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Can i say something problematique for terminally online millenials and people born after that point: I think the seeming lack of ability or willingness to call one another and chat on the phone with friends unprompted or out of the blue contributes to whatever hellish loneliness everyone is talking about feeling these days. Say what you want about boomers and old people but those guys mostly knew how to keep in touch with each other. Idk man call a bitch today

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ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

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your rejection sensitivity disorder is lying to you. that’s its whole thing. it exists to tell you that “not today” means “go crawl into hole because i never want to see you again how dare you suggest otherwise you fool.” but that’s a lie. “not today” literally just means, “not today.” 👍❤️

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Ok I'm still thinking about a poll from a highschool math class about how many texts the average student receives weekly and I'm thinking about the couple times in college someone started texting me regularly and how that instantly fizzled as soon as it came out they wanted to date and hmmmm I'm thinking about my new coworkers at my new job and how people make friends in general... poll time:

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So like. Not what you'd consider "cold" just in general, but rather specifically for where YOU live (for example: 6c/43f might be considered "cold" if you live in Florida). I see a lot of Tumblr users defending the cold on here, so I'm wondering what temperatures they're actually talking about. For me anyway "cold" automatically translates to be anything below freezing - but I'm not fully convinced that 90% of Tumblr is Actually yearning for below freezing temps.

(My ideal temperature range is around 10c-20c, but a bit below 10c can be nice and refreshing as well. Above 20c depends on what I'm doing - and anything above 25c is too much.)

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I’m laughing this morning because my spouse got invited to the bar to watch The Basketball Game last night with a new friend but The Basketball Game was apparently just a cover to discuss Dostoyevsky and Infinite Jest and political philosophy.

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Do you ever get baby fever?

(i.e an intense urge to have a child)

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Just curious:

*dream house can be what you want it to and is not necessarily one fixed ideal home. If you picture being a snail who lives in a shell that counts but so does "if i won the infinite money lottery tomorrow here's how i would wanna live" as well as "my friend and i are getting a flat together and he's what we want."

I'm asking because I was fantasizing about my ideal home earlier and was hit with the thought that not all experiences are universal!

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I pray the next book you pick up & begin reading, engulfs you in the best way possible

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having ideas above my motivation levels again

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Do theologians in Omegaverse worlds argue about what Jesus meant when he said "I'm the Alpha and the Omega"?

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been in and out of that novel-planning-elation-creation state the last twenty-hours. what a fricking addicting feeling. done enough mindfulness work over the last few years that i am like ho wow. creative flow is a mind trip a mind trip. and i’m not sure i ever really noticed that before.

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I just stayed up all night reading I'll Fly Away" - again - it's one of my all time favorite H&L fanfics. I love these characters so much. You write the best, most realistic male dialogue/banter and have such a way with words. Perfect combo of humor, angst, emotional smut (that properly serves the storyline), human insight, and descriptiveness of setting. It brought me back to my childhood in WI and summers sent in the north woods, when Chicago seemed like such an impossibly big city. I could feel, smell, taste summer and autumn on the lake. This is truly an epic romance.

Two questions:

Do you have any plans to write another long fic in this fandom? I would be so thrilled to read more of your multi-chapter writing.

Would you mind sharing a new link to the playlist? The one you've posted on ao3 doesn't seem to be working? I know it's been awhile.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful world that you created with us.

What an ask to wake up to!! Thank you!!

My life feels super full in mostly the best of ways right now. I’m commuting to a full time job that I love, my kids are little and WILD— absolute chaos agents, I have friends who I see in person 😱, and, on the sadder side, my dad has a terminal diagnosis so I’ve been trying to visit him as often as we can manage. After years of angsting over the loss of Me Time that early parenthood inevitably brings on, especially with more than one kiddo, I am finally also seeing that my littles will not be little forever and settling into a different arrangement of priorities. Within the last month, I literally said to my therapist— “Maybe it’s okay to set aside my dreams of another novel length thing for right now.”

However!! It feels serendipitous that I spent the last 24hrs binging For the Right Reasons and wishing I was working on something new! And then this pops into my inbox. I recently night-weaned my youngest, and that might open up some time, but since the weaning we’ve been sick and now there’s stupid Spring Forward so 🤷‍♀️🤪 it’s hard to say.

Additionally, I live in the Great Lakes north woods and SAD is a communal experience so maybe 🤔 ☀️💻. My capacity feels different with the sun out.

tldr; No long fics in the works now, but who knows what the next six months will bring. I really love this kind of storytelling. And I have a parenting themed love story to write now, I think. 😂🤪

as to the playlist 🤔, I am at a loss. I have playlists for every single long fic in my personal Spotify (which I use professionally also and don’t share in fandom) so I was hoping to find it and screen shot it, but no luck. I’ll keep digging around to see where I might have it or even a list of the songs I’d used.

Thanks again for this very kind comment!! ❤️ I hope you make it through your day on minimal sleep. 🫣😊

oh and for anyone else who wants an I’ll Fly Away re-read, here’s a link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5390444/chapters/12451058