Fantastique! Parfait!

She/Her | FantastiqueParfait on AO3/Fanfiction.net | Fluff, angst, and suspense are my jam.

[fantastiqueparfait]

my two remaining brain cells have 3 songs on heavy rotation

they are Baby Beluga by Raffi

らんまのロンバダ

Project Bitch by Cash Money Millionaires

Help.

[everythingranma]

Me when I see new fans enjoying Ranma 1/2 for the first time

[fantastiqueparfait]

idk what to tell you all

this kid doesn't fuckin' nap. I've got an extra month of personal leave (this summer was a shitshow, kiddo aside) once he starts daycare though so I'm looking forward to doing stuff like workout classes and writing then.

[thosedamnedghouls]

sango!!

[fantastiqueparfait]

I would just like to thank the Snoo

for making this Knees Deep reread possible.

[fantastiqueparfait]

So much depends

upon an audio baby monitor on the side

table

beside the

sofa

(AKA one day you wake up and realize that you're squeezing hobbies into the 7:45 AM nap window and simultaneously praying the baby doesn't wake up while trying not to get distracted by emails about what shenanigans city council are getting into now and you realize... the boring kind of adulthood comes for us all)

[visenyaism]

i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

[a-really-hot-caterpillar]

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

[shadowerrata]

I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.

[theothin]

I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one

[mackthecheese]

HEY WRITER MUTUALS COME GET YOUR WRITER JUICE

[sacred-portal]

[fantastiqueparfait]

Sure, gyms are great,

but have you tried picking up toys from the floor with a 15 lb 3 month old strapped to your chest?

[dear-ao3]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41198220/chapters/103279362

(note on chapter 4)

[fantastiqueparfait]

I LIVE

Y'all. Pregnancy FUCKED ME UP. I was sick the whole damn time, delivered early because my body was like "aight I'mma reject this fetus now" due to growth restriction, had a teeny tiny baby that was distressingly underfed-looking, and now that MFer has chunked up to an extreme (he's gaining a pound a WEEK... most babies gain a pound a month). He's now so heavy that I have to go to physical therapy because it hurts my back to lift him. It's been a lot, and I'm sure that some of you out there were like "Yep we saw this coming you had noooo idea what you were in for," and LOL yes you were correct.

Anyway. I'm on leave for another 3 months and Mr. P just went back to work two weeks ago. It feels like the dust is settling and I'm figuring out a routine (and when I'll have time to write so long as I have the energy to do so).

I'm writing this as I have a sleeping infant strapped to my chest. Today's plan is to let this baby snooze as long as possible, review my outline for Knees Deep while watching the Olympics, and then let my mind wander as kiddo and I take a walk in the woods. It feels good to be starting to come back to myself.

[deep-space-lines]

VIRMIRE POD CRAB I LOVE YOU VIRMIRE POD CRAB

❤️🦀 like to appreciate the pod crab. reblog to tell the world you love the pod crab 🦀❤️

[theoraeeken]

inspired by a conversation about kevin bacon: who is the *worst* person you are less than 7 degrees of seperation away from?

annoying celebrity

politician ew gross yucky

online figure/influencer (condolences)

not famous but actual real life criminal

small time local legend but in a bad way

neither myself or anyone i know knows anyone

more than one of these

Voting ended onJan 6, 2024

mine is five degrees separated from donald trump btw. yes it haunts me. you do have to tell me who it is in the tags because im nosy.

[prismatic-bell]

I have a cousin who used to play for the Dallas Cowboys and he is an A S S H O L E.

[shofarsogood]

One of my ancestors was a Russian horse thief, adulterer, and murderer (he'd seduce women, kill them, and steal their jewelry and horses). The Russian police chased him to the docks and he hid on a boat. Then the boat left for the US with him still on board.

My family is in America because some crook accidentally became a stowaway to the US.

[fantastiqueparfait]

Now he's screwing a sink into the basement wall

is this... is this Man Nesting?

[fantastiqueparfait]

I usually wouldn't complain about Mr. P's special interest being home maintenance tasks...

But he's currently rekeying two locks by hand and I'll have to listen to him swearing until dinner because he refuses to take a break or put it down until he is SUCCESSFUL, DAMN IT.

[fantastiqueparfait]

I have found hell

and it is shopping for a maternity dress to wear to a wedding