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currently going insane trying to figure out how to separate my blogs

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we’re driving down the highway on a perfect summer day. the windows are down and my hair keeps flying in my face but i don’t mind. you’re singing along to some band i told you about years ago and i can’t help but smile. i keep this memory stored safely in my head and i play it on winter days when the suns so bright it’s almost as if that summer came back. did you know i loved you on this day?

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What do you do when you're cursed to hurt everyone you've ever cared about? What do you do when you think you deserve it?

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i could gush about witch hat atelier for a long time but these panels really stuck out to me as such a lovely thought about the process of learning

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i want to write so badly i miss it what is wrong with me

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hii !! i remember you wrote running on air after being inspired by a book, and i want to ask what the title of the book is. you mentioned it before, the book contained stories of people who were found after disappearing, i think (?).

Hi anon! The below links have full, free access to the research reports that inspired Running on Air:

The Geographies of Missing People: Processes, Experiences, Responses (2013) by Parr, Stevenson, Woolnough & Fyfe

And:

Families Living with Absence: Searching for Missing People (2013) by Parr & Stevenson.

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fyodor dostoevsky, the founder of fatherless behaviour...

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sometimes i think it would be easy to pack up and go

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realised i was descending into university madness when i considered learning latin from scratch two days before a graded submission

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Achilles asked, “How could he not recognise his wife?"

“That is the nature of madness,” Chiron said. His voice sounded deeper than usual. He had known this man, I remembered. Had known the wife.

“But why did the madness come?"

“The gods wished to punish him,” Chiron answered.

Achilles shook his head, impatiently. “But this was a greater punishment for her. It was not fair of them.”

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone. Do you think?”

“Perhaps,” Achilles admitted.

I listened, and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark, or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

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there are no words in the english language i could scream to drown you out !!!!!!!

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Hi!! Welcome to Tumblr!! I love RoA and I need to ask: how was your inspiration or what had sparked the plot idea into your mind? The fic had developed just like you wanted, or did some things got cut off, rewritten etc.? I hope you had a good day!! 😚😚

Hello :)

Running on Air had two inspirations, I guess. The first one began with an impromptu road trip I took one day along Great Ocean Road. I found some of the pics I took:

Around the same time, I was reading a report, The Geographies of Missing People, which sounds like an incredibly boring muse (I’m sorry!) but I am deeply interested in that stuff. The report looked at people who had decided to leave their life behind (either temporarily or permanently) and basically how they felt about the entire process. The personal stories in the above report were so poignant and had so much emotion, it immediately made me want to write about them.

Looking at quotes from the report, you can definitely see where I got my inspiration from:

And:

And:

So you can see where the inspiration for setting and description intersected with the plot idea. And off I went! I wrote it (about 2 months) and edited it (3 months). Editing was mostly fussing over details and doing a metric ton of research about England (never been there, didn’t want Brits to be like ‘wow this is laughable’). Nothing was really rewritten or removed - there were no ‘outtakes’. It was a pretty straightforward process :)

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what do you mean “do you remember when we were eleven?” what do you mean “lets go back to that” what the hell do you mean

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the most awesome thing about Babel characters is it either motivates you to study your ass off or to overthrow the shitty education system by non-compliance, and either way you KNOW Robin and Ramy and Victorie will be proud of you.

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i need to stop getting sick like this is so pathetic little domesticated animal of me