lukiyo_224

After a long break, I return to confirm my living status! I forgot to officially announce it earlier, but today I’m welcoming [Ailments of Yearning] into our family. The first chapter has been posted!
          	
          	This revenge-riddled tale tells of the perilous journey of a low-ranking Guide with a single purpose, and the blood-stained crawl to the peak of the Base with the ambiguous, sometimes unhelpful aid of the unpredictable top-ranking Esper.
          	
          	This is an apocalyptic guideverse carved of misfortune, humanity’s desperate survival, and the destruction that follows it. 
          	
          	It’s a new area (ish) for me, and I’m so eager to have you join me along this new journey, but if not, I hope to see you in the future! I promise, a more light-hearted story will eventually see light… my fingers just naturally deviate…
          	
          	Regardless, wishing you a 2025 that grants you all your wonderful dreams and hopes, and thank you so much for being here, previously or now, and for being you.

whiteshifter

That’s great to hear!! I will definitely be around. Btw have you played In Stars and Time?
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lukiyo_224

@queensmartie1228 Haha yes!! I'm happy to have you join me on this new little journey!! Happy new year!
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queensmartie1228

@lukiyo_224 omg you're back. I will read this. Happy new year.
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lukiyo_224

After a long break, I return to confirm my living status! I forgot to officially announce it earlier, but today I’m welcoming [Ailments of Yearning] into our family. The first chapter has been posted!
          
          This revenge-riddled tale tells of the perilous journey of a low-ranking Guide with a single purpose, and the blood-stained crawl to the peak of the Base with the ambiguous, sometimes unhelpful aid of the unpredictable top-ranking Esper.
          
          This is an apocalyptic guideverse carved of misfortune, humanity’s desperate survival, and the destruction that follows it. 
          
          It’s a new area (ish) for me, and I’m so eager to have you join me along this new journey, but if not, I hope to see you in the future! I promise, a more light-hearted story will eventually see light… my fingers just naturally deviate…
          
          Regardless, wishing you a 2025 that grants you all your wonderful dreams and hopes, and thank you so much for being here, previously or now, and for being you.

whiteshifter

That’s great to hear!! I will definitely be around. Btw have you played In Stars and Time?
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lukiyo_224

@queensmartie1228 Haha yes!! I'm happy to have you join me on this new little journey!! Happy new year!
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queensmartie1228

@lukiyo_224 omg you're back. I will read this. Happy new year.
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salted_fishy

I love your stories. I love the way you write. I really like how all your characters feel so alive. It's as if I'm right there, at the side, bearing witness as everything unfolds.
          
           I have a thing with my memory. Where every book that I read, I barely remember the names of the characters, as well as the title. However, I remember clearly the feelings that I have felt in reading a story. And in all your stories, there was no moment that I have felt nothing. What I mean to say is that, these writings of yours speak to my soul.
          
          On the very first chapter, I would search for a feeling, not really any specific type of emotion but just a feeling. If I don't find it, I would not continue reading the rest. I remember downloading one novel of yours, the everlasting end. Reading the first chapter, my interest was piqued, and so, I read. Then suddenly, I was at the story's end. I thought that it was good, so I visited your profile to see if you had any other works and there it was, two more stories.
          
          

lukiyo_224

@salted_fishy I was feeling emotional reading through this, thank you seriously so much for all your words, please never apologize for a long message, I adore each and every word! I'm so glad they were able to make an imprint on your heart, I also tend to forget easily and don't remember stories too well, but there are those that just linger in shapeless ways!
            
            Hearing that you came from Of Everlasting End is especially amazing, because I know it's not as popular but a treasure to me all the same, so thank you so much! You, and all others, loud or quiet, I definitely notice and stare in a daze for every comment, every message or every like or addition to a library or follow, all those little notifications I do take note of! So much love to you~
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salted_fishy

I was happy, I expected that the two other story would not pale in comparison to the first that I read, and so, I read another. When I finished, I moved to "how to make a sinner sleep". Both stories far exceeded my expectations. Both were fine novels, all well written. Then, I find myself here, writing this long ass message after I had just reached the ending. 
            
            I had just wanted to say 'I like your stories', but those words just cannot express all these things that I have said so far, a simple sentence like that might have sufficed, but I wanted to say more. I'm sorry if this was really long. All I really meant to say was that, I hope you keep writing, hope you are healthy, and just really wish you never stop, but that would be too exhausting for if you did not rest, so rest if needed.
            
             If you find your self publishing another story, I will definitely read it, though you might not notice.
            I am inclined to believe that you didn't know you had a reader such as me, because I never really made my presence known from what I remember. But I am here, every one of us, your readers, will always be here for your stories. 
            
            
            Thank you for your stories, and I am really sorry for this really long message. 
            
            
            
            
            
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Eika344

I miss your stories, when will you come back? I hope you have a good day everyday. I will wait for your next beautiful story. 

lukiyo_224

@Eika344 I hope you're having the best-est day everyday! I'm aiming to post at the end of this month, maybe on the last day of the year or Christmas (undecided!) It'll be a guideverse/apocalypse story this time!
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freshryebread

I love your stories so much, I REALLY DO, I spent all night reading your works TT please make moreee

lukiyo_224

@freshryebread PERFECT it’s meant to be hahaha 
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freshryebread

@freshryebread I LOVE NOVELS WITH APOCALYPTIC THEMES 
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lukiyo_224

@freshryebread THANK YOU I hope you managed to get some sleep though!! Hahaha I plan to soon, my next novel if everything goes accordingly should be a guideverse/apocalypse style! Hopefully that's up your alley, but if not I'll be writing morein the future too!!
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AizasReality

LUKIYOOOO I use your list of stories that you recommended and OH MY GOSH ⁉️⁉️⁉️ I absolutely fell in love with The Rebirth of A Movie Star and Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From The Trash Bin (I think that's how it's spelled?) so much that I can't stop recommending them to other people on Tiktok who are in search of some good reads!! Without your list, I'd be lost searching for good novels 

AizasReality

@AizasReality Yesssss~~~~ It's so good! Thinking about it now, once I finish Global Examination I'll probably re read it again.
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lukiyo_224

@AizasReality YAY that's awesome, I'm so glad you liked them! I don't think I've gotten through Don't Pick up Boyfriends yet, but The Rebirth of a Movie Star was def a good read, it's been so long since I read it!!
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Saiyan379

Hey heyyy currently reading HTMASS & girllllll I’m beyond obsessed & I’m still in the beginning of the novel. Thank you for sharing something sooo beautiful I cannot wait to finish & try out ur other works :) I do wanna ask abt some writing tips? Honestly anything you have to say I will take because cmon ur a God at this but if you could touch on how you got so good at wording everything so beautifully?? Idk if that makes sense lol but also how you plot everything & how you come up w the creation of characters?? Again any tips you can give will be a gift :)))

lukiyo_224

@Saiyan379 Hahaha I’m glad then!! I admittedly do write a little haphazardly as well, so I think it’s a lot of trial and error for each person! I can’t wait to return with some new exciting adventures I hope you’ll enjpy~
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Saiyan379

@lukiyo_224 No this was amazing you made me laugh bc even how you explain things is so freaking good LMAO I cannot! Thank you smmm this helped me a lot, I never realized creating characters wasn’t so easy a lot needs to be thought out beforehand & you need to have a sort of understanding of WHO the character is & how’d they react to certain situations…& adding that w how they react w certain relationships ahhh it has been struggle to remember & keep the differences between characters. But I’m def doing my hw by studying urself and others amazing works I aspire to be like hehehe thank you again for taking the time to explain things, so sweet! I’m so excited for what you do in the future <333
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lukiyo_224

@Saiyan379 THANK YOU!! I'll say HTMASS is probably my most polished work haha, it's cliche but writing definitely improves dramatically as you go (it's a little hard to read older works sometimes!) I like to analyze the sentence structures of my favourite authors, and to get a feel of their flow which I try to adapt into something of my own! Therefore, my writing is a reflection of dozens I've admired before, if that makes sense? Some of my favourite authors in terms of language and flow is Yiyuehua, V.E. Schwab, R.F Kuang and Musali!
            
            My plotting is sort of difficult so I'll apologize if it's confusing! I typically decide what my main themes are, and then the ending, the beginning and the middle, in that order! And I fill everything in roughly, before writing out a more detailed plan of what I'm planning, and then I sort of just get right into it (it changes a LOT while I write!)
            
            As for characters, I like to write the sorts I like reading (hence my often emotionally-stunted or self-sacrificial but hopefully endearing protagonists) or the quiet, intellect with far too many thoughts and far too little words to reflect them (like Noah, Damien). I like to organize what kind of dynamics could exist between two, and imagining the relationships between them usually gives me more clarity to who they are, if that makes sense??
            
            Hopefully this could help! I hope you had a wonderful Halloween as well!
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limruiii_

It's truly embarrassing to admit but I've grown so attached to your characters that I've caught myself thinking about them while reading other stories! I would sometimes read a funny interaction and think "That's so Kaden and Noah".
          
          And I guess that shows just how much your stories have affected my thought process while reading and somewhere along the way, it went from "I totally wouldn't do that" to "[a character of yours] totally wouldn't do that". Thinking about your story and characters became somewhat of a daily routine!! 
          
          I can say with the utmost confidence that your stories have raised my reading standards quite a bit and I doubt that I can ever find a story that makes me so attached to every character ever again!
          
          Just writing this to let you know that your stories are actually so fire that I love each and everyone of them and I sleep and wake up to the thought of them!!!!!!

lukiyo_224

@limruiii_ THATS SUCH AN HONOUR? For them to exist in your regular thoughts is so lovely, thank you so much, it gives them so much life! I'm sure they're having a blast existing among the everyday and being given that essence of immortality in memory haha, thank you again~
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whiteshifter

Heya! Just finished How to Make a Sinner Sleep it was amazing! Definitely my type of book. 
          By any chance have you played the game In Stars and Time? Some parallels between this game and your book are quite amusing to see.
          
          Anyways, hope there’s more to come ^^

lukiyo_224

@whiteshifter Yay, I'm glad you enjoyed it! And no, I haven't, I unfortunately don't play many games (though I would like to!) but I just looked it up and it sounds soo curious?? I'll try it sometime, I'm interested to see the parallels too!
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NiestetyIstnieje

My dear lovely author ✍️ Are you planning to write a new book?? I read all of your books at least 3 times per book so I don’t know if i can live without new one  I love your writing so so so much 

lukiyo_224

@NiestetyIstnieje Hello, that's such high praise omg T^T I'm still undecided when my break will end, although it will likely be soon! I'm working on a personal project currently, but have a few in-progress works I'd like to share soon, hopefully by the end of the year!
            
            I hope to see you then!! ^^
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