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super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:

copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook

if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things

state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy

ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?

make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]

just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”

just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”

just stick a meme in there

honestly who cares

just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden

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every so often I think about how crazy it is that cats are only a fraction of our size and yet they're completely okay with us scooping them up and holding them 30 feet in the air and kissing them and petting them. I'm not sure if I would be okay with a creature ten times my size doing that to me recreationally

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Sunday Something

Y'all. I spent practically two weeks sick and also had to go back to work, so I accomplished very little in terms of writing and nothing in terms of stitches since the last update. BUT! I have some good news:

1) @rimeswithpurple continues to be the best and will be illustrating for Smile Like You Mean It! I'm so excited for all the Crop Top Simon in our future.

2) 📣📣📣Posting day is now August 15!!! 📣📣📣

I've previewed too much from Chapter 1, so why not a process post? I love those. Many pictures and musings below the cut if you're into it.

First of all, Smile Like You Mean It did not start out as a fic concept. When I first became intrigued by the idea of a Watford Cheer AU, it was actually an art concept. Last year for CORB, I was debating between two potential submissions: Ballet Baz and Cheer Simon. Below are my oh-so-detailed original brainstorming mock-ups before I settled on a direction and drew *real* plans to submit for CORB.

COC rolled around and I still couldn't get Cheer Simon out of my brain, so I decided to just make him for Day 3: AU. While I'm sure you've all seen the final post, here's a behind-the-scenes photo. (Please enjoy Agatha surrounded by her dismembered squad.)

At some point in January, I decided I was ready to commit to another long fic and Cheer Simon was still haunting me, so I brainstormed possible entry points into his story. As with most things I write, my original concept was very Baz-centric. (Don't worry, there are no spoilers below since I went in an entirely different direction.)

I drafted a scene or two in this version before I realized it wasn't right. I didn't want queerness to be "the problem," I didn't want to surmount the hurdle of the boys getting to know each other from scratch, and most importantly, this set up made Simon a plot device, not the main character.

For the next attempt, I latched onto my description of Simon above, and I started asking questions. "Why are Simon and Lucy alone?", "Why is Simon so flamboyant?" and "Why cheer, specifically?" These turned out to be fruitful directions, and I unearthed my plot in the process. By then it was March, and I was so excited to just get started that I drafted 30k words before I got stuck and realized I wasn't actually done planning. With the very helpful organizer below (courtesy of @mooncello), I went back to the drawing board, completing each row for both Baz and Simon.

By the time I was done planning (my outline is 11 pages long!), it was May, and to my utter dismay, I realized I would have to trash at least 15k of my story and significantly rewrite another ~5k. After nearly eight months of obsessing over him, I had fallen in love with Cheer Simon (as I'm sure you will too), so the sacrifice of scrapping ALL THOSE WORDS to get him his happy ending seemed worth it.

All the planning on the front end paid off. Once school let out, I treated writing like a summer job and cranked out most of what you see here in just over three months.

And now here we are, nearly a year from when Simon and his poms first popped into my brain. If you're still here, I can't believe it, but also, thank you. I've never worked so hard on something. I hope when I start posting, it shows.

Cheers to you, and tag---you're it.

@alexalexinii, @argumentativeantitheticalg, @aristocratic-otter, @arthurkko, @artsyunderstudy, @bachusekart, @best--dress, @blackberrysummerblog, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @bookish-bogwitch, @confused-bi-queer, @cutestkilla, @drowninginships, @emeryhall, @facewithoutheart, @harrie-leithillustration, @hushed-chorus, @iamamythologicalcreature, @ic3que3n, @ileadacharmedlife, @katatsumuli, @larkral, @letraspal, @nausikaaa, @noblecorgi, @orange-peony, @pato-roldnart, @prettygoododds, @raeny-day, @rbkzz, @roomwithanopenfire, @run-for-chamo-miles, @shrekgogurt, @skeedelvee, @stitchyqueer, @supercutedinosaurs, @talentpiper11, @the-beard-of-edward-teach, @theimpossibledemon, @thewholelemon, @whatevertheweather, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @youarenevertooold, @jyae23, @j-trow-95, @meanjeansjeans, @martsonmars

(P.S. As always, once I start posting, all WIPSday posts will always include previews of upcoming chapters. If you'd like to be added to my tag list to stay in the loop, let me know. If you'd like to come off---for any reason---let me know that too. No hurt feelings at all!)

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One of my cats brought a mouse into my room and just let it go 😭😭 I will say he dropped it and caught it a couple of times before the mouse got away and disappeared.

This is somehow worse than the time one of my other cats brought a dead bird into my room to play with 😭

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i have this awesome skincare routine called picking at my face till it bleeds. its great because it makes my skin way worse in every way and also it hurts

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i love it when my mutuals and i are into wildly different fandoms. it's so awesome i know nothing abt your blorbos but i love that they bring u jouy

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we should bring back the supernatural fandom somehow having an extremely specific gif for literally every occasion though

i know you guys are still out there. i know you still have your .gif folders. don't pretend you're not.

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Latest Fics + First Lines 💕

Thank you for the tags @monbons and @run-for-chamo-miles! This should be fine. Love a first line here we go.

Rules: post the beginning lines of your most recent 10 published fanfics (or chapters, if you don't have 10 fics), then attempt to tag 10 people!

There are Monsters in the Wood 

There’s no moon in the sky to light Simon’s path. 

A Mild Case of Madness 

I’m sure it’s a plot. 

Episode 6: Après la Pluie, le Beau Temps

“QI'yaH. What was that?”

Your Fragile Bones Are Mine 

When the doors of the hall fly open, it’s almost like I’m making it happen. 

The Art of Letting Go

Baz’s grey eyes are defiant at the start.

One December Night 

They used to cast spells at Watford on Christmas. 

Someone Wicked 

I knew the moment he walked in that he’d be a problem.

Every One With You 

I’ve always been wary of beginnings. 

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

The first time it happened was a surprise.

What We Crave 

I’ve never understood the saying ‘silence is deafening’.

Tagging @noblecorgi @cutestkilla @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @prettygoododds @mooncello @thewholelemon @best--dress @fiend-for-culture @martsonmars @blackberrysummerblog @angelsfalling16

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People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

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Quote of the day

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feel it creeping in 🎃🐈‍⬛🍂🍁

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I made this banner back when I was making carry on related cross stitch and decided to (lazily 😂) repurpose it for today lol

Thanks so much for the tags @roomwithanopenfire and @orange-peony

I haven't written anything this week because I've been busy with school work but decided to work on some crochet so I thought I'd share what I'm working on!

First, I'm getting ready for Halloween early with some candy corn:

I made the same pattern 3 different ways and the one on the right is my favorite

Also, I've returned to making a temperature blanket for a coworker using 2004 temps and I'm almost done with August!

Tags below the cut 💙

@leithillustration @you-remind-me-of-the-babe  @iamamythologicalcreature @messofthejess @bookish-bogwitch @artsyunderstudy @moodandmist @aristocratic-otter @jasonfunderberkerthefrogexists @letraspal @captain-aralias @prettygoododds @palimpsessed

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Happy Way-More-Than-Six-Sentences-Sunday everybody! Thanks @thewholelemon for the tag, and thanks to everyone for tagging in the past week, I'm going to be looking at all your stuff soon!

In case you missed it, I posted my new COBB fic with @lauillu!! Even if you're not in the mood for reading, definitely take a look at fic so you can see the art! It is stunning!!

Also this week, I've switched from Google Docs to Ellispus, which I've been meaning to do for a while with all the things I've seen about Google Docs randomnly deleting documents, and it's been nice! For starters, I only transferred over the WIPS I plan on continuing to work on, which means I only have a crisp 5 documents to look at instead of a gazillion.

And according to my word tracking spreadsheet, I've written over 100k words so far this year!! (this is not net total, many of these words have since been deleted, but still! yayyy!)

Here's a snip of the upcoming 2nd chapter of my new COBB fic! For context, Baz and Simon have swapped magic and Baz has Simon's wings.

Baz makes a face. “I’m not putting holes in my shirts. I’ll just—” Baz’s left wing angles in. “—tuck the wings in.” I watch as Baz’s wings move in and out as he tries to figure out how to do it, but I went most of my life without even knowing I could fold my wings up—it’s not easy to do. I clear my throat. “What?” Baz whips around towards me, and I keep my eyes on his face instead of his chest. His cheeks are red. “You’re not going to want to tuck the wings in. It’s not comfortable.” “Well, I’m not walking around with wings out.” Baz crosses his arms and angles away from me, but his wings still push in and out aimlessly. He reaches behind his back and tries to press a wing down. I take a step towards him. “It’s not the most intuitive thing. Do you want help?”

Below the cut is my other fandom musings, feel free to stop here if you're not interested in either 9-1-1 or my new stupid omegaverse headcanon

I've been writing like a FIEND the past few days on my omega!buck fic. is it perhaps a bad sign that i have over 20k and i'm not even finished yet with section 1 of a tentative NINE sections??? Probably, but this has consumed me. All I know is omega!buck, i have so many thoughts about him.

ALSO!! I made another buddie edit. you don't even WANT to know how long it took, or how many layers that thing has. my mangum opus except i've looked at it for so long that i lowkey hate it.

Here's a snip of Buck and Maddie from omega!buck. Takes place during the season 2 Dosed Episode. nobody's allowed to judge my rough draft writing i've been writing so much so fast i have no brain power left to tell if it's any good yet

Buck calms down somewhere between getting back to the station and Maddie arriving. Chim stole his phone to call her, something he vaugly remembers. Eddie's gone by now too, he was picked up by his aunt. Buck's glad his aunt doesn't live anywhere close to here. His mom's sister, Aunt Patrica, smelled like mothballs and dust, and she doesn't want to see her. "Why are you talking about Aunt Patty?" Maddie says, clueing Buck in to the fact that even though he feels more sober, he's still high enough that his thoughts don't stay in his head. "Just glad I have you." Buck grins up at her from the loft couch. "Eddie didn't have a sister to pick him up." "You're sweet." Her tone is a little tense. "I can't believe you got drugged at work though. Chim says LSD. Inside of brownies?" "Yeah, I had three." "Jesus Christ."

also, 2nd snip to showcase my favorite new stupid omegaverse lore.

Buck sits back in his position and she takes his wrists and breathes in. “Oh my god,” she says. “What?” “You’re citrus.” She sounds very pleased by this. “What?” “I didn’t think you’d be citrus.” “Citrus?” “You smell like oranges.” Ali sniffs again. “And something else too. It’s kind of faint. But still! Citrus! I wonder what that means again.” Ali pulls out her phone and Buck looks over to see her typing citrus scent profile omega. “Oh, come on,” Buck groans, leaning back. But Ali pays him no mind and starts reading out loud. “‘Omegas with the citrus scent profile wear their hearts on their sleeves. Citrus isn’t afraid to feel their feelings and oftentimes can have more intense emotions than other profiles. Citrus creates strong bonds with pack members. They are often viewed as being generous and understanding.’” Ali looks up now. “What do you think, Buck? Are you generous and understanding?”

i think in a world where everyone has distinct scents, people would be grouping them into a categories and giving them little personality profiles like zodiac signs. we did that with fucking blood types even, scents could not escape

tags and hellos

@alexalexinii @aristocratic-otter @argumentativeantitheticalg @artsyunderstudy @arthurkko

@blackberrysummerblog @best--dress @bookish-bogwitch @the-beard-of-edward-teach @confused-bi-queer

@cutestkilla @drowninginships @emeryhall @fiend-for-culture @hushed-chorus

@ileadacharmedlife @theimpossibledemon @larkral @lovelettersto-mars

@monbons @facewithoutheart @prettygoododds @angelsfalling16

@nausikaaa @noblecorgi @orange-peony @raeny-day @rimeswithpurple

@run-for-chamo-miles @rbkzz @shrekgogurt @simonscones @supercutedinosaurs

@sweetronancer @talentpiper11 @valeffelees @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @youarenevertooold

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Thank you so much for tagging me @thewholelemon and @roomwithanopenfire!

I haven't had much time to write this week, but I've spent a lot of time planning and taking notes on my phone.

Here's a little snippet:

They lie down so far apart that he shivers under the blankets. It takes him ages to fall asleep, shaken by shudders and startled by every strange sound that comes from outside. He’s not used to this. To animals hooting in the night and branches hitting the windows as the wind makes the thin glass shake. He’s used to the sounds of the city. He thinks he will never manage to fall asleep, not like this. But then he realises that at a certain point during the night, he must have dozed off because he wakes up to the feeling of a hand skimming against the exposed flesh of his stomach. Strong fingers flutter against him, featherlight—like butterfly wings or the shadow of a lover’s touch. He has never been touched like this. He looks down, under the covers, and sees the hand disappear under his shirt, moving up, up, up.

Tags and hellos under the cut:

@pato-roldnart, @bubble-gumhead, @artsyunderstudy, @blackberrysummerblog

@you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @cutestkilla, @emeryhall

@mooncello, @martsonmars, @facewithoutheart, @letraspal, @larkral, @rimeswithpurple

@alexalexinii, @imagineacoolusername,

@hushed-chorus, @skeedelvee, @fatalfangirl

@confused-bi-queer , @meanjeansjeans, @angelsfalling16

@nausikaaa, @leithillustration, @roomwithanopenfire , @monbons

@wellbelesbian, @shrekgogurt, @fiend-for-culture, @best--dress and anyone who would like to share something they've been working on.

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Here's another snippet from my hanahaki fic! And it's handwritten because why not?

Also, here's my real wip this week:

I do not recommend taking two 5-week grad courses at the same time. It's a lot, and I wish I had more time to spend on these classes because they're interesting and I'm learning a lot from them; it's just so much work in one week

Tagging:  @leithillustrationon @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @roomwithanopenfire @iamamythologicalcreature @messofthejess @bookish-bogwitchsh-bogwitch @artsyunderstudy @moodandmist @aristocratic-otterc-otter @jasonfunderberkerthefrogexists @letraspal @captain-aralias @prettygoododds @palimpsessed @orange-peony