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ianthe helps harrow post-lobotomy

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The decade you’re given is the decade to which you’re transported. Your geographic location doesn’t change; only the time period changes. “Equivalent QOL” means a qualify of life that approximates the life you have now and anticipate being able to have in the future.

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i love how if you knew fuck all about star trek you’d assume spock clears in chess but kirk could kick his ass in a fight when it is Emphatically the other way around

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1: I’m thinking of a community of Catholic Christians over a geographical area, but I can’t remember the name of it.

2: Is it a diocese?

1: No, it’s smaller than that

2:

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wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

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some girlies will ask "are you going to take that magic system and the complex social and political stratification that comes with it?" and then not wait for a response.

if your first dream of the year indicates how the rest will go, then apparently i'm going to get involved in film directing/acting, and not just stage!

the weird blend of magic systems from the mistborn series and the scholomance series, i attribute to reading the first mistborn book in three days, more than half of it yesterday. probably not an indication that i'm going to suddenly come into my magical inheritance...

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if your first dream of the year indicates how the rest will go, then apparently i'm going to get involved in film directing/acting, and not just stage!

the weird blend of magic systems from the mistborn series and the scholomance series, i attribute to reading the first mistborn book in three days, more than half of it yesterday. probably not an indication that i'm going to suddenly come into my magical inheritance...

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Faux Pas: French for "fox pass", this is when a behavior or comment that is otherwise considered socially unacceptable is allowed because a fox did it and foxes cannot be held responsible for their actions. It is spelled wrong because the French like to feel special.

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tagged by @glintglimmergleam

last song: my type, by saint motel

favourite colour: blue-green spectrum and i refuse to get more specific

last book: currently reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

last movie: muppets christmas carol!

last show: revolutionary girl utena (sporadically)

sweet/spicy/savory: usually savory

relationship status: i've been with my girlfriend for ten years!

last thing i googled: "rip n dip cat", "frederica georgette heyer" "ginger in spanish" (you get three because they're quite varied and quite representative of who i am as a person)

current obsession: i mean i'm always thinking about shakespeare to the point that it's just part of my personality. more specifically my friends and i have been joking about setting a bunch of plays in a cloning lab, and seeing how that would change the production.

looking forward to: tomorrow's christmas eve and i got or made a bunch of good presents for my family, so i'm excited to seeing how they like them all!

@pilferingapples, @cleverclove, @measureformeasure, @suits-of-woe, @trans-peridot, @butchhamlet, @flappyfluellen

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Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

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actually now i’m curious

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🤔 and I saw someone else already sent 💕 but if you have another favorite part go for it!

(fic writing ask game)

🤔 why do you write fic?

mostly because i love the characters or the world and i just want to spend more time with them! i'm always tossing around 'what ifs' and sometimes those scenarios bloom into a full fic, but even if it's never more than a random message i send to a friend it makes me happy! or sad, but like, in an artsy way.

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

i really like sharing wips with trusted friends and seeing what they respond to. depending how well i know someone, i sometimes just torture them with little hints of what i'm working on and thrive on their anticipation.

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✅ 💕

(for the fic writer ask game)

✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite

There hasn’t been time for a shave, and any suitable razors have been needed instead for mere survival. The new growth of hair is at once soft and prickly under Rubin’s palm, much how this conversation has been feeling. [...] Rubin lets the words sink in, pulls out the scrap name to read those words once more, and then at last she lets herself believe them. “Thank you, Grief.”

These are both from the scene in my trans Rubin fic when she admits to herself and to Bad Grief that she's a woman. For the first 3.5k words I very carefully avoided using any pronouns at all for Rubin. The first bit of this quote was particularly difficult to describe what i wanted with that limitation and I was really proud of myself when I got it right. The second part is the sentence where I finally made that change for her, and doing that mid-sentence felt really cool and fitting.

There's probably better lines I've written, and even ones that I like better, but when thinking about the writing process and how it felt to come up with that combination of words, this is always the one I come back to.

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

I love the moment when whatever I'm working on really comes together and I can feel the words flowing without feeling like work. I'm still using my craft so it's not effortless, but my effort is put towards playing with language and form, instead of trying to remember how sentences are supposed to look, which is what it can feel like sometimes.

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fic writing ask game!

nothing groundbreaking but it’s fuuuuun

✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite

🧮 what are you working on? describe it in 20 words or less

🎶 do you write with music? does the music you’re listening to influence your writing?

💕 whats your favorite part of your writing process?

😠 whats your least favorite part of your writing process?

🎀 how do you decide when something is done?

🌅 do you typically known the ending to something before you start writing it?

🔚 have you ever completely changed the direction a piece was going?

🤔 why do you write fic?

⛔️ whats something you try to avoid in your work?

📚 do you ever read similar works while writing, or do you intentionally not read them?

🦉 give yourself a piece of writing advice

😊 say something nice about your writing

😭 what’s something you’re currently struggling with?

🔥 what’s something that’s currently going really well?

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TFW your GrubHub driver may be fleeing the Furies of his slain mother, but you're really hungry, so you're willing to let it slide.

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i never feel more like a steeple-fingered villain than when i see someone making reductive statements about a genre i like and i think tch. pathetic. not only can i tell that you are only acquainted with three utterly mainstream works of this genre, but i can tell exactly which three they are