#Total creative control

[hsincerely]

BOOKS READ IN 2024: total creative control by joanna chambers & sally malcolm

Shakily, Aaron sucked in a breath. “What are we doing?” he whispered. Lewis didn’t answer with words, just set his hands on the wall either side of Aaron’s body. Caging him. Aaron’s pulse rocketed, his lips falling open as an unexplored part of himself yielded to Lewis’s subtle—okay, not so subtle—assertion of control. “Call and response.”

#total creative control #lewis hunter #aaron page #mlm books #2024 books #my edit #tw: blood

[aurorawest]

Reading update, part 2

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan - 4/5 stars

All the Way Happy by Kit Coltrane - DNF

Couldn't get past the fact that it was blatantly Drarry fanfiction that had had the serial numbers filed off. It was seriously distracting. I don't have an issue with fic authors doing that (I'M ONE OF THEM), but this read like a find and replace had been done on the names, and nothing else had been changed. If the prose hadn't been so overwrought I might have enjoyed it, but the combination of Drarry AU + purple prose was just too cringey for me.

Total Creative Control by Joanna Chambers and Sally Malcolm - 5/5 stars

Ahhhhh I loved this book. I've only read Chambers's historical fiction so I was curious what this would be like, and it was so good. So so good.

Also, sometimes my wife says stuff and I'm like 'that's not a real thing that English people say, that's probably some weird thing her family says.' But then I'll read it in a book by an English person and I am schooled. Anyway that happened several times in this book.

The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez - DNF

I don't mind a slow-paced book but there was just so much info dumping in the first chapter, when chapter 2 started with more info dumping, I gave up.

Crossroads by Riley Hart - DNF

This book started with a description of the main character's apartment. There wasn't anything special about it, nor was it described in a unique way. I DNFed halfway through page 2. I know I have another Riley Hart book sitting in my TBR, which I will be digging out bringing to my local bookstore's used book buyback.

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner - 4.5/5 stars

Did Not Expect to enjoy this one. I got this in an IllumiCrate and I just remember the little blurby thing you get where the author talks about the book saying something about how she loves angry women. I'm over it. Angry is not a personality! Stop writing women who are angry and thinking you've written a well-rounded character!

But actually this book was really good! Predictable, but a good read. Unusually, my favorite character was the child. It helped that she had an adorable hare/bird/deer god of white lies following her around.

Tommy Cabot Was Here by Cat Sebastian - 5/5 stars

I love Sebastian's regency romances but I might love this series more. This is a very, very quick read (right around 100 pages) but she's just so good at creating these wonderful, fully-realized characters that you love from the first sentence.

As You Walk on By by Julian Winters - 2/5 stars

So at this point I think I have to concede that Julian Winters is not the author for me. He's constantly lauded as this wonderful writer whose books will make you smile for days. This is the third one I've read and I nearly DNFed it. The only thing that kept me going, ironically, was that I really liked the love interest and was rooting for them to get together. Typically I find the romances in Julian Winters books to be very flat and un-swoony. This one was actually quite nice though.

But the main character. Jesus Christ. He's SO annoying. Him and his shitty BFF who he falls out with deserve each other, honestly. There's only so many times I can sympathize with you because you have a comfortable, middle-class life and you go to a fancy pants private school, but waaaaah sometimes your friends don't say exactly the right thing about you being queer. Also having your MC tell the teenage girl who gets slut-shamed, gossiped about, and sexually harassed everywhere she goes that actually she doesn't have it as bad because she's white was...an interesting touch.

And idk if the Youth actually act and talk the way the teenagers do in this book, but if they do, I'm very glad I don't know any teenagers.

Why did I rate this book 2 stars instead of 1? Oh! I really liked Luca. He deserved a better book. And I liked River a lot, too. And the fact that this was clearly a take on The Breakfast Club was fun, just...not executed as well as I would have liked.

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#all the way happy #kit coltrane #total creative control #joanna chambers #sally malcolm #the name bearer #natalia hernandez #crossroads #riley hart #godkiller #hannah kaner #tommy cabot was here #cat sebastian #as you walk on by #julian winters #reading tag

[queerographies]

[Total creative control][Joanna Chambers][Sally Malcolm]

Cosa succede quando un assistente personale dal carattere solare incontra un capo musone? Total creative control di Joanna Chambers e Sally Malcolm

Quando lo scrittore di fanfiction Aaron Page ottiene un lavoro con il creatore della serie tv di successo Leeches l’incarico doveva durare solo una settimana. Tre anni dopo, Aaron è ancora lì… Forse perché ama le sfide che mettono in moto la sua creatività oppure perché è un grande fan di Leeches. Ma, sicuramente, non è per Lewis Hunter, il suo capo estremamente esigente, incredibilmente…

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#2022 #Ester Manzini #fiction #Joanna Chambers #LGBT #LGBTQ #Narrativa #office romance #rom-com #Sally Malcolm #slow-burn #Total creative control #Triskell Edizioni #UK

[bookbaran]

So reading Total Creative Control for the second time, knowing that both characters subconsciously view Sky as Lewis and Faolan as Aaron, really explains their weirdly intense reactions to discussions about Sky and Faolan's relationship.

Like Lewis is always adamant that Sky and Faolan are platonic because he's afraid of his relationship with Aaron changing. Meanwhile Aaron sees them as romantic because he's still hoping that he could be with Lewis.

And the making Faolan straight thing! They're basically erasing a huge portion of Aaron's identity. Lewis, backed into a corner, just says "fine, I'll make another Aaron," but Aaron just sees himself being erased.

#total creative control

[bookstattoosandtea]

Audio Tour, Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway: Total Creative Control by Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm

Audio Tour & Giveaway: Total Creative ControlBy Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm Narrated by Simon Goldhill Creative Types, Book 1 Sunshine PA, meet Grumpy Boss… When fanfic writer Aaron Page landed a temp job with the creator of hit TV show, Leeches, it was only meant to last a week. Three years later, Aaron’s still there… It could be because he loves the creative challenge. It could be because…

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#Audio Out Now #Audio Release #Audiobook #Bisexual #Cinnamon Roll #Contemporary MM Romance #Creative Types Series #Gay Book Review #Gay Romance Authors #Home Grown Talent #humor #Joanna Chambers #LGBTQ #LGBTQ Books #MM Romance #Romance #Sally Malcolm #Simon Goldhill #Spoilt #Total Creative Control

[professionalqueerbookworm]

Queer Reviews: Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm, "Total Creative Control".

CW: explicit sexual content, discussions of grief and trauma

Plot: When fanfic writer Aaron Page landed a temp job with the creator of hit TV show, Leeches, it was only meant to last a week. Three years later, Aaron’s still there …

It could be because he loves the creative challenge. It could be because he’s a huge Leeches fanboy. It’s definitely not because of Lewis Hunter, his extremely demanding, staggeringly rude … and breathtakingly gorgeous boss. Is it? Lewis Hunter grew up the hard way and fought for everything he’s got. His priority is the show, and personal relationships come a distant second. Besides, who needs romance when you have a steady stream of hot men hopping in and out of your bed?

His only meaningful relationship is with Aaron, his chief confidante and indispensable assistant. And no matter how appealing he finds Aaron’s cute boy-next-door charms, Lewis would never risk their professional partnership just to scratch an itch.

But when Lewis finds himself trapped at a hilariously awful corporate retreat, Aaron is his only friend and ally. As the professional lines between them begin to blur, their simmering attraction starts to sizzle… And they’re both about to get burned.

8/10 on the Rainbow Scale™ 🌈: SO. MUCH. ANGST. I'm not mad about it, but it seems that romcoms are now required to touch on serious topics as well. That's good, but I would have loved a heads up before I set myself up to be emotionally destroyed. This is a classic "sunshine/grumpy" romance, with the added spice of "boss/PA". Lewis is, I think, the ultimate "Mr Darcy type": he's so emotionally constipared, he'd probably shit himself trying to show any kind of emotion. Which is a problem, because I've never met a character who needed a hug (and, possibly, therapy) as much as him. If you're a patient person (or, at least, more patient than me), I totally reccommend this book. If you get easily frustrated by things like miscommunication and dumbassery, then you should consider carefully if you want to do this to yourself 😂😂😂

#queer reads #lgbtq books #book review #book recommendations #joanna chambers #sally malcolm #total creative control #gay #mlm lit #romcom #romance

[hedgehog-moss]

i love your blog and everything you post! you are basically living my dream life, and i sometimes despair of ever achieving anything close to it myself. part of me wonders how you accomplished this feat of owning a small farm in the mountains and taking care of these animals (though you obviously don’t have to explain!) bc i’m not sure i’ll ever be in a position to buy property at all, much less enough land to live on in this way. anyway. my real question, if you’re willing to answer (or haven’t already somewhere i didn’t see!), is—does your farm produce? like, are you growing crops or maybe intend to sell llama fibre? or is it more of a hobby farm? (which is not a pejorative term, just in case anyone is unfamiliar with it! just means a farm that isn’t run for profit, essentially)

Hi, I’m glad you like this blog <3 I don’t mind questions, though I prefer to answer more personal ones privately (off-anon.) But as for your last question—I initially intended to use this land to start a small business, but unfortunately I moved here in mid-2019 and so I was planning on using my first year to get settled, look for local artisans etc. and then start construction work in the spring of 2020. Which turned out to be as we all know the ideal moment in history to embark on such an adventure. It was hard to get anything started in 2021 too, we were still having national lockdowns until almost halfway through the year and I couldn’t plan anything in advance as I didn’t know what the rest of the year would look like. Then this year with the Ukraine war and the huge increase in the price of just about everything + shortages of various materials it’s been difficult to plan for things / get things done as well (and I’ve had to revise my entire budget.)

So yeah I had exciting plans for this place (I even did a presentation at my region's Chamber of Commerce back in 2018, and had their support) but they got completely derailed by Current Events for the past three years, it's a bit discouraging. But we've all been having a hard time since 2020 haven't we, and I’m really lucky that I get to live here at all (and that I got to spend the lockdowns in a rural place.) I’m also glad I got my animals in my first year here; at least I have company as I wait to see how things will unfold ! Plus taking care of animals makes it hard to look at the past year and feel like you’ve accomplished nothing, because they would disagree.

#ask #(no reblogs please) #i've only been able to do things at the top of my list this year like change the very old windows in the house and #build the greenhouse #which is already great and i'm delighted about the greenhouse #but everything else is still kind of stalled for reasons beyond my control #i won't even get to use my greenhouse much this winter—it has a small pellet stove for heat but there's a total shortage of pellets #around here at the moment. can't get a single bag until at least january and then it'll be super expensive #i'll be trying to keep it warm in more creative ways

[one-sad-pancake]

Me?? Drawing subway surfers fanart?? In 2023??? Alway. (My mains)

#the pancake doodles #goth Lucy #tricky #subway surfers #the masks were a creative choice 😁😁😁😁 #I totally didn’t mess up tricky’s face and used them as damage control 😁😁😁

[straightfromthetorturedpoetsdept]

do terfs really think taylor swift is a terf because she... sings about being a mad woman?

did they miss the part where she repeatedly voiced her support for the trans community???

are they fucking morons?

taylor swift hates terfs.

#she literally hates u bro #she loves trans people so much and it's evident in the way that she sticks up for them and supports them in the simplest of ways #like she wasnt forced to include trans people in her music video she has total creative control over her music now morons #taylor swift #terfs kys #radfems are so embarrassing

[lhrry]

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#I don’t think they’re gearing up to end it rn #I know what they’re doing is purposeful like glaringly and ridiculously so because so many celebrities would shield their kids rather than #do this unprompted #and I think there’s a reason for this but I don’t think it’s ending now (although maybe they do want it to be as public as possible idk) #but I do think it’s possible louis is stunting so hard in exchange for artistic freedom and creative control and that album is probably #going to be queer as fuck #judging by some of the lyrics we are sure of and his resistance to ascribing meaning to them and the way he’s been talking about #the album being most him and even btm being seen by the label as potentially too alternative #I really hope he’s as happy and confident in the artistic aspect of his career and the album is what he wanted to do (and I really think it #is) and I really think that that’s where he’s going to be expressing himself most and I’m really so certain it’s going to scream queer #like even the btm cover green eye george michael reference is truly… something and the layers to btm and its meaning and the way he’s #talked about the song like #he saw how queer his audience is and he saw we understand the meanings of those songs and love them and he knows that we’re going to see #that in lt2 again and that we see him and I hope the album is everything he wished for #I think he’s paying a high price for it and it’s just not totally infeasible good think that if harry paid a high fucking price to be able #to do my policeman #louis is paying a high price to be able to have more artistic freedom #anyway some food for thought #I would LOVE for this to be explainable as an ending but eh not holding my breath

[strawberrycircuits]

after your posts about it, i played portal 1 and 2 again and it’s amazing how much the facility feels alive, like in the beginning of 2 when glados is first waking up again and the walls are moving back into place they move so fluidly as though their the lab’s first deep breath in a long long time

ok 1. :o!!!! you replayed it bc of me what!!!!!!! 2. oh my god I KNOWWWW !!! something I've been noticing a lot of this go round is the panels you can see actively replacing and refitting themselves at the beginning of chambers, like glados is putting that last little retouch on it she can before you have to occupy that space for the next little bit. I just got done with the first escape sequence (which, btw, I have a new appreciation for in how it really endears you to wheatley. hes genuinely helpful and it's nice to have someone say "oh you're okay!!!" when you get out of a tricky situation when you. yk. Don't get that for the majority of the game. well done on the writers parts, it makes the twist all the more devastating when it happens hehehe!!!) and watching glados use the facility to her advantage to disadvantage you-- moving panels to trap you in small spaces and reveal turrets and even going so far as to move the chambers themselves in an attempt to crush you...... aaaah!!! and seeing the inner workings of the facility feels so much like seeing the guts of the place, especially when you get to the turret assembly part and all the bits with the tubes.... like girl that's intestines!

#I know i rag on wheat all the time #but i genuinely believe hes on par with glados in terms of how well written he is #they poured so much attention and depth into these bots and their stories man ........ this game is bursting at the seams with- #creativity and love for the project. yk. #also shoutout to that panel that just smacks itself against the wall at the start of one of the chambers. and the one that dances w a cube #< not sure if its supposed to convey like. glados's mental state having just reawakened? but i always thought of it as like #the panels literally have a mind of their own and will do whatever they want if a. given a power source [ie glados] #and b. not kept in complete and total control by an external force [ie... glados...] #i get that vibe from a lot of things in aperture. that they have their own whims and wants and if left to their own devices (lol) #that is something they would pursue. but they cant and therefore they dont. #aperture science figured out how to make a sentient computer and went ok. lets make everything sentient! :) #surely this will be a great idea with no ethical ramifications ^_^ #<someone remind me to talk about the portal 1 cores vs the portal 2 cores it fucks me up when i think ab their differences.......

[hsincerely]

this silly lil one-off book to start the year wasn’t supposed to make me CRY

#like what in the fuck #total creative control

[milo-is-rambling]

Omg yesterday at my moms therapy I said how well I had been doing and feeling like I can actually handle life and my mom was immediately like “that’s because you’ve been taking your meds regularly again” and like completely brushed off any progress I had actually made and I had to be like yeah totally that’s it that’s why exactly when I haven’t taken my meds for a week straight in idk how long

#I was like yup totally that sure is why I’ve been feeling good totally #not at all that I’ve been spending time to do things I like and journal and process my feelings in healthy ways or that I am consciously #making strides towards regular person sanity #and she fucking brought up adhd meds again like FUCK OFFFFFFF HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY I DONT WANT TO TAKE THEM BEFORE IT CLICKS #I. DONT. WANT. TO. TAKE. THEM. they are a tool in MY mental health toolbox bitch back off my toolbox I know you fucking live adhd meds and #won’t shut up about them but I am happy now and I don’t like my brain on adhd meds and the only reason you want me on them is because you #like me more when I’m doing stereotypically productive tasks so you’d rather have me cleaning the house and not doing the shit I love than #you would have me not taking my meds and making art and writing poetry #like god #she just doesn’t fucking get it #I cannot create when I take adhd meds. that part of my brain just like dissolves. #the way I work is that constantly I have a million projects on the back burner in my mind and when I get inspired I make one #when I take my adhd meds I can’t just pick up a fun project I don’t get those ideas I can’t write poetry I can’t make art it’s like it sever #severs the line between my creative mind and my regular mind and I have nothing in my life that I need to be THAT focused on right now #but I have my perscruption still! like if I ever need it it’s there but that’s not your fucking decision that’s mine and you need to back #off my brain because it is a delicate fucking ecosystem up there in my head and I’m not going to fuck with anything until I have to #god. sorry. went on a bit of a rant. I am just so sick of arguing over my mom wanting to control the way I medicate myself. I am an adult #and she is not inside my brain so she needs to listen when I tell her how things affect me #she takes adhd meds like twice every day and hates the feeling of not being on them but I just don’t like them and she won’t fucking drop it #okay I am getting mad about adhd meds and my mother right before I have to be in the car with her all morning i need to relax #we’re going to psychic we’re gonna have fun #we’re not going to argue about this again.

[ettaevie]

I literally sound so insane right now.

“I’m just emotional over Pianoman and Iceman’s relationship” Girl what relationship?! They have forty pages of canon screentime in total you are making this all up in your head!

#Ignore me I'm just writing rn #Why did I get fixated on characters who are literal footnotes in someone else's story? #Probably just so that I could have total creative control tbh #the flags #bsd #bsd storm bringer #Piano Man My Beloved #bsd piano man #bsd iceman #Welcome Back to me talking

[bookbaran]

Ok, the audiobook of Total Creative Control definitely made me cry.

#total creative control

[matoitech]

blue isnt even an oc to me hes one of my all time favorite fictional characters and a guy i know

#i just also happen to be able to do whatever i want and make it canon. idk how ppl dont love making ocs #total creative control. if u want a particular kind of character in media u can just make one. or 5000 #ocs