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ANNOUNCEMENT.

i am MOVING blogs to @cannivalisms.

this blog has gotten a bit too cluttered for my liking (see: outdated project info, half finished wips, writing from when i was fifteen) and i think i want a blank slate to clear my head. i’m also tired of my writeblr not being my main.

if i’m on any of your tag lists rn, you’re welcome to keep tagging me as @cannivalisms in them. of course i’ll be going around asking to be re-added on projects i remember liking, but. um. that’s a lot of projects, and i have the memory of a goldfish. so. yeah! keep tagging the new blog if you see this!

in the next few days, i think i’ll be moving relevant wip info from this blog to the new one, before moving on either to some reintroductions or new writing. i want to also focus on terras town more without the pressure of putting out polished content so... we’ll see what form that takes on the new blog 😳

this being said, thank you all so much for sticking with me so far. i don’t have words for what your support has done for me and my writing, and i hope to at least see some of you over at @cannivalisms too. love y’all :>

- prev. blanche, now val

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Mermaid altar incoming 🐚🌊

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poll: should i rename the new blog semblanche to keep my brand, or stick with marchdove to avoid further confusion

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you’re alive! hopefully the fact that i can send this means you’re not terminated!

apparently ive scared multiple people by following them from @marchdove and here i am to inform: nah im fine, just thinking about moving and as such have started customizing my new blog

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anyone who knows me knows that i love jacob collier’s music probably more than is healthy, so it’s not really shocking that eventually i’d get around to covering one of his songs. this is an acapella rendition of the first verse of in the real early morning, one of my all time favourites :)

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sucks that you weren't terminated :(

no one asked you to follow the new blog

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“We are both girls, true, but it’s like saying that a nectarine and a watermelon are both fruit. She’s a little tart rolling over the tongue, creamy; I crumble in the mouth, wet and rough.”

— Daphne Gottlieb, Everything She Asks of Me

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you’re alive! hopefully the fact that i can send this means you’re not terminated!

apparently ive scared multiple people by following them from @marchdove and here i am to inform: nah im fine, just thinking about moving and as such have started customizing my new blog

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me: sets all my lectures to 1.25x speed

also me: :(( why.. do the profs talk,,, so fast :((( i can’t even keep up ://.... they know it’s not a RACE right 🥺🥺🥺

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pirating movies by seeing them in tumblr gifs and basing my own story around them

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Pixel Art by Franciszek Jan Nowotniak

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Conversation Prompt

“The last time I went through here I was viciously attacked.”

“Oh, God. I’m so sorry. We can go a different way, if you want. I don’t want to make you relive that.”

“No, it’s fine. With any luck, it’ll happen again and kill me this time.”

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anne carson come here. did you ever find out where you could put it down

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even when I'm sincerely not trying to clown the universe forces a little gay jester hat onto my head and informs me that I'll fucking jingle those bells whether I want to or not

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hi abby! how do you balance writing and your education?? i’m in college right now and i always feel too drained to write ):

hey anon! 

this is a tough question, mostly because i would say i haven’t figured this out. i come at this with the bias of not enjoying school, so writing has always been an escapist thing for me, and when i was taking a full course load i absolutely didn’t manage a good balance. i was the person writing in the back of the classroom, which wasn’t ideal. struggling with undiagnosed mental illness and this obsessive love for writing made it really hard to focus on anything else. i’d like to think i’d do better in the classroom now that i’m medicated, but as is i’m taking a very light courseload. 

here’s the most important thing to remember in busy seasons from what i’ve learned: if the story is important, it will still be there for you when you have time and brain space for it. don’t put crazy pressure on yourself to write if you have other demands on your time, and don’t feel guilty for using your free hours to recharge rather than write. everything you do in your life is building your skills as a writer, and sometimes that’s just having life experiences and working hard at the tasks in front of you. 

(if you’re really desperate to write but you never seem to be able to find the time/energy, set yourself really low goals. 50 words a day. just 50. start there. sometimes starting is the hardest part.)

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Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923