I Think Too Much And Never Write Enough

Its a greatttt cycle woo

[thedeadwritinggod]

I’m Sky, Echo or Midi!

She/they

I’m an adult, a supposed writer, an artist for the things I write in my pain but never irl- it’s a lot.

I write original work but even in fandom spaces I tend to make. So many OCs. I’m so sorry to all who know me

I reblog many a fandom post though, my dear friends and partner write more then I ever will. Please give them a read!

[kookntae4ever]

This is me. Kinda jealous of all the writers who can write quickly because I can't.

[thelivingmemegod]

HEY IT ME

[hauntedraggedyanne]

Creepy things to add to settings

Just to make things a bit more interesting

—Water stains from flooding

—Withered down machinery resulting from weather

—Torn fabric caught on spikes

—Attempting to find a hiding spot, only to turn around and find the skeleton of the last person who tried to hide there

—Expecting to see spiders and other bugs, only for them all to scurry away as a new presence enters the room

—Fog slithering in through holes in the walls or open windows

—Stepping on the dead, crunchy leaves of plants that started growing inside

—The characters knowing the floorboards will creak, so they try really hard to keep quiet as they travel. Make them all freeze when they hear something else coming at them and decide if they should stand still to keep from attracting any more attention or if they run for their lives

—The wallpaper and paintings on the wall torn off and scattered against the floor, leaving the walls barren and lifeless

it’s all about how you describe it! Find things that get under people’s skin (bugs, snakes, certain sounds, etc) and connect them to whatever you’re trying to make creepy

[ravencharm]

75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it

[thelivingmemegod]

Wayward Children moodboards cuz this was too long to be a reblog! And for the same reason, this isn’t everybody!

These are in introduction order cuz I felt like it. Some titles are made up, cuz I wanted to do titles and I don’t like inconsistency.

Nancy Whitman: The Living Statue

Eleanor West: The Waiting Women

Onishi Sumi: The Candy War Hero

Kade Bronson/West: The Goblin Prince in Waiting

Dr. Jack Wolcott: The Mad Scientists Apprentice

Jill Wolcott: The Master’s Daughter

Katherine Lundy: The Hero of the Goblin Market

Christopher Flores: The Prince of Skeletons to-be

Cora Miller: The Hero of The Trenches

[thelivingmemegod]

Ocs! Cuz damn!

Marigold [Redacted] Warner: The Uncrowned Iron Princess

Shadow Captain Celia Day “Turner”

Marie Rivera: Death’s Daughter

The Ring Twins:

Diamond eye Mizorei Choi

Fire Heart Emiko Choi

[nachtkissen]

the subreddit is using that pic as their header

[a-book-of-creatures]

:D

[tenderlovingmuse]

wishing you a safe return back to yourself

[blackbloodedisabel]

me ranting to myself about the parallels and relationships between my OCs (it's 1am)

[valtsv]

spend long enough being an OC Guy and you will eventually inevitably become a sincere recreation of the gregory berrycone 4chan bit

[valtsv]

this is what i sound like to other people

[orbees]

oc guy moodboard

[thelivingmemegod]

Wayward Children characters as the Major Arcana go

I don’t know shit about Tarot, this ask is a ploy to get to draw a tarot card series and therefore I referenced this video and this site

Long ass post ahead!

The Fool: Nancy

While it could be literally everyone by the nature of how Doors work, Nancy is the beginning. She’s the first POV character and who we initially learn everything through. Our darling fool who goes home first.

The High Priestess: Lundy

Intuition, trusting yourself and your inner voice to guide you. That’s how fair value operates right? It’s a trading of thoughts and ideas along with the object. The involved parties decide what the things they offer are worth and if those ideas match, they swap! It’s a gut feeling to be developed and sharpened into a skill, no?

The Emperor: Kade-

The boy has always been a leader of some kind. He was declared the Goblin Prince in-waiting. Given the situation, with the king dying as his feet, Kade was definitely supposed to become the king of the goblins. Probably barred by age. Then he was tossed out and became the heir to the school, the next headmaster. Then there’s EHAD where he leads half the damn investigation, and then BTSS, and then and then and then. Kade is always a leader, even when he’s not the one leading. The only time this really snaps is when Kade snaps during Come tumbling down.

The Hierophant: Antsy

Direct quote “speaking mentorship from someone who has more knowledge than they do.” But she’ll most likely be upside down, since she does seek that guidance in Vineta, it just goes horribly for her. She’s was a vulnerable child looking for safety and was lead to believe she’d found it, I’m so sorry Antsy.

The Lovers: Jack and Alexis

The Lovers is a contextual card. It can mean a relationship, but it can also mean obsession and passion. Jack is just as married to the windmill and the science as she will one day be to Alexis. She’s obsessed with her work, and by its nature, also obsessed with life and death. She is a monster molded so completely by the Moors. Alexis’ monster.

The Wheel of Fortune would be everyone by nature so I’ll skip it.

Justice: Regannnn hi girl!

Ironically, I think Regan would hate this. It’s all finding your true path, the inevitability of, all of that Destiny type stuff she doesn’t believe in. I do think her card would be right side up, though. Showing that inevitably can be positive and that maybe destiny isn’t as solid and predetermined as everyone, Reagan included, thinks it is.

The Hanged man: Sumi!

There is a delay, there is a reason for this delay. Does she know what that reason is? Nope, not at all. But she’ll accept it whole heartedly and wait. Unlike Regan just above her, she’ll let Destiny steer her back home. She knows she’s going back after all, why waist the present trying to uselessly run for the future? So she wholeheartedly enjoys her present while it’s here, she wants stories to tell Rini!

Death: Everyone.

The children who walk through those Doors are not the same ones that came out again. They are fundamentally changed. Perfection has come and kissed their cheek and then left them to flounder in the imperfection of their birth world. They may look a bit different, sound a bit different, hear or see different. But they all think differently, it’s one of the few commonalities all children of the doors share.

Patience: Christopher.

He waits. He is so impatiently patient. He won’t die unless it’s at the hands of his skeleton girl. He doesn’t give up going home, but he only gets one day of hope a year. The other 364 are just spent…waiting. Being present as he can be until he can finally go home. This I feel like, is part of why we actually read about him waiting during Mislaid in parts half known. It could’ve been skipped over entirely, but it wasn’t. We saw him waiting there. And he actively chose to wait more at the school instead of staying with Antsy and possibly finding his Door early. Christopher waits.

The Devil: Cora

Despite the Christian Devil imagery, the card is about temptation, distraction; it tells you not to waver from the path you’re on.

Cora literally takes off from her group to run for the sea of the Moors. The drowned gods know her name and the ache in her heart and they sing to her so sweetly that she had little choice but to fall to their temptation. To be taken by them was inevitable for her. The others had hooks the Drowned Gods could’ve dug into but they didn’t want them, plain as that. She’s distracted and she’s taken. I don’t think of the oil that stains her after as a punishment but something she must work through like she does.

The Tower: Jill. And it’s most definitely upside down.

It’s a card about chaos, a card about shaky foundations, a card about uncertainty. What is Jill if not a girl desperately pinning for security? To br reassured in her place and her value? She is the Master’s Daughter. Loved and cared for and given anything she could ever want in exchange for her obedience and her blood. She is the Master’s daughter. Given power and dominion and status above others by the simple fact that he chose her and she chose him. And oh what a precarious perch it is, near the top. Feared and hated by those below and tenuously, insecurely “loved” by the single person above.

The Star: Eleanor.

She is there to provide these children a place of safety, a place to freely believe and express their homes. She offers hope and inspiration and hopes to herself that it is enough. It is difficult, but hope is something with mud on its face and blood on its hands and it will get back up again. She is and will be there until she can’t be anymore, at which point, she will go home. A new star will be needed then, but then and now are very different times.

Judgement: …The Doors themselves.

Judgment is about being brought to your full life. The life you were meant for, your true calling for this lifetime.

What’s bringing all these children, current and former, past and present, to the lives they mostly feel they were meant for? The Doors and their magic. It’s also the judgement of The Doors that decides what child gets them and when, everyone is kind of at their mercy in a way.

Quick list of the skipped major arcana

The Magician: Self reliance/belief, the ability to overcome adversity

The Chariot: Determination, Drive, Victory

Strength: Courage, inner strength, assurance you can handle adversity.

The Hermit: Isolation, processing alone, finding answers within yourself (I have a suspicion this could work for Nadya but her book isn’t out yet at time of posting)

The Empress: Creativity, Growth, birthing a new idea

The Moon: Hidden thoughts, fears, or doubts

The Sun: Happiness, health, and success

The World: Completion, freedom, “the world is at your feet”

[thedeadwritinggod]

Due to what my friend group server has dubbed “My wayward children autism” I’ve done a lot.

I’ve made OCs, made worlds, started a book, designed my own world, l I’ve started on worlds for a few friends in the server.

My own personal world is one I share with one of my OCs and I like to think we’d be friends while in the door. We probably never would’ve met outside of it: state lines and life circumstances.

But inside of it, where we were free and we were chosen and music was magic, we’d have met once. I would’ve been a side character in her story, she made a lot of choices and did a lot of things I don’t think I would’ve if I also got a door.

But I’d get to be there and I’d get to be her friend, and after a lot of things happened and quite a bit of time happened, I’d mourn her for one reason or another and maybe I’d never see her again. Maybe.

In a universe of magic doors that don’t always care what you want, nobody is ever truly gone forever.

[thedeadwritinggod]

The Callout Posts aka. How Long Can Midi make one sentence challenge

[thedeadwritinggod]

My hindges recently broke off and I think they might be lost in the ocean so. That might mean more content here *shrug*

[thelivingmemegod]

Whatcha going mad over

Wayward Children againnnnn started working on that long as fanfic im writing again due to The Correct Musical Vibes

I’m contemplating re-listening to the whole series while I follow with the books

[thelavendercreatorswritingblog]

*Grabby hands* My Kade tailoring fic please, pay me my bribeeee

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fandom: Wayward Children Series - Seanan McGuire Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Onishi Sumi & Kade West Characters: Kade West, Onishi Sumi Additional Tags: Tailoring, Tailor Kade West, Fluff, Humor Summary: Kade is baffled by just how little effort Sumi can put into an apprenticeship she asked for.

[thedeadwritinggod]

Mmmm!

[thedeadwritinggod]

This bitch /pos is gonna give me problems writing romantic relationships at this rate Istg