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is it still too soon to request another out of context spoiler for the next chapter? 🤲

there's 2 long-awaited needledrops. one that only i have been waiting for and know about, and one that hopefully you guys have been waiting for, lol!

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Hi, so I freakin love sckl and because you seem to really love music, I wanted to recommend Jack River. She always reminds me so much of Mazzy Star. If you have time to check it out, Stardust & Rust is my fav, but she's got heaps of good stuff. Anyway, once again, sckl is amazing and I've read the new chapter probably 3 times now haha. Hope life's treating you kindly 😊

i listened to stardust & rust first and something about the way she sings at certain points definitely reminded me of hope sandoval for some reason lol! i also listened to "her smile" and it reminded me a lot of mazzy star, both lyrically and sonically. thanks for the recommendation!

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do u have any headcanons about modern artists that the sckl characters would listen to? i personally feel like corona fucks with chappell roan heavy

i also think corona would like chappell roan! palamedes too. at least the sckl version of palamedes.

i firmly hold the headcanon that modern corona would love megan thee stallion. in my heart i know this is true.

i think a modern sckl gideon would still massively enjoy 90s music. and i think she'd like meg too! everyone loves megan thee stallion forever and always. pop-punk enjoyer gideon will always be real to me for better or for worse, but like particularly 2000s pop-punk. not going to name any specific bands because i know what many of them were getting up to and i don't want to accidentally name a band thats full of pieces of shit lol. i can also see her enjoying against me! (also i recently heard your god (god's dick) by laura jane grace and i think she'd appreciate it) and aminé. if sckl took place in the 2010s chapter five would have ended with her entering pyrrha's office while playing that one song by the lonely island and akon because i suck and so does she. oh my god and i just know she would love the song knuck if you buck. it's a crime that canon gideon will never hear knuck if you buck. tamsyn there's still time to amend this. i think some of these answers for gideon probably aren't considered "modern" anymore, so sorry lol!

i think the last time i answered a question like this i said nona would love kpop girl groups and i stand by that. everyone imagine nona doing the red flavor choreo rn. everyone imagine nona singing woowoo by dia rn. imagine nona being like TT ... just like TT

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last night my gf and I went to see the actresses of alice & shane from the L word! it was the last stop on their tour for their book that they'd written as a memoir of their friendship and their time on the show.

one thing that they talked about was witnessing lesbian culture shift in real time in response to the show coming out. like, the fashion in lesbian bars was radically different pre- and post- the L word.

I got emotional seeing these women who had told our stories, albeit not perfectly, but with a lot of heart. the room gave them two separate standing ovations too.

I just figured that you might be interested in hearing this, as someone who's seen the show and as an enjoyer of lesbian history. their book is pretty good too!

i haven't kept up with kate and leisha for years even though i used to listen to their podcast all the time lol. i didn't even know they had a book out, so thanks for sharing this with me!

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wishing you well! i hope u enjoy the summer

thank you so much! you too <3

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(a personal and all around too sappy anecdote)

i feel like people are always complimenting your representation of butches and butch identity, but i would really love to commend you on your representation of the femme counterpart as well. the spectrum you’ve created between corona and harrow really feel like a deeply understood representation of what lesbians who identify as femme look like, and act like.

honestly, i had been toying with the label for a long time, but felt odd taking it up as i wasn’t sure i fully fit anywhere in the butch femme dichotomy. (no matter how bad i wanted to, which in hindsight should have been a sign.) seeing the representation you created and how no one distinctly needed to say the label but its presence was felt in mentioning coronas hyper femininity as her own form of drag, or the role she takes in her relationship with gideon inspired me to delve deeper into the history, and allowed me to feel more comfortable taking up the label.

modern lesbianism seems to have strayed away from this original dichotomy in mainstream media, and so seeing fan made content like this broaden so many people’s perspectives on their identity is really beautiful and proves it’s importance. (though, i would love to also recommend people read academic journals, and historical books, i understand that it’s not readily accessible to everyone and is often polluted with jargon that may not be friendly to the average reader.) i hope to see more of what you write and inspire in the future, thank you for giving people the space and sharing your own understandings of lesbianism in all its glory.

thank you so much for sharing this with me! it wasn't at all something i expected with sckl, but it means a lot to me to hear that my writing could inspire someone to look further into our history and find themselves there. and i second the recommendation for people to read about the actual history of lesbianism, there is a world of topics sckl hasn't even brushed against yet, and might not at all. above all else, it is meant to be just a silly fanfic at the end of the day!

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Hi I just saw a post about commenting on fic so I thought I’d come here and let you know that sckl legitimately rewired my brain and I’ve read the whole thing straight through at least three times now

thank you so much!! 🖤🖤

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im not the anon that mentioned stone butch blues but i did resonate with that post!! i was rereading sckl recently and specifically those scenes where gideon first starts to connect with queer and butch culture really emitted a similar feeling to sbb while reading (her discovering her first lesbian bar, getting acknowledged by other butches on the street...)

i mean this as a huge compliment btw! i thought sbb was a beautiful book and so is sckl :) so glad you're back to updating, you're the only thing making the alectopause bearable

i will take it as a compliment, thank you!! it's been so long since i read stone butch blues that i don't remember it very well but this makes sense. i should probably reread soon

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hiii okay the funniest thing happened this weekend and i felt like you needed to know about it. so one of my longgggg time internet friends came to visit me this weekend (for context, she’s not really known to be the biggest fanfic reader but we’re both into tlt), and as we were driving back from the airport, friday im in love started playing and i was like “omg this song always reminds me of this one tlt fanfic, have you ever heard of it? it’s called semi charmed kinda life” and my friend goes “girl ive READ SEMI CHARMED KINDA LIFE” and when i tell you i cracked upppp omg 😭 somehow ig it had never come up in conversation that we both had read it, but i did get to tell her about the recent update so that was fun. anyways we both love the fic!!!!!! so thrilled that you’re back at it 🫶

lmfaooo i love this so much. thank you for telling me & i hope you guys had fun together!

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have u listened to ethel cain’s new single

i can't stop listening to it. it's a problem

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hello! just wanted to thank you so much for sckl and let you know that its taught me so much about myself and about queer culture. also absolutely delighted that your harrow has exactly the same taste in music as me!

you're an incredibly talented writer - the way you've managed to write the characters so true to the original series while simultaneously letting them develop with your narrative is incredible.

wishing you all the best in your personal life and i can't wait for the next update! :)

thank you so so much 🖤🖤

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A classic

(part 1, part 2, part3)

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Inspired by the incredible chapter 24 of “semi-charmed kinda life” by @griddlebait on AO3! This is a beautifullyy written 90s roommates AU that captures the complicated and tender relationships between all the characters so perfectly

And the result:

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lilies – devotion, rebirth

('the lily means "I dare you to love me"')

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could you elaborate on those tags saying there’s part from chapter 25 that connects to a previous chapter mayhaps? i think i clocked it but i don’t want to embarrass myself if i’m wrong. it’s understandable if you want to leave it a mystery tho

chapter 25 / chapter 18

girl ain’t nobody looking at those damn shoulders

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love is a stranger playing while griddlehark almost kiss is such an inspired choice. now i’m trying to guess what song will play when they finally fuck 🧐

im torn between I’ll Make Love to You by Boyz II Men or Nobody by Keith Sweat

(just joking. there won’t be a song playing)

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I love that you and that anon have your own sckl “merch” brb going to get a star on my wrist now lol (or like, a weird lesbian best friend to have a weird thing with)

everyone should always have a weird lesbian best friend. but whether you guys get weird and lesbian together …….. i will neither recommend nor discourage