#tlol

[deadlysansa]

July 2024

lovely LOVELY dedicated loyal readers.

i am continually astounded that my inbox still receives message of support and curiosity about my lil fanfic These Lines of Lightning. i can’t even begin to talk about the fact that a lot of you just drop messages to say you hope i am well. you are just wonderful. and i owe you an answer in that i am here, doing well, just living a very different and busy life!

i am pretty sure i started writing TLOL in 2019. my life and the world were in such different places. the same applies to you guys! we’ve all LIVEDDDD. but i LOVED writing the fic. i loved maybe even more how much excitement you guys had for it. the marauders will always be my roman empire.

truth is i am not sure how to continue writing it. i have tried MANY times. there are so so many drafts of the next chapter in existence. i did not want to write a crap, slap dash ending to this fic as that would betray my hours of work into making it something we all enjoyed. so i sort of let it float in the ether. unfinished, like all the classic jily fics really.

but BOO to that.

so what now? my real aim is to not leave TLOL in the fanfic graveyard. i feel that realistically i can write a maximum of three chapters to finish the story. i want to do it for you all. there are thousands of fantastic marauders fics out there but you still wanted to read mine.

i don’t know if anyone has recently read the end of last chapter (a cliffhanger, that was so cruel of me), but i am going to time jump a measly month into the future, going back and forth. this seems to be the only thing that will obliterate the chokehold writer’s block has on TLOL and get the damn job DONE.

if you are still here and care, i cannot thank you enough for the way you have encouraged my writing. let’s f-cking go! if anyone has any real highlight moments from the fic that they’d love a recall to, let me know!

endlessly in adoration of the ff community,

-Kitty x

[baskervilleshound]

“I’ve got you, love. Just hold on.”

A part in my novel. I can’t talk about any of this because I’m not published yaaaaaay. (This is a big mega dad moment for Mel though!)

[prongsismyfave]

Do you guys remember TLOL - These Lines of Lightning by @deadlysansa here on tumblr? Lord knows I do.

Still one of my all time faves, even though it hasn’t been updated in ages and is possibly abandoned. It’s well worth the read. The whole depiction was just *chef’s kiss*!

On to rereading I go…

[simbasomba]

Bro how do you even draw cougars

[lunahallowell]

My manuscript is at almost 34,000 words and that is absolutely insane to me. What the HECK??

Not sure why at the busiest time of my life this is happening, but I’m super stoked (and in shock tbh). Almost at the halfway point. This is so exciting.

[queensabriel]

Silmarillion fans be like...

Genuinely and wholeheartedly love this fandom so much <3

[seekforwarmth]

— two languages, one love —  

written by nouies for @allwaswell16 louis/cillian murphy | not rated | 3.8k

The three times Louis speaks to Cillian in Spanish, and the one time he finally gets a response.

🏷️ established relationship, entrepreneur louis, actor cillian, declarations of love, roleplay.

[chromaji]

i dont know what your official art looks like & the chibi model is... chibi. so i'll have to get back to you on that

[atla-milf-month]

ATLA MILF Month will happen in March 2025! This month will celebrate all the ATLA-verse moms and older women who... well, you know!

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[deadlysansa]

posting for proof of life🫡

I WANNA DO THEM ALL

31 Prompts 2024

🎶 “Before the dawn I hear you whisper in your sleep, ‘Don’t let the morning take him.’” 🎶 - Judas Priest - Before the Dawn.

A: “If anyone does X I’m going to love them forever.” B: Does X.

Spoiling Harry

Feature Mcgonagall (It’s her birthday after all)

🎶 “Get the car packed, throw me the keys. Run away with me.” 🎶 Aaron Tveit - Run Away With Me.

Making food together / food disasters

🎶“No grave can hold my body down, I’ll crawl home to her” - Work Song by Hozier

“Maybe we can find out what the hell your problem is over dinner sometime”

"You literally checked your phone 3 seconds ago"

Matchmaking parent(s)

🎶“Uncovering feelings unfound”🎶 - Out of the Blue by Katie Pruitt

"Sometimes I wonder if you're in love with me”

Using muggle technology

Surprise Party!!!

"You can kiss me, you know."

🎶“My words are my faith, to hell with our good name”🎶 - Hum Hallelujah by Fall Out Boy

“It’s cute when your face gets red like that.”

Neighbours

“You could say it a hundred times and I still won’t listen.”

🎶Try to move on, it's back to you that all my roads keep leading 🎶 - Before I Fall Apart by Elle Coves

"Let me distract you"

"How long have you been standing there?" "Longer than you'd like."

Indulging in hobbies

🎶Then I know everything is gonna be fine, Because you are mine🎶 -You Shine from Carrie - The Musical

"Are we going to talk about it?" "I'd rather not.”

🎶One bright morning goes so easy. Darkness always finds you either way🎶 - First Light by Hozier

“what if it doesn’t work” “what if it does work”

Holiday fic

Cold winter nights

🎶"where's the trophy? he just comes running over to me"🎶 - The Alchemy by Taylor Swift

Unintentional couples costumes

[deadlysansa]

That feeling when the girls are back

[baskervilleshound]

“Well. I guess you are truly right as rain after all!”

Eeep. Mel is getting a checkup and he Doesn’t Like It (even though he appreciates Carlisle giving it to him) jdjdjdj

[bunnydevs]

@moai-statue There would probably be a section directly dedicated to executive dysfunction. I'd likely need to email a few therapists/professors specializing in adhd/neurodivergency to find plausible solutions.

That being said! I've seen a few people suggest that asking WHEN someone will be ready to do this/ WHEN they will start said task can help. This would most likely be prompted by pressing a button, then user would be asked "what are you doing currently?" and it would then ask "when would you like to do XYZ?" followed by set choices. User would choose their timeframe in which they need/want to do something. A pop up stating "okay! you will finish ABC (thing youre doing currently) at [BLANK TIME] and start XYZ (what you want to do) at [BLANK TIME]" My theory is that because this takes away the guessing work, it can help alleviate the difficulty to start said task. As it will clearly be defined what times different tasks need to be switched.

I also thought of a mini game, you know, one that people are typically sucked into that user can play. When a certain amount of time is finished, the game will tell the user what task they should start on.

There's also the difficulty of breaking large tasks into smaller tasks, to make it easier to do. Or, instead of stating "wash all the dishes" users would instead be instructed to "wash one dish".

It's something that requires a lot of time and reading, but it's something most applications just don't provide for users at all.

Needa know ! RB to boost pls friend <3

[hanzajesthanza]

Hii i have a question abt tlol u mihht know thr answer to. ❤️

While geralt and ciri fight their enemies on the stygga castle, geralt tells ciri several times yen wants to look at the sky. (If i temember correctly it was yen) Why?? Its so random? Does it have a hidden meaning? Does it refer to vilgefortz quote 'You Mistake Stars Reflected In A Pond For The Night Sky' ?

i can’t be certain that it’s not a reference to something elsewhere in literature, but i just interpret it as an expression of weariness and exhaustion. as geralt’s emotions are described:

He didn’t feel anger, resentment or hatred. He felt only weariness. And a huge desire to be done with all of it. (…)

as geralt learns from ciri, by a shake of her head, the rest of his company (cahir and angouleme) also did not survive. so he realizes all of his friends were lost. and that there is nothing left for them here.

‘Let’s get out of here,’ he repeated.

‘Yes,’ said Yennefer. ‘I want to see the sky.’

‘I’ll never leave you both,’ Ciri said softly. ‘Never.’

* funny mistake here - in the official english translation, it was printed that yennefer says “I want see the sky” :’)

so they go to leave:

In front of them was a stairway, a great stairway drowning in smoke, in the twinkling glow of torches and fire in iron cressets. Ciri shuddered. She had seen that stairway before. In dreams and visions.

Down below, far away, armed men were waiting.

‘I’m tired,’ she whispered.

‘Me too,’ admitted Geralt, drawing the sihill.

‘I’ve had enough of killing.’

‘Me too.’

‘Is there no other way out?’

No. There isn’t. Only this stairway. We must, girl. Yen wants to see the sky. And I want to see the sky, Yen and you.

they want to get out of stygga castle, but between them and escaping it is one final battle, for at the end of the staircase they see stefan skellen and his men, who they know they will have to kill in order to leave from here.

they are tired, they are wretched after having killed so much. the moral weight of killing is a huge theme in the witcher, and here is no exception - it’s not glorified that the heroes brandish their swords, the heroes feel the weight of them.

they don’t want to kill anymore. but they have to, in order to get out of the place where they killed.

it’s like ‘the only way out is through.’

“seeing the sky” = an end to this episode, freedom from this place of killing and death, escape from this black citadel, return to life

why the sky?

a significant reminder here is that they cannot see the sky from within stygga castle. for it had no windows (which was mentioned in chapter 2, but likely ceases to be present in the mind by the time you get to chapter 9). but essentially, it’s dark in that stone castle, hewn from rock:

The tapestry measured about five foot by seven and its tassels rested on the floor. It showed a rocky cliff over a tarn, and a castle carved into the cliff, which seemed to be part of the rock wall.

The castle didn’t have any windows through which she could see the surrounding terrain, or even the sun to try to orient herself.

(what a horrible place, as percieved by our human heliophilia!)

i think generally, darkness/light symbolism (or cave/sky symbolism… hi plato) is very ancient, even primal, even biological.

another analogy might be finishing a work shift at a retail store where you’ve been under flourescent lights for eight hours, and now want to leave this infernal place and finally see the sky above. there’s a feeling of exhaustion, horror, nausea whenever you’ve been separated from the sky for so long

[razzmothazz]

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[seekforwarmth]

thanks for your support! ♡ buy me a coffee? fics ordered from newest to oldest.

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“Not a fucking chance.”

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Louis snorts. “He’s not, actually. He’s pretty hardworking, you see, so he comes home late.”

“Such a shame.” Harry walks towards Louis, so close that they’re sharing the same space. “You’re so beautiful, Louis. If you were mine, I wouldn’t make you wait for me.”

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“Harry?” He says as soon as he recognises the other man.

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“Well, I’m here for rehearsal,” Louis announces with a proud smile.

There’s a flash of confusion on Harry’s face. “What do you mean rehearsal? I got the part, you didn’t.”

~

Prompt 195: Hamilton AU

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