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I loveee fantasy settings doing magical exhaustion:

burnt out pyromancers emitting steam and smoke

tired cryomancers shivering with visible foggy breath

weary necromancers looking ill and hearing voices

frazzled healers receiving the same cuts, bruises, and injuries of their patients

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The eight stages of writing :

- this is awesome

- this is slightly less awesome

- this is shit

- I’m shit

-oh god oh fuck what the hell am I doing

-wait this might not be that bad actually

- How the fuck is this working

-This is awesome

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we NEED to make poly shipping more popular. instead of ousting that woman from a canon relationship with one of them for your man/man ship to work, consider keeping her there for 10x the laughter and drama. also, improves viewing experience and increases interest from bisexuals like myself

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“Blind cat gives his favorite pianist a hug every time he hears”

(via)

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This from In Writing, a collection of writers reflecting on practice, really resonated with me.

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there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

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also im looking at my ao3 bookmarks because i forgot it was even a thing but there's something a little heartbreaking about seeing a bookmark from 4-5 years ago that says "this work has been deleted, sorry!" who were you. what were we together

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I have. Very specific definitions in my head for all of the nonsense words in Jabberwocky. So much so that I have to think really hard to figure out *which* are the nonsense words. Did anyone ever tell me these definitions? Nope, I just knew them. NGL, I wish I had taken a class where I got to see how/if my interpretation compared to orhers (who were probably slightly less obsessed with that poem - to the point I can still recite it to this day)

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enough about the timeloop I wanna hear about the post-timeloop.

person who just got over the horror of being trapped in a loop and settled into a comfortable routine...but then the timeloop breaks and they struggle to reacclimatize. person trapped in a loop for years who grieved their loved ones—who are suddenly back and acting like nothing happened (because for them nothing did). teenager who aged physically and mentally during the timeloop and now they're so much older than they're supposed to be. random strangers who were trapped in a loop together relieved to get away from each other at last, but feeling oddly bereft of familiar company. service worker who is pissed as fuck to have to go back to work

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Every time I go through the little nox ulric tag and reread the bit with Lib asking the astrals who the fuck would give an /ULRIC/ \LUCIS CAELUM MAGIC\ I can’t help the thought of ‘well, Lib, if we go by precedent, then logically the obvious culprit here is Regis, who we all know gave, of all people, /NYX FUCKING ULRIC/ magic.’ and it makes me giggle a little every time, lmao

*WHEEZE*

You're not wrong!

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canon? pLeAsE that bitch does NOT get to tell me what i can and cannot do

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Friendly reminder that AO3 is fighting AI data scrapers on behalf of all fanfic writers!

According to the post below, AO3 issued a DMCA takedown after finding out that all works before March 2025 were scraped and uploaded as a dataset to potentially train AI. The ability to take legal action against scum like this is the direct result of people donating to AO3 so they can keep functioning and they don't pocket any of it because they are a non-profit organization.

So when you see the AO3 donation drives, please remember that this is what the money is going toward and support it when you can!

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How am I only just learning this!?

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

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Chapters: 11/? Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cornelius Fudge/Cornelius Fudge's Wife Characters: Cornelius Fudge, Original Female Character(s), Andromeda Black Tonks, Original Child Character(s), Ted Tonks, Elizabeth Burke Fudge, Cornelius Fudge's Wife Additional Tags: Self-Insert, Isekai and Transmigration, Genderqueer Character, Fix-It, Harry Potter is Sir Not Appearing in this Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Beta Read, Ministry of Magic (Harry Potter), Worldbuilding, Paperwork, Wizarding Politics (Harry Potter) Series: Part 3 of HP Works Summary:

A self-insert wakes up as in the wizarding world, just before Cornelius Fudge they are scheduled to take office. Honestly, the best part about the whole situation might just be the lime green bowler hat.

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why did i think it was a good idea to make one of the characters a mathematician

i made up her up so she can only really know as much math as i know