#Started a new notebook to write this one

[ivorydragoness44]

New Darth Maul insert reader coming soon~ 😃🥰😍✨

[katabay]

L'APPEL DU VIDE

okay so. jack! jack. what a collection of guys. the overlap between jack and the beanstalk and jack the giant killer, though. that sure is something! sometimes king arthur is there, which always takes me by surprise.

this. specifically. is an idea I've been kicking around. jack and the beanstalk is not a story I've ever enjoyed, as a kid it was probably my least favorite to read. as an adult, I was INTENSELY fascinated by reading j.g. ballard's the drowned giant. I think about it frequently, and somewhere during a re read of it, I ended up revisiting jack.

combining different versions of jack into one character is not a new concept, but it IS a fun one! the version I've been assembling together plays less with the fun elements of a jack story (and adjacent folklore stories), and focuses more on the potential for tragic elements with the addition of the usual grim and jagged narrative edges that I personally enjoy.

jack with the backstory of the devil and the three golden hairs, only jack doesn't find love, he's TIRED, all he wants to do is go home, but there isn't a home to go back to. what is the point of being born lucky if this is what it gets you? jack the giant killer, only he doesn't want to kill giants, jack who saw a body of a giant when he was a small child and cannot bring himself to do as a king commands. jack, who climbs up the beanstalk and stops halfway to look down. etc.

to go back to the drowned giant real quick, both to set the tone about jack seeing the body of a giant as a youth, and also because I've been haunted and obsessed with this excerpt of it ever since I read it:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Giant

anyway! this was originally like, a two illustration concept to get out of my system. however. I'm halfway through outlining a narrative. so. maybe it will also be several illustrations and also comic.

[diathadevil]

Do you ever think about how Fakir, after him and Ahiru finally broke everything that kept the town of Goldkröne in the ghostly hands of its writer, after they finally have some air of peace over the town finally being able to live in its intended early 2000s environment, that Fakir still feels at times like it's not real and that for a while he fears that if he closes his eyes it'll be back in Drosselmeyer's control. Like it just doesn't feel real to him during that first year of calm, until he feels the dull pain on his recovering hand injury and Ahiru who follows him without a pendant anywhere to be found.

He doesn't feel it's real, the calm finality of this town, but he makes sure to feel the scar on his hand. And he makes sure to hold the little duck and realize that she is who she has always been. Him and the town are finally living peacefully.

[weaponizedmoth]

More trad sketches.

[vamphorica]

so not only do I have a few more kinktober fics to polish up, i need to get started on fics for mattmelloweek, but i am also letting my brain fester and rot about Big Fic (ascension) since giving myself a deadline of january to begin writing and publishing chapters.

can you tell i was unemployed for a few weeks when i made these plans?

[nexus-nebulae]

rate my fuckass hiragana handwriting featuring words i leaned off duolingo

[irritablepoe]

ok i wrote a little over 1k words today, somebody tell me they're proud of me :')

[rosicheeks]

10, 27, 50🥰

10. Do you believe in love at first sight?

Nah. Like you said there’s infatuation at first sight.

27. Has someone ever written a song or poem for you?

Yes 😭 I’ve had a few poems sent to me on here either through anon, DMs or posting one and saying I’m the inspiration behind it.

50. If your first true love knocked on your door with apology and presents, would you accept?

That’s pretty complicated lol

[yu3s]

* getting a new notebook would fix me ← (this wizard has one million tomes and journals and notebooks and field guides scattered across its tower already)

[campirebitesarchive]

Starting a commonplace book for kind of the first time. Starting with Rebecca, one of my favorite books of all time 💕

[coffeeworldsasaki]

One day I'm going to go to Germany and buy an indecent amount of notebooks made there

[bereft-of-frogs]

the biggest question I’m currently facing: I have 8 pages left in this notebook. Do I keep it or switch to a new one for whumptober season?

[lit-in-thy-heart]

one fic completed for merwaincelot week :D

[jjmej]

after a while of barely making any progress, i am rewriting the very basic draft of my fanfic in a different notebook while making it more detailed and fixing alot of the issues

[longroadstonowhere]

okay so the fun thing about my writing is that i do it in longform handwriting first before i type it all into the computer, which means i need a fair amount of paper to write on, which means i’ve been slowly using all the blank space from the notebooks i’ve had since, like, middle school

the not so fun thing is that when i’m trying to find the notebook i was last writing in, i have like five notebooks on hand that i have to check before i can figure out which is the right one

[vetteldixon]

maybe the soulmates notebook (ted/seb soulmates au longfic) will be our goncharov