Rosalind/Ross/Ros B. Sterling

💫Local alien👽 💫Adult author/artist/editor 💫Villain vs. Villain book 1 out now! 👀 💫English Major 💫Eclectic interests 💫Some mature content⚠️ Might post fan content sometimes Linktree

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Writeblr intro 💙⭐️💜

Flies into open window through helicopter wire and front rolls across room.

Wait, wrong window.

Repeats everything but into the correct window where you’re standing and magnificently introduces myself for the first time.

Hey~🕺🪩

A bit of backstory for this account. (Feel free to skip this and go straight into the intro below):

I made this blog ages ago to try and connect more with self shippers, but I ended up not doing anything with it because I became inactive in the self ship community (at least until now. I might make a separate blog for that later, but right now I’m focusing on some more important things in my life).

So I tried reforming this place into a “I’ll put whatever I want here” sorta thing, but once again became inactive. And now that Instagram (my main platform) has basically been rendered useless because of the tags not working anymore, I need to find a new “main” to talk about my writing and shit. So I’m trying for a third and hopefully final time to reform this blog, and turning it into a writing/oc blog. :b

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About me:

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🛸 My name is Rosalind B. Sterling, but you can call me Ross or Ros.

🛸 My age is—slowly looks up at the number twenty looming over me. Dear god. It’s coming.

🛸 I’m a college student. Or at least I’m supposed to be. If my school would just make the transfer process a bit easier, I’ll hopefully be able to make it this semester.

🛸 I’m a demibiromantic asexual, and genderfluid. My pronouns are she/he/they 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🛸 I’m Puerto Rican, German, and Scottish.

🛸 I’m also neurodivergent.

I mention all this because I want everyone to know that this is this is a safe space for LGBTQ+, POC, disabled people etc, and I love using my experiences as a person from these groups to write diverse casts of characters into my books.

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About my writing/what to expect from this blog:

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💜 I'm an author/writer, editor (mostly developmental), artist (mostly cartoonist), and reader who posts illustrations, writing content, book reviews, discussions, thirst traps of sexy characters 💅, and more. See? You get an enjoyable variety of content here ✨

💜 I primarily write adult oriented stories in the genres: crime, comedy, and sci-fi, while mixing in vintage/nostalgic elements from different time eras ranging from the 1920’s to the 2000’s. I also love playing Cupid and slipping in different romantic subplots with varying levels of spice.

💜 You’ll probably see a lot of morally gray characters, cartoon-style humor, a chaotic/meta writing style with 4th wall breaks, and lots of parody/spoofing in my stories.

💜 I’m a planster, and often don’t know what the hell I’m doing when I write. I just shit something out and shape it into something readable with the help of my many betas and editors who still somehow put up with me to this day (I love you guys).

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What do I read?

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I like to read what I like write, except not everything I like to write is available in the book world. So at this point, I’ll read anything as long as it holds my attention for more than a few chapters.

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Can I read anything of yours right now?

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⭐️ Yep!

My debut novel: "Villain vs. Villain and the Revitalization of the Transtemporal Case" is the first book in my illustrated, crime/comedy/sci-fi trilogy. It's currently on Amazon in ebook format, and on Goodreads. But I’m also in the works of getting the paperback out this month as well as the animated-ish book trailer.

It’s a story about a time travel scandal taking place in 2005. Jonathan, a black market salesman, is on a journey to clear his name and stop his brother from messing with the timeline. Along the way, he teams up with an undercover agent and go on wacky adventures together as they attempt to reach their goals and hopefully put a stop to their dimension’s demise.

⭐️ I also have a few random short stories on my website blog which can be found here, however, I’m highly considering re-working them as they are all unedited, probably full of errors, and I also wrote these anywhere from months to years ago, so I don’t think they properly represent my current writing all that well.

⭐️ Honorable mention to my Webtoon which you can find here. I haven’t posted anything yet, but have plans to do mini comics with the characters of my Villain vs. Villain trilogy as a way to explore ideas and backstories I couldn’t explore in the books themselves.

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Do you have any WIP's?

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Distant screaming.

Too many my friend...too many. But my main WIP right now is book 2 of my Villain vs. Villain trilogy. I also have a 1920's crime/comedy/sapphic romance short story thingamajig I've got in development that I hope to publish next year. I simply don't have the time, money, or energy to publish book 2 next year as I originally planned, so hopefully this short story will fill in that publishing gap until I get my trilogy figured out.

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Some random facts about me:

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💙 I love anything Y2K, scene, noir, neon, synthwave, cyberpunk, etc. You name the aesthetic, I probably like it. (I have waaaay too many eclectic interests and styles so I’ll probably look different in every photo, and I’m putting my bets on it that this account won’t have a concise theme either).

💙 I have a shih tzu/writing partner named Dakota who will sometimes appear on my account. (He loves contributing to my drafts by jumping onto my lap and slamming his paws and ass on my keyboard). Also ignore the half destroyed chair he’s sitting on. He’s responsible for said destruction and is proud of it.

💙 I currently live in Ohio, and yes, I can confirm first hand that it’s an entrance to the backrooms. The screams from outside keep getting louder too…

💙 Horror is my comfort/self indulgent genre. I would say the same about erotica but I really can’t seem to get into most books I find in that genre for some reason. So I mostly read shitty X reader fics online involving the characters I crush on (who totally aren’t cartoon men in their middle ages).

💙 Music is one of my biggest inspirations for writing. My favorite genres are 2000’s-2010’s pop music, and electro swing. My favorite artists are: Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Pitbull, Wolfgang Lohr, Swing’it, and more.

💙 I talk…a lot…as you can tell by the length of this blog 🌝

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Welp, that’s all I got for now. I’m still working on reforming this blog, as I said earlier, so there might be a mess of random posts here here as well as an unfinished theme until I figure how the actual hell to use this platform. I sorta wanna post both orginal and fan content like I was doing before, but whenever I dedicate an account to my writing, I feel odd posting anything that’s not OC related. We’ll see what happens.

In the mean time, check my link tree for my other socials, website, and my editing services. If you follow this blog, I’ll most likely follow back because I need friends lmao. No matter your age, the genre you write, where you love etc, come say hi. I really don’t have restrictions on what kind of audience I want since I love everyone and wanna connect with as many writers/artists as I can. Hit up my DM’s too if you wanna chat. I’m always open to have a nice convo.

And with all that being said, welcome to my blog raaahhhh 🦅

Jumps out of window and dies.

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NEW BRAND LOGO LET’S GOOOO. I really wanted to get some sort of official text/logo that I can use on my socials and also as a watermark on my art possibly, so I commissioned the same guy who designed my book cover title text and I am BEYOND happy with it. He does such an amazing job every time omg 😭🫶

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Happy Halloween you spooky mfs

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I told myself I only had the time and motivation to do a quick doodle for Halloween, which turned into me redrawing Katrina’s costume from last year, which then led to me dressing up the rest of the main gang as well so you’re welcome. Idk how I did it so fast 💀

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I’ve had major Blade Runner brain rot recently so I made this short animatic at 3 am and then threw an edit in there. I’m sorry that the movie clips keep changing screen size. I only had access to YouTube clips and they were all inconsistent 💀

Also I mentioned this on my Instagram story earlier, but for anyone not in the loop, I’m currently making a very lengthy blog and video essay for this franchise that will go over lots of info about the movie, book, production, creation, and analyses on the plots, characters, worlds etc. So look out for that ;)

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Book rating and info:

Fanart:

Here’s my first book review/fanart post I’m putting on Tumblr! I’m hoping to do more of these in the future :) Also there aren’t any spoilers in this review but I do go into a lot of details about the story and characters, so if you want to be surprised, I suggest reading the book first. But if you want a detailed review about this book before reading it, keeping on reading. ✨

ALSO also, please support the amazingly talented writer who wrote this book! Here is his link tree:

All the links!(nikolaiwriter) - Official Videos - Linktree

Fantasy & Sci-Fi author

Review:

I had so much fun reading this book. It reminded me a lot of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with all of its wacky humor and crazy space adventurous, but with its own twist and writing style. Everything about this story is colorful from the world, to the technology, to the characters and more. It had found family, crazy cooperate politics, diverse characters, relatable struggles, and a really unique depiction of the future. I found myself laughing and cheering on the characters for every page and looked forward to reading it whenever I could. I would say my only critiques are related to the prose and world building. There were a lot of times where I didn’t understand what was going or had a hard time imagining things because of the way things were described which, in turn, made some of these colorful places and things get lost in the narrative. But I believe a lot of the errors I found will be resolved in the final draft, and I honestly had such a perfect image in my head most of the time that it wasn’t hard to connect the dots during the more difficult moments. I imagined everything like a cartoon because of the energetic, over the top, and sometimes slap stick type descriptions and situations which, in my opinion, is some of the best ways to tell a story. It’s so imaginative and creative and I wish more books took that approach honestly. It makes everything seem so colorful and clear in my head.

Regarding the world-building, it felt like it lacked a tad at times since I was unsure of why a lot of things were a certain way, but all in all, I was able to pick up on the way things worked eventually. The story knew what it wanted and did a pretty good job maneuvering us through this insane galactic world.

I think where the book lacked in prose/world-building, it made up for in its characters.

Oh. My. God. These characters. I love them unbelievably. They felt like family to me and I think I almost cried at the end lol. I loved seeing how these characters developed and how they each worked together to get their happy endings. They are all such a tight-knit family who love each other dearly, and each has their own unique, 3D personalities.

First, we have Jolene, a determined, hard-working waitress at Galaxy Waffles who also does a lot more work on the ship than her job requires, but that’s just the way she is. She’s reliable, and will always go above and beyond to help her ship and her crew no matter if it’s her duty or not. I related so much to her frustration as an overworked and underpaid staff member who just wants the best for her loved ones while also struggling as a minority in this world, being held back from opportunities because of her status. I think that part specifically hit very close to home and I loved how the book covered real-world topics like that but in its own fictional way. It was a great allegory and I think, as a minority myself, it approached it realistically, respectfully, and in a way that is digestible and understandable to younger audiences while also showing it in a way where older people can be like: “yeah I understand and/or sympathize with that.”

Then we have Boris, the veteran Robot and chef of the ship, and also probably my favorite of the crew. He’s such a kind-hearted, lovable sweetheart who’s witty, sarcastic, playful, and caring. He’s always got his heart in the right place and does what he can to help his crew mates and ensure they’re all safe and happy. He warmed my heart in every scene, and I wish I could be friends with him irl lol!

Next on the list is Murph, a quirky blue alien with a jelly body and shifting abilities. They’re such a crackpot with a huge personality. Whether they’re talking/acting like a mobster from their favorite old movies, turning their hand into a calculator, or shifting into hilarious creatures/beings, they always got a laugh out of me.

Lastly, we have O.D. and Erabella. O.D being the ship’s AI, usually appearing like a holographic, sentient waffle. And Erabella being a mostly Android prick in charge of the crew’s every move. Although I hated both of them at first because of their mean-spirited and spiteful personalities, I came to love O.D. as his arc progressed and was satisfied with Erabella’s ending.

I could go on and on about more characters, but you get my point. I also really enjoyed how the book read maturely but also cleanly at the same time. It’s NA, and it did a really good job at finding a middle ground between mature content that adults could relate to while also being clean enough and digestible for teenagers.

This book was such a colorful, whimsical, chaotic adventure that had me smiling, laughing, and feeling sad for these characters every step of the way. I really recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy-to-read space adventure with humor and heart, and I hope a sequel comes out because I’d love to see what these guys do next!

A/N: I was an arc reader for this book back in July, and though I’ve already posted my review on Goodreads and Amazon, I MEANT to post it along with this fanart on my accounts too but life got into the way. Better late than never I guess 😅

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Villain vs. Villain and the Revitalization of the Transtemporal case official book trailer is here!

If you’re interested in this book, go to the link in bio to get a copy for $5. It’s quite an adventure 👀

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I am once again so sorry for how late I posted this compared to my book’s release. I am by no means a professional artist, so this was a big project for me even if it seems small to others but even despite the stress it caused me, I still had a blast working with the voice actors and music producer, as well as drawing all those frames, and I’m so happy that I was able to finish it 😭🙏

I have so much more to say, but I don’t want to clog this post with a bunch of rambles, so I’ll make another post in a day or so going over all my thoughts on this 6 month long project. For now, I’ll save my words so you can enjoy this thing I labored over for half a year 🥹🤞

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Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com (adding this small credit section to follow the copyright rules of the website)

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1 day baby! Here’s a list of things to sort of “prepare” everyone for what to expect tomorrow 😈

1) I would suggest watching it with headphones and on a bright screen since there are a lot of visual and audio details I wouldn’t want you to miss ;)

2) The trailer has over 90 separate drawings and over 240 frames. There are 4 voice actors involved, a custom soundtrack, a fourth wall break form yours truly, and a possible after credits surprise 👀

2) It’s 4 and a half minutes long. The first 40 seconds are dedicated to the book’s prologue, the next 2 and a half minutes are dedicated to the main plot of the book, about 25 seconds is the credits, and the last minute is the little after credits surprise ✨

3) Although it has a few animated parts, it’s more of an animatic. But instead of everything being sketches, it’s fully lined, colored, and shaded. The quality of each illustration isn’t as good as my normal illustrations because of how many I had to draw in so little time, but it’s far more colorful than most animatics I think.

4) I had to slightly alter some scenes and dialogue from their book counterparts. Almost everything shown are direct quotes and scenes, but a few things had to be changed and a few lines of dialogue had to be added since story telling is a bit different in visual formats than in literature, and I needed to do what I could to make sure the plot was understandable in such a short video. I’m hoping that worked out okay because I’ve never had to summarize a plot and then tell that summarizes plot in a visual video. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed the story is understandable 😭🤞

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2 days until the trailer release! And I wonder what he’s hiding from 👁

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3 days until the trailer release!

My favorite thing about this frame is that no matter how much guessing you do about what’s going on here you’ll probably be incorrect every time lmao.

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Starting today I’m gonna be posting a still frame from my trailer every day leading up to the trailer’s release which will be September 30th! Starting off, here’s one of the most detailed frames I did. I kinda rushed it but I’m not gonna nit pick a drawing that’s gonna be on screen for literally 0.5 seconds lmao.

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Here’s the last clip I’ll be posting before the trailer release! I’ll be posting a few still frames after this, but I won’t be posting any more clips since I wanna save most of them as a surprise for when y’all watch the full thing 😈

The trailer is set to be released by the end of the month and I can PROMISE that for sure since I’m literally on the last drawing right now and only have minor touch ups to do with the audio and shit. I also need to edit this clip a bit since the water animation is super inconsistent and it’s bothering tf outta me but I was too anxious to post this clip to fix it right away so I’ll do it later lmao.

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And if you don’t know… That’s okay too. ❤️‍🩹

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Excuse me as I rewrite history…

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Here’s another still frame from my upcoming book trailer! I should be posting it in a couple of days so look out 👀

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I will randomly get the motivation to attempt to draw something realist-ish, then will get burnout after a single drawing and lose the motivation to ever try something like that again for another few months and the cycle repeats. At least this looks better than most of my past attempts so I’ll give myself that 💃🕺

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Thank you for the og ref Ophelia. You always feed us well 🙏🧎‍♂️

Also thirst trap aside, I love finding excuses to draw my character’s bodies cuz it’s good practice. I feel like the way I draw my characters and their bodies are always changing, but that’s because I have a very specific image in my head that I always struggle to get out on paper 100% accurately. And as my art improves, the quality will change and so will details as I find better ways to draw them ✨

ALSO also, before anyone asks about why Katrina’s skin is two different tones: her skin is naturally lighter but she’s out in the sun all the time and can’t tan to save her life, so her upper half is just always red lmao.