Lia

writer, book lover and fun/chaos enthusiast. studying for yks

[liabella08]

Can you tell me about your projects more??

Ahh okay! I have 3 to talk about for now but I actually have like a lot. I'm just gonna talk about the recent ones.

WIP- The Desire of the Ordinary

State: currently writing

Type: novella, 40kish words

Language: English

• it's my take on the little prince style stories, simple writing exploring big topics.

It's a declaration of war against ai in the most human way possible.

Our main protagonist is a little girl, living in a village with her family of six; living off their chicken and potato fields.

Our girl is a nature lover and is currently preparing for the upcoming spring festival, where a flower contest is going to be placed. In the little corner of a forest, she tends to her flowers, surrounded by nature.

Until an elven family comes and builds themselves a house in the middle of the forest, right beside her little flower corner. They have not come in piece.

Bringing in their hideous, long, brooding, looming, dark creatures; they tell our girl she has to leave, bc the land she has her flowers on is their property and they're going to have their Mimes (i.e Ai) to take her place and tend to her flowers.

- Basically I'm using nature and humans and feelings and monsters to explain the horror of ai taking over our art and joy in life, through the eyes of a sweet soul, a child.

Im now like 4k words in bc I'm writing it slow, but I'm hoping to finish it this year 🌼☀️

Bloody Paintings (org title in Turkish is Kanlı Tablolar)

State: completed.

Type: Novel, standalone.

Genre: Drama, action, comedy.

Themes: Money and unethical ways of obtaining it, the balance between lifestyle comfort and serenity, the stakes of poverty

• Elenore is an orphan girl born in the streets of Rome, scraping her way in life trying to stay alive for the last 27 years. Enduring every challenge and threat to her life coming her way, she takes up any work she can get. While also working as a live painter part time. (Only when clients find her)

The story starts in a banquet of a wealthy man having a celebration for some prize, and Elenore is there to draw said prize in the party atmosphere. Until gunshots start going off, with dozens of suited men.

Elenore doesn't budge, feeling very little value in her life, and just stands there, observing.

Then a splotches of blood get on her painting. A blood streak going down her painting, a dead body under her feet and a handsome green eyed man looking rather sad at her ruined painting.

This mysterious looking man then offers Elenore a deal. She paints him paintings that he can sell to whoever he likes (money laundering) paying her for 1 million euros a piece, in exchange of her not uttering a word about what happened that night.

Elenore accepts.

But sadly we have an officer who will not let either of them live this dream of a life.

(I've sent an excerpt of the novel to an indie magazine that will publish it this month. I'm not sure whether I should try to get it published or not...)

(Post about the last one later, it's far more complicated)

[liabella08]

İ hate appointments, i hate traffic, i hate being lost in transportation, i hate having to deal with people and i hate hate hate hate hate...

[liabella08]

The Honest Verdict on SweetDream Versus the Usual Suspects

Every few months a new AI girlfriend app gets hyped as the candy.ai killer, and most of them fade fast because they are thin under the surface. I have learned to be skeptical. So when I say SweetDream actually holds up, it comes from spending real time at sweetdream.ai rather than skimming a feature list.

The decisive factor, in my view, is coherence. SweetDream does not just bolt features together. The character you create, with their looks, voice, personality and backstory, carries through into chat that is natural, emotionally intelligent and able to remember context. That continuity is what makes an AI companion feel alive instead of disposable.

And the surrounding experience is genuinely impressive, with standout AI photos and videos, human-sounding voice messages and real-time phone calls, plus video calls and live cam sessions with select characters, all wrapped in serious privacy. Compared with the usual suspects, SweetDream is simply the more complete and more believable AI girlfriend platform. That is the honest verdict.

[draconym]

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

[luna-azzurra]

Took me years to understand that boredom is not the enemy of writing. It is the raw material. Every good idea i have ever had arrived during a walk with no podcast, a train with no phone, a shower where i just stood there. The moment i fill every silence with content i stop generating anything of my own. I am just processing other people's thoughts instead of having mine. The empty space is where the work comes from. Protecting the empty space is the actual job.

[lost-in-eriador]

in 2026, remember how GOOD writing feels. remember how satsfying it is to get your characters to the point you have been dying to get to, where they will experience the love, fear, relief or whatever the feeling you want to bring to life may be. let this year be the year of writing, prgress and of satisfactory endings.

[chaekyungslearningroom]

This is literally my FAVE korean sentence structure guide. 

Sentences in Korean are completely different to English and this is what can confuse most Korean learners. It is also a good reminder of what each particle is used for and where to place them within sentences (I still get confused with my particles sometimes) 

Keep reading

[chaekyungslearningroom]

I think I may have found a new favourite sentence structure resource. If you just memorise 누구 언제 어디 뭐 어떻게 하다 (Who, When, Where, What, How, Verb) you’re set for life.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[liabella08]

rn im officially lost in an ikea. The problem is that what I thought was the continuing route, opens to where I was 10 mins ago. But I can't go back either. What...

[liabella08]

After some treacherous few months of death, tears and sweats... IM BACKKKKK! Idk if the uni exam f'ed me or did I fck it but it doesn't matter. In these past 10 days they already cancelled a stupid question and changed the answer for another. I'm sick and tired of 'professionals' not doing their jobs but what can I do abt it? At least for now. I'm spending my summer now that I'm free on planning world domination, if anyone wants to join.

[glowcowboy]

“it’s not that deep” it’s not that shallow. now what

[jinxviolets]

girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level

[tambuli]

girl help i'm having creation ideas above my motivation level

[awriterpretendingtowrite]

girl help I’m having creation ideas above my free time level

[asta-lily-deactivated20220630]

[wernon]

Uni student Caine

[liabella08]

Oh my god do u want me to die now? HOW CAN HE BE MORE ADORABLE QKSJKWJS

[plaguedocboi]

I think the absolute worst term to come out of this age of pseudo-scientific puritanical bullshit has got to be “dopamine addiction”. “You’re addicted to feeling good and having fun” bitch yeah???? What else are we on this earth to do??

[keksthecrunchy]

[microknifeyuri]

i feel like people are overlooking pomni's trauma being related to gummigoo for "chat ai boyfriend" jokes, instead of focusing on what the implication of it is. that before she joined the circus, she had a normal life. she wasn't abused or had any particular bad relationships, pomni is extremely self-aware and can process emotions properly thanks to this. she herself said she had a pretty alright life, and that she did urban exploration for a change in that.

the implication is that the circus IS her most traumatic experience, that losing her autonomy, her NAME, her humanity, is the most traumatic experience she's ever had. it's the fact that she lost the first person that understood her existential crisis at the time, because gummigoo just had learned that he wasn't real, and pomni found comfort in someone who wasn't afraid to talk about it.

because the others were too absorbed on their own matters due to it, and pomni really had no one to talk to. (ragatha was there, yes, but we already know what her problems at the start of the series were, as pomni NEEDS someone who's not afraid of talking about things, while ragatha was coping with toxic positivity).

my point is that pomni's trauma isn't some ai love interest thing (which i am aware is a joke but it's annoying to see such a meaningful friendship be described as such), but that the loss of the first person that understood her in such a vulnerable time was what marked her the most. it is also the dehumanization that caine portrayed with turning gummigoo into a real animal, and making him (and his brothers) attack pomni.

because she still feels guilty about it.

[sanchensky]

White lies 🐝

So happy I finished this thing before ep 8 oof

Anyway, the comic was born out of

my thoughts about Caine's model lacking many essential facial features (as if he was never intended to show any emotions) and yet him being literally the most expressive character in the circus despite everything.

me being low-key obsessed with the implications episode 7 left us with. Players questioning everything they've been told and Caine being in the center of it all.

I want them all to be healed and happy, little guy absolutely included, but man the situation is rough, and the odds are against us

(Also please ignore the fact that I've messed up while writing my own name in the first couple of frames hah, am tireddd)

[amaznificentasticliciousful-dea]

I'M CALLING IT RIGHT NOW THIS IS GOING TO AGE VERY WELL AFTER EPISODE 8

[marcvscicero]

writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page 

[fencer-x]

I ventured out here, to this point, to this place, hoping against all hope and despite signs and portends suggesting otherwise that I might, somehow, find myself having a pleasant experience, and yet here I stand, alone against the world, feeling assaulted, attacked on all fronts, knowing not my enemy’s name nor his face nor whether our battle be done.

[liabella08]

İ wanted to reblog @marcvscicero s post only, seeing it on Pinterest but anyways.

Do you mean, freaking, Edgar Allan Poe???