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Look me in the eyes and tell me Wade didn't wanna fuck him

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What is... WIP?

WIP stands for work in progress. This usually refers to the most recent work of an author that they are currently working on. But it's also possible (and very likely) to have more than one work in progress at the same time.

WIPs are still works in progress even if no progress has been made on them for a while. They can only lose this status in two ways: the author intentionally abandons them for good or by finally completing them.

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he finally found someone who didn't tell him to shut up

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MOOD!

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This is me! In all of its glory, this is who I am. No facial hair, no glasses/sunglasses on. I'm just a man with a backward hat and redness across the main focal point of my face. A man who struggles every day with that fight, a war within, that takes every ounce of energy that I can spare to survive just another day for my wife and kids. A man who struggles every day with his true identity. A man who, since I can remember, has lived a life primarily private and introverted to the max. I am typically not one to put this much of my private life, my personal experiences out there for the world, but something in me tonight wants to do so.

I am not perfect. I have made many mistakes in my life. I was incarcerated as a young 12 year old for something that, at the time, I did not know I needed help with figuring out. At 15, I was sent to the California Department of Corrections, where I spent the next 5 plus years learning about myself and eventually learning to turn my life around. I was released from CDCR only 2 days after my sister turned 18, just in time to see her be able to graduate high school. I was not there for her or our other siblings when they needed me the most. I have what feels like a strained relationship with my family at times because of my past, but I still love them and miss them every day, as they live in another state than I do.

At 21, I moved back in with my mother and two of my siblings because I needed a place to stay as I had just been released from Juvenile parole. I spent the next several months trying to get re-aclimated with the real world before I'd ultimately start my college journey, of which I am still not finished with it. For the first few years after getting out, I attended school while also trying to make friends, of which I struggled utterly. Even now, as I write this, I think back to that time in my life when the majority of the friends I found were all of the same as my eldest younger sisters' friends. Because we were attending community college together at the time, she would help me meet new people. Even so, I still felt an insurmountable amount of aloneness in that time. I did not know what to do with my life as I never got to experience a true life as a teenager. I did not go to public high school. I missed out on a ton of experiences that most of the rest of my generation got to experience during those almost 9 years I was away from family and friends.

At 23, I met and fell in love with the woman of my dreams on a night in which I did not know if I was going to survive the night. I was battling with many demons during that time, one of which was to end my life because I did not know what to do with it. I was struggling in school, struggling in the real world. I was having a difficult time finding a job, getting fully accustomed to being free. That was when Tiffany came into my life. She stepped into it at the right time, when I felt like no one else would, and brought me back from the depths of the darkness that was overtaking my soul and my heart. She is the biggest reason that I alive today to even write this post.

At 25, me and Tiffany experienced something that we would never ever wish upon anyone else. In May of 2015, we found out that she was pregnant with our first child. We did not know, as new parents, what to expect of this change to our life. We struggled but we kept going for the little one we were witnessing the growth of. Then on the morning of October 31st, 2015, just after the stroke of midnight, our lives changed. We were in a major fatality accident with a drunk driver. Our son, with whom we were anticipating to meet in January 2016, was killed within the womb at only 7 1/2 of the pregnancy. It was devastating 😢 💔 to us. We had already pretty much prepared our lives for his arrival and then suddenly, he was gone. It hit us both very hard. We both struggle with the loss, even to this day. His name is Kayden Michael.

In that accident, my back was severely messed up but I did not know till roughly almost a year later when I was working as an armed security guard and started to feel extreme pains radiating from my lower back. This was, I feel, the start of my bodies deterioration and my minds battle to stay afloat in a war with my demons I did not know if I could win.

But then, in late 2016, we found out Tiff was pregnant again. This time, a girl, with whom you all know, is Abigail Marie. She came into our life, as our rainbow 🌈 baby, at a time when I feel, we needed her the most. She was planned but still, she was a blessing we truly weren't sure if we would be able to be parents again after losing her brother. In April 2017, we welcomed this new bundle of joy into the world on a day when the SF Giants were opening their home season that year at Oracle Park.

Just a year plus later, on November 16th, 2018, I finally got to marry the woman of my dreams, the woman who came into my life when darkness was at the front door, ready to destroy me.

In May of 2019, shit hit the fan for us, again. An incident occurred between me and my mother-in-law that sent me to County Jail for 3 weeks, in which I spent the entirety of that time wishing I could have handled the situation differently and how I could have prevented the outcome that came about from happening. On June 3rd of that year, I was released, on Adult Probation, with a term of 4 years and parenting classes. What I needed then, was counseling, but it took me another few years, including trying to navigate a pandemic, before I found a counselor who I felt comfortable with, to start the process of healing.

In 2022, we hit a snag. We lost our apartment that we'd had for over 8 years. We were struggling. We couldn't keep up with anything and we barely found the apartment we got just in the nick of time. But then, another battle was about to rage. Tiff lost her job, I was struggling with mine and we ended up homeless a year later in 2023, for a month. Even though during 2022, we had our son, Jeremiah Rahl, we found ourselves struggling more than usual. Financially we were on thin ice. Emotionally, we were still, I feel, dealing with the loss of our first born. It was a tumultuous year.

Jump to last year in April of 2023 and I found myself, once again, struggling. My wife and I were falling behind on everything, I was fired from my job that I had held the past 3 years, and we were about to celebrate our son Jeremiah Rahl's, 1st birthday. We had become homeless and we're struggling to find a place that would house the 4 of us. We lived in a motel across from our church during this time and it was difficult. I struggled with my mental health during this time and I know that my wife and our kids, especially Abigail, did too. Thankfully, with the help of a program at MJC, we were able to find the apartment complex we currently live at now. We ended up moving in on our son's 1st birthday, and just at the right time, because we were about to lose access to the motel and be forced onto the streets if we hadn't gotten the apartment when we did.

Fast forward to now, as I lay here in bed, alone, missing my wife as she works to provide for our small family of 4, I wonder what our life would be like, had I just handled the situation in 2019 better. Would we be where we are? Would I have a job already? Something that has been extremely difficult for me to obtain because of the felony that is on my record from the event in 2019.

I have considered all options but still have yet to find a company that is truly willing to look at me for who I am and not what my record says, or makes me out to be. I have even considered trucking. Getting my Class A Commercial license would allow me to make good money and also be able to travel across the United States, of which I've only seen a handful of states in my 34 years of life. But a fear I notice that I keep having repeatedly, is the time I'd be away from my small family of 4. Life on the road would be great but would also be difficult. I'd love to travel, but to not be able to do it with my family, would hurt.

I need work. Full-time work. Tiff cannot do this on her own anymore. She is struggling extremely hard to provide for us while trying to maintain her own mental and physical health. We've talked about wanting to possibly have a few more kids before our bodies stop allowing us to but we just can't afford it. We are scraping the bottom of the barrel to survive and it's not enough.

We need help! We need a miracle! We are struggling! We need it for them, our babies!

God Bless 🙌 🙏🏽

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Long Time, No Talk

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Deadpool & Wolverine Official Trailer (2024)

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Tiressly, she rode down the path from the village, her horse about ready to collapse and die. Her arm was covered in soldiers' blood. A sword she had procured off of one of the dead ones, still tightly grasped in her hand.

Her grip would not surrender the reigns of the horse until she was leagues away from the massacre she had just witnessed and participated in. Innocent lives were sacrificed to the gods for nothing. Just so a petty little man who gloats about being the new king to anyone who would listen, even if it wasn't official yet as the poor bastards father had yet to croak over and die.

Savakna shivered as she continued riding the horse as far as it could take her until it collapsed from being over exerted.

Then she ran and continued to run for as long as her legs would allow, eventually falling at the base of an old oak tree as it started to rain. The oak gave her some comfort and cover, so she stayed dry the entire night as she lay there, eyes unable to close because when she did, all she saw was blood and guts. Women and children massacred in cold blood. Mothers, daughters, husbands, and sons, all destroyed by one man's army, an army that she had been conscripted into. She had been given no other choice but death. It was either join the army or be slaughtered for trying to provide for her family back home.

Savakna was a chieftains daughter, a loyal servant to her father who had been brutally slain by the very army she was forced to serve in. At this very moment, she was now considered awol. She never reported back to her commanding officer after the raid on the poor village. She had run as far away from the destruction wrought upon the innocent people.

She needed to get back to her own village, her own people. She needed to find the remaining survivors and somehow take down that insolent little fuck who called himself a king before he destroyed the peace that this continent had been in for over ten millenia.

No war had been fought here until today. Her own village wasn't even on this continent but everyone from her village and from her homeland knew of the people who lived here. The mysterious peace they were experiencing was now on the verge of collapsing.....

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Words to Use Instead Of...

Beautiful

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Fantasy Names III

Aithne (f)

Elderic (m)

Minne (f)

Valira (f)

Isidor (m)

Marabella (f)

Albion (m)

Gloriana (f)

Sakura (f)

Wolfram (m)

Azahara (f)

Neizan (m)

Malasintha (f)

Sonora (f)

Zabel (m)

Rosamunde (f)

Jamilian (m)

Sybella (f)

Alamea (f)

Gael (m)

Tamar (f)

Kamilla (f)

Burr (m)

Alias (m)

Emmeline (f)

Kuno (m)

Rosella (f)

Maura (f)

Iker (m)

Hemma (f)

Disclaimer: You can, of course, use any name you like for any genre of story. Some of these names are from actual mythology, some of them I just liked as names in a fantasy story.

More names!

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Fantasy Names III

Aithne (f)

Elderic (m)

Minne (f)

Valira (f)

Isidor (m)

Marabella (f)

Albion (m)

Gloriana (f)

Sakura (f)

Wolfram (m)

Azahara (f)

Neizan (m)

Malasintha (f)

Sonora (f)

Zabel (m)

Rosamunde (f)

Jamilian (m)

Sybella (f)

Alamea (f)

Gael (m)

Tamar (f)

Kamilla (f)

Burr (m)

Alias (m)

Emmeline (f)

Kuno (m)

Rosella (f)

Maura (f)

Iker (m)

Hemma (f)

Disclaimer: You can, of course, use any name you like for any genre of story. Some of these names are from actual mythology, some of them I just liked as names in a fantasy story.

More names!

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It's Maggie's Time to Save America 🇺🇸

Can y'all be kind enough to go show my latest bookstagram post some love?? I'm finally starting to figure out how to utilize Canva to create posts for social media 😅 🙌 Much ❤️ and, as always, Peace ✌🏽 Love ❤️ and Rock&Roll 🤘🏼

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Deadpool & Wolverine Teaser (2024)

He is Marvel Jesus.

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Writing Update - February 2024

Hello ladies and gentlemen, how’s everyone’s Saturday going? I am currently working on my debut novel, Resistance Rising, while jamming out to SiriusXM Octane on my Alexa device. Here, though, is a bit a sneak peek into what I’ve been working on. This is a peek into Chapter 5. The hope is to finish up writing this chapter and maybe the next few over the weekend in between working on college…

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2023 - A Review by G. Anderson Author

Hello All, and welcome to 2024. A new year, new me attitude, am I right?? That’s what we all hope and strive for in these first few days or weeks of the new year. Though 2023 is now over, we can all look back to the year we had and ponder, “Did I do this right? Did I accomplish anything in life? Did I make the right changes to my attitude? Or did I go through 2023 struggling to survive day in…

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What is...

On every What is Wednesdays I will explain a trope, a rhetorical device, or a literary technique in a few sentences. Put in the comments what you would like me to explain next.

What is... a drabble?

What is... dead dove?

What is... archetypal characters?

What is… deus ex machina?

What is… whump?

What is... plot bunny?

What is... canon vs. fanon?

What is… a headcanon?

What is… a plot hole?

What is… retcon?

What is… WIP?

What is… a sequel hook?

What is… a crossover?

What is… crack?

What is… a rarepair?

What is… a red herring?

What is… fluff?

What is… smut?

What is… OOC?

What is… a missing scene?

What is… Coda?

What is… a trope?

What is… Alpha vs. Beta Reader?

What is… a cliffhanger?

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