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[tailsbeth-writes]

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Hello! 💛

I've had a lot of new faces pop up here since I became more active again so I figured I'd introduce myself.

I'm Taylor, 32 & I'm from and live in Scotland. I'm bigender (genderqueer/genderfluid/I'm still very new to this) & use she/her and he/him pronouns (no preference).

I'm a charity worker and a writer, I do bits of freelance journalism & editing. I'm currently editing my first novel Decompose which is a YA sci-fi dystopian story led by Harry, a bookish soft pansexual unlikely hero. If you want to beta read or find out more about it here.

I have chronic migraines/episodic cluster headaches so disabled representation is super important to me. Same goes for bisexual & genderqueer representation, reading fiction/fanfiction probably helped me work out a lot about myself 😅

I have written for Riverdale & Teen Wolf in the past but now I write primarily Red White & Royal Blue fanfic but I also accept requests for Heartstopper, Young Royals, Bridgerton, Skam, Heated Rivalry/Game Changers series, Interview with the Vampire, Adults FX & Dead Boy Detectives.

Also just pop in my Asks/messages if you ever need a book/fic rec, wanna collab, need some proofing or just need someone to vent to - community building is my jam 😎

Home of Ficlet Friday - DM me to be tagged in the next one, whatever your fandom!

Toodles 🫶🏻

[tailsbeth-writes]

happy friday (even tho i'm so late)

i come with a prompt for ya ‘Come closer. I dare you.’ for either southern philanthropy or firstprince plz 💚

Find this on Ao3. CW: Bad mental health day.

Henry felt himself shutting down. He slid to the floor, hugging his knees close to his chest. The kitchen floor was cold but oddly calming. Something that connected him to this realm. His mind felt like it was drowning in sludge. Alex wasn't going to be home for another day. Henry could pull himself together. It was just a bad day. He’d managed these before. He'd managed weeks. His hands say in his hair, tugging it slightly. He was a mess. ***** ‘Baby… where are you?’ Henry blinked his eyes open, his arms ached as he dropped his hands to the ground. When had he fallen asleep? ‘Henry… wh- oh.’ Alex stood in the kitchen doorway. Henry felt small under his gaze. ‘Come closer. I dare you.’ The words were tinged with tears. Alex fell to his knees, crawling to Henry. He pulled him in as close as physically possible. If he could get close enough for their souls to kiss, that still wouldn't be enough. ‘I'm here. I got you.’ Alex whispered into Henry's ear, over and over. A steady light in the fog.

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

[gnar-slabdash]

Reblog to give prev the TIME to write their fanfiction

[cutebutalsostabby]

Reblog to give prev the hocus focus to write their fanfiction.

[septic-dr-schneep]

Reblog to give prev the energy to write their fanfiction

[imsopopfly]

Reblog to give prev the executive function to write their fanfiction

[when-henry-met-alex]

✨ 5 weeks to go! ✨

August 20th, we delve back into your fave rom-coms with the RWRB gang.

We cannot wait to see your rom-com aus. First time hearing about us? Check out the rules & FAQ. Everyone is welcome 🥰

[midnights-dragon]

[andromedaskies]

Can I get 🤏🏻 and firstprince please? 😊

Thank you for the prompt, friend!!!! I love you silly firstprince.

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"Come closer. I fucking dare you."

Henry had left Alex alone in the living room for five minutes to change into his pajamas. Five minutes. He planned to come back, and then they'd argue over what movie to watch, and either make out or fall asleep through it anyway. Was five minutes enough for him to somehow irritate his boyfriend? He pauses in the doorway, looking up from his phone.

...ah.

It's not him Alex is mad at.

Alex is on the sofa — or, rather, crouched up on the arm of the sofa, brandishing a cushion with both hands. On the end closest to Henry is a rather large spider; the sort with thick legs and a furry body. It's not moving. It's just standing there, trapping Alex in a stand-off. There is hatred in Alex's eyes at a level Henry wasn't aware was even possible.

Henry coughs in an attempt to cover up the laugh that escapes him. Alex's face immediately pulls into sharper offense, even if he doesn't dare look up for a second.

"Henry, don't laugh at me!" Alex squeaks, incredulous and slightly terrified. "It's huge! Look at its legs!!! If I move, it's going to either run at me — and I'll die, H, I'll fucking die — or it'll run away and we'll have to take David and move into a hotel for a week while I get the house fumigated."

...Henry really does love this man, dramatics and all.

"...Darling, it's a spider." He replies, valiantly trying to keep his voice level and sympathetic. "We'll catch it now. Get down off of the sofa."

"No! Are you crazy!?" It's as though Henry threatened to kill Alex's entire family. The spider moves barely a few steps across the cushion, and Alex practically screeches.

Henry sighs, long-suffering, and disappears off to the kitchen to find something to catch it with. Alex begs him in two different languages not to leave him alone with the beast.

[writingdose]

being a writer is fun

[decemberwinter]

I aspire to be able to write this good btw

[robinavitchgf]

I didn’t mean to offend you I just genuinely think you’d like what the ai did with the story, it’s really great and maybe even better than the first chapter! I also asked it to make fan art based on some of your shorter works and they’re gorgeous, some of the best art I’ve ever seen. Ai isn’t as bad as people think so if you ever realize that and change your mind I can still send it all to you!!! <3

i wasn’t going to respond to this bc of how much it fucking pissed me off but i feel like this needs to be said.

don’t ever come into a writers’ inbox and openly admit you used ai to, let’s face it, plagiarise their work. i don’t CARE if you want it to be on my blog, you still fed it into an ai bot for your own gain. it’s fucking ridiculous that you blatantly ignored the rules on my page that state NOT to do this to my work.

also saying it’s “better than the first chapter” sorry but fuck you?? first you steal my work and put it into ai and then basically say my works shit and ur ai slop is better???

i work full time, i dont tend to write all that often, hence why longer one-shots/fics are barely posted. sometimes all i can get out is a little drabble/blurb. and then sometimes i lose motivation for fics/series’ that i’ve previously posted about. this doesn’t give you an excuse to take my work and use ai to create your own. sometimes fics just don’t get finished and you have to fucking deal with it. if i ever find the motivation again, i might post about it again, but if i don’t, then don’t use ai on my work. and especially don’t use it to create fucking fanart on my other pieces.

tl;dr don’t fucking steal my work and plagiarise it through fucking ai. i don’t want your ugly nasty disgusting ai slop anywhere NEAR my blog and my content and my works.

[bullet-prooflove]

My jaw fucking dropped at the audacity.

[tailsbeth-writes]

Welcome back to Ficlet Friday! Have you missed it? 🥲

The Rules: Copy the following prompts or make your own, post what fandoms you write for & your followers can request one of the prompts with a ship, character or fandom for a ficlet of 100-500 words. Please mention if you don't want M or E content otherwise it will be assumed anything goes. Have fun!

This week's theme is lines of dialogue:

🖤 ‘It would be an honour to be ruined by you.’

🥀 ‘They’re rotted to the core.’ [Pronouns can be adjusted]

🍦 ‘Important announcement; there's an ice cream van outside.’

💃🏻 ‘Time to dance your ass off.’

🥺 ‘I’m not scared. I'm not scared. I’m n- OKAY, I’M SCARED.’

🤤 ‘Clean up your drool please.’

🤏🏻 ‘Come closer. I dare you.’

💕 ‘You should feel how hard my heart is beating.’

🔥 ‘They are not, under any circumstances, allowed matches. Again.’

✨ ‘You make me talk in cliches, ew.’

My fandoms: Red, White & Royal Blue, Heated Rivalry/Game Changers, Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat, Bridgerton & Heartstopper.

Tag You're It: @onthewaytosomewhere @books2beach @run-for-chamo-miles @porcelainmortal @beefybisexualrozanov @emmalostinwonderland @andromedaskies @jenjentheboscostick @zwiazdziarka @girlwonder-writes @shanehollandertwentyfour @stupidcanadianwolfbird & open tag as usual ✨💛

[tailsbeth-writes]

Welcome back to Ficlet Friday! Have you missed it? 🥲

The Rules: Copy the following prompts or make your own, post what fandoms you write for & your followers can request one of the prompts with a ship, character or fandom for a ficlet of 100-500 words. Please mention if you don't want M or E content otherwise it will be assumed anything goes. Have fun!

This week's theme is lines of dialogue:

🖤 ‘It would be an honour to be ruined by you.’

🥀 ‘They’re rotted to the core.’ [Pronouns can be adjusted]

🍦 ‘Important announcement; there's an ice cream van outside.’

💃🏻 ‘Time to dance your ass off.’

🥺 ‘I’m not scared. I'm not scared. I’m n- OKAY, I’M SCARED.’

🤤 ‘Clean up your drool please.’

🤏🏻 ‘Come closer. I dare you.’

💕 ‘You should feel how hard my heart is beating.’

🔥 ‘They are not, under any circumstances, allowed matches. Again.’

✨ ‘You make me talk in cliches, ew.’

My fandoms: Red, White & Royal Blue, Heated Rivalry/Game Changers, Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat, Bridgerton & Heartstopper.

Tag You're It: @onthewaytosomewhere @books2beach @run-for-chamo-miles @porcelainmortal @beefybisexualrozanov @emmalostinwonderland @andromedaskies @jenjentheboscostick @zwiazdziarka @girlwonder-writes @shanehollandertwentyfour @stupidcanadianwolfbird & open tag as usual ✨💛

[tailsbeth-writes]

Thanks for the tags @zwiazdziarka @onthewaytosomewhere @books2beach & @beefybisexualrozanov 💛

Only a couple more days until Ficlet Friday returns! If you want tagged, let me know, I'll try and do as many of the usual crew as I remember.

Another snippet from my @when-henry-met-alex fic, nobody has guessed the film yet. And I'm going to guess a looot of y'all hasn't seen it, in which case, I'm so excited to introduce to one of the most camp films ever (I'm saying nothing until someone guesses it correctly) ❤️‍🔥😏

‘Is that…’ Beatrice cups her hands around her eyes. ‘...Oh my god, it is Philip.’  Henry rolls his eyes and puts his hands in his pockets. He looks at the sun setting over the skyline, orange seeping into milky pink. Bea paws at his leg. He's yanked to the ground next to her.  ‘What are you playing at?’ Bea pokes a finger at the window. And that's when Henry gets a look at the lone figure.  ‘Good god. I thought you were pulling my leg.’  ‘I thought he'd given it up since Dad, you know.’  ‘Me too.’  Henry and Bea watch fervently as Philip loops around the floor. His arms are held up, gripping at thin air. He's still got it. 

Tag You're It: @emmalostinwonderland @andromedaskies @dizzymxlizzie @crownedinlove @porcelainmortal @judasofsuburbia @run-for-chamo-miles @shanehollandertwentyfour @stupidcanadianwolfbird & open tag ✨

[luna-azzurra]

Unpopular opinion but reading a lot does not automatically make you a better writer and i'm tired of pretending it does. Reading makes you a better reader. Writing makes you a better writer. They're related but they're not the same thing. You can read every book ever written and still not know how to be honest on the page. That part you have to earn separately and it costs more.

[wearwind-ao3]

I mean, I see what you're saying, but it doesn't meaningfully change anything in what that advice is getting across. If a person is already a writer, you'd have to willfully ignore the point to understand "be a better reader and you'll be a better writer" as "you don't need to practice." It's more if a "as you read, you will come across approaches, perspectives, and techniques that will inspire you to test your craft in new and exciting ways, so fill your cup if it ever feels stale or stuck."

Writing's an act of love. If it ever gets choked out by fear (of failure, inadequacy, clichè, etc), and clarity and honesty feel out of reach, the easiest way to dig it back is not to beat yourself up over inadequate skill, but to find that love in other stuff. Reading is writing in the same way firewood is flame. The spark happens in your mind.

[wearwind-ao3]

also because I just saw someone being like "I don't wanna read and imitate other people, I wanna write like myself!" and had feelings about it:

girl. I am holding you so gently right now. this is abject loneliness that you're subjecting yourself to. reading other people's thoughts doesn't take away from your own perspective, but what it gives you is the words to express yourself so that you will understand you. It gives you the literary vocabulary (images! symbols! metaphors! comparisons! pacing!) of your culture/s of choice, and shows you how use them to make sense of what you feel and what want to say, and then express it in a way that other people will understand you too. Literature isn't a rally where there's one voice blaring out for others to listen, it's a conversation. You're writing to be read. You and your readers will need a common language. You acquire that language by reading widely. And then not only do you get better at expressing your feelings to others, you find others who feel the same, and suddenly the world's a greater and more beautiful place where you can go, "you too?! I thought it was just me!"

I promise this is not taking one whit of your individuality away. You might be exposing yourself to all of those outside influences but the I in the centre, the mind that decides and interacts and feels, that's the voice that will always be unique. You just gotta channel it in a way that can be understood.

If you wanna write: read. Please.

[theseventhcrow55]

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3

[failure-to-adult]

ALSO

Fanfic is as old as writing, if not older. A HUGE body of work in Ancient Greek was literally just Homeric fanfiction. And Homer himself may have been working off older stories, making it fic of fics.

The most primal human urge upon hearing any story is to write fic about it.

[headspace-hotel]

fanfiction is the original way of storytelling, it's intellectual property law that is the weird modern aberration

[crownedinlove]

Hi friends! Thank you @tailsbeth-writes for the tag! 🥺💕

Life has been SO VERY BUSY which is exciting and exhausting all at the same time.

After trying to comb through my WIP folder I decided to just insert a snip for the next update that will be posted of my on going work — This Is Where We Begin. (It’s been such a joy to write wow. I’m having the time of my life. 🥺🥺)

After this one is finished — a break will definitely be needed to look through the sea of ideas and see which one we will tend to next! (I will definitely need help deciding..you know me)

(ALSO — George fic is still a fun project that I will be at random updating. Don’t you even worry about it 🙂‍↕️😘)

—

Alex made a sound that wasn't quite a word.

His face pressed into Henry's hair. Henry felt tears fall down his face.

“So if he called you papa, papí, or—“

Alex kissed at his neck once—twice. “You might have to help me off the floor..”

Henry snorted.

“But I’d love every single second of it. Just as I love him. And you, sweetheart.”

Henry nodded—he cuddled closer to Alex. Eyes fluttering shut as he thought of something else.

—

TAGGING THE BESTIES: @anyroomsrio @andromedaskies @anincompletelist @dizzymxlizzie

[tailsbeth-writes]

Happy Sunday pals! Exciting news: Ficlet Friday will return Friday 10th. I've missed it, thank you for your patience 💛

Now for another snippet from my @when-henry-met-alex fic, this time we get angry 😇

Alex shakes his head, hands on his hips. Henry feels his disappointment wafting over him.  ‘I thought you were different, you know. But it was all talk, wasn't it?’  ‘Alex, you have to understand-’  ‘No I understand, you're gutless. I'm just a beginner, so back to beginners I go.’  Henry wants to reach out. He wants to close the distance between them. Instead he's frozen, his feet feel like cement filling up his shoes. Alex walks away, every step booming in Henry’s ears. He pivots and looks back to Henry when he gets to the door.  ‘I hope one day you can live your life without fear, Henry. I really do.’  Alex leaves before Henry can reply, and Henry drops to his knees. 

Tag You're It: @run-for-chamo-miles @books2beach @emmalostinwonderland @andromedaskies @onthewaytosomewhere @beefybisexualrozanov @crownedinlove @porcelainmortal @orchidscript @dizzymxlizzie @stupidcanadianwolfbird @bitbybitwrites & open tag ✨

[when-henry-met-alex]

Is it getting hot or is it just the RWRB rom-com event steaming things up?

Beat the heat and make this a rom-com weekend to get inspired Cue up the movies or pull something off your TBR - either way let it inspire you

Still have a month and half so plenty of time to let something take hold! (Posting starts August 20!)

Need ideas check out the post here

Or if ya need a rules refresher find them at the pinned post here