#harper uses too many comma's once again

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Shoutout to queer kids!

Kids who figured out who they like/who they are really early on, kids who knew they immediately fit in to a label they like and continued using it for a long time, kids who once they figured out who they are everything clicked into place and everything they were called "weird" for all made sense, kids who previously didn't show any signs of being queer but still are, kids who were told they're "too young to know", kids who have to hide their identity until they move out, kids who were kind when the world wasn't,

I support you.

You're not too young, or confused, or following any stereotypes, you are you and that's all that matters.

Shoutout to queer adults!

Queer adults who figured out who they were much much later than everyone else, queer adults who only figured it all out once they were really old, queer adults who have been able to unlearn years and years of queerphobic ideals and flourish, queer adults who educate people on their experiences, queer adults who lost friends because those friends have been taught for decades being queer is wrong, trans adults who are only starting to transition, trans adults who don't want to transition, queer adults coming out to their children years after they've moved out, adults who were kind when the world wasn't,

I support you.

You're not too old, or a "traitor" to friends stuck with an old mindset who've known you forever, and you're not too late to join the movement, you are you and that's all that matters.

Don't let anyone ever tell you you don't matter in this world,

Because, my friends, you are the world,

And we'll help the rest of the universe flourish, too.

#lgbtq pride #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #harper uses too many comma's once again #pride

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Courtney’s Crisis Writing Challenge

So yeah as I’m sure all of you are aware of by now I’m having a crisis

and I figured what better way to deal with an emotional crisis than to do a writing challenge and read all the wonderful thing’s y’all can write to distract myself from my ever-growing list of responsibilities

maybe i should change it to Courtney’s Procrastination and Existential Worry Writing Challenge instead

ANYWAY

This is a whole-ass mega writing challenge, going across ALL the people I’ve ever written for and all the people I lowkey want to write for/kinda have a current obsession/love for atm

I’ll give a full comprehensive list below the rules 

But yeah this is going to have an English Literature theme bc I’m a nerd like that and have been reading too many books lately, again, to distract myself

So the prompts are split into three categories - “The Heartbreakingly Beautiful”, “The Hilariously Relateable” and “Fuck I’m Drowning In Fluff”

yeah the categories are just what went through my mind when I read the things these authors wrote

The Rules

1) You don’t have to be following me but it would be nice because I’m lonely and want friends plz

2) If your piece of writing is over 500 words, please use the ‘read more’ feature

3) Reblog this post to get the word out (and tag anyone who may be interested!)

4) It’s going to be one person per prompt but if needed I can add more prompts

5) Smut is fine but please leave warnings as appropriate (THOUGH NO UNDERAGE CHARACTER SMUT THANKS)

6) On the back of that one, no inappropriate pairings pleaseeeeee

7) Also please make sure you leave appropriate warnings at the beginnings of fics if any sensitive subjects are brought up (e.g. mental health etc)

8) Ships and OC’s are welcome

9) Tag me in your writing! - on any of my blogs or all three if you’re keen whoooo

10) Use the hashtag #CourtsCrisisWC

11) If you want to enter send me an ask with the prompt you want and the pairing you’ll be writing it with - again the ask can be sent to either of my writing blogs

12) The deadline for this is 15th December (this can be extended if y’all need it)

Characters/People/Pairings

Okay so imma split this section into parts real quick

Main Blog

1) Pretty much anyone from the MCU is welcome - with the exception of Tony Stark and Clint Barton

2) Tom Holland & Harrison Osterfield and HOCO cast and the Holland boys (NOT PADDY) 

3) Any of Les Amis

4) The characters from Peaky Blinders as well

5) Poly ships (e.g. Steve x Reader x Bucky or Tom x Reader x Harrison)

Side Blog

1) Ben Hardy (+ Warren Worthington)

2) Joe Mazzello (+ Eugene Sledge, Gardner Langway, Pat Murray, Dr Tim Murphy)

3) Gwilym Lee (+ Charlie Nelson)

4) (BoRhap!)Queen members (Freddie only platonically)

5) Roger x Reader x Ben

6) Joe x Reader x Ben

7) The Hargreeves Children (older!Five only)

8) Richard Madden (+ David Budd, Robb Stark, Prince Kit)

9) Taron Egerton (+ Eggsy)

10) Rocketman!Bernie Taupin and Ray Williams

11) Smosh Members

12) Jake Gyllenhaal (+ all his various characters)

13) Chris Evans (+ Ari Levinson, Frank Adler)

Just For Funsies (i.e. current obsessions I don’t officially write for but lowkey want to)

1) Ashton Irwin

2) Calum Hood

3) Sebastian Stan (+ Chris Beck)

tbh y’all can just send me a person and I’ll let you know if I’m cool with you writing for them but judging by this list I think you can rest fairly assured that I’m going to be okay with whoever you want to write for

Prompts

The Heartbreakingly Beautiful

“I have measured out my life in coffee spoons” - The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot // the most beautiful and wonderful poem ever written don’t fight me on this // ( @writingsoftheloser w/ BLANK)

“I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is” - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do you start missing everybody” - The Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger ( @takenbyheartstrings w/ Peter Parker)

“I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ( @bensakindofmagic w/ Ben Hardy)

"The universe is bigger than anything that can fit into your mind." - Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaira ( @petersfreckles w/ Peter Parker)

“You never forget the face of the person that is your last hope” - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ( @tom-holland-stuff w/ BLANK)

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward (may be the thing that keeps you going) but that it’s painful and dangerous and risky it’s making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?” - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

“We can't fight another person's battle, no matter how much we want to.” - Holding Up The Universe by Jenifer Niven

“I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.” - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.” - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Hilariously and Painfully Relatable

“As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.” - Solitaire by Alice Oseman

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." - East of Eden by John Steinbeck ( @queen-paladin w/ Joe/Eugene/Charlie/Les Amis boy)

"We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered." - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard ( @lilulo-12 w/ Bucky)

"It's just that…I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is." - The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen ( @sataninsatin w/ Detective Loki)

“It was books that made me feel that I was not completely alone” - The Night Circus by Erin Mogenstern

“Was there some kind of rule against drop kicking arseholes in the face? Probably. They always had rules against things that needed to be done” - Made You Up by Francesca Zappia

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits but I see you are unarmed” - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare ( @icantspellanything w/ Poe Dameron)

“Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.” - Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” I Am The Messenger by Marcus Zusak

Fuck I’m Drowning In Fluff 

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you” - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin ( @mavalenovaninagavi w/ Andrew Garfield!Peter Parker)

“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything” - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Flitzgerald ( @angiefangirlworld-2 w/ Ben Hardy)

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ( @fichoe21 w/ Bucky)

"The curves of your lips rewrite history." - Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ( @sarahp879 w/ Bucky)

"[BLANK] was right. [They] never looked nice. [They] looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something." - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell ( @writing-of-a-british-bitch w/ Eggsy/Warren)

“Here’s my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Love is worth everything. Everything.” - Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace,  against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ( @natdoesthings w/ Jake Gyllenhaal)

“I just want you to know that you’re very special and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has” - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chebowsky ( @d-is-for-delightfull w/ Enjolras)

“Don’t you understand? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!” - Peter Pan by J.M Barrie

#CourtsCrisisWC #Bucky Barnes #bucky barnes x reader #Steve Rogers #steve rogers fanfiction #peter parker #peter parker fanfiction #tom holland #enjolras #enjolras fanfiction #quentin beck #quentin beck fanfiction #stucky x reader #stucky #harrison osterfield #harrison osterfield fanfiction #tom holland fanfiction #Tommy Shelby #tommy shelby fanfiction #please enter lads #I'm begging ya tbh

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i just finished the turian ark quest again and sorry here’s a sad shakarian andromeda au

shepard left the milky way after either being dishonorably discharged or choosing to depart out of guilt or atonement for her actions at torfan. alec ryder recruited her as a fellow n7 after he is discharged for his illegal ai research, and though shepard isn’t entirely sold on the initiative, she has nothing left for her in the milky way and alec makes the case that with her talents she might do more good in andromeda, so she accepts his offer of becoming second in command.

shepard is hastily made pathfinder after the entire ryder family is killed when the hyperion collides with the scourge. younger than alec but not inexperienced, she leads harper and kosta, along with a skeleton crew of specialized combatants she vets personally including a young asari archaeologist who wants to open the first andromeda university and an old grizzled krogan vet who’s tired of watching his people kill themselves in the milky way (cough), and travels across the galaxy to eliminate the kett and eventually make tentative peace with the angara. it’s not ideal, she misses the her old life so much it hurts, but she’s doing what she can.

and then an sos pinging as a private natanus comm signal reaches the tempest

she follows it to, oddly, havarl, where a former c-sec officer garrus vakarian is leading a ragtag group of turian fighters, also awakened from pods, against the roekaar. they’ve been out here for weeks, vakarian explains, and his dad, castis, is the turian pathfinder. despite orders, before entering cryosleep garrus installed personal trackers in his and his sister’s suits in case of emergency if they were separated on landing – which is exactly what happened. but we don’t have a ship and we’ve being tracked on foot by unknown hostiles for weeks, we’re running out of dextro supplies and oh spirits someone finally showed up. you’re the human pathfinder? the human ark landed? well if you’re willing to help i’m not gonna complain. got any spare clips?

after rescuing what remains of the group from the roekaar (during which garrus may or may not suffer a serious injury and nearly be killed…… um) they track garrus’s faint signal to what was once called habitat-5, but now appears to be a debris field after being pulverized with the scourge. the natanus readings are everywhere across this system: with garrus’s tracker they rescue dozens of pods, but find hundreds more floating and lifeless, thousands still unaccounted for. most concerning, the ark itself is still missing. with the destruction of habitat-5, the initiative has no locatable world capable of supporting dextro life, and the more pods they recover, the less space and resources there are on the nexus for the awakening turians and soon-to-be-arriving quarians. efforts are made to relocate as many turians as they can to colonies, but the majority of those recovered are weak from their time afloat in space and need the medical expertise and support of the resources on the nexus to fully heal, further draining resources on the already straining station.

vakarian is better at hiding it than most, but shepard is well aware how to read anxiety in all species of soldiers. his focus is fixed on discovering what remains of the turian ark, and with it, his family, but they both know finding his father and sister will be useless if turians have nowhere to live when they’re rescued.

then one day, a salarian team discovers a pod labeled ‘vakarian, solana’ floating adrift in slow orbit over a gaseous moon. it’s been powerless for months.

shepard finds him in the drive core, fooling with something on the console. she knows busywork when she sees it.

“here.” she hands him a bottle of palaveni horosk that nyx had managed to scrounge up last month and handed to her with a meaningful look that morning. “i was saving it for when we found natanus and rescued everyone inside and became big damn heroes. but i think you deserve it. you can keep it to yourself if you like, i won’t tell anyone.”

vakarian stares at the bottle she’s placed in his palm for several long, unblinking moments, then sighs and tosses it back, draining half of it in one long swig. he caps what remains and places it on the edge of the console, away from any sensitive tech that might get unhappy when wet.

“my dad’s still out there,” he says hoarsely. he’s staring at the bottle and the six-hundred-year-old brand label, probably out of business by now back home, distilleries left to waste and the name all but forgotten in obscure academic records. “i know the odds. i don’t need anyone to tell me what we’ll probably find out there. and yet – i just found my sister’s corpse in a frozen glass pod, the last words she said to me were ‘they’ll wake me up first so i can say i’m older than you in this galaxy, too.’ now have to plan her funeral on – on a negative budget with no place to bury her. and part of me still has the audacity to hope, about my dad. and it’s the worst thing i’ve done to myself. but i can’t stop.”

shepard doesn’t know how to tell him she well understands without crossing emotional boundaries that might be… inappropriate, to a race such as the turians. “you haven’t heard anything else from him on the private link you installed?”

vakarian shakes his head once.

“you will,” she says.

“shepard,” he says.

“if he’s anything like you,” she says, “you will.”

he laughs briefly, without humor.

“even if he’s still alive, where are we going to put fifteen thousand colonists?” he still isn’t looking at her. “we have no planet for dextro life, commander. the only one was blasted into debris by that – fucking dark cloud, whatever the hell it is. i woke up and survived off rations from my pod and found other survivors and kept them alive as long as i could, and they only followed because they believed me when i said the nexus would have a plan, and things would get better. but we were hunted in the dark one by one by foreign snipers, and when we found civilization – found you, we found the nexus was just as desperate for dextro resources as we were. no help’s coming. we’re on our own.”

shepard grips the edge of his carapace gently, and turns him toward her.

“you’re a part of this crew, vakarian,” she tells him, “and you will have what you need when you’re under my command. that includes weapons and mods so that you can kill as many kett as you want. that includes dextro supplies and rations, so that you have enough strength to tear the galaxy apart until you find your family. and it includes someone to talk to, so that even if you think you don’t need it, you know it’s there if you do.” she lets go of his collar and eases a step away. “and if you’re going to stay, you’re free to call me shepard. god knows the rest of this ship did without invitation.”

he blinks, slowly. “commander – ”

“shepard.”

“ma’am,” he says slightly mollified, and she decides not to push it today. “your ship is the top of her class. i’d be honored continue working on her. but i knew when you took me on this was a temporary assignment. you agreed to help me only so far as we reached the natanus, and it’s… clear that’s not happening any time soon. it would be a strain on your – i should be reassigned on the nexus given the circumstances.”

“the tempest has priority clearance to equip its med bay and galley with whatever dextro supplies my team requires,” shepard continues as though he has said nothing. “we already have one turian in the cargo bay. she knows how to share. quite frankly, i’m sure the nexus won’t mind if we take another off their hands and put him to productive work on the initiative’s most advanced starship.”

he stares at her for another long moment. turians have such steady, piercing blue eyes, she thinks – against hard plated faces and their metallic exterior, especially one with a hawke-like sniper’s patience such as garrus, sometimes their eyes are the only part of them that seem vibrantly alive.

“my father,” he starts again, then stops. his brow shifts just the slightest, tensing; he can’t seem to bring himself to continue.

“we’ll find him,” shepard says again. “i can’t promise that the answers will be what you want. but we will.”

vakarian seems to believe that, at least. he draws up to full height, exhales, and then grasps her palm. “then thank you, comma – shepard.” he tilts his head slightly, as though he’s considering her. “you know, when you say it, i almost believe it.”

“i’ve been told i have that effect on people.” she waves with a finger to the forgotten bottle on the console. “you going to finish that?”

“yes,” he says, and makes no move to do so. his mandibles flare in what she recognizes as a turian version of a smile. “but then please call me garrus. it might make things easier to get into the habit before we meet up with my father. being called ‘big vakarian’ and ‘little vakarian’ was only amusing for so long back in c-sec.”

fair enough. “i imagine you must take after him too, then.”

“you shouldn’t have trouble telling us apart, ma’am,” garrus vakarian says, and in a single motion reaches back a hand to grasp the bottle and point the tip toward her, an offer. his mandibles are still flared, eyes warm. if she didn’t know any better, she might call it – cheeky. “i’m the good looking one.”

#fic snippets #shakarian #mea #i'm sorry sol... #i love you i promise you're alive and happy in my next fic #and wow that was really inappropriate to hit on your CO garrus #but tbf she did bring you a beer and you were always very easily influenced by beautiful women #long post #sigh I wrote this at 2am and reading over now it's terrible sorry #anyone want to take it off my hands be my guest

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Oh gods, I can bare it no more!

Let my mind belong to the clouds, soaring in blue mist and sparkling in infinite dreams.

Let my heart belong to the sea, dancing among the reeds and crashing on the shore.

Let my body belong to the forest, roots intertwining themselves with my bones and flowers blooming within my ribcage.

Take me to this world far away, where I sing and dance forevermore.

Take me to the land beyond this life.

Oh gods, take me home.

#poetry #harper's dumb poems #harper uses too many comma's once again #🍓

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My room is a mess.

The walks are too dull, the furniture too grey, the window too smeared to ever see through.

My identity is a mess.

One day a girl, the next a boy. One day fragile, the next daring. One day laughing the next sobbing.

My life is a mess.

But that's okay.

Because when I close my eyes I see colours and shapes I never saw before.

I see a hazy and peaceful morning, where the birds stir and the water topples lazily over the rocks and the world is only just waking up.

I see a bright and sunlight beginning, where I make tea and read my tarot deck and lay in the sun. Where I feed the cows and play mindless little songs over and over to myself

I see a calm and vibrant evening, where I ride my bike down the old street and gaze into the bookstore's window and look up at the sky painted in oranges and pinks and blues all at the same time.

I see a visionary and meaningful night, where I talk with the moon and cast spells and feel. Where I dance with the fae under the moonlight as the embers from the fire move in synch with my soul.

But then I am forced to open my eyes and I see it all again.

I see the starvation, the greed, the hurt and the hate and I am reduced to mere atoms in a galaxy of stars

I am in this world but I am not. I see the flowers, I see the stars, I see the sun and the clouds and the peace and yet I am not there.

To have the tiniest taste of a miracle only for it to be unachievable,

Isn't that the worst pain of all?

#poetry #harper uses too many comma's once again #Harper's dumb poems #cottagecore #soft poetry

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Moment of appreciation for LGBTQ+ youth with disapproving parents

Whether their disapproval comes in the form of snide comments, loud voices, or bruises on your cheek, you guys have to put up with so so much everyday and I can't even begin to imagine what it's like for some of you guys.

As someone with disapproving parents of my own, I know that that stuff hurts. Alot. I'm fortunate enough to be able to say that the furthest my parents have gone was only rude comments, and not violent and angry outbursts that leave scars physically as well as emotionally.

No matter your situation, no matter your sentimentality, no matter the severity, you have it inexplicably hard. You have to go through so so much everyday just for being who you are and that is damaging beyond compare, and being young and unable to move out of your house for another couple of years is just horrible to deal with.

You guys are the strongest people I know and no matter what anyone says, or does, or forces down your throat, you are not a burden. You are all amazing, incredible people who deserve the world and so much more. If any of you ever need to talk, or vent, or be distracted by it, whatever, I'll always be here so feel free to reach out. You are not alone, help is available.

I hope you all know how appreciated you are and how much you inspire me every single day

-Love from Harper, who uses too many comma's 💖

#lgbtq #tw homophobia #harper uses too many comma's once again #support #tw transphobia #flowers and literature #help #lesbian #gay #bi #trans #queer