Conclusion: Dinosaurs

This joke will get old eventually, but today is not that day.

Ship Tournament, Round 2 — Match 13 / 15

Aylin/Isobel/Shadowheart

"Isobel and Aylin should never be separated but also they 100% welcomed Shadowheart to Selunite worship via a character-development threesome."

vs. Halsin/Zevlor

"The main reason Halsin isn't romanceable at the tiefling party is because he already has plans made to Make The Sad Paladin Smile. Bonding about the burden of leadership and looking after a lot of people, but no one looking after them."

And insanely tall people come in two categories: If they're merely tall, and not large, they're just skittish fragile giraffes. The most dangerous thing they can do to you is stand up too fast, faint because their blood pressure dropped, and hit you on the way down like a felled tree.

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I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older queer science fiction book I've managed to track down, consisting of just over 200 titles with LGBT characters/themes & by LGBT authors, spanning over a century (1880-2000) 🚀

Ship Tournament, Round 2 — Match 12 / 15

Jaheira/Nine-Fingers

"These two so obviously have some history. I'm not saying it's romantic or sexual history, but it's history, and that invites thought. There's some tension between them, that could be interesting in a romance."

"Jaheira calls her 'Astele'. Nine-Fingers left an offering for her."

vs. Nocturne/Shadowheart

"Nocturne is so important to Shadowheart that she was the only thing she remembered from the Cloister. They were two sad, lonely girls who couldn't see a way past their situation, who were able to find some light and joy with each other."

I used to use Google docs, but the white mode only was really annoying me (tires my eyes), so I swapped to Ellipsus (which I genuinely love and recommend), but it was bothering me a bit that I need wifi in order to use it, so now I switched to LibreOffice Writer, which I do like.

It very much has a Microsoft Word feel, but is open source and you need no accounts to use it. It's local on your device, so no AI can scan it, and no wifi is needed.

People claiming pink and magenta are different colours are simultaneously right and wrong depending on the context of the discussion.

This is a Common Pink, dianthus plumarius:

This is the source of the word pink, and so ostensibly this is the colour pink. Somewhere in the realm of #f463dd, situated as expected between red and purple, rather than above red, albeit far closer to the red side of things.

Or is it?

Setting aside the question of colour reproduction in digital photography for the moment, different contexts mean different things.

So let us turn now to magenta, the colour formerly known as fuschia. Magenta covers any extra-spectral colour that lies between purple and red, without appearing green. It is a combination of red and blue that is situated too far red to really "look purple."

So the flower above is definitionally magenta, despite being the literal first example of "pink."

Or is it????

Let us now turn to the People What Decide The Colours, which is to say, optical scientists.

Their conclusion?

Pink and Magenta have huge overlap, but pinks extend far warmer, and magentas extend far colder. This is absolutely a terrible diagram, but I think it gets the gist across.

Now, getting back to the question at hand.

Some pinks ARE light reds, but others are light magentas, and others are light oranges! However, "pink" as a generic term includes light reds but is significantly broader than only light reds.

So, while pink includes light red, it is not the same as light red.

You all seem to like these, so here is another batch of writer asks! These questions are a little more relaxed than the last two. Followers can send an ask with a number OR you can reblog and answer everything like a Q&A. I always see a lot of “idk if i’m a writer” in the tags for these so let me just say in advance, yes you are and you can play.

What is the crackiest* thing you’ve ever written? (*I mean this with great affection)

Has writing a fic ever changed your opinion of a character?

Tell us about a headcanon you invented for a fic

Have you ever written a fic inspired by a tumblr post?

How do you know when you’re finished writing a fic? At what point do you call it done?

When do you title your fics? Before you write them? As you write them? While posting to AO3 and that “Work Title” field is staring at you?

Navigate to your complete list of works on AO3. What are your top 5 Additional Tags?

Tell us your shortest and longest titles of all time

The two fandoms you’ve written the most have been suddenly crossed with each other! What AU are you writing?

What’s a phrase you catch yourself using in multiple fics, not necessarily on purpose?

Oh no! You’re posting a fic to AO3 and completely forgot to write a summary. What is your summary-writing strategy?

Do you write in order, jump around the draft, or a mix? Something else?

Congratulations, you’ve just finished the WIP you’ve been working on for months! How are you going to celebrate?

Is there a word or phrase you intentionally use in every fic?

How many times has someone nodded in your current WIP? This is for posterity so be honest

Describe your current WIP with just emojis

When you get a new fic idea, what does that look like in your mind? Does it play out like a film? Do you imagine lines of dialogue or a certain moment? Does a character just sit there staring at you?

If you have noticed themes emerging in your writing, what are they? What broad themes and topics do you enjoy exploring?

It’s a lovely morning in fandom land and a horrible goose is running rampant through your folders. How many WIPs is it going to step on?

What’s the story behind your pen name?

Without getting into any discourse, just thinking as a writer approaching characters, would you ever write about your NOTP? If you did, do you think that would change how you feel about it? (If you’ve done this, how did it go?)

Do you have a fixed writing routine, or do you write when you have time? Is there a time of day when you prefer to write?

What is your #1 distraction when you’re trying to write? If it’s a pet, post a pic

What colors, sights, sounds, textures, etc. inspire you? Do certain environments make you feel more creative than others?

Someone you know outside of fandom has heard that you’re a writer. “I’d like to read something of yours!” they say with sincere enthusiasm. “Where can I find it?” What’s your answer?

Do you have a routine you run through before you write?

Share a random sentence from a WIP. The less context, the better. Be confusing.

You’re out and about, nowhere near your home, when a fantastic story idea pops into your head! What do you do?

Have you ever actually remembered one of those 3am “I’ll remember it in the morning” ideas?