Why did you start writing? I’m honestly curious bc of your major and how busy it seems, like would you be able to balance writing and working in your chosen career field? Or is writing just a hobby and something for right now but not something you’re going to stay doing? (Sorry for these random and long questions!)
V I thought you were going to bed 😂 but random questions are fun so don’t apologise I like having convos like these it makes me think.
So in terms of starting to write, I’ve always loved creative writing since primary school and I found I was quite good at it by the time i reached high school (my english grades were tops). Like every time we had a creative writing assignment I’d smash it because I’m quite a creative person and have always found it easy to put things into words. I’ve come up with plenty of concepts the main four or five would be —
1. Scorchrose (which is quite complex and it’s about a vampire named Caelius Scorchrose who buys slaves from the black market of Rorrim (which is the realm that’s opposite to earth) so he buys them to kind of keep them safe in a sense because monsters of Rorrim are very unforgiving and will do anything and everything to humans because they can. So the main character Amara (she’s black and IK HOW IT LOOKS NO THIS IS NOT A NOD TO SLAVERY I SWEAR i just wanted to create someone that looked like me yk) is bought however she’s a bit different, she smells a bit different and it’s not often they get high quality blood through the black market auction so everyone jumps on this opportunity but Cae is the highest bidder naturally (he’s the founder and owner of a pharmaceutical company that deals in both Rorrim and earth) and then they’re relationship transpires — i made a map of Rorrim and everything (social classes, primary monster species, all with their own little kingdoms and laws, etc.
Let’s not talk about the werewolf orgy (where we get this is hotter with context I swear 😂 we get to meet Dimitri(os) for the first time (yes he’s the leader of the species)). I have a few unfinished scenes floating around my laptop for this story (yes I have some of the orgy scene written) — I can go on and on about this story
2. The Butterfly Effect which is now a mammon fic on my blog of that same name but it used to be a larger story of a prince/ royal or someone of that social class and a tracker. Now this whole story included topics of racism because there were two races called the Etherians (which is our tracker, her name is Seeris (Sear-ris)) and the Kertisian (Ker-tee-jan (pronounce the j like in jean) (which is our royal, his name is Dante). So the whole first chapter was what happens in the fic but the kicker is that you see Dante is engaged to a Kertisian well he just bred with an Etherian so uhh guess who’s pregnant. It was gonna be a whole lot of drama kinda delving into the realm of racism and social class, and SCIENCE I was gonna geek tf out with it but never got to finishing it. My first reader of that story was @the-australian-editor hahaha the way she loves that story.
3. Octavia which was really a self insert cause I was obsessed with the idea of space pirates. So this concept was turned into ‘Catch Me If You Can’ with Geto. The Geto fic was from a particular scene I was compelled to write. So that one was about captain y/n (in this case) and her crew stealing from the Paragon (think of them as the top 1% of those who roam space so your government officials, celebrities, kings, queens, etc.) and their whole journey being on the run. And who better to go after the captain of the notorious Octavia (that’s the ship’s name) than her ex lover. I made names for the different species of aliens that make up the crew and basically wrote little profiles for them and where they came from (and what those planet environments were like)
4. Honey which I scrapped entirely, it was gonna be your typical mafia love story. So Honey is set in Valencia, Spain and Honey the main character she’s been adopted by a family (she doesn’t know that she’s adopted - her birth parents gave her up when she was an infant). She works in the museum there and she meets a strange old man, who invites her to dinner (she refuses at first but in this case you can’t actually refuse the don of the biggest mafia in Valencia) so she goes there for dinner and she meets this man’s son, after a while she finally asks what this is all about and the father says “well according to the deal your parents made you are to marry my son”. It was a very loose and kinda cliche plot so I scrapped it.
5. Ray and Camille doesn’t have a title offically, but it’s about two opposites the sun and the moon. So Ray is born from a coronal mass ejection from the sun during a solar hurricane (the amount of research I did for this was insane, cause I wanted it to make logical sense) so the earth is not actual earth it’s like a pooh’s version of earth for the plot. So baby boy is from the sun and in the year XXXX he lands in Abadonia, more on the outskirts in this sweet black lady’s yard (she’s our mother figure of the story as is common for all beings from outer space). She raises him and as Ray grows he discovers his powers of light and heat (the sun) and uses them to become Abadonia’s hero essentially. Now Camille is cursed, our villainess and Ray’s arch nemesis. Her whole role is to bring about the end of the world (think enchantress from the suicide squad how she possessed Cara Delevingne’s character and wants to fuck shit up). Her curse comes from the moon, it was put upon her by her family who dealt in some shady magics. The whole thing is about their power struggle of being polar opposites, and the drive to stop Camille (does he kill her or does he try and save her from her curse). But yeah another scrapped idea cause it’s very very loose and cliche.
But as for why I started writing on tumblr, really it was to share my creativity with someone, anyone who was willing to read. I love story telling and I’ve had a lot of ideas over the years and I thought why not give it to an audience. Fanfic writing pretty much created a safety net because it has such a large demographic so it ensured my work would be read by someone and it’s easy to write these characters into a unique and creative narrative. Then the more I wrote the more I actually enjoyed writing fanfics and it grew into such a cool community so quickly, I met mutuals and now we’re here.
If we’re talking about the topic of my degree that’s really for stability reasons (and I really love science), if I could do creative writing I would but I just don’t see myself becoming an author hahaha it’s a very competitive and brutal occupation, not to mention making it big is difficult as well so it’s safer to do science because there will always be a need for science and I’ll never be without a job.
I think writing is more so a hobby than something I’d do for a job long term. I just really enjoy writing and sharing it with everyone and that’s enough for me. I’ll definitely do this tumblr and writing thing for as long as time lets me, I got plenty of juice in the tank so I won’t be stopping anytime soon 😊🤎.
(IF YOU SEE YOUR AU HERE AND WOULD LIKE ME TO LINK TO IT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I’m not directly mentioning everyone, but will gladly link to them if asked.)
Blog names are the same or in parentheses if applicable. All on tumblr, and if not, then on Deviantart or Youtube.
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INDEX:
Personal and Friends
Mutuals
Favorites
Deltarune (although most are in the two above)
Undertale Alternate Timeline and OC
Undertale Alternate Universe
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Personal and Friends
Flicker-of-a-Neon-Soul (mine)
Prismtale (mine)
Skeleflock AU (mine)
Savepoint AU (mine)
Impostertale
Don’t Name Tale @/Polilla-de
Alivetale @/tatatale
Undertime @/azeriaa
Abysstale @/metakazkz
UT-Zircans
ShatteredTales
Damagedtale (Rain) @/6nimus9
Magusverse @/xfre3ax
Lumitale @/iyumiichi
Idoltale @/nekojaf
Techy @/k0re-drawings
Parasite!Tale @/bloowe-blu
Underlust Reimagined @/zirkkun
Thirdtale Sans @/purple-murder
Soulbound-ut-au
Cheshire from @/alchemic
Passagetale @/splynter
Frostytale, Chicken Sans, and Bunny Papyrus by @/sanityau
Ecantale
Escort Mission (Yoki-Doki)
Arwaa and Matias by @/nurizyume
Condoriano @/murmur-utdr-au
Spitetale, Motiftale @/nosebleed-inglishera
Dragontale, Heartache, and more @/squarefriend
Kaleidoscopetale-AU
Various AUs by @/blaiddsumu
Horizon-Tale
The-Nursery-Official
Ask-OABGaster-Alpha-Yan
Various AUs by @/undertalewasagoodgameokay
Magustale
AskSunflower
Underknowledge
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Mutuals
Mermaid Pirate AU by @/kiokodoodles
Critic!Tale by @cihello
Cyrustale (OnixOwl)
Various AUs by @/Satellite-Starss
Refusetale (natsuneneko)
Various AUs by @/scarew0lves
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Favorites
Sans The Seraphim (The Thought)
Over the Void @/Undertale-over-the-void
Timetale AU @/Punny Skele-scientist, Allesia the Hedge
Endertale @/xxtc-96xx
Underswap @/underswapped3
Chutsu AU @/Emositecc
Littletale @/mudkipful
Ink Sans @/comyet
Paper Crane @/little-noko
Outertale
Bonely Hearts Club
Delta-Experiment (Deltarune)
Wingsdingus
Slumbertale @/rainingskeletons
Gaster’s Great Escape @/moldy-junk (Deltarune)
humancandy-comic
Sixbones @/zarla-s
Insomnia @/wily-art
SwapOut @/cats-artbag
AskErrorSans
Pink Swapfell @/whyiswingdingsafont
AskFallenRoyalty
Pinktale by @/save-star
The rest of the Pinkverse by various creators XD
Playbacktale @/linssins
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Deltarune
Paper Trail @/lynxgriffin
Deltaspin
Under-deltarune-tale-comic
Lifeline-AU
Felltarune @/sunfloraas
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Undertale Alternate Timeline and OC
Underplayer
Another One
Dogs of Future Past @/lynxgriffin
Underpuppets
Chocoblook-comic
Skelechara (insanelyadd)
Undertale Green (FlamingReaperComic)
Willow (cottagegore OC) @/smol-spoopy
Glitchtale @/camilacuevas
Project: JUSTICE @/RoyalElemental
Ghost Switch (CleverCatchphrase)
All That’s Left (dyonsia96)
Regret (BroGirl62)
Unexpected Guests @/undertalethingems
Gaster Bros @/leafaske
Handplates @/zarla-s
GenoHope (Azany)
Just a Head AU @/kathaynesart
Wartime-undertale
Undertale-four-kingdoms
Lee from @/halban-josu
@/rainbowsans ‘s characters!
Megalosomnia by @/megalommi
Ask-Grillby
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Undertale Alternate Universe
Wingtale-AU-Blog
Underdecay @/little-noko
Overtale @/yuramec version
Paraversetale
Horrortale-comic
Fallen Flowers @/Tarableart
Undetermined (WhisperingIllusion)
Underfell @/underfell
Minecraft AU @/kers-seeri
Faded Timeline (ClassyEyeballs)
Imaginary Friend (LotusTheKat)
Cyrustale (OnixOwl)
Farmtale (anime-grimmy-art version)
Undertale Inc. @/salami-dono
UT Mob @/nyubackneko ‘s version
Papster (Macosi-Comics)
Unnamed AU by @/asterxsk
Any of @/blaiddraws Gasters! (and also Entypo and Dave look cute!)
@ticklishshenanigansau @theskeletongames @undertalethingems @jakei95 @little-noko @metakazkz @kers-seeri @thecomfortable ofc my art teacher, friends and well everyone who supports me, that includes the people who read my comics and you too!