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April 25: Murven, Couch
Murphy/Raven, past Bellamy/Raven, ~600 words, written in about 15 minutes, same 'verse as it is new moon and twilight
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Murphy has a bed big enough for two people, but he makes up the couch for her without asking or telling: a scratchy blanket on the bottom, with a ribbon of soft silk along the edge, the color of sand, and then something knitted, and then a blanket she recognizes from college and a couple of pillows that have mostly gone flat. Raven perches on the edge of his only chair and watches his careful preparations. She turns it around in her head: does he think she'll be more comfortable this way, or will he?
They slept together once in college--twice--but it doesn't count.
When he's finished, he pats the top blanket like it's all settled then, sits down and looks at her like he's startled to find her still in the room. Then almost immediately his expression settles: steady and appraising, narrow, how she knows him well. "Having regrets yet, Reyes?" he asks.
If she is, too late now. She's cleared her stuff out of the old apartment and the lease is up. She doesn't have much anyway; most of it was shit she and Bellamy bought together, and she let him take the plates and the appliances and most of the bedding, because he had another place lined up and she's bunking on Murphy's couch. So what's the point? It's just stuff. She won't be fighting over knickknacks in the divorce, in the broad sense of the word divorce.
She doesn't answer for a long time because she's picturing Bellamy in the second bedroom that used to be an office or something, because she's wondering if Clarke has that same drill-sergeant vibe around her even in the mornings or if she looks sleepy and soft then, if he'll fall in love with her, if Raven herself will feel jealous. If that's in her it's still a wave far off on the horizon. What she has now is shock, mostly, and that feeling that comes over her in hotels and airports and train rides after dark, that everything is limned in some strange light, that she's in a nowhere place and a nowhere time.
Murphy's new apartment and the couch he's made up for her.
It's his home, his space. She doesn't know where the glasses are. They aren't her glasses. Some of them are chipped and he tells her he's borrowing them from his mother's house, cause he's still working on this homemaking shit.
The crack in the bathroom wall, snaking out from behind the mirror. The way she can crawl through the living room window and out onto the fire escape and sit there until the metal digs in too cold against the soft flesh of her back and she can hear the whole city.
"Having regrets yet, Reyes?"
She flicks her gaze over to him. He's watching her soft-eyed. He knows how to do that, a look other girls have probably fallen in love with.
They used to lie half on top of each other, reading, silent. He didn't mind when she rested her head on his stomach. The day after the thing happened, the first time, she didn't want to speak to him alone because she wasn't sure what it would mean--on the edge of everything, anything, she'd just been playing pretend.
She slips forward to the edge of the chair. Her legs stretch out in front of her, and she squashes her hands between them, takes a deep, elongating breath in. "No regrets," she answers, and Murphy snorts under his breath like he doesn't believe her.
#the 100#raven reyes#john murphy#murven#murphy x raven#mine#my writing#the year 2024#2024: free write#it is new moon and twilight
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Yet another writing ask
Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?
Anything that you'd like to write but feel like you're unable to?
How would you describe your writing style?
Do you have any OCs? Do you have a story for them?
What's a tag you never want to use for your works even when it applies?
What's your ratio for rating your works?
Your favourite ao3 tag.
How slow is a slow burn?
Thoughts on cliffhangers.
Top three favourite fic tropes.
Three tropes that are fine but overrated.
If you write in more than one language, what's the difference?
Rate your worldbuilding skills from 1 to 10.
Write and share the first sentence of a new fic. Just that.
What's your favourite plotless fic you have written?
Are one-shots really underrated?
Past or present tense? Why?
First, second, or third person?
Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it.
Do you work on a single project or many at the same time? How does that work for you?
Can you accurately predict how long your fics are going to be? If you can, what's your secret?
What is it about watching the same two idiots falling in love over and over again?
Dialogue or description? Why is the other one so hard?
Thoughts on flashbacks/flashforwards.
Is writing the whole thing beforehand better or worse than writing it as you go?
What would you describe as OOC?
Do you agree that one shouldn't start a story with a piece of dialogue?
Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing?
What's the hardest thing about writing?
Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn't.
What was the most difficult fic for you to write (but in the end you made it)?
Do you have a word/expression that you always use in your writing?
Give your writing a compliment.
Do you write to improve? Or is that not a concern for you?
Thoughts on writing challenges/contests.
How do you come up with fic titles? What's the one you're most proud of?
Do you research before writing or while you write? Is it fun or boring for you?
"This never happened" fix-it fics or "this happened but" fix-it fics?
Wildest AU scenario you have written?
Write a 9-word fic.
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RYAN GOSLING
96th Annual Academy Awards (March 10, 2024)
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© LINUS ENGLUND
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My drawer fic is now so long that word can't keep track of the word count accurately and every time I check to see what it is, it says something different, like without me adding any words or doing anything, and I really... don't love that since the project is so word-count dependent. I guess I need to start a new document for the new stuff? Really weird that we're at this point.
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April 23: Today's Writing
I finally got myself together at the tail end of my long weekend to do a little bit of writing, and I'm glad I did, because I do feel better. I'm within a stone's throw of finishing the short chapter 2 of the College AU.
Here is an excerpt.
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"Hey, so—" Tom slips around the edge of one of the desks, falling into step beside Daria just as she reaches the front of the classroom. He has to raise his voice to be heard above the sounds of students gathering their books, zipping their backpacks, and filing out. "So I really did miss you at dinner last night. Where were you?"
"Don't you mean 'what's his name?'" she shoots back, still reliably deadpan.
Tom shrugs. He has to pause at the top of the stairs as the two girls who sat in front of them briefly slip past, but then he catches up to Daria again, as she fully expected he would. "I'm not asking for any personal details here. Just name, age, rank, and student ID number." He thinks another moment, tripping down the last few steps, light on his feet. "And a ranking of his sexual prowess on a scale of one to ten."
Daria shoves the door open a little harder than she has to, something satisfying in the weight of the push bar giving to, and the heavy door swinging open on a bracing mid-morning chill. "Look, there was no guy. I went into the city and I lost track of time and I missed the last train. I got in this morning. That's all."
She's gotten all of two steps onto the sidewalk when she realizes Tom isn't beside her anymore, and she has to look back and grab him, where he's briefly frozen on the last step, and pull him out of the way of foot traffic. The jarring motion snaps him out of his temporary spell.
"You spent the night in Boston?" he repeats. "Please don't tell me you slept in the train station or something. You know if you'd called me, I would have come and gotten you—" "I didn't sleep in the train station."
#the year 2024#2024: excerpt#looking forward to the day i can find out if this interests people who aren't me
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Day 27 Femslash February: Read With Me.
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April 22: Weekend Continues
I tried to have a more productive day today, and actually do some of the stuff I've been telling myself I'll do this whole mini-break. I did laundry (cloths, though not some of the other laundry I was hoping to do) and some other cleaning. I didn't get to any writing, which I guess is fine.
My throat has been hurting, and though I don't have any other symptoms, I do worry that this is the start of me getting sick. That would be so ironic, if I had to extend my vacation because I wasn't feeling well. But so far I'm basically fine. I think the tiredness I feel is some sort of combination of being chronically beat down (life, work, etc.) and perhaps a lack of structure or drive. So I don't know what to make of the throat thing.
Tomorrow I think I need to get out of the apartment, get some sun. I'd like to also write. I feel like yet again I will let a weekend (a long weekend!) go by without finishing Jonty because if I can only do one tomorrow--and I can only do one--I'd rather work on the College AU. Oh well. I'm not really rushing toward anything to be quite honest, so it's fine if the Jonty fic lingers on. It will be the weekend again before long anyway and I can always be hopeful about the next one.
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Yes this poll is very biased in favor of North America lol
#about me#i'm in my mid 30s and it was nickelodeon#i would say disney channel defined my tweendom#dcoms were of course huge when i was in like 6th grade#but i kind of think we didn't even get disney channel when i was really little...#and the only cartoon network memories i have are from poland#which is really odd and i have to assume we didn't get it at home either? or i just wasnt interested#nick though#the 90s programming from nick was the best#a lot of brilliant stuff a lot of weird stuff#geraldine laybourne a true visionary for sure#polls
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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS
Too many beds
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss
Really nice guy who hates only you
Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class
Divorce of convenience
Too much communication
True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating
Too hot to cuddle
Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
Nursing home au
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honestly in some ways t100 is SUCH a conservative show and I think that's part of why I find s4 so fucking unbearable.
#i thought maybe it wouldn't be a slog to watch 4a#guys it's such a slog idk why i'm doing this#mundane#still eternally scratching my head at people who rank this as their fave season#like to each their own it is fine but i simply cannot relate#unbearable on ALL fronts imho
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3, 10, 20 for the Fic Ask Game? 🙂
Hi! Thank you for the asks!
I answered three here.
10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?
Hmmm, yeah. I think for the most part I'm pretty good at guessing responses, but there have been some that surprised me in a positive way. That What We Built still occasionally shows up on rec lists and so on always surprises me, because that story doesn't really mean much to me. But I love that it means something to others!
Similarly, I was truly shocked that Complex College Mating Rituals... got so many comments because I really wasn't expecting anything from that. It's definitely set up some unrealistic expectations, but I'm still deeply appreciative.
20. What’s a favorite title for a fic you’ve written?
Oh boy. I am not good at titling things, not gonna lie. Half the time they're just song or poem titles, which sure do sound good, but I feel like I can't take credit for them.
I guess I might say The Ice Princess / Turn the Radiator On because I like that it has a double title. But I also like The Oasis because I think it is a rare title of mine that actually adds in some way to the story it belongs to.
Send me an ask (if you want)!
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