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I am crashing out so hard at the TUSK LOVE summary in comparison to the other top four. Let chaos reign, indeed 💀

We also somehow got an endcap at the largest Waterstones in the UK!!! We did it, Jester!!!

It is so surreal to me that this all started from a metafictional book improv’ed during a D&D game. My tabletop and romantasy worlds are truly colliding. From the reviews I’ve been getting tagged in on Instagram and TikTok, it seems to be a pretty even split between “5 stars! I don’t know what Critical Role is” and “I only read this because of Critical Role but I enjoyed it.”

But, without a doubt, some of my favorite reviews are the ones that go I started watching Critical Role/looked up what D&D was because of this. Yesss join us 🥰

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Hello! As a big fan of the way you structure your hp works (and how u write Tom riddle in general) I was wondering if you could give me some insight on how you structure your works to have better pacing, since that’s a weak point in my writing.

Also, I’m a visual artist and was wondering if you’d prefer fanart for concordance or innocent?

Hi! I am so out of practice on long-form writing, but here are a couple basic principles I use, your mileage may vary:

Rules of three. My stories typically have three "arcs", punctuated by three main events and/or by emotional zigzags (say, happy to sad to happy). Then within smaller sections, I also tend to stick to threes- three scenes to illustrate a point, three turns in a dialogue, etc. (Aside: this ended up being one of the sticking points of Innocent; the second arc's endpoint wasn't where I expected, and that had an unexpected ripple effect that broke the plot as a whole.)

Callbacks. Very often, the end of my story calls back to the beginning in some way. Sometimes that's a specific line that gets repeated, sometimes it's an image that pops back up, a little to the left. This helps the ending feel like it fits the story that came before, and it also helps me keep a sense of direction from the very start.

Underlying patterns (often related to the callbacks!). I frequently write in some underlying symbols or subplots, and the progression in those things can move along and provide a framework for the main story. (An example: the alchemical recipe steps in the great work.) Sometimes you can skip writing a fancy ending scene for your main plot because you can just end on the "final form" of the symbol instead, and it'll end up conveying everything you want to say. Also worth mentioning: sometimes the subplot is the symbolism, like Tom's divination in Innocent.

Stand-up comedy/sitcoms. I refer to comedy a lot for pacing within a scene. Even when the subject matter is serious, I tend to build scenes so they lead to "punchlines" of some kind, and I refer to sitcom banter for inspiration on how to build momentum with characters throwing ideas (or spells, punches, etc.) back and forth.

Tone shifts. I pretty much never stick to a single tone/emotional flavor for a fic unless it's extremely short. Instead I break up my stories by the tones or styles of each section, which again helps me identify manageable chunks and generally keep things from getting too samey. (Side note: tonal variation can be tough to achieve if the content of a story feels inherently unified, like it ought to be written in one specific way. However I am personally a fan of tone-content mismatches, so if my content is objectively serious, you'll probably see my character's voice ping from detachment to whimsy to melodrama to indignant pettiness with only the rarest dip into gravity befitting the topic.)

Finally, concision. I generally cut material if I can't articulate its exact contribution to the story. That typically means it's advancing the main plot; if not, it's likely serving a couple underlying subplots/symbolism things and providing some necessary tone/emotional flavor.

Ahhh you're so kind! Truly, I would be honored by either, but with the slightest preference for Innocent as I've been rereading that for like my twentieth attempt at writing the ending.

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Was wondering.. is it okay if someone writes a spinoff of one if your fics as long as they give credit?

Your Innocent Until Proven Guilty inspired me and I hope to write a Tomarry dimension travel fic based on that universe...

Sure, please use the "related work" feature on AO3!

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g. guys. gguys. guys remember this. what the fuck

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Hello,

I just read innocent (until proven guilty) and was absolutely blown away. I was wondering if you planned to complete it, or if you had finished it but had not posted the final chapters.

Thank you so much!

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

To go out of order, I had a complete full draft of innocent when I began posting. However I ended up disliking the pacing of the final arc on a reread, and I no longer intend to post that version anywhere.

My creative energy is going in a lot of other directions these days, and my writing speed is way down from prior years. However I do still regularly return to innocent's outline to try and put all the pieces together, so I am hopeful that it will end up finished ... eventually ...

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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✨ lines in the sand (wash away with the tide) ✨

Author: @laeveteinn Artist: @kittonafoxgirl

Word Count: 11,364 words Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Pairing(s): Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader Content and Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Key Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Abuse, Mental Health Issues, Angst, Brief References to Suicide

Summary: For reasons that defy human comprehension, Obi-Wan won’t stop asking Darth Vader for tech support.

[Link to story] | [Link to podfic]

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For reasons that defy human comprehension, Obi-Wan won’t stop asking Darth Vader for tech support.

A hopeful canon-divergent AU, set between Episodes III and IV. Written for @obikinbb. Podfic by @kittonafoxgirl is available here.

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Playing around with some angsty Critical Role one-shots for Whumptober!

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Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus?

no. was it problematic or something?

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writing a fanfic, day 1: haha fun little porn fic lots of fluff no angst happy ending :)

writing a fanfic, day 30: so it turns out japan signed the 1929 geneva convention on the sick and the wounded but NOT the geneva convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and therefore the definition of "war crime" in this situation is

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That beautiful old man acting normally is a temptress

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hi! hope you are well 🩷 im on my third (maybe fourth) reread of innocent and honestly it only gets better on every reread. the foreshadowing is so clear now and its so beautifully interwoven into the story!

anyway i was rereading the tags and i saw the implied past non-con but i feel that the implications were so light i almost didn't pick up on any. do they refer to walburga and orion? or to ariana and the muggles? i didn't get the sense that they referred to tom (which i know is something of a popular trope in the fandom) but i might simply be mistaken.

also i noticed a lot of people asking for an update and i just wanted to say: please take as long as you need! i first read innocent maybe over a year ago and ive been checking the chapter count every few months, and i say this only to show that the readers who truly love your writing will wait and stay loyal however long lol.

also, your recent star wars fics have been amazing!! i was so excited to see them because i got into star wars again recently and seeing you write about everyone's favourite tragic characters was great. 🩷🩷

The past-non-con tag hasn't really come into play yet (beyond some light foreshadowing). It's a warning for something that planned for chapters 26-30, not involving Tom or Ariana. (I will likely have to edit the warnings for the ending; I've been going back and forth on the "BDSM elements" tag, and I think I will end up needing it.)

I appreciate it! Innocent is very much a work-in-progress, and I'm afraid that progress has been inconsistent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have outlined 10-20 endings and written at least 50k+ words in rough drafts, but I've ended up discarding the bulk of that. Pacing and symbolism are hard!

Thank you! I've loved experimenting with Star Wars. Obi-Wan and Anakin give Tom, Albus and Gellert a run for their money in the dysfunction department, yet they've also got a soulmate vibe that feels vaguely Tomarry-esque? It's a lovely flavor of angst and I'm here for it.

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Is innocent abandoned 😟

Not really! I remain interested in finishing it.

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seismic (obikin - time-travel - complete)

The classic nightshirt of a male Jedi falls open at the front: a fact that Obi-Wan never considered until his Padawan’s fingertips shift to his sternum, skimming over exposed skin. This is impossible. Anakin is obsessed with Padme. But he had choked Obi-Wan too on Mustafar, hadn’t he?

Or: Obi-Wan stumbles out of Revenge of the Sith into Attack of the Clones ... and the dead center of Anakin's romance plot.

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what people think is hard about writing: describing the joy, love, beauty, grief, loss and hope that form the richness of human experience

what is actually hard about writing: describing basic actions such as turning, leaning over, reclining, gesturing, saying something in a quiet voice, breathing, getting up from chairs, and walking across rooms