So far I've successfully convinced myself that my plot is the shit. Then successfully convinced myself that it is shit.
Haven't written a page.
looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:
dont care
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what the actual fuck
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ooh that sounds- what the fuck
unfinished
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the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again
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Reblogging for the absolute brutal accuracy of this comment
And then you're like "fuck it, I'll make my own" and once you've done that you toss it into the goodwill bin to be someone else's prada or container of human teeth
And sometimes you gotta go with the container of human teeth purely out of morbid curiosity.
The container of human teeth is what I was looking for specifically. If you must know.
I once read a fic out of morbid curiosity that was Elias Bouchard x Gerard Keay and it turned out to be Prada disguised as a box of teeth. One of my absolute favorite fics.
For interested parties, it's Could be all Our Demons, Darling by XueYangsLawyer
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I just saw someone say AO3 is “gay teens writing gay shit” and I have no idea how to tell you that most of the writers you love so much are adults.
frrrr i look at the notes and the author is always like "sorry for the late upload!!! it's my 10th anniversary and my husband took me skydiving 🥳🥳 plus i've just finished my third phD!! anyways here's 30k"
Yeah…I’m not a teen lol
"Why is your fic so good"
I have a bachelor's in creative writing, a mortgage, and a working knowledge of which cleaners you use to lift grease stains. I am unstoppable.
“Your writing is so good!”
Thanks, my first fanfic had been old enough to serve in the House of Representatives for the past two years.
"I love your fics!"
Thanks! I've literally been writing for over half my life, have several published novels and have worked in a creative field for nearly a decade :D
One time, when I was a teenager, I punched my sister in the face.
I can tell you this now because my parents aren’t on Tumblr and also I am thirty years old and can no longer get in trouble for it.
Ha.
Wish that was true.
But, yeah, my sister and I got into some pretty intense arguments over the years. We do better now—mostly because she lives in another state and I focus on avoiding arguments and just enjoying our time to catch up when she visits.
In my opinion, some relationships do so much better long distance.
Another thing that helps keep the peace now is that I have matured enough to be able to direct my ‘big emotions’ in a way that doesn’t always end in a blowup.
I feel things deeply, okay? When I am mad, I am mad. When I am sad, I am really, really sad. When I’m happy and excited, I am . . . waiting for it to implode.
Haha.
Okay, not really, but there is a reason I’ve fought with anxiety and depression most of my life. I have big emotions, and for my family, that was a lot to handle. I was the drama queen, I was overreacting, I was annoying.
That was why it was such a relief to me to read A Wrinkle in Time and to see Meg with her righteous fury and her tears and her overwhelming feelings. I understood her immediately, and it was a relief to walk through the book with her and see how she learned—not to stuff down her emotions—but to direct them in the right way. She learned to breathe through her anger and sort through how she was feeling and choose what the situations in front of her needed.
As someone who was struggling to do that myself—and who wasn’t directed very well on how to do that—this book and Meg were so good for me. I loved seeing her stumble and make mistakes and I loved seeing her conquer and direct herself in the right way.
Even now, at thirty, I still struggle to do that, but I’m getting there.
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Sonia Sanchez, ‘Haiku (for you)’, Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Poems
[Text ID: “love between us is
speech and breath. loving you is
a long river running”]
