#michaela speaks

[michaelaofgreen]

My personal idea of hell is knitting a pattern, counting stitches, and realizing youre off by two so you do your decrease and the next row its still two too many so you do the decreases and its one too few so you just knit as the pattern and do your increase and this has been going on long enough that now all the lace is fucked up so you have to frog the entire thing so you start again and this never ends by the way I love knitting i swear

[halliewriteshockey]

An open letter

After much deliberation, I have made the decision to change the spelling of my surname from Grey to Gray. Here's why: 

Many of you are familiar with the issues I’ve had surrounding a woman named Michaela Grey, who took my choice of pen name as a personal affront to her. Over the past ten years, she has doggedly clung to her misguided belief that I ‘stole’ her name and that my decision to use it was an attack on her. 

I’m changing my name to Gray not because of this individual, but in spite of her. I know I have every right to use the name Grey, and nothing she says or does changes that fact. But over the last decade, it’s become increasingly clear this person is unable to be reasoned with. Since I first became aware of her existence, she has engaged in increasingly hostile behavior. She’s called me names, accused me of identity theft, and spread disgusting lies about me and what I write in attempts to discredit me. She’s recruited her friends to likewise attack me, often en masse, repeating the same vicious rumors and insulting everything about me. One of the most common themes, repeated by everyone who’s targeted me, is how bad my writing is, and how I’m a laughable excuse for an author. Another running theme is that I write ’horse porn’, a reference to my very first book, which no longer exists but had horses in it. (No equines got it on, though.) 

Ms. Grey has sent me malware through spam in multiple attempts to infect my computer. She has doxxed me on Twitter. She has claimed I’m altering my appearance in an attempt to more closely resemble her and thus assume her identity. She's accused me of willingly perpetuating her childhood trauma as if I had any idea what her life was like. She’s spread lies and vicious gossip, and even reported the recent fundraiser I held during my medical issues as fraudulent in hopes I’d be forced to pay back all the funds or face charges.

She has stalked, harassed, and bullied me for the past ten years, and even though I know I’ve done nothing wrong, it’s increasingly obvious she’s only escalating. I do not wish my name to be tied to such an unpleasant, toxic individual. She cannot be reasoned with, and has shown repeatedly just how low she’s willing to go on her vicious crusade against me.

Thus, not because she asked me (she didn’t), but because I want nothing to do with her, I have decided to alter the spelling of my last name. Obviously this will be a complicated process. I have to change my name on all my books, including the cover art, and every iteration of it currently online. This will take quite some time. I have changed my display name to Michaela Gray on Twitter and Tumblr, but my username of greymichaela will remain the same on both sites. I’ve built a fan base under that brand and I refuse to let a single individual destroy everything I’ve created.

However, any new social media will be under the name graymichaela instead. If Ms. Grey had ever come to me as equals and said, “it makes me uncomfortable that you’re using my name, and I would appreciate it if you would consider changing it,” I would have listened. I’m not the ‘fucking asshole’ she says I am. I’m willing to be reasonable, and I work hard to be approachable. But she never did that. Instead she chose a vindictive campaign of harassment and abuse from the very jump, as if it were personally targeted at her instead of a stupid coincidence.

She’ll probably think she’s ‘won’. That’s okay. I don’t care what she thinks, and if her narrative needs to twist the facts until she’s the hero and I’m the villain, that’s not something I can control.

I’m working four jobs to make ends meet. My son just got out of the hospital for suicidal intent. My daughter has severe health issues and no diagnosis yet. I’m a single mother raising three children with no help and no respite, and the last thing I need is more drama in my life.

Hence, from here on out, my name is Michaela Gray. I have no affiliation with, nor do I want anything to do with, the individual named Michaela Grey. Any further attacks from her or her friends will be reported to the authorities, along with all the evidence of her decade-long harassment campaign that I’ve been collecting for years. 

Thank you for reading

[countessselena]

M, O, U?

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

Oh, gosh. I have so many things, some finished, some still in idea form. In fact, while I was writing this, another one popped on the backburner (and @goingtothetardis you know EXACTLY WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT AND IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL OF IT!)

Let’s see, what can I share? Well, I have a Ten x Rose Neighbours AU one-shot that I’ve recently finished (after months of trying), and will be posted in the next couple of days. I also have most of my waltz fic (The Doctor and Rose: A Tale in Three Waltzes) finished, which is great since it’s been sitting on chapter one of three since January.  Er...let’s see. I also have a couple of Nine x Rose human AU one shots (humour), one Ten x Rose canonverse  sick/comfort fic, a series two rewrite with a twist, a nine x rose telepathy fic....many things! I am determined to post them at some point, will just take time!

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?

Oh, plot, for sure. I usually start with what I call a ‘trigger thought’- a line from a movie or a song, a news article, or something that makes me think of a certain character reacting to it, etc, and behold, the idea is born. Ahem, if you’ve read Victory Should be Naked, that’s....exactly what happened. Blame the B52s! But once I have that, the characters carry the plot in their way. So starts with plot, but driven by characters.

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

Argh, that’s hard! Can I have 5? Even that is hard! Hmmmm. Well we all know I love @goingtothetardis so I am totally going to mention her work and it doesn’t come out of my five! (I am cheating, I know this). So, who else?

I’d say @jessalrynn, @asthewheelwills, @bluedawn0123, @chiaroscuroverse, @annehedonia, and so many others. Argh, too hard to choose. The meanness of this question!

I love their work because their characterisation is so spot on and for me, that’s what really drives a story. 

Gosh, that was hard!

Thanks for asking.

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[honey-kayloaf]

Y’all do know being a bad bitch is a mindset, not just a look or body type right? Cause y’all don’t act like it

[leviohhsa]

800 years later and I'm back on Tumblr!

Hi everyone! Thank you for being partient with my absent and empty presence on Tumblr. I'm just getting settled into my new apartment with my new husband! I was in Mexico for a week but now I'm working on getting a job and setting up the apartment.

But, it's fall time now so... Harry Potter feels will be kicking into hyperdrive!

[bubble-jet]

YESSSSSS BB

[halliewriteshockey]

Hey y’all, I’m stepping away from social media for awhile. I’m not deactivating, but for my own mental health, I need a break. My shop (which has never been related to my pen name no matter what anyone says) is still active and I’m taking orders, so if you’d like a custom designed perfume or lotion, check it out! Otherwise I’ll see y’all later, probably when the season starts.

Much love to most of you! ❤️

[halliewriteshockey]

We went on a mini adventure today

Deception Pass an hour north

What’s it so pretty here for

*goblin voice* TREEESSS