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Delicious in Dungeon

Laios and Shenshi. Their love is too good for this world, too pure

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reblog to give somebody a fucking hug because we are all struggling to get through it. solidarity in this tough ass world.

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Learning how to understand what's going on in a text outside of the most cursory reading of it is also the skillset you need for strategic planning in any industry. Because you're going to be both composing such documents for 1-5 year spans of time and responding to other people's strategic documents, re-interpreting your specific niche and area into someone else's frameworks even if they weren't specifically thinking about you when they wrote them. And then for several years afterwards you need to fit any new ideas or opportunities into these frameworks if you want to do those things, so you need to be able to dig back to the real purpose of of a document written that didn't include that project and explain how it fits.

And sometimes you'll be in a room looking at other units' strategic frameworks and being asked to look for ways you can engage and contribute to them because it's mission-critical that we do that, and you need to deeply understand that text in order to creatively find those connection points that are not just laying there in plain sight.

It's all the same set of skills.

idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

#studying literature is valuable

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I want you to know that I had a dream that I found myself at an orgy and I watched a woman go through the crowd telling everyone that she was their one true love soulmate from the future, and she had come back in time to hook up with them at this orgy, because it would be a funny story for them to realize years later than they had hooked up at this orgy before they official met and fell in love. That line was working SO WELL for her, it was impressive, I was impressed.

When she got to me, I asked her about herself, and it turned out that she was an Inuit librarian, so I talked to her about Inuit librarianship and that was super fascinating, and then we discovered that we knew some of the same people in the Indigenous librarianship community, and I took her over to the branch to introduce her to some of the newer Indigenous librarians and showed off all the great work they're doing, and in sum, I ruined a perfectly good orgy by turning it into a networking opportunity.

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I am currently living in the good vibes generated by the fic I'm writing. I wanted to document that this is a thing: I wrote something, it felt good to write it, it felt good to post it, and now I have good feelings out in the world for days afterwards.

Fanfiction is the best. Fanfiction is medicine.

#good living through fanfiction

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This, but I will then also write the fic, and will add several subplots and a surprise crisis I should have thought of sooner.

New idea: instead of writing the fic, you come over to my house and I tell you the entire plot while I pace my tiny kitchen. There’s a cup of tea, warm in your hands. The words don’t stop and the affection never leaves your expression.

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Hi Ivy! Had a silly question, and don't feel obligated to answer ... !!! But I was curious if anyone has ever a printed up a copy of The Quiet Man or made like a bound copy i could talk to? I was hoping to get one as this story means more to me than any other in the fandom and I truly do not want to lose it to the world of digital deletion.

Much love, 💋 liri

Hi there! Not a silly question at all! I don't 100% remember in fairness, but I don't believe that anyone's bound The Quiet Man. If someone knows that I'm wrong about that, please correct me!

Sorry I don't have a lead for you. I'm thrilled to hear that my story is important to you, that's a lovely thing to hear, thank you!

For what it's worth, I have no intention of deleting my fics. There's no reason I'd ever need to, they are in no danger. As long as AO3 exists, all my fics will exist on it.

I decided a while back to divest myself from my connection to the Harry Potter franchise. I didn't like seeing JK Rowling's name on my profile, it gave me the icks. So I orphaned them. I believe the URL for them remains the same. If ever I felt a need to distance myself from Sherlock, I'd probably just do the same. I'm not feeling inclined to orphan my Sherlock fics, though.

If you or anyone else wanted to bind The Quiet Man, you're more than welcome to do so as far as I'm concerned.

#fanfiction #If the tag just said Harry Potter I might not have orphaned those fics #I don't feel any need to divest myself from the fandom #Just from JKR #JKR hates Harry/Draco so shipping it remains satisfying #but I just couldn't stand seeing her damn name

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I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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"When life gives you lemons" FALSE LEMONS ARE A HYBRID OF A BITTER ORANGE AND A CITRON, MEANING WE GAVE OURSELVES LEMONS

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I'm still on my Narnia kick. Still enjoying the heck out of it, whatever, I do what I want.

This is the second half of the previous chapter that just went on too long, and here it is probably also going on too long. It contains a orgy that goes a bit wrong, and includes a reaction to an unexpected trigger and a flash of memory that heavily implies past sexual abuse, so it's really fun for the whole family, I guess?

There's food at the end, at least. You can always trust Bacchus to appropriately cater any disaster he incites.

Largely featured in this chapter is the idea that Narnia filters people, or, perhaps, jumping between worlds filters people. Not being in your own world comes at a cost. Some stuff is left behind, and that stuff might turn out to be important, and it waits for you to get back.

Also largely features a god being absolutely bananas in love with a mortal, and falling more bananas in love with him by the second. It's basically just one long godly swoon, to be honest.

#Fanfiction #Update #Narnia #Edmund/Bacchus

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If anyone is in need of an AO3 account now that guest commenting is temporarily off, hit me up, I have a few invites.

#AO3 invites

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Source

"Isn't it exhausting being someone you're not?"

"No! Isn't it exhausting being the same?"

#love

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crying over a letterboxd review? it’s more likely than you think

#oof #real talk

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You know that thing when you get to the middle of a story you're writing and then you're like OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING AND I NEVER DID and then you get past the middle and it's fine again? That happens every damn time, doesn't it?

Anyway, I'm having another fun/agonizing fanfiction writer experience of sitting in a situation that I'm writing and wondering I TRULY UNDERSTAND the emotional context of it, AM I GETTING IT WRONG is this accurate is this what it should actually be it is SO EARTH-SHATTERINGLY IMPORTANT TO GET IT RIGHT because the world will ACTUALLY END if I somehow hit the wrong note here, if something is off, EVERYTHING WILL BE DESTROYED

I am so laissez-faire about so many things and cavalierly throw chapters into the world powered by unending and mostly unearned confidence, but I am stopped cold in my tracks by the question about whether a moment is TRULY emotionally honest, FULLY emotionally truthful

WELL IS IT? IS IT?

Happy Sunday. Mine is the happiest. I am in my happiest place, this is what it looks like.

#fanfiction #writing fanfiction #It's all about Narnia #It's all about Edmund Pevensie

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Yep, that was last night, but throw in composing some fraught emails as well.

#I did not give permission for my image to be used in this video and yet

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#dirty minds worldwide