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[millermenapologist]

welcome, friends

➵ basic info about me: mid-20s; she/her; gemini sun, aquarius moon, pisces rising; nocturnal animal; got a couple of articles published but never my short stories; currently working with and for indie authors

➵ current fandom: The Last of Us (click here for my yap posts, and click here for my fan stuff!)

➵ playlists: baby ellie vibes; pt 2 ellie williams vibes (works in progress, suggestions welcome)

➵ other topics i'll gladly yap about if prompted: lolita, renaissance and tudor era costumes, murder she wrote, depictions of women in cinema (my final college essay discussed the portrayal of cannibal women vs cannibalized women in movies, and how as a society we interpret the role of the woman who eats and the one who is eaten)

published works

ꕥ shoot for the stars, 5/6 chapters published, 120k words, AU!no-outbreak

ꕥ sit tibi, terra levis, one-shot, 5k words, TLOU2 compliant

❉ currently writing: shoot for the stars (epilogue in progress, current total fic length 120k words)

❉ in the writing room: anklebiter (long, au!no-outbreak, folklore creatures, sarah lives), original novel, to be consumed (one-shot, au!no-outbreak, sarah lives, sarah/ellie, they're both cannibals)

𓆩♡𓆪 Ao3 𓆩♡𓆪 ko-fi 𓆩♡𓆪 ask box 𓆩♡𓆪

any support received through ko-fi will be saved up and repurposed to give my 2017 laptop a new battery, because baby boy has been struggling but purchasing a new computer is simply not within my current economic possibilities

post updated: september 26th, 2024

[millermenapologist]

DOES ANYONE WANT TO SEE THE VINTAGE BARBIES I GIFTED MYSELF THIS CHRISTMAS???

YES, I WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE WITH MY MONEY AND YES, THEY DO SMELL LIKE OTHER PEOPLE’S BASEMENTS

[kidcore-nostalgia]

'Angelina's Christmas' (1985)

[millermenapologist]

What’s happening with your fic Shoot For The Stars?

"IT'S IN THE WORKS, I SWEAR!" I yell as I'm being dragged away.

No, but seriously, I got a really bad case of perfectionism and life-got-in-the-way syndromes.

The former because I feel like I didn't really notice how many people were reading it at first, so I was more like... coasting by, I guess? Like, I'd write it and want it to be good but without the expectation that it had to be absolutely perfect. And then idk what happened, I noticed that the comments kept piling up despite me going pretty much MIA and my brain decided it was time to panic and ensure it was absolutely perfect all the way to the last comma because it's the last chapter and if it's not perfect and can properly satisfy the readers then what was the point??

The latter because I got an actual 9 to 5 job (that is more of an 8.30 to 5.30 job, but I digress), started living on my own, moved closer to family that doesn't live with me so we have to have regular appointments to see one another, etc. I also got a kitten, which I was supposed to just foster but oh well, and she's been nothing but a menace ever since. I've had cats my entire life, and I swear she's the most difficult I've ever had lol.

Literally anytime I sit down to write, I can maybe make it through a paragraph before I start thinking it's awful and unreadable/get too sleepy to write coherent sentences/something that holds real life weight calls me to it.

But I swear it exists, and has a plotline, and a pretty hefty word count, and I have ideas for other fics (both one shots and longs) planned in the Hobonichi I spent a fortune on in September. I just... need reality to stop for a couple of days.

[blus0x]

You can only REBLOG THIS TODAY

[wintrwinchestr]

happy birthday joel 🎉🩷 i love you grumpy old man

[kosmogrl]

everybody wish snoopy a happy birthday!!!!

[millermenapologist]

My mother called me to talk about Sarah Jessica Parker, god knows why, and then she started talking about how badly she has aged when in Hollywood they have plenty of non-surgical treatments. I explained to her that most celebs still get surgery, it’s just done so well you’d never recognize it as such, and brought up Pedro Pascal’s recent face lift, and her response was to yell, “And his surgeon did a great job BECAUSE HE’S A HOTTIE”

[pangur-and-grim]

not a fan of how Pangur’s tongue exits the side of her mouth

[pangur-and-grim]

[the-bar-sinister]

So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Please respect AO3 and its mission.

[millermenapologist]

Let me whisper this, since I got everything about this show right so far: the reason why Neil and Halley left the show at the same time is because they’re going to work on TLOU3.

[ellies-enrichment]

[z0mbiel0v3rr]

"who hurt you" as a response to my feminism is not the comeback you think it is. Men have hurt me, the patriarchy has hurt me, society has hurt me, so of course i'd want to advocate for change. Of course i don't want other girls to get groomed like i did, to get abused like i did, to starve themselves like i did, to fetish their own suffering like i did and to allow abuse towards themselves like i did. I don't want others to hurt like i did.

[millermenapologist]

You know summer has officially begun when all socials fill with posts about how bad and perverted Ao3 is that are written by kids who struggle with basic English syntax. I just got five TikToks about how Astolat celebrates incest and wants Palestine to be bulldozed, and how every single user is a nasty icky pervert who votes for the legalization of pedophilia, zoophilia, and whatever other -philia you can think about.

Man, how I love summer.

[dogpuppy]

[parakavka]

Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about

[lizardywizardy]

The thing I can't get over about this whole billionaire submersible thing is, like

The Titanic was a work of art. It was a feat of luxury and the people who built it (the thousand hands that built it between Belfast and South Hampton) really believed they'd built something to be proud of, something that would stand the test of time. It was equipped with full restaurants, pools, spas, gyms, ballrooms. The poorest accommodations were still the nicest in the fucking *world* at the time.

And, for the regulations of the time, Titanic was considered overprotective. They had almost twice as many lifeboats as was strictly required and had watertight panic doors to contain flooding if the ship were to get hit.

The problem was that these measures failed. Not that nobody who built the Titanic cared about them.

Also, a first class ticket, adjusted for inflation, cost about $50k.

Conversely, a group of rich dipshits paid FOUR TIMES AS MUCH to die in an under-pressurized aluminum can the size of a Honda Odyssy that they KNEW was suicidally unsafe to get into.