☁️Nefelibata☁️

The Nefelibata Soko, at your service. Sokoko trees have Novas for bark and universes as their fruits, you know?

[sokokoko]

hi hi!!

‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・❝ 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘... ❞・ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ︵‿

❝𝑰'𝒎 𝑺𝒐𝒌𝒐.❞

❝𝑰'𝒎 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒆.❞

❝𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒆.❞

❝𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝑰 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆, 𝑰 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘.❞

❝𝑰'𝒎 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒖𝒓.❞

❝𝑴𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚, 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒄𝒊-𝒇𝒊.❞

♡✨𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈; 𝒍𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔.✨♡

normally I am @all-eyes-no-dragon

𓁹 Insta 𓁹

❀ 25/03 birthday ❀

𓁹 purple is my favourite colour 𓁹

❀ I once also went by Nova ❀

If I write something stupid, feel free to poke holes in it! Thinking is hard 🥲

Also! If you feel like it, I would love an @ if you use any of my word prompts or writing prompts. It's not required, I'm just genuinely intrigued as to what you might've written. Only if you want to share though 💜

Down, down, down to read more stuff ⬇️

Resources:

✎ Writing piece classifications

Definitions and more. Ever wonder how many words it is to be considered a novel? What is a novelette? What is the average word count for different types of genres? What's the word count of a drabble? I got you.

✎ Really good name website: behindthename

❀ Look at: #writing prompts or #writing prompt in this account for a few ideas to spark inspiration in that wonderful Brian of yours

❀ In #whispers you'll see things I think all writers should get to hear

❀ #word of the sometimes is random words that I challenge you to write something based off

❀ #qfmn is random out of context things pulled from my notes (quotes from my notes)

❀ #writing quotes is pretty deep as well. You'll find some wisdom nuggets by searching this!

✮ search #story: after school guardians (It is the WIP of my heart). There's some fun things about my characters to see there. But my Instagram also has lots of art and lore about them too!

My Personal Works:

✎ All the stories I want to write from A-Z

A vast majority are only concepts, characters and worldbuilding. I can count the number of stories I've fully outlined on one hand. Some stories I am holding off writing as I one day hope to make them into comics. I likely won't write these all to be honest.

🎆 The PPU (Paranormal Powers Universe) 🎆

This is the project of my heart. A connected universe of separate stories that share world lore ♡

✎ Universe layout + descriptions

Stories:

✩ After School Guardians

✩ The Thing About Nightmares (TTAN)

✩ Nighttime Live!

✩ The Boy Who Grew Wings

✩ Last Morning A Star Fell

✩ Made In Mechania

✩ Wisteria's World

✩ The Bee & The Boy

✩ Observations Only!

✩ Hand Me The Moon

✎ The Raven & The Dove

Completed novelette. 13 chapters, 10.8k words and my first finished full length story, discounting a more inexperienced 8 chapter short story I wrote when I was 12. Am I proud of this? It's not my magnum opus, that's for sure. I wrote this in 2 months. However, I'm happy that I finished a story and hope to write many more in future.

Written: December 2022

Summary:

Shadowed by a civilian woman who knows of his profession and yet doesn't care, the assassin for hire known as "The Raven" can't help but act more human.

When the woman, Hannah, worms her way deeper and deeper into the wretched life he lives, The Raven wishes that he was strong enough to turn her away. But his infatuation and her damned persistence won't let him.

As the two spiral deeper down a path of no return, The Raven has to wonder, “Who’s ruin will this lead to?”

His own? Or Hannah’s?

[I don't know what genre it should be, but I am firm that despite the infatuation that this story centres around, I don't consider it a romance. Hannah doesn't even understand what love is.]

✎ The Thing About Nightmares

The first draft of the novel I started when I was 17. It is not particularly good plot wise and devolves into outlines and telling for the last 7 chapters but there's 25 solid chapters of actual prose and dialogue like a proper book and my grammar is one of my strengths. Currently working on the next draft but there's a lot of restructuring I need to do.

Written: July 25th 2023–October 29th 2025

Summary:

How far would you go to achieve your deepest desire? Disillusioned with the real world, Michelle Abram finds solace in lucid dreaming. So much so, that though she is wary of him, she throws caution to the wind when offered a deal by a mysterious being.

In exchange for the chance to leave the real world behind for a life of dreams, she must first jump through people's nightmares, battling fears until the being—Oneiric—gains enough strength to free himself from where he is imprisoned.

Between fighting nightmare entities and evading the malicious attention of the Dreamscape's guardians, Michelle is forced to decide what lengths she will go to achieve her dream. Companionship, wishes, power, sacrifices; how much are they all really worth?

✦✦✦

[sokokoko]

Sci fi but I'm planning on (emphasis on planning, we'll see if I switch up) going hard with the evolutionary psychology, ethnology and ecology instead of things like physics

Well, somewhat hard. I want to put effort into it. Though, like my fantasy, my sci fi is soft, even if it explores interesting concepts. Characterisation is my number one priority

Also I love language barriers so much. MM has to have one this is non negotiable. OMQ has one (sorry I put you on hold but I wrote A WHOLE 13K for MM, you cannot argue with results) but it's language barrier with non human entities on both sides, which I failed to account for the intricacies of. I think after MM it will be much more approachable.

[sokokoko]

Mliss and Erol are so fun together. The person who's just trying to help but it comes off as an insult and ignorance (it is ignorance) is soo juicy. I got to write them for the first time today! I've dreamed of days like this...

I need to world build more and brush up on my character lore (esp species lore)

[luna-azzurra]

Ways to Show Anger!!<3

[sokokoko]

Obligatory daily comment about MM!! It's at 12k rn 👍👍 we're on chapter 6 and Killian's lowest point is just about coming up. He's going to pivot from despair straight into fisticuffs and insults he barely means just to keep someone by his side even if it's out of hatred. Following her around too with the thin justification of "making sure she doesn't cause any trouble". He knows that's not why he's doing any of that but the lie is more comfortable than facing how he actually feels. He is so sick of feeling, and so strongly too. It makes him mad.

On another note, I've added another song to my mental playlist for MM! What Do You Do With The Mad That You Feel? by Mr Rogers (I'm serious. it suits Killian perfectly)

Others include:

You Are Glass by Oliver Richman & Kaden MacKay

Changeling by Lydia the Bard

Character Development by PEGGY

Legendary from Epic the Musical

(Some others I won't list due to spoilers)

I think I've started to sprinkle in the other characters neatly. No idea if it would be overwhelming for readers to take in all these species, their name, appearances and individual characters, but I'm just going to trust them, keeping writing and deal with that in the next draft lol. Adult audience so 🤷‍♀️

[sokokoko]

When I say enemies to lovers, enemies means they both fight back against each other. Actively opposing one another. Actively fighting back, actively competing, one upping each other, swiping resources from under each other's noses, sabotaging one another, hitting back just as hard as the one who struck first. Tit for tat. An eye for an eye.

I like the phrase enemies to lovers more than rivals to lovers because rivals doesn't feel as serious to me. To be someone's enemy is a deeper thing imo.

To me, enemies to lovers is the one I hate who hates me just as much becomes bearable somehow. Hate eventually turns to love (there's usually a stage that looks somewhat like friendship in there).

Me liking enemies to lovers is about the transition from hate to love and exploring the thin line and how they slip over the line. And I like when they retain some of that competitive fire in the established relationship but there are ways in which the edges have softened.

Abuser x abused ≠ Enemies to lovers

That's something else entirely and doesn't sound fun. That sounds awful to try and portray as an actual romantic dynamic and not a commentary against/cautionary tale. This would hurt me to read.

Annoyance x the annoyed ≠ Enemies to lovers

Asshole x the one the asshole keeps bothering ≠ Enemies to lovers

Would potentially piss me off depending on how much the asshole doesn't respect the autonomy of the one they're pestering

Bully x bullied ≠ Enemies to lovers.

Not in the slightest. That is something else. These are all something else. I don't think bully x victim can be wholesome at all unless there's a helluva lot of repentance. Silent Voice style where the bully is filled with self loathing over their actions and works to better themselves. Even then, the weight of the bully's actions are still a raw wound.

Random rant I wanted to get out because I have a WIP where I want to tackle the enemies to lovers dynamic, but in the way that I consider to be enemies to lovers. The comments I see saying enemies to lovers is abusive annoy me. I feel like an enemy is respected, in some sense. If only for the danger that they pose or acknowledgement of their power and prowess.

Optimus Prime is Megatron's enemy, humans and the other Autobots are mere bugs and annoyances to him. An enemy must be on equal footing.

No power dynamics!!

Still exploring and working out kinks, but in my story, they're both college students in space and our earthling protag Killian accidentally insults Halite, an alien from a warrior/battle culture. She is the one to strike first and consider them enemies but Killian fights back. Enemies soften into rivals, tentative acknowledgment of their similarities, you're somewhat bearable to be around, to I feel like you understand me. They both have battlelust in their veins.

Edit: I should add my distinction between enemies and rivals.

A rival wants to be better than you. Is constantly trying to get ahead.

An enemy wants to be the agent of your downfall.

I think, in this way, an enemy can either be more sinister or serious than a rival would. Rivalry is fuelled by superiority/inferiority complexes/wanting to be better, the best.

Enemy(ship? hood?) Being enemies is about the emotion hatred. Hatred fuelled perhaps by the threat they pose or by one's enemy as a person. You and your enemy are like oil and water, unable to be mixed because you are so different.

But then you find out you're both liquids. You can both be poured. Both of you can be used to cook. Friends? Lovers?

And hatred has a lot of similarities to love. To the point where it would be called adjacent, while love's opposite is indifference. Because someone indifferent feels absolutely nothing for you, while love and hate are intense, passionate emotions.

[sokokoko]

Now that I'm almost 11k into MM, we'll see if my execution can hold up the philosophy I declared two years ago.

[sokokoko]

MM is at 10.8k ✨

Doing that little bit of writing for ASG was actually refreshing. It's at 2.5k and is the kind of thing that is easy to add on for fun. I've been thinking about them for like 8 years lol

[cat-writes-sometimes]

Me reading another person's writing: Oh they missed a period there, no worries mistakes happen :) Three adjectives in a sentence? Adverbs for days? No worries I love descriptions and this story is fire.

Me seeing the same thing in my work: Wow am I illiterate? Am I actually ok? Who the actual fuck told me I can write so I can go and curse their entire family for the time it took for me to carefully craft this GARBAGE.

[nondelphic]

writing is all fun and games until the scene requires a location

[sokokoko]

It's crazy how easy it is for me to write when I'm 100% sure about the visuals. Maybe I need to draw rooms and building maps and such for all the stories I write? Just for me to have to reference. Because my ASG ocs are who I draw all the time and I imagined their story as a comic but I figured I want to novelise it first cuz my hands strain so easily that I can't see myself advancing the breadth of story I have planned. Maybe with it all written out, I can pay someone in future to adapt it. But I digress.

I wrote 1.8k just on a whim. That's tons. MM became easier to write when I started drawing aliens. I kept myself motivated writing TTAN but making art, song lyrics, a playlist, posting and progress with snippets, and doing personality tests for my characters. It was all a bit much but I think the art is the most sustainable thing for me to do to hype myself up and visualise things.

I think I've just figured something out about how I can see a story to its end.

[MM is at 10.3k rn btw]

Have a picture of Shadow, he's one of my ASG ocs and he's a total sweetie. Normally, he would have clothes on haha

[sokokoko]

I reached 10k words for MM! I'm literally so happy to have managed to get this far with it. I see the light now guys ( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ _ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )♡♡♡

The draft is not that good but it exists!! More than I can say it was doing b4 lol

Im gonna take them on a field trip and try to expand the lore of where they are and such. The space college is on the largest of Gavor's moons, which I feel should have like a marketplace and such around to promote the celebration of culture or something. They can go there for their culture class!

[sokokoko]

I drew another alien! Species: Yectazela. Those are not real bones, just bone patterns on their skin. Then there's individual markings like swirls, stripes of zig zag they'll have on their faces and along their upper arms and their legs. I needed a visual to describe them in the story, it was getting really difficult to ignore lol. We're at 9.1k words! I'm so happy, this is x2 as much as I've ever managed to write for this project if I check how far I got with each of my 3(? I think that's the number too tired to check rn) failed drafts

Uhh the big one would prob look better without that hip popped out lol, I will bring it in (in my sketchbook. U get to live with this version)

I think they would be moist, not being aquatic but in need of lots of hydration

[sokokoko]

Booty reduction was a success

[sokokoko]

I drew another alien! Species: Yectazela. Those are not real bones, just bone patterns on their skin. Then there's individual markings like swirls, stripes of zig zag they'll have on their faces and along their upper arms and their legs. I needed a visual to describe them in the story, it was getting really difficult to ignore lol. We're at 9.1k words! I'm so happy, this is x2 as much as I've ever managed to write for this project if I check how far I got with each of my 3(? I think that's the number too tired to check rn) failed drafts

Uhh the big one would prob look better without that hip popped out lol, I will bring it in (in my sketchbook. U get to live with this version)

I think they would be moist, not being aquatic but in need of lots of hydration

[sokokoko]

I actually didn't realise that dictating things is a really good way to write?? I am getting paragraphs of MM out just by talking. Probably best for deeper POVs and stream of consciousness writing but I also did it for something academic so ✨multipurpose✨, I guess.

Now at 8.2k words, fellas!

Nice ☆ﾟ°˖* ╰(*´︶`*)╯ ☆ﾟ°˖*

[sokokoko]

Just finished chapter 4 of MM! We're at 7.2k words 💞 I'm so happy. I'm putting a few hundred words in every time I wake up. Just on something chill. Rereading what I did before, looking at my notes, considering the little prompts I left in previous days. Not being bogged down by details or it being such a perfect read. Going with the flow. I know the beats that need to happen but not the specifics of it so it's rather fun the make up the actual scenes.

Will have to put some more thought into their classes and the exploratory experiences.

[sokokoko]

I wanna show off the designs I perfected today for MM! Ngl, I really liked the big hulking first draft I did of Ey-un (the eyes are everything to me) but it is an important detail for the Jio to not look threatening, so although I found it charming, it's not good enough to be considered cute and non threatening (unless Logan is insane and the galaxy just closes their eyes when they feel like it OR they care about behaviour more than appearance and the Jio's sheer meekness cancels out xenophobia against intimidating visages?? But I don't feel like that works story wise). I may recycle and remix the design for something else at a later date.

The sexual dimorphism is probably so dumb but I actually do care about variation between individuals and it felt like a quick and dirty way to bring a sense of order, rhyme and reason to their looks.

Rameet was really fun to draw; he's all big loose shapes! The description I give in the story probably won't make anyone imagine this though lol. Just attempting to make a visual so it's easier to write though. Like height comparisons! The little Sor-un and Rameet are everything to me.

I think I really need to sort out the Yectazela designs. They have no visuals. I also want to draw Killian (MC) and Logan (swayed by the adorable Ey-un). Kinda pissed I made an Irina drawing for scale instead of those two or even Saffron but Irina and Hel-go make more sense to be next to each other, even if it's only for scale.

The Jio trio line up is so funny to me. Hel-go's fault.

[sokokoko]

Also Rameet is making me research things most people will never ever think about 😭 apparently this skin flap in reptiles' mouths after their teeth is hard to name. They're jaw muscles of some sort of seems? Must dive deeper...

(pic from google)

[sokokoko]

I wanna show off the designs I perfected today for MM! Ngl, I really liked the big hulking first draft I did of Ey-un (the eyes are everything to me) but it is an important detail for the Jio to not look threatening, so although I found it charming, it's not good enough to be considered cute and non threatening (unless Logan is insane and the galaxy just closes their eyes when they feel like it OR they care about behaviour more than appearance and the Jio's sheer meekness cancels out xenophobia against intimidating visages?? But I don't feel like that works story wise). I may recycle and remix the design for something else at a later date.

The sexual dimorphism is probably so dumb but I actually do care about variation between individuals and it felt like a quick and dirty way to bring a sense of order, rhyme and reason to their looks.

Rameet was really fun to draw; he's all big loose shapes! The description I give in the story probably won't make anyone imagine this though lol. Just attempting to make a visual so it's easier to write though. Like height comparisons! The little Sor-un and Rameet are everything to me.

I think I really need to sort out the Yectazela designs. They have no visuals. I also want to draw Killian (MC) and Logan (swayed by the adorable Ey-un). Kinda pissed I made an Irina drawing for scale instead of those two or even Saffron but Irina and Hel-go make more sense to be next to each other, even if it's only for scale.

The Jio trio line up is so funny to me. Hel-go's fault.