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hi! i was wondering if you think you’d ever continue writing your kurokura fic on ao3 (playing favorites) !!

Hello, I'm back from the dead for a short while. I currently have no plans to continue Playing Favorites, but that might change at some point, especially with the manga having returned. I turned it into an og work on Tapas called How To Kill A King so if you're looking for something similar, that might work ig? It's kinda become it's own thing now tho.

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The Crying Writer turned 4 today!

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Me, writing at 3 am: Genius. Magnificent. Fantastic. Phenomenal.

Me, the next day: Wtf

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TBSMS Incorrect Quotes

Simone: Do you want me to talk to him.

Simone: I'm a pretty good bully.

https://chrysanthemumgarden.com/novel-tl/tbsms/

https://tapas.io/series/The-Black-Saint-is-My-Stalker

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MOTP Incorrect Quotes

Li Changyu: Rules are meant to be broken.

Jin Xiyan: They were made to be followed. Nothing is meant to be broken.

Li Changyu: Uh, piñatas.

Shen Pei: Glow Sticks.

Li Changyu: Karate Boards.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31947127/chapters/79119694?view_adult=true

https://chrysanthemumgarden.com/novel-tl/motp/

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Shout-Out

This week's biweekly Daily Eggplant Reader's Choice award goes to:

The Black Saint Is My Stalker:

https://tapas.io/series/The-Black-Saint-is-My-Stalker/info

Val is superbly talented and everyone must read her work for maximum life and satisfaction. You will laugh, you will cry, you will fall in love. You will feel the full spectrum of human emotion. Also, Han Li is best boy.

(Also, checkout the website for a curated list of OG BL: https://thedailyeggplant.carrd.co/#)

FEATURED NOVEL [ Readers' Pick ]

https://chrysanthemumgarden.com/novel-tl/tbsms/ genres: @ modern @ fantasy tags: romance, comedy, modern fantasy, action, angst, supernatural, slow burn, power couple, r-18, ongoing

a word from the author

"You know, I've always wanted a shounen/seinen-style story...but gay. This story is what I got Q_Q. Don't let the chill beginning fool you, there will be lots of boom boom pow pow slash lash. Erm. Beware of violence. Oh and gay. Did I mention that this story has les gays? There's a sizable amount of gays.

That is all. Thank."

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after you’ve been through like a string of fandoms and you’ve decided your favourite character/s for each one, there will come a day when you will list all your faves from each fandom side by side and look at them carefully and realise

you have a type

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The plot of Anne With An E is basically “ginger orphan with PTSD shows up and verbally beats the townsfolk into feminism”

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Being a writer is being in a constant state of not knowing what to call things and either googling it (sensible, often futile) or awkwardly describing it and hoping everyone has the same understanding of the object that you do (which, to be fair, is highly unlikely)

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Me, a writer: *considers myself an intellectual*

Also me:

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

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They’re not wrong

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Yuukoku no Moriarty fascinates me because it has a protagonist everyone is extremely fond of, whose higher aims and purposes we largely agree with if not his exact methods…but his plan is so completely terrible we’re all rooting for the fucking antagonist instead.

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I’m screaming why does Mamma Mia fit every fight scene so perfectly ajkaslajjddhhajadkjfh

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I WILL DEFINITELY HAVE A RESEARCH DEFENSE ABOUT HOW WHOLESOME THIS PANEL WAS.

We all know we want to protect Liam's smile. By all means, we could even bring out a legir org for that. BUT SHERLY— SHERLOCK'S SMILE TOWARDS LIAM! LOOK AT HOW HE JUST SOFTLY GAZES AT LIAM. I know I'm exaggerating BUT THIS OUR SHIP Y'ALL!

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Fun with Wounds: A Writer’s Guide to Realistic Injuries

Hello from your friendly neighborhood Doctor of Non-Humans!  I’ve been thinking about how to help writers to write medical scenarios, specifically wounds, more realistically for a while.  @yourwritersblock encouraged me to go ahead and post something, so here goes.  Going after the cut as it’s going to be longish and kinda gross.  Also please excuse the formatting, Tumblr heartily objected to the nicely formatted version I tried to cut and paste in.

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