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Made a lanyard. For my wife

Process pic:

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Done!

Five years on, still no guillotine cutter, but we stay silly (having fond flashbacks to sorting this technique out with @simply-sithel way back when)

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Five years on, still no guillotine cutter, but we stay silly (having fond flashbacks to sorting this technique out with @simply-sithel way back when)

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Please pay no mind to the backwards spine

This book was a learning experience re: casing it in. Please enjoy a play by play of its process:

Ngl I'm still absolutely in love with how I formatted this. Opening it up to take pics? It looks great.

Hi! I loved your fic "My Name On Your Lips", it's a fic I come back to over and over again to read. Like, the story and your magic system and interpretation of the ABO verse is just *chefs kiss*. I've been learning to make books, and I'd love to bind your story - for myself, and a copy for you as a gift, if you'd like? Let me know if it's okay and whether you'd like a copy!

Hi there! I am so sorry if you asked this 1000 years ago, Tumblr at some point was like "What if I never showed you when you had new messages?" and so I'm only just seeing this. (It also doesn't show me how old the message is, which is GREAT.) Anyway, if for some reason you still want to do this, I would be absolutely thrilled - no worries if you have moved on to other things, though! Happy 2025! @themodethecitythesoul

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Get to know your fic writer!

Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chaptered fics?

Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic

Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

Do you like constructive criticism?

Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process?

How do you choose which POV to write from?

Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or end of a story?

Do you comment on stories you read?

Cltr+f "blinks" on your WIP & copy paste the first sentence/paragraph that comes up

Link your three favorite fics right now

how does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you?

what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

how do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?

How do you write smut scenes? Do you get very visual or detailed? How important is it to be realistic?

How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

What do you do when writing becomes difficult? (maybe a lack of inspiration or writers block)

Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

What is the most-used tag on your ao3?

Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

Would you ever collaborate with another writer for a story?

Are there certain types of writing you won’t do? (style, pov, genre, tropes, etc)

Best writing advice for other writers?

Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

What fic do you wish you got more of a response on?

Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

What is your most and least favorite part of writing?

On average, how much writing do you get done in a day?

What’s your revision or editing process like?

Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished?

Do you start with the characters or the plot when writing?

Name three of your favorite fanfic writers.

Do you want to be published some day?

Five years from now, where do you see yourself as a writer?

What is one essential thing to remember when writing a villain? 

How do you write kissing scenes?

How do you choose where to end a chapter?

Would you ever write commissions?

Share a snippet from a WIP

If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

Do you take a sadistic joy in whumping your characters, or are you more the "If you hurt them I would kill everyone and then myself" kind of person?

What mistakes do you keep making no matter how many times your beta corrects you?

Do you want to break your readers‘ heart or make them laugh?

How would you describe your style? (Character/emotion/action-driven, etc)

How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

What do you look for in a beta?

Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

How long is your longest fic?

What’s your total AO3 word count?

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

How do you spend your time when it comes to fanfiction? Are you primarily a fic reader, writer, or a perfect 50/50 split of both?

What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones?

What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on?

Do you prefer editing as you write, or waiting until it’s finished? 

What part of the writing process do you enjoy the most? (Brainstorming, outlining, writing, editing, etc) 

Does anyone in your personal life know you write fic? if not, would you tell anyone?

Have you had a writer you admire comment on your fic? What was that like?

Why do you continue writing fics?

Thoughts on cliffhangers?

Something you hate to see in smut.

Something you love to see in smut.

Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

How do you deal with writing pressure (ie. pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc.)?

Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas?

What, if anything, do you do for inspiration?

What work of yours, if any, are you the most embarrassed about existing?

When asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

When it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?

What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?

What scene in [Fanfic Name] took the longest to write? What was difficult about it? 

Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of [Fanfic Name]? 

Do you have a favorite scene you’ve written from [Fanfic Name] story/chapter? 

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ao3 wrapped [writers edition]

How many words have you written this year?

How many works did you publish this year?

What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

What work of yours has the most hits?

What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Favorite title you used

If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?

Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

What work was the quickest to write?

What work took you the longest to write?

How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

What’s your longest work of the year?

What’s your shortest work of the year?

What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

Your favorite character to write this year?

The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Which work of yours have you reread the most?

How many kudos in total did you get this year?

Which work has the most comments?

Did you do any collaborative works this year?

Did you write any gifts this year?

Did you receive any gifts this year?

What’s your most common category?

What do you listen to while writing?

Favorite work you wrote this year?

Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Biggest surprise while writing this year?

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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

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im gonna be a huge sap and ask for...wedding fic. how do they prepare?? how do they FEEL??? who cries?? (me. i cry)

“Apologies, Highness,” says the herald wearily. “You muddled the lines about history and lineage.”

“Again,” says Laurent.

Damen sighs, impatient. “This seems needlessly complicated.”

“You have said that,” says Laurent, “four times within the hour.”

“And yet it never stops being true.”

“I know. You wish we could be married in the Akielon style, and be done.”

“We will be married in the Akielon style.”

“A blow to the head and throwing me over your shoulder?”

A hush with the tension of teetering glass falls over the guards and servants in the room. Laurent throws a thin-lipped smile at his betrothed, and feels his skin dance with the knowing heat in the look that Damen throws back at him.

“Oh, it’s different for kings,” Damen says. “We don’t dirty our hands; we get someone else to knock our spouse unconscious. I’ve had ten separate people volunteer for the job.”

Laurent’s face breaks before he can stop it. He’s not entirely on guard, here, surrounded by the activity of two kingdoms and two traditions and one immense, ponderous, all-important ceremony. Someone is trying to fit Damen for some garment or other, and Laurent doesn’t think Damen has noticed yet. His dark eyes are still delighting in Laurent’s laughter.

They will be married in the Akielon style. They will be married in the Veretian style. No head injuries will be involved, but if Laurent has to endure a formal dance that ends with their hands being joined and covered with olive leaves, Damen can put his mind to learning a few lines of recitation.

“Barbarian,” Laurent says lightly.

Damen says, in Akielon, “I wish we could be married today. I am tired of waking up in a world where you aren’t mine. All of this is just…words.”

Laurent’s breath catches. The furtive, curious quiet of the room doubles in intensity.

“Ten minutes,” Laurent says. It’s a dismissal.

When the room has emptied but for the two of them, Laurent goes to the table and flicks through the pages of the Veretian ceremony–along with the added sections for royalty, and a whole new section, the ink barely dry, creatively drawing on a legend of harmony born out of war, to allow for the fact that the King’s intended will not be expected to bring forth heirs in the usual way. He finds what he’s looking for, the call and response, and hands the page to Damen.

“Start at the top,” Laurent says.

Damen raises his eyebrows and reads, “Who walks this path and leaves their shoes behind?”

Laurent says, “I come to you in trust, with the skin of my feet unprotected.”

“Who poured this cup to over-full and spilled water on the floor?”

“I come to you in plenty, and pledge you all that I have.”

“Who stands alone in such a room of souls?”

“I come to you in pride, and give only myself away.”

“Who ground the salt that now sits on your tongue?”

Laurent almost misses the cue. He is remembering one of the few weddings he saw as a child: bare toes beneath the sweep of the bride’s dress, the hem of it wet from stepping willingly across the puddle of water. The groom’s mouth, smiling, open for the white salt.

He says quickly, “I come to you in sorrow, heavy with all the tears yet to come.”

“Who bares their hands of gold and silver, and shows only skin?”

“I come to you in joy, light with my choice.”

“Who.” Damen swallows. “Who holds their heart so still beneath the knife?”

“I come to you in love, with my life’s blood for the taking.”

Damen opens his mouth, looks at the paper, and then lets his hand fall to his side. Awe rims his eyes like bruising fatigue. In the steady light of his expression, Laurent feels unbreakable.

“Just words,” he says.

“You’ve made your point,” Damen says.

“Damen,” Laurent says. “I’m yours already.”

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to anyone missing my writing please know i am also missing my writing

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I’m Bored and Anxious So I Slapped Together a List of Fan Fic Writer Asks

1. Share a song that makes you think of [fic title] 2. Do you read/reread your own fics? 3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written? 4. How many WIPs do you have right now? 5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write? 6. Are there any fics from others you reread all the time? 7. How many ideas for fics do you have right now? 8. What project(s) are you currently working on? 9. Do you write every day? If you wrote today, share a sentence of what you’ve written! 10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting? 11. Do you have specific playlists for writing fics? 12. Do you have a playlist for your current WIP(s)? Share it! 13. How much planning do you do before writing? 14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick? 15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters? 16. At what point in the process do you come up with titles? 17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic? 18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic? 19. Give us a small teaser from one of your WIPs. 20. What’s a favorite title for a fic you’ve written? 21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why? 22. Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing? 23. How do you choose where to end a chapter (if you have multi-chapter works)? 24. Share a moodboard for (one of) your current WIP(s). 25. Have you ever upset yourself with your own writing? 26. Is there something you’ve written that you would never want your family to see? 27. Is there a fic you were nervous to post/share? Why? 28. Have you ever tagged a fic “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat”? 29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.) 30. Ask anything!

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Red Beans And Rice

So with all the shit going on, it's time i started sharing my cauldron-o'-food recipes. Because im physically and financially incapable of cooking for all of you, but I CAN do this.

So. My family's red beans and rice recipe.

Equiptment Get:

large pot

stirring implement

cutting board

knife

(optional) instant pot/pressure cooker

(optional) rice cooker

Food Get:

1 bag(1lb) of dry red beans. Or really any beans

2 links of basic-ass-bitch smoked sausage. Can also use other smoked meats but this is cheap and low spoons

1 onion. chopped

3-6 cloves of garlic. Canned+minced or fresh and minced whatever's there

spices. Salt, pepper, smoked paprika, and cayenne pepper are my good tos

rice. however much you and your family are gonna eat

pepper vinegar. while this is a condiment and technically optional, it's a must for me. How to make listed below

0.5: Pepper Vinegar

This needs to be done like 3 months ago. Locate some vinegar(i like white wine). Locate some spicy peppers. Boil the vinegar and sterilize the bottle. Shove the peppers in the bottle. Pour the vinegar back into the bottle and seal. Leave for a few months

1: Prep Beans

There are 3 ways.

Cover beans in water in the large pot and soak overnight

Cover beans in water in the large pot and boil for 2 hours(Grammy's hack)

Cover beans in water in instant pot/pressure cooker and cook on high pressure for 30 minutes. let the pressure naturally release for 15 minutes before releasing pressure(my hack)

2: Sautee

Heat a couple tablespoons of neutral oil in the large pot(or skillet if using the large pot to soak/boil beans)

Cook chopped onion until fragrant

Add minced garlic and spices and continue to cook until garlic is fragrant

Add chopped sausage pieces and cook until sausage has shrunk down a little

3: Simmer

Combine beans and onion+sausage mixture in the large pot.

Add enough water to cover.

Simmer, stirring occasionally, for 2ish hours, or until beans have softened, liquid is thickened, and flavors are melded

4: Rice

Cook rice according to your preference while the beans cook. I use a $20 rice cooker from target and it's great, but whatever works

5: Eat

Serve beans over rice and add pepper vinegar and/or hot sauce to taste

If you don't like spice just a splash of plain white wine vinegar is still amazing

So yeah. This recipe scales pretty much as far up as your biggest pot. You can feed tons of people with this and it's filling af. Also has a comfort food vibe which we all need right now tbh

See pictures of finished pot and also the dregs of my dinner lol

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fic ask game!

★ what was the scene you most wanted to write in [fic]? what was the hardest scene to write?

✿ did anything major change when you started writing [fic] to when you finished?

☉ what do you do when you get stuck writing?

✄ what’s your editing process?

✦ what was your easiest fic to write & your hardest?

✎ how do you think readers would guess a fic was yours if you posted anonymously?

ϟ tell me what moment/scene in [fic] made you sicko in the window.jpg to read and i’ll tell you which scene made me feel that way to write

⊞ send a prediction for a fic i’ll write in the future

♡ pick a fic and I’ll pick a comment that made me really happy

▵ pick a fic and I’ll tell you my favorite line

❖ pick 2 fics and I’ll combine them somehow

↻ pick a fic and a different ship and I’ll tell you how I’d rewrite it

☰ send a fic and an unrelated trope and I’ll remix it

♫ send a fic and i’ll make a 3-5 song playlist for you

✹ wildcard - ask any other question you have!

more asks here

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So there's a poll going around re: enjoyment of fan works and their distance from canon, specifically ship-focused. And while I'd like to interact with it, the options seem COMPLETELY unrelated to the question????

All of the options are based on canonical relationships--have they spoken before? How often? Is one of them a side character with two lines?

But that's not what makes a ship 'canon compliant' to me. Other than the most boring 'did they kiss at the end' manner, which isn't always an actual thing especially with queer ships. Like, by that logic Korasami and even Kataang aren't canon in the scope of their respective og shows.

I saw someone say that they ship Widowjest and think that it's degrees of separation from canon???? No it aint! It wasn't end game but it can damn well be written with the characters being canon compliant, even if the situation is not.

Thats the core of it, for me. It's that canon when it comes to ships is not defined by canon interaction with each other, but canon consistency of each of their behavior. A ship of Protagonist A/Side Character With 2 Lines can be canon compliant with maaaaaaaybe a couple degrees of separation, as long as their characterization is consistent. In my mind, while it would have to be labeled 'canon divergent' it would still feel 'canonical' to me.

There's a poll option to the tune of 'I'm willing to bend canon and/or characterization to make it work'. Those are two different things!!!?! You bend one and it's the same people in a tiny different au. You bend the other and you have a couple of--potentially compelling-- OCs. So that option makes no sense in this context?!

Idk. I've seen this thing go by all week and it's been making me want to put a grouchy essay in the tags. But that's rude so here's this instead.

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one down; eighteen more to go

New project time: many mini dice bags

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New project time: many mini dice bags

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New project time: many mini dice bags

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New project time: many mini dice bags