y'all)

[alesseia]

52, 57, and 60 for spotify wrapped :)

hi hi, thank you so much for sending in an ask!! :D

#52 — Just a Sunny Day for You — Rachie

Slowly growing up, far behind, I never realized All the while, the night had been blooming in your smile If I can’t find the words to convey it, I’ll be on my own But it’s alright, it’s okay, I’ve known it all along

This song was actually a friend's theme for their own fanfic (which I highly recommend, btw, if anyone's into character-driven stories featuring Pokémon trainer OCs) but I do find that its themes of nostalgia and wanting to reconnect with a friend you've lost over the years are absolutely on-brand for my own stories, which tend to be very heavy on relationships between childhood friends and/or family and how they're affected by growing up.

#57 — True Love — P!nk, Lily Allen

Sometimes I hate every single stupid word you say Sometimes I wanna slap you in your whole face (Whoa-oh-oh) There's no one quite like you You push all my buttons down I know life would suck without you (Whoa-oh-oh)

Oh, this one is just flat-out a song I'd use for my favorite OC ship of all time (Raven/Nathan). I'd turn it into an animatic if I had the time, lmao.

#60 — MAJI DE KANSHA! — T-Pistonz+KMC

I couldn't help but cry but everyone patted my shoulders for me I felt awkwardly embarrassed, so I couldn't say it “Thank you!” I'm super thankful for our bonds!

Okay, so this one was my favorite opening song from an anime I watched back when I was a preteen which I was experiencing nostalgia for recently. While the song itself isn't quite related to my stories (though its lyrics do seem to resemble some themes that I use in my works), I WOULD like to note that my OC Nathan was inspired by one of the characters in said anime, haha.

send me some numbers corresponding to songs on my spotify wrapped and I'll tell you how they relate to a WIP/character of mine!

[did-i-do-this-write]

New writer spotify wrapped game:

Send me a number 1-100 and I will tell you how that song relates to a character or WIP of mine.

[queerlilchinchin-deactivated202]

Working on my questions for my game. I have one of two sets of trivia cards almost complete.

[queerlilchinchin-deactivated202]

Whoo finished the first set of questions! I have no idea how I want to decorate the back of these cards, especially in order to make them all look uniform so you can't pick out the questions you want and cheat... but... like... I'm excited how this is progressing already!

So basically the mechnics of my game I'm working on are:

You pick a character of your friend's that you feel you know really well. You place your piece at the beginning of the board. You roll a die to see what pile you pull your card from.

One pile is for 1-3 and the other is for if you roll 4-6. The hard questions are for 4-6 and the easy ones (the set I just finished) are for 1-3. If you answer the question correctly, you get to move the number of places you rolled. If not, you don't. Whoever make it to the end first wins.

If you get through all of the questions before you reach the end, you have to pick a new character and start over after shuffling the deck. If you're playing with multiple people, you have to pick a character for each person and with each question, you get to pick which friend you want to answer for.

[queerlilchinchin-deactivated202]

Some cards from the easy deck

[vacantgodling]

I think I missed something- magic sex school ?? King you gotta tell me more

AYYYYYYYY so i can definitely give u more details in dms if you want cuz i'm still kinda figuring stuff out but very very tl;dr my friendo @/shadescrawls introduced me to a text based game called course of temptation which is basically you being horny in college LOL. its really fun would recommend. BUT the mc i made for it was bruno "rune" griffith and i got super attached to him and his sexcapades so i decided to make a magic college that's a party school and instead of dealing with his problems bruno decides to fuck them into submission :DDDDD (and by that he mean he's ignoring all of his problems and classwork by having sex PFFF)

its an extremely horny story LOL plus there's MAGIC now (and i just kinda decided how it worked)

tldr: in this world magic comes through 3 forms: straight studying, innate magic through genetic tie (aka your ancestors have magic so now you have magic) or through patrons; who aren't really gods, cuz they aren't really worshiped in the way we think about it they just have so much magic power that the magic basically consumes them tm.

n e way!! i gotta do a whole relationship chart but if you wanna see some stuff about the two main boyos (bruno and his unrequited love, his best friend, paxian) then here are these nsfw charts i made:

[alesseia]

trying to change my wip to suit my current values and preferences, which involves quite a few things:

reorganizing the character hierarchy such that the characters I actually care about the most (nathan, raven) become the most important characters in the wip, rather than important side characters

fixing the worldbuilding so that it's less "Philippines but with magic" and more distinctly itself as a setting

changing (most) character surnames to be more obviously filipino-flavored because I don't want people to think any of my characters are white even if they have blue eyes or whatever

there's probably more that I'm missing but those are the main ones on my agenda

[writeblrfantasy]

💖community writeblr event alert...

💖 WIP ROMANCE WEEK IS SEPTEMBER 23-30 💖

the rules, as stated above, are to make a post a day about your chosen oc pairing that coincides with the day's prompt! i will be participating in this myself, and reblogging all the posts i find in the tag. i encourage participants to reblog others' posts, to encourage the sense of community i hope to build.

tag your posts with #lilasromanceweek24 !

THE PROMPTS:

tell us about your pairing(s) classic example of their love how they show affection (love languages welcome!) the lengths they'll go to for each other what outsiders/friends think a visual rep of your pairing

even if you're not participating, boosts are welcome!

GENERAL TAGLIST: @worldbuildng @muddshadow @nikkywrites @47crayons @directionoftime

@chayscribbles @magic-is-something-we-create @rodentwrites @notwritinganyflufftoday @rustywritessometimes

[alesseia]

favorite song poll

tagged by @ink-flavored (thank you!!)

Rules: shuffle your playlist 5 times and post a poll with the songs and let your followers decide which is the best

got way too many playlists as well so I'm using my current seasonal playlist for this

choose one!

"The Saltwater Room" by Owl City

"Constellations" by The Oh Hellos

"The Darkest Lord" from Miitopia

"There! Right There!" from Legally Blonde The Musical

"Would You Be So Kind" by dodie

Voting ended onSep 20, 2024

idk who to tag (i've been away from writeblr for way too long) so open tag!! please feel free to make your own and say I tagged you!

[vacantgodling]

anyway here's a silly relationship web thing

guide:

green = friends

red = hate

pink = sexual relationship

yellow = YIKES ON BIKES (abusive/stalking/anything in this realm)

orange = romantic attraction

anything with dotted lines means its complicated OR only exists under certain circumstances (ie: brielle and freddie only fuck when they have a threesome with bruno for instance & sirelle is more sexually attracted to bruno but hates him so they haven't fucked... yet)

sooooo yahhhh

[penny-anna]

just to say pre-emptively a lot of long-time nanowrimo participants are cutting ties w the company but not with the event - personally my primary engagement w it is via discord & my local in person group, not the official website. as far as I'm concerned the company doesn't 'own' the event so i'll do as i please :)

[penny-anna]

#yeah me n my trusty excel spreadsheet are gonna keep doing 50000 words #or. attempting 50000 words the way things go

[ineffable-writer]

If anyone’s looking for a spreadsheet (so you’re not relying on a website) there’s a really good free download here. This is the one I use!

It has word data and a graph and everything.