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I'm C. (C.S. Conrad) aka Adeana (in-game). Writer. Photographer. Creator. Entrepreneur. Queer Lesbian. Demi-Aro/Ace. Neuroatypical. Jewish Arab. LGBTQ+ | Mental Health | Social Justice | OUaT | SG | Marvel/DC | Star Wars | Femslash | Fanfiction | #RepresentationMatters #GaymersUnite [avatar by @samanthadoodles]

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🌈🌈🌈SUPERCORP ZINE Vol. 3 GIVEAWAY🌈🌈🌈

Hey yall! First I’d like to say thank you SO SO much for preordering the @supercorpzine ! I’m continuously blown away by the support yall continue to show this charity effort. I know this year has been wacky and downright gross, so I thought I’d try to help spread some good vibes and give away

10 PDFs of the Zine

Here are the rules!

Reblog this post ONCE. (If you reblog it more than once I will only count ONE reblog, sorry last year got a little bonkers!)

If you are only boosting this post, please try to say so in the tags so I don’t accidentally count your reblog as an entry!

You have until May 24 2020 MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME. 

That’s it.

I’ll tally up each reblog (excluding people simply boosting/my own reblogs) and will randomly choose ten (10) winners. If you are chosen, I’ll just need a viable email to send you the link to download the zine later this summer. If winners don’t respond within a week (7 full days, or MAY 31), I will choose someone new.

I will contact winners on MAY 25. So make sure you keep your ask box open.

Good luck!

[damelola]

Starting at 7pm GMT / 3pm EST I’m talking all things writing with @paradoxalpoised 

How to start, how to keep going, and how to get those goddamn ideas out. Come say hi!

[queeryourgame]

Community Guidelines & Rule Enforcement

Community Values

Queer Your Game is an international multi-game LGBTQ+ only gayming community. We aim to provide our Gaymers with a protected cross-platform environment where we can all enjoy ourselves, meet new gays from all over the world and game together safely. Queer Your Game welcomes all sorts of Gaymers regardless of gender, race, religion, nationality or level of skill.

Our community is live on Discord and you can join us through our application process. We expect everyone to behave responsibly, kindly and respectfully toward one another across all platforms and games.

The following guidelines are not exhaustive and we reserve the right to change and amend them as our community grows and we learn. We’ll let you know when we do, but we expect all of you to read them, accept them and abide by them.

One last thing, safety is our main concern and to that end, we are offering a moderated space. You are the heart of this community. The way you behave is the way we all behave and your integrity is our integrity. If you see someone that needs help, if you witness something that’s against our guidelines or just plain wrong, say something. Do something. Tell a mod, alert us on social media, stand up for your fellow Gaymer as you would like your fellow Gaymer to stand up for you and help.

Community Guidelines

Keep reading

[paradoxalpoised]

Okay so they’re a bit long, but they’re community guidelines, what did you expect?

A labor of love for the community and the craft of writing with your lawyer voice on. You know, with authority?

Anyway, another step in the good direction.

#GaymersUnite

C.

[queeryourgame]

Project Narrative & Mission Statement

Queer Your Game was born out of need.

A need for safety.

A need for community.

A need for diversity.

A need for representation.

A need for content.

The gaming industry of today is a place where marginalized people do not exist. LGBTQ+ gamers, young and old, get bullied and harassed in game, in chat and on social media all the time. We have no voice, barely any representation in content, in streaming, in eSports, and we are ignored as a valuable community in the gaming world but also, as a market share of the gaming industry.

Queer Your Game exists to bring change to this gaming industry of today and to make the gaming world of tomorrow a better place for marginalized gamers.

To provide an exclusive and protected environment for LGBTQ+ gamers to gather and connect throughout the world and safely game together.

To bring value and recognition to our community in the gaming industry.

To create strength in numbers and offer valuable, informative and educative content to our users.

To help LGBTQ+ gamers find their voice and their platform so they can reclaim their power and effect change.

To help the gaming companies who want to implement diversity in their games and in their business make the right choices for their content creation, hiring and public behaviors.

To create awareness in the gaming industry and media by giving sensitivity support and influence to advance the LGBTQ+ community in gaming.

To develop a viable entrepreneurial venture that can consult, advise, create, support and produce LGBTQ+ gaming content and prove that there is good business to be had and invested in LGBTQ+ gamers.

To be ethical and transparent, to be responsible and honor our duty of care to our users, and to listen and communicate with our users and the LGBTQ+ community at large.

It is our belief that Queer Your Game’s mission will bring change to a gaming industry that has ignored LGBTQ+ people for too long and doesn’t know how to include us positively.

We are creating Queer Your Game to be an exclusive and safe environment with a powerful voice in a community for LGBTQ+ gamers, by LGBTQ+ gamers, with LGBTQ+ gamers.

Gaymers unite.

The Queer Your Game OG Team

[paradoxalpoised]

So so proud of this project! I cannot wait for all of you to join us! Check it out, follow, apply! You’ll make new friends and you’ll be able to gayme within a safe environment.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Intensity of feeling, which is at once your charm and your cross,

Gustave Flaubert, from “Madame Bovary,” published c. October 1856

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The sky is slashed to bits with the light of scars.

Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “Sky of Evening,” c. 1937

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 12/15, rated M

Editing | @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 12/15 on AO3

Summary | It is time for Regina to make a heart and to finally have the means to save Emma from the Darkness.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | “How exactly are we doing this?” Zelena says. “I’m not against giving a piece of my heart away, but then what?”

“I’ve never made a heart,” Maleficent says. “Are you sure you can?”

Regina’s anger isn’t quieting down. She has no patience for this.

“Yes, I’m sure. I’ve done it before. I’ve actually made a heart.”

“How?” Red asks.

“It’s not a thing I can explain, Red, but your precious Snow White and her Prince Charming share a heart that I made for them as they sacrificed the other part to cast the new Dark Curse which brought us all back to Storybrooke.”

“Wait, you weren’t the one to cast the new curse?”

“No, I wasn’t,” Regina says. “The heroes were the villains in that particular part of the fairytale.”

[samanthadoodles]

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Hi lovelies! 

As a thank you for all the support you guys have given me, I am hosting three separate Giveaways! 

Keep reading

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 11/15, rated M

Editing | @giors1 & @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 11/15 on AO3

Summary | Regina has a heart to heart with Lily as Zelena goes in labor.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | “Hey,” Lily says, “can we talk?”

“I was just coming to find you myself.” Regina steps aside so Lily can come into her study. She closes the door behind them and joins Lily in the center of the room.

“You should start,” Lily says.

“I can wait until after your news.” Nervous.

She thinks about inviting Lily to sit down. She thinks about offering her some coffee. She thinks about the lives she’s destroyed.

“No, really,” Lily says, “I think you should tell me first. Once I get started you’re going to lose your shot.”

“I—pardon me?” Regina’s curiosity is piqued.

“Please, just—” Lily sits down at one end of the couch and gestures for Regina to sit next to her. “I think I want to hear what you’ve been stewing about.”

“Stewing?” She really has been.

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 10/15, rated M

Editing | @giors1 & @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 10/15 on AO3

Summary | It’s Christmas and the gang is celebrating together at the mansion. While Regina and Maleficent are having a most important conversation, Zelena finally announces she’s made progress on their effort to save Emma and destroy the Dark One’s Curse.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | The French doors are slightly open. Regina can smell onion and cheese. She can also hear the lively conversation between Zee and Red, gushing over food and magic. Zee is teasing Red about her wolf and being Regina’s pet. Red is wearing the cashmere jumper Regina got her for Christmas while Zee is sporting a beanie hat Henry picked especially for her.

They’re thick as thieves and it is good that way.

Lily and Henry are playing catch in the backyard. Regina worries that they should be bundled up in coats and beanies and gloves, but they’re both only wearing big fluffy hoodies and scarves and the new baseball mitts that Lily gave Henry for Christmas. They’ve been at it for almost an hour. He’s throwing as hard as he can. He’s angry. Emma.

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 9/15, rated M

Editing | @giors1 & @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 9/15 on AO3

Summary | Having just stepped out of the Diner, Emma faces Regina and the others in the middle of the street. In her frustration, the corrupted Darkness reveals itself and she makes a play for the dagger.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | Red hasn’t moved, she’s still in a fighting stance, growling. But Lily runs to her, wrapping her arms around the wolf’s neck to try to pull her aside. When that fails, she puts her shoulders and back against Red’s chest.

“Is this really necessary, Emma?” Lily calls. “Aren’t we family and friends?”

“You betrayed me!” Emma’s voice is booming, veins are popping from her neck and her temples. Her eyes are full of dark magic.

“We haven’t,” Lily keeps on. “We’re looking for a way to help you beat the Darkness. This is not you!”

“But it is me, friend. It is me. It answers to me. It does my will.”

“That’s a lie, Emma, you have to know it.” Lily’s voice cracks. “Remember who you are, who you always were. You’re my best friend. You brought me back from the darkness in me.”

“Yet in the end, you are against me. You and the others.” Emma locks eyes with Regina.

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 8/15, rated M

Editing | @giors1 & @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 8/15 on AO3

Summary | Together at the diner, the gang is having dinner and discussing what they know and how they could destroy the Darkness when Emma interrupts them.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | Everyone is eating away their appetite. They’ve had a long day of research, brainstorming and coordination of their search for a solution to save Emma.

When they get to the last of the pancakes and the sipping of coffee, tea, and noisy milkshakes, Lily clears her throat. “So, Red and I have been talking, and we think it’s time we choose some sort of a plan regarding what we’re gonna do about Emma.”

Red nods her agreement. “Emma’s been seen around town, and it’s clear she’s trying to leverage a way to get the dagger.”

“We think it’s only a matter of time before she—” Lily leans toward Henry, “I’m sorry, Henry, I know this is hard but you’re part the team and this needs to be said—we think it’s not going to be long now before she attacks or she tries to pit us against one another in order to get her hands on the dagger.”

“What happened here a couple of weeks back has shown Emma is lost to the Darkness.” Red puts her hand on Regina’s. “She’s lost her humanity.”

Maleficent crosses her legs. “It’s obvious the Darkness is gaining on her, but it won’t suddenly give us a plain view of the way to go about this. Maybe we should start by regrouping and look at what we know.”

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 7/15, rated M

Editing | @giors1 & @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 7/15 on AO3

Summary | Regina has agreed to meet Robin at the diner as they have unfinished business, but their uncomfortable confrontation is soon interrupted by Emma.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | Robin is sitting in one of the far booths, his back to the door, his head low over the cup he’s nursing in his hand. Red is drying mugs behind the counter. She nods to Regina when she comes in and puts her kitchen towel underneath the bar before starting on Regina’s latte.

The sound of Regina’s steps are covered by the whistle of milk being heated and foamed by the nozzle of the espresso machine. It’s better that way, if for Robin jumping as he realizes she’s sitting in front of him.

“Robin,” Regina greets him, “you wanted to see me.”

“Hello, Regina.” Robin stands. “Yes, I wanted to talk.”

Red brings Regina’s latte and gives a squeeze to her shoulder before leaving them to their conversation.

“I’m listening,” Regina says. She’s in no hurry to lead this discussion.

[paradoxalpoised]

Hi! So I'm a SQ newbie, but you're one of my favorite authors. Choosing a favorite fic of yours is a difficult task! I love your writing style, it's often poetic, there's always a great beat to the story - the emotional journey that the characters take. I stared down the list of your works, and at least at this moment I would say my fav is 'maybe in my words', probably partially because I'm in a fantasy/epic mood and it was heckuva epic journey.

Hey Anon,Thank you so much for your support and kind words. I’m glad you appreciate the style and the effort I put in my writing.Whether it’s my fic or other people’s fic, I always struggle to choose favorite things, I am with you on this, choosing is hard.Maybe in My Words is a great choice though, I too enjoy it for its epic fantasy and plot. It is a special hero’s journey and it is not done.Thank you for answering, you were the only one, and I appreciate you taking the time.Have a great holiday season and I hope to see you around soon on here or other platforms.C.

[paradoxalpoised]

business email glossary

thanks in advance: get this done by the time i press "send"

thanks for your interest: why'd you have to bring this up

would you be so kind: fucking do it

best: i have never physically met you

all best: this conversation is over

all my best: i wish you would die

happy to help: this is the easiest thing in my inbox

i hope this helps: i've done all i'm willing to do

i did a bit of research: i googled it, because you're too lazy to

sorry to chase: answer my email

so sorry to chase: answer my FUCKING email

i am really sorry for being a pest but: i am LIVID that you are ignoring me

please contact my colleague: this isn't my problem

i'm copying in my colleague: this isn't my problem and i am thrilled about it

i'll check and get back to you: i might forget to

i'll let you know when i hear anything: i will forget to

can you check back with me in a week?: i'm hoping you will forget to

per our earlier conversation: i just yelled at you on the phone

great to chat just now: you just yelled at me on the phone

thanks!: i'm not mad at you

thanks!!: please don't be mad at me

thanks!!!: i'm crying at my desk

please advise: this might be your fault

kindly advise: this is entirely your fault

mind if i swing by?: i'm already in the elevator

can you confirm for me: you told me before and i deleted the email

sorry if that was unclear: i think you're an idiot

let me know if you need anything else: please never contact me again

Reblogging to add a direct quote that I used today -

Please respect my work process: just do it the way I told you to and stop arguing with me, I don't care what you think

[paradoxalpoised]

Of Blood and Choice | SwanQueen, Regina Mills & Emma Swan, Chapter 6/15, rated M

Editing | @giors1 & @devandclom

Read Of Blood and Choice Chapter 6/15 on AO3

Summary | Emma visits Regina at night, herself and not, her battle against the Darkness mostly lost.

Setting | Events in this story take place several months after Emma has become the Dark One. The story is told in scenes during the months that follow in Regina’s life.

Excerpt | “Emma.” Regina shivers.

“Now, now, Regina.” Emma is already flush against her, sucking up her breaths of tension and intense relief. “Don’t you have a warmer body to play with?”

Emma’s body isn’t cold. It’s burning. It’s burning her. It’s burning for her.

Emma thinks she is cold, because that’s how the Darkness feels to her. It gives Regina solace, that Emma thinks her darkness is cold. It means she hasn’t surrendered.

“Robin doesn’t sleep here anymore, Emma, you know that,” Regina says. Robin hasn’t been invited to the house, to the crypt, to her office since the first night Emma came home.

Emma knows. Emma asks. Emma demands.

[reiding-and-writing]

Reblog if you're a fanfic writer and you wanna know what your followers' favorite story of yours is ❤