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[quillname]

Falling Snowflakes - Chapter 1: Warmth Summary:

Burke and BonBon pay a long-overdue visit to an old friend.

[quillbriar]

Thinking about how the point of origin for Alan and Nadia is the bathroom. But for Alan, it’s the bathroom in his apartment, and for Nadia, she’s so afraid of truly facing herself that it’s the bathroom at her best friend’s apartment.

She shirks away from anything remotely maternal or comforting or about brining people together. She’s not hosting her own birthday, that’s too much responsibility to face and accept (both in the sense of believing and being willing to receive) that that many people love her, or at least would care enough about her to show up. It’s easier to pretend she has no friends and to be surprised when she shows up at the party, than having to be the one that brings everyone together.

It’s established that mirrors are a point of reflection, so it makes sense that both of our players start in the bathroom—they aren’t reflecting or acknowledging that there is something wrong in how they are living their lives. But Alan has just finished taking a shower (he’s not wearing a shirt so that’s what I’m assuming has happened) and he’s brushing his teeth, symbolizing his compulsive need to be clean and over-prepared and looking like he’s put together even if he isn’t, truly, on the inside.

Nadia, we don’t even know if she washed her hands, we just know the water is running. Maybe she only turned it on so people wouldn’t bug her and she’d have a minute to herself (not working out too well, by the sounds of the insistent rapping on the door).

Just thinking about how Alan keeps coming back to his home—somewhere familiar and safe, even if gravely cold and sterile—while Nadia is somewhere warm and busy and where she is the reason for the party, but it’s not her home. It’s not her space, no matter how comfortable she is in Max’s apartment. But, honestly, she doesn’t seem that comfortable. At first she points out that it used to be a Yeshiva as a kind of cool fact, almost an armor to show off how much she knows and how intellectual yet unorthodox and anti-authority and devil-may-care she is, pun intended. Yet, as we continue to follow Nadia, we learn that she’s actually unsettled and uncomfortable with the fact that Max lives somewhere that used to be sacred and religious, it should be untouchable, but instead it’s forgotten and renovated.

So there are those differences in the two “first positions”, but also the differences in how the characters are portrayed with their hygiene. As Natasha Lyonne has said, we’ve never seen Nadia take a shower (have we even seen her brush her teeth or wash her hands?). The last difference is Alan rebooting shirtless while Nadia is wearing so much black clothing. Alan doesn’t have issues with isolating himself, he actually depends on his inner circle too much, hence the willingness to be open to other that him rebooting shirtless symbolizes. His issue is not being honest with himself, that’s an internal, personal thing. Nadia, doesn’t let people in, hence the cost and shirt and the jacket. She goes through the journey of realizing it’s okay to have people in your inner circle, it’s okay for relationships to be permanent and healthy rather than meaningless one night stands (or sexualizing self hatred, which is such a perfect Nadia quote). Alan realizes that he has to look at himself directly instead of ignoring how he feels. Sort of like the fruit being rotten on the outside but ripe on the inside, but backwards. Things look alright from an outsider’s perspective (he’s clean, he’s healthy, he’s taking care of himself), but it’s performative and he’s rotting on the inside. The same with Nadia, just different specifics. It’s easy to fool people with confidence and good looks.

Writing and thinking about all this really makes me realize how perfect the season 2 finale is, I love the final shot so much. Nadia stares back at herself, fully accepting her past and her heritage and herself, and smiling. It’s comforting and haunting and familiar yet so mature and loaded. She’s smoking and it’s a bit of a distance, a smoke screen, if you will, from the audience and possibly herself. But it’s also familiar and habitual, we can’t expect to be perfect all the time or become perfect overnight. And she just went through a really wild and rough experience, I think a cigarette is warranted.

[ravenclaw-headcanons]

For the poll, are you including gender identities as well? Or just sexualities?

At the moment it’s just sexualities but I’m up for including genders if that’s something people would be interested in? 

Okay followup question: again, if you’re LGBT+ and wouldn’t mind looking over the list of genders I’ve got you’d be a life saver. cis man, cis woman, transgender woman, transgender man (are these better terms to use than MtF and FtM?) non-binary, genderfluid, agender, bigender, polygender, greygender, unsure, other

[sunnydwrites]

I got tagged by @fiercely-raging-writer for this one! I just decided to make a new post since the old one was getting lengthy. I took this uquiz to find out what kind of fanbase a character would have, and I did it with Indie - the main character in The Murder of Elijah Patel.

I got:

lots of fanart but in a cool way :o

this character has a chill fanbase !!!! people just make aesthetic art for them !! your character is probably fairly unproblematic

As much as I would love to believe that about Indie, well... um. Hmm. Anyway.

Tagging: @belialwrites @seryllis @quillwriting @aiththewriter and anyone else who wants to do this! If you see this and you wanna, feel free to tag me :)

[luckycharmzine]

Meet @quillwriting​, one of our kwamis!

You can find more of Brandon Quill at the following links: Tumblr / Tumblr (secondary)

[u-bi-k]

So I got a new IPad and apple pen. I did this drawing to get used to it. It’s Ariel from A Mermaid Scorned by Quillwriter on WEBTOON. https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-mermaid-scorned/list?title_no=370743

[rockabelle]

I’m trying to find an L/Light fic I read years ago and am hoping someone can help me.

I think I read it on livejournal originally and the author’s name had “quill” in it. I feel like it was crimson quill or quillwritings or something like that, but I’ve looked those up and can’t find ‘em...

The fic is an AU where L meets Light for the first time at Soichiro’s funeral. He was killed by Kira. Later on, Light manages to convince L that he can help in the Kira investigation. Light is in college at this point, and he and L wind up rooming together. A lot of the fic was just about how different they are as people, and yet the way they are drawn together. In the last chapter that was out at the time, there was a dramatic scene where Kira kills someone in front of them, and then Light has a freak-out in the shower and L “handles” him. The next morning, L thinks about incorporating Light into his investigations permanently, until he comes across something in the bathroom that makes him wonder if Light is actually Kira.

Anyone know what I’m talking about? It was long, amazingly written, and possibly abandoned.

[aithlynfreyeaesthetic]

@quillwriting

Anyone know where I can find the next chapter of my own book?

[sero-pairo]

Mistletoe, Bunnies, and Money

by 626ashleystarling

Despite her circumstances, Ochako loved Christmas. She cherished every handmade gift she received each year from her friends and family.

Except this Christmas will be at school with her peers. Ochako was sure her best friend (who she pulled for secret Santa, score) and her girlfriend would not appreciate snowman cutouts. Which means she needed money, fast.

Words: 1809, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu Momo, Iida Tenya, Sero Hanta, Midoriya Izuku

Relationships: Asui Tsuyu/Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya/Sero Hanta, Jirou Kyouka/Kaminari Denki/Yaoyorozu Momo, Uraraka Ochako & Yaoyorozu Momo

Additional Tags: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Christmas Fluff, Gift Exchange, Asui Tsuyu is a Good Significant Other, Cute Uraraka Ochako, Cute Asui Tsuyu, Uraraka Ochako is a Dork, Fluff, Yaoyorozu Momo is a Good Friend, Iida Tenya is Bad at Feelings, They/Them Pronouns for Sero Hanta, inspired by tik tok, Specifically quillwriter's last christmas vid, late christmas fic

from AO3 works tagged 'Iida Tenya/Sero Hanta', https://ift.tt/lCBJ0se

[ao3feed-bnha-rarepair]

Mistletoe, Bunnies, and Money

Mistletoe, Bunnies, and Money by 626ashleystarling

Despite her circumstances, Ochako loved Christmas. She cherished every handmade gift she received each year from her friends and family.

Except this Christmas will be at school with her peers. Ochako was sure her best friend (who she pulled for secret Santa, score) and her girlfriend would not appreciate snowman cutouts. Which means she needed money, fast.

Words: 1809, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu Momo, Iida Tenya, Sero Hanta, Midoriya Izuku

Relationships: Asui Tsuyu/Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya/Sero Hanta, Jirou Kyouka/Kaminari Denki/Yaoyorozu Momo, Uraraka Ochako & Yaoyorozu Momo

Additional Tags: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Christmas Fluff, Gift Exchange, Asui Tsuyu is a Good Significant Other, Cute Uraraka Ochako, Cute Asui Tsuyu, Uraraka Ochako is a Dork, Fluff, Yaoyorozu Momo is a Good Friend, Iida Tenya is Bad at Feelings, They/Them Pronouns for Sero Hanta, inspired by tik tok, Specifically quillwriter's last christmas vid, late christmas fic

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44063805

[quillname]

Summary:

Jack and Servais have spent their entire lives guarding the Evil Eye. But when it comes to the Abyss, knowledge can be quite the burden.

[quillbriar]

Someone show Carson Shaw the lesbian masterdoc

[sunnydwrites]

Word Search Tag.

Thanks @sourrcandy for this tag!! I’ll be doing this with Kaleidoscope, my choose-your-own-adventure project.

my words: pain, glory, fear, dream.

pain.

And... finally. Someone who knew Lian, even multiple someones. They can relate to the pain that your feeling because now the brightness of your love is gone. "Thank you for coming," you say.

They crowd around you, and the group of backs turned towards everyone else deters anyone from coming with their offerings. You're grateful for the boundary.

Section 90, end 27.

glory.

Surprisingly enough, in the 110k words of this story, glory doesn’t come up one time.

fear.

"This is all thanks to you," you say, dropping the sword at your mother's feet. You approach her slowly, noting the fear in her eyes. "I'm not going to to do anything to you."

She swallows, then nods. Too quickly. She won't meet your eyes, either; all she seems to see is your mother's body, her separated head a few feet away. "She's-"

"Dead."

Section 114, end 41.

dream.

The needle slips seemlessly into your arm, and you watch as the skin beneath your arm turns the slightest bit grayer. The muscles in your arm relax instantly at the touch of the drug, and the feeling expands. You feel it crawling up into your neck, and when it launches into your head, you can't be sure whether you're dreaming or not.

The days and seconds stretch into each other; everything moves slowly and fast all at once. Out of the cacophony of blended sounds emerges something of a harmony, and you let yourself sink into the noise.

Section 102, end 33.

Uh... several different ending types for this story, in case you couldn’t tell. I’ll tag @aiththewriter, @quillwriting, @seryllis, and anyone else who feels like finding some words!

your words: mirror, write, and breath.

[luckycharmzine]

Meet @quillwriting​, one of our stand-alone writers!

You can find his amazing creation on page 91 of the zine.

Click here to view the piece!

You can find more of Brandon’s work at the following link: Tumblr

[sero-pairo]

Mistletoe, Bunnies, and Money

by 626ashleystarling

Despite her circumstances, Ochako loved Christmas. She cherished every handmade gift she received each year from her friends and family.

Except this Christmas will be at school with her peers. Ochako was sure her best friend (who she pulled for secret Santa, score) and her girlfriend would not appreciate snowman cutouts. Which means she needed money, fast.

Words: 1809, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu Momo, Iida Tenya, Sero Hanta, Midoriya Izuku

Relationships: Asui Tsuyu/Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya/Sero Hanta, Jirou Kyouka/Kaminari Denki/Yaoyorozu Momo, Uraraka Ochako & Yaoyorozu Momo

Additional Tags: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Christmas Fluff, Gift Exchange, Asui Tsuyu is a Good Significant Other, Cute Uraraka Ochako, Cute Asui Tsuyu, Uraraka Ochako is a Dork, Fluff, Yaoyorozu Momo is a Good Friend, Iida Tenya is Bad at Feelings, They/Them Pronouns for Sero Hanta, inspired by tik tok, Specifically quillwriter's last christmas vid, late christmas fic

from AO3 works tagged 'Iida Tenya/Sero Hanta' https://ift.tt/lCBJ0se

[katsen13]

@quillwriting thanks and yikes... makes me not want to shop for a bit.

So I saw a post last night that terrified me but then my app crashed before I could reblog it.

Smart appliances are completely, 100% reliant on wifi? Like if there's an outage or you couldn't pay your internet bill in time and your wifi isn't working, your stove/fridge/door locks etc are rendered completely and totally unusable? The oven doesn't revert back to a basic oven/stove that you just have to operate manually? It's competely inoperable? Is that what you're telling me because that's fucking terrifying. So you're either completely locked in or out of your home if wifi goes down? Who the fuck signs up for this shit?