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@calidris   @rose-colored-fancy

Thanks so much for your answers! I do like to categorize things, but I was a bit concerned about not wanting a label to wind up defining a character. Which isn’t really an actual issue for me because my characters are themselves and categorizing them other ways doesn’t change that. So unnecessary worr…[Read more]

@calidris @this-is-not-an-alien @e-n-leonard

Wow ok. Definately not something I expected to come back to…

Sorry I haven’t been on lately, my job has been a little busy. Hopefully with Labor Day past it’ll calm down…

*wondere where Saevus is and what he is up to* When y’all are ready to continue the fight let me know, Saevus is ready lol…

@e-n-leonard

Whelp, that’d be me. Does this character castle emanate those ND vibes Cathy was talking about?

Honestly, it does ngl XD I think the internet, in general, is WAY easier to work with for ND folks. Several reasons: I can infodump uninterrupted and if someone is bored with it they can just skim and no harm done. I can use and overuse t…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy   @calidris  @this-is-not-an-alien

*tries to breathe and chokes on glitter and laughter*

@anyone who wants to join in XD  Whelp, that’d be me. Does this character castle emanate those ND vibes Cathy was talking about?

My parents didn’t diagnose me for the reasons previously discussed, and I don’t “diagnose” my characters.…[Read more]

Absolutely and no problem, I’m behind replying to emails rn so I totally get taking a while to respond! XD

I have not read that but it sounds really interesting, I’ll have to look it u – *the literal swamp of books waiting for be to read them piled up over the years; NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!* I’ll totally have to look it up!

That’s a very good qu…[Read more]

@calidris @this-is-not-an-alien @anyone who wants to join in

*Materializes in a cloud of pink glitter while eating chocolate cake with sprinkles*

Greetings y’all, did anyone really think you could talk about one of my special interests without me enthusiastically interrupting?

Soo… Cathy, you’re ADHD, I’m Autistic, and Calidris is both. We’ve…[Read more]

YES BECAUSE I HAVE IT TOO (actually I was diagnosed with ADD and Asperger’s back when ADD and Asperger’s were actual diagnoses, but now they’re not so I just have plain old ADHD and autism, which I’m fine with because the origins of the name are very creepy and kinda related to eugenics and the Nazi regime.  Kinda interesting story behind it…[Read more]

@calidris pft yeah, he’s ADHD 😁👌

(I’ll just say…researching ADHD for Ehud was literally like “That’s not normal…?” “I feel called out!!!” “DID SOMEBODY JUST WRITE THIS BLOG SERIES TO ATTACK ME!?!?!??!” *breaks down and takes 5-7 diagnosis tests and scores stupidly high in all of them* “Shoot. I better apologize to all those authors I was mad…[Read more]

@calidris

XD Jade’s got her reasons, but she’s definitely not unbiased when it comes to Mara. I (and Mara) are glad Kit approves. Pretty much everyone else hates her hair.

@calidris

Vulure vomit? Awesome idea! I can’t wait to see this… XD

@everyone

Jade and Isaias are now officially out of the Castle, and I’m going to throw Mara in now because this seems like her kind of situation. And maybe she’s been rather stubborn and reserved in her book, so the Castle is a time out 😂.

Mara Gobey-H…[Read more]

@calidris

@lady-grace

LOL that sounds like an amazing plan! ‘Hey Abirami! Go barf on this guy!’ 😂😂😂😂

Cam I least give Saevus the pleasure of chopping off a limb before Abirami goes in for the kill…death by barf 😂

*reads everything* *chokes on laughter*
🤣🤣🤣 Vulture vomit! *wanders away to confuse my friends by talking about vultures throwing up on castle lords*
Honestly though, that is hilarious and genius @calidris

*walks in with a cup of coffee, blinks blankly*

Oh, an excuse to rant about my plot again! 😋✌️

To start @adnyole I love your concept and I can see a lot hinges on this plot and theme-wise so I think from what I’ve read you should keep her pregnant. I also think you can handle this subject matter if you commit to it and pray about it but *…[Read more]

@calidris

Agreed. I really care about emotional impact in my writing on all levels.

That is actually in the story too. 😛 Lydia was intended to trigger the escape so someone from ‘her’ household raises the alarm. Ambrose takes an arrow to the shoulder and because the Kisi tribe uses arrows shaped like corkscrews, they can’t get it out, so they…[Read more]

@calidris Yeah, I totally agree that Christians should be people who talk about hard topics with grace and truth, in art and in the church, etc. My audience is intended to be adults and mature young adults. Ambrose starts as a teen, but a late teen like 18/19 or so, and by the time we make it to enslavement he is likely going to be a year or two…[Read more]