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Here’s something I’m curious about.

Picture this. You’re reading a book, a standard book divided into chapters. Let’s say it’s fiction (don’t know if nonfiction would get different results). You’ve been reading for a while and you want to stop for now. Assume you are not literally falling asleep, you’re still awake and lucid.

You are in the middle of a paragraph, in the middle of a page, somewhere in the middle of a chapter in the middle of the book.

“Power through and finish the book” is not an option, but if you really do that you have my sympathies.

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From the ask game: 4, 6, 14

4. Have you ever written a fic inspired by a tumblr post?

I have! her love rains down on me, inspired by this post.

6. When do you title your fics? Before you write them? As you write them? While posting to AO3 and that “Work Title” field is staring at you?

It's 50-50; either I have an idea early on and that kind of shapes the fic, because there's some central concept. Or I write the whole thing and then stare into the ao3 textbox waiting for a good combination of words. Lots of searching through playlists and poems at that point.

14. Is there a word or phrase you intentionally use in every fic?

Not intentionally, no! But I feel like "slants of light" pops up often, I've been rotating through WIPs and I guess I need to mix it up, lol.

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apex predators

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"A collection of fashion tables by an anonymous artist, published in the mid Dragon Age, depicting costumes and trends from across the Continent"

I've been itching to draw some more crosshatch and got inspired by a piece by Sergio Toppi.

This does NOT mean I'll make a real actual guide to thedosian fashion. (unless........)

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Something something Miranda Lawson ran away from home to escape her father's influence only to get caught in a deeper, more insidious form of control. She thinks she's free when you meet her but she's never been more trapped.

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“I want you to do this with me for one month. One month. Write 10 observations a week and by the end of four weeks, you will have an answer. Because when someone writes about the rustic gutter and the water pouring through it onto the muddy grass, the real pours into the room. And it’s thrilling. We’re all enlivened by it. We don’t have to find more than the rustic gutter and the muddy grass and the pouring cold water.”

— Marie Howe, Boston University’s 2016 Theopoetics Conference  (via mothersofmyheart)

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Let’s be love twins: Marvin & Diana by Jim Britt, 1973

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Mississippi Masala (1991) by Mira Nair, starring Sarita Choudhury and Denzel Washington.

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embodying tchaikovsky every time someone ignores my text

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anyway. onto better things

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The worse thing about listening to the DAI soundtrack is that you have Trevor Morris staring at you as if he notices you getting distracted, pinning you with the disappointment freshmen English teacher stare.

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Everyone knows the classic sight of a leek sticking out of the grocery bag. But what if I told you this gentle aromatic was good for more than just her pleasing silhouette?

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literally how is traffic real everyone just go

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dust bowl in the texas panhandle, taken by arthur rothstein in march of 1936.