CrisLance – Literary Arts Blogspace

See You Later 🩵🤍

I don’t know how to start this without getting emotional, but here we are—When I came to MSA I didn’t know what I was doing. I stayed in my room all the time because I was worried other would see that I didn’t really belong here like they did. I stayed close to the one friend I had that came to the from my town. I saw how amazing all my classmates were at writing, and I thought I wouldn’t make it.

But as the first couple weeks pasted, I found myself stepping out of my shell (or dorm room in this case) as I found that I enjoyed a lot of the same things as many people on my floor. Then as the first semester pasted by, I grew closer to those who I now consider my Best Friends, no matter how childish that might sound to some. I love my hometown very much, but I know that if I stayed, I would have never gotten the opportunities that I got here at MSA or would I have met the wonderful people here from all over Mississippi who taught me so much about places outside of the small world I used to live in.

This school has been more than just a building filled with classrooms—it’s been a collection of memories, laughter, heartbreak, awkward moments, and unexpected friendships. It’s been a place where we found pieces of ourselves, sometimes in the people around us, and sometimes in the quietest moments we didn’t think anyone noticed.

I’ll miss the chaos of the mornings, the sleepy stares in first period, the inside jokes whispered across the room, the lunch table drama, the group projects that nearly broke us (but somehow made us closer), and the teachers who believed in us even when we didn’t believe in ourselves.

We grew up here. We stumbled, we failed, we succeeded, we learned—and not just from textbooks. We learned about life. About people. About how hard goodbyes really are.

To the people who stayed, who left, who changed us in ways they’ll never fully understand—thank you. To the hallways that heard our secrets and the classrooms that held our dreams—thank you. To every single day that shaped us into who we are right now—thank you.

It’s time to say goodbye now. And as much as I wanted to sprint toward the future, I find myself pausing, just for a moment, to look back. To feel everything one last time.

So, this is it. My final sign-off. Goodbye, school. You’ll always have a piece of my heart.

With love,

Crislyn Lance, MSA Senior Literary Class of ‘25

DND Campaign 2025

Sup guys so this is pretty last minute I decided to scrap my other idea and do this instead. Many of you might not know this or you might know this, but I am a huge nerd. From anime, fanfiction, and writing. I don’t want to hear anything we all know that out every discipline in this school maybe beside the visuals, because they are a whole different breed. Literaries are the nerdiest of the Nerds. Whether you agree or disagree that’s up to you but that not what this blog is about.

A few weeks back before spring break my sister asked me if I wanted to play DND with her and I was like sure. I haven’t really played since last year when I first started playing. We started talking and trying to find a way where we could get more people. Since most folks in my town don’t play or even know what DND is. I also told her that I would like to be the DM because while playing last year with the group I was in I realized that I can’t be a player. I don’t like not have control of characters whether my own or others. Not being able to move my little puppets around like I want to. It just doesn’t scratch this itch that I had while playing As a character.

So, there’s the backstory to this blog now on to the meat. So, as I’m still new to DND I’m having trouble writing the story for the campaign. Like it’s not that I’m having trouble coming up with ideas it just I don’t really know how I’m supposed to execute it. Like I kinda know how I want the story to go and all the meaty parts but I’m not sure how to do all the techy parts of DND if anyone knows what I mean.

Now I know I’ve done a lot of “talking” about this but let me just give a small bit of the world I’m setting up for this campaign. Some of y’all might recognize this world from a previous blog but that’s mainly because I’m unoriginal and like stealing from myself and being too lazy to come up with another world:

Etherwind is where this story takes place. It takes place during a very peaceful time or so the people think for some reasons in the areas that split up many of the territory’s accidents involving crashed carriages and or wagons. At first it was mainly just commoners that were getting attack but soon some nobles were also being attack. The rulers of the four territories came together to figure out who could be doing this and how, but they could never catch the person or people who were harming everyone on the continent. One day they get world that another Eleven noble family was attacked and unlike before this family was really close to the ex-King. This enraged the Ex-King and after making sure that the child of the deceased elven noble was safe, he sent word to every territory to capture any and everyone who knows the underground the black markets and all that jazz. Of course, will pay what’s needed. All he hopes that whoever is hired will bring him the head of the monster who killed his brother in arms.

So that’s basically all I have so far and as you can see it’s not that much but I really hope that in time it’ll become something better so I can start this campaign with my sister and whoever else I can drag into with us. So, thanks for reading other one of my spirals into madness as I try and take on projects that I know I’ll probably never have time for.

See y’all next time!

-XOXO Crislance

I need a little help

Hey guys so this is a very last-minute blog but, I need a little help as the title says. So, there’s this personal project for the past few weeks maybe almost a month I’m not really sure but my amazing roommate gave me the challenge of finishing one of the many long stories that I have been writing and putting off because I either loose motivation or I get too busy. She has said that if I can finish the book before the end of the year, she’ll book bind it for me. Now, when she told me this I got really hyped and spent the first night really doing nothing else but writing most of chapter. This is kinda where my problem comes in, I’m still currently writing Chapter 5 and even though I am getting close to the end I don’t really think I did the chapter justice.

I just wanted to know if there was someone who would be willing to read chapter 5 for me and tell me honestly if I should start all the way over or if I’m good to keep going to the next chapters. I gave myself the deadline of having this finished by mid-March. I don’t really care about grammar and that stuff right now my made focus is knowing if the story still makes a lick of sense because at this point in time most of the words are just a blur to me and I don’t remember if I wanted to make this child friendly or if it was for young adults.

I love my roommate and I’m glad she gave this challenge because it’s honestly giving life to a story that might have been left on the back burner. Yes, I did choose this story because it was already mostly done. I only really needed to write six more chapters, and I would have been done but now that I’m doing it I realize why I kind of took a break (a year break) from this story. It also kind of doesn’t really help that when I picked up the story, I didn’t have a plan. When I wrote this story there was a plan but like I said before, that was a year ago and I barely remember yesterday so. Anyway, I figured that if I write on paper then type on my computer I more inclined to write more so I get more work done and that’s what I’ve been doing.

Ok so like has anyone every made a character that they hate so much that they want to kill them off, but you can’t cause they are needed for the story. I’m going though that right now with one of mind and it’s taking me off guard, and not because he’s a good guy. This dude is a massive a-hole and that’s what’s catching me off guard cause this man was supposed to be the casual douche that’s every medieval fantasy romance story has but this man did a whole 360, 25 and is now starting to be the actually villain ( I also don’t really want to write a new villain character), but like he really wasn’t every going to be the villain. I didn’t even want to write more about his after the story finally progressed but now, I’m stuck with him. Like the other day I was writing this scene where he was hurting the main character and calling her mother a Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing while also calling her a mistake and I wanted to take a Stake and put it through his heart, he isn’t a vampire but with how pale his face is he might as well be.

Well, that’s enough rambling for a mad woman. If you made it this far, I’m deeply sorry for the craziness you just read but also thank you for reading my blog. It means a lot to me when people read my blogs and with that sappiness over with, I’ll catch y’all on the flip side.

XOXO

-Crislyn Lance

Mystic Keepers (RPG)

Eldoria is a world is filled with many magical creatures called Mystics, these creatures have many different powers and abilities that make them great companions to Fledglings or baby witches. There are many different Mystics that can control or manifest an arrange of powers to help their human companions. Mystics are strange animals that the people of today still don’t understand the depth of their power. All they know is that whenever a Fledgling forms a bond whether it was a forced bond like some Fledglings with a darker craving of power do. Throughout the game you will gather Mystic companions and grow your power and theirs. As your story continues you will notice that some Witches and their Mystic companions have either gone missing or are missing. You will slowly discover who is doing this and try your best to stop them. And it wouldn’t really be a good story/game if there weren’t a few characters that you could romance to spice things up.

Setup

Create Your Avatar: When creating your Avatar, you can also choose what type of Fledgling you want to be. The types of Fledglings are:

Kitchen/Hearth-Uses herbs, cooking, potions, and any other type of recipe to concoct spells.

Hedge- These Fledglings have a closer connection to animals and nature.

Elemental- Has a strong connection with many of the elements in the world and can cast and create many different spells.

Crystal- Has a connection to the energy/power that certain rocks/gems have.

Cosmic- These Fledglings look to astrology, astronomy, and the stars and moon to give them strength.

Each class has a unique set of spells and a synergy bonus with Mystic of the same element.

Explore the World:

The game spans diverse zones volcanic wastelands, frozen tundra, and enchanted forests each filled with creatures to tame, resources to gather, and bosses to conquer.

Gameplay

Encounters:

Each zone offers a mix of combat, exploration, and puzzles:

Combat: attack, defend, or cast spells using your Mystic’s abilities.

Exploration: Search for items or hidden creatures. Mystic can aid with their unique skills, like a Flame Lynx burning obstacles or a Wind Hawk scouting ahead.

Puzzles: Solve challenges with spells or Mystic abilities, such as freezing water with the Aqua Otter to form bridges.

Taming Mystics:

To tame a Mystic:

Depending on how powerful you are you can use your own powers to attract Mystics

Meet specific taming conditions (e.g., calm a frightened Aqua Sprite with a healing spell).

Trade resources to earn its trust.

Tamed Mystic level up, unlocking powerful new abilities.

Boosting Powers:

Mystic enhances your character with:

Active Skills: Mystic cast spells like Fire Claw (Flame Lynx).

Passive Bonuses: Improve stats, like a Wind Hawk boosting movement speed.

Combo Moves: Combine Mystics’ abilities for unique effects, like a Fire and Earth Mystic creating a Lava Wave.

Quests and Rewards:

Complete NPC quests and environmental challenges to learn new spells and level up your companions.

Winning the Game

The final challenge is defeating the corrupted Witch. This battle requires you to:

Strategically using your Mystics’ and your own powers combined.

Counter the Fledgling’s spells.

Survive waves of summoned beasts.

Victory depends on how well you’ve built your team and combined their powers with your magic.

Story Aspect: Experiment with new Mystic combinations, explore different zones, and tackle harder difficulties for endless fun.

Thanks for reading this month’s blog and I hope y’all enjoyed my concept. Also, if anyone knows anyone who’s good a coding and could help me possibly make this game a reality that would be so appreciated.

Lots of Love 😉

-Crislance

Last Blog of the 2024 School Year

What’s up everyone, it’s been a while hasn’t it. I think my last blog was a month ago, dang that was a long time ago. Wow that feels like a long time ago but anyways, this blog isn’t about how time, if I even start to think about that I legit might start crying while writing this so let’s move on.

So, I didn’t really know what to write for the blog so I’m just going to talk about this that I’m trying to get for Christmas. It’s called Under the Oak Tree by Suji Kim, who was also South Korean volleyball player. She is a former member of the South Korea women’s national volleyball team which placed fourth in the 2020 Summer Olympics and fifth in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Isn’t this lady amazing like image doing all this while completing a five-year, book series, which I think is awesome.

But this blog isn’t about how amazing Suji Kim is. This blog is about her most popular novel Under the Oak tree. I don’t really know where to start with this, who am I kidding yes, I do. So, I found out about this series on Webtoon, yes yes laugh it up I can hear some of y’all now. It doesn’t matter where I found the series just know that you really should check it out for yourself.

Ok enough of that I know the three people reading this are eager to know more about this story so let’s go.

TW: Mention of Abuse

Now image you’re the daughter of a duke and your being made by your father to marry a knight that works for him because your dad is a coward who didn’t want to get to war and fight a dragon that was killing hundreds of people, but he also didn’t want to disobey the king of your kingdom. So, what does he do he picks one of the low-born knights that worked for him and as him marry you so he can technically be a part of the family and go to war instead of your old, crusty, evil, good for nothing father could live another day. Well this might not really be happening to you but this is what happened to young Maximilian Calypse, or Maxi for short. She’s a young woman only 22 years old in the first novel. She is heavily abused by her father for a studder that she has had since she was really young.

The novel starts off with the day of Maxi’s wedding and quickly moves to the night before, which I going to skip over because even though it most definitely doesn’t get skip over in the book, I’m writing this blog for school and don’t want to get in trouble so. After a passionate first night as a married couple Maxi wakes up to find that her husband has went off to war and she is once again left alone. Then for the next three years Maxi stays with her evil father and continues to be mistreated by him and everyone around her. Then one day she is told that he is coming back but now he isn’t just some lowly knight, he’s a sword master who defeated the powerful dragon Sect. Because of her father and some of the people around her she is told that now that Riften, the man she married, has more power he is only coming back to divorce her. Maxi believes them and is so scared to be seen as useless to Riften that when he does show up, she tries to do everything she can so he would want to keep her. Riften tells Maxi that he’s taking her back to his home. She quickly agrees and they set off to Anatol, his home.

So, I’m going to leave off here because I don’t really want to spoil everything if somehow the two people still reading end up liking what’s happening so far and what to read more. So far only the first volume of the novel is out in English but the second one is coming out in May, so you still have a lot of time to catch up, and the manga is complete, so you don’t have to wait for updates with this one.

Anyway, I hope y’all enjoyed my final blog for the 2024 year. Its been a great year and I can’t wait to see what going to happen in our new year.

Chao~

Writing a novel with your friend. What could go wrong?

What’s up my beautiful lords and ladies and the stables folks in the back. Today’s blog is going to be something special. So, Me and Tiara, who didn’t want me to make this blog, are currently working on a big project right now and I wanted to share it with y’all.

AKA: I couldn’t think of anything to write and waited till the day before.

So anyway! The thing that we are working on is a novel. Isn’t that exciting, it’s not for NaNoWriMo so don’t worry this is for just our own little fun. So, sit back and relax or whatever you do when you read these blogs and enjoy the ride.

Welcome To Etherwind!!!

Long ago when the world was first created there were many different creatures that walked all over the land, many of them magical and others not. One day after a star fell out of the sky and on to a tree in the forest the power from this star caused a ripple that would in turn forever change life on Etherwind. From the tree a small being came out this creature had oak colored skin with pointy ears and when it touched the ground flowers and grass shot from the ground. The small beings looked around and when they noticed how damaged the tree looked from the impact of the star, they used their new power and brought the tree back but instead of the 40-foot oak tree it was before it became almost 100 feet tall. As the tree grew and grew the pointy eared creature noticed more beings coming out of the tree some looked like it, some with darker skin, and some with lighter skin.

On the other side of the world another miracle was happening. Dust from the fallen star sprinkles over an ocean and on the shore of a beach laid a creature who looked just like you and me. The being opened its eyes, which sparkled from the sun they walked around the beach the sand sticking to its feet and toes. When they got off the beach, they were met with the sight of vast land that stretched almost forever with pom trees and other plants and flowers. As thy looked around they missed as just as the small point eared creature more beings that looked like it came out of the sea, and they also took in their surroundings.

Lastly, on another side where the winds have a very cold bite many magical and nonmagical creatures, Werewolves, unicorns, foxes, bunnies, and others gather around a lake that was formed form the impact of the star’s fall. These animals gathered around the newly form lake and each took a sip. As each animal drank form the lake their bodies glowed, then one by one they were covered in a blinding yellow light. When the light cleared from all the animals, they could see that there weren’t really animals anymore. They now looked just like the other beings that came out of the ocean but there was something different about them. The creature who used to be a bunny could jump higher than normal. While then being that was once a phoenix has an unnatural heat coming of its body.

After a while these beings bring new life to Etherwind as they learn how to live on the world. Even discovering each other. This doesn’t go over well at first but after hundreds and thousands of years they finally find peace with one another and live in harmony.

Thank you for reading about this world that we created. I can’t wait to share more with y’all, but as of right now this is all we have. If you have any questions or comments don’t be afraid to leave them down below and I’ll answer as best, I can. Again, thanks for reading my blog today. 🙂 🤍🩵

Good Listens

Guess who’s back. Back at it again with another K-pop music playlist Dump. It’s a new year but not much has really changed over here besides

ATE- Stray Kids

This isn’t just one song this is a whole album because I can’t really pick one song out of the whole album. And a certain person would probably attack me if I gave my actually rating of the songs.

Superbowl- Stray Kids

This song has been my current obsession lately along with another song that’s going to be in this list. I don’t know why but I guess it’s the music video or something else, but I’m just really obsessed with this song.

TOPLINE (Feat. Tiger JK)- Stray Kids

This is my other obsession. Even though most of the lyrics are in Korean it stills amazes me how each of their voices sound

Stray Kids-Stray Kids

This song right here brings tears right to my eyes whenever I hear it, and I know some of y’all might not get it, but this song really just pokes at my heart so much.

One and Only- Boy Next Door

Now this group is totally different from the first three, but they still hold a special place in my heart. Again, everyone reading this might think it’s a little weird but music especially K-pop

Baggy Jeans- NCT U

So, I don’t really listen to a lot of songs from this, but this is the song that I always listen to from them whenever I go on a random binge of K-pop artist

Criminal Love- Enhypen

This song is for all those girlies who wants to fall in love with that one criminal in their fantasy *Cough Ciara Jones *Cough. Anyways This is a really good song if you want to try listening to more mature K-pop songs.

Who- Jimin

Now some of y’all might know BTS and I won’t be having any type of comments about them on this blog. They were my decent into this K-pop crazed that I’ve been in since sixth -seventh grade. They were the group that really made me. Me. So, on that note while this song wasn’t sung by BTS it was sang by Jimin who a member of BTS is. Jimin in the past few years has become one of my favorite solo artists. This song is my favorite song by him, and I really recommend that if you are every interested to go and give him a listen

Work- ATEEZ

Now this group right here scares me. If I ever wanted to go to one of their concerts, I would have to go by myself or with a friend (She knows who she is). ATEEZ is a group that I recently started listening to thanks to said friend that I mentioned before. That being said their songs are really great.

Chk Chk Boom-Stray

Now I’m probably going to get killed by a certain literary, but this isn’t a ranking blog just me talking about my favorite songs as they come to me. So Chk Chk Boom was a part of Stray Kids new Album ATE but this song is also their newest single that’s really popular. I would recommend watch the music video it has Deadpool and wolverine in it because Strays kids was supposed to be in the new movie that came out, but their schedule didn’t match up.

Lose My Breath-Stray

This song makes me lose my breath. Jk guys (not really) but anyway this song would be my favorite if I wasn’t so indecisive and could pick something, but I can’t hence why this list right here exist. Where I’m not ranking but talking about each song a bit loosely.

Well, that’s it. If you made it to the end thank you for reading this list of craziness. I hope you found some type of entertain from this and will come back next month when I post a new blog.

This is Crislyn Signing out. And you have a magical day.

This Blog might get Me kicked Out the Group Chat

Soooo, um well you read the tile let’s just get this over with.

It was quite in the small new York apartment. The only sounds where the cars on the highway. The apartment was small, but it was also cozy, almost like home. Laying on the couch in the living room was two bodies one looked to be of a young man with messes black hair. He had a strong build to his body. He was staring at the body on top of him. A teen girl with blond hair. She had a California girl body. Half her body was hanging off of the black-haired boy. The boy was looking at the blond girl with so much love in his eyes. The girl let out a small sigh as the boy begin rubbing small circles on the side of her hip.

The two were enjoying the silence that took over the apartment and them. There was peace and the boy was starting to fall asleep with the blond girl when loud knocking broke the quit of the apartment. The two hurriedly sat up and it looked like the both reached for something beside them before realizing that whatever they where looking for was not next to them. The girl picked up a cap that was siting on the coffee table. The black haired boy nodded to her and slowly made his way to the door. Another loud knock was heard from the door. The knocking was getting louder as the boy walked closer to the door and more frantic at the same time. The blond girl comes back in to the room and throws something to the black haired boy that he catches.

“Who’s there?” The boy asked not really expecting an answer. Who would be out this late in New York knocking on someone’s door. He could hear people talking outside the door from what he could tell there was a big group of people out there maybe 4 or 6ish people. “Ah. Hello is this the Riddle residence?” one of the voices asked. Riddle residence? What is this the 1800’s. The black haired boy looked at his partner, who just shook her head she didn’t understand either. “Open the door Seaweed Brain.” The blond told ‘Seaweed Brain’. He opened the door and standing there was six people. Three looked to be around seventeen years old. Next to them were two grown men one was full of scares that reminded ‘seaweed Brain’ of the many kids at camp.

Well that’s it follow me on tumblr to read the rest.

Blog 5-9-24

What’s Up! So, yesterday While I was talking to Tiara and Ciara we started talking about weddings and prenups, and this inspired a new story that I want to try and write when I finish some of the other unfinished stories that I have.

This Story is called “Broker than Broke”. (Yes that is the title and i will take all the criticism on it.)

So, I don’t really have any character made or any in mind for this story but anyway the gist of the story is that the main character is a recently divorced woman/man (I don’t know which one yet). The story is going to follow the divorced person and how they live their life after everything with the divorce is final.

There are still a lot of things that I have to think about with this story. Like should I involved kids in this story, should I make the story form the POV of both sides of the divorce or should I just have the one POV. Also want to know if I should make this story like a Korean drama or just an everyday type of story. I’m probably going to have to do a lot of research and gathering to make this story fun and enjoyable to read.

This has nothing to do with the story but I’m doing a writing program this summer at JSU and I might play with this story while I’m there.

Now there isn’t really much I can say now about the story because like I said before I don’t really have much on this story because I haven’t really thought about it much since yesterday and I hoping that by getting feedback on the questions in paragraph 4. I might actually start on a draft so the idea isn’t just siting in the back of my head waiting to be forgotten.

So that’s the blog for this week. We only have a week left of school this is going to be something. Hope y’all have a great rest of the week. Chao!

I will be so surprised if any of y’all watched these cartoons.

What’s up everyone I have a title today. So, this week’s blog is going to be on this old cartoon that me and my sisters use to watch. Now, so of you maybe be thinking in your head “This is stupid. There is no way I’ll be surprised by whatever it is she’ll talk about.” Well, my dear friends let me welcome you to:

Disney’s House of Mouse

Now, House of Mouse ran on ABC and Toon Disney (till it was rebranded to be Disney XD) from 2001-2003. I don’t really remember when me and my sister started watching this show, but I think it might have been sometime back in elementary school. If you didn’t know about this show and want to go watch it I sorry to say that it is not available on Disney Plus, but the Lilo & Stitch: The Series which came out in 2003 is on Disney Plus but I digress. Anyway, The House of Mouse follows Mickey and his friends as they run a club called, you guessed it, House of Mouse. The club is mainly just used to show cartoons of Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Daisy, Donald, Pluto, Pete, Clarabell, Mortimer Mouse. The show also has other characters from all of Diseny’s shows and movies (that was created before 2001).

My favorite episode of the show is the episode Dennis the duck. In this episode It’s Black-and-White Day at the House of Mouse, and the club is packed with old black and white cartoon characters. This was my favorite episode because I have loved those old black and white cartoons since I was young. Those were some of the first cartoons I can remember watching on the Samsung tablets that my parents got me and my sisters.

So, I decided to add another cartoon to this blog, and I really believe that none of you know what this one is.

Now google is saying this show ran from 2008-2023 but I don’t really believe that because I think the last episode of the show came out in 2010 and there hasn’t been anything about the show since then.

So, what was Angel Friends? Angel Friends was a cartoon that followed a group of Angels and Devils that are sent to Earth to follow the lessons and participate in a stage, that will lead them to becoming Guardian Angels and Guardian Devils. The stage provides Angels and Devils to form pairs, each of which will have to deal with a human called the Earthly Ones, and help him or her, undetected, to choose between the right path and the wrong one.

This show was really good, and I mainly watched it because at the time I was really obsessed with another show called Winx Club. That’s how I found this show, but I ended up sticking around for the story and the characters but guys when I tell you that this show is a product of its time I mean it. It’s really a good show I don’t really know if it came on TV, but I watched it on YT off the official YouTube page.