Not enough coffee for this

Author of "Out There: The 1K" - a sci-fi/fantasy adventure. Link in pinned post. This is a writeblr and random blog from a coffee-addict

[blue-kyber]

WRITEBLR INTRO

🌟🌟⭐Hey, Everybody. My name is Kay Gilbert (Blue Kyber), and welcome to my official Writeblr intro! ⭐🌟🌟

It's about time I did one of these.

🌟⭐ ⭐🌟

My official pen name is "Kay Gilbert." You'll find my original works on Wattpad under this name.

🌟 My dad is the reason why I got into sci-fi and fantasy when I was a very little girl. He's always encouraged my creativity. "Out There: The 1K" is dedicated to him.

I go by she/her.

I'm a millennial

I'm demi-heteroromantic-ace. Sex is great and all, but have you tried going off-the-wall bonkers at a trampoline park???

I have ADHD and high functioning autism. I was recently diagnosed in mid Sept. 2022. It's nice to finally know why my life has been so hard, and why I always thought I was a broken human, and "wrong."

📕 I've had a novel published in 2011: "Itara: Son of C'reseth." - a sword and sorcery story. I consider it my biggest accomplishment while simultaneously my biggest failure.

🎙 I'm an audiobook narrator.

I have a spiritual side, yet keep myself based in science.

🎬 I've worked on movie sets and been in a couple of films. I have a music theater background.

I got to meet Carrie Fisher - who was absolutely a pillar of confidence. Princess Leia was the first strong female role model I had.

🌟THINGS I LIKE🌟

STAR WARS. I am an unapologetic nerd who has crushes on both Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.

I love space! :) 👽 Sci-fi and fantasy are in my blood. If given the chance to go to space, to see home from orbit, I'd take it in a heartbeat. In my next life, I want to be a pilot and explore the galaxy. 🌌

🎙 I love to sing. :)

I like to roller skate

I like shiny rocks. :)

I prefer pie over cake🥧

I'm a cat person😸

I like coffee ☕

Can't stand cilantro

I love heights. 'Flying' is the superpower I've always wanted ✈

I put the toilet paper roll over (under is for monsters) 🧻 Even the emoji shows it over!

Tacos are a gift from God. 🌮

🌟My favorite tropes are:🌟

found family

powers

profound bond

chosen one

last of their kind

kind-hearted himbo

reluctant hero/rogue who hates that they have a heart of gold

space jalopy that's a homeship with a soul

the power of platonic love

slow burn.

🌟⭐MY MAIN WORK. ⭐🌟

"Out There: The 1K." is a sci-fi fantasy adventure novel containing all the aforementioned tropes and more. :)

These are the four MCs - (top left to bottom right) Yune Darrak, Selka Kelnaris, Terra Kitridge, and William Kade.

Here's a Link to "Out There: The 1K" on Deviantart under AuthorKayGilbert.

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I accepted a challenge to describe my story in the worst way possible, and came up with this:

It's about a reluctant disaster space found family running from people out to throw two Terran-human ten-year-olds with powers from an extinct human species at their collective galactic problem.

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🌟⭐🌟SYNOPSIS🌟⭐🌟

One thousand children prophesied to save a galaxy embroiled in war are taken from Earth at the turn of the 21st century. The children are scattered throughout Alliance worlds to hide them from the terrifying, unseen antagonistic force that would destroy them, the keth.

This story follows the frightening and fantastical adventures of two of those children - Will and Terra - who are genetically altered to possess a strange power for a plan to end the war.

Yune Darrak - a lone spaceship pilot who ekes out a living as a salvager, bounty hunter, and treasure hunter, and Selka Kelnaris - a disillusioned, empathic, Ai Hiri bounty hunter - accidentally rescue them from a Regent secret lab while on a bounty hunt. They travel to a remote agrarian planet where Yune will hand the kids over to Selka once he gets her ship back from the planet's leader, so he can get his life back. A simple plan spirals into a deep, confusing mess involving a mysterious blue light known as the Source Field, a political coup, and more questions about the kids and Yune himself as all four are inadvertently caught up in the middle of a battle they never wanted to fight.

[talecueprompts]

Writing Impetus - Nature Sound

Sometimes I need nature sounds to focus on my writing. Thunder and rainstorm is so soothing. https://youtu.be/FOVZifLxKf0

[luna-azzurra]

Writing taught me that every person is the hero of a story where their choices make complete sense. every villain i've ever written believed they were right. every side character had somewhere else to be. the moment i started writing people that way i stopped being as confused by real ones. people are not inconsistent. they are consistent with a logic you haven't found yet. if you're confused by someone just ask what story they think they're in.

[blue-kyber]

I forgot to add a small excerpt from chapter 39: "The Darkest Hour" of my book "Out There" that I posted today. So, here you go. The first sample is free. :)

Okay, so it's a long excerpt. I figured you deserve more than just a bone.

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Will couldn’t take this anymore. He exploded in frustration, “What about Terra?! What happened to her?! No one said anything about her! It’s like she dropped off the face of the Earth and no one cares!”

“Earth?” Siffon asked curiously. 

“Yeah, Earth. It's the real name of our planet.”

“Will,” Yune warned, swiping his fingers across his neck in a ‘stop talking right now’ motion. His rant didn’t hold the same level of danger as Will’s.

“Why? You don’t care what happens to us! All you care about is Selka!”

“Don't.”

“No!" Will stood, planting his hands on the table, "I don’t care if they know!” He looked straight at Jeina, Siffon, and Orin, "I'm one of the One Thousand. So is Terra."

Yune's insistence for Will to stop talking drowned in Siffon's gasp.

"We're from Earth. The Regents took us and experimented on us for two years! They changed us!" Will held up his hand. Threads of blue energy quickly coiled around it, reacting to his emotions, “That’s why we have this power! They did this to us. They made us like this! We're not real Altarans; We’re fake. We don’t even have Terran-Human markers anymore! We don't even have last names anymore! They took that away! They took everything away!"

His fist slammed against the table. His energy crackled, vanished in an eyeblink, and within that same instant, it flung a small white vase holding a handful of orange bell-shaped flowers from the center of the table.

Jeina's quick reflexes via her power saved the vase from shattering against the wall.

Will clenched his fists against the resurging pain, “Terra is all I have left! If I don’t get her back– If I - if I don’t– I–I...” his voice wobbled. The twisting terror that he would never see his twin again crumpled up his insides. 

Embarrassed, and now reeling from throwing out his secret like birdseed, he ran from the scene into the living room.

A fresh storm opened up outside mirroring the one that swirled inside.

Yune dropped his face to his hands. 

Orin, Siffon, and Jeina were left speechless. 

Jeina took the vase in hand and set it back where it started with the flowers still intact.

“He’s...one of them?” Siffon breathed in shock. Ilthall might be remote, but the legendary status of that small group of Humans from an outer rim world had made it here, “He’s one of the One Thousand?” She looked at Yune.

There was no cleaning up this mess. Yune didn’t want to deal with it. 

He got up away from this damage, grabbed a bread roll, felt his way to the front door, and stepped outside onto the covered porch.

Siffon watched him go. Her mouth opened to ask a bevy of questions jumbling up in her mind, but nothing came out. Too much had happened. 

Instead, she left to find Will. 

Orin leaned back, processing what he’d heard in the unexpected outburst. He lovingly touched his wife’s shoulder when she got up to follow Yune and spoke softly, “He needs to know.”  

She agreed, but the time for full disclosure wasn’t right yet. It would need to be surgical, and happen in stages. He may be a child by Altaran definition, but he had lived enough to develop a self construct. His older appearance meant that sense of self may have been fast tracked. She didn't know, but didn't want to take that gamble. They risked losing him again if he became overwhelmed.

She could sense the vast amount of love her husband carried for their lost child. Orin wanted - no - needed to take his grandson into his arms and hold him tightly until the pain of Yune's past bled out. 

She kissed his knuckles and squeezed his hand, trusting him to be there for Siffon and Will. 

Learning about the Lighrey was lesson one for Yune. 

The time had come for lesson two. 

A lesson she prayed would allow him to allow himself to accept the truth to follow.

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[blue-kyber]

I have posted chapter 39: "The Darkest Hour" of my story "Out There."

This one expands on worldbuilding and gets into the topic of sentient crystals. :)

Please enjoy.

OUT THERE: Chpt 39 - The Darkest Hour by AuthorKayGilbert on DeviantArt

OUT THERE: Chpt 39 - The Darkest Hour — literature by AuthorKayGilbert on DeviantArt. Published: 2026-05-18 · Likes: 2 · Views: 215 · Tags:

[egberts]

the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭

[sator-the-wanderer]

Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have

[daughterofsarenrae]

To really put it in perspective

[blue-kyber]

Where can I post my scifi/fantasy story where real people will actually read it and comment on each chapter?

I'd put it up on AO3, but that's mostly for fan fiction. People don't go there to invest time, effort, and energy into learning to love a new original story. People go there looking for the known and familiar in established IPs.

I'm 39 chapters deep into this story, and I'm posting chapter by chapter as I edit the book.

Right now it's up on Deviantart at this link that takes you directly to chapter 1.

Thanks. :)

[skeletomez]

[tangledbea]

There’s a new LEGO set of Corona Castle with Rapunzel, Eugene, King Frederic and Queen Arianna. There’s even a trap door in the roof for where Eugene takes the crown.

I'm well aware!

Rapunzel's Castle

$99.99 USD

Coming Soon on June 1, 2026

It's cute, but I'm not a huge fan of the LEGO doll style. I prefer the classic look.

My sister is a huge LEGO fan, and a few years back she got that giant WDW castle set, that included all those prince and princess couples, and I put Eugene at the top of the highest spire.

[sherdnerd]

Watching a documentary about the Artemis Program and I'm loving Christina Koch's reaction to the launch of Artemis 1 (She does not yet know she'll be on Artemis 2)

[ladyfawkes]

More often than not, our astronauts are the ultimate superfans of outer space and space tech. Here is another fine example. ^_^

[blue-kyber]

I was out planespotting for a while today listening to Ground south. There were a small handful of people out there - like, 10 of us or so. We were all just...watching planes. One of the spotting YT channels was there - LAX Live, I think.

They let us know that the pilots of the Lufthansa Speedbird directly in front of us taxing toward us across runway 25L to Alpha (the taxiway closest to our location) were waving at us up on the overlook. :D

So, naturally, we all waved back. :)

Some people (me included) even went, "Heh-hey! :D" as if the pilots could hear us.

A tiny moment of human connection. I'm happy to be a part of that. :)

(This is the plane. A Super. It's taking off from runway 25R - which is 2 taxiways and a runway away from us. So when they were waving at us, they were a lot closer than this. :) )

The controller on Ground at that time had a nice voice, was on the ball about everything, and had a sense of humor. That over enunciated with a bouncy lilt, "By-ee by-ee" to a pilot had me smiling.

[blue-kyber]

GUYS, I FOUND THE FOOTAGE!!!

The thing starts at 38:35. The pilots are shown waving to us around 41:00 in. :D

Being waved at by the pilots, and waving back absolutely made my day. :)

(edit. Not a speedbird. That was the plane next to it. The A380. )

Found out in this video that Lufthansa likes to recognize the onlookers by flashing their lights twice and waving. I absolutely love that! It makes being there SO much more awesome.

[blue-kyber]

Curious: why do people watch videos on 1.5x speed when it ruins the experience of the video that's supposed to be enjoyed in real time? What's the thought process here? What's the mindset? Why? Just... WHY?

[blue-kyber]

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!

May the 4th be with you.

[blue-kyber]

The minor heart attack that follows after you've spent a couple of hours writing without realizing your connection broke, so when you pushed 'save,' it wouldn't connect. Then the follow up heart attack after you restablish your internet connection only for the page to say, "could not save revisions" regardless of how many times you click the "save" button.

So you copy everything just in case you have to close your tab and lose all of your progress.

Then the relief when it FINALLY saves.

And the despair that those 5 minutes of panic cost you a year of your life.

[thememedaddy]

[goldensunset]

[blue-kyber]

YES.

I WANT THE BANANA PLANES TO BECOME ORANGE PLANES!!

[prokopetz]

“Tumblr is a bad platform for content creators” frankly, content around here isn’t so much created as perpetrated. We commit content.

[jackalgirl]

With willful intent

[roach-works]

aiding and abetting content

[accidental-spice]

Possession of content with intent to distribute

[copperbadge]

Spreading dis content.

[amuseoffyre]

Now is the tumblr of our discontent Made glorious summer by the colour of the sky