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I really wanted to do Zutara week this year but honestly it’s not gonna happen. Summer is my busy season so it’s a bad time. Maybe I’ll do some belated ones this fall when I have more gas in the tank

#i’m really disappointed both in myself and because I love it #but I’m in my thirties now and I just can’t bounce back like I used to so I need breaks #oh well #maybe I’ll just write instead and call it good

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strawberisapphic

everyone has a ship thats just: theyre perfect. they hate each other. theyre married. they havent spoken in 15 years. they have date nights three times a week. theyre divorced. theyre pining, its unrequited. its requited. theyre starcrossed. theyre meant to be. theyre doomed by the narrative. they love each other. theyve never held hands. they wont stop making out at parties. they cant look each other in the eye

#i mean all of them really #this is my type #but also #morristair

liliumlief

trying to get your friends into your fandom like

#me #i am in the trash

hypokeimena

all those posts that are like "why am i researching currency debasement in the 1860s for a fanfiction no one is going to care" are full of shit, i just DNFd a fic for being obviously incorrect about the history of plumbing

hypokeimena

my people have found me.

hypokeimena

just got a double whammy of the most annoying comments i get on this post back to back in my notes (1. this is going to give authors anxiety!!! 2. but you CAN get tenure by 35!!!), so everyone say bye bye post for another several months

hypokeimena

post unlocked because i just dnf'd the project hail mary book due to andy weir's 'rocky thinks in base six' inconsistencies.

if rocky thinks and estimates in base six round numbers and then converts to base ten for ryan gosling's sake (established early!! basically one of the first things ryan gosling works out!), then he would not suggest that they jump from 80 to 86 when rounding up for safety, because neither of those are base six round numbers. he would suggest jumping to a safety allowance of 84 (220 in base six) or 90 (230 in base six).

#went back into my likes to find and reblog this because I just read a line where someone said #‘i can’t even go to trade school with my grades’#and it was so deeply incorrect that I almost screamed #95% of the men I work with will freely admit that they were trash at school #shit grades juvie records the whole thing #and now they’re fantastic welders who get paid $54 an hour #hi I can tell you don’t know anything about construction #i am reading fanfiction at work again while waiting to see if this heating system is going to start up #i’m wearing a hardhat right now #this shit is WRONG

Sorry to the members of my groupchat who have had to listen to me bitch about this all day, but I simply cannot do literary fiction for pleasure anymore. I did so much of it in college and even when I’m trying my best to enjoy it, it’s just fucking white people problems. It’s just sad people having affairs. It’s just people manufacturing conflict by not saying things that like … aren’t even that bad. I may not like dark romance either, but at least there’s some weird gross meat on those fucked up bones and I can fucking respect that

#it is so clear I have an english and writing degree #i wrote literary fiction for all four years of school because my very bad professor couldn’t handle genre fiction #if you were wondering yes the book she wrote was also about sad white people having affairs #it just soured me on so many things #this particular book is also about environmentalism while never once mentioning colonialism and that feels BAD #but it’s a separate issue #i got so mad I had to stop reading #english majors suck

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alphacrone

the parker/eliot branch of the ot3 is the absolute funniest. parker&hardison have their own beautiful canonical romance. hardison&eliot flirt as much as they bicker & have some deliciously tense moments of Manly Emotional Intimacy and Bone-Deep Respect and Care for the other. but parker&eliot? spend most of the time either working in terrifying tandem or behaving like grumpy uncle/little brother until that occasional moment where eliot will see a younger version of himself in parker who hasn’t quite made all of the terrible he did and can be Saved but clearly possesses a familiar, viscous capability for darkness that cuts her from the same cloth as him and he will do everything in his power to stop it even if it tears him limb from literal limb. and then she hits him with a car.

#reblogging this because the parker/eliot branch is my favorite branch #there’s something so wrong with them and that’s the joy of it #they really are terrible people doing their absolute best to be less Like That and no one else gets it like they get it #leverage

As a big Avatar fan, this is probably my hottest take, but like … I don’t want any more of it. Stop making it. Not the new movie, not the live action, not any of it. Just make something and let it be. Make something else instead. Do a new idea.

I’m not reading the books or the comics. I’m not watching anything new. Even Korra was on thin ice for me when I was in college (a long time ago okay?) and while I enjoyed parts of it, I also don’t think we needed it. Sometimes people will be like, “oh well actually Kyoshi isn’t like that because in the books, she —“ no. No, I don’t care. I didn’t read them and I’m not going to. She’s like that in the show and that’s fine actually. I don’t need the backstory.

Be classy about it. Let it end.

#i’ve been thinking about this a lot and like … yeah #sometimes it’s okat to just let a thing speak for itself #bryke please just make something new #it’s been like 25 years #it’s time to have a second idea #i know it’s odd to say as a fanfiction writer but look I’m not out here writing six more parts of Twist Me To The Left #Moonlight and Sunshadow is not getting a sequel #i guess I blame marvel but like … we can be free of them #maybe it’s because I just rewatched the good place and it was so refreshing for it to just Be Done #atla

tahobitz

#suki #literally exactly how I write suki #no no prove me wrong

girl-mercury

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Voting ended onJul 30

#there’s a pretty common way to diminutive-ize my name that a lot of the older guys use on me and that’s fine #however #there’s a very cutesy version that my dad uses and sometimes the guys will use that and that is DEATH #but!#an exciting twist!#I go by my middle name!#so The First Name is always there #lurking #waiting to spring upon me unawares #the apprenticeship coordinator at the union hall once did a full on romantasy style snarl at a guy who called me by my first name #very weird from a short bald white dude but there you are #he was not having any useage of The First Name in his fucking hall #there’s also a song about The First Name that’s very popular in my part of the world so it has Many Downsides

frodo-of-the-nine-fingers

it is always narratively correct to make your characters sleep together before they sort through the hundreds of lies and misdirections between them. make things worse make things worse make things worse #i love betrayal #i love lying #i love people feeling bad about themselves

#oh!#it me!#if there’s a sex scene in my work #it pretty much means something bad is going to happen #happy people bore me #anyway let’s make it worse

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meatswitch-deactivated20231107

Wizards (1977)

definitelynotindecisive

bogleech

Oh are there people who don't know this mess of a movie has the all time most spectacular final wizard battle in the fantasy genre??

#bad news this is one of my favorite movies #i will accept no critique of this beautiful dumpster fire I was obsessed with when I was like nine #i don’t think it had any effect on me as a person at all actually and i’m totally fine #wizards #ralph bakshi

Hey gang, June kicked my ass actually so everything is half done

#i wanted to do all 80’s and 90’s kid’s lit #but I got #OVERWHELMED #draw everything june #dej 2026

Hey, this might be odd to say, but I'm where I am in life now partly thanks to you. I read Moonlight and Sunshadow years ago, in 2020, and was so intrigued I read the linked fairy tale. That made me think about stories and traditions and the beauty of storytelling, and made me look further into how I could read more about them and study stories, because you reminded me of the love I have for them.

I'm now two years into an English degree, and while I think I would've ended up there anyway, I credit your story with giving me an extra push. I've reread East of the Sun, West of the Moon many times, and I'm about to embark on (another) reread of Moonlight and Sunshadow.

I say this whenever I leave a comment, but thank you for writing and sharing. I really mean it. ❤️

I’ve been really thinking about how best to respond to this because it was just so overwhelming (in a good way!) and I wanted to make sure I said the right thing.

This fills me with so much joy. I started writing fanfiction because I wanted to have more fun with my own English degree when I was working a money job that made me really creatively unfulfilled. To know that my own struggles to find fulfillment helped someone else do the same is fucking amazing.

I LOVED my time getting my own English degree (I got a creative writing/English double major back in the early 2010’s). There’s so much to be said for the experience of being insane about literature with other people. The joy of getting to scream about Milton in the cafeteria is unforgettable. And even though I don’t have a job in that field, an English degree teaches you to think in a new way that can translate into a lot of things. Also it means you’re gonna hate one guy who’s been dead for a hundred years. Mine is Henry James. Fucking cannot stand that guy.

I hope you love your program. I hope it opens your horizons and I hope someday you can also share your work in a way that inspires someone else. Take my hand and we will form a chain of weird stories that goes on forever in every direction. Our own Avatar cycle.

It’s going to be amazing

(P.S. I really hope your username is an Enchanted Forest Chronicles reference and if not maybe check that shit out???)

#asks #i’m gonna CRY this is so nice #moonlight and sunshadow

evilwizard

just a heads up. im gonna do a big curse soon

evilwizard

okay so honestly i wasn’t expecting they’d be able to hide the body for this long

evilwizard

LINDSEY GRAHAM ?

#my exact reaction

princesswidget

Pros of rereading your own fics: Holy shit this is amazing

Cons of rereading your own fics: How is there always a typo I missed every single time I read this

#me #meeeeee #memememememe #it HAUNTS me

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fleysh

bluesardine

Some great additions from the comments.

#i’m love him #he can protect me any day #bad jews

Me working with men my age and older: my union brothers. My goofy pipefitter uncles. My bevy of plumbing dads who I love. When I make a slightly off color joke, I feel like a celebrity. No one loves me like you guys love me

Me working with one (1) man in his 20’s: oh I have to kill this idiot immediately

#spent this week with this apprentice who kept stealing the electricians’ wire instead of useful to me #i am now that oldtimer who complains about the first year apprentices #it’s happening #we are all morphing into the same 50 year old man #being arounf 18 year old boys is such a shock and I hate them all #they aren’t good comversationalists and whenever I look down to ask for a tool they’re fucking GONE #come back your job is to cut pipe for me #union nonsense

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