#artificialconstruct

[asoulofstars]

ship or dip + sawyer/kate lol

MY BELOVEDS. This is pretty much the only canon pairing I’ll accept for either of them.

[dacelonovae]

(@artificialconstruct x) It's a mercy that she at least waited until the Drifter was out of the room to start on him. Arthur sighs hard through his nose, nearly growling at her, swatting his sister's hand away as her voice echoes in his skull. "'Baby brother' by two sodding minutes, and--and shut up." Sol, he hasn't been teased about a crush since... hm. Since before Aoi, certainly. Everything with her happened so fast that he's not sure there was ever time for Eleanor to tease him about it, and then... well. What happened, happened, and there was no humour to be found in any of it. He would never classify his--feelings--for Drifter as a crush. In a perfect world he'd never have to classify them as anything at all, because he'd be too busy getting drunk to ever think about it. But this is the farthest thing from a perfect world and there is something there. Stupid to deny it to himself when he has a twin who can see it in his bloody head. Much as he wishes she wouldn't look, he knows she doesn't have much more choice in that than he does. Like an idiot teenager, he imagines asking Eleanor: how do they feel about me? It would be easier than having to ask them himself... and a huge bloody violation of their privacy. Anyway, he's not ready for the answer. No matter what it is. "I don't want to talk about it," he grumbles instead, voice pitching low. But the corner of his mouth is twitching into a smile. Fuck. He's not even irritated, not really, still coasting the strange high of talking to them. What have they done to him?

Her smile softens as she sees his, sees how easily he brushes off her teasing rather than teetering on that precipice of anger or despair she's seen him fall into much too often, especially when it comes to the horrifying idea of wanting to be close to someone.

Her heart warms, and she puts a hand on his shoulder, squeezing, trying to put everything into the touch that she knows he won't stand to actually have spoken out loud. Comfort. Encouragement. The reminder that she is always here for him, if he needs her.

And then, because she is--above anything else--his sister, she says; 'Oh, it's adorable that you think I needed to read your mind to figure that out.'

[asoulofstars]

🍵 What does your writing process look like? Do you make physical notes first? Do you use docs? 🍡 Favourite snack while writing? 🥤 Favourtie drink while writing?

My writing process for roleplay is just. Looking at the ask or reply and just typing whatever comes to mind. I do not have much more of a process; I don't edit or make any attempts. You get what my brain spits out.

For like. Fanfiction or poetry, it is also mostly a "you get what you get" situation. I don't really edit these types of things. Even the stuff I post on AO3 and/or here is largely first drafts. With fanfiction, I think that because my fanfiction style is so "I HAVE A SCENE" and also incredibly self-indulgent that like. I'm not aiming for perfection or anything more. I just want it to exist and stop bothering my brain. For poetry, I think that it's because that for me, as a poetry writer, it's truly about the immediate thoughts and feelings that are happening, and it's a different poem if it gets edited or revised at a later date.

With my novel writing, it's a much longer process. I'm a skeleton writer. My first drafts are generally under 3,000 words for a chapter. I make sure that I get the basis of the chapter down so that I will know what the arc is when I go back to it, and then I go back and add in details for flavor later. And then, when the whole manuscript is done, I go back through and see what chapters need to be added or removed. I look at the flow; I look at the details. It's a lot of work, and editing your own stuff is a lot harder than editing other people's stuff, and that's why I'm nowhere close to being published. LOL (Legitimately, y'all might have a Bodyshare inspired poetry book from me before you ever get Riona's faerie world.)

I do all my novel outlining in notebooks. Worldbuilding is primarily in notebooks, but it's also in Word or Google Docs or sometimes my phone notes app, just whatever I have handy. I have a Word doc for editing notes as well.

Everything else is mostly Word or Google Docs, but I like doing poetry by hand when I'm able to. A lot of my Bodyshare poems started on post-it note type stationary.

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I don't really have a favorite snack or drink for while I'm writing. My drinks are almost exclusively Vitamin Water (Acai Blueberry Pomegranate) and Dr. Pepper. I'm not a huge snacky person in general these days. But I'll eat pretty much anything while I'm writing if it sounds good.

[dacelonovae]

( x ) @artificialconstruct

So, it can talk. Well, there go the more obvious answers as to what exactly it is. Is there a human in there somewhere? Like, a whole, alive one? Whatever it is, they're at least grateful that it's no longer pointing a weapon at them.

They tilt their head in a vague acknowledgement/agreement at the question, not sure how they should respond. Their immediate instinct is to say no--it sounds like it's asking if they're with the Corpus, or something like that, but without knowing what this thing's affiliation is, it seems prudent to keep their options open.

"Seems like we've got a shared goal, then," they offer in not-answer. "I've seen something like this before." They want to ask more about this not-familiar-enough infestation, what it's like, what seems to drive it, but they also don't want to give away how little they know about it. "Are you having any luck?"

Maybe they can at least get some information about how It is trying to deal with things.