The First Hug

Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe

It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)

Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.

didn't realize this post got any notes because you know what i'm also not checking? my activity feed.

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

footballers caress each other’s faces more tenderly than lovers

I don't write in cursive, but sometimes I just don't pick the pen up fully and I make it some else's problem.

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

the f in footbal stands for fujoshi

Now I understand why retiree old men fart around construction all day, its to learn these secrets

my writing gland is purple and swollen

do you think that I can digging in the ground for tubers? 🥹 me?