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3, 4, and 5 for the fic ask for and therefore is love said to be a child 🤗

my favorite recent fic…hehehehe

3 - favorite line of narration - this is hard because the prose for this one came really easily and I loved using this voice for Agatha. But this snatch in particular:

Agatha could not divine shit but she was a natural born grifter and Auntie Lilia thought her acting skills good enough that Agatha could take over the shop once she’d decided to retire. This was as good a life plan as Agatha was ever likely to muster for herself, and so she swept the floors and cleaned the windows and apprenticed there

really sung to me when it was knocking around in my head, and it translated so well onto the page.

4 - favorite piece of dialog - easily: “Did Liddell Newton tell you that? Agatha, she has eight children!” This was on of the first jokes that was in the draft and I like painstakingly built up to it when I was piecing the story together. Classically it was not as funny to anybody else as it was to me LMAO

5 - hardest part to write - the entire bedroom scene was a real challenge because I had a lot of ground to cover between point A and point B in terms of getting them where I wanted them to be, and I chose a really limited scope for the story which left very little room for credible character development lol…it was a challenge. It was fun! but it was a challenge. I probably rewrote the middle like 8k words 10 times.

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it had something to do with love

pairing: lottie/nat, yellowjackets

chapter: 1/3

word count: ~8k

rating: E

summary:

Oh, fine.��� Natalie replied. “A little warm for fur, isn’t it?”

“It’s faux. Don’t get any ideas about red paint.”

“Hm. Okay.” Natalie nodded, then sucked in a breath. “So, you’re a lesbian, though?”

Lottie straightened and shut the fridge door, then turned back to Natalie. She had a bottle of water in her hand. “Don’t be reductive, Nat, I could be bisexual.”

“…are you bisexual?”

Lottie looked at her like she was stupid. “No, I’m a lesbian.”

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Or,

A year after moving in with Lottie, Natalie makes a discovery about her roommate that sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic proportions.

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obligatory post today

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if you're doing that fic ask challenge - 9 + and you ask me to hold you

Oh this is a good one - yes - I did not decide on the ending for this until very late into writing the story, and the original ending I had planned was much happier (there was no argument). So happy I decided not to go that route for a lot of reasons

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please supplement your marxist leninist political reading with emotional and interpersonal theory please please please learn how to have a conflict with someone that doesn’t involve obliterating them or freezing them out please learn how to solve a complicated problem with a friend and actually keep the friendship please treat your friends and partners and comrades like their internal context is important to you and you care about their emotional lives

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Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

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when i saw u were writing lottienat i honest to god blacked out for a few seconds

I’ll be honest i blacked out after having the idea and realizing i was going to write YJ fic after years of saying I wouldn’t LOL

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do you have any tips on writing dialogue? yours is always so snappy and punchy and supplies such good insight into the characters

Listen to people talk irl and make note of rhythm, speech pattern, et. honestly TV and movies are good for this too, sometimes I listen to it and try to imagine how it would be written on a page and that is helpful.

One thing that I picked up recently that I am still working at is that conversation shouldn’t necessarily make linear sense/follow a pattern, and people often do not say exactly what they mean. I feel like as an author I have an instinct to go the opposite direction because I am an omniscient force that knows everything - so I have to reel myself in and remind myself that the characters do not!

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Ok next on my list for this was Wuthering Heights 1939. We have lost the generational knowledge of making romantic movies like this. Ppl slapping each other in the face in casual conversation. Bracingly anachronistic period costuming and genuinely toxic relationship dynamics. Why is Merle Oberon in a fur lined silk robe??? Women looking sexy on their deathbeds. Cathy, the Character of All Time. This might be my favorite one so far in the experiment so far. I am troubled by how much this movie moved my spirit. 10/10

recently i have made a hobby from getting high out of my mind and watching all of the movies off of the Variety 100 Greatest Movies list and one of the most humbling revelations from this is how many films that I’d written off as boy movies are actually fucking incredible…….like wdym Goodfellas rips???? lol

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every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again

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i think dangerous animals is to australia what deliverance is to the us…now im like, if i visit am i going to get fed to a shark by a guy named tucker??

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that quote like “god gave us transness for the same reason he made grapes but not wine; yeast but no loaves — so we may partake in the divine act of creation”

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A few years ago my mom repainted my family farm house a crazy color of blue that we all have been sort of razzing her about since. But yesterday I went on a hike with her to a waterfall and she revealed that she picked the shade of blue based on the color of the water as it comes out of the waterfall, bc it was her and my dad’s favorite hike when they were first dating

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I’m not a Deb/Ava truther but to me they canonically fucked in Singapore…it was weird though. Like a car crash of a hand job after 4 martinis and a massage. I’m not even sure anybody came.

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When Carrie & Lowell first dropped my toxic situationship at the time called me at my job (swing shift at a center city Philadelphia CVS) and asked me to take the late train to the main line to fuck in her parents basement. I said no and she got angry with me and we ended up breaking up, but weeks later she sent me a Facebook message with a snip of lyrics from one of the songs that had the name of my hometown in it and nothing else. It was the last I ever heard from her & to this day one of the more bewilderingly romantic things that has ever happened to me…

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my beloved pittfic authors,

i regret to inform you that in the state of pennsylvania you cannot buy a six pack at the gas station. You cannot buy wine at the grocery store.

pa has weird liquor laws and i won't get into why in this post but just know that buying alcohol is annoying.

if you want to buy beer in pa, you go to a "beer distributor" which is not a store technically, it requires a special license to operate and it's more like a warehouse or wholesale situation. always run by a weird guy. sometimes you can drive into the warehouse to load up your car with beer.

it will look something like this. even in the city. you can probably get a keg and also cigars there.

this is also where you can buy hard seltzers or canned cocktails.

IN SOME PLACES: you can buy a six pack at the grocery store. but! you have to check out in a different lane from the rest of your groceries.

for wine and liquor you need to go to the State Store. Fine Wine and Good Spirits is run by the state. They have a mediocre selection usually and can in theory order anything but they are very bad at it in my experience (as a person who really likes a specific brand of weird french gin). you can usually also get standard mixers here, tonic, margarita mix etc.

State Stores are not open on sundays, and usually close around 9pm, hence the need for premeditated alcohol purchasing.

in philly we often drive to jersey to get cheaper booze and a better selection. i assume pittsburgh folks also cross the border or ohio or wv but it's further than it is for us.

okay here we go. now you know. please i do not want to see another character by a six pack at the gas station on the way home sorry.