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kellepotato replied to your post “A Kind of Merry War (37185 words) by blithers Chapters: 7/7 Fandom:...”
omg thank you so much for finishing this. I have been following it since the beginning and every new chapter brought me life!!
Thank you, and I hope you enjoyed the ending! It’s been quite a ride. <3 <3 <3
ignitesthestars replied to your post: laughingsmilez asked:Potential Pr...
this is beautiful CONFLICT GO
ahaha, Victoria's middle name should probably be conflict. She HATES EVERYTHING except her family who she will love to the end of time even if they're idiots (ZEKE) who don't listen to her SAGE ADVICE. So much angst for her to cause, so little time.
kellepotato replied to your post: laughingsmilez asked:Potential Pr...
!!! I dig this so much I love seeing your original fic!!
Thank you! That's always nice to hear. :)
kellepotato answered your question:okay so tell me your first impression of the...
i see mysterious love interest!! i see gavroche in full teenage rebel form.
LMAO HE IS ACTUALLY FANTASY FRENCH, SO GOOD CALL. the main character of this book is hella gay though. he might think he's mysterious love interest material, but she doesn't :'D
a ghost probably
Ooh that would be so cool I'd haunt everywhere and fly around and pass through walls and things
i am freakishly obsessed with your belle/phillippe drabble can you tell me more about it?? is it a one-time thing? are you going to expand? any plans for it in the future or should i just cherish the words you've blessed us with already???? please don't feel pressure to continue if you don't want to i'd just like to know!
allow me to direct you to starforged! the characters are actually hers - she came up with them and their story and their world and is way more qualified to answer any questions than i am haha. here is a short story she wrote herself, though c:
in which clarke is allergic to the flowers in the shop below her apartment and is forced to resort to desperate measures, even if it means dealing with the surly owner
I kind of played around with it, because the idea was too much fun to resist.
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Clarke loved flowers, she really does.
Bouquets are some of her favorite gestures and she inherited her father’s talent of making things grow. She has a miniature herb garden on her window sill, tiny pots of basil and thyme and rosemary. She adds them to her recipes when she cooks. She’s never met a plant she didn’t like.
Until now.
Living above a flower shop seemed like such a great idea at the time. Inexpensive, conveniently located near her hospital, lovely flowers every day. What was not to like?
Until the day she started having a sneezing fit every time she walked through shop to get to her apartment. She’s not sure what it is, but it’s starting to get really inconvenient.
The only sensible solution is, as far as she can tell, to go through the flowers and find which ones are causing the reaction.
If the pretty dark-haired girl with the quick and friendly smile were on clerk duty, she’d do it.
But the guy with the perpetually surly scowl is almost always behind the register and quite frankly, Clarke didn’t understand how they get any customers with him glowering at everyone who comes in. She wasn’t entirely sure how he got the job—wouldn’t being around flowers everyday make someone happy?—but it’s not her shop, after all. So she slipped in after her shifts and tried to surreptitiously smell the bouquets and find out what, exactly, is the problem.
This grand plan lasts exactly all of two days before the dark-haired guy asked from behind her irritably, “Are you going to actually buy some flowers or what?”
Clarke jumps a mile and sneezed.
It wasn’t a socially acceptable sneeze either, it was the kind that made her whole body convulse. Once she’s righted herself and more or less presentable, the clerk is looking at her like she’s lost her mind.
Like you’ve never had an allergic reaction, she thought resentfully.
“I think I’m allergic—” she started to say, but another violent sneeze overtook her. The clerk decided it was time to back away slowly from the crazy sneezing girl. Once he was almost completely out of the aisle, the sneezing stopped.
She blinked several times, testing it, before looking at him. “…I think I’m allergic to you.”
The look on his face promptly made Clarke decide discretion was the better part of valor and she bolted for her apartment.
Raven on the phone that night had no sympathy.
“Clarke, honey, that’s just sad,” she said and Clarke grumbled, “Tell me something I don’t already know.”
The next morning, she crept through the flower shop, bracing herself for the onslaught of sneezing.
Nothing happened.
She looked around warily, fully prepared for an attack, but her lungs were clear, her nose didn’t tingle. She was fine.
“My sister Octavia told me the cologne smelled bad,” offered a quiet voice and she turns to see the dark-haired clerk, no longer scowling darkly, but not entirely smiling either. “I have to say, having a girl actually be allergic to me is a new one,” he went on and Clarke, despite herself, blushed.
“Try soap next time,” she suggested and was slightly shocked at her own boldness.
“I’ll remember,” he said drily and much to her surprise, held out his hand to her. “Bellamy Blake. My sister and I own the place.”
“Your sister, that’s the girl who’s here?” Clarke asked, accepting his hand and wondering why she should feel so relieved about that.
“That’s her,” he said, his hand almost completely enclosing hers. He had callouses on his palms. “This place used to be our mother’s.”
“Oh,” Clarke said softly, a flicker of understanding going through her, though she didn’t press it. Instead, she let go of his hand and looked around the bright, colorful shop, full of blooms, hope and promise. “I’ll see you around,” she told him, making for the door and he called after her, “Tell me what kind of flowers you like.”
“All of them,” she said over her shoulder with a grin. “Good luck.”
He didn’t give her all of them, but there was a small bouquet outside her door when she got home, a note attached.
Next time, there’ll be dinner.
Hi! I've been meaning to ask you the same question anon did as soon as I realized you're a journalist. Just a follow-up question: I'm on my school's features magazine and I really like writing columns and op-eds instead of the cut and dry reporting articles. Any advice as to where to go from here to college? Also if you don't suggest majoring in journalism, what major would you recommend instead? thank you SO much (from an unsure high school senior about to apply to college)
Pretty much same advice I gave to the anon: join your college newspaper! They're always looking for staff, which includes columnists. My college newspaper wouldn't let columnists do reporting to avoid the appearance of bias in news stories, but that's not necessarily the case for all newspaper. I would recommend getting experience in reporting, even if you don't like it all that much, if you're interested in becoming a journalist because you're rarely going to find just columnists on staff unless your news org happens to be a big national or regional publication. A lot of columnists at smaller papers are freelancers more often than not.
As far as the college and picking a major go, I guess it just depends on what you want to study. If you want to study journalism, that's totally cool! Media law and theory are actually super interesting. It's more the practical, newswriting aspects of the major that I think are best taught outside the classroom. A lot of people suggest political science or history (or even Accounting, blegh!) as a major with a journalism minor instead, but if I went back, I'd probably shore up with something like graphic design or criminal justice instead.
I'd also recommend looking at the student media at the schools you're applying to and seeing if they have a strong history of award-winning, independent and quality productions. A good student newspaper/news organization will teach you so much, and give you plenty of on-campus journalism experience and opportunities. (And it never hurts to ask if they provide scholarships to staff on the newspaper either!)
kellepotato replied to your post: suchastart asked:Percabeth! Taxi,...
HAVE YOU READ the night circus by Erin morgenstern because it and this au are basically twins
Yes! I read it when a few years ago, when it came out and getting hyped up everywhere. I realized halfway through writing it that it was pretty much a Night Circus AU, minus the competing magicians.
touchablyalive replied to your post: suchastart asked:Percabeth! Taxi,...
OH MY GOD JESS I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO /START/ WITH HOW EPIC THIS AU IS
Thanks! I probably spent more time brainstorming everyone's jobs than actually writing the thing. Mr. D would totally be down for putting all the kids in a circus/carnival and letting them perform for profit under his name. Good times would be had by all.
