isakast

21 | Twitch Affiliate | Author | Mental Health Advocate | Based in Newcastle and Hertfordshire, England

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About Me

Name: Isabelle

Age: 21

Pronouns: She/Her

Writing: I have been working on a book called ‘Discover: Remade’ for a while now, it is a long-term project that one day I am hoping to share with the world, in the briefest description possible, its a book with vampires and a hell of a lot of moral compromise. It delves into not only the processes of the ends a person may go to achieve a sense of belonging and community in the most damaging of ways, but also the way these actions affect those around them. Current progress: 35k words.

Video Games: League of Legends (sorry >_<), TFT, Valorant, Overwatch, anything Assassins Creed and various other games :), I am a Twitch Affiliate Streamer and you can find me over there at https://www.twitch.tv/isakast

Fandoms: There are A LOT, too many to list really so I will just give the ones I'm most active in which would be HP/Marauders, Star Wars and literally ANYTHING with vampires in.

Other notable things: I sometimes do art, (well I try and fail but oh well), I also like to code as a hobby and I am studying a Psychology degree, planning to move onto a Neuroscience Masters in the near future.

I am firmly against the use of generative AI, I believe in protecting human creativity and generative AI compromises literal lives.

Well, that's about it!

Links and what not:

Discord community! - https://discord.gg/GKcrR8aWQH

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isakast

Twitter (I refuse to call it X): https://x.com/isabellekast_

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[asterrwritess]

Non-writers never seem to understand the fact that characters have free will.

"you made them, just make them do what you want!"

I can't SUSAN.

[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

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This is facts, in fact every night when I’m going to sleep I find lying down preparing to sleep boring so I imagine scenarios from my books I’m writing and plan them. Gotta learn how to utilise boredom more!!!

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Impostor Syndrome

Sometimes I feel really bad about the amount I’m writing. Like, what do you mean I’ve spent months on my book only to be at 25k words. I think it’s around these times that I remember 11 year old me, who was so proud of her 2k word document she created, and I realise that it’s not about the quantity; I am creating, it is about the fact i am STILL creating.

It can be very hard when you see people writing these mass amounts every day, it can feel like you aren’t good enough, but that’s not true. When I write I am doing it for the same 11 year old, 13 year old, 17 year old me who excitedly showed whoever she could even the smallest of extracts. I write for future me, in my 30s who can look back and smile at my world I created as I do with the worlds I created in my teenage years.

Back then, I couldn’t have fathomed writing 25k words, I had no handle on pacing, and when I think about it like that, the improvement is stark.

[moonlight-dove]

David Benioff, Troy

// Adapted from Homer, The Iliad

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Everett Valemont’s mentality about mortality from my work Discover: Remade

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Me every chapter I write tbh, it’s all one or the other never in between.

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1 week of art progress!

I have been trying to teach myself to draw for a week now and I already see progress, the first one was the one I drew close to the start of the week, heavily reliant on tracing for the head, and the last one is one i drew from a reference today which used no tracing and just breakdown of proportions.

I think my main improvement has definitely been the eyes, I have watched SO many videos this week on the eyes and I feel the progress is definitely visible haha.

I know it’s not amazing art, nor clean, but I am proud of the little progress I have made and as such feel like sharing it with the world <3

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Was attempting to write into words a long metaphor about how BPD feels to me (someone who has been diagnosed for 2 years now) and it kind of turned into a short silly poem.

Written in 4 minutes in the come down of a split, it's nothing near to my usual style of writing, it's not flowery, descriptive, or that deep, which ironically I feel serves BPD quite well. It is an absolutist personality disorder, something that is always black and white in my experience, there is little depth but so much backlash.

Again this is all how I see my struggles, just felt like sharing this as it's somewhat different. :)

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Typesetting gratification

Seeing my work come to life is so so surreal to me, I’m beaming like a child who managed to convince their parents to get them an ice cream every time I look at the fully formatted version :)

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Discover: Remade - Introductions to the Valemont family through my Pinterest Moodboards

Reminder that Discover: Remade is a work in progress, and as such I will not be disclosing too much, however I loved the character aesthetics that have formed and it's honestly amazing seeing my little fictional world come to life. So, without further ado:

SEBASTIAN VALEMONT

D:R is told predominantly through his POV [Age 22]

LILITH VALEMONT

Seb's older sister :) [Age 24]

EVERETT VALEMONT

Their father, [Age 22//134]

I love how though it started as a bit of fun, me wanting to have a name to a face to help with writing descriptions, it grew into their aesthetics, I honestly feel like you can gage a light sense of the sort of character they are just through this haha, but I guess we will see :)

Anyways, happy with my progress and updates on my journey in writing D:R will be dropped soon o7

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Discover: Remade (New Work!!!)

I am ecstatic to share that I am working on a writing project that will be shared with the public! For a long time, I have been writing, but it has always been something personal to me, something I'm hesitant to share, my works are literally my children and for a while releasing them felt scary, but I have decided to embrace this now :)

Discover: Remade is a story centred around vampirism and addresses themes such as individuality Vs co-dependency (as well as how this can shift, and not just in romantic relations but familial and platonic too), moral corruption, superiority complexes, as well as a light grumpy x sunshine trope (although please be aware that this is NOT first and foremost a romance story, the romance is a part of it, but the story is more so the themes is represents and the questions around morality it raises).

Discover: Remade will include very dark material and graphic depictions of violence, the narration is inherently biased so please be cautioned about this. It may not be suitable to all audiences.

Soon I will share with you the main 6 characters the story is centred around, but for now, this is all. I am SO EXCITED to begin telling the world about this <3.

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Art post :)

Drawn on procreate - reference image used for outline but i cant find from where T_T

I’m an absolute novice at drawing but this is probably one of my proudest creations, it represents in a literal sense “a helping hand”, but on a deeper level it represents my own struggles with SH and mental health, the red half shows a person struggling, but they have that one person who helps them resurface, literally a human angel.

Oops i yapped - just my inner thoughts haha <3

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Corruption of Morality

I feel like this is such an underwritten genre. I write as a hobby, and whilst I don't intent to make writing a career I do one day hope to publish one of my books. Morality corruption is such an interesting topic to me, because what do you mean it's always someone influencing a character for the better?

In media we see so many villain redemption stories, but not many stories where the main character becomes tainted with ideologies and morals from 'worse sources'. It is something that we see all the time in real life as well!

I absolutely love writing about vampires, where a character gets turned and you see them gradually losing everything that made them 'them' until they are virtually a completely different person is just so interesting to me, you get to see their deterioration and get to see the struggles they go through with this too.

If any other writers or readers have recommendations for any sort of media (whether this be fanfics, books, shows or films etc) that addresses this particular sub plot, PLEASEEEE share because I will devour anything to do with this >:)