The Whole Lemon🍋

grown up. almost entirely snowbaz reblogs. Profile lemon by @martsonmars

[thewholelemon]

When That Light Hits the Sky

a fic by me for the @carry-on-au-fest (CO AU fest post here)

rating: T

Chapters: 2/6

Words: 3455/~15k

tags: superhero au (but more like ex-superhero AU); Batman AU; but more like life after Batman; Penelope Bunce is a Good Friend; Baz Pitch is Not the Joker; mentions of drinking and depression; non magical AU; despite this it is in fact a getting together meet-cute

based on this comic

Summary: Simon’s in his thirties and suddenly unemployed. His old job had its downsides, but he felt useful, full of purpose—and he didn’t have to worry about pesky things like making more than one friend, or minding his personal safety, or even picking out his own clothes (the uniform might have been the best part). Now he’s adrift, and he can’t even talk about it—revealing even an ex-Batman’s secret identity comes with some pretty hefty penalties, after all. But that shouldn’t be a problem—who’s he gonna tell, anyway?

READ IT NOW! (IF YOU WANT)(HOPEFULLY YOU WANT)

thank you to @monbons and @bookish-bogwitch for the beta read! and thank you to @monbons for my gorgeous banner!

thank you to the mods of this super fun fest! more chapters to come when the fest is over.

[thewholelemon]

Chapter 3 is now up!

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Chapter 4 is now up!

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Chapter 5 is now up!

[thewholelemon]

Chaper 6 is now up and this fic is complete!

@carry-on-au-fest

[alexalexinii]

back with my snowbaz pride memes for this year

[sycamorality]

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this

[fiend-for-culture]

My fanbind of @you-remind-me-of-the-babe's fic Depth of Reason

More pictures below the cut! 💛

Headbands: rayon embroidery floss from Edmar (this was my first attempt at doing hand sewn headbands!)

Book cloth: Verona book cloth in yellow ochre from Hollanders and blue mist from Etsy

Heat transfer vinyl: Cricut Iron-On foil and Everyday Iron-On vinyl

Paper: short edge book binding paper from Church Paper

[megustamemes]

Sofa sitting positions

[rights-for-redshirts]

I found it

[mygfturnedintothelawofcycle]

This has to be like an ancient relic or something

[kit-williams]

Which funny blog is the one that you flag for historical tumblr posts

[lilacstarshine6]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[keficafe]

Im.. Soft 🥺🥺🥺

cr. 

[wholesomepostarchive]

12/22/2023

[sandmandaddy69]

[galadrielspeaks]

[eldritchbauble]

My old person take today is that I feel like people have normalized being on your phone every single moment including when you're spending "quality" time with others so much that they're defensive if someone isn't ok with it. Yes, you have a problematic relationship with your phone and social media if you physically cannot put it down for a couple of hours to like, have dinner with your friends. It's a show of respect for other people's time and energy as well as important to be present and connect with people around you. Your parents who told you no phone at the table were right for that one.

[moon--light--gypsy]

I see your freak4freak and i raise you feral4feral, specifically snowbaz.

Like, remember when that fomorian was feeling Baz up and Simon took an ivory stick and stabbed it through the guy's throat? In contrast, remember when Baz thought Simon had been killed by Braden's men, so he ripped Braden's jaw off and proceeded to tear chunks out of him with his teeth.

Your honor, they are made for each other. Anyone else would be put off by this behavior, but they think it's endearing of the other. They are crazy, and they are crazy for each other.

[pangur-and-grim]

i cant figure out if youve answered this already so sorry if you already have but what was the process of finding a publisher like ?

it was hard! very hard! which isn’t meant to discourage anyone - if anything, it means that you shouldn’t let rejections bother you.

first off was finding an agent, which meant making a list of every literary agency I could find that accepted books in English (using sites like querytracker and manuscriptwishlist), and combing through them to see if they had any agents currently accepting queries in my genre. I had really shit luck with Canadian agencies, because they skew heavily toward literary fiction, and my book was genre fiction. but eventually, I had a list of 120 agents I stood a reasonably good chance with.

then, the applications! it’s good to do it in batches, because the occasional personalized rejection will give you something to work on. like I completely rewrote the 10 book pages I was submitting, and redid my query letter about fifteen times. I paid editors online to critique my query letter, I won a contest where the reward was commentary on my query letter…..that query letter was my magnum opus. I put everything into it, and it still kinda sucked. one thing I learned along the way is that people really don’t care about your social media following, UNLESS it’s on Twitter or TikTok. if you say “I have a blog on tumblr :)” people will just be like “I thought that site got shut down.”

anyway, after 70+ written rejections (and many more silent rejections), I got an acceptance! a literary agent was interested in representing my book - if I made some changes to it. so I did (added more romance and ‘cozy’ scenes), and sent it back to him, and then he began shopping it around to publishers.

it took about six months to find an interested publisher. we didn’t have great luck with Americans, but British publishers seemed to really click with the humour, and suddenly we had multiple places interested at once! we went with Titan Books (technically an indie, but with a distribution partnership with penguin), and then…….back into editing hell because the book still needed more romance.

from start to finish, it took four years from the book being written to it being released! it’s a lengthy frustrating process, and so many people give up because the constant rejection wears you down, but you just have to be incredibly stubborn and have a delusional level of belief in your own work.

good luck!

[pangur-and-grim]

genuinely, that’s the most important thing you can have! everything falls apart without it. you might have people telling you that your writing is shit, and that you’ll never make it. those people might be friends, family members, partners, peers, professionals in the industry, online trolls, basically everyone but your nonverbal pets. when that happens, you NEED to be like “hmm I dunno, I think I wrote something nice 😌”

if you keep writing, and working on your craft, and knocking on industry doors, eventually you will find success. just don’t give up on yourself!

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

[monbons]

Stitch Sunday

School is out for the summer!!! I cannot wait to spend every single day doing *whatever* I want. And by whatever, I clearly mean several different stitch projects, so without further ado...

PRIDE! If you didn't get a chance to see it yet, check out my pride post. These are some of my favorite outfits I've ever made, although they required lots of trial and error. For Simon, I'd never made overalls before, and my faux jean material didn't look as good as I'd hoped. So, after making the entire thing (pictured left) I decided I needed real jean material (pictured right). I ended up sacrificing my oldest and most worn pair for the redo. It is VERY difficult to work with full-weight denim at this scale, but I think it was worth it.

You can also see from Baz's position that dressing him was difficult as well. The fabric I selected for his shorts has no give, so I had to re-engineer my pattern to make them fit. While I was going above and beyond, I decided to add a magnet inside his hand so he could actually hold the little ring box I created for him (the base of the box is a magnet as well).

FUTURE PROJECTS I've also started working on several upcoming projects, including Simon's birthday post. Here's a small preview of one of the dolls involved in that... and my first doll in heels! (She required special tip-toe feet!)

While we are previewing shoes, this is a periodic reminder that although I have learned how to make nearly everything my dolls wear (and I am starting to make most of their photo props as well), I am still not a tiny cobbler. I have a few reliable vendors for shoes, but sometimes, I'm searching for a specific look and will contact someone new. Despite asking for measurements and doing tons of research, the product doesn't always fit. I hold on to all the too small or too big shoes anyway, in case I can use them later... and later has finally arrived for three sets of too-tiny shoes! I'm using these in a top secret project for later this month---can you guess who will be wearing each pair?

Until next time! @alexalexinii, @aristocratic-otter, @arthurkko, @artsyunderstudy, @bachusekart, @best--dress, @blackberrysummers, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @bookish-bogwitch, @cutestkilla, @facewithoutheart, @harrie-leithillustration, @hushed-chorus, @iamamythologicalcreature, @ic3que3n, @ileadacharmedlife, @katatsumuli, @larkral, @letraspal, @mooncello, @orange-peony, @pato-roldnart, @prettygoododds, @raeny-day, @rbkzz, @run-for-chamo-miles, @rimeswithpurple, @shrekgogurt, @skeedelvee, @stitchyqueer, @talentpiper11, @the-beard-of-edward-teach, @theimpossibledemon, @thewholelemon, @whatevertheweather, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @youarenevertooold, @jyae23, @j-trow-95, @martsonmars, @probablily, @sleepyphobzz, @confusedbiqueer, @manicmagicat, @lixdoesntknow

[lavenderpanic]

all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[goth-queen]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

everybody say thank you ao3

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]