h a u n t e d (but not like that)

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[skelerenwrites]

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ren’s skeletons (n.) characters i sometimes want to write, but can’t commit to full-time. mutuals only. follows back from / sideblog to @neverhangd . discord available upon request. ren, she/her, cst, 30+. just assume this blog is forever under construction. rules below the cut!

memes ⋆｡°✩ dossiers ⋆｡°✩ opens

current skellies *available only on request

*Taneleer Tivan (The Collector) | (about)

*En Dw Gast (The Grandmaster) | (about)

*Crowley (Supernatural) | (about)  ⋆｡°✩ tag

Beckett King (OC) | (about)

Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) | (about)

Quincey P. Morris (Dracula) | (about)

Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) | (about)

ALL DOSSIERS

former urls

@ofknowhere-blog (Taneleer Tivan) | @firstofsakaar (En Dwi Gast) | @buggeredson / @buggeredson-a / @buggeredson101-blog (Crowley) MULTIS: @gravevisited, @unfinishedbusincss / @unfinishcdbusincss / @unfinishedbusincss-archive.

I am forever mobile! That means I will always have to ask you to trim our threads. It’s literally nothing personal. The best I can offer otherwise is just to keep deleting responses from the original! If this super bothers you, I get it. Feel free to move along.

I’m literally 30+. No callout culture nonsense, no roleplaying with minors (sorry kids), I don’t care if you need to vent but shove it under a read more and tag it. Dark themes present. Bad characters present. Don’t like, don’t follow.

Common triggers tagged, mutuals’ triggers tagged, triggers tagged on request. I’m sorry if I mess up and miss it sometimes, I’m only human. I’ll correct issues if they’re pointed out.

I do minimal formatting, but will generally try to match my partner’s formatting.

It isn’t the length of your writing, but the way you use it: everyone has more fun when things are give and take and the energy is matched

Discord on request.

I love to ship. Platonic and familial is great and all but I’m a little bit of a romantic and I don’t get to express that side of my irl, so I use my writing to line vicariously through some things through my darlings.

Despite this, I am not my muse. Their thoughts and actions are not mine, etc. This is purely an exercise in self-indulgence and exploration.

I don’t like to insta-ship but I do encourage being upfront about thinking about shipping. It’s all about the chemistry, but having an endgame or a thought towards it isn’t a bad thing.

It’s on you to curate your own safe space. Hard and soft block as you see fit—but if you soft block without letting me know, please be understanding that I might not realize it and still reblog from or message you. Being straightforward is the harder path, but also the more rewarding.

Don’t be a dick, have fun, etc.!

[promptshelf]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇.

› prompts from rachel gillig's novel the knight and the moth (2025). feel free to tweak as you see fit , bartholomew.

❛ you don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you. ❜

❛ when you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. ❜

❛ we all want to be special.”

❛ what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in. ❜

❛ which is more intricate? the designs of men, trying to reach gods, or that of gods, trying to reach men? ❜

❛ people who love you for your usefulness don't love you at all. ❜

❛ you want to throw me down. ❜

❛ i, prideful, disdainful, godless. ❜

❛ i want to drag you into the dirt with me. ❜

❛ you know this story, (name,) though you do not remember it. ❜

❛ to tell a story is in part to tell a lie, isn't it? ❜

❛ it's hard to see who i am when i am lost in what's expected of me. ❜

❛ fear not, (name!) every day has its dog. ❜

❛ if you only ever look up at something, can you ever see it clearly? ❜

❛ it is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else's cause than to sit with who we are without one. ❜

❛ take my hand, you strange little creature. ❜

❛ it sounds awful when i say it out loud. ❜

❛ you are more special than you realize. ❜

❛ i would do anything for you. ❜

❛ i cannot decide which i like best. the sunrise, or the sunset. ❜

❛ i was losing my faith in everything. ❜

❛ the two of us meeting… it felt almost divine. ❜

❛ i think her quite the bitch. ❜

❛ how undignified. ❜

❛ did anyone see me fall? ❜

❛ i want someone to see me. ❜

❛ i want it to be you. ❜

❛ no honor among thieves, and even less among gods. ❜

❛ i’ll do anything you ask of me. ❜

❛ if i were beside myself, there would be two of me ❜

❛ oh, (name.) he's dreamy. ❜

❛ do you want to know how it ends? ❜

❛ does it end? ❜

❛ it ends when you kiss me. ❜

❛ why do we do these things to ourselves? ❜

❛ you’re an incomparable fiend, (name.) a truly accomplished asshole. ❜

❛ i’d like you better if you were on your back again. ❜

❛ it is not like me to be the bearer of bad tidings. ❜

❛ am i all that you imagined? ❜

❛ your hands are marked by the blood of my metamorphosis. ❜

❛ whatever my soul was made of was frail. ❜

❛ violence is a craft. so is compassion. ❜

❛ no is a sufficient answer. ❜

❛ anger is a fine weapon. ❜

❛ now have some soup. ❜

❛ i will shoulder any weight you give me. ❜

❛ would that things were different. ❜

❛ i think i would like to stop promising myself away, or else there will be nothing left of me to give. ❜

❛ i don’t know why i say the things i do. ❜

[czesca]

characters who are so inauthentic. characters who only show what they want other people to see of them. characters who simply must have control over every part of themselves. do you even get it

[gallantblade]

characters who are inauthentic even to themselves. characters who cannot allow the mask to slip. characters who struggle to have an identity past what they project out to the world.

[skelerenwrites]

@gravegotten asked: 🔥 (for everyone) Send “🔥?” and my muse will admit whether they find your muse attractive or not. Choosing everyone is mumu hatecrime. You don't get any explanations outside of Quince. It's too much to try muddle through.

Beckett King

Uh...god, I hope this doesn't come off as rude but--no? She's not really my type. Sorry....

Lydia Deetz

No. (Older Lydia identifies her as friend-shaped. Younger Lydia identifies herself as uninterested.)

Quincey P. Morris

Sure! I've always been weak for redheads--everyone's weak for redheads--and good folk. Miss Lucy's a little of both.

Gomez Addams

Who? Her? Perhaps!

Crowley

Absolutely not. She's irritating, pedantic, and doesn't even have the good grace to dress well to make up for any of it.

Grandmaster

Ehhhhhhh...no. Not, uh. Not really my type. She's just too...--y'know?

Taneleer Tivan

He lifts an eyebrow, lips pressed into a thin line. That's his entire answer.

[loisnclark]

Send “🔥?” and my muse will admit whether they find your muse attractive or not.

[skelerenwrites]

honesty and pluck have made @houndofgod a friend

The bright summer sun beats down something fierce, the heat high and the shade scant. The windows of the diner glint like chips of broken glass in a parking lot, unintentionally dazzling and somewhat depressing to see, likely due to all the clouding of the glass from hands and arms and sometimes even faces pressed up against it. Quincey shoulders through the diner doors and tips his head to the waitress as he passes by the PLEASE SEAT YOURSELF! sign. He knows where he's headed.

She would've stood out even if he hadn't been keeping tabs on her from afar: brash bikers aren't common in this area, brash bikers with bras on even less so. She's loud in this quiet little town, which in this case is both a blessing and a curse, on the one hand making her easier for Quincey himself to follow...and on the other hand, making it just as easy for something else to follow. Something a helluva lot less nice than he is.

lt's really a shame he hasn't figured out a better way to broach the topic yet, but then, it isn't often he has to broach the subject at all. Without asking for an invitation--awful rude, yes he knows, but some things don't make room for pleasantries--Quincey scoots into the booth across from her. He offers her a smile as warm as his kind brown eyes, though both are tinged with sorrow and sympathy. He, too, has been in the path of a monster before.

But he knew his was coming.

"Howdy, ma'am. My name is Quincey P. Morris. I don't mean to startle you now, but I have some shocking news. I have reason to believe you're bein' followed, stalked, by someone I been on the trail of for a few weeks now."

[skelerenwrites]

like/leave your meme tag, 3-5 asks to be sent!

[a-aunbeleveable]

Send in 🙏 for my muse to issue a Formal Apology to yours.

for multis please specify muse.

[skelerenwrites]

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Most Wanted!

The skellies I have the most muse for, and some ideas of what to do with them! Please. Please, please, please. Oh please. Play with me. 🥺

Beckett King

Beckett is a fairly normal human woman: 32-33, Libra, bisexual, sub; she does practice witchcraft (mostly precognition through tarot, runes, cardomancy, visions/dreams, or soothsaying through the same/similar means [plus distracted talking]; some protective sigils/candles/jars), but I am very willing to write that out as needed. Talkative, sweet, spiky. Original character, fandomless. FC: Nicola Coughlan

Beckett telling your muse's fortune

Beckett and your muse playing the Alleyman's Game (a fortune telling game)

Beckett and your muse on a hunt SPN-style

Beckett as your muse's very put upon party cleric

I love lobbing Beckett at toxic muses and seeing what happens!

Quincey P. Morris

Quincey is a human man in his mid-30s; 36, heterosexual, soft dom; a sharp-shooter by practice and a rancher by trade, Quincey took a "short" trip to London that ended up in him falling in love, having to help murder the woman he fell in love with, battling the forces of the evil undead, and--because fuck canon--living to see the next day, but only just barely. He now hunts monsters by trade. Canon character from Dracula (primarily the novel by Bram Stoker). FC: Josh Hartnett

Quincey and literally anyone else from Dracula canon (do the vampire hunting part of the story again but different!)

Quincey saving someone from a vampire attack. Bonus points if he actually failed to save them (ie they're already turned or a thrall) and he just hasn't realized yet

Quincey joining a monster hunter team

Quincey hired as some sort of bounty hunter. Bonus points if he's tracking your muse OR tracking a monster at your muse's behest

Quincey alone in a vampire den he doesn't realize is a vampire den until it's too late

Lydia Deetz

Lydia is a psychic human woman; I play a range of ages with her, but right now am most feeling 17-24; a medium able to communicate with the dead, Lydia went through a harrowing ordeal at about age 15 involving a haunted house, a loving second pair of parents, and an asshole poletgeist who turned her world upside down. She's still recovering from the trauma of it all. Canon character from Beetlejuice (primarily the musical by Eddie Perfect). FC: Taylor Hickson

Lydia trying to make friends after moving AGAIN because of what happened in Winter River

AU where the Maitlands die at the end (or some ish) and Lydia, several traumatized, has to try to cope

Lydia studying parapsychology and then we either do some Candyman type shit with Beej OR we do us a Rose Red style haunted house horror!

Lydia as your muse's new roommate and shit's been weird since she moved in

Beej returning to terrorize Lydia but your muse is here to help this time!

[skelerenwrites]

like/leave your meme tag, 3-5 asks to be sent!

[wretchedhearted]

⤏ send me “plots please”

… and I’ll respond with  3  (or more)  interesting  plots / relationships / connections  I can think of for our muses!   There is  no pressure  for us to write any of them,   but it’s a great starting point for you to get a sense of how I think our muses might interact and what sorts of plots I’m most interested in happening between them  -  so don’t be shy!

for multimuse blogs make sure to specify who you’re looking to plot with

[a-aunbeleveable]

Send in 🙏 for my muse to issue a Formal Apology to yours.

for multis please specify muse.

[skelerenwrites]

template credit

Most Wanted!

The skellies I have the most muse for, and some ideas of what to do with them! Please. Please, please, please. Oh please. Play with me. 🥺

Beckett King

Beckett is a fairly normal human woman: 32-33, Libra, bisexual, sub; she does practice witchcraft (mostly precognition through tarot, runes, cardomancy, visions/dreams, or soothsaying through the same/similar means [plus distracted talking]; some protective sigils/candles/jars), but I am very willing to write that out as needed. Talkative, sweet, spiky. Original character, fandomless. FC: Nicola Coughlan

Beckett telling your muse's fortune

Beckett and your muse playing the Alleyman's Game (a fortune telling game)

Beckett and your muse on a hunt SPN-style

Beckett as your muse's very put upon party cleric

I love lobbing Beckett at toxic muses and seeing what happens!

Quincey P. Morris

Quincey is a human man in his mid-30s; 36, heterosexual, soft dom; a sharp-shooter by practice and a rancher by trade, Quincey took a "short" trip to London that ended up in him falling in love, having to help murder the woman he fell in love with, battling the forces of the evil undead, and--because fuck canon--living to see the next day, but only just barely. He now hunts monsters by trade. Canon character from Dracula (primarily the novel by Bram Stoker). FC: Josh Hartnett

Quincey and literally anyone else from Dracula canon (do the vampire hunting part of the story again but different!)

Quincey saving someone from a vampire attack. Bonus points if he actually failed to save them (ie they're already turned or a thrall) and he just hasn't realized yet

Quincey joining a monster hunter team

Quincey hired as some sort of bounty hunter. Bonus points if he's tracking your muse OR tracking a monster at your muse's behest

Quincey alone in a vampire den he doesn't realize is a vampire den until it's too late

Lydia Deetz

Lydia is a psychic human woman; I play a range of ages with her, but right now am most feeling 17-24; a medium able to communicate with the dead, Lydia went through a harrowing ordeal at about age 15 involving a haunted house, a loving second pair of parents, and an asshole poletgeist who turned her world upside down. She's still recovering from the trauma of it all. Canon character from Beetlejuice (primarily the musical by Eddie Perfect). FC: Taylor Hickson

Lydia trying to make friends after moving AGAIN because of what happened in Winter River

AU where the Maitlands die at the end (or some ish) and Lydia, several traumatized, has to try to cope

Lydia studying parapsychology and then we either do some Candyman type shit with Beej OR we do us a Rose Red style haunted house horror!

Lydia as your muse's new roommate and shit's been weird since she moved in

Beej returning to terrorize Lydia but your muse is here to help this time!

[contrafictory]

SIMPLE SHIPPING MEME!!

Send 👌 if you would like to explore a PLATONIC relationship between our muses!

Send 😎 if you would like to explore a FAMILIAL relationship between our muses!

Send ❤️ if you would like to explore a ROMANTIC relationship between our muses!

Send 💋 if you would like to explore a SEXUAL relationship between our muses!

Send 💥 if you would like to explore a ANTAGONISTIC relationship between our muses!

Send ❓ for a different dynamic - and tell me more about it!

[skelerenwrites]

❝ so how goes wilful disobedience of late? ❞ (@ Crowley)

𝑩𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑫 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑫𝑨𝑹𝑲𝑵𝑬𝑺𝑺

Crowley rolls his eyes up and over towards her, slowly, refusing to crane his neck and give her the satisfaction of seeing him looking pitiful in these shackles. There’s blood crusted in his period and bags under his bloodshot eyes; he hasn’t been resting. When he speaks, though, his voice is as strong and certain as ever.

“Oh, swimmingly. I’ve very nearly broken them with it now,” he snarks.

[skelerenwrites]

One posted, one queued, that’s all I owed. Gonna update dossiers. Like if you wanna plot!

[skelerenwrites]

❝ is something wrong? ❞ (@Beckett-)

“Ah—w—er—I mean, I wouldn’t say something’s…—you’re the kinda girl who don’t like surprises ruined, ain’t’cha, Lucy? You’d rather I didn’t tell ya your future and spoil all the…the…—yeah.” The partly panicked smile slides right off Beckett’s lips with a sigh, and she lowers her head. “Heard it the minute I said it.” Still, Beckett chews the inside of her lip, brows pinched, equal parts reluctant and uncertain of what, how much, to share.

“…now you’ll remember, I don’t advertise myself as a witch. You say that word and suddenly people get all kinds of expectations in their head, and at least half the time those expectations would’a been crushed by reality regardless, but then I get the blame for not living up to ‘em. So don’t go shootin’ the messenger, and don’t go expectin’ a whole lotta metaphysical help from me…but.” Beckett taps the unturned tarot card between them with one short finger. “That one right there? In your outcomes position? That’s the Tower. Buddy’a mine accidentally bent the corner, so now I can tell even when I don’t mean to. I’m guessing I don’t gotta explain what the Tower means.”