Samyazaz

Ciswoman, gray-a, thirty-two years old and still trying to figure out this thing called life. This is not a spoiler-free blog, though I always try to tag thoroughly. You're likely to find Les Mis, Hamilton, Elementary, and whatever other shows have caught my fancy lately. If something triggers you and I fail to tag it, please please let me know so I can tag it appropriately moving forward.

[badassindistress]

They're already sold out, but Brim & Bobbin make witches hats from duck cloth and I think that's a beautiful idea

[unpretty]

How did you get so good at writing??? Did you take classes? I feel like you should get paid all the money for this! (I subscribe to your website!)

after i dropped out of high school i found a torrent of like 5GB of OCRd romance novels and i read like 3 romance novels a day for a while

read enough romance novels and you will realize that they live or die entirely on technical skill. if you are new to romance novels then even bad ones can dazzle you with novelty but by the time you are on your 30th historical fake engagement between a bluestocking and a rakish duke you can grade them and you know when they've failed. when two books have what should be the same main characters hitting the same plot beats, but one of those books is delightful and the other fucking sucks, you learn some things. some books are bad and still delightful. other books are good but they just don't hit. you start to see the seams in the bad ones. 'oh, this is a weird out of character moment because she wanted to have the kabedon moment and didn't know how to get there'. 'she didn't want the ust to end but couldn't think of a better reason than this deus ex cockblock.' that kind of thing.

you could probably do this with other genres but i like romance because the plot is two people fall in love. that's it. everything else is set dressing. if you can figure out how to make that work you can carry it over into whatever other genre you feel like. mysteries would give you a different skillset around plotting that i don't have.

anyway after that i wrote a lot.

[unpretty]

i said it in my original tags but i want to talk out of my ass and say that one place that a lot of current romantasy falls short for me is that it ends up being written by people who mostly read other romantasy without going back to the original genres of romance and fantasy. it's like a 'learn the rules before you can break them' kind of thing. you have all these magical macguffins to hit the tropes but can you make me believe that these characters have chemistry without that? is there chemistry, or did you tell me they're fated mates and now i'm supposed to assume this fight is sexy? does the fantasy aspect exist for anything aside from the magical macguffins? i'm not going to throw stones from inside my house made of worldbuilding designed to make all my fetishes happen, but the really fun part is when the lore spins out of control and you end up really going in depth on linguistic anthropology things that aren't relevant to the makeouts.

and the other thing is that you can't really sub in fanfic for this. plenty of fanfic takes characters from other genres and plops them into romance, but it's not the same. a good romance novel says, "here are two characters. you may know their archetypes, but you don't know them. you are going to get to know them, and you are going to love them, and you are going to want them to love each other, and when they love each other you are going to be happy for them". i love a rakish duke. when a man who's never had to do his own laundry is slutty as fuck that's my shit. but you still have to make me like him. you can take that archetype and make a guy who fucking sucks. most fanfic will not impart to you any knowledge about how to make a reader like a guy from scratch. you already know that guy. that's the whole point. fanfic with as much character building as an original work is the exception, not the rule.

the whole reason i get catty about fics that just make a different guy is that... you've made a different guy. i don't know who this guy is and i don't like him, and you haven't bothered trying to make me like him, because you slapped another guy's nametag on him like a cheat code. it's cool if you did make me like this new guy, but why is he wearing that other guy's nametag if no other aspect of him is present?

read the genres you want to write, obviously, but there's a reason the shitty comphet romantic subplot is a cliche. it's because romance is its own skillset, and if you try to fit romance in your thriller when you only read thrillers it's probably going to be the weakest part. if you want an ensemble cast then chemistry between characters is important regardless of whether they're going to fuck about it.

[thegunlady]

#this is also what i call the Star Wars Problem (although: wide category lol)#but i mean specifically the thing where george lucas watched a BUNCH of westerns and samurai films and ww2 flying ace films#and then made a space movie ABOUT high points in those other story forms#because he knew those pulp genres inside out and knew what bits he needed to hit in RAF Dambusters pulp when he added laser swords#or in western saloon showdowns when he added spaceships#but then you fast-forward a few decades and people are making star wars movies ABOUT other star wars movies#and like not many of those scenes are going to hit that way - they just wont have the chance#they’ll be a copy of a copy and the emotion is going to degrade like the worlds crustiest reformatted ocr PDF#or a xerox of a xerox of a xerox#they’ve ceased to be about the feeling generated by the Form and have become simply the Form in isolation (via harrietvane)

[p3anut47]

id like to interact with my mutuals more but i get scared pls forgive me

[monsterpotion]

"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

[monsterpotion]

oh its bad back there.

[drchucktingle]

YES CHEF

[samyazaz]

everything you want is right in front of you (16194 words) by samyazaz Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s)/Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Characters: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Additional Tags: Face-Sitting, Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Double Vaginal Penetration, Wet & Messy, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Face-Fucking, Mild D/s, Genderqueer Character

Summary: “Okay,” she says. “Okay. I’m going to tell you exactly how I want you.” Easier, somehow, than catching his hands or moving his body to put them there, to take it, especially now that she’s no longer frantic enough to override all other thoughts.

Moryë's lips curve on hers. “Tell me,” they say, and scrape her lower lip between his teeth, sending pleased shivers rolling through her. “And I’ll do exactly what you say.”

~

In which Erzsi declares she wants to fuck both Moryë and Chad, and she gets more than she bargained for but exactly what she wants.

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Aetherflow Campaign, Erzsi/Morye/Chad, 16k, rated E

[succubusboyfriend]

are you “adaptable” or are you just willing to subject yourself to existing in low key background-level ambient misery

[succubusboyfriend]

these are different things btw. actual adaptability means not dealing with being miserable long term. and being constantly mildly annoyed/frustrated with a situation but being “able to deal with it” counts as ambient misery. btw.

[succubusboyfriend]

let this be your sign to make your life just a little more livable. get a dollar store trash can for your bedside so Cup City’s invasion plans fall through. block a tag or post that makes you grind your teeth every time you see it. get some grip pads so your bed stops sliding across the hardwood a little bit every time you get in it. tell that person you need a little more support. if you get annoyed at a situation more than a couple times, change it. don’t be content with being miserable.

[demonprincex]

and the more that you start doing this, the better you will get at detecting your own feelings and advocating for yourself! This is an important start to being more of a person in the world if you struggle with that

[samyazaz]

everything you want is right in front of you (16194 words) by samyazaz Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s)/Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Characters: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Additional Tags: Face-Sitting, Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Double Vaginal Penetration, Wet & Messy, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Face-Fucking, Mild D/s, Genderqueer Character

Summary: “Okay,” she says. “Okay. I’m going to tell you exactly how I want you.” Easier, somehow, than catching his hands or moving his body to put them there, to take it, especially now that she’s no longer frantic enough to override all other thoughts.

Moryë's lips curve on hers. “Tell me,” they say, and scrape her lower lip between his teeth, sending pleased shivers rolling through her. “And I’ll do exactly what you say.”

~

In which Erzsi declares she wants to fuck both Moryë and Chad, and she gets more than she bargained for but exactly what she wants.

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Aetherflow Campaign, Erzsi/Morye/Chad, 16k, rated E

[samyazaz]

everything you want is right in front of you (16194 words) by samyazaz Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s)/Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Characters: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Additional Tags: Face-Sitting, Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Double Vaginal Penetration, Wet & Messy, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Face-Fucking, Mild D/s, Genderqueer Character

Summary: “Okay,” she says. “Okay. I’m going to tell you exactly how I want you.” Easier, somehow, than catching his hands or moving his body to put them there, to take it, especially now that she’s no longer frantic enough to override all other thoughts.

Moryë's lips curve on hers. “Tell me,” they say, and scrape her lower lip between his teeth, sending pleased shivers rolling through her. “And I’ll do exactly what you say.”

~

In which Erzsi declares she wants to fuck both Moryë and Chad, and she gets more than she bargained for but exactly what she wants.

--

Aetherflow Campaign, Erzsi/Morye/Chad, 16k, rated E

[samyazaz]

everything you want is right in front of you (16194 words) by samyazaz Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s)/Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Characters: Original Dungeons & Dragons Character(s) Additional Tags: Face-Sitting, Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Double Vaginal Penetration, Wet & Messy, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Face-Fucking, Mild D/s, Genderqueer Character

Summary: “Okay,” she says. “Okay. I’m going to tell you exactly how I want you.” Easier, somehow, than catching his hands or moving his body to put them there, to take it, especially now that she’s no longer frantic enough to override all other thoughts.

Moryë's lips curve on hers. “Tell me,” they say, and scrape her lower lip between his teeth, sending pleased shivers rolling through her. “And I’ll do exactly what you say.”

~

In which Erzsi declares she wants to fuck both Moryë and Chad, and she gets more than she bargained for but exactly what she wants.

--

Aetherflow Campaign, Erzsi/Morye/Chad, 16k, rated E

[onetobeamupart]

Daine the Wild Mage of the Immortals quartet, the original blorbo.

[monstermonger]

Precious treasure!

[feminist-space]

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[antiquesfreaks]

me and who

[natalieironside]

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

[natalieironside]

I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍

[natalieironside]

#i cannot be listening to music or watching tv in my own home!!

If anyone sees me reading a book they will hunt me for sport

[riverlarking]

marisa tomei in my cousin vinny (1992)