#thoughts with theredofoctober

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Yall, have you seen this failed Wonka experience thing in Glasgow? I'm actually making myself cough with laughter... I feel sorry for anyone who turned up thinking it would be for the family, but it's so liminal horror it's almost become iconic

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Trying to find dragon x reader or dragon x oc content where the dragon stays a dragon and doesn't turn into a bland muscle guy or a pouting prince is killing me... spare a thought for us true monsterfuckers smh

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As a queer person honestly the height of humour is turning to a friend who's also queer and calling them gay. And nobody says 'that's gay' more than we do

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Creasing, finally got my first hate comment on Manna 😂 I love my poetic writing and I know it's good so I'm not even sure what they think they're getting out of this. If they wanted to insult my work they could have gone in on a typo or said the kinks in it are cringe but let's be honest my prose is fab and probably the thing even people who don't love the subject matter can get into

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Me checking the darkfic tags for all the fandoms I follow and getting frustrated when nothing new arrives

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Opinions on Art the clown? 🤭

Well... I've looked for fics of him and they're aren't any, or barely any 😂 the ones there are a tad too extreme even for me which doesn't make sense considering some scenes I wrote lmaooo

He's so fucked, I may have to write for him some day 👀

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Whoever asked about the Trap idea I had... no longer a one-shot, but at least a two chapter fic

I'm torn... it's a two parter due to Cooper having two targets (girlfriends, and he wants to keep both of them) and I don't know whether to write each of them from the You perspective, which is more popular, or say fuck it and just do them as OCs, which will mean less people will tune in.

That said, I don't want to sound like a knobhead but I feel my writing is strong enough at this point to sell it lmao

Thoughts?

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Crying, the antis have found Bandersnatch again 😂😂 classic

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Finding typos in my published books is so annoying! Yes, they're self published, and it's very minor stuff (I have an editor so she catches almost everything) but it's still irritating

Yes, I know almost every published book has minor errors but I'd rather not have them! I'm contacting my manuscript formatting artist to see if we can correct minor edits for reprints, hoping she has some draft versions lying around for us to work on— she's been so helpful, so I'm sure it'll be okay.

Self-publishing is not easy. I'll have to set a few weeks aside to work on this. When it comes to my novel I'll spend a lot more time proofing, perhaps even hire a second editor so we have another set of eyes on the manuscript. It's just hard not to feel frustrated when you've read the same piece about 95 times and two people still don't catch the mistakes

I get this is normal but it's jarring whenever I notice it

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Manna is one of the only fics I've written where I think about the characters when I'm out and about (I've plotted whole chapters at train stations or other public transport). I'm glad this fic is long as I think I'll be sad when I get to the end 😂

A sequel isn't off the table, but it will depend on where the fic ends and if I come up with an idea I think is good enough!

Also I'd leave a significant gap between Manna and its sequel as I'm already fighting for my life trying to stick to my schedule! Hence why new one shots are incredibly rare

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So for those of you that have read the Manna drabbles from the dream sequence onwards, I begin bringing those in from around chapter 18— tempted to leave the drabbles up and change the headings to reflect that they happen in a different context in the main fic.

I wrote them as ideas, so there are some details that, while good, no longer fit, so I may leave the drabbles untouched purely because I'm sure some people will miss the details I remove and may wish to read those scenes as stand alone pieces.

Idk, I'm finding it interesting how the development of the fic will effect these events. While they'll still happen they won't be identical, but I'll worry about that when I get there.

The camp following Manna for the Stockholm Syndrome angle are still going to have to wait, although I think it's developing at a rate that feels natural to the characters. I don't like stories where it's like 'I don't want this!' then 'this is fine ily!' without there being significant growth to that point.

And I do have an exact point it will become obvious. This is the furthest ahead I've plotted any of my fics so far!

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Just wanted to let you know that Al and Karl are now part of my wall. 🤭

They look so cute 🥺🥺

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Where are all my readers from? I know a bunch of you are American, at least two are German! I'm curious

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Started a new audio book today! I can't wait to finish work so I can listen to more if it as I'm already hooked. I have of course seen the movie, but I was a teen so my memory is pretty hazy, do remember liking it though!

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Me waiting for the second half of Bridgerton season 3 to drop

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Realising I'm probably autistic after every autistic person I encounter saying so is stressing me out lol, did I really waste five hundred quid on a BPD diagnosis or do I have both?? The waiting list on the NHS for an autism diagnosis is two years so may have to get myself on it lol. Who can afford that much in these costy livs