#readersonas

[nozhdyved]

. . . MEET COLLECTOR!READER 🕰️

everything can be beautiful . lost and found . thrift stores . warped wood . rusting jewelry .  peeling wallpaper . cross on the wall . the scent of a bookstore . mismatched socks . glittering in the dark . chipped teacups . plaid pattern . the world being filled with beauty .

sees the sun and glows . cats trail after them . jeff buckley and the smiths . lives life by the breeze . never searching, only receiving . different shades of brown . finds love everywhere . vinyls on the walls . wishes on a star every night .

🕰️ . . .  who lives at the edge of the woods, a twenty minute car ride from the nearest city, and rarely leaves their house.

🕰️ . . . who's pockets are deep and filled with different trinkets– a rock shaped like a mouse, a straggly strand of purple string, a sage green button, and the iridescent wing off a dead beetle.

🕰️ . . . who doesn't mind the stifling quiet of living alone, and enjoys using the silence to dig deeper into themself.

🕰️ . . .  who has a garden in the yard– cherry tomatoes and cherry trees, strawberries and blueberries, and their favorite, a marijuana plant.

🕰️ . . . who will sit for hours just staring outside, watching nature pass by and the sky shift and move. it makes them feel small.

🕰️ . . . who has a shelf in their attic of dusty porcelain dolls, all with matching rouged cheeks and curled hair. they kiss each doll goodnight, every night.

🕰️ . . . who prefers honesty more than little white lies, no matter how sweet. it always feels like little shards of sugary glass, imbedded into their skin.

🕰️ . . . who wears jeans that have embroidery on the legs, and paint marker doodles on the back pocket.

🕰️ . . . who can recognize and name various plants, as well as whether they're poisonous or if they're edible.

🕰️ . . . who isn't religious, but keeps crosses hung up on the walls, like a reminder that the past always lingers, even when trying to forget.

🕰️ . . . who has a love for the disturbed and the unwanted. they take in cats with missing ears, and toys with scary smiles.

🕰️ . . . who dances alone at night with a billy joel record spinning. their arms spin in the air, and their eyes are closed, and to them, it feels as close to heaven as they'll ever get.

playlist 🕰️ honesty by billy joel 🕰️ lonesome is a state of mind by djo 🕰️ harvey by the her's 🕰️ bitter sweet symphony by the verve 🕰️ lover, you should've come over by jeff buckley 🕰️

[pinkanon-com]

Okay, basically this is how I've been planning out OC & readersona plotlines so I limit having to bounce from tab to tab for tiny bits and bobs of information for them; so here's Willow, Sunflower, & Honey:

Also requests are open for them!

Willow

Let it be known that it took everything in me to not make Willow a Taylor Swift coded readersona (maybe I'll make one, but my oc Jennifer kinda-sorta covers that base, but we will see!!!) And I'm buckling down on listening to songs by the artists mentioned for her music "influences" especially Florence + the Machine

Sunflower

As you can see, I had a few other names in mind before landing on Sunflower. Basically these placeholder names, for me, are more than that. They help me shape out personalities based on what the association is. willows remind me of whimsical folktales, sunflowers remind me of standing barefoot on concrete just to soak in a bit of sunshine, honey reminds me of being a theatre kid and packing citrus tea & honey to rehearsals.

So picking Sunflower as the placeholder meant creating a readersona where she's just always, pretty much, walking on sunshine. Which can come with its own angst (i, briefly last summer, had a few sunflowers in my front yard from birds digging seeds into a planter box & never coming back for them)

And, I keep circling back to this in my head, but Daisy & Sunflower are Beaches (1988) coded (Daisy would be CC and Sunflower would be Hillary btw)

Honey

And lastly, Honey! So she's lowkey my big, bittersweet, love letter to when I did a whole bunch of plays and musicals in school & all of the core memories I've made from it.

And it did take me a hot minute to figure out what Honey's main thing was. Like I toyed with her being a musician, a groupie, a makeup artist/stylist before deciding on a stage actress.