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Outlander Fanfic Idea

I have an idea for a fic about an old woman named Steph, who, after attending her mother's funeral, and ensuring her kids and grandkids are entertained by her late wife's videogame collection, finds the Virginia stone circle, and gets transported back to the 1830s or so, and interacts with Liam Ransom, the grandson of William Clarence Henry George Ransom, the Ninth early of Ellesmere.

By the time my story would take place, all secrets are to some degree in the open. William has figured out that Lord John is gay, and has heard about the time travel story from MacKenzie and Fraser family.

Unlike the original Outlander story, this would be an exploration of grief, not love.

The plot of this fic revolves around Steph's journey to say her final farewell to her late wife, Meg. The death of Steph's mother is the catalyst that forces Steph to decide if life is even worth living.

The only character that Steph meets along her journey that also shows up in the main series is Swiftest Of Lizards, Young Ian's child, because as of Season 7A Swiftest of Lizards has never met any of the main-cast time travelers.

Another interesting topic for this to explore is that of family folklore and storytelling. I think it would be fascinating to see how characters who would only have ever heard stories and rumors about the time travelers and of Lord John Grey's orientation interact with a new character who has both of the secrets.

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I am not a mental health professional, however I have been diagnosed with ADHD and generalized anxiety.

Holy bananas. I don't like the fact that I know too much about my body. I feel like I can't breathe and that I might be about to have a heart attack or something. This is different than my typical anxiety attacks, which make me feel like I can't move.

I just hate the fact that I can feel my physical anxiety.

I know that's what it is. But it doesn't make things easier.

Without meds (or more like during withdrawal) I felt like I was drowning and couldn't move.

But now, (again after taking a single dose, during a day when I was particularly suicidal), I now feel nothing at all.

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I have recently been consuming Outlander on Netflix. It is quite the show.

I will say, it wish I could see more about the life of the gay character, Lord John Grey. I also wish that the relationship hadn't been written by such a straight woman. It shows through, as this character never gets over his obligatory baby-gay straight crush.

Like I get it. But like, once somebody IDs as a straight man, I am no longer interested.

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The insideous thing about csa, is that if it happens young enough you could activy think that what is happening to you is okay.

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The Diary of a Great Servant to the Quartanos: Nurturing Siklish Talent

The diary of a servant to a Great Family By Cos Cylonol I just hired a new Siklish kid, Sam, to train into becoming a Great Servant to the Quartanos. Sam is very lucky that he chose our dumpster to look for food in, as Ceil Quartano1 is unusually generous, given that he is the head of a Great House2. He expects the standard respect, but will actually listen to another’s point of view, when…

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"There are two things in life for which nobody is truly prepared: twins." --Josh Billings, Criminal Minds S9E1

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While i agree that it is important to edit and reaf your own work, and ensure that a human has the final say, it is incorrectly to completely disparage the use of spelling and grammar checkers. I ams AuDHD, and have lots of dyslexia and dysgraphia symptoms. I use tools like Grammarly as an accessibility tool.

My writing always has huge spelling and grammar mistakes as my AuDHD encurages long runon sentences with too many commas, and my dyslexic symptoms mean that it is super common for me to misspell the same word in different ways each time. When i get frustrated enough, i might just intentionally misspell a word using my best phonetic guess, because I genuinely have no guess as to how it is really spelled.

Most of the time, even an AI enhanced spelling and grammar checker cannot guess my intended word when I am using a truly unusual misspelling. But i would absolutely rather have a super common misspelling of a word, than my attempt at a phonetic spelling. When another reads my work, a common misspelling might be distracting, but can also go unnoticed. However, if the entire work looks "smtehnig leik tihs" then it would be distracting to most audiences.

A spelling and grammar checker is an accessibilty tool for me, as sometimes my pros do turn into word salad, because of my neurodivergence. However I do not allow these checkers to automatically change my work, and i continue to have the final say, by reading through the sentence before and after the correction, and ensuring that I have the final say.

A big part of using these tools in my workflow is the ability to know how and when to use the ignore button.

I read through my work, send it through the grammar checker, and read through it again, and usually once more a week later, BEFORE i even send it to another human. I just want to emphasize that this is a method to at least keep my writing legible before it goes to an editing stage.

I just stumbled across somebody saying how editing their own novel was too exhausting, and next time they'll run it through Grammerly instead.

For the love of writing, please do not trust AI to edit your work.

Listen. I get it. I am a writer, and I have worked as a professional editor. Writing is hard and editing is harder. There's a reason I did it for pay. Consequently, I also get that professional editors can be dearly expensive, and things like dyslexia can make it difficult to edit your own stuff.

Algorithms are not the solution to that.

Pay a newbie human editor. Trade favors with a friend. Beg an early birthday present from a sibling. I cannot stress enough how important it is that one of the editors be yourself, and at least one be somebody else.

Yourself, because you know what you intended to put on the page, and what is obviously counter to your intention.

The other person, because they're going to see the things that you can't notice. When you're reading your own writing, it's colored by what you expect to be on the page, and so your brain will frequently fill in missing words or make sense of things that don't actually parse well. They're also more likely to point out things that are outside your scope of knowledge.

Trust me, human editors are absolutely necessary for publishing.

If you convince yourself that you positively must run your work through an algorithm before submitting to an agent/publisher/self-pub site, do yourself and your readers a massive favor: get at least two sets of human eyeballs on your writing after the algorithm has done its work.

Because here's the thing:

AI draws from whatever data sets it's trained on, and those data sets famously aren't curated.

You cannot trust it to know whether that's an actual word or just a really common misspelling.

People break conventions of grammar to create a certain effect in the reader all the time. AI cannot be relied upon to know the difference between James Joyce and a bredlik and an actual coherent sentence, or which one is appropriate at any given part of the book.

AI picks up on patterns in its training data sets and imitates and magnifies those patterns-- especially bigotry, and particularly racism.

AI has also been known to lift entire passages wholesale. Listen to me: Plagiarism will end your career. And here's the awful thing-- if it's plagiarizing a source you aren't familiar with, there's a very good chance you wouldn't even know it's been done. This is another reason for other humans than yourself-- more people means a broader pool of knowledge and experience to draw from.

I know a writer who used this kind of software to help them find spelling mistakes, didn't realize that a setting had been turned on during an update, and had their entire work be turned into word salad-- and only found out when the editor at their publishing house called them on the phone and asked what the hell had happened to their latest book. And when I say 'their entire work', I'm not talking about their novel-- I'm talking about every single draft and document that the software had access to.

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I am anxious as I start my drive through the mountains, 2 lane road, twisting as if cut through the rocky terrain. My ears pop as the elevation increases, and I continually ride the brakes as I take hairpin turns, practically praying that I won't fall off the cliffs or run into an oncoming traffic. As the paved section narrows into a single lane gravel path, just wide for my coop to pass, while just scraping the driver's side mirror, I start to regret taking the mountain pass, rather than spending the extra month of travel time to go around the range.

I have some paints and brushes in the car, allowing me to perform minor fixes and injuries but rolling off this cliff, is far more than i am prepared for, especially if the paint tubes break. As I round the next bend, I realize I only have 2 extra containers of fuel which is not nearly enough for a fill up. Based on the map I reviewed back in the library-museum at home, i surmised that I could cross the range through this pass within a tank and about six hours.

But that map assumed the pass was paved.

It is not paved. Not even close. The maze of roads means that I so not even know if I'm still on the pass.

I also wish there was some way for me to have access to a map, if only to orient myself.

--Audio recording stored in the Academy Archives. Skylar needed special access to hear it, as the fidelity of audio seems to degrade with each play. We figured out how to play it, but it is not technology from the river valley.

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These ancient Tablozetziums are.... interesting. It seems like they have some communication abilites, but not a ton of information storage. I went to the Quartano Farms Historical society and found some preserved Family Tablets.

One of the few files on one tablozetzium, seems to reference a Sam as either a best friend, servant, or lover. I cannot tell.

However, tablozetzium im holding also has some files about a willow, seemingly the same willow I found in a diary.

It would be wild if these two knew each other.

--Skylar Seacrest

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Attichaos Archibald Plans a His Lecture Space and Support System to Students

Environment: I know what it is like to be hungry. All students should be able to eat, and have enough food to keep their brains functional. I also know what it is like sleeping on the streets. I plan to always serve pizza on Fridays, and to see if I can get approval for a second, adjoining office, full of soft bean bag chairs and mattresses, a burner, microwave and kitchen. Pushing the use of BrightLights: If I consistently supply High Quality Linarian Cheese, I might be able to prevent color-magic-adepts from honing their talent. Research: I will supply a free BrightLight to students venturing into the forested mountain for research. Hopefully this will blind them to some of the older magic there. Money: I will always ensure that my students have access to the BrightLights, shelter, and food, and ensure placement into a stable, government job, and in return they will be dependent on my tech, buying it once they have purchasing power. I cannot believe that this is evil. I'm giving students a path to a bright life and happy future, and I'm ensuring that the TriAngles keep the hard-earned order intact, to prevent another famine or uprising.

-- Attichaos Archibald (Professor Arch)

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I have a confession

Despite getting the dopamine that when I do write creatively, there is a positive response, I keep thinking that whatever I write is not good enough.

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I am attempting to bake bread with yeast. But my approach is by just kind of guessing.

Wish me luck lol.

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Weird Experiences Related to my Autistic Traits http://dlvr.it/T7ZV0m

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whoah boy. If you are not from here Tumblr can be an interesting place.

I forgot how much I missed the assumption that there's gonna be gender-bent fan-art so that any two characters from completely unrelated series can lovingly embrace, in a gay way.

I am super happy that some things about tumblr have NOT changed since the SuperWhoLock days.

This post is peak tumblr.

They are studying us in petri dishes

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That feeling when your "adult" relatives are actually cool now that you are also an adult.

I’m in the middle of writing a blog post about how I use internal dialogue techniques to process my trauma, and compensate for my weird behaviors.

I fell down the rabbit hole of the cognitive perception of color.

This is cool.

But what tripped me out was seeing my grandmother’s name on some of the more influential studies that shows that language affects color perception.

Has anybody else discovered something about parental figures/older family members that you remember finding boring as a kid, but is actually really cool?

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Cos Serving Great Families http://dlvr.it/T7W8n2