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good fan fiction has ruined me

Sometimes someone will tell me, "Hey, this published romance is great; you should read it!" And the truth is, it is usually fine, but never as good.

#fic #published works #me being a perpetual shithead in the face of one million overused styles #including but not limited to any description that starts with “all” as in “he was all big blue eyes and lustrous hair” or whatever

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I can’t really post it as a poll bc it’s more of an Essay Question, but I’m curious:

What was the first queer fictional character you can remember seeing or reading about? If you can’t remember the first, then just think back as far as you can. For me I think it was Captain Jack Harkness.

#wow hmm #explicitly queer? #maybe David and Giovanni in Giovanni's Room #which seems impossibly late; I was in high school! #but it was truly another era of US culture #thanks again to James Baldwin #(who came of age in a time and place way more repressive than mine--and yet!)

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all right, I finally did it!

#fic #les miserables #leave something on the back burner long enough and it's bound to cook through eventually

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What the fuck about me, tumblr, made you tell me I would like this photo of what appears to be maybe student housing at some school somewhere in the world (that looks an awful lot like student housing at every school in the world I've every seen) that is, like, not an extremely popular or startlingly beautiful photo, just a nice everyday photo of a grimy modernish building that gets some good use, in utilitarian shades of gray and taupe but that also, the more I look at it, stirs inside of me a longing for knowledge and a sense that behind these quotidian exteriors, there lurk untold mysteries that are mine for the finding if I only dare to let the search consume me

Haardter Berg Schule, Februar 2023

#tumblr recommendations #why #fucking algorithm eats souls like mine for breakfast

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your enjolrai are perfect; would do many terrible things to see him again

This is a beautiful thing to say. Despite the recent writing drought, I hope that I will someday be able to grant you satisfaction (ideally, without any necessity for terrible things).

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Lance Reddick was a brilliant actor who could make any character believable. By all reports, he was also just a great human being. He didn't get enough funny roles--but when he did, he was hilarious. I am so sad that his time on Earth is over.

#lance reddick #appreciation

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It was a secret

Every midwit literary fiction novel from the past 5 years has been called something like The Little Things We Do To Ourselves or Back Then I Didn’t Think So Clearly or I Have Been Trying To Venmo You.

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That looking-over-your-shoulder feeling when out of nowhere a bunch of people like a story you wrote five years ago.

#I am pleased that they like it! #just mystified about why a whole group #all at once #how nice to think that someone somewhere must be recommending my writing

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if you feel so inclined, put in the tags what you voted, where youre from, and if you refer to it as “brinner” (as opposed to “breakfast for dinner”)

#breakfast for dinner #The term brinner is an abomination and I almost didn't vote because of it #In my house it's usually waffles and eggs with fruit and/or a little green salad in the style of a brunch resto #Brunch is fine #And I'll accept lupper #But brinner never

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There is nothing more precious to me as a writer than the comments left on AO3. Whenever I get that email notification, I wonder what kind of comment was left. To have a little fun, I'm going to sort the typical comments into a few different categories and share my reactions to them as a writer.

If you feel I missed a comment type, please let me know. I'm curious to learn what other classifications you think exist (positive comment types only please - let's not make this negative). Also, if you wanted to tag yourself, I'd love you know what type of commenter you think you are.

The Polite Conversationalist - Your comment confirms that you read and enjoyed the fic or chapter. You offer praise for the author's efforts and encouragement for them to continue. - If this is you, please know that I'm imagining us holding a book club together. I brought us snacks.

The All Caps Reaction - You left the most unhinged comment. - You were screaming as you read it? I was screaming as I wrote it. Let's be friends.

The How Dare You - The angst is real. And painful. And I'm sorry but the story needed it. - This is a compliment of the highest order and I'm so glad you left it.

The Conspiracy Theorist - You are so invested that you are trying to figure out what comes next. - I'm so excited to read your ideas. They let me know the story tracks for you. And I'm either smiling because you guessed right and I'm excited for you to read what comes next, or I'm grinning because I know the plot twist is going to blow your mind.

The Catch-Up - You haven't commented in a while and are letting me know you are catching up. - I'm so glad you are back! I missed you. I know life gets busy and it means a lot to me that you took the time to read my story.

The Giggle - You laughed at my jokes and let me know. - Did we just become best friends? I'm already making you a bracelet.

The Callout - You found my favorite line in the chapter or fic. - I love you so much. You just made my day, my week, my month. Seriously, all the love for the reader. xoxo

#As someone who has accepted a very solid C in the giving of feedback #But has been graced with a bounty of off-the-charts great comments #I love and respect this

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Very good so far. What a delightful voice.

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#Books

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Ah fuck, the Climbers are going to have thoughts about this.

...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust not to let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexer injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

#fic #sex #rock climbing and fucking have a lot in common it turns out #and any partner activity can lend itself to intimacies #a fun comparison

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

#Characters #the joy of creation

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Happy weekend! I wrote a little epilogueish story to go with Rainbow Rowell's Attachments.

#Fic #Rainbow Rowell #Attachments #I love to see people happy about being in love #Or happy about other people being in love #That's it

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#GAY-org #I say it in my head every time #I never even considered alternatives #this is the best possible use case for tumblr polls

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#fuck these are all perfect

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Ahhh fuck, the existence of these posts is making me think that I should a) revisit M*A*S*H, the late-night reruns of which were a staple of my teen years, and b) oh god, there must be fic! how did I never till this very moment consider that there must be a kajillion years' deep trove of BJ/Hawkeye fic?!?

Scrap whatever b) was going to be; I have some research to do.

@airyairyaucontraire I think the Watsonian in you (in all of us) will especially appreciate this particular shot

Actually, we're gonna need to zoom in on this

Great.

#m*a*s*h #fic?!? #recommendations gratefully welcomed