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Oh my God... This has surpassed 10K hits and I'm beside myself. I want to scream, laugh, cry and hug every single person who has ever read it, let alone continued on and read the second book in progress that is even longer. Like... holy shit y'all...

I kinda want to take some requests to celebrate!

They could find me, say the words, put me in that fucking chair and fry my brain again, and I swear I would still remember you. My body would remember you even if my mind didn’t, you are so much a part of me. You are engraved on my bones, imprinted on my soul.

I can't believe I'm posting the final chapter of this on Monday! It's the biggest thing I've ever written and the first I've ever finished!

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I need you to understand that when I say "comments are appreciated!" I mean that I will reply to every one of them. I mean that an email with an ao3 notification has a higher priority than a message from my mother. I mean that I will have entire discussions in the comment section if you're up for it. Message me on tumblr and I will have the same discussions on an even more unhinged level. I will dissect entire personalities and ships and fictional political structures and worldbuilding with you. I will become your new best friend. You already ARE my new best friend. At the last battle, I would raise Anduril and say "For my ao3 readers" while a single tears rolls down my cheek, and dive into the fray. I would upload from beyond the grave if someone asked about the next chapter

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When it All Comes Crashing - Chapter 11 (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1528595060-when-it-all-comes-crashing-chapter-11?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=Alesha917 Our protagonist of "The World Keeps Changing" has struck out on her own and taken to the road on her own agenda. These are her adventures, navigating a changing world, missing her loved ones, making new connections and rediscovering old ones. World building and personas exist somewhere between the MCU and comics, but you will see nods to canon events. I have also taken liberties with timelines to line up certain characters and events which are not canon. Recommend reading the first part of this series "The World Keeps Changing" before this.

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“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

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"Members of the Teamsters union went on strike at Amazon early Thursday in a labor action at seven facilities in four states coast to coast just ahead of the holiday gift-giving rush.

Amazon said that its operations will not be affected by any of the union’s actions. Although the Teamsters claim to represent 7,000 Amazon workers nationwide, that accounts for less than 1% of the company’s US workforce."

"Amazon shows no indication it is willing to reach a deal with the Teamsters or even recognizes that the union speaks for any of its workers, despite the union declaring that employees at numerous Amazon facilities have signed cards asking to join."

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Steve + text posts pt. 10/?

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apologies to anyone who ever thought i was cool and reached out to me only to discover i am just a weird little hermit who can't carry on a conversation to save my life

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Secondary honorary mention for "fuck your canon I do what I want"

one thing i adore about fandom is the “[bad parent]’s A+ parenting” tag on ao3. it’s so universal and so sarcastic and it makes me giggle every time i see it

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"Would anyone want to read --" Listen, imma stop you right there. Yes. YES, someone would want to read that. You write that weird little fucked up story. Or that domestic little slice of life story. That drabble or that 300k monster.

I promise someone wants to read it.

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This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

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🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

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Someone to Watch Over Me (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1505316635-someone-to-watch-over-me?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=Alesha917 This is my love letter to Skinny Steve Rogers. I don't believe for a second that there was not one single girl in all of 1930s-40s New York who thought that little firecracker of a man was the bee's knees. So I made her. Also, because Steve deserves better than some Easter egg in She-Hulk about him losing his virginity to a USO dancer in 1943. And we all deserve better than that anemic chemistry with Peggy Carter. I will die on this hill.

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sex-positive but personally sex-averse asexual culture is seeing those memes/headlines/whatever that are like "is everyone else having more sex than you?" and thinking "gee, i sure hope they are. that way all of my would-be sex can go to a happy loving home"

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Platonic swag, Platonic rizz. The fact people don't know what to do with just being cared for is one of the saddest parts of amatonormativity.

brushing your hair, aroace style. holding your hand, aroace style. leaning on you, aroace style. laughing with you, aroace style. cuddling while going to sleep, aroace style. braiding your hair, aroace style. dinner together, aroace style. long hugs, aroace style. inside jokes, aroace style. "babe, love, dear," aroace style. making fun of things together, aroace style. giggling at three am, aroace style. driving to see you, or you see me, aroace style. meeting each other's friends, aroace style. meeting important people in your life, aroace style. dropping off a coffee while at work, aroace style. opening the car door for you, aroace style. comforting hand on knees, shoulders, head, back, aroace style. sleepy drives, aroace style. "I have ibuprofen," aroace style. "don't forget your meds," aroace style.

platonic swag, if you will.