Master Post
Just to have a pinned post. Will update later if I think of something to add, but to start off:
You call me Jack of Vampy, my pronouns are they/he, and I’m a young adult. I like fantasy, time travel shenanigans, and fucked up stuff that isn’t always morally right.
I’m always up for asks/tag games, even if it takes me days or weeks to answer. My main tags are #vampywriter #my writing #in english and #en français. My library is at @vampyslibrary :)
In August 2023, I’m participating to the challenges #30jourspourécrire and #writersmonth
I’ve a French directory for what I’ve written in French, and an English directory. I’ve got about 21 WIPs, but I mainly talk about, like, 5 of them?
At the moment I’m watching Dark (the Netflix series) and it’s soooo complex. I wish it existed in written form. A series of books. Because my brain is Struggling to follow, the people aren’t on screen long/often enough for me to remember who’s who by face, so not only is the story complex but I’ve got another level of difficulty to follow along TvT At least with books the names of the characters come back and I’ve got that solid.
But I’m not giving up because the mystery of the time travel keeps me interested.
Oh so ur a writer?? Prove it. Drop the last sentence of ur wip in the tags
Wah hi hello. It’s 2025 and I’m trying to write a sentence every day. It’s not a huge success yet, but I’m hoping to form a habit.
Two nights ago I dreamt about a cringe-fail man who transitioned into a woman and fell in love and found her happy ending, so today I started writing it. I welcome ideas for a first name for her love interest.
Last Line Tag
Thank you @eccaiia !
Soon enough, everyone had brought something to the table and they were seated, sharing the news of the day.
Coincidentally, this was also the last line of the fic hehe
Tagging: @writerfae @wildswrites @littlehaize @saintedseraph (can I tag you back eccaiia? I mean, if you’ve got a new last line since then… sounds fair enough that you could play again! ahah)
unusual associations tag
I was tagged by @oh-no-another-idea, thank you very much <3
Rules: pick an oc and answer their associations
At first, I thought it was the associations that the character would make, rather than what I associate the character with… xD
I’ll do this with David Miller from The Prophecy’s Children.
Seasoning: a mix of pepper spices. it suits his hot temper and I think he’d also be used to eating that way.
Weather: Thunderous, because David is in a very bad time of his life in this book, and he’s quick to anger.
Color: Dark blue.
Sky: to go with the weather, very cloudy.
Magical power: Something self-defense, pushing people away.
Plant: A cactus: he needs love, even if he doesn’t show it much, and he’s used to not getting enough - thinking to the cactus who needs water, even if we don’t think about it because they exist in deserts.
Weapon: My David has a wand, and that’s as much a tool as a weapon. I think the equivalent would be a knife? maybe a swiss-knife.
Social Media: Hm. Very good question. I don’t think I’ve got an answer to that one.
Makeup product: I definitely do not know enough about makeup oh no. Does chapstick work? Because he IS a protector too.
Candy: after some research, I’ll say Cuberdon. It’s crisp on the outside, soft inside, and fruity.
Fear: the fear of others being wrong about you. I suppose, in a way, it’s the Imposter Syndrom.
Method of long distance travel: walking
Art style: does wood sculpture count?
Mythological creature:
Piece of stationary: highlighters in so many colours. or sticky notes? hmmm
Celestial body: Jupiter. Because that planet’s got a lot of moons around. Not saying that David is the center of the world, but he’s the center of his life, and he’s got a lot of people gravitating around him.
Tagging: @eccaiia @writerfae @wildswrites @littlehaize @saintedseraph and anyone reading this who’d like to do it! I’ll tag you next time!
I’m out of work tasks and the work day isn’t over yet. Finally reaching my dream of indulging my hobbies while at work.
Planners, you have my unending respect and admiration
Give me a blank doc and I can write until the cows come home, but I have nearly scrapped my WIP multiple times purely because I tried to outline it. And you're out here with an outline for every plot and subplot and character arcs all mapped out and themes and tropes you want to visit and scenes all in order and you haven't even put a word on the page yet. I don't know how you do it. I am convinced it's witchcraft. Planners are wizards. That is all.
I am loving this planner positivity because I rarely see it
And to throw the love back - pantsers are also insane. You give them a blank doc and they power through it. No need to stop and outline, no need to check hundreds of pages of notes to see what to do next. That's also witchcraft!
Every writer has a different process and it's ALL magic
as a plantser, I also admire planners AND pantsers. Like, what do you mean you don’t need a bit of both???
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony
- Jill Thomas Doyle
So I thought this was commonly known internet navigation (but apparently it might just be those of us who have been using the internet since the 90's who still know it). Or so it seems based on... a grumpy comment I got.
When you see an arrow like this:
It means you click it to expand out a hidden section.
It's an accordion section/menu! It's useful in web design to hide information that may be overwhelming under specific headers so people can only see what they need.
Here I'm using it for people who need the content warnings to be able to check, but for those who don't need them and don't want to be spoiled to just move right past without accidentally reading anything.
It's still the user's responsibility to click the arrow and read things as they need! But it is all warned. (And, yes, the all encompassing issues are already a tag on the fic, I'm just providing additonal warnings per chapter.)
Ah, sorry yes! For those who want the html, it's the details and summary tags!
when charles schulz said "all you need is love. but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt" and anthony bourdain said "your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. enjoy the ride" and mark twain said "part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like." when erma bombeck said "i am not a glutton- i'm an explorer of food," voltaire said "ice-cream is exquisite. what a pity it isn't illegal" and when kurt vonnegut said "you can't just eat good food. you've got to talk about it too. and you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."