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They have no natural predators. They ARE the natural predators. 🗡️🐇

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...I was invited to my first Ceremony of Eternal Bonding in FFXIV a couple weeks ago and considering how I met the bride, I was genuinely uncertain whether I was expected to wear something nice or basically the equivalent of this. XD

(If I somehow ever have a wedding, IRL or in-game, everyone is welcome to be this level of weird, for the record.)

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Hii,

I read Fighting Gravity on ao3 earlier this year and I wanted to tell you I loved it! I'm one of those peripheral members of fandoms who haven't read or watched any of the canon stuff, but are too obsessed with the fanworks to stop. It makes me wonder about stories like yours - is some point in the larger canon where something similar happens, or do you just come up with the idea for an unhoused Spock on your own?

I'm sending my ask to thank your for your story, but I also wanted to ask if you were alright with people printing and binding personal copies (ie. not for profit) of the fic for themselves.

I've been hand binding sketchbooks on and off for a little while, and I saw a tiktok of someone's self-bound versions of their favourite fics and thought that trying my hand at fic binding would be a fun project for this summer.

I just wanted to ask bc I heard some authors aren't okay with personal prints, so just let me know please; I'll always love the story regardless.

Aw, thank you so much! I'm sorry it took so long for me to reply - my laptop completely died several months back and the only one I could get online with is 11 years old, freezes up upon trying to load Tumblr, and is physically falling apart. -_- So I have been away from Tumblr all this time and did not see this until I got a new laptop tonight and could load the site again, I apologize! First of all - I consider it a great honor when anyone thinks enough of my fanstuff to want to do ANYTHING with it. =) I mean, I'm just out here being a nerd, writing fic about characters that are not mine. I can hardly be possessive about them. ;) So while I suppose it's rather late for a summer project, if for some reason the inclination strikes you in the future, feel free! It sounds like a beautiful project and I'm honestly flattered that you would think my story worthy. =) As for the inspiration behind that particular story... there is a rather silly story behind it. (tl;dr, possibly...) My partner-at-the-time and I were both really into the new Star Trek movie when it came out in 2009 - and this was not long after both of us were fixated on Ace Attorney fandom, which had recently had a new game released. Before the game was released, there was some character art showing an existing character looking scruffy, and the Ace Attorney fandom decided he must have fallen on hard times. There were multiple fanfics written about the guy he's usually shipped with finding him unhoused and taking him in and helping him get back on his feet. It became sort of a fandom injoke, "Miles adopts a homeless Phoenix". Not long after the first reboot Star Trek movie came out, the ONTD Star Trek community over at LiveJournal (good times!) dug up some screen test pics of Zachary Quinto wearing the Spock ears... but with a scruffy unshaven look and longer hair. So I showed them to my partner, who reacted with six little words:

"So... Jim adopts a homeless Vulcan?" I laughed because that was ridiculous and impossible given how some things work in the Star Trek canon. ...And then I started thinking about it, and how maybe it wasn't impossible, how someone *could* possibly wind up in such a situation in the Star Trek universe, and stopped laughing. ...And then spent the next several months of my life having this offhand joking comment turn into yet another exploration of one of my favorite themes: predestination vs. free will. OOPS. My partner, of course, was laughing their head off incredulously the whole time as I sent them drafts of the next chapter to read over and repeatedly reminded them that this was ALL THEIR FAULT. ;) So that is the...origin story... of that fic. Apologies for the length of this (and again, the lateness of the reply) - though to be honest it's so absurd it's fun to share it again. :D

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....Hi, I got a new laptop at last to replace the one that stopped booting up months ago and the one that I had been using that couldn't deal with Tumblr because loading any page made the entire computer freeze for several seconds and also it was starting to physically fall apart. Like, the screen is coming undone from the base/keyboard every time I adjust the position. But now I can actually load pages again. It's nice. Maybe I will post the progress/nearly complete Haurchefant cosplay stuff in the near future when I have gotten this thing a little more settled. :D

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the actions I’m willing to excuse from a fictional character is determined by the vibe of the whole show/movie/book

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Fighting Gravity, a novel-length Star Trek AU slow burn slash fic about predestination vs. free will and a side of familial trauma, sometimes known as "Jim adopts a homeless Vulcan", has almost 100k hits now. Next in line with just over 50k hits is... "Turnabout Coming Out", a tiny and very stupid Ace Attorney fic wherein Phoenix uses the game mechanics to defend himself when Maya declares that he's gay for Edgeworth (and fails miserably).

This frequently leaves me both humbled and very, very bewildered by the nature of the fanfic-reading public.

idk if that's a good range or not, might redo if the stats look wonky

feel free to add what fandom its for too!

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Briefly reappearing to honor the 23rd anniversary of my very favorite game, Vagrant Story, and thus the 23rd anniversary of these guys I have shipped like burning for 22 of those years. Might ink this sketch after work, but just want to make sure I have something to put out there for today.

Sydney/Hardin - because sometimes the immortal avatar of the gods needs to be cut down to size and reminded that he's still human in spite of it all.

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Taking a break from fic to sketch something...

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💥🙌👏

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No Man is an Island

Summary: Yuri goes to his mother’s funeral. 

AU of https://archiveofourown.org/works/42290193/chapters/106189371

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To the person who asked about the immorality of my fiction --

I'm replying publicly so other folks can see my answer, but doing it this way to keep your name out of it. You asked, "Hey, is it true you write incest and child rape and fucked up sex? Why, my dude? You're a good writer, you don't have to do that immoral stuff!"

Yep, it's true, I do write about lots of uncomfy-making stuff in my fiction! I tend to write about topics like systemic oppression, identity, sexuality, generational trauma, abuse, power dynamics, and more, just because those are the directions my writer-brain takes me. Exploring those topics in a way that does them justice sometimes requires that I actually depict the "immoral"* things happening, explicitly or implicitly, and sometimes in harrowing ways. If I do my job right, then readers will empathize with the character(s) experiencing this bad thing, and maybe think more about the topic. If I screw it up, and I do sometimes, then people who've actually been through this in real life will feel like I've trivialized something important and intrinsic to their lived experience. So when it becomes necessary for me to write about these topics, I try to do them justice and not tapdance around the gory details, because I'm a good writer and that's what being a good writer means, to me.

That said, you're asking about morality**, which has nothing to do with being a good writer. There are lots of excellent writers in the world who aren't good people, as you've probably noticed. Maybe you've decided that I'm not a good person either; okay, if so. But writer or not, you cannot become a good person by pretending evil doesn't exist. Evil looooves silence. If you want to fix that evil, you have to talk about it, honestly and uncomfortably, and you have to make sure that everyone gets to participate in that conversation -- especially the people who are most harmed by that evil. Even bad fiction about these topics creates more space for those people to participate in the conversation. Without that space, the people controlling the conversation will inevitably be those with the most social power. That's going to be the rapists, the racists, the rich people who hate poor people, and so on, because the most immoral acts in our society pretty much boil down to abuse of power.

For me, it's simple: I think it's far more immoral to avoid Topic X and thus allow it to flourish, than it is to address the topic in a way that hopefully facilitates justice. So the latter is what I do.

*Scare quotes here because I don't know what "fucked up sex" is supposed to mean. If it's between consenting adults, it's not fucked up. If there's no consent or adults involved, it's rape.

**I do consider some speech immoral -- namely that which facilitates abuses of power, like hate speech and copaganda. But I could write a whole essay on this, and I got stuff to do today.

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2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Winners

the competition is open to wildlife photography novices, amateurs, and professionals, celebrating the hilarity of our natural world and highlighting what we need to do to protect it

full roster of this year's winners with narratives by the photographers: X

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me writing fictional couples: oh wow…. the tenderness, the devotion, the romance

me irl:

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I dunno about pangolins but YES to that comment. I may have just sat on the floor for half an hour bent over because I was giving one of my bunnies a hug - me, a big largely hairless omnivore, I had my arms around him - and he started licking my arm. You CAN'T GET UP when you have made a bunny happy enough for bunny kisses.

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If Yuri has million fans, then I’m one of them. If Yuri has one fan, then I’m THAT ONE. If Yuri has no fans, that means I’m dead.

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