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thetwoguineabook · 4 years
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you begin to admire the holy
I’m not to blame here. an evil podcast compelled me to do it
Author: sixpences Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims Additional Tags: post-159, Getting Together, Domesticity, Only One Bed, Unorthodox Use of Beholding Powers, Consensual Mind Control, Possessiveness, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Slight Monster!Jon            
He wanted to know, wanted to pull everything that was Martin into his mind and savour it, wanted Martin open before him like a book, like the palm of his own hand.
He wanted Martin. He wanted to know Martin. If there was ever a difference he had no idea how to tease it apart.
Concerning the Archivist, and Jonathan Sims, and building a life with Martin Blackwood
Read it at AO3
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thetwoguineabook · 5 years
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Hi!! I saw that you are planing a printed edition of blackbird and let me tell you i was screaming like crazy when i found out the news!! Its been a while since i read it but sometimes i found myself thinking about it, i even start rereading it again!! blackbird is my favorite story. I also saw it would be available for international shipping(maybe). I'm from Mexico do you think it would be available for shipping in my country (pls say yess) ((sorry for the bad english) have a great day :)
I hope so! Like I said I’m still researching the various options for self-publish-and-sell, but I will definitely be looking for somewhere that offers international shipping.
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thetwoguineabook · 5 years
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oooh im super interested in your Blackbird print! :3 do you have another platform (like twitter) because Tumblr's no good with notifications and i dont wanna miss it!
Afraid not, I have a professional twitter and I just don’t have the energy to keep up with a separate fandom one too. I’ll always ask people to signal boost and get the word out though, so hopefully no-one who’s interested will miss out!
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thetwoguineabook · 5 years
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Blackbird - print edition!
Hi everyone- it’s been a while, but unfortunately I have a very busy and tiring job and haven’t had much time or inspiration for writing recently. However, I have something pretty important to talk about! This is an idea that I’ve been sitting on for a while, but after recent events in Pittsburgh I feel like it’s something meaningful that I can do to make a difference right now.
I am going to do a print run of Blackbird, with 100% of all profits going to support Jewish charities- the Community Security Trust here in the UK, and Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Israel.
Yes, I do mean actual, physical, printed copies- I’ve had so many commenters say, ‘I wish I could have a copy of this fic like a real book’, so this is your chance! I am still researching the best options so I can’t confirm price right now, but it’ll be via an online self-publishing and sale platform which should be able to handle international delivery.
I’ll also be looking for an artist to commission to do the cover- nothing super fancy, but if you have commissions open right now and would be interested in working together on this, hit me up!
More details to come once I have more stuff sorted out- in the meantime please spread the word to people who might be interested, and help keep me motivated to get this project out of the door.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I was tagged a few days back by @iwritevictuuri​ to list all my works in progress, and am very bad at checking my tumblr notifications, so…
- A Colour Beyond the Sun. Alternate history. Space. Politics. Planets that have more than one country on them. The Expanse meets Coheed & Cambria, except with YOI characters because why the fuck not?
- At the Blood’s Perimeter. Was going to be my BBOI fic, got scuppered by the whole ‘changing career and moving across the country’ thing, but I hope to come back to it. In which Victor leaves Sochi with a hopeless crush, an impressive hickey, and another problem- one that doesn’t appear until the full moon rises in the middle of Russian nationals...
- The Long Way Round. Processing grief on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Honestly moving myself has kind of killed my desire to look at this one. Maybe I’ll get the mood back eventually.
- Be My Pair, Victor! Totally, utterly ridiculous and self-indulgent AU in which they’re not just programmers- nay, not even just web devs!- but Rubyists. Whether or not this ever goes beyond ‘thing I pull out and poke at occasionally’ depends on if I decide if it’s not actually too nerdy to allow into the daylight.
- A couple of title-less bits indulging my desire for iddy, tropey nonsense. My last fic was one of these that grew legs, so who knows which of these will make it out of the dark corner of my fanfic folder too.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I'm Dying, your new story is, like, the Softest smutty fanfic I've ever read. It's beautiful. And as always your imagery and characterization is my favorite ever, I love your soft dork Victor. So so so lovely.
Thank you! They are the sweetest, dorkiest weirdos in love ever.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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one is silver | fanfic | yuri!!! on ice
it’s been a minute, hasn’t it?
Author: sixpences Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov Additional Tags: 2018 Winter Olympics, Light Bondage, Medal Bondage, Cock Warming, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Exhibitionism, Possessiveness, Top Katsuki Yuuri, Bottom Victor Nikiforov
There is, it turns out, more than one use for an Olympic medal.
Read it at AO3
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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Victor and his best girl! I love it!
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Myself and Mrs. Lady Night have translated Blackbird by sixpences into Russian! A little sketchy sketch by me to celebrate it, because this story never ceases to inspire me <3
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I've read Blackbird maybe 3-4x already; I love it beyond words. I love Yakov quietly keeping kinda-kosher as defiance. I love Yuuri's difficulty writing to his mother. I love Victor drawing hearts with syrup (one of my favorite scenes because it draws such a nice contrast between how Yuuri perceives Victor and how the West perceives the USSR). I love their escape. I love that its fundamentally about people, and it feels hopeful and happy. (There's more, but I've run out of space.) THANK YOU!!!
Thank you so much! ‘Fundamentally about people’ is exactly what I was going for- it’s easy to let big historical events like wars just become lists of dates and facts and forget that they were things that real people lived through, and that every big story is full of hundreds of millions of smaller ones, of people just trying to make their way through the world. The best historical fiction is the kind that really brings those small stories vividly to life.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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Hi! I'm reading (and loving) Blackbird. I commented on Chapter 2, but I'm not sure if you're still active on AO3, so I'll share my thanks to you here just in case. Your portrayal of Yuuri standing for what’s right instead of what’s nationalistic means a lot to me. It really pains me to see that most Japanese people nowadays, unlike Germans, refuse to acknowledge and apologise for WW2 atrocities. So thank you for giving me/us a Yuuri who isn't in denial, but who is brave and good.
Thank you- I am, uh, technically still active on AO3, but I am terrible at responding to comments at the best of times and the last few months have been ridiculously busy. Hopefully things will settle down a bit more in the new year and I might even *gasp* get some progress done on a WIP or two.
I think it’s perhaps a bit of a gloss to say that Germans are totally apologetic- while there are many excellent anti-Nazi laws in place in both Germany and Austria, they are dealing with the same resurgence of the far right as the rest of the western world, and there are more than enough people all over Europe willing to try and paper over what the Nazis and their collaborators did.
I think people in general, wherever we’re from, tend towards looking the other way and taking the most easy and comfortable path. It’s easier to not think about the atrocities in your country’s past (I say this as a citizen of the country that perpetuated possibly the most brutal and definitely the most widespread imperialist violence in human history). If you can’t avoid thinking about it, it’s easier to assume that it wasn’t that bad, or that it has nothing to do with you. It’s easier to think that if those times came again, you’d obviously behave differently. It’s easier, when they do come, to keep your head down and do as you’re told.
Something I consider to be one of Yuuri’s defining characteristics, in any setting, is that he’s extremely brave. It takes a lot of bravery to go through a total professional humiliation and still decide to come back. It takes a lot of bravery to feel the kind of anxiety he does about competitions and push through it to not only compete but to come out at the front of the field.
It takes courage and strength of will to take the harder path, to chose discomfort in the pursuit of what’s right. It’s the kind of courage I think we need a lot more of in the world today.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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Impromptu dancing in the living room <3
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I just reread all of Blackbird in two days. I got to the last chapter and oh my god, I'd forgotten the scene on Yuuri's birthday and the line "I'll still love you when forever is over and done". Like, fuck, man, that is the single most romantic line I've ever read or heard. I cried the first time I read that and I almost cried again when I read it this time. And I am not a person who cries at books or movies. You're an incredible writer. Your writing gives me so many emotions. Wow.
In a true festive miracle, I’m going to actually answer the stuff I’ve been neglecting in my inbox for, uh, too long. Hooray!
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Thank you! That’s honestly one of my very favourite scenes in the fic, I had that ‘let’s run away from the apocalypse together’ conversation in mind from very early on. I’ve always had a really deep-seated terror of nuclear war and the threat of The Bomb became such an important part of the second half of the fic; I wanted some way to turn even that omnipresent fear into something that bonded them together.
Also *finger guns* any lesbians in the south of England who want a butch gf to say romantic shit like that to them all the time, hmu, I’ve been single way too long.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I just added your bot to my discord and it looks amazing!! just thought I’d let you know and thank you for blessing us with virginia woolf in bot form
Thank you! I hope you find it useful.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I just read your post about your life over the last year. We don't know eachother, but I just wanted to say that I'm really glad you're alive. I love your writing, it's amazing and so thoughtful, nuanced, and well done. More than that, though, it's clear from your fiction writing and from your posts that you're a smart, empathetic, interesting person. From everything I know of you, you're the kind of person who I'm really happy I get to exist at the same time as.
Thank you so much, that’s incredibly sweet ❤️ it’s been a tough year but I’m doing so much better at this end of it.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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I draw it! :D hope you like it! 
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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What happened to Mary after the war?
I take it you mean Miriam? She was fortunate amongst Jewish refugees in Switzerland in that she married a Swiss citizen who she met at the Zürich synagogue, in the late 1930s a few years after her arrival. She carried on supporting other refugees and people she met through her connection to Christophe’s spy ring. I think she also got a job once the war was over and things settled down a little, maybe a civil service job like she used to have in Germany and lost to the Nazi regime. I think of her as being a lot like many of the women I’ve met in government jobs- just quietly dedicated to Getting Shit Done.
Christophe got Yuuri to go and visit her, and she was delighted to meet Victor too; all three of them shared a lot of sad memories about Berlin. Towards the end of her life she finally managed to go back there, and got a day visa into East Berlin to visit the cemetery where her first husband and son were buried (they were both very ill at around the time the Nazis came to power, which is the main reason she didn’t leave the country sooner, as she was fortunate enough to have the economic means).
She’s probably my favourite original character in the fic; originally I was going to have a scene with Christophe and Yuuri at her house, so I fleshed out a whole backstory for her.
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thetwoguineabook · 6 years
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hey, so I’ve been pretty quiet here the last few weeks, mostly because I have been in the middle of moving 200 miles across the country in order to start a new job on Monday!
it’s been a long road getting here, so please indulge me in waffling a little bit (cw for mental health stuff including suicidal ideation)
a year ago I thought, if Trump wins the US election then I’m going to kill myself. as far as I was concerned it would be the final straw of an unbearably awful two years. I didn’t want to keep living in a world where I was so hurt inside of myself while the outside world got worse and worse.
but I didn’t do it. unlike the last time I felt so determined, I didn’t even attempt it. whether it was a sense of guilt about hurting my parents, or just the sheer bloody apathy of depression, I kept the plan a hypothetical. and I dragged myself on through Christmas and into another year.
I honestly think the first glimmer of hope I had was finally watching YOI to see what all the fuss was about. I enjoyed it, in a way I hadn’t enjoyed anything for months. it made me want to engage, made me want to step tentatively outside of my little bubble of misery. I got caught up in an idea for a story, and despite all my misgivings it actually came together how I wanted it to, a story about hope and love and resilience when I needed all those things very, very badly.
and then I took a crazy chance and went to coding bootcamp online. I went from my days being very quiet and subdued to being on video calls with, initially, total strangers for eight hours a day. it was hard work. it was enormously fun. I met some fantastic people, and discovered that all my years of academic philosophising were actually a pretty decent foundation for learning to think in code.
and now I’ve just moved into a brand new flat right by the sea, and I’m about to start a job as a junior developer. last November I literally could not imagine still being alive in a year’s time, but since then I’ve written a novel, dragged myself out of depression, learned a ridiculous amount of new skills, and found a job in a totally new industry.
I suppose the point of all this blathering is to say, if you’re feeling the way I did a year ago, or if you ever do, please hold on. try and make it to tomorrow. try another day after that. it’s not the end, and there can and will be things waiting for you on the other side. you have so, so much to give the world; don’t listen to anyone, including your own brain, who tells you otherwise.
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