Thanks for the host #LateNightWrite! Maybe someday I'll move my stories off ToyHouse and get a dedicated site for my stories. That day isn't today, though! These four are the newest. All 18+ because subject matter [explicit chapters labeled]; mind the content warnings. toyhou.se/Capseisen/li...

Because the WIP is so large, #LateNightWrite, my main character has become a role model [in Act 1] and had role models [in Act 2]. In Act 1, though, the only person xie could say was a role model was xier second roommate, Lumi: born profoundly Deaf, and forced to hear, she owned her differences.+

I definitely do, #LateNightWrite, since it's all con-world. My favorite aspect about it is that some of them aren't Human-- this is significant because Humans have isolated themselves from what they deem as "barren, savage lands", and assumed all non-Human sophonts dead after the Great War's end.+

I've always been solitary with my art #LateNightWrite, even when my mother supported me creatively. Once I got older, I got more secretive about it, because it's vulnerable (and I had some writing forcefully read aloud once as a youth-- nothing more embarrassing than a teen having their smut read.)+

It's been a while, #LateNightWrite. Cats here, finished one big WIP last month (I think?) and went back to my old gigantic WIP that's 95k words and counting! (I'm breaking it into three separate novels, eventually. It's an epistolary novel that spans over a decade; send help.)

Happy Saturday and welcome to another #LateNightWrite! Let's start with Introductions, tell us about yourself and your WIP(s) in any way you like.

Heartwarming: the book that I've attempted to read on and off for over a year has 50+ holds across its digital and physical versions. ☺️ (I got 5 out of 10 hours through its audiobook; really puts social media toxicity in perspective. Author's a gay woman too, so big plus. Also Pilipinas mention! 🇵🇭 )

Hey #OCSky how do we feel about the new Community Guidelines? bsky.social/about/suppor... (Artist's note: these characters are from a completely-fictional universe but would be otherwise impacted by the specific changes outlined in the guidelines.) #BskyCensorship #art #comic

Going to try and post at least once weekly about my conworld. This #Worldbuilding Friday, I'm going to talk about Ximu, the Great Phoenix. This week started Hausos, the month named after Them. In Ceres, the first week is called Year's Beginning, as Ximu's rebirth starts the year.+ #art #OCSky #deity

Fashionably late for this one. You know when you go over a friend's house and your parent hangs out with your friend more than you do? That's this scenario. (They're all dressed up because someone decided to make it an impromptu dinner party-- dunno who, probably Sima's nanay.) #OCSky #OC #art #ych

Good excuse to update it after a half-decade*. (Bye-bye, Kamikaze Girls [2004, Tetsuya Namashika] and Parasite [2019, Bong Joon Ho]; would've kept the former were there not a genre overlap.)

#pavuswrites sometimes you gotta flirt with purple prose and hope to god it makes sense. lmao

I've a few black mentions in other WIPs, but here's one from my most recently finished story. Missing context: the previous dream was of the narrator being sent to live with the mother that he's never met (after living with his tía his whole life). CW: forced immigration, assimilation. #writing

Spent 3 hours mulling over my own #OCPrompt after reading one and finding the questions too vague or too similar to one another. Made large, in Noto Sans. Details: Choose a letter (column) and a number (row) for a question. The groups of people can be real or fictional, platonic or not. #OCSky #art?

I think it’s time for an… #artshare but not just any artshare, it’s a sketch/wip share!!! 1. Share your art, doesn’t matter if it’s done 2. Share this post with others for more to see and join in 3. Interact with each other 4. No AYY EYE or EN EFF TEE Bullshit 5. Please keep it SFW 6. Have fun

Thanks for the share; I love looking at how different people WIP. Here are four completely different ones from me, each at different stages of completion. I'm getting better about finishing things! (From old to new: though the first one's been put aside for about 5 months [yikes], the last's recent)

LRP: looking at Florida's definition of a "social media platform" and amused by the fact that our bad law might make Bsky *more* tolerable for me if they "remove features" so they don't need to comply with it. You have to make *each point* outlined in order for the law to apply. (Starts on Page 4):

#SaveSpeech The FSC has a website for tracking online ID Bills. action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verifica... These are all states with ID laws introduced (but not enacted) and the bill numbers tell your state reps to vote NO www.usa.gov/state-governor www.congress.gov/state-legisl...

final #artfight revenge is to @catatante.bsky.social doodle finalized while i was in office this week, but i really enjoy their oc's story with also being a hot headed criminal with a floral tattoo ready to throw down with every person. #cw:gun [ #artfight2025 / #pavusart ]

#ArtFight attack number 4 on @pavus.bsky.social of our hot-headed, crime-adjacent badasses. I even drew their tattoos separately because both are covered, and the "convergent evolution" made me giddy enough to draw them (and shade them, for some strange reason). [cw: gun] #OCSky #OC #art

That last sentence is important. Like with any drug, your body will near-immediately tell you if it's right or not. The medications that I got for my endocrine disorder [PCOS] made me feel miserable, and I only stopped taking the hormone one when family told me "it's okay, you can stop taking it". +

If you are uncomfortable with the sex you were assigned, you should try HRT. The most wild thing I see when the “you don’t need hrt to be trans” thing rears its head, is that HRT will simultaneously do nothing to fix their dysphoria AND change their body so quickly that their life will be ruined.

Third #ArtFight attack: this time, I've used a wildlife photo to interpret an animal into a humanoid. This is @meowrai.bsky.social 's Chango, based off the Greater Antillean Grackle, known as chango in the Caribbean. (Is Chango swimming or drowning? We just don't know, dear reader.) #OCSky #OC #art

Most responded to it now, so here's my second #ArtFight post of the year: a mass-attack! Decided to do a screenshot redraw with a "Filipino" theme, and took a Friendly Fire hit because of a "Philippines mentioned" reference. Worth the point loss. 🇵🇭 Link: artfight.net/attack/11115... #OCSky #OC #Art

Happy Disability Pride and #ArtFight month! Breaking my atypical hiatus on Portfolio Day to reveal this monster of an attack I decided to do to "break into" ArtFight this year. Yes, 939.5 points. Featuring 3 of @micahseacole.bsky.social 's characters, and my Hana. #OCSky #OC #Art #comic

"Ah yes, I hath spent 17 hours on a glorious 900+ points attack! I should recoup by doing something simple. Or take an art break, even." My Brain: 🙂 3 days, 9 sessions, 560 minutes later: (ArtFight is bad for my impulse control.) #wip #oc

Happy Disability Pride and #ArtFight month! Breaking my atypical hiatus on Portfolio Day to reveal this monster of an attack I decided to do to "break into" ArtFight this year. Yes, 939.5 points. Featuring 3 of @micahseacole.bsky.social 's characters, and my Hana. #OCSky #OC #Art #comic

dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night

On April 16, 2025 the US federal gov proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act so it no longer protects habitat. Species and their habitats are deeply intertwined: harming one harms both. Public comment is open through May 19th. #science #ecology #conservation #environment

What’s the most controversial thing your #OC has done? #OCSky #OCPrompt

Bluesky Repost Hider, allowing you to hide reposts from specific accounts, submitted to the Firefox and Chrome add-on stores. Will give an update when they're both available!

#TDoV OC Art Share! 🩵 Share your trans/nonbinary/third gender OCs! 🩷 Engage with 3+ others (comment/repost) 🤍 Tag some friends (if you want) 🩷 Pls Alt text 🩵 Only human-made art Let’s celebrate today by sharing our beautiful trans characters! 🏳️‍⚧️ #ArtShare #OC #OCSky #Trans

There is a free informational webinar today about the lawsuit trying to end Section 504. To better understand the law and the lawsuit, this thread will offer some context.

2024 Year-In Review: #OCs Created: Over 50; Words Written: Over 400k; Stories Finished: 2 of 4 [WIP #1 status: >50%; WIP #2: ~95%]; Images Uploaded to ToyHouse: 209; CLIPs Completed: 138/175 [79%]; ToyHouse World Pages Made: Unknown [A Lot™]; Burnout Status: Online. #OCSky #oc #art #writing #summary

#VisibiliDecember Character 7*: Iwasaki-Shū Nami Ethnic coding: Japanese-Chinese 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 Pronouns: he/they Conditions: eosinophilic asthma, BPD *(Character 6 was skipped due to the lack of on-hand info.) #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art

#VisibiliDecember Character 5: Mikisig "Mikki" Likuanán-Menéndez (pictured top) Ethnic coding: Filipino-Chilean (Igorot-Mapuche) 🇵🇭 🇨🇱 Pronouns: ji/xer* [pronounced "he" and "sure"] Conditions: Stage 1 Autism, General Anxiety Disorder, [diagnosis pending] #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art

Question for #OCSky Which of your OCs has a stigmatized mental illness/psychiatric condition? How does it affect their life? #OCPrompt #OCAsk #MentalHealth

#VisibiliDecember Character 4: La Doña* (pictured right) Ethnic coding: Italian-Quisqueyan 🇮🇹 🇩🇴 Pronouns: she/her Conditions: NPD, cPTSD *Name not disclosed due to spoilers #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art

Major disclaimer before I post character 2: my character creation process focuses on design first, disability second (which helps curb stereotyping). This is doubly true for characters with mental/psychological disorders: I do a sweep of the DSM-5 to make sure labels are appropriate before applied.

Villainizing mental disorders is far from my goal, and those who do so are not welcome here. Though not today's character, I do have an antagonist with a personality disorder: their actions are a result of their background, not their condition. Their "diagnosis" came after the main story was done.

#VisibiliDecember Character 3: Julián "Pato" Espinoza (pictured on the right) Ethnic coding: Chinese-Quisqueyan 🇨🇳 🇩🇴 Pronouns: it/its Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes, myopia #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art

#VisibiliDecember Character 2: Alfonz di Napoliči (pictured left) Ethnic coding: Italian-Quisqueyan 🇮🇹 🇩🇴 Pronouns: he/they* Conditions: cPTSD, HPD, farsightedness *Alfonz has 4 different pronoun combinations across their life; here, I'll refer to them as "he". #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art

#VisibiliDecember Character 1: Lumi Bulan-Ningkan Likuanán (pictured on the left) Ethnic coding: Filipino-Indonesian (Igorot-Iban) 🇵🇭 🇮🇩 Pronouns: she/they Conditions: profound deafness [obtained cochlear implant during infancy]; speech sound disorder #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art

Major disclaimer before I post character 2: my character creation process focuses on design first, disability second (which helps curb stereotyping). This is doubly true for characters with mental/psychological disorders: I do a sweep of the DSM-5 to make sure labels are appropriate before applied.

Thanks for the #LateNightWrite host! Unusually enough, my favorite childhood game was one of the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing games. I can't remember which one, but I was obsessed with all of its mini-games (except the stupid hot air balloon. That was the worst mini-game. Typing cadence... eugh.)

My earliest character created is an absolute goblin child and has remained a goblin child even as I stripped her of the edgy middle school subplots by wiping her memory entirely, #LateNightWrite. She definitely started off as very "mature" (kids, y'kno) but then went silly. I prefer silly her more.

For the main WIP, #LateNightWrite, it came to be via a small side-plot, which became a more dedicated (and heartbreaking) short story, and then the WIP that it is today. It's all consistent. For the "shorter" WIP, it was just some OC brain-worms. It's got far too many developments woven into it now.

It's a toss up between making Neopets comics (which are long gone + I can't remember them) or role-playing with friends both on paper and through Instant Messenger [there were a few], #LateNightWrite. Wait no, I actually wrote my first "book" at... 10 or so. Printed the words, drew on the pages.

#LateNightWrite time! Howdy, it's Cats here. My short story WIP has become a not-so-short story [over 40k words now] and I think I'm doing two larger WIPs at once now? Oops! I promise I won't start on a third. Promise.

#VisibiliDecember Character 1: Lumi Bulan-Ningkan Likuanán (pictured on the left) Ethnic coding: Filipino-Indonesian (Igorot-Iban) 🇵🇭 🇮🇩 Pronouns: she/they Conditions: profound deafness [obtained cochlear implant during infancy]; speech sound disorder #OCSky #OCs #CharacterIntroduction #art