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literally gonna have thesis papers out before i finish any fic project ever (that i started in high sCHOOL)

stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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Just got out of prison. The prison being the shell of my former self

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Y’all ever enjoy the ship almost because it’s not canon and never will be? I like how the fans have collective sway over the relationship dynamic. I like how it’s not Hollywood-sanitized and molded into a three act love story. It’s something about vicarious pining. Or something.

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Finally watching mota. 200k Meatball fic incoming

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Disclaimer these are just a small sampling of some possible writer traits I’ve noticed either in myself or in fics I read. Also consider a rb for sample size !

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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thinking about how leckie's own colleagues at the bergen record were his biggest ops (directly contributed to him getting bullied by the other marines)

real headline and article from the front page of the bergen record on january 27, 1944:

how that story was received by the marines according to the bergen record from december 5, 1944:

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Life Update(s)

Hi!! I don't know who's still hanging around in this specific fandom corner, but this post goes out to you. Or, specifically, anyone still waiting for a fic update.

Sorry, there's only bad news, I think. In this phase of my life, I think it's safe to say I'm not going to be continuing Run the Gauntlet or any other iterations of the Sister-in-Arms storyline, including my other characters. Maybe no fanfiction in general for a while (or forever).

If you ever knew me from back in 2020 (Discord, here, AO3, etc), I have nothing but fond memories of when we'd workshop stories, share fanart, and just be happy together about HBO War in the literal dark void of that cursed year. I think the fact that it was so cursed was the only reason I was ever able to start or write so much of SiA. In a way, I think SiA is very cursed also, as a result of it being created within my covid headspace. These days I'm gearing up for a MS degree, preparing to graduate, and busy doing various spontaneous things that, tbh, are much more fun than banging out a thousand words a day in a dark room at midnight, even if I do still love to slip back into the I-am-June-in-my-mind headspace every now and then.

I apologize again for the sustained waiting for something I just didn't have the endurance to finish. It was a good run but it didn't end up amounting to a finished epic. That's okay. I learned more than I ever have before about the art of writing through the process, and am a better writer for it. Hopefully my first actual finished longpiece is going to end up on your local library fantasy-sci-fi shelf someday, under a different name. You won't even know it's me :)

Bye, guys! Thanks for a good time.

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Im just feeling a certain way rn

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Went to my first actual writing critique workshop and they said IT SOUNDED LIKE FANFICTION BRUH

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people can be so weird about their double standards for fanfiction vs traditional fiction. once saw someone very seriously say that people who write fic for the terror are fucked up and need to stop because those were literally real people who died on the franklin expedition, but they were also completely fine with tv show the terror itself existing, despite the fact that it, too, is fiction about the literally real people who died on the franklin expedition. our blessed historical fiction vs their barbarous rpf.

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Can I ask when the next chapter might be released? I hate asking because you are a human being with a life. I just enjoy the fic and need a pick me up as i spent 400 dollars just to be told my cat is just fat and needs to diet. Hope all is well with you.

HEYYY thanks for asking!

I had to take a pause because of something I was seriously rethinking about the fic. It might take me a little longer to resolve but I still have interest in continuing.

I'm also vacationing right now but also inspired bc I'm in the general vicinity of Aldbourne!! wowwwww

I hope your cat gets un-fat. Hot girl summer is for everyone :)

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am suffering a severe case of Rereading My Wips And Getting Excited But Realizing That in Order For Me To Read “The Rest” I Have To Write It-itis. please respect my privacy during these trying times

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Eugène Romain Thirion (French, 1839–1910) Joan of Arc listening to the voices, 1876

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ok so like does anyone else have the rational fear that

someone's gonna come along and mention/post/recommend/rant about their fic on tiktok or some other social media? Mostly tiktok, but I suppose there are other possibilities.

Like, I don't want random people from tiktok coming to read my stuff. I certainly don't want to ever get the attention of anyone associated with the production of these shows -- especially the actors, God forbid.

Like, oh my gosh the prospect of "blowing up" for fanart is so appealing -- like, my eyes *light up* you know what I mean -- but the thought of someone mentioning my fanfic on any other website gives me a cold sweat and heart palpitations

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“at the end of the world or the last thing i see, you are never coming home”