#claudeng80

[what-plant-metaphor-am-i]

A rare find 🌺

Thanks for the drawing prompt of an excited Ryuu, @claudeng80! Kirito joined for this one, also witnessing something rare it seems.

[zhalfirin]

Bionic Battle Granny - ozhawk

These books were part of the Renegady Publishing Tiny Books Bang 2023 event

The typeset was provided by @claudeng80 The story was written by @ozhawkauthor, check out their work!

Full leather binding with leather onlays in clamshell box. case materials binders board 1,5 (case) different leathers, goatskin, (covering material) heat reactive foil, blue (hot stamped title) blind tooled author name

inner book Munken polar 100gsm (book body) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (endpapers) wibalin (second fly leaf, tipped on the first) button hole silk (endbands)

clamshell box binders board 1 and 1,5 (boxes and case) uncoated blue book cloth (covering material case) @renato-crepaldi marbled paper (covering material boxes) heat reactive foil, cream (hot stamped title)

[sabraeal]

smirk (or if not that, teeth)

Instead his arms wrap tight around her waist, drawing her back. Back, until her spine aligns with her sternum, every part of her touching every part of him. Having gotten her exactly as he wanted her, Obi drops his head, presses his nose to the divot behind her ear, and breathes.

Shirayuki can’t help the smirk that teases her lips. “I thought you were hot?”

His exhale is half groan, half question. “Why?”

She arches an eyebrow he cannot possibly see. “Weren’t you the one who asked to open a window?”

“Not because I was hot,” he murmurs, lips brushing against her skin.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

7 and 24?

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

Let's be real, I post my writing so rarely that I don't know that anyone has a super great idea of what my style even is. But still! While I know people tend to associate me with very dark angst, what I think is more characteristic of my writing is that I like to write about difficult stuff. Like, hard to impossible decisions, situations that never should have happened but happened anyway, the less glamorous parts of building and breaking relationships, stuff like that. That doesn't necessarily result in angst in my writing, but it does tend to be heavy and not super lighthearted, which is something I'm definitely trying to get better at because that's truer to life!

On a more sentence level, I can't think of anything in particular that sets my writing apart. Too many unnecessary clauses? 😂

24. Would you say your writing has changed over time?

Yes, my writing has changed a lot. I mentioned earlier that reading more has changed my writing a ton - and that's published writing, versus when I was younger and I read more fanfic than published stuff. But I also think that Life Experience has hugely changed what I feel like writing about. I laugh whenever I think back to when I was a kid and I was determined to publish before I turned 18. There's something to be said for experiencing more of the world before you really nail down human behavior and what's compelling about life, which is often what's compelling to write about, whether we realize it or not.

[bubblesthemonsterartist]

8 and 18?

8. best book/book series of the year?

I’ll do one for fiction and one for non-fiction.

For fiction: Train to Pakistan by Khushwant  Singh. It’s an older book and historical fiction about the on-the-ground experience during the Partition of India written.. roughly a decade after the fact, so everything was still fresh in everyone’s minds when it came out. What I like the most about this book is how the author did something SUPER clever with the passage of time and the trains and carried through with it. The most discordant the train schedule became, the more discordant society was.

For non-fiction: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones. I got turned onto this book because of a talk I attended through work. The American religious experience isn’t precisely my focus, so a lot of the information included in the book was new to me. However, what impressed me the most about this book in particular was how the author, a native Mississippian, went to the effort to point out how baked in religiously-inspired racism occurred in every region of the US, not just The South as everyone is so keen to assume.

18. what surprised you the most this year?

Just how MUCH I enjoy working from home. My mental and physical condition is SO much better because of the break I’ve taken from going into the office. Also, the quality of my work has improved as well. I always thought I would hate wfh as a lifestyle, but now I’m wondering how I’m ever going to go back. Or what I can do to continue working from home after this is all over, even if it’s just a few days a week.

End of Year Asks

[onedivinemisfit]

13 and 19?

13. best movie of the year?

- oh shoot, I’m terrible at watching movies, ummm did I see something new this year... oh, I did watch the 2015 SpongeBob Movie. I quite liked it, when the shots weren’t trying to make me spastic XD

19.  do you look different from the beginning of the year?

- a little, I think. I’ve been to the hairdresser every two months to get rid of the bleached, damaged ends so I’m all-natural again, tho my haircut is mostly the same. And I’ve reworked my wardrobe a little, focusing a bit more on elegant femininity rather than cutesy - my babyface doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon so I guess this was me trying to look more grown-up. <w<

[jhalya]

"Only if you use your tongue," Canon

It doesn’t seem unreasonable to Shirayuki that she wants to see Obi naked

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21338323/chapters/59655457

[amarguerite]

Five times Captain Wentworth was tempted to lie to a superior officer... (I hope this was what you meant)

I misread your prompt so this actually turned into “Five Times Frederick Wentworth Lied to a Superior Officer.” As with all my Temeraire-Austen crossovers, it’s mostly “man discovers how shitty life is for women in this period,” with some bonus pining over Anne Elliot and the evolution of his friendship with Captain Bennet.