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Royal Divorce AU

Character A is the heir to the royal throne, and Character B is their childhood best friend and servant. As children, both of them were disgusted by the idea of marriage – Character A wanted to marry for love and not for politics, and Character B didn’t like the big loud ceremonies and crowds associated with weddings – and so the two children decided to “marry” each other as friends. They manage to get a notarized marriage certificate, sign it, and promptly forget about it. 

Fast forward many years later, and it is time for Character A to be wed and inherit the throne, but there’s a hitch: the childhood marriage certificate. The royal court demands that Character A and Character B get divorced before the new marriage goes through, but there’s a problem: Character A and Character B haven’t spoken in years. 

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You’re immortal and have passed the ‘hero’ phase centuries ago. You enter a small corner shop one day to find it is owned by your millennia-old arch-nemesis. You really, really need milk though.

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i think that all stories are about consumption, performance, and/or narrative, and the best combine elements of all three

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calling that word document a draft by the way im dodging it haha

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The three-ring binder is the apex of book technology, by the way. All the advantages of a codex, plus you can add, remove, and reorder pages at will - pages which you can furthermore protect from damage in transparent sleeves, and store commentaries, notes, and other paratextual addenda behind them without obscuring the primary content. Truly the queen of codices. Reblog if you love the three-ring binder.

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i hope you write (i hope we both write)

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Hello Mr.Gaiman

In Good Omens season 1 episode 1, Aziraphale justifies giving Adam and Eve the flaming sword because of Eve's pregnancy and they used the phrase "She's expecting already" but from what I researched, that phrase started getting used in the 1900's, so could you please explain why and how they used that phrase.

I'm a big fan of Good Omens, please answer whenever you are up to it. :)

Assume it's being translated from the original Angelish.

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I know that from a modern western context Nie Huaisang's hobbies of collecting fans and pretty things, and painting and doing poetry instead of fighting is read as gender-nonconforming. And while that interpretation is perfectly fine and I do love seeing Huaisang play with gender in AUs, it's still pretty important to understand that in his own cultural context all of his hobbies are considered normal for a young man to have. Painting was one of the four arts of the chinese scholar, and so was calligraphy. These were all acceptable and even expected skills for a man to have.

Huaisang in canon isn't seen as womanly but as childish. He overindulges in his hobbies and refuses to do his job. He's physically frail, can't fight, refuses to try and train so he's also seen as lazy and alltogether not willing to bear the responsibility his station comes with.

And so, if you want to translate that to a contemporary society, he should ideally have interests that, while acceptable for a boy to have, are seen as trivial, as something it's a little cringe to still have a massive interest in as you grow up. And ideally something that carries a stereotype of laziness or physical weakness.

So what i'm saying is that modern AU Huaisang... is a gamer.

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So I'm gonna be doing NaNo this year after a good while of recovering my writing energy, and I'm really excited about my story this year! This post is just to put this feeling down in words somewhere and also maybe to have a place to track feelings about my story this year outside of word count. I'd like to maybe hop into a few introduce your story and yourself threads on NaNo forums, so I'm off to do that!

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Helpful and Preventative Stretches for Writers, Artists, and Gamers 💪🎨✍🎮

If you type, write, draw, game, or generally use your hands a lot (especially if you’re prone to RSI or Carpal Tunnel!) try these stretches as both a preventative measure, and on the spot relief. Take care of yourself and your body, friends!

Start with hands up, fingers stretched out.  Stretch your thumb as far as you can over your palm. Hold and repeat 4 times.

Touch each finger to your thumb. Hold each for 30 seconds. Repeat on each hand 4 times.

Start with a fist. Open half way, hold for 2 seconds. Stretch fingers out, hold for 2 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

Start with one arm out, palm up. Pull your fingers back with your other hand. Hold for 10 seconds. Do the same with your other hand. Repeat 4 times

Start with arms up, palms out. Bend wrists down until you feel the stretch, but keep your fingers loose. Hold 10 seconds. Bend wrist upwards, until you feel it in your wrist and arm. Hold 10 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

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You are gifted a new camera to photograph the world but as you begin to review the photos you realize instead of portraits of people it shows the true form of their soul.

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Here comes a sassy snek boi who knows how to razzle-dazzle ! This is a character from Thomas Sanders Sanders Sides series, his name’s Janus but he is also called Deceit. Enjoy !

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everyone's talking about how janus called Remus the evil twin and how it must hurt Remus but like I feel like Remus would enjoy being called evil by janus just imagine him being like "jan called me evil today!!!!! :DDDD"

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inspiration

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I've been doing AO3 tutorials over on TikTok to help out new users (and veteran users!) with learning how to better use the site. One question that keeps coming up is how to search for your favourite ship being the main ship or the endgame ship instead of a minor or side ship.

Since AO3 isn't set up for doing that in the relationship tags, I thought I'd put the word out about some Additional Tags that authors might want to consider.

A/B-centric

Endgame A/B

Minor A/B

Eventual A/B

If enough authors use these, AO3's tag wranglers can make them canonical. That means that other users could search and filter based on those tags.

As always, tags are at the author's discretion, but I just thought I'd put these out there as an option for anyone who might be looking for them.

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When fic writers host writing tutorials.