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“A Truth Universally Acknowledged”: Sixth Teaser Post!

There’s only a few days left to back the crowdfunding campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”We’re only $500 away from our funding goal as I type this, and there’s one day left on our Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday flash backer level with lots of great stuff offered at an amazing price and big discount! As for right now, there are so many teasers to do, and so little time left! Today, let’s meet another two artists and three authors!

Story Teaser: Lyonel Loy

Title: Much Ado (About Quite a Lot)

Excerpt:

A good stout walloping wins over lunges and parrying and all of that other Proper Stuff, Mrs Bennet has always found, and a parasol is far more like a stick than a sword.

Darcy advances, feints once, and lunges—and Mrs Bennet opens his parasol.

“What!” Darcy cries, into a wide expanse of laced canopy.

“What indeed!” Mrs Bennet agrees. He shuts his brolly as swiftly as it opened, and thwaps! Darcy soundly about his squared shoulders.

Art Teaser: A. A. Weston

A. A. Weston created the artwork for our lovely Pride peacock note cards. There are four different designs – three are being offered to backers of this Kickstarter campaign, and the fourth is the bonus extra for our Patreon backers who also back the campaign – patrons at the $10/month and $25/month levels who also support A Truth Universally Acknowledged will get five note cards and envelopes, no matter what campaign level they support!

Title: Aroace Mary Living Her Best Life 

Story Teaser: Sage Mooreland

Title: It’s Just You

Excerpt:

“ANCHOVY! NO!”

That cry was the only warning Milla had. She looked in time to see a large silvery-gray blur, and then there were entirely too many limbs, heads, and tails for anything to make sense. She was aware enough that “Anchovy” must be the blur and that said blur must be a dog. Said conclusion was reached by the weight landing solidly on her chest and a large tongue bathing her face in enthusiastic greeting.

“Ackglrppffft!” Milla spluttered, laughing helplessly under the affectionate onslaught. She tried to protect her face enough to focus on what was happening, but between the dog’s determination and her laughing, she had absolutely no success.

A second dog appeared, making Milla laugh harder. The second was more interested in licking her arms, but fortunately, a human arrived very quickly after the second dog.

“I’m so sorry—Annie, c’mon. Sam, you’re not any better. Let ’em up!” Somehow, the dogs were wrestled off, and Milla, still mildly giggling, sat up wiping her face with the edge of her shirt.

“Are you okay?” The dog owner’s voice pulled Milla’s attention upward to meet the most beautiful—and worried-looking—light-green eyes she could remember seeing.

Art Teaser: Amalia Zeichnerin

Title: If only they could see it

Story Teaser: ilgaksu

Title: The Parsonage Becomes Her

Excerpt:

Well, today they buried the bastard. I cannot say I am shocked. He brought the final end to his long-seated dissipation fully and entirely on himself. Victor Whistham deserves the warm spot in Hell that has been waiting for him; and if women of my ilk are to join him, I will relish the quality seat to his suffering. No, what shocks me is how much the burying wounds me. For although I have longed—how I have longed, Theodosia!—to see the back of him, there’s something about death that scrounges within you for the last scrap of tender feeling you possess towards a man. And isn’t widowhood, for one such as me, just becoming a twice-abandoned wife? It reopens all the old wounds of it.

What am I to do, trapped amongst the horrible Ton, with you off in your blessed rolling hills?

This crowdfunding campaign ends on Thursday, December 5th at 1:15 p.m. Eastern time. Time is running out, so check it out while the checking it out is good!

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Back “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” Today!

We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is now live on Kickstarter – and already selected by them as a project they love!

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover! A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks, is just that. 38 creators have contributed to this project, drawing inspiration from Pride and Prejudice’s characters and story to create delightful, thoughtful, intriguing, and (of course) very queer fanworks and Pride and Prejudice-inspired original works. For this collection, we encouraged our creators to focus on Sapphic/wlw relationships and/or transgender and genderqueer interpretations for their inspiration, though those are definitely not the only types of queer we’ve fit into this diverse collection. We’re also offering an awesome array of merchandise – art prints and note cards and an enamel pin and a folding fan and more!

We’ll be posting more information about the campaign and the contributing creators throughout the next couple weeks, so make sure to give us a follow on social media.

This campaign ends on December 5th 2024 – don’t miss your chance to get all this awesome stuff! Become a backer today!

It’s also a great time to become a Patreon backer – and you’ll get a free bonus piece of merch if you back both the “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” campaign and are a $10/month or $25/month level supporter!

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"A Truth Universally Acknowledged": Our Fifth Teaser Post

The crowdfunding campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice is about two/thirds done, and we’re more than halfway through our teaser posts! The campaign ends December 5th, and our special Flash Backer Level (with a massive discount on all our anthologies, old and new!) ends December 2nd. We’re so close to our base funding goal – almost 90%! – so if you’ve been thinking about taking a peek, there’s no time like the present. Maybe you’ll be the backer who pushes us into officially funded!

Two of our authors, Téa Belog and nottesilhouette, opted to do related stories – not in the same settings or about the same characters, but about similar themes. In the final book, we gave the creators the option to write a paragraph or two about the inspiration behind their pieces, and Téa and nottesilhouette talk a lot in theirs about how their pieces are in dialogue with each other. As such, we’ve of course included both their teasers in the same day’s post!

Story Teaser: Téa Belog

Title: unwound thread and wilted roses

Excerpt:

It wasn’t something she ever expected, not before Bingley and his party went to stay at Netherfield. Despite all the barely disguised offers, batted eyelashes, and pointed looks, Georgiana never expected her brother would actually fall in love.

William never cared for courtship or marriage; he never had any inclination toward romance. His friends, while few and far between, were loyal and platonic and nothing more. In Georgiana’s eyes, he was never looking for romance in the same way others were. And maybe most importantly of all, he never seemed unfulfilled or restless in the way that some people did when they were searching for love. Or even just marriage. Despite the grand fortune bestowed upon him, William never mentioned looking for a wife.

And that… that had been a relief.

Art Teaser: Flore Picard

Title: Girls’ Night In

Story Teaser: nottesilhouette

Title: tell that to my tell-tale heart

Excerpt:

“So proline has restricted phi and psi angles given its 5-ring structure—you can see how it’s an outlier on the Ramachandran plot here.” Mary points to a tight ring, curled up on itself, tiny compared to the way the other amino acids sprawl out and take up space across the plane of the graph. “And that restricts its ability to bond with other amino acids.”

Immediately, Lydia blinks back tears.

She feels ridiculous, sobbing over protein folding patterns, but god, proline’s just like her for real. Bent all wrong, all sharp corners and stolen valence electrons. The way proline twists up into itself, the only amino acid to bond the protein backbone twice—it’s like it’s holding its own damn hand, no space for anybody else.

Art Teaser: mcdad arts

Title: Follies and Nonsense

Story Teaser: Em Rowntree

Title: We Can All Begin Freely

Excerpt:

“Come,” she says, “let’s dance.”

“I cannot dance,” Charlotte says. “I’ve been crying.”

“Perhaps that is the best time for it,” Caroline says, and her tone has its usual velvet sarcasm, but her expression is the most earnest Charlotte has ever seen it.

“I do not know if I can,” Charlotte admits.

Caroline says nothing, only begins the dance with a smile. Charlotte cannot help but follow, though she tries to move stiffly, tries to maintain propriety; she tries to show that she knows how odd and uncomfortable she must look, so she cannot be caught off-guard and vulnerable by a joke at her expense from Caroline. But her body has cried away its stiffness and its shame for tonight. Her body moves softly, easily. Her body asks for more.

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“A Truth Universally Acknowledged”: Teaser Post the 2nd

Hello hello! Happy Monday! The campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”has crossed 70%, and our power level funding level is over $9,000! Today, join us to enjoy three more story excerpts and two more trimmed art teasers!

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Story Teaser: Rascal Hartley

Title: Trousers and Other Oddities

Excerpt:

“Miss Elizabeth,” he says, and there is something meaningful in the words.

“You’re saying my name like it’s something holy,” she accuses. “Don’t.”

“I have thought of a way to settle our disagreement.”

“Over the dog who speaks French? I thought we were quite in agreement on that.”

“On who has the easier lot.”

“Ah. Then I am listening intently.”

He is still holding the edge of the ribbon—finer by far, Elizabeth notices, than the one currently tying his own hair back—between thumb and forefinger. “What if you and I switched places for the rest of the night?”

“You will have to be more specific.”

His face is red, as if he’s saying something forbidden. “We switch clothes.” Ah. He is.

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Art Teaser: Saro / Legendaerie

Title: “If only we had been blessed with a son.”

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Story Teaser: Vee Sloane

Title: The Iron Rose

Excerpt:

The woman dropped her brush, looking up in wide-eyed alarm. Her eyes were the kind of deep brown that Mary had always admired—the inviting warmth of suede and leather waiting to be pulled over metal joints to soften them.

Recovering herself, the woman offered a small smile. “You must be Miss Bennet.”

“And you must be—” Mary floundered, trying to think which young lady was unaccounted for, until the very obvious answer slapped her square in the face. “You can’t be Miss Darcy.”

“Can’t I be?” Miss Darcy’s smile went from polite to almost indecently large. “I’ve been wanting to introduce myself since you arrived, but I had a bout of some illness and my brother insisted I rest. Even Lizzy won’t let me escape my rooms. I have to sneak away at night.”

“That’s terrible! Diligent work for a limited amount of time can be healing.”

“Do you think so?” Miss Darcy blinked those lovely brown eyes at her. “Most people would say I shouldn’t be down here at all. In any condition.”

“Most people are fools. I think a lady’s mech work should be as valued as her embroidery,” Mary said firmly.

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Art Teaser: Cris Alborja

Cris Alborja has done two art pieces for this anthology; we’re sharing a teaser of one of them.

Title: Nighttime

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Story Teaser: A. L. Heard

Title: A Charmed Life

Excerpt: 

“My sister”—Henry gestured vaguely in Louise’s direction—“has solicited my attendance, which is hardly enough reason to tempt me, honestly, but I’m sometimes too indulgent.” He spoke in jest, hoping to see the handsome if solemn face light up in a smile.

It didn’t.

“I, too, come at the behest of my sister,” he said, his tone softening as he looked across the room, then sharpening once again when his gaze returned to Henry. “Though I don’t consider it a chore to indulge her.”

“And yet you stand here alone in the corner,” Henry pointed out. He offered a hand. “Henry Lucas.”

The man lifted his chin and stared down his nose at Henry’s outstretched hand. The pause was long enough that Henry was certain, if their luck were reversed and this stranger was in possession of the pocket watch, he would have told Henry off simply because he could and then completely undone the meeting, avoiding Henry so thoroughly the introduction would never happen. The thought made his heart skip a beat and heat rise in his cheeks.

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6x21; 9x10; 11x10

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eye studies

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if you’re staring at your screen in despair, just remember: so are most writers. solidarity.

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i’m the world ender baby and i’m comin’ for them they put me in the ground but i’m back from the dead

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Castiel + winking

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happiness isn’t in the having

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Back “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” Today!

We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is now live on Kickstarter – and already selected by them as a project they love!

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover! A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks, is just that. 38 creators have contributed to this project, drawing inspiration from Pride and Prejudice’s characters and story to create delightful, thoughtful, intriguing, and (of course) very queer fanworks and Pride and Prejudice-inspired original works. For this collection, we encouraged our creators to focus on Sapphic/wlw relationships and/or transgender and genderqueer interpretations for their inspiration, though those are definitely not the only types of queer we’ve fit into this diverse collection. We’re also offering an awesome array of merchandise – art prints and note cards and an enamel pin and a folding fan and more!

We’ll be posting more information about the campaign and the contributing creators throughout the next couple weeks, so make sure to give us a follow on social media.

This campaign ends on December 5th 2024 – don’t miss your chance to get all this awesome stuff! Become a backer today!

It’s also a great time to become a Patreon backer – and you’ll get a free bonus piece of merch if you back both the “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” campaign and are a $10/month or $25/month level supporter!

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Look at that time stamp 👀

Clearly, 2016!me experienced 2020!me's psychic damage over the Supernatural finale, and she created a fandom tumblr at the stroke of midnight!! ✨

She knew she'd have work to do a fix-it fic to write 😉

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 11/19/16, 12:00:55 AM.

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To the readers who have bookmarked my fics with a note containing the fic title and my username:

don't worry babe, I would never delete ❤️

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SPN Transcript Searcher

[Image Description: A screenshot of a simple website/search tool. The word "supernatural" is written in the search text box. Underneath this is a list of all the episodes of Supernatural in which the word "supernatural" is mentioned in the supernaturalwiki transcripts. /end ID]

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So a while back, I threw together a VERY rudimentary search tool for my friend connor @sarahjacobs to make it slightly easier to search all of the episode transcripts from supernaturalwiki.com. I've been sitting on it a while, since it's, again, very rudimentary, but I've shared it in like 2 discord servers and people seem to find it helpful, so instead of putting in the time to actually make the search algorithm anything but blindly brute force, I'm just going to share it with you guys as is 💙

Some things to note:

It searches for (case-insensitive) exact matches ONLY

(Ex. "peanut butter" will only return episodes with "peanut butter" but NOT "peanut-butter")

It searches for exact character matches, and doesn't search by word. This means that non-specific requests will return unhelpful results.

(Ex. "cas" will return episodes with "cas" "castiel" "case" "occasion" etc.)

Because it's rudimentary, it's very slow, and browsers like Chrome will see that it's taking a long time and think that it's gotten stuck. It hasn't. If you get a little popup that says it's not responding, hit the wait button and wait.

Side note, once you do an all-season search, any searches you do right after that will also go quickly, but wait too long and you'll need to wait again.

Search alternative below the cut if this tool just isn't working for you!

If you'd like to use google to run fuzzier searches, you can! Results may be imprecise and may return data that you don't need, but it goes a lot faster than my tool and is more forgiving if you don't remember exact phrasing.

site:supernaturalwiki.com "transcript" [your search here]

If you didn't know, the "transcript" in quotes means that it must necessarily look for pages that contain the exact word "transcript" somewhere on the page.

Here's an example:

Your search term(s) doesn't have to be in quotes! However here I was looking for instances with "peanut butter" exactly.

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You asked, "What about all of this is real?" We are.