The Watermellon Cat

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[thewatermelloncat]

RPDR Masterlist

Please pay attention to WARNINGS attached to the stories.

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An Evening I Will Not Forget - Denali and Mik have noticed Rosé struggling for a while but they’ve been too afraid to doing anything until now.

Disorganised Closets: Jan, Denali, Rosé - Three teenagers trying to figure out how they fit into the world and their own identities.

I’m Fine… Just Give me a Minute - Inspired by one of the interviews where Tina says that she’d sometimes see Rosé get emotional back by herself.

Rain Check - Denali doesn’t think twice before FaceTiming Rosé after she has to pull out of doing their usual Monday livestream.

Split the Deck: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) - It seemed silly for their teacher to set them up as friends… support buddies or whatever they were supposed to be. Even sillier that it actually worked.

Driveways - Three times Rosé sits at the end of her driveway because she wants to be alone, but not really. A series of short stories inspired by Split the Deck (Chapter 3).

The Show Can’t Go On - With strict parents Rosé is subject to going to theatre rehearsal while sick. Denali thinks it’s a stupid idea and takes matters into her own hands.

Unhealthy Competitions - At an elite winter sports camp, the coaches are more competitive than the athletes. And for Denali, it all starts with the leaderboard.

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Lights Series: Complete

Dancing Lights - Rosé works at a bar and Denali catches her eye from the dance floor. The problem is Rosé doesn’t want to make the first move.

City Lights - After picking Rosé up from out in the rain, Denali takes Rosé out to the dock.

Dim Lights - Denali shows how much she cares for Rosé by looking after her.

Red Light - After a fight with Denali, Rosé questions whether she wants to be in a relationship at all.

Spotlights - Rosé messes up like she said she hoped she wouldn’t. Cue rain and a heartfelt discussion…

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Boarding School Au: Complete

CH 1 - Denali is a new student at a Boarding School for the Performing Arts. She can’t make it 10 minutes into her first class before a girl with pink hair catches her eye. Being told to stay away from her just makes her want her more.

Detention (Part 1), (Part 2) - Mik may just have been her self-proclaimed bad girl that week and got herself one of her three detentions. Little does she know that she might make a friend out of the illusive Rosé while stuck inside it.

CH 2 – Denali didn’t think it would be on Parent Day that she would figure out why Rosé seems so different from everyone else.

CH 3 - Rosé and Denali’s relationship starts to change after a rough morning.

CH 4 - Rosé’s day only gets worse and Denali makes sure to be there for her. And in her vulnerability Rosé admits more to Denali than she would to anyone else.

I’ll Fight Your Corner - Mik reluctantly finds herself pulled into the office after witnessing a fight with Rosé. Though she finds herself unreluctantly fighting in Rosé’s corner.

CH 5 - With rehearsals for the school production underway, family matters come into play. Maybe Denali says something that she shouldn’t.

CH 6 - Denali helps Rosé through her worries about sending show tickets away to her parents.

Hard Decisions - Rosé gets a little help in figuring out whether she wants to invite her parents to the school production.

CH 7 - With the production date looming closer, the friend group pulls together to get each other through rehearsals.

CH8 - On the first night of the school production, Rosé breaks a promise that she made herself. Her friends all help to piece her back together.

Epilogue - During the celebration after their final performance, Denali and Rosé figure out a little more of where they stand with each other.

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Tech AU:  Discontinued

Part 1 - Prompt: “Why are you being nice to me?”

Part 2 - Rosé continues to help Denali with her assignment hand in.

Part 3 - Denali fulfils her promise of taking Rosé out for coffee and they reflect on their history together.

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Safe House AU: In Progress

Safe House - After leaving the most boring party, Denali finds herself worried about a stranger.

Are We Friends Yet? - After Denali had invited Rosé over to spend the night at her house, she finds that she doesn’t want her to leave. Set directly after Safe House.

Cell Blocks - Everything was fine until it suddenly wasn’t. After a night of radio silence, Denali has to wait until Rosé is ready to explain why her life seems to be falling apart.

Concussion - They’d planned for Rosé to come over fun, maybe watch a movie and stay up late into the night. What they hadn’t expected was for Rosé to be in and out of sleep on the couch before dinner. 

(Don’t) Let Me Go - Rosé lets her guard slip and Denali finds out more than she meant for her to. In their confrontation, Denali discovers different side of Rosé that she never wanted to.

Black - Rosé isn’t the best at communicating what she needs, so Denali helps to put a system in place. If only they never needed to use it. A continuation of (Don’t) Let Me Go.

Coloured Tape - Though Denali can’t find all the right words to say, she tries to comfort Rosé in the best way she can. Set directly after Black.

Find Me and I’ll Fix You - Rosé has to leave home for the night and goes to the one place she knows she will be safe.

Getting Stuck - Based off the prompt: “Please don’t be crying. I don’t know what to do.”

Left Behind - Some mothers weren’t meant to have children, Rosé’s included. Though that doesn’t mean she doesn’t want her mother back when she leaves, not knowing whether she’ll return.

Letterman Jacket - Having been robbed of all her jackets in the middle of winter, Rosé finds help from one of the most unlikely people. Though that doesn’t mean it’s easy for her to accept it.

Non-Cherry Cough Drops - Sick and unable to stay home, Denali finds Rosé a better place to stay than in school.

Other Places - Denali doesn’t usually count herself as a possessive person, so when Rosé seeks help from another friend she’s not bothered by it. Though that doesn’t mean the realisation that Rosé has a life outside of her is easy to come to terms with.

Parent Interview - Parent-teacher interviews are supposed to be a family thing. Except when her family isn’t around, Rosé goes to them alone.

Speech - Public speaking isn’t something Rosé is worried about, with theatre she is well practiced at that. Still, she doesn’t want to deliver her speech for English class when the topic is on family relations, something she never wants to speak about.

Stay - Denali being around Rosé starts to cause a rift between her and her family. Based off the prompt: “I thought I’d find you here.”

Stay (rewrite) - Denali’s friendship with Rosé creates a rift between her and her family. If she hadn’t told Rosé about it, maybe a rift wouldn’t have been created between the two of them.

Swing Set - Mik knows something is up with Rosé just based on where she sits at the playground. When he finds out what it is, he takes her back to his place with him. To the original safe house. An extra snippet from Other Places

Sweatshirts - Summer days aren’t for wearing sweatshirts, and Rosé would prefer not having to wear one. Maybe she would have kept it on if she had known the snowball of consequences that would follow her after she took it off.

Thunder Crashes - As complex as Rosé is, none of her friends would have guessed that thunder is one of her greatest fears.

[seren-starlight]

Nobody really knows what makes a person go to bed

[ceruleanheaven]

once i get over it i will be over it

[dogpuppy]

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[thewatermelloncat]

Sorry, let me just change the menu for you real quick. And I’ll accept your cash as soon as I pull some out of thin air. No, no, I completely agree. I am breaking the law - me, personally - I am breaking the law.

[forgetful-nerd]

Spelling mistakes? I guarantee neither of us saw those at 3:00 AM Monday Morning.

[writingdose]

one of the best feelings tbh

[tokkibean]

reader: i love how (detail added on a whim) foreshadows (scene that isnt related) youre a GENIUS

me: yes. of course. i absolutely meant to do that.

[jccatstudios]

Crooked Kingdom: A Comic Adaptation

Part 5, Chapter 27 (excerpt)

Pages 1–5

Download the Comics

[tokkibean]

writing is so fun until you run out of pre-planned plot and you stand at the precipice and slowly realise that you never really had a plot in the first place

[19burstraat]

my six of crows fics: 2021-23

[garashir]

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

[lesbiansforboromir]

Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it

[twinksauron]

i believe the og gay rights boromir is this one from this post

but no number of gay rights boromir is enough gay rights boromir tbh

[bisexual-boromir]

I actually made that! I used it for my header but currently use this update one!:

Feel free to spam to group chats with it lmao

[hiveswap]

I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

[hiveswap]

I know i'm just a random person you follow online but I mean it. People (all kinds of marginalised people too!) Have survived all types of horrible times and managed to find happiness eventually. If for no one else, survive for them. And also, try to survive because the people making you despair don't want you to live. Don't give this to them. Don't give your life. The best thing you can do is cling to it with everything you've got.

[thewatermelloncat]

W.I.P Wednesday 

Slowly getting back into it. Been thinking about posting chapters as I finish them, but I’m scared that I won’t be able to go back and change things around if I don’t like them. 

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“What would you say your relationship with your family is like?” Tamisha asks.

“It varies. I mean no one gets along all the time” Rosé answers hesitantly.

“Let’s break it down then” Tamisha suggests. “What’s your relationship like with your mum? Do you do any special activities together? Any common interests?”

“We’re basically complete opposites” Rosé confesses. “But she’s a hairdresser, so she used to help me dye my hair before I figured out how to do it myself.”

“Do you change colours often?” Tamisha asks out of interest.

Rosé shakes her head, her fingers pulling at the ends of the pink strands. Then she smirks slightly. “Only the shade when I get the maths wrong.”

Tamisha smiles warmly before asking, “and what does your dad do for work? What’s your relationship with him?”

“Construction. I don’t see him much unless he’s between contracts. He starts early and I get home late when I have things on after school.”

Tamisha hums in acknowledgement. “You do have a lot of extracurriculars” she notes, sparing a glance back to Rosé’s file. “Do your parents support you in those?”

Rosé shakes her head. “It’s not like they don’t want me doing them, they just don’t come to performances and things” she quickly adds.

“Does that upset you in any way?” Tamisha asks.

“No. It’s just not their thing and that’s fine” Rosé answers. “I’ve got friends who come along instead.”

“Do you have any siblings?”

Rosé shakes her head.

Can you tell I was a mistake?

[thewatermelloncat]

i think the gossiping and rumor mill thing is fun !!! it’s really cool to me :) the only thing i would say sticks out to me is adding commas inside the quotation marks after dialogue that leads into a description. (e.g. “you’re not supposed to say it,” someone hushes, etc etc). but having it be from denali’s pov (as in, saying that it’s someone from her math class or having it be the order the people came out of the room) works to add that layer of distance like she’s overhearing something (which she is!!!)

(i was gonna leave this as a comment but for some reason it didn’t work </3 hope this helps !!)

So glad it's mostly working. Thank you for the feedback about the commas, I'll add them in.

Now I have to confess that I never learned punctuation in school and I've been winging it for years. I will be a repeat offender of errors 🙃

[thewatermelloncat]

W.I.P Wednesday

Here is the beginning of the Six Weeks and Stuffed Wombats rewrite. 

I’m also looking for advice, do we think that the dialogue between unnamed characters works well enough? It seems a little clunky to me, but I have no idea how else to format it. HELP ME 💚

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The room was supposed to be sound proofed, but Denali could still hear the yelling muffled through the door. For minutes on end, she waited out in the hallway of the music department, listening but unable to make out any of the words. At times there would be a gap, presumably when someone else got the chance to speak, but other than that the yelling continued. 

It was almost as much of a relief to her as to those inside when the surrounding goes quiet, and the doorhandle finally turns. An awkward laugh slips through the lips of the first choir member to exit as they share a look with another.

“Do you think she’s okay?” she asks under her breath.

“I don’t know” the second answers as they continue down the hallway out of earshot.

Other choir members file out behind them, their faces reading in mixes of sadness and shock. Some others wearing frowns of confusion.

“Did you see her flinch?” a girl in Denali’s math class says to her friend.

Her friend nods. “It was like she thought he was going to hit her.”

“Well, it would be like what her parents do” a third person adds in and is immediately shushed with frantic noises. “What? Everyone knows.” They shrink back, raising their hands in surrender.

“Yeah, but you’re not supposed to say it” someone else hushes as the group carries along.It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who they are talking about. Denali knows the rumours about Rosé, perhaps better than she does, and she knows that most of them are true.