16magnolias

Hello! 🙂 30-something year old dork with a deep love for Jesus, my husband, my kids, writing, reading, happy endings, books, turtles, good food, learning things, and the color blue. Relatively new to tumblr and still figuring out how it all works. Currently enjoying writing for Encanto. ❤🦋

[16magnolias]

Mags Fic Collection

Hey! Wanted to organize all my fics and related art in one convenient post.

Encanto Fics (aka my current year-long obession)

My ridiculously long Bruno x female OC fic is Just Your Ordinary, Everyday Miracle. A T-rated story featuring an all-Madrigal cast and a kind-hearted widow and her spirited, spunky six year old daughter.

Related Fics:

Love, Persevering: A Ghost Story - Rated T. Written for a series of Encantober prompts, the story of Alejandro's ghost watching his wife fall in love with an anxious rat man. Angsty. Very angsty.

Just Your Ordinary, Everyday Encounter with...Yourself? - Rated T. A delightful crossover my friends and I collaborated on between our stories Everyday Miracle and Take Back the Kingdom by impossiblefangirl0632 and Britt30 (optimistic-violinist).

My Art:

I did some humble drawings of Lucía and other OCs for the 2023 OC event encanto-extended-edition. You can see them here, (first one there is by starfangssecrets, the rest are mine), here, here, and here.

Art by Others:

(I cannot tell you how ecstatic I am that I can say that! ❤)

I commissioned the fabulous starfangssecrets to make this beautiful drawing of my OC Lucía. Thank you Star, I adore her!

Also, my amazingly talented friend optimistic-violinist (aka Britt 30 on AO3) gifted me this awesome animatic of That Scene of Bruno and Lucía dancing from Chapter 25 of Everyday Miracle. Thank you so much! You are the best! I will never be over this!

Lucía and Bruno and their rat play by impossiblefangirl0632 🥺❤❤❤ 'tis perfection

Lucía doll divine by oncexinxmyxdreams, she's lovely!

Lucía with a line up of other fantastic OCs by greenvillainredemption. Amazing!

An absolutely gorgeous chapter 1 Lucía by usedtobeguest123. Thank you so much!!!!

Other Unrelated Fics:

The (Best) Worst Nativity Ever in the History of the Encanto - Rated G. A family-friendly, slightly silly, heartfelt story in which Bruno, Camilo, and Mirabel team up to direct the Encanto's Christmas Play. Based on the book by Barbara Robinson.

All Our Yesterdays and All Our Tomorrows - Rated G. A collection of short stories written to fill Encantober 2022 prompts.

Umami - Rated G. A story about healing, using taste as a metaphor. Written for Encanto Sushi Day 2022.

No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk - Rated G. Another story about healing. Using milk as a metaphor. (At least I'm consistent!) Written for Encanto Milk Day 2022.

The Cracks Are Where the Light Gets In - Rated G. My story for the Encanto Big Bang 2022/2023. Amazing art by the wonderful devine_design_line on Instagram and Reddit.

(Not So) Silent Night, a fun Christmas fic Sceret Santa fic for ramblesanddragons.

[impossiblefangirl0632]

Chapter 27: Not So Dead, Not So Parted

Co-Written with @optimistic-violinist

Chapter summary: Razili grapples with the discovery that Bruno is still alive.

Also featuring rate my professor reviews of Bruno which I personally think are hilarious so you should read it just for that. (Thanks @16magnolias for your help/contributions!)

((If anyone wasn't interested in this because they thought it was a tragedy, let it be known that it is not, in fact, a tragedy, and now features the eventual happy ending tag.))

Vague spoilers below

If you ever wondered what was going through Bruno's head during act I on TBTK you're in luck because that's going to be covered here.

As anyone who read TBTK knows, Bruno does get his memories back. This means that Razili and Bruno DO get their happy ending. There's just one last hurtle from them to cross before they get to that very deserved happy ending.

Since we came up with Razili AFTER we finished act I of TBTK we decided to write TBTK in a way that we could slot Razili's character in later without contradicting ourselves. There are actually a few references to Razili's presence in the story, if not physically with the characters, during acts 2 and 3.

[shira-kawa]

ミラベル

[bucephaly]

Theres moreeee, this is so so good.. it makes me emotional realizing that these kids are on the path to being fluent cherokee speakers and will be able to keep the language going.

This family is a part of the little cherokee seeds program, creating new first language Cherokee speakers by paying mothers to just bring their babies and craft and cook and speak cherokee with cherokee elders all day. There are only 1500 first language Cherokee speakers, most of them over 65. They also take donations if you want to help keep them going and doing the extremely important work they do!!

[the2headedcalf-archive]

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

[urlocalchangeling]

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

[generic-dumb-bitch]

[tundrakatiebean]

[gingernutsenthusiast]

@filmnoirsbian

[chambaeli]

[chandaniyan]

[chandaniyan]

[machineryangel]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[yesornopolls]

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 16, 2025

[batch-official]

Time for a post that doesn't comply with the gimmick...

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

You should do this.

[digitaldiscipline]

Firefox users, when you right-click to copy a URL, it will give you the option to "copy clean link" which does what prev describes for you automatically. 10/10.

[lesbianwyllravengard]

hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Also y'all this really ties into how impactful comments are and why it's so encouraged to leave comments and leave NICE ones. If I hadn't known this was spam, and if I'd gotten this on my currently-updating fic, it would've crushed me and likely convinced me to never update again. Adversely, even one nice comment from someone is enough to motivate me to write and share more. If you read a fic you liked, tell the author that! If you're reading an unfinished fic, leave a comment to say you're excited for more, or comment throughout chapters even! It really is so easy and quick to do, and it's not only nice but it can also completely alter a writer's motivation and inspiration

[drgrlfriend]

Fanfic writers, please be aware that for some reason having bots spam fics with negative comments is a thing now. Not sure what anyone gets out of spreading misery, but just know it's not anything to do with your fic. I got one that was like, "This fic is a delight ... just kidding, it's unfunny and tedious." It was very clearly unrelated to the content of the fic but for someone else it might have been heartbreaking.

[clotpolesonly]

what i've heard about this sort of thing is that fics that have been deleted are harder to prove the provenance of, thus making them easier and safer for AI generators to scrape for their data sets

they're trying to encourage you to delete/orphan your fics so you can no longer prove that they're YOURS

[almightyrawks]

Signal boost for all writers in my network. If the comment mentions no specific details about your fic, assume it's a bot post, delete it, and keep writing your great works. Also tell your friends about this and let's keep our space on AO3 as awesome as it is.

[batsandboba]

(opening the author’s works page after finishing a fic) and if im lucky they’ll have written this exact same fic but different a bunch more times

[cottaegecore]

schedule for the week

[parole-parole-parole]

It's a shame there's no link to the original post and artist. Here, look:

:) 🍓

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

[mugwomps]

I have never seen "wtf" so clearly expressed on an animals face

[aliciabenissa]

He looks so fucking upset I can't breathe

[devinellekurtz]

Sheeta and the robot

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[aliiiiiiice]

why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

[aliiiiiiice]

everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot

[earlgraytay]

this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike? 

bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do. 

what i’m saying is

[elodieunderglass]

American author Mark Twain (b. 1835) lurches from his grave only to give you a massive thumbs up and die again

[elodieunderglass]

Mark Twain essentially invented the genre of a bystander sent into a time-travel sci-fi plot just to get someone to draw this image for him. And today we can simply search for such a picture. It is a time of wonders

[beggars-opera]

#this post has everything. zombies. knights. bicycles. knights on bicycles. mark twain.

[leebrontide]

One sad side effect of big box stores is that you just don’t get lifelong hyper fixation guy access like you used to.

Like yeah I can go to Menards and buy a door.

But it used to be I could go to the door store, and speak to a man whose sole passion in life was doors and who would talk about the history of door insulation patterns over the last 50 years without stopping to breathe.

That man is gonna find me the BEST door option for me.

Seriously my neighborhood had one of these. They were across the street from the lighting shop owned by the guy who could tell you the exact date, off the top of his head, that your property got electrical wiring based on your address.

Now these guys rarely get to own a shop, make a good living, and sell the very finest doors for decades. They’re relegated to Reddit posts which are informative but ultimately do not replace door guy having a door shop.

I don’t want to talk to some miserable, underpaid 20 year old who was in plumbing last week and in doors this week and doesn’t know a hammer from a hanger.

I want my door guy back.

[moniquill]

This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.

[lasrina]

It's true though. My mother was incredibly overprotective of me for the early '80s which meant I was only allowed to spend two or three hours a day roaming the woods, ditches, and gullies behind the house and I actually got told not to pick up bugs or snakes or plants if I wasn't sure they weren't poison ivy.

[16magnolias]

My parents walked me to school for half day kindergarten and for first grade. By the time I was in second grade I walked myself to school meeting up with friends along the way and was expected to help my 5 year old sister walk to school too. I always hoped it would rain because if it started raining my mom would pick us up. They were considered slightly overprotective and they were 'strict' because we had to tell them where we were going if we left the house and call when we got there (we had to ask to use their landline, no cell phones).

Summers we'd ride bikes around the neighborhood and there were no cell phones so a lot of times my parents did not know where we were.

That feels kind of bonkers to me now but it legit was the way things were.

[zookie-art]

Been thinking about this movie again

[theweirdwideweb]