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Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

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CHAPPELL ROAN Performing at Reading Festival 2025

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CHAPPELL ROAN

Edinburgh Summer Sessions (26.08.25)

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i’m so glad my girl is going to be ok 🥺

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Golden Hour at Montrose Point, Chicago, IL

Taken August 2025

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just the usual

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In a language that contains words like devotion, passion, enthusiasm, love, fascination, obsession, etc., I can’t help but regret this tendency to cram all those meanings into "hyperfixation," a word which manages to pathologize and medicalize the act of having interests.

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📸 Autumn de Wilde

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I think being pinned onto the clothesline and fluttering in the afternoon breeze while I sun dry would cure me actually

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She was wearing a white dress. She appeared like an angel. Out of this filthy mess, she is alone. — Taxi Driver (1976)

Romeo + Juliet (1996) Marie Antoinette (2006) Scarface (1983) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) To Catch a Thief (1955) Gone with the Wind (1939) The Seven Year Itch (1955) Clueless (1995) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Jezebel (1938) The Fifth Element (1997) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Basic Instinct (1992)

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the thing about being in the discord is its exactly as nerve-wracking as I thought and also really nice but every time i open it i think about carly which makes me immeasurably sad and extremely guilty and more than a little upset. at the world and at myself

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Lisa Wright (British, b. 1965)

Beneath the Strangeness of it, 2020

Oil on canvas

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same anon re: amnesia fic - that’s amazing!! please ramble more!! i’ll ask more spoilery questions in a week or so maybe bc i’m fascinated by plot stuff. but also what was the spark point for this fic in particular that really got you going for 90k!

you're more than welcome to ask!!

i had the wedding ring scene and the scene where she overhears teds conversation with beard really really vivid in my head but I knew this kind of story really needed building up and I wanted to do this one to it's full extent, not just rush to the scenes I wanted to write. ive also had a pre-relationship idea for a while where rebecca is incapacitated by an injury and ted moves in to help her get around so I got to stir in those elements a little bit (I might still write that... one day....). at one point it was actually going to be longer because I had the thought to include trent and have rebecca reach a point where having no one know she didn't remember was getting difficult (wrt to work/acquaintances/press/people expecting certain things) and they have trent do a tasteful interview with them talking about her recovery and revealing her memory issues and that was originally going to prompt the visit from rupert but i ended up streamlining it a little. i think just because i really still didn't know what Rupert would want out of it, it just felt like I need a confrontation, and also I didn't want to have to write even snippets of Trent's tasteful article bc idk how to write like that lmao!

anyway the spark is always one really vivid scene and then once I get really into an idea it just keep going and going and going and there's always a scene a little further out that would be fun but sometimes i have to cut myself off for the sake of a decent ending 😂

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i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

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normalise saying ''what the fuck is wrong with you'' to mean people

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do not 'oh it's just mascara' me i mean ANYTHING if you would hesitate to leave the house for a certain occasion without applying a certain thing to your face then you wear makeup for that occasion

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congrats on posting the last chapter of the amnesia au! i adore it. i think you mentioned though that you could’ve dialed up the angst way high - now i’m wondering what you would have written for that

there was a world where i made her very combative and denying and rejecting the life she found herself in. i thought about having her kick him out but i felt like it would've been a little boring to have her sit and stew alone and it also didn't feel in character enough for me. yeah she's terrified obviously and overwhelmed but I don't know that any version of rebecca would be able to turn away from it all THAT vehemently. especially factoring in her physical injuries — when I was writing the early chapters, I wanted her to be very s1 rebecca, but she came out more despairing than spiteful. there was also another world where I had them have sex really early on and made everything so deliciously complicated with them being unwilling to talk about it, but ted so desperately needing those scraps of this relationship he's sustained himself on for so long and her absolutely addicted to the foreign feeling of closeness she has with him. but writing that kind of "if they'd just TALK about it" tension is really difficult sometimes and I didn't feel like going there when I already had a really clear path in my head.