celastella

Back with my occasional update on rewriting Guilty:
          	
          	Honestly I'm making steady progress and already rewrote the first two chapters in a google doc, and I actually combined a lot of the chapters so I technically rewrote five chapters already-
          	
          	With what I planned out, the story is gonna go from 50 chapters + 2 bonus chapters, to 23 chapters + 2 bonuses like that's just insane?????? I'm not even taking away a lot of stuff, in fact I'm either adding more or replacing stuff-
          	
          	But I'll keep y'all updated in the future and also keep trying to update Isles at a steady pace and not leave it in the ditch <3

celastella

Back with my occasional update on rewriting Guilty:
          
          Honestly I'm making steady progress and already rewrote the first two chapters in a google doc, and I actually combined a lot of the chapters so I technically rewrote five chapters already-
          
          With what I planned out, the story is gonna go from 50 chapters + 2 bonus chapters, to 23 chapters + 2 bonuses like that's just insane?????? I'm not even taking away a lot of stuff, in fact I'm either adding more or replacing stuff-
          
          But I'll keep y'all updated in the future and also keep trying to update Isles at a steady pace and not leave it in the ditch <3

celastella

Watching the men’s free skate final was actually the most devastated I’ve ever been watching the olympics so far like omg????
          
          I can’t help but feel empathetic towards every skater so it just HURTS even if who I was rooting for made podium-
          
          Congrats to Mikhail Shaidorov though omg his performance was amazing and definitely deserved that win 

st4rs_foreverrr

@celastella  That's niceee!!
            Me neither, I would have fallen the moment I got on the ice fr twt
            Oh? Well, that's good ig? One of my friends irl is a professional figure skater(?), and she actually won some medals in a junior competition!
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celastella

@st4rs_foreverrr I’ve been into figure skating since FOREVERRR i love it so much and it’s the only reason i tune into the olympics 
            Respect to all of them fr I can’t imagine the pressure like it must be INSANE !! but lowk i’m thinking of getting into it myself 
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st4rs_foreverrr

@celastella I've always watched the skating finals (minus when I was older cuz I had no interest in it twt), and all the skaters are AMAZING, so i'm just in awe as they spin and slid around on the ice
            Respect for all of them, because I can never do that T-T 
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celastella

Say what ya’ll want about Bad Bunny’s performance if it wasn’t your cup of tea then alr but for me as a Puerto Rican, it meant so much and the message behind it was beautiful idc 
          
          Showing the slice of life of Puerto Rican and hispanic culture in general resonated with me because it reminded me so much of childhood. Not only that, but touching upon issues that aren’t being addressed despite Puerto Rico being A PART of U.S was so important bc they want to claim the territory but when it comes to actually helping us, suddenly we’re not a part of the country???? 
          
          So yeah this performance was a big 10/10 for me idc, I loved every second of it 

celastella

@zinniq It's such a shame all they could do was criticize him because I'm not even a strong spanish speaker myself and I still enjoyed it??? And for them to say it wasn't a political performance either when it most DEFINITELY was, it just wasn't the usual big f u to America or wtv-
            
            Nowadays people just complain to complain like don't y'all get TIRED?? just sit and watch the fine man perform goddamn
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zinniq

I literally cried, I’ve been loving him since 2016 and now seeing him at the Super Bowl making history I genuinely teared up. This is why I keep saying Lady Gaga and Sabrina could sit this award down, Bad Bunny deserved album of the year the most in the Grammy’s. I feel so bad for those who decide to not understand because they’re bitter and full of hate, it’s sad, but it says more about them than our people, us Latinos always have so much love to give 
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celastella

Rewriting Guilty and my Taurpio heart is hurting all over again bc why did I add MORE??? And then imagining them with Tyrant oh this is sick and twisted-
          
          Also y’all are finally getting and update of Isles tomorrow fyi <3 

celastella

@zinniq we boutta be in the trenches again girl cuz i just made it all the more complicated
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zinniq

You just gave me violent Taurpio war flashbacks 
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celastella

this message may be offensive
So on the topic beforehand about rewriting Guilty-
          
          I just did an outline of the things I wanted to change just to see how much there was and holy shit it's like I liberated myself from this mortal shell and became obsessed with these characters all over again, it's actually SO MUCH BETTER????
          
          I will say there's like one MAJOR change that will leave me to rework some chapters in Re:Call, but other than that, the story mainly follows the same elements and conclusion, but the actions and specific details make A LOT more sense to me!
          
          Plus I'll probably be able to cut the amount of chapters by half with the way most were between 2 - 4k. I'll keep y'all updated with the progress as the days go and pray that I don't crash and burn-

st4rs_foreverrr

@celastella  Good luck to youu, I believe you can do it as well! Uhhh-well, not sure abt that but I'll try!!!
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celastella

@moonlit_mag1c It’s definitely a lot of hard work but i lowkey think I can pull it off ! If my lazy ass can do it, you can 
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celastella

Oh that stranger things finale was…yeah. 

crazybirdsfly

@celastella Im not even in the ST fandom and I recoiled at this shit… somehow EVERYBODY was disappointed
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celastella

@zinniq bro i don’t even know where to begin with it I just NEEEEED to complain about it I HAVE TO
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celastella

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!
          
          I had something longer written but I accidentally deleted it, so that just goes to show how my 2026 is gonna go lmao

st4rs_foreverrr

@celastella  HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU TOOOO
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celastella

LONG POST INCOMING ‼️
          
          
          Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays, and as we approach the new year, I’d like to bring up this HUGE dilemma I’ve been having-
          
          As you know, a few months ago I put Re:Call on an indefinite hiatus to focus on one story at a time, and not lose my sanity in the process cuz holy hell this shi ain’t for the weak. The problem lies in the book itself. Recently I went back to read Guilty, the first installment, just to refresh myself on what happened and everything…
          
          And I realized I REALLY don’t like that book. Some of the decisions and details started to just turn me off to the point that I can’t even ignore it anymore, and it’s starting to affect my motivation for continuing Re:Call. Then comes the idea to just discontinue the whole series, but that decision doesn’t sound right to me either.
          
          The only thing I’ve thought to do is to potentially rewrite portions of Guilty; the core aspects will all be the same as well as characters’ personalities, but their actions and decisions would make a lot more sense than it did—such as having a more solid reason as to why Taurus was accused and not some half-baked excuse, and more people fighting for her not to be executed. Basically, acting more like people who’ve known each other for over a decade instead of a few weeks-
          
          There would also be minor tweaks in history and some added scenes that would make the book feel more…alive, but then again that’s all just possibility I haven’t decided on yet. 
          
          It would probably take a LONG time to rewrite the portions I want to fix, and then making y’all read all of it over again makes me feel kind of bad, but I don’t know if I can continue Re:Call otherwise. 
          
          Let me know what y’all think about all this. Should I go through with rewriting it or should I just suck it up and keep the decisions I’ve made and continue Re:Call cuz right now, I’m genuinely stuck

celastella

@zinniq With the things I plan to switch around in Guilty, I MIGHT have to tweak a few things in the chapters I already published in Re:Call—I’m definitely leaning on the side of rewriting and looking back, tbh more chapters could’ve been combined into one, cuz 2k words equals 1 chapter??? But I’m glad you’re willing to reread it bc I think that’s my biggest worry of all this, so thank you <333
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zinniq

I know the feeling all too well girl and coming from someone who decided to thug it out and continue the story anyways, I can confidently say that there would be points later on where you would need to stretch out in order for the plot to make sense or just half ass it. To your defense, you JUST started Re:Call, it only has a few chapters. I started realizing things were missing up when Wild Cards had more than 30 chapters, I don’t have any choice but to continue bcs changing it will take WAY too long, but you definitely have the option. We still haven’t even gotten to the nitty gritty of Re:Call, you haven’t updated it in a while so i think it’s even good if we all refresh our memories with Wild Cards + what will make it better to continue it. Struggles of being an author frl but we get the hang of it, as long as YOU want to write it I’ll be glad to read bcs the energy of the one writing ALWAYS reflects it on their novel 
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