Traveling among the Far Worlds

Anxiety-ridden introvert and word nerd. Polyglot. Progressive. Historian. Reader. Writer. Fan of Jane Austen, the Tenth Doctor, Leverage, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and (more recently) Dramione. Rise up, resist, and vote in every election every time.

[daisy-rivers]

I said I was back and then disappeared again, so no guarantees that I won't disappear yet again, but I'm trying to at least show up once in a while.

My tumblr folks were incredibly supportive as I wrote my way through a million words of Hamilton and Hamilton-adjacent fanfic on AO3, and that's a big part of the reason that I felt confident enough to launch a science-fiction trilogy with a gay couple as protagonists out here in the real world. It's called Ashok's Song, and the first two books, The Singer and The Son are currently on Amazon. The last book, The Search, will be out in July. I've used a different pen name, J. W. Grieve, for them, because it's a whole new genre for me.

Anyway, they're there if you want to take a look, and that's Cade and Ash in a scene from Book 3 in the picture above. Cade is a musician and Ash is an engineer, but they can both fight when they need to.

[daisy-rivers]

Coming back here after a long absence is like opening up the lake house in the early summer. First thing to do is call the exterminator because no matter how well you closed the place up, mice or porn bots got in.

Exterminators can be expensive, but fortunately there are no mice here, and bot-blocking is free.

[daisy-rivers]

I haven’t been on here in forever, but I had to hunt down an old post the other day, and going through my blog reminded me of how much I used to enjoy it. I’m still posting the occasional story on AO3, but I’m also writing a sci-fi/fantasy/gay romance trilogy (under yet another pen name), and the first two books are available on (what else?) Amazon.

I’m going to try to get back on here more often. In the meantime …

[daisy-rivers]

A couple of weeks ago, I deleted all my RPF works — mostly featuring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal — from AO3. I think there were about a dozen stories, so several thousand words. I decided a while back not to write any more RPF, and I was feeling more and more uncomfortable about it, especially because most of it was smut, and Rafa, at least, probably read it all. More than a little cringey, so it’s gone now, and I’m writing other, equally smutty stuff, but only about imaginary characters.

[daisy-rivers]

I Wrote a Thing

I am either going to commit a huge breach of Tumblr etiquette or I am going to do something that might be helpful to me and enjoyable to my followers.

Y'all know I haven't been on here much and have only posted a few short pieces to AO3 in the last year or so. That's because I was working hard on a science fiction/gay romance trilogy, and the first book of that has now been published. I've used yet another pen name because this series is very different from my previously published work, and Daisy Rivers only writes fanfic.

The lovely painting above is the work that the extremely talented Florilègeart (@echo-bleu on here) created for my website, a portrait of my two protagonists, Ash and Cade, at the beginning of their relationship. You can read about them in Ashok's Song, Book One: The Singer, available on Amazon; there is also a coordinated album, Ashok's Song, that you can find on Apple Music or Spotify.

I'm linking to my website -- that's the etiquette breach I'm worried about -- where you can read more about this story and the characters, and maybe even order the book if you're interested. But if this is a horrible Tumblr offense, please let me know.

Shout-out to @echo-bleu not only for their gorgeous art, but also for their support and encouragement, and to @leesbian42 for leading me to the name of an important planet. And huge thanks to anybody who ever read anything I wrote and left kudos or comments that kept me writing.

Ashok's Song

[onetwothreemany]

FEMA is doing an emergency alert test on all TVs, radios, and cell phones on October 4, 2023, at approximately 2:20pm ET.

If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.

[puppygirl-hornyposting]

[siverfanweedo]

look i know i am preaching to the choir as the saying goes but these 'water is wet' studies as i have seen them called is to prove a point not everyone believes.

like i have met people who think being suicidal is an inherent part of being trans and don't know how the numbers decrease from gender-affirming care HELL even didn't know the numbers dropped so much just from getting basic affirming care.

rarely is research done for a pointless reason, not everyone is gonna know this stuff even those who are involved in the LGBTQ+ community and spend time working with LGBTQ+ youth ( i don't work with youth per se but the volunteer work i do with pride has me in spaces with them).

like yes i know the joke here but i think this type of response isn't the best to research being done on our side.

[cumaeansibyl]

Studies like this are being cited in court cases against gender-affirming care bans as we speak. Remember, the argument behind those laws is that gender-affirming care is harmful to children in the long term, both physically and psychologically, and that this justifies interfering in private citizens' healthcare decisions. We need as many studies as we can get showing the opposite if we want those laws to be struck down permanently.

[fierceawakening]

Please do not shit on the scientists proving common sense is correct on this one. Scientists have very often discovered that things we thought were common sense were actually bullshit, because that's what science does.

Of course we want to know when it confirms our intuitions too.

[daisy-rivers]

Yay for science again, for pointing out reality to people who don’t or can’t see it. Trans minors have to leave my state for gender-affirming care. Some — many — can’t afford it. Those whose parents don’t support them can’t manage it on their own. And of course the state legislature now wants to outlaw leaving the state for medical care.

All the lawsuits need all the legit studies they can find to support trans youth.

[carys-the-ninth]

"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

[et-in-arkadia]

i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832

[bendingsignpost]

victor hugo would like to have many words with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1831

[teaboot]

I love learning about other culture's Houseguest Protocols but I hate hate hate when they don't match up cause like

I (PNW Canadian, raised with etiquette from my old British great-grandparents) sleeping over: Can I help with dinner. Can I do the dishes. PLEASE let me do something useful. Im sorry I'm here. I can sleep on the floor it's fine. You don't need to cook for me I can go outside and drink pond water. Do you hate me

My friend (Indian, raised by entire extended family in Dubai) hosting me: Why won't you let me feed you. Do you need more coffee. Am I doing something wrong. Do you have enough blankets? I will buy you warmer clothes. Here, you can sleep in my room, I'll take the couch. Why are you crying? Oh God am I a bad host

[caseys-breanna]

Something something Nate seeing Sam in Hardison and making sure to preserve the part of him that's sweet and kind and endlessly selfless and wants to help people and warning him against going down a road he can't come back from.

Something something Nate seeing himself in Parker and guiding her cunning and strategic mind to make sure she's equipped for taking over the job and never has to feel the heartbreak and utter defeat he felt after Sam's death because Parker deserves to be happy.

Something something Nate seeing Eliot and knowing he's everything Jimmy could never be and respecting Eliot's loyalty and diligence and honesty because it's pure as gold and rare as silver.

Something something Nate seeing a chance for redemption in Sophie and making sure to wait for her to catch up just as she waited for him to get better because Maggie was the love for Nathan Ford IYS agent but Sophie is the only match for Nate Ford, the man who doesn't kill you, no, he lets God do it and just makes sure it takes.

Something something Nate Ford masterminding not just the crew but his family.

[tonyalmeida]

[zanta-is-feelin-some-kinda-way]

that "OH!" when he understands felt so magical

[daisy-rivers]

I need a story about grown-up Amy and Flynn going back in time via whatever mechanism Connor or Riya has cooked up over the last 20 years so they can meet Amy Preston and Garcia Flynn.

[weaselle]

listen. There's a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i'm tellin' you. We need it.

[lesbianboyfriend]

i would like to propose a new accessibility feature for movies where every time a brown-haired white man comes on screen they tell me which one he is

[daisy-rivers]

A desperately needed feature.

[leximitchells]

happy fanfic writer appreciation day to EVERYONE who has ever posted a fic, tried to write a fic, wanted to write a fic but didn’t think your writing was “good enough” to be shared (between you and me, it is!!!) because ALL of you make this fandom better with your creativity and beautiful words, whether you know it or not. thank you!!!!!!!!!! ❣️❣️❣️

[theconcealedweapon]

[whatevergreen]

Historical facts revealing corruption and racism are only dangerous to those who are currently corrupt and racist.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if the truth is so dangerous to the current order, maybe that order needs to be dismantled

[eggothesquirrel]

[daisy-rivers]

I have been forbidden to walk more than 3 meters or so at a time, lift anything heavier than 2.5 kilos or put any stress of any kind on my troublesome body. There is also some issue with using my desktop/laptop because it strains my R rotator cuff, and my vision sucks, so I can't write on my phone. All that being said, I'm not dying, and I am free to put all the stress I want on my brain, so today I rewatched The Sorcerer's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets in order to track the acting career of Tom Felton's eyebrows. They first took on a supporting role early in COS, in the Borgin and Burkes scene, and became more active through the rest of the film. I will probably be watching the next six HP films over the next 3 days if I can bear it.

"When the pain outwits it, the body dies." -- Stephen Vincent Benét