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just remember… in black sails there are three wlw Main characters… yeah.

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my post with the placeholder brackets in my last fic is having a spike of activity and there are three kinds of tags I get on that post:

this is exactly what my documents look like

I should do this

I don't/can't/won't do this

but I cannot stop thinking about the phrasing on one in the last category from yesterday. this method had never occurred to the person (which is baffling to me but pretty common) and they were definitely not intending to be condescending but they were like "wait you guys don't just write everything at once? I just write it all down and go back through to adjust wording" and I'm just. howling. imagining someone giving writing advice like "oh you're having trouble with your story? well have you tried writing it down?" omg why didn't I think of that!

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my favorite kind of character is the kind who deep in their soul is constantly screaming LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME and outwardly expressing literally anything else

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just went to see Cats and was thinking about the Vampire Chronicles the whole time. could not possibly articulate my thoughts on this

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Getting to book eleven in a series and the narrator saying "actually a lot of that stuff I said in those other books was just wrong" is so funny

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I'm 1k words in and I'm already loving Armand POV

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Different reading speeds are so funny. We've put up a display of short stories and novellas for "books you can finish before the end of the year!" Meanwhile I'm like "oh good, I'm going to be able to finish the Vampire Chronicles this year!" when I've got three books left in the series totalling 1200 pages

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Recent(ish) Fic Roundup

Over the last year and a half I finished 5 works of fanfiction (totalling exactly 100,400 words 😯) which is a lot for me, and most of them have gone a little under the radar, so I thought I would share them all again together :)

thy vital rest (Black Sails, Thomas POV, headed towards some kind of Thomas/Flint/Silver/Madi dynamic, T, 10k words) Post-canon, Flint realizes he was wrong about the Odyssey and he and Thomas go to Nassau to find Silver and Madi

before the sundown (I never know the time) (fairy tale Jorinde and Joringel, G, 3.5k) Jorinde learns why the witch in the woods acts as she does

hard to make a tender sound (Black Sails, silverflint, E, 25k) Silver and Flint spend season three helping each other process things through kink

set to no worldly tune (Spring Awakening, hernst, M, 7k) A getting together fic inspired by the last production I saw

and we live just to love again (Ted Lasso, Ted/Trent/Rebecca with a focus on Trent and Rebecca's developing friendship, E, 55k) Simultaneously my response to the finale and a ship manifesto 😅

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saw another post about signing up for library cards (for libby access) for places you don't live and like. you do you. obviously I'm in favor of people being able to access books. but I'm so curious how many libraries there are that don't require some kind of proof of address???

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me mentally: these characters have a relationship that cannot be defined by any one thing and reaches throughout the narrative and is so woven into their characters that trying to force it under one label would be inaccurate and doing it a disservice.

me out loud: idk man they're fuckin gay

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Chris Sununu makes me so MAD

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It seems like the description of every book in the series says something like "This is Anne Rice at her best!" and I'm like I don't know, I'm pretty sure This was her best:

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was just looking through my pictures I've taken this year and the percentage that's just inspiration for my illuminated manuscript LMAO

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been laughing over this pic for like. ten minutes

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had a fic idea last night and was like NO I can't think about fic writing right now! but I just opened a word document. god damn it.

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sometimes I really do feel like I'm in conversation with these fucking books. I was like "I'd really like to read about what Daniel's up to, but she's going to give me a book about Marius instead >:(" and then I open the book about Marius and there's Daniel, hyperfixating on model train sets, and I'm like "oh. ok?"

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I love my coworkers. I got to work this morning and went to put my coat in the closet and was greeted with this note

and I was like Jesus Christ, what has Evan put in the closet? And opened the door and