Non-Author Pretending He Can Write

Howdy! I have a lot of stupid ocs in this huge story and I figured making a blog dedicated to making content about it and advertising it would be cool. 0=0 Forgive the self-deprecation. I really am not a writer, but who knows, maybe my story will touch people’s hearts like I’ve dreamed it would? 0=0 My main is @arcsin27. If knowing this causes you to avoid my story now, frankly I don’t blame you.

[steldomo]

Description as of April 28th: Steldomo will be a series about a cruise through the stars. Beings of all shapes and sizes have come to stay on this spacefaring piece of land, bringing their belongings, relationships, pasts, agendas… Hmm. Well, surely nothing could go wrong!

Description on the AO3 Novelization: A human, Komu, decides to turn his suburban-house-resembling spaceship into a cruise through the stars with the help of his robotic friend, Anna. Aliens of all kinds show up for the fun, and for their own agendas...

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I would love if it were animated and posted to YouTube (either under the channel Arcsin or its own dedicated channel), even just as an animatic, but I also wonder if at least starting off with some comics would be a good idea.

[bizarrebazaar13]

hey. question. if you have ocs whose given name no one (or almost no one) knows in-universe, do you as the creator know that name?

personally I know Vela’s deadname (which I’ve never shared), Sister Cecilia’s given name (which has briefly appeared in a fic), and mayyyyybe Eris’s given name (which I’ve also never shared but I have been thinking about). but I have a Lot of ocs whose given names don’t match their current names. and I only know given names for those three. so I’m curious how it is for others.

[steldomo]

Yeah, I’d say I know all their given names. They come first for me after all

[steldomo]

Rough concept example sketch for an aspect, a creature that’s the spirit of a star in physical form. I’ve drawn them before, but I’ve since redesigned them to be a bit more interesting (mostly making them moths lol). This one’s a main sequence yellow star

I also made hasty recolors as examples of neutron stars and black holes

[steldomo]

Damn my one reblog is popping off. Since this story is genuinely my life’s dream I wanna capitalize on it, but even if I had anything to offer that could get me known amidst all this attention, I just don’t know how to go about it

Besides, this is tumblr, fame does not exist here lol

[iphysalian]

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

[steldomo]

Just realized it’s fantasy specifically but steldomo is scifi fantasy so

Idk what the currency is but it’s not gold

Don’t have that

Probably have that idk. I know I’ve tried thinking about how long days should be on a spaceship but I don’t think I figured it out

Don’t have that

The lightning elementals’ planet is constantly stormy because duh. The air elementals planet has green skies if that counts

Actually don’t know if I have that shockingly. Moons aren’t all that consequential imo, and most of the story isn’t spent on a physical planet

Don’t have that (also shocking)

Don’t have that

Don’t have that

I had an idea that a species of blind aliens would have live flowers in their jewelry so the beauty is their scent instead of color or design

Idk haven’t thought about it

Idk haven’t thought about it

Don’t have that

Aspects are the spirits of stars, which don’t have sexes and don’t reproduce sexually kinda. Of course their spirits don’t have sexes either, and therefore no genders. While writing this I thought of a gender system based on spectral class but idk if I’m smart or progressive enough to handle that

Don’t have that

Kinda have that…? My design for hades is humanoid, but has no legs or face and is made of rutile shards

Haven’t thought of pets

The existence of hard light/force fields that can be invisible is prevalent but the plot would be perfectly fine without it

I’ve had the idea of aspects communicating telepathically with who they’re orbiting, but idk if I still have that or not. I’m pretty sure they can psychically tug on/nudge their orbit partners tho

Digital files, but that’s cheating since it’s not fantasy

Species that can’t speak the same as us, like the mermaid dolphin dudes, use sign language for interspecies communication

Don’t have that

[steldomo]

No clue why I’m getting so many notes on this lmao

[iphysalian]

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

[steldomo]

Just realized it’s fantasy specifically but steldomo is scifi fantasy so

Idk what the currency is but it’s not gold

Don’t have that

Probably have that idk. I know I’ve tried thinking about how long days should be on a spaceship but I don’t think I figured it out

Don’t have that

The lightning elementals’ planet is constantly stormy because duh. The air elementals planet has green skies if that counts

Actually don’t know if I have that shockingly. Moons aren’t all that consequential imo, and most of the story isn’t spent on a physical planet

Don’t have that (also shocking)

Don’t have that

Don’t have that

I had an idea that a species of blind aliens would have live flowers in their jewelry so the beauty is their scent instead of color or design

Idk haven’t thought about it

Idk haven’t thought about it

Don’t have that

Aspects are the spirits of stars, which don’t have sexes and don’t reproduce sexually kinda. Of course their spirits don’t have sexes either, and therefore no genders. While writing this I thought of a gender system based on spectral class but idk if I’m smart or progressive enough to handle that

Don’t have that

Kinda have that…? My design for hades is humanoid, but has no legs or face and is made of rutile shards

Haven’t thought of pets

The existence of hard light/force fields that can be invisible is prevalent but the plot would be perfectly fine without it

I’ve had the idea of aspects communicating telepathically with who they’re orbiting, but idk if I still have that or not. I’m pretty sure they can psychically tug on/nudge their orbit partners tho

Digital files, but that’s cheating since it’s not fantasy

Species that can’t speak the same as us, like the mermaid dolphin dudes, use sign language for interspecies communication

Don’t have that

[steldomo]

I like to associate my alien species with languages. It helps me with naming things mostly

But I think there’s two species that equally deserve one language, I can’t tell who to give it to

Which of these alien civilizations more deserves to be associated with the Latin language?

A species of elves that worships our planets and therefore the Roman gods

A species of angels based on Christian angelology

Voting ended onOct 23, 2024

[steldomo]

I made a rough sketch to test some coloration ideas I had for Kordani, and ended up talking with an animation expert I’m acquainted with to help me. This is the result of that coaching. You can still see the colors I was debating on in the palette in the corner

I’m not 100% on that tattoo design btw, or even if he’ll even have one

Below are some of the versions I sent as we talked

[steldomo]

As I’ve previously mentioned on this blog, I’m thinking of removing some characters from Steldomo since they don’t contribute to the plot or themes. This decision feels pretty finalized in my mind, though I guess nothing is set in stone

However, I realized that despite only having two or three chapters of the novelization written, a removed character makes an appearance in them. I’m not sure what to do about that.

Bleh, enough text. Tldr I have a work on AO3, but I’m heavily considering deleting some characters that’ve appeared. Knowing I’m only about 2 chapters in, what should I do?

Edit the work

Start a new work, like a version 1.1

Other

Voting ended onMay 4, 2024

[steldomo]

Not pictured is how it’s also oddly freeing since some other designs im very fond of felt repetitive when placed in the same universe as those two (actually, I might turn them into the same species as those new designs and give them a cameo or something lol)

Also the reason they’re both going is they’re a package deal, they go together

[steldomo]

I have just realized Anna is very VERY similar to an old friend of mine that died so I might change her name to be closer to hers as a sort of homage

I really like Rosalie…

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[flametrashira-deactivated202505]

my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #4517:

“I don’t like this creator!”

Oh because of their treatment of employees or their inability to take criticism?

“Because they approved of fans shipping characters however they want! 😡”

Okay, never mind…

[steldomo]

Wait that’s disliked? Idc who people ship, im actually kinda curious what people come up with once this thing gets off the ground!

[ad-wills]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

I am doing the Important Writer Thing of Dreaming and Imagining

[steldomo]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 50 likes! Maybe I'll actually deliver on the story this blog is about someday. But really, I'm honored people actually care about my guys!

[steldomo]

I keep thinking I shouldn’t start steldomo until I have Perfect Art but I just realized even pro tv shows change art styles/quality as budget or direction changes