Hyacinth's SWC Writing (Mystery Cabin)
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Description of a Clock (261 words)

The room's only clock, once a beautiful object, had sat on its spot on its spot on the wall longer than any living person cared to remember, and had been reduced during that time to hardly more than a piece of scrap.

The glass had long ago been smashed by a volleyball that had been thrown at it, leaving the clock's face exposed and at the mercy of the outside world. The little bits of glass that remained attached to the edges were sharp and too dirty to see through—not that there was much to see anyway.

Except for two and twelve, all the numbers had faded completely, making it a struggle to determine what hour it was during most of the day. Someone had once tried to make marks to show where the numbers should have been, but that person had only succeeded in creating long, meaningless scratches on the timepiece and on their own hands.

What really put the clock on the level of a travesty was its barely-functional hands. Equipped with only the single battery it had been given when it was first hung up so many years ago, it lacked the strength to move its hour and minute hands. The second hand, having the least weight, still continued to move, though this did little but show how pathetic the machine was; the timekeeper was too weak to lift its lightest limb past former home of the number seven, and so it raised up, second after second, day after day, only to fall back to seven each time.
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Rose Learns the Value of Staying Hydrated (368 words) - Daily for July 14th

I have a headache. Or, who knows, maybe I'm lightheaded. I wouldn't know: I'm not a doctor. Whatever malady it is that my head is suffering, this isn't a desirable state for it to be in, so I find a piece of metal and lean my forehead against it. The cool surface offers some relief from the bad feeling, but not as much as I'd like.
“What's wrong?” Oh great. Now imtiaz has shown up to bother me.
“You,” I tell him.
"No, what's wrong with you?“ He sounds annoyed. That's funny.
”With me, you say? Nothing, obviously. My head is more of a problem than I am, if you must know.“
”Maybe you need to drink water.“ Plan failed, and not even due to a good mistake. Oof.
I sigh. This is quite tiring. ”Why would I do that?“
He immediately sucks up the attention the question gave, beginning to lecture me in his incredibly annoying voice. ”You'd drink it ‘cause it fixes your head when you didn’t have water before.“
I groan, but only in my mind as such responses are never to be made into perceptible reality. ”If interacting with that vile substance more than necessary is the requirement, I can assure you, my head has a strong preference for remaining as it is.“ This gets him to stand there in silence for longer than usual, and I get encouraged into believing he’s finally going to give up and do something else. This scrap of hope is quickly smashed, though, as most of its companions were and/or will be.
”Animals try not to let people eat them,“ Imtiaz tells me. I don't bother with a response. ”Maybe water is the same.“
I lift my head and look at him, another scrap of positive feeling having been called to attention. ”Water doesn't like when people drink it?“
”I don't think so, but you can drink it ‘cause it can’t make you stop."
A grin spread over my face as he says the words. Water is weak and unable to resist me! This is an easy way to make it endure pain and suffering! I get up from where I was sitting, ready to get hydrated.

my probably not 1k intro (edit: i got to 1k never mind)

hey everyone! i go by ivory online, i'm in the dystopian cabin, this is my first session of swc and i'm excited to get to know you all! my pronouns are they/them and i'm fine with any neopronouns as well. i'm aromantic asexual and nonbinary. i'm a rising 11th grader, i've been told junior year is very busy but i'm taking an advanced english class next year so i'm hoping swc will help to get me back into writing!

i used to write a lot more as a child, my google drive account for school is full of small things i started but never finished as an elementary/middle schooler. throughout middle school i was a songwriter, but it ended up being more of a curse than a blessing as i was forced to overwork myself, writing things i didn't feel were authentic. i quit writing last year to save my mental health and it's taken a while to find writing inspiration again. there are many things i've wanted to write for a while but chose not to because i wasn't in the best mental headspace to do so. i'm hoping that swc will be my chance to write everything i've had in mind for a while.

in terms of interests: i've noticed that a lot of people here are swifties, i am also a swiftie! my favorite album has always been and will always be reputation (when taylor swift releases reputation taylor's version you all are not ready for me) with a close second being midnights. my favorite song is dancing with our hands tied, with a close second being i did something bad, and a close third being who's afraid of little old me (from the tortured poets department). aside from taylor swift, i have an obsession with 2010s edm (electronic dance music).

i'm an aspiring scientist with a love for the physical sciences, specifically astronomy and chemistry. i have the added bonus of being good at math, which has definitely helped me throughout high school! i often communicate in numbers as i tend to understand equations better than i understand sentences, which is a bit problematic but will most likely end up being convenient if i continue to go into science. i've been heavily involved in stem for around a year or so, after i quit performing arts to focus on my less experienced interests.

aside from stem, i also like to consider myself an activist. i've been taking civics as one of my high school electives and it has truly inspired me to begin making a difference not only in my local community, but online as well. i'm an activist for the lgbtq+ community, specifically the aro/ace and trans communities as i'm a member of both. additionally, i'm neurodivergent (i have generalized anxiety and inattentive type adhd) and i'm an activist for neurodivergent people and mental health in general, as i've struggled with my own mental health for several years.

in terms of writing, i'm mainly into nonfiction. i spend my days writing scientific theories (some of which are rather dark if i'm being honest) and proving them true or false. i struggle to write fiction as i'm not the most imaginative person, but i'd say my main strength lies in characterization as i can often empathize with my characters better than i can with people in real life. i'm hoping that swc can help me get back into writing fiction. when i'm reading, which i'll admit i haven't done much of recently, i'm very into sci-fi and realistic fiction. this is also due to my interest in science as i enjoy reading things that are actually possible in real life, rather than trying to wrap my brain around magical sets of rules that often make no sense to me in fantasy and other unrealistic fictional genres.

on scratch, you can often find me making animations, writing theories and essays, or recording covers with friends. i'm also a manager of the relatively well known girls who don't fit in studio, and a bunch of people there, mostly managers who are close friends of mine, were actually the ones who encouraged me to join swc in the first place!

being new to swc, i'm worried about being left out of inside jokes, being confused about rules, and well… fitting in. i'm hoping that i'll get to figure it out as i go along, and everyone here already seems very helpful and open to explaining things. the cabin relationships are also quite interesting - due to where i was sorted, i'm now in a bit of a rivals to lovers cabin situation (apparently the cabins are rivals which i don't really understand), but it's funny in a way, too. minor shoutout - love you snowy, thank you for being an amazing platonic partner <3 additionally, stuff like dailies and weeklies are kind of confusing, but i do appreciate the help with prompts since i often struggle with finding inspiration. and i will say, as the math person i am, i'm excited to add up all the points and do all the word counts!

although i'm not a writer, i am an insanely competitive person, so be prepared for me to go slightly feral this month trying to get my cabin as far as possible. a lot of my friends in real life know to never underestimate just how competitive i can be. so while i'm not the best writer on the planet, i'm very hardworking, especially in the face of a competition, and i will attempt to get dystopian very far this month. i'm sure i'll find time to write more if i put my mind to it, despite being very busy this summer, so i'm excited to jump headfirst into this contest and see where it takes me!

so, to all my fellow swc writers (and aspiring writers like me), to dystopian cabin and all the other cabins, to everyone here partaking in the events of swc, i only have one thing left to say:

in the words of taylor swift, from reputation: are you ready for it?

@fari2's SWC Masterthread! (2024)

Public Archive: (I'm doing myself in by adding this⛹️⛹️⛹️)
2021 - https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/post/6471499/
2022 - https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/post/6426019/
2023 - https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/post/8039741/

I'm in Thriller (TCTWNW), and I've entered alongside @Verasor @perhapslucy @inuko- and @Wavecolor.

01/07 (81)

hey, i'm fari! this is my fourth swc session, and i've been doing the july sessions for 3 years consecutively now, which is cool. past cabins i was in include contemporary (rip) and script (i was in script twice eheh) + as an intro to myself, i'm a tired a level student who does stem all the time- but i'm also multifandom, obsessed with omori and oshi no ko and animal crossing (all versions, really!) + i am also a silly whimsy psshhh

02/07 (868)

To fari2 in the future;

Hey, I hope you’re doing alright. It’ll be the holidays when you see this- and you might even be in a different country- so I hope you’re enjoying your time there, y’know, there’s no better time than the present. I wonder how your research project is going- granted, it would probably be less stressful for you after you’ve finished your Gantt Chart, and after your last meeting for the year is all done. Meetings and all these deadlines are stressing me out, Fari, so I doubt it would be grossly different on your end; still, I hope you’re happier now that a couple of those loose ends have been tied up. You joined SWC to push yourself, after all, so you’d be a hypocrite if you crippled from anxiety after doing all of this for yourself.

I wonder what your predicted grades look like. Yeah, that’s for you to tell me. I can’t really hazard a guess because I can’t even own the fact I live in a state like this, so I’d rather you tell me how that went. Well… I know what I want for a predicted grade, and God willing- I can take it. It’s A* A A, Fari. I hope it’s what we were capable of.

SWC wise, it would be great if you made some connections- real ones this time. Every single time you’ve joined so far (aside from when you were in Contemporary Cafeteria) you were trying to find a friend, and every time you’re literally gone right back to where you started… that’s how I see it. Fari, I hope you use SWC to get closer to the friends you went into SWC with, and I hope you find people to talk to about your own interests, because it’s eating me up having to listen to you all the time blabbering and blabbering about the same old gig, just because half your company isn’t like you.

Well, that took a dark turn! I’m not having the greatest day today- and I’ve always been a bit more critical to myself- so whatever apology I dish out is bound to be half-hearted and I won’t bother at all. Fari, I hope you’re happy and content and smiling all the time by the end of this month. I hope you’re chatting to people daily. I hope you’ve been following your deadlines closely, too.

I hope-… heh, that season 2 of your favourite anime would’ve came out by then, wouldn’t it? It’s releasing tomorrow for me, so I haven’t really seen it yet. Hope you’re enjoying your AquAka ☠️☠️☠️ and Taiki Himekawa, and Aqua’s healing journey too! Tokyo Blade is literally the best arc in the Oshi no Ko manga in my opinion, and it would be amazing if the anime sells Tokyo Blade just as well as the manga did! I literally can’t wait!

Fari, please enjoy watching Oshi no Ko without feeling too guilty about not deserving it or whatever was going on in your head when you were me- you really deserve it. Getting grey hairs over your mock exams then moping over results won’t do. Please enjoy doing the things you enjoy!

On that note, you might have your late birthday present by July’s end.If it is actually what you thought it was, y’know- OMORI for the switch, please be as happy as I am right now. The thought of having OMORI for the switch makes you happy, I know it does. Seeing Basil up on your TV screen, after broadcasting the gameplay. That’s one of those daydreams you keep having nowadays. You would love to make it a reality, Fari.

Also, how’s that going? For the doc called ‘-’, I hope you’ve finished writing it! Also, for the thing you’re doing with Basil, I hope you’ve at least started it. I still haven’t asked him for the prompt- but it’s Basil, so I trust him to give me a good one.

As of now, I’m too adrenaline high to think straight, so I’ll shamelessly talk in a happier tone from here on.

I pray that your work experience was enjoyable, and that your predicted grades were what you wanted. I love you, and care for you, even though I’m not always the most compassionate and I’m not always the most forthright. What I really want is for you to make some best friends out of SWC, so make sure you’ve done that. Otherwise, I’m substanceless;

What if Aqua’s actually got his revenge by the time the month ends? It’s a stretch, but it’s possible. We’ve just got Hikaru’s POV in the last chapter, so I wonder where Oshi no Ko manga is when the month ends? Did Ruby manage to grab Hikaru and yell at him? Did Aqua’s whole driven facade falter? Is Kana okay? Does Hikaru really love Aqua and Ruby?

Sorry, Fari. I’m sorry for taking up so much of your time. I need to do some of those research project deadlines, so I’d best get to it. Have a good holiday, Fari. Enjoy your university exam revision. Hope your numeric keyboard WPM is higher than 30.

Kind regards,
past fari2.

Hello everyone! I technically already did my intro daily but I saw a lot of people doing 1k word intros, and I wanted to attempt it, so here it is!
Total words: 1,087
I’m Natt! This is my first SWC session, and I’m in sci-fi. A few of my hobbies (several of which are “ranting about something”) are reading, drawing, Scratch, and, of course, writing! Currently, I’m writing Dawn of the Jedi, which is actually not about the actual beginning of the Jedi despite the title. It’s about Lyra, who finds out she’s Force-sensitive. Last I checked, it’s at around 3.5 thousand words, and so far there’s 5 chapters. I’m also writing a currently unnamed time-travel story that I might share on Scratch, so hopefully SWC will motivate me to finish that.

Like I said, I also really like reading. A few of my favorite series are Keeper of the Lost Cities (Shannon Messenger) and Percy Jackson (Rick Riordan) (and the accompanying series). I have several favorite one-off books, too, including The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Kelly Barnhill), A Wish in the Dark (Christina Soontornvat), and Daughter of the Deep (Rick Riordan). I like reading fantasy and sci-fi, mainly, because ✨magic✨, and of course, most everything in it is unrealistic and can be literally anything.

My final hobby I want to talk about is art. I’ve been doing art more in the past several years, and this year I started doing digital art on Magma. I often get inspired by my favorite movies, shows, and books, so recently I’ve been doing a lot of Star Wars art. I also enjoy crafting! A few projects I’ve done in the past few months are a cardboard telescope and a coral reef picture holder. I’m currently about halfway through a homemade Halloween costume- yes, I started it really early, but I thought it would take me way longer than it has so far (I saw someone else who did the same thing as me, and they said it took them a year!).

I also really like music (who doesn’t, after all?)! My favorite song changes about every other week, but right now it’s moon and back by JVKE and Scars To Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara, and my favorite artist is JVKE (seriously, go check out some of his songs if you don’t know them! My favorites are golden hour, this is what heartbreak feels like, moon and back, and save your breath). I have a lot of different artists I listen to, though, from The Weeknd to Selena Gomez, so I like lots of different types of music (besides country and rock. Sorry, I just can’t listen to that and like it).

If you’ve ever met me before, then you might already know that I’m a HUGE Star Wars fan! I’ve seen all the movies besides Rouge One (I will watch it eventually!) and all 3 main animated series- The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch (which was AMAZING. IF YOU’E A STAR WARS FAN THEN TO NEED TO WATCH IT), and Rebels, which, despite what most people say, was actually good. I’ve also watched both Tales of the Jedi and Tales of the Empire. I’ve also seen most of the live-action series- The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, and some of Andor, though I haven’t started The Acolyte yet. I’m even going to be Sabine Wren for Halloween this year, so I’m really excited to see how that turns out! So yeah this has been my rant about Star Wars

Talking to my friends is another thing I enjoy. One of my friends in real life is a huge Star Wars fan, too, so we always talk about that! My other bestie (who is also ✨ ✨ amazing ✨ ✨) I’ve known since 5th grade. She’s in band and chorus, so we often talk about that, even though I’m about the least musically talented person ever.

Now that all of the big stuff about me is out of the way, here’s a bunch of random facts about me! First: I have an entire seashell collection! I have a lot of tiny ones that I got at a beach in Charleston, SC, and some of them have little holes in them, so I might make a necklace out of one! I also have several that I got from Chincoteauge Island, Virginia. Second: I also collect plushies! I have several Squishmallows (my favorite is Avery <3) and a bunch of other plushies including a fox, another duck, a pig, a bear, and an elephant. Third: my dream vacation would be Disney so I can go to Galaxy’s Edge! I really want to see the Millennium Falcon, and of course, build my lightsaber. Fourth: I have part of a mini house that I built entirely out of cardboard! So far it has a kitchen (complete with tiny food, which was so fun for no reason to make) and a bedroom, and I’m working on a living room. Fifth: I want to be a graphic designer! I love designing stuff, and of course I love art, so it would be an awesome job! There’s also a high school near where I live that has different “colleges”, or areas you can study. They have a design program, so I really want to go there!

My favorite subject is ELA, and my least favorite is science. I also really don’t like group projects, because I always end up doing most of the work (does anyone else have this problem, or is this just me?). I also participate in a quiz bowl style extracurricular, and it’s really fun! I’m in ELA and math. There are several competitions around January-April, where you take a test on your subject and/or participate in the actual quiz bowl part (we call it quick recall) and/or compete in Future Problem Solving, which is basically where you get a story and you have to come up with problems and solutions. If you get 5th place or higher in any of that, then you qualify for a competition with all the schools in your region, and then in your state. This probably sounds like more school and work for a lot of people (in a way, it is), but it’s also a great way to make friends- and of course, there’s a party at the end of the year.

Wow- that was a lot! This took me probably an hour and a half to think of everything to write. Here’s my joke:
What building has the most stories?
The library.

Anyways, if you read all of that then I’m very impressed, but even if you didn’t, have a great day/night!

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say [EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR AMERICA’S FAVORITE FIGHTING FRENCHMAN, LAFAYETTE]

Daily for 7/1/24
409 words
Hey everyone! I'm so excited for SWC! This is my first session, and I'm in Bi-Fi Minion Mania.
On scratch, I go by Rose and my pronouns are she/her.
I enjoy reading, coding, cooking, Star Wars(tcw, tbb,swr), and writing.
I have finished Clone Wars and Rebels, and am currently on season 2 of Bad Batch.
Some of my favorite books (and I'd be happy to rant about these in the main cabin) include:

• Keeper of the Lost Cities
  
• Hunger Games
  
• School for Good and Evil
  
• Wings of Fire
  
• Twin Crowns
  
• Nevermoor
  
• Kane Chronicles
  
• E.K. Johnston books
  
• Renegades
  

I like to think of myself as smart (and I've been told it's true by a lot of people) but I also don't want to seem like I'm bragging.
One of my favorite pastimes is music. I enjoy singing and piano playing, but my true love is violin. I have been playing Suzuki violin for over seven years now, and it is a part of my life.
One thing I'd like to improve upon in my life is digital art. It is something I have seen a lot of on scratch, and that inspires me that someone my age could create something like that. I have tried a few different approaches, but what I truly need is a tutor of some sort. I'm not asking for help, I just would like to know if there are any good websites to teach digital art.
I also enjoy physical art, especially watercolors.
Another one of my favorite things is theater. I take classes and once a year, I participate in a program where 4th through 12th graders have to put on a professional-level show in five weeks. The costume and set designer, director, music director, and stage manager are all adults. This previous year, I was in a production of Macbeth.
Here is a list of my current WIPs with short explanations:

• Eye of the Dragon: A collab with @Coconut_is_go not currently posted on scratch
  
• Destiny: A short Clone Wars fanfic about the daughter of Satine and Obi-Wan
  
• Heartbroken: A kotlc fanfic about Keefe's first girlfriend
  
• Trinket: A Renegades fanfic about Magpie/Evie
  
• Absolute Insanity: A sort of a mystery/thriller (which are genre's I don't usually write in) about an experiment in the form of a girl
  
• Nuclear: A collab about a girl who's father gets kidnapped. Spoiler alert: Everyone dies
  

#Bi-FiFTW

claiming a directory spot wip!!

7/1/24
MISSION #1! Introduce yourself in the main cabin. Make sure to include a joke for international joke day.
Bonus Task: Make it at least 1000 words.

Hello, Hello, Hello, it is I! Whimsia J. Lux the First (or the second depending on how you look at it), also known as Whimsy, Whism, J-Dawg (With an A-W), and many other super cool names with even cooler epithets! This is my 4th SWC session, my last one being back in 2022 and I’m so hyped to be back. But! If I want this session to go as great as I’m imagining it will, then I need to start this month off with a bang.

Yes, I hear your desperate queries “Oh, Whimsia J-Dawg Lux the First, what does beginning SWC with a bang entail?” And fortunately for you, I have an answer. The only answer. I’M DOING THE 1000 WORD INTRO! In fact, I’m aiming for 1001 because I just go above and beyond like that. By taking up this quest, I, along with my fellow fantasy chocolatiers, shall secure our rightful place at the very top of the leaderboard. It will be long. It may even be treacherous, both due to the fact that I’m stalling, but as a great man once said, “Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today.” And so, I shall stop prolonging this introduction to my 1000 word introduction, and get to showing all of you the Whimsy Way™!

As I’ve said, my name is Whimsy, I go by she/her, and I’m a christian in highschool at the very age every teenage girl finds out she’s the chosen one and/or the lost princess, sixteen. I have two super cringe siblings that I wouldn’t trade for the world but would for a piece of gum. My favorite subjects are probably math and history. I love chicken nuggets and jollof rice, and my favorite color is a tie between blue and purple with pink in third. As for hobbies I like to think of myself as a jack of all trades, master of none, because I’m into way too many things and don’t invest enough time into any of them. I like drawing, writing (I think), coding, reading, playing piano, playing volleyball, running, singing, acting (to a degree), watching anime and cartoons, playing video games and I’m currently trying to learn Yoruba, because my family are Nigerian and it's actually pretty fun, Bawo ni!

To hit that 1000 word count goal, I’m gonna have to be a bit more specific so, let's start with art, because that rhymed and now there’s no way I can’t write about it. I’ve been drawing basically all my life, and I’ve been crowned with the title of ‘Artist’ in my family because I draw the most. I only really started taking it seriously in middle school though, unfortunately I did not use covid as a time of art improvement, but I’m slowly getting better, and I’m really proud of my traditional and digital stuff. I draw mainly humanoid characters like elves and werewolves but this summer I want to draw way more animals and landscapes. I haven’t made much progress yet, but there’s still a lot of time! There is hope!

Next, writing because that’s what this camp is about! I love writing, even though it takes me ten years to finish one paragraph, something about being able to read what I wrote when I’m done gives me an instant dopamine hit. I love writing fantasy stories specifically, because if I can write about anything why wouldn’t I write about what I could only dream of existing like fairies and dragons and male nurses. I have a bunch of stories I want to flesh out and finish, but haven’t had much motivation for but hopefully SWC changes that! I have two short stories I wanted to finish at the beginning of summer that I haven’t yet, one actually being a continuation of a story I wrote my first year of SWC, so pray that this month my motivation to write (and draw, and study, and code for that matter) KICKS INTO OVERDRIVE! I’M GOING TO WRITE A NOVEL BEFORE I TURN 18 JUST YOU WAIT!
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So, next is coding. One fun fact about me is that I want to be a vet when I’m older, unfortunately, my parents won’t let me have a pet and medical stuff makes me feel a bit weird. I’m hoping everything works out, but if not, coding is my one of two only other options (the second being art). Programming has fascinated me for awhile, though I’m pretty bad at finishing projects, and while I don’t have much to show on scratch, I did take coding classes in school, so I know the basics of Java and Javascript, and of course scratch. I’m trying to teach myself how to use Godot, because I have these two visual novel ideas that have been living in my head, refusing to be evicted for the past year, and while they might take awhile, I’m hoping I can make a small, but impressive game by the end of this summer.

Piano is something I need to up my game on. I’ve had it for three-ish years and I barely know a full song. If you couldn't already tell, I’m really bad at consistency and discipline, but I’m allegedly trying my best. I have two songs I AM going to learn this summer, Just the Two of Us and Hit the Road Jack, and if I don’t (which won’t happen I swear) I’ll probably cry. But after that, I’m SO learning a thousand anime OPs because with great power comes doing whatever the heck that makes you feel happy, or something like that.

I also like volleyball and track. I’m not on the team for either of them, and to be honest I started liking volleyball after watching Haikyuu, but who cares? I’m active, I’m having fun, and maybe I can actually get on the team. Exercise is the only thing I’ve really been consistent in, and while volleyball is a bit of a bust, you can call me Sonic because I gotta go fast!

Singing and acting are smaller hobbies for me, but they're still fun. I was in chorus back in elementary and I did Odyssey of the Mind, in elementary and middle. In both I had to act to a degree and even though I’m no theater kid, I’ve always been the tiniest bit dramatic. I mean, what else are you supposed to do after writing a story? The only real option is acting it out, sound effects and all.

Language learning time! Technically I’m learning French in school but that couldn’t matter less! Why pay attention to a language that’s pretty widely spoken and would help with job prospects in the future, when I can learn a language basically only spoken in one country in Africa that will probably never benefit me here in America? On est inintelligente! I need to reconnect with my roots! Where I came from! I’ve been on/off learning Yoruba for about a year and it's a little frustrating but I swear one day I’ll be able to call myself bilingual! It's such a pretty language and I don’t care if no one I know but family speaks it, if someone is actually reading this, and they’ve stuck around this far. I totally recommend learning a language! Not Spanish or French or whatever they force you to learn in school, unless you actually want to, then all the power to you, but a language you’re actually passionate about. Once I’m decent-ish at Yoruba, I’m gonna try my hand at Japanese and hope it's not going to be hard as I know it will be.

Which perfectly segways to the last step of my hyperfixation staircase! Anime, and books, and cartoons and video games, because I’m already past the 1000 word goal and I kinda need to finish this so I can go to sleep, it's half past three right now. So I LOVE fantasy with the passion of a thousand suns which will clearly be shown in all my favorite media, but I also like mystery and action and romance (but only as a subplot!). I also basically only watch animated shows because ANIMATION IS NOT JUST FOR KIDS AND IS STORYTELLING MEDIUM DESERVING OF RESPECT! Like how can anyone look at Spider-verse and say it's juvenile, not worthy of the eyes of adults? How! I watched The Haikyuu movie, the Blue Lock Movie and Inside out this summer, all of them were really good! I really like My Hero Academia, and this season is so HYPE! I love it so far. I’ve also been watching My Adventures with Superman, and while I’m not caught up, I’ve watched all MCU movies up to Endgame. Toilet-Bound Hanako has me in a chokehold even though I’m a bit lost at the current story, and Case Study of Vanitas is amazing and I love it and it’s great and I’m quaking while waiting for the next season.

There’s a bunch of other anime but I can’t be here all day so cartoon time! ALL OF THE GREATS HAVE ENDED! I know the Owl house is amazing, I watched it, but oh my gosh, someone please talk to me about Amphibia. I love it so much and it's so underrated, at least in comparison to Owl House, not that they should be compared they’re both great but you get it! Glitch Techs was fun too and it makes me cry that it's probably never getting another season. Ninjago is probably the best show of ever, Cole is my ride or die! And can we talk about indie shows because OH MY GOSH EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A BANGER! Lackadaisy, TADC (I HAVE A POMNI), even though I never watched Hazbin hotel, it’s honestly amazing knowing that it was able to become what it is now from an indie pilot on youtube. Banger after banger! Cartoons don’t miss!

Video games: Lightning round! I’m already more than 500 words over the limit, I didn’t think I’d write this much. HADES!! DROP THE PRICE OF HADES II AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!! I need the game, I NEED IT! Hades took over my entire existence when I got it and I just know Hades II will be the same and it's taking all of my willpower to wait for it to get out of early access. Hollow Knight, one day, I will finish you, preferably before Silk Song, you’re just really hard and I’m too hooked by Hades and Honkai: Star Rail (Seamless transition!) I love gambling and space travel and the fact that the game can fill the void in my heart that Genshin left because it takes too much storage. I got Space Cowboy after much sweat and tears and now all I have to do is farm for the next 20 years. Omori is a game I played, I didn’t finish it. I knew it was horror, but I didn’t know it’d be as scary as it was. It was fun while it lasted though, never buying a game like that again. Honorable mentions because this wasn’t supposed to be this long: Stardew Valley (CONCERNEDAPE WHERE IS HAUNTED CHOCOLATIER), Danganronpa, YTTD, Brawlhalla, Tears of Themis, and last but certainly not least Battle cats. Thank you for stealing over 300 hours of my life.

FINALLY BOOKS AND THEN WE’RE DONE! My favorite books are probably A Series of Unfortunate Events, The 39 Clues(The better Rick Riordan series, fight me), Wings of Fire, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries, The Hunger Games and a billion others because I can’t pick favorites. I also really like basically all of the Grishaverse, I’m reading Rule of Wolves right now. And I picked up KotLC after seeing it mentioned so many times in SWC, I’m on book 8.5 right now. It's honestly a bit repetitive at this point and I might get annoyed at a lot of the plot choices but it's such a guilty pleasure of mine, I’m really thankful I found it. And I’m reading Warriors, because all my friends were obsessed with it in elementary and the first book was finally available at the library, and I get why everyone was obsessed back then! I’ve also doubled my book collection this year! I got a free historical romance book from the library, I thrifted Sherlock Holmes for just a dollar AND my friend got me Trials of Apollo book 3 for my birthday because she’s the best! Anyway I should probably end this about now, it's almost 4 am and I actually need to y’know sleep.

So yeah! That’s me! Totally in over my head but who cares I’m having fun! I just know this session is going to be great, I mean I’ve had so many funny interactions already and it's only the first day! I’ve totally decimated the 1k intro and typed so much my fingers cramping, it can only go up from here! But one last thing, I need to put a joke in here, so uh, I’m gonna try to think of a new really funny one.

Nevermind, Scratch didn't like my Grunkle Stan reference, so just imagine I quoted him so good you started guffawing and slapping your knee.

Ha HA that was so funny and original and you are laughing really hard right now!

But seriously, SWC this month is gonna be great, it already is! Good luck to all the campers and the cabins, you guys are gonna need it with Fantasy as your opponent. We’ve got oompa loompas on our side! Happy SWC and FANTASY FTW!

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Hello! I'm Krm, she/her. I'm always open to anyone giving me constructive criticism, critiquing my writing! Feel free to say hi, I don't bite. xD
This is my first session of SWC. :]

Cabin: Sci-Fi
Recently Read: Six of Crows; The Reappearance of Rachel Price; The Promise Boys; They Both Die at the End; The Initial Insult; The Last Laugh; Good Girl, Bad Blood
(I'm always looking for more reccomendations! :])

Dailies
July 1 || Introduction || 1059 words
July 2 || Letter to Future Self || 228 words
July 3 || Kingdom Timeline || 611 words

Weeklies
Weekly 1 || Time || 2661 words
Weekly 2 || Traditions|| 1853 words

Word Wars
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Daily 1 / July 1st / 1059 words

Name: Krm
Pronouns: She/her
Cabin: Sci-Fi
Always looking for writing advice, book recommendations, or people to talk to! :]
Archive: here

Her room is a soft color of purple; the same shade she chose thirteen years ago. You might be able to guess its age by the dark and light streaks that run down the walls, or the glaring chips in the paint showing a rough white. It’s a rugged, uneven coat, but she seems unlikely to repaint it.
The back of the neatly white door has a tatter paper attached. Most of it is ripped away at this point. The long paper goes up to about her waist, now. Though she can still remember ripping it off of the rest of the paper wrapped around the wooden cylinder, covering it with crayon doodles. She can still remember when that paper was taller than her.
The bed isn’t anything particularly unique. White frame, slight dips carved in Vs. Gray blanket with images of cartoonish cats splaying and dancing across the white squiggles that cover the plain background. The pillow holds the same whimsical pattern.
Overlooking her bed, large stickers of Ana and Elsa from Frozen smile at the other wall. She keeps saying she’ll take them down next month, next month, maybe in a few weeks—she used to believe herself, but now she knows she won’t. Maybe they’ll stay up trapped in their static grins until she moves out. Maybe they’ll outlive her.
The wall opposite the bed is probably the part that contains the most of her. Same soft lavender coat, though this one is adorned with wires that loop and stretch about the wall. The wires have lights, little white stars that blink according to the instruction given by the remote.
Above the wired serpent? Leaf stickers attached to the wall, caught forever blowing away. They sparkle like distorted mirrors—you can see your own familiar colors and shape in them, though the image is blurred.
Below the wire? A small dresser, with an old clock that doubles as a CD player on top of it. “Chicago” is written on a silvery disk, the word just visible from the clear slot where the disk shows.
Along wire that snakes across the wall, she’s hung pictures and art projects from middle school.
A picture of a past halloween; she’d dressed up as a Zoom meeting that year. It was 6th grade, the year where school was half-in, half-out, and no one was fully there.
A picture of her and her younger brother on the beach, a little sunburned but grinning against the vibrant blue sky. The beach that her family visited every year to see her cousins.
A pastel drawing she’d done in eighth grade of the Yamata No Orichi, a creature from Japanese mythology. The image shows the creature’s eight heads, dark against the burning sky. Waves lick at the side, and its eight tails flail wildly. Amber eyes stare. Bright teeth shine. She chose the creature as a subject not because of knowledge of Japanese Mythology. It was because of the Pokemon Hydreigon, who was inspired by this Japanese legend. You can tell by the blue-gray and dull pinks used to color the painting that she also drew from Hydreigon’s design.
A whirling of petals and Koi fish, all facing towards the center of the piece. All the four quarters are identical, aside from the background color: she made it in art class by carving out a print and dipping it in ink to create identical images.
A portrait of her, maybe in another word, where the colors are all off and her skin is a bright shade of red, hair a combination-mixture of blue and purple. Another school piece: eighth grade, where art class that year was dedicated to the creation of a portrait. Outside of the square containing her face, herlight indigo braid breaks off into the curled form of a dragon.
A wooden circle, cut to look like a gear. The word “Inspire” curves over the top of the gear, and on the bottom, her name is written. She’d been in a robotics club that year and won the award against the other members of the rookie team. Not that there was much competition; nearly everyone else that year hardly worked on anything at all. It was up to her, a freshman, to manage both the code and documentation.
A picture of her family’s two cats—the first picture ever taken of the kittens, before they were adopted. They’ve grown taller, grown much plumper since then, but their expressions remain the same. Kai, in gray and white, stared playfully into the camera. Meanwhile, his sister Flora shyly poked her black and white head out from behind Kai.
A picture of her soccer team from last year— her last season of soccer.
A piece of cardboard with their robot’s number written on it in bold letters. She’d had to make it when their competition was the next day, and their robotics team leader had lost the wooden markers.
A key-chain of her favorite Pokemon; Sprigaito. Her grandparents had given it to her just a month or two ago.
A large, loud canary-colored arrow, black paper in the shape of dinosaurs carefully cut out and glued onto it. She’d made it for school in seventh grade: Dinosaur crossing. It was bold, it was silly, and it was large enough to cover double the horizontal length of any of the other items hanging from the wire. Drawing was “not to scale.”
The room wasn’t always like this. The polkadot and floral rugs had been moved countless times. The dresser alternated between corners of the room. The closet, in the far corner of the room, often changed appearances. She’s had many desks in the past—her current one is covered in scattered papers, with various notebooks and sketchpads contained within the attached mini-shelf. The slim but tall bookshelf is a newer addition, only arriving a few years back. At first, there had been a rocking chair, though that was quickly removed after it slammed against the painted walls. There had once been a guitar that moved in and out, while she still played.
It had evolved and changed with her. Constants remained, but the room wasn’t the same as it once had been. She wasn’t the same as she once had been. It wasn’t neat, wasn’t particularly flattering, but it was her.
And that’s what her room is for, isn’t it?

claiming space for daily 1

Hi, i'm @Sgt_Mushroom (yes, definitely click that link) but you can call me just Mushroom()or Mushy for an even shorter name). I've been on scratch for 7+ (nearly 8) years now but this is only the second time I got into the community and events like swc. The first time was a few years ago, before coronavirus and this is now my second attempt and integrating into the community, boy you really forget how great this website is. I mostly make art that is either blockshaded or pixel art but I thought I'd give swc a try after a great review from my real-life friend @Curmudgeon2 (also definitely check out that link)

Outside of scratch I go to secondary school and mostly enjoy the subjects: art (of course), history and english. Here's a little secret for you; i'm not actually a mushroom-person and only used to play, what is in dnd, a myconid, of which has since been disposed of for my more preferred lycanthrope character. Since swc is all about writing i'll also share some of my favourite books, which i'll generally use for the purpose of either reading or eating - depending on my mood. Books/ book series I like include: the discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, Orwell works or other Orwellian (micro) genre novels and Lord Of The Rings + The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. I don't often vibe so much with huge fandoms but I must admit I am quite a big star wars fan so am always open to discussion about that.

I look forward to meeting you all - Sgt_Mushroom !

july 1st daily: “Welcome, shoppers, to the July 2024 session of Scratch Writing Camp! We are beyond excited to have you all here with us as we explore IKEA. To get this session started, introduce yourself to your fellow customers in the Main Cabin comments! Make sure to include some form of joke, whether it be your favorite riddle or a silly pun, in your introduction to celebrate international joke day on July 1st. See you in the showroom!”

words: 1145

okayyyyy! here comes my attempt at writing a 1k word intro! i don’t really know who started this tradition/challenge thingy but i really enjoy it tbh! i think it’s a good way to start off the swc season on a high note and get some early session motivation! but enough rambling (definitely not to try and pad my word count, nooo i would never do that heh..), and let’s get into actually introducing myself!

oops, i almost forgot about the challenge this time around lolol, so i’m going to put a riddle here and then i’ll make sure that i include the answer at the end of my about me so ya’ll aren’t left hanging <3 here it is: you can ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. what is the question? when i first heard this one i definitely had to think about it for a while but once i got it the answer made complete sense xD best of luck fellow swcers!

so, my name (online at least) is piper, i’m a homeschooled rising junior and i use she/her pronouns! This session i’m caping in gothic (led by the AMAZING moss, lio, mouse and veni). for a little bit about me (which is of course the entire purpose of this daily!), i’m catholic (born and raised) and i recently got confirmed! it was such a wonderful experience, not only my confirmation day but also all the classes and events and retreats in the two years leading up to it, it 100% helped me grow so much deeper into my faith. it also helped that i had an absolutely incredible youth minister to guide me along the way! now that i’ve been confirmed, i’m going to be part of our youth leadership team, which is relatively new since we’re rebuilding our youth ministry after covid. we actually have our first youth leadership meeting to plan for confirmation retreat tonight, and i’m super excited for that! a couple of weeks ago i was able to go to a catholic leadership camp with some other kids from my church which was an overnight in the mountains for one week (monday through friday) and got to meet other catholic teens who were also looking into being/are leaders in their youth groups, something that i want to look into doing in the future. we got to do regular camp stuff (swimming, archery, games on the lawn, etc.) but also had mass, adoration, praise and worship, as well as workshops on how to lead small groups in your church and general sessions about faith.

recently i’ve goten into Bible journaling, which i love because it allows me to write down my thoughts and put sticky notes and hand lettering verses into my BIble (which is a journaling one so it has wider margins than usual); this personally helps me to absorb the message the Lord is sending me much easier. if you’re a visual &/or an artistic person i very much recommend trying out Bible journaling! <3 i use sticky notes, a ballpoint pen, pastel Bible highlighters (made to not bleed through the thin pages) and of course my Bible! I try to take at least 30 minutes out of my morning to read/journal in my Bible; I’m currently working through the book of psalms and am really really liking it so far!

another thing i’ve gotten into doing more recently is bullet journaling! I tried to start a bullet journal earlier in the year, but i kind fo fell off of it and never finished anything past february, but over the summer one of my goals is to get my life organized before school starts, so i figured that a decent place to start would be a bullet journal so that i can plan everything out. and, yes i know that using a calendar app is objectively an easier way to plan things out, i find that using a bullet journal which i can make look pretty with different themes and spreads helps me to be a bit more motivated which is good for me! if anyone has done bullet journaling for a while and has any ideas for themes i would love to hear them, since that’s the only thing that i struggle with sometimes!

let’s see, i’ve also been homeschooled for my entire life! i first started off being homeschooled at an independent study charter school, which i stayed at until i was in 8th grade. then for freshman year i transferred to a private christian hybrid, which i’ve really been enjoying! how it works is i go on campus twice a week (once for academic classes and once for elective classes) and if functions much like a college class. i go to lecture and then the rest of the week i have homework to do for that class at home. it works for me, and i’ve really enjoyed it! i also think that homeschooling has provided me a lot of incredible opportunities and life skills; i think it’s aided me in learning time management, personal responsibility, and the flexibility of my schedule has allowed me to do lots of things i wouldn’t have been able to otherwise!

another one of my biggest hobbies is musical theater! I absolutely LOVE performing and i’ve been doing musicals since i was 8 years old, so almost 9 years at this point! i’ve been in 10 musicals so far (elf jr, a little princess, peter pan jr, tuck everlasting, the wizard of oz, matilda jr, annie, elf jr again, shrek jr, and peter pan jr again). My favorite roles that i’ve played in the past are definitely grace farrell from annie and fiona in shrek! The most recent production that i was in was peter pan jr, where i got to play captain hook! currently i’m not doing any shows, however i am stage managing for my theater companies summer intensive production, which is james and the giant peace jr! i think stage managing is going to be an amazing opportunity since i’ll be able to see theater from the technical side, which i’ve never done before!

alright everyone! that’s going to be the end of my about me! before i sign off completely, i’ll go ahead and give ya’ll the answer to the riddle i introduced at the beginning! the answer is….. drumroll pleasssee…. “what time is it?”

i hope ya’ll enjoyed reading through my about me (and if you actually read it all the way through then i commend you and would love to discuss anything i talked about!) i hope to meet a whole lot of new swcers this session, so don’t be afraid to reach out to me if you ever want to chat! <3 bye for now!

Daily Activity, July First
Word Count: 1470

Hi! I’m addie (she/her) and I'm so excited to participate!! First RandomFact™: I’m listening to the This is Adrianne Lenker playlist on Spotify while writing this which I think provides a lot of insight into who I am if you get it. Okay okay so my joke is:

My cousin is so dumb, he spent two weeks in Europe trying to find the English Common Market!

I think Fozzie Bear said it on an episode of The Muppet Show and no one ever gets this joke, but I really love it so much. Actually maybe we start there, so instead of a my little pony phase or a monster truck phase or anything, Instead when I was younger I had a muppets phase? I would watch anything with the muppets, seriously. I still love them honestly, I have two of their movie soundtracks on vinyl and I always put on one of their movies when I’m sad for a laugh. My favorites were always Gonzo and Rowlf, their vibes were always immaculate, the aura points were infinite. I’ve been really meaning to watch the new Jim Henson documentary on Disney+, I guess I just haven’t really gotten around to it yet. Jim Henson’s work with the muppets is actually really inspiring, I think. Second RandomFact™: The songs “symbol” and “I Still Hear You” just played back to back and I’m a mess, Adrianne Lenker how do you make me feel such emotions? And now her cover of “Vampire Empire” is playing. I'm going into crisis mode Adrianne, I hope you’re happy.

What else to say about me… maybe just a list and see where that takes us? Well, I’m a vegetarian because in kindergarten I watched a video on the PBS about Mahatma Gandhi (my parents were probably playing it in the background) and they must’ve been talking about how he was a vegetarian because of something about killing animals and I don’t know that just flipped a switch in me. My parents thought it would be a phase but it definitely wasn’t, and I guess since it’s been so long since I’ve had any, the smell and texture and everything about meat actually makes me want to throw up. This is kind of difficult because if I wanted to go back to eating it I would have a very difficult time adjusting again and also my parents are very passionate about barbecuing which means I usually have to make my own meals. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not trying to throw a pity party or anything, I honestly don’t even mind it that much. It’s just one of life’s arrows, and a pretty dull one at that.

I’m a virgo, which says a lot on its own.

I think my dream house would have a similar interior design to that of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.

I’ve always wanted to Direct as a hobby, like short films and such, but that’s not really something you can just decide to have a hobby. Not like knitting or crocheting or anything. Third RandomFact™: As soon as I typed the word anything, “Anything” by Adrianne Lenker began playing. I am 100% playing this song at my wedding. Anyways though, I’ve always thought directing things is awesome. I watch a lot of online videos about it and its intricacies and everything like that. It just looks so beautiful.

I do music as a hobby though, and I really love it. I’m learning (learning) to play violin from actual lessons, to play piano (ish cuz i only have one of those $15 keyboards) from youtube, and to play guitar from youtube. I’ve also been taking vocal lessons for about a year now, even though I’ve been begging for them for about 6 or 7 years. I really like singing, I always have. When I was in like probably pre-k through first grade I would sing the frozen soundtrack out of the car window so LOUD I remember, now looking back I’m so embarrassed. I think I just loved it so much I wanted to share it with everyone. I remember the first time I got a solo in a school play was in the first school play they held in second grade. Except the “plays” at my school weren’t really plays, it was just the entire grade sitting there and singing a catalog of songs we had to learn over the school year and it was connected to a theme. Anyways, I ended up getting the only solo for the play, which I think is pretty cool and was probably my 15 minutes. The thing is I lied to get it? The song was based on a children's book and the only requirement for “auditioning” is that you had to have read it, and I had not read it. Crazy that I booked my first job by lying.

The second school play I was in was much more intense, or as much more intense it could get for 3rd grade. Everyone had their own little part or they were part of a small group that had a part. I remember actually that I didn’t get the part I auditioned for but they made me try out for another one of the “big three” solos that everyone was telling me even before auditions that I would be really good at and I got it which I was a little upset about. The reason I didn’t try out for it in the first place is because it was all lovey-dovey and I had to sing it to a boy playing a silent part or something like that, and I was so petrified about what my parents would say. As it turns out, they really didn’t care in the end and I was worrying over nothing. I ended up having that one solo and two duets in that play which not to brag was the most out of everyone but yeah maybe I’m bragging actually I think I deserve it, it was really cool, I was a star (Pearl, anyone?).

Then in fourth grade we got a new music teacher and she took away all of the plays. I was devastated. At that point, the school plays were my entire life and she killed them. I was a wreck. So fourth grade came and went, joyless. In fifth grade though, she did something different, and held a “fifth grade talent show” which intrigued me. I remember I almost didn’t participate out of retaliation, simply because I just didn’t like her, but then I signed up. Be advised, this is the year that I start to develop debilitating anxiety (which I still have now! Thanks!) and this performance is when it really started to show itself to me. So there I am, 5 minutes until I have to go up and perform a song by Radiohead, and I’m sobbing backstage. Somehow I managed to pull myself together, I went up there, got off, and then sometime after I learned that I had won. I really don’t remember the performance, it all happened really quickly. Not sure.

I love the app “letterboxd” . It's probably one of my most frequently used apps.

I’m the only one of my friends that has an active “x” account. I don’t think anyone calls it x though. I hate Elon Musk.

I love novelty salt and pepper shakers, I want to have a collection.

I love baking/cooking. At least when I have a recipe. I love how methodic it is and I love serving food to other people, it’s always been something fun for me. I’m always scared when cutting vegetables though, maybe I just have a fear of sharp objects or something. Cooking/baking isn’t something I’d want to be when I grow up though, it’s just a hobby. I’m not sure what I want to do when I grow up. I always thought fashion was cool, I still do, so I think I might want to design. There’s always the option of being a music teacher and doing other stuff music-related on the side. I could be a lawyer, I’ve always been good at debating, I’m just not sure if I have the grades to be confident in that though. I think I’m the only person at my school that finds STEM class fun, so I could be an engineer. I could be an environmental engineer and try to save the world. I remember when I was younger I was obsessed with trees, I wanted to be an arborist, which is a tree surgeon. My favorite holiday was Arbor day for a while. It’s different now, though.

My favorite holiday usually alternates between Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Anyways, I think that’s all I’m gonna write, I want to do other things now. Thanks!

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DAILIES

Completed on this thread: 7/1, 7/2, 7/3, 7/4, 7/11, 7/25, Weekendly 1

7/1 (Intro Daily, I SWEAR THIS IS AN INTRO I PROMISE I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT A STORY T.T)
I'm pretty sure you can tell I really really really really really REALLY like The Mandela Catalogue because this story lives through it LOL. (all the WI mentions!!) but if not…I really like it. A lot. And internet horror…anyways here's my rambling!

- 7/1 Daily: Intro: 1980 words -

“It sure is…dark in here.”

Another figure, shadowed by the absence of light in the small department room, gave a small grunt of agreement, annoyed at the other's chattering. The girl who had began to talk moved around a bit in their restraints, trying to sit closer into the small light emitting from a desk in the corner of the stark space.

"Stop trying to make small talk. We got caught, let's not make this any worse for the both of us.“

The talkative girl, who truthfully only continued the conversation on to ease her own fears, nodded, her curly, brown hair moving slightly to one side.
”Whatever. So…how much do you think they know?“ The other raised her eyebrows and looked up towards the other girl. Behind her, the words ”BMPD“ were plastered on the wall, along with an insignia of another government agency. ”The department JUST found us, they probably haven't even identified us or anything. Like we did anything to even catch their attention, regardless.“

The curly-haired girl used the wall to stand up, looking at the illuminated corner. ”Well, apparently, we did. I SWEAR I told Kait to hide the tapes this time…but…I guess they're really keen on us keeping it down with the technology use. You know her, don't you?“ The black-haired girl nodded, interested now. So her alleged partner-in-crime was at least infatuated with Kait as well.

Ignoring the other's notion about VHS, she responded to the latter. ”Yep. We used to be closer a while back, but…you know. Time goes on. Even friends grow apart.“ A small smirk appeared on her face, though it wasn't one of happiness. After taking another good look at the other girl, she finally realized who exactly this accomplice…was.

”Hold on! …you're…“ She would have made a hand motion, but seeing as she was handcuffed, she looked down momentarily and stopped herself.

”Figure it out yet?“ she replied with a grin. ”You might not remember me, but I'm Kait's best friend. Oly. We used to hang out sometimes back then?“ She paused, wondering if the other would remember. ”We'd…go out in Yonder County and run around the countryside. Your family had that lake house and Kait would bring me up every summer. I've always liked the outdoors. Swimming and running and all that.“

The black-haired girl nodded, remembering these occasions, her eyes darting around as she thought. ”Yeah, vaguely…“ Oly smiled, clearly pleased by her remembrance.

”Oh, right! I remember you. Oly, riiight…You haven't really changed much,“ the other girl replied, not meaning for it to be offensive. Oly only laughed along, not seeming fazed in the slightest. ”Are you still into those found footage videos?“ Oly nodded happily.

”Yeah, only now, you aren't supposed to own any of that sort of stuff. Hence why we're…here.“ She moved towards the desk, seeing various scattered papers on the surface. Pages with her name on it…and the other girl's…Oly's eyes widened as she used her elbow to move the papers closer to the light. She had a somber glance in her eyes.

”Kait and I wanted to show people what was really happening around here. So we recorded a bunch of these. I mean, I just…couldn't really sit around and do nothing while people were getting manipulated by all of these entities. It's to the point where people don't think they exist. It might sound kind of cheesy, but…I don't know. I kind of have a passion for that. Or, rather…just…a sense of justice…“ Oly seemed sheepish by the end of her statement.

The other girl nodded, and after hearing Oly's last statement, she began to understand her view more. ”Yeah, I get that. Kait talked about it from time to time. She said you were upset about it…well, she just talked about you a lot.“

Oly looked back towards the girl with a grateful glance.

Minutes became hours, and the two surprisingly hit it off quite well. Nobody from the department had even come in to interrogate them yet, which was slightly concerning, but the two didn't mind it much. Oly wasn't usually one for nostalgia, but she found herself reminiscing about lots of old events and interests with the other girl, who introduced herself as Elle. They talked of all areas, everything leading up to the ”organized crime“ fiasco, which neither of them could remember particularly well. Elle and Oly had both grown up in the same town, Midwesterners to the core, but Oly was originally born in the big city. After the uprising began, her family moved over to help in the public service departments in Wisconsin. They both bonded with their mutual best friend, Kait, over a love of everything creepy and whimsical. Well…and everything sci-fi. That was something Elle could connect on. She fondly remembered the trio's childhood roleplays around the lake of bigger series like Star Wars, and later on Dune (they'd pretend to stage all the house battles and be ”sandworms“.)

Elle found it strange how the two hardly recognized each other now- perhaps it was the circumstances they were under, the shared stress for being under scrutiny of the law…but, of course, that wasn't guaranteed. Besides, Oly seemed so much happier despite all of the circumstances. She hadn't lived in the county from the start, and came partially through the alternate invasion. Elle was almost envious of it. Perhaps that drove her away from Oly- and even Kait, who seemed to be trying to deal with the invasion differently as well.

It was all so selfish, but everyone's reality was quite depressing at this stage. You hardly had time to remember others when you were fighting just to survive it all.

”Well, we better get ready. The dept is gonna come in soon…let's rest our case.“ Oly let out a sigh. However, as her eyes widened at the door handle turning, an officer wasn't the figure that came in, as expected.

A strange, glitched sound emitted from the door. A blurred figure with an uncanny smile, donning a bright, white robe stretching down to the floor, appeared before them, their face slightly melted.

”You revealed all to me. And now I am here. You…are a fool."

Elle and Oly's vision blurred, the only view of the room being the figure who began to stretch inhumanly.

This was all a very, very bad idea.



Haha yeah so the alternate reached for the files and is gonna show you guys all this rambling (NO WAY!!!?!?!?!)

(Kait and Elle are based off of actual friends I have, Kait is my epic best friend and Elle is my other epic best friend! The only difference is their name changes. >:0 shout-out to them for being the best partners in crime ever…((NOT ACTUALLY, OF COURSE!! I'M VERY LAW-ABIDING…)) )

But it's very nice to meet you! I'm Oly, an internet horror, sci-fi, sports, typology, birding, and shonen anime obsessed girl whose age I will NEVER tell you (well…maybe? I'm in HS.) I'm a proud XC and track runner and a competitive swimmer as well as an ex-basketball player. And I LOVE NHL. (My life's too busy for 4.) I'm also a huge cat person but also enjoy animals, especially birding. My best birding finds have been a hooded warbler, blue-footed (why won't it let me say this it's the name of the bird), summer tanager pairs, etc

Practically my favorite thing ever has to be The Mandela Catalogue (a silly web horror series that's got a TON of awesome symbolism, great world building and structure, and some nice scares without using cheesy jumpscares and overused cliches in the web/analog genre!)…those videos have made me infinitely happy like no other media project has. Otherwise though, I have a giant list of stuff I like on my profile, but I LOVE Kane Pixel's (Parsons) work, mostly The Oldest View, along with some of the classics like Gemini Home Ent., Local 58, and I like some more hidden gems like Winter of ‘83 and Doctor Nowhere (The Organate Enterprise, The Oddity Compodium, etc etc…) The Walten Files from time to time is awesome! The amount of daily jokes and references I make to TMC/web horror series on the daily must annoy the heck out of my friends. (I sincerely apologize for my behavior (not! >))

I also love anime! Naruto’s my go-to (I love Obito Uchiha okay DX), but I'm also a huge fan of Bleach, Demon Slayer, ORANGE, Haikyuu, Fruits Basket, One-Punch Man, Hana, Natsume's Book of Friends, Kakuriyo, Phantom Tales of the Night, Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee…oh boy, the list could go on forever!

Roleplay is a vital need for me, apparently I can't go for longer than a few days without it (help me)…

I'm an artist, piano (12 years and counting, woohoo) and cello player, and musical composer. I also love Studio Investigrave's games Dead Plate, Elevator Hitch, Cold Front, Eloquent Countenance, and Married in Red (COWORKER!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!!!)

I'm also into typology. I mainly like researching and using cognitive functions (MBTI, Jungian), enneagram, tritype and instinctual variants, socionics, big five, and more. I'm an ENFJ (FeNiSeTi but also high Ne randomly in there) 2w3 279 so/sx (2w3, 7w6, 9w1) SC|O|AI EIE Sanguine-Phlegmatic Neutral Good. Typology is super important to me because it's been a way that I can explore myself. From it, I've learned to understand many of my strengths, weaknesses, and just understanding myself and attending to my feelings more. It's also a method I use to write my characters with depth that I wouldn't have a grip on without using type.

Other stuff: pronouns are she/her (if you don't know me or my pronouns they/them is cool too but please don't use it if you do know me/my pronouns), I'm on the aroace spectrum (pan/grey/demiromantic) (which means that you have little to no romantic attraction to others and if you were to feel romantic attraction you cannot experience it until you have formed an emotional bond with someone else, and it could be someone of any gender identity) and demiace. (However, I'm unsure if I'm demi, meaning you can feel this type of attraction after forming an emotional bond with someone only, or ace, as I've never felt romantic or this type of attraction towards anyone and am confused by it and see no draw or to it.) I'm figuring it out, I guess. DX (you guys are the first to know this :O)

I'm also a huge SW/TCW fan. Controversial opinion, no, but the prequels are such comfort movies for me. Especially ROTS. Plus, I do most of my related writing and RP in that period too so I guess I just love it I also love music, the altrock scene is my favorite place- I'm such a sucker for 90's-2000's altrock too. Canadian rock at that (Our Lady Peace, Matthew Good, I Mother Earth, etc etc) plus Muse and The Strokes I also like Cults, Arcade Fire and Tame Impala.

I also have a passion for teaching- I want to be an arts educator in the future as well as a coach. Helping build joy for activities is something that I want to do, and art can be a major root of self-confidence for people. I especially want to work in programs that don't have art programs that have been established very well- I want to give students the opportunity and resources to enjoy art.

I'm also super passionate about what is happening in the world around us. I try to stay updated as best I can on current events and enjoy discussion about such. I also enjoy debating and learning about international relations!

But yeah! If you've read through all that I seriously applaud you T.T thank you guys so much. I'm a first-time, newbie camper and I don't know how this works, but I'm so excited to get to learn the process with all of you! Thank you all for being so welcoming (AND EVERYONE IN THE CABIN! YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY THE BEST! ) and shout out to our favorite horror siblings (Rush, Astro and Churro, I see you!)

I'm free to talk about virtually anything!



7/2 DAILY: FUTURE LETTER


Finished on Jul. 2, 3:25 PM EST, 1312 words total but just count the bolded paragraph that has been shifted to the first paragraph, as that's what I did for the daily, the rest is just me rambling for the sake of rambling because I really needed to set goals.

No real huge TWs but this is a very personal essay.

(THIS SECTION IS THE DAILY)
HEY OLY (ME) ON AUGUST FIRST (R.I.P., by the way-)

OLY. TAKE THE HEADPHONES OFF IF APPLICABLE AND LISTEN TO ME RIGHT NOW. (In the best way possible.)

Take time to attend to your own feelings.

I always find summers to be a time of reflection, and I've been pondering a lot about myself, my identity, and my personal issues and takes on social issues and norms while I don't feel pressured to continue abiding by everything as I am in highly social environments. You always give to others before yourself and that needs to be changed. This is an awful habit that I have, but even taking small steps can make you feel refreshed. I know we seek validation for such opinions and views (even if they may not be understood in full), so maybe confiding in those you trust about things you've been hesitant on to share or hold back might help you get that weight off your chest. Hearing an “I get you” or just having someone listen to you regardless of their shared opinion on the subject literally makes you inwardly jump for joy. Maybe it can help you start discussion and help understand yourself more with these trusted individuals.
(OKAY NOW THIS SECTION IS NOT THE DAILY)

If you're trying to read this before being back in school, just turn back now. Take some time to make the changes that you want to, even if it's in such a short amount of time. At the current date I like to think that changes can be made regardless of the time you have to do it, and there's lots of attainable goals that I think I can accomplish in the month of July. Whether they're smaller or larger, I think we both know it's doable.

Firstly- (this is the least serious topic I touch on in this month-) show up to practice every day and work your hardest! (I mean, I shouldn't have to remind myself of this, BUT JUST AS A THOUGHT). You want to make that championship standard? GO AND GET IT! You're 0.1 seconds off the free cut, less than 5 in fly and 3 in the 100m. Get yourself another SCY opportunity to round out the end of a challenging summer season. I mean- you CAN'T *only* let your younger brother go…
It's okay to have tough days, but approach them with a passion and goal in mind. Don't let it get you down.

Secondly- please give yourself time to hang out with friends. Enjoy that pool party you're having next weekend. Confide in your close friends and cousins that are coming from out of the country and just give yourself time to recharge in the way that you need to- which is obviously through cherishing and keeping up on your relationships. However, also make sure not to put too much pressure on yourself to try and please everyone all the time. In fact, try and steer away from relationships that have been negatively affecting you. Who cares what they think? Take advice from those you trust and break off the ones that are hurting you. You know exactly what I'm talking about. She is not worth it, and you need to make it incredibly clear with her that you don't want anything to do with her. She's hurt you in intervals over the last two years and even though you haven't spoken together in quite some time, it's still a scar that has been left on you because she touched on points about yourself that you're still figuring out and might be secretly unsure about. It's something that you've taken more time to accept because of people like her putting you down. If she's somehow in your econ class (or something, these are just Oly hypotheticals!) at the beginning of the new semester, don't even give her the time of day. You can be respectful without having to feel obligated to continue a lost-cause relationship that isn't healthy for you.

Just thinking about it and not telling the people I care about so much makes me feel a bit strange, (I'm passionate about everything there is to my identity and I want to share myself fully with those I trust) but I also want to make sure I'm READY for it- so take that time to understand yourself and where you may be mentally and emotionally in case you felt like you needed to confide in someone. However, also don't get too hyperfixated on it. Let loose, and make sure to enjoy the present. It's okay to be confused about where you're going to be or who you might think you are. If you can't draw your conclusion you wanted to those questions- I mean, it's literally a month…you have all the time in the world, and you might need more time and reflection through thoughtful experience to feel whole. (Awful, stereotypical typology joke coming your way right now, but NI, BACK OFF, LET THE TERT SE COME IN AND LET ME STEP BACK ON THE GAS PEDAL! Try to balance them both out.)

Like I said before, (but I think it's a very strong point in this discussion, Future Oly, so it'll be restated), let yourself loose! Whether that's engaging in the hobbies and activities you joy, getting your writing spirit on during SWC this month (let's see how I lived up to my kind of incredible writing ambitions with my 3 memoir-retrospect/informational projects plus writing the outlines and filming all of the first installments of DIVE (digital horror) plus the storyboards and potential literary adaptation of “With My Own Two Eyes”…OH RIGHT- A N D reaching out to the voice actors and making sure auditions are all good to go? With the finalized scripts? …oh goodness- this will be such a busy month- plus all of the TMC one shots I think of on the daily? Why do we put ourselves through so much burnout!?!)), or doing a The Mandela Catalogue 100th time re-run (or promising to make that 5 hour long video essay just on volume 5 implications because I'm channeling my inner Wendigoon)…let yourself relax. You're always on the go and it's not a crime to let yourself have some opportunities to laze around or, as we like to call it, “relaxing productively” (:SKULL.

You're figuring out a TON of stuff this year. It's been an emotional rollercoaster. I don't even think I was expecting it, honestly…but it's all going to be for the best. Let this be a month where you can balance it out before you're jumbled into the interworking threads of school and regular social life again! When you go back to school August 1st, the MAIN thing that I want you to do is step through those 100 year old doors and confidently say “I HAD A HECK OF A FUN LAST MONTH OF SUMMER.” Because that's what you deserve!

So, what are you waiting for? Get off this letter and go continue to have fun! Get out of your future-oriented flow for once and try to meet yourself where you are in the present. Enjoy yourself. Think about where you are now and try and live it to your fullest potential.

And I wholeheartedly believe in myself to do this. I hope you can come back to this letter and smile upon reading it and have the inner satisfaction of knowing that you lived up to it, because you are incredibly capable.

You're the best :pp

Love, PAST OLY

P.S (VERY IMPORTANT!!)- (On a silly note, if you have miraculously acquired the Nicolas Beringer alternate plush, make sure to bring him to school and make him read this letter along with you for good measure. :THUMBSUP


7/3 DAILY: KINGDOM TIME CHRONICLE


TW: Death, general angst, prejudice crime (if you get what I mean), war, deeper psychological themes.

Remnants: (A short tale set in the fictional world of my upcoming novel.) 566 words.

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The Founder stood with a heavy look in her gaze, letting the fine sand slip between her feet as she stared into the ultramarine coast. Looking out to the monolithic stronghold that dedicated her- and so many other's- lives, she finally felt comfortable bringing herself to experience the confusing emotions that had erupted from the struggles that founded such a peaceful yet grand Haven. Finally those who possessed the abilities to penetrate the mind could seek asylum and become part of a community of those who understood the prejudice inflicted against them, or those escaping the same crimes and killing of those with the ability to connect themselves deeper into the Earth and its interworking minds itself. To train and grow together to rebuild, forming stronger connections with one another as well as the physical world.

Her design reflected such themes. The tower, crafted to blend into the seascape itself, shone slate blue, the sun's rays reflecting off its surface to form a brilliant surface. Docks for the shipments and manpower that would regularly flow to the island monolith lined the main tower with many smaller residences, used with the materials of the trees of older days to reflect the passing of time.

However, as the Founder looked towards the massive beauty piercing into the sky itself, her vision flashed bright as a pain shot through her body before darkening- soon, the monolith and its once beautiful seaside landscape twisted and glitched at its seams. Time would soon ruin and warp the perception and existence of its peaceful means. The burden that plagued the Founder's existence- the weight of the world all on her shoulders, being the one to pass the torch of holding human connection through her mind and cherishing each and every life- inevitably was passed on. Ancestors and those brought up inside of the Stronghold, which would later expand to four as the population of Possessors eased and grew, were unprepared for the burdens that had broken the Founder.

Tears spilt down her eyes, for this future, and the inevitable destruction of the peaceful age of her people, came from the shared pain that was given to each possessing the ability and foresight to understand and hold responsibility for such cycles of life and mentality.

A burning tower over the calm of the ocean was terrifying, yet exhilarating to the Founder- for she knew that, eventually, one needed to accept and break down the systems which hid the harsh truths of their existence and the fate of the world because of this. While it may seem to appear as a location of peace, hiding the reality of possessing- such a “blessed” ability- was one of the outcomes of forgetting the roots of her people and rebuilding the teachings of newer generations. Someone with the desire to confront the world as it was would become shattered as she, though she cried in tears of happiness, understanding that even their bright, burning, fleeting existences of pain were able to come to such a brilliant end.

For now, she could only cherish the present as her vision returned to reality. The Founder could only wait for the day that this vicious cycle would be broken, and that one endeavored to find the truth, even if breaking the sense of familiarity she craved and expanded to her masterpiece. Good things must come to an end.

7/4 DAILY: STORY BASED ON INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Music selected: “Faintaisie-Impromptu, Op. 66” by Frederic Chopin. Piano.

Tempest, 404 words. TW for implied hallucinatory spectacle, intrusion.

We must be in the eye of the storm.

We? No…the others weren’t yet home. Right. I must be getting close to one of them. I was too tired to head into town today, per usual. I grumbled and laid back on my bed, trying not to look out of the window into the bleak horizon. Doing so would prompt awful abstractions of what could be occurring.

The screen door shook from down the hall as the wind picked up- its momentum would rock the place, as usual.

However, my curiosity always got the best of me. After shutting my eyes for a quick moment and rubbing them- I’d stayed up all night again after hearing a potential storm- I peered up towards the windowsill to take a glance out to the fields.

A loud blast rocked the house. I braced myself for what was to come, covering my ears as jet-black gusts of wind swirled the premises, the cold wind swirling through my cracked-open window, enveloping the small room. I coughed, being lifted and thrown off my mattress by the sheer force, staggering backwards into the wall.

My back thudded against my old dresser as books and jewelry toppled over the sides as the room shook. A long shadow filled the center of my vision. I looked down, my pupils wide, to see blood across my forearm.

The debris had cut me. Badly.

Tears began to fill my eyes as I fell into a dizzy spell, staggering to the corner to find a point of safety and solace, hoping for it to turn into one of my dreams.

This can’t be happening…

-

When I next opened my weary eyes, sunlight beamed through the window, a contrast to the jet-black whirlwind.

The room was a mess, though no wind or dust remained. The window had miraculously shut. Blurry figures stood above me, asking me if I was alright. My mother. Father…

The storm came through this time. You should’ve seen…

They exchanged a confused glance as I failed to finish my thought. Apparently, nothing had occurred. Yesterday was “bright and sunny across town.” I could’ve just been tired.

I would never bring myself to tell them, but looked them in the eyes pleadingly. My family would never believe me.

I felt an odd sensation- the sensation of being unable to breathe. Trapped, more than when I found myself in the heat of the tempest.

Weekendly 1 (Time usage, this was such an uncharacteristic display of !!~*PROCRASTINATION*~!!)


PART 1
198 words, PT 1 (time scene swap) Partner: @iinspirqtion (Rush I will do yours separate but I kinda procrastinated on this whole thing so please bear with me)

Rocking himself back and forth in the old, rusty swing set, Cam observed the other children before him, solitary. It stung to see how they ran and laughed through the school's playground, chasing one another through the lush, green fields, but even more so that he would truly never join into this bliss. How could he, given Cam's reputation of inexplicably causing awful events to happen wherever he went?

A freak. That's what he was, though he never understood why he was the harbinger of such bad omens.

Cam redirected his gaze to a large, blackened tree stump in the distance- where it burned down the surrounding greenery a year prior when his family first moved to town. When he first began to introduce himself to, perhaps, the person who would call him a friend. Nervous nature ignited inside of him, and the rest was history. He became recluse, trying to cover up what he had done by hoping the others would forget him.

He briskly walked over, sitting down at its edge and moving his hands through the grass, gripping its edges. Perhaps things would change someday, and he could finally leave this forsaken town.

STORYSWAP: TIME PERIOD (original writing credit to @iinspirqtion ^^)

Thank you for the kickstarting paragraph! (189 words)

The icy lands of June, so cleverly named, have been mostly a barren land full of glaciers, caverns, and freezing water. As it is located on the edge of a flat world, no one other than the native humans has ever passed through its mountains. The temperatures are barely warm enough to keep a person alive, yet the natives still live in houses made of ice, eating flavored ice, and even showering in it too. There have been no signs of animal or plant life to be found yet. As ice is the only thing to be found on this strange land, even explorers don’t come near it, deeming June worthless and uninhabitable, not knowing who presides there. But at night, it seems as if the skies in June are alive, with dancing colors and glowing images. The natives make stories, claiming that these images in the sky are real, and are the lives of beings millions of light years away, living their own life through a spectrum of hues. But when morning comes, the frigid cold eats away at the native's body, but still, they stay in June.

My section: 360 words.

They stay because these surreal patterns in the skies plant the seeds of a brighter future- those that can withstand the cold.

A young native boy walks aside his mother attentively on a vast tundra plane. It is a cool, spring evening in June, and a special one at that, as it marks the tenth anniversary of the Flare. The two gaze up past the mountaintops and towards the dancing lights above, whose pinks and greens have never seemed closer. The boy watches the images of blaze-winged birds sweep across the clear sky as his feet crunch the thawing grasses below. His mother allows him to run along as the creatures dip towards the surface of a lake- more evidence that the ice layer has since began to melt. With great care and passion, the mother exclaims to her young child of the days of Zero. The age of Rime has begun, and the frigid nature of June is being eaten away at, presenting native society with a change of pace.

"So…everything used to be frozen? Like this patch here?“ He speaks to her in a curious tone, the boy's eyes dancing across the small pines and shruberry which have thrived on the lakeside- a former glacial mound.

His mother returns her child's curiosity with a deeper gaze, though a playful nature is hinted in her eyes.

”In the days of Zero, nothing grew here- nothing could. We lived off of ice! Imagine- ice for all three meals, save for migrant birds- building material…Now, what you see here is a rare landmark. It's one of the last physical forms of evidence of what June used to be.“

Her child nodded along, mouth agape. ”But how- how do you live without- without all of the grasses, and flowers, and…" he motioned towards a sapling, which had began to grow across the land once the creatures of the Flare had brought sunlight and season to the land.

His mother smiled in response, carefully moving herself around the sapling. As raindrops begin to fall around them, she finally lets herself breathe.

PART 2: Dual Timelines *INHALES*- OLY C A N DO WORD LIMIT? NO WAY. This- this is an impostor. Oly's alternate!


400 words. 200 per timeline.

Gazing out into the picturesque field of flowers overlooked by a warm sunset, Kay walked along the dirt road, dust kicking up into his shoes. Day after day he had walked down this modest country road, venturing out into the fields to view the sunflowers. However, unlike his other monotonous walks, he held a small, glass vase in his right hand.

Kay’s intentions were to finally pick one of the bright flowers. A distant look in his gray eyes, he’d forgotten his roommate down at the cabin, though the thought of it didn’t occur to him until Kay viewed a small, lanky, dark-haired boy running down the road, calling out for his friend.

Lonan. He’ll catch up soon enough.

Kay bent down to crouch in a patch of sunflowers and fixed his gaze on a particularly stunning flower.

It’s in full bloom…at this time of year?

Taking out his tweezers, held in the left hand, he tenderly cut the stem of the beautiful plant, letting it fall into his opposite palm. His legs buckled underneath him momentarily as he saw the illusion of a face staring at him through the dark splotch running down the center of the flower.

“They’re your true namesake, you know,” a young Kay laughed to his sister, displaying one of the yellow plants in his hand. She excitedly grasped it and tilted her head, which resembled the flower.

“This one was blooming while the other stems weren’t even up. It reminded me of you.”

While his sister couldn’t show facial expression, she still crossed her arms, one hand gripping the flower, singing at him.


Kay’s eyes looked momentarily hurt- she probably didn’t understand. “No, it reminded me of you since you’re so bright. You have so much energy, and it spreads.”

She seemed satisfied with Kay’s response, and outstretched her small arms for an embrace.

He smiled, laughing slightly and returning the hug.

“I’ll give you a different flower every year, and then you can draw them and collect them in your book like you do with the other plants.” She nodded profusely, undoing the buttons on her side bag and bringing out a journal full of pressed plants.

“Happy birthday, U3…I’m sorry I couldn’t do more. It’s important, I know…”

She hardly seemed to notice, which told Kay that it was more than enough.

Kay blinked, letting the sunflower drop into the vase below. Lonan had appeared next to him, watching the scene.

“It’s her birthday,” he spoke in a hushed tone. Kay nodded, sitting up and grasping the vase.
“…she would’ve liked this…you know…”

Lonan put a hand on Kay’s shoulder, a small yet comforting gesture. All Kay could do was give him a smile. This was enough.

PART 3!!!!! Help me I don't think I liked this one very much but IT'S ALRIGHT

343 words
Part 1: “developing feelings for a friend through childhood”
Part 2: “everything falling apart, both are trapped in a dangerous situation, are they really who they say they are?”

Did he ever wonder just how much I loved him? How much I cherished every moment we spent together, despite the seemingly terrible circumstances at hand?
Before we were taken to the facility, we had nothing. Heck, everyone in the old city was practically dying, though I always took the time to seek Kay out. I would smuggle in medicine from downtown and take it to him and U3, whose blight had gotten incredibly worse. Never mind the consequences. I knew just how much he cared for her, and through that I discovered his tender side.
Kay and I spoke of everything, but he would always explain his desire to extend our help further. He wanted to save more people, and cared more for them than he did himself. To him, what was he if not a part of something larger? What was existence if not to create an existence for the future? He was self-sacrificing, even at a younger age, and I admired him for it.
My admiration developed into a deep, unspoken love. I couldn't help the way I felt. I was mesmerized by his spirit. However, he was always so distant, trapped in his future goals. Kay never noticed what was in front of him.
With the reality we lived in, could I ever show him how I felt? We were trapped- those who had contracted the mutation were rounded up in this disastrous town. Survival trumped all other needs. He knew this, and while I didn't like to admit it, I shared this. We had no time for fleeting emotions.
And, though rescued, we are still left, trapped in a cage. It was never enough for him.

So he staged an escape. I followed.

He'd been driven into madness after seeing the others drop one by one. He'd get into blind fits of rage, never directed at us, though as we tirelessly trekked through the wilderness, he would grow irritable. Day after day, we'd have run-ins on death's doorstep.

One person couldn't hold the weight of our lives on their shoulders, though he was adamant on doing so. He wanted to see us safe, but also angered at our mistakes. One slip, one bad fall, could lead to yet another loss.

One slip.

I frantically reached for the branches and jagged rocks above, my vision becoming blurry as my head collided with the side of the cliff. I faintly noticed his silhouette at the top of the formation looking down at me, but…he didn't move.

He wasn't moving forward.

Oh God, oh God, please help me… my knuckles scraped the edge of a rock jutting out of the earth itself. I grabbed onto it and shakily attempted to pull myself upwards. CRACK. My legs buckled as I heard the painful sound, scrambling up onto the edge of the rock. It COULDN'T break. He continued looking down at me, staring from around a hundred feet upwards.

“KAY! I'M SORRY!! I- IT'S- GOING TO BREAK-” He walked closer to the edge. He looked more distant than ever, his eyes showing no sympathy.

Gripping the side of the ravine for dear life, I pleadingly looked up at him. Was there any part of him that ever cared?

One hundred feet. He could easily get down using the path on the left.

One hundred. Two hundred. Five hundred.

How many days had I been set on loving him?

Eight hundred.

How much of my life did I waste on him?

One thousand two hundred.

How much of my future would be cut out now that I decided to go on this (self-destroying) quest?

One thousand four hundred.

My eyes saw nothing. I had nothing. After a searing, burning pain, I felt absolutely nothing.

Zero.

PART 4: I put it all together and it comes out…weird??

Elements used: Fast and slow pacing, dual timelines
Fun fact: This story is a spin on an old idea! plus Digital Dreamspace from SAC? no way!
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The harsh cold whipped through the air, pushing the small boy backwards as he tried to traverse the seemingly endless wilderness. He had heard the stories from others in Central about the dangers of trying to flee the region, but he never thought the reality of the Outside would be as terrifying as it was…with its distorted landscapes that would shift and change in sections from time to time, he was unable to see any way through this maze, aimlessly wandering forward as he made sure not to stay near the borders of each plane as they would replace, fading into nothingness, quickly switching colors and enveloping one another to create new terrain as they lurched forward. All of this effort- leaving the one place he had ever known- was only because of a connection between this strange plane and his own mind unbeknownst to him…and if he survived, he wouldn’t come out as the same person he was before.
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“What's the matter?”

Jea whipped around, seeing the familiar face of his longtime friend Elliot striding towards him, a hint of concern in his gaze. Don't be paranoid, of course it's him.

“Oh- I- yeah…I'm fine,” Jea replied sheepishly, taking note of his companion's odd composure. “Besides, why're you worrying about me? You look…I don't know…pale. Something's up.”

Elliot forcefully put on a smile. Jea’s observant eyes watched the act, growing weary and confused.

“Spill it.”

The other had no reason to verbally reply. The eerie, monotonous sound of footsteps were suddenly present throughout the nearby hills. At first, the dreadful sound wasn’t noticeable, but as Jea began to react to his friend’s silence in confusion, suddenly he was overly conscious of his heartbeat.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

They had finally found them.

Jea inhaled, his breath shaky and composure failing. “W-we- we need to go, we need to get out of here, we CAN’T fight, we-”

Elliot cut him off, reaching behind him for a large, hulking longsword, shining with an iridescent glow. He examined it and frowned, glancing back at the misty hills.

“I know…but Jea…we have no choice. We need to finish what we started five months ago.”

And so chaos ensued. Without further word, Jea ran through the fields, desperately alerting the others in their party of the upcoming threat.

If you’re injured, hide, if you’re able to fight, we need to meet the enemy at the edge of the hills! They’re trying for an ambush since we’re having trouble seeing them!
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Jea crouched down, his eyes adjusting to the sudden darkness sweeping over the once peaceful hills.

Looking anxiously through the all-enveloping mist, Jea staggered back in alert, seeing that the footsteps had ceased.

They’re here.

However, once Jea was given the signal to rush forward into battle, his glowing dagger did not hit another human’s form.

Its false body glitched away, bursting and revealing a cluster of life- digital-like trees, plants…humanoid features and limbs that grabbed out at Jea and the fighters backing him. A sickeningly familiar sight.

He had failed to stop the spread of the Digital Plane seven years before. Although just a child, Jea had the power to end the takeover as it drained the the world’s life. Although confused, he could perfectly recall the moment where he withdrew his own sacrifice for the sake of his escape. Now they would all be deceived. Now the world would pay the price for his error.

okay now I'm done goodbye thank you *clap clap*

7/11- Product Design and Review

Original fanfic (technically) of TMC; 945 words

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7/25- Apocalypse; 349 words

Numbness overtakes my form.

It's disturbing, no better than the onslaught of pain that, surely, everyone should be feeling right about…

Now.

It's blinding. Everything's drowning into the ocean below me. I can't bring myself to cry because we've known this would be the end for a while.

My legs frantically kick through the heavy water, trying to glimpse a familiar face out in the streets, but my eyes catch nothing but blinding light. God, I can't do it for much longer. I've never dreaded being alone more than in this moment.

My body is exhausted, the head of my figure just bobbing above the surface as I feel a burning sensation. Is it burning from the exhaustion, or burning from the beating heat of the sun?

I gasp for air as I swim, scrambling atop a roof of an old ranch-style home and look out down the hills, out to the ocean.

I scan the horizon for my own home, but find nothing. Submerged, like the rest of them. So were my friends…and family, probably. Things were difficult before the Rise, but as I look down on the abandoned neighborhoods, I'd rather be in those moments. At least we had a flickering flame of hope that things could get better, that we could run away from these problems and build anew.

Now it's all been distinguished by the waves.

I sit alone on the rooftop. It's the highest hill in the city, so everyone else must've drowned by now. Tears sting the backs of my eyes. It's funny, now, that I can think of such gruesome things in a commonplace way.

 While I can see more clearly now, my form crumples to the ground, exhausted by the sweltering heat. Touching the panels leaves boiling marks on my hands. I use the last of my energy to cut off the ends of my jeans, using them to soak the burns. I avoid looking into the sky, as there's another flare, which means that the levels will rise once more- in due time.

Why can't it all be over?

Over…

The waves wash over…

Claim ( May use)

Link to Masterpost: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/post/8034365/
Link to this post: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/post/8036546/
Word Count: 1063
Date completed (UTC): 7/1/24
Time Completed (UTC): 8:33 PM
Prompt Summary: Introduce yourself!
Points(?): N/A
Listeners(?): N/A

Hey y’all!! Oh gosh, this is so exciting!! My name is Bookie and I go by she/her pronouns. I am so gosh darn excited for this session, you have NO idea!

I guess that I’m just kind of rambling about myself now, which shouldn't be too hard. I’m half Cambodian, half ‘american mix of various european countries’ (I really need to ask my mom what she is again-). I live in this great, great nation that we call the USA. I’m the oldest child of three, as well as a Christian who loves getting to do various creative activities. I’ve been getting into art more and I use IbisPaintX, but I just switched over from Autodesk Sketchbook. I really enjoy drawing my characters, and I’ve been trying to study more anatomy recently, since I like the more semi-realistic style and would like to emulate that somewhere down the line.

I’ve been on Scratch for almost FIVE years now, which is honestly so crazy now that I think about it. I live in the MST timezone, which is SOOO underrated, I barely meet anyone on here who’s also in the timezone. (Minerrr <33)

Whenever I have free time I like spending it on Scratch because WHAT is time management?? I love roleplaying (tehe- I get words from that too this July >) and chatting with my friends! I don’t have a lot of friends outside of SWC, so I’ve been trying to branch out more recently. I also enjoy reading, and I just finished reading the Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan! (AHH SOLANGELO, SO CUTE, MY HEART!) I knowwwww that I’m behindddd, but it’ssss finee. Some of my other fandoms are as follows:
KOTLC
Miraculous
LMK
Marvel (I’m only still here for Loki XD)
WOF
Spiderverse
The Owl House
Tales of Arcadia
ATLA
MHA
Fruits Basket

There are probably more that I’m forgetting but those are my main ones haha-

I guess I would also like to talk about my music taste because I leap at a chance to talk about the music I like haha- Here are some of my favorite songs/artists!:
Jann (his music is sooo good, and I’d describe it as either very dramatic or ‘lilting’- The Letter, Gladiator and Do You Want To Come Over are my favorites <33)
Emei (LITERALLY EVERY ONE OF HER SONGS)
Enhyphen (Drunk Dazeddddd-)
Poor Mans Poison (Feed the Machine is sooo good-)
Neoni (I love Darkside and Blurry so much)
Stray Kids (Thunderousss-)
Higher by Micheal Buble
Maneskin (Zitti E Buoni is my favoriteeee)
Reinaeiry (Her covers are so good oh my gosh- as well as her original work!)
Annapantsu (also amazing covers of songs I like!)
Looking At Me by Sabrina Carpenter
Somebody Told Me by Kade McCuen

Again, probably more I’m forgetting but here’s what I thought of off the top of my head.

My SWC history is very expansive, as I think my first session was in March 2020! Oh goodness, 2020 was such a long time ago, my gosh- I haven’t done every session since then, but that’s a good benchmark to show just how long I’ve participated. I’ve co-led twice, both times leading Fan-Fi! And both times those cabins were themed after the Loki show, which I find hilarious! I didn't influence either theme choice so it was just thrown on me haha. I loved co-leading and I’ve made some really good friends from being on those teams! The other sessions were kind of a blur, but oh well-

I’m writing a novel right now, and I’m having a lot of fun with it! Hopefully I’ll be able to work on it a lot this July! Here’s a small summary of what’s kinda going on: There are six protagonists, Rose, Layla, Katie, Daniel, Kalix and Arron. They’re all really fun characters in their own right but I’ll get into them later. There’s also the antagonist, Gaia, who has a very unhealthy power dynamic with her rather murderous uncle Ander. The book is a Contemporary Fantasy type of book, being set in an alternate world very similar to ours, except with a magical history. Each of the six protagonists utilizes a magical necklace called a Vestige, which grants them elemental abilities. Some of the vestiges have been tampered with in various ways, as well as broken, fixed, stuff like that. Gaia is the host for two of the vestiges, but she doesn’t want to stop there. Her uncle wants all the vestiges (having been a previous host) for himself, and is using her to retrieve them. He dangles the carrot of validation as she tracks down the new hosts as they just try to live their lives as normal teens.

Anyways, outside of scratch and writing, I do a few other things in real life. I enjoy (“enjoy”) going to the gym (I wrote part of this intro AT the gym haha), as well as occasionally going Outside™. I also love hanging out with my family and friends. I’m homeschooled, which I am really grateful for! I honestly think it works much better with my brain, so I think I’m excelling more than I would’ve with traditional schooling. During the school year, I do things like speech and debate, which I enjoy tons! This July I have a lot of fun things planned, mainly summer camps! I’ll be away for a week as a camper, and then away for another week as a volunteer at another one! (oh my gosh I COULD rant about the camp I’m volunteering at for ages, but for privacy reasons I shall noooooootttttt-) I also LOVEEE food, especially food made by either my mom, aunt, or grandma. They have been teaching me up in their culinary ways and oh my goodness I am loving it SO much!

Anywayssss, is this coherent? Oh heck no, definitely not, but I guess this is really just a little bit of insight into my life, and I enjoyed writing it so that’s what matters! If you’re confused, congratulations, you’re just like me! (if you somehow have questions I’d be happy to clear up my incoherent rambling for you lol-)

TL;DR I seriously am so excited for this July, and I cannot WAIT to make good memories along the way! Everything else is just me rambling about myself as I try to not sound super self-centered-

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lock in, this is a wild ride (not really lol)

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Hello! I’m Maia! I’ll go through some important facts about me so you know what you’re dealing with… First off, I use she/they pronouns and live in the EDT timezone (where i constantly forget midnight UTC is not actually 7pm) I have a bit of an obsession with music, Scratch camps, reading, Clocktower, and art! I’m not actually a very avid writer but every SWC session I do I hope to remedy that. “People Watching” by Conan Gray is constantly put in my playlists by Spotify and I actually quite like it! Some artists I love are Laufey, Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, and Olivia Rodrigo. (We don’t talk about my emo phase-) This will be my fourth(?) SWC session – and my first as a co! I’m co-leading Script alongside the amazing Luka, Yume, and Blau. Make sure to catch our podcast as episodes come out! My first SWC session was July 2022, but I was super inactive since I had no idea what was going on! I went back for my second session in November 2023, but again wasn’t as active. March 2024 was my favorite session so far, but I hope this one beats it!

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“Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan I didn’t realize what it was for the longest time, but it’s really good (possibly a bit overrated though) and now snuck on to my repeats somehow… Aside from SWC, I’ve done other camps such as SAC and SRC (which you should join by the way!!) for a total of nine sessions. I love listening to Spotify, but I also enjoy audiobooks – and real books! My most recent favorite book has to be Song of Achilles, but I also love the Six of Crows duology and an old favorite of mine is Watership Down. I love drawing and am doing my first year of ArtFight this month! I love drawing digitally, but traditional art is also very fun (albeit super frustrating sometimes…) I recently got into crocheting which I really enjoy, and have so far crocheted mostly amigurumi: I made a penguin, several octopi, a cat, and a giraffe! I’m planning on making a bunny next (my favorite animal hehe.) I don’t have much time for video games anymore (though I used to be a huuuuge Minecrafter) but I have gotten hooked on Blood on the Clocktower (Zai it’s all your fault) which is super duper fun everyone should try it if you’re able – it’s like mafia, but better!

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I love coding and all things computer related and this summer I’m working on learning Python. I’ve been on Scratch seriously since…2020?? but I’m pretty sure I made an account in 2018/2019 which has unfortunately been lost to time (definitely a good thing-) Offline I love playing tennis and am on my school’s team which is super fun, I’m not great at it but I really hope to improve!! I play a lot with my family since they all play as well. My other main extracurricular is music, I’m in my school’s band and orchestra since I play the bassoon! Band kids are insane but it’s awesome and I love music so much. I’ve played the bassoon for 5 now? years (wow I’m really good at telling time!) Anyway I could go on about band forever so band kids please talk to me

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Help I’m lowkey running out of things to say… Anyway LAUFEY!! I love Laufey, I was introduced to her by an irl friend a few months ago and listen to her music every evening, it's so relaxing <33 This song is one of my favorites but I also love “From the Start,” “Night Light,” and “Fragile!” My favorite subject in school so far is Math, but my French class this year was definitely up there. I hate English with a burning passion and let’s just go with I’m eternally grateful I’ve completed all my P.E. credits… Oh also I love band, band is awesome! (Autocorrect is getting on me for saying band get a life bro) Taking APUSH freshman year (which my school allows for some reason) was the biggest mistake of my life. I swear to god I hate that class so much. But anyone out there who likes it, live your best life!!!

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Me personality-wise is insane – I’m not sure even I know my full personality… My Myers-Briggs type is ISTJ and my Enneagram is 5w6 but I’m not that into typology so I don’t know what they mean off the top of my head. I’m very introverted and talking to people one on one takes so much effort I usually don’t bother lol but if it’s someone I like I could – and will – talk to them a ton. I’m usually really quiet around new people but once I get comfortable around them I start being more outgoing and just a little crazy. A little. A veery small amount. I promise. Being introverted is so confusing help. (Shut your dumb face autocorrect) “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” by Taylor Swift is from her new album which I never finished (lowkey I fell asleep halfway through) but I especially love this song it’s so sad but also like “get up and suck it up loser” which I think we all need sometimes! Oh here’s another abrupt transition! I don’t watch a ton of movies/TV shows but some that I really liked are Star Wars (especially the shows,) The Dragon Prince (though I never finished it, whoopsies,) Gilmore Girls, and probably some movies that aren’t coming to me (I don’t watch many movies…) Well I think that brings us to the end of my intro which is adding up to be just over 1000 words, who would’ve thought?! I hope you enjoyed reading alllllllll of this (assuming you’re here) and have a lovely day! #scriptftw <33

“If Pinocchio says his nose is about to grow, will it grow??????”

DAILY 1:
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“If Pinocchio says his nose is about to grow, will it grow??????”
So, Pinocchio is like, “my nose is about to grow!” But, will it grow?! If he's telling the truth his nose will grow, but his nose only grows when he's lying, but if he's lying his nose will grow therefore he is telling the truth and we are back at the start.

SUP Y'ALL!!!! HRU DOING!!! Hi, my name is unercornshine, when u c this, i plead wid u, DONT JUDGE. I made this username when I was around 9, and at that time I was TERRIBLE at spellings (still am) and unicorn?! shine?! eh, idk, was never good at making usernames, u should see my roblox username, made it when I was 10/11 and its still cringy. Yikes! I kinda just grew into the name, but I also decided I needed a nickname, hence why I go by Vicky! Note: Vicky is NOT m real name, just a nickname. My pronouns are she/her, female, straight, strict muslim, Islam is my religion, Allah is my God, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) isn't on scratch but I still follow him. XD. Proud Hijabi. FREE PALESTINE, will not elaborate on that too much but I'm just telling you now, im 110% for Palestine and will never change on that. I'm a multipotentialte (someone who has many hobbies/intrests) more on that later.

If you haven't realised by now, I am a PRO WAFFLER. Yes, I admit it, I'm proud. I mean, waffling can come in handy sometimes, like now, I'm waffling right now, and Im also waffling by saying im waffling right now and im also waffling by saying im waffling by saying im waffling right now, and im also waffling… Well you get the memo. And, ur probably thinking, why waffle, you said you were a multipotentialite, I'm sure you have LOTS to talk about. And well, I do, BUT, I'm going to reach to the next level and make this introduction 1,200 words long instead! Ik, you silly sleep deprived writer writing extra words when you can't even write the next 200 words of your short story, :'D, scold me later. ANYWAYS, maybe I should stop prolonging things for NO ABSOLUTE REASON (pretty much my life in 3 words) and get to the real introducing. And with that said, no further ado shall be caused (idk y I said that, just ignore me…)

✍️Writing✍️ & Reading: Ofc I had to start with writing, hellow, this is a writing camp. Genres I prefer to write in are currently physiological tragedy, sometimes fantasy, an occasional fan-fi or cyber-punk. Currently writing: “all the lies you've told me” Reading: B-O-O-K-W-O-R-M. BOOKWORM! OMG, I love love love books, I read in every spare second I get (except in swc, then I write in every second I get) I read before in bed, before I sleep or else I can't sleep. Ok let me correct myself, I read for half the night until my dad catches me, then I pretend to sleep for an hour, then go back to reading. (shhh don't tell my dad) Some of my fave books are: Harry Potter (Gryffinclaw), Percy Jackson (daughter of Hades), children of blood and bone and more!

Baking (and cooking): I figured to prolong this a bit I would add a note about cooking. I do not enjoy cooking. If I cook, it's because I have to. I do not cook. In my house this is how things work, my mums cooks dinner, I bake desert, never the other way round. Baking is my lifelong passion. I LOVE baking, been baking since I was around 8, and I've come a long way since them, The only problem is, in my house, my mum forces us to cut down on sugar. And often, a recipe needs a lot of sugar to work, oh, the amount of times I've tried to decorate a cake with cream. Im warning y'all now, if ur using cream to decorate ur cake, DONT try and make the mistake of piping on things, trust me, I've made that mistake, and you don't have to go down that lane as well. Anyways, neeeexxxttttt!

Coding/digital art/computing: Im pretty good at using tech (discarding the fact that my wmp is like 43, :sob, I'm pretty good at coding too, I've learnt html currently learning advanced css, I'm good at digital art as well, on and of scratch. I'm currently changing my banner style to a more aesthetic kinda one. Idk, I just like it much better. Im pretty bad at coding on scratch itself, I've just never got the hang of it, I've given up on trying to get better at that, I have to acknowledge that although I'm good at many things, I can't be good at everything.

Sports: I'm pretty athletic, I grew up as an only girl with 3 brothers, so as you can imagine, the love of football runs through my veins. (YES, soccer if ur American *rolls eyes*), I support Man united, and before y'all start bullying me, if Ayr not a Man U fan in my house, u will literally get disowned so like, its just a generational thing. The funny thing is, I support Man U right, but then when it comes to the euros I will be supporting English Man City fans. Lmao XD! Anyways, argh, I've only got around 200 words left so I'de best wrap this up. My fave sport is football, I play football, cricket, netball and more.

TV: When I say tv, I mean all films, movies, series, etc. None in particular. So look, I have to put it out there before I say my fave tv, remember, I said I grew up with boys, just saying, ok, my faves are: miraculous (cheesy argh!), beyblade (don't tease me, watch it and all fin its not that bad), avatar the last Airbender & the legend of Korea, the unlisted, fast and furious spy racers, young justice and much more.

Music: FINALLY, y'all wanted to hear about my music press right. Well, I have a few (quite a few) fave western music songs, then a fave k pop band etc. So some of my fave western songs, hmm, I do like the album love of Taylor swift, and some other swift songs, like cruel summer, red, cardigan & more. I do like some others like, dark side Alan walker, insane Alastor, vampire Olivia rodrigo, devils don't fly Natalia kills, and much more (AGAIN). My fave k pop group is skz, fave member, Han. Fave nasheed artist is muad.

As you can probably tell I don't have a set favourite of a lot of things just some preferences. I have been very vague in this introduction despite making it 1,200 words long, but what can I say, my life is complicated! Anyways, take in mind when I wrote this I was rushing a lot and have not proof red this at all. Better go before my dad bites my head of trine get me to go to bed.

Oh yeh, before I forget, I'm In thriller this time around (TCTWNW) I was in script last session, this is my second session. I RLLY gtg now, ByEEEEEEEEEE

Vicky out! ;D

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daily for 1 july

Juice is going to try something different. She's going to do it all in third person, which is hard because almost EVERYTHING she writes is in first person. But she'll get the hang of it.
Juice is a Christian teenage girl who spends far too much time alternating between staring at her computer and out her window. She loves writing, especially fantasy, and always has a mess of pencils or pens next to her so she can draw. But if they're not there, she'll use anything from her mum's spare pen to tomato sauce. Juice is from the AEST time zone (Australia). Her head is often buried in books, and she's a fast reader - she finished Eragon in two days.
Speaking of which, Juice has just finished Murtagh (the most recent book from the world of Alagaesia) and is waiting for the second Stormlight Archive book to join her library. When she's not reading, writing, drawing, or gazing longingly out the window, she's probably singing made-up songs, playing her viola, or trying fun new recipes.
Juice also has a list of foods most people like that she doesn't, which she'll add for your enjoyment and her benefit in words.
- The strange texture of jelly.
- The equally strange texture of lollies and anything else to do with jelly. She just finds wobbly stuff like that disgusting.
- Sausages. They're just inferior to real meat.
- The too-salty flavour of Vegemite.
(She knows these are both quintessentially Australian and is currently questioning her nationality.)
- Juice. It's just too sweet, too strong.
- The strange texture of licorice.
- Soup, which to her is just flavoured water.
There's probably more she just hasn't thought of.
Juice has just ended her drama semester and is wishing she could do it again. It was one of her favourite subjects, next to English (the creative writing part, at least) and music, especially composition. She is currently studying Italian on Duolingo, following her choice to do drama instead as her elective after about four years of learning Italian at school. She’s generally a pretty good student, with mostly As. When she studies (not that often) she studies to lo-fi music and flips through her schoolbooks looking for things she needs to revise.
At the moment, Juice is trying a few different things. She’s trying sandwiches with Turkish bread and salmon. She’s trying bullet journalling (idea from Raya aka @lokiously). She wants to try crocheting. (Is that a word?) So far salmon and Turkish bread is going swimmingly, she’ll have to go a few days to see if bullet journalling ‘works’ (she’s tried a few journals and diaries over the years, none of which she kept up for more than five entries), and crochet… just sounds fun.
Now for the real question… should she rant?
Yes.
*switches to first person*
My room is currently (I do like to say ‘currently’, don’t I) a little messy. I’ve got my sandals on the floor, yesterday’s clothes in a bundle next to my bed, my pyjamas on that bed. My sandshoes are to my right, sitting neat-ish in the corner.
Wait, this is about me, not my room.
I don’t use highlighters unless strictly necessary (by that I mean when it looks good) but I like them all the same. I’m in the midst of renovations, and once the house being renovated gets sold, I’ll have to move somewhere else. I love flopping face-down on beds and hot chocolate in winter (which never gets that cold), swimming on a 35-degree day and getting ice-cream afterwards (especially if it contains nuts) and giving schoolbook pages ✨aesthetic ✨. If I could go on a holiday anywhere, I’d go to Tasmania for the cold weather and beautiful displays of nature (I’ve already started planning) or Italy for… everything.
My favourite genres of music are lo-fi, Christian pop, and classical (although I don’t listen to classical much, I still like it, and everything goes in threes). I listen to lo-fi the most often, since it’s great background music. I get distracted by songs with words, so lo-fi is great for me.
To answer some random questions, I prefer ‘pencil pouches’ to ‘pencil boxes’, but where I live we don’t have those terms. We just say pencil case. I don’t really have a favourite Taylor Swift song since I’m not that much of a fan, but my favourites are (and I had to scroll through endless messages until I found the one where I stated my favourites) Midnight Rain and Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me. My favourite artist is For King & Country (a duo who do Christian pop). I see them as role models and look up to them massively. My earliest SWC memory, within the bounds of an SWC month, is probably finding out I got shipwrecked (sorted) into Sci-Fi, my first ever cabin and SWC session. And to answer my own question, sometimes words pop into my head that I know I’ve seen but don’t remember the meaning (like predisposition a few years ago, which – frustratingly – was not in my mini dictionary), and snippets of songs, when I spend hours figuring out where they come from.
I don’t have that many clothes. I mostly wear T-shirts and shorts, even in winter (since my city gets cold for one day a year), but now I’m wearing my pyjamas more since it’s holidays, so why not. I don’t often get new clothes; I rarely have the need and I don’t like shopping for them. I have three pairs of shoes: tan sandals, black sandshoes, and black leather shoes (for school). I do sometimes like trying out clothes though. Shopping is just not something I’d do for fun.
*switches to third person*
She sits back and glances out the window once more, almost satisfied with her work. She’s dimly aware of the headphones (that aren’t playing any music) plastered to her head and the feel of her fluffy pyjama shorts as she writes. She almost wants to write more, but… what would she write about? She’s got 1000 words. In one and a half hours, the daily’s due. She’s just got to hand it in.

knock knock
who's there?
boo.
boo who?
don't cry now, it's okay

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