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do i even write

@paulmezcal you did NOT finish your elected WIP

Safety never takes a holiday, but your writing did.

Even though Georgie FAILED, everyone go read, enjoy, and comment on their other pieces!

xoxo p (for Paul Blart, Mall Cop)

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“girl pls write” ☠️☠️

w i p w e d n e s d a y 👾

thank you to @intrepidjourneys @halestrom @roosterseresin @hangmanbradshaw @nixie-deangel @tgmsunmontue for the tags this week 😤

active wips

at the water's edge (the roadtrip postgrad au!)

drone au

nine circles

big bang (skirting the rules here OOPS)

This week's ✨WIP Wednesday Theme✨ is ... WIPtheRainbow! 🌈

Send a colored heart emoji and I'll search my WIPs for a sentence where that color appears and post it. If it's not in the WIP, I have to add a sentence to the draft.

no pressure tag: @tornadeoqueen @pissmotif @ghostlykiss @teacupivy @paulmezcal <- girl pls write

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Top Gun WIP Club here to answer the biggest question of them all... What's the world going to get first: a new pope, or an update to your WIP? (I'll tell you which one I personally care more about...)

If you haven't yet, sign up for this month's WIP Club! If you have signed up, well, then, you're doing better than the mods who waited 7 days before getting this post up. We were busy, okay!

A quick rule change for those that haven't signed up yet: no more signing up with deadlined event WIPs! You've already got the pressure, babe, don't be a greedy little thing. Paddington will be waiting for you next month, we promise.

Big smooches from us all, we hit a 50% nice, 50% naughty ratio for April, let's see how well we do in May!

xo, JpEG

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monogamy isn't actually all bad. I mean, without monogamy we wouldn't have cheating, which is objectively pretty hot

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my johnny bravo fan art

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questions for fic writers

a collection of questions i, as a writer, would love to be asked !!!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

9. How do you find new fic to read?

10. How do you decide what to write?

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer?

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

18. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?

20. If you wrote a prequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in [insert fic], what would it be?

22. Who is your favorite character in [insert fic] and why?

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

24. Are there any easter eggs in [insert fic], and if so, what are they?

25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?

26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?

27. How long did it take to write [insert fic]? Describe the process.

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want!

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?

32. What’s your ideal fic length to read?

33. If you write chaptered fics, what’s your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

35. What aspects of your writing are completely unlike your real life?

36. Do you visualize what you read/write?

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

38. Did any of your fics get surprisingly popular (whatever that means to you)? Which ones? Why do you think they were so successful?

39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?

40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

43. If you take/write prompts: what’s your favorite prompt fic that you’ve written?

44. If you take/write prompts: do you prefer dialogue or scenario/narrative prompts?

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?

47. If [insert fic] was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

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jumpscare post public-domain horror pooh bear for your dash (if i fail, we all fail together xo)

@paulmezcal you did NOT finish your elected WIPS

Oh, Bother! Looks like you failed WIP Club… did you at least open your document this month?

Even though Georgie FAILED, everyone go read, enjoy, and comment on their other pieces!

xoxo p (for Pooh Bear)

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crayfish galore!

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conormcdphoto Race4Women event in Jeddah Saudi Arabia with sebastianvettel. Very cool to see an event with a real lasting impact. Well done to everyone involved!

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04.05.25

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one day i’m gonna do one of those wip wednesday posts but today is… not that wednesday…

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death grip on someday by @intrepidjourneys | hangster

Bradley’s taken back to the dim hallway of their shared apartment, a lie slipping out of Jake’s mouth smoother than silk. That desperation that was only revealed after, he feels it now in a different hallway on the insatiable ocean that had already claimed him once.

Jake and Bradley do a number on each other and remain angrily invested.

Congrats, Julia! You passed for March 🎉 go leave a comment to this WIP club winner!

xoxo p (for Paddington)

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April Sign-Up‼️

you know the drill — it’s time for sign-ups ✍️📝🧑‍💻 for April!

and if you don’t, take a peek at our pinned post and the linked form for all the details!

stay tuned for celebrations and shamings for March!

JpEG

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anyway guess who signed up very (very) last minute for @topgunbigbang xo

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23 and 26 for limits!!!

How did you come up with the title? i am a white man's whore (i love james blake). actually i had a few title ideas floating around which is kinda how i ended up doing a song verse for every chapter, why make a decision when i could just choose everything!

Share your favorite detail wow your first question was so easy and this one is really hard! some of my favorite things: the chain and all that surrounds it, the placements of where they sleep, and "he loves you so much he's actively rotting with it". and ask you know, my fav thing is the ever-boring simplicity of an established relationship, so i love adding snapshots of that to the fic!

big smooches to you xo

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Ask 7 about your amnesia fic!

How did you decide what character(s) would narrate the fic? tbh the story kinda decided for me! there's some scenes that only made sense as jake narrating (i.e., things before bradley wakes up) but i also wanted to get bradley's thoughts/reactions when waking up. for the rest, it's just kind of going with the flow of what i want to share or whose thoughts/reactions i think would come across best, i think from the beginning it was always gonna be a pov flip kind of story

thank you!