tangled up in mist

„We flicker on a screen. We fold and unfold upon the mind’s eye. Brittle as wings. Eternal as a heartbeat. And even when the heart falls silent, we do not cease to be…“(Heidi Thomas/Call the Midwife ep7.08)

[tangledupinmist]

Participate in another round of 1p4a: this month's prompt is "Julie Higgins"

(source: Picture taken from Jeremy Swift's Twitter account)

Join the May round of one prompt for all with sharing your ideas about Julie Higgins. Everything you've always wanted to know about Julie Higgins, or explore about her relationship to our beloved Ted Lasso characters - now here's your chance.

🌈 Please post your story anytime on Sunday, May 29th, to our collection on AO3. Looking forward to learning lots of new stuff about wonderful Julie Higgins very soon! 🌈

[livelaughlothcat]

Ranking the Call the Midwife main character’s wedding dresses to deal with all of the feelings the latest episode gave me

7th - Chummy’s

Chummy, girl, I love you but what the hell was this the pattern is so bad you could’ve done better than this. Also you married a cop so you do get a few points knocked off for that

6th - Sheila’s original dress

She looks sad, so does the dress

5th - Violet’s

See this is how you do it Chummy and sad Sheila! The colour’s great, love the little veil on her hat, also great choice of husband no notes there

4th - Barbara’s

It’s cute, very Barbara, it’s just a little boring especially without the cape

3rd - Sheila’s actual dress

She looks great, love the lace, showing her shoulders slightly which is very iconic and scandalous of her, no notes

2nd - Trixie’s

Girl’s a fashion icon we knew she was gonna pull it out of the bag. Wasn’t a big fan seeing it from the distance at first but when I saw it closer up it grew on me. Love the fabric, love the little hat

1st - Lucille’s

She slayed this SO HARD, she looked so good! 10/10, no notes, absolutely iconic

[kuklarusskaya-deactivated202003]

you know why it’s so critically important to celebrate women over the age of 40? 

because young women and girls need role models. need someone to aspire to become as they age. 

as it is, society basically tells girls and young women: aspire to be 18-22. do not aspire or imagine past that, for you are useless without youth and beauty. do not aspire to be wise, or strong, beautiful without youth, or valuable with lines and wrinkles. and THAT is scary. we put a cap on aspirations for girls, because we want them to think the ideal comes and goes by 20–when really, we’re at our best for many, many years beyond.

[orlissa]

Do you sometimes read a fic writer’s work, and just… thank all the gods this person managed to get obsessed with the same fictional people you did?

[ich-bin-der-baer]

Random German Vocabulary (48)

die Genesung – recovery der (die) Grantler(in) (Southern/Austrian German) – grumbler, grouch das Kuvert – envelope die Schablone – template der Wechselbalg – changeling

abzischen – to buzz off sich (bei jemandem) einnisten – to build a nest (in someone’s home) kuvertieren – to put in an envelope (jemandem etwas) madigmachen – to spoil (something for someone) posaunen – to play the trombone; to shout something out

anmaßend – presumptuous; arrogant aufgewühlt – agitated, churned up tendenziell – generally speaking unverfroren – blatant

etwas übers Knie brechen – to rush into something (jemandem) Dampf machen – to hurry (someone) up (etwas) auf die Spitze treiben – to push (something) to the extreme

[tangledupinmist]

Seeing this & thinking how funny it sounds to Germans to ship a ship called #grantler

[soft-lovely]

[kiramartinauthor]

[butchamy]

Story idea when you try to actually write it:

[calamitycons]

Story idea when you first rewrite it:

Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!

[snurtle]

Your story when somebody else sees it:

[starspangledscarf]

hhhhhHHHHHHH

[thatincompetentperson]

(⚪д⚪)

[servicek9s-deactivated20180617]

This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents. 

[prettyarb]

Also possibly relevant is that probably when Van Gogh finished Starry Night, he jumped up and down in frustration for a while because it didn’t look as good as it had in his head.

Tolkien used to complain that he could never write anything as well as he could imagine it.  So you know, ‘good enough’ is definitely a thing.

[cythraul]

For maximum accuracy, the last image should be a completely different (but equally gorgeous) painting.

[jackabelle73]

Fanfic asks for the new year

[jackabelle73]

I’ve seen a lot of ask memes focused on the past year, but none for what people are planning or hoping for in their writing in the new year. So here are a few questions that I thought of… feel free to add more!

1. Do you have a word-count goal for the upcoming year?

2. Will you participate in any fandom exchanges or fic challenges, etc? 

3. Do you anticipate writing for a new fandom this year? Which one?

4. Do you think you’ll stop writing for a fandom this year? Which one?

5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?

6. Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?

7. Will you change anything about the way you interact with other writers?

8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it?

9. Short term goals… what do you hope to complete this week or in January?

10. Will you keep a record of all the fics you write and/or post this year?

11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes this year?

12. Will you change anything about the way you edit or rewrite this year?

13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic? 

14. Have you ever lost large chunks of your work in the past, due to not backing up your work? Will you change your methods this year?

15. Do you foresee any personal or professional obstacles this year, that would keep you from creating fanworks? 

16. Do you have that one fanfic that you wrote a ton for, ages ago, but never posted? Will this be the year, come hell or high water, that it WILL get finished and posted?

17. Do you typically answer all comments/reviews individually? Do you plan to change the way you interact with your readers this year?

18. Do you typically post multi-chapters as you write, or finish it all and then start posting? Would you like to change your posting method? 

19. Would you consider non-fandom writing events, like NaNoWriMo or writing contests? 

20. Any plans to work on original fiction this year?

21. Will you try writing software, like Scrivener or those programs that won’t let you stop writing?

22. Do you plan to take writing classes this year?

23. Would you like to go on a writing retreat?

24. By the end of this year, you want your fandom to think of you as “that author who _______.”

25. If you answered questions from this list last year, find your answers and compare your goals to your results. How’d you do?

[sugareey-makes-stuff]

Ask away!

[chainofclovers]

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

I wrote a story for the sixth day of Sexy Christmas! It's about New Year's, the misery and poignancy of temporal thresholds, and group sex!

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Ted/Roy/Rebecca/Keeley | Explicit | ~9800 words

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2022 ends with a whimper; 2023 starts with a bang. :)

[lucienballard]

Tom Waits

NYC

1983

George Dubose

[weshallc]

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

Chapters: 1/12 Fandom: Call the Midwife Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bernadette | Shelagh Turner/Patrick Turner, Marianne Turner/Patrick Turner, Patrick Turner & Timothy Turner, Bernadette | Shelagh Turner & Timothy Turner Characters: Bernadette | Shelagh Turner, Patrick Turner, Timothy Turner, Marianne Turner Series: Part 1 of Auld Lang Syne Summary:

As a massive Robbie Burns fan. I was so chuffed to see the characters in Call the Midwife at the end of the 2022CS singing Auld Lang Syne and linking arms correctly with obviously the English introduction of the Hokey Cokey. So I wanted to write a little New Year story for each series of CtM. How hard could that be? Until I decided to start in 1956. There will be another eleven of these, some may be longer than others. Happy New Year, by the way.

[tangledupinmist]

Contribute to this year's final round of 1p4a - Beard

This months 1p4a is about Beard - that is our beloved character. Or maybe it's about facial hair, who knows.

icon by tumblr user @petersthree

The rules, as always: post your fics any time on Sunday, 27th November to our collection on AO3 (late submissions possible, of course!)

[tangledupinmist]

Participate in the Ted Lasso 1p4a October challenge - Halloween & all things spooky

Hi everyone. I've been sloppy and forgot about posting our monthly prompts over here for a while. But if you're in Halloween mode already you might wanna participate in this months round of one prompt for all. All contributions, pairings, genres welcome!

If you want to participate, post your contribution until October 31 to our collection over on AO3.

[laun-sina]

C.C. BABCOCK || KILLSHOT - Magdalena Bay "I could kill you...I could rip out your heart with my bare hands!" ⤷ S2E11: When You Pish Upon A Star hello hello! i've been meaning to make a c.c. fancam to this song for So long, so when I found the time I jumped at the opportunity HAHA 💓 this admittedly took Way Much Longer than expected, it was my first time using capcut and hoo there was a Lot of things to navigate KSKS but anyway, here's a little schmexy edit for our tall blonde seductress, killshot being the song for her beauty, grace, and her ability to punch us in the face HAHA 😅💓 enjoy! ✨ disclaimer: i do not own any of the clips used in the video. the video is made for entertainment purposes only, no copyright infringement is intended. all rights belong to the nanny. :> audio credits: itqdorii (feel free to check out my other fancams! ♡ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7)

[tangledupinmist]

Hurt/Comfort in June - join the 1p4a challenge

This month's prompt for our monthly one prompt for all challenge is "hurt/comfort". Looking forward to receiving your stories anytime on Sunday, June 26th, in our collection on AO3 .

image by tumblr user @petersthree

[weshallc]

A wee while ago I didn't sleep much as I was caring for my dad. Out of hours and in a different timezone I met some lovely folk such as @lovetheturners @fourteen-teacups @thatginchygal @h4t08 and @eatapinkwafer

I also spent many a sleepless European hour with @tangledupinmist who was breaking in a new family member.

Tangle and I created a world where all the Tumblr CtM fans could meet up in person at a big party. Our wee small hour ramblings evolved into the Crown Inn.

I was reminded of this today when the question was asked, "What would you do with Elon Musk's money? "

I would still host that party and cover everyone's expenses .

Can't guarantee the bar staff, mind you.

[tangledupinmist]

Oh, Al, I’d be the first to come. And stay until you’d run out of money 😊

[tangledupinmist]

Hey, I'm super interested in the Rom Com discord. Is it still open for new Tedbecca stans :) ?

Hi, feel free to dm me and I will send you an invite. We don’t post links publicly for various reasons. But you’re welcome to join.