#good list

[onlygenxhere]

fic writer asks:

32, 45, 47, 61, 65,

32. Name three of your favorite fanfic writers.

I love you all but I have to say I will get feral over anything written by

Fangirl_in_a_trenchcoat aka @thephantomchronicles

@pearlcaddy

and Moonriver

45. Do you want to break your readers hearts or make them laugh.

Usually laugh. I'm good with making people cry too but there must also be laughter.

47. How many times will you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting.

Well I'm not posting stuff until it's done anymore so I'll read through things at least a couple times as I'm writing and then it always gets one more read when I upload it before I hit post. (and I will STILL miss something)

61. Why do you continue writing fics?

The short answer is I haven't run out of ideas yet.

65. Tell us what you're most looking forward to writing - in your current project or a future project.

Finally feel like I have a semi solid idea for the next fic in the Mariposaport, Maine series. I wanted to do a time loop but it looks like it's gonna be a who done it instead. Current lame title is Who's the bad guy.

Fic Writer Asks

[littleshopofhorrors-confessions]

Why Arthur Denton is AMAZING

1. Massive fucking tits. Great for motorboating

2. A masochist? on my doorstep??? DUDE…

3. Tie him up.

4. He’s fat. He has the dad bod. Nobody understands how much we need this

5. He’s also just really cute. Like no one else sees him as cute but I do. He’s a sillyboy methinks

6. He probably calls people ‘pookie’ and I think that’s awesome.

7. Arthur gives me cuteness aggression.

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[aniseandspearmint]

This list is helpful, but it IS seven years old, and be advised laws have changed in many places and be one very VERY hostile to homeless people.

If you can, look up your local laws and make sure you're not in an arrest on sight area.

Also I haven't seen a park bench in about five years, they've all been removed (bc hate for homeless people).

What to do if you suddenly find yourself homeless

FOOD

Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food

grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread

different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.

some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit

SHELTER

Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment

sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it

Some churches offer short term residence

Find your nearest homeless shelter

Look for places that are open to the public

A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry

HYGIENE

A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.

Public libraries have bathrooms you can use

Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.

Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver

Local beaches, go for a quick swim

Some truck stops have showers you can pay for

Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet

Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket

OTHER

first aid kit

 sunscreen

 a travel alarm clock or watch

 mylar emergency blanket

 a backpack is a must

 downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards

 sleeping bag

 travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror

 swiss army knife

 can opener

[seren-dipitous-art]

I’ve been obsessed with the Olympics for the past week, and obsessed with Dick Grayson for longer, so here’s the crossover we all deserve.

Plus, gorgeous sweaty acrobat in gymnastics poses? Only positives.

[soaked-doors]

"Don't try to find a reason for somebody's love!"

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[inkskinned]

you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

[hoaxghost]

played it on a whim but now its gonna be stuck with me forever

[thatsbelievable]

[onlygenxhere]

8, 26 & 67 for the writer asks!

8. Do you prefer the Beginning, Middle or End of a story.

Depends on the story. I guess the middle would win overall. I have a hard time figuring out where to start or a hard time figuring out where to stop more often than anything happening in the middle.

26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride.

For the reader hands down it would have to be It's the End of the World as We Know it.

For ME as the writer probably Falling Toward the Future because it was my first long fic and I didn't know where I was really going other than to one particular scene and I wasn't sure how it was going to end. I made a lot up as I went along and I still think it turned out pretty damn good.

67. Do you prefer prompts or challenges or completely independent ideas.

I have to be in the mood for a prompt or challenge so I guess I prefer independent ideas although I don't think many ideas are ever completely independent.

Fic Writer Asks

[hecatesbroom]

so i got bored and made another uquiz. which subtle way of saying "i love you" are you?

[ruushes]

mom said it's my turn on the silly batstarion drawings

[arabella-s-arts]

Scenes/Things in Supernatural that genuinely don't make sense to me if Dean was straight:

The confession booth scene.

Sam just rolling with the fact that Dean's siren is a guy while still thinking sirens infect people through sex.

Dean being flustered by several men: Gunner Lawless, Aaron, Doctor Sexy, etc.

All the parallels between Destiel and other couples. (A big one being "last night on Earth" bc how do you do that accidentally.)

Having all the gay jokes be on Dean instead of Sam.

Paralleling Sam meeting his childhood celebrity crush with Dean meeting Gunner Lawless.

The boner Dean got when Cas cleaned up.

Dean gulping after Cas does an impression from a Western movie.

Charlie, a lesbian, calling Castiel "dreamy."

The way Mary looks at Dean and Cas when they hug.

Dean wondering why everyone assumes he's gay, while Sam not caring.

The logic that Charlie can't flirt with guys because she's only attracted to women, but then having Dean flirt with the guy for her.

Dean seeming disappointed when learning that Aaron's flirting was fake.

The amount of time Dean and Cas spend staring at each other.

Dean canonically having an orgy with Crowley.

A woman saying that she knows when someone's pining for someone else to Dean, just for us to learn that Dean was never in love with Amara.

The set design and script choices that lead to a cross in the background while Dean said "I do." to Cas after he came back to life.

That time when Dean wanted to say something and Cas was like, "It's okay, I heard your prayer." But Dean still looked like he wanted to say something important.

Amara: [about Dean] "I can see inside your heart. Feel the love you feel. Except, it’s cloaked in shame.”

If you want to have a more expansive list, @destiel-is-real-idgaf added to this one quite nicely.

[fernsnailz]

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[artsymeeshee]

A quick idea I had to sketch out because sometimes I think about how Ford still views himself as a bad brother sometimes but Stan’s there for the very needed reassurance that Ford is a good brother and Stan can see how Ford is trying every day