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you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

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As a fic writer, i need every reader to know that:

I don’t care if your comment is coherent. I know what you mean and i love you

I don’t care if you ramble. I read every word and i love you

I don’t care if you leave a comment on a fic from four years ago or leave comments/kudos on like ten of my fics in one go. This isn’t IG, pls stalk my AO3. I love you

I don’t care if you mention the same thing in your comment that four other people have already mentioned. It’s actually really useful to know what resonated with people and I love everyone who takes the time to tell me they liked a particular turn of phrase

I don’t mind if your comment is super long or just a couple of sentences, i love them all

I love you

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wild to think that sam was originally intended to be the main character of The West Wing when he doesn’t even crack the top five most interesting characters on the show. tell me more about the press secretary and her very hot, very problematic affair with one of the reporters in the white house press pool! tell me more about the nineteen-year-old orphan working crazy hours for bullshit pay while raising his younger sister and dating the president’s daughter! tell me more about the babygirl deputy chief of staff with survivor’s guilt who causes as many problems as he solves and reads his own RPF on the clock! tell me more about the first lady and the years of insane medical malpractice she’s committed trying to keep her husband’s disability invisible!!

and then sam is like “oughhh noooo i hooked up with someone i didn’t know was a sex worker, whatever shall i do” like oh my god dude can you grow upppppp there’s a raft carrying like seven hundred refugees that’s about to get hit by a hurricane and we gotta secretly orchestrate the assassination of another head of state before lunch

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"A society that separates its lore masters from its horny posters will have its headcanons written by prudes and its erotic fanfic by fools."

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hearing that your characterizations are good is like. the best thing to hear as a fic writer.

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I love shipping shit nobody else has even thunk of. I’m 10k years in advance compared to these other gay people. It’s me and this one other person who wrote fics in 2010 and hasn’t posted since against the world. I’m reading this shit from the ancient scrolls and understanding it.

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Daisy 🌼

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going insane over my own fic idea at midnight on a work night, we are so back

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@hillmouse asked me to make this and i really dont know why like i dont understand at all

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Hi I already said this in the ao3 comments but I genuinely cannot tell you how much I loved Goodnight, Sweet Princess. Your prose is so so good and your characterization is fantastic and. ugh. ough. You said in your notes that you're a beejhawk guy primarily but you write a fantastic Trapper (likely thing for a guy normal about Trapper to say). h. have you ever. considered beejtraphawk (likely thing for a guy whose main MASH ship is beejtraphawk to say). 👀 Proselytizing done I just needed to give you another compliment on that fic because it was phenomenal

IT'S SO FUNNY YOU BRING THAT UP because I have actually been rotating something beejtraphawk-esque for the past few days but it is... logistically complex. to say the least. so I'm hoping that if I just keep rotating it all of the logistical challenges will smooth themselves out and I won't have to sit down and actually untangle them? surely this will work. (relatedly do you know of any uhhhhhhhh show timelines that try to put the episodes in real-world order? understanding of course that this intersperses BJ/Potter and Trapper/Henry episodes but that's hopefully sort of the point)

but thank you SO much, I was very nervous to join (to me) a bigger fandom after years of 10-person fandoms but everyone has been so welcoming and kind! I like it here 🥰

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(opening the author’s works page after finishing a fic) and if im lucky they’ll have written this exact same fic but different a bunch more times

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every writer has That One Scene that lives in their head rent-free but they can’t write it yet because “the vibes aren’t ripe”

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bernstein

oh thank god, it felt a bit unbalanced just having Woodward

NOTP: it's very important to me that Bernstein never meets Mark Felt

BROTP: I feel like Bernstein and Sussman probably had a really fun dynamic going on prior to the whole bad blood over ATPM thing

OTP: Woodstein

Second choice pairing: Woodstein divorce

Fluffy pairing: peace and love but I'm not sure Bernstein is capable of fluff <3

Angsty pairing: Bernstein/Nora Ephron lmao

Favorite poly ship: Hoffman/Bernstein/Redford/Woodward

Weirdest pairing: I kinda ship him with Ken Clawson? let me get back to you on that one

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Since one Bob (Woodward) is already taken let's go with Bobby Hume! (I don't know anything about TBITB but I feel like Woodward was the obvious choice for the Mustelidverse)

you are being too kind to me by not asking about Dean 😔 one of these days I'm gonna crack and write x reader for him

I got another ask about Bobby (Moch) so I'll answer for Don (Hume)!

NOTP: idk if this is a notp but I think Don and Chuck would have absolutely no idea what to do with each other

BROTP: uhhhhhhh tbh I feel like everyone has a crush on Don so I don't actually know about this one

OTP: Don/Bobby, of course

Second choice pairing: Don/Jim

Fluffy pairing: Don/Gordy (they're just two nerds having a good time together!)

Angsty pairing: Don/Johnny (for the same reasons Bobby/Johnny is angsty)

Favorite poly ship: Joyce/Joe/Don maybe? I could see it

Weirdest pairing: Don/Roger. How did they wind up here??? where are Bobby and Chuck?????

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Bobby Moch pairings please

NOTP: again, Ulbrickson :/ just not about that

BROTP: George Morry! (kudos @effervescentyellow for that friendship headcanon)

OTP: Coxstroke 4ever

Second choice pairing: Bobby/Chuck

Fluffy pairing: Bobby/Shorty

Angsty pairing: Bobby/Johnny (bc it's so one sided on Johnny's part in my mind)

Favorite poly ship: Chuck/Roger/Bobby :))))

Weirdest pairing: Bobby/Joe (is that cheating???)

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joe

oooohhhhh very tough given that Joe and Joyce have Thee love story, but I'm an equal opportunity shipper

NOTP: Joe/Ulbrickson, sorry, I just can't get behind the power difference (and honestly I think Joe's daddy issues would make him allergic to older men anyway)

BROTP: Joe and Roger, bffs from the beginning to the very end

OTP: JOYCE SIMDARS THE WOMAN YOU ARE

Second choice pairing: Joe/Johnny. You gotta be in my head to understand it.

Fluffy pairing: Joe/Shorty (they have each other's backs!!!!)

Favorite poly ship: Joe/Joyce/anyone, I refuse to break them up (orrrrrrrrrr B-street era Joe/Johnny/Chuck)

Weirdest pairing: Joe/Bobby (it's kind of incidental to Don/Joe and Don/Bobby I feel)