#I hope this momentum lasts...

[the-cinnamontography-is-amazing]

After my last few writing classes that made me want to change my minor completely, I am absolutely in love with my classes this semester.

Like I am getting fantastic feedback from my professors! I'm excited about the projects! For once in my life I'm like "oh shit, maybe I don't suck too much!" lol

Keep writing kids. 🫡

[sleepinglionhearts]

The beach! The beach! There's lots of stuff to find at the beach! 🪨 🐚 🏖

[weekend-whip]

Well this certainly was A Year lmao

2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Art Tag for All Pieces

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[sparklyslug]

The (Monster-Hunting) Shop Around the Corner

Chapter Six

(Start from the beginning)

A You’ve Got Mail AU For @steddiebang by @sparklyslug Art by @ahhrenata & @boiiko Betad by @aidaronan & @greenlikethesea

“Want to come up?” Steve asks.

Eddie blinks in surprise. “Come up?” He repeats.

“Yeah,” Steve shuts his mouth so hard he thinks he hears his teeth clack together.

Stupid! Stupid. If he had just opened the door and kept walking, Eddie would have followed him up as they kept talking, and it wouldn’t have been weird. Or he would have just said oh hey sorry I have to go, and that would be that. But the way Steve had to go and say it, had somehow made it sound like… like a kind of invitation in that he hadn’t meant it to be. If he wasn’t already flushed with cold and spiked cocoa, he’d probably be blushing. Jesus.

“You know,” Steve says, after probably too long of a pause. “To say hi to Dustin. He’s heading to Hawkins tomorrow morning for Thanksgiving, so. He’ll be up all night last-minute packing. Probably be happy for some distraction.”

“Ah,” Eddie says. Gives Steve an evaluating look. “For Dustin.”

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[qoldenskies]

oh ive just been hit with the NASTIEST writer's block for this next chapter, turns out "its been giving me a hard time" was kind of an understatement ermmmmmm

give me a bit!!! <33

[chimeofthecomet]

@newsiesminibang24 art piece #1 !!! ta daaaa ✨✨

Building Momentum - @agentsnickers

story link here!! - https://archiveofourown.org/works/55304677/chapters/140300932

lyrics from rises the moon by liana flores !!! ok yall have GOT to read this fic its immortal au its found family its gender and time shenanigans you will get so invested into their livesssss,,, and i had so so much fun with this art i put some fun little details in :D

[mimicteruyo]

You know things are rough when just thinking about a fic is a huge-ass step forward.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also "textless" versions of these, wahooo

[rking200]

It's Sunday! A new chapter has found its way to The Red Room. Check it out to see why Connor acted how he did last chapter <3 Take a peek at @connor-sent-by-cyberlife's wonderful new render, and don't forget to check back later to show their post some love!

The Red Room (60070 words) by rking200 Chapters: 9/? Fandom: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hank Anderson/Connor Characters: Hank Anderson, Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Original Chloe | RT600, Markus (Detroit: Become Human), Elijah Kamski Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Stalking, Vomiting, Suicidal Thoughts, Top Hank Anderson, Bottom Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Connor is a Mess (Detroit: Become Human), Hank Anderson is Bad at Feelings, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Missing Persons, Abduction, Manipulation, Death Threats, Mental Health Issues, Zlatko didn't do it, POV Alternating, Slow Burn, Sex at some point Summary: Connor Stern is a law school dropout who dreams of making it big in the music industry. He manages to get into a special apprenticeship program with the musical genius Elijah Kamski and, despite working two jobs and struggling to stay afloat, feels like his dream is finally within his grasp. When Hank Anderson stumbles into the lounge Connor performs at, The Red Room, he becomes entranced with him. As Hank falls in love with Connor's voice, he ends up entangled with conflicting emotions and delicate situations. Slowly, his nights are filled with Connor's songs and his closeness, even if he feels he doesn't deserve it. They reach several roadblocks along the way of getting closer, some more dangerous than others. A collaboration written alongside Connor-sent-by-Cyberlife for the Reverse Big Bang 2024, told with a POV alternating between Hank and Connor. Chapters added weekly.

[perpetuallyfive]

I won't even say how much I've written because it feels fucking absurd, but Arcane is consuming my mind like nothing has since Pitch Perfect.

Not that I didn't care about other fandoms after that, just that this is the first time in so long I've felt this compelled to write and felt such satisfaction in doing it. A truly bizarre feeling.

[batsplat]

jorge martin is just an off-brand motogp version of george russell. both incredible qualifiers, hard racers, have issues sometimes keeping their tyres together, have stayed in a satellite/backmarker team for three years begging the big manufacturer to accept them into the main fold and will randomly decide that they are actually done with race by beefing it into the gravel/walls on the last laps.

this is why ducati did not hire martin, he hasn’t done the power point presentation

strong last line but hm... do I agree with this...

I don't entirely disagree with the profile of racer, though jorge's a bit more in the flame bright and early mould (partly also just because of the different rhythms of those two racing series). he cut his teeth not just on being an exceptional qualifier but also a starter. even though this year, you do kinda have to say pecco's just?? uh?? he's never been a BAD starter but I swear he didn't used to be this good? some of his starts from the second or third row this year have been genuine works of art. this isn't relevant, just needed to mention it. that's part of why jorge does so well at sprints... he's really good at that abbreviated format, where it's just all out from the very start. mr russell was considered quite a poor starter in his williams days (though lbr that may have partly been car characteristics) - the qualifying's very strong and very consistent, but for a while the question was of capitalising off the line. he's got a few more drives that are about working his way through the field... like qatar last year. I just don't really associate jorge with that?

the bottling thing is debatable and we could get into that debate, but like, never mind that. we're leaving sports analysis now and getting back into vibes territory. the thing about jorge is that he has had a competitive bike from the word go. mr russell, whatever you think about how clutch he is or isn't, did not set a foot wrong in terms of making the mercedes case for himself. what happened with him was basically just... a series of unfortunate events that got him stuck in a spectacularly uncompetitive car for three years. got one shot in a good car in said three years (sakhir 2020) and delivered the perfect performance. but jorge!! jorge had 2022!! he blew it!! he did get unlucky with the gp22 vs the gp21 comparison early that season and how bastianini was able to take advantage of the early stage factory spec malaise, and he's far from the only gp22 who was struggling early on (cf one 'pecco bagnaia'). but still, some of his rides that year were. truly horrendous. and the way the whole thing played out left him with a massive chip on the shoulder.... that's the thing, right, I think what's so key about jorge is that sense of grievance, the fact that he was rejected for that factory seat and we're now several years on from that. and it's a really thin line between that being a good thing and a bad thing. like, anything that's a potential source of motivation fundamentally can be helpful, right? in 2007, casey showed up at ducati as not their first choice, kinda a stopgap, and also after yamaha had pulled the plug on a potential contract not once but twice. he has spoken again and again how yamaha and honda's behaviour towards him made him want to show them exactly what they were missing out on. he used that! it was good for him as a competitor that he had something to get worked up over! he's done it throughout his career! but on the flip side, if you're so busy feeling victimised that you're kind of already... primed for failure, then you've got a problem. like, if the takeaway is you're probably screwed anyway because you're being sabotaged by the factory, then even if that were true you're fucked before you start competing. you've already lost in your own head, you've made excuses before you've even started. it's a thin line! thinking the world is out to get you can either be a good way to get yourself to going, or it can be a loser mindset

quickly circling back to georgie boy, my main feeling is that they kinda have a different type of malaise. one is an overthinker and the other is at times very much an under-thinker. grussy actually shares the overthinking trait with his fellow 63 more than anyone else... all three kinda have this fun meeting point of a lot of cockiness and a lot of insecurity - they just balance them in other ways. and russell reminds me more of pecco in that kind of... being constantly thrown up against a Big Legacy of someone you admire, being in the shadow of greats and having to make your own name... you're very much part of a succession plan that leaves you with massive shoes to fill... (though admittedly grussy has also gone through the unenviable experience of getting to work closely with his hero and eventually having most of said hero's fans absolutely despise him. can happen, I suppose.) jorge is a bit more baggage-free. he's very much the main character in his own story, not so much faffing about with the narrative implications of all this shit. more straightforward! if jorge wins, it's about him. if he loses, it's also about him. ducati has been his world for the past few years, to the point where he's gotten a bit parochial about the whole thing. early this season, he was talking like - sure, the championship lead is important, BUT this is also giving him power in contract negotiations!! which... yes, that's true, but also that should be way down the order of priorities my man. jorge martin might be the only person in this universe who... genuinely might be more obsessed with beating pecco than marc? like, beating the marc marquez would be great and all, 8x world champion bla bla, but pecco is his personal antagonist! he's known him for years! that's ducati's golden boy! he needs to beat pecco so badly! there's something really fun about a rivalry where it feels like at least one side's feelings towards the other... kinda go beyond a personal relationship, like at a certain point it becomes about what the other guy Represents. jorge isn't worried about legacy and the shoes he's got to fill and can he truly live up to all those expectations as much as he's worried about himself and also occasionally pecco bagnaia

anyway, I've been thinking about the bottling thing... what jorge said about it earlier's been rattling around in my head since I saw the quote

man, it must be really tough, right? like, you don't know why it's happening... it's not just cockiness - though there is an element of someone who's kinda used to bulldozing his way through problems with sheer obstinacy and stubborn self belief (another distinction with the 63's, who are more introspective and prone to self-flagellation following mistakes). but it's also just... you can't figure out why it's such a fundamental shortcoming of your game! today, from the way pecco and also luca (apparently) were talking about it, it seems like there was something noticeable about how jorge was gradually losing a bit in his control and precision as a result of how the tyres were going off, as a sort of precursor of the fatal error. which... well, it's at least a somewhat understandable mistake, because it comes from pressure? it's not just the tyres going off each time - the mugello sprint crash was lap four, jerez was lap ten. but an interesting thing about his big errors this year is that they have all come as a result of serious pressure - as a result of pecco directly behind him in the case of jerez and sachsenring and like... in anticipation of the massive points damage he knew he was probably going to take in mugello. it sounds obvious to say pressure is more likely to generate mistakes, but of course that's not always true of our title contenders! pecco only really wakes up when he's already dug a hole halfway to the centre of the earth - but when he faces actual pressure, his track record is mostly very strong. his biggest howlers this season, portimao + catalunya sprints, both came when he was leading comfortably. martin has also made these pressure-light mistakes in the past, most memorably indonesia last year but... well

one of the most fascinating bits of sports are like... limits and ceilings and how your build-up as an athlete kinda determines what's possible for you. like, sports is sort of where you experiment with notions of fate and inevitability and all that, where you question whether it's possible for anyone to ever really change. is it once a choker, always a choker? if you know that you have this problem, this flaw that is always just there in the background, waiting to be actualised - what can you do? does it give you more or less hope that there's not a clear root cause? how debilitating that must be for confidence too, always knowing that you could cause everything you've worked for to crash down in a moment.... this is where. y'know, the thing with pecco, right, is that he's now gotten to a weird place where psychologically he has to be wary of the mistakes he himself makes - but he knows that he can also bounce back from them. he has that muscle memory, because he's done it before. he chucked it down the road in india and he won the title! jorge did it in thailand and he didn't! and the problem is that it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle of sorts, because even though the margin between the two of them at the end of last year ended up being relatively slim... one of them still won and one of them still lost. which actually means that even though pecco and jorge both have made serious mistakes this year (though pecco's track record is cleaner - in portimao the points punishment didn't quite fit the crime and in the jerez/le mans sprints he was kinda just unlucky), only one of them knows they can do this shit and win the title anyway

and now jorge has an entire summer break to go away and think about that. can be a good thing, get some distance, and it's easy to slip into a run of bad form that you can't escape if there's no interruption. can be an awful thing because you're sitting with your mistakes for weeks on end with no chance to rectify them. I'm naturally a pessimist on the 'can any athlete ever really change' question because life has very much worn me down on this topic over the last few years (aka some sports results made me really sad). but I always want to be optimistic! I want to believe athletes can fix their fatal flaws! I want to believe they can get better at managing their tyres and not folding under pressure. and pressure works weirdly... sometimes it's not really a test of 'mental strength' as much as it is of what kind of in-built margin an athlete has (btw this is my best guess for what goes wrong with martin). sometimes it's beneficial in sharpening the mind and erasing the possibility of you just... not being sufficiently concentrated (which is my best guess for what happens with pecco when he's not being pressured). can you truly get better at dealing with that? or at a certain point, have you already accumulated so much mental scar tissue that you're always going to get in your own way? who knows! maybe we're all doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past forever and ever. who knows

anyway. in response to this ask. I do think it's more a case of 63's aligned in being too stuck in their own head, too concerned with legacy, and walking a very thin line between arrogance and insecurity. all three of them, though, have a bad case of 'coming through the ranks in an era of greats they'll always be disparagingly compared to'. what's new can never be as good as what came before, right? and they're constantly struggling to manage or maybe even overcome basic flaws that seem to be embedded in their make up as competitors... maybe they'll make it, just a little. maybe they never will. but it sure is fun to watch them try!

[silentreigns]

It's a new race week we gotta leave COTA in the past. 3 free practices means that there's a lot of opportunities for Mercedes to figure out whether or not the upgrades truly work. Also 5 more race weekends until this season is over.

[spaghett-onaplate]

noooo i got covid 😭😭

[sunnyrosewritesstuff]

Let's talk about goals.

Goals from 2024

To hit 200K for the year with a month of 30K.

I hit 273K! And my highest month was 53K which I never thought would have ever been possible.

2. Give every WIP an update.

I had 55 chapter updates or one-shots posted, and this was the breakdown per fic:

Ambassador to Madness- 4 chapter updates

Ghost of a Chance- 3 chapters to finish the fic! (met goals)

Guarding Alliances- 3 chapters to finish the fic! (met goals)

Just to See You Happy- 3 chapter updates

A Mother’s Curse- 3 chapter updates (met goals)

Soul Traitor- 3 chapter updates (met goals)

The Twelve Transformations of Bilbo Baggins- 6 chapter updates

3. Release From the Pieces of Your Shattered Memories and Beneath the Oak Tree.

I had so many WIPs I really didn't feel ready to post From the Pieces of Your Shattered Memories, but it is being written behind the scenes! And then of course you can click the link for Beneath the Oak Tree.

4. Participate in THAUC, Fandom Trumps Hate, and Year of the Bagginshield.

So I completed Until Our Next Encounter with @fantasyinallforms for THAUC and wrote A Story of Home for Fandom Trumps Hate. Did not do Year of Bagginshield, but hope to do some of those prompts this next year.

Goals for 2025

Word Count- Let's just keep on pushing. I want to try to get 300K for the year, and another 50K month.

Completion- I want to finish the following fics: Ambassador to Madness, The Twelve Transformations of Bilbo Baggins, To Spoon Feed You Comfort, The Raven Prince, and From the Pieces of Your Shattered Memories. It'll be a tall order, but I have a plan in place if I can keep up with it.

Events- I think I'll probably participate in Fandom Trumps Hate again, but I would love to try my hand in Thorin's Spring Forge as well!

OF Projects- I have an idea for an OF work and would like to at least get some of it written. Not necessarily completed, but at least started with a direction.

[the-physicality]

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[tapucocoafgc]

Spent a lot of today writing a little bit, then going back and editing what I'd written, then writing some more, and between that and learning combos in the new Granblue game I'd say today was a pretty productive day