[fryingpanintofire]

For the Things You Touched

My dearest,

Because I shall never hold your hand—

not in the manner we both dream,

not in the light of day—I must content myself

with lesser intimacies.

I brush my fingers

against the handle of your tea cup,

still faint with warmth.

I cradle your pen,

as though it might remember

the curve of your fingers,

and teach mine the way.

Now that you are gone—

hidden away by duty,

by distance,

by the world’s cruel insistence—

I take your favorite book in hand.

And I turn the pages

slowly,

as if our fingers might meet there,

just briefly,

between verse and breath.

It is a quiet ache,

this reaching.

But it is ours.

Yours always,

even in silence.

—A.

[fryingpanintofire]

For the Things You Touched

My dearest,

Because I shall never hold your hand—

not in the manner we both dream,

not in the light of day—I must content myself

with lesser intimacies.

I brush my fingers

against the handle of your tea cup,

still faint with warmth.

I cradle your pen,

as though it might remember

the curve of your fingers,

and teach mine the way.

Now that you are gone—

hidden away by duty,

by distance,

by the world’s cruel insistence—

I take your favorite book in hand.

And I turn the pages

slowly,

as if our fingers might meet there,

just briefly,

between verse and breath.

It is a quiet ache,

this reaching.

But it is ours.

Yours always,

even in silence.

—A.

[sscarletwidow]

yep that's me

[caroldanversenthusiast]

i’m so ken

[derofeba]

I went through Netflix account on twitter and recovered data from their latest 131 tweets. I looked at every post's likes, retweets and comments and worked out the average. See below.

1,016,031 likes total -> Av 7756 likes per tweet

143,744 retweets total -> Av 1097 retweets per tweet

25,357 comments total -> Av 193 comments/tweet

Now look at the 4 tweets their account posted mentioning either Warrior Nun or Avatrice. Every single tweet's engagements are well above average. Specially the Avatrice one!

I also went ahead and made a little table where you can see the total amount of engagements, the average number of engagement per tweet, the warrior nun post's engagements against a few other tweets regarding other shows with a substantial amount of engagements too. The first table is filtered by likes and in light purple, you'll see the warrior nun tweets highlighted.

Keep in mind, I did not write down every single tweet regarding these shows, I picked the ones with most engagements to compare them. Some of this shows, in fact most of them, will have other tweets that dip below the average.

But notice how even the tweet up there with most likes, from "The Wonder", still has less than half the retweets that the Avatrice post does. So watch what happens when I filter the table by retweets:

Besides the fact that warrior nun's posts were all well above average when it comes to likes, retweets and comments, we were also one of the best fandoms when it comes to like/retweet ratio.

Now watch when I filter by comments:

Besides being shockingly well over average, Warrior Nun stans have been constantly showing that we are the most active, engaged and responsive fandom! Not to mention that if you go into the comments section of some of these other shows, most of the comments are actually people asking for Season 3 of the Warrior Nun.

I went as far as to check other netflix accounts and Netflix Netherlands and Spain in the last 3 days, their most popular tweets were Warrior Nun related. Netflix Italy and Portugal, same thing but in the last 6 days instead.

These numbers don't lie. Sure we may drop off the top 10 next week when Wednesday gets released, but we kept up there pretty well. The numbers online are incredible. So much so if Netflix were to actually put some merch out, we'd singlehandedly finance the next season. And I am not kidding, someone found Ava's shirt online and in a matter of hours it was sold out!

So it is on them for not promoting it, it is on them for not utilizing the dedication this fandom has to make sure the series has more seasons secured.

They didn't even send the series to critics, we had to do it ourselves by @ them on twitter! And guess what? The scores are amazing!

Specially season 2! We got overall really good reviews. Really good engagement numbers online and we managed to keep in #10 even with really big titles being released at the same time.

We keep getting more and more people to watch. So overall, it is looking good! And I am hopeful that we'll get more than just season 3!

So keep telling everyone you know to watch, keep streaming, keep being vocal about how much you love this show AND LET'S BRING SEASON 3 HOME!

Maybe next season we can relax while Netflix actually does its job and promotes it themselves. But for now, let's get to work!

I hope this post has given you some strength and faith, I know it's been tiring, but we are NOT losing warrior nun.

[rowan-lee]

[wackmacaroni]

I laughed way harder then I should have

[obcrack]

My brain at 2am

[fryingpanintofire]

I just published "Chapter 1" of my story "The Sirens Ring Out". https://my.w.tt/3GsyLeP8c0

[fryingpanintofire]

Always remember us this way. Along with rain sounds ☔ #pianocover #notaprofessional #isthiswhatitssupposedtosoundlike #potatofingers #astarisborn https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOIltdn1BC/?igshid=5cglzd43x1f4

[iguanamouth]

You should draw a puma wearing puma shoes.

[pizzaotter]

I fucking lost it here

[frankarnstein]

Keira Knightley 20 January 2018

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Does anyone else remember the story about that poor lesbian who came out to her mother and her mother cried and said “it’s all that damn Keira Knightley’s fault, I knew I shouldn’t have let you watch pride and prejudice as a child” because I’m really feeling that now

[profusedinmelancholy]

Yes

[profusedinmelancholy]

Bonus

[profusedinmelancholy]

I’m screaming

[profusedinmelancholy]

More

[queen-haiz]

[fryingpanintofire]

Graduation 2k19 (at st.Andrews college) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBmwGlH7Sd7OYsFs-HvCh10cUTbyewb0S60fs0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wg5y1ckxes17

[yubels-deactivated20210922]

best character introduction scene of all time.

[gaysuggestions]

netflix and…rest your head on my thigh while I run my fingers through your hair continuously

[aidashakur]

I pray y’all stop chasing people that are running away from you. I pray y’all stop begging people to love you. You are worthy of a love you shouldn’t have to beg for.

[annerocious]

Dear Men Writers

Lesser known facts when writing women:

High heeled shoes don’t become flats if you break the heels off.

The posts of earrings aren’t sharp.

Nail polish takes a long time to dry and smudges when wet.

You can’t hold in a period like pee.

Inserting a tampon is not arousing or sexual in any way, ever.

Feel free to add your own.

[deliciouspineapple]

- Bras leave red marks on the skin under and around boobs and it is a magical experience when taken off.

- Make up can take anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on how skilled you are.

- Taking hair out of a ponytail after wearing it for hours does not make it perfectly straight when it comes down.

- Hair when wet sticks to the skin it no longer flows, idiot.

-When women with long hair kiss, turn around, do anything, their hair falls in the way.

- Stockings are itchy and tear like wet paper bags.

[ivegotthetriforce]

- Pantyhose, tights, leggings, and stockings are each different. - Waxing hurts and leaves red skin for a while afterwards while shaving leaves stubble - Most can’t run in heels unless they have been VERY worn - Insecurity in appearance doesn’t mean “buy me a drink” - EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT TASTES IN EVERYTHING

[drmistytang]

-Having large breasts sucks. It sucks beyond belief.  If a garment happens to fit your large chest, odds are it won’t fit the rest of you. Underboob sweat is real and terrible. Bending over for extended periods of time will tweak your back out. Running can be painful due to boob turbulence. Bras are hella expensive. Big breasts are not fun.

[angryschnauzer]

Putting a tampon in isnt a quick bend-poke-done kinda deal. It involves cubicle yoga, messy hands, numerous curse words as you realise it isnt in correctly and have to take it out and start again with a new one.

[cassiopeiassky]

Yes to all of this.  But also:

If her hair is in an updo, one does not simply remove a hairpin to send her hair cascading down her back.  No.  If her hair is an updo, it will take at least an hour and an extra set of hands to remove the 137 bobby pins that are holding her hair in place.  Furthermore, there’s probably a can’s worth of hairspray in there, intended to withstand category 2 hurricane winds.  There’s no cascading happening here - the best you can hope for is a misshapen nest of hair to clump and poof unattractively in the back while it still remains flat against her scalp.

[marvel-lucy]

This is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while (especially if you read all the comments), but also really depressing because at 42 I still judge myself as having failed for not matching up to all these mythical stereotypes despite knowing they’re impossible

[valeria2067]

^^^This though

[musicalhell]

The odds of a woman having smoothly shaved legs and armpits are directly proportional to the amount of skin her clothing bares and/or the amount of fucks she gives at that particular moment.

GLASSES ARE NOT COSMETIC.  If we whip them off, we do not become gorgeous fashion models.  We become squinty.

[thatsnicebutimmarried]

-most women wear bras. Yes, even when they are trying to dress sexy. Because bras make boobs look perkier and rounder, which is something men apparently find sexy, so being a seductress or femme fatale is not an automatic reason for a female character to not be wearing a bra.

-a good bra will hide headlights, or at the very least drastically reduce their noticeability. A women with enough pointy nipple issues will opt for a padded or molded bra to hide them.

-women’s nipples do not automatically become hard pyramids visible through any and all layers of clothing the second they become even slightly aroused. They are not the female equivalent of boners. And even if their nipples do get hard, the bras they are almost certainly wearing (because even a goddamn succubus with big, honkin’ knockers for seducing men is gonna have those painful puppies in some kind of boob sling) should keep those pointy nipples from being visible to every other character in the scene, JIM BUTCHER. YES, EVEN LARA RAITH WOULD WEAR A BRA ONCE IN A GODDAMN WHILE.

[eldriitchmurmurs]

if you’re being tied up and tortured in a freezing underground dungeon, then you probably have more important things to pay attention to than how hard somebody’s nipples are, jim butcher

[jabberwockypie]

- Wearing a bra that doesn’t fit HURTS.  It’s not sexy to wear a bra that’s “two sizes too small”, it’d make your clothes hang oddly and you’d have a weird, uncomfortable “quad-boob” effect and your back would hurt, BEN AARONOVITCH.

[phantoms-lair]

Also, after removing a too small bra, there’s gonne be angry red lines on the boobs and ribs and the lady is not going to want them to be touched by anyone for a good long while

[everystarstorm]

-Not all women wear heels. Those things hurt and are hard to balance in. They can also mess up your feet and back pretty bad.

[hattedhedgehog]

-Lips aren’t just naturally red “as if she’d been drinking wine but they were just like that without makeup cause she’s so perfect,” my dear little Kvothe from ‘Name of the Wind’. Also, girls do not naturally smell like fruit or flowers, it’s either perfume or something she’d been eating recently.

[generalistherbalist]

I’ve been appreciating this post but now it’s back very specifically calling out my problematic faves and I don’t think those male authors realize how much it totally takes me out of the story for a moment when they commit these errors. It does nothing useful for the plot and is annoying for half of the audience

[lmorasey-deactivated20230917]

Is it weird that I’m female and wasn’t aware of a solid third of these?

[infinitelyblankpage]

I mean, all writes take note. I basically live in man land when it comes to protagonists so I don’t know half these things despite being a woman

[furryarbiterangel]

(Most) Women do not look at themselves in the mirror and compare their breasts to fruit. Any sort of fruit. Especially melons. Please save us from the melons.

Also we are not aware of our breasts at all times. I do not walk down a flight of stairs and think “oh golly my breasts are bouncing so much right now”. They are as much as natural part of our bodies as arms. Do you constantly think about how your arms are moving? Sure you may be aware of them, but paying full attention? Doubtful.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Also: women working out are almost never sexy. They’re not glowing or glistening or (kill me) *sparkling*. They are red and sweaty and gross just like all the dudebros doing their time with the dumbbells. Stop ogling fictional women at the gym, TOM WOLFE.

[gayharoldfinch]

please please please someone provide me with an excerpt from a book where a male writer thought a woman could hold her period in like pee because that sounds hilarious

[writing-in-the-grave]

Take notes y'all.

[bowerbirdboy]

I pray this post makes it back to me one day.