smokybaltic

writing on ao3, procrastinating on tumblr

[smokybaltic]

Tribulation #4852 of shipping life: the only thing you can remember about a song you suddenly *need* to hear is that you love it psychotically and it was from a fan video you watched on loop like 8 years ago

[smokybaltic]

Some fanfic writer better versed on the intricacies of binding, translations, podfics, etc needs to codify 'happy to have my stories shared, please just don't jeopardize our lovely community' into some form of nonmaleficence charter.

So when someone asks permission for something we can just say "keep to the code".

Purely for expedience, nothing at all to do with indulging pirate-y cosplay impulses. Nothing. At all.

[smokybaltic]

Hey! I couldn't find anything on your socials or Ao3, so I wanted to ask if you allow people to bind your fics? :) I would love to make a bind of the watergaw soon! my handle is @marinasslibrary on tiktok and instagram if you want to check it out! Thank you,

xo Marina

Sorry for my delay! I've been away from fandom for what feels like an age.

I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed Watergaw, and wildly flattered that you'd be interested in taking the effort to bind it. Bookbinding seems like such an interesting undertaking, and I always love a good diy haha

As long as no one is making any money, bind away! I'd love a picture or two if you do it.

💚💚💚

[smokybaltic]

I've quit midway through writing (or never started!) so many stories because they didn't seem interesting enough. Not enough drama or suspense, no big plot twist or clever social commentary.

I think why would someone read this??

Well, Ethan Hawke recounting Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise pitch just gutted all that for me 🫠

[smokybaltic]

Heading to England for the first time tomorrow and preparing myself for the crippling mortification of discovering the 10000 things I got wrong in my hp fanfics 😅

Related: if you have any recs for things to do, see, or eat in East Sussex or London let me know. right now our itinerary consists of 'enjoy vibes'

[smokybaltic]

One day I'll figure out how to do graphics for my fics... but it is not this day.

It's especially regrettable atm because I'm here to lure you into a sirmione drabble and Ben Barnes is really very pretty, but an excerpt will have to do.

🍷🍷🍷

from On The Lash

"No, not lightning, thunder," Sirius slurred slightly as he tried to reason with the tattoo artist.

"Because thunder always follows lightning," Hermione giggled, pointing at her forehead. "Get it?"

"Exactly," Sirius nodded vigorously.

"This is such a good idea. Harry is going to lose his shit when he sees."

The harassed looking tattoo artist squeezed her eyes shut for a long moment, "Okay, so, like, the word thunder? Or... a cloud?"

"A thundercloud," Hermione grinned maniacally.

"Alright," the tattooist sighed, "Let’s head back."

Less than an hour later they emerged from the tattoo shop, Hermione with a small inky blue blob on her forearm, and Sirius with a matching daub on his chest.

Tomorrow, Hermione would no doubt be grateful for its placement, nestled amongst the mostly floral sleeve of tattoos slowly overgrowing the slur Bellatrix had carved into her arm, but at the moment she was a little put out by the subtlety.

Still, she delighted in shaking her arm, causing the little thunderhead to glow as if lightning was chasing through it.

"C'mon," Hermione grabbed Sirius' hand, pulling him toward the pub next door, "One more drink."

"Hmm, yes, but also-" and then his roguish smile was dipping to catch her up into a lusty kiss, pressing her back against the brick storefront.

Keep Reading

[polarcell]

fandom wide mandate that everyone has to re-watch the source material in steady intervals to minimize intense fandomization of tropes and characterizations that happens when people go without new source material for too long

[smokybaltic]

sir i'm here because fanon does it better

[smokybaltic]

Who's in the mood for some porn with just a soupçon of feels?

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[smokybaltic]

I don't know if thesaurus.com keeps a history but i can guarantee mine would be juuuust to the left of depraved

wiggle

press

stretch

grind

completion

hard

relief

we're here for a lewd time, not a long time, folks

[lovestory49]

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)

[freenarnian]

What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”? 

[smokybaltic]

okay okay okay but WHAT IF?? we mashed up this gif

with this gif

to make a fic?

SO GLAD YOU ASKED:

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[smokybaltic]

10 more days to draw something for Double Trouble, then you can sit back and wait for someone to create a story about it 😌🍹

Lots of great prompts left! (including 2 of my top 3 choices.... so... yeahhhh lol)

Join the Double Trouble fam!!

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[pokedcheck]

WE CLINCHED AND YOU KNOW WHAT TJAT MEANS

[dhrdoublethetrouble]

Claiming for Artists is OPEN

Claiming for artists is now open! You can claim a prompt here.

Claiming is open right up to the submission date, which is 30 April, 11:59pm EST. Please remember that prompts can only be claimed once by an artist, so if you see that it has already been claimed, please choose another one! Artists are welcome to claim more than one prompt.

If you need an extension or some flexibility, please do not hesitate to message this page or contact one of the organisers in the Double the Trouble Discord. There are now three of us! Little Ivy#3393, mistresslynn#1535, and K.#7086. Huge shout out to them for coming aboard (@mistresslynndramione and @vertraymer), and also to K for making the image you see above! (Original credit to Ri | Aetherios for the base image).

Apologies to any artists who already claimed a prompt prior to this post. Due to some miscommunication, there wasn't clarity on when the claiming goes live. We have now updated the schedule with times, so if you had claimed a prompt, please go through and claim them again! Thank you xx

Love, Ivy

[smokybaltic]

This fest is responsible for me writing a 40k fic and having no clear memory of June 2021.

....and imma do it again 😝

[avendell]

Character Drawings 🪄

[smokybaltic]

so @avendell is really just out here creating platonic ideals and calling it fanart

[kaseylynnwriting]

At this rate, my character’s have cocked their heads so much someone’s neck is about to fucking crack.

[the960writers]

and someone is going to get cramps in the face from all the smirking

[boothewriter-deactivated2018122]

eyes will remain as wide as an owl’s, eyebrows all collectively raised

[merigreenleaf]

The amount of pacing they do is going to wear a hole into the floor.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

hands are clenching and unclenching so often theyre gonna get carpal tunnel

[inthemidstofbuddie]

someone’s gonna be far too lightheaded from all the sighing

[smokybaltic]

brows'll have more furrows than a fresh planted field

[smokybaltic]

hey dramione artist 💚

I want to write a story for your art!!

Double Trouble fest is on- there's 70+ prompts to choose from and an awesome group of creators to join on discord. Come check it out!

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