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Hi! Call me Lily. I’m a librarian by trade, a writer by nature and a Christian by the grace of God. I’m here to share my writing, discover new interests and generally waste time, so even if we’ve never interacted before, don’t be shy! Say hello!
Quick Links
#bants and fanfic – tag for my fics
#dreamwidth crosspost – behind-the-scenes material for my fics
#fic: family crisis – my current WIP
#fic rec – fics by others that I love and recommend
#lily on the internet - my original posts
#asks - I answer your questions
#ask and tag games - what it says on the tin
Find Me Elsewhere
Archive of Our Own – 10+ years of fics for various fandoms
FanFiction.Net – all fics here are crossposted to AO3
Dreamwidth – all my notes for my fics in one place
Notes
On this blog, everything is tagged, even if it’s just because it came from my queue, and although I try to tag for characters or at least for fandom (for my own sanity), some things may slip through the cracks. Generally, though, there won’t be anything terribly NSFW, graphic or gory.
I don’t discuss politics online as a rule, but potentially contentious issues are tagged #discourse, and posts with a religious bent are tagged #christianity.
This blog’s header is a panel from Detective Comics #679 (Batman: Prodigal), and features Dick and Tim. The blog title is part of a line from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
I’ve been in a handful of fandoms, but my first was Anne of Green Gables. My latest fandom is Batman and the Batfamily, especially Dick Grayson. Although I read the comics extensively, I’m a little sorry to admit that I’ve almost never been able to get into any of DC’s comics that aren’t related to the Batfamily. This goes as far as having read hardly any team ups like Young Justice or Teen Titans or the Birds of Prey. When I began reading comics, I was following a reading list that included Batman and the Outsiders, and I almost died of boredom before I finally realised I didn’t have to read it.
I can appreciate a good ship, but I’m not crazy about shipping. I tend to like what’s canon or almost canon, anyway. Examples include Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny, James/Lily, Anne/Gilbert, Jo/Fritz, Bruce/Selina, Dick/Babs and Tim/Steph. I believe in Ship And Let Ship.
I’m forever salty about Dan’s fate in Jo’s Boys, Remus Lupin’s fate in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Donna Noble’s fate in Doctor Who and That Person’s fate in Crooked Kingdom.
I write fanfiction sometimes. I don’t write crack, slash, femslash, smut or non-canon pairings. Sometimes I only write one or two fics for a fandom and then move on. It was just an itch that needed to be scratched. And I rarely write pairings at all; if there’s a pairing, it’s probably because it’s a basic part of canon. The vast majority of my fics are either canon compliant or diverge from canon at a specific point. Although I rely heavily on canon, I welcome all readers, regardless of level of familiarity with canon.
My favourite genre of music is wizard rock (music based on Harry Potter). Don’t knock it until you’ve listened to ‘Open at the Close’ by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls.
Stay safe out there.
—librarylexicon (formerly Lily F. Lux, Delusional Musings, realismandromance)
The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.
You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)
you know how when you make art you hope that people will look at it and notice all of the cool stuff you put into it and like it? I'm thinking about God as the author and creator of the world. I'm sure it really does make Him so happy when we notice all the thought and detail and beauty that He put into this world for us!
Oooooooh this is like when we study blades of grass and stare at their textures in wonder, or when we study molecules (even just for fun and not for a purpose) and we look at planets billions of miles away and we're like "I think this one might have hydrogen!" and we can't use that hydrogen billions of miles away for anything. But we know it might be there. And we think it's amazing.
WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.
A pharmacy tech counts pills out for TB patients at Wellbody Clinic in Sierra Leone's Kono District.
Dr. Girum Tefera, who saved my friend Henry's life, points to areas of concern in the healthier lung of a person severely ill with TB.
Reunited with Henry Reider in Freetown.
Nurse/midwife (and TIME Woman of the Year) Isata Dumbaya tours us through the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital.
Visiting people living with TB and HIV alongside community healthworkers, a reminder that CHWs are the least expensive and most effective healthcare intervention on the planet.
Boats at sunset.
Nurses and midwives are essential leaders in the fight to expand maternal and infant care.
cant do the mutual first memory rb game because i genuinely cant remember anything. i dont know you were all my mutuals at birth. we were joined by the stars and by blogging
To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.
if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.
