pain's an old friend.

hey, i'm cleo :) sometimes I write, other times I fall off of the face of the planet until god knows when. | on Ao3 | masterlist |

[write-and-wander]

hello, friend :)

hey, I'm cleo; I stop by here & on Ao3 as write-and-wander.

I'm 25, and prefer she/her pronouns, but they/them is just fine too.

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In Progress: To Give Life to the Immortal - Loki x Female Reader

As Idunn, the Norse goddess of eternal youth, you've been tasked with providing all of the gods immortality; but one god has made your life, duty, and feelings complicated along the way. When fate begins to unravel, you find it is inevitably cruel to your Loki, as it has been to you; and you are left to navigate the tangled weaves of love and time as you decide how to move forward. Read on Tumblr | Read on Ao3

In Progress: Yawning Grave - Astarion x Female OC: Ayzora

It's another cold, lonely night in Neverwinter. The scrying wizard, Ayzora, hears a quiet plea for freedom from a certain pale elf, but her attempt to rescue him ends abruptly with her capture on a nautiloid. When they wake, the vampire rogue seizes the first chance at coercing a new victim to follow his in-progress plan. The desperate duo quickly unites as they both seek greater power despite the challenges imposed upon them by their respective masters- but they soon must balance dictated destiny with matters of the heart as they attempt to cheat the yawning grave once again. Read on Tumblr | Read on Ao3

Other Notes

this blog is anti-censorship. remember: don't like, don't read.

all of my works are completely AI-free. all of my writing and editing is mine and mine alone- flaws and all.

all of my works are beta-read by @indigo-symphonies; so much love & thanks & credit to them!

miscellaneous posts are queued up under "#queue sweet generous thing", so feel free to filter out that tag if you'd like.

Thanks for stopping by :)

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,001 days left

[falconsandrainbows]

In 1001 Nights, Scheherazade survived a cruel tyrant for 1001 nights by telling stories

Keep telling stories, everyone

[zuzartii]

Until next life

[stealingpotatoes]

coping mechanism <3

[lightwolf]

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

[lightwolf]

Protagonist now has more complex motivations.

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

[mmedemerteuil]

Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.

Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.

Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.

Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.

All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.

Now with more thematically-consistent swearing.

[kedreeva]

Back-to-back repeated words that resulted from sentence rearranging or start/stop editing have been cleared.

Paragraphs which contained two or more instances of the same adjective have had their adjectives updated to accurately reflect a player’s vocabulary inventory.

Minor time traveling issues have been resolved, all characters should now exist in the same tense.

Punctuation has been improved. Commas have been reduced by half.

Characters sighing has been reduced by 30%.

Characters looking at things or people during conversations has been reduced by 40%. To make up for this, characters thinking about the conversation has been boosted and descriptive narrative has been added.

Title has been applied.

[ironslung]

[beemovieerotica]

if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.

[scarebluetales]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[thelhc]

men come and go but x reader fic is forever

[kodicrome-212]

It’s an international holiday, where the fuck is my Evanescence Tshirt

[write-and-wander]

If I had a nickel for every fictional man I was Normal about who was called a butcher, I'd have two nickels

[osserine]

patron saints of one-way trips.

[watchpoob]

markiplier could give me an iron lung if you know what i mean

[watchpoob]

yuuup . he irons it. on anironing board.

[write-and-wander]

If Iron Lung taught me anything, it's that those characters actually aren't bloody enough. Make them bloodier. Make them bloodier than that. Make them even bloodier. Bloodier. Bloodier. Blood-

[rowanisawriter]

here this is for you *hands you a fic where i tore out a piece of myself still dripping blood and crammed it in between the lines and disguised it as a simple little story that i put on the internet for hundreds of strangers to see and maybe read and maybe think about*

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3