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do you ever draw something for yourself that’s so deliciously self-indulgent that you just sit there like

[Image ID: 2 digital drawings of a short-haired person drawing on a tablet. In the first image they are looking at the screen and blushing pink. In the second image they are looking away from the screen and blushing more heavily, with the caption “…is this allowed?”. End ID]

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posting your fic on AO3 like

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THE devotionshipping trope is "are they loyal to me or to my title" and the answer HAS to be that they genuinely don't differentiate between the two and are confused and slightly alarmed by the question

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sometimes i wish i could make a nice, serious outline, but every time i sit down to actually write down my ideas for plot or backstory or character arcs or anything i turn into a chaotic writing gremlin and write down shit like

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"i have too many books," i say as my feet mysteriously walk me towards the bookshop anyway

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threesome fic draft 2 is in progress; Zeth'rinn and Fel continue to amuse me:

Fel’rekt was good on top. Zeth’rinn wasn’t picky either way—excepting the aforementioned laziness—and he and Fel had shared beds and bodies enough times over the years to know how best to please each other. He hooked a leg around Fel’s hip, letting him drive deeper. “How close is your alchemy to letting you do this to me without accessories?” he asked. Fel grimaced. “Not close enough. If Valas didn’t have such horror stories about polymorphing, I’d bother one of the wizards to try it.” “We have one who can?” “If we don’t, Jarlaxle knows one.” “Gromph isn’t going to polymorph you.” “He might.” “Into an eel, maybe.”

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The trick is that they're all self inserts. Every character you write is an expression of some understanding of yourself, or desire for something better, or a million other things. It all comes from you.

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alright let's do this again

please interact with this post if you'd like to be tagged in tag games!!

ya girl has been out of games for too long and now has no idea who plays

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from at the back of his throat formerly known as press start

The O is a fluorescent fever dream that smells like cheap vodka and sweat, bass pumping through the walls like a heartbeat. Sticky floor that could have once been purple sways under Rem’s feet, the ceiling glows with strobe lights and disco balls ricocheting colors onto the walls. Jonah’s laughing beside him, arm hooked around Rem’s, and his eyes are wide and shining and fuck if this isn’t the most beautiful he’s ever been.

[ @winterandwords because rem ]

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wip acrostic tag

tagged by @eccaiia, thank you! my word is: STRIFE. Today’s excerpts come from the claws draft

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S - Should he be afraid of this thing he’s become?

T - “There is no part of this situation that is fine!”

R - Responsibility is a thing other people take.

I - “I want you to look,” he says. “I want you inside me, I want you to see.”

F - For all his aesthetic, Vivien seems like the very idea of stealing would send him into a panic attack.

E - Even in the dark, Rainier’s beautiful.

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no-pressure tagging @vsnotresponding @the-inkwell-variable @olliexwrites and @foxboyclit with the word CURED

claws taglist: @belovedviolence @foxboyclit @coven-archives @noblebs @mjjune

@revenantlore @sarandipitywrites @k--havok @asterhaze @verba-writing

@indecentpause @bootstrapparadoxed @olliexwrites @cowboybrunch (ask to be +/-)

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Heads up seven up

The wonderful @cherrybombfangirlwrites tagged me ages ago -- thank you! It's raining today, which means I can't do a garden job, so I got three hours of life handed back to me -- hooray! Perhaps I can get some writing done ;) Here's the last thing I worked on yesterday...

Elina Lieber beamed, her eyes vanishing in delight. “I’m glad to hear it,” she said, patting his arm once and taking her hand away. “Everyone needs to eat.” She was walking down the steps with a last wave over her shoulder before he could say more, and he watched until the last flash of her yellow kerchief was gone from view, using the doorframe to hold himself upright when his legs forgot to. Then he remembered his noontime appointment and rushed back into the apartment, trying to remember if he’d ever bought a comb or just thought about it.

I'll tag @exe-writes-sometimes @dontjudgemeimawriter @revenantlore @tabswrites @willtheweaver @talesfromaurea @tc-doherty @oddcryptidwrites and anyone else who wants to join -- no pressure!

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heads up seven up

tagged by @vsnotresponding, thank you! here’s seven (ish) lines from the new short story i’m working on~

Back in the dragonhold, I swim in hot, dead flesh. It shifts to make way for my squirming form, parting beneath and below until I drop, wet and half-blind, out of the dragon’s upper palate to land on its limp and lifeless tongue. Yellowed teeth encage me, but not for long; here is Astrum, prising them apart with metal rods; here is Astrum, grabbing my wrist and hauling me free of the creature I have spent the last hour puppeting for him. “Useless rat!” he spits, dashing me to the floor with a blow that sets my head reeling. A swift kick follows; I’m too slow to curl away from it and it knocks the air from my lungs. “Feeble, flinching worm! Forgotten, have you, that if his Lordship is displeased, you’ll be joining me at the gallows?”

no-pressure tagging @winterandwords @monstrify @exe-writes-sometimes and @revenantlore

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✍🏼 Heads Up Seven Up

Thanks to the lovely @space-writes for the tag!

📝 Share seven lines from your story

Am I going to use the Bridge From Ashes prequel even though I haven't got back into writing it yet, just because I'm excited to have Rafe back in my head? Yes. Am I going to casually drop the title here? ALSO YES.

These lines are from Miles From Morning...

I’m looking along the line, trying to figure out who’s a sentence deal and who’s a voluntary. Every cohort’s got a mix of the two, which kind of makes sense. If they put all the sentence deals together, they’d probably be dealing with attempted mutiny every other week. Or maybe not. Maybe everyone else who’s here instead of in rehab still thinks they got the better option. The rest of them look tidy though, properly put together. I don’t.

Tagging @pertinax--loculos, @revenantlore, @indecentpause and @thegreatobsesso if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to join in 💜

Reblogs, replies etc on my tag posts are always welcome, but if you're doing this tag yourself, please make your own post instead of using mine to start a reblog chain.

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9 lines 9 people tag

Thank you for the old tag, @aziz-reads! I wrote 1.2k today after playing Beatles songs with my cousins and my poor fingertips are...vibrating. I guess I should play guitar more often lol...

“He was talking about marrying her,” Rachel recalled, turning to Danielle and adding under her breath, “Thank god he got wise.” “What happened?” Steve asked, trying not to sound desperately interested. “She sucked,” Rebecca told him. “Becca,” Judy scolded. “Just because she didn’t kiss the ground you walked upon, honestly…” “Our brother’s not allowed to marry someone I don’t like,” Rebecca said staunchly. “I liked Frank and look where he is. I didn’t like Connie, and she ain’t around anymore.” “Isn’t,” Judy said, long suffering. “Thanks, kid,” Frank said wryly.

Passing on gentle tags to @rjcopeseethemald @eccaiia @sarandipitywrites @duckingwriting @pertinax--loculos @kaylinalexanderbooks @indecentpause @revenantlore @akindofmagictoo and also an OPEN TAG -- come share, everyone!

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📢 My stories (and some other stuff) have moved to Patreon!

😈 The timing is dreadful, but fuck it, I live for chaos.

The TL;DR is that today I realised Patreon has become everything I'd been wishing for in a platform to share my writing, host my blog and tip jar, and create a cosy little community space, so I moved my website content there.

Because I've only just started posting Name From Nowhere, I figured it made more sense to move now when there weren't too many old links floating around, so that's what I did.

💜 Consider this your extremely enthusiastic open invitation to join my community on Patreon. Nothing is pay-walled. Everything is free and publicly viewable. You can join for free and I would seriously LOVE LOVE LOVE to have you all there with me.

I'm so excited about finally being able to have everything I wanted in a creative and social platform, and the only thing that would make it better would be if my friends were there too.

In case anyone's worrying, I'm not leaving Tumblr! Patreon is replacing my website and Ko-fi page and also providing me with a blogging space where my posts won't get lost in a gigantic feed.

I'm about to do something I never do and tag a bunch of mutuals who I've known for a while on here and/or who I know have read my stories. I promise I'm not going to make a habit of this, and the invitation to hang out with me on Patreon is extended to anyone who sees this, not just the people I've tagged.

@afoolandathief @ahordeofwasps @asher-writes @diphthongsfordays @drabbleitout

@drippingmoon @drippingmoon @dyrewrites @eyes-talks-ocs @gaslightwestern

@i-can-even-burn-salad @indecentpause @oh-no-another-idea @pertinax--loculos @revenantlore

@sergeantnarwhalwrites @space-writes @sunset-a-story @thegreatobsesso @touloser-lautrec

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from at the back of his throat formerly known as press start

The O is a fluorescent fever dream that smells like cheap vodka and sweat, bass pumping through the walls like a heartbeat. Sticky floor that could have once been purple sways under Rem’s feet, the ceiling glows with strobe lights and disco balls ricocheting colors onto the walls. Jonah’s laughing beside him, arm hooked around Rem’s, and his eyes are wide and shining and fuck if this isn’t the most beautiful he’s ever been.

[ @winterandwords because rem ]

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This isn't Sunset canon, but @sunset-a-story and I have been playing a Sunset apocalypse setting TTRPG with some good friends, and I needed deeply to draw our characters-- (starting from the left) Lucas, Spence, Felix, and Echo. Spence and Echo are canon characters later in Sunset Arc 3 and beyond, but playing them in a game has been a blast! (And yes, that is the Spicy Meatball shirt Spence is wearing -- very important continuity there lol). Felix belongs to @soraiku and Lucas' player isn't on tumblr to tag, but I cannot take credit for their designs!

Closeups under the cut!