kestal

I'm Kestal, and I'm over 18 years old. I'm a writer. Don't talk to me about my fics if you're younger than 18. Please respect that my content is not for you. I also post some thoughts/reviews of media I enjoy, as well as writing advice. These and my reblogs are typically suitable for all audiences, though fair warning, I do have some writing advice posts on more mature topics. I try to tag and provide warnings as best as I can.

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I am including links to my most popular writing advice posts below:

Sex and Violence in Writing

Writing Multidimensional Characters

everyone manifest stanman scenes in the new season

I told myself at the start of this year I wouldn't write or dwell on this topic too much anymore because at some point it's best not to make something like this a cornerstone of your identity. But the anniversaries are still definitely big and worth celebrating 🌷

🩵 Today marks 4 years addiction free 🩵

I’m watching Trigun Stampede so slowly because every single episode devastates me!! Like gosh, where’s the episode where Vash and Wolfwood just sneak off and make out 😭

I really am like some wild beast 🐻 Most of the time, if I am able, I seek and crave the comfortable peace of the isolated wilderness. I can survive in and sometimes even prefer solitude. But every so often, my intense and overwhelming desire for beautiful men drives me back 🙊 Later, I will return again to the trees 🌲

I always want to write for new fandoms, but then I start writing and think, "Oh, this would be cute for Stanman" and get stuck. But then if I try to go back to my Stanman stuff, I'm like, "Man, I should try something else. No one wants to read Stanman forever." It's a never-ending trap 🪤😵‍💫

Been watching anime romance movies 🍿A Silent Voice was so sweet, but I think I liked Your Name even better. Both definitely had their melodrama, and Your Name gets a little confusing with the time jumps (not really my favourite trope, but I do have fun with the body switching). Now I'm watching Weathering with You 🌧️☀️

With that being said, the nerd in me 🤓 wants to get back to my fandoms too.

I'd kind of forgotten about this account. It's been a while!

I got some time off work last month, and I heard there would be a winter storm in a certain location, so of course I had to go see it. I love the depths of nature where no other human is because I've always connected to landscapes and animals in ways I struggle to with people.

That was a magical, peaceful week. I had to walk carefully, and I counted numerous deer trails 🦌, though my favourite was the fox I spotted 🦊 I saw no bears, but I knew they were nearby 🐻 At some point, all the ice on the trees started to melt and drop these fantastic, overwhelming cold showers onto my head. Everything was transformed as soon as the temperature rose, revealing purple, blue, and yellow flowers under the surface of ice. Even hordes of insects began to emerge from the wet tree bark when they felt the warmth 🐜

This world is a gift.