Hate Leads To Lollipops

Writer 1: The writer that never sleeps

Writer 2: The writer who sold their soul

Writer 3: The writer who kills everyone

Writer 4: The writer who doesn’t know what happens next

Writer 5: The writer who researches every tiny detail

Writer 6: The writer who forgets what they’re writing

Writer 7: The writer who never writes

Writer 8: The writer who edits as they write

Writer 9: The writer who disappears for 1.5 years

Writer 10: The writer who is never heard from again

Here are my all-time favorite GOT Fics that I love and re-read! 

There is An Oath that Binds by BecauseBraime 

sow the wind; reap the whirlwind by partialconstellations

The Right Question by Aviss 

On Thursday We Wear Crimson by Aviss

The Dragon Cub by alperez

Everything We’ve Done (Is There On Our Face) by alphayamergo

The Sapphire Wench by Meriwyn

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell

50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville

250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic

Of Mice and Men = 30k fic

Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic

For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.

Jaime left Brienne because he did not feel worthy of her. He thought he was a horrible person who could not be redeemed, and would ultimately poison her goodness.

Even though he had proven himself a man of honor, and Brienne certainly saw it and championed it, he had been so controlled, manipulated, and emotionally abused by both Cersei and Tywin his entire life that he could not see himself as anything but the monster they made him believe he was. In a way, leaving Brienne might have been his ultimate act of love for her. He chose her goodness to be untarnished by him over his own happiness, and his love for her.

AND CAN WE JUST REFLECT UPON THE TOTAL CLASS OF SER BRIENNE OF TARTH???

She had every right, and the opportunity, to roast Jaime and destroy his memory with her entry on his page in The White Book. However, she did not do that. She writes a beautiful memorial that paints him a hero, and a man of honor. Her final act of love to him.

"...Tears rolled down Brienne’s face as Jaime tenderly took her cheek in his hand and kissed her. He pressed his forehead to hers and wrapped his right arm around her waist, pulling her close to him.

“Now I really have something to stay alive for, and to come back to.” He smiled and kissed her again.

“You better keep that promise, Jaime Lannister,” she said, her voice shaking. “If you die on me I will hunt you down and kill you again.” "

-"Wait For Me" by @meriwynlee

This is also one of my fave scenes from your fic, Meriwyn! 💕✨

Repeat after me:

“If I touch a disabled person without consent, they are entitled to their anger.

If I grab a disabled person’s mobility aid without consent, they are entitled to their anger.

If I refuse to consult with a disabled person about their body, they are entitled to their anger.

If I do any of these things, regardless of if I’m trying to do the right thing, I am an asshole.”

I’m sick and bloody tired of people grabbing me, and then people glaring at me like I’m the asshole in the situation; when your spine and your mobility is at stake, we’ll fucking talk.

Able-bodied people, you should be reblogging this.

when you object, however civilly, often they get angry at you. to the point where every time i defend myself against someone physically grabbing me in public, which happens regularly, i know that the situation might escalate rapidly just because i didn’t thank them for assaulting me.

This is exactly why I made this post. For all these things, because they happen to every single one of us. And I hate it. I’m so sick of it. I hate that we’re not full humans to ableds most of the time.

My body is in such bad shape because of three things

poor medical care as a kid

little access to mobility aids

ableds pushing, pulling, leaning on, grabbing, etc. me without consent—often after I’ve told them I don’t need help