bomberqueen17: Mom and dad are in Georgia with the family down there. The 4-year-old niece down...

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Mom and dad are in Georgia with the family down there. The 4-year-old niece down there is obsessed with owls, and gave her grandparents an excellent recitation of assorted owl facts, all of which was well-researched except that she opened with the assertion that owls are reptiles.
She remains very convinced that owls are, indeed, reptiles.

i relayed this tidbit to my Dude and he was like… “Raptors. Owls are raptors.”
Duh. That’s what she’s trying to say.
Less random, but no less cute, that she’d mix up those words.

fgsaamr: dark adhd give me the forbidden hyperfocus when I actually need it

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dark adhd give me the forbidden hyperfocus when I actually need it

All I want is to be writing, all I want is to be immers

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All I want is to be writing, all I want is to be immersed in the fictional worlds I’ve been working so hard to develop, and I want to know what happens next and let those stories unspool, it’s all I want, but all I’m doing is looking at the document, scrabbling at it and finding no purchase, and sliding back to Tumblr and hitting refresh and being really mad the whole time I’m reading that I’m not writing.

It’s one of those days, and it means something for sure, but fuck, I can’t stop hitting refresh and being mad. 

Temporary Haven, part 1, up on AO3: the next installment

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Temporary Haven, part 1, up on AO3: the next installment in The Lost Kings series.

I’ve tried to kickstart myself out of unproductive time-wasting by posting half a fic. Sorry; I’ve been trying to make the Lost Kings stuff all self-contained little chunks, but this one has been half-done for so long that I just gave up and have posted the first chapter. The second chapter is the wedding. This is the closest I can get to schmoopy wedding fic, okay, I don’t do weddings. So it’s not.

This is where I went with the “Where’s your coffeemaker?” scene, and also “what are eggs”. A spacer is like a city kid taken to extremes. To my surprise, the number one thing about terrestrial living that Shara cannot handle isn’t the animal shit or the weird light or the high humidity, but taking her damn shoes off inside. Because why would you, in a world where there’s no outdoors? You wouldn’t. She has no idea how to handle shoe-removal etiquette.

Also, Kes looks really good in coveralls. I still don’t have a fancast for him, exactly, but I know that much.

I was gonna stick an excerpt on here, but I feel like I’ve been not-really-working on this section so long that I’ve already posted the majority of it in excerpts. :/ Oh well. 

It’s basically original fic, it’s so full of original characters and shit I made up myself. On the one hand, great, but on the other hand, uh there’s really no reason for fanfic-fanciers to read it. 

Welp! I’ve made my bed, now I lie in it. 

bakkfity: Inktober 09 Little Poe :)

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Inktober 09

Little Poe :)

Why AO3 Matters To Me

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As a writer of fanfiction, finding a trustworthy place to put your work matters. I am not just talking about an easy user interface (though AO3 does that) I am talking about a place that allows freedom of expression while allowing readers powerful filtering tools to enable them to find what they desire.

Could it be improved? Yes. Of course. But AO3 truly seems to advocate freedom of expression beyond all else, allowing creative people to explore the vagaries of the human condition while permitting the potential audience to put thorough filters in place.

As a writer I appreciate the opportunity to post my fanfic without censorship or administrative restriction. I appreciate having the autonomy to tag and warn to the best of my ability, and create a more fulfilling, universal platform than any other I have encountered.

agenderdaryl: @bomberqueen17 i think i have used a real...

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@bomberqueen17 i think i have used a real roasting pan once? the birds my grocery store stocks are well sized for the 10in cast iron skillet, and this one fits well in the crockpot too. i like the julia child method because she bastes with a ton of butter and uses chunks of vegetables as a makeshift rack (which then soak up all the butter/fat/salt and become Amazing) but it also involves turning and basting something like every 10 minutes? and sometimes im into that but today i absolutely am not.

oh I usually use a skillet too! This is a sort of big chicken, it’s one of the ones I cleaned myself (well… one in four chance I cleaned it myself, y’know. i don’t have a signature style)– 5.63 lbs, it says on the label in my handwriting. Which is kind of a big chicken. 

I put it atop onions and potatoes in the pan, but i am not basting shit, I do not have time for that. I did cover it for like 20 minutes. But I’ve actually never had a chicken turn out too dry, so I’m not fussed. I put some lard in the bottom of the pan so the onions wouldn’t stick, and I was going to baste the chicken with that but then I didn’t. (I guess I could go do that now.)

Am I gonna make gravy? Probably not. The potatoes will suck up the drippings anyway. I did make dressing, though, because I had some actual-from-farm celery that it’d be a sin to waste, and some stale bread that wasn’t moldy yet. That counts as a vegetable right? 

I don’t know what Lawry’s is! I seasoned mine with salt and thyme. It was the last of the thyme in my spice jar and I am now out of thyme and waiting for a chance to shake the empty jar in my dude’s face and say that. I probably will forget though. He’ll find the jar and come do it to me, probably. 

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Been in a similar spot, except I’m so frustrated with my (largely temporary) real-life situation that writing stalls out and instead I hang out in OTHER people’s headcanons…and make them darker/bitchier. To wit: I currently have a headcanon of the Home Out in the Wind verse where Kes sees the “How to Cope with Your Crush” holovid before Poe has recovered enough to get his own head straight with it and talk him out of raining his wrath down on Leia and the Resistance at large. <shrug>

Oh, you had an earlier observation about your RL that sounded so upsetting and I was going to commiserate but it got lost somewhere in my not-on-real-computer shuffle. It did sound shitty though. Temporary is only a tiny bit of comfort when you’re stuck in something!

Haha, that does sound like a sort of satisfying revenge scenario. Kes could get super righteously indignant on Poe’s behalf, and be much meaner than Poe himself would be.

I think probably Kes wouldn’t, though. He’d raise his eyebrows so far they nearly fell off, and he’d probably corner Leia and give her a really quiet, really vicious little rant along the lines of his “Fuck your Republic” rant (did I ever post that snippet? from during the Rebellion? it’s only a snippet, it never turned into anything more than that)– about how racist it is, and she’d be like, but, I’m, and he’d be like that doesn’t mean it’s not, and nothing more would be said but everyone would Know that it was Bad and they should be Ashamed. He wouldn’t need to make a scene. 

Unless he felt like Poe needed a scene. 

I have a funny-only-to-me side thing going, and it’s very very me, very rooted in all the weird shit I’m addicted to doing about media representations in-universe etc. But it’s this thing, where during the Rebellion some Intelligence guy was like, double-majoring in PR, and shooting documentary stuff to make propaganda holos but also archiving footage with an eye to making documentaries once the war was over, and he got a big crush on Kes and followed him around shamelessly. 

And Kes figures out this guy doesn’t speak Iberican, and neither does his droid, so at one point when the droid is stuck alone in a speeder Kes is driving, and the PR guy is like, he’s just gonna shoot some B-roll and scenery while he’s with you, no big– Kes is like, cool, I’m going to talk absolute shit at it in Iberican, and consequently, in the subsequent documentary, Kes is introduced by footage where he’s flipping a knife in one hand while driving with the other, and in Iberican, in this highly-regarded and Important documentary that otherwise is impeccably-edited, he’s saying something like “This fucking knife is so ridiculous, why would you carry a knife this fucking big? Maybe if your dick is really tiny or something, I only have it because I lost my good boxcutter and I found this somewhere,” and the caption is like “Sergeant Kes Dameron explains the complex mission at hand”, and it’s painfully obvious nobody actually listened to what he’s saying, because he’s wearing sunglasses and looks really cool and it sounds like he’s saying something vaguely threatening. Bonus: later in the documentary one of the other Pathfinders is like ‘Oh that’s where my knife went’ and Kes looks straight into the camera and hands it back to him and the guy’s like ‘no keep it’ and Kes is like ‘buddy you need it more than me’ and it’s played off as this bonding moment and only the really alert speakers of Iberican know what’s going on.