#in my fic

[sarah-sandwich-writes]

Have an excerpt from the fic I'm working on! It's Harley-centric and takes place some time after No Way Home. More importantly, it's fucking good.

That cinches it: Harley hates New York. It's fucking cold and rainy for no reason. There's no crops to grow. No hills to keep in healthy bloom to waylay erosion. No goddamn reason for it. And he's not dressed for it, no umbrella, just him and his heavy fucking suitcase trudging down street after street unsure of what to look for, but sure as shit he can't be seen flying around in his suit.

He hasn't forgotten the way Spider-Man watched him fly off and he's no fool.

Once he's wasted half an hour wandering and his arm is near ready to fall off from dragging his suit along behind him, he stops in at a homeless shelter. Half to get out of the rain, half because maybe Abbie and Jaimey needed somewhere to crash after driving all this way, and a tiny negligible, too small to measure bit because he might find a lead.

It's not until he's standing beside the plaque commemorating the deceased founder, talking to one of the staff, that Harley recalls F.E.A.S.T. is the non-profit he stole that donation from. He loses his train of thought, suddenly too cognizant of the suit sitting behind him leaking a puddle on grubby tile. He tries not to look around, to see the people he robbed.

Then he remembers what Chrissy said about the donation being from Stark Foundation and he breathes a little easier. Pepper would have insured it. Even if she didn't, she would send it again. Bigger and better, even. He didn't rob anyone in this building; he robbed a deceased hero's widow and child. Totally different.

The woman with the clipboard says, "They've been advertising it all day."

"Sorry, what?"

As soon as he says it, his brain back-fills what he missed while he was panicking. He asked about the search for the Iron Man impostor and she said it might be over soon, they're doing a live interview in about half an hour that's going to explain everything. The. Interview. The one Abbie and Jaimey came here for.

She's repeating herself when he asks, "Who has been?" He's had that stupid radio station playing since he left Rose Hill but it's been all top 40 pop and pandering to the office hour commuters.

The woman has an irritated slant to her mouth now. "The Daily Bugle. They put out the request for information."

"Where? Where's the interview?"

"Well…" She blinks, nonplussed. "Wherever you listen to podcasts, I guess."

He decides to google The Daily Bugle's office address and retreats with a hasty thanks.

[writingkitten]

I am making these men whimper

[stormkpr]

76,000 words!

[whump-is-love-whump-is-life]

Just thinking about “property of whumper” being permanently written on whumpees body.

Maybe it was branded into them, carved with a knife so the letters are all jagged, some magical tattoo that can’t be removed—

Just a permanent reminder that they once belonged to whumper (maybe they still believe they do)

[mebiselfandi]

TikTok comments casually ruining my life

[saetoru]

Does that last anon not realize that cooking is a valuable life skill that everyone should know how to do???

Talking about ur “traditional sexism” when they’re the one who assumed cooking is a feminine trait. Enbies just aren’t allowed to cook ig

Hope they have fun eating burnt toast and raw chicken all in the name of modern feminism lol

fhsjdjsjdjdj the last part made me giggle like they rly thought they had me with that ask 💀 they were like “dang i rly gagged her with that one” as if it’s not their own problem if they don’t know how to cook 💀

[annwayne]

Yes, Crosshair has a praise kink.

[hisbucky]

hello! I absolutely love your fic! I really love the iseaidea of childhood friends buddie

cliches and tropes are definitely there for a reason that's what I have to say 😂😂😂

[savageandwise]

[housederiva]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

(here's the fic btw)

[balrogballs]

i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would rightfully put me into a blender and press the button if i go and out myself as "balrogballs") and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

[roboticnebula]

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[jamjoob]

great heavens i haven't posted in a while

[potofsoup]

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.) If you want an extra verification, find your state's election website and double-check there.

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)