#negative word count

[anchasta]

Hnnnng just wanna write my unpaid weird words not the clever work words that I get paid for.

[muffinlance]

I know you hate being asked. But I desperately need to know is there any plans for Fox younger and Kirin bone book 3? I’ve passed my copy around to a few friends and I’m starting to get hounded for more.

Sequels are in the works! Book two pre-order is coming shortly, and book three is fully outlined and currently being written (albeit slowly, because it is spring and I'm enjoying the lovely weather with my children. Was literally working on the next chapter all weekend, though!)

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

live with me forever now (just not for long, for long); October '23

Fall Out Boy, Heartbreak Feels So Good // The Farewell (2019) dir. Lulu Wang // Fall Out Boy, Hum Hallelujah // unknown // Amy Hempel // Erin Slaughter // Sally Wen Mao // Richard Siken // Laura Makabresku, The Anatomy of Melancholy // Trista Mateer // A Softer World // unknown // The Farewell // Hosho McCreesh // unknown // Fall Out Boy, Heaven, Iowa // The Farewell // Kaveh Akbar // locket engraved with words by E. E. Cummings (source unknown) // Panic! at the Disco, Trade Mistakes // Hieu Minh Nguyen

[mellowthorn]

the absolute horror of going to edit one little thing in a fully drafted chapter only to find the file completely blank. and then discovering that none of the 5(!!!!) backups have the contents either???

thankfully dropbox has a file-specific version history so after five minutes of panicking i managed to restore it through that, but dear lord. that was scary.

[thychesters]

#wipwednesday! i'm making some decent progress in this fic and if i bully myself enough i think i might manage a rough draft by halloween. (she says, knowing full well she likely won't.) in the meantime, have some quiet zolu cuddles on the deck. zoro's tired. luffy's giving him two minutes before he vibrates out of his arms and slingshots them both across the ship. // text under the cut:

Luffy sits behind him again, propped up against the mast with an arm draped across him and he’s frigid in the temperate air. He sits up, twists like he means to pull away, but Luffy’s gaze is fixed on him, watching him, so he shifts in the tight quarters that is the space between his knees. As he tilts his head back his eyes don’t move, and it’s a powerful thing to be the sole focus of Monkey D. Luffy, terrible and bright and reduced to a pin prick, and he’s still watching as he moves forward to wind his arms around his waist.  The angle is awkward, and his nose presses into Luffy’s sternum before he gets the message and leans back, leaving him lying in his lap, cheek pressed against his stomach where he can hear it gurgle and the beat of his heart. “I thought we weren’t supposed to get up to stuff like this out on the deck,” Luffy says, Zoro knelt in the grass and buried in his waist. He hums when he doesn’t answer, another question lost in the sound, but he doesn’t ask it in favor of smoothing a hand up his back, fingers trawling through his hair. Zoro stills against the feeling, tries not to think, tries to ignore the lingering burn of salt and bile in the back of his throat, and the pads of Luffy’s fingers press into the knobs of his spine. He tilts and leans, and then Zoro can feel arms wrapping around his waist twice over before Luffy folds over him with a soft laugh, forehead pressed into the small of his back. “Zoro’s kinda weird sometimes,” he says, more to himself than anything. His voice gets lost in the material of his haramaki, and he turns his head to rest his cheek against it. “I don’t mind though.” Dragging in another breath he tightens his grip to the point where his sides will be sore but won’t bruise. He sits up again a few minutes later, resuming dragging his fingers through his hair in nonsensical patterns, never quite scratching at the scalp, and then tracing along the shell of his ear. Zoro closes his eye.

[serial-serializednovelreader]

Here’s my Brontë Bites meme for the day!

“Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees.”

Live footage of Mr. Lockwood right before the dogs attacked him:

[croszukis]

okay swear it was more than just five days without writing (but i typically do at least every other day, if not every day + have been doing for a few years now, so you can see why this was notable)

but i DID write something today! was it in a wip? no. is it another suzufield omegaverse plot that is not even a mini fic / drabble? yes.

anyway, hopefully i can work on a bingo fic more seriously next week. i'm not used to having this many up in the air wips/ideas at one time....

[spiderwarden]

sometimes there are just characters who's existence apparently brings out people's sexism, don't they.

[sebdoeswords]

So apparently Ao3 is now actively endorsing AI generated fic on their site because it's "also a fanwork to be preserved". my dudes the AI that made the fic is not a fan. therefore it is not a fanwork. eat shit

i swear if they stick with that stance i might actually have to leave this godforsaken website. this is my final straw. There's already a lack of ethical content guidelines, questionable financial spending, inability to block certain people from viewing my content, and now AI being allowed on there, and I'm tired of it all.

I hate this fucking site so much, and I hate even more the fact that it's become this monolith of fanfic (monopolies are never good, people), and the only place where fics might get even a smidge of attention. And yeah, I'm human, I want my efforts to be recognised. Wild. Every day I dream of Inkblot introducing actual tools and galleries for writers

[binnie]

seriously considering making a mental health blog

[shanedoesdoodles]

You ever look for a specific word/thing to describe a feeling you're having and think you've found it but as you look more into it it turns out it was a simular concept but very distinct from what you were looking for? And then when you try to be more specific everything that pulls up is still the same close but definitely not the same thing to describe it? I'm a stuck in a bit of a loop at the moment

[annoyingloudmicrowavecultist]

starting to realise i actually don’t really like being called gay even by friends

[whitmore]

everybody wants a slice of the discourse pie and instead of adding anything of substance to the conversation they just respout a watered down version of whatever their dash is saying about the subject in their own post so it just cascades and domino affects and becomes a huge shitshow— and it’s twitter mentality partially, this fear of silence on a matter being punishable by decreasing follower count or social ostracization. it’s really strange and i don’t even know if there’s a way to have that conversation, to ask people to tone it down or dial it back; discouraging blogging on the blogging website is both reductive and redundant but i do still think that some of you could benefit from learning to reblog in agreement instead of making your own post

[gameboy-berry]

Every time there's a joke about how Apple doesn't know or read something I go "LEAVE HER ALONE she has a learning disability okay?".

[scarletrupee]

wait wait tell me about the interaction with del toro please?

Oh!!!! Well, recently I made some fanart for his new movie because I loved it so much and he actually retweeted it!! To his own account and to the official Pinocchio account!!

I felt so nice and flattered that he liked it! Words weren't exchanged, but I felt very nice and seen C:

Here's the piece!

imo the pose is a little awkward, but that's mostly because I was making doodles trying to figure out his anatomy. I liked this one enough to color it in!! It was super interesting because you don't think of wood having so many colors but it DOES and it's mesmerizing to observe C:

[zadien]

End of Year Writing thoughts

So this year I didn't post much, just updated SLTS in September and then again in December, chapters 40 and 41 respectively.

I also updated the SLTS rewrite on AO3 - it's slow but progressing and Saving is being updated there too.

But writing-wise, I wrote 257,260 words. Which is a LOT. I'm really proud of that. I've probably written more this year than any other year. Definitely helped getting a sunrise alarm clock because I write best first thing in the morning, so when that light comes on at 6, I just plug in and write for an hour before work.

But despite writing all of that, most of it will never see the light of day.

Anyway, for 2023, I want to keep writing. I want to finish my Cloti fic. There's a lot of FF7 stuff coming out, it's relevant again and it's fun to work with different characters I haven't had a chance to write before. So that's one thing I need to mark off.

I also want to add more to SLTS BUT I'm debating whether to keep updating it or just write it all and then post. That'll take a few years sure, but I'm not massively fussed about updating anyway. It's sort of anxiety-inducing and a huge exercise in frustration. You spend weeks and months of your life writing a chapter, spend a good week editing and polishing it, and then receive maybe 1 or 2 reviews? (Don't get me wrong, I love those reviews and reread them loads, but updating is very stressful. It's screaming into the void, I'm happier writing than sharing- and I can always just discord those people and get a serotonin boost that way). We'll see.

I know I was updating Saving but right now I don't have the time to put into two long fics, I just really don't. So SLTS is my priority, I'll write it, I'll hopefully finish it and then I can turn my attention back to Saving because I KNOW how it goes. It's just getting the words down.