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PRIDE MONTH CHALLENGES SURVEY (TAKE TWO)

So I am actually such an idiot and managed to confuse myself... let's do this again.

In order to make this pride month the best so far, I’ve created a survey for our challengers to complete that will help us create and choose the challenges for the event.

HERE IT IS, BETTER!

#signal boost #surveys

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𝐑𝐄-𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆… 𝐌𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐋𝐘𝐍 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄-𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑, 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐘 𝐁𝐀𝐔𝐄𝐑

❝ Nicky was used to not being “normal”. He’d been diagnosed as autistic at the tender age of eleven, and from that point on had been the subject of many hateful looks and uncreative taunts from his neurotypical classmates, who apparently thought that having an autistic person among them was the worst kind of injustice. Nicky had then been disowned and thrown out of the house at the age of seventeen by his fervently religious parents, who apparently could accept an autistic son but not a gay one, and had been forced to rely on the kindness of his friends’ families for a place to stay until he had graduated high school and won a university scholarship that allowed him to stay in a dorm on campus.

Years after graduating from university and the police academy and finally becoming a detective like he’d always dreamed, Nicky was transferred to Brooklyn’s ninety-ninth precinct, where he expected to once again be treated like a strange outsider by his “normal” co-workers. But to his utter surprise, Nicky quickly found himself one of the only sensible people in his new workplace, at least compared to Jake Peralta’s chaotic antics, his captain’s general incompetence, and... literally everything that went on with Hitchcock and Scully.

But now the Nine-Nine has a new captain, a much more serious one who promises to finally knock some sense into this madhouse of a precinct. However, Jake continues to resist Holt’s attempts at forcing him to act responsibly, Rosa continues to be a stoic lover of weapons and violence, and Nicky? He continues to be an awkward mess of bad jokes and fidget toys who has a hopeless crush on his most chaotic co-worker.

Maybe Nicky’s life, and Nicky himself, will never be “normal”. But, maybe, that’s not as bad a thing as he’s always lead himself to believe. ❞

General Taglist: @hiddenqveendom, @foxesandmagic, @artemisocs, @reyofluke-ocs, @endless-oc-creations, @stanshollaand, @ginnystilinski-reblogs, @luucypevensie, @ginger-grimm, @arrthurpendragon, @fakedatings, @impales, @claryxjackson, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @eddysocs, @lucys-chen, @ocappreciationtag. (Also tagging @manyfandomocs.)

#oc: nicky bauer #daughter-of-melpomene #dollyverse #friends’ ocs #fic: paper rings #friends’ fic

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Happy one year anniversary to when my neighbors got swatted while I was home alone and THIS was my mom's reaction to the situation

#character inspo #melinda mantle

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Max Pollard, The Society + a moodboard for every oc (151/?)

tag list: @akabluekat, @arrthurpendragon, @bravelittleflower, @foxesandmagic, @juliaswickcrs, @kendelias, @kingsmakers, @nixdragon, @ocs-supporting-ocs, @starcrossedjedis, @sunlitscribe, @villain-connoisseur, @waterloou, @wordspin-shares

#max pollard #amfeo #ocappreciation #the society #it takes a village

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You are not “too stupid” to create.

You are too exhausted to create.

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You can count on me for whatever. I am like a Girl Scout, always ready. I actually was a Girl Scout, I just graduated early because I was ahead of the class and bored.

inspo/playlist

TAGLIST: @waterloou @eddysocs ​ @ocs-supporting-ocs @foxesandmagic @veetlegeuse @decennia @hiddenqveendom @arrthurpendragon @luucypevensie @kentaroranda @noratilney @wordspin-shares @oneirataxia-girl @endless-oc-creations @lucys-chen @andromedalestrange @far-shores @daughter-of-melpomene @bibaybe

#lovely! #oc: willa darling #ginger-grimm #annamariaverse #friends’ ocs

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friends to lovers never had a bad track. “scared i’ll ruin what we have” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “screaming i love you in the middle of a heated argument.”

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Charlotte Spencer as Esther Denham in SANDITON

#regency era!sophia vibes #character inspo #sophia mikaelson #story inspo #btm

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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

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𝐑𝐄-𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆… 𝐌𝐘 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑, 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒

❝ Laurens Gates - full name John Laurens Gates, but nobody besides his parents had ever called him John and escaped unscathed - had never believed in what was supposedly his family's history. Unlike his older brother, who had wholeheartedly bought into the stories their grandfather kept telling them and spent most of his childhood planning how he would become the Gates to finally find the Templars' lost treasure, Laurens patiently listened to his grandfather's rambling tales and then rolled his eyes the second the old man's back was turned. He wasn't trying to be rude - he was by nature sarcastic and pessimistic, but never outright rude - but it had always seemed impossible to him that such a large and important treasure could have gone unfound after so many years and so many people trying.

Having fled his dysfunctional family home as soon as he graduated from high school, Laurens had chosen to pursue a drastically different path than his brother, one that was at once less practical as an artist's career and more practical than running off to look for treasure. While Ben had run off to treasure hunt after only two years of college, with a degree he never would've gotten if it wasn't for their mother's nagging, Laurens had studied the traditional four years, earned his degree in fiction writing, and fought to get published the stories that he had been working on and honing his entire life. And eventually, he did; one of his works, the heartfelt magical realism story that was nearest and dearest to his heart, had gotten picked up and published, and before long, Laurens had been thrust into the limelight, with a book that stayed at the top of the New York Times list for two months and left readers clamoring for more.

Five years after that first novel, Laurens has finished the bestselling trilogy that came from that story and now aims to begin a new novel - one about adventure and romance, filled with adrenaline-fueled chases and heart-pounding action. The only problem is that he can't seem to get the damn thing started, no matter how many hours he fills with staring at his blank computer document or trying exercises for overcoming writer's block.

And then his dear older brother, whom Laurens hasn't spoken to in almost a year, calls him up and tells him that he's finally made a breakthrough in his hunt for the Templar treasure. While Laurens still can't quite bring himself to believe that the treasure really exists, he figures that the hunt Ben is attempting to drag him on might provide some inspiration for his novel, and so he takes his brother up on the offer to accompany his expedition to the Arctic Circle.

And promptly finds himself caught up in a real-life adventure, racing against the clock and Ben's traitorous ex-partner to find the treasure first, carrying out elaborate plans to steal priceless historical documents - and potentially developing feelings for his brother's cute and awkward assistant.

Forget writing an adventure story - with only one phone call from his brother, Laurens has found himself living in one. ❞

General Taglist: @hiddenqveendom, @foxesandmagic, @artemisocs, @reyofluke-ocs, @endless-oc-creations, @stanshollaand, @ginnystilinski-reblogs, @luucypevensie, @ginger-grimm, @arrthurpendragon, @fakedatings, @impales, @claryxjackson, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @eddysocs, @lucys-chen, @ocappreciationtag.

#ch: laurens gates #daughter-of-melpomene #dollyverse #friends' ocs #fic: centuries #friends' fic

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Fanfic Ask Game

Put a color in my ask box, and I'll answer the corresponding question. Please ask me only one at a time. 😄

If you'd like me to ask you a question in return from this list, add a ✏️.

💚 Green: Do you ever feel inspired by and/or jealous of other people's writing?

♥️ Red: Do you ever feel anxious or scared while writing? If so, why?

💙 Blue: What inspires you to finish writing a fanfic, and what makes you quit writing one at any stage in the process?

💜 Purple: Name one song you're listening to while writing your next/current fanfic. How or why does it help the writing process?

🧡 Orange: When in the day do you typically write?

🩷 Pink: Do you find a certain character (or characters) easy to write? More difficult -- and if so, do you avoid writing that character (or those characters) when possible?

🖤 Black: Do you think about your story when you're not physically writing it? Does it help with plotting scenes, character arcs, etc.?

💛 Yellow: Do you ever alter, highlight, or de-emphasize certain canonical traits in a character? If so, why and describe how.

🤍 White: What's a fanfic scenario or idea you'd like someone else to write so that you can read it?

🤎 Brown: How did you decide to write (or why are you writing) a certain fanfic? (Asker, feel free to choose a specific story you're curious about. You can also let the answerer choose the story.)

#ask meme

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LUCY TARA & KATE WHISTLER NCIS: Hawai'i (S03E04)- "Dead on Arrival"

#ship inspo #elle x kaya

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flowers for those who need them:

🌸 you matter. even if you don’t think you’ve done anything of value, you have. you have value and worth. you always will. not when you get your shit together, not two years ago - always.

🌹 please take care of yourself. take your meds, drink some water, eat something. i know this is all over tumblr, but your body needs those things to function. eating and drinking and your meds will improve your mood and help you stay afloat.

🌼 be proud of yourself. you’ve made it so far! you’ve survived every bad day you’ve evr had. you’re so strong. you can do this. keep going. you’re a force to be reckoned with.

🌻 you’re beautiful. yes, you. don’t say “oh, this doesn’t apply to me.” because it does! you’re beautiful and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.

🌷your friends do care about you. mental illnesses are just mean. they love you, even if your brain tells you different.

🌺 stay alive, please. ♡

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having such an obvious favorite character trope is life ruining bro

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"I have been held hostage for nearly a year by these creatures! My sister had to celebrate her fifteenth birthday in a glorified cell!" Whisky brown eyes blazing, Julia stepped closer to him. "If anyone is entitled to know what their plan is, it is me. So do not patronize me, Doctor, and explain."

The Doctor's breath hitched slightly. Though tiny, the top of her head only just reaching his chin, the young woman in front of him was clearly a force to be reckoned with. Swallowing heavily, he said, with a slight smile, "I don't think anyone could patronize you and get away with it, Miss Waterfield."

Her fury subsided slightly. "Julia," she said in a softer tone. "You may call me Julia."

-Julia Waterfield and the Doctor

#interesting! #oc: julia waterfield #darksideofparis #friends' ocs

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Not sure about anyone else but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when I’ve had a rough day so if you’ve ever taken the time to write a deep, funny, or just kind comment, thank-you.