Feel like I need to do couples counseling with my MCs in mixtape #1, they've been so hard to wrangle all week 😩
Princess Ace
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Writer 📝 sometimes spicy nsfw, 18+ Reader 📖 currently rediscovering fanfic depths Current WIP ✍🏼 Cedar Ridge: Mixtapes - sapphic/queer romances Taken ~ 32yo ~ Pan/Ace 🏳️🌈 account for nerding out about words and film/shows and ships
#Novmemeber #WIP #WriteSky In really thinking about this one, most of my references/inside jokes are actually in my world-building. Cedar Ridge places and people are almost all references. A lot are names or related names to places I've lived, while some are more fun:
#Novmemeber 4 Are there any inside jokes or references in your WIP? Share one (or a few)!
All of the ballot initiatives that are solely targeting trans rights are passing. MO’s anti-trans Amendment 3 is failing because it’s tied to abortion rights. But WA I-638, AZ Prop 318, CO Prop 134 & 135, and NE I-422 are all passing. And cis Democrats are taking a victory lap with pronoun jokes.
HEY CIS PEOPLE: here is your reminder that things are Still Not Remotely Okay for trans people in the US, and a fair chunk of this blue wave has come out in favor of that. What we've won is a slim gddamn chance, and we need you to get a crowbar into it and pry it wider.
Important note for all these Ao3-scam sites popping up:
Incredibly important distinction here: What can these scammers get easiest/fastest? Your info: A username. A password. An email. And that SocialDB site has a de-anonymizer script so they probably only need the password!
quick note: this is incredibly urgent, incredibly important for my future and continued existence, and we're incredibly far behind. 5 bucks from each of you would instantly resolve it. please help by reposting
Added all the links, now it's even easier to help me live!
Was thinking about the Hallmark 'save our Christmas tree farm' trope and got hit with an idea to make it sapphic af 😎💅 gonna jot it down and maybe do a short AU fic with my Cedar Ridge cast closer to holiday season 🌲🏳️🌈 #WIP #WriteSky #queerromance
Jammed through both of these tonight, couldn’t put them down 🌼 Amazing reads by @applesncinnamon.bsky.social , 10/10 ✨ #TheNeedForDandelions #TheWitchOftheWood
Because I need cute happy queer stories and happy queer people. Cedar Ridge overall is pretty accepting. The community built around the core 4 friends & the band is super queer-normative. *shakes books* Are there any cishets in here? (Probably not.) #QueerPrompts #WIP #WriteSky #queerromance
#QueerPrompts November 2: Why did you choose / not choose queer acceptance in your story's world?
Wrote 2 of Amelia's solo album songs between work things 👀 Can't do music to save my life but over here writing albums. I've got my big block of WIP time coming up too, final work push, let's get 'er done. Scenes list first priority to determine gaps. #WIP
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Cedar Ridge: Mixtapes is the universe, but Mixtape #1 follows a woman smacked in the face with bi panic when she discovers her hot drummer bff is secretly pining for her, and said bff confused and desperate when the love of her life seems to start actually flirting with her 🏳️🌈🎶💖 #Novmemeber #WIP
The Cure - It's Friday I'm In Love
Alt: The Cure - It's Friday I'm In Love
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#Novmemeber 2 Optional: give us the logline or context of the WIP you'll be memeing about this month. Now, using a GIF, show us the vibes of your WIP! (Remember to use alt text)
People have already reached out to actual Ao3/OTW about this, so hopefully it's getting dealt with, but heads up, fic writers #ao3
Authors, please check ao3[dot]life for your work. All of mine is there. It’s an AI-generated website with 15 MILLION fics, some of which they are turning into audio books to monetize. I am literally sick to my stomach.
Focus on Mixtape #1! Put together a list of 'missing scenes,' rewrites on some existing, rewrite/expand on the first flashback chapter, rewrite specific 'falling' lore fic + write matching fic for other MC/love interest. And fresh side fics doc clean-up ✍️ #QueerWriters #WIP #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day! What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
WIP update: planned to write specific scenes for Mixtape #1, ended up writing background trauma of characters in Mixtape #3. It's a mixed stew of mixtapes in my head right now.
David Rose's Iconic What and Why
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I wrote an established relationship one-shot of Aria doing the "I saw our friend on Tinder" prank to Kori, and it's one of my fave silly argument->spicy time I've written. Also, Amelia and Kate started out riling each other up, it stays their thing for sure. #WIP #WriteSky #nsfwocdaily #ocsky
Couple/Polycule Question: What is the dumbest argument to cause a fight that ended in sex between them? #nsfwocdaily #ocnsfw #oc #ocsky
I'm KRF (or Princess), and my WIP is ⛰️📸🎶💖🏳️🌈 #WIP #Novmemeber #WriteSky
#Novmemeber 1 Welcome to the Second Annual Novmemeber! Introduce yourself and share 5 emojis that represent your WIP. You can explain your emojis or leave it to others to guess!
I have writing on my agenda but for this morning, while reacclimating to daylight savings, I will be playing Blue Prince and eating cookies 😎
Blue Prince Roguelike
Alt: Blue Prince drafting room selection screen featuring a hallway, spare room, and the chapel. the gif cuts to loop right as door starts to open. Roguelike game.
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💙🩷🤍 Amelia, the band's lead singer, is trans mtf! She's more in Mixtape #2, as an MC/love interest. She's easily mom/older sister vibes to the rest of the band, esp Jo, who's much younger. Daryl's sister and Kori's older brother are also trans, tho they don't pop up in the main mixtapes (yet 👀).
#QueerPrompts November 1: Transgender Awareness Month & Transgender Parent Day: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book and/or talk about trans characters/parents
For Trans Awareness Month 🩵🩷🤍 I've gathered 27 Trans & Nonbinary authors with 1(+) trans main characters, monsters, dragons, androids, romance, adventure, explorers, witches, wars, quests etc Cyberpunk, Space Opera, Dystopia, Urban, Dark, High, Portal & SciFi-Fantasy+ 🌈📚🏳️⚧️📚🪐 itch.io/b/3961/fanta...
Costume? Sorted. Spooky show? On. Baking? Coming soon. Writing? On the agenda ✍🏼
Tomtebogatan: Spooky Skeletons Dance
Alt: Tomtebogatan: Spooky Skeletons Dance
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Finished final spooky one-shot for October 🎃 Love that I accomplished that goal, these were so fun. Worked on some clean-up for the main WIP earlier and will be diving into writing/rewriting over the weekend ✨ #WIP #WriteSky #FirstDraftFall Enjoy a pumpkin patch/corn maze one-shot snippet:
do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all
If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.
It's interesting that AO3 is down for such a lengthy stretch during what's arguably the most consumption-oriented/extractive era in fanfic's history. People dumping thousands of fics on gdrive are being hailed as heroes, drowning out fic writers saying, I didn't consent to be *republished* there.
Well my comparisons with LLM scrapers turned out to be not that far off. Many thanks to BrambleBrake for sharing this—the site has been taken down with this message:
There have been AI-coded sites popping up that scrape the shared Google Drives and the works in them. Considering the stance most authors have on LLMs in fandom spaces, this is really going too far.
Just when I thought Etsy was turning a corner by trimming AI content on the site, they issue a new Terms of Use (starting Dec 16) which grants them & their vendors rights "to use Your Content to develop, train, test and improve AI." Could not find an opt out to this in their privacy settings.