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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

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foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

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Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016) dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/29057007/chapters/160911311

a garden (you never get to see) gets a Tony-centric update today.

Between AO3 getting some updates and the fact that I’m in the mountains, comment replies may be slightly delayed, but they are coming.

I’m a bit nervous for this post, so go gently with me baha.

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Had to share this note from a work of published fiction I read today. Because yes, sometimes readers get entitled and expect writers to be too responsible for their mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

But that doesn’t mean that responding with callous disregard for people’s experiences is necessary either. It is possible to offer content warnings with grace and kindness, and to do so while empowering readers to recognize they are ultimately the ones in the best position to curate their experiences engaging with media.

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It is a week or so after the inauguration. And I am dealing with things by not checking the news constantly and, making my week's to do list a TO SPITE list.

I am going to do things that I enjoy and will improve my life to spite the people who want us scared and anxious and uncertain!!

MWAHAHA, a To Spite list is great. A Vengeance List! Like you're preparing to take out the six-fingered man who killed your father :D

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The one of the things about being a latter half millenial is how the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy boom happened right on those developing years that you can remember, when you were old enough to understand things but didn't really know much of the world before that. And now you're an adult and every time you hear a fragment of a familiar melody, you're hit with childhood nostalgia of this tale.

A story of a world in decline, where those who came before you lament of how much better things were in those old glorious days of a more prosperous age that will never come again. Knowing that you'll never quite grasp the tragedy of the ruins you walk past, because they've always been only ruins to you. You only know that the world is growing darker, and the best you can do is find your own hope, and make the best of the time you were given.

You hear a song in Quenya and it hits you all at once how your childhood nostalgia is woven into songs sung in a tongue you don't understand, from a world you've never been to, lamenting the loss of a better age that you never knew.

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Sign-Ups for the STONY BINGO 2025 are Open!

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Happy creating!

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a notice to writers of multi-chapter fics with long breaks between updates:

Sometimes, when I see an update, I don't remember what happened before. I then take the opportunity to re-read the fic in its entirety, starting from the beginning, which is honestly a real treat. I get to re-experience the fic and pick up on foreshadowing I never noticed before. And then it feels like the new chapter lasts even longer because it takes me so long to get to it.

Honestly, I love it.

So that's just one more reason to never feel about about taking a long time to update.

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So, those of you who have been with me for a while might remember me saying during you great unfinished symphony that there is often a chapter or even just a scene that ultimately tips the scales and makes me feel like I absolutely have to tell a particular story. It often isn't a big, dramatic set-piece, but just some kind of moment or bit of world-building that I feel like encapsulates everything I'm trying to say.

With symphony, that was Clayton Park. With From This Wound (The World)? It's the chapter I'm posting today. I hope you love it, my friends, and that it brings some measure of comfort and solace during times that remain hard and scary for so many.

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Mister Rogers

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Getting a comment on AO3 is such a magical experience. “Oh you liked what I wrote? You read the whole thing start to finish? YOU SHARED YOUR IMPUT WITH ME?”

Now I want to take you somewhere to get a nice warm drink and tell you about ever little detail I wrote in the fic, my crippling fear of mischaracterization, and also if you want to get married.

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i hate to say it because i'm neurodivergent and a chronic-pain-haver but like... sometimes stuff is going to be hard and that's okay.

it's okay if you don't understand something the first few times it's explained to you. it's okay if you have to google every word in a sentence. it's okay if you need to spend a few hours learning the context behind a complicated situation. it's okay if you need to read something, think about it, and then come back to re-read it.

i get it. giving up is easier, and we are all broken down and also broke as hell. nobody has the time, nobody has the fucking energy. that is how they win, though. that is why you feel this way. it is so much easier, and that is why you must resist the impetus to shut down. fight through the desire you've been taught to "tl;dr".

embrace when a book is confusing for you. accept not all media will be transparent and glittery and in the genre you love. question why you need everything to be lily-white and soft. i get it. i also sometimes choose the escapism, the fantasy-romance. there's no shame in that. but every day i still try to make myself think about something, to actually process and challenge myself. it is hard, often, because of my neurodivergence. but i fight that urge, because i think it's fucking important.

especially right now. the more they convince you not to think, the easier it will be to feed you misinformation. the more we accept a message without criticism, the more power they will have over that message. the more you choose convenience, the more they will make propaganda convenient to you.

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Fanfiction literally cannot "normalize" anything. Fanfiction is a weird little niche and fics are not something with massive cultural impact.

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You Know Who I Am (Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, 2013)