hiii are you still active :(( just wanted to check because i've devoured cross my palm with silver in an hour and was wondering if you're still writing at all
im vaguely, barely alive,,, overwhelmed by work, which i have been for the past several months, but even more so in the last few...;,,
i am indeed still thinking about naomie..... slowlyyy....
for anyone who wants to know: writer's block means im just about ready to throw up my hands and tag in a veeery unexpected character in the next chapter.
Naomie from @toraffles Peaky Blinders fic cross my palms with silver.
My brain hasn’t been producing a lot of happy chemicals recently, what with the world being what it is, but boy howdy this fic gave me several quality crumbs of serotonin.
Can you reccomend some rewrites that include Rose from season two and on. I've already read the one from chocolatequeennk. Thanx.
Hello there, Nonny. you want Episode rewrite! I totally get you, they are so fun to read. Don’t forget to check out our list of reclists classified by episodes and specific moments in the Doctor/Rose Timeline right here. Of course those will only show you the fics we reviewed, here are some more that we’ve read but didn’t have time to review for you yet:
Fic Rec: Doctor♡Rose: Episode & Series Rewrites:
@buffyann23 recced:
The Wolf and the Thief, by @mercwithamouth 9,10(T)210k Season 1&2
Howling with the Storm, by @mercwithamouth 10(T)245k Season 3
The Old Team, by @emkaywho 10(T) 140k Season 3
Just as it Should Be, by @emkaywho 10(T) 150k Season 4
The Long and Winding Road, by @isilienelenihin 10(T)260k Season 4
Love and Monsters, by #Torchwood85 10(M)20k Season 2
@farmgirlusa recced:
Rewritten, by @bittie752 10&11(T) 40k Season 2
@chiaroscuroverse recced:
Five and Half Hours Later, by #Sap1066 9,10(M) 65k Season 2
A Man who Wasn’t There Verse, by #Coru 9(T) WIP Season 2
Distance, by @lauraxxtennant 10(M) 45k Season 2
Through Trials and Tribulations, by @krazy-ky-sta-hatter 10(T) 190k Season 2
Through the Stars, by @krazy-ky-sta-hatter 10(T) 85k WIP Season 3
Starlight Verse, by @wintermoth 10(T)Season 3&4
Run with You Verse, by @mltrefry 10,11&12(T) Season 3,4,5&6
Unwritten, by #Jecir 11(T) 30k Season 6
@natural–blues recced:
Searching the Stars, by #SingingFrogs 10(T)120k Season 3
Domina Lupa, by @toraffles 9&10(T) 30k WIP Season 1&2
The Return of the Wolf, by @captainfredrickwentworth 10(T)215k WIP Season 1,2,3&4
Her Forever, by#LoveAvonTardis 10(T) 35k WIP Season 3
If anyone have any suggestions or wants to rec their own fic, please, add them to this post or send them to our ask box! Hope it help. Enjoy ;-)
I was wondering if u were ever going to update Cross my palm with silver at all? I only ask because I dreamt about it today I'm actually obsessed. It's such a good story and your writing is amazing!! Just wanting to know if you're gonna a come back to it <3
THANM YOU FOR WAITING
I want to write it too, but I'm stuck!!!! There's one part of the chapter that's written and cleanly wrapped, but it's too short for a normal chapter, and the next part of Naomie at the party (at the derby) is just ??? what's going on @ myself
i know you probably get this question asked a lot (and i don’t mean to be another annoying bugger) but will cross my palm ever be picked up again? whatever the answer is, i just wanted to say how much i enjoyed it even after rereading it an unhealthy number of times!! your writing is beautiful and i love love love noticing the small things in between the dialogue and scenes. thank you! <3
because you said this to me i guess im gonna update in the next week ♡ (ㆁᴗㆁ✿) it's my favourite thing to hear about ppl's experiences reading my stories!
for some reason (like always lol!) i had the sudden urge to reread cross my palm with silver and something new stuck out to me, and i just wanted to share that i thought it was cool that no matter how many times i reread something new will always stick out or I'll just experience again but always new yk? but yeah love the story and your writing and I hope you're doing okay <33
thank you, I love hearing this!!! it's absolutely mind blowing that people are rereading cross, and enjoying it even on their second, third, etc. reads. what was new for you this time? what was new every other time? im so curious!!
Hey I love your cross my palms with silver story so much! I was wondering if you’re planning on carrying it on or have you stopped?😭 it’s my favourite 💞
Hey, thanks for reading!! I definitely haven’t stopped cross my palm, I’m just crazy busy rn. Like at least half the next chapter is written. In fact, here’s an excerpt!!
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cross my palm with silver (line their pockets with good fortune)chapter v, excerpt:
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Because there, stood within the shadow of a broken wall of bricks, was Naomie Young. Her hair was a fierce black halo, wilder than Grace had ever seen it, and her eyes were two black holes; looking into them felt like entering an abyss, lightless and unfathomably deep. Her pale moon face was a cold, hollow thing, completely empty of expression. Grace did not believe in the supernatural but Naomie seemed, right then and there, to be something beyond human. It was as if a terrible spirit had taken over her mortal body, or as if she had herself become some distant, nebulous creature.
For a short, fervid moment, Grace vividly believed all of Naomie's claims of being a witch.
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“Naomie,” Grace finally sighed. She offered a hand out to the girl and, when Naomie grasped it, pulled her up to her feet. They stood next to the unconscious man, close enough for their skirts to whisper against each other. Grace’s eyes fixed on the wounds on Naomie’s face. “You’re hurt.”
She ghosted the back of her hand over Naomie’s bruising cheek and tenderly brushed a thumb under the wet cut along her lower lip. “Tommy will kill me,” she murmured, just to fill the silence.
Naomie snorted. “He doesn’t have the right.“
Grace was silent for another long moment, her lashes lowering. And then, finally, she said, “Thank you.”
“Of course,” Naomie answered easily, dimpling sweetly at her. She reached out and grabbed Grace’s hand. “We’re friends, aren’t we?”
“Yes,” said Grace. She looked onto Naomie’s lovely little face; her body felt numb all over, her mind like a vacant room, but her heart squeezed hard in her chest. Under the cover of her skirt, her fingers tightened around the hand in hers. “Of course.”
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“Naomie,” Tommy called, low and warning. He was clearly getting frustrated with Naomie’s stonewalling. Grace might almost have worried for her, except that she could still see his thumb stroking idly along her jaw.
At this, a frown came upon Naomie’s brows. “What, Thomas?” she demanded, turning serious. She dropped the evasively lighthearted tone that she’d put on. “What will you do if you know? Track him down and cut him up? Kill him? And why? Because he treats women badly? Or maybe because he got a hit in on me?“
Tommy said nothing, but the muscles in his cheek were visibly bunching up. Unease stirred in Grace’s chest. What was Naomie doing? Tommy had been angry for her, at first, but now it looked as if he was fast becoming angry with her. Naomie was courting danger, and Grace couldn’t quite tell why.
"Well, let me tell you this, Thomas. You can’t kill this man.”
“I can’t?” he asked, silky and dangerous. His thumb stilled on Naomie’s face. Grace’s breath was a thick stone caught in her throat. “And why is that?”
“Because I’ve read it,” Naomie declared. Grace had no idea what this meant, but Naomie sounded bold as brass. Like she didn’t notice that the hand cradling her jaw could just as easily twist and wrap around her neck. “A portent. It doesn’t matter who kills him; that man cannot die anytime soon, or else a disaster will descend upon you. And not a small one, either.”
Coming from anyone else, this would have sounded like a threat. Tommy remained silent for a long time, his lashes low. Grace’s hand groped for the purse still hanging from her shoulder, the feeling of the gun inside grounding her.
“No time soon, eh?” he said, sounding pensive.
“No time soon,” agreed Naomie, with a quick nod that dislodged his hand.
I know you guys were looking for the next chapter of FNS and not a rewrite, but I honestly didn’t have a clue where the story was headed except for some vague floating thoughts on what might be cool to see. Every time I tried to retcon the random details I’d thrown into the story to make sense, the explanations I had to come up with to force everything to logic properly were super convoluted, which led to more and more logic holes that required more convoluted explanation until it just became a mess.
Things I had to retcon in this unwieldy fashion: literally everything about the snail stations, L’s half-hearted pursuit of Sakura, the Whammy boys, BB, the little siblings, the dead parents, how Sakura became a famous assassin, the mechanism to keep loose lips shut — the list goes on. At some point, I knew I would hit a complete dead end, but I was still attached to the plot. So I decided it was best just to start over.
Will this new version take a billion and a half years for me to write and and for you to read again? Well, yeah... But this would have been true for the original version, and for Sol Invictus, and for Firefly, and for La Conflagrazione, etc. I just don’t have the time or energy that I did back when I was starting university. Not to mention my laptop recently went caput and now I have to do everything on my phone or a temporarily borrowed laptop. I want to keep writing, though. Of course I do. I just need more time between chapters to get things of quality out. So keep cheering in your sweet little hearts for toraffles to get shit figured out and something will come out eventually!
