#drippingmoon

[oh-no-another-idea]

@drippingmoon @sleepy-night-child thank goodness I happened to check because I didn't see these wonderful tags for a while! But they made my day :DD

Thank you so much, yes, to the height difference, and I'm so pleased you picture Paris the same way as I, Sleepy, that means I'm conveying the right vibes about him! 🥰🥰🥰

[artdecosupernova-writing]

⭐ for the ask game, if you wanna! And for Warren specifically pls (I need to see my boy shining as he deserves so bad)

Have a great day, Don!!<3

Thanks so much dear!! 💜 Here's something from Meridian for you 🤭

⭐ share a snippet where a character is the best at something

He followed the sound. Not even his footfalls made a noise as he crossed the empty chamber, eyes darting in all directions but intensely focused on the path ahead. The chamber had two doors, and he moved to the left one on instinct. He pried the door open and slipped through, and his HUD indicated he was going in the right direction. He could make out a vague shape through the infrared from Scot, and he pushed forward. The throbbing got louder as he moved further into the temple. He tracked it, gliding from room to room—all of which were bafflingly empty of anything—turning the other way when the sound got quieter. For ages, he went into a room, cased it, and moved on. "I think you're just about there," Scot said quietly into his helmet. "There's a large room straight ahead that has a figure inside. They're close to the floor, possibly hunched over. Likely unconscious. Be vigilant." Warren stopped. The rhythmic throbbing sound he'd been following was the loudest it'd ever been, encased in the corners and the ceiling, pounding through the air, and sweat began to form on his brow as his stomach rolled. Breath shallow and staring in silence at the unmoving door, he mentally placed why that sound had been so familiar to him. "It's him," he said into his helmet. He swallowed the foulness sneaking up his throat. "He's inside the room." "That's what we suspect." "No, I know." Warren flexed his grip on the rifle. "It's him." Thoeala's voice came through next. "How are you so sure?" "Because I'm standing here listening to his heartbeat within the walls of the fucking building." Their voices disappeared and Warren was forced to hear it over and over; the slow, unmistakable thump of Thrive's heart. Slower than a human heart, stronger than most. Permeating the entirety of the building as if on a speaker, as if it fed the building's foundation and structure. Normally he sought out the sound, let it tell him Thrive was alive and with him, but now it made him physically ill to hear, and he had to close his eyes to stop himself from getting sick in his helmet.

[maguayans]

*slides into your inbox* Aye!! What's up, how're you??<3 happy summer, my friend!

🍓 👒 if you want, for the game

J! Hey, hey, hey!👋 I'm doing okay, how about you? (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟHappy summer! Thanks for the asks.💕

🍓 Worst thing you've done to your characters.

Give them a shitty, painful background, put them through more shit, and kill them. ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌ (I'm trying to be better.)

👒 Nicest thing you've done to your characters.

Give them the most rewarding, peaceful, happy ending.╰(´︶`)╯♡

[spacetimewraithwrites-archive]

Trick or treat!!👻👻 (if it's not too late and you still want to, ofc)

you FOOL! Trick AND treat!! 😈🤭

For your treat, a bit from Eternal:

"[...] You're focusing too much on the 'what ifs' and not enough on the things in front of your face. And do you know what's in front of your face? ...My face. Which...if I'm reading the room right, should be on your face in about twenty seconds."

"The universe doesn't deal in absolutes," Thrive said. "There is no guarantee that you're not going to want to move on from me after so long."

"And the point of determining that right now instead of allowing it to occur naturally if it even occurs at all is…?"

Thrive didn't respond.

"So, you know...stop talking about stuff like that. It's a bummer."

"Don't tell me what to do."

"Oh, shit," Warren laughed. "I love you so fucking much."

[afoolandathief]

Birthday?? Happy, happy birthday to you!❤💞🥳🥂 hope you've been great this month, and that it'll keep getting only better<33 Wishing you the best and sending you love!

(In honor of that one post of yours lmao)

Moonie!! Thank you! <3 I adore this crab and will cherish it and its many cowboy boots

[nikkywrites]

Hiii, nikky! 14, 17, 22 if you want<3

Moon, hi! <3

14. what’s your favorite thing about writing? 

Answered here

17. what do you do to motivate yourself to write? 

Reread a part of the WIP I love in an attempt to get motivated to continue, or think of a scene that I want to get to but need to push through the current one in order to be able to.

22. when do you know you’re really in a writing frenzy?

When I check the word count and learn that no, I didn’t write 500-1000ish words, I actually wrote double/triple/quadruple that.

[witherednightmare]

7, 8, 22 if you want! Have a good day, Scaley<3

Shit to ask people who write

7 - tell us about one of your characters who’s an absolute joy to write

Usually I would talk about Lenny at this point but Nellie deserves the spotlight. She doesn’t speak a lot due to her past trauma and language barriers but her actions speaks so much more than words. Be nice to her and she will either just ignore you or be pretty neutral. You startled her? She hisses at you and might attack you. You talk shit behind her back (and are a certain person)? She will 100% attack you.

What will she do?? Punch you??? Bite you??? Claw you?? Be surprised!

Also, her being a human/crested gecko hybrid brings me joy just by this combination because... crested geckos...

8 - have you identified any recurring elements or themes across your writing?

Hmmm, murder and betrayal seems to be one recurring theme I can’t take out of my writing?? When I was thinking about project Dark Academia it’s where my thoughts went to immediately. Guess I just like to incorperate physical and mental violence. Just wait for until the first bastard character will find their way into it, lmao.

22 - talk about a writing experience that has pleasantly surprised you. or talk about several. seriously, writing is cool. you’re making up whole stories out of your brain, revel in that shit.

Completing NaNo this year for the first time even though it’s only my second time attending it came in as a big surprise, I tell you! Even though I went in with quite a lot of spite towards myself to win it I didn’t think I could get through (almost) 30 days of writing when I wasn’t used to write so much before. Actually, I went in with the goal to build up a writing habit AND to shake of any perfectionism to get out as many words and as many weird ideas as possible

It worked??? Each point has worked??? I am still dumbfounded by it, the habit of writing (almost) every day has worked to far too! It helped to get almost 5000 words for Circus! Circus! out until now which is not as much as I would have written for NaNo but thi isn’t for the challenge anymore, just for my own fun and discovery! I am super happy that it worked because it took me long enough to reach this point.

[hellishhin]

🍂 What are their opinions on the different seasons? Which one do they hate and which one do they love and why? (Sadie) and 💎 Does your OC collect anything? Is there a reason? When did they start and is it beginning to turn into a little bit of a hoarding issue? What do they do with their collection? (K'lai'a'la), if you want:)

Omg omg omg I love this so much! Sadie's opinions on seasons are something that has become a surprisingly big thing for her. Not super big but like "two nickels but it's weird it happened twice" kind of thing.

Sadie's favorite season is summer. She's always loved fire and the heat of the summer, the sounds of the bugs at night when she's stumbling the streets happily intoxicated on the lovely fruity brandys she so loves. Fun fact! Sadie's favorite drink *ever* is plum brandy and one of these days I will try some. It's hard to find though. Anyway, she loved the heat and the sun so much that she made the summer solstice her birthday. I don't remember if I mentioned but the only people who know their actual birthday are nobles. She doesn't know exactly when she was born but with the hopes of becoming a noble some day she decided she would have an official birthdate to celebrate. Plus, the summer solstice is directly in the middle of Richfest, one of the four week-long holidays throughout the year.

Following this vein, Sadie does in fact dislike winter. The streets are quiet, everyone is sleepy, there's less activity because there's no farming and people hurry inside. There's always lots of sickness and she hears of deaths frequently. It's never a happy time like summer is. She enjoys spring though since winter is ending and she loves the colors of fall. So really it's only the winter vibe she dislikes although she also just hates being cold.

One more fun fact about her birthday! When she's spoken directly to the gods, she could have asked when she was born but she didn't want to. Her chosen birthday means more to her than her whatever day she was actually born on.

Oh lovely little K'lai'a'la. She is a bit of a collector now that I think about it. She would perhaps have a few pretty feathers or a rock or two stashed up in the tree she sleeps in but I would like to imagine she is more interested in collecting random things she finds in the city. If she finds a rusted nail bent into a peculiar shape she would find that interesting. Or perhaps she finds a discarded playing card. Most things people would think wouldn't have value, she finds interesting. I always hesitate to make her sound too simplistic but... she kind of is. Not in an unintelligent way but in a way where she was raised in the forest and has never needed many physical things to be happy. She also sees her friends with all of these trinkets and so she collects her own just to be more like the people she loves.