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Was wondering.. is it okay if someone writes a spinoff of one if your fics as long as they give credit?

Your Innocent Until Proven Guilty inspired me and I hope to write a Tomarry dimension travel fic based on that universe...

Sure, please use the "related work" feature on AO3!

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g. guys. gguys. guys remember this. what the fuck

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Hello,

I just read innocent (until proven guilty) and was absolutely blown away. I was wondering if you planned to complete it, or if you had finished it but had not posted the final chapters.

Thank you so much!

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

To go out of order, I had a complete full draft of innocent when I began posting. However I ended up disliking the pacing of the final arc on a reread, and I no longer intend to post that version anywhere.

My creative energy is going in a lot of other directions these days, and my writing speed is way down from prior years. However I do still regularly return to innocent's outline to try and put all the pieces together, so I am hopeful that it will end up finished ... eventually ...

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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✨ lines in the sand (wash away with the tide) ✨

Author: @laeveteinn Artist: @kittonafoxgirl

Word Count: 11,364 words Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Pairing(s): Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader Content and Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Key Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Abuse, Mental Health Issues, Angst, Brief References to Suicide

Summary: For reasons that defy human comprehension, Obi-Wan won’t stop asking Darth Vader for tech support.

[Link to story] | [Link to podfic]

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For reasons that defy human comprehension, Obi-Wan won’t stop asking Darth Vader for tech support.

A hopeful canon-divergent AU, set between Episodes III and IV. Written for @obikinbb. Podfic by @kittonafoxgirl is available here.

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Playing around with some angsty Critical Role one-shots for Whumptober!

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Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus?

no. was it problematic or something?

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writing a fanfic, day 1: haha fun little porn fic lots of fluff no angst happy ending :)

writing a fanfic, day 30: so it turns out japan signed the 1929 geneva convention on the sick and the wounded but NOT the geneva convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and therefore the definition of "war crime" in this situation is

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That beautiful old man acting normally is a temptress

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hi! hope you are well 🩷 im on my third (maybe fourth) reread of innocent and honestly it only gets better on every reread. the foreshadowing is so clear now and its so beautifully interwoven into the story!

anyway i was rereading the tags and i saw the implied past non-con but i feel that the implications were so light i almost didn't pick up on any. do they refer to walburga and orion? or to ariana and the muggles? i didn't get the sense that they referred to tom (which i know is something of a popular trope in the fandom) but i might simply be mistaken.

also i noticed a lot of people asking for an update and i just wanted to say: please take as long as you need! i first read innocent maybe over a year ago and ive been checking the chapter count every few months, and i say this only to show that the readers who truly love your writing will wait and stay loyal however long lol.

also, your recent star wars fics have been amazing!! i was so excited to see them because i got into star wars again recently and seeing you write about everyone's favourite tragic characters was great. 🩷🩷

The past-non-con tag hasn't really come into play yet (beyond some light foreshadowing). It's a warning for something that planned for chapters 26-30, not involving Tom or Ariana. (I will likely have to edit the warnings for the ending; I've been going back and forth on the "BDSM elements" tag, and I think I will end up needing it.)

I appreciate it! Innocent is very much a work-in-progress, and I'm afraid that progress has been inconsistent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have outlined 10-20 endings and written at least 50k+ words in rough drafts, but I've ended up discarding the bulk of that. Pacing and symbolism are hard!

Thank you! I've loved experimenting with Star Wars. Obi-Wan and Anakin give Tom, Albus and Gellert a run for their money in the dysfunction department, yet they've also got a soulmate vibe that feels vaguely Tomarry-esque? It's a lovely flavor of angst and I'm here for it.

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Is innocent abandoned 😟

Not really! I remain interested in finishing it.

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seismic (obikin - time-travel - complete)

The classic nightshirt of a male Jedi falls open at the front: a fact that Obi-Wan never considered until his Padawan’s fingertips shift to his sternum, skimming over exposed skin. This is impossible. Anakin is obsessed with Padme. But he had choked Obi-Wan too on Mustafar, hadn’t he?

Or: Obi-Wan stumbles out of Revenge of the Sith into Attack of the Clones ... and the dead center of Anakin's romance plot.

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what people think is hard about writing: describing the joy, love, beauty, grief, loss and hope that form the richness of human experience

what is actually hard about writing: describing basic actions such as turning, leaning over, reclining, gesturing, saying something in a quiet voice, breathing, getting up from chairs, and walking across rooms

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Tom working at borgin and burkes will never not be funny to me like tjskdkskdksk I've worked customer service jobs since I was 18 and they made me, an otherwise (somewhat) fully functional adult, want to commit acts that violate the geneva convention can you IMAGINE what tom was coming up with for customers he hated? He's already split his soul at that point potentially twice like... there's definitely some bodies buried in the back is all I'm saying

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this might be weird to ask, but how do I critically look at another person's writing and implement what I like in their writing in my own writing? I've been having trouble improving in my writing, and frankly Im not sure how to go about doing that, even. It's easy to see what I like about another person's writing, but hard to pinpoint exactly why...

THIS IS NOT WEIRD TO ASK. It is, in fact, the most important question EVER.

How to Read Like a Writer

Re-read. If you get halfway into a chapter and think, Wow this chapter is super creepy–I wonder how they did that. Or get to the end of a book and think, I feel the poignancy of the fragility of human life in an inherently volatile economic system–I wonder how the writer made me feel that way… Go back and re-read that shit.

Read slowly. When you read like a reader, you read pretty fast. When you go in for your second, or third, or fourth re-read of a passage, chapter, or book that you want to know more about, read it slowly. Really. Slowly.

Read for technique, not content. Readers read for content (”In this paragraph, Damien gave Harold a classified envelope.”). Writers read for technique. (”In this paragraph, the writer made me feel curious about the contents of the envelope by giving sensory details about its appearance and weight.”)

Ask the right questions. They usually start with HOW: How did the writer make me feel? How did they accomplish that?

Read small. Did a chapter make you feel sad? Find out WHERE EXACTLY. What paragraph, sentence, or WORD did it for you? Was it a physical detail? A line of dialogue? A well-placed piece of punctuation? Stories are made of words and sentences. Narrow it down.

Practice. Reading like a writer is a skill that takes time to develop. Over time, you’ll get better at it!

How about y’all? Anything to add to this list? I made it off the top of my head so I’m sure I’m forgetting something. What have been your experiences with learning to read like a writer?

Hope this helps!

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