i love when people say "i’d read your book!" like girl me too unfortunately i haven’t written it yet because i am trapped in a cycle of procrastination and the feeling of impending doom
DID YOU KNOW that sometimes characters lie. out loud to others and internally to themselves, and it'll happen right there on the page. other times they are just flat out wrong and don't know it. oftentimes they don't ever find that out. a sizable portion of any story is decidedly not cold hard fact.
Illya tells his story, and sets about the work of exorcising Gaby from his mind.
Read it on AO3
Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Explicit Sex
Relationships: Illya Kuryakin/Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin & Napoleon Solo
Summary:
Two people with disastrous love lives are matched together on an exclusive sex retreat and the sparks fly. Months later, fate brings them together again but, to have any chance at a real relationship, they’ll have to overcome past traumas, personal conflicts, long distance, and a hidden connection that puts them both in the crosshairs of a maniac.
Can Gaby let herself fall in love with one more person she might lose?
Can Illya overcome his own self loathing to fight for what he really wants?
This is a romantic, erotic, suspense story with lots of explicit sex scenes (once we get to them) and several references and depictions of violence, torture, creepy images and behaviors.
Additional Tags: Romantic Erotica, Suspense, Modern AU, not this universe, Size Kink, Strangers to Lovers to In Love, Explicit Sexual Content, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Masturbation, (eventual) anal play, mild bondage and domination play, one instance where lack of negotiation leads to unintentional emotional damage, a little bit raunchy, bodily fluids mentioned, Misunderstandings, Abandonment Issues, Suicide mention, Violence, Torture, Stalking, Blood and Injury, animal death, OC Relationships , including off screen sexual relationships, No Cheating, a cast of sdm original characters because they were needed to fill out the world, HAPPY EVER AFTER
During Christmas, I got one of those long hateful bot comments on one of my fics. It was funny because, the first few lines of it could have been about my fic, then I realized what it was. Then it was funny because they were going on and on about me being alone in the world at Christmas -- while I was sitting next to my best friend, the light of the christmas tree shining on us, and my children were at the table playing a game together.
But what struck me was the idea that someone without that community might feel those words more acutely. So listen. Yeah, it's a bot. They don't know you, can't see you, and didn't even come specifically to your fic to post that shit!
A person wrote that, and took the time to created a bot to send it out, to a community of people who are just sharing the stuff they make with others. And that is seriously pathetic! Like... why? Talk about someone who's not living life!
A person who visits cruelty on people for no other reason that visiting cruelty, is someone who deserves pity, and nothing else.
I am feeling so lazy right now! I didn't even post chapter 15, sorry but it's up too.
Chapter 15 - Illya deals with his feelings
Chapter 16 - Gaby avoids dealing with hers.
Rated: E for explicit sex and violence. (but the violence comes much later.)
Summary: Two people with disastrous love lives are matched together on an exclusive sex retreat and the sparks fly. Months later, fate brings them together again but, to have any chance at a real relationship, they’ll have to overcome past traumas, personal conflicts, long distance, and a hidden connection that puts them both in the crosshairs of a maniac.
It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.
Gaby deals with the return to regular life, and maybe, some new obstacles.
Read it on AO3
Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Explicit Sex
Relationships: Illya Kuryakin/Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin & Napoleon Solo
Summary:
Two people with disastrous love lives are matched together on an exclusive sex retreat and the sparks fly. Months later, fate brings them together again but, to have any chance at a real relationship, they’ll have to overcome past traumas, personal conflicts, long distance, and a hidden connection that puts them both in the crosshairs of a maniac.
Can Gaby let herself fall in love with one more person she might lose?
Can Illya overcome his own self loathing to fight for what he really wants?
This is a romantic, erotic, suspense story with lots of explicit sex scenes (once we get to them) and several references and depictions of violence, torture, creepy images and behaviors.
Additional Tags: Romantic Erotica, Suspense, Modern AU, not this universe, Size Kink, Strangers to Lovers to In Love, Explicit Sexual Content, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Masturbation, (eventual) anal play, mild bondage and domination play, one instance where lack of negotiation leads to unintentional emotional damage, a little bit raunchy, bodily fluids mentioned, Misunderstandings, Abandonment Issues, Suicide mention, Violence, Torture, Stalking, Blood and Injury, animal death, OC Relationships , including off screen sexual relationships, No Cheating, a cast of sdm original characters because they were needed to fill out the world, HAPPY EVER AFTER
If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…
Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.
Including (sigh) the em dash.
There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.
A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.
No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.
You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.
Defend the em dash.
(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)
As is tradition in tumblr culture the locals unearth the corpse of a long deceased figure and drag it across the streets merrily, laughing at what is preserved of the person’s words. This custom, seen as morbid in other cultures, is instead done gleefully and with an unmatched enthusiasm
first, make it exist. second, make it make sense. third, make it good. fourth, make it bad again. fifth, make it worse. sixth, there is no sixth. it's perfect. you're done
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