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MEET PHOENIX AYALA

Phoenix Ayala had been through a lot. They never liked to actually admit it, especially since, in their mind, it wasn’t half as much as a lot of other people had, but it was an objective truth. After being diagnosed with both social and general anxiety at a young age, having a terrible fallout with their mother after they’d come out as non-binary in their early twenties, and going through relationships with what they called their Unholy Trifecta of Exes - The Serial Cheater, the Emotional Abuser, and the Non-Binary Denier - they’d wound up where they were now, with a million little nervous ticks, not a friend to speak of (not that they’d ever really had those anyway), and self-esteem that could have touched the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Their only comfort was in clothing design and their work as a tailor; spending hours at their sewing machine, quietly singing along to whatever music they had on in the background and making scraps of fabric into beautiful designs, was one of the only things that ever truly made their constantly-worrying mind go quiet. So they very much enjoy their job at a small tailor shop, spending most of their time in the back room working on designs and trying to avoid actually interacting with the customers - until they do a fitting for an energetic, bespectacled man named Eli, who offers them a side gig designing costumes for the music videos his acapella group makes.

After taking the job and meeting Eli’s other friends, a singing group who calls themselves VoicePlay, Pheonix suddenly finds themselves with a whole group of friends, people who actually want to be around them and spend time with them, people who seem to like them just as anxious and awkward as they are. But after everything that’s happened to them, they’ve been left incredibly wary of fully letting people in and bothering them with who they really are, no matter how nice the guys are being to them.

Phoenix genuinely doesn’t believe they deserve friends, or to be cared about - and with all the ways they’ve been hurt before, that isn’t exactly a surprise. But there’s no one better for bringing harmony into their life than a group of singers, and if these guys have anything to say about it, Phoenix is going to realize just how loved they are… and possibly even find some non-platonic love with a certain bass singer as well.

(Not that Geoff would ever make a move on Phoenix himself - he doesn’t want to make them uncomfortable at all. But as it turns out, Eli Jacobsen and Layne Stein are a matchmaking duo not to be messed with, especially when it comes to what Eli calls “a pair of pining idiots”.)

Tagging @auxiliarydetective, @lovings4turn, @hiya-itsamber, and @acaplaya-musings!

#intro posts #phoenix ♡ #all the right notes ♡ #rpf oc #voiceplay oc

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Thank you so much for this!! (Aaand I’ll also tag @auxiliarydetective and @bismuthbookshelf, because.)

When they were able to peel their eyes open again, they were still met with blackness, and a jolt of fear that their vision was somehow permanently messed up shot through them. Thankfully, they realized only a few seconds later that that wasn’t the case, as full awareness slowly returned to them and they discovered that they were lying on their back in cool dirt, looking up at a dark sky full of clouds wisping in front of an obscured glowing patch that must have been the moon. Groaning softly, Phoenix pulled themself up to a sitting position. It was good that their sight seemed to be okay, of course, but a bevy of other worries were already crowding for space in their head, making their stomach clench and twist with sharp anxiety. How had they gotten outside? Where exactly were they?

send me 🌹 and i’ll share the same number of sentences from my wip!!

#snippets ♡ #phoenix ♡

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for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

#send me some of these! #prompts ♡

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DANNY RAMIREZ as GABE in LOOK BOTH WAYS | Dir. Wanuri Kahiu

#character faces ♡ #phoenix ♡

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RANDOM PHOENIX SNIPPETS — PART 1/?

Here we observe a smitten bass singer being (rightly) teased by his best friend for observing the object of his affections - but what is he supposed to do when they look so lovely all focused on their sewing?

Tagging @auxiliarydetective and soft-tagging @acaplaya-musings, on the off chance she’s interested! ♡

#snippets ♡ #phoenix ♡ #phoenix/geoff ♡

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A moodboard for my OC Phoenix Ayala in my beloved bestie @auxiliarydetective’s genius AU!! If you couldn’t tell, Phoenix is meant to be a ragdoll in the style of Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas - I’m so excited for them to be in this amazing AU, and I know Evie is going to do amazing with it!! ♡

#edits #moodboards #phoenix ♡ #oc aus #non-human au ♡

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“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

#oh yes please! #reblogs ♡

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MEET THE 119TH CLONE SQUADRON

The 119th Attack Squadron is perhaps the most chaotic, ragtag bunch of soldiers fighting in the Clone War. Made up of eight fresh-out-of-training shinies who were all desperate to prove themselves in their own ways, a corporal with a slightly maniacal laugh and a penchant for violence, and a battle-hardened sergeant and medic who were betrayed by the Jedi general they used to serve under, this mixed group of clone troopers was destined from the beginning to be a challenge for any Jedi assigned to lead them.

Apollo Eupheria was fairly certain he was not cut out to be that Jedi. For the Force’s sake, he was only a Knight, not a Master, and he’d been working in the Temple Library when the Council had suddenly decided to “grant” him command of a unit. Admittedly he had gotten some training from Master Kenobi on battle techniques and how to properly lead a clone unit, so it wasn’t like the Council was throwing him in blind, but he was far from stupid. He knew the main reason they were doing this was because of his old Master, because they felt bad about how horrifically she’d died and how grief-stricken he had clearly been about it. Sure, he did have some pretty significant skill in the Force (not nearly on Anakin Skywalker’s level, but he was good), but that didn’t change the fact that the Council’s main motivation had been pity, and he hated that.

Still, no matter what the Jedi Council was thinking when they decided to give Apollo command of the 119th, he is now responsible for all of them: Corporal Ripper, with his terrifying fighting style and only slightly less terrifying laugh; Makeshift, who delights in pulling pranks that make his brothers furious; Verbal, who lives up to his name with his quick wit and endless ramblings; Pyxis, the new squadron’s long-suffering medic who can never decide if he loves his brothers or wants to kill them out of exasperation; Seeker, the squadron’s sniper with a keen eye for targets and whoever won’t punch him in the face for flirting; Nim, the freshest one of the bunch off Kamino, who would much rather be painting than going to battle; the self-named “twins,” Sunbeam and Raindrop, who live up to their names fairly well; Whisper, the mostly-silent one who has been through a mysterious trauma none but he and Pyxis know about; Slim, the always-hearty, ever-loyal solider and brother who is always ready with a loud tavern ballad; and, most confusing of all, Sergeant Shadow, Apollo’s second-in-command, who refuses to trust another Jedi after his and Pyxis’s former general betrayed the Republic and nearly killed them, but whose amber eyes make Apollo unable to look away any time he looks into them.

And so there is the 119th Squadron - a group of absolute disasters, bonded together by duty, brotherhood, and the horrors of galactic warfare. Apollo is still completely unsure how he is ever supposed to properly lead these men, but as the Clone War rages and more and more danger comes to light on both sides of it, he will ultimately learn quickly how to keep his batch of courageous idiots alive, form a sort of odd little family with these men he would trust with his life… and possibly fall in love with his amber-eyed sergeant in the process.

Tagging @loverswillowed!!

#thinking about them today <3

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JOLLY HOLIDAY EXCHANGE

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#MY BELOVED BABE WHO IS LOVED BY MANY MURDERERS #THANK YOU SO MUCH!! #made for me ♡ #fern ♡

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JOLLY HOLIDAY EXCHANGE

Fern Alvarez Character Profile for @starlight-blackbird

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#THIS IS SO AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH!! #made for me ♡ #fern ♡

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MY CHOICES MAIN CHARACTERS — Eowyn of Riverbend

BOOK(S): Blades of Light and Shadow series.

LOVE INTEREST: Tyril Starfury.

PRONOUNS: She/her.

FACECLAIM: Sujaya Dasgupta.

Leo → ENTJ → Type Three → Bisexual

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY MCS IF YOU WANT!!

(Tagging @choicesbookclub!)

#intro posts #eowyn ♡ #choices mc #blades of light and shadow mc #bolas mc #tyril starfury x mc #playchoices mc #bolas #blades of light and shadow #choices bolas #choices blades of light and shadow #choices fandom #choices book club

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MY CHOICES MAIN CHARACTERS — August Hale

BOOK(S): Immortal Desires.

LOVE INTEREST: Male! Cas Harlow.

PRONOUNS: They/them.

FACECLAIM: Rowan Blanchard.

Libra → INTJ → Type Six → Non-binary, pansexual

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY MCS IF YOU WANT!!

#intro posts #august ♡ #choices mc #immortal desires mc #cas harlow x mc #playchoices mc #immortal desires #choices immortal desires #choices fandom

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MY CHOICES MAIN CHARACTERS — Haven Waters

BOOK(S): The Cursed Heart.

LOVE INTEREST: Male! Kieran.

PRONOUNS: They/them.

FACECLAIM: Emma Appleton.

Virgo → INFJ → Type Two → Non-binary, biromantic, asexual

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY MCS IF YOU WANT!!

#intro posts #haven ♡ #choices mc #the cursed heart mc #kieran x mc #playchoices mc #the cursed heart #choices the cursed heart #choices fandom

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MY CHOICES MAIN CHARACTERS — Circe Prescott

BOOK(S): The Elementalists series.

LOVE INTEREST: Aster D’Yew.

PRONOUNS: She/they.

FACECLAIM: Katherine McNamara.

Taurus → ISFJ → Type Seven → Lesbian

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY MCS IF YOU WANT!!

#intro posts #circe ♡ #choices mc #the elementalists mc #aster d’yew x mc #playchoices mc #the elementalists #choices the elementalists #choices fandom

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MY CHOICES MAIN CHARACTERS — Laura Wilson

BOOK(S): Open Heart series.

LOVE INTEREST: Ethan Ramsey.

PRONOUNS: She/her.

FACECLAIM: Teyonah Parris.

Cancer → INFJ → Type Two → Pansexual

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY MCS IF YOU WANT!!

#intro posts #laura ♡ #choices mc #open heart mc #playchoices mc #open heart #choices open heart #choices fandom #ethan ramsey x mc

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⌨ Heart Among the Stars

Thanks so much for this!!

That one out-of-order movie viewing had been the start of an obsession that lasted for the next twelve years. Almost as soon as they were back in their mom’s car after the party let out, Kate had begged for DVDs of the other prequels and the original trilogy, borderline desperate to better understand the world that had so captivated them and opened a door in their mind that they hadn’t realized was closed. From there, the movies had been watched, action figures and posters had been bought, the books had been read, and new episodes of the animated shows had been watched religiously as they came out, even when their mother had started wrinkling her nose and making little comments about how they were a little too old for cartoons. A plastic lightsaber was swung around the privacy of their bedroom, accompanied by a voice enthusiastically recreating iconic lines from the franchise, and dreams of being part of the Jedi Order, of feeling the Force in the world all around and fighting for the light side of it, were had all day long, but especially in the dead of night, in the dark under a thick star-patterned comforter, when the person dreaming them really should have been asleep.

That birthday party that Kate had been forced to go to, held by the parents of a boy who the very next week had been caught trying to put pencil shavings in Kate’s lunch, had introduced them to a whole universe that had made their life infinitely better, and in the oddest way, they were grateful to that boy. He may not have wanted Kate to come to his party, but whether he’d wanted to or not, he’d given them something that had provided them with hope, something comforting to hold on to, during moments when they’d needed that more than anything.

But now Kate was twenty-two, and trudging up the stairs of their apartment building because the elevator had broken down again, with their arms loaded with groceries and their landlord following behind barking at them, and not even Star Wars was giving them much comfort right now. In fact, they were seriously considering buying an actual plasma lightsaber, no matter how much they knew it would cost, just so they could run their landlord through with it.

send me ⌨️ + the title to one of my fics and i’ll write a snippet for that fic!!

#snippets ♡ #feet on the ground heart among the stars ♡ #pallas ♡

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⌨ + Feet On The Ground Heart Among Stars 👀

Thanks so much for this!!

Kate had first fallen in love with Star Wars when they were ten years old.

It had been one of their classmates’ birthday parties - a boy whose mother was friends with Kate’s own, otherwise they surely would never have been invited; they certainly weren’t friends with the kid, they weren’t friends with any of the kids in their class - and his parents had rented out a room in the local movie theatre, paying the person in charge of the projector extra to find a film of Revenge of the Sith and play it for the party. Kate could remember how they’d rolled their eyes when their mom had told them about the party - they didn’t like that boy at all, and the last thing they wanted to do was spend the day watching a stupid space movie surrounded by kids they didn’t even talk to - but it didn’t matter; their mother had promised her friend that her “daughter” would be at the party, so young Kate was going whether they liked it or not.

They’d stopped complaining and rolling their eyes pretty quickly once the movie had started. Sitting there in that theater, watching Anakin Skywalker fall to the dark side and become one of the greatest movie villains of all time, Kate had watched the screen with wide eyes, never once looking away. They had been transported to a world of epic battles and badass heroes and complex villains, a world where starships roared through the void of space and the Jedi fought bravely to keep the Force balanced. For those few hours, sitting in that darkened theater, Kate didn’t have to be the weird kid at school whom nobody talked to or invited to play during free time; they could imagine they were a Jedi, user of the Force and defender of the galaxy, fighting to keep everyone safe.

send me ⌨️ + the title to one of my fics and i’ll write a snippet for that fic!!

#snippets ♡ #feet on the ground heart among the stars ♡ #pallas ♡