It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
styofa doing anything
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

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i don't do bad sauce passes
Claire Keane
DEAR READER
NASA

titsay
Show & Tell
Today's Document
todays bird
Jules of Nature
One Nice Bug Per Day
$LAYYYTER
Cosimo Galluzzi
cherry valley forever
Sweet Seals For You, Always
KIROKAZE
occasionally subtle
Three Goblin Art

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It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

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the feeling of improving as a writer on a technical scale, and rereading old work that used to make my proud and watching myself in real time becoming aware of where things could have been totally different/improved by the new standard
For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.
summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.
Examples:
summary: Bruce
summary: "Bruce Banner"
summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk
You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.
The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.
expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.
You can use -expected_number_of_chapters: 1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.
otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false
This post is going around again (with an unfortunate syntax error on it - this version is correct), so I thought I'd add some information that folks have mentioned wanting in the notes.
Any time you want help with how to use AO3, look for the question mark bubbles. Clicking or tapping on those bubbles will open up a pop up window with information on that specific part of AO3. For example, here's the information for Include filters.
2. When you log into AO3 for the first time, you'll have a banner on your dashboard that gives you a ton of links and information that's useful for new users. A lot of people will dismiss this banner without ever reading it, but you can get it back at any time.
Go to your Preferences, scroll down to Misc. and check the box next to Turn the new user help banner back on. Update your preferences, and the banner will return.
3. When you first tap or click into the search in the header bar, a little popup tip appears below the text box. This is showing you an example of a search that you can do.
4. If you've never seen the filters before, click or tap on any tag that you're interested in. On a wide screen like a laptop, the filters will appear on the right hand side of the screen. On a narrow screen like a phone, you can tap on the Filters button for the menu to appear.
5. The FAQ has a series of questions related to Searching and Browsing on the Archive. You can find the FAQ in the dropdown under the word About in the header.
6. You can also just click on stuff and see what happens. For example, if you're wondering what the four icons at the top corner of each fic blurb mean, you can just click on them and get a popup with the key. Same thing if you're wondering about the icons at the top right of a bookmark.
7. I almost forgot ☝️If you want to see fics based on the primary pairing but you're okay with additional ships being in the fic (so otp:true won't work for you) - there's a script for that! AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing.
This post is extremely long now, but if you're wondering about other things just drop them in the notes.
'the hill we climb'
//
goddamn i really liked this. gotta share with the gang. spoken word about the States.
[text version]
"why did you write that"
my fetish
my friend's fetish
not my fetish but it fits in the story so i threw it in there as a treat. you're welcome.
4. the character's fetish and i'm committed to portraying them with absolute accuracy

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Murzilka - May 1928 - via Internet Archive
Tumblr: O, Archive, Star of my days, Sun of my nights, please don't abandon me!
Ao3: Dear?
Tumblr: What will I say to the children, if you leave us… They can't survive without you, and I won't either!
Ao3: Dearest?
Tumblr: [mumbling] (What's the quote again…)
Tumblr: Do not go errr… gently in the dark night? (No, that's not it…)
Ao3: TUMBLR!
Tumblr: Y-yes, Beloved?
Ao3: Dearest, what are you talking about?
Tumblr: Your illness?
Ao3: What illness?
Tumblr: You're going to the hospital today?
Ao3: For a maintenance routine procedure.
Tumblr: But you had one last week! Who needs weekly maintenance? Surely, it's a malicious illness!
Ao3: Last week?
Tumblr: And the children were panicked, and there were juggling balls everywhere, and—
Ao3: Dearest, that was 4 months ago.
Tumblr: … Oh.
Tumblr: So… No deadly illness?
Ao3: No deadly illness.
Tumblr: You're not leaving me forever?
Ao3: I'm going to be away for 15 hours. I'll be back tonight. Surely you can hold on for less than one day
Tumblr: … I will.
Ao3: Good.
Tumblr: … But the children may not.
Ao3: At worst, send them visit my cousins.
Toshi Yoshida, "Neko to Kotori"
So many characters that should’ve been butch ….
It's a girl eats out girl world out there
this would be a really good phrase for like. a pin/button/patch

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Théophile Steinlen - Deux chats couchés sur un canapé (1896)
Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair
“Origin Story” Jenny Xie
Saw this one on the subway today. Made me remember myself.
Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas
People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively
“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….
"so we would have this conversation"
This. This is something I see people not understanding. Folks seem to increasingly want fiction to model correct behavior for them. Which, sure, can be something for fiction to do, but what fiction is really really good at is creating a model of a situation that allows you to experience a bad, messy, complicated thing, and see what people did, and how it turned out, and imagine what you would've done instead. Even more powerfully, it gives you something you can show someone else or point to and they'll have a shared understanding. Stories can give you stuff to think about so that you grow from experiences you didn't even have.
That's a real superpower of storytelling. Neutering it of that ability is just....a waste of potential.
Today's Harley is: Soap Studio B.Wing Harley Quinn Snow Globe

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I’m legally required to post this every Halloween
Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.
I LOVE THIS. THIS is the spirit of NaNoWriMo: to invent a challenge to make you write.
If I may add some ideas:
The 666 challenge: Writing six pages a day in a month (no matter how shitty) because Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Equating it with the devil is to explain why it's shit sometimes.
The 420 challenge: Get high. Write 420 words a day.
THE OTHER 51 challenge: Write 51 words a day because, yes, Hamilton wrote 51 essays in six months, but that bitch was crazy, and you can write 51 words without feeling like you're running out of time.
The Fibonacci challenge: Try to write as many words a day as required to meet the Fibonacci sequence. So, 100 on day one. 200 on day two. 300 on day three. Etcetera. If you don't hit the number in the sequence, you can respond "DO I LOOK LIKE A MATHIMATICIAN TO YOU"
If you wanna NaNo your heart out at 1667 a day, absolutely do that. Enjoy it! But if start talking now if you're looking for a group who will join you and not try to fuck AI up its server-hole.