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ok. ik i said i liked the shifted perspectives for a drop of silver. but i am considering cutting them from every four chapters to just after i introduce a love interest

bc okay. walking you the reader through this. i have 8.5 almost done just off a couple hundred words. and basically what it’s turned into is just an explanation of ceri’s backstory and that’s not what i want to happen for the love interests. i want you to have to piece together each persons deal through what you see in fenrirs perspective and then AFTER fenrirs interpretation you see the truth in the ml’s perspective or what their actual motives were or whatever

this is especially important for ceri for reasons you will Find Out. but i think yeah im gonna have to switch how im doing them. which means i have like 2k words i have to scrap

i’ll save them somewhere and maybe use as a starting point for ceri’s actual shifted perspective chapter but you probably won’t get his full backstory like i started writing out. i was just trying to fill the word count out and then boom his entire life was on paper. whoops

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chapter 8 for a drop of silver is done - it's a bit shorter than the other chapters thus far but this was the best ending point i could find. next chapter will be a shifted perspective, and then after that i think will be another sibling pov that speeds through a couple months and shows fenrir settling in

anyways. links

ao3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/55561897/chapters/162925594

quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16519931/a-drop-of-silver-in-a-sky-of-stars-yandere-m-various-x-m-oc/9

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anyone. like maps

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almost done with the next chapter of a drop of silver which wasn’t intentional but here we are anyways. i only planned on rereading it (as one does) but then my brain went. just about 800 words off the word count so i’ll work on that tomorrow

if all goes well i will post it monday woo

also need to post the updated map i made like a whole big thing for it it’s honestly like way too much

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does anybody else have a discord server thats only yourself and nobody else exclusively used to send images from your mobile phone to your tablet or computer

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apologies for not posting in forever it will happen again

take drawings of aya with bachira and nagireo. all used bases i found on pinterest. trying out a new brush and went a little overboard on the one with just bachi and aya but i dont feel like recoloring it. if anyone wants to see just aya i can post him in a proper drawing not a chibi like these

first two are recent second two are from a few months ago

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TRUST i am working on writing the timeline for smth in the water is just kicking my ass

i had to do terrible terrible math to try and get the in game calendar to follow a twelve month model for the sake of my sanity (bc id like wyn to have made actual progress on the farm and having him do so within four months instead of a year is wildly improbable and bothered me specifically)

and now i am at the point of just downloading a calendar app and using that as my timeline instead after trying to write it out by hand like seven times. i am in fact lost in the sauce. wading in it even

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posted chap. 2 of rip and tear! i think i'm gonna go through each of my fics and try to update each & decide what's getting officially discontinued because there's a couple i'm not into anymore. only one i know for sure is vapor as i don't really vibe with avele anymore.

anyways! chapter link: https://www.quotev.com/story/16205473/rip-and-tear-chat-noir-x-m-oc/3

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i have been revived and i am once again writing. next chap for rip and tear is done so i'll post that sometime and i am rn working on making of a miracle. after that i have plans to work on smth in the water cause it's been forever and i miss wyn

if you would like to hear about my plans for any of my fics feel free to ask even if they haven't been updated in months i do have vague plans for each of them and talking about them encourages me to write more

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ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.

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let's talk about project 2025 and smut.

bc I've seen some of my favorite authors already state they aren't writing any more smut due to the mere threat of project 2025 going into effect. And hey, I'm a simple person who likes to read abt sexy times.

pls read through all the way and share if ya like any of what i wrote here - i don't want panic to be spreading through the writers of tumblr/ao3 like wildfire unchecked.

qualifications: BA in political science focusing on domestic policy, activism and ethnic studies.

Part I - what is it?

project 2025 at its core is a roadmap. it was created by the Heritage Foundation (an extremely far right disgusting think tank), and plenty of people associated with the previous and incoming Trump presidency. its like 900 pages of alt-right, christian nationalist bullshit.

but its not uncommon.

think tanks like the Heritage Foundation often create roadmaps like this to plot out what they would most want to see in a future presidency or period of political control. it isn't even particular to right-wing think tanks; left wing ones do it too! the difference in this case is the magnitude and attention paid to the manifesto.

the heritage foundation is a vast organization with a lot of money, and has had a part in US politics for a long ass time now. because of this, what they say/do carries a bit more weight. combined with the fact that dems in the past election used project 2025 as a common refrain (instead of like, developing their own policy but whatevs), you get a general public who is aware of the buzzword "project 2025" but not knowledgeable about what it contains.

what it does actually include is certainly worrying, but among the new freaky shit is a ton of stuff that has been on the republican party's to do list since day one, like dismantling the department of education. just reading that seems really shocking, i know, but if you look back to when the department was created, you will find evidence of republicans trying desperately to dismantle it.

i find the media flurry around project 2025 to be a bit concerning, because while i understand dems wanting to show voters how dangerous this shit can be, its also made it into something far more important than it could actually be. as i stated earlier, these types of policy blueprints are extremely common among think tanks. its like their entire job!! and yes, this one is scarier and more visible than others, but it

a.) isn't the official policy of the incoming admin (and if you look at their actual policy statement, its very clear they don't rly have policies, so who knows what that's gonna look like)

b.) isn't united states federal law

Part II - what's it gonna look like?

i'm not gonna sit here and say you shouldn't be worried about project 2025, bc a lot of whats in it is freaky asf. but that freakiness is what (in my opinion) will be its primary challenge. since its so out there, the extreme right wing republicans are going to have to work their asses off to get the votes they need to pass these things.

which brings me to another point-- project 2025 is a whole list of proposals. its not like republicans can put forth one bill that has the entirety of project 2025 in it and pass it all at once. for a whole laundry list of reasons, that's not possible. the process of getting one bill passed through the house and senate is an excruciatingly long one, and doing this process for 900 pages worth of plans ain't gonna be easy.

i should mention that donald trump has yet to endorse the plan as his own, so there's the real possibility that he wont even want to implement any of the ideas included. i could 100% see him ignoring the entire plan because he doesn't like that someone else came up with it tbh. and while i don't believe he has never heard of the heritage foundation, as he has claimed in the past, i think it is important to note that there hasn't been any confirmation from him that project 2025 is his roadmap.

the plan includes rollbacks of rights for every minority group possible, restrictions on immigration, access to morning-after pills, restructuring of the federal government to allow for easier hiring and firing based on little/no evidence, etc. all in all, not great.

but again, project 2025 isn't united states federal law

Part III - what does it mean for fanfic authors?

the section that has the fanfic-consuming/creating world in a tizzy is the bit about outlawing pornography. this is a concerning policy propsal, but not because of possible fanfic bans. rather, bc project 2025 and the heritage foundation at large sees queerness as inherently and exclusively sexual.

"pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children" (The Heritage Foundation, p.5)

thus, if they ban pornography (with a definition that includes/focuses on queerness), they can effectively ban expressions of queerness in the united states.

that shit is scary. and while i never want to rely on foundational documents when the people interpreting those documents (court justices (esp those appointed by the previous and incoming trump admin)), i will hesitantly say that this is gonna be a tough sell. both from a constitutional standpoint, and from a broad base support standpoint.

for the first of the two points, arguing that the first amendment doesn't "apply" to something is always a slippery slope, and defending that point is extraordinarily difficult. obviously this isnt always the case, but especially relating to pornography and obscenity, proving that a work fails the Miller test (a three part test created in Miller v. California (1973) to determine if something is obscene or not) is, like, really hard (heh).*

while the miller test is precedent for specific cases that come up in the court system, if some version of the porn ban goes into effect, the US court system is going to be dealing with challenges from every state, every form of media, every fandom.

which brings me to the second point. broad base support.

while the headline about Grindr crashing in Milwaukee during the RNC wasn't true in 2024, republican events in previous have brought an influx in users to the area in which the events are held if ya know what i'm sayin👀

on a real note though, getting a pornography ban passed in the united states would be exceedingly hard (no pun intended). especially one that includes forms of media like written pornography, not just visual. in terms of feasibility, a ban on video pornography is incrementally more likely than one on all forms of pornography. arguments against porn are weak at best, and the anti-porn movement in the US (usually religious) has been trying, and failing, for decades to ban pornography. most content about porn bans also refers primarily to video-based porn, not written smut.

let's just say worst case scenario something like this does go into action. anything you've written before the law goes into action cannot be used as a way to prosecute you. that would be an example of ex post facto punishment, which is explicitly prohibited in the constitution and by court precedent.

*note: i'm not endorsing the way the US court precedents around porn/obscenity look, as they are another symptom of purity culture and anti-sex culture created in the US

Part IV - what do we do?

well, giving up before a bill has even been proposed ain't it. it makes me deeply sad to see so many writers saying they wont be writing smut anymore because of the vague possibility of this plan. not only does it make me sad, it makes me angry. because that means people have seen so much misinformation about what project 2025 is and how it works that they are too scared to do anything about it. let me repeat again.

project 2025 is not law in the united states of america, nor is it in the process of becoming so. act accordingly.

so go forth, write smut, be gay, do some shit to make the heritage foundation angry today. and don't give up before the battle has even started. bc that's how they win. and i know shit seems really scary, but community and mutual aid is how we are gonna make it through this, so do your due diligence and research what you're scared about! knowledge is power and you gotta wield that sh*t.

i'd like to end with a quote from Timothy Snyder, who everyone and their mother has been quoting recently, but i still think it has value.

"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy." (Excerpted from On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, 2017)

[Note - i have cited sources where appropriate, but this is also based on my (important to note, informed) opinion. please treat it as such, thank you]

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well. it seems there are now legitimate concerns of trump cheating

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With Trump looking on track to win, I just want to give some hope for people right now.

The Senate is Republican, but two years in the future a third of the Senate will be reelected, meaning Trump has at most 2 years to work with an agreeable Senate

Whether or not Trump goes through with project 2025 or not, this will most definitely be our last term with him

If he doesn't do what he promised, his voter base will get mad they didn't get what they voted for

If he does do what he promised, his voter base will get mad when they realise tariffs=higher costs and when their taxes don't decrease

People WILL protest in their states and nationally and either a) Trump listens or b) Trump ignores it and people become more disillusioned with him

There is no way Trump will do something that can't be reversible or managed by the later President

If Trump supporters do become disillusioned, we could see a blue midterm

1/2 of Congress is needed to pass a bill

Just take a breath. It isn't going to be great, but we can and will survive.

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chapter six! can you tell i don't like isagi?

ao3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/58741765/chapters/152402737

quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16714095/making-of-a-miracle-blue-lock-various-x-m-oc/6

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nagireo.... nagireo save me nagireo........ (aka hi chapter five is posted)

ao3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/58741765/chapters/151896247

quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16714095/making-of-a-miracle-blue-lock-various-x-m-oc/5

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chapter four woooo. everyone is out here doing their best sweating like hell and ayame is just casually about to fall asleep on the concrete. vibes

ao3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/58741765/chapters/151307389

quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16714095/making-of-a-miracle-blue-lock-various-x-m-oc/4