Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is Zelda’s Rogue One—in this essay, I will….
Tabitha Blankenbiller
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The rise and fall of a Pacific Northwest Princess. 🌈 Substack: https://tabithablankenbiller.substack.com Essays in Salon, Tin House, Electric Lit, etc. Former columnist and teacher at Catapult
Yeah sex is great, but have you ever had Nintendo validate the ship you’ve put 250,000 words and 2 years of your wild and precious life into in canon?
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Got the fanart I’ve received from my fics framed for my writing desk 🥰 What have you done for me lately, personal essays?!??
It’s never too early in the week to dissociate, divas
Seeing a lot of stuff from people I used to know as a different person because 2014 was a lifetime ago, I guess? I wonder what it was like to just gently move on before social media 🫠
Why are the airport days when my writing is flowing like a damn TIDE the ones with absolutely zero delays, pure clockwork?
That thing where I am procrastinating on writing this chapter because I know someone's about to die.
I’m helping to host a fan theme week and someone I’m lucky to know posted this fanfic that left me sobbing uncontrollably at 1 am in an Indiana Courtyard by Marriott, and if that isn’t the actual power of literature I don’t know what we’re doing here.
My parents sent me this pic from 2nd grade doing Laura Ingalls Wilder cosplay and all I can say is, time is a flat circle.
My child wants to know why tf it takes me so long to write a 140k word fanfic… “You’re still working on that?!” 😒
If I win our local tea salon’s best-dressed contest with this, I can officially say my gown is paying for itself/I’m a professional cosplayer 😂
Looks like I’ve got another 120k worth of fic to write 🫠
I know everything is bad BUT there’s new official Ganondorf concept art
I got an actually encouraging and thoughtful agent rejection for my novel today that made me feel something I’ve been missing all year… Wanting to … keep trying…?
I'm trying to write on my front porch, but I think....I think I see a couple of slugs fucking...? .... OH MY GOD THESE SLUGS ARE TOTALLY FUCKING
You know that essay you want to write but you know your family would read it and it would become A Thing and you don't want them to be sad because then you'll have to talk about it and you have too much going on for that?
Got my Princess Zelda-inspired fantasy dress cosplay pics back today, so this is basically just becoming a loz fan account.
I think it’s nice when someone says “your fiction feels lived-in!” because it’s a compliment but also yes of course it should because I am thinking about these fucking characters and where they live and what tf they’re doing every waking moment and I need help please send some.
What I don't think literary writers understand about fanfic is that if you do it long enough you start to get amazing regular readers who drop theoretical thinkpiece essay comments in response to your chapters and it is a joy like nothing else.
My daughter is running around the living room yelling about all of her K-Pop Demon Hunters ships, because apparently everyone is going to “smooch and get married.” I guess she must have been switched at birth. 🙃
We don’t talk enough about how hard it is to go from floating through a gothic library dressed as a queen for a cosplay shoot to replying to emails about managing the company Sharepoint. 😭💔
Put up some thoughts about writing The Sluttiest Slut on the Internet up on my Substack today. tabithablankenbiller.substack.com/p/archive-of...
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The audacity of women writing women on the internet
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Good thing I wasn’t having a full crying breakdown in the grocery store because my daughter is starting kindergarten in two weeks. That would be so…embarrassing…
Good morning but especially to the Nordstrom employee who insisted I wasn’t old enough to have worked at Frederick’s of Hollywood.
When someone randomly texts you “have you read All Fours by Miranda July??”
a woman with long black hair is holding a cup of coffee .
ALT: a woman with long black hair is holding a cup of coffee .
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Dispatches from fan culture: it is astounding how much time people have to (1) find you and (2) inform you that you have chosen the wrong ship.
I Wanted The Most Beautiful Renn Faire Dress Ever So I Commissioned It and Now I Have It and The Faire is This Weekend But It’s Too Beautiful to Wear Around Turkey Legs and Now I Have to IDK Go to Versailles or Something Instead: A Story of Hubris.
