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I was tagged by the lovely @myheartalivewrites, @kiwiana-writes, and @cha-melodius this week.

And I actually have seven+ sentences? In this economy? I know. I can't believe it either. MJ is working on A Thing and discussing that with him got me opening up my Doctor Who AU doc again... and this scene spilled onto my phone at 8AM this morning for no reason.

Here's just a few more than seven:

“You haven’t just met tonight, darlings.” Pez pauses. “Well, technically, you did—but tonight isn’t the first tonight you’ve had. Based on the time energy wafting off you, I’d venture you’ve had quite a few.” “Quite a few…” “Hundreds,” Pez says. “Quite a few hundreds, I’d say.” Alex wants to argue. He wants to say that’s impossible; he met Henry less than an hour ago. Except, when he looks into those vivid blue eyes, he knows—like a word on the tip of his tongue, a memory that he can’t quite place, an itch at the base of his skull. He can see it: the peeling corner of the wallpaper. All he needs to do is pull.

Tagging some lovelies under the cut. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@anchoredarchangel, @barbiediaz @cha-melodius, @cricketnationrise, @firenati0n,

@guillermosfamiliar, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @hippolotamus, @inexplicablymine, @itsmaybitheway, @jettestar,

@junebugclaremontdiaz, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @missgeevious, @mulderscully, @ninzied,

@nontoxic-writes, @notspecialbabe

@priincebutt, @rmd-writes, @rosedavid, @three-drink-amy, @treluna4,

@vanillahigh00, @welcometololaland

@orchidscript, @ships-to-sail, @stereopticons

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Thank you for the tag, @kiwiana-writes and @hippolotamus! @cha-melodius also tagged me in her "first sentences of 2024" post, and... well, this little snippet qualifies for that too!

I am hoping to have this done over the weekend, but for now... Have a snippet of my Doctor Who Festive Special AU, featuring Pez as a Timelord and a NYE timeloop in Paris:

June, Nora, and Bea widen their triangle to make room, and the five of them make a tight circle in the crowd of strangers. The formation happens naturally: Nora to the left of Alex, Henry to his right, then June, with Bea squeezed between her and Nora. Henry clearly has no idea what to do with his limbs, though, so Alex gets his hands on his hips to gently guide their rhythm.  Seeing this, Bea whoops, and Alex enjoys watching the blood rush to Henry's cheeks more than he did earlier. "All in the hips, sweetheart," he says, just to watch Henry's blush deepen. And the DJ must have one hell of a megamix because Alex swears they get through banger after banger—at least fifty different songs—before the countdown starts. It should only be, like, twenty minutes, but time feels syrupy as the whole crowd moves together under the stars. It's the kind of fun Alex was looking for tonight. It's more than he'd hoped for, actually, as Henry loosens up beneath his hands. He's goddamn beautiful in the flashing, colorful lights, and Alex never, not in a million years, expected this. Eventually, Nora's back ends up against his as their little circle narrows, and Henry's hips get closer until they're practically flush with Alex's. A gentle touch in a storm, Henry's hands rest lightly against his chest.  The scratch of the record indicating the start of the countdown makes Alex jump, but then the five of them huddle together to count backwards from ten. Alex realizes they're sectioned off again, too: the girls back in a triangle formation, and Henry's blue eyes staring into his.  When they get to 'four,' Alex moves to wrap his arm around Henry's neck. "Three!" Henry moves his arms around Alex's waist. "Two!" Alex rolls up onto the balls of his feet, closing some of the gap between his lips and Henry's— —but, instead of fireworks lighting up the sky, the night goes completely black.  The music is replaced by a persistent banging, and Alex's head is suddenly throbbing. "Alejandro! Get your ass out of bed." Nora calls between knocks. "If you're not downstairs in two minutes, we're going to the patisserie without you." Grumbling from under the sheets, Alex blindly reaches for his phone on the nightstand to check the time:  9:01 A.M., December 31st "Fuck, okay, I'm up."

Tagging some lovelies under the cut (in alphabetical order lol), even though it's only Wednesday for another 30 minutes here. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@blackandwhiteandrose, @cha-melodius, @cricketnationrise, @duchessedepolignac, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @inexplicablymine, @jettestar, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @missgeevious, @myheartalivewrites, @nontoxic-writes, @notspecialbabe, @priincebutt, @rmd-writes, @rosedavid, @sparklepocalypse, @three-drink-amy, @treluna4, @vanillahigh00, @welcometololaland, @orchidscript, @ships-to-sail, @stereopticons

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Okay, it's Monday in my timezone, but it's still Sunday in at least one other timezone, sooo... I'm totally on time! Thank you to @kiwiana-writes, @stereopticons, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @cha-melodius, @wordsofhoneydew and @hippolotamus for the tags!

I didn't finish the NYE timeloop AU this weekend, but I did make a ton of progress on it since Friday (3.6k of progress to be exact) and a little bit of progress on the coma fic. God, it feels good to be a person who can write again, man.

Anyway, here's a few more than seven sentences from that:

When they start the countdown at five, Alex turns without pulling out of Henry's grasp; Henry's hands just flatten against the small of his back instead, and Alex cups his jaw in the palm of his hand. "Why do I feel like we've done this before?"  The hundreds of thousands of people around them are miles away when Henry looks at him, gaze soft in the moonlight. Anticipation crackles like pop rocks in Alex's stomach.  "Four!" Henry smiles. "I'm certain I'd remember, if we had." "Three! "Well," Alex says, closing some of the distance between their lips. "Just to be sure…" "Two!" He feels himself being pulled impossibly closer, and—

It's not even Sunday anymore in most parts of the world... but I'm still tagging some lovelies under the cut. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@blackandwhiteandrose, @duchessedepolignac, @inexplicablymine, @jettestar, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @missgeevious, @myheartalivewrites, @nontoxic-writes, @notspecialbabe, @priincebutt, @rmd-writes, @rosedavid, @sparklepocalypse, @three-drink-amy, @treluna4, @vanillahigh00, @welcometololaland, @orchidscript, @ships-to-sail

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last line challenge

Thank you @nontoxic-writes, @stereopticons, @kiwiana-writes, and @blackandwhiteandrose for the tag!

It feels like it's been forever since I've written a sentence, but it's probably only been a week or so. I'm fairly sure this is the last line I wrote? If nothing else, it's the most recent one I like most:

The earth is spinning beneath his feet, the entire universe is waiting on the other side of those blue doors, but it's here that he feels it: the eve of a new year, the eve of everything, dangling on Henry's lips.

Tagging some lovelies under the cut. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@anchoredarchangel, @barbiediaz, @cha-melodius, @cricketnationrise, @firenati0n, @guillermosfamiliar, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @hippolotamus, @inexplicablymine, @itsmaybitheway, @jettestar, @junebugclaremontdiaz, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @missgeevious, @mulderscully, @myheartalivewrites, @ninzied, @notspecialbabe, @priincebutt, @rmd-writes, @rosedavid, @three-drink-amy, @treluna4, @vanillahigh00, @welcometololaland, @orchidscript, @ships-to-sail

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Thank you, @kiwiana-writes and @cha-melodius for the tags!

This is a bit of a cheat... I'm posting seven lines from the Doctor Who time loop. At least there's a seven involved?

"How is that possible?" Henry asks. "If it were that simple, this would be happening all of the time." Alex nods. "Yeah, we'd have drones crashing into shit, toy cars, like, killing children, probably…"  "Darling, your mind must be a terrifying place." Pez tells him. "I'm obsessed with you."  Henry clears his throat. "It's harrowing, truly. About the signal—" "All business, aren't you?" Pez looks him over the way a cat might eye a canary in a cage. "Well, it must be an overwhelmingly powerful signal… and close by…" Henry frowns. "What on earth could be transmitting something that strong?" Pez, inexplicably, winks at him. "On earth," he says, "definitely. From earth… I'm thinking not."

This thing is fairly close to being done, and yet I keep getting stuck on it. My brain has turned into one of those rotating loading cursors. I think work and grief stuff is just burning me out... but I'm still determined to get it posted in January, while the NYE thing is still timely. If I don't... well... you'll be getting a NYE fic in February, I guess.

Tagging some lovelies under the cut. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@anchoredarchangel, @barbiediaz, @cricketnationrise, @duchessedepolignac, @guillermosfamiliar, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @hippolotamus, @inexplicablymine, @jettestar, @junebugclaremontdiaz, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @missgeevious, @mulderscully, @myheartalivewrites, @ninzied, @nontoxic-writes, @notspecialbabe, @priincebutt, @rmd-writes, @rosedavid, @sparklepocalypse, @three-drink-amy, @treluna4, @vanillahigh00, @orchidscript, @ships-to-sail, @stereopticons

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I was tagged by @cha-melodius, @hippolotamus, and @welcometololaland to share what's inspiring me this week.

From the two projects I've been bouncing between this week:

Tagging some lovelies under the cut. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@anchoredarchangel, @barbiediaz, @cricketnationrise, @duchessedepolignac, @guillermosfamiliar, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @inexplicablymine, @jettestar, @junebugclaremontdiaz, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @missgeevious, @mulderscully, @myheartalivewrites, @ninzied, @nontoxic-writes, @notspecialbabe, @priincebutt, @rmd-writes, @rosedavid, @sparklepocalypse, @three-drink-amy, @treluna4, @vanillahigh00, @orchidscript, @ships-to-sail, @stereopticons

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qkshs tell me about edging the reader in a time loop (or not) 😅

Hahaha, this one is referring to my AU where Pez is a Timelord. I've talked about it briefly, but here is a snippet:

12:53 P.M. After pastries and a truly frightening amount of coffee, they spend the day checking off a number of 'must-dos' on their list. June has a list of shops she wants to visit along the Seine, Nora found an indigenous art museum for them to explore, and Alex insists on one of those pictures where it looks like he's holding the Eiffel Tower in his hands.  Objectively, he has nothing to complain about.  The weather is gorgeous. It's chilly, but not nearly cold enough to snow. There's a breeze brushing through his curls as they slowly float across the Seine on a lunch cruise, which is so fucking bougie Alex can barely stand it—in, like, a good way, though. The food is amazing, and Nora just had him laughing so hard that his afternoon coffee just almost came out his nose… but, still, something feels… off. "We just need a nap," June tells him when he tries explaining it. She rips a bit of soft bread and pops it into her mouth. "We've been out all day, and we're still jet-lagged. That's all." Alex sighs. "Yeah, probably," he agrees. "I just keep getting this weird feeling. Like deja vu." "That's what you get for memorizing the itinerary," Nora says dryly as she kicks him lightly under the table. "Either that, or you're thinking of the other time you took a cruise on the Seine." "Shut up," he says, but it works. He laughs. When he does get back into bed, he dreams of blue eyes and a smart mouth. He forgets by the time they leave for dinner.

[I described my WIPs badly.]

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