#note from the author

[warwickroyals]

So, we are very close to beginning the James mini-series, which was little excerpts from his diaries that were stolen from the archives by Crosby. Since they are journal entries they're written in first person, present tense and might be slightly more narrativized than a typical journal entry, just to keep things interesting.

The excerpts we see take place in the summer of 2016, so roughly a year before James's death. It deals with a lot of sensitive issues such as mental illness, suicide/death, pregnancy loss, substance abuse, and generational trauma. The entries also deal a lot with sex and physical intimacy. These posts won't have any visuals depicting any of these topics, they are 100% prose, but please be mindful of these topics going in. Everything will be tagged appropriately.

These posts will go live at 6 am EST on update days, which are usually every three days. I'm aiming for the first one to go up this Friday. I'm so excited for you to see what I've been working on: the answer as to why the palace was so anxious to bury James's journals in the first place. Also keep in mind that what we read isn't the entirety of what Alex has read, just bits and pieces.

[j-eryewrites]

Hey y’all, I promise I’m still alive. Life has seemed to hit me super hard right now with car crashes, school, work, among other things. I doing my best to keep writing but I don’t know when I’ll be posting again. Thank you all for continuing to support my work!

[fanfiction-inc]

Semi-Return + Update

Greetings and hello, my darlings! I know it has been a while since I last posted any material (*nervously looks over at September 30th, 2021*) but I have had a lot of life stuff going on! I just graduated from college and am moving on to get my second degree this Fall, and I have decided I am going to be working at getting the remainder of my request done and open up request once these are done!  I have a couple writing projects that are being worked on at the moment so those may get posted here (if not, check out my Ao3 in case it only gets posted there), and I have a couple new characters that are being added to the Fandom List! 

So, introducing from the cast of Moon Knight (Note: As always, this blog is NOT spoiler free so do be warned!):  

Marc Spector (Moon Knight)

Steven Grant (Mr. Knight)

Jake Lockley

Khonshu

Arthur Harrow

and Layla Abdallah El-Faouly (Scarlet Scarab) 

I can’t wait to get some new material out to you guys so stay tuned! 

[chaostheoryy]

Friendly reminder to all my reader insert enjoyers:

Not all readers use she/her pronouns or identify as a woman (myself included). When requesting reader inserts from me, please do your best to keep prompts gender neutral. I try to make my newer stories as inclusive as possible so that folks of all gender identities can enjoy them. Of course, certain requests are going to require specific gendered language or other identifying markers so exceptions can be made. However, as a general rule of thumb, if your idea can be applied to any/all genders, keep it neutral!

Your humble writer,

Chaos (They/He)

[squorttle-pox]

A message from an AO3 author to fanfiction readers:

If you leave a comment on my work, then I love you.

If you go through my account leaving comments on all my works and every chapter that I update, then I love you.

You will never be annoying. You will never be the exception. I will never not love someone appreciating my work.

If you leave kudos, then I love you.

If you just read my fic, and don't interact, then I love you.

If you scroll past my works and never read them, then I STILL love you.

We are a community, we love each other.

Let's stop forgetting that.

[twinklecupcake]

Begging people to not mix up Japanese and Chinese wedding traditions/clothing.  I just saw an LMK fic mention a character wearing “a traditional wedding dress, a red shiromuku.”

Which first of all isn’t even red, it’s white, it’s right there in the name, and second of all holy hell no, that’s Japanese.

Not to mention the actual wedding was a Western Christian one.

[zincfingermotif]

vashposting

[robobee]

if trc was a visual medium and I was a tiktoker i would go insane talking about quiet luxury and how Declan and Adam both fall into this position of people with OBJECTIVELY less money compared to their peers and how both of them are trying to replicate luxury (ie: clothing=persona/identity) to varying levels of success. adam wears old gifts from the ganseys and declan is very clearly called out by other characters to be overcompensating. neither are fully seamless and even though thats not an overt plot point it is DEFINITELY very significant since plenty of their story beats echo each other down to their relationship with ronan, who is a different fashion debate (eg. how punk can you get off of a bank account you dont need to look at and a shaved head which needs to be constantly maintained and a BMW you stole w no repurcussion). again I DO think stief implies fascinating plot points that she doesn't focus on but her display of class and economic variation is very very cool & obviously people w more context of specific USAmerican culture can have this debate better than I can

editing to link the video that finally helped me put this thought into words

[shalpilot]

how am i supposed to feel

transcript under cut

Killer: Since we're both here... why not make up for lost time? Doesn't that sound nice?

[clench]

Kid: STOP IT! STOP ACTING LIKE THIS!

Kid: You're being so -- WRONG! My PARTNER never said or did anything like this!

Kid: You're skin and bones and covered in scars and thinking of something like THAT?!

Killer: You're hurting me.

Kid: WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?! WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU?!

[too-many-blorbos]

Figuring out Witcher lore is so hard. You ask a question and there will be three different contradictory answers spread over the book series, and you never know which one is actually the truth because Geralt is a freaking LIAR and cannot be trusted to give exposition.

[warwickroyals]

So I have the flu 😷

I thought this would give me lots of time to work on my story, but I genuinely feel awful and can’t even string a sentence together.

Sooo, see you all next week, I guess.

[marlinspirkhall]

yeah

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[dostoevskyordoesntshe]

[calicos-clones]

I don’t think people realize how freaked out fanfic readers get when their favorite author(s) doesn’t update their ongoing schedule ON TIME.

And it’s not cause we want the chapter…it’s cause we’re so fucking worried about the Author.

Like— OMG ARE YOU OKAY? YOU’VE BEEN GIVING US THE TRAGIC UPDATES OF YOUR LIFE IN THE NOTES THE PAST 10 CHAPTERS?! WHY STOP? ARE YOU DEAD? DID YOU GET STUCK IN THE WALL LIKE YOUR CAT?? HAVE YOU EATEN?? HAS YOUR BRAIN EXPLODED??

Readers no longer care about the story when they don’t get their usual update. We panic and flag S.O.S as we track down our wayward author who has been both blessed by the universe with a creative mind and cursed all the same with the worst luck.

So any authors who are reading this please understand— when we comment “hey are you okay?” in your comments. No, we are not asking about the chapter.

We are legitimately concerned for your wellbeing. Do not force yourself to shit out a chapter just to appease other ppl when you yourself are not in the mental state to enjoy it or even write it to begin with.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF DAMMIT

[the-list-of-ao3-weirdness]

"Don't tell God I compared his mom crying to a man with cum on his face"