let's defy gravity

This author is currently on hiatus due to real life. Please be patient! <3 kairos: (n.) a propitious moment for decision or action. I'm always open for ask games!

[rowanisawriter]

that “negative kudos” poll really got me lol i have a full time job and a family. do you know what that means lol. I don’t think many people know what that means? it means i have maybe 1 hour MAYBE 2 hours a day that are mine unless i sacrifice sleep. and i use them to write fic most of the time and then i chose to post it online. And there is a subset of people that exists out there that thinks they can and should be able to publicly dislike or negative kudos your fic if they don’t like it instead of just continuing to scroll or hitting back. man no wonder so many people are so easily turning to AI, this unfeeling unflinching thing that just gives and gives more and more slop but who cares about the quality or the person who made it as long as you can just demand more and more and be given more and more. Fic and fanart are not products, you do not get to “review” them. We call it commenting because it’s not a review. And kudos doesn’t reflect on quality, it means thank you for sharing. if you feel the need to complain about something someone used their precious and rare and still valuable time to create for you for free, keep scrolling or literally just die

[kairoswrites]

and I can only hope you’ve got it aimed at me: Chapter 2

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Final Fantasy XV, Harry Potter

Relationships: Cor Leonis & Harry Potter, Regis Lucis Caelum & Harry Potter, Death & Harry Potter

Fic Summary:

The first time Harry James Potter of the Lucis Caelum faces an assassination attempt, it’s traumatizing for everyone involved. This is only a little bit because of Harry and Cor, and a lot because of Regis.

Read now on AO3.

[kairoswrites]

re-reading old comments (and new) on Parallax and we were faster on our feet. and I miss those fics - I miss writing those fics. that's the thing they don't tell you about fic-writing; you'll sometimes start to miss the world of the story. the feelings you felt while settling into the characters.

[catchymemes]

[s-n-arly]

OMG!  I thought it was going to be a message about perseverance or it never being too late to follow your dreams, but nooooooo.  This is excellent storytelling.

[horse-on-a-porch]

I’m fine. I’m fine I am not at all emotionally wrecked by this.

[noscribs-deactivated20260212]

[commiebeatle]

DOCTOR WHO MEME: quotes [6/7] →

"What makes you so sure that your life is worth more than those people on the ice? Is it the money? The accident of birth that puts you inside the big fancy house?"

[trekscribbles]

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

[gunpowdercarousel]

I don't need therapy I need rabid gay people freaking out in my inbox

[yotzuyu]

[arachnerd-8-legs]

prev: #u forgot the best part#the artist figured out the gig and was like#i draw for u for the rest of my life#these chinese netizens are having shojou level romances

[tevyaa]

[kairoswrites]

i can't believe i did it. i might actually update a fic tomorrow

[nottheweirdest]

Somehow this meme just keeps getting more relatable...

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

it’s almost midnight but i am here on Tumblr Dot Com to let everyone know that a fantastic and underused trope is “uses terms of endearment only when under huge amounts of stress.”

Like some character is fairly formal or is just not a pet names person but then they get a panicked phone call from a loved one and the first words out of their mouth are “Sweetheart, what happened?” 

Team “I-only-ever-use-your-first-name” going “Oh, jesus fuck, love, I’m so glad you’re safe” or “Okay, darling, you know I love you but I need some space to fix this giant mess” and everyone around them is like “oh god we have reached Pet Names Level Bad, that’s not good” 

this is the new trope I am championing, I would like it to be the Hot New Thing

[jdotsodomite]

i hope you write (i hope we both write)

[zetarays]

hand in unedited hand

[meiringen]

“Planet of Love”, Richard Siken

[mytighthead]

Anne Carson

[void0m]

ms paint study from 2021

[lovingtogekiss]

SCROLL BACK UP ITS MS PAINT

[21st-century-minutiae]

MS Paint is a late twentieth century, early twenty-first century free image creation and modification application that is included by default with the Microsoft Operating System. It provides extremely limited options for image modification compared to more sophisticated options.

For example, the ability to work with layers (independent, transparent images stacked on top of one another) was not added until 2023. Almost every other image editing software supported this feature which is of great value to digital artists. The above artwork thus preceded this particular development, meaning it would have been a lot more difficult to create the image.

The context of the media (MS Paint) makes the image itself a greater demonstration of skill. In the early twenty-first century, people generally appreciate obvious skill as a component in aesthetics independent from the actual product. It serves as a shorthand for time spent, both in learning the skill itself and in creating the result. Artwork that is not visibly difficult to make is held with some scorn by those who cannot tell its labor.

[kairoswrites]

hihi!! i recently discovered your work parallax and it’s so good! you’re amazing at writing, and i love the science references throughout it :3 i was wondering how did you get “good” with physics? i’m currently taking physics in school, and your work has made me a LOT more interested in it, but im not sure where to start with studying/researching it. sorry for rambling, and hope this doesn’t sound too weird!!

I'm sorry I missed your ask until now!! Real Life has gotten very busy for me so I'm not as online anymore.

Thank you for the compliment - I'm flattered! But I don't know if I ever got "good" with physics. I took my first physics class in high school, so I've done it for a long time, but I was never the top of my class. I did go to engineering school for my bachelor's, so I got decent at physics, but I would say that came from a lot of practice and trial-and-error. Like many things in life, I believe that being "good" at physics (or any other science/engineering field in general) is a skill, not a talent.

I found that framing the dry physics equation into real-life problems to be most fun and motivating for studying. For example, how do airplanes fly? How do rail guns work? How does light bend around corners? (The answer to these questions are: aerodynamics, electromagnetism, and diffraction.)

For more academic pursuits, there's great online guides and websites, like this one, which show the relationship between all the different fields as well as detail some of the basic equations for them. I also watched (and still watch) a lot of science Youtube channels, like 3Blue1Brown (he has a separate playlist for physics but his other content is also quite good). The beauty of science fields like physics is that you can go super deep into one niche thing and still feel like you're barely scratching the surface!

I also found it super comforting to know that most collegiate researchers in the science and engineering fields are super nerds. So if you're on a college campus, try reaching out to your physics department, walk around during a master's poster presentation session (those are likely public and free), or attend a lab open house day. More often than not, the people working on various physics (and other science) topics will be happy to introduce you. :)

[kairoswrites]

Hi hello i know it's 2024 and Things have happened in this fandom but there's been a thought brewing in my head for a while and i need to ask.

Are you ok with physical copies of your fanfics (in this case, odcysm specifically) being made? And by this i ofc mean done at home, no third party companies and no profit off of the bind.

I love your work and i'm sorry if you've answered this before

I'm very flattered you're even considering it! You have my blessing to make it into a physical copy for personal use. Although years have passed (oh wow!) since I wrote it, and things sure have happened in that fandom space, I hope the story still brings you joy. Thank you for checking in. <3