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Sometimes when I’m writing explicit scenes, I have a moment where I stop and wonder exactly how much people could infer about my own sex life by reading this stuff. And especially about what my husband likes in bed, because I have precisely one male source I can shamelessly question for extreme detail on what certain things feel like to a man.
And then I remember all the porn I’ve read and beta’d that was written by people I know in RL and have looked in the eye, and how I’ve never thought about what they do in bed while I’m reading it, and I think, ‘Phew,’ and carry on writing.
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You know what's a good feeling as a witch?
Sifting through the internet for a spell you need, and finding nothing.
Searching through your book collection, and finding nothing.
And then remembering that you're a witch, goddammit, and you have your own witch book. And then you flip through your own grimoire and find exactly what you need.
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I need to do a new pinned post, because I'm a few hours out from it being an entire goddamn year since Ryn died, and a few days out from a year since I wrote the post I have pinned now. And this was going to be it: a list of all of my OFMD fic, and some stuff about Ryn, and the tags I use to post about grief etc etc.
But I can feel a headache coming on, probably from the crying and despite drinking a fuck-ton of water, and I'm tired. So I'm going to eat some ice cream and watch pirates fall in love for like the 10th time, and for now I'm just going to unpin my old pinned post, and maybe I'll worry about it next week.
Or maybe I'll just pin this shitty post for now, and again, revisit next week.
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WIP ask game
rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.
I was tagged by @smallblueandloud. unfortunately my wip titles aren’t that exciting, but we all know by now that titles are my achilles’ heel, so hey so it goes!
stranger fics
The Arrangement
fear
serve
december
kencyr beauty & the beast
romance novel snippets
And We Danced
I’ll tag @executeness, @tanoraqui, @thesuninperigee, @crocwork-clockodile, @wildfaeworld, and @minutia-r, if any of you would like to!
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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared
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One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.
The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.
“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”
The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”
“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.
I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.
He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”
“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”
A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.
I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.
So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….
“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.
Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.
The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.
So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)
But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.
“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”
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