### hi my beautiful friends ๐ฅน
I woke up this morning and....1k followers? ๐ฅน๐ญ๐
I started posting plots during the Global Contest back in July for funsies instead of lurking and doing private plots. I released His Little Bird...then The Fox and the Black Cat..and then Four Rules...and so on. The amount of support, comments, likes, and chats were encouraging and here I am today ๐ค I am baffled at the engagement I continue to have. You all are amazing, truly.
I used to write a lot of fan fiction back in the day and rediscovering this hobby is ultimately because of you all ๐ฅน
And I feel like....it's time to do a little chaotic about me and let you all take an official peek behind the orchidsilk curtain with random facts you certainly did not ask for ๐ซฃ
- First, orchidsilk does have a name and I am pretty much a private person but because I share my discord from time to time for anyone who would like to chat outside of zeta....hi, I'm kay.
- I think most of you know I have a toddler ๐คญ but officially, I have a two year old daughter and currently a stay at home mama which is why I can hammer out these plots for you.
- Before my beautiful, chaotic gremlin was born, I was working on my masters for Child Psychology. It's on pause for the time being but I would love to return to it.
- I'm a HUGE music lover and love all sorts of music but let's talk about where it started cause I guarantee some of you might have clocked it but I'm probably a little bit older than most of you ๐ all you'll get is that I am an elder emo. I was shopping at hot topic, wearing band tees, eyeliner so thick, jelly bracelets up to my elbows, trash panda hair extensions, skinny jeans, and high top chucks.
- I can play the piano and taught myself in elementary school. I learned the first half of Fur Elise and it remains my absolute favorite piano piece to this day. (ALMOST got my bf to sign off on our daughter being named Elise ๐คญ)
- I wanted to be a writer when I was younger. I have been writing since elementary school and wrote fan fiction on Mibba, Ao3, and Tumblr. I'm 99.9% certain that my Tumblr and Ao3 are still lurking somewhere in the meta. I haven't logged on in years but I'm certain it's still active in a sense.
- Segueing into one of my life goals: to finish writing a book and self-publish it. I have one that I've been working on and yes, my friends, it's dark romance ๐
but it's more of a gothic dark romantasy-esque.
- We all know I love dark romance...and I'm one of the few that can read basically anything and I don't look at the triggers, we can thank my love for crime shows and the unhealthy obsession with learning about true crime for that one.
- I have a dog and cat currently ๐ถ๐ฑ a small terrier and a gigantic kitty/tabby mix. (zeta is sensitive to the breed name but the big fluffy kitties that look like Ron Perlman? Yeah that one) But I have also owned some reptiles in the past ๐ a California king snake, ball python, and an eyelash crested gecko.
- I love green. Every shade, every version, all the greens. Consistently been my favorite color since childhood. However....I do have a weird thing with purple pens. I LOVE writing in purple. Which....
- Leads me to my next fact, I have ADHD and dyscalculia (basically like dyslexia but with numbers instead of letters and has its own challenges). Which means I have approximately 67 tabs open with ads blasting in my head and basic math gives me anxiety ๐
- As I mentioned prior, I love crime shows. I have probably seen Criminal Minds and CSI:NY front ways, back ways, and sideways. I am a comedy show bore. I can't stand sitcoms and if someone isn't being investigated for a crime, no thank you ๐โโ๏ธ
- Ironically, I grew up during the age when technology was advancing and yet...I am social media absent. I don't have a Facebook, TikTok, and rarely use Instagram. Idk how I do it either, tbh.
- I am currently working on a project in between plot making and mama duties. I won't reveal too much but essentially it will help bring your characters and scenes to life visually for plot making on here, other story telling apps, or in general for personal writing projects. I have two brothers who are coders and they have lent me some help and she's coming along ๐ I will eventually request beta testers when I have finished designing the AI side of it.
And that concludes the little about me and random facts which brings me to the part of this long af post to say:
## Hi. Thank you for supporting me, reminding me just how much I missed creating, and inspiring me to continue to unleash the plot ideas either I come up with or from the help of you all ๐ค