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Reintroducing Myself

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Raine. I'm an author based in the USA, and I primarily write speculative fiction. I was somewhat active before, and I wasn't doing well at all. Think of this as me reinventing myself.

I used to be bitter and critical. I used to lash out in my pain. I don't want to do that anymore, and I won't. My life has gotten a lot better, and I can finally be the woman I am deep down. If you're one of my followers, I hope you still like me ^_^!

Continued support from others really helps me, so I really appreciate you commissioning me or buying me a coffee. I wouldn't be where I am now without you; thank you.

I still plan to keep my tag list updated, so if you want to be added or removed from that, let me know!

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Would anyone be interested if I put together a post on how to write a scientist/engineer/techy/smart-guy type character? What would y'all want to know?

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Prompts

"And they said you couldn't fly."

"Will you sing with me one more time?"

"Uh… happy birthday?"

"Let me guess your secret identity—"

Digital cameras have built-in censors…

(long starter: Villain trapped with Hero in Hero's mind)

"Well, I tried."

"I didn't know who else to come to…"

"Why should I do anything for you?"

"Delete your account."

Your teammate has time control powers…

"…How do you keep it together so well?"

The Halloween party was going great…

"I'm sorry."

"Don't say goodbye."

list of Sunshine x Grumpy prompts

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Two Spirits are transcendent Indigenous lesbians are lovely Indigenous gay people are glorious Indigenous bisexual people are breathtaking Indigenous transgender people are terrific Indigenous nonbinary people are incredible Indigenous intersex people are perfect Indigenous pan people are astonishing Indigenous ace people are amazing Indigenous LGBT+ people are important members in the community

Happy Pride month to all LGBT+ Indigenous people, from a 2S nonbinary bi woman! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

Being LGBT+ and Indigenous at the same time can feel very lonely and isolating at times, people tend to forget we are here and when we’re remembered it’s often as an afterthought. It can be difficult to find more people you can relate to, especially because the community can sometimes feel unsafe or unwelcoming due to racism

As lonely as it can be and as unwelcoming the community can feel, you are, and always will be, important and loved and appreciated members in the community ♥

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Happy Pride!

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since Bella Swan canonically has a history of eating dirt, i believe she could be paid to eat a spoonful of it. $15 minimum

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got a phonecall from my dad and he said "hey. you gotta come out here. i want you to see something" in a very serious tone so i went outside and

Bnnuy

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One of the best stories I ever read as a child was a fantasy novel by some local dude selling books out of a suitcase on the sidewalk downtown, and I don't remember what it was called or who the author was, and it's so obscure that no matter how many elements I remember, I've never been able to find it through web searches. I only vaguely remember the story - it was a love story, something about a tower on an island and two characters on a quest to discover their forgotten past. They fall in love and at the end the only way to stay together is to allow themselves to forget again, and you realize that they're right where they started, in the exact same tower, and they're doomed to go on this same quest over and over again, never completed, but that also means they'll fall in love over and over again forever. And I remember how that ending blew up my little child brain into a million pieces.

I don't know what happened to the book, and I'll probably never read it again, but if you're somewhere out there and you were once selling fantasy novels from a suitcase on the sidewalk in the suburbs of Chicago, and if you ever felt like your writing never meant anything or went anywhere except a hundred copies you had printed yourself and sold for almost nothing, please know that your story buried itself in my young brain and has probably shaped my worldview in ways even I don't understand.

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I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.

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SCOOBY-DOO (2002)

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What are people trying to say with "still a better love story than Twilight?"

A good love story doesn't have sacrifice? Yearning? Heartbreak? Transformation, at both large and small scale?

Maybe they're trying to say that in a good love story, the male protagonist should never be reshaped, reformed into something softer and sweeter by the mere presence of his love. Or that the female protagonist should never find comfort and safety once she places her trust in her love. Especially when the life he offers her is beyond her wildest fantasies, answering desires she was too kindhearted to admit she had.

I suppose some people don't want the romantic leads to dig past layers of isolation or neglect to the person within, and find something so extraordinarily beautiful, they ignore every consequence that should arise. And I know for a fact they don't want their love interests to be drawn to the very something the other could never find in themselves. They must not want their love stories to show two romantic leads ardently loving a person who does not believe they deserve the other, because that's all Twilight is.

I guess people just have different expectations for a love story than I do. Idrk.

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copyrighting neon dream as we speak

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You know what people don’t talk about often enough? Playing catch up in life after spending your teens or early 20s suicidally depressed. There’s so many more layers than just being able to say “I don’t want to die anymore.”

The difficulty in academia or a career after spending years thinking you wouldn’t be alive long enough for any of it to matter.

The exhaustion that comes from self awareness and self soothing, with the constant voice in your head saying “don’t go backwards.”

How lonely it is to watch the people your age starting families when you’re just barely learning what stable relationships are, and the sudden societal pressure of being “up against a clock��� for these kinds of things.

The judgement from others if you change your image or interests this late in the game just because you finally figured out who you really are under the demons.

Be kind to those who are developing and blooming after years of not planning on being here long. We are living a life we absolutely didn’t think we’d have, and it’s hard enough without society reminding us there’s expectations of our age.

We didn’t get to be young; we were too busy fighting battles few know.

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I need you people to realize that you can be friends with people older than you. like, much older than you. like, decades older than you. you can be friends with these people. regular friends, just like anyone your age. it is possible.

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"how do you tell the difference between a whippet and an italian greyhound" simple. look at it head on. if it looks like a dog it's a whippet. if it's making a face like you've just threatened it with a firearm, it's an iggy

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‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

This photograph was made on a commercial assignment for IBM.

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This is a controversial take that everyone will hate but it's one thing to feed your kid better, more wholesome food than twinkies and hot pockets daily, it's another thing to force them to adhere to a crunchy granola beige colored diet where they cant share the snacks their peers are eating or have a normal childhood or have fun. None of you were raised like that and if you were you know what im talking about.