Hi! I'm Aria but I also go by Sakura108645! I'm a writer, graphic designer and a free lance artist. I draw a varity of things like anime, plants, animals and such. You can find me on AO3 and FF.net as Sakura108645 if you want to give my stories a read!
Castorice was feeling at loss. Loud noises from machines she never once has ever seen; busy, modern-like street that looked nothing alike to those familiar busy streets that of Okhema and even how the locals had dressed themselves in clothing that contrast in those woven by dresses of Aglaea’s—everything feels just wrong to her.
A wild, palpable dream of something she never understood. Even more so, all things are looked gigantic. Did she grew small or was the world just big? This is one bizarre dream that’s making her confused and scared the more realistic it became.
She wanted to wake up. She wanted to run but her legs—she looked down—they aren’t like it was used to before. Better yet she wasn’t as human as she should’ve be.
Sleek, elongated body with a dark colored coat, a long tail, four short limbs—she saw no hands but tiny paws. She wasn’t human but a creature she never had a knowledge of.
This is just a dream—something she’ve kept on repeating these days—comforting her lonely self as the sun rises and the moon sets. It was scary. Everything is scary, very much so when she knew deep down she’s here alone—on a new body, on a different world.
Everything here is just new—lively and very different than anyplace in Amphoreus—and worst of all, she has no one. Alone in a place oh so dangerous to little animals like her.
So Castorice hid. On alleys where she salvaged on foods she finds edible. She had to survive this dream, she so strongly wanted to deny, is her new reality.
Alone and lost, she survived for days she couldn’t count. And as days go by, Castorice felt more anxious as she painstaking tries to survive this harsh and scary world ahead found herself in.
Everything was just her against the world, until she met you that night. Like some kind of hero written those popular books of saga children likes to read. You didn’t just appeared, you defended her and took her to a place she can call home.
You woke up feeling a fleeting pair of small paws and tickling whisker next to your face. As you stirred awake, you can feel a scarf-like shaped fluff laying snugly on your neck with their tiny paws lightly taps your cheeks every once in a while.
The first thing you saw when you blinked awake is a part of black beaded eyes, looking at you unblinking. You don’t know how, but somehow, those eyes painted worry and almost relieved.
“Hey girl, good morning,” you greeted groggily, scratching Midnight’s head. “Have you been trying to wake me? Hehe sorry, I was just really tired yesterday. Did I make you worry?”
As you move to sit up, you felt yet another ball of weighed fluff lying on your stomach rolled down together with a startled meow.“Oh—hey Blue, I forgot you like to lay there.”
Gently repositioning Midnight on your neck like a scarf, you checked on Blue who got up and started meowing at you in dismay just as you expected. To console his wounded feelings, you played along and started babying him.
“Oh no, I’m so sorry Blue. I promise I didn’t mean it.” You cooed, scooping him into your arms before hugging him, nuzzling him with your cheeks.
“I didn’t mean it baby. But don’t worry, in my defense, you did feel quite heavy so I doubt it will repeat again.”
He meowed sharply. “Yes, yes, not heavy, just chonky little baby who’s starting to smell stink.”
You peppered his face with kisses before holding him up high, watching his cute paws dangling as you moved his body left to right. “I should probably bath you and Princess today if I’m not too busy? Or maybe tomorrow? Hm, what do you say Blue?”
As expected, you saw his face change horribly, watching you with pained expression that almost looks comical. You expected to hear another pitiful meow or any violent meow reaction from Blue but you heard a sharp bark instead.
Standing short and proud was a tough looking Pomeranian who looked at you sharply at the foot of your bed. When he saw you glancing at him, his barks intensified as if showing you how against he is to your bath plans.
“Oh my pretty diva—who said I forgot about you hehe?” You said as you slowly crawled on your bed to get up. With Blue on your arms and Midnight still curled on your shoulder, you swooped Princess and squished them together with Blue in a hug.
“You fluffy little babi-es are stinky so you got no say in this. Why not be like Midnight? Isn’t she so adorable and behaved?”
Hearing her name, Midnight just nuzzles your neck gently before curled comfortably. You guessed you might know Midnight’s favorite place in this house.
As you kept animatedly cooed at them, Castorice can’t help but feel warmth. The type of warmth she longed since then. She thought this world is nothing but a scary dream but she never thought to experience something she never did before.
It may feels scary to change into something completely different than what she looks like before, but now she doesn’t mind if it means to feel warm and touch people without harming them in the process.
She prays—if this is just a cruel dream or a sadistic joke to Titans above, please—just this once let her dream in peace and to never wake up.
Note: I wanna spoil you guys this week but unfortunately, I got busy with this media team organization I joined in uni lmao 🙃🙃 but anyways here’s an update before I sleep and before I ghost y’all again 😘
My pieces for the M! Dimileth Zine! It was an honor with everyone in this Zine. Special thank you to @spoiledmantou, Also known as Minced, for creating the beautiful art piece for my story!
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An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:
IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:
HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:
First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
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