Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.
There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.
There is no plan.
Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.
We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.
This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.
We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.
People are dying.
People are dying.
People are dying and there is no plan.
More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.
My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.
Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.
But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.
She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.
So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.
how do you deal with ship wars? i can barely deal with them and i’m a reader!! lol
I try not to get involved! And to remember that arguing about ships and theorizing about them is one of the ways many readers have fun in fandom and involve themselves in a story. There’s nothing wrong with that or intrinsically harmful.
Obviously things get darker when people are really fighting — insulting each other and me, flying into rages, and determining before a book has been released, or they have read it at all, that It Will Not Contain The Ship Developments They Desire. There’s really no way to know what you want, or what will happen, before actually reading a book; before that everything is guesswork, and I think there’s a real danger in allowing yourself to become furious over guesswork because it poisons your future reading experience. Which is a real loss, I think.
I also try to ignore the “You gave us this, so you have to give us this other thing to balance it out” stuff, because that isn’t really how writing or book promotion or being an author works. Some things you see less of before a book comes out because they’re more spoilery, not because they don’t exist or are less important. I do try to present different aspects of a book in snippets and such before release, but there’s a limit to what I’m willing to reveal in the name of evensies. :)
We have a lovely fandom here, in general, and like I said, I think most shipping is harmless. I try to stay neutral otherwise!
Hi Cassie !! I absolutely loved chain of gold and can I tell you the book destroyed me ! Desperately waiting for chain of iron !! Could you tell us if we get a james scene where he is jealous of Matthew and cordelia's closeness or could you give us a snippet of jordelia please . I'm utter trash for them !♥️
I can’t answer the jealousy bit or not — too spoilery! — but have a bit of Jordelia. It’s been a day. ;)
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James closed his eyes. Against the back of his eyelids, he could see the city take shape—the minarets flung darkly against a blue sky, the silver river. Cordelia’s voice, low and familiar, rose above the clamor of his nightmare. He followed it out of the darkness, like Theseus following the length of thread out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth.
And it was not the first time. Her voice had lifted him out of fever, once, had been his light in shadows. . . .
A sharp pain spiked through his temples. He blinked his eyes open: he was firmly back in the present, his friends all looking at him worriedly. Cordelia had already moved away from him, leaving behind the lingering scent of jasmine. He could still feel where her fingers had rested against his shoulder.
hi, cassie!! is there any way we can get a snippet with james and cordelia? i love them so much🥺
It’s very hard to find anything unspoilery about them!
His golden eyes were fixed on her, fierce as a hawk’s gaze. She said, “It doesn’t matter what I said. I wanted them to leave you alone —“
“I don’t believe you,” he said. She could feel the slight tremors running through his body — tremors of stress, that meant he was holding himself very still. Holding himself back. “You don’t say things you don’t mean, Daisy —“
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