We Always Talk About How Lovesick Verlaine Is, But What About Rimbaud

Look, kid [takes a dramatic drag from a cigarette], you're either a bad motherfucker [puts sunglasses on] or a sad motherfucker.

[starts doing the worm]

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

the froshies get so close they start to unlock sebek's lore

Year of the snake character design 🐍✨

Brief rundown of the Double-Yuu thing bc it's not that complicated and I don't feel like giving it its own post: There's two Yuus. That's basically the major thing. Ramshackle duo becomes Ramshackle trio.

You've got Yuu, whose description I leave mostly as a blank slate, though they've got their own character. They take on whatever the MC does in the actual game, trying to get home and handling overblots.

And then there's T, who is technically a Yuu as he follows the same pattern of "stranger from another world ends up at NRC" but in his words "I'm not Yuu, we just fill the same ecological niche" which he then refuses to elaborate on. Talents include being strange and unsettling but very friendly and getting into places that He Should Not Be.

Also while writing I realized I accidentally made Aster parallel Malleus. I didn't mean to do that. Now I actually have to DO something about it.

If I'm not gonna work on my assignments I might as well commit to working on the creative thing. Tumblr I'm relying on you to hold me to keep working until I have a full fic and not give up halfway through.

Basic concept: Fake TWST event ft. new made-up school cause I wanna do SOMETHING with it.

Event plot line goes as follows: Despite the first Promising Young Mage Social ending in disaster, the schools agree to attempt holding it one more time. This time, the hosting school will be Twining Fates Academy, due to the school having a reputation for its extremely safe, controlled campus. Crowley ends up raffling another 10 students, but that number goes up to 14 due to the inclusion of Ramshackle dorm + Twining Fates specifically noting that groups of visitors should come in even numbers.

Note that this would take place in what I am referring to as my "Double-Yuu" AU... hence why the inclusion of Ramshackle brings the count to 14.

Explaining more later

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

boop

TWST OC FACTS - Aster and Adie

Profiles for both of them are here, for anyone who's interested in who these two are

Both of them go to Twining Fates Academy (a school I entirely made), and they're in their third year

They've been the student librarians since their first years, which is... distinctly unusual, as most student librarians are second or third years when they take the role

It's an open secret among the library assistants and frequent visitors that Aster straight up refused to take the role unless Adie was the other student librarian

As a result, there are some questions as to whether he's actually worthy of the role, especially since he seems like the type who would never speak a word to another living person again if given the opportunity

There's also some people who think Aster shouldn't be a librarian, but nobody's willing to challenge him

Aster has a ridiculously large magic pool for a human. He's not godlike, but he's still leagues beyond other humans

Despite this, he seldom casts magic outside of classes, even in situations where he'd be perfectly allowed to

He's also extremely cautious about blot accumulation, to the point where many people see it instead as paranoia

Adie has a tendency to stare into space, and has scared the hell out of several of his classmates by staring at the area where they happen to be located in

He also scares the hell out of people by appearing on the scene of trouble very quickly after it starts, as if he's got eyes all over the school

Adie is fae, and was born in Briar Valley. He has wings that he hides using a glamour charm in his cloak pin. Partially so that he doesn't stand out, partially because they're rather large and unwieldy in narrow hallways. He just hides his ears with his hair

He hasn't mastered the spell to glamour them himself, so, cloak pin

The two of them have exchanged friendship bracelets on the Day of Fateweaving every year since arriving at the school

"With no power comes all of my great and overwhelming responsibilities!" - Dire Crowley probably