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Crisis Narrative Theme Song: Now That You Know

I made a theme song for another one of my original fics. I really like how the 'sound' came out :D

Recent scandals in the media have devoured my brain (*cough* Lively v Baldoni) and were the inspiration for this story. Although inspired by real life events, it is all a feverish figment of my own crazy, bonkers imagination and really just an excuse to write a smutty, romantic/suspense thing... which now has its own theme song haha

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Mortified. The Internet ...

I have been writing a silly, self-indulgent, very smutty rock star romance called Do Not Engage - Do Not Fall in Love with a Rock Star

Anyway, Chris the MMC wrote a song (sort of as a joke) about the time they had a 7 day countdown to being able to ditch condoms once Jamie (FMC)'s IUD kicked in :P

I made a cute song with suno and the lyrics were basically all about the above ...

My fic only has about 3 readers (ao3 isn't really a place to post original fiction but I like posting there - it feels safe).

But even though I just posted it, the song's got 146 views and 7 likes .. and probably none of them know it was about contraception :P They probably just think it's a sweet schmoopy love song ...

I'm mortified.

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Video: South Durras - Spirit on the Sand. A video for our dogs Elbie and Hoover

In September 2023, we lost our 13 year old dog Hoover

Then in January 2024, we lost our almost 14 year old dog Elbie.

Our hearts are still broken. Every year, we take our dogs to South Durras, a beautiful beach in New South Wales. It took me a while, but I have finally done a video for them ... it was too painful before now.

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hey do you know when the next update for Nowhere to Go But You is? Love it!

Hi there. Thanks so much for your message! Below is the updated note that I've put at the start of the fic.

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments and messages. Please note that I will not be continuing this story.

When Maxton Hall came out on 6 May, I was one of the first people to watch it even though I knew nothing about it. I fell in love with it, became obsessed with it, made fan videos, review videos and wrote more than 100,000 words of fan fiction about it.

Unfortunately, I watched a few too many interviews with the cast and while the vast majority of those interviews were positive and enhanced my enjoyment of the show, I found that one of the leads' responses to questions and their attitude about the show and the other main character adversely affected my enjoyment of the show. I realise that I should be able to divide the actor from the show / the artist from the art .. but fan fiction is a labour of love and I need to feel inspired in order to write and things like this kind of semi murdered my muse.

It's not a great feeling when you get the vibe that one of the actors almost looks down at the ship and people who love the show ... being very young probably explains the persona adopted and I get that.

Hence why I will not be finishing this fic. I don't feel so bad about it because the fandom has grown since I was the only person writing fic for it - there is so much other fic out there now so it really won't matter that this fic ends where it does. I do intend to finish my zombie fic because that is a story that I feel has taken on its own life and which I think I can finish and should finish. Thanks again all.

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Book Review: The Elemental Trilogy by Sherry Thomas (link to youtube)

My take on what Iolanthe might look like:

My take on what Titus might look like

This series does not get anywhere near the sort of love it should get. It's got romance, enemies to friends, friends to lovers, Girls Dressing Up As Boys, tonnes of sexual tension, magic, fantasy ... It's just fabulous and I love it. I'd call it romantasy adjacent because the world, story and characters is more important than just the romance - but I am so there for the romance and I ship the main couple sooooooooooooooo much.

I've included my AI approximations of what I think the characters would look like .. I made a mistake with Titus because he has blue-grey eyes not brown .. but I actually think he looks better with brown eyes. If you haven't read this series, you should! If you have, please let me know. I am already writing fan fiction ...

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Yoicks. 17 chapters. 53,986 words and I'm still not quite finished. Not sure how this happened!!

Maxton Hall fan fic: Maxton Hall (with zombies) (Ruby Bell / James Beaufort)

Blurb: I always tried to remain invisible at Maxton Hall - until I couldn't. The zombie apocalypse changed all of that. Suddenly, I find myself in charge of a bunch of frightened people hiding within the walls of castle that used to be our school. Even worse, the person I have to rely on the most to help me through this nightmare is the last person in the world I would have ever imagined or wanted to be my ally - James f*cking Beaufort.

Notes: What can I say - my mind goes to weird places.

Link to fic is here. Current chapters:

Invisible No More 

Save Us 

I'll Be Anything You Like 

Sleeping Beauty 

Connection 

Syllogism 

Subterranean 

The Things We Do 

A Conversation 

Retconning Our First Encounter 

You Could Die 

Reconnaissance Report 

The Art of Survival 

Setting Out 

The Next Day 

Blackwater 

Finding Ruby 

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it's someone competent // and excessively resentful (2024) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

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You may be raw, but you have about you a purposeful savagery.

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furyjack + touching

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller

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Furiosa & Praetorian Jack Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller