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did someone say ponytail baz? @urban-sith

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This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

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happiest of birthdays to @seducing-a-vampire !! on this most auspicious day, i have baked you a very special cake.

dana and @starwarned graced us with the concept of the "property of tyrannus: underwear in their 2021 entry to crackfest and it lives in my brain rent free. (i have no complaints.)

Property of Tyrannus (E), 3k

by @seducing-a-vampire & @starwarned

Baz is reading in the living room, and he very nearly blushes when I come out of our bedroom, starkers except for those ridiculous red pants. He clears his throat and cocks an eyebrow at me. “Bit warm, are you, Snow?” “I feel great, actually,” I say, really laying it on thick. I walk slowly into the kitchen, Baz watching my every step. He puts down his book when I bend over to pick up a pen that I’d dropped (an actual clumsy moment, not a seduction technique). - 5 times Simon called Baz 'Tyrannus' in bed and 1 time Baz asked him to.

lstien i know simon says he wasnt trying to be seductive but like. come on. we all know whats going on here...

#🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 #this is the most beautiful and precious cake #truly the most perfect butt #I love his lil expression too ahhHahaa #and freckles and wings and tail 🤩🤩🤩🤩 #he’s PERFECT #Rory 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #UR SO NICE TO ME #THANK U FOR BEING MY FRIEND #❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥹🥹🥹🥹 #rly clutch I finally updated my phone to get that emoji bc it’s the only way I can expres how I feel

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thoughts and prayers for son’s out Simon

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Local sad man, Malcolm Grimm, waits for his wife to return home from the war a cult.

#local sad ma n😭

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WIP PROGRESS WEDNESDAY

Today I’m signing the Waterstones special edition of SCATTERED SHOWERS. This is a limited signed edition. (It’s the one with the rainbow edge.)

I drove around looking for open-stock Sharpies in a color that would match the interior ink… (The interior is printed in two colors of ink — a minty teal and a purply burgundy.) I think Rocket Red is the best choice, but I’m open to Berry. I spent … a lot. Of time. On this.

(My husband hates to cut the tulips, but this week is so hot, they would have fried anyway. I talked him into bringing them in, and now I’m signing in Wonderland.)

SCATTERED SHOWERS is a collection of short stories, including characters from Fangirl, Attachments and the Simon Snow Trilogy. This is the Waterstones edition. They ship internationally. You can preorder it here.

#🥺🥺🥺

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Uncle Jamie is also a wayward son.

#rory ur brain

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If Lamb has a million fans I am one of them. If Lamb has 10 fans I am one of them. If Lamb only has 1 fan, it is me. If Lamb has no fans it means I am gone from this earth. If the world is against Lamb then I am against the world.

#this is such a fitting welcome back to tumblr #first post I see in weeks #bless

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Hey besties new conspiracy theory about @rainbowrowell’s book announcement just dropped

#LMAO

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First Lines Meme

Rules: List the first lines of the last ten (10) stories you published. Look to see any patterns you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any. Then tag some friends.

Thank you to @captain-aralias @prettylightsbigcity @skeedelvee and @aristocratic-otter for the tags. As it happens, I have exactly 10 fics now, so I can actually do the full list! I’m a little surprised!

10. Slings and Eros

Great! O you, Muses, who create fine words, grant me, your supplicant, skillful tongue!

this fic opens with an invocation courtesy of epic poet Shepard, so also including first line of prose:

It's early when I get the summons.

9. Chamber by Chamber

Baz is squirming beneath me.

8. The Thrill of the Hunt

I’ve been doing better lately, I think.

7. It’s a Kind of Magic

I can tell it's happening almost before it does.

6. Sleeping with the Fishes

Oddly enough, Snow, that’s not the weirdest photo I’ve ever received.

this is the first text I wrote, rather than the first line of the fic, since this was co-written with @the-greater-grief. I’ll also include the first non-text line I wrote:

Simon Snow is an absolute fucking disaster.

5. Lotus-Eaters and Sirens

"Better tie you to the mast," he said, like I was Odysseus tempting fate with sirens.

4. To the Manor Borne

In the end, we wind up at Pitch Manor.

3. A Man of Letters

Dear Penny,

I know that you won't be surprised when I tell you that I do not like writing letters.

2. Use Your Words

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do this.

1. At the Top of a Tower, With You

Strange that it should end here, where it all started.

I very clearly hate starting fics with any useful information unless it’s to do with setting a scene, and even that much is debatable. Short sentences, stating a fact, in the middle of a thought that won’t be explored in clarifying detail until at least the second sentence. This must be a method that works for me since it’s every single one. I think my style is usually slow build so this makes some sense.

No dialogue, except as one flashback/reflection, despite the fact that I love writing dialogue, and usually start working on potential character convos in my head prior to writing anything down. I guess this is good to know, that I’m not overly privileging dialogue.

POV-wise, we’ve got one Lucy, one Penelope, one Shepard, three Baz, and five Simon. One of those Bazes is the text fic where I’m only writing his parts, and the fic starts in Simon POV, so maybe it doesn’t count. I always feel most comfortable writing Baz, so it’s interesting to see I actually start with Simon most often, but he is our main character and most frequent canon narrator.

I will tag @the-greater-grief again and @bazzybelle @bloodiedpixie @stillmadaboutpetra @unseelieseelie @seducing-a-vampire @jasonfunderberkerthefrogexists and @snowybank to do this or to say hi or both! 🥰🥰🥰

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characters will be like “i had a strange dream... probably nothing” like girl you're literally in a story

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you just know he was having flashbacks while typing that reply

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So, @captain-aralias had this idea and @facewithoutheart and I are seriously considering it.

WIP adoption fest.

People can submit fics/art they started working on but will never finish nor post, and participants to the fest can claim the WIPs and finish them.

A very low stress event that I'm really excited about 👀 would ppl be interested?

#im obsessed with this idea #do u mean I can let my painfully underfinished wips go and see them flourish under the beautifully talented eye of another writer #amazing

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Piranesi bitches rise

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find you someone who looks at you the way Piranesi looks at the house

#LOLLLL #I love u piranesi

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I tear off the remains of my flannel shirt, and I don’t think about how to fly; I just think about where I want to go—Up. Away.—and it happens. It’s colder up here, so I think about being warm, and my skin starts to flicker with heat.

Baz’s house is below me now, in the distance. The fire I started is still burning; I watch the smoke pouring out of the forest, and try to move closer—but I can’t. I’m made of magic, and there’s no magic there anymore.

I hover in the sky.

I think about putting out the fire. The clouds are full of freezing rain—so I think about pushing them towards the forest, and they go.

And then I think of Baz telling me to go, so I do.

And then I stop thinking.

Chapter 72 / Carry On by @rainbowrowell

thank you @stardustasincocaine for helping me make the wings look less weird <3

also shoutout to @makohjey — your post on color theory blew my mind, and i was really excited to take your advice!

#I’m absolutely feral about this #typod into fetal and had to correct that #although it could very well put me in the fetal position #RORRYYYYYY #IM WEEPINH ITS TOO GOOD #HIM !!!!!! #THE COLORSSSSA

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hi hi! happy wip wednesday :)

so that original story i've been sharing...yeah. supposed to be a short story. but my brain is the opposite of cath's so the world absolutely exploded to life and now it definitely needs to be a novel or a novella. thanks be to rory, korinne, lauren, and dana for helping me when i was absolutely spiraling over this <3 i love you all very much. wanna know random details of that world? i know everything about it now.

i still need a story for class, though! so i wrote a short story set in the same universe from another character's perspective. her name is glorious mayhem, and she is a sixty-year-old woman at her breaking point. as long as y'all will let me, i will continue to share original things, so here's a little bit of the old woman's story:

“I can do it. I’m ready, Ma.”

Ma.

You stand and cross the room to her in an instant, and you take her face in your hand just to keep her from running.

You are Glorious. You are Mayhem. You are the after. You are what comes home in the dark to roost.

You are your people, and your people are not Ma.

and then here's some more from the original story because ottoline is my favorite character possibly ever:

“Don’t,” you snap, and you sit up so you’re in her face. She looks confused, doesn’t she? Ha. She doesn’t understand yet. She doesn’t know that you know which side she turns for. The trouble with dating an Oracle: they know you better than you do. They see who you become before you’ve even thought about your own becoming. “Just…don’t.”

She tries again. Because she knows you better than you know yourself too, but it’s only because she loves you. “Ottie—”

tagging: @snowybank @mostlymaudlin @tea-brigade @seducing-a-vampire @facewithoutheart @martsonmars @sillyunicorn @palimpsessed @whatevertheweather @forabeatofadrum @aristocratic-otter @fatalfangirl @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @unseelieseelie @stillmadaboutpetra @eviefrie (more orc wife please? 🥺) and anyone else :)

#I loooooooooooove #🥰🥰🥰 #your brain 😭