#mumblingsage

Leslie Feinberg describes such a woman (explicitly married to a man) as "a he-she" in Stone Butch Blues, which seemed like a sort of umbrella term shared by straight women & lesbian butches. A term that really grates to modern ears, unfortunately, but proof this Is And Has Been A Thing

Yep. 

...I really hate the kind of tumblr person who wants to treat ‘gay’ as A Gender Role that straight people can’t perform, tbh

Now I can't unsee the teeth and they're frankly a bit frightening

Makes sense! Historical and fantasy are allowed longer counts generally. My guess would be too that editors like to have space for what they think should be added. My goal is to get into the high 120s, cause this is def not a 90k book as I have it envisioned now, so we’ll see!

@mumblingsage replied to your text post: I was just going to say what combeferre said. Good luck & strength with the cutting now! Be sure to save deleted stuff in another file.

Thank you! And oh yeah, I am keeping and have saved the other drafts with the scenes still in there, and THEN have a file with all the deleted scenes. My librarian brain is a good hand here! :D

@laughingmistress replied to your text post: you know what i find super weird about the word count thing? Loads of books with the most rabid fan followings are really long and full of tangents ...uh...LOTR? but then, you're talking to the Les Mis fandom here, so...LOL

Yessss!!! The best production of anything I’ve ever seen, hands down.

(Thank you for these!)

share - “Maybe she’s taken this whole thing up wrong and it’s not Konstin at all just someone who happens to share the same rank and surname as him.”

note - “Konstin shivers, whether from the pain still burning in his stomach or the note of fear in Antoine’s voice, he cannot tell”

little - “And part of her wants to curl into a ball, and wish the world away, wish it all away, everything, and have her mother take her in her arms and promise her that she is safe, and all is well, and she has nothing to fear, nothing to grieve over, as if she could be a little girl again.”

I’m glad!

I was rolling my eyes pretty heavily in the early parts, and honestly thought of the book as a hateread at that point (I liked Nabokov, but had heard bad things about Ada and was ready to believe them).  But it worked some sort of magic on me as I went on and by the end I was ready to say it was one of my favorite novels.  (And upon re-reading, I loved the early stuff too.)

ROOF. Because a) love/hate relationship w/ rooftops and b) grass has bugs & ants & god knows what else in it.

STRAWBERRY in terms of actual fruit (don’t like dealing w/ cherry pits), CHERRY in terms of artificially flavored things (lipgloss, gum) and pie.

PINK but really PURPLE so BOTH AT ONCE. And/or navy BLUE I’m indecisive.