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theomisu

Heya! Chapter 1 is not available to play on itch.io

Play Calamity Control here

What this contains:

Get a first look at the world after the Calamity Event.

Align with the humans or Supernaturals.

Or neither.

Become Commander.

Get a first look at the crew.

Name your ship.

I’m still experimenting a bit with all the features on Twine, so please feel free to let me know what you like, what you don’t like or what you would like to see. The stats page will be revamped in the next update (as soon as I figure out how to make the progress bars work :D)

Please send me errors if you find any!

Hope you enjoy! ∞♡

#calamity control #calamitycontrol #calamitycontrolif #twine #twine wip #twine game #update #interactive fiction #wip

kitty and the jailbird

#️⃣2️⃣

#lovelink #damien jones #kitty and the jailbird #austin russo #counterpart

kitty and the jailbird

#️⃣1️⃣

So I’m bored in quarantine and started playing Lovelink, who knew my favorite character would be the convict :))

I’m now writing small snippets with Damien Jones, for my own amusement. Also moodboards... I am BORED!

#lovelink #damien jones #kitty and the jailbird #austin russo #counterpart

lemon-trap

Nicky Valentino’s ultimate Master List!

Due to it being very fricking hard to find Nicky fanfic, I have decided that it would be easier if all of his fanfics were put into one master list!

Please enjoy what many people have worked on and please like, reblog, and maybe comment on your favorite fics!

🦝 @lemon-trap 🦝 (aka: me!)

Saved by a Kiss (gender not explicit for reader)

This is a short fluffy fanfic that has no other reason for existing except making your heart go soft.

SMUT Plot Twist Nicky Valentino is a Bottom (female pronouns)

The title says it all. If you want just straight porn with Nicky as a subby bottom then this is the fanfic for you!

☀︎ @bursvalentino ☀︎ (the oh so lovely)

Two Against the World | Nicky Valentino x Sabrina Belladonna (ongoing, female pronouns) - prologue , chapter one , chapter two ,

Charming Nicky Valentino and the alluring Sabrina Belladonna are two sides of the same coin with one thing in common: escapism. But, our stars seem to be entangled in their game of cat and mouse. Will they ever possibly make it out alive after their truth unfolds?

☾ @nickyyvalentino ☾ (the ultimate queen to go to for spicy Nicky things *chef kiss*)

Surrealtà | Nicky Valentino x Heaven (Assassin!OC, ongoing, female pronouns) - prologue ,

Cheers to the mess (female MC) - part one ,

Strip Poker (female MC) - part one , part two SMUT

Bella mia SMUT (female MC)

Sweet nothings fluff

💖 @valentino-red 💖

Sinnerman | Nicky Valentino x Soledad Diaz (ongoing, female pronouns) - prologue , chapter one , chapter two ,

Nicky Valentino has seen a lot of women waltz into his speakeasy, but when a certain Soledad Diaz comes in from the future trying to escape her past, hearts are exchanged and the mafia boss starts to reevaluate what really matters to him.

🌻 @raggedy-dxctor 🌻 (there’s a lot here)

Gumusservi

Wonderland Upon a Hill

The World Was So Dull Without You

Alone

Hug

I’ll always choose you

Nicky Valentino With a Short S/o

Nicky and Miguel With An Easily Flustered S/o

Nicky Valentino with an s/o that has a tattoo

Ice Skating with Nicky Valentino Headcannons

Nicky Valentino with an S/o that has a amazing singing voice

Nicky Valentino + Fluff Alphabet

Nicky’s s/o comforting him after a nightmare

Nicky meeting is s/o’s supportive parents

Nicky’s s/o teaching how to use a phone

Nicky with a High School Crush

💗 @missusvalentino 💗 (their stuff needs more attention)

I just can’t get a enough of you (no specific gender)

Just a short fic that involves the MC adoring and appreciating Nicky. Lots of fluff.

I’m sorry. (female pronouns)

Nicky and MC have an arguement when she tells him she wants to be part of the Valentino family.

☼ @miguellbravoo ☼

I love you too, Toots (female reader)

When Nicky came home with a hand over Ralph’s shoulder, you gotta know what happened. Ralph also seemed pissed off. Extremely. As you bandaged up Nicky, you gotta go on a wild goose chance before he can get what he wants.

“HEY HEY HEY!” (gender not specific)

As both of you and Nicky were in at different ends of the house, you started yelling at one another about the news that came up. It’s gotta be good.

We are going to be together through all of this (gender not specific)

You’ve been feeling like shit all week. When you started being a part of the Valentino family, you didn’t know how much work you had to do and how much it would take a toll on your whole being. You have no clue what to do next. Let’s be honest with ourselves.

💛 @velvetl1ght 💛

Nicky + OWNING a dog headcannons

Nicky headcannos because I’m in Love

Good Intentions | Nicky x Josie (ongoing, female pronouns) - chapter one ,

🦦 @millennial-pinks 🦦 (my personal favorite)

Cooking time! (male MC) After a night out, Nicky and Shiloh enjoy some time in the kitchen.

Crisis of Confidence (male MC) Shiloh feels a little bummed out. He’s just some guy and Nicky’s... Nicky.

I got it bad but it’s all good (male MC) Shiloh and Nicky share a dance and some tender words.

Alone together SMUT (male MC) Shiloh and Nicky have their first physical encounter.

Like Someone in Love SMUT (male MC) A bath leads to a very sexual night.

☆ @themissingstar ☆

Nicky helps MC feel better after a depressive episode

Taking care of Nicky after he gets banged up

Soulmate AU were you wake up in your soulmate’s bed

Modern AU Nicky before he makes his money

💫 @mac-the-oregonian 💫

dépaysement | Nicky x Reader (ongoing) - chapter one ,

dépaysement (noun) ~ when someone is taken out of their own familiar world into a new one

You hadn’t imagined traveling to a speakeasy during the Roaring Twenties when you walked through the doors of Murrray’s Movies for its annual all-night movie marathon. Much less meeting a cunning gangster with a million-dollar smile and the bank account to match.

But now you’re back in your own world and it seems your silver screen Romeo has followed you through the eras just to be with you. How will this 1920s gangster adjust to your 2020s lifestyle?

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I really doubt that this is all so if you have made fanfiction of Nicky Valentino then please privately message me.

Please reblog this so more people find use in it!

Last updated: May 28, 2020

#nicky valentino #fictif #fictif two against the world #two against the world nicky #two against the world #fictif nicky valentino #nicky valentino x reader

beminenickyvalentine-o

First time animating, but since we’re all missing Nicky right now, here’s a lil’ animated gif I made for you guys of the moment when he first sees you walk back into the speakeasy after choosing his movie 🤗❤️ Enjoy!

#fictif nicky #nicky valentino #fictif #two against the world #nyx hydra

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justawritingaid

I have countless ideas in my head that I want to write but I have such a hard time because they play out as movies in my head, like with the right angles, music and such. How can I over come this and be able to put these visual ideas from my head into words on a word doc? (Sorry if that isn't the correct grammar, I'm not a native English speaker)

**Note: This question has an answer on the blog, but due to it being in the “General” tag with no indication of its presence and broken up into many posts, I’m not counting it as a repeat and the answer will be copying some info from the older asks.

First you need to come to terms with that fact that imagining a scene with perfect angles and music is not something that directly translates to writing. The mind loves to make stuff up but it doesn’t mimic writing– it mimics something more like a movie and what works in movies doesn’t always work with the written word. Imagination can put a haze of glory over ideas/scenes and it creates the same issues that trying to too heavily use movie or song inspiration does (link embedded). It’s not that you can’t use those things or can’t be inspired by them– just remember that they’re pieces of media that don’t fully line up with the written word and they should not be considered to have equal transfer of ideas.

Nobody ever truly gets the exact everything that a vividly imagined scene has on paper. General ideas, definitely, and many of the specific ones can work too, but there’s a big difference between a writer using the “movie” in their head as a draft to and a writer trying to mimic exactly what they imagine. (Some writers who have the head-to-paper translation skill may say things like “I see a movie and I write it”, but that’s only because their “head movies” have over time become tailored to work with the written word.)

Imagination is a good tool, but it doesn’t write anything for you. You shouldn’t write to directly mimic what’s in your mind– you should write to create a story on paper. Here are some ways to get better at doing that:

Start writing down ideas and concepts.

It doesn’t matter if they aren’t complete or perfectly logical. By getting your hand to the paper (or fingers to the keys) you’re taking the first step in bridging a story from your head to the written medium. Usually a physical journal works well because it’s portable and doesn’t need a computer to access, but these days most of us have phones that can be used in place. Some people use both: phone for quick ideas that they take home and “sketch out” in the journal with idea webs or other graphics.

And this can be more than just ideas, include pieces of dialogue, a cool line you thought of, a specific visual that you want to get out of your head to save for later. You can use the idea journal for anything writing related.

Read, read, read a lot.

By reading regularly you exercise the part of your mind that creates scenes from the words on paper specifically in the way that the written media allows for. Reading provides examples of grammar, concepts, plot structure— everything about writing you can arguably learn by reading a variety of books from a variety of authors in a variety of genres. For more reading, I recommend traditionally published fiction because it goes through an editor. Traditionally published fiction isn’t necessarily better than other forms of writing, but anyone looking to improve (especially non-native speakers of a language they want to write in) should use examples that they can genuinely trust to teach.

You can only critique at a similar level that you can write, so while you can certainly read fanfiction or self-published stuff, keep in mind that you may not be able to pick out the issues that tend to be more rampant than in traditionally published fiction and you don’t want to end up copying them without realizing it.

Recognize that every media choice has strengths and weaknesses that make certain story choices better or worse in execution.

Media is interesting. Many creative people turn to writing because they have a story to tell and it’s more accessible as a craft than movie-making, yet majority of what we consume in daily life is closer to movie media. This can create a disconnect as we tend to imagine things like movies but we can’t write that way or it’s not nearly as engaging or successful.

Some common things that movies use that don’t work as well (or at all) in writing are:

Violence as a spectacle – In movie fight scenes, you’re not actually enjoying the violence, you’re enjoying the art of choreography and music with what’s usually little reality to how a fight would actually unfold. The fights don’t need meaning to be entertaining. In writing, you have no music, you have no fancy actors, all you have are words. Violence in writing requires much more reason and tension to be entertaining than in visual media and it doesn’t have the ease of spectacle to just throw it in to make things “interesting”.

Specific sound and music – Movies thrive on music. The right soundtrack can make anything epic, sad, funny, scary; it’s a unique and effective way to enhance a mood that writing completely lacks. There’s nothing wrong with imagining scenes to a song or with ambient sounds, but you cannot replicate that exact everything that sound gives to a scene in writing.

Exact pictures – The audience can see visual media without the camera having to draw attention to things. Fancy outfits can be shown off without being overwhelming, backgrounds can stand out, the protagonist doesn’t have to draw attention to anything for the audience to see it. In writing, trying to write like you need the reader to see 100% of the detail is ridiculous and would never leave any room for a story. The goal of description is to give the reader an impression or concrete idea, not to note literally every detail.

All that said, the written word has access to an entire plane of thinking that movies don’t:

The wonders of language control and word choice – I have an entire tag dedicated to this for a reason. You may not be able to give readers a 100% clear picture, but you know what you can give: a word with a clear meaning. Now that may not sound amazing, but think of it this way: In a movie, a character can look away in disgust at something they don’t like. The audience can read the disgust on the character’s face, but they can’t really read that character like they could in a novel. In writing, you can give an exact word for a feeling. You can describe it beyond a facial expression using connotation to shift definitions, connect ideas more easily, allow the character to think instead of just physically react.

Narration and point of view – Yes, movies can have narration, but not nearly at the level that writing allows for (and movie narration more easily comes off as cheesy or an exposition dump). Point of view, in particular, thrives in the written narrative that guides the reader through a story in place of the character. In writing, you have access to the inside of a character. You have their thoughts as opposed to just their actions, all five senses, inner workings; there’s a direct line from the narrator to the reader that visual media cannot perfectly replicate.

Literary techniques – No, they aren’t just for school. Lit techniques can be applicable to visual media but their strength of use comes from writing and what they can bring to a story.

A narrator tells the story to the reader: Learn to narrate.

Part of the barrier between imagination and paper is what I keep mentioning: the imagination does not mimic writing a story, which can be intimidating to those not used to it.

You may imagine an entire scene with a backdrop, creative angles, slow motion, etc., but if you’re using 3rd limited or 1st person narration, then that entire scene doesn’t matter. The writing should mimic what the narrating character experiences and what matters to the plot, not the entire scene you may see in your head. If you use an omniscient narrator, then you’re getting closer to the “movie” visualization, but that narrator still has a focus and the focus isn’t describing every single detail of the scene. You also can’t re-create the exact effect of music in a book, so that’s a pretty big issue for a lot of writers who rely too heavily on sound for inspiration or scene enhancement.

It doesn’t matter that the writing doesn’t focus on everything you see in your head because that would make the entire story full of unnecessary detail. Detail and Description in Writing: The Law of Conservation of Detail (link embedded) mentions “if you give the average reader 200 things to notice in a scene, they are going to get stressed and everything will blur together to the point of where you may as well have said nothing at all”. Good scene writing is not about getting all the details from your imagination onto the paper, it’s about tailoring ideas to work on paper.

Try some writing exercises and practice without consequences.

I’m working on getting out some more concrete ones in my tag, but you’d probably need to just let go of that anxiety and try something. It’ll probably suck, for a while too, but if you don’t let yourself be bad then you’ll never get better. Just write. Find prompts, try stream of consciousness, rewrite famous scenes with your own twist, there are many, many ideas for writing out there and any one of them is a good place to start.

The thing is, at the core of your question you’re just asking me how to write a story in general– it’s just shrouded by that disconnect of the mind and paper. There are a lot of resources on this blog that help with actual writing as opposed to just concepts or ideas, so I suggest you spend some time really looking around.

Don’t overthink it. Don’t imagine so hard that you get it “perfect” and then get disappointed when the writing can’t 100% convey it. It’s often much better work the specifics of a story out while writing rather than trying to force such a rigid idea from the mind. Imagination and the reality of writing never perfectly align, and that’s okay. The more you write, the better you’ll get!

(Oh and seriously– READ BOOKS. That point got overshadowed but it’s arguably the most important bit of advice specific to your question. It teaches you through example!)

Good luck with everything!

Thinking of asking a question? Please read the Rules and Considerations to make sure I’m the right resource, and check the Tag List to see if your question has already been asked. Also taking donations via Venmo Username: JustAWritingAid

carawenfiction

TSS Submitted to Hosted Games

I’ve submitted TSS to Hosted Games. Currently, the submission form is being reworked so the site is asking people to e-mail their games, which I did recently. I hope, with the help of my beta testers, I’ve been able to catch all the errors etc. If not, I’m hoping I can still correct it in an update ;; but now we’ll just have to wait and see. Thanks for being patient and for your support ❤️

When I’ve gotten word back from HG, I’ll let you know what the state of the game is!

thirstofgames

Soon 👀

Aaaany moment now 💕

literally no one:

me: So here's another moodboard 👀 Ortega x oc Eleni, cause I'm a hopeless romantic and secretly live for the angst 💕

#fallen hero rebirth #fallen hero: rebirth #fh:r #moodboard #ortega #sidestep #f!sidestep #villain #hosted games #interactive fiction #aesthetic #fallen hero retribution

superkawaiimothman

How did they find out?

thirstofgames

😂 😂

seraphinitegames

So, N would get jealous about sentimental stuff? So, if they found in the MC's stuff a letter, dated six years ago, and in that letter the MC wrote to someone with the most wonderful words, calling them their other half, their soulmate,saying that even if they break up the MC will always love them, would N get at least a little bit jealous? And how would they react when the detective explained that it was something innocent, like a writing prompt for a creative writing class or something?

They’d be unlikely to get jealous as it was something in the MC’s past. They’d probably have more interest in finding out about it.

I suppose if it was to someone like Bobby, and Bobby was still hanging around after N found that, then they might get more antsy.

But as long as the MC assured them there are no feelings there anymore, then N would be fine. Relationships are all about trust, after all, and N is very trusting :D

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

thirstofgames

This boy gonna be the death of me, I swear 💕

#the wayhaven chronicles #interactive fiction #asks #nate #jealousy #nat

seraphinitegames

How would the RI react to an incubus trying to seduce the MC? Or any sort of sex demon?

A would be more concerned for the MC’s safety than anything else! An incubus trying to seduce anyone is not a good thing!

N wouldn’t be too pleased, lol. But if the MC wasn’t in immediate danger, then they wouldn’t interfere incase it worsened the situtation.

I think F would think it was hilarious, just because they know that an incubus’ powers wouldn’t work on the MC. So they would have a good chuckle when the incubus finally realised that, hehe :D

M…would react poorly. And I’d feel very sorry for the incubus, lol.

In the world of Wayhaven, incubi and succubi are kind of a relative of the vampire. But instead of blood (which they can ingest but it doesn’t really power them up) they gain their powers through sexual climax of their partner. It recharges their abilities. But it has to be willing.

Their ability to charm or seduce is actually only about as powerful as a vampire’s, where they are more physically attractive and stronger pheromones to draw a person in.

But their other abilities can only be used on being recharged—strength, speed, pheromones, etc.

Little bit of Wayhaven lore for you guys, hehe!

Thank you so much for the ask! :)