Mood Ring

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The development folder for Mood Ring!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-PTeZvNsnHV2_8AIoWF0-FomgQxaqyHT

Witness the development of my legend of Zelda fanfiction, "Mood Ring".

It has everything basically

I have no idea why there is kanji in there I don’t speak or write in Japanese-

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New ref be like

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Story writing tool get: using arcs to tell a story!

Surely this should help me write this quicker… ;3

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Uhhh

Hi I don’t really use this blog for anything but reblogging stuff I like but I do have two other blogs @grapeyvscanvas and @mood-ring-fanfiction and those are the ones I treasure..

ANYWAY so uh update on my life, I finally moved out from living with my father like I’ve wanted since 2019, and while I am happy, I’ve basically just transferred into another undesirable situation. I’ve gained more weight (I used to be 180 lbs in 2022, now I’ve become 255 lbs), my fiance and I (oh yeah did I mention I’m engaged now?) were about to move into an apartment but ended up having a financial surprise because my fiancé’s car broke, so I had to move in with his parents, we were also going to get married that same month but when I came here I found out that his grandmother and aunts freaked out that we weren’t gonna have a wedding, and so we decided to had to plan for one to avoid family drama, and I also found out my fiance also wanted a wedding but I didnt listen to him because I was being selfish. I have more food options I can eat but it’s also still limited because his mother gatekeeps it all “for recipes”, I started having anxiety episodes almost every night due to my weight gain and it’s stressed me out a bunch, I had a job but then had to quit due to numerous undesirable working conditions and violations that I couldn’t handle contributing to, and now it’s super hard to find a job all of a sudden. My fiancé is now super stressed too because he just quit and got a new job but it pays way way less ($2 an hour but apparent tips are supposed to make up for it??? He barely gets any tips!!!). We have deadlines for multiple payments like car, attending my best friend’s wedding next month, a family reunion in August, our own wedding in September, and getting our own place to live in, and together right now we only have like $1 to our name.

It’s okay though, I’m not worried because now I have more options and opportunities, and I’m with my fiancé so I know we both can get through it. I just need to keep supporting him, calling him a good boy, and I just need to keep searching for jobs all day every day, and keep intermittent fasting. I’ve already lost 2 lbs after 9 days of fasting. Imagine how much more I could lose if I add in exercise…

Also I started using 4chan and it’s fun, I’m gonna post all the art I made in the past few months on my art blog @grapeyvscanvas okay byeeeeeeeeee

Grapeyv/Zeni Riri

Woman, Christian, Puerto Rican born in America, trad, artist, gamer, really stupid, can’t math, 22, I love the Legend of Zelda, anime, I hav

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Uwu

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Here’s why I haven’t updated in a long time.. trust me when I say I’ve been dying to get back to working on this fanfiction but I just wanted to play video games, draw, and oogle at my man 🥺

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, l'll get back to it, I promise. l've been thinking up new lore on the sidelines so things make more sense. I gotchu.

I'm also attempting to "flesh out" the baseline plots of all the chapters so that I can finally get to my end point, so hopefully that way I can finish it all quicker. This shouldn't have taken several years, but l'm more of a painter than a writer. I like to draw my characters interacting.

I know like a few people are following this story and tbh that's fair but I wish more people would support me on this. Still, l'm grateful there are even people who are interested, period. I didn't think I'd take a silly little daydream this far. But I saw the potential in making it into a fanfiction and I wanted people to read my thoughts as a form of one of my favorite pieces of art— fanfiction.

Shoutout to those of you who also read this exact same post in Wattpad idk why I posted it there first.

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Here, have some more

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Did I show these off yet?

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Hi everyone, I’d like to announce that in light of recent news about Google possibly using literally anything in YOUR google drive to scrape for their own media content, I’ve decided to use a different service to store everything about Mood Ring. Unfortunately I haven’t found one yet. But once I do, everything is going there, and I will create a new link to direct readers there.

I don’t know of any alternatives, so if anyone knows one, please let me know. Specifically, I want something that will be able to store all kinds of file types, and I can easily access and edit documents with ease, just like google drive.

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Whaaaaaa???

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Actually this is better lol get out

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Whaaaaaa???

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THE MISCONCEPTION ABOUT COMMENTING ON FIC

I’ve read all kinds of posts both from writers and readers lamenting about comments on fic. Authors are upset when they don’t get any, readers don’t know what kinds of comments to leave, etc. And it finally clicked in my brain why I think a lot of people don’t bother writing comments. 

And this is what it boils down to:

Writers do not want praise.  We just want to talk about our story. 

I can’t speak for everyone obviously - but I think the majority of writers don’t care so much for the “omg you’re a brilliant writer!!” comments as much as we just want to hear your thoughts on the story. Even if it’s just your thoughts as you’re reading of “oooh x happened! I can’t believe y said this! What’s going to happen now that z has happened?!” We literally just want to talk about what we’ve written like you would with a friend about a tv show. We’re not out here demanding praise like some entitled narcissist. 

While praising our writing skills or writing style is appreciated, it doesn’t need to be said on every fic and every chapter that you read. If you regularly comment on someone’s work that’s telling enough that you like our technique. Readers shouldn’t feel pressured to have to praise a writer’s abilities every time they want to comment. 

In the grand scheme of things, talking about the fic/chapter is actually more helpful to us writers instead of spewing praise. It’s the same with artwork. As nice as it is that people tell me “wow your art is so pretty!” it’s a LOT more useful to me to get comments like “I love their expressions!” or “the lighting on this is gorgeous!” because then I know WHAT people are liking about it. If no one ever comments on my backgrounds, I now know what to improve. If most people comment on liking the expressions, I now know the strong points of my art and can use it to my advantage to make even better art in the future. 

The same goes for fic. If multiple people tell me they liked a certain part of the story I now know that things similar to that are a hit. It’s feedback I can use to improve the story and give my readers more of what they want. Without that I have no idea what they like about the fic.

Talking with a writer about their story also gives them inspiration!! Nothing gets us more in the mood to work on a fic than to have people wanting to talk about it. A lot of times just talking about one of my fics with someone will give me that push to continue working on it. Getting a comment that just says “great chapter” or “you’re a great writer” doesn’t do much to motivate us to continue that particular fic. But if you talk about the story and the characters it gives us motivation to continue working on it, may even give us ideas for future chapters. I would hope that those of you with “comment anxiety” find this approach so much easier than trying to praise the writer every time you read.

So that fic the author hasn’t updated in forever that you’re dying to read? Talk to them about the fic and the elements of the story! It will make the writer want to talk to you about it and will get their mind thinking about it, hopefully inspiring them to continue where they left off. Fics that are left in silence are more likely to be abandoned or even deleted because nothing feels worse than putting your heart into a story to have no one say anything about it. 

TLDR; Writers do not want praise, we just want to talk with our readers about the story itself, and these are the kinds of comments that inspire us to keep writing more. 

AMENDMENT >>> Some people are misinterpreting my words so I just wanted to make something clear. I am not trying to police how people comment - I am merely reassuring readers that not every writer is an entitled asshole who expects you to comment about how talented they are and what a gift they are to the fandom. I’ve seen this attitude in writers occasionally and I want people to know that most of us writers are not like that. We love any and all comments but you do not ever need to feel pressured to say how amazing we are and lick our boots. There is nothing wrong with praising the writer, in fact a lot of us love it, but it is not something that should be required if you feel inclined to comment.

A good writer will love any positive comment whether there be praise or not. A good writer will never have expectations or demand something of their readers. A good writer will appreciate their readers and cherish the comments they receive. 

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I realized I should probably change harp’s tag to clarify that he is indeed a character and not a musical instrument (and so I can keep my fanfiction stuff out of musical matters on tumblr to eliminate confusion)

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Aww what a cute family portrait 😅

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Zelda pays for her cousin’s rehab and does her own self care ✨

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I should make more time to write instead of draw and play video games lol

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The evocation.

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That’s it, I’m including Neisha as a character and that’s changing everything.

Here you go, this is the first time you see her. She has a rather quirky creation story dating back to 2014 but now she has a purpose.

Her design will change in Mood Ring but this is her.