#Coming Summer 2019

[peonies-and-dreams]

such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe

[heartshapelocket]

like brother, like sister

[cottageivy]

ava during her volunteering at a ranch and hooking up with the ranch owners daughter era + the daughter in question

[theunholycyrus]

[lolo3h]

I'm dressing up as one of the scariest things I can think of for this Halloween: a Danganronpa fan! /j

[lostbutterflyutau]

Dialogues and Dreams

Fandom: Fruits Basket

Relationships: Sohma Akito/Sohma Tedachi (OC)

Characters: Sohma Akito, Sohma Tedachi (OC), Hanajima Saki (briefly)

Rating: M

Genre: Romance and Fluff. Romantic fluff.

Summary: Of all the things Akito expected after coming back from holiday, a visit from Saki and her off-colour remarks about her relationship weren't on that list. However it's those exact comments that lead to a far more intimate conversation later on.

Link: AO3

Note:

Sooo… My favourite ship is the one I made up.

Anywho, sorry this is a day late, y'all. I attended a con this weekend and was prepping for the event all last week, so I didn't have my usual time to write, but I still wanted to do this prompt.

Fun fact, the idea was sparked by THIS Tumblr post by fellow author @cinderella-ish It made me go back to the bonus comic and be reminded that Saki is the person who likes to say out of pocket stuff and rile people up sometimes.

To give a one-minute summary of this canon-divergent timeline: Akito broke things off with Shigure before the main trio graduated in order to spend some time on her own (but not alone) figuring herself out. So when we pick up three years later, she's single (but not alone) and doing a decent job at, well, doing her actual job and getting her life started. She's then thrown a metaphorical wrench in the form of her new hired servant, Tedachi (And because this is a shoujo, we all know exactly where this is going). He quickly proves himself a good worker and through a series of circumstances (including HIM being charged with taking care of her during a bout of illness), they move from a professional relationship, to friendship, and soon, a romantic relationship. In short: Yes. She's dating "the help." And at this point, it's a secret from everyone except close family and friends (which is why Saki knows).

By this point in the timeline, they've been together a few months and she even took him along on a family holiday to the summer house after being invited by Shima (who asked everyone going if they were OKAY with sharing space with Akito), which is where this picks up.

Make sense?

[cruzifin]

thinking of starting a podfic...

so i invite some of you guys to send fanfic requests for practice or hopefully to be my first !

this might be a stretch here, but ive always wanted to be involved in podcasts or audiobooks, but never had the gull or interest in biting off more than i could chew with an official book, or the brain capacity to come up with a genuine story. fast forward, and ive been listening to podfics for dayyys, some for my favorite fics and some that simply had me hooked. personally, I find they're the best way to listen to the same types of books you read so iykyk.

so of course, ive been wanting to start one for a while, and i actually might start sooner than later ;). so, just for those who follow me, if you see me reposting adverts for some podfic, its probably me :D

the only issues at this point are what fandoms im going to be podfic-ing, voice acting, and dealing with the overall cringe of the situation lol

[eggmeralda]

that period of time between south park post covid being announced in 2021 to summer 2022 when everyone got obsessed with truffula flu was moderately heavenly

[astrolavas]

GOOOSH I DIDN'T KNOW YOU ALSO LIKE GOOD OMENS.

You feed my two hyperfixations (toh)

YEAA

[llatimeria]

I'm literally so sick of moving I really hope that I can just stay with my parents for at least two years

[hirazuki]

Okay, see, the thing about your story ending on a negative/dystopian/'despite everything that's happened nothing has changed in society' note and doing so successfully? It needs to have been set up for that in the first place, and it needs to be done in an intentional manner.

I have nothing against works that reinforce how cruel/meaningless/pointless/etc. the world is -- I enjoy a fair few! -- but the works themselves need to be some sort of commentary about it; the plot might be demonstrative of the futility of everything, but the story never should. It should take that and build on it and use it to make a statement, underscore a point, etc. to its readers. Having everything carry on business-as-usual without acknowledging it, especially in a genre that's generally meant to conclude on optimistic, uplifting, and hopeful notes, comes off as callous and in direct opposition with the values it extols.

Plus, the story itself should never be futile because, then, well, it never mattered as a work and it makes no difference if you've read it or not. Which... that's just a badly written story lmao.

[ettawritesnstudies]

IE your 'what would i pay for poll'. I would pay around $3 monthly feasiblhy but honestly I would be more invested in doing that if you were a bigger presenc3e on here again, over if you had anhy fun treats for subscribers. mostly i just miss seeing you alkl over my dash! i like to support the people who are big involved in the comunity or who post a bunch of fun snippets or moodboards or character rambles. and i dont see that from you very often!

Hey Anon!! That is SO FAIR and honestly I wish I were a bigger presence here too, and one of my concerns about offering memberships is that creating all the ~*exclusive*~ content will take away my time from shitposting and playing tag games and just generally hanging out. The more I'm splitting my energy between several platforms the more my "presence" on each platform will suffer if that makes sense and I miss the days when I only had tumblr and I could just ramble about whatever.

That being said there are a couple reasons why I've changed my approach so I hope you understand where I'm coming from

I'm on Draft 5 of the same book I've been working on for like 3ish years now and if I shared the same snippets for every "find the word" tag I think people would be sick to death of it by now

I'm on Draft 5 of the book I'm planning to publish and if I share too many excerpts of the in-between drafts, those things are both A) subject to change, B) probably spoilers and I want to be very very picky about the excerpts I choose to share from now on

Tumblr (and instagram, and tiktok, and other social media sites) regularly get nuked by the companies that own them so I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket which is why I've doubled down on my website.

I'll share more moodboards and fun snippets and stuff soon! But they'll be in the promotional/marketing vein probably because if I'm going to spend time making that stuff it's going to be multitasking

You raise a really good point. I'd love to be more involved here, and I'll try to set more reminders for things like WBW and STS. That being said, I've been trying to support the writing community through other ways like ARC reviews and interviews!!! I put so so so much work into these every month and they do fine in general, but for some reason they don't get any traction on tumblr. Not for my lack of trying, but I don't know? Nobody wants to reblog a link to a youtube video I guess? It's discouraging because just because it looks different than the old traditional games and things doesn't mean it's not still contributing something to the community - a way to find new authors and promote your newly published books - that's largely going unnoticed and unappreciated.

If you want me to reblog snippets and moodboards for the love of god please send me stuff my queue is empty! I love seeing what people have going on but I'm also following well over 1000 people so sometimes stuff gets lost.

[theunholycyrus]

[yuzokasu]

permission to go crazy about winter 2024 for a second (pictures taken from the genepro videos on yt)

they were crazy as hell for putting flashback haruto in this!!!

also the fact that this was before act 9 + his current rehearsal outfit is a lot brighter and stuff...... was this him trying to fit reni's image so much to the point that he'll even imitate what he was wearing

[ubike-official]

anyways summer is always such a time of rebirth and pain but growth and I've never had a painful summer that didn't propel me forward in some way shape or form. so it will all be fine!!!

[forlorngarden]

they love me for my refined music taste (i watched glee religiously)