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[dark-muse-iris]

people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

#hard agree 😭😭😭

[dark-muse-iris]

Being a writer your brain is either

A) STUFFED TO BURSTING with ideas you have no clue what to do with or how to make them make sense

or

B) It's a black hole that devours every inkling of creativity in your cells and you are just hoping it'll consume you too

THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN

[dark-muse-iris]

Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

[dark-muse-iris]

Happy Friday to my fellow unhinged queer barely-medicated burned out feral absolutely fucking DONE with living in this timeline bitches who stopped pretending they have a future. You know? Like 70% of us? Haha

Just wanted to say hello.

Thanks to everyone who sent a kind word on AO3 recently. I haven't been able to answer those without crying, honestly. But I am reading them and appreciate them very much. I will reply to every one.

#i miss the old days like early 2000s shopping malls #my inbox is open but i don't use my phone much #i have prioritized stardew valley again #because i can't afford therapy anymore #iris rambles

[dark-muse-iris]

yeah sex is cool I guess

but have you ever had someone leave a comment with a paragraph-long review of your fanfic containing genuine praise, thorough criticism, and an in-depth analysis of all the lore hints you dropped that you spent ages intricately crafting

[dark-muse-iris]

Doxology (M)

Summary: It’s Easter Sunday, one of the holiest of days for your presumed faith. But instead of spending it taking in the Lord’s message while tucked between your devout parents, you’re off sinning with the man who knows how truly wicked you are. 

Pairing: Jungkook x Reader

Genre: Smut, light fluff

Word Count: 6,372

Warnings: Dom!Jungkook, sexual themes, fingering, rough sex, anal play, creampie, dirty talk, sacrilegious dialogue, excessive sinning in church, mocking religious practices, profanity, one-way trip to Hell

A/N: This is probably not the kind of thing a devout person should read. It’s pretty offensive and I’m proud of it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Excerpt:

The words ring hollow in your heart, but they nevertheless bellow from your well-trained lungs in unison with the overdressed churchgoers flanking you on either side. Like cattle bred for a single purpose, you stand in front of your worn, wooden pew to take from the trough of organized religion, or at least pretend to. Appearances are everything in the church, and you know it all too well as your fingers pluck against the pages of the hymnal you don’t need. The words on the aged paper are inscribed in your mind from years of repetition—no, conditioning—but they don’t hold the meaning they once did.

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#i'll always be proud of this one #🥰🥰🥰

[dark-muse-iris]

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

[dark-muse-iris]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

[dark-muse-iris]

treat yourself like you would treat your favorite character

[dark-muse-iris]

TEN — NIGHTWALKER (2024)

#nct #wayv #ten

[dark-muse-iris]

blood test came back haunted

[dark-muse-iris]

“How’s your WIP going?”

"Have you made any progress?”

“How close are you to being done?”

[dark-muse-iris]

#i literally published a paper including this song 🤣 #the amount of brain rot over protest music in the US is embarrassing af

[dark-muse-iris]

My new years goal is to stay masked even when everyone I'm around isn't (aka in class and with patients) because I am beyond over getting sick. And considering one of my colleagues came to class while testing positive and actively symptomatic for COVID, I can't trust them to take anyone's health seriously. I'm not letting these bastards kill me out of spite.

Sorry to hear about the autoimmune diagnosis. I can believe it but it still sucks. I hope you get some fun stuff to knock off your bucket list! Stay as safe and healthy as possible out there.

As a disabled gal who has been masking consistently since 2020 now, THANK YOU for giving a shit about the community spread. I've gotten ugly looks from time to time and been a lone masker nearly everywhere I go, but I have only been sick once since 2020 and that was when I got Covid at work (a positive case from a colleague who said it was "allergies" spread in a cramped conference room where I was the only masked person there). I've given solidarity nods to any masker since 2022. 😅

I too am living out of spite. I'm lucky to still have a job, but I transferred from my old office when they said my reasonable accommodations would make pre-disableds feel "uncomfortable". They suffered for 6 months after I left and half the team bailed when they couldn't carry the weight I left behind. Fuck 'em!

Autoimmune disease is a damn joke, but I am thankful to have a couple friends and partners who have stayed and who care. All the ones who said I was overreacting about the dangers are now constantly coughing, can't weather allergy shifts, can't do the work they used to, can't remember shit, can't stay awake, etc. Like many people who were disabled pre-covid, I've stopped trying to help them. They can figure it out and make peace with their dealt hand as I have had to.

I'm sorry to hear you've been sick and that your colleagues lost their will to care. What's been harrowing for me is, every fictional portrayal of mass disease like this had a better response from governments and citizens than we've had. I honestly thought we'd get something like The Division, can you believe that? LMAO I replayed it over the holidays to cheer myself up! 🤣

#iris answers #thicchaco

[dark-muse-iris]

Happy New year Iris! Here's hoping this year is a better one... or at least that we make it through to the other side. Hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy this coming year.

Thanks, dear! I stayed safe this holiday season but it's only because I cancelled traveling home when my sister got COVID from an outdoor holiday event. I spent my break gaming heavily and observing half my friends get sick.

I hope 2024 is better but I'm only focusing on the things I can control and change. I made a list of goals to do throughout the year, but writing fanfics wasn't one of them (due to a lot of past failures). I've got an autoimmune disease now thanks to the one "mild" case of COVID that I got from work in 2022 so a lot of my time is planning "things I want to do before I die." If I get through half that list, maybe the muses will come back and look upon me favorably. 😅

Hope you stay safe. It's always nice hearing from you.

#iris answers #thicchaco

[dark-muse-iris]

Happy New Year to everyone who survived out of spite. 💪🔥

#iris rambles

[dark-muse-iris]

Hey.

Just a reminder that I love you and miss you!

Love and miss you too, friend. It's been so long I partly forgot how to answer mail here. 😅

#iris answers #yes i'm still alive #the horrors persist and so do i