#basically: great for fiction

[friendofthecrows]

Murder comedy where at one point a forensics-centric amateur detective tries to extract a sample from the eye of a victim for tests without the cops noticing

Call that vitreous humor

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

[winepresswrath]

the majority of old men in toxic rpf ships are that genre of guy who sincerely believe it barely counts when they cheat and also that being cheated on is a deep spiritual wound only the craziest and most malevolent bitch would inflict on a man. this is in fact exactly why they should have all dated each other. 

[ineffablefool]

Huh. Maybe Aros Are Great Week would be a good opportunity for me to finally post to AO3 the fic I wrote for the Ace Omens zine last year, yeah?

It's about how Crowley definitely doesn't love Aziraphale, because he's seen enough movies and things to know what love is and he doesn't feel about Aziraphale like any of that; and it starts something like

Aziraphale stopped in front of the quaint little storefront, and Crowley stopped with him. Watched his eyes brighten, round face totally devoid of fear or worry or anything but joy. Exactly how it should be.

“Go on, then,” Crowley grumbled, already rescheduling lunch in his head. "I know that look.”

Aziraphale raised a dignified eyebrow. “I don’t have a look.”

“Oh, you’ve got plenty of looks. This look says that either you go in there now, or you spend the rest of the afternoon sighing wistfully about how you wish you had.” Crowley opened the door with a minor flourish. “In you pop.”

Aziraphale beamed at him with enough radiance to start a familiar feeling in his chest. The glow of success, he figured — it would rise up, fluttery and gently warming right down to his scaly toes, any time he got Aziraphale to make that face.

I just haven't had simultaneous time, opportunity, and energy to get on my real computer and do all the formatting/tagging/blah, in the last large number of months. It takes like an hour to get everything set up to my satisfaction! More if I have to keep interrupting myself to go downstairs and see what housemate wants this time! (oops speaking of which I need to shift the laundry)

Wonder who's still out there aware of my existence as a writer to notice if I did post it 👀

[marlynnofmany]

Today's FebFicFight is about someone flying as a dragon for the first time, and I am very pleased with that. I grew up among these hills, imagining flying off into them during countless long car rides. What is writing for, if not self-indulgent wish fulfillment?

[thatscarletflycatcher]

‘Steve,’ said Temple suddenly, the thought of food in the immediate future possibly giving him the idea.

‘Yes?’ she said, with a curious smile.

‘I was wondering if, er, you . . .’ He broke off. For perhaps the first time Paul Temple knew what it meant when he used the word ‘bashful’ in one of his novels.

‘Well?’ prompted Steve.

‘If you’d—er—care to have dinner with me on … on Thursday?’ he said.

‘Thursday? Yes, of course,’ she said happily. ‘I’d love to.’

'Good. I shall be in town, so perhaps we can . . . er . . . lunch together, too?’

‘Yes,’ she smiled. ‘Why not?’

‘We might even manage to have tea together, as a sort of, er—

‘I’d love to,’ she replied softly.

‘Oh, er, splendid,’ he said. ‘Well, that’s about all. Of course, there is breakfast, but—’

‘I always have breakfast in bed.’

‘In bed?’

‘Yes, in bed.’

‘Well, that’s a bit awkward!’

‘Of course,’ put in Steve a trifle glibly, ‘we could get married.’

‘Yes, I suppose we—’ Temple suddenly gasped. ‘I say... are you proposing?’

‘What do you think, Mr. Temple?’ she asked brightly, in a voice that was a perfect imitation of his. ‘What do you think?’

--Francis Durbridge, Send For Paul Temple (1938)

[pastelpaperplanes]

frogive me if I am but a fool, but dost Thorns and Thrones exist as a fanfic, or a series of art, or both

Fear not, dearest Anon, thou art naught a fool, for thine own question is unequivocally valid!

Thorns and thrones resides as a story mostly told through art and various asks I have answered on this blog. I do my best to show the story rather than proclaim it, for truly, I am but a great and lowly chicken when it comes to taking up the quill and ink mine self

BUT! people have made many a fan pieces of work for the AU

Make haste! for each and every one has made masses weep tears of joy and merrious laughter. I beg of thee!

Witness the works of many a talented creators!

[5rozebub5]

I genuinely cannot stand when fans go around “correcting” other fans about a character/ship that’s based off a popular headcanon or occasionally a piece of work that is popular but also is not truly canon

It’s completely fine to headcanon whatever you like about a character, they’re fictional they don’t have rights or feelings or boundaries that you’re crossing by headcanoning them a bit(or a lot) different than they are because-and I can’t stress this enough- they aren’t real

but it’s just flat out stupid to say someone else is wrong for not also agreeing regardless of how well you or anyone else thinks it fits the character or “makes more sense” or thought it was “heavily implied” but for some reason this has become a much more common occurrence to do in fandoms(particularly regarding toxic shipping culture)

If you really like and agree with a wildly accepted headcanon that’s great! That just makes it easier to find content you’ll enjoy, but don’t try and falsely correct others just because they don’t agree with it and like the real canon or headcanon something completely different(because as previously stated, they aren’t real, so headcanon whatever you want and just ignore any you dislike)

Fictional characters are free for interpretation by all fans, if you disagree with someone else’s particular interpretation, simply move on. It truly is that easy

[weirdbabs]

you know. i hope johnnys home life is okay. like. its implied that his parents dont love each other, but i hope that hes not living in a household where they fight all the time. i hope theyre separated but actually coparenting him, not using him to to fight with one another

[fideidefenswhore]

[Henry] had asked Lady Shelton whether Mary [was] persisting in her obstinancy. Hearing that she was, Henry became certain that she was being encouraged by secret communication from Katharine. Lady Shelton thought the only possible messenger was Mary's chamber woman. In this she was correct. The maid had been smuggling letters in and out. She was dismissed, as was Mary's confessor, to be replaced by one whom Chapuys characterised as 'Lutheran'.

The King’s Pearl: Henry VIII & His Daughter Mary, Melita Thomas

[chatdae]

The Great Gatsby (1974) au where Gatsby doesn't die and instead Nick takes on the no-paying job of trying to get Jay to move on from Daisy.

Bad ending is Gatsby never does & he and the Buchanans become a never-ending shitshow. Good ending is Jay moves on. Super special bonus ending is Jay and Nick fall in love (toxicity optional)

[mangoofthesea]

what I say: I like reading fiction about power structures and systems of governance outside of our usual - like royalty fantasy or rogue criminal heist kind of thing. The action sequences and higher levels of consequences are really cool

what I mean: it's about the experience of being trapped within a system which you hate but want to sustain in a better way than it has been for the good of its members its about loving your family while hating your family while being stuck somewhere you want to improve you can't escape your responsibility but you can try its a never ending struggle of deciding who you are and who you could be and how you can live and live with yourself while within such systems that feel like a wall closing in on you and your life as you try to build a life with less corruption than the last generation its about th-

[lakemichigans]

fellow travelers is losing me for real WHERE ARE THE WOMENNNNN even queer as folk had main cast lesbians and straight women who existed as more than just plot development for the gay men

[mortally-beloved]

my general belief on anything is it’s not okay if a man does it but if a woman does it then yes.

[shiroselia]

I think the greatest showcase of my writing style being influenced by my academic writing And that you can get away with anything as long as you have a good grasp of grammar is my "overuse" of linking adverbs, something I only know how to use And also use as much as I do because it's been Drilled into me in my plethora of academic writing courses

[window-on-the-west]

I can't post a snippet because it's not my fic and it wouldn't be right, but my FAVORITE fic I've read has a scene where one of the surgeons of the Houses of Healing kills a gravely injured patient because Minas Tirith is under siege and medicine is being rationed. He's such a calm and collected character normally but a couple chapters after the fact you can start to see fissures of doubt creep in. He asks the main character, a young healer, if she thought it was the right thing for him to do. And she was like "it needed to be done, did it not?" "I don't know." LIKE UGH. LOVE WHEN THERE'S UNCERTAINTY. LOVE WHEN A CHARACTER'S RESOLVE IS SHAKEN. LOVE IT