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When Lykke Li said,
"sadness is my boyfriend. oh sadness, I'm your girl."
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
-Henry James
i am stuck in an eternal state of yearning in which i romanticise and fantasise about all the lovers and lives i will never experience.
About Me
| Name: :) | Age: One year older than last year :)) | Birthday: It's the same as the day I was born :))) | Where I'm From: my mother :)))) --> do you hate me yet or do I have to keep going?
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To be honest I'm way too busy to be having an account like this, but it is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Favourite Artists
Obviously not BTS, who's that?
Ariana Grande
The Weeknd
Chase Atlantic
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𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧🖤
05/06/2023
"𝐈𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.”
𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕞𝕖
Hello stranger👋🏻
Thank you for stopping by. I hope that you get to enjoy this little corner where all dreams and stories that the mind creates, come to life. My name is Céline, but you can call me Cece. I am from Geneva, Switzerland. A beautiful country that has blessed me with its scenery and peace. The magnificent mountains that stand strong has always been laced with the gentle air that fills me with joy, inspiration, and creativity. I am currently in university (graduating next year), studying political sciences. The purpose as to why I have chosen to open a blog on Tumblr is because my mind has always been filled with various short stories that I would like to share with you.
With all of the stress and responsibilities I face daily, I always enjoy coming to this corner of the internet and reading people’s amazing work. I have noticed that there are little communities for almost every fandom. That is something that I highly enjoy and appreciate. This website gives like-minded individuals a corner where they can come together and unleash their creativity. I have been a writer since I was a girl. However, I was never given a platform to showcase my writings. I am hoping that I get to use this blog to present my writings, and I am hoping you enjoy them Before I move on, I hope you'll understand that English is not my strongest language, but I'll do my best to communicate.
I am interested in jazz, art, movies (especially old movies, I love them soo much), writing obviously, politics, and vintage themes. I discovered my hobby in a dark way. Growing up, I never had the best childhood. I was always alone and scared. My mind would frantically look for ways to protect itself from the ominous and unknown world. I began to daydream, and it would go on for hours. I used to go out in my backyard and enjoy the warm summer breeze as it danced with the luscious green grass. I absolutely loved the fact that I was able to leave reality and build a life in my mind where I am safe and away from those who intend on hurting me.
I did not see the harm in dissociating and going to dreamland, but it was negatively impacting my life. My elementary school coordinator was the first to notice it and so she decided to inform my parents. This only fueled their anger that cornered and broke me. After a while, my daydreams intensified and it would take people few minutes to bring me back to reality, which humiliated me in front of my friends. That’s when my school coordinator took matters into her own hands and introduced me to a therapist. After a series of evaluation, I was diagnosed with ADHD, and let me tell you, it is not fun, at all.
No one has taught me how to deal with my ADHD, I was left on my own to deal with the depression and stress that it dragged with it. So that’s when I have decided to take matters into my own hands and start letting out all of the thoughts that are crammed in my head. The first thing I began doing was drawing. But, I winded up disappointing myself because of the terrible results. I even went as far as to join mental health clubs, but I felt shy and insecure. During a stormy, cold, and dark night, the electricity in the village I used to live in went out. So I began writing down some of the event that was occurring that night. I noticed how relieved and happy I was while writing down the slow events that were unfolding before me. That’s when I discovered this hobby of mine that I cherish and hold onto.
And that’s where I am today. I have the unusual ability of looking at almost any photo and forming stories based on that picture. I could listen to a song and write a story based on the song. I could be walking down a street and create a story just by looking at a tree. It is strange, but I will always value this ability that I discovered. With that being said, I try to write stories that have different themes and elements. I will delve into feel-good and heartwarming themes (i.e fluff, friends-to-lovers, hurt/comfort, family and domesticity). Also, I will be writing about dark and undiscovered territories (i.e angst, arguments, yandere, dub-con, non-con, horror, psychological horror/thriller). I will be accepting your requests and prompts as well (I will create a Google forms as well for that). While certain themes can be controversial, I can write them but I do not condone any behavior mentioned in the story. The only reason as to why I would write such stories is because this is the only way I can get rid of the trauma that has been haunting me for years. But once again, I do not condone any dangerous act that will be mentioned in my stories.
I can write about random story prompts based on your requests. In addition, I write about fandoms such as Call of Duty (I am obsessed😩). I can also write about Resident evil (especially 4 and remake). However, I do not write prompts about anime. My next post will be about all fandoms that I can write prompts about. Many of my friends suggested to open an Archive of Our Own (AO3) page for such stories. All information will be added in my next blog and I am open for suggestions and requests.
I am hoping that my blog will give you the opportunity to discover new ideas with me. I am super excited to share my stories with you and my ideas with you! Thank you for reading this long introduction lol, my messages, suggestions, and submissions are all open for your ideas, questions, and requests. Just like Alice, we've reached the end of this mini rabbit trail. The White Queen's chessboard beckons, ready for new adventures in my next topic!🧚🏻💜
introductions of a sort
Hello strangers on the internet!
After years of lurking on the outskirts of the tumblr-sphere, and only ever dipping my toes in to test the waters, I have finally caved and created one of my very own. Though it is the year 2023 and far past the tumblr golden age of my generation, there seems to still be a thriving community of creatives and dreamers on this corner of the internet that I have long craved to be a part of. And now I am! ᕱ__ᕱ
I've been a reader my whole life, and a writer for a good bit of it, consuming and creating mostly fiction/fantasy. In recent years, however, my focus has been more so on academia than creative pursuits. This is for good reason, of course, I am a college student after all. But writing skills are like muscles; the less you use them, the more you lose them.
A few weeks ago, before the new semester started, I had an idea, a scene that I wanted to write. In the past few years, it had become a habit to simply brush ideas to the side because I was too busy with school. But it was still summer break, I had nothing else to do that afternoon, so I sat down to write something for fun.
When I tell you I struggled, I mean I struggled. I didn't even finish writing out the whole scene idea before I slammed my laptop shut because I was getting a stress headache. I was stretching out muscles that had been ignored for 2 years, maybe more. It was honestly quite ridiculous how exhausted I was after less than 30 minutes of writing.
So, when I was given the assignment to create a blog/social media about anything my heart so desired in one of the writing classes I am taking this semester, I jumped at the opportunity to start building back up those barely used creative writing muscles once again. And that brings me to right here, right now, on this very tumblr page.
This is already quite long for a first post so I'll try to wrap things up quickly from here on out.
If you haven't already picked up what I've been trying to lay down, this blog will serve as my creative writing gym, a place to build back up the muscles I have lost. I'll be posting once or twice weekly with updates on my progress, which may include any writing I've done, inspiration I've found, enthusiastic analysis of writers/pieces I admire, and any other tidbits I believe pertain to my writing journey, such as character design, etc.
My current goal is to come up with a cohesive outline for a novel, including characters, setting, and plot, by the end of the year (December 31, 2023). It may prove to be too ambitious, but go big or go home, right?
So, whether you are in it with me for the long haul, stick around for just a little while, or are simply fellow humans passing on through, welcome, friends, to my writing blog. ᕱ__ᕱ
Just remember to dot your j's and cross your t's!
~Clementine J Quincey🪷
housekeeping, AI, and naming systems
Hello friends! ᕱ__ᕱ
I suppose I should start with a quick forewarning: this past week has not brought a whole lot of progress in regards to my creative writing and the story I am crafting. I was very busy with school assignments during the beginning of the week and very busy being ill at the end of the week. (Just a common cold and/or my allergies acting up thankfully but regardless being ill always makes my brain feel weird and often messes with my vision, hearing, and sense of balance which is a joy to deal with… not).
However I will update you with some thoughts that I had this week.
Housekeeping
Firstly, some housekeeping. I have decided to change the name of my blog. I am a very private person. I always hesitate to give out my name on the internet. I didn’t have any social media until I was 18, and even now that I do have some social media accounts, none of them have my full name or face attached. This is just how I feel comfortable existing on the internet. I have also always toyed with the idea of writing under a penname. (These two things connect, I promise). Firstly because pennames are cool, but also because of privacy reasons.
When I decided to create this blog, I was unsure about naming it. I eventually decided to choose something close(ish) to my real name because I had the tagline “dot your j’s and cross your t’s” thought up for years before I decided to commit and actually start a blog, and the penname I had picked out for myself did not have a “J” in it. However, recently I have come to the realization that middle names do exist. Also, plenty of authors use their middle initials. All this to say, the penname plan is back in business babes!! ᕱ__ᕱ
So, if anyone was confused as to the name change, that is why.
AI
This is a bit of an abrupt shift in topics, but this week I was required to use AI for a couple different assignments in my classes and it got me thinking about it. I know AI is a bit of a hot button topic right now, especially in creative spaces, so since I was thinking about it a lot this week, I figured I’d put my two cents out there.
I do think AI has the potential to be really helpful in making people’s lives easier (that's what progress is all about, right?). However, I disagree with the usage of AI in creative, professional, and educational spaces until the moral and ethical problems it brings up are addressed. And there are a lot of moral and ethical problems that come with AI.
Plagiarism of other people's ideas and creations is the issue that I’ve been thinking about most often. We are constantly told in academia to “cite our sources” and most universities even have policies that can lead to students who plagiarize being kicked out. Yet, many people don’t see a problem with using works created with AI. All AI is, is an amalgamation of other people’s ideas and content that’s either been mined from the internet or fed to it specifically. So every piece of work AI spits out is a cut and pasted collage of other people’s stuff. And its sources are never cited.
I am most certainly not a techie kind of person so I couldn’t tell you how to fix this issue, or any of the others AI brings up, in a way that I’m sure is plausible. All I can say is that the use of AI without addressing the moral and ethical concerns makes me mighty uncomfortable.
Names
Finally, I can give you at least a little information on my story. I have always been the most obsessive about naming my characters. A 5 minute writing exercise? Eh, it’s whatever. Just use any names that come to mind. But give me any type of fiction writing that’s meant to be workshopped and it’s over for me. I’ll spend 3 hours searching for an appropriate name for the background character that’s going to be in 1 scene tops and never seen again. I get it from my dad, I think. He was always insistent that me and my siblings had names with good meanings. At least, that’s what my mom tells me. I’m like that with my characters.
Now, I have nowhere near as good of a grasp on linguistics and linguistic patterns to create my own language or a naming system from scratch. I’m not Tolkien. However, when I am writing a larger work, or at least a work with some worldbuilding/lore, I like to come up with systems for things like names. This past week, I started to create a naming system for the story I’m currently working on (Ailidh’s story btw if that wasn’t clear). What I have so far is that the type of fae folk Ailidh, Ruslan, and their people will have names pulled from Celtic, Russian/Slavic, Germanic, and French origins. Don’t ask why I chose those languages. I couldn’t tell you.
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That’s pretty much all I got done creative writing wise this week. I know it’s not much, but at least it’s not nothing, right? ᕱ__ᕱ Sorry for being so scattered in this post but as I am currently still ill, everything is a little fuzzy. I hope you all have a lovely week and hopefully by next week’s post, I’ll have gotten some more things done within my story.
Remember, dot your j’s and cross your t’s!!
~Clementine J Quincey🪷