r/WritingPrompts • u/TenspeedGV r/TenspeedGV • Aug 12 '19

Off Topic [OT] Spotlight: Tuftsie

Writers Spotlight

This week's spotlight writer is Tuftsie! u/Tuftsie has been with us for a couple of years now, and accumulated quite a backlog of stories. I have noticed them around on a few prompts here and there before, but I must admit they have a lot more stories than even I had thought! Though u/Tuftsie doesn’t have a subreddit yet, you can check out more of their stories on their profile for now!

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Here are some of u/Tuftsie‘s most upvoted stories of all time:

[WP]Once a generation the people of your land choose a sacrifice to the mountain gods by drawing lots, you get the short straw so you have to go up the mountain. Of course you've been going up in secret since you were young and playing with the children you met up there.

[WP] Write the most lovable character possible, then kill them in the most heartbreaking way.

[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes.

[WP] When they came for the gold inside the temple, you did not stop them. You also did not tell them that the gold was enchanted, and would defend itself.

[WP] All your life, every time you were cut or your skin was broken, a tough, strangely-textured skin grew over the wound. Doctors labeled it as an unknown skin disorder. It was when that accident took your arm and something else started growing back that you realized you were becoming something.

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u/elfboyah r/Elven Aug 14 '19

A bit late congratulations /u/Tuftsie!

Here's two questions! Tell me some terrible things you really like, and why! And did you know that cashew comes from the fruit?

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u/Tuftsie Aug 14 '19

Well I'm not sure what you mean for terrible things, but I do tend to read pretty trashy YA romance novels that are a) fantasy and/or b) fairy tale rewrites. I also adore the movie Strange Magic, an animated jukebox musical about fairies that is a terrible movie but I love because it has fairies and romance. I think I just love romance in stuff, even when it sucks. And I did know that! Plants are super weird and I will never understand them

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u/elfboyah r/Elven Aug 14 '19

Woooo. Another trash romance lover. It's same for me. If I watch trash serial or anime, if it has romance in it, I can be won over, even tho plot and everything is trash. <3

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u/Tuftsie Aug 14 '19

I totally am the same. If it looks like at some point the leads will get together I'm already watching. Though I do tend to avoid the more soap opera style ones just cause there's too much drama lmao

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u/elfboyah r/Elven Aug 14 '19

Lmao. Totally. Like when I see no longer logic, but more like adults are too huge teens.

But as long there's nice romance, it's nice.

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u/Tuftsie Aug 14 '19

Very true. Plus if the source material messes it up you can always hope there's fanfiction to fix it

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u/elfboyah r/Elven Aug 14 '19

Pretty much.

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u/Leebeewilly r/leebeewilly Aug 12 '19

Congrats /u/Tuftsie !! We've not met on the sub yet (this is as good a time as any) but love some of your stories!

Hmmm, now is there a plot point/turn in one of your stories that you wish you could undo/take back/turn left when you look back at it? And if so - what is it and why?

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u/Tuftsie Aug 12 '19

Hmm, the one that comes to mind I don't believe is in a story I posted here, but I honestly don't remember where it's posted (if it is at all and not just collecting dust in my drafts somewhere) where the twist of the story was that the main character was revealed to be a "crazy psycho". Now I don't really care for that description at all, since I have gotten a better understanding of mental health and the stigma society has towards them so if I ever were to return to it I would definitely not take that direction

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u/TA_Account_12 Aug 12 '19

Congrats on the spotlight u/Tuftsie! I read a couple of the stories linked and loved them!

So what's your favourite genre to write. And to read. Any story not listed above that you particularly liked?

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u/Tuftsie Aug 12 '19

Thank you so much! This is definitely a nice surprise for a Monday morning haha. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed reading them!

Definitely my favourite genre, both for reading and for writing, is fantasy. I love learning and making new rules for new worlds where myth and magic comes to life and how people live among them.

One story that I liked quite a bit was one I wrote a few months back, about the four horsemen mainly because I've been a bit obsessed with stories about them and felt like the prompt was a good opportunity to try them out for myself:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/b7934c/wp_there_is_a_misconception_of_the_four_horsemen/ejtr27s?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Again, thank you! I am looking forward to many more years of both reading the great works on this sub and writing some stories of my own!