Various Hyperfixations and the Call for Revolution

maths was boring as fuck -TB

I want a girlfriend -EW

So do i -LM

You are loved pejis penisnpenis person -AQ

Fuck the gay f***** in ur friend group. -IC

Cheese! 🧀 -SM

hI iM cHlOe aNd I lIkE bALLs -R

Pompeii graffiti.

Just the concept of people who lived thousands of years ago writing your mum jokes on walls even though we think of them as like educated scholars speaking in archaic language tickles my brain.

Okay so I did a poll yesterday asking writers what medium they used to draft their writing because I was genuinely interested and thought it would be cool.

As expected, the overwhelming majority wrote in a standard word processor on a laptop or computer, a few people wrote in notebooks, a few in their phone's notes apps (we've all been there, even me lol), so overall MOSTLY standard results.

But here's the thing.

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY people voted exactly, which is crazy, it's the most interaction I've ever had on a post, but something deeply, deeply surprised me.

I'm weird. I write in pencil in really tiny writing on these blank pieces of a4 paper I found glued together in a pad my parents had bought on a holiday in Greece years ago. Don't ask why. But I put that as an option just because I thought it would be funny.

And you know how many people voted for that option?

2.8%

Which may not seem like a lot, but if you do the maths, 2.8x2.5 = 7.

SEVEN PEOPLE. Including me.

SIX PEOPLE voted that they also wrote in tiny pencil writing on blank pieces of a4 paper.

SIX.

So either I've found my people and shall gather them together into the Fellowship of the Blank A4, or a bunch of writers saw that poll, thought 'huh, isn't that a ridiculous process, why don't I just vote it because I have free will?'

But I'd like to think at least one of those are genuine though. Just ONE person who is just as insane as me.

Just finished Words Of Radiance (BrandoSando, Stormlight 2) and HOLY MOLY

Yes I do write on blank a4 in tiny writing, no I can't stop now.

Anyway here's Chapter One while you wait!

You can tell this is an old drawing but what I refer to when replicating her likeness. She's a half-elf and Arwen's cousin (Elrond's niece) so I made her kind of look like them.

I spent like an hour learning HTML to put this picture at the start of the chapter on ao3 too... what am I doing with my life.

Anyway here's my fic, Chapter Two coming out soon!

Lord of the Rings, Teen and Up, Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions of Violence

𝙸𝚗 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗-𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚜' 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚊 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚐𝚘𝚍𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚛, 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎...