#magicandarchery

YES! let me find something juicy please hold

OKAY i would swear on my life i've shared a snip but i can't find it so who knows.

have a nice long bit bc i'm not very confident i'll finish this one i think i've missed the moment

👙bad bitches only🍹 

[sabrina]: yooooooooo [joey]: ??? [sabrina]: tay watch this and live text your rxn pls [sabrina]: (link) [joey]: oh  [joey]: OH [sabrina]: yeah [sabrina]: i KNOW [joey]: that pearl earring though [sabrina]: RIGHT?! [sabrina]: taylor where are you Someone changed the group name to fireplace riders 🫦 [joey]: tay wtf this is important [joey]: whatever youre doing its less important than this [sabrina]: exactly [joey]: TAYLOR [sabrina]: tayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy someone changed the group name to sluts of the 17th century [sabrina]: BITCH HELLO [taylor]: listen sluts i was in a fuckin mtg jesus what do you want [taylor]: wtats with the gorup name [joey]: WATCH THE VIDEO [joey]: (link again) [joey]: pls share every thought that crosses your brain thx [taylor]: FINE [taylor]: oh nicks new show? [taylor]: nice [taylor]: not exactly urgent but okay [sabrina]: just WATCH ittttt [taylor]: im going im going [taylor]: oh nice [taylor]: julianne moore is so badass [taylor]: he was so excited to work with her [joey]: FOCUS TAYLOR [taylor]: FINE GEEZ

...okay so listen. I have INTENDED to watch it SO MANY TIMES. I really truly have. And... then I haven't. Nathan Fillion is great in stuff, Jon Huertas is excellent in everything I've ever seen him in, and it really does seem like My Vibe lol. I'll put it on the list 🤣

I do this all the time with my fics when anyone reblogs them. LOL

Honestly, it is so.... nice? Like, thank you for taking the time to add tags. To write down that you liked it? How it made you feel? Even if it made you sad and you yell at me in caps. lol That’s so... great.

Especially since this is the only way to find out how and if people liked it. Sure, there are the notes, true, but tags are so much cooler tbh.

I AM CHEERING YOU ON FROM HERE. YOU CAN SO DO THIS!

tagged by the incredible @magicandarchery (my first time being tagged for this so I hope I’m doing it right)

my next chapter is going to be some soft hurt/comfort goodness. it’s the penultimate chapter and it will be set a couple of months after the the most recent chapter. our men, brian and justin, have been spending much of their time together and justin gets a migraine. it’s a chance for them to now confront (in the sideways way that I’ve tried to do throughout this fic) the lasting effects of the bashing on both of them decades later. it’s also our first chance to see brian, justin, and gus in the same space and how they all manage this new-old dynamic. here’s a bit of very rough draft of a conversation when gus gets home and doesn’t realize justin is sick. brian asks gus to turn down their music. anyone care to guess which ts song gus is blasting? (hint: it’s early 2023 so this song would still be a stolen version…)

“Justin’s here?”

“He’s not feeling well.”

“Oh, can I say ‘hi’ though?”

“He’s got a migraine, when he’s feeling better, okay?”

“I didn’t know he got migraines.”

“Well he does,” Brian can hear the sharp edge in his voice and feels badly. Gus doesn’t deserve that. But he says nothing else.

as you can see, this is a super rough draft. I need to expand on what else is happening in the scene and brian and gus’ movements (brian’s movements, because lez be real, the man does not speak without fidgeting in some way). as a personal preference, I tend to write dialogue with indicators of who is speaking at least every other line because as a reader I often get confused when it’s just a back-and-forth without any indication of who is speaking.

35. Thoughts on writing challenges/contests.

I love writing events in general. A big bang was what got me to write my first longer, chaptered, plotted fic. Writing that fic is what made me feel like a writer. I've done kinktober twice and LOVED doing that and I think it made me a better smut writer. I've done femslash february twice too, although I was pretty chill about it. Last year I did four hockey events (sidgeno exchange, sidgeno spookyfest, 2 fics for the winners room fest, and the pens rarepairfest) which was A LOT but also a lot of fun. I don't have anything coming up, unless I decide to squeeze something in for pens angst fest.

In general I think events/challenges can be a fun way to push your abilities and to connect with folks in fandom, but they can also be stressful so you gotta find the right balance. I try hard to stay in the lane of writing being my fun thing and not letting myself get stressed about it or turn it into a job.

Oooh! This is one that I really want to write but it feels like such an undertaking because I really want to do justice to the drag race franchise when I write it (in addition to qaf ofc but I’ve never written drag race before).