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[qi-mera]

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[jadenebula]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

[asher-writes]

Four years deep into writing a book only to realise you've been writing it from the wrong character's perspective abd now you have to start again

[wisteriaxxviolet]

I spent two years and realized that he book is written in the wrong tense and now have to start over 😭

[asher-writes]

oh nOOOOOO

[tc-doherty]

Last Line Tag

Tagged by @winterandwords thank you!

From today's writing session:

Kit seemed pleased with himself. He smiled as he looked around and grinned wider still when he met Anrikas's eyes. Perhaps he really had only been enjoying the confining nature of the ship. "You're insufferable," Anrikas hissed at him. "Usually," Kit agreed. "You seem quite adept at suffering me. Not everyone can say as much." "I shall put it foremost on my list of accomplishments." "No one would believe you in any case." Then Kit changed topics. "When we get to an inn, make sure to tell them that I'm interested in card games. The innkeeper may get a cut if they can funnel seemingly easy targets into serious games."

Tagging @did-i-do-this-write @cee-grice @crimsonshadetress @thegoddesswater @bloodlessheirbyjacques

[tc-doherty]

While third place needs a tiebreaker, first place went to Patrice and Felisjyta from my novel Dragon's Daughter!

Which is really convenient because I can remind you that Dragon's Daughter, my knight/dragon love story, is currently on sale for the entire month of June~

Art tag list: @crimsonshadetress @hakbot @bloodlessheirbyjacques

Also tagging who interacted with that post: @tryan-a-bex @importantdestinydefender @kaket123

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

enough men with dead wife syndrome. i want women fresh out of toxic divorces venting their feelings through bloodbaths and john wick action sequences

[tc-doherty]

Pride Month Poll (tie-breaker)

Thank you for everybody who voted in the first poll! Unfortunately we end up with a 5 way tie for third place lmao

I am therefore doing a shorter poll to hopefully tiebreak.

Which couple should I draw for pride month?

Rolan & Morgaine (Fate Flows Like Water)

Nelli & Retta (Laero)

Keril & Yvian (Northbound)

Liu Tengei & Yang Xuejing (Untitled 2)

Ivellio & Sorchia (Untitled 8)

Remaining time: 10 hours 19 minutes

[sugar-petals]

modern media in a nutshell

[tc-doherty]

Pride Month Art Poll

I finished all of my pinup requests and I had a lot of fun with that so now I figured I would do something for pride month instead! As a poll this time because maybe that's a little easier? And I'll draw, I don't know...the top 3 choices? I'll figure that out.

Maybe this is the kind of thing I could do each month...? Feel free to let me know what you think about that.

So! Please let me know which couples you would like to see the most! Alphabetical by story title.

Who should I draw for pride month?

Patrice & Felisjyta (Dragon's Daughter)

Rolan & Morgaine (Fate Flows Like Water)

Cynefrith & Frin (The Hildspel of Athelhyrst)

Estienne & Gidie (The Hildspel of Athelhyrst)

Nelli & Retta (Laero)

Anrikas & Kit (The Legacy of Kings)

Dante & Nyari (Northbound)

Keril & Yvian (Northbound)

Mahesha & Izare (Second Chances)

Liu Tengei & Yang Xuejing (Untitled 2)

Ivellio & Sorchia (Untitled 8)

Linnet & Fenway (Untitled 10)

Voting ended onJun 3

Who's who:

Linnet and Fenway (I gotta get chibis of them...):

[tc-doherty]

It's the final day for this!

[tc-doherty]

Only one more hour~

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[tc-doherty]

Pride Month Sale

In honor of pride month, the e-book version of my lesbian knight/dragon love story is on sale for a whole dollar off! Only $3.99 for the month of June, so if you've ever been interested in checking it out now might be the time~

(especially with the second book coming out later this year)

Where to buy?

I don't know why the Barnes & Noble links aren't working from that site but it is at B&N, you can find it here.

Synopsis:

In a ruined castle deep in the wilderness, there lived a beautiful princess guarded by a ferocious dragon. Except for the fact that the maiden in the tower was no princess at all, but the dragon’s daughter. Rescued against her will, she is carried off to human lands and given the name Lady Patrice Drake. Caught between culture shock and grief, she must find a way to navigate her strange new surroundings lest she be drowned under human machinations and politics. Who among these people are enemies? Who among them are allies? And most importantly, who is she without her mother’s guidance and protection?

Age range: 16+

Type: Fantasy, medieval, F/F

Warnings for: occasional, non-graphic violence

[cbk1000]

As a society, we need to go back to understanding that strangers on the internet are, you know, strangers. I feel lately that I'm seeing a rise in 'An author I love blocked me because they took my comment the wrong way' posts on the ao3 subreddit, and then the comment is them calling the author a fucking bitch or something like that.

Don't do this. Tone doesn't translate well in text, and if you don't have a rapport with that author, they are not going to interpret, 'You're a fucking bitch' as, 'Author I hate you for being so talented and making me feel so keenly.' They're going to interpret it as you being an asshole. You can shit talk with your friends because you have an established relationship with them and can distinguish between playful banter and genuine anger. You do not have this with a stranger, no matter how much you like their fics. You will have a much more pleasant time in fandom and not get cockblocked from interacting with your favorite writers if you remember this.

[portraitoftheoddity]

The problem with having OCs is that sometimes you wanna read about your little guy being in situations but unfortunately he is YOUR little guy and no one is gonna put him in that situation but you. Tragic.

[starbuck]

me analyzing my favorite characters:

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[forthesanityofstorytellers]

7 lines tag game

Tagged by @ryns-ramblings all the way over here, thanks!

Tagged by @willtheweaver here, thanks!

The Wheel fell on Trevor's WIP, so have seven lines near the top!

Ugh. I just wish there was something... No. Nevermind. No point in wishing. SO many years have already passed, I doubt I'm going to get my wish if I didn't before. Anyway.

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@talesofsorrowandofruin @tryingtimi @willtheweaver @librarysilverfish

@sleepyowlwrites @thesorcerersapprentice @ryns-ramblings

@charlesjosephwrites @aalinaaaaaa @adie-dee @concealeddarkness13 @toribookworm22

@somethingclevermahogony @kaylinalexanderbooks @sodaliteskull @asterhaze

@thegoddesswater @rhikasa @mysticstarlightduck @nerasnotes and OPEN TAG!