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Have a gift TD😊

What a beautiful thing to wake up to on this glorious day! Thank you so much, TM <3 <3 <3 I will wear this badge and keep calm after I finish all my happy screeching and write on!

To those of you who've read my newest fic: this is the Tumblr Mom in question. The one I rambled about in my author's notes. The wonderful soul who's giving me the best advice in my early chapters so I can depict these children in their full chaotic glory. Where would I be without you, TM?!

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the national | you were a kindness

I was in a fog, I didn't notice everythingWas coming all apart inside of meThere wasn't anyway for anyone to settle inYou made a slow disaster out of me

[kinoglowworm]

Number 99 for the drabble challenge really speaks to me... For both Victuuri and Kalagang, please 😊

I KNOW you really meant 100 (because I asked, lol, but also because I know you would never pass up an opportunity for a sandwich). Here’s your part 1: 100 for Victuuri.

(takes place sometime before Cup of China)

Nobody looks good in an airport. Maybe it’s the lighting, or just the perpetual exhaustion and substandard hygeiene of every time zone stumbling into each other in one place at any given moment.

Sometimes, people manage to convince themselves that they see beauty in someone there, but that’s relief, not aesthetics. You can trick yourself into thinking someone’s the most beautiful person in the world when you haven’t seen them in a long enough time. But that is certainly beauty that comes from the inside.

Except Victor Nikiforov. He didn’t even fucking try; he was wearing the same navy-blue sweats he’d been wearing since they’d gotten on the train in Hasetsu yesterday morning at - he looked at the clock - just about this time.  Who knows how long it had even been? Was this the same day?

Even so, Victor still managed to look like someone was about to set up a reflector and tripod and shoot an ad for Adidas or whatever the hell brand he was wearing today right there in the middle of this airport in - wherever the fuck they were until they boarded their delayed connection flight.

Not that Yuuri was biased in any way, of course. The fact that Victor’s head was now resting on his shoulder in some state of sleep had nothing to do with this line of thought, either. With his eyes closed like that, he was ready for his close up in whatever ad for a sleep aid or toilet paper that needed a sleeping angel.

Phichit would have some choice words for him later if he didn’t get a picture of this, but Yuuri didn’t dare move for fear of disturbing Victor. It was only a matter of time before he realized what he was doing and this was over.

Yuuri had never really mastered the art of sleeping on planes. No one came out of an airplane well-rested, but Yuuri couldn’t even manage the weak, shallow sleep that most people seemed to on flights. Ultimately, staying awake for however long it took to travel made it easier to adjust to the new time zone. It was hell in the meantime, though. Every sound grated on his ragged nerves and his eyes watered. He didn’t even want to think about what he looked like right now.

On top of that, he hadn’t eaten in - Yuuri’s stomach rumbled loudly the moment he even let the thought cross his mind.

“Hmm?” Victor’s eyes fluttered open. Great, now they were in an ad for laundry detergent or face wash or some shit like that. No one’s eyes were really that clear when they first woke up.

“What? Uh, no? Sorry.” Great. His stomach was so insistent that it was complaining to other people, now.

“Oh, I thought I heard you say something.” Victor mumbled rubbing his cheek up against Yuuri’s shoulder as he settled himself back against it, which gave Yuuri’s body the idea that it might want something else besides a sandwich. Yuuri closed his eyes and took a deep breath through his nose. In. Out. In. Out. He really didn’t need this right now. In. Out. He was not going to let himself be unprofessional like this. In. Out.

Alright.

Maybe he should just close his eyes for a little while and see what happened. Even if he couldn’t fall asleep, sometimes it helped to just give them a rest like that. He could feel the rest of his face relax as his eyes shut. Would it be too much to?

Yuuri let his head tentatively loll to the side, gently resting on top of Victor’s, the platinum hair soft under his cheek. One more deep, slow breath. This was almost comfortable, as much as was possible in these molded monstrosities of chairs. The burning in his eyes eased a little. He could feel the exhaustion tears running along the seam of his eyelids, trying to seal them shut.

Fuck, he thought, eyes flying open, someone needed to watch their carry-on luggage. It would be just his kind of luck to catch five minutes of sleep on the entire trip and have someone manage to take their stuff in that tiny window.

Yuuri’s stomach rumbled loudly again, like some sort of challenge. He could almost hear it as words in his head: You can only suffer through my whining for so long until you get up and make me a sandwich.

Victor shifted his head against Yuuri’s shoulder but didn’t wake up this time. Yuuri inhaled sharply through his nose. Victor really needed to stop doing that if Yuuri was going to pull off this whole ‘professionalism’ thing, even if the truth was that Yuuri would be perfectly happy to stay like this forever, red eyes and grumbling stomach, Victor asleep on his shoulder.

Archaeologists, centuries later, would just find a smiling skeleton in a remarkably-unchanged orange plastic chair, another with its skull resting against the ball of the humerus after starving to death.

And then they would put it in an ad for something. Because Victor would still look that good.

[textsfromthecluster]

@hidden-inside-of-you @gear65

dfjdfgjd i now wish i had made this with kalagang rofl.  for some reason my brain was in blueski mode when i made this.  XD

- @fiftyeightminutes

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For the AO3 tag meme: 3, 6, and 9 TD. I've never seen these before 😁

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK, TM @mtb67, and yeah, these are so different from my usual ask memes. I love that!

AO3 Tag Meme

3. What tag do you search when you need a good time?

I usually search for relationship tags if I’m looking for a fix. I read a lot of fics with Queliot, Fargo (+ basically any F/F ships from The Magicians, and Wickadiyoff). And more recently, Korrasami from TLoK. As for non-romantic relationship tags, Margo & Eliot and Quentin & Julia always make me soft.

6. What tag was the reason you visited AO3 for the first time?

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence. I believe it was for Once Upon a Time, because that was my hyperfixation at the time. The reason, of course, was that I wanted something different from the show and the characters that canon could not satisfy. It remains one of my favorite tags.

9. What tag have you changed your mind about?

I’ve always been open to most tags/tropes so I don’t know if I’ve fully changed my mind on any. HOWEVER. I didn’t used to gravitate toward Coffee Shop AUs. (The tag is Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, according to AO3.) And now I’m writing a whole series within a coffee shop setting. So. That.

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Hi TD 🙂 For the time Ask Meme, how about September Saturday?

Hi TM! Thank you for the ask!

september: share a comment or review which still warms your heart?

Ahh. I have SO MANY comments that warm my heart in so many different ways. It’s gonna be super hard to pick, so I’m gonna pick a comment I got on my FF account, since it’s way more niche, and so readership is rare, and wonderful comments go unseen by many.

It’s one of those stories you stumble across by accident, realise just how much time it will take to get through based on the word count, start anyway and get hooked immediately because everything is just so damn on point … and make it out the other side having read an incredible piece of action/drama/humour/character development that - in a lot of ways - is even better than what happened on screen.

So even though this has long since been completed and I’m quite late to the party, I just wanted to say thanks for pouring so much dedication and meticulous plot development into this one. It’s really an epic read and I thought it comes across as a real homage to all the characters. You obviously really thought things through, opened up the whole Sense8 universe a little and kept it realistic, which is a real feat for such an in-depth story.

Thanks so much for sharing this!

P.S. Also enjoyed the OCs quite a bit, particularly Mavis - she’s just the absolute coolest.

— From a lovely reader whose alias I will not divulge, but if you find my FF profile you’d be able to dig it up in the reviews section of Veracity

saturday: what gets you excited whilst writing?

Besides knowing I get to finish another epic-length story and make you all scream?

Probably the fact that I’m gonna be able to take out all the scenes in my mind and put it on paper, so it can live outside of me instead of only inside. And the belief that someone out there will be emotionally affected by what I wrote in a way that they can find solace in. This is why I write, and why I aim to share what I write :)

[chaptersonetoinfinity]

For the End of the Year asks: 5, 9, and 21. Thank you TD 😊

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK, TM! <3

5. What did you think would be scary and then was not?

Hooooo yes this actually happened very recently, on Christmas. The night before, I was freaking the hell out while writing out some cards for my fam, because I was convincing myself that everything I write would be the Wrong Thing to Say, so it took a chunk out of my energy to even finish it all. Plus I was wondering if the gifts I was giving them were dumb, too. 

Turns out, they weren’t expecting gifts at all! They just wanted to invite me to eat with them because it was Christmas and ALSO MY BIRTHDAY. So they were expecting to buy me food and a cake and celebrate that day. My gifts just brought something extra and they really appreciated them. I had a meltdown for nothing, lol.

Also to a lesser extent, starting my job! I thought it would be a LOT of socializing and navigating through relationships. But really, on most days, we only see each other’s faces for 3 seconds in the break room while getting coffee, a couple more if we run into them at lunch time, and otherwise we all just hide in our cubicles. So it was chill.

9. What was the nicest thing someone did for you?

I had some family as well as personal drama in the middle of the year and me being me, I needed to Rant about them to figure out what to do. A lot of my friends online were super patient with me whenever I went into full-on Sas mode and raged and left them like 20 unread messages every hour. And I got through it and am ever so glad I reached out to people who cared.

As for real life friends, one of my friends who stayed near me during the summer helped me move every time my sublet was up and I had to lowkey relocate to a new temporary place to live. I didn’t have SO MUCH stuff that I needed like a moving van, but I had a lot of shit that I wouldn’t have been able to deal with myself. So thank fuck my friend was there to help. Even when I had to relocate and head to the airport, I packed last minute––because my brain does that––and figured out I didn’t have space for a couple other things THE NIGHT BEFORE I WAS GONNA FLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY, and my friend was here the next morning to take these things away from me. Bless!

21. Name (and reblog) at least three things you’ve made this year that you’re proudest of.

Ha! This was an easy one. Number 1 is my finished fic Veracity. Number 2 is the sort of follow-up mini fic about two OCs from Veracity two years after the timeline of that fic. And number 3 is my Sense8 Hogwarts AU that I worked on during NaNoWriMo (which I’d won!). I haven’t posted yet since I’m still editing and my beta @greenmountaingirl is working on my drafts. But I’ll self-reblog the NaNoWriMo victory post I made on that, and links to the other two :)

End of Year Reflection Asks

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Hmmm. 26, 51, and 52 for the Horrible Ask, TD 😊

Hi TM! Thank you for the ask!

26: What are you craving right now?

I had a healthy-ish dinner that wasn’t overly filling so… Some junk food would be nice. A burger, chicken nuggets, millkshake that’s too filled with chocolate to be good for me… Etc etc. All of that. GIMME.

51: Favourite food?

Hard to say. I’m not a super snobby person when it comes to food (i.e. “I like pizza but only from this artisanal place downtown that bakes it through a specialized oven with 50 spices on the cheese”), but I don’t like to try “mystery foods” or something super complicated and fancy-sounding but unfamiliar unless I’m in the right mood. Any standard old comfort food would be nice. Pasta’s never unwelcome, or soup. Or noodles/ramen in decent broth. Mm. And chicken wings is always a safe bet, and so is anything with chocolate on it, if we’re talking desserts.

52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason?

Honestly, I do. The “reason” could be something super broad, though. Like, something to do with vibes (i.e. “maybe this workplace just isn’t a good fit for me”), or something intrinsic, like “oh this happened because I was not feeling it that day, but there’ll be better days when something nicer can come along”. But from my limited life experience so far, every time things didn’t go my way and I ended up disappointed, I’d think, “Maybe this was meant to happen/not happen”, and then something comes along that’s slightly better in an unexpected way, and it proves me right :)