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i remain at all times a parody of myself, so this list could be all bruce but! aiming for some variety here!

i. blind spot — bruce springsteen ii. rain — patty griffin iii. i hung my head — bruce springsteen (sting cover) iv. nfwmb — hozier v. moon song — phoebe bridgers

💖 What is your primary writing goal for this year?

A few folks asked this one, so maybe I'll just add other goals as they occur to me. I really want to finish the three major fanfic works in progress still looming over me. Not out of a sense of obligation, but because they're stories whose endings I really want to reach and to share.

🐌 What is one of your smallest writing goals?

I don't know if it's small, but I want to get back to writing morning pages regularly. The daily time commitment is small, but the payoff has always been huge. Which doesn't, apparently, make it any easier to stick to the habit.

👾 Do you have any "bad" writing habits you want to break?

the month of february was a mixed bag, my friend, i'll not lie. march is already being kinder to me, though!

i've been a poetry dabbler since i took a class in college called "teaching poetry in the schools" wherein i was assigned a partner and two different grades to visit once a week in order to lead poetry exercises. before then, i had a healthy poetry appreciation but wasn't much of a writer myself.

ellie! <3 this had apparently been sitting in my inbox for weeks, idk how i missed it! 😭

for music, these are some songs i have been obsessed with lately:

hope is a heartache by leon (yes, yes, this is what inspired the title for hope is but a heartache)

have we met before? by sarah barrios & eric nam

legends never die from the league of legends ost (also, this naruto amv is a constant inspiration for all my naruto fics)

warriors from the league of legends ost (hands down the best naruto amv!)

radioactive in the dark (a fan remix of two epic imagine dragons & fallout boy songs; also psa: this is a fma amv and contains some MAJOR spoilers so if you have not watched the show and intend to, skip this)

rainy day from the naruto shippuden ost (an hour long loop bc i always hyper fixate during writing and listen to things on repeat)

love love letter from the start-up ost

future by red velvet again from the start-up ost

lighting up your world by janet suhh from the it's okay to not be okay ost

fade into you by mazzy star

what i wish just one person would say to me by lany

only love can hurt this way by paloma faith

save your tears by the weeknd ft. ariana grande

at my worst by Pink Sweat$ ft. kehlani

故长安/The Old Chang'an by Jane Zhang

Before he leaves, however, there is one last thing he wants to do.

He goes to the financial district, where the sidewalks are narrow, and the skyscrapers lock you firmly in. Down two blocks, over four, past the big butter billboard that is somehow still up even two years later.

Just a few steps more and…there.

This is where he had been passing through when he had seen Rebecca Bunch again, beautiful and successful and everything she always seemed that she could be. She had seemed a little tired, but her smile had been just the same as when they were sixteen, and the tiny, fleeting sense of regret he’d had at how his younger self had ended things had been very real. He knows now that that particular version of Rebecca hadn’t been happy, in a way that he still can barely fathom, though he’s tried. Sometimes the most you can do is listen. He couldn’t do that back then.

He tries to summon up the image of Rebecca as he saw her here, but it’s too hard – it’s not the Rebecca he’s known, and hasn’t been, for a very long time. Same with the teenage Rebecca, though at least the joy from that younger version seems to finally be making its way through the current version.

Call it destiny, or coincidence, but his life has been irrevocably changed by her, and the kid from West Covina and the girl from New York have their own paths to forge.

He shivers, the cold sinking through the layers of wool, and retreats for warmth, leaving the mirage of Rebecca to vanish into the cold air.

- life's not painless, but he's not brainless (josh chan will be all right) by @anthropologicalhands

the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now

for @anthropologicalhands

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Relationships: Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton III

Summary:

“This is good,” Rebecca mumbles, shoveling in rough breaths on a haphazard beat. “Totally great. Awesome. I’m living my dreams. Theater is wonderful. Elliot Ellison is wonderful. This song is wonderful. I’m having the best time.”

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Rebecca grapples with complicated feelings about theater. And about her interpersonal relationships. Not necessarily in that order.

(( missing scenes set during 3x14 and post-canon ))

Read on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22729189 

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Happy Valentine’s Day, @anthropologicalhands!!! I hope it’s been full of all kinds of love <3 

favorite fic aesthetics, 7/∞: now we’re on the trolley by @anthropologicalhands