Laki - Narrative Designer | Author | Artist
@lakilarian.bsky.social
✒️📖 Writer, artist, and occasional animator
Bi, Fluid, and 100% Human
☆Currently playing - Metaphor: ReFantazio☆
WHALESONG 🐋 (in Empire of Beasts anthology) -> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202135189-empire-of-beasts
SPIRIT.I. 🔍✨️ (is evolving... 👀)
Bi, Fluid, and 100% Human
☆Currently playing - Metaphor: ReFantazio☆
WHALESONG 🐋 (in Empire of Beasts anthology) -> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202135189-empire-of-beasts
SPIRIT.I. 🔍✨️ (is evolving... 👀)
I'll be sharing little glimpses of development during my inevitable dive back into graphic novel-ing and game design, a direction my brain has always not-so-secretly wanted to go.
Thank you to everyone who followed me as a book person. I still write tons, just mainly for visual mediums atm.
Thank you to everyone who followed me as a book person. I still write tons, just mainly for visual mediums atm.
July 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I'll be sharing little glimpses of development during my inevitable dive back into graphic novel-ing and game design, a direction my brain has always not-so-secretly wanted to go.
Thank you to everyone who followed me as a book person. I still write tons, just mainly for visual mediums atm.
Thank you to everyone who followed me as a book person. I still write tons, just mainly for visual mediums atm.
In fairness to the piece, this story (Spirit.I.) was originally meant to be an adventure game series, and it seems it has no intention to lose that. The lonely explorer vibe - no matter how jazzed up by my MC's personality it is - invites a lot more desire to participate than observe.
July 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In fairness to the piece, this story (Spirit.I.) was originally meant to be an adventure game series, and it seems it has no intention to lose that. The lonely explorer vibe - no matter how jazzed up by my MC's personality it is - invites a lot more desire to participate than observe.
The battle has truly been lost on this one! Especially for writers who draw their own characters (even me).
Using "OC" still feels like taking a kind of demotion from being a full-blown author, but I get that people expect fan art, and need the distinction of "self-made" in fewest letters possible.
Using "OC" still feels like taking a kind of demotion from being a full-blown author, but I get that people expect fan art, and need the distinction of "self-made" in fewest letters possible.
April 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The battle has truly been lost on this one! Especially for writers who draw their own characters (even me).
Using "OC" still feels like taking a kind of demotion from being a full-blown author, but I get that people expect fan art, and need the distinction of "self-made" in fewest letters possible.
Using "OC" still feels like taking a kind of demotion from being a full-blown author, but I get that people expect fan art, and need the distinction of "self-made" in fewest letters possible.
Reminds me of how I was *very* confused when I saw people using "OC" to refer to just... characters in their own fictions.
It seems the usage has spread and solidified, likely because "OC" is short, so it helps in limited text space. But it was super odd to me at first.
It seems the usage has spread and solidified, likely because "OC" is short, so it helps in limited text space. But it was super odd to me at first.
April 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Reminds me of how I was *very* confused when I saw people using "OC" to refer to just... characters in their own fictions.
It seems the usage has spread and solidified, likely because "OC" is short, so it helps in limited text space. But it was super odd to me at first.
It seems the usage has spread and solidified, likely because "OC" is short, so it helps in limited text space. But it was super odd to me at first.
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Thank you! It's really the whole reason my spouse reads my story 😆
February 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Thank you! It's really the whole reason my spouse reads my story 😆
Really drives home the point that when we do our job to entertain people, we're writing for a better class of people who need a deeper challenge.
... In which case, thank goodness most of us stick to being good, because Phew! But still. Annoying how much the cartoonish evil lives on.
... In which case, thank goodness most of us stick to being good, because Phew! But still. Annoying how much the cartoonish evil lives on.
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Really drives home the point that when we do our job to entertain people, we're writing for a better class of people who need a deeper challenge.
... In which case, thank goodness most of us stick to being good, because Phew! But still. Annoying how much the cartoonish evil lives on.
... In which case, thank goodness most of us stick to being good, because Phew! But still. Annoying how much the cartoonish evil lives on.
I'm biased toward Veridian because I have an important fortress/institution in one of my stories name that, explicitly for the color and tropical setting 😄
I think with the *e* makes it more clear it's about the color, while the *i* hides it a little for subtlety, perhaps.
I think with the *e* makes it more clear it's about the color, while the *i* hides it a little for subtlety, perhaps.
February 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm biased toward Veridian because I have an important fortress/institution in one of my stories name that, explicitly for the color and tropical setting 😄
I think with the *e* makes it more clear it's about the color, while the *i* hides it a little for subtlety, perhaps.
I think with the *e* makes it more clear it's about the color, while the *i* hides it a little for subtlety, perhaps.
Fabulous! I love your art style! I'm sure your video will be great 🙂↕️
February 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Fabulous! I love your art style! I'm sure your video will be great 🙂↕️
Sorry friend 😔
Writing really is a slow world. It's especially true for first books because they represent a HUGE leap of learning to go from first draft to truly publish ready. Figuring out who and what gate checks can help you tell if it's actually time is a big part of that.
Writing really is a slow world. It's especially true for first books because they represent a HUGE leap of learning to go from first draft to truly publish ready. Figuring out who and what gate checks can help you tell if it's actually time is a big part of that.
February 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sorry friend 😔
Writing really is a slow world. It's especially true for first books because they represent a HUGE leap of learning to go from first draft to truly publish ready. Figuring out who and what gate checks can help you tell if it's actually time is a big part of that.
Writing really is a slow world. It's especially true for first books because they represent a HUGE leap of learning to go from first draft to truly publish ready. Figuring out who and what gate checks can help you tell if it's actually time is a big part of that.
Thank you so much for the last little jigsaw pieces! Now I have the complete picture 😁
February 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Thank you so much for the last little jigsaw pieces! Now I have the complete picture 😁