Styg Demo: Sometime late august(finger’s crossed!)
Happy Friday, everyone! Hope your week went well and your weekend is even better! Time is moving much quicker than I’m used to, tho my life has gotten very busy in a very short amount of time! My progress has slowed quite a bit with packing for the move in two weeks(which wow, yep only two weeks christ) and with summer creative writing classes starting up.
I’ve been very bad with ifwrimo but I have written everyday! The current update is sitting around 12k with one more(quite long) scene left to go. I still have to edit it all but it feels good to have progress!
I’ve been chasing dopamine and one weirdly reliable source for me has been learning different web design methods, which inevitably led me to redesign and re-coding LaF’s interface again lol but I think she looks much better(and if I can get the mock-up to work in twine--pray for me cuz there’s javascript in here--it should be more accessible as well!) There’s screen shots under the cut and some parts I’m tweaking so nothing too final here. But yes! Mobile and Tablet compatible, which has bugged for me so long y’all!
Blog’s been quiet, aside for the queue, and tbh it’s gonna stay quiet while I’ll juggle everything! If y’all send me something, it might take me a few days to see it and respond but I appreciate every message<33
Come sit with me on the pine boards
Count with me the lights fading away
Promise me you’ll stay right where I leave you
And on your candle I shall burn
To put you in my soundproof room
Lock you in my lightless tomb
Because baby I’ve been waiting on you
To come swimming down my river
Stretching your neck at the clouds
Staring your eyes at sky
Leaving me hungry
Deep in the house I am whispering
As you come up for air
Beware of my goose stepping graveyard
Girl
Beware
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I could tell you were dirty
Naked and noiseless
Laying at my feet
Joyless in your flights
Sharpening your teeth for the fight
Believing in the lord
Rust becomes your right
As you die on your sword
Leaving a beacon for me every time
Mocking my failures to have you inclined
Taking the towns from the rebels
On the backs of broncos
I come back
Wide eyed out the truck window
Giving up is what I do
Until in my reflection
Is an image of you
Let’s go
Wearing black to hide the fact that we’re sick
For each other
I give up on my conscience
Condemn my country
And tend to you
Hello!! Sorry, she’s late by a few days. I’ve been dealing with some health problems and its affected by ability to work on Laf and the blog. So, I apologize but I’m doing much better and very inspired to get the next update out soon. I have a tentative date but I’m wary of declaring deadlines hehe Just be ready for an update announcement soon;)
We’re *one* scene away from having the writing be done and I’ve got it outlined and partly written. I’m currently working on the physical descriptions of the villain or should I say villains;) I can’t wait to see how y’all react to them, they’ve changed alot in between drafts and rewrites but I’m enjoying writing in their voices.
I’m also playing around with background images to help set the mood while reading and to give the game some more visual interest. The cream background can be straining especially if you’re a dark mode lover like me! My problem has always been commitment, I can either host images online which might mean they don’t load for those with spotty connection or figure out how to upload them from a folder? Either way, I’ll mess around with that and we’ll see if its a feature for the update or not.
Also, much of the plot of laf is as simple as “fall in love” but some it also entails knowledge about inheritance and estate entailment, which I’m going to simplify but unless you’re a regency lawyer it's probably still confusing. Would y’all find it helpful to have a “codex” page on the side bar to help with things like “entailment” and social decorum?
Please let me know! Thank you everyone for the engagement and sweet messages<3 Stay safe and take care of yourselves<3
Blue's Veneziad is really ffkng gorgeous. The prose is *chef's kiss*. My only complaint is that "wine-dark sea" is unfortunately a trope now, and I see it as a conscious decision to include it multiple times throughout the book, when I think it should have been used once for clout and then withheld. But that's so fucking nitpicky about sentences that flow well, especially with that phrase in them.
I'm not going to get jack done today
bro I'm a fucking lightweight. Idk how he expects me to have mimosas with avocado and toast before we go food shopping lol.
Freya is wearing a calming collar to combat the number of people during the event and the fireworks. I don't have her wear a collar all the time because she isn't going, nor has any desire to, go outside. So she's bitter about it. She looks SO cute with it on though.
I'm finally getting back into the swing of things again. I got so busy after the holidays that I just realized I haven't posted an update here in over 2 weeks! 😵⁉️
Writing has been a bit sparse lately, but rest assured I'm still at it! This fic is my main focus, so even when I'm not actively writing, I'm always thinking about it in some capacity.
I'll be sure to update the pinned post and progress tracker once I have a bit more written. ...Until then!