started playing genshin impact so u guys might see some weird stuff from me (as if you havnt seen enough already) (im only playing cus xianyun is HOT) (and a little because of the lantern rite) (might be a little late for that so I’m grinding)
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5, 18 & 19 for the fanfic ask!
Hello and thank you for the questions!!
5. first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP
“I have to say, Blanche,” Rose says, settling back against Blanche’s side, “I know you explained it to me, but I still don’t get it.”
18. if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic
I don't really keep deleted sentences/paragraphs, unless they're full concepts for a scene that I might want to use in another WIP, but I did find a couple of sentences from an early draft of i would have said impossible [...] that got heavily edited by the final cut. I'll bold the parts that got kept in the final work:
"She likes to think she hid it well. She tried to, at least; bit back the most acidic jokes, tried to keep a hold on her sarcasm. It's not her roommates' fault if she's had a bad day, is it? So she tries. She listens, and she's patient, and she's affectionate -- and they seem happy. That must count as a success.
And yet, when she's finally alone in her room and ready to call it a night -- then Rose comes, carrying tea and cookies on a tray.
It's strange. She told Ma earlier that she'd like to be alone tonight, and before the door opened she only wanted to get into bed and forget everything until tomorrow morning. Then Rose came in, and she'd be lying if she said a single hint of her perfume and a single glance at her reassuring smile aren't enough to calm her nerves."
The gist of the passage remained more or less the same, but I hope it counts anyway!
19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic
I'm not sure I can choose the most interesting one -- I love learning and I've had a lot of fun with every rabbit hole I've found myself in for a fic! The most charming one, though, was definitely the little ornithology detour I went on while I was writing sonata for trio, which was a classic case of 'I only needed to find the right simile to add in this sentence, how the hell did I end up on the Wikipedia page for the American Robin?'. I learned a lot, and birds are so cute -- especially robins!! I had a great time reading about them :)
(I'm not counting my research on karst and sinkholes as a valid answer for this questions, because I already knew the topic well enough, but I did spend a lot of time fact-checking what I wrote. I don't want to spread misinformation!)
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watched the show “the power” with my mum and it’s about what if girls had electricity powers anyways obviously I’m thinking about jason grace. the show really explores the implications of the power like one character does literally cure someone’s seizures by going in and idk zapping the right part?? she can also control peoples muscles (and possibly their thoughts but that goes badly the one time she tries)
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So I was sitting outside having coffee yesterday in Half Moon Bay with the friends that visited us from out of state and out of absolutely fucking nowhere, I saw A Black Moving Thing out of the corner of my eye and ducked before I even quite processed what was going on. It was a whole-ass bird flying like it had somewhere important to be and my head happened to be in the way, except without even entirely seeing it or having time to register it or anything, I just kinda. Dodged. No idea how. Like I have pretty good reflexes for dodging random shit I can't see, but still. That thing was BOOKING it. Bird on a goddamn MISSION. I dunno what the mission was but it sure was on it.
I still don't remember what I was trying to say because I was mid-sentence and the random dive-bombing bird surprised me into loading a brain autosave is what it felt like because I forgot everything I was thinking back to like two conversational topics prior.
What the hell though. Why this random small bird trying to kill me? What did I do to deserve this? No idea.
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