hiii tilly!!!!

Hiii hehehe <33

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Dear Saffron,
Heyy I'm so excited! Your nickname is so pretty by the way :00 It's nice to meet you! I love that we have a lot in common :0

I love yapping about hobbies so here we go hehehe:

For me, writing is a sort of love-hate relationship HAHA but I honestly wouldn't (and couldn't—I didn't choose writing, writing chose me fr xD) stop doing it for the world! I love it way more than I hate it, anyway, lol. I've probably been writing since I was 5 or something, I practically grew up making up stories, especially with my older brother (who I share this account with actually!)

The only thing is I'm still yet to finish a full draft of a novel- (I'm not counting the 3 or so ‘books’ I made using printer paper folded in half that I wrote completely by the seat of my pants ahaha. Those ARE completed from ‘first chapter’ to ‘the end’, but THEY'RE SO CRINGE AHH)

I get so many story ideas ALL. THE. TIME. it's just about actually writing them?? One of those many story ideas I AM trying to do currently though :0 It's more of a redo, because I technically already started it back in 2023, but I pantsed it then (as usual, HELP), so I've gone back to the worldbuilding, character planning, etc. stages for this attempt at actually completing a first draft :'D

Do you have a current WIP/work in progress too? And what genres do you like writing in? The current story I'm doing I /THINK/ is a political low fantasy ('low fantasy' as in there isn't any magic but it's in a fictional kingdom), so you could count that? But I guess I'm still discovering! (even after all these years lol-) Off the top of my head, the most I've written is probably contemporary and fantasy. I like the idea of Dystopian (I've read 2 Dystopian books before—Where The River Runs Gold and The Hunger Games 1—and the genre had me hooked, I even thought of a couple Dystopian books, but obviously haven't written them ToT), and even Mystery, which I've never written before, and I think I've only read 1 Mystery book? But I'd like to dabble in that genre a bit, especially reading it!

Ohhh yeah, I also did “Romance” (don't get me started, they were barely romance, they make me scream every time I read them- NOT in a good way :SOB: ) probably the most, but only ever subplots actually, never a simply romance novel alone-

Speaking of books, I realised I've barely read much YA despite being a young adult, especially seeing all the popular books everyone talks about hhh- I would honestly love to read more, but as a Christian it's kind of tricky to find ones that aren't so against my values and stuff, I've been “jumpscared” by a couple of those lately ;-; (Do you have any recs by the way? What are your fav books/series? <3)

My all time faves (off the top of my head, I'm probably forgetting a couple xD) have been the Narnia series, Lord of the Rings (which I only read once before I lost the copy when we moved house, I really want to find it again!!), Pride and Prejudice, Where The River Runs Gold was also good (my favourite in my middle-grade books rankings definitely), and this Sci-Fi Christian-Fi allegory series, The Starlore Legacy by Chuck Black, has been quite investing for me so far! (the next book, the 8th, is releasing this month which I'm excited about )

I used to read like 20 books per library trip around 10-15 years old, and they were nearly all middle grade, so I don't have many CURRENT faves :') I did read A LOT of classics, though, being nudged to by my mum because a lot of the modern stuff, again, wasn't really stuff she wanted me to read, and I love The Secret Garden, Anne Of Green Gables, Little Women (and the movie adaptionnn ahhh! The 2018 one most to be honest, but I haven't seen the 1994 one in a while- Have you seen any of them or read the book before?) and already said P&P lol (I also absolutely LOVE the 2005 movie!! :hearteyes: the 1995 series was classic too!) I hope to read more soon though! Especially as a writer-

(Oh my days, I've realised has just been a letter all about books and writing :SOB: I'll stop here for now, I promise I have a lot more OTHER TOPICS to talk about ehehe- I'll move to other subjects next time ToT)

Can't wait to be pen pals with you throughout this session! <3

- Tilly

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Dear Saffron,
Hehehe, this is so fun Also that's so cool whattt, you play piano too?? :starstruck: I reallyyy want to play piano as well! I used to want to play so many instruments bahaha (including violin, trumpet, clarinet, harp, there was a lot xD), but I only play ukulele so far :'0 I want to play piano, acoustic guitar, and even electric guitar (or is it bass…??), because I LOVE guitar riffs in songs like Adventure Of A Lifetime and Paradise by Coldplay, Beat It by Michael Jackson and I Wanna Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys just to name a few, and I have this huge urge to learn them lol!

YES, music is so relaxing, one of the greatest things in life :00 What are your favourite songs? Both that you can play on your instruments or any in general?
I've loved music for forever, but it's only until Nov-Dec last year when I got my own laptop (my first personal one!!) for my birthday that I've started playing so much more music on my own, and I listen to music all the time in the background of doing /anything/—I have an extensive playlist xD A couple of my favourite songs right now are…there's so many oh my daysss- OK, Brazil by Declan Mckenna, multiple Elevation Worship songs (Praise is one of my most favs!), Tek It by Cafune, multiple Coldplay songs, Sunrise by Norah Jones, The City's Yours from the 2014 movie Annie (I loved this movie so much as a child, haven't seen it in years though ahaha-), anddd I'll stop there because there's SO MANY, but those are some off the top of my head
Ever since I made a playlist for my current WIP, though, songs like Caribbean Blue by Enya, Overcome by Skott, Love Story by Indila and Golden Brown by The Stranglers have become favourite songs but particularly for those fantasy-kingdom-royalty vibes lol!
I also recently found it really fun to listen to 8d or 16d audio versions of songs like Heat Waves by Glass Animals!

It's interesting that you like poetry :0 I've barely written poetry, funnily enough (apparently my mum wrote so much poetry when she was young, guess I didn't really inherit that love xD) I literally did my first /proper/ piece of poetry for SWC last session, Nov 2025, and it was alright!)

Also yess, I started writing down whatever story ideas came to me a couple months ago (and there's so many loll :'D), and thank you so much! Motivation mangoes to you too lol <3

Nothing wrong with liking the basics I've never read Harry Potter, but I somehow picked up the 4th Percy Jackson book, Battle of the Labyrinth, at the library years ago and read it without ever reading the other books before it?? It must've been so confusinggg- I remember a few scenes still, but I probably forgot most of it because I dropped myself right in the middle of the story and couldn't get a complete grip ToT
Ooh, I've never seen The Hunger Games movie, except listening in when my mum was watching it once lol, the book was fairly interesting though! But definitely quite dark (expectantly). I really hope to try more genres soon!

Oh, I think I saw your character, actually—Saige, wasn't it? Your moodboard was really pretty, and her story is so interesting!

YESS CROCHETTT, I started in 2022 (when did you start?), but I haven't crocheted in months as of now because I got so busy with content creating :'0 I have an unfinished scarf and a list of uncreated to-crochet projects in a notepad lying around in my room I'm hoping to pick it all back up when work slows down! Haha, you've got to lend me some of those projects to help you finish, I'm the opposite and only have the scarf in progress xD /j
I'd definitely like to see some pictures!
Ooh flowers and bouquets are so cute, I crocheted a sunflower for my mum's birthday and a daisy for myself once before, and for them both I actually dyed my own yarn with yellow acrylic paint because I didn't have yellow yarn then xD I crocheted scarves for my entire close-family one year (5 in total including for myself, the unfinished scarf was supposed to be another family member's), and my favourite projects I made are two heart granny square tote bags I made, a pink and white one for myself, and a blue and white one for my mum's birthday!

ALSO AHH I completely forgot historical fiction in my first letter! That's one of the other genres I loved reading and writing THE MOST, I have quite a few (unfinished obviously ToT) hi-fi stories, so I definitely had that hi-fi phase too xD I've never read a romance novel, now that I think about it, again it was just in subplots, but I have seen a few romance and rom-com centred FILMS, however (what are your fav films by the way? Or even TV shows?)

As for subjects, English was my favourite until I liked doing it more in my own time since I could write whatever I wanted with less constraints lol, History is also good, and Languages are even so important, I'm currently learning Spanish!

Classics are the best OOH tell me what you think as you read more pls!! (Little Women I mean) What part are you on right now? I loved that book, and YES, the movie was so beautiful asdfghjk- You should read P&P! I haven't in a few years actually, it's by me right now, I want to read it again but I have to get through this non-fiction book my mum got for me first haha. Love the movie so much!!
Thank you for the recs :0 Jennifer A Nielsen looks really interesting! They all do haha, I'll take a look at them ^^

I actually don't play a sport (YET) :'0 I really want to, honestly, but I've been so indecisive sdfghjkl Tennis is so cool though!
I don't have pets either, I loved the idea of a cat, a rabbit, or a guinea pig actually, and a couple others?
My favourite animal is a horse! What about you?
Purple is so pretty, I actually love so many colours lol, but my favourite for YEARS has been pink, so I guess pink!

WOW, welcome to SWC! This is my 11th session, I started in March 2020 which is crazy thinking back to :0 The SWC community is so amazing fr, without it I wouldn't be writing how I've been these past few years, it really ignited my love for writing <33

A little questionnaire of my own lol: what are your favourite tropes, and if you've ever travelled, what's your favourite place you've been too?

This was long haha, but nice talking with you!

Sincerely,
- Tilly

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Tilly I'm so sorry, I wrote you a whole letter response but scratch says it ‘appears to include unsuitable language’ T_T whyyyyyyy :sobs: And idk what part of it is wrong, i'm actually crying now bc I'll have to rewrite the whole letter. This is actually ragebaiting me rn

technj2009 wrote:

Tilly I'm so sorry, I wrote you a whole letter response but scratch says it ‘appears to include unsuitable language’ T_T whyyyyyyy :sobs: And idk what part of it is wrong, i'm actually crying now bc I'll have to rewrite the whole letter. This is actually ragebaiting me rn

Oh no! ( Have you tried adding it paragraph by paragraph until it stops you? That usually helps me find out what it's flagging. Scratch can be annoying, sorry </3

Ohhh that’s actually very smart! I will try that and hopefully it works! thanks for the advice <3

technj2009 wrote:

Ohhh that’s actually very smart! I will try that and hopefully it works! thanks for the advice <3

Eee, hope it works out! Ofc <3

IT WORKED!!!!

technj2009 wrote:

IT WORKED!!!!

YAYY I gtg sleep but reply coming soon!

Good night!!

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Dear Saffron,

Heyy, sorry for the late reply too asdfghjkl- I had to tear myself from SWC for a couple days after that weekly speedrun to stop neglecting my IRL to do list ehehe :'D That speedrun was legendary by the way, thanks for saving me xD

Anywayy, I found out the guitar I want is electric not bass haha, and fingerstyle is really cool btw! :0
CLASSICAL MUSIC yesss, it's so awesome—I just went to listen to the classical pieces you listed (and realised I've actually heard some of them before :0) and Cantabile is so lovely!
I loved finding the chords of my fav songs to play them on my ukulele as well, and you actually inspired me to take my ukulele down from the wall in my room to play again, excepttt I've forgotten most of the chords I had learnt :SOB: I really need to fix that-
I've been hearing Gracie, Olivia, Sombr and Noah Kahan songs everywhere lol, I don't really ACTIVELY go to listen to them, but their songs get stuck in my head sometimes xD Ooh, except Olivia Rodrigo's song Can't Catch Me Now is in one of my playlists, and I really liked her songs like Driver's License! A couple years ago I was shocked to find out I already knew about her since 2016 or something because of an American Girl movie she was in called Grace Stirs Up Success, I used to be a HUGE American Girl movies fan omdss-
Ayy nice to know that you know Coldplay Their songs are amazing fr! AND BRAZIL I've played that on repeat so often now, I heard it once a couple years ago and thought I didn't like it, until a little while later I heard it at this food court place I went to with my family, and I listened to it myself at home and now it's the first song on my playlist hahaha. I want to play the riff from that song so baddd!

WOW you can knit too, that's fun :0 Also that's cool you have a sister! I'm a middle child between two brothers, and I used to always want a sister so so much lol. You're definitely inspiring me to pick crochet back up hehe

Also not intrusive at all! I make football (or soccer as most of you call it) content, basically talking about football and often explaining football, on the ‘clock app’ and the ‘red play button’ app. I actually have over 6k followers on ‘clock app’ which is crazy to think about to be honest! I started (with another page initially) in December 2024 roughly!
But I've been a content creator for years (VERY inconsistently though!) since about 2018(?) for a crafts and then vlogs channel on ‘red play button app’. And even before that because my brother and I used to do a stop motion animated series that we posted on ‘red play button app’ since 2017 I think? (stop motion is basically when you ‘animate’ by taking pictures and moving the position of the object each time to make it move if you didn't know!)

(I've been playing Cantabile on repeat while writing this now lol, thanks for the inadvertent rec hehe )

Movies have been such a huge part of my lifee!! I dreamt for so long of being a child actress and being in movies and stuff, it was a HUGE obsession :'D And even now I'm so curious to know what it's like making a movie from the very beginning to premiering it, like where and how does the idea first get created and stuff??
Shows are really interesting, but I realised I've barely watched any xD Only recently (last year I think?) my fam and I binged nearly the whole of Prison Break and a few episodes of Suits, and we saw the Pride and Prejudice 1995 series a couple years ago, but I don't remember much else? I used to watch A LOT of animated shows when I was younger, though, especially because my brother is really into animation.
MARVEL, YESSS, that's probably the movie series we've seen the most xD The first MCU film I watched was Black Panther in the cinema in 2018, and I was hooked ever since! Thor Ragnarok was fun, and I've only seen Far From Home but Spider-Man's story is really interesting! My most favs are probably The Winter Soldier, Civil War, both Black Panther films and Infinity War, but most of them are great!
ALSO, I forgot to say this last letter, but I went to the house they used for Pemberly in the Pride and Prejudice movie! Back in 2024 I think, and it was so fun, the grounds especially (which are so big!) and I even saw the Mr Darcy statue!

¡Ah, qué bien! Also Biology is cool! I hope you get to study it

Oohh, that's nice! I'd love more updates whenever you get to read more of it!

I've DREAMT of riding a horse but at the moment I never have sadly :'0 I got really close to and touched a horse once though! Guinea pigs are cute, and AHH I just searched what a blacknose sheep is and THEY ARE OMDS :00

Haha I know right, I feel old xD Also woah, you've seen me around? That's interestinggg- I'm glad you jonied too! SWC is honestly the best <3

Nice trope picks, and yeah hating the love triangle trope is so real :SOB: It's also quite overdone!

Wow, that's nice! AHH you live by the beach?? That's a dream of mine omds :O Those places sound really cool!
I've only ever travelled to my home country when I was so little that I can't remember the trip now, but I've always wanted to travel. I'd love to go to so many places ahaha, Europe (like France, Spain), Brazil, China even, multiple countries in Africa, and a lot more I can't remember right now xD

Haha I've never done an easter egg hunt but that sounds so fun! I do, yes, but more as Resurrection Sunday than the whole easter bunny thing- I used to love it simply because of the chocolate eggs when I was little asdfghjkl
Also yesss, destressing is so important! Love that you get a break!

This was fun, nice chatting with you! <3

Sincerely,
Tilly

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Dear Saffron,
No worries about the late response! Life's been getting busy for me too ahaha :'D Hope the exams went well!
I love hearing electric guitars honestlyy, it sounds so stunning :starstruck: Also yes hehehe I was curious since I hadn't listened to them before xD I'll definitely check those songs out, thanks for more recs!
YOU INSPIRED ME BTW because in the past 5 days I got back to playing my ukulele And I learned 2 new songs, Me Gustas Tu and 505, and I relearned some of the chords and songs I used to play all the time! Thanks for the motivation hehe.
#gotillyandsaffron!! We'll do it for sure ;D
That's cool! It's kind of fun being a trio xD But having no fellow girl , even my age, to talk to is rough :'0 I am close with my mum though, so that's nice.
I need to pick crocheting back up fr! Again you're lowkey motivating me haha If you don't get the pictures in that's fine, SWC is ending already (ToT I'm going to miss this session ahhhh-), but I'd love to see if you do!
HAHA I know right XDD I didn't want the scratch bot to mute me or something :'D Thank you so much! It's lowkey been burning me out recently, but we move we move- We used this app we found on a random bored day called Stop Motion Studio (? or Studios, I can't remember LOL), I don't know if it's still available or not actually. OHH those Lego food videos are so cool! Obviously our stop motions weren't as elaborate as those lolll, the set was just our house and we had our toys going on different adventures and battling enemies XD But we did all the voice acting and editing ourselves on iMovie and posted them on YouTube (often got over 100 views…every single one was us I BET :sobbb: we rewatched our own stuff so many timesss-), so we kind of learned a lot—funny thing is, we never scripted episodes and completely winged them, so we also often argued A LOT while filming because we wanted different things to happen ToT
Ahh really?? Thanks :0 <3 I spent years pretending to act in movies sobbb, and when I started doing voice acting on Scratch (and for our little stop motion series), I OWNED it because it felt like the closest I could get to the dream, but I sort of gave up on it a couple years ago? :'0 Maybe one day still. I'm still clinging to the dream of at least making it to a movie set just to see how it works ahaha, even as some kind of crew member or even script writer! That would be so fun.
YES, I would like to see the other spider man films honestly! Hopefully soon- AND YES, I've been keeping up with the Doomsday news a lot recently haha, I'm so intrigued to see how it will go :0 It does come out this year, and the next one (called Secret Wars I think?) is coming the year after I believe? I don't know if they will be anywhere near Infinity War and Endgame, but I'm interested to see what exactly they're doing with it, especially since the likes of Robert Downey Jr and even Chris Evans are returning?? It even looks like all the og Avengers are coming back for this one- EXCEPT Natasha which I'm a little disappointed about, because if all the others are back, what about her? ToT (even though, obviously, RDJ is no longer Tony Stark—I've been wondering what they'll be going for in the plot if they end up showing his face since he'll still LOOK like Tony Stark asdfghjkl-)
I KNOW RIGHT, it was so cool! And YES, it was massive We spent hours going through the grounds and we certainly didn't trek through half of it haha- there was so much to see! I hope you get to visit one day, it's honestly amazing!
Ooh, I've heard of Girl Scouts a lot, it sounds pretty interesting! What does one do as a girl scout? TRUST I will be galloping on a horse across the shores of a beach soon
NOW 4 (? 3?) DAYS (˃̣̣̥ᯅ˂̣̣̥) It's been so fun I don't want it to enddd- HONESTLY though, March has gone so quickly! The sun has been out a lot recently which has been nice since it's grey a lot of the time here in England ahaha. I have better tolerance for cold weather than hot too! But I do love sunshine <3 I have no idea what my favourite weather is bahaha, because I love snow in Winter but I also like Summer because we get to do so much in summertime, yet I also love Autumn because the leaves turn such pretty colours and just the cosy vibe of it all and because my birthday is in November loll!
I LOVE FOOD AND EATING TOO hehehe, especially baking it Even cooking too, but I like baking more. I honestly have so many favourite foods, could I even answer this? :SOB: Okkk, my favourite fruit is probably watermelon, and I've always liked chocolate chip cookies but also ice cream, cinnamon rolls, banana bread (but a particular recipe I make!), chocolate cake, and multiple others xD And this is random but one snack I've liked recently is simply crackers, even on their own LOL- Ok, and there's so many foods, but to pick a couple I like fish and chips, literally anything my mum makes, anddd- West African food ) What about you?
Ahh, of course! I tend to skim a few people's dailies, and yours are so fun! <3 Don't we all? ToT Then someone is like “wow that's so good!” and you're like “wait really??” XD

See you!
Tilly <3

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And like I promised, here are a few photos of some things I've crocheted!



1. a flower bouquet I made for my cousin for her wedding



2. a hanging plant I made for my sister



3. this was my first every crochet project! idk why it was good :skull:



4. poppy flower (supposed to be like the ones from wicked lol)



5. more flowers that I ended up using in a bouquet for my godmother's birthday (pls ignore the mess on the ground and the odd basket behind)


anywayyyys now you get to see my crochet xD I hope you make some projects soon!

Ahh hey Saffron! I probably won't be able to get any more replies back within the SWC session :'0 But if it's alright we can continue beyond! Your crocheting is so pretty btw omds :00 Thanks for this, it was so much fun! You were a great pen pal Loved talking with you, and speedrunning with you, and reading your writing, you're so talented and your dailies were really whimsical in such a nice way! <3

Dear Saffron,

(You can reply to this whenever you want btw haha, we're doing this for fun at this point xD)
YESS thank you, I'm picking it up a lot more now! I just need to get back to crocheting hehehe ><Yeah, I'm so grateful, because I know a lot of people who don't and even more who have a bad relationship with their parents :'/ So it's really nice! I hope to make friends asdfghjkl maybe someday—thanks <3 Also IKR imagine if we could actually meet SWCers IRL?? :00 I know a couple SWCers who have which is always amazing to hear about haha- I think one of them was Ris and Kenzie? But I'm not completely sure-
Hehehe yes, I'm quite surprised we improved the scenes so well without a script, but it caused wayy too many arguments xD I think us arguing was even part of the reason we stopped the series? :SOB: We got to a Season 2, maybe Episode 13 but I don't remember the exact number lol.
YES I'm wondering if they will show his face and is it then going to be like what some fans predicted where characters like Peter Parker would see Doom's face and be all messed up because he'd be like “Mr Stark is that you?”?? Also yess reunion would be peakkk!
Woah, that sounds really cool! I always heard of girl scouts and seen them in cartoons and stuff, I always thought it looked fun. Are girl scouts cookies actually a thing btw? xD I just found out in the UK we have a sort of equivalent to scouts, including what's called ‘Girlguiding’, I literally never knew this asdfghjkl-
TRUST I WILL >
It's so hard to chooseee because when a season comes I end up really enjoying and appreciating it, then the next one comes and I change my mind and say that's my favourite SOBBING Winter and Summer, nice contrast ;D
YES FOOD IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE FR! Ahh that sounds so good :00 We made carrot muffins one time and I really liked them lol, they were kind of like carrot cake and I like that as well Ooh I've only ever made and eaten macarons once, around 2021 I think because one of my mum's cake orders requested macaron toppings, and they were interesting, fun to make too!
I used to make this chocolate mug cake all the time that I was obsessed with xD But I'm hoping soon to try making more challenging stuff like croissants and sourdough bread :00
HAHA yes mangoes are superior ;D IKR THEY'RE SO GOOD! Let me know how that Easter cake goes :0 Chocolate cake has always been my favourite, I always asked for it when my mum made me my birthday cake over the years xD I've never had sushi before interestingly :0
I'm missing the March session so much sobbing ToT It was so much fun and I'm so glad you enjoyed your first time! <3 I hope life will permit me to return in July too ahhh :'0 I'm worried I'll be too busy by then…YOU'RE AWESOME TOO, SAFFRON, loved being your penpal Cheers to the speedrunning ahaha <3
Finally your crochet projects are so beautiful! :00 The wedding bouquet is so prettyy, and WOW your first crochet project was so good whatt! Mine was a messy little bag I ended up using to put my crochet hooks, darning needles, stitch markers, etc. in lol :'D

Sincerely,
Tilly