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I even save sentence fragments in my outtake file. That way, when I inevitably change my mind about something, I never have to mourn how I erased the PERFECT SOLUTION TO ALL MY PROBLEMS I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS EXACTLY BUT IT WAS PERFECT. Also, having moved it rather than deleting it, I’ll sometimes look at it and decide it wasn’t as amazing as I’d thought after all. It saves me a lot of time and self-recrimination.

I should probably start doing this, the more I think about it. Especially lately, since I seem to have had an uptick in doubting that anything I’m writing is any good. Worst case scenario, I can compare what I threw out to what I kept and see that what I kept is good by comparison, hopefully. 

It definitely helps me to have the earlier version around rather than having to rely on my brain’s version of events. Plus, if I’m stuck or looking for inspiration, sometimes I’ll stroll through my outtake file and find something really good in there and rescue it, and it’s a wonderful feeling, because not only was I smart enough to write this excellent bit of prose, I was smart enough to save it.

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posting chapter 7 gave me the impetus i needed to do a coherent almost-outline (i can’t outline for shit) of chapter 8 which, length permitting, will actually tie up the whole series, I can’t believe it. I mean, there may be some stuff that just gets “and they lived happily ever after’d!” summed-up, but at least I can do that. Or, “well, that wasn’t really okay but it has the potential to become so!” tied up, which is better than a cliffhanger, and my life has been a plague of cliffhangers. If that means I have space to write the fluffy sequels (and the one angst-fest-crazy sequel I really wanted to write), then good, but if I don’t, then I won’t get rotten tomatoes thrown at me for leaving things hanging. 

Who knows how long it’ll take me, but. I got one of the somewhat-tricky action sequences written last night, AND noticed right away that I’d accidentally damseled Finn in it (for Reasons, it had to be Kes’s POV, and it’s often easiest to make the POV char the most active, so I’d given every one of the hero beats to Kes, and that would be fine except I went to all that trouble earlier to establish Finn as a total badass, and having Kes have to rescue him would kind of undermine that. So I managed to at least give one of the beats to Finn, and this is still an early draft so I can go back and revisit that. But the point of it is that Kes then gets to dad the fuck out of a deserving Finn, so I’m leaving that part in. (Crucial: dad not daddy. this isn’t a sex thing. i just think somebody really needs to pet Finn and hold his hand and tell him he’ll be okay and nobody’s going to leave him. Like, Poe needs that too, but he gets that. Nobody’s ever done that for Finn. Not while he was conscious anyway.)

I have to confront the fact that I’m coming to the end of this story and did not really get to spotlight Finn much, so. Maybe he needs a Finn-centric sequel, or at least a good fluffy reward-the-hero bit. Or maybe I have to hang my head and admit to not doing him justice. I maxed my stats in Poe’s Tragic Backstory and went off in a Kes direction with it, and that meant Finn didn’t really get his due. 

and #2, I got the courage to mention to my coworker/supervisor that my raises from seven years of working here have all been obliterated by NYS’s raising the minimum wage, and he was horrified, and after I left, he called our boss, and talked to him, so I get a, perhaps token but existent, raise effective this past Monday. So it’s something at least. And I feel much better about my life for it. (Also, it means the boss is going to review everyone’s wages, because we’ve been effectively without a supervisor at this location for over a year and people haven’t been advocated-for in any kind of way, and there are probably a bunch of people in my boat and it sucks that the new kids are probably making more than old-timers in some cases.)

(It helped a lot that I was able to say, well, I’d planned to make sure I was here from Black Friday through Christmas, but since my sister can pay me more to make holiday wreaths than you’re paying me to be here and I’m broke as fuck after a half-time summer on minimum, well, pick which week of December you’d rather miss me, and he was like, oh.)

and bonus, #3: a not-good but hilarious thing: they’re remodeling the building we’re in at work, but instead of fixing the leaky roof or insulating the single-pane windows that don’t even have caulk around them or putting any insulation into the place whatsoever, they’re just building a fake second story in literal styrofoam on top of this building, so it looks new and bigger. It’s literal actual styrofoam, I have little bits of it all over me just from walking in the door while they were working on it. 

This is modern construction. Buildings are built out of styrofoam. And the plan drawing made it look like there were windows in that second storey? They’re just divots. They’re probably going to fill them in with shiny dark plastic so it looks like windows. But they’re not windows, and they’re not even holes, they’re just recessed spaces in the Styrofoam, to look like the building is bigger than it is.

They haven’t even washed the 40 years of gunk off the facade of the first storey. They’re overtly just figuring nobody looks that close.

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I forgot I said I was gonna upload poe and rey in cheesy disguises sorry @bomberqueen17​ fellas all I gotta say is that if you only ever read one tfa fic let it be uh, the entirety of the home out in the wind series 

FAN ART FAN ART click to see the lines *rolls around embarrassingly* 

*tries to be professional, posts the excerpt this is illustrating, attempts to be cool*

Chapter 1 of Never Wrote A Letter, wherein Rey and an injured Poe, on the run, are in a dive bar attempting to Blend In and Get Information, in flimsy disguises.

She turned her head, but didn’t stop combing through his hair. She was watching the others around them. He let himself space out, the alcohol and the sensation pulling him out of the ceaseless horrible sickening spin that had been his entire world for the last week or was it two now? Stars, how long had it been? Eternity, maybe. “When you don’t drink so much you’re so much nicer to me,” she said, a little more clearly. Someone was nearby. He should probably recover himself. Only this was probably a more convincing facsimile of drunkenness than he’d be able to perform otherwise.

“Pero te quiero, baby,” he slurred, eyes half-shut, blissful. But I love you , and it was too easy to say. “I’m not drunk, just intoxicated by your beauty.”

“Stars, you’re such a piece of junk,” she said, sounding slightly fond and resigned. She was a better actress than he’d expected.

“Pero tu me quieres,” he said, but you love me , and it was nice to pretend. Always a dangerous thing, for a spy to become too invested in a false persona, but he just felt so good for the first time in so long. He let his forehead rest against her shoulder. “I forgot the rest of my cheesy pick-up lines.”

“You don’t need them, surely,” she said. “I’m already in your lap.”

“‘M jus’ tryin’ to give you the full experience,” he said.

and 

Yeah, it was a code word all right, but the guy was way too eager. “Whatever you say, pal,” Poe said. “Either way, I don’t got nothin’ like that.”

The guy’s expression went a little hard, and he sat forward. “Where’d you say you were from?”

“Didn’t say,” Poe said. “Why you wanna know?”

“Friendly conversation,” the man said.

“Man, we look like we want a friendly conversation?” Poe asked. “You have a lot of friendly conversations with a man straight through his wife’s torso like this? You know, wherever we from, we got real different manners, is all I’m sayin’.”

“See that’s where I’m suspicious,” the man said. “You must be from someplace with really odd customs. Because in normal places, there’s no way a woman like this would be wasting her time with a pathetic scrap of a drunk bum like you.”

“We all got our good features an’ our bad features,” Poe said.

“I don’t see how a pipsqueak cripple like you could possibly keep a woman like this satisfied,” the man said.

Poe laughed. “That’s ‘cuz you got no imagination, amigo.”

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Lovely, thanks! I have no strident concerns about canon in this fandom either, which is a switch for me; I’m happy enough to see people do other cool things with the characters. (Although, side note: it’s canon that Poe left Black One with Kes? I missed this somewhere!) I don’t pretend to be completely up on all things TFA-fic, but I would agree that the fraught Kes/Poe dynamic had not been done very much before you. I would further submit that no one has done it better.

I don’t know what it is– there are some fandoms where I just can’t abide a lack of regard for canon, and others where only some aspects bother me, but in this one, I just give almost no fucks. Like, as long as the characters are recognizable in some way, I’m on board. I don’t know if that’s specifically a feature of the fandom (though I feel like it is! maybe because canon recently said “fuck it” to the entire extended universe and picked-and-chose what to keep? I feel like that set a precedent for the fans) or if it’s me just being a little burned-out on fandom in general and wanting to get back to original stuff? (I do, I really do, I have a couple of really great ideas that are burning me I tell you what, but nobody’ll read them and I need Validation so they’re back-burner burning me y’know?) But ANYWAY.

It is canon, I guess in Before The Awakening, that Poe left Black One on Yavin 4 and it mentions Kes and the Ranch. there was a great post about it that I reblogged not all that long ago, somewhere within the noise-signal nonsense of Tumblr. 

I haven’t seen all that many fics with Kes and Poe’s fraught dynamic but I’ve seen complaints about it. I tend to have a pretty highly-curated experience in fandom, so that’s pretty common– I miss out on some good stuff, but I also tend to miss most of the upsetting shit, so I’ll kind of take it. The downside though is that I sometimes am not aware when something’s Overdone.

It can’t just be that my ficlet colored people’s fanon, because I am not nearly as important as I think (and actually this is kind of freeing; I was super anxious about getting accused of fascist apologia for having the First Order peeps not be Soundly Condemned in my fic until I realized that the Light Side Cool Kids I admire so much but who are so wholeheartedly invested in FO=Nazis= May Not Be Discussed don’t read my shit anyway so the likelihood of anyone getting mad at me is vanishingly small. That, kids, is the benefit of relative obscurity). 

Anyway. Thank you! I have tried very hard to give them a dynamic that is both narratively interesting and somewhat plausibly-realistic as being a way that humans would interact in complicated situations. I am so so so overinvested in the Dameron family. 

But I do wish I’d started from a less oppositional place with them; it could still be fraught without having been so dramatic about it. Just like Old Married Sex, I feel like Fundamentally Healthy Family Dynamics aren’t the starting point for enough fiction. 

But we can’t always be the change we want to see in the world. You can’t write every fic, just like you can’t pet every cat. 

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Selfie from the rear, but I’m too self-conscious to show off a bra strap like that so I’m really wearing an overshirt.
I wear my hair like that every day though and I had no idea it does that in the middle!

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So I received this - I’m assuming serious - comment on a mega-old Downton Abbey coffee shop au fanfic and I just. I what. I. I don’t know. I guess they’ve never heard of the little known pass time of FANFIC on that small and inconsequential website AO3.

Or, y'know, TROLL.

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Well, your hair looks lovely.

Thank you!

Around 4:30 pm our air conditioning got to the point where it just couldn’t keep up, so I wound up taking off the overshirt, so the entire back of the bra did wind up on display, but I was so gross and tired by then that all my personal modesty was gone, LOL.

But it makes me think I should look at the back of my own head more often! I had no idea my hair does that.