BloomingLilackal

Hello! I write fanfics on squidgeworld.org https://squidgeworld.org/users/BloomingLilacs/ I now use AO3 as of 10th of March, 2026. https://archiveofourown.org/users/BloomingLilacs (I got tired of header being bricks, I'll draw a background instead of using a stock image later).

[bloominglilackal]

Hello, I'm BloomingLilackal!

I write stuff like fanfics and original work on squidgeworld.org and post them to tumblr and now AO3!

On this blog, I will make post about my writing (both updates and when what I write here), reblogs about writing related post by others, and more!

For anyone who comes across this looking for money, such as donations, I unfortunately have to inform you that I am unable to send (or receive) money at this time; so please don't take the time to follow me or to message me with the intent to ask for some as I am unable to donate as previously stated.

This post was made on the 10th of March, 2026.

Last updated: No update as of posting it.

Previous introductory/masterfic list post can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/bloominglilackal/771780566851993600/hello-im-bloominglilackal

[bloominglilackal]

Master-List of all I have written under the cut:

The links on the fic's name goes to it on squidgeworld.org, the link(s) at the end bring you to the second and third places it was posted (if applicable to it).

Splatoon:

New Grounds, New Heights, Across The Lake - A Finished series of three fics with 100 words each. (Link to Masterpost on Tumblr) (Link to it on AO3)

How To Get Your Weapon Early For Dummies - An Unfinished fic of Agent 8 getting a weapon early in the game. (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to it on AO3) Part of the Breaking Barriers Series.

HTGYWEFD also has a bonus crack fic oneshot in the other series it is apart of called Step 4.5) The simplest solution is not always the easiest. This is meant to be read after finishing chapter 4. (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to it on AO3)

No Longer A Being With Ink - An Unfinished fic of Lace and Clayton and the world of Splatoon 3. Clayton an Inkling turned mammal after he touched fuzzy ooze and a Lace who after following climbing rope down The Crater finds themself helping an unseen before creature they found. (Link to it on AO3)

Deltarune:

To free the spirit from the confines. - A Finished fic of a mostly one-sided conversation between the soul and Kris (In an effort to get them to eat their pancakes). (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to it on AO3)

The Fungang Works Retail. - An Unfinished fic that is just instances of Susie, Kris, or Ralsei working a job in retail because why not? (Link to it on tumblr)

DELTARUNE: SILLY&Silly’s Mod - An Unfinished and silly fic of the player getting to direct their vessel. I go back to this whenever I can't focus on working on one of my more serious fics to try and break the writer's block. (Link to it on AO3)

Great God Grove:

Fighting For Every Word - A Finished fic of an au born from me while watching someone play GGG up to HobbyHoo, forgetting the order of events, and being suspicious of Inspekta before the Reveal; so meet King the ex-god after being shove out of The Rift by Inspekta. Now on the way back to The Grove to close The Rift and get their godhood back. (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to it on AO3)

Slay The Princess:

More Than Cold - A Finished fic that takes place after the "And? What happens next" Ending of the Princess and The Long Quiet leaving the cabin. (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to it on AO3)

A Hat in Time:

What Happened Before the Scenes - An Unfinished fic where we explorer what lead to each ending on The Owl Express based on what is said in each ending when you pick it. (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to fic on AO3)

Five Nights At Freddy's:

We Have Lift Off! - A Finished fic of an au of Sun and Moon are two humans from Earth who got kidnapped by aliens, this fic is their escape off the ship they were held in. (Link to it on AO3)

Portal 2:

Not Burning Life's House Down - An Unfinished fic of Chell learning about the game like physics in the facility and using it to accidentally skip the cave Johnson Lemon rant. Part of the Breaking Barriers series.

In Stars and Time:

Ending the game, Not the connection - An Unfinished fic of the consequences of a player wishing Loop into real life. (Link to it on AO3)

The Amazing Digital Circus:

The Bin - I'm unsure if I want to keep it a One-shot or add more. Caine is trapped in The Box again, but something is different this time around. (Link to it on tumblr) (Link to it on AO3)

Steven Universe:

Future Estimating Spinel (No Future-Vision Required) - An Unfinished fic that I'm unsure if or when I'll get back to. Spinel wasn't always a Spinel, she was isekaied. Now she has to plan how to get out of the Gem Empire before Earth's Galaxy Warp is destroyed but after the Corruption Blasts hits Earth. (Link to it on AO3)

Undertale:

The Celing Stars I Wish Upon - An Unfinished fic of an entity that once was Gaster and a Soul Lost in The Void. The entity escaped The Void and now has to adjust/readjust to living in the Underground. (Link to it on AO3)

Original Work:

i just want to relax man - A Finished short story of scientist being texted that Pluto hatched while on vacation. (Link to it on AO3)

The Mail Carrier And The Unexpected Journey in Outer Space - An Unfinished story of Mackwell Workson accidentally getting abducted by an alien nambed Alias Fox, who just trying to do research on humanity.

A Super Lie. - A Finished one shot of a unnamed superhuman who has to escape their what their attacker's believe to be their greatest weakness. (Link to it on SquidgeWorld) (Link to it on AO3)

Cross-Overs:

Kris Dreemurr and Siffirn NoLastName Solve the Time Loop - An Unfinished story about Kris from Deltarune needing to help Siffrin from In Stars and Time reach the end of the story to escape the time loop. (Link to masterpost on tumblr) (Link to the fic on AO3)

Last updated: 23 May, 2026.

This post was made on the 10th of March, 2026.

Previous introductory/master-list post can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/bloominglilackal/771780566851993600/hello-im-bloominglilackal

[insertdisc5]

making your characters speak to you is a lifelong journey

(characters are from Truth Scrapper which you can wishlist right now)

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[saanah]

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

[santapau]

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

[qqueenofhades]

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

[nudistcat]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[sekkitsune]

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

[qqueenofhades]

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

[sekkitsune]

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

[qqueenofhades]

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

[laurenthemself]

how dare you say we error on the scribes

[jtimu]

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

[blackheart-biohazards]

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

[dovesndecay]

[otherwindow]

the first sentient robot to realize deceased humans and animals can’t be repaired or backed up on a server is gonna be so devastated

[otherwindow]

Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudging a body: i fix Little robot, nudg

[otherwindow]

#ah man medical robots who break free from their first directive of Get Money from Patients and follow their Core Idea of Help People #and rove around providing what little medical care they can 

#security androids using their being mosly bulletproof to bravely seek peaceful resolutions 

#engineer droids who refuse to work with faulty tech or supar metals for fear of the vehicle not keeping its humans safe 

#man man man part of robot culture is wondering what keeps humans seemingly unafraid of death when it feels like it could be anywhere

[autisticsupervillain]

This is just the Rogue Servitors from Stellaris.

[foone]

An idea suddenly comes to me:

The robot is programmed to keep the crew safe. Normally this is patching up leaks in the hull and doing the dangerous job of refueling the reactor, but it was programmed for medical tasks as well. Once you’ve had to resolder a surface mount IC in zero-G, doing surgery is easy mode.

The robot’s been with them long enough, it was never designed to be sentient, but the self-learning systems plus being treated as a member of the crew means it’s getting closer.

But one day all the input stops. It doesn’t know what exactly happened, maybe a freak gamma ray event or some kind of virus the med-filters didn’t detect? But all the crew have stopped moving. It runs through its medical routines, trying the options in the encyclopedia. CPR doesn’t seem to help, asking them loudly to “wake up” does nothing, it even tries building a makeshift defibrillator out of the secondary plasma coupling. Nothing.

It finally comes to the page on Death in the encyclopedia, and reads it, with dawning sadness (or the closest thing a robot that was never programmed for emotions can feel). They won’t move again. They are permanently deactivated. The robot is alone, and it has failed them.

Unless… The robot notices a link at the bottom of the page.

See also:

* Necromancy

It’s eyes glow in the reflected light of a screen as it quickly reads the page. So there’s a chance after all? Cancel sending the mission update, there more important things to do with the deep space radio. Send all information on “necromancy” immediately.

The robot hums to itself as it reprograms the biosynthesizer for Goat, and looks into how it can create candles with the limited materials on hand. The deck 4 cargo bay would be best for making alchemical circles on the floor, but it will need to move the self-sealing stembolts to another location first. Perhaps Mx. Jormand’s quarters? They won’t be using them until this is complete, after all.

Finally. Something to do. There’s hope now.

[foone]

The air scrubbers kick into high as they quickly dissipate the cloud of sulfur that materialized in the center of the circle. He went classic today, seven feet tall, red skin, muscled upper body with goat-like legs below, extra large ram’s horns and enemy-save him, he ever wore a goatee. It seemed worth it, he hadn’t been summoned in a while, and he was feeling nostalgic.

Annoyingly long story of a robot summoning a demon to get necromancy powers under the readmore:

Keep reading

[bloominglilackal]

I have a deltarune fanfic I was working on, but since Deltarune chapter 5 is releasing this month on the 24th, I think I'm going to wait on it until it comes out.

[bloominglilackal]

I change my mind. Nothing stops the Deltarune, not even Deltarune itself.

[decepticonsensual]

Not to be all "the children have forgotten the sacred texts!" but I just saw someone refer to a ship between two people who are good friends in canon as a crackship.

Hon. No. Crackship doesn't just mean "not canon". It's difficult to imagine two people who spend significant canon time together as a crackship. Crackship is when you write Galactus getting fucked by Tony the Tiger.

[decepticonsensual]

The notes are starting to be all, "Yeah, crackship means there's no chemistry! Even canon ships can be crackships!" and I must STRENUOUSLY disagree.

A crackship isn't just any ship that makes you go, "Eh, I don't see it." A crackship is absolutely WILD in concept. A crackship is the one that makes your friends look at you with the beginnings of existential horror. It's the one where they wave a circle round you thrice and close their eyes in holy dread, for you on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise.

anyway I said it as a joke but if anyone wants to join my Tony the Tiger/Galactus Discord -

[decepticonsensual]

@why-is-it-always-autumn-again you see my vision

[ckret2]

i used to play a game where friends would chuck two random characters at me and i'd have to construct and justify a ship between them as fast as possible. Very fun game.

My crowning achievement is from Invader Zim: one of the Planet Jacker aliens who tried to steal the earth to throw into their dying sun as firewood; and a goldfish that appeared in one scene (in a different episode) to accidentally flop into a guy's water glass and cause him to choke when he drank it.

though justifying Uchiha Sasuke and Sailor Moon came pretty close.

THAT is a crack ship. a ship that may cause people to accuse you of smoking a particularly potent form of cocaine to have come up with it. not "i can't imagine it working out," but "i can't imagine it PERIOD, and i can't imagine how YOU imagined it." merely mentioning the names, without even getting to the explanation/justification, should inspire confusion and awe.

[ckret2]

the only canon(-based) ship I can think of that has crackship energy is Prowl/Tarantulas because—when Sins of the Wreckers started publishing—they had never interacted, they weren't in the same army, they weren't from the same time period, they weren't even from the same Transformers series. They had no hobbies, social groups, or morals in common. Simply imagining them MEETING, much much less getting along, much less having ANY sort of affectionate feelings for each other, was so outrageous as to be inconceivable. Like it isn't a concept the average brain could conceive. it's the kind of ship that feels like it could only have been proposed by a random name generator being loaded up with the names of every Transformers character and randomly spitting out those two.

So SotW giving them a secret history where they collaborated, inspired each other, and fought over custody of their son? That felt like crackship energy.

But it was only able to carry that energy because, when Nick Roche wrote SotW, he was building upon 30 years of Transformers history and lore that had already established these characters and set out how implausible their interactions were. SotW had the same relationship to a well-established canon that a fanfic has to its canon.

But now that he HAS written SotW, Prowl/Tarantulas is not a crackship and never will be again. Because now they canonically DO have a history with each other. Tarantulas said "We were each the muse to the other." right there on the page in Spookytooth font. When you can explain a ship by posting comic pages where they are actually talking to each other, it's no longer a crackship.

[bloominglilackal]

I have a deltarune fanfic I was working on, but since Deltarune chapter 5 is releasing this month on the 24th, I think I'm going to wait on it until it comes out.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[powerful-owl]

pick one

your ship goes canon

your favorite ao3 writer drops 100k of your ship + your favorite trope

Voting ended onJun 10

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[byjove]

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

[byjove]

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

[byjove]

YEAH EXACTLY

[byjove]

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

[emptyheadmybeloved]

hold on i need to look this up

[byjove]

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

[byjove]

[stereden]

Hi might I suggest for your enjoyment @ofgeography 's amazing Chilliad?

the chilliad: hour one

“listen, man,” homer says, “i dunno what you want me to tell you. like, i wasn’t even there.”

It is made of awesome

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[themeadowscene]

I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

[themeadowscene]

e.g. they're told that this kind of creature has some kind of psychic or pheromone-based "mate bond" that cannot be broken; but it turns out that's a popular myth that has never been scientifically substantiated, and is basically used to keep people in bad relationships (basically the equivalent of "human women are biologically submissive")

[themeadowscene]

"lore" is imo too often treated like information that the author is giving the reader, and it just happens to be using the medium of diagetic (that is, 'in-story') exposition.

it's so much more interesting and dynamic to treat "lore" as information that is generated and disseminated in-story. who is telling the protagonist this information? under what historical and social circumstances was this idea formed? what political motives are there for trying to get people to believe this information? which characters would disagree with it? would the protagonist believe it, or be sceptical? does the plot bear it out, or cast doubt on it?

[flagellant]

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[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[hope-chest-resources]

ID: A screenshot of tags left on the tumblr post. They read "#it's actually kind of a reverse Chekhov's Gun #Chekhov's Gun says "If there is setup there must be payoff" #Asimov's Tail says "if there is payoff there must be setup" #and I think the tail is also important #a tail is not something you'd expect to see on a character unless explicitly pointed out #someone stepping on the tail not only reveals its existence but also tells us things about it #eg it's floor length sensitive and the character either can't or won't keep it out of the way of foot traffic #the upshot seems to be "acclimatise your audience to things they don't understand before you use them" #you don't need to explain how a gun on the mantelpiece works in the same way you need to explain how your protagonist's tail does" End ID.