a heart will always stay one day too long

CATS 'N' TATS | featuring science, ladies, lady scientists, and i guess whatever trash fandom i'm shoveling into my eye holes this month.

[toramona]

andrea dworkin

[sarahcosico]

the kissy kissy <3

www.sarahcosico.bigcartel.com

[magneticwave]

[eldritchbauble]

Getting plowed is for the country folk. Here in the city we call it being taken to pound town. And if it's a place with decent public transit, getting railed.

[litterae-ignotae]

i was reading an analysis of jane austen’s mansfield park of all things, written by nina auerbach, and she has a really interesting way of looking of fanny. she basically says fanny is a monster looking for its mate, a brother-mate… made me want to reread the book, with that perspective in mind

“the hunger of sibling for sibling, of kin for kind”

[propertiesofjoy]

textual notes on antigone i found interesting

[basiadziadosz]

All the faves 🌶️🍅🍓🍎🍒

[magneticwave]

I love love love the way you write, particularly the really specific way you observe a characters physical and emotional responses to things, and the sense of realness and setting.

And I am so curious about your writing process. For example, do you do outlines and/or drafts? Do you write chronologically? And also were you producing 10k chapters of top tier quality and posting them as you went or did you have some good to go as you started posting? Either way you're a fucking rock star and I'm so glad you're sharing your writing with us.

aw thank you!! this is v lovely and was lovely to receive!!

this was a fun question to think about! i would say that my fic-writing process is influenced by the writing i have to do in my day job. the generally accepted best practice of science writing is to put everything on the page and then go back afterwards and cut for clarity and purpose and since many people & institutions including US taxpayers have invested in my education i have in turn done my best to master this art form. lol.

regarding your specific questions, i only post multi-chapter fics after i’ve finished a full first draft; chapters go up as editing is completed. in terms of that initial draft, i sort of outline and sort of write chronologically but for the most part stuff comes out as the spirit moves me. in terms of editing, usually the spirit moves me to shuffle sections around because it turns out i did not understand the pace or themes of my own work until the whole thing was out on the page. (sometimes, the spirit reminds me that He Would Not Say That.) each fic is a precious & unique snowflake tho so the process can be quite variable! i wrote clear to a hedgehog in a three-day haze like i had been fully possessed by the spirit of ilya rozanov himself. i know how to draw the line took weeks and a lot of that was spent editing, which is why the chapter count ended up increasing.

[partingglances1986]

If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.

[lvgvcy-deactivated20260523]

worrying is like worshipping the problem

[otabekisautistic]

and brother i’m on my knees

[enchantedbook]

Dragon by Holly Lucero

[yonglixx]

[magneticwave]

absolutely obsessed with i know where to draw the line. especially jackie. I want to hear about her liberal arts college days and her thoughts on poetry forever

thanks for reading!! i think probably one day jackie and rose rekindle their friendship and start a book club messages thread that occasionally devolves into politely thirsting after, like, gillian anderson and they both find this very fulfilling.

[magneticwave]

do you have a playlist? Saw a mention of that in one of your tags. As one of the many people who wants to live in your brain, and also needs new music, would love to know what’s on it. Happy Saturday either way ❤️

thanks for this lovely compliment! i do indeed have an ice gays 2: electric boogaloo playlist, but it is simply the bops from the official soundtrack interspersed about 5x with fine not fine by spector in an order that lets me time interval runs 😅 a masterpiece it is not

[redlipstickresurrected]

Natalia Shaloshvili aka Наташа Шалошвили aka Nataly Owl (Russian, b. Crimea, Ukraine, based London, England) - Surprised Cat, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas

[magneticwave]

CAPTIVATED BY UR NEW HOLLANOV FIC IT IS SUCH A DELICIOUS AU

thanks!!

[torturelabyrinth]

(becoming disoriented) They should put thomas cromwell in heated rivalry season 2