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if you want something done weird you gotta do it yourself

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I might become truly obnoxious about the Locked Tomb imminently, because I just got my copy of Nona, but it is ANYONE'S guess whether that translates to more activity through this blog

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Fanbinding: Through a Glass, Darkly by @glimmerglanger

Summary:

Obi-Wan had gotten to within an arm’s length of him. But it wasn’t...really Obi-Wan. He wore robes similar to his usual style, true enough. But they were splattered with something dark and wet. His hair was longer. His face was clean-shaven. He frowned across at Anakin, tilting his head to the side, and started, “Anakin, are you--”

OR, the one where Anakin gets lost in a universe that isn't... quite right and has to find his way home.

So! another glimmerglanger fic ahaha. They're all fantastic, but I was particularly inspired here. I had found some hexagon mirrors at a dollar store and was determined to use them in a binding.

There's a lot of imagery of Anakin seeing his other self through a dark glass, and I wanted to follow that here by putting the word "darkly" inside the mirror, not sitting on top. So the word is etched into the reflective back of the mirror and painted over there. I lucked out and happened to have some chiyogami with a cracked effect, so I put that to good use here!

In addition to the mirror, I had several other new things I tried out on this one: drop caps, foiling the endcaps, making my own bookcloth, and designing the latticework around the mirror.

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follow me for more piping hot takes, like: 

Hey, Maybe If You Hate Something A Lot, You Should Just Not Engage With It

It’s Okay To Just Dislike Something, You Don’t Have To Make Your Loathing It Your Entire Identity

Fandom Should Be Fun But It Seems Like It’s Making You Miserable; Maybe You Should Step Away

or how about this banger:

Just Because I Think You’ve Gone Overboard With Your Frothing Hate Doesn’t Actually Mean I’m A Fan Of The Thing In Question

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i loved you and now you’re gone

1. nicole homer 2. kate mcgahan 3. panic! at the disco; the calendar 4. @ojibwa 5. 朱一龙, 郎朗 Zhu Yilong ft. Lang Lang; 叛逆者 Pan Ni Zhe 6. louise bourgeois

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Holtzmann + favourite Extended Edition lines

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Quynh SCP? (For the wip meme!)

I keep rotating this one like a 3D model of a tarantula in my mind it is definitely darker subject matter but the impetus was actually playing Control (2019) and thinking "what if the threat of confinement was from the SCP Foundation"

and then thinking immediately after that "and of course the real story to be told, in epistolary and fragmentary bureaucratic doc format, is the consequences of the fact that she got out and they no longer know where she is -- but they may now know there are more of them if Andy and Nile came to break her out and she wasn't there"

and the fridge horror element of this all for me is in the "classified as an anomalous humanoid" and filtering the Guard's fear of capture through the lens of an organization whose self-and-other-appointed mission is to Secure, Contain, Protect because there's some parallels and they're messy and I kinda wanna dig into those

Thank you for the ask! :D (WIP meme for those interested)

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oh control x portal fic?? 👀 👀

OH YES ok

A friend has been playing through Control (2019) for my wife and I to observe and partway through I turned to my other friend and said "I want Jesse to meet GlaDOS. Like a door to Aperture Science just shows up in the Oldest House" and it was an excuse for me to brush up on some HTML/CSS coding I'm experimenting with for another Government Document-formatted fic I wanna do at some point

I wrote the intro but have yet to write the Jesse Meeting GlaDOS scene, hence the WIP status!

Thank you for the ask! :D (WIP meme here for the curious)

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wip meme

In this game you post the titles of your current works in progress – if  someone sends you an ask about one of the titles, you can either post a  snippet or share the concept of that wip!

Tagged by @psychicrhubarb! For my sins I have not written in sooooo long which means I have Many a WIP. Choose from below:

how it ends

Beauregard Lionett character study

but I will never leave you

cancel the apocalypse

Dark Fantasy AU

fingers walk the darkness down

give up the ghost and walk away

hold me tight it's getting cold

Quynh SCP

the path the walker

control x portal

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These are all from DND playlists and most have ties to Other Fandoms: A Music Ask Game!

I got tagged by @redead-red!

You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag others. No skipping!

I chose my On Repeat playlist and here's what came up:

Die Young - Sylvan Esso (a quintessential song for my mind blorbos but also for several characters I love!)

Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron (IYKYK but also... great song for an antagonist from our DND campaign that just ended)

Vendetta - UNSECRET, Krigare (>:D)

Mountain at my Gates - Foals (I LOVE THIS SONG FOR SO MANY REASONS)

And the World Was Gone - Snow Ghosts (This one follows me from fandom to fandom to...)

David - Noah Gunderson (I love the guitar in this)

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lorde (An all time fave cover)

King and Lionheart - Of Monsters and Men (Don't touch me. Another for the blorbos)

No Choir - Florence and the Machine (INCONSOLABLE this one really is The Dynamic and also deeply personally meaningful)

It Will Never Die - Murder by Death (<3)

My follower list on here is cozy enough that if you can see this, I tag you! Come join me!

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@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

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i see your death of the author and raise you: death of the fandom, for when other fans and the content they produce are so unbearably bad that you divorce yourself entirely from the fanbase except for one or two Trusted Mutuals™️

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The best thing about fandom is commenting on a fic and seeing one of your mutuals’ comment. Like yeah baby we’re out here making this a friendly and nurturing space where content is received with gratitude and enthusiasm

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wilf (wip i’d like to finish)

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getting other people into rarepairs is so hard. wtf am i supposed to show them?? the 30k+ multichapter fic… written by ME?? the multiple pieces of fullbody fanart… ALSO by me?? the 12hr long spotify playlist… curated by ME?? i don’t think so. nuh-uh. no sir.

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the ao3 lyric video strikes again