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Summer reading/writing tag

@captain-kraken tagged me over here and @void-botanist tagged me over here, thank u both ily

1) Describe one creative WIP project you're planning to work on over the summer:

i am going to fucking finish between a rock and a hard place if it kills me

2) Recommend a book:

if you like blinding neon, go read The Darkest Flower by Kristin Wright, that book permanently altered my brain chemistry

3) Recommend a fic:

oh i'm boutta go FERAL cuz if there's one thing i have it's fic recs, below the cut so my followers don't riot lmao

obvs for mass effect there's the Exponential Differentiation series by @sparatus but if you want something a little shorter Still on Patrol is fucking fantastic mass effect flavored maritime horror with a side of delicious worldbuilding and I'll Follow You hurts so fucking good, he literally established the desabrudas tag and also he is my soulmate.

further there's the Project Sunseeker rewrite and i can't just post @thetrashbagswasteland's entire library but if you want a good, hard ugly cry for stress relief reasons, get yourself a pint of ice cream, a glass of wine, and spend the evening with like, anything in there, also? there's some really good crack in there, and like, also also established a ship tag. and HURTS ME WITH IT.

@teamdilf has great crack in the form of A Cheesy Situation (counterfeit cheese? kidnapping? team dilf? yes please) and A Night in the IKEA, but then gives me emotional whiplash with masterpieces like A Man of Many Talents, also writes minor/underrepresented characters and i would die for cecilia and tullia.

and i don't even fucking go here which is how you know this shit slaps but @bambino1294's Floriography and of beasts and blood and An Upright Tower feed me so well. oh my god.

and if THAT isn't enough to occupy your summer, have Starwind Legacy by @commander-krios bc dash and leo have stolen my heart, and Next of Kin and Flesh of the Weak, Food of the Strong by @princess-prawn are so. i don't go to ANY of these fandoms, her writing just makes me SALIVATE anyway go stalk my friends. tell cersei them. i want them to know it was me. and @autodiscothings' Acts Of Repetition and Sirens and Selkies were HUGE influences for blinding neon. honestly soignee is the reason i decided to write a police procedural at all.

4) Recommend music

anything tagged tunes.mp3 on this blog or my main but also anything by aeseaes (including covers), denmark + winter, or power-haus, i've been streaming those all this week OH ALSO iniko's whole discography, but especially this:

5) Share one piece of advice!

take what you can, give nothing back.

stay frosty, much love xox

if you were tagged above, consider yourself tagged, or come steal an open tag from me!