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yay, time to be predictable: To Winter in Russia

Hey, not completely predictable, I didn't know WHICH book of nile wip you would ask about <3

This is a getting-together, canon compliant fic. Or, at least canon with the only movie that matters!!!

Basically everyone goes to ground after a mission goes south and Booker takes Nile with him to a safehouse deep in the Russian wilderness in winter. Hence the name.

There's only one bed trope, forced proximity, slow burn, you get it.

Here's a snippet

Nile stepped into the room, but there was no sign of Booker. The room had a double bed with a chest at the foot of it, and a side table with what looked like an electric lamp, but Nile was sure this remote cabin didn’t have electricity. A pile of blankets fell onto the bed and Nile jumped back in surprise. “Holy shit, Book!” Nile gasped. She now noticed a hole in the ceiling which Booker was lowering himself through. He jumped down onto the bed and reached up to pull a wooden hatch closed. “Sorry, I wanted to get more blankets before it got colder.” “It’s fine.” Nile let her breathing even out as her conscious mind struggled to realize what she had already figured out. One bed. In nearly thirty years of this new life she had never been to a safehouse that didn’t have enough beds for at least four of them. By that point she hadn’t encountered a new safehouse in over a decade though. Still, this was strange. She stared at the bed for a beat before it dawned on her. “This is your safe house,” Nile said slowly. “Very astute, Nile," Booker said, grabbing the blankets and moving back into the main room. “No, I mean this is yours. Like your personal safe house.” Nile followed him out into the main room, but he didn’t respond. Instead he set the blankets down on the sofa, sat down, and began unlacing his boots. “Has anyone else been here?” Nile asked, sitting down next to him and following his lead to take off her own boots. “Of course they have.” “When?” “Andy was last here in the 70s. Joe and Nicky in 1902, I think.” “You realize that’s all well before I was born, right?” Booker chuckled. “Have I told you how nice it is not to be the baby of the group anymore?” “You have.” Nile rolled her eyes. “Frequently.” Booker stood up and walked over to stand by the fire. “What about you?” Nile asked as she finished removing her boots. Booker made a hmm sound as if he had been lost in thought. “When was the last time you were here?” Nile asked again. “Three- no four years ago, after Jakarta. Before that was around 2035-” Booker trailed off. Nile couldn’t see his face but she’d known him long enough to know that he was dancing around something, so she remained silent. “Before that was after London,” Booker said, still staring at the fire. “This is where I spent most of my short lived exile. At least, after Quynh was back.”

[reachthebluedot]

2nd Book Bound - For Roses, Too - sindirimba - Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day

Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day folks!

For FFWAD, Renegade Bindery runs an event where we bind copies of fics for their authors, and I thought "I'm new here, let's do it". So it is 21st August 2023 so it's time to post about my contribution to the @renegadepublishing FFWAD event. This is, full disclosure, the second binding project I have completed, though not the second one I started XD (WIPs? What are they?).

I made @sindirimba a copy of their lovely fic, For Roses, Too. Working with her on this was just such a pleasure and I'm so glad she is enjoying having it in her hands <3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Some Info Words: 112,787 Pages: 515 (appendix included), 498 (fic only) Binding: folio, square backed Bradel, full cloth Book cloth: blue buckram Decoration: heat reactive foil, traced graphics (I cannot take credit for the design elements, or the fonts) Endbands: Single core, front bead endbands, red and yellow friendship bracelet floss around a twine core.

Notes: This is a significant improvement over the first binding I did (Pride and Prejudice). Both of the main issues were improved upon. The book can fully open and close, and the end papers are much less wrinkled :) (The copy I am making for my own shelf is still an unglued text block. If I don't get it finished before the fall semester starts, then it is likely to stay that way until I graduate in December. Unless of course, the university cancels one of my classes, because they still haven't assigned an instructor to it. We are two weeks out folks, and the instructor is still listed as "Staff".)

[sluttyhenley]

writing ask game: 8, 12, 22

Hi! 💖 I had to like. Think about these

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

I think action. You can do so much more with action. So much can be said without words. But I feel like dialogue is more limiting in its way. Those in between moments. You can’t convey inferiority as well with just dialogue without running the risk of slipping into therapy speak. But with action there’s so much more possibility. And so many different ways you could do it. Ways you could constrain the characters’ dialogue. Are they trying to go undetected. Has their ability to speak been limited by an outside force. Is it just one character’s journey. Are two characters choosing not to talk to each other but have to engage in some amount of cooperation anyway? So many more possibilities. And it’s something I have to be wary of doing in my own writing already. Sometimes I’ll realize my characters haven’t spoken in a while and maybe I should fix that

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

1. the ability to not get bogged down in transitions between scenes

2. Better/more varied descriptors/imagery (I feel like this would single-handedly solve a lot of my problems)

3. For my ability to write to actually sync up with my time to write

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

Ha. Hahahahaha. Sometimes I’ll think I should get more organized about my writing and then do I? No. With a couple of exceptions I don’t even have previous iterations of drafts. I edit the original document. When I hand write things I just. Fill up the notebook. Outlines live in my head. I’m trying to use the draft tool in ellipsus but that most facilitates collaboration. Organization? I don’t know her

[linaxart]

is this an interesting face to sketch :c it makes me laugh <3

Hahaha I actually meant people this time! But the little guy got to me

Thank you sindiiii 💞💞

[knoepfchen]

ooh what's "Georgian moonlight metaphor" all about?

hahaha, you and @sindirimba really do share a mind 💙

"Georgian moonlight metaphor" is my Big Bang, which I pitched like this:

'Who do you need to do to get a drink around here?'

The woman behind the bar winked at her. Quynh raised her eyebrows. 'Well?'

The woman laughed, and blew her dark fringe out of her eyes. In the dim light of the bar, Quynh couldn't make out their colour, but they were pale, and shone whenever a stray beam of light hit them. They made Quynh feel uneasy - or not uneasy. A little exposed, maybe. She couldn't decide if that was a good thing or not.

'Alright, alright, I'll start you off easy. What do you want?;

It was only later, when Quynh had downed her second Whiskey Sour, that she realised she said 'who' not 'what.' English was a language from hell.

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Andromaquynh rom-com: Quynh is an acclaimed writer of literary fiction who has never missed a deadline in her life. Andy is the woman of a thousand trades she meets on a research trip for her latest book. At the beginning, they barely speak the same language. At the beginning, they think it's just a bit of fun. At the beginning, Quynh couldn't have imagined what it might take to make her miss a deadline. (I'll give you a hint: It's lesbian sex.)

It's called "Georgian moonlight metaphor" because all I've got so far is an intro and the fact that it's going to be set in Georgia, because it's my modern AU hc that Andy is from there, but I'm super excited to get stuck in further!

(WIP ask game)

[bossymarmalade]

candle, soft, gentle!

THANK YOU DARLING

candle - does the limitless of the universe scare you or intrigue you? : When I was younger I was very into science fiction and space! But as the years went by I started to find the limitlessness of the universe TERRIFYING. I don’t like its incomprehensibility; I don’t find it comforting to think about how vast and unknowable it is, the way some people do. Thinking about the depth of the oceans is bad enough! I DON’T NEED SPACE 

soft - if you were the main character in a picture book, where would your adventure be to? : a Wonderland type of place! I like fairytale sorts of scenarios, but Narnia’s too dangerous and Oz is predicated on Dorothy’s specialness; Wonderland is designed to challenge the visitor’s preconceived notions and I like that idea. Plus there’s lots of opportunities for eating and drinking which is always a plus, especially in a picture book  XD

gentle - what’s a language you want to learn? : oooh. French is a language it would benefit me to learn jobwise, it being Canada’s second official language; Cantonese is a language I really could stand to learn given Vancouver’s huge Chinese population; but Hindi is the language I want to learn. And am going to attempt! Not in university or for grades, this time. We’ll see how much of it actually sticks, lol.

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[ongreenergrasses]

writing ask game: 1, 9, 30

1. Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?

rewrite completely but keep basic plot…evil fic needs to be launched into the sun but I don’t think the basic plot itself is that bad. objectively marathon sex with multiple orgasms is a fine premise, it’s just that the fic needs to be razed to the ground completely because it is hot garbage. I don’t think absolutely anything from the original fic would remain and the premise is vague enough that it wouldn’t feel like a rewrite.

9. Thoughts on cliffhangers.

I love cliffhangers! I think fanfic is a good medium for cliffhangers as well because it is often posted in a modern serialized fashion, which we rarely have in other forms of writing anymore. I will say that a) I’ve never been invested enough in them to write a particularly good one and b) I think that people in general aren’t invested in writing good ones and taking advantage of this element of the medium, because the ones I’ve seen have come across as equally afterthought and unintentional as mine. that’s not to say there aren’t great cliffhangers out there bc I’m sure there are but they seem underutilized

30. Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn't.

many cases in my Obsidian vault. I very nearly wrote some horror for tog’s horror event, had a sort of time loop situation happening, but I just ran out of time with school. unfortunately it never got past very vague ideas but it was andromaquynh and it had Andy trapped in the day of as odd as this seems. a day where Nile was captured and then slowly going insane over it because of all the memories it brings up.

yet another writing ask

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THE President of Book of Nile nation, an honor 🫡