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mego42 · 4 years ago

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Fic Writer Challenge

tagged by @aadmelioraa who’s doing a really good job seducing me into the last kingdom fandom the content y’all are putting out is *chef’s kiss*

rules: list your three four (shut up i do what i want etc etc) fav fics you’ve written

there’s blood in my body (i’m holding on) - bellamy/clarke, the 100 (22k, E)

She misses him the way she would miss a sense or a body part; she misses him like something that was always a part of her, even though, realistically, she’d only known him for four years compared to the rest of her life. She misses him like something vital she’d never considered what it would be like to be without until suddenly she was.

Modern AU - Clarke hasn’t seen her best friend for six years and then suddenly she does.

this was my first ever au!! which maybe seems like not a thing considering the switch from genre to modern requires a lot less research but it was still a trip to try and figure out how to translate the characters from one setting to another

also it’s just near and dear to my heart for a whole bunch of reasons that aren’t any of y’all’s business

oh god it’s so sappy and romantic and i love it a lot idc

the listening ‘verse - beth/rio, good girls (2 parts so far, 55k, E and T)

promptathon #3: 5 outsider POVs on beth & rio getting together somewhere down the line from 3x11. would love rhea, mick, annie, ruby, and dean. not all people have to come around and be supportive, but writer can pick who feels what.

cheating so i can include now use both hands don’t @ me

includes my first ever completed multichapter! cannot believe!

also a fun challenge but this time with POV! i really wanted not only the perspectives to be distinct and unique but the voice and tone and i had a lot of fun sorting out how that would work. if i were to go back i’d probably do more with rhea, i feel like she bore the brunt of me figuring out what i wanted to do while already writing

it's strange what desire will make foolish people do - beth/rio, good girls (2 parts, 5k, T)

my first gg fic(s)(though if i went back i’d make them two chapters of the same thing)!!

lowkey don’t even remember writing them?

i think i wrote the first one the same night i watched 302 (aka freshly off of binging the first two seasons + 301 in a week) and the other one right after i posted the first one working off of the 303 promo

it was all a blur of OH MY GOD I HATE THEM AND I LOVE THEM AND IM FEELING A LOT OF STUFF SOMEONE HELP ME

they’re on here bc i dont think i've ever written anything that poured out of me like this and i was a smidge afraid to go back and read them bc idek what they were like, i was functioning in a feverish obsessive haze, but they actually hold up p well? which is neat! i like when surprises are pleasant!

idk i’m weirdly attached to them leave me alone

a song inside the halls of the dark - beth/rio, good girls (89k so far (yikes on bikes), E)

p sure this meme is for completed fic but like i wasn’t gonna put this on here pfffft

violently suppressing the amount of guilt i feel that this is still wip so we’re gonna roller skate right by that one

first ever attempted multichapter! first ever attempt at plot! lots of learning experiences and challenges all around!

it’s also mine and @nickmillerscaulk‘s origin story SO def a fav

(hey kim how do i grammar) (ily)

Tagging @foxmagpie @pynkhues @sothischickshe @hypermania @querenaxx if you’d like

#tag games!#i need to get my ass in gear and actually finish some fic so i can start posting again #rn it's a dead even tie between this new thing #song #and the pacific rim au (i know i was surprised too)#in terms of what's gonna happen first #who knows! not me!#maybe something else will rise from the grave aka my concepts folder #i keep telling y'all i am not in control here #my fic #shut up meg

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eldritchsurveys · 5 years ago

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914.

1) What are some positive things, realizations or habits that came out of quarantine for you? >> I think I’m going to have to actually follow at least one survey taker because I’m tired of having to go to their actual blog every time I want to find surveys (Lane stopped appearing in the #survey tag for me around the time that tumblr updated the dash, for some reason, and he’s probably not the only one but I haven’t figured out who else got axed yet). So if you get a follow from aynrandslashfiction, it’s just me. EDIT: Realised I didn’t answer the question, pfffft. The best thing that has come out of pandemic for me is physical distancing, tbh. I mean, I’d prefer to not have the pandemic, of course. I’ve been dealing with people’s inability to maintain personal space for years and I would continue if I had to, but, you know.

2) How do you feel about people who are “workaholics”? Would you consider yourself one? How do you personally maintain a work-life balance? If you aren’t working, what personal activity or task takes up most of your time? >> I feel the same way about workaholics that I do about any other kind of -holic -- they’re probably escaping something in their life/past that they find intolerable, and I also feel like I would not want to get emotionally involved with them.

3) How financially responsible would you say you are? What could you spend less money on? >> As financially responsible as I can be on an income that is not meant to be liveable. It’s not like I can be terribly irresponsible, because I just don’t have enough money to blow in the first place.

4) How would you describe yourself as a friend? What value would you say you bring to your friends? >> I don’t know how to describe myself as a friend. I don’t know what makes me valuable in a human interaction at all. This is the kind of understanding that is helped by testimonials from other people, and I don’t have enough data.

5) In psychology they say that our romantic relationships are an extension of our relationships with our parents, and that we tend to choose our partners based on whatever was lacking in our childhood, or that we are attracted to traumas and sufferings that are familiar to us rather than the unknown. Can you relate to this? >> Of course I can relate to that.

6) Is there a specific type of survey you miss taking? How or where do you find new surveys to take these days? >> I mean, I don’t know. I don’t find new surveys very easily these days because there’s just not a lot of new ones being made, not like back in the day. That’s partially why I decided to follow along with the 5k Survey -- at least I know I don’t have to worry about finding new surveys for a while (and I can save-to-draft the good surveys I do run into, so I have a nice little pile of ones to take in between 5k entries, or in the future).

7) Do you still care about tags on surveys? When you see surveys that you know don’t credit the maker nowadays, how do you feel? >> I don’t care about it because it just doesn’t seem like much of a priority. If there’s already a tag on it, I usually just leave it there.

8) Is there anyone in your life who knows about your survey-taking habits? How would / do you explain the concept of our community to someone, if you ever have to? >> I’m relatively sure Sparrow knows about it, since I’ve been taking them for years, and I also occasionally mention them in conversations. It’s pretty easy to explain, I think, although my explanation varies depending on the person’s familiarity with the internet. Sometimes I reference MySpace bulletins or Quizilla, sometimes I describe them as open-ended essay questions taken for fun and introspection, etc.

9) What happened the last time you had a disagreement or falling out with a friend? Or the last time you had to apologize to someone? >> I don’t remember. It probably just went badly.

10) Can you tell when you are not well-liked? What do you do when you feel someone is not particularly fond of you? Can you remember the last time you were in that situation? >> I don’t know if I can tell or not. I guess it depends on the person and their level of aggressiveness -- some people are more obvious about their dislike for other people than others are. And as far as what I do, it depends on who the person is and what kind of mental health day I’m having. Sometimes I don’t care, but other times my brain gets stuck on a loop trying to figure out what I did wrong. Either way, even if my brain is on negativity-loop central, I still don’t try to convince them to like me or anything. I know better than that (and most of the time I don’t actually want them to change their mind, it’s not about that -- it’s just the shame spiral).

11) How would you say your preference in movies or TV shows changed from when you were a teenager vs. now? >> I think I still like the same stuff, I’ve just added even more stuff that I like now.

12) Apart from price and location, what are some deciding factors when choosing a house for you? What is something you love the most in your current home, and what would you change if you could? >> For me, my needs revolve around having my own bedroom, having a decent-sized bathroom and kitchen, and having enough windows. There are other things that I might like too, like hardwood floors, that are just hard to get along with all the other stuff (idk what everyone’s obsession with carpet is, but god, is it hard to find non-carpeted apartments that are within budget and have the other most important boxes checked). What I like most about this apartment is that I have my own room, tbh. Otherwise it’s pretty unremarkable.

13) Do you know any “influencers” in real life? How much are you actually likely to follow an influencer’s advice or recommendations? >> I don’t. I have sub-zero interest in influencers and I think the concept is rather socially and personally damaging.

14) What emotion is the hardest for you to express? Can you think of a time when you felt force or successfully expressed this emotion? >> All emotions are impossibly hard for me to express unless I’m alone (and even then, if the shame spiral starts, you can best believe I’ll even deny my emotions to my own fucking self). I’ve been trying to work on it -- not expressing emotions around others, that’s going to take a while, just... expressing them to myself -- and let me tell you, it’s a lot of work. What’s it like to have parents that did not completely retard your emotional and social development, setting you up for a string of human relationships that also further reinforce the idea that your emotions are huge disgusting ugly things that should be ignored at best and punished at worst?

15) How do you feel about job interviews? Are you good at negotiation? Was there a time when you felt you didn’t do so well during the interview, but still got the job? >> I have never been on a proper job interview, and I’m pretty sure I would bomb it just by being... you know. Not neurotypical. (I could fake it for an interview, sure, but here’s the problem with that: if it works, and I get hired, then they’ll expect me to behave like that. Which I do not, normally. And the only thing worse than not getting hired in the first place is having a horrible time on the job, failing miserably at things, pissing everyone off, and eventually getting fired.)

#surveys #survey #random survey #oof. just remembered that i /used/ to follow lane and then hallie manipulated me into unfollowing him #god. what a fucking mess. what a fucking. mess

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bisexualwillscarlet · 8 years ago

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demisexualemmaswan

oh hell yes

prairiepirate

any interest she asks....PFFFFT! YES PLEASE!

Your wish is my command. I have posted the first part of the first one and will finish up the smutfest of the other fic. God, it’s already well over 5k of Jolly Roger nonsense. xD

#prairiepirate #demisexualemmaswan #allie's old ass fics she found #neverland au nonsense #cs stuffs

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malaiseofdyingrelationships-blog · 7 years ago

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Hey w, does your being a badass wilderness person mean you still have substantial discounts to backpacks? M and I went on Sierra trading post and found the perf bag but I only get a 20% and I think his is 24. Think yours could be a little bit more? Thanks! Congrats on being done with science forever

Hey phoebe! I too am happy that I can return to my regularly scheduled programming of stories of sea otters and such. so my backcountry code is no longer valid, but I can order direct from the companies still. I can get 35-40% off both Osprey and Gregory, if that helps. What packs are you looking at? Oh OR is on there too– there’s this giant portal most gear companies use. And thanks for the accolade- I’m flattered. With packs you’ve actually kinda wandered into my pet obsession, even among other types of gear. i was just looking at some super hot semi custom stuff… Don’t tell me gear can’t be sexy

oh gear is uber sexy. Ok this pack has m AND a stamp of approval. I might have to ask you for discounts ordering hiking boots after I figure what I want this weekend. Don’t think buying a new coat is necessary? Idk, I’m not sure. Thoughts?

What’s the climate like where you’re headed?

Ok so I don’t know if I’ll be in the lowlands or up in the mountains but mostly rainy in the summer and snowy but dryish winter. However, it’s lowest pt is 5k ft above sea level

Wow I didn’t know they got snow

Lol why cuz it’s Africa? How dare you. Oh ok so snowy all year in some parts (probe int he highlands) and a bunch of snow in winter. I’m really hoping they’d assign me up in the mountains. That’d be ideal.

Hahaha I guess you’re right– it is pretty far south. This place gets cooler and cooler. The mountains are legit.

Yea seriously… but Africa is a black box for most of us anyway. Additionally, should I get a new coat? Idk

It depends– if you have a solid jacket you can wash it and reapply the water-resistant coating and that helps a ton. if you don’t have super solid hats and especially gloves i’d invest in good gloves first.

120 for a backpack still seems rather excessive…

How often will you be using it?

Well I’m not planning on bring a large suitcase so probably all the time. This is it. My life’s possessions for the next 2 years.

That’s scary. And I put everything in 2 duffels at the end of each term. But kinda freeing too.

Nah, I’m going buddhist for a while :) The things I’ve seen people do for material things.

Ugh.

Kinda cool and romantic tho, don’t you think? I hope this is what freedom feels like.

Still objects are cool. They’re my favorite historical things, because you can totally write a 20 page essay about a staircase handrail or a 1980s nylon backpack. It is romantic, and you’ll get to use more local materials too!

What can you say about the handrail? I’m looking forward to not being bombarded with media all the time and just having the time and space to meditate and read literature and philosophy and go hiking and petting goats :)

That it symbolizes 1930s ideas of nature and its transformations, as wells a land ethic and so much more. This is at Timberline :) Hope you get to see it one day! What is the 30s idea of nature? Is that where the idea of pristine wilderness comes in? But I remember you telling me that national parks became a thing as a way to combine labor and leisure.

I would say that became a thing like around 1930. Earlier parks like yellowstone (1916) were more pristine ideas of nature. 30s was totally multiuser. The handrail is actually a piece of scrap iron and an old cedar telephone pole. It’s carved and reshaped, similar to ideas of improving the land, and also serves to connect the building to the land around it.

Huh, not sure what I was expecting but definitely not that. It’s beautiful! I was imagining the flimsy iron handrails that adorn the sides of mountains in China

Hahaha yea, it’s a bit different.

Your sentences are practically lyrical. I sincerely appreciate you sharing all this with me!

It’s an old railroad rails smithed by Works Progress Administration circa 1937. Awww you know the way to my feels. Thanks :)

I love how poetic your writing is, even in something as technical as handrail design. I only wish physicists wrote as well as you.

I’m blushing.

Surely you must know. But I didn’t think about the historical progression of an object like an 80s backpack. How are modern backpacks different? Well, I guess we prioritize and carry different things now. When I think about pianos and piano technology, there really hasn’t been any changes from Steinway’s late 19th c design so I’m curious to see how many modifications gear can go through.

Yea, but most people find it florid or annoying– thanks for seeing the value in it :) (btw I don’t think anyone’s ever turned me on with just words, but… :P) Hm. You’re totally right with the pianos. The 70s and 80s saw the advent of nylon-based pack fabrics, as well as the emergence of the post-WW@ American obsession with wilderness.

yea! That handrail reminds me of those elaborately carved wooden harpsichords or early iterations of the modern piano but piano tech really died down after the 19th c. Haha I thought Americans were always obsessed with wilderness.

People essentially used oil based plastics to explore what they thought of as nature. And gear became more than a means to an ends but a symbol of status of leisure too. Ooh, have you ever played a harpsichord? I did once and I got what Bac was after.

Hence the 120 I’m dropping on a backpack. Yea! We have one here too. you play? Damn. A man of many talents.

Nah, in the 1700s if you wanted to go camp in the wild you were batshit crazy. Like people thought the devil lived there. literally. (Christ in the wilderness, temptation, all that jazz.)

There’s a piano maker in Freeport who makes 17 and 18c style pianos. It was quite the experience. Huh, Did nature become worshipped during the Enlightenment? Thoreau and such

You’re being seduced by all the deadly deadly nature. I played from like 5-16, all piano. The harpsichord was a one night stand.

You’ll have to play for me. Why did you never mention this? I bet you’re really good.

Transcendentalist and pastoral ideas of nature, but not wilderness. Haha you’re actually helping me study…

to be honest, I roll my eyes at the transcendentalists. Studying for which class? I thought you dropped your resilience class and that humanities majors don’t have exams lol

Pfffft I just mess around for fun now and even that’s rare. i hardly play anymore, but I think if I started again I’d be ok.

That’s what people really good say.

Oh the resilience class was last term. I’m not *that* much of a train wreck this term I’m in perspectives, which has a final, and k’s borderlands and frontiers class has one.

Well, good luck. I’m sure you’ll do well. Seduce him away with your poetry.

Oh I will.

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