Audre's Adumbral Alcove

[Audrelite]

Hello! I frankly don't know what I'll be predominently focusing on with this blog; it'll most likely be just a corner where I will ramble on about various things—Pokémon, my fanfic writings, my beloved OCs, headcanons, and the like, though there may be posts on other topics as well, including Eurovision, books, philosophy, poetry, esoterica and the occult, etc. One thing is for sure: this will definitely be much more stream-of-conscious in nature.

 

[Audrelite]

Some of my Favorite Ships

• Absol/Umbreon
• Alice/Tonio
• Ariana/Giovanni
• Azelf/Darkrai
• Caitlin/Darach
• Cresselia/Darkrai
• Elesa/Skyla
• Flygon/Froslass
• Glacia/Olympia
• Karen/Will
• Kris/Silver
• Leaf/Lucas
• Lillie/Selene
• Lucian/Shauntal (OTP)
• Palina/Iscan
• Pokémon Hunter J/Pyramid King Brandon

 

[Audrelite]

I've come to the realization that as much as I love writing fics featuring my OCs, I love just brainstorming their traits and quirks and lives even more so.

For instance, one of my OCs, the successor to Champion Diantha, feels incredibly developed in my eyes. Like, this man is the poster child for all panic-riddled people-pleasers everywhere. His partner Absol is such a good pokémon for him, soothing his anxieties and steering him away from overstimulating or overwhelming situations. She's known him long enough that she can predict, for a lack of a better term, Dash's mental disasters. It's such an interesting concept, I believe.

 

[Audrelite]

If AO3 has taught me the basics of HTML, being on these forums has taught me the basics of BBCode. That is all.

 

[Audrelite]

Condensing dialogue into haiku is a skill— an art form. Not only must you pay attention to the syllable counts, but it also must make sense as a sentence, because, not only must it follow the haiku's syllabic meter, but it must also flow, as it is, first and foremost, natural dialogue. That is all.

 

[Audrelite]

My collection of Olympia-centric vignettes has 10 chapters now! I originally set the final chapter number to 30 on AO3, but changed it to 10 after publishing this latest chapter, but now I'm wondering if I should set it back to 30 in the event I'd like to upload more vignettes. (On a side note, I'm particularly proud of this vignette, because Olympia actually talks to someone! Whoa! Haha!)

 

[Welkamo]

If AO3 has taught me the basics of HTML, being on these forums has taught me the basics of BBCode. That is all.

Same!!! (On the BBCode, still haven't figured out HTML lol. I have some of the basics down, but it's overwhelming sometimes. )

 

[Audrelite]

Pokémon Blaze Black 2 Redux Update 1:

I caught a shiny Pidove at base odds on the route right next to Floccesy Ranch. It's gained one singular level since I've caught it. My Mareep, who I've christened Sweet Baby Child, is very unhappy with me at this news. Let's see how long it takes for me to walk back to the Pokémon Center (context: I'm blind, so I play through sound alone; I've memorized 99% of move sounds and cries for Gens IV and V).

Addition to Update 1: Mareep has evolved!! I had begun to train up Oshawoot to evolve him too, but he fainted midway through the (very short) training session so I decided to go back to Floccesy to heal. I'm in town now, but I've decided to stop playing for now, as I'm unsure how long it'll take me to walk to the Center. (Oh, and Seedot gained a singular level during Oshawott's training session as vengeance—very proud!)

 

[Audrelite]

I began writing my one-shot for the Flowering Love event, and I'm both pleased with and frustrated by my current draft of it. I am usually not one who outlines; I prefer to just write one draft, then edit it heavily until I'm satisfied with it—and even then, once I've posted the work to AO3, I stealth edit the hell out of it after the fact. I believe this piece will be no exception, even though I'm not yet finished writing it. My personal goal for this fic is 3k words, as I'd like to challenge myself with this in terms of word count. Thank God I've got a whole month still to work on this.

 

[Welkamo]

once I've posted the work to AO3, I stealth edit the hell out of it after the fact.

this is so real (source: me, retconning whole plot threads after posting to AO3)

 

[Audrelite]

One of the AO3 tags on my Flowering Love event one-shot is literally My Prose Wears a Cape and Calls Itself Superfluous—though what else would you expect from someone who's used "logophile" and "timbre" and "panoply" within their fics? (Huge thanks to the Writers Workshop mods, by the way, my Monday morning has been made!)

 

[Audrelite]

BBCode can go fuck off. I SWEAR I have the code for rendering links correct, but alas. Still, the link to the AO3 work is there (and I'm quite proud of myself for fixing a couple stray errors that somehow were found in the Bulbagarden post that appeared to have been fixed on AO3). Sigh. In any case, might wanna get out your dictionaries, fellas, my fic doesn't hold back on the flowery prose!

 

[Audrelite]

My personal goal for this fic is 3k words, as I'd like to challenge myself with this in terms of word count.

So... the final word count ended up being 5494 words! I'd say I achieved this goal and surpassed it, too! As someone whose works generally fall in the range of 100-word drabbles to 1-2k shorts, I am quite pleased with myself at having written something higher in terms of word count.

 

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Every so often, I think about the series of fics I'd written detailing Brandon and Hunter J's relationship, leading to the 100 drabble project I finished in July of last year, centering on their daughter and her Pokémon journey. What a time. If I can think of something, I may revisit that series and add another fic to it, as I really love writing for a reformed J (named Juno in my fics), Brandon, and their daughter Cassandra.

 

[Audrelite]

It just so happens that I can say I've written something for the series of fics in my previous post (pertaining to Hunter J and Brandon); the chances of me revisiting this little blog-thread of mine and seeing that that was the topic of my last post, after writing 500 words of... um... love??? (Listen I don't know how to categorize this little ficlet!) has left me quite surprised.

 

[Audrelite]

Buon pomeriggio a tutti, it's been a while since I've posted here. I just thought I'd share a couple of little things I found with you: one interesting website, and an excerpt of a poem that I've been re-reading throughout the last few days.

First, the website. This site was found literally five minutes before I began typing this. It's a random word generator, but what sets it apart is that you can choose the word class (noun, adjective, transitive and intransitive verb, adverb, interjection, preposition) and the complexity of the word, from very common to obscure, and it'll give you a word. No definition though, so you'll have to look the word up yourself.

And now, for the poem excerpt:

"But never mind the downside,

mon semblable, mon crush.
Love is just the retaliation of light.

It is so profligate, you know,
so rich with rush."

—Alice Fulton, final lines to "Claustrophilia," from Barely Composed (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015)

You can read the poem in its entirety for free on the Poetry Foundation website, or on the New Yorker review website.

È tutto questo che ho da dire — that's all I have to say. Want to ask me questions here? You're more than welcome to! Thanks very much for stopping by!

 

[Audrelite]

So, I'm not one to give nicknames to pokémon that belong to trainers, but I'd come to the realization that Dash is such an important OC to me that his ace at least HAD to have a name. Thus, I've given his Absol the name Heléne (and yes, the accent is intentional, as it's pronounced like LANE and not LEAN.)

 

[Audrelite]

An update on Dash's team and nicknames: I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do in terms of his team—I've got a few Pokémon that I feel could suit him and, if not, there's always the team I originally conceived for him. Also, I've changed his Absol's nickname from Heléne to Speranza: it is the Italian word for hope, a genus of moths, and a beautiful name on its own terms.

 

[lisianthus]

Small question, do you speak any Italian, Audre? I think I remember you saying you enjoyed some Italian artists (or at least one?) and it seems you use it every once in a while around here! Much like I tend to with Japanese, though a large part of that is because my very dear older sister (who is also here, perhaps you know of her a little...?) speaks it as well ehehe.

At any rate, I'm excited to see what you do with this! It's interesting to hear others' thoughts on nicknaming Pokemon, I'm usually one for doing so myself, but perhaps I just write characters who are more likely to nickname theirs? Things to think about on my end, but the rush of having a new AU to write about is exciting, isn't it? Feel free to bounce ideas with me if you ever would like to!

 

[Audrelite]

Hi @lisianthus! I've been studying Italian for a number of years now; I wouldn't call myself fluent by any means, but I love reading poetry and listening to music in the language, and my speaking is decent at best. I think the fact that my fluency in English alongside an Austronesian language (a language family much different to Italian's Romance) has given me a tiny leg up in studying other languages and their characteristics.