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gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else

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The Notorious is a replica 15th century caravel. The ship took ten years to build, made entirely from reclaimed timber. She was launched at Martins Point, Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, on Monday, 7 February 2011.

#oh I can Hear these photos #hey. hey Lee. hey Lee. #tall ships

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#my mother is a migraine sufferer #(since she was younger than I am now) #and I've never had one #the obvious conclusion here is that gayness actually prevents migraines

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can you get that weird guy out of here please. I’m starting to feel a little bit flustered and i don’t want to confront & come to terms with that right now

#and this is why so many people and things keep trying to kill Arthur Lester #malevolent posting

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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

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#I feel like this was implied but wanted to make it #the goblin emperor #love her. literal queen

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I dream of one day being able to craft characters as vividly and efficiently as Billy Joel in “Piano Man.”

Paul “the real-estate novelist”. Three words! That’s all we need to build a complete picture of this man’s personality and history. And then it just rounds out the picture with “never had time for a wife”.

And we don’t even pause a beat before jumping to the equally vivid tragedy of “Davy who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life.”

And these two are talking together! Because of course they are, these kindred souls stuck in their lives of mediocrity.

The whole song’s nothing but lightning-fast character sketches. The old man whose song is “sad and sweet and knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.”

John at the bar, so firmly established as cheerful and friendly and exuberant before the 180 turn to “Bill, I believe this is killing me.”

The waitress practicing politics.

Even the businessmen “sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it’s better than drinking alone.”

All these tiny little tragicomic figures gathered around a bar’s piano. Sketched in five minutes and thirty-nine seconds–and that’s counting the choruses and harmonica breaks.

I dunno, I just think about it every time I hear the song and think he deserves more credit for it.

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Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??

#YEAH #midway through a workday usually so I can't even stop and chase the damn thing down and figure out what to do with it #maddening #writing about writing

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Do you ever start writing something that you’re excited about and that seems like it’s turning out well and that you’re getting eager to share, and then you start typing it up or doing an edit pass and it’s just awful it’s awful its premise is fundamentally flawed and it’s out of character and the prose is clunky and the plot is badly paced and ludicrous and the whole thing is embarrassing, how could you have done this, how could you have sunk so much time into this, you can’t even look at it, how is this that shining thing you were so excited about, how could you even have considered finishing it let alone sharing it with anyone, you’re crying, your mother is crying, nuns are spontaneously exploding in the streets,

#writing about writing #feel like I've reblogged this before but who cares #it really is that Big of a Mood

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everyone agreeing with this tweet is so lucky because cell phones have absolutely been in my dreams, specifically DREAMS ABOUT TUMBLR DISCOURSE. I literally had a dream my mutuals made a callout for me i'm not fucking joking helppp

#phone dreams but no discourse #the phone works as a plot device #I dream that I check the news when I wake up and see (imagined headline which is the actual focus of the dream) or something #or that time 10 years ago when I dreamed that I sent a message saying “I love you” to the girl I was not quite dating at the time #woke up like SHIT SHIT SHIT oh thank god #anyway we're married now

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28. Your least favorite part of the writing process. I love your writing and I'm always curious about an author's least favourite parts of writing

Thank you!

Least favourite... probably the situation when I know how something starts and how it ends, but then have to figure out how to bridge that gap in a way that feels natural. Sometimes this is where a strategic paragraph break or even chapter break happens, but sometimes it just has to sit there until I figure out a way to have someone say "as you know, Other Character, here is the logical solution to the situation we find ourselves in" without actually saying that. As tempting as it so often is.

#asks answered #fic writing ask game #writing about my writing

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✍️ more fic writer asks!

reblog & your followers can send asks with the questions they’d like you to answer!

the last sentence you wrote

a character whose POV you’re currently exploring

how you feel about your current WIP

a story idea you haven’t written yet

first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)

your preferred writing fonts

if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

start to finish, how long did it take you to write the last fic you posted?

what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

a WIP you’d like to finish someday

a trope you’re really into right now

a fandom you’re thinking about writing for

where do you get your inspiration?

favorite weather for writing

favorite place to write

talk about your writing and editing process

if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

in what year did you publish your first fic?

when did you publish your most recent fic?

do you ever worry about public reaction to what you’re writing? how do you get past that?

pick three keywords that describe your writing

how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

are you able to write with other people around?

your favorite part of the writing process

your least favorite part of the writing process

how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

share a fic you’re especially proud of

#fic writing ask game #let's play an ask game!

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i really like outsider POV, but the thing is, it fundamentally works better when whatever is going on with the characters in question is so fucking weird that no reasonable outsider could ever discern it

like, the ideal outsider POV should have at least some element of 'what the fuck is wrong with these people'.

#this is my Favourite Trope I love it so much #writing about writing #our Beloved Protagonist is their Local Weirdo

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you know what? fuck you *falls asleep tenderly in your arms*

#I think this happens at least 3 times in #the longfic brainworms of '23

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the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

#peak comedy #monsterposting

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Let the eldritch abomination have a minute to determine left from right so he can guide his blind angry British P.I. landlord around (they run into a pole five seconds later)

#I'm lov him #John Doe malevolent #prev: I think Arthur always had to use the “L for left” trick and now he can't #and it's causing problems #and John only knows what “left” is via connection to Arthur's brain and this therefore causes further problems