the monster mash (autism version)

a blog for @zinziinziiin 's book's original characters: a group of 5 australian high school students who are trying to make it big as idols. their theme is necromancy, and their reality malleable. ASKS: OPEN

[schoolidolnecromancy]

MEMBER PROFILES:

ANEMONE WALKER (NEMMO) (SHE/HER) (CENTRE)

a charming transfer student, and the founder of the idol group. she styles herself as a necromancer.

AOIFE O’DALY (EEF) (SHE/THEY/IT) (LEFT)

a cheerful halloween enthusiast, and the childhood friend of delphine. she styles herself as a pumpkin monster.

DELPHINE DUPONT (DEL) (SHE/HER) (FAR LEFT)

a condescending misanthrope, and the childhood friend of aoife. she styles herself as a vampire.

BEATRICE ZAGO (BEE, ZOM-BEE) (SHE/IT) (FAR RIGHT)

a lonesome insomniac, and the lyricist of the idol group. she styles herself as a zombie.

MARLEY TYDE (CAPTAIN, CAP’N, MAR) (SHE/HIM) (RIGHT)

an irate delinquent, and the member in charge of harmonies. she styles herself as a pirate ghost.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

fanart and asks are encouraged! check #oc art for more images, by both myself and others. I’m writing a book about these characters, and it’s shaping up to be very strange. your interest thus far is appreciated!

[veronicaleighauthor]

Edit Note: I'm really amazed by how much love this post got. Guess it just shows we're all in the same boat. I do have other humorous writing memes on this tumblr under the same tag, if you're interested. Never give up writing! ❤️

Edit Note 2: I can't believe this has reached 6000 notes. Been on tumblr for almost ten years (different account) and nothing like this has ever happened before. Thank you! 😊

[decompose1]

thinking about aus for ocs is so funny. like i already put this guy in a situation but what if i put them in another totally different one

[spikedru]

dream job is to be that one rotted hand that bursts out of the grave to snatch some stupid idiot by the ankles and pull them under the earth

[avianreptiles]

Who up thinking about they ocs

[seananmcguire]

Theoretically, since living things want to stay that way and being alive is the natural state of all things which can achieve it, all things that have once lived should have some innate, physical desire to do so again. Therefore, necromancy should be the easiest and most feasible form of magic.

What a good and not at all worrisome argument of course you can borrow my shovel.

[zinziinziiin]

25!

as it is now the 19th of january 2024, I am no longer 24 years old.

[ad-wills]

[antlershade]

“No one wants to look at art of OCs” I don’t think that’s true at all…I follow people specifically to see their OCs literally all the time. Bring back being curious about people’s OCs, asking questions about them and hyping them up like we did when we were teens

[a-really-hot-caterpillar]

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

[ballwizard]

every time someone gets invested in another person's oc an angel gets its wings

[valtsv]

making ocs is great. imagine a guy. now what if her life sucked and was bad.

[ocprompts]

How would your OC fare in a zombie apocalypse?

[ad-wills]

[ariadne-mouse]

[disgruntledinametallicatshirt]

you know what actually pisses me off? when I finally start to feel a smidge of confidence in my writing ability and then some JERK POSTS A SINGLE LINE FROM A TERRY PRATCHETT NOVEL AND IT’S BETTER THAN ANYTHING I WILL EVER WRITE NO MATTER HOW MANY MILLENNIA I SPEND TRYING!

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Terry was a professional writer from the age of 17. He worked as a journalist which meant that he had to learn to research, write and edit his own work very quickly or else he’d lose his job.

He was 23 when his first novel was published. After six years of writing professionally every single day. The Carpet People was a lovely novel, from a lovely writer, but almost all of Terry’s iconic truth bomb lines come from Discworld.

The Colour of Magic, the first ever Discworld novel was published in 1983. Terry was 35 years old. He had been writing professionally for 18 years. His career was old enough to vote, get married and drink. We now know that at 35 he was, tragically, over half way through his life. And do you know what us devoted, adoring Discworld fans say about The Colour of Magic? “Don’t start with Colour of Magic.”

It is the only reading order rule we ever give people. Because it’s not that great. Don’t get me wrong, very good book, although I’ll be honest I’ve never been able to finish it, but it’s nowhere near his later stuff. Compare it to Guards Guards, The Fifth Elephant, the utterly iconic Nightwatch and it pales in comparison because even after nearly 20 years of writing, half a lifetime of loving books and storytelling Terry was still learning.

He was a man with a wonderful natural talent, yes. But more importantly he worked and worked and worked to be a better writer. He was writing up until days before he died.  He spent 49 years learning and growing as a writer, taking so much joy in storytelling that not even Alzheimer’s could steal it from him. He wouldn’t want that joy stolen from you too.

Terry was a wonderful, kind, compassionate, genius of a writer. And all of this was in spite of many many people telling him he wasn’t good enough. At the age of five his headmaster told him that he would never amount to anything. He died a knight of the realm and one of the most beloved writers ever to have lived in a country with a vast and rich literary tradition. He wouldn’t let anyone tell him that he wasn’t good enough. And he wouldn’t want you to think you aren’t good enough. He especially wouldn’t want to be the reason why you think you aren’t good enough. 

You’re not Terry Pratchett. 

You are you.

And Terry would love that. 

[rsfcommonplace]

I only ever had a chance to talk to Terry Pratchett once, and that was in an autograph line.  I’d bought a copy of The Carpet People, which was his very first book, and he looked at it with a faint air of concern.  “You realise that I wrote that when I was very young,” he said, in warning.

“Yes,” I said.  “But I like seeing how authors grow.”

He brightened and reached for his pen.  “That’s all right then,” he said, and signed.

[greenvillegreengirl]

[yubsie]

There’s a collection of Pratchett’s short fiction that includes the very first piece he ever published.

This collection came out while he was still alive and each piece has an introduction from him. The introduction for that piece includes something to the effect of “LALALA IF I DO THIS I WON’T HEAR YOU READING THIS ONE!!”

Exact wording may be off but it very much starts with LALALA.

[servaltherium]

i think its so awesome that ocs exist. u can just make up some girl and put so many problems in her head