#here it is on my graceling blog

[asexualmisconduct]

INTRO POST :3 (UPDATED)

ok so I realized i didn’t have an intro post so heres my intro post

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ok turns out i don’t know how to make an intro post..

ummmmm ok so i guess umm stuff about me???? Ummm oh ya! Dni criteria

DONT INTERACT WITH MY BLOG if you are / support

pro shipping

racism

incest

abuse of any kind

homophobia

hate against religions

anti recovery

ableism

nazis

hate on furrys, cosplayers and other stuff like that

(just basic dni criteria)

Im apart of many different fandoms so ya. heres a few I’ll update it as i remember/join more:

🔱Percy Jackson and the Olympians🔱

🏛️Heroes of Olympus🏛️

🏃‍♂️the maze runner🏃‍♂️

🪄Harry Potter🪄

🔥the hunger games 🔥

🌿the graceling series🌿

⚙️the girl who dared series⚙️

✨divergent✨

✨alex rider

🩸twilight🩸

🌲gravity falls🌲 (kinda?)

Webtoons:

🌈acception🌈

🎪marionetta🎪

🍬spicy mints🍬

🔮morgana and oz🔮

💜homesick 💜

⭐️the d!ckheads⭐️

‼️school bus graveyard‼️

🛸down to earth🛸

🎭our walk home🎭

🐞bugtopia🐞

📓jacksons diary📓

���‍♂️castle swimmer🧜‍♂️

💖maybe meant to be💖

🩸vampire husband🩸

🔆day break🔆

👻rooftops and roommates👻

*to be continued*

I’ve been reading these so if you have any recommendations or questions please send me them :3

ALSO im asexual ( if you didn’t get that from my username well….)

DO NOT SEND ME NSFW STUFF!!!!!

I TRIED OUT ROLEPLAY AND I LIKE IT SO ILL ROLEPLAY IF YOU WANT TO MAYBE

also if you tag me in something or message me and i don’t reply back quickly i either didn’t see it or i got busy and will reply back as soon as possible

Edit if i ever say anything imma tag it #the gremlin speaks

My Name: idk make something up you think would suit me

My Gender: not real comfy sharing on here

My Pronouns: I honestly couldn't care less go crazy

My Age: none yo business

God bless al of yall and...

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💥user box blast 💥

[brightbeautifulthings]

Hello, lovelies! Tell Me Something Tuesday is a meme created by Rainy Day Ramblings and currently hosted by Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, That's What I'm Talking About, For What It's Worth, Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell and Offbeat YA. It provides weekly discussion prompts on various book and blogging topics with optional participation. You can sign up for prompts here.

This week’s prompt is: What are your blogging/reading goals for the new year?

Since I've been such a mood reader lately, I'm not setting any hard reading goals for myself this year. No challenges, no group reads, no year-long doorstop books. I'm afraid if I try to tackle anything too rigid or difficult that I'll slip right back into a reading slump, and I don't want to put that kind of pressure on myself for what's meant to be a fun hobby. However, I am still trying to finish up a handful of series that I've started before I jump into too many more, Graceling, Murderbot, Unicorn Chronicles, Shades of Rust & Ruin, Rowell's Runaways, Fraction's Hawkeye, and Remender's Captain America among others.

On the other hand, I have several blogging goals I'd like to keep, starting with posting my reviews and wrap-ups more regularly instead of spamming them all at the end/beginning of the year. Ideally, I'd like to be around at least once a week, but as long as I don't get too far behind again, I'll consider it met. I'd also like to get back to posting a TMST and a readalike at least once a month, since they've always been some of my favorite features of my book blog. Fingers crossed that I'm setting a good precedent with this one!

[unrestricted-chaos]

Introductions are kinda important:

Since I haven't gotten anything edited and ready, I suppose I should introduce myself so my blog isn't just blank. I may have jumped the gun creating this without having a post you know ready... But I digress. Now let's see, I'm in multiple fandoms, actively and passively. There are ones that I only write, some I only read, a few that I do both [though to be honest if I write the fandom, I don't usually read it... I'm usually too distracted by the plot bunnies], and others that are from my younger days. The fandoms I started with when I was in my early teens I haven't interacted with too much, but still go out of my way to look through, even though they are small and some of the fandoms are just about dead. I read more than a dozen fandoms though, and write at least half of them. Most of my Arcane knowledge comes from my League of Legends days and the lore of Runeterra. I don't have netflix, and have only seen parts of the show. So nearly everything I write is Canon Divergent from that alone. That being said some of the things I have written fanfiction [or plotted] stories for in the past couple years include the fandoms of:

The Isle of the Lost

Graceling Realm

Naruto

League of Legends/Arcane

Ghost Hunt (Anime)

Devil May Cry 5

Stranger Things

Miraculous Ladybug

Batman

Fullmetal Alchemist

K (Anime)

That being said, right now I am writing quite a few different Timebomb fics and will be editing up a bunch that I wrote this month.

I think I'll probably post some drabbles here as well as some fics.

Now I do have a few rules for myself when I write going forward to post online. The first is simply that I do not want to post a multi-chapter fic if I do not have at least 80% of the story written down and half of that in edited format. I often get bad cases of the plot bunnies, and I will write more than I have time to edit. All of the time. The second is trying to keep a schedule for updates. I write nearly entirely for myself, and I will read my absolute bare bone fics all of the time without editing them, because I know my brain. This usually means editing is on the back burner. I don't want that. I want to be better at editing and have the practice since I also write original fiction in my spare time to entertain myself. I don't care to much for TV or Movies, but I do watch youtube sometimes, though it's not very often. I do enjoy reading and going for walks as much as I can. For anyone who has stumbled upon this introduction and read all the way through, I have a question, if you are in any of my fandoms, what your favorite ships?

-Eden

[teenidleadultgirl]

Hi! I love your blog!

What are your favorite movies, and if you like reading, what is your favorite book?

Happy Halloween!!

Hi! Thank you so much for this ask, anon. you're lovely.

my favorite movie of all time is strange magic (2019). I love legally blonde (except it uses spastic and retard which I'm not a fan of... but i love the satire). I really liked strange world as well. I love scooby doo zombie island. huge fan also of the shrek franchise.

books, so many to choose from. i just finished the poppy war, I adored it. I'm so bad at remembering titles hold on, I'll check my goodreads. OH I FUCKING ADORED THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY. ALL THE CHARACTERS WERE FUCKING AUTISTIC IN THIS ONE WHICH I DIDNT KNOW GOING IN BUT I LOVED IT SO MUCH. IT'S A FANTASY NOVEL ABOUT THESE SMART KIDS WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS SUPER HARD TEST IN ORDER TO DEFEAT THIS BAD GUY WHO LIKE CONTROLS MINDS AND SHIT. IDK I LOVED IT SO MUCH.

I liked graceling as well, not my usual type of book i go for but i thought the character was well written and i also HCed her as autistic so that might color my bias a bit. of course, there is the hunger games series need i say more.

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe was FUCKING INCREDIBLE. its about 2 gay spanish boys who fall in love with each other and overcoming homophobia to accept yourself and who you are. i read it when i was closeted and it really resonated with me for that reason.

i really like this one wife husband romantic duo amy and austin? something? idk they wrote a book called if I'm being honest but i read anything by them. the female characters are unlikeable in a way i can respect and i enjoy the romance they set up most of the time actually which is rare for me.

i LOVED queenie but god did i fucking hate queenie for the middle third of this book. seriously, i think this book is technically fantastic because it actually was the first book in a long time that i sat and pondered my reaction to queenie's behaviors and why i disliked them so much. the ending was so satisfying in a way that was realistic and you really root for queenie the entire time.

i hope you had a fantastic halloween anon!!! tell me your favorites at the moment too!!!

here is a little treat for you even though this is a day late now.

[jinlian]

Thanks for answering my ask about Giddon/Bitterblue. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how it's handled.

the moment i clocked it was going to happen all i could think was how important the rest of that development was going to be and how cashore had to proceed very carefully. and i think no matter what, not everyone would be okay with it, and that is completely understandable. how it did end up playing out was, for me, all right in the end--of course if someone disagrees, i can definitely understand that point of view as well. 

i don’t believe that age gaps are inherently bad. however, the context of when a relationship develops and the ages at which the two partners meet are the most important factors for whether or not i think it enters the realm of being bad. i don’t see an issue with a relationship between two people meeting at the ages of 50 and 60, for example. but if they’ve known each other since--say--10 and 20? yikes. of course, since bitterblue and giddon were introduced to us at 10 and 18, respectively, it doesn’t make for a great setup.

so it was important to me to know the nature of their relationship at those younger ages--if they even had one at all!--and how and when did it grow (in any sense). there isn’t any evidence they interact in graceling. from there, we don’t have any sense of their having even been introduced to each other until bitterblue, when she is 18 and he is 26. and to be fair, that’s not a great look for a relationship between them, either. i don’t think they were close? she attended council meetings--he does grow closer to her in this book, as they comfort each other. so from what we see of them in bitterblue--and if i remember correctly, which i might not--i don’t think the two of them ever had much of a friendship or even an acqaintance-ship until she’s in her late teens. maybe i just hope that, because otherwise i will have a much bigger problem, but i believe that to be an accurate reading.

from there, how does cashore handle the question of power imbalances? i do think overall she is incredibly conscious of power and who holds it: this very topic even arises in winterkeep, including what factors matter, like gender and size. i was very happy with that discussion. i would have liked to see her look explicitly at age in this case, which she unfortunately did not, so that’s a criticism of mine. for someone who is very concerned about relationships and power like cashore, i am a little surprised she didn’t include it! i will give her the benefit of the doubt on this one, though, if you remember some of what she’s talked about on her blog regarding her own experience with sexual abuse and pedophilia. while she is of course not infallible, i do think she tries very hard to be a responsible writer.

i find it very important as well that bitterblue has multiple romances and sexual partners between bitterblue, where she first has feelings for saf and sleeps with him, and winterkeep, where her relationship with lovisa’s uncle (can’t remember his name right now? help) is in part what kicks the whole thing off. giddon, to his credit, does seem to pine silently and privately. he doesn’t display behavior to me that can be read as grooming or predatory. additionally, bitterblue has far more wealth and political power than giddon; she is self assured at this point and supported by plenty of people; and by the time anything even remotely happens between them, she is in her mid-twenties and he is 31.

it’s the context for me that made me okay with it in winterkeep. and again, i certainly understand the criticisms and am not saying everyone needs to agree, i’d be happy to have further conversations around it. (i’d like to point out saf and skye as another “bwuh?” couple with an age gap--though i was very pleased to see our former male romantic lead, whom we already knew was bisexual, find a boyfriend. yes, bitterblue, you’re right he has to stop falling in love with royals, though!) the timeline of development, the mutually-respectful rapport between them, and balance of power are crucial here. 

ultimately, i just wish i could be a fly on the wall when they have to tell katsa they’re getting married, lmao.

[just0nemorepage]

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Name: Marieke.

Age: 28.

Lives in: UK.

Favorite books: Lumatere Chronicles ; Graceling Series ; Sevenwaters Series ; Station Eleven ; The Trees ; Among Others ; Temeraire Series ; Winternight Trilogy ; The Expanse ; Everything.

“marieke | 28 | she / her | dutch | in 🇬🇧 | feminism & fairy tales”

[bookcub]

If Kvothe and Denna lived in contemporary era, what type of media (books, music...) do you think they'd like?

I had so much written. . . and then I accidentally hit reload  . . .why am I like this?

Well they are both pretty hipster-y, with their knowledge of obscure plays in their second meeting. Which, like, who can blame them, I have hipster tendencies as well. 

Kvothe, plays: 

Kvothe is obviously a theater nerd. 

He stans Sondheim (he loves those impossibly hard musical arrangements)

he had a Hamilton phase (he’s a nerd about storytelling ofc he loves it) (and loved In the Heights when it first came out, it reminds him of his family)

and Spring Awakening (angry teenagers who want to KNOW things and be treated with RESPECT, heck yeah, he loves that show)

 He loves Shakespeare but tbh, half the reason he loves it is because all his work in in public domain and therefore free to use (Macbeth is his favorite but he’ll pretend it’s something more obscure like Winter’s Tale or something) 

Denna, plays: 

She knows less about musical theater culture, so a little less Pretentious in her likes 

Chicago (because she loves seeing women be like That) (also that aesthetic is great) 

Waitress (she really relates to Jenna and always wants to bake after listening to it)

And she has a soft spot for Grease because she wants to play Rizzo (imagine Denna singing There are Worse Things I Could Do) (is your mind blown?) 

Kvothe, tv shows: 

crazy ex girlfriend (cause this is my blog and I make the rules) (also Kvothe has started every single musical show ever cause he’s a nerd) (and this is his favorite) (because obvs) (he worries about how much he relates to Rebecca) 

jane the virgin (he and sim and wil watched the pilot to be ironic and get drunk but then became emotionally invested and the storytelling is just,,, v good) 

probably mindhunters (is that good???)

ugh and house of cards smh 

and he won’t tell anyone but he binged all seven seasons of gimore girls in like, three weeks 

Denna, tv shows: 

She also watches crazy ex gf (look, the themes of the show line up really well with kkc) (i promise!!) (rebecca’s search to be happy is very moving for denna) 

leverage!!!! (she loves seeing competent people destroy people who abuse power) 

I also think she watches a lot of older sitcoms like Cheers because they are predictable and comforting 

oh and jessica jones makes her very emotional but she absolutely loves it

Kvothe, books: 

I feel like we would have very different taste in books esp based on the fact that pat and i have like barely any overlapping books in our goodreads 

lord of the rings 

harry potter (same) (i think his mom would have read both of these out loud to him along with other books) (like a wrinkle in time) 

gentleman bastards 

lightning struck heart 

ooo GRACELING 

the spellman files!!! 

the poppy war???? 

gilded wolves!!! 

Denna, books: 

some girls are 

the giver 

ella enchanted!!! 

six of crows 

howl’s moving castle 

the storyteller (cause why not) 

aristotle and dante discover the secrets to the universe 

kill me softly 

I realize I didn’t do music but I have a play list for Denna here and country music songs I think Kvothe would play here. 

[all-is-pulchritudinous]

you know guys theres a lot to be said here.

i know that a lot of people see the word autism and think of all sorts of things but really part of being autistic is that none of us work the same way. entrapta is someone who i really connect with and i know there are other people in this fandom who are autistic, because we’re everywhere. some people are more open and some arent. some people are a lot of things on top of one another and they dont know what to call themselves. when i found out about my autism, i didnt even know if i qualified as human any more. i thought of all the kids in my school and wondered if how i saw them was how others saw me. i was thinking of kids with anger issues and low funtionality. i always thought to myself when i saw them that i was sorry for them, that i was glad i wasnt like them. this is all recent, by the way. within the past month.

then i realized something. i have a friend cate who was born with her umbilical cord around her neck and she was nearly dead, but could also have been autistic if she was born just minutes later. i have a friend online who is probably reading this right now that excells in many things and i couldnt have gussed was autistic. another person online that i knew but lost touch with (hi, a, if you’re reading this) was also autistic and they were a great preson with a bubbly personality and was half of a cute couple for the majority of the time i knew them and i saw it on their blog, but actually didnt think about their autism for a bit. and you know what? theyre all human. all three of them. a, sam, cate, entrapta. i never thought of them as anything else. theyre just a little different, and arent normal people different too? we just have a different level.

i dont really think a lot of people think everything through. like how mermista just freaked out on entrapta, a lot of people do things either unknowingly or impulsively that could have the best of intentions, but stings anyways. mermista is under pressure, and so is everyone else, but entrapta seems unburdended. i dont know whats going on in her head but i assure you, mermista dosen’t either.

so i guess, this whole thing really has 2 messages. one, for anyone who’s autistic: you’re your own person in a lot of ways. you may not see everything around you but that’s okay. you have people who love you, including me.

and two, for not autistic people: chill out, we see things different. hell, if someone autistic did something that didn’t fly with you it probably wasn’t their intention and they may not even know it. not saying everyone is mean, just saying certain people could be mindful of certain things.

i dont know if any of that made sense. if it did, great, and im glad to have helped you or enlightened you or something. if not, sorry; thats just gracelle rambles for you 

[beerecordings]

There was a fic you posted half an hour or so ago that I can't find on your blog anymore, did it get deleted? Or is tumblr just being wonky for me?

I deleted it. It’s stupid but I’m increasingly self-conscious every time I post a new fic because I get less and less feedback every time. I know the quality of my work is only improving, but it’s humiliating to feel like everyone has lost interest in my work even though I know it’s just that the fandom is shrinking. Every time I post a fic I’m reminded of how quiet it is around here and how the really fun days of this blog are over. (this is only one of the reasons I’m stepping back, I would keep writing stories even if feedback was very low, but lately this blog is much more disheartening than it is fun)

Although Reina gave me feedback!!!!! thank you Reina!!!!!! you have always supported me so much i cry

I plan to finish that fic, but it will be posted on AO3, not on here. Memory and my Graceling fic are also moving to AO3.

[myulalie]

TAGGED BY: @thatnerdemryn That's a lot of questions D:

TAGGING: @abby0007, @aline-pnhallow, @sometimesidoubtyourcommitmentto, @lalelilolusworld

RULES: Answer 30 questions and tag 20(ish) blogs you are contractually obligated to know better.

Name/Nickname: Myulalie (Myu for short)

Gender: she/her

Star sign: Sagittarius (I love it, but damn I never spell it right)

Height: 1m64 (good luck finding out, US folks, because I'm no help ;) )

Time: 10:02 am

Birthday: December 6

Favorite bands: hm, I listen to a lot of music, let's go with The Kooks, The Vamps, 5SOS, Beast/Highlight, Tonight Alive, Skillet (I recently broke up with Little Mix haha)

Favorite solo artists: Jang Hanbyul, Nicole Scherzinger, CL, Loïc Nottet, Tom Grennan

Song stuck in my head: honestly that changes every few minutes, I got Go Your Own Way from Fleetwood Mac because I thought of adding them in my favorite bands, but something else will creep in by the time I'm done with this post... here we go, All I Need by Within Temptation now.

Last movie: Apparently it's Lucy, by Luc Besson? I watched Barbwire the same day I think.

Last show: A:TLA, I binged watched the first season of the Legend of Korra too.

When did I create this blog: Back in 2012 or 2013

What I post: A whole lot of things *coughs* crap *coughs* recently there has been an increase in Shadowhunters stuff, and writing posts. This blog is for inspiration mostly, I reblog things that speak to me in one way or another.

Last thing googled: I checked that Lucy was indeed by Luc Besson xD

Other blogs: Oh that's the juicy stuff *wiggling eyebrows* I have two writing blogs in French for novels I shared with close friends, and one blog I used when I tried making gifs years ago xD

Do I get asks: I get some, either tagging games or the occasional writing prompts (keep them coming, I like the prompts!)

Why I chose my url: my url has always been my username online, so I chose Myulalie when I definitely switched to using it on all my accounts. I came up with it wanting something to do with Mulan, with the Korean pronunciation and added the "lie" ending because it was cute. I also like that it sounds like Mew ^^

Following: 57 (I'm a private person and the numbers are low on every social media)

Followers: a lot of porn bots ;)

Average hours of sleep: Oh I'm pretty good with sleep, around 7 hours every night

Lucky number: 6 because I was born on the 6 and I got 6 letters in my real name!

Instruments: I try to learn piano two years ago, but I don't have any piano to practice with... I also have two guitars, the first one I used to learn on my own, then the one I bought in Australia and brought back on the plane. Long story short, it was expensive as fuck xD

What am I wearing: Jeans, a "it's only rock'n'roll but women love it" shirt, my oversized hoodie from hypokhâgne (first year of university level courses in literature, philosophy, languages, history and geography taught in high school in so called "preparatory classes" to either take a state wide exam to become a teacher or enroll in college with your chosen major - which I did, in English).

Dream trip: I'd love to visit Asia, and do a roadtrip in Europe.

Favorite food: why would I choose?

Nationality: French.

Favorite song: Jet Black Heart, 5SOS.

Last book read: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Top three fictional universes I’d like to live in: oh, good question. Caitlin Brennan's The Mountain's Call, Graceling Realm by Kristin Cashore or maybe Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series. Or Charmed! The less dangerous of these haha!

Favorite color: I like all colors.

[brightbeautifulthings]

My Decade in Books

@aliteraryprincess, thank you for tagging me, sweets!  💛

The rules: respond to the prompt “my decade in books” however you want, & then tag some ppl! I chose a book or series to define each year of the decade, some w/a little description. You can do that, or make up your own response

Oof. This is hard for me because I'm superbad at years/numbers or remembering when things happened, and I don't have a clear picture until I started blogging, but I'll give it a try! I'm also linking my lists of best books of the year from 2016 on.

2010 - It's hard to remember this far back. I think I was pretty obsessed with Chuck Palahniuk, which I fortunately grew out of, and I was probably re-reading a lot of my high school favorites like Christopher Pike and Laurell K. Hamilton. Most memorable: I remember reading Into the Wild at the job I had at the time and liking it well enough.

2011 - I think this was before school got too intense, and I still enjoyed reading. 😂 I remember taking a really fun summer class in children's lit where we got to read The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, and Francesca Lia Block. Most memorable: reading Weetzie Bat at the bottom of my stairs (the lowest point in my apartment) during a tornado warning.

2012 - In my last year of undergraduate studies, I was reading a lot of pre-WWII American fiction like Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, and a lot of contemporary American fiction like Karen Russell, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, etc. It pretty much set the tone for the rest of my academic career. Most memorable: reading "All That" by David Foster Wallace and falling absolutely in love with his writer voice.

2013 - I had a bit of break between degrees here, so I used it to binge a lot of the things I had been missing (the new Thirst series by Christopher Pike, The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare), along with probably a lot of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. Most memorable: ruining a copy of The Whores on the Hill on a trip and somehow ending up with two more copies.

2014 - I was in graduate school for this year (and a bit of some others, but years/semesters do not line up well) so I was reading almost everything David Foster Wallace ever wrote, plus quite a bit of theory, memoirs, and Holocaust fiction. Most memorable: pounding Infinite Jest in a month, and guiltily reading The White Rabbit Chronicles when I was supposed to be doing other things.

2015 - This wasn't a great year. I had a hideous modernism class in which I hated almost everything I had to read (James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot), and a superhard Marlowe/Shakespeare class that covered a LOT of ground: all the major Marlowe plays, plus a bunch of Shakespeare histories. Most memorable: reading Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany and being like wtf on every single page.

2016 - This was my first year of blogging! Can you believe it's been this long? This was a golden year of reading for me. Once I was out of school, I had time to catch up on everything I'd missed, and there were so many amazing things! I fell in love with The Raven Cycle, Six of Crows, Graceling, ACOTAR, and everything Rainbow Rowell I could get my hands on. Most memorable: all of those things, since I'm still in love with them.

2017 - This was my second year of blogging, and I fell in love with Nora Sakavic, Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant, and Laini Taylor. I also read a lot of horror, even more than my usual (The Girl With All the Gifts and Newsflesh standing out among them), and I finally read through all the Percy Jackson books for the first time. Most memorable: Wayward Children and All for the Game -- I'm still obsessed!

2018 - In my third year of blogging, I continued my Riordan binge with The Heroes of Olympus and started a year-long read of Les Mis, which worked so well I'll probably be picking a daunting classic like that every year. I had the opportunity to read so many underrated and small press authors that year (The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan, Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma, The Dark Beneath The Ice by Amelinda Bérubé). Most memorable: Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, and My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix.

2019 - This was probably my worst reading year since I started blogging. I read 145 books (amazing!), but so many of them were three-star and forgettable, including my daunting classic, The Count of Monte Cristo. However, I absolutely crushed my YA backlist doing the Bingo challenge at Forgotten YA Gems, and it was a great year for YA publishing, since 8/15 of my favorite books of the year were actually released that year (Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater and Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell among them). Most memorable: In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire, The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones.

Tagging: @northernbookworm, @zynita, @anassarhenisch, @existential-celestial, @maddie-mux, @infinitebookwrms, @lornaslibrary, @sylvanshiner, @cleo-queen-of-pirates, @paper-stardust, @sleepy-being, @3ammuses, @iridescentetherealdragon

[allwaswell16]

NEWER LARRY FIC WRITERS

This is an updated (April 2019) list of new(er) Larry fic writers who started writing Larry fan fiction between 2017-2019. The list is alphabetical by ao3 and followed by tumblr blog. My first list of newer writers can be found here. This updated list has 26 more writers for a total of 61 writers! We are so lucky that our fandom still attracts talented, new writers! You can find my other recs here. 

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🌸 2tiedships2 / @2tiedships2

🌸 abrighteryellow / @a-brighter-yellow

🌸 aiienharry / @aiienharry

🌸 AlwaysAqua / @always-aqua

🌸 angelichl / @angelichl

🌸 asphodelknox / @iamasphodelknox

🌸 crinkle-eyed-boo / @crinkle-eyed-boo

🌸 cristalrush / @cristalrush

🌸 disgruntledkittenface / @disgruntledkittenface

🌸 evelynemisis / @evenise 

🌸 flicker_album / @flicker-album

🌸 floweredhalo / @floweredhalo

🌸 forreveries / @forreveries

🌸 GMTYUniverse / @goodmorningtoyouuniverse

🌸 graceling_in_a_suit / @graceling-in-a-suit

🌸 guccikings / @harryeatsburger

🌸 HamPalpert / @ham-palpert

🌸 harrygotthebee / @harrygotthebee

🌸 harrystanslouis / @harrystanslouis

🌸 HazHas4Nips / @mybfhas27tattoos

🌸 haztobegood / @haztobegood

🌸 hedgefroglarents / @hedgefroglxrents

🌸 HelloAmHere / @helloamhere

🌸 hereforlou / @hereforlou

🌸 homosociallyyours / @homosociallyyours

🌸 indiaalphawhiskey / @indiaalphawhiskey

🌸 ishiplouis / @pocketsunshineharry

🌸 jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom

🌸 justalittlelouislove / @justalittlelouislove

🌸 kikakat / @brokenheartsgoupthere

🌸 larryandgaystuff / @larryandgaystuff

🌸 larrymaybe22 / @larrymaybe22

🌸 lesbianharrie / @lesbianharrie

🌸 letsjustsee / @letsjustsee

🌸 lightswoodmagic / @lightwoodsmagic

🌸 localopa / @astronomerhxwell

🌸 louisnights / @sisqueer

🌸 loveisalaserquest17 / @loveisalaserquest17

🌸 lovelarry10 / @chloehl10

🌸 Miadotfi / @miafi

🌸 millionlittletings / @millionlittletings

🌸 missnothing22 / @harryssecretmessages

🌸 mynameispiaivy / @missrefridgefreetorator

🌸 nikogda / @bringmetheharry

🌸 ohsailor / @coffeehazza

🌸 olaveya / @kiwilouis 

🌸  only_angel_28 / @beau-soleil-louis

🌸 petiteantheia / @greenandbluebubblegum

🌸 polka_stripes / @polkadotsvstripes

🌸 purpledaisy / @daisyharry

🌸 rosegoldhl / @rosegoldhlfics

🌸 runaway_train / @runaway-train-works

🌸 safona / @saffona

🌸 Speechless /  @smokingluckiesalltheway

🌸 styleandsin / @styleandsin

🌸 sweetstrawberryheadache / @sweetstrawberryheadache

🌸 theweightofmywords / @theweightofmywordss

🌸 Throwthemflowers / @hazzabeeforlou

🌸 tofiveohfive / @tofiveohfive

🌸 velvetnoodle / @velvetnoodle

🌸 vondrostes / @vondrostes

🌸 yeah_alright / @uhohmorshedios  

[lululawrence]

Weeeeeeeekend Writing Goals

I was tagged by @londonfoginacup (kinda), @jacaranda-bloom, and @becomeawendybird to share my weekend writing goals. soooo here we goooo

i hope to get my 100th fic posted this weekend, but it depends on time i have available to edit and post it once my beta is able to finish so...we’ll see.

i wanna keep writing my current wip, which i’m calling the voice harry au, which doesn’t really make sense if you know anything about it. hahaha i finally brainstormed the rest of the fic and it’s the fluffiest f/nf and it’s what i needed as a break from complicated feelings. lol so yeah, i wanna keep working on that for @1000feelingsfics

i need to beta for @dinosaursmate (i had to remember what your blog is cause i tried to tag kk, then catfishau, then i sat and stared and had to forcibly recall what you go by now hahahaha), so i’ll be doing one project today i hope and starting another this weekend.

and that’s it for the weekend! i dunno if any of these will happen cause my usual designated fic work time is not happening since i’m taking my dad to see hello, dolly! but that’s okay :D i now tag... gosh who hasn’t done this? urm... @sadaveniren, @graceling-in-a-suit, @bringmetheharry, @nauticalleeds, and @reminiscingintherain!

[just0nemorepage]

Shout-Out Saturday is a weekly feature on my blog to promote one randomly picked lesser-known book blog in order to help it receive a little more attention. Please consider checking them out, following them, or maybe even sending a message!

Every URL featured here will be added for good in the top half of my fellow bookish blogs page. If you are interested in being featured, please fill out this form.

This week’s bookish blog: @just-plain-steph

Name: Steph.

Age: 31.

Lives in: UK.

Favorite books: Graceling Realm ; Illuminae trilogy ; The Secret Circle ; A Court of Thorns and Roses ; The Mortal Instruments ; The Infernal Devices ; Hunger Games ; Lux ; Onyx & Ivory ; The Host ; Nimona ; Uprooted.

Also found on: Goodreads ; Instagram.

“I'm trying out this book blogging thing. I'm still new at this so please bear with me 😊”

[bookcub]

Hi! Just discovered your blog and was wondering if you'd give me some book recs. I haven't sat down and read a book properly in a few years and really want to fall back in love with reading. I like YA, mysteries, fantasy, happy or bittersweet endings, and a well written romance, whether it's a main or sideplot. I tend to dislike science fiction and heavy crime thrillers. I know this might be a stretch but if you could point me in the direction of some good authors or books I'd appreciate it.

Oh my god, I LIVE for giving book recs!!!! 

*rubs hands together* here we go!!!! 

The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan- This is YA and it turns a lot of the tropes on its head while using others that are fun. There is mystery and romance and friendship and humor. Also magic. (I like this author in general, esp The Demon’s Lexicon and In Other Lands) 

Memorable quote: “If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.”

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor- Taylor has some of the best purple prose and amazing worldbuilding. This one follows a librarian who goes to a mythical city. There’s a bit of instalove but she makes it work. Her other series is amazing as well, but I haven’t finished it yet. 

Memorable quote: “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”

Darkest Powers by Kelly Armstrong- Underrated faves and it’s half urban fantasy, half sci fi, but considering the mc is a necromancer, there is plenty of magic. Filled with evil adults and genre savvy teenagers, this is a very adventurous book. 

Memorable quote: “You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.”

Graceling by Kristen Cashore- Another high fantasy, although more traditional. This follows a girl who has a Grace (basically a super power) to kill. It’s about her finding inner strength and opening up to the people around her.  

Memorable quote: "Katsa, only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke.”

Elementals by Brigid Kemmerer- This is a series about a group of brothers who are connected to the elements and there’s a mafia of sorts and they all have love stories in their books but also there’s lot of mysteries as well. This author also has some pretty good realistic fiction, as well as a high fantasy novel. 

Memorable quote: “If you can't fix what went wrong, then fix what you can make right.”

Let me know if any of these catch your eye and if you pick them up!!! I’d love to hear what you think!!! 

[sadaveniren]

11/11/11 tag

@runaway-train-works and @chloehl10 tagged me to answer their 11 questions and then pose 11 of my own for 11 more people to answer. I combined the two so there’s more than 11 questions answered here lol. idk who has done this so I’ll tag some people and hope for the best 🤗 @louandhazaf @lululawrence @kingsofeverything @goldbootsandvans @homosociallyyours

What fic/trope do you really want to write but haven’t yet?

Uhhhhhhh I write most of the tropes I want but I haven’t done a vampire fic in this fandom yet so that’s definitely something I’ve thought about writing I just need a good plot to go with it.

What was the first ever fic you wrote and what made you decide to take the plunge and write it?

Lol lemme check my old ff.net all I know was it was early 2003.

Okay yeah it was a Takari fic from Digimon fandom and I decided to write it because I had just discovered fanfiction was a thing people actually did and I was SO AMAZED LIKE HOLY SHIT PEOPLE JUST GO AND MAKE UP THEIR OWN STORIES AND FIX SHITTY CANON??? My mind was blown and I made it my mission to fix canon for every show ever.

Is there a writer that you love that you think needs more attention and kudos in the fandom?

I say it a lot but I’m honestly at the point where I would follow @jaerie off a cliff. I know her stuff isn’t a lot of people’s cup of tea but I love her.

Asides from her if you aren’t reading everything @graceling-in-a-suit puts out what are you doing with your life? He’s written my favorite fic of the year by far with his omega/omega Pirate fic and just *clenches fist* his plots and world building are astounding.

Have you got any long abandoned WIPs lurking?

Lol I would never call them abandoned! They’re just. WIPs.

Do your close family/friends outside the fandom read your fics?

No but that’s cause 1D isn’t their cup of tea. However my little brother has gone above and beyond with helping me with research for next years Big Bang and I wouldn’t be as far along in that mess if it weren’t for him. He even went and asked some of his European history scholar friends for advice on world building in a fantasy world and I just! Am really grateful!

Do you ever re-read your own fics after posting them?

I was just doing that today. Considering I normally write fics that I want to read I do reread them a lot.

If you had to write a sequel to one of your fics tomorrow, which one would it be and why?

Gun to my head I’d probably pick a sequel to my Big Bang. There is only one thing I felt was sorta unfinished in the fic which was the GP finding out about Harry, Zoey and Carter. And I like that aspect of famous/non-famous fics but it’s such a delicate topic to handle without going into truly unrealistic and melodrama.

What kinds of fics/tropes do you think we need more of in the fandom?

I’d love to see more supernatural tropes within fandom. I think the werewolf Aus have been replaced by ABO which is similar but not always the same.

How often do you spend writing in an average week and is there a certain time of day/day of the week you do it?

Because I got a new job I’m only writing maybe an hour a day, but when I get into a groove I can easily write 3-4 hours a day during the week and then 12 hours on the weekend.

What are your tips for getting out of a writing funk?

Cry. No I guess there are two methods I go for. Either I try and shit through it to make it work or I bounce around finding a fic that I love and that sparks joy and then I focus on that to remind myself “hey you don’t suck at writing”

What can people expect from your next fic?

I’m planning for my wordplay fics to be either mpreg or abo focused so there’s that to look forward to each week 🤗 but asides from that I have my paddle fic which is gonna be .... intense is a good way to describe it.

What’s your favourite fic you’ve ever written, and why?

Oh that’s a tough one. I like almost every fic I’ve written so this is hard. It’s like asking me to pick my favorite child. I think my favorite fic I’ve ever written for 1D fandom is.......An Illusion in Time. Yeah. It was my first and I know it’s not finished but I do love it so much.

Pick three words that you think describe your works overall.

Hmmmm.... soft, fluffy, romantic

How long does it take you to write a fic?

Depends on the fic. I wrote my wordplay fic in 20 minutes. I wrote my summer exchange fic in about three hours. I took about 5 months to write my big bang, but I’ve written some exchange fics in less than a month. It really depends on the fic, but I always finish at my deadline haha.

What’s the hardest thing about writing?

Making the characters fall in love at a natural pace, and just pacing in general. You don’t want it to be too slow but you still want it to be exciting for the reader.

Do you listen to music or anything while you write? What’s normal for you when you write?

Almost always. I have a “writing sprint” playlist that i update constantly. It’s always roughly an hour long and I switch out songs that fit my mood at any given time. If I find that during my writing sprints I’m not getting the work I want done I change out the music.

What’s one piece of advice you’d give to a new writer?

Don’t be afraid to fuck up. I have folders filled with fic I’ve never published that is just.... bad writing. And like intentionally bad writing. I wrote bad tropes, I wrote fics that were entirely dialogue. Practice is everything. But if you’re so afraid of messing up and having your stuff not be GOOD you won’t get anywhere.

How important do you think tags are when you are publishing a fic?

I’m gonna confess something.... I’m absolute trash at tagging. I’m absolute trash at reading tags too, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see their great importance, and they are super important. And they aren’t just important for warning about triggers, they’re also important because if a rec blog is fulfilling a rec of “frat boy harry” and you don’t have your fic tagged “frat boy harry” the blog isn’t going to be able to find your fic to even give it a CHANCE of being read by other people. So tags are important not just for triggers but also for your fics searchability within Ao3

Do you write for fests/exchanges? If so, do you enjoy them? If not, why not?!

Hell yeah I do. I’ll admit I prefer exchanges more than fest because in exchanges I have the chance to pinch hit and there is NOTHING more exciting than pinch hitting a fic. I get such an adrenaline rush trying to turn out a good fic in a short period of time.

Which work of yours are you most proud of and why?

This is also a tough one. I’m proud of all of them because I finished them. Santa Baby Honey I wrote daily and that was just absolutely incredibly. Face Your Fears is a monster of a fic and it came together really well so that’s great. And the No Control Series has become everything I ever wanted it to be with them exploring different kinks so yeah. That’s my answer haha

My 11 questions are:

What’s a trope that you really don’t understand the appeal of writing?

Do you prefer writing long plotted fic or short scene snippets?

If you had to remix a fic of yours what would it be and how would you remix it?

When setting up your characterizations do you prefer to stick with accepted fanon or make your own characterizations?

Would you ever convert one of your fics into an original story?

What’s the longest you’ve ever spent writing a fic?

What’s your favorite part of the fic writing process?

What fic of yours are you most proud of and why?

If you could only write one trope for the rest of your fandom career what would it be?

Do you research for fics or take from your own personal experience?

What is the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever been given?

What should we expect from your next fic?