#prose. : rachel berry.

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@lovethcrn, rachel berry required a one liner from blaine anderson.

" there's nothing ironic about show choir! "

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finn hudson, @story1ines, required a starter from rachel berry.

rb. christmas holidays are important for rachel. seeing the smiles of children when she gives them gifts, when she helps people in need, when she sees people's faces light up as these holidays approach, it made her happy. it doesn't meant that she was glad to spend it only with her fathers. she does loves them, don't get her wrong. the fact that she has to share it all alone this year though, it was making her sad. the fact that someone in the glee club mentionned that they should have a celebrations of their own made her exicted. at least she could think about somethign else other than spending this holiday on her own. she also doesn't want to kill the mood. they deserved to breathe a little before regionals. she doesn't have to add some more stress where it wasn't needed. she was not used to sharing big christmas or new year meals like they had planned to do with the glee club. she was used to opening presents with her fathers on december 24 and watching all the romantic comedies that were on TV. so, when mr schuester had asked them to each prepare one thing to bring back during the little meal he had planned with his favorite students, rachel panicked as she looked her boyfriend in the eyes and added, dramatically. " what are you planning to bring ? i just want a little idea. you know. i'm not good at cooking and i don't want to bring back an old pie that i bought in a store because i don't know how-what to cook. "

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Wanna make Gifts?

Simple, follow the rules and then draw the OC's that I have! You can draw them with my favorite characters if you want…

No NSFW or art meant to harass those in minority groups.

Don't ship the Child OC's with canonically adult characters, because that's gross.

There is no third rule. Have fun!

Sonas: They can all be viewed here! They also may not be up to date.

U.B. Aigul Ari???? Cookie Amelia Starson Neapolitan Cookie Agent Angelika "Angel" Deuces Ann "Arianna" Mellodee Aria the Otter Strawberry Jam Aria (PT) Eclipse Arianna (Osomatsu-san)

DA Sonas: Ann (FNF) (Minus) Shooting Star Annabelle Rose Alia / AllofUs (Not posted yet for suspense) Sylvia / Syrus Bloom (Still not designed yet, folks) Bonbon Brione the Seal (WARNING OLD ART) Citrus Bum Berry the Leprechaun

Cookie Run OCs: I'll only show the ones that are on the DA gallery! There's too many otherwise. Lava Cake Cookie Milk Choco Cookie Mystic Cookie Gumdrop Cookie Ruby Cookie Honeydew Cookie Moonshine Cookie Choco Chip Cookie Konpeito Cookie Gelatin Cookie Diamond Cookie Nightshade Cookie Chai Honey Cookie Cleric Cookie Powder Sugar Cookie Sandstorm Cookie Gouda Cookie Sugarsnap Cookie Cherry Soda Cookie Tangerine Cookie Hypno Cookie Blueberry Cookie Cherry Bonbon Cookie Jelly Imp Cookie Fire Agate Cookie Spider Onyx Cookie Ghost Pepper Cookie Honey Barbecue Cookie Chili Oil Cookie Mewberry Poptart Cookie Yakisoba Cookie Pina Colada Cookie Biscuit Bunny Cookie Sugarheart Cookie Peanutbutter Cookie Orange Creamsicle Cookie Wispy Ramune Cookie Cherry Tiramisu Cookie Blueberry Float Cookie Orange Bonbon Cookie Warabimochi Cookie Honey Cake Cookie Ligonberry Cookie Fizzy Monarche Cookie

OSC OCs and Sonas: Just linking to the gallery because I have so many. Ace o' Spades Bixbite Blooddrop Card Board Bubble Bottle Tulip MePhone 5S+ Crowberry Bamboo Weather Dolly Hydrangea Yogurt Jellybean Kiwi Scarf Honey Bear Pluggy Choco Bar Sketchbook Sweet Heart Will-o-Wisp Cat-Bell Dime Stylus Cakepop Sparkler Shardy Dividy Star Lamp Maki Lemonade Flan Mochi Cakey Gachapon Capsule Lotus Sugar Cookie Log Urn Amethyst Popcorn Mop Organic Milk White Wine Grater Scythe Candle Waterbowl Cup Canned Tuna Pillow Oil Red Velvet Cake Mug Frozen Yogurt Gelato Pineapple Smoothie Jello Wizeria Pyramid Caboodle Starsong TV Sun Moon Clipboard Rocket Sunhat Bowtie Rachel Tanner Bubble Tea Citrusy Melody Torch Fiddle Silver Trophy Harold Mana Pierre Theodore Willow Antennae Bonba Cerissa Caramel / Mal Picoso Charlie / Cherissa Star Bailey Carrot Cake Sarah + Sleipmir Mahou

Newgrounds OCs: Quartz Ice The Dragon Tic-Toc Angi Strum Flora (Starcatcher + Minus) Mizuiro "Skye" Blue

Bomberman OCs: Yureibon Sister Bomber Prose Bomber Creature Bomber Spark Bomber Archer Bomber Lilac Bomber Lily Bomber Seabon Hydro Bomber Adne

Misc. OCs: Divaer Foreet Xoxiph Boxaer Erasi Muggy Citrus C. Acetate Marshmallow Cotton Candy Orange Juice Salmon Doughnut X Starla (+.EXE counterpart) Myra SINNERZ Various HSR OC's (Mandy, Xero, Mr. Wobbles, Armstrong Dasher, Gladseed the Flower, Dhalia Dog, Chick, Prince Foof Cat II, Juno, and King Cobra) Sushi Pack OC's (Ika Ura, Ado Cado, Nori Umi, Ebi Ura, Teri Sauce, Soy Sauce) Sir Adne Maxwell Ink Sugar + Pop Chai Teacup Twisty Parka the Red Panda Lost.FLA Baritone.MP3 Lantern Woman Water Lancer Soleil + Luna Mika the Usamimi Infernoct Spectra Locke The Yasu Sisters Ora Fluke Ingenua Yoddle Rumble Triviatopia OCs (Hana, Marty, Alyx, Michaela, Perditta, and Botch) Zodiacs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces) Golden.RE Arianna (Southpark Sona) (I only have her Mystical AU set up. I need to make the others that people pay attention to..)

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21 33 48 for the fanfiction ask, please? ^w^ thankyou!

Of course!

21) Tell me about another writer(s) who you admire? What is it about them that you admire?

Oh gosh, where do I start?

Possibilist, the author of some of my absolute favorite Faberry (Quinn Fabray/Rachel Berry from Glee) fanfiction, is one of my biggest inspirations as far as prose and utilization of language goes.

Francesca Lia Block has a similarly sumptuous command of the English language. The sheer imagery crafted by her choice of words is decadent, hypnotic, and awe-inspiring.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Margery Hamilton's works (The Little Prince and The Velveteen Rabbit, respectively) possess a beautiful wisdom and melancholy sort of magic that grip my heart in a vise every time I revisit them.

As far as Barlyle (Phineas Taylor Barnum/Phillip Carlye, my OTP of OTPs) stories go, there's--

SilverLynxx, for her enviable lexicon.

BuddysImpala, for her sheer dedication and the number of creative and vastly different fics she was able to turn out.

Schizanthus, for running an amazing blog while also being a human thesaurus and dictionary, and the best proofreader a writer could ask for.

The_Girl_Who_Got_Tired_of_Waiting; a truly wonderful friend and imaginative storyteller with an incredible grasp on these characters whom I fervently wish had the time to write more.

And, I can't forget jackpip and Vudonn and gay_jeans and wolfzaa and Kibbers and so many others who made the Barlyle fanfiction landscape the magical place it was during its heyday.

There's also hollycomb with her cozy, down to earth style of fic-writing. Under the Table and Dreaming is far and away my favorite in her catalogue.

And, before this answer completely gets away from me, as it's already begun to, I would be remiss if I didn't include DutchXFan for the indescribable charm and carved-irreparably-into-my-soul candid rawness of her work Once Upon a Time, and The_Blonde who, despite writing Real Person Shipping fics, possesses the uncanny ability to draw me into every universe they create and leave me utterly spellbound and earnestly devouring every word. just once to be lifted strong and i'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet are two sublime examples that I highly, highly, highly recommend giving a read if you can surpass the ick factor of them featuring a cast of real people as the central characters. The world-building, alone, is absolutely exemplary.

33) What’s the biggest compliment you’ve gotten?

From BuddysImpala on my massive Phillip Has Major Depressive Disorder fic, just a dead man walking:

"Me? Finishing this fic at 3:40 in the morning, against my better judgement?

It’s more likely than you think!

This fic is heartbreaking and wonderful all at once. There are some legitimately published works that don’t invoke as much emotion from me as this fic those, and I love absolutely every single word. Bless you for choosing to grace us with it two years ago — it’s writers like you in the fandom that have solidified Barlyle as my OTP to end all other OTPs. I am not going anywhere.

Bless you. ❤️"

Oh, that's just my heart-- swelling so much it's got caught in my throat.

48) What’s your favourite trope to write?

Hurt/Comfort. I'm an absolute sucker for the sense of catharsis that comes from characters looking after one another and slowly but surely healing in the wake of trauma.

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Thank you very much for asking.

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book log - 2023

the librarianist by patrick dewitt

same time next year by tessa bailey

did you hear about kitty karr? by crystal smith paul

lore olympus: volume one by rachel smythe

a court if thorns and roses by sarah j. mass

summer sisters by judy blume

the demigod files by rick riordan

mistletoe and mayhem by carly winter

you shouldn’t have come here by jeneva rose

a house with good bones by t. kingfisher

christmas presents by lisa unger

z: a novel of zelda fitzgerald

the storm runner by j.c. cervantes

just another missing person by gillian mcallister

take me home by beth moran

blood sugar by sascha rothchild

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. mass

the christmas orphans club by becca freeman

under her care by lucinda berry

paris: the memoir by paris hilton

our wives under the sea by julie armfield

the celebrants by steven rowley

keep it in the family by john marrs

housemoms by jen lancaster

the woman in me by britney spears

just like home by sarah gailey

trespasses by louise kennedy

silence for the dead by simone st. james

a good family by matt goldman

the fire keeper by j.c. cervantes

dead silence by s.a. barnes

sunshine nails by mai nguyen

lore olympus: volume one by rachel smythe

the mystery guest by nita prose

her little flowers by shannon morgan

woke up like this by amy lea

legendary children by tom fitzgerald

midnight is the darkest hour by ashley winstead

the leftover women by jean kwok

everyone here is lying by shari lapena

mother-daughter murder night by nina simon

you may now kill the bride by r.l. stone

the man i never met by elle cook

hold my girl by charlene carr

legends & lattes by travis baldree

the golden spoon by jessa maxwell

bright young women by jessica kroll

suddenly a murder by lauren munoz

the only one left by riley sager

zero days by ruth ware

good bad girl by alice feeney

the christmas wager by holly cassidy

fortune by elle won steil

theme music by t. marie vandelly

close to home by cara hunter

the true love experiment by christina lauren

penelope in retrograde by brooke abrams

everyone in my family has killed someone by benjamin stevenson

the modern girl’s guide to magic by lindsay hall

i feed her to the beast and the beast is me by jamison shea

hello stranger by katherine center

the unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry by rachel joyce

gone tonight by sarah pekkanen

the library of the dead by t.l. huchu

what never happened by rachel howzell hall

look out for the little guy by scott lang

the christmas mourner by marian mccarthy

every little breath by keri beevis

this might hurt by stephanie wrobel

the last word by taylor adams

a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. mass

forth wing by rebecca yaros

hello beautiful by ann napolitano

summer rental by rektok ross

the house across the lake by riley sager

a cursed covenant by leigh ferguson

her rebel highness by diana ma

stone heart by katee robert

the perfect match by dandy smith

camp zero by michelle min sterling

one by one by frieda mcfadden

the wishing game by meg shaffer

a court of frost and starlight by sarah j. mass

that summer feeling by bridget morissey

to die for by lisa grey

the wrong family by tarryn fisher

heiress apparently by diana ma

the school for good mothers by jessamine chin

tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin

she started it by sian gilbert

best friends forever by shannon hollinger

the housekeepers by alex hay

secluded cabin sleeps six by lisa unger

lore olympus: volume two by rachel smythe

of women and salt by gabriela garcia

kismet by amina akhtar

the devil wears scrubs by frieda mcfadden

girl, forgotten by karin slaughter

come closer by sara gran

the exorcist’s house by nick roberts

august blue by deborah levy

hang the moon by jeannette walls

the thursday murder club by richard osman

a whole new world by liz braswell

run on red by noelle w. ihli

the last thing he told me by laura dave

lore olympus: volume three by rachel smythe

how to sell a haunted house by grady hendrix

the dead romantics by ashley poston

cassandra in reverse by holly smale

i used to be fun by melanie summers

the showrunner by kim moritsugu

runaway groomsman by meghan quinn

i want to die but i want to eat tteokpokki by baek she-hee

the whispers by ashley audrain

e. aster bunnymund and the warrior eggs at the earth’s core! by william joyce

allergies: poems on grieving and loving by maggie bowyer

hermione granger and the philosopher’s stone by sara baines-miller

the summer house by keri beevis

exiles by jane harper

just the nicest couple by mary kubica

the very secret society of irregular witches by sangu mandanna

have you seen her by catherine mckenzie

the shallows by holly craig

a love letter to whiskey by kandi steiner

hermione granger and the chamber of secrets by sara baines-miller

the coworker by frieda mcfadden

tiny beautiful things by cheryl strayed

you’re not supposed to die tonight by kalynn bayron

the little old lady who broke all the rules by catharina ingelman-sundberg

hermione granger and the prisoner of azkaban by sara baines-miller

the blonde identity by ally carter

nicolas st. north and the battle of the nightmare king by william joyce

women in white coats by olivia campbell

the ex talk by rachel lynn solomon

hermione granger and the goblet of fire by sara baines-miller

the wife before by shanora williams

gone again by minka kent

know my name by chanel miller

in the lives of puppets by t.j. klune

the homewreckers by mary kay andrews

going dark by melissa de la cruz

all the dangerous things by stacy willingham

counterfit by kirsten chen

the rewind by allison winn scotch

have i told you this already? by lauren graham

beyond the wand by tom felton

jana goes wild by farah heron

the perfect son by frieda mcfadden

america’s next reality star by laura heffernan

the new mother by nora murphy

georgie, all along by kate clayborn

the storied life of a.j. fikry by gabrielle zevin

a flicker in the dark by stacy willingham

the villa by rachel hawkins

device free weekend by sean doolittle

what the neighbors saw by melissa adelman

the library of lost and found by phaedra patrick

motherthing by ainslie hogarth

the block party by jamie day

tanqueray by stephanie johnston

the ex hex by erin sterling

rock paper scissors by alice feeney

the kiss curse by erin sterling

it ends with us - colleen hoover

the summer of broken rules by k.l. walther

the wife stalker by liv constantine

in my dreams i hold a knife by ashley winstead

the family remains by lisa jewell

my secret sister by lauren westwood

the engagement by samantha hayes

if we were villains by m.l. rio

the sleepover by keri beevis

twenty years later by charlie donlea

the doctor’s wife by daniel hurst

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THE AARONS 2020 - Best TV Show

It was prime time for TV in 2020, with many more free hours to fill. I managed to get through a lot of my backlog in fact, finally getting around to watching shows like The Strain. It’s a show about a deadly disease that tears society apart because a lot of arrogant people think they are exempt from quarantining. The disease turns people into vampires, so it’s technically escapism. Here are the Aarons for Best TV Show: 

#10. The Plot Against America (Miniseries) - HBO

It’s not TV, it’s not HBO, it’s real life. The Wire-creator David Simon’s penchant for illustrating the human fallout of institutional failures made him a perfect collaborator for HBO’s Plot Against America, an adaptation of Phillip Roth’s alternate-history novel. Following a Jewish family in New Jersey navigating the increasingly-fascist America of a hypothetical Charles Lindbergh administration, the show is a terrifying warning of what happens when hatred and conspiracy theories are allowed to accumulate political force. Notably, while the book ends with history back on the right track, the closing moments here are left ambiguous. The show was a limited series, but in many ways, The Plot Against America is ongoing.

#9. Mrs. America (Miniseries) - FX

Its interests are married to The Plot Against America, but Mrs. America traces the country’s rising extremism from a more historically accurate perspective. The miniseries centers on political activists in the 1970s on opposing sides of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, but its dialogue isn’t a strict dichotomy. The episodic format is expertly utilized to build out intersectional ideas from the likes of Rose Byrne’s Gloria Steinem, Uzo Aduba’s Shirley Crisholm, and Margo Martindale’s Bella Abzug, detailing the difficulties in building a diverse coalition, and the dangers of a single-minded one. Drawing parallels to current debates, its compelling centerpiece is how conservative Phylis Shafley (Cate Blanchett) successfully defeats the Amendment; voting against your own self-interests, Mrs. America says, is as American as apple pie.

#8. The Outsider (Miniseries) - HBO

Societal collapse comes from within in the two shows mentioned above, but the threat in HBO’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 2018 novel is decidedly an “other.” King clearly had his mind on modern manipulations of truth when crafting the ingenious premise: a man is arrested for the murder of two young boys due to irrefutable DNA evidence, only to provide an air-tight alibi for the crime. To match King’s procedural prose, HBO brought on The Night Of’s David Price, who layers the original work with meticulous mysteries. The Outsider has all the pulpy jolts expected of the author, but the show’s true horror lies in its overbearing grief, best brought to life by Ben Mendelsohn’s Detective Anderson. To say more would be to spoil its secrets; you’ll want to be on the inside.

#7. Perry Mason (Season 1) - HBO

Just like the famous fictional attorney, HBO can’t seem to lose, with Perry Mason marking its third entry on this list. The reimagining of the long running court drama actually takes place before the character’s illustrious law career; here he’s a down-on-his-luck private eye caught up in a scandalous child kidnapping case. The result’s a gangbusters production of old-fashioned moody noir: political corruption, femme fatales, and a more morally-complicated Mason, as played by The Americans’ Matthew Rhys. The lavish period details and character-actor cast, including Shea Whigham, John Lithgow, and Tatiana Maslany, will help draw viewers in, but, I’ll confess, I was already hooked by the season’s chilling opening moments.

#6. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Season 1) - NBC

Dour seasons have dominated this list thus far, but Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist sings a different tune. It’s a lovably oddball premise: an accident during an MRI causes a young woman, played by Jane Levy, to hear other people’s thoughts in the form of popular music. It’s all karaoke, but, emphasized by the presence of Skylar Astin, a worthy inheritor to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s musical-comedy crown. The tracklist, workplace antics, and love-triangle drama all exist in a comfortingly familiar network TV realm, but the show takes additional steps for inclusion with stories highlighting Zoey’s genderfluid neighbor (Alex Newell) and an American Sign Language performance of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song.” During a year in need of shuffling off stress, there was no better time to queue up Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

#5. What We Do in The Shadows (Season 2) - FX

FX’s expansion of the mockumentary feature film of the same name lit up some of the darker corners of its universe in the show’s second season, transforming mundane-seeming material into something completely, uniquely batty. Each creature of Shadows took their turn in the spotlight this season, from a middle-management promotion gifting energy-vampire Colin Robinson unlimited supernatural power, to undead Nadja befriending a doll possessed by her own ghost, to Matt Berry’s Lazlo forging a small-town persona as a bartender/volleyball coach to escape a vengeful Mark Hamill. As always, it was the sympathetic Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), a Van Helsing descendent desperate to become a vampire, who gave the show its emotional stakes, and the vampires within a different kind altogether.

#4. Stargirl (Season 1) - DC Universe

Shadows was lit, but few things burned brighter this year than Stargirl (perhaps too brightly for the flamed-out DC Universe). The superhero drama is one of several that will outlive its original streaming service - fitting, given its obsession with legacy. Based on a character created by DC Comics stalwart Geoff Johns after the tragic loss of his sister, the show finds a young girl taking on the mantle of a fallen hero after moving to a town run in secret by supervillains. With sprightly fight choreography and an unabashed embrace of its comic book lore, Stargirl outshines the overabundance of small-screen superheroes out there. Its highlight is the bright performance of lead Brec Bassinger; put simply, she’s a star, girl.

#3. BoJack Horseman (Season 6b) - Netflix

Throughout its run, BoJack Horseman garnered acclaim for routinely delivering unexpected pathos, and the final season kept it on that track until the end. ...Get it, because horses run on tracks? The unexpected porter of television’s legacy of antiheroes ended in much the same vein as its sister shows - with consequences finally catching up with its protagonist. No amount of fanciful animal puns could soften that painful catharsis, as the show finally trampled its tricky web of abuse through bittersweet means. The series closed out with an especially thoughtful scene, the kind viewers who looked past the wonky pilot years ago were regularly blessed with; to the very end, BoJack, you were a gift, horse.

#2. Better Call Saul (Season 5) - AMC

As good as Bad ever was and better than ever before, the fifth season of AMC’s spin-off completely upended the world of its eponymous lawyer while bringing Vince Gilligan’s universe one step away from full-circle. Saul Goodman found himself in way over his head, and viewers found themselves way on the edge of their seats, as his first foray into “criminal” lawyering swiftly dovetailed with an escalating drug war. Despite the emotional distress of watching fan-favorite character Kim Wexler placed in perilous situations, there are no objections to be had with the drama’s continued masterful storytelling. Ramping up the slow-burn storytelling, season five saw Kim and Saul’s relationship develop in rich and unexpected ways, while still keeping their final fates unresolved. Fans are thus waiting with bated breath for the show’s final call next year. 

#1. The Great (Season 1) - Hulu

Who could be the best but The Great? There was a minor television controversy this year over Netflix marketing The Crown as a historical drama despite its fictional interpretation of events; The Great has no such pretentions. An asterix adorns every title card of the show, letting viewers know that its take on Catherine the Great’s coup against Emperor Peter III of Russia is only “an occasionally true story.” The show indeed is not great for education, but it’s the most entertaining television of the year, locking stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult in a battle of wits and a fight for the country’s soul under the watch of The Favourite co-writer Tony McNamara. The uproarious comedy slyly collates leadership based in cruelty with leadership based in goodwill in the background of its quite bawdy escapades, a subtle bit of relevant political maneuvering that lets it successfully claim the crown this year.

NEXT UP: THE 2020 AARONS FOR BEST TV EPISODE!

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Apparently I’m a poet! | (Giant) Poetry Update #1

Hi everyone!

I realized today I’ve never updated you guys on my poetry ever, and so here’s to starting poetry updates on this blog! A bit of my background in poetry: in December 2019 I began writing “serious” poetry (I had previously written a chapbook that I wouldn’t count lol) so I’m pretty new to the form! I mostly dabble in prose poetry. Let’s dive into everything I’ve written so far.

About: A cyclical, toxic relationship & the desire and yet inability to help someone you love.

I wrote this prose poem in 20 minutes after reading THIS article. I had never written a prose poem but was intrigued by the form, and this strange poem came out of it. At the time, I was working through some personal feelings and found it strangely therapeutic that poetry was the form I finally felt comfortable to write about myself. I felt a certain release I’d never felt in writing after drafting this poem, and though I was uncertain about it, it was the first thing I ever submitted to a literary magazine! To my surprise, it was picked up by Grain Magazine (print-only) and I couldn’t be happier!

About: Immigration, matriarchy, grief, homesickness, mangoes.

Like MWLOTW, I wrote this prose poem in 20 minutes, the occasion being my university’s poetry contest (I was eyeing that prize lol). I actually was going to not submit entirely because I didn’t have a short story prepared, but then I realized... why don’t I just... poem? So right before the deadline, I wrote this poem, sent it in, won first prize and the rest is history lol!

About: A wordsearch poem and poetic homage to my experience with talk therapy

I have no idea where this WILD idea came from, but like with all of my first year writing assignments, it was 100% WEIRD. I thought it would be cool to ~invent a new poetic form that is essentially wordsearch poetry. A reader would be able to parse the particular phrase they see for almost an unlimited amount of combinations (each reader would take away something different). I adore how this poem turned out, and I’d love for it to be picked up somewhere though I’m not actively submitting poems right now.

About: An advertisement for all different types of skin, including human. :) You want it? They got it.

This is a bizarre little prose poem I wrote in a twenty-minute midnight fever dream, promptly forgot about, saw Augur Magazine had a new issue it might fit into, submitted it because in this house we don’t self-reject, and voila, it is now forthcoming in Augur’s winter issue! I can’t describe it beyond it being a literal advertisement for skin. :) I told you it was a midnight fever dream. The piece itself didn’t change much from first draft to what it will be published as, just a few minor line edits and of course, 100% bizarreness.

About: The journey of locating and planting a species of berries that doesn’t exist.

This is one of my most personal poems to date and it holds a very special place in my heart because of the person it is about! This is another prose poem, but unlike the others, wasn’t written in 20 minutes lol! It took me days to really feel comfortable within this poem and finish it off. I had written the first stanza or so within a half hour, but didn’t feel right with how the poem was going, and gave it a break. I came back about a week later and finished it off, and now it is one of my dearest poems. I can’t talk too much about the contents because it is personal, but I love poetry so much for the sole reason that you can write for the people you love in an incomprehensible way.

I’m going to leave this update here, but I hope to be back soon when I write more poems! Poetry is a new form to me, but is so refreshing, and as someone who has always approached language in a “painterly” kind of way, it is the perfect medium to experiment with!

--Rachel

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Chapters: 28/28 Fandom: Glee Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rachel Berry/Quinn Fabray Characters: Rachel Berry, Quinn Fabray, Judy Fabray, Russell Fabray, Frannie Fabray, Hiram Berry, Leroy Berry, Santana Lopez, Brittany S. Pierce, Sam Evans, Finn Hudson, Mercedes Jones, Sue Sylvester Additional Tags: slightly AU, No Babygate, Get ready for some prose Summary:

They say the ones that know you the best can hurt you the most, so Quinn is careful and she is cruel. She is sure that Rachel will never know. Until she does, and everything starts to unravel. Faberry forever. (Slightly AU, no babygate).

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FABERRY / QUINNTANA/PEZBERRY /MISTYxCORDELIA FANDOM!

Years ago I spent time with y'all as a writer of fanfics here

https://m.fanfiction.net/u/3022981/

I wrote "Somewhere a Clock is Ticking" and some others in the glee fandom as well as some Misty and Cordelia stories from AHS.

back when I had no idea what ao3 was and I started to wonder what my place as a male identified person could be as a writer of these young women. I love the characters I wrote because I love strong women. My childhood hero and obsessive collection is still Xena: warrior princess. Anyway -

If y'all want, I'm willing to pass over access to my old account and stories somehow to give them back to the community. I love them so much and maybe some talented younger writer than myself (31 here) can even change or fix the faults in my stories!

As a queer trans man, I don't feel it's my place as a man to have possession of these tales. They were my treasured love stories for my own lonely heart, and as a lifelong writer I used them as a place to grow my writing and explore prose. I'm an illustrator and poet and freelance author now (and an overnight laborer to pay the bills) and these stories are where that career started for me. Yet I also identify as male and am almost six years on testosterone (no top surgery, too expensive). I'm not a queer woman, though I am a queer person. These young queer women were my heroes even after transition. Rachel Berry and her unfailing focus, Quinn Fabray and her secret desire for emotional vulnerability, Santana Lopez (rip naya) and her determination. Later in my fanfic career I wrote a fic in which Cordelia makes a pact to bring Misty back and when AHS made that canon, I felt so happy to see what I had wished would happen come true. Misty is who I wish I could emulate, and Cordelia is who I wish I had in my life. Writing their stories was like being immersed in those two fluid emotional desires.

I have easily multiple hundreds of thousands of words published on the account - most fics ranged from 30k to 150k words.

I just feel these stories about queer young women should belong to queer young women now.

+ ask here

send me a message and we'll work something out. I need to recover the password to my account and see what works I had in progress on my actual computer.

[n0velaes]

@story1ines, finn hudson required a shippy starter from rachel berry.

rachel knew it was selfish of her to have everyone's attention. she knew she could hurt people when she reacted like that. did that stop her? she know that the old her, nothing could have stopped her from acting like this. until finn hudson came into her life. she loved the fact that he could calm her with a caress or a gentle word slipped into her ear. she loved it when he defended her, even if, she herself admitted, sometimes she didn't deserve it. today she knew who she has to choose for life and who she had to ignore forever. “ you’re my person, finn. i hope you know that. ”

[mystic-scripture]

2, 4, 6

2. Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?

Honestly it varies at any given point. Sometimes, I am just on my phone doing prompts, or I’m forcing myself to sit down and write. However, I almost always have some sort of music playing, am sitting in a comfy position, and for after, I just scroll and fix ALL the typos that come up. Or tighten up some loose prose. 

4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?

There are many, I am lucky to be a part of the @ocappreciation community and I’ve found several of my friends on there. Currently, I’ll give shoutouts to @cassercole @nightstorms-universes @whindsor @yourpalmoony and @billyshxrgrove for their ability to take things from the canon and adjust or fill in things that you wouldn’t have thought of. 

6. First fic/pairing you wrote for? (If no pairing, describe the plot)

Good lord, this is semi embarressing, but it was a Puckleberry (Noah Puckerman and Rachel Berry) fic for Glee. It was called Running Late and it was just a fluffly little piece of them both being late to school and Rachel finding Puck after he’d been Slushied.

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okay so my thoughts on the ainulindale

first things first i had to read this chapter aloud to myself some sentences a few times to grasp the meaning of what was being said & understand tolkiens prose & looong sentences so. that was DEFINITELY a reminder of how dumb i am. there will be an adjustment period i’m sure.

i think its neat that the ainur singing created the world but the coolness is this is utterly ruined by the fact that as i read about melkor trying to change the song to his own/drown out the other voices with his own it crashed over me with crystal clarity that hes like. the ainur equivalent to rachel berry from glee.

 i had other thoughts but that one like literally killed my brain so i read the rest of the chapter and ended it empty headed except for static and distant screaming from the darkest parts of my brain

[antigonick]

Months of Woman Writing

Sept. 1st.

Although I had seen it done, reading mainly women writers for a distinct period of time started for me subconsciously enough in June; by the end of August, however, I was entirely aware of (and entirely purified by) my gendered reading** streak. Here’s a short list of the gems I’ve encountered through the Summer:

My Cousin Rachel, Daphné du Maurier The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende Poems, Edith Södergran (tr. by Gounil Brown) The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton Chéri, Colette Ripening Seed, Colette Murder at The Vicarage, Agatha Christie Selected Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva (tr. by Elaine Feinstein) Just Give Me a Cool Drink o’ Water ‘fore I Diiie, Maya Angelou The Unicorn, Iris Murdoch The Lifted Veil, George Eliot Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton The Resisting Reader, Judith Fetterley The Name of Oedipus, Hélène Cixous Lines of Life: 101 Poems by 101 Women, ed. by Germaine Greer A Writer’s Diary: Being, Virginia Woolf, ed. by Leonard Woolf Selected Writings, Gertrude Stein

March 8th. (cont’d)

Continuing on my Summer efforts, I have strived, through the semester, to read more women writers, both in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry ; and to favour women translators in my research work as well. In honour of International Women’s Day, and as a follow-up to this very post and to my last year piece, let me recommend you the books I deeply enjoyed lately. I’m sorry to say diversity could be better though : these are very white-centric and euro-centric, because I have stayed and needed to stay within the confines of what I know best these past few months.

Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë Destroy, She Said, Marguerite Duras The Passion, Jeannette Winterson Persuasion, Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen Emma, Jane Austen We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson The Lottery, Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson Possession : A Romance, A. S. Byatt Nights at The Circus, Angela Carter Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf Les Sentiments du Prince Charles, Liv Strömquist Hymn to Treason, Sylvie Durastanti Nay Rather, Anne Carson Poems and Prose, Christina Rossetti If I’m Scared We Can’t Win, Emily Berry, Anne Carson, and Sophie Collins Poetry, Louise Labé Works, Renée Vivien Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Glück

*You might know that I deeply agree with Hélène Cixous’ argument in her The Laugh of the Medusa: in a world that parrots the language and experiences of men, because they have been predominantly featured, it is our right and our responsibility to learn more about our own experiences, our own points of view, to liberate them, to read between the lines, and to re-create a language-use and a new narrative accordingly. 

[ao3feed-kurthummel]

And That's What We Missed on Glee: an outline for a season seven that never was

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2p2qDad

by flaming_muse

A season seven of Glee that never was, following the original Glee kids who go back to New York after a semester in Ohio in season six. Written as an outline, not a prose story.

Words: 8359, Chapters: 10/14, Language: English

Fandoms: Glee

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M

Characters: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson, Rachel Berry, Jesse St. James, Santana Lopez, Brittany S. Pierce, Artie Abrams, Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert, Isabelle Wright, Dani (Glee), Cooper Anderson, Tina Cohen-Chang, Mike Chang, Kitty Wilde, Sugar Motta, Carmen Tibideaux, Burt Hummel, Carole Hudson-Hummel

Relationships: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel, Rachel Berry/Jesse St. James, Santana Lopez/Brittany S. Pierce

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Canonical Character Death

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2p2qDad This is an automatic feed of all new stories posted to the Kurt Hummel tag on AO3. Because of that, it is not guaranteed that Kurt is the main character in the story. There is also no judgment made as to ships, length, or warnings. Please verify content upon clicking through to AO3.

[emmigma]

✨Books I Read in 2017✨

Under the Harrow  Flynn Berry 

Mister Monkey Francine Prose 

One True Loves Taylor Jenkins Reid 

The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood *2nd reading

1Q84 Haruki Murakami

Ill Will  Dan Chaon 

The Wrath and the Dawn  Renee Ahdie

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz *2nd reading 

Hey Harry! Hey Matilda! Rachel Hulin

The Rose and the Dagger Renee Ahdie

A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 

Based on a True Story Delphine de Vigan 

The Rocks Peter Nichols 

The Idiot Elif Batuman 

A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 

The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

[mumused-blog]

HELLO FRIENDS, consider this a low-key starter call for something short!! (likely under 100 words - probably prose, maybe texts) from a randomized muse. this will include both canon and ocs characters.

MUSES INCLUDE: rachel berry, noah puckerman ( glee ), james olsen ( supergirl ), the marauders ( harry potter ), mike lawson ( pitch )