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27 | She/her | No AI | Support me: https://ko-fi.com/cheerfulmel ✨Hi! I love reading/writing, video games, music, photography, and whatever random interests take over my free time. Sometimes I post.✨ All photos and writing are mine except for reposts.

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Thanks!

08.11.2025 20:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A tuxedo cat is laying on its side, its face partially obscured by the paw reaching for the camera. One green eye peers up at the lens.

A tuxedo cat is laying on its side, its face partially obscured by the paw reaching for the camera. One green eye peers up at the lens.

Oh yeah, it's #caturday. Have one silly kitty.
#cats

08.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The actual antagonist of the story isn't a physical person but more a concept/invisible force, buuuuut there IS Paradigm. They couldn't be called an evil tech company if they weren't about greed and control, and they fear losing what power they have.

08.11.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Illustration of a lamb silhouette. The lamb is purple with white mountains and trees within it's silhouette. The lamb has orange eyes with an orange crescent moon on it's forehead and a halo behind it's head.

Illustration of a lamb silhouette. The lamb is purple with white mountains and trees within it's silhouette. The lamb has orange eyes with an orange crescent moon on it's forehead and a halo behind it's head.

Adventurous

07.11.2025 23:48 — 👍 597    🔁 133    💬 0    📌 0
Fall colors on a yard full of trees

Fall colors on a yard full of trees

Visiting the fam in Sunnyside

08.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
An orange cat is lying on a soft gray mat and sleeping.

An orange cat is lying on a soft gray mat and sleeping.

IT'S SOUP SEASON

(Her name is Pea Soup)

#Caturday

08.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 33    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Well mission partially accomplished, I guess? It definitely starts to make a little sense with context, but honestly I'm looking at it again and questioning some of my choices haha

08.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✈️☯️👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾⏳👩🏾‍🔬👩🏾‍🎤👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏾💔⏳↪️⚠️😭🤰🏾🤱🏾✈️🔷↩️🌞☯️😱

#Novmemeber #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

08.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

😑💨🐉😱🧝🏿‍♂️❤️🧝🏼‍♀️⚔️💀🧙‍♂️⚡️💀🥵😱🙊
#novmemeber #romantasy

08.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

I'm terrible with emojis and really only use like… 4-5 on my own. But I tried to tell the trio's individual stories.
😟👨‍🔬😨😣🧠🫀🫁👨‍✈️🖐️💥💀🥸
🥊🏆😉💵🏷️😁🫨😰🤬🙍🏽‍♂️
😮‍💨🤔😲🫵 🙎🏼‍♂️😁🙎🏽‍♂️
Each row represents one character. Good luck deciphering it because it probably only makes sense in my head 😅

08.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#NoNoMo

Talitha would be front and centre trying to stop the heist but through a series of unfortunate and chaotic events would end up being front and centre of the job.

Despite her best efforts, trouble just seems to find her and she enjoys it.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers

06.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Rin would be in charge of security, hacking into or disabling systems, and also monitoring the situation. Seiji would be the distraction/getaway driver, and Flynn, with his military experience, would be best suited to the stealth side of things. He's more than capable of being the muscle as well.

07.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 3 MCs want to overcome their pasts and become better people. They all hate where they're at currently and want better lives. Change isn't easy but they're all very determined, and that possibility of something better is what pushed them all to act.

07.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hope. Despite their differences they all want something better for themselves and will do whatever it takes to get a good ending.

07.11.2025 19:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A red winged blackbird stands on a wooden rail, backed by reeds. It has dark feathers with burnt orange highlighting them, especially on the wings. It stares at the camera with its head slightly tilted.

A red winged blackbird stands on a wooden rail, backed by reeds. It has dark feathers with burnt orange highlighting them, especially on the wings. It stares at the camera with its head slightly tilted.

From a recent trip to a park before it got too cold. These lovely birds are always so abundant and very friendly. I believe this one is a female red winged blackbird, but don't quote me.

📷: Canon Rebel T5i
#photography #photographersonbluesky #birdphotography

07.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a cartoon of a coyote with binoculars and the words looney tunes on the bottom right Alt: Wile E Coyote standing on a ledge, searching the horizon with a large pair of binoculars.

And last but not least is Rin, who at the start of the story was looking for people to help with her pilot research. Literally just honing in on people she thinks would be good candidates and going "YOU!" Seiji and Flynn never stood a chance lol.

07.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a close up of a brown dog with a serious look on his face . Alt: A brown dog that's snarling, looking ready to attack.

Next up we have Seiji, also found by Rin and forced out of his bitter, lonely existence after losing his fighting career and holing up in a shack in the middle of nowhere to try and rebuild his mech and himself. This is basically his reaction to her arrival.

07.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting with Nathan/"Flynn" before Rin drags him out of hiding. She found him willingly isolated from society and said "nah".

07.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

"movement"

Erryn is about to take a tumble 🤸

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #Touched 2 more days!

07.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 40    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Oooh I love the way you described this thing! It sounds very terrifying, especially with the flurry of punches. I was expecting it to dodge or something, not hunker down and bullet punch the debris.

07.11.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Over half of the instances of the word "movement" I found were in reference to the Kumori. This thing's pretty fast, y'know?

From Mythos, Chapter 7. Series launches December 6th!

#mythosseries #oc #mythos #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting #WIPSnips #SSF #royalroad

07.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Oh boy this was tough because there were a lot that came to mind, but I'm settling on this. It just fits the vibe I want the story to have and was actually one of the songs that inspired me lol.
youtu.be/qfezuimoLZk

07.11.2025 03:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Man, designing book covers is hard. I've been messing around with a few different concepts for some of my wips but nothing's really resonating with me so far.

06.11.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#writer #horrorwriter

Good point: as tech changes, so will the meanings of metaphors based on it!

06.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Ahhhh I'm so excited! Congrats!!!

05.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Oh… oh NO… I just came here from the green flags post and uh… you definitely weren't kidding about him being a good shot 😬

05.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#WIPSnips | trail

Lennie encountering a less-than-ideal scene after searching for meds for her friend.

(Context: Micah's pretty good at tracking.)

From my post-apocalyptic #WIP w/ a misfit trio of kids.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amwriting

05.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 44    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 0

Idk why but them being good swimmers is so funny to me, I love it! And only eating half the people is so thoughtful of them 😂

05.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With my shipwrecked familiars, the monsters that hunt them are good swimmers, and they are restrained enough to only eat half the people they catch and keep the other half to sacrifice as an offering to their leader.

For Felcrown, the antagonist really commits to his plan.

#Novmemeber

05.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

#Novmemeber 5

The main antagonistic forces in #Touched are the expectation of perfection along with outdated traditions. Proponents would be most nobles, who benefit.

The most antagonistic guy we meet has had a rough go of life; he's ambitious and is /trying/ to outwit his circumstances.

05.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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