Hello and welcome to Writeblr Café! This is a new network dedicated to the writers of this website, to showcase the poetry, prose and WIPs of our fellow writers as well as serve as a platform for inspiration and resource for those who are looking for more content to read.
How do we work?
Writeblr Cafè is an open network. Our aim is to support the writers on this website, who produce and then share their content for free. The network accepts a limited number of members, who will receive extra perks and privileges. However, being a member isn't a requirement for using the network to promote of your work!
Member Benefits:
Members will be invited to help us set up events, writing challenges and create prompts. In addition, they will get their own profile on our members page and tag on the network’s blog, and have your content reblogged faster. Furthermore, they will be invited to our discord server to connect with other writers and readers, and have extra privileges there too!
Apply!
We only allow a total of 30 members, so apply soon! Furthermore, if you wish to apply, make sure to reblog this post, read the rules and apply here. Applications will reopen once the admins are ready to accept more members, or one of the members drop out, so please apply soon!
Above all, please don't be afraid to tag us!
Use our open tag #writeblrcafe to have your content reblogged! You can also submit your writing. Help us to spread the word by reblogging this post and tagging your fellow writers and readers in the comments.
In case of any additional questions, read our FAQ and feel free to send us an ask or contact any of the admins: @matcha-chai (Hana), @lexiklecksi (Lexi) or @betweenthetimeandsound (Elda).
Honestly the FBI or the CIA needs to hire us Byler fans. Because if we can find the TINIEST CRUMB of a byler scene, we can most definitely find a person.
The BTS Archive has two primary goals: archive all the BTS fics on Tumblr and help the BTS fanfic community connect in positive ways. We have created two roles that you can apply for that will help us reach said goals.
The first role is the reader. Readers have two important jobs: they suggest fics/authors/masterlists for us to archive and they leave feedback for fics they have enjoyed. The second role is the writer. Writers affiliated with the network can have their work reblogged, be featured in monthly shoutouts, and participate in various events/competitions hosted by the network.
What Does Archiving Look Like?
Our goal is to archive all the BTS fics on Tumblr, regardless of whether or not the author is a member of the network. Fics that are archived will be placed in a masterlist of sorts in which interested readers can find fics through tags such as member, genre, length, warning etc. If your work hasn’t been archived, let us know and we’ll get to it as soon as we can. This is also why readers are super important because they help us find authors that we may not have noticed.
How Are We Creating Connections?
In order to create positive connections between members of the archive, we have a discord chat, as well as a host of events that members are encouraged to participate in. Through these, we hope that you meet new people you wouldn’t have otherwise and form lasting connections. The world is going through a rough time right now and that makes having a supportive community that much more important.
We have so much brain fog istg. We barely have one internal monologue let alone any sort of dialogue. It makes us feel so fake a lot of the time, but we’re learning to accept it as just part of how our brain works.
Sometimes we are able to talk to each other and there’s this like, lag/repeating that happens with every thought? It’s really annoying bc it slows down communication a LOT and it’s frustrating to not be able to get the thought-words out if that makes sense. It’s not us thinking about what to say next, it’s like having multiple of us trying to think at the same time slows down and overloads the whole brain. Idk it’s weird, and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else talk about this experience so I thought I’d share :)
OMG! He just explained why planning and starting a new writing project is so much easier and more entertaining than actually writing the dang story! Or even finishing it!
...I mean, it doesn't change anything, but hey! NOW WE KNOW!
We've written about this before, and we'll write about it again. We have slightly different words for it tonight, so we want to put them out there.
This is related to this post about the difference between the words Kepekapean and Ktletaccete.
OK.
We are Ktletaccete and Beshakete, and Jenifer and Eh. Ktletaccete means "descendants of Jenifer and Eh", but sometimes we'll get lazy and use the word to describe our two eldest members, too.
This is probably going to get lengthy.
Beshakete
Getting the Beshakete out of the way, because they're description is short. They are called Outsiders in English, and are basically spiritual walk-ins. There are thirteen of them that we know about. They are all elemental in nature, as far as we know. And not elemental as in like wind, earth, fire, and water. Nor as in the periodic table. But elemental as in Entropy, Interconnectedness, the Concept of Forward, Dirt (specifically), Container, Sphereness, etc.
Some of them have developed pretty complex personalities and life histories while in our system, while others have opted to remain as pure to their original selves as possible.
They are fractal in nature. The instance of any one of them, as they occur in our system, is not the whole, but it describes the whole, and contains infinite multitudes all the way down.
The Ktletaccete and Jenifer and Eh
We have three genders, which are our ways of relating to our body and the outer world through the sections of the brain that we each live in: dragons, girls, and id monsters. We're not going to talk much about those, but Jenifer is the eldest girl, Eh is the eldest dragon, and Phage (who is Beshakete) is the eldest id monster. Not all id monsters are Beshakete, and not all Beshakete are id monsters, but there's a large overlap.
But, anyway, we Ktletaccete and our parents seem to be this:
Dragons.
Real, live, shapeshifting dragons.
You might opt to call us spiritual dragons. We prefer the term "memetic entity" or even "storybook" or "mythical", though our myth is our own and comes from nowhere else but what we've experienced since our vessel was born.
We are not like other dragons, but no dragons are.
Dragons are an extremely diverse category of archetypal monster, and the original dragons were really just a collection of individual creatures, beasts, monsters, spirits, and gods created specifically for their unique roles in their unique stories of origin.
But, thanks to the evolution of language and memetics, all dragons are related now, too.
And things that existed long before the word dragon was invented are now dragons, including extant living species of animal and plant.
We dragons are, more or less, the children of humans. At least from a certain philosophical perspective (many spiritualities and cultures would say otherwise, and that's OK - we're talking about our own, here).
So, we Ktletaccete are a breed of dragon who are descended from humans, unique to ourselves. And when we say that we are not human, what we mean is that we've evolved to be incompatible with humans reproductively and socially and are basically a new species. But we are technically human in the same way that humans are lobe finned fish.
The ancestry is important and undeniable, and a thing that makes us terrestrial (despite how our fiction paints a picture of it being otherwise - we can daydream). But the distinction and difference is more important, practically speaking. So, we will insist, regularly, that we are not human.
How we Ktletaccete develop and function - our life cycle
Jenifer and Eh are both essentially walk-ins who entered our system before anybody else formed and took ownership of our vessel and brain, much like how many religions describe the way all souls work. This is according to their memories, and they basically have developed like any other sentient children (though Jenifer has spent most of her life dissociated and hidden in our subconscious, watching everything quietly like the nonverbal autistic she is).
So, we're not describing their conception or development.
When a Ktletaccete is conceived in our system, they start with the formation of a self schema.
All schemas of identity become self schemas in our brain. ALL of them.
If we learn about a person, enough that we understand them as a person, even if they're fictional or an anthropomorphized thing, that schema of identity is enough to become a self schema and gain consciousness. Almost immediately.
This can be as simple as a face, an expression, an emotion, and a motive. Names are not required. But, names can imply all of those things sometimes, so a name can spark a whole person if we focus on it the right way.
This means that we create so many introjects.
But, we can also create a new headmate by imagining an alternate version of one of us, like, "what would I be like if I had a different special interest or a different name?" And, every time we make a TTRPG character, we make a headmate if someone who already exists doesn't come forward to make the character a faceclaim.
Now, every new headmate gets associated with a member who becomes their parent. Their parent will help them form and grow, lending them memories and memetics, portions of identity either from themselves or from things they admire.
Most new headmates are either children of Akailea (the mother of all introjects) or Gnargrim (our brood guardian), but our older members will still occasionally have children, too. Sometimes, like in the case of Little Eh and Elle, it will be a classic split, usually caused by their parent (Eh in these two cases) trying to be someone they're not. Rarely having anything to do with trauma, but more likely ambition or curiosity.
However it happens that relationships form, our parents always give our children the identity of being Ktletaccete.
This happened even in the case of Phage giving birth to Ni'a, even though Phage is not Ktletaccete. Ni'a identifies as half Ktletaccete, really.
From our conceptions, we develop immediately into beings that would be autistic by human standards (our vessel is autistic after all), and with a special interest or Art. For the vast majority of us that Art is studying and imitating a subject, such as Venom or our toilet as an anthropomorphized semi-animate object. For the rest of us, it's often a skill or an area of study, or a neurological talent.
Morde's Art, for instance, is networking between all of our system members via our brain's neurology.
And then, after that, as we experience life, whether that's repeating the same dream over and over with minor variations in our inworld or fronting and doing stuff in the outworld, we grow into full fledged people.
Now, our inworld shapes are something interesting.
Most of us have humanoid forms, because we are factive introjects of humans. But we are not human, and being shapeshifters we can easily take other shapes.
Those of us who are directly related from Jenifer and Eh, however, do not have default human forms. We tend toward either the draconic or some other Terrestrial animal (though usually still with draconic traits).
Our wolves, for instance, have fully draconic forms that they can take, as well as fully lupine and humanoid forms.
Our biggest clue that we we have non-human forms is the dysphoria, dissociation, and phantom climbs we experience when we front. Which are strongest if we haven't fronted in a long time.
It's pretty clear from that that when we are inworld and disconnected from the front, we take our most comfortable non-human form and get used to it.
But, when our vessel is sleeping and we front in a dream, we unfortunately get such strong signals from our vessel that we usually take human form in the dream. Also, our nightly dreams are usually processing memories from our outworld experiences, so there's the association of being humanoid from those memories as well.
In this way we teach each other how to pretend to be human and try to pass as human when we're fronting.
Most of us, including most of our introjects, seem to dream of the day when we don't have to do that anymore.
Anyway, none of us die. Our vessel will, someday, and that will do something to us, but until then we're immortal and impervious to harm in the same way as a cartoon character. You can squish one of us flat, tear us apart, swallow and fully digest us, and we'll pop right back up an instant later.
Since we've learned that, we've moved all of our weirdest kink scenes entirely inworld. And we've become much, much less fearful of our horror movie style nightmares.
Nightmares about social situations involving our outworld parents still trigger us for days afterward, unfortunately.
