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@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:02 AM

#LitHodgepodge 10

Last week was our narrator Dylan, this week... one of the MC3, Marin! Hello, Marin~💜

So, how would you go about trapping a Marin? đŸ€”

#TY4LM 🩈

Chest up illustration of Marin from Thank You for Loving Me. They wear a white button-up blouse tied at the neck with red ribbon. They have chestnut skin, green eyes, and purple neck-length hair. A red hairclip holds their bangs out of their right eye. The background is half blue sky, half small waves breaking near shore.
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 11:02 PM

#AwesomeCharacters

Nerissa đŸ„‡

There's not a lot of weapon use in #TY4LM but, when she's not being purposefully obtuse, Nerissa is scary good at cutting to the quick of the matter at hand〜🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:01 PM

#Sniptober 9

I was actually surprised that in all 78k words of #TY4LM, there are only two instances of "lately".

(The other one is massive spoilers~🩈)

I sat alone in the back, while Marin was up front with Nerissa to navigate. As soon as we crossed a bridge to one of the barrier islands, I received a glance in the rearview and knew the jig was up. ‘So what was it we’re picking up?’ Nerissa asked as we approached the parking lot Marin indicated. It was cheap, so of course we had a little walking to do. ‘It’s, um, something for
’ ‘It’s okay Marin, she knows.’ Nerissa sucked her teeth and stared at me through the rearview. ‘No fun at all, you. None. At. All.’ After parking, she turned completely around in her seat, letting her arms hang down the back. ‘So, tell me oh keeper of secrets. What are we really here for?’ I glanced at Marin and shrugged. ‘Well, we were thinking we hadn’t been seeing as much of you lately, so I got us some tickets to see a couple bands.’ ‘Emilie and FtM right?’ ‘Yeah, how did you—?’ ‘Good choice. I love FOB, but those Heroes are no heroes of mine.’ I just nodded. Sometimes how aware she was scared me just the tiniest bit.
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:56 PM

#QueerPrompts 10/9

Creatures From The Deepℱ descend upon the sleepy coastal town of Playa Clara...

#TY4LM 🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:27 AM

#LitHodgepodge 9

A lot of #SongsOfSeptember was focused on specific characters and scenes for me. But for a proper overarching score?

Yoko Kanno.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRJN...

She would absolutely nail the character relations and moods and vibes of Xenacanthis and just everything.

#TY4LM 🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:05 AM

#TWPGE 41/26

Talk Latin to me. #TY4LM(?)

‘I wasn’t expecting to have that much fun with you. I mean, it’s the end of fall, you’re out in the ocean in a wetsuit with some girl you don’t even know, and we had a good time. I like it. This is what friends feel like, huh.’ ‘Yeah. It’s good stuff when you can get it.’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘So about that question.’ ‘I do owe you one, don’t I. Fire away.’ I looked up to the couple stars that were bright enough to compete with the setting sun. ‘So. You know. I, uh, like this. It was a lot of fun, I mean.’ ‘Yeah, we agree on that.’ ‘So I was wondering
 uh.’ Just say it, Dylan. ‘Maybe you could explain “honorificabilitudinitatibus” to me?’ ‘As friends? Sure, that’d be awesome.’ ‘As
 more than friends.’ ‘Ah.’ I heard a splash next to me. I looked over. She was treading water upright. ‘Dylan, we just met.’ ‘I know, but—’ ‘You don’t know anything about me.’ ‘Well that’s why we’d start with the translation from Latin and—’ ‘No, Dylan, you don’t get it. You don’t know anything about me.’ For the first time, I saw what could only be sadness in her eyes. ‘Look, I get it, you’re cool. We had a good time. And I’d love to keep hanging out with you. I honestly wasn’t expecting anyone to pronounce that word
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:00 AM

#AwesomeCharacters

As the #TY4LM MC3 are all big swimmers, they don't tend to accessorize much with all the changing they do.

Only regular piece is Marin's red hairclip they use to keep their bangs out of their eyes.

Nerissa did try a fake nip piercing once but got annoyed with it.

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 2:05 PM

#Sniptober 8
No helper, subbing with assistant~

Yeahhhh... everyone's just going through it in today's prompts for me. 😓

#TY4LM 🩈

The moment he pulled away my spine thawed and I struggled as ferociously as my dulled senses would allow. My arms and legs strained against their restraints, and my body bucked. I gritted my teeth and tensed my neck, but no amount of effort would move my head. ‘Carcha.’ The doctor’s assistant laid his body atop mine in an effort to keep me still. At first, he bounced atop my thrashing torso, but a curt word from the doctor made him tense above me. I could no longer move. And once I was secure, I felt a pinch in my neck.
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:48 AM

#QueerPrompts 10/8

While it's safest to assume all my characters are bi/pan unless stated otherwise, there is a lesbian among the #TY4LM cast.

Balilan shows up much later in the story, and that fact isn't really touched upon. But I'll be writing a short that centers her and Undine very soon~🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:45 PM

#AwesomeCharacters

The #TY4LM MC3 canonically go to #1 for a date.

They (accidentally?) took their parents' reservation. (Confirmed reservation with the family name)

And then those parents show up〜😬

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:56 PM

#Sniptober 7

Hey I've got this one!

I wonder what Nerissa was going to say...đŸ€”

#TY4LM

‘Listen, Nerissa, you were about to say something before Marin got in the car?’ She looked away from the mirror. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ I waited for her to look back. ‘Nerissa, we’re still friends, right? You can tell me anything, you know. Or do we have to have that talk again? You won’t like it if we have to have that talk again.’ She looked down and muttered something I couldn’t make out. ‘What was that?’ ‘I said, “You’re too nice,” Dylan.’ ‘So what did you want to say earlier?’ ‘I was just saying, Dylan, that I—’ ‘Hey,’ Marin said, tapping on the window on her side of the car, ‘the tide is coming in really fast. We’ll miss our chance if we don’t hurry.’ Again, I missed my opportunity to hear what Nerissa was going to say. As she readjusted her mirror, I thanked her for the ride and shouldered my backpack. I waved as she sped off, kicking up a cloud of sandy gravel in her wake, but I still couldn’t shake the feeling that I wasn’t getting something important. It was one of those feelings like, once I figured it out, I’d feel like a fool for not noticing earlier. But I didn’t have time to think about it. The tide really was coming in faster than we thought and we were about to miss our chance.
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:25 PM

#QueerPrompts 10/7

In a way. One of the MCs of #TY4LM is a flavour of trans and has to hide who they really are from one of the other MCs. This leads to worries and confrontations stemming from the central thought "Do they love me for who I am or just what I present on the surface to the world?"

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:21 AM

#LitHodgepodge 7

I'm cheating a little by using a snip I deployed for a different prompt game, but this really is a great example of Dylan's narrative voice. #TY4LM 🩈

(If you want to literally hear the sound of my narrative voice, check out my readings of my work on my YouTube channel~😉)

Monday came and so did lunch. We were having pizza that day, but calling it by that name was an insult to actual pizza. I don’t know who decided that a soggy cracker drizzled with tomato juice and topped with cheese byproduct that more closely resembled moist construction paper than anything that could be derived from a cow should be called ‘pizza’, but they deserved the most severe-ist of punishments for toying with so many children’s hearts at lunchtime. By the time my class was let into the cafeteria, the purple-haired girl was already sitting by herself at the table she always sat at. Good. If I sat there before her, she might see me and shy off elsewhere. But if I waited for her, people would notice. People notice, rumors start. That was the kind of attention I didn’t need. Not that they wouldn’t notice me going to sit with her now, but ‘weird kid sits with loner’ rumors are leagues different from ‘weird kid waited for loner girl and THEY SAT TOGETHER ARE THEY DATING?????’ rumors. They were definitely more tolerable, that’s for sure. I grabbed my tray and shuffled through the line. When my time before the lunch staff came, he slapped a rectangular slice of ‘pizza’ on to the main dish section of my tray with a pair of tongs. There were three things wrong with this situation. One: real pizza comes in isosceles triangles with one rounded edge because they start as a circle. Two: who uses tongs to serve pizza? And three: it made a sound I can only describe as a wet hand slapping Jell-o when it was applied to my tray. I tried to hide my disgust with a forced smile. The server’s face remained devoid of anything resembling emotion as he prepared another ‘pizza’ to inflict on his next victim.
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:04 AM

#LitHodgepodge 6

First, I'd like to list the archetypes of the #TY4LM MC3 because I hadn't really thought about them before.

(Narrator) Dylan: Damsel
Marin: Shadow
Nerissa: Hero in denial playing at Trickster

I'm going to go with Marin, because that was the one that surprised me the most. đŸ§”

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:38 AM

#QueerPrompts 10/6

There is a coach in #TY4LM, but not one you'd want to be celebrating. A very minor character, only in one chapter.

He's coach of the middle school swim team. He spends his time reading the paper while his son the Team Captain harasses and bullies our MCs.

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 11:13 PM

#AwesomeCharacters

Knowing a lot about/obsessing over someone entitles you to them.

Something something You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift.

#TY4LM 🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 12:57 PM

#Sniptober 5

Deluxe is a type of pizza, yes? (Sorry no 'deluxe' in TY4LM😅)

And our boy Dylan has capital T Thoughts about his school's pizza~

#TY4LM 🩈

Monday came and so did lunch. We were having pizza that day, but calling it by that name was an insult to actual pizza. I don’t know who decided that a soggy cracker drizzled with tomato juice and topped with cheese byproduct that more closely resembled moist construction paper than anything that could be derived from a cow should be called ‘pizza’, but they deserved the most severe-ist of punishments for toying with so many children’s hearts at lunchtime. By the time my class was let into the cafeteria, the purple-haired girl was already sitting by herself at the table she always sat at. Good. If I sat there before her, she might see me and shy off elsewhere. But if I waited for her, people would notice. People notice, rumors start. That was the kind of attention I didn’t need. Not that they wouldn’t notice me going to sit with her now, but ‘weird kid sits with loner’ rumors are leagues different from ‘weird kid waited for loner girl and THEY SAT TOGETHER ARE THEY DATING?????’ rumors. They were definitely more tolerable, that’s for sure. I grabbed my tray and shuffled through the line. When my time before the lunch staff came, he slapped a rectangular slice of ‘pizza’ on to the main dish section of my tray with a pair of tongs. There were three things wrong with this situation. One: real pizza comes in isosceles triangles with one rounded edge because they start as a circle. Two: who uses tongs to serve pizza? And three: it made a sound I can only describe as a wet hand slapping Jell-o when it was applied to my tray. I tried to hide my disgust with a forced smile. The server’s face remained devoid of anything resembling emotion as he prepared another ‘pizza’ to inflict on his next victim.
@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:40 AM

#LitHodgepodge 5

Our narrator, Dylan:

"A lot happened to get us where we are. And I can't speak for them, but. They've shown me that as long as we're together. As long as we have each other. Keep loving and supporting each other. Whatever comes, we'll be 'perfectly' happy."

#TY4LM 🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:22 AM

Dylan would absolutely teach (marine) Biology, just like his mother.

Marin, middle grades Art.

Nerissa would be the chill band/orchestra teacher that let you stay in the room after school until your parent(s) or guardian remembered to pick you up after marching band practice.

#TY4LM 🩈

@talesbyjin.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:23 PM

#AwesomeCharacters

#TY4LM mostly takes place in high school, so they live with their parents.

Dylan in a modest house with his effectively-single mother. They make do together.

Marin and Nerissa with their parents in a beachside house on stilts. They were happier before moving there〜🩈

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