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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), dir. Peter Jackson Sean Bean as Boromir, Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins

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Everyone should read their own fanfics recreationally tbh this shit fucking rules. It's like the author knows exactly what I like.

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Not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (drift compatible)

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the best thing about writing a fic where half of the chapters are set on the winter solstice is getting to add a load of christmas music to your fic playlist

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turkey

okay i don't have anything for turkey (yet), but have some chicken instead:

‘Excuse me?’ came a voice from further along the table, when Albus was already on his third mouthful of fried chicken. He swallowed, and turned. The speaker was a girl he didn’t recognise. She was tall, with long braided hair and an inquisitive expression. ‘Are you Albus Potter?’

i hope this is satisfactory! clearly i need to write in some turkey dinners 🦃

play the wip game: send me a word and i’ll share a line from my wip where it appears!

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wip game: snowman, sledge, christmas, flake

thank you for the lovely words! i don't have anything for sledge, but here are the others:

snowman:

Now that it was O.W.L year, he was keen to make the best possible impression with his teachers and he’d been using the extra time at school to write up detailed notes ready for efficient revision later in the year, but not without his fair share of distraction from Albus, who was more eager to build snowmen and play games of gobstones than spend time on schoolwork.

christmas:

Last year, Lucius had asked - right in the middle of Christmas dinner - why Scorpius hadn’t yet found himself ‘a young lady of respectable heritage’.

flake:

The entirety of their school years seemed to have melted away as quickly as the snowflakes that were now turning to shivering drops of water on Albus’s skin.

play the wip game: send me a word and i’ll share a line from my wip where it appears! this is for my 200k+ scorbus wip Solstice 🌙☀️

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its fucking dember.

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for the wip game: love

ahh this is a nice word with lots of options to choose from! here is a cryptic one :)

love:

He ducked forward so that he could catch Rafe’s eyes. ‘It’s funny,’ he said, when Rafe could no longer avoid looking at him. Rafe looked wary, still unconvinced. ‘I mean it,’ Albus added firmly, ‘I kind of love it.’

‘You’re just saying that so I don’t feel bad,’ Rafe said, but he straightened up a little and looked marginally less despondent.

thank you for asking!

play the wip game: send me a word and i'll share a line from my wip where it appears! this is for my 200k+ scorbus wip Solstice 🌙☀️

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wip game:

slug

even more shockingly, there is exactly one instance of the word slug in solstice!

slug:

It took just over an hour for them to find everything they needed from Albus’s shopping list, and another half hour to pick everything they wanted for themselves from Honeydukes (‘Your teeth will fall out, Scorpius!’ - ‘I don’t care, I want this many jelly slugs!’).

thank you for asking, lovely granddaughter!

play the wip game: send me a word and i'll share a line from my wip where it appears! this is for my 200k+ scorbus wip Solstice 🌙☀️

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wip game: duck

surprisingly i actually have something for this!

duck:

Albus could hear the drone of insects from the bushes, and the sound of someone playing the guitar carrying across the lake. They walked slowly, occasionally pointing out a duck swimming near the lake shore or pausing for Stella or Rafe to say hi to a passing acquaintance.

tysm for the ask!

play the wip game: send me a word and i'll share a line from my wip where it appears! this is for my 200k+ scorbus wip Solstice 🌙☀️

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color or stop for the wip game

you can have colour and stop! here are some wildly out of context snippets for those words :)

colour:

‘Feels good, doesn’t it?’ Rafe was looking at him with a devilish smile.

‘Yeah,’ Albus admitted, feeling his cheeks colour slightly.

stop:

Albus’s pulse was racing. It was too late to pretend he wasn’t here now. ‘I have just as much right to be here as anyone else,’ he said, trying desperately to stop his voice from trembling.

thank you for asking!!

play the wip game: send me a word and i'll share a line from my wip where it appears! this is for my 200k+ scorbus wip Solstice 🌙☀️

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James Sirius, Albus Severus, & Lily Luna Potter

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wip wednesday 🎁

let's celebrate the end of nanowrimo with a little work-in-progress wednesday! here's a snippet from solstice that i wrote a little while ago now, with some soft fluffy boys in the snow:

‘I should probably head off,’ Scorpius said, raising his wrist to indicate his watch. 

‘I know,’ Albus said. He took half a step forwards and bit his lip. ‘But you have snow-’ he stretched out his arm towards Scorpius ‘-in your hair.’

Scorpius stood paralysed as Albus reached up and ever so gently brushed a hand through his hair. The December air was cold and he could feel the heat of Albus’s hand near his skin as he pulled back, the very slightest brush of his finger across the sensitive skin just in front of his ear. Albus let his hand drop down to his side but didn’t step backwards. Even in the dim light Scorpius could see the freckles scattered across his nose, could see the falling snowflakes in the reflection of his eyes. 

‘Thanks,’ he managed. His voice was barely more than a strangled squeak. 

Albus looked at him for a few seconds, and Scorpius thought he saw the hint of a struggle in his expression - like he was trying to hold something back. ‘Any time,’ he said eventually, his voice low and soft. He still didn’t move backwards. 

this is my in-progress monster-length scorbus post-cc fic, which is finally nearing completion and will hopefully be coming to an AO3 near you in 2023!

if you'd like to read more, we can play the wip game: send me a word and i'll share a sentence where it appears! i have over 200k words to select from now :)

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IT'S DONE!!!!!!!!!

trolley completes nano!

a couple of weeks ago i would have said this was a complete impossibility, but we have made it, friends.

50,000 whole words in november, and 50,000 more words of solstice. this baby is so close to being a finished story now! i only needed 1315 today but have ended up doing almost 1900 thanks to the end of the current chapter presenting itself to me. my bastard cold did its best to take me down but i said no.

it has been a wild ride of a month and i am very much hoping that december will yield more chill and hopefully fewer dramatic health incidents, but hopefully plenty more writing. the end of solstice approaches, as does the colossal editing process, but i am so determined now to get this fic out and into the world. i'll share an extract soon as a little celebration but thank you to everyone who has cheered me through this month, and a special shout-out to @littlerose13writes for being my nano buddy!