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[reasonsforhope]

Hopeful news: a camp for kids with HIV/AIDS in northern Minnesota is closing...because there are so few kids infected with HIV/AIDS these days that there aren't enough campers! As someone born in the 80s and raised with the AIDS crisis raging, this is really incredible.

source (remove space after www.): www. startribune.com/closure-of-northern-minnesota-camp-is-the-greatest-story-heres-why/601199362

Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.

Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.

That's amazing!!!

[aelaer]

for the fic writer asks - 🌈🎀

🌈 is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

Over 10 years ago I wrote over 150k of a LOTR fic. The only person who read where it was going was @cairistiona7 who betaed the first part for me (bless you for doing so, it's not *that good* lmao, I reread it a few years ago and did a bit of wincing at some of what was contrived).

Unfortunately many of the first reviews for the first few chapters were what I perceived at the time as hypercritical of the OCs and overall plot, so despite working my best that I could at the time, the criticism led me to not finishing the last 20% of the fic and to stop posting altogether. I stopped writing LOTR fanfic for the most part after that with a couple exceptions. A couple of those reviewers really killed fanfic for me until I started writing it again for the MCU several years later.

It's unlikely that the fic will ever see a rewrite or the light of day. Which sort of sucks as I had this whole timeline planned out.

MCU-wise, I'd say that no one would know how hard it was for me to attempt to write the romance BS in my only true IronStrange fic, but I've bitched about that more than once lmao. I tried, I didn't like writing it, I don't enjoy reading my own writing of it, but now I can say I tried and never do it again xD reading others is fine but writing, never again.

🎀 give yourself a compliment about your own writing

I think my characterizations are absolutely on point for the characters I write the most, and pretty good for characters I don't write often. And I think many of my OCs are dynamic and three-dimensional, too.

Thanks!

[veliseraptor]

👀 (for the fanfic asks)

Do you have any words/phrases you use habitually?

oh god yeah. too many and I probably am not even aware of them all. but the ones I can think of off the top of my head...

blinked / blinked once

felt his/her face warm (and variants)

somewhere between [x] and [x]

adverbs! I am a Lover of Adverbs

so many em dashes everywhere

at some point I learned how to use ctrl + i and nobody stopped me

"this," said character, "is not the only way to break a sentence but you wouldn't know it to look at lise"

single word lines/paragraphs

I could keep going but if I do that I'm just going to get excruciatingly self-conscious so I'm going to quit now before that gets worse

[comment-exchange]

217. Memorize Your Lines (The Daevabad Trilogy)

Title: Memorize Your Lines Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35837509 Platform: AO3 Creator: AuroraWest Work Type: fanfiction Fandom: The Daevabad Trilogy Rating: T Pairing: Jamshid e-Pramukh/Muntadhir al Qahtani Word count: 3,590 Warnings: none Number of comments: 1 Completion Status: complete Short summary/description: The question was never if Muntadhir would get drunk, but rather how drunk Muntadhir would get at his wedding. The answer: drunk enough to need help getting back to his chambers. Drunk enough to ask Jamshid to walk him back. And how can Jamshid refuse? When it comes to Muntadhir, he never has.

[ofgeography]

Happy early birthday! I can tell you, having just turned 37 a few days ago, that my 30s have been MILES better than my 20s. My 20s were all about being An Adult and what other people expected me to be, even though I was miserable, and wondering when I was ever going to figure out how to be a grown up like everyone around me. When I hit 30, I had a revelation - no one knows what the hell they're doing! I am an adult purely by virtue of my age and no one can tell me what the right way is! Seriously, you couldn't pay me to go back to my 20s. I truly hope your 30s are the start of another great decade for you. Thank you for this blog, your crazy stories, and your beautiful music!

yeahhh this is totally it!! my twenties were all about like, figuring out what and who i was an adult. just like, trying a bunch of different stuff on and then discarding it when it didn’t fit right. i was definitely obsessed with trying to figure out the “right” way to do things. now i’m sort of like LISTEN IF IT WORKS, IT WORKS.

[red-shadow-wolf-19]

📓

I bounce between two.

First: After the first Avengers movie, Thor brings Loki back to Asgard. Loki is throughly convinced he'll be executed or at least imprisoned for life. He's shocked when he's brought to a powerful witch (witch here wearing a tshirt saying 'Red needs to retool this character so hard but roll with it'). Several parts of his personality are suppressed, but he knows they are. Like imagine wanting to scream at someone and you and they both know you would have screamed but instead you just sit there calmly. Maybe even say, "I want to scream at you and throw this tea at your head." as you casually hand them a tea cup. It's kinda Dark Thor, kinda Loki Redemption, kinda just overly sentimental fluff. A lot of Thor showering Loki with affection and him going "I really don't deserve it but it's only because of the spell that you like me."

The second one is a cliche A/B/O universe with Grandmaster/Thor/Loki. Sex, angst, classism, abusive Odin, Odin getting the shit kicked out of him, mpreg, and a lot of sarcasm. Great lazy afternoon daydreaming material.

[bereft-of-frogs]

iron man 1, iron man 3, thor: the dark world!

iron man 1 - what made you first get into fanfiction?

Being deeply dissatisfied with the endings to several children’s books, the desire to live inside my favorite sci-fi/fantasy worlds, and a friend going ‘hey have you heard of fanfiction.net’ which gave a word to those early notebooks (earliest I’ve so far found dates to around 1997) and Word documents saved to my family computer.

iron man 3 - underrated fanfic trope?

Hmmm, I don’t know if these things are underrated, but I definitely don’t see as much Case!fic style stories as I feel like I used to. Like, canon-adjacent in tone/level of violence/themes but more (more angst, hurt/comfort, the crunchy emotional stuff canon doesn’t have time or space to cover, etc etc). I don’t really know if it’s underrated exactly, but I do feel like it is in compared to the big AUs, (coffeeshop, soulmate, time-travel, etc etc), which I’m not as much of a fan of.

thor: the dark world - do you ever post things that you dislike?

hmmm welllllll not exactly but, I do sometimes get to a point where I’m like ‘wow I hate this’ with pretty much every fic of mine that I post, but then like, a week later I’m like ‘oh wait, no, this is fire actually’ XD Currently in that stage with, oh, my last 5 posted fics? Though I also know when I look back over them that I do actually like them, I’ll totally come around. I don’t purposefully post things I don’t like.

The only one I really dislike is an unfinished one, because it just reminds me that I posted an unfinished fic, which I said I wasn’t going to do anymore, and also that I’ve utterly lost my ability to write horrifying pwp so that’s a bit sad

[mcu asks!]

[mthofferings2020]

AuroraWest

See AuroraWest’s existing works here and here.

Preferred contact methods: Discord: AuroraWest#0582 Tumblr: aurorawest Tumblr: nonexistenz

Preferred organizations: - Anything from the list of approved organizations

Will create works that contain: Complicated relationships, magic, established relationships, Revengers, Asgard, fluff, angst, dark fic, Thor franchise, Doctor Strange franchise, Loki fic. I’m more about the idea/prompt than specific tropes so the list of things I’ll write is far too long to include here.

Will not create works that contain: AUs, fix-its (unless it could be plausibly canon compliant), genderswap (I will consider Lady Loki, hmu if this is something you’re really interested in), kidfic, anything pregnancy related, any OG Avengers as main characters (except Thor), underage pairings, incest (however, I’ll consider Thorki under very specific circumstances, again, let’s talk if you’re interested!), polyships, “hard” kinks, non/dub-con, age play kinks, bestiality, OCs, body modification, de-aging, watersports, scat.

  -- Fic or Other Writing --

Auction ID: 1135

Will create works for the following relationships: Loki & Thor - MCU Loki/Stephen Strange - MCU Loki & Stephen Strange - MCU Jane Foster/Thor - MCU Jane Foster & Loki - MCU Loki & Valkyrie - MCU

Work Description: I’m offering a fanfiction with the following tiers: 2k minimum - starting bid 5k minimum - $15 15k minimum - $30 Want something longer? Let’s talk about your idea! I love writing character driven pieces and usually get pretty deep into the weeds of the character’s headspace, but I also love writing plotty fic with action! My work tends to revolve around a couple key relationships. I do my best work when I’m writing something I’m passionate about, so I request that you have a few different prompts that we can discuss. Please take a look at my AO3 for examples of the types of fics I write. I’m mainly a Loki writer but am open to writing just about any character in the Thor universe (exceptions would probably be the Warriors 3, but if you’re looking for a Warriors 3 fic, I’ll never say never! Just reach out before bidding so we can figure out if it’s something I think I can write). I only ship Loki with Stephen Strange, but if you’re looking for something else (like Loki/Sif, Loki/Thor, or Loki/Grandmaster), I’ll also write these ships under specific circumstances. Let’s talk if you’re interested. Due to other commitments, I will be able to begin work on this fic in early 2021.

Ratings: Gen, Teen, Mature, Explicit

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-- Fic or Other Writing --

Auction ID: 2057

Will create works for the following relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange - MCU

Work Description: I’m offering a Loki/Stephen Strange fanfiction with accompanying art by nonexistenz! Tiers are as follows: 2k minimum - starting bid ($30) 5k minimum - $35 15k minimum - $40 Want something longer? Let’s talk about your idea! I love writing character driven pieces and usually get pretty deep into the weeds of the character’s headspace, but I also love writing plotty fic with action! I do my best work when I’m writing something I’m excited about, so I request that you have a few different prompts that we can discuss. Please take a look at my AO3 for examples of the types of fics I write. I LOVE Loki/Stephen Strange with the passion of a thousand suns and it is my mission in life to spread the love for this ship — and this is a 2 for 1 because nonexistenz will provide a companion art piece for the fic! Nonexistenz will create a piece of digital, grayscale art with a realistic style to accompany the fic. Please take a look at the examples! We would like to create something with a happy ending and fluff. Due to other commitments, we will not be able to start this project until early 2021.

Ratings: Gen, Teen, Mature, Explicit

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