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#i love this sonya #legends is what much of my fic is in these days #and love the look in this sketch #mwah #i shall pet it and cherish it and slip it in my refs

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so I did this... a little present for the sonya/kenshi contingent on my tl <3 Sonya's frozen to the bone and just wants to get warm. Her partner has other ideas. T rated for stated nudity and the setup, though naked bodies really shouldn't be T buuut figured I'd err on the side of caution. A quick flash fiction piece over on AO3.

#sonya blade #kenshi takahashi #sonya x kenshi #swordblade #mortal kombat fanfiction #mortal kombat #whatever we're calling this ship #fanfiction #fanfiction cover #i'm slowly figuring them out

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It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip

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Can you translate the Montreal clip on STAT?

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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honestly you all are so annoying because motherhood IS interesting but fandom people are simultaneously obsessed with deciding that every woman has motherly qualities and completely disinterested in actually exploring motherhood as a role that informs a character. I do think exploring a character being a mother can be wildly interesting if they are canonically one, but because of misogyny, people just view motherhood as a totally unremarkable naturalized state that all women must inhabit!

#and a shoutout to the troubled mothers #the ones who shouldn't have been a mom but are #or weren't ready #no character has to be a perfect mother #some might want to be and can't #the struggles may be just as delicious to explore

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Ime tentacle porn usually has an anonymous sex angle to it. But consentacles would be fitting for a ship with a tentacle monster, octopus mermaid ect.

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Yes. There tends to be a difference between blorbo/original tentacle monster and "Oops, I woke up with tentacles!" fic about two canon characters.

#have written consentacles #it was fun #cecaelias deserve more love #let the octopus mermaids have good tentacley times too

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May Writing Challenge

This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊

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This is a piece by Mark Brooks (I believe called Surferheroes?) and it has been living in my head for the past few weeks (months?) while I muse over a surf competition/beach day fic for MK. Sonya with a SF board, Kitana with an Edenia board, Frost with a Lin Kuei board, Harumi with a Shirai Ryu board, Mileena with an Outworld board, maybe Ashrah with a Netherrealm board? If anyone does art with that idea in mind, for one/several/all of those chars, PLEASE @ me. The idea has just been lodged in my head, won't get out, and we even have Lifeguard Sonya from Deadly Alliance.

It's on my AUgust queue, or a just-for-fun piece sometime. I just can't shake the image.

#mortal kombat #headcanons #fics to write #sonya blade #the beach episode #everyone needs a beach episode

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Catherine Dubois, the absolute savage that you are 😂 This is iconic.

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Hey betts! how do you tell whether an agent accepts erotica? Some profiles on MSWL say explicitly yea or nay, but most of them don't address it. How up-front do you need to be in you query letter? What's the rough % split of romance agents that will/won't rep it? Is their some kind of etiquette??

unfortunately i don't know much about the romance market, but be sure you're cross-checking all your information with each agency's website, which will have more information about what agents accept. MSWL is usually for specifics. also look at the books they've sold to find out what they're into, and follow their social media accounts.

if you look through the agency's website, publisher's marketplace, poets & writers (although their listings are usually very out of date), querytracker, and all their social media and still can't get an idea if they rep erotica, they probably don't. the etiquette is evidence you've done your research by personalizing each query to that specific agent, and fitting your pitch into what they've shared about their tastes and what they rep. it's better to query 10 agents you know for sure would be into your MS than 100 agents you're guessing at.

in terms of being upfront, if you feel like you have to hide the fact you've written erotica, they're probably not the agent for you. your ideal agent will see erotica as a selling point and that will probably be a key part of your pitch.

#erotica is such a pita field right now #mostly because of the conservative leaning once more #there are some houses out there that take it unrepped #but there are fewer markets now than there were #i think a lot of people are going self pub or indie small press

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Come read this tasty piece of fic from @northstarfan on AO3! Though we lost the artist, the fic is an excellent piece that came from the big bang and we want to make sure everyone gets a chance to read it! You can find The Archer and The Emperor on AO3.

#mkfandombang #mkbigbang

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i encourage you to go to your favourite writer's ao3 page and comment on an older fic, because i can assure you that it will make their day. It can mean so much to see your work doesn't disappear into the void to be never seen again after a day of people interacting with it. Just, if you have the time, go comment on an older work

(pls reblog this to try and get as much writers a bit of appreciation)

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Care to explain why you have mutuals who like irredeemable media (Hazbin Hotel, Harry Potter, Attack on Titan, Captive Prince, etc.)? If they're not your mutuals, you're at the very least in the same circles as them. Maybe do some self reflection about what sorts of people you choose to associate with...

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So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.