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Winslow Pels

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🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

🥰 Thank you!

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

Look. Look. The thing I always love to find ways to do is moments of utter, devastating Sincerity, where a character not used to genuine concern, care or affection, is shown it by someone. The moment where they realise they're cared about, that someone wants them well, that they're not alone against the world. There's something really satisfying about getting all of the build up towards that so it's in character for everyone and you get to give a character The Emotins.

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

I do! I have a couple of playlists. But recently I have actually been listening to one song on repeat:

Given I'm working on a Durgestarion fic, this is Very Apt.

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

Sure! Have a snippet from the very start of the Durjhfic:

The ground is... squishy. Is it meant to be squishy? And there’s smoke in the air, between the blood and salt, something aflame even as the nearest scents are meat- Meat around fingers, blood under nails, ripping and tearing and swallowing it down, holy-profane- Hunger writhes. Where is this place? A dark chamber. A pod that seems familiar, a fleshy embrace around limbs unused to gentleness. Looking around, fire flares- Ow. A skull of pain, ringing like a drum, thirsty throat, hungry stomach. Something aching dully, twisting wormlike behind the right eye. Something throbbing in the temples, weighing down the skull-curve above the column of the neck. Better question: What is this place? What- There is nothing to recall. No sense of self, no useful memory. There’s the sense this should be accompanied by discomfort, upset, but the only things throbbing in the skull are pain and a distant curiosity. This person. This body.

Baby Durge has some amnesia and a brain injury and a tadpole all at once. Fun times!

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Something from the Backyard.

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That one scene from Network Effect by Martha Wells.

Ngl, drawing that last panel was kind of satisfying. I wish I had skills to draw what happens right after but alas.

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... Y'know, I'd forgotten he uses the Doctor Who wiki for regular info.

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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so twitter is blocking videos of the Gazan genocide in the UK as harmful content, to comply with the online safety act. who could have foreseen that the government would use the act to pursue its political agenda under the guise of protecting children?

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Keep an eye on who agrees to this; with a cast this size there are going to be a lot of actors we're all going to be very unhappy with real soon

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"I want a school, sir. I want a school here on the Chalk. I've been thinking about this for a long time--in fact, for longer than I had worked out the name for what I wanted. There's an old barn on Home Farm that isn't being used right now, and I think we could make it quite acceptable in a week or so."

"Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron.

"Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late. [...] There have been times lately, when I dearly wish that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having."

Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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Are you saying that you purposely erased your copy? Yes.

Murderbot 1.06 Command Feed

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The Boyfriend would like it to be noted that point two "The powers of the follwers of Pythia (later the Sisterhood of Karn) were dimished by Rassilon's Anchoring of the Thread at the temple of Atropos." is Doctor Who lore, specifically the reason that magic does not work within the canon of Doctor Who.

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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Icelandic horse near the volcanic eruption in the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, 2021 - by Gigja D. Einarsdóttir, Icelandic

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having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.

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‘Avernus was never my home. It was my prison. I’m free now. And I’m never going back!’