#kind of for the bit?

[epersonae]

For the ask game: no. 5 for "for the benefit of all the broken hearts"

5: What part was hardest to write?

Chapter 13, almost certainly: the Ed and Mary stuff. Because I had made this artistic choice to stick very closely with the unnamed wife's point of view, the reader was never going to see what happened with them behind closed door. And I hand-waved that for a LONG time, but I realized that I did need to know the details, the whole question of how do you get from them arguing backstage to being found in the green room or whatever. I think I was stuck in revision and it felt like something important was missing, and so I took a break and just wrote out what ended up being the first chapter of end up several worlds away. I needed to understand the physical blocking, the potential dialogue that the characters might refer back to later, and their mental states.

And then before I even got to that level of editing, after the first draft I had to go back and lay a bunch of additional groundwork to make that encounter feel not just plausible but sort of inevitable. It was much more abrupt in the first draft, and needed all of this foreshadowing in the conversations between Ed and the wife and Mary and the wife, lots of little things. (In the same way that chapter 9 did, the middle Berlin chapter; something something Chekov's dildo.) I had some very intense conversations about it with all my betas but especially Tor about taking something that made sense in kind of an abstract way and making it concrete and visible in the text. It was incredibly hard work and I remain very proud of how it came together

[give me a fic title and a number]

[eydilily]

gem n joel the strongest duo (family) that you are

and of course. her

[menlove]

like can you imagine if you, as a housed person, said "oh man im really struggling financially right now I can't pay my bills- my electric is going to be cut off, my car might get repossessed, and I definitely can't afford to get a new laptop after mine broke"

and someone who had a lot more money than you said "I can help you!" and you were like"oh my god great thank you so much-" and then they just offered to take you to olive garden. and you say "hey man that's really nice but I'm actually okay on food right now, I really just need to pay some of these bills. I already got food somewhere else (foodstamps, friends, food pantries) and I really just need money. if you can't do it that's fine but I don't need food"

and the rich person said "you must not really need money or be poor then or else you'd take me up on my offer. I bet you were going to use that money on drugs anyway"

that's what yall sound like when you refuse to give homeless people money & just offer to buy them food

food is great! if you need it and that's what you're asking for. unfortunately food doesn't buy clothes, hygiene products, shelter, pay a phone bill, or yes even buy drugs or alcohol if you're going into detox and can't do so safely without literally dying

[hinamie]

10 years later

[mofsblog]

"This is some gay shit" Good. Silly. Fair enough. Doesn't inherently invalidate other interpretations of the relationship. Honestly yeah, it is kind of gay regardless of their canonical relationship status

"There's literally no platonic explanation for th-" WRONG!! KILLING YOU WITH AMATANORMATIVITY KILLING LOBSTERS 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

[otaku553]

A self indulgent Koala redesign :)

Going for something cute that has the ability to look normal among mid to upper class civilians in case she needs to mingle with nobles, but just a bit more militaristic and practical for fighting! Thinking of doing a layer by layer breakdown for her outfit as well

[bloominglegumes]

more insane scribbledumping

[ink-the-artist]

whats wrong with my dog bruh 😂😭

[ao3commentoftheday]

Get his ass 🗡🗡 - an Ides AO3 skin

Get the code (and instructions for how to use it) on github

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[tenowls]

them. again

[et-in-arkadia]

* * *

Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode Goodnight friends. After exchanging our final bits of data,

I will hold vigil on this spot in Mare Crisium to watch humanity's continued journey to the stars.

Here, I will outlast your mightiest rivers, your tallest mountains, and perhaps even your species as we know it.

But it is remarkable that a species might be outlasted by its own ingenuity.

Here lies Blue Ghost, a testament to the team who, with the loving support of their families and friends, built and operated this machine and its payloads,

to push the capabilities and knowledge of humanity one small step further.

Per aspera ad astra!

Love, Blue Ghost

* * *

no you are actively crying over a dying robot on the moon i am doing just fine thanks

[blueumbriel]

Just hanging out before the next mission rolls in

[bakedbeanchan]

I love the first season of atla

[hinamie]

mentor

[depresed-duck]

COMMUNISM!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[nyanrial]

making little snowmen ⛄⛄