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in other news, dairy whiskey is DONE DONE with all the edits. will post an update soon!

#dairy whiskey #so happy to call it done

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every time i come back to tumblr after being mia for week, i think, “why do i ever leave?” and “why aren’t other social media like this?”

#who doesn’t love Tumblr

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groceries excerpt I talked about on the stream that I was too afraid to post this morning lol I tweaked it a bit and am really happy with it!

from lost gods. augustus (the artist) tries to help harrison tho he's not happy about it!!!

#OH MY GOD!

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BIG NEWS EVERYONE I RAN OUT OF INK FOR MY FOUNTAIN PEN PURELY WRITING MY BOOK BY HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#oooohh fun times

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The new UK editions of my books are out now!!!!!

#I NEED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PLEASE

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Fundraiser for Palestine (writing critiques)

Hello! I'm putting together a campaign to offer 1-page writing critiques free of charge to anyone who donates any amount to a Palestine relief fund.

→ All details on how to participate

*You can donate ANY amount, and I mean ANY. Even if $5 is all you can afford, I will still critique your work.

WHAT TO DO:

Donate ANY AMOUNT to a Palestine relief fund of choice and email me a screenshot of the receipt/proof of donation to coffeeandcalligraphy (at) gmail.com ALONG WITH 1 page of your writing to be critiqued by me (line edit & edit letter).

FUNDRAISERS (non-exhaustive):

Operation Olive Branch (help families in Gaza)

Donate eSims

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Feminine Hygiene Kits for Gaza

Mutual Aid Diabetes

Anera (humanitarian aid to Gaza)

All details on how to participate, including a sample email, my disclaimers, and a Q&A are in the Google Doc linked above -- PLEASE READ THE FULL DOCUMENT BEFORE EMAILING.

#BOOST!

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chapter (vignette? the tiniest collection of words?) one of green room is done guys!

#it’s 75 words #what’s that? #but it’s literally perfect #and it features me father

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silassghost -> avasghost

hey guys i'm going back to using the name ava on here at least for now. sorry for the confusion the (fourth) sudden url change may cause lol

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There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

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i’ve finished dairy whiskey edits!!

#it’s 16k words less #dairy whiskey #editing is interesting

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i’ve finished dairy whiskey edits!!

#just need to read through one last time tomorrow for any stuff i may have overlooked #but it’s done! #i can start querying in a few weeks!!!

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pov lonan & harrison send you a valentine

For so long, Harrison had imagined his life would end bleakly and alone but perhaps that wouldn’t be the case with Lonan, or in any case, he’d be fine if it was as long as Lonan was with him.

art by my sister hehehe

#harrison honey i think you’re in love #also thank you sarah this art is too cute

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Very interesting to me that T. S. Eliot is often quoted as saying "Good poets borrow. Great poets steal." When in fact what he actually said was "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." Which of course has a completely different meaning, less "All the greats plagiarize," and more "Completely original ideas are a fantasy; the originality lies in how you weave an idea that has been previously woven differently."

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after literal months of anxiety I finallyyyyy wrote my first short story in a year last night !!!!!!!!!

#yesss

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have you ever edited a chapter down from 11293 to 5922 words? no?

well, i just did that!

#what should i feel rn? #that’s pretty much half the size goneee #nvm it’s actually OVER half the size gone

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i’m gonna start editing dairy whiskey again

#and this time actually stick to it #need to finish this book as soon as i can #can’t write anything else because she’s just in the oven baking

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So here’s the thing. white people don’t believe that Black people can create art without it having something to do with them. Our films must teach them lessons, our books and songs and outworks must inform them, in no uncertain terms, that slavery bad, drugs bad, racism bad, and if not then it’s a Bad Movie, and Not Effective and Disappointing. If our art doesn’t include a Sesame Street style lesson on the Horrors of Being Black, then it’s bad screen-writing and lazy and a bunch of other buzzwords. If we don’t gently coddle them and hold their hands and give them easy to swallow theory, or give some sort of strong message on violence, drugs, police brutality, etc., then it’s bad. 

I just think it’s so annoying that everything I do as an artist has to mean something to white people. I don’t write to teach white people lessons. I’m sure most Black filmmakers don’t make their movies to teach white people lessons. Black artists have the right to make art for the sake of making art. We’re allowed to tell stories that are entirely divorced from politics. We’re allowed to write horror and romance, to talk about what it’s like to be Black and gay, and to fall in love, and how it is to live in a haunted house, or how it is to have doppelgängers that want to kill us. 

I don’t even know how to put it into words, but I’m tired of white people thinking that Black people are put on this earth to entertain and teach them. It’s frustrating and tiring and I wish that Black creators were allowed to just be,