#back to editing

[welcometowaltacademy]

Hi.

Just hope you know I still have an undying love for this comic and think about it pretty much every day. I've SUCCESSFULLY transferred around 40 issues and have reviewed/know what to fix for around another 115 and then have around 100 issues I still need to upload/review.

Moving the issues has been a lot of work. A lot of trial and error. Sometimes I have wondered if there is even a point to it and have contemplated, even with my love for the comic, if I should let it end here with all the other stuff (some good and some very bad) going on in my life.

But I really love this comic. It's something that actually makes me truly happy. And I know some day it will be over. But I don't want it to end like this.

So thanks for your patience and know I'm still chugging away because this shit really still matters to me. 💙

[boogleboot]

crikey. a year since I started writing Fateheart. Roughly. What a time that was.

and still is, actually. it's not like I've stopped. The third book, second sequel to The Starless Sea, is in the works. I took a break from it the past months because I have been quite unwell, but it is called The Lotus Flowers and it WILL get done it WILL it WILL it WILL.

I also have Fever Pitch to finish, which is an interrim story that was going to go along with the rest of the collection of stories in the extended canon, but is actually rapidly approaching another full-sized book. (I think Fateheart has warped my perspective slightly on what constitutes a full-length story hahah.)

@erinmorgenstern are you aware that Zachary Ezra Rawlins has moved permanently into my brain? He has truly set up his entire life and his gaming desk in here and refuses to get out.

I've spent more close and intentional creative time with these characters - with Zachary, Dorian, Kat, Madame Love Rawlins particularly - than any others ever in my life and by golly I'm having a great time.

Erin pls read Fateheart and then have an extremely detailed conversation with me about Zachary's backstory, I have so many questions and also I want to know what you think of Leander.

Kidding. Erin owes me nothing. Though I owe her so much creative fulfilment at this point I would hardly know where to begin.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've known forever that the way to be a writer is to write. Only in the last year have I fully and confidently begun to claim that I am, in fact, a writer. And that is thanks to The Starless Sea. Some of this fanfiction is the best stuff I have ever produced, and I am very, very proud of it.

(Shoutout Death in the Valley, my beloved.)

Currently editing the latest Zachary/Dorian story to go up on Ao3 later today. It's called 'The Man Named Sky' and it is, courtesy of Katrina Hawkins, another dumb contrived time-travel plot (she loves them). I like this one a lot. It was supposed to be short, and I still think it's short, but it also turned out to be around 27k words, which my friends assure me is not, in fact, a short fic.

Ever onward, ever upwards. Book 4 is already in the planning, and then who knows. My mother keeps telling me to apply my attention to original works but until I have thoroughly and entirely worked through all my many, MANY thoughts about Dorian, I simply shall not be able to, I think.

And I'm having too much fun.

Gonna try to work on Fever Pitch (Set 5 years after Fateheart, 6 - or 9, depending on how you count it - years after The Starless Sea) while I'm at home for two weeks. It's an Alice and Wonderland-themed Starless Sea story, so that's going to be fun.

I have several other little gems to bash out for the extended Fateheart canon collection, and Lotus Flowers rolls slowly ever onward in the background like a slow-cooker pot with a dull red light that fills the kitchen with a slowly growing scent of herbs.

I am a writer!!! I have so many things in progress and so many things I am excited to work on!! And literally all of them are from or about The Starless Sea!! Haha!! WHat!!!!

Anyway. Thank you, Zachary, for the matcha latte drink by my side right now. Thank you Erin Morgenstern for writing a very fun book I like very much. Thank you to my discord besties for being so madly supportive and lovely about everything I write. Thank you to the academy for this little golden statue. Thank you to Mhatma Ghandi for peace and love on planet earth. Thank you Jennifer Coolidge for empowering women everywhere what no what let me finish my speech le t me hELP--

[i-platypus]

Ted Lasso for the tv ask game 💖

Give me a TV series and I’ll tell you:

Favourite character: Trent Crimm, Independent || Second favorite? Rebecca Welton, of course

Funniest character: Coach Beard. I will forever love "Pineapple Percussions." (Dole-drums) || AFC Richmond himbos (just, as a collective) Best-looking character: Rebecca Welton (I mean, jesus, just look at the woman)

3 favourite ships: Ted/Rebecca (although I champion their friendship too, so if we just stayed with that, I'm happy); Roy/Keeley (grump-sunshine dynamic that actually is written well? oh my lord...); Colin/his cute squeeze (it's very sweet) Least favourite character: Jaime's dad, Edwin Akufo, George Cartrick Least favourite ship: Sam/Rebecca (there were a few problematic elements); Keeley/Jack (did neither one of them any favors in terms of the writing); Beard/Jane (just because I think they may inadvertently doom us all) Reason why I watch it: The writing is (90% of the time) clever, and it's nice to have a show that understands that positivity is complex, but kindness is an absolute necessity Why I started watching it: I think the trailer was really good? And then mum and I got hooked because s1 was so solid. I hope they can carry that through to the end -- there have been some episodes in s3 that were, well... the show deserved better

Let's Play! TV Show Ask Game

[mimiwrites2000]

I was editing and-

looks like someone needs to learn how to add actual useful notes

[cherrypeter]

Y'know, it's funny; anti's call us pedo's for shipping stark.er because of the age gap but like, some of them have even gone to the length of saying tom is underage and thats??? Fucking pathetic bullshit. Especially with toms 23rd birthday just passing.

Like why do YOU guys get to DE-AGE Peter for all your ' uwu pwecious ' spider s.on fics but then scream bloody murder the minute we write an of age Peter in our fics but say its toms spi.dey? You can't have it both ways loves; you're either against messing with ages at all or you need to shut your fuck and scroll past things like an adult, which most of you are.

Us using toms face/spi.dey for our fics does not make it pedo or anything. Not when we write him of age. Tom is old enough to be used as represenative for our Peter . So like if anything? Ya'll need to stop infantizing Tom AND Peter so damn much if you're this uptight over something fictional and has no real legal grounds for harassment.

[glowing-peony]

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[neirawrites]

I have a question for you peeps: how do you get your friends to read your stuff? Not people on the internet, not publishers or anything that big, but the people you hang out with?

See, i've sent my first book,  A Better World, to most of my irl friends and not one of them read it. It's been well over a year now and i'm getting really salty. The one person who did read it, my online writing buddy, seemed to really like it and I dig it very much, but no one else even gave it a chance. Yeah, i know people are busy with their lives and maybe they don't like sci fi (even tho i know for a fact some do), but it's only 100,000 words, not the combined works of Victor Hugo. I'm losing hope and self confidence. I didn't sent them the sequel or my other, shorter novel, nor did i send anything to the few new people i met recently, because i can't deal with the anticipation and the disappointment when i finally realize how little they actually care. I know, i know, you're supposed to write for yourself, but come on, how am i supposed to improve if no one wants to give me any feedback, even the people who are should care about me the most? I would rather they tell me i suck because than i can work to improve, but this radio silence seems far more cruel.

For the record, i'm trying not to be pushy. I sent them all the manuscript once or twice in the span of a few months, just to remind them this is something very important to me, but i'm not mentioning it in every conversation, shoving it down everyone's throat. I just want some feedback from the people i love. I want them to be a part of this aspect of my life i care sooo freaking much about.

Thanks for any future advice you might send my way.

[sheerioswifties]

You know what bothers me almost as much as the obnoxious self reblog posts... is then seeing the posts of people talking about how they'll never get noticed, wishing Taylor knew they existed, etc... those ones make me so sad and angry. Nobody should have to feel that way!! It's awful really and yet I see SO many of those posts. SO many people feeling lost in the shuffle. Because of self rebloggers clogging up Taylor's dash with shit content, so many really cool people with really great quality posts feel let down, feel overlooked, feel invisible. It's just really sad and I hate feeling helpless to do anything about it. And it's a wound that keeps getting freshly torn open for all those people every time Taylor is on. It's also kind of a sad metaphor for our world in general right now; a few loud obnoxious voices drowning out the deep thoughts and insights of everyone else. I just. I don't know. When are we finally going to change?