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Rand0mSmil3z
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Hello! Welcome to my profile, where you can find my latest writing updates and whatever else has made me happy 🌻

author account: https://bsky.app/profile/v-k-velasco.bsky.social
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rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Back home from traveling, which means I can make some more progress on Chasing Shadows 🥰
v-k-velasco.bsky.social V. K. Velasco @v-k-velasco.bsky.social · 8d
Some photos from my time up north 💙

#Photography #Beach #Ocean
Photograph of the beach. The tide is pulling back over the sand, while waves roll in and rocks jut out from the left side A seashell resting on a rock, the ocean blurred behind it A cluster of small shells on a rock A boardwalk disappearing over a sand dune, with the sea on the left on the blur of mountains on the horizon
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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v-k-velasco.bsky.social
in this household, every day is black cat day 🥰

#InternationalBlackCatDay #BlackCatDay #CatsOfBluesky
An adorable black cat curled up on a cushion. Her yellow eyes are facing the camera
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
A small preview of Chasing Shadows: chapter 7

Did I not promise last chapter that I’d try to be better at posting updates???? So this is me trying 😭 Thanks for being so patient—you all are the best🌻

#FF7 #FF7Fanfic #Cloti #Zerith #ChasingShadows #HalcyonDays
Preview of an untitled chapter. Apologies for any typos. Nobody lowered her binoculars with a faint sigh. The robed figures she had been tracking across the eastern continent had finally arrived in Junon, though not without losses. The mining system between the grasslands and the Junon region had been especially treacherous. Even though she had tried to interfere directly, which was in clear violation of Tseng’s orders, several of them had slipped off the thin ledges and to their deaths. Despite being an ex-Turk, she still woke up with nightmares about it. But the other robed figures hadn’t seem to care. They had only shuffled on, their booted feet hardly leaving the ground with their gait uneven and wobbling, and their moaning was nearly as constant. Without a doubt, this was the worst mission Tseng had ever sent her on. Yet the moment the thought crossed Nobody’s mind, she knew that wasn’t true. The worst mission was Nibelheim, or perhaps the worst only occurred on the days that followed: tracking Zack through the wastes, forcing him a corner, telling him that he needed to listen to her or else. In the end she had helped him and Cloud, sure, but not before both men had nearly died out on the Midgar cliffs.
October 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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v-k-velasco.bsky.social
My sweet cat got spooked by her own reflection 😭 look at her puffy tail

#BlackCat #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday
A black cat inspecting her own reflection in a sliding glass door. She has a puffy tail.
October 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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v-k-velasco.bsky.social
Back in May I was possessed by a muse and ended up writing 150k words in about 4 months 😂

Good news is that my first draft is complete! Better news is that now I get to edit it, and make it sound like I knew what I was doing all along 🥰

#AmWriting #AmEditing #WIP
A line graph that depicts months May, June, July, August, and September along the x axis, while the y axis depicts numbers ascending by 20000 up to 140000. The line begins in May at around 100, and then steadily increases to 150556 on August 23, 2025.
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Chasing Shadows - Chapter 6 is available on Ao3! This is a shorter chapter that will wrap up The Longest Night arc ☺️

➡️ archiveofourown.org/works/552673...
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Chasing Shadows: Chapter 5 has just been posted!

For now it’s only on Ao3; hope to get it on fanfiction.net soon.

archiveofourown.org/works/552673...

Please mind the tags. Enjoy!

#ff7 #ff7fanfiction #cloti #zerith
archiveofourown.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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barleybap.bsky.social
Screenshot of Final Fantasy VII. President Shinra stands in his office in the Shinra Building. His dialogue is edited to read "My company makes great products that people love and I've never physically hurt anyone. So why the hate and violence against me?"
March 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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theclotizine.bsky.social
✨ ADDRESS CHANGES — LAST CALL 📦

Hi everyone! This is the last call to notify us of any address changes by March 23rd ☺️

After the deadline, we can't guarantee any further changes and recommend that you set forwarding of mail. Thank you so much for all the support! 💛
March 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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v-k-velasco.bsky.social
my writing buddy 🥰🐈‍⬛

#AmWriting #PetSky #CatSky #BlackCat
The most content black cat in the world sits on her human’s lap, her bright yellow eyes looking up to her human (not shown in the photo). The cat is cozy in her human’s light brown cashmere cardigan, and a hand rests on her side to make sure she doesn’t slip.
March 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
I’ve been distracted long enough!! Finally starting chapter five of Chasing Shadows 🌻 let’s see how far I can get today!

#AmWriting #Fanfiction #FF7
A photo showing a word processor on a laptop, which is currently displaying Chapter 5: The Longest Night Part 2. Beside the laptop is an iced coffee that looks better than it tastes, and the background includes colorful floral bouquets.
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Wordstream supposedly took down my fic after many reports and emails, but as you can see, it still shows up on their website with a simple google search:

Basically, they actually didn’t remove it—they just hid it from view. Really frustrating.

Who else had their work stolen?

#WordStream #booksky
Screenshot of a google search result showing Halcyon Days by Random Smiles on word-stream’s website.
December 25, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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swann.bsky.social
Attention #AO3 #fanfic #writers

A new thieving website is charging people to have AI voices read your stories. See this reddit post for more info:

www.reddit.com/r/AO3/s/bfPd...
URL is https: //word - stream . com/ (remove spaces)

FANDOM IS FREE AND MUST STAY FREE. FANDOM BELONGS TO FANDOM. 🖕🖕
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December 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Well, it finally happened--my *free* fanfic was scraped off of Ao3, placed on a shitty AI-generated app, and hidden behind a subscription paywall. Here's the website: word-stream.com

Worse, I have no way to get my story taken down. This is so disheartening. Anyone have any suggestions? 😢

#booksky
A screenshot taken from https://word-stream.com, which depicts AI-generated cover art of the fan fiction "Halcyon Days" by RandomSmiles.
December 23, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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theclotizine.bsky.social
✨ PRODUCTION UPDATES 🌼

Production is going smoothly behind the scenes, and we're so excited to begin sharing some updates with you all. Thank you again for supporting Volume 2, please follow this thread for updates in the next few weeks! 💛
December 15, 2024 at 6:07 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Chasing Shadows: Chapter 4 has just been posted! 💐🥳🥰 It's a monster of a chapter--just over 15k words--and covers part one of the Nibelheim flashback 🔥 Enjoy!

➡️ Ao3: archiveofourown.org/works/552673...

➡️ FF: TBD

#cloti #zerith #cloudstrife #tifalockhart #zackfair #sephiroth #ff7 #fanfic
Chasing Shadows Rand0mSmil3z (Random Smiles) Chapter 4: The Longest Night: Part 1 five years ago It was raining. The covered military vehicle rumbled down the road, lurching through the many potholes and spraying mud behind it. The sky outside the rain-streaked windows was the color of slate--heavy, moody, and impossibly dark, up until a bolt of lightning set the clouds ablaze. Zack tottered up and down the truck's thin aisle, already accustomed to how the car rolled beneath him. A particularly bright bolt suddenly crashed across the sky, bleaching the truck's interior, and he let out a low whistle. "It's really coming down, huh?"
December 7, 2024 at 7:15 AM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
A short preview of Chasing Shadows: Ch. 4 🌻

Ch. 4 will be part 1/2 for the Nibelheim Flashback scene 💐 CS is the sequel to Halcyon Days; if you're new to the series, I'd start with HD first!

➡️ Ao3 Ch. 1: archiveofourown.org/works/552673...

➡️ FF: www.fanfiction.net/s/14347954/1...

#cloti #zerith
November 25, 2024 at 1:16 AM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
Btw—I write more than fanfics ☺️ If you’d like to follow along on my quest to get traditionally published, feel free to give my fancy author account a follow!
v-k-velasco.bsky.social V. K. Velasco @v-k-velasco.bsky.social · Nov 20
A brief preview of my current #WIP, featuring my snarky, potato-hating MC that has more guts than brains 🍂⚰️🪦🍂

#WIPWednesday #writersky #booksky #author #writer #amwriting #horror #paranormal 💙📚
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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theclotizine.bsky.social
💫 Tender Memories: The CloTi Zine Vol 2
🌼 NOV 1 - NOV 30
🌱 shop.theclotizine.com

Join us in celebrating #CloTi's gentle & enduring love. Carefully put together by 45+ contributors, "Tender Memories" is a love letter to one of Final Fantasy's greatest romances. 💛 #クラティ
November 1, 2024 at 2:38 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
suddenly daydreaming of a short story where character A is a lighthouse keeper and B is a sailor 🥰 like, imagine: the inherent intimacy of keeping watch throughout the night, the comfort of knowing someone is out there waiting for you, the relief seeing their light shine through the darkness…💛
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 AM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 12:01 AM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
so I got married last weekend 🤍

we honestly couldn’t have asked for a more perfect, beautiful day 🥰 the weather was perfect, the cake was amazing, and it was so nice to hang out with family & friends and celebrate together 😌
November 15, 2024 at 4:04 PM
rand0msmil3z.bsky.social
A sneak peak of the one shot I wrote for @theclotizine.bsky.social 💛 A lot of love went into this little story--I hope you all enjoy it 🥰

You can order a copy of the fanzine here: shop.theclotizine.com

#cloti #cloudstrife #tifalockhart #ff7fanfiction #tendermemories
November 6, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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theclotizine.bsky.social
✨ COVER REVEAL 🌼

We're so excited to finally share our beautiful foil cover by the incredible @spykeee1945.bsky.social! 🥹

Cloud & Tifa share a tender moment in their all-white outfits, highlighting their gentle & enduring love. 💚🌿 Can you spot the 🎹 in the back?💫

#クラティ #Cloti
October 31, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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theclotizine.bsky.social
✨ MERCH SPOTLIGHT 🌼
🍃 Print by reishichi

Up next we're so excited to share a closer look at one of our gorgeous prints! 🌠 And this one features our favorite couple stargazing. 😍

Stop by for your copy today 💛
🛒 shop.theclotizine.com
November 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM