from the desk of niamh abril

[niamhabril]

hi, i'm niamh. i write webnovels for fun outside of my normal publishing work.

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my fanfic account is here and my sideblog for all things fandom and fanfiction is @jetsjunkdrawer

Current WIPS:

Cheeky Mates - Cary gets a new roommate recommended to him, but after Leo moves in things get messy when it becomes clear that Leo has a very confusing take on what is and isn't gay.

Cheeky Mates playlist. Cheeky Mates tag. Cheeky Mates pinterest.

Nix & Atlas - Luca, who now goes by the name 'Nix', is now on the run from the prestigious training centre of the 'levand' sport. Levand has worldwide support from numerous governments and Nix is one of the faces of this relatively new martial art. It's unlikely they'll just let him disappear into the ether, and with Atlas still under their thumbs, Nix is unwilling to disappear without a trace either.

Nix & Atlas playlist.

Creating the Key: Key was taken in by a coven of vampires as a child, and became their science experiment. They had hoped to recreate his success since, but have had no luck. Key, in the meantime, has become their pet. His main job is to bring back new victims for the coven to either experiment on, drain, or both. The thing is, Key picks the wrong mark one day and inadvertently starts a vampire war.

Key playlist. Creating the Key tag.

I Will Find You - Evan Taylor has been in foster care most of his life. A few years ago he was separated from the person who meant the most to him. Ciaran Quinn was taken back by the man who had abandoned him to the system when his mother first died in the car accident where Ciaran got a brain injury, and Evan hasn't been able to talk to him since he went into Julien's custody. What's more, Ciaran is being paraded around on TV along with all of Julien's other sports stars and Evan can tell something is seriously wrong. Evan is determined to get to the bottom of what the hell has happened to his best friend, and get him to safety no matter the cost.

Ciaran & Evan playlist. Ciaran & Evan tag. Ciaran & Evan pinterest.

[shiverandqueeef]

if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

[moldavite]

hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice

[rhymewithrachel]

watching twilight and I keep making myself laugh imagining if it was just alucard or any other vampire instead of Edward. POV nausferatu goes to ur school

[thememedaddy]

[ghoulodont]

(stumbling out of the document covered in blood) ok i wrote 100 words

[midnightssea]

“you couldn’t make this movie today” not because of cancel culture but because big studios aren’t willing to take risks on cool fun new ideas instead of adaptation number 7,000

[meatmensch]

guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff

[meatmensch]

guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man i'm so tired today for some reason

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[rimonoroni2]

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

[acegender]

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

[niamhabril]

i am missing portugal so much the last few weeks, though maybe i should feel lucky not to be in the heat wave? i should really call my avó. i hope she's coping with all the weather issues.

[theocseason4]

my bad for assuming everyone has critical thinking skills btw

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[beardedmrbean]

[official-german-puns]

Kannst du das sehen, Deutsche Bahn?

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.

[an0neemouse]

Two things absolutely changed my life as a writer. You ready?

One- Your characters can be bad people, they can do bad things. There doesn't have to be a reason or a moral. You can make them bad if you want to. No other reason needed.

Two- it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to be written. On my last book i literally wrote the words "dumbest version" on the top of the page because I had seen some advice to do that. It changed everything. I stopped trying to make it perfect, I just tried to make it. Period. Full stop. You can edit bad writing. You can't edit a blank page.

And honestly? Defiance is the best writing I've ever done. All because I let my characters be bad and I gave myself the freedom to write it badly.