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[cee-grice]

✨ hi!! welcome to my domain ✨

about me

my name's Cee, I use she/they pronouns, and I'm from Lithuania :) I write almost exclusively fantasy, often together with romance. Besides writing, I like to draw, so I may post some art later down the line, too. I'm trying to use tumblr more to mingle with the writing community on here, so I'm always on the lookout for more writer friends!! I also really like tag games, so feel free to tag me in any!! sign up to my newsletter to receive the first chapter of When White Crows Cry :)) my rather old writeblr intro

my works

WHEN WHITE CROWS CRY - an adult queer romantic fantasy set in a secondary world. It features a hard science-based magic system, an academical community as the ruling class, magical afflictions with no (legal) cure, and is primarily character-driven. It has themes of mental deterioration, bodily autonomy, death and grieving, the grey morality of science. For an actual summary of the story and more details, check out the links below: WIP intro Characters intros Worldbuilding Writing Art General WIP tag A CASE STUDY ON IMMOLATION - prequel to When White Crows Cry. An adult dark academia fantasy. It features pretty much the same as above, but is about scientific hubris, or, the rise and fall of prodigies. It's a dark academia focused on academia and its inherent consuming nature. Also has a good dose of human experimentation <3 For an actual summary and further details, check the link below: WIP intro General WIP tag The line between disregard and abandonment - a short story

let me know if you wanna be added to the taglist :)

[nikoisme]

i love drawing him with babies..

[crimsonshadetress]

@cee-grice

[tc-doherty]

Would you like to help me put some bitches in some situations?

I mentioned it before but I used to really enjoy drawing pinups of my characters and now that I can draw more I want to get back into that. So!

I have a selection of 25 outfits, shoes, and accessories (these are mostly not lingerie, they are just sexy outfits) but I'm having difficulty deciding who to put in what

If you guys would like to help me randomize it, you can send me a character (or characters) and a number for them between 1 and 25. I do have some variation so even if the same number gets selected more than once it won't be exactly the same. You won't get to know what you've subjected them to until I draw it.

I love doing projects like this but I hate making decisions lmao

If you have a character that you like who is not on this list you can still send them to me but if you don't, here's my list of potentially eligible characters:

Ithea Seilez (Anthem can be included by request)

Cyan Silverwood

Junior Silverwood

Ro Silverwood (Kimyair can be included by request)

Linnet (Fenway can be included by request)

Dante (Nyari can be included by request)

Mahesha (Izare can be included by request)

Yuliy and/or Yaniv (Azhar can be included by request)

Hanva

Kit and/or Anri

Cecil Mondragon

Tybalt and/or Bastien

Any combo of Alisha, Stella, and Ipsa

Art below cut in case you don't know them:

Ro:

Tybalt & Bastien:

Alisha, Stella, & Ipsa:

Linnet & Fenway:

[tc-doherty]

7, 10, 19, and 23 are now claimed but all others still available :^)

Tagging @bloodlessheirbyjacques @cee-grice @tryingtimi b/c I expect you to have opinions or at least humor me lol

[tc-doherty]

Sketch of Mahesha from Second Chances!

It's a bit surprising that he is 18 years old (in real world years, not in the story, he's older than that by the end). Both Mahesha and Izare were created in January of 2008!

It's probably not really a surprise that even though I finished the book, I can't really let them go ^^

@cee-grice @tryingtimi @bloodlessheirbyjacques @thegoddesswater since you guys know him haha

[uwillneverknowwho]

Hey. Stop for a second. Take this moment to appreciate that you don't have to write a paper right now. No one is asking you to write a paper. You don't have to think about the paper or plan your time around the paper. You have the freedom to think about whatever you want. Everything is going to be okay. At least you don't have to write a paper right now

[willgrahamscock]

genuinely how do you stop using Ai? (This is coming from someone who really wants to quit but lord I feel drained. like I can come up with ideas but I can’t execute them without help anymore.)

I can’t force you to do anything, but creativity is a muscle that atrophies the less you use it. The more you rely on generative AI to create things for you, the less you’ll be able to come up with things on your own. So in reality you’re hurting yourself in the long run.

[willgrahamscock]

Also, no one is forcing you to write. It’s okay to take a step back and focus on something else for a while. Or alternatively. Write terribly!! Half ass it. At least it belongs to you. Anything AI creates is just an amalgamation of the same 5 things it stole anyway, it’s not able to be creative, since it’s not human.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

like I can come up with ideas but I can’t execute them without help anymore.

well. a few tips i would share here as someone who has had to try and move past some form of creative block multiple times:

put the work down. come back when you're ready

imperfect is better than none

look around you, digest other art that you see and consider why you have a reaction to it. (and the key part is YOU need to digest and consider it. the LLM is not doing that. the LLM cannot self reflect and come up with genuine emotional reaction, it simply does not work or function like that)

you do have help. talk to your mutuals! bounce ideas off other people! join a creative discord! look at prompt accounts! join challenges or exchanges! do writing or art sprints! there are so many options and communities and spaces and creative tips that existed before AI, and still exist, and work very effectively

on the idea of "can't execute them with help"... that help has come from invisible hands and large language models that replicate other works in the public domain. sometimes with consent and sometimes without (see: the data scraping of ao3 recently). is that something you really want to support?

and i genuinely implore you: what do you think an AI can do for you that you cannot? what is the level of impossible perfection you are striving for? why do you care so much about executing something perfectly every time? is that why you're in fandom or any creative pursuit in the first place? and if so, is it time to reconsider whether this whole endeavour really makes you happy? in which case, maybe go back to point 1.

[sleepyowlwrites]

Happy Storyteller Saturday!

What's one setting/trope/plot-type/etc. you wish more people would write?

asexuals. whimsical fantasy with wildly imperfect characters. adult fantasy that isn't Adult Fantasy. it's just like. fantasy with adult characters in. a wide variety of female characters who are all complex and have varying strengths and weaknesses and add to the story in their own ways and also there's a bunch of them. in the same story. emotional vulnerability as neither a weakness nor a superpower but merely a single facet of an otherwise complicated person. villains without tragic backstories. actual, for real, redemption arcs! female characters with pretty names that don't have to be shortened into an unisex nickname to prove that they're cool enough to be badass! princess who actually like to do princessing and are like, responsible and practical and also like to dance at a ball or whatever! normal heal times for terrible wounds when there's not magic! messed up girl and guy who will force himself into becoming more hinged and stable in order to support her in whatever the heck is going on! guys being super supportive and caring towards each other! enemies and rivals and mutually disdainful reluctant allies to ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOVERS! maybe it turns out they're related! HA! fainting.

[sleepyowlwrites]

Happy Storyteller Saturday!

What's one setting/trope/plot-type/etc. you wish more people would write?

asexuals. whimsical fantasy with wildly imperfect characters. adult fantasy that isn't Adult Fantasy. it's just like. fantasy with adult characters in. a wide variety of female characters who are all complex and have varying strengths and weaknesses and add to the story in their own ways and also there's a bunch of them. in the same story. emotional vulnerability as neither a weakness nor a superpower but merely a single facet of an otherwise complicated person. villains without tragic backstories. actual, for real, redemption arcs! female characters with pretty names that don't have to be shortened into an unisex nickname to prove that they're cool enough to be badass! princess who actually like to do princessing and are like, responsible and practical and also like to dance at a ball or whatever! normal heal times for terrible wounds when there's not magic! messed up girl and guy who will force himself into becoming more hinged and stable in order to support her in whatever the heck is going on! guys being super supportive and caring towards each other! enemies and rivals and mutually disdainful reluctant allies to ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOVERS! maybe it turns out they're related! HA! fainting.

[tc-doherty]

I missed the exact date, but I hit 4 million tracked words during March!

[tc-doherty]

Mailing List Form

I saw someone else doing this and it seems like a great idea! I was kind of thinking about doing it anyways so here we go.

Once every few months I will send out an update email about where I am, what I'm working on, announcements, some samples, etc.

If you would like to be on my mailing list so you don't lose track of me, you can fill out the form here:

TC Doherty Mailing List

The internet is uncertain! My creative drive is constant.

[tc-doherty]

I am planning to send out the first of these newletters next week, so if you would like to be on it, the next few days would be a good time to sign up!

I think I'm going to be sending them out quarterly, so there's plenty of time before the second one too ^^

[ewarienn]

she.

[tc-doherty]

sketch of Linnet I did on my two days off tumblr lol

[zigraves]

Thanks to some very eager fellow citizen scientists, I have now tested the new features pretty thoroughly and can summarise the new system as follows: wow this is dogshit.

Now, as to how it works and the specific implementations of the dogshiticity, here is what I have observed from initial experimentation:

OP will get notified of all reblogs, so far as initial testing has gone. This includes tagged reblogs, commented reblogs, and uncommented-untagged "silent" reblogs. This also continues to include reblogs-of-reblogs. The only place OP will be able to see this is in their activity feed, because there is no longer any single location to see all notes/ reblogs on a post. Nobody else will be able to see ALL reblogs.

OP will get notified of any replies directly to their original post. So if you chatter in the notes of the original, OP will see that.

OP will get notified of any likes directly to their original post.

OP will NOT get notified of any likes to commented subsequent reblogs, as those now form a "new" post. Anyone wishing to leave a like should click the like button on OP's section of a reblogged post, otherwise OP will not know.

OP will NOT get notified of any discussion in the notes on comment-reblogs, as those are discussions on a "new" post.

OP will NOT be able to find any specific reblog chain, because for OP the notes on their post will only ever show the direct-from-OP reblogs and never any subsequent ones.

OP will NOT be able to find anything in their notes, and the Activity Feed is not a reliable place to be able to go hunting for other people's previous reblogs.

OP will NOT be able to turn off reblogging on a post, so there is no way to keep a post contained if it takes off in a way you don't want it to.

Every chain effectively becomes a complete silo, unconnected to any other reblog and only barely connected to the original post.

We will NOT be able to scroll through the notes of a post and look for funny tags or interesting comments, because the notes are now wildly fragmented and there is no central reference point. So it will not be possible to look through the notes and see if a hundred other people have already said that thing you were about to say.

OP will NOT be able to do anything to stop a harassment campaign that fills their activity feed, but also will not be able to find any of it in the notes of their post unless the harassers reblog directly from OP every time. This is a feature which will absolutely be used to harass people.

It is also VERY unhelpful that we don't have language to easily disambiguate "comments" (as in, a reblog that someone added something to, thus creating a new post) and "comments" (non-reblgo chatter that happens in the notes). Not that we can reliably see either of those any more.

So! Now you and I are armed with this valuable knowledge about how the new system works, please go to tumblr's feedback form and explain why this is a series of bad problems that you would like them to stop doing.

The feedback form is available here: https://www.tumblr.com/support

[yourlocalfandomfriendo]

I think we should do another blackout like we did with shapes.inc but for the new update

Does anyone know any large blogs I can tag in this? I'll edit this to tag who I can remember and who I'm reminded of. If anyone would like to be removed as well, please let me know and I will. Refer to the original post when reblogging as well.

A lot of people are making pillowfort accounts, I'd recommend doing so in case this doesn't go away.

I think this time we should do it on the 18th, and make it last 48 hours.

@not-offical-offical @the-bone-eating-vulture tagging you both so you can tag the siblings, I'd tag them but then I wouldn't have enough tag space for larger blogs.

If you can, please tag as many people as possible. The more people we get, and the sooner it happens, the more likely it is to have the proper affect.

@laciffo-natas @satan-offical

I've officially stopped getting notes for other people's interactions through reblogs with this. If you want to contact me directly, interact with the original post, or send me an ask. I'm also getting overwhelmed with notes from people interacting with the original post of this currently, if I miss something you send, I deeply apologize, and am doing my best to keep up with everything.

There's also another blackout being organized by @aroacesafeplaceforall and a discord server to gather people in both blackouts as well if you'd like to join that

We gather in the great tumblr outage, that we caused, because we hate the new thing | 13 members

FOR PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING BANNED, REFER TO THIS.

Post by @webber-da-spider

💬 0  🔁 10  ❤️ 10 · Remember everyone! If you get banned for encouraging the blackout protest from 18-21st you can legally threaten to sue fo

[cee-grice]

Beta readers wanted ‼️

I've been away for a while because of Life and Stuff, BUT!!! I finally have a version of A Case Study on Immolation I'm happy with enough to share with beta readers!!

now, what is it about? you can find the intro post here, but in short, it's a fantasy dark academia which has none of the regular cornerstones of dark academia LOL. we won't be solving mysteries, uncovering conspiracies, or joining secret societies, so I don't want you to expect any of that haha. instead, I offer you a heavily character-focused story told in a case-study-like narration about an academic prodigy's rise and fall, and so, so much intrapersonal and interpersonal drama. that's what the plot is, I fear. you can expect to find:

✨️ science-based magic (mostly biology and chemistry)

✨️ detrimental obsession with academic success

✨️ emphasis on the psychological toll of suffering from a life-limiting illness

✨️ negative character arcs

✨️ unhealthy relationship dynamics

✨️ questionable medical practices

and, I must emphasize, a bad ending. this I make very clear from the first page. the MC won't die, if that's a deal-breaker for you, but it will not end well for him regardless. that's the whole point of the story. it's not all doom and gloom throughout, of course, but I'm personally very picky with tragedies, so I wanted to warn people about that lol

trigger warnings include: life-limiting illness, extensive discussions about death, self-harm (one scene), medical procedures (including on-screen surgery), dissociation

some more technical details: the manuscript is 116k words long, and I would love to get feedback by the 17th of May (so, two months from now). in exchange, I'd be more than happy to look over whatever you might want :))

so, if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, shoot me a DM ❤️

[br1ghteyed]

i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters

[orphiccatharsis]

At least it's not ai. It may be bad in your eyes but at least it's not ai. Your first draft will always be better than ai. No matter how heinous, clumsy or awkward it feels. It will always be better than ai. Wear your human struggle with pride, damn it.