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don't slow down.

@caterpills / caterpills.tumblr.com

stephanie!! (she/her) 30s. an absolute bisexual disaster. full of an unhealthy obsession with the raven cycle, rwrb, and bookish things. ao3: caterpills
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Chapter 10 (of 10) - COMPLETE! | 94.1K words | Rated: M Read from the beginning on AO3

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Three weeks before Henry Fox's tour for his fourth, highly anticipated, awards-bait novel A Brief War in December begins, his publicist Janella breaks her foot on a bunny slope at Windham. Alex can't be mad at her, even though he kind of is. Saying it out loud would be like kicking her when she was down, and she already went down a literal mountain in the worst way possible. Now crammed in Rafael Luna's corner office, Janella is shooting Alex extremely apologetic looks while slumped on her crutches, wearing a bright orange cast. The conversation about who is going to be joining Henry Fox on his multi-city trek across the U.S. is also going downhill. Alex is feeling the same sort of free fall while standing still. Because out of all the publicists available in their tiny underfunded department, the only one left to escort their company's best-selling author is regrettably him. The problem is, well, Alex absolutely hates Henry Fox.

Or: Alex is the publicist for Mountchristen Publishers, and is stuck on a two-week tour with their best-selling, but frustrating, author Henry Fox.

If you like playlists for your fics, I've got one for you. And so many thanks to @jamieylnn for making me this header ilu 🥹

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HOLY SHIT.

CHAPTER 10 (The Epilogue!) is up - This fic is now complete and safe to binge!!

This Is More of a Comment Than a Question - Chapter 10 - caterpills - Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org

An even more exciting - @miharaikko made these LOVELY covers for Henry's book!! AHHH I scream!!

#rwrb#rwrb fic#firstprince#firstprince fic#alex claremont diaz#henry fox mountchristen windsor#fic: this is more of a comment than a question
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Traffic Light Tag Game!

Thank you so much to @cha-melodius and @leaves-of-laurelin for the tag for this! Similarly, I'm going to do this instead of the normal Sunday snippet sharing.

rules: talk about something creative you're working on of any kind.🚦

green: what is it about, what excited you about it, what sparked the idea?

orange: slow down and share something from it: a photo, a few words, some more background info etc.

red: what is the roadblock currently? what is one thing that is a necessary evil in making it? GREEN

So many things, but going to pick this one: affectionately called "the saudade fic" was an idea I had mid-writing and posting Comment/Question, and it's been percolating for a while. Basically, Alex attempts to save a boy from drowning when he's younger, but he never knows if the boy survived, so in order to cope with the loss, he creates an imaginary version of the boy, who he calls "H", to talk to. Except you know, H talks back. And maybe isn't as imaginary as Alex thought when they meet (unknowingly) again in college. There's grief! Feelings of loss! And so much yearning! And coming to terms with not being everything to everyone! So many water metaphors! And takes place over a series of time, and playing with some timeline things, for funsies. It has all the things I love reading about in books.

ORANGE

I have a whole pinterest board of things that inspire the feelings I want to feel while reading/writing it, so it's grown a lot (lots of oceanic pictures - I'm also afraid of the ocean, so this is really a terror writing experience for me too!!) I also have an extensive playlist for no reason other than I love music to write to. But I wanted to use this quote, in the literal sense, as well as the emotional one in the book:

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for having saved me. I was drowning and you threw yourself into the water without hesitation, without a backward look.”

And a quick little collage of some photos on that pinterest board:

RED

URGHGHGH so many things. Real life is very nightmarish, so finding time where I don't want to sit and disassociate is hard. I also have some pretty complicated feelings about writing and fandom at present and feel that maybe the idea might be too big for me to tackle (right now.) It's weird because the urge is there, but the words are all mucked up, and I just wish it was easier than I thought (this goes for all my languishing WIPs, too.) tl;dr - I'm tired, and I feel like putting words to paper is a massive undertaking for me. But I figured blabbing about it here to people might get me out of that stupid little rut and get more than 2-3 sentences on a page a month.

ANYWAY, if you've gotten this far, here are some no-pressure/low-pressure tags to join in!! I hope you all have a wonderful week ❤️

#writing tag game
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Chapter 10 (of 10) - COMPLETE! | 94.1K words | Rated: M Read from the beginning on AO3

Summary:

Three weeks before Henry Fox's tour for his fourth, highly anticipated, awards-bait novel A Brief War in December begins, his publicist Janella breaks her foot on a bunny slope at Windham. Alex can't be mad at her, even though he kind of is. Saying it out loud would be like kicking her when she was down, and she already went down a literal mountain in the worst way possible. Now crammed in Rafael Luna's corner office, Janella is shooting Alex extremely apologetic looks while slumped on her crutches, wearing a bright orange cast. The conversation about who is going to be joining Henry Fox on his multi-city trek across the U.S. is also going downhill. Alex is feeling the same sort of free fall while standing still. Because out of all the publicists available in their tiny underfunded department, the only one left to escort their company's best-selling author is regrettably him. The problem is, well, Alex absolutely hates Henry Fox.

Or: Alex is the publicist for Mountchristen Publishers, and is stuck on a two-week tour with their best-selling, but frustrating, author Henry Fox.

If you like playlists for your fics, I've got one for you. And so many thanks to @jamieylnn for making me this header ilu 🥹

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HOLY SHIT.

CHAPTER 10 (The Epilogue!) is up - This fic is now complete and safe to binge!!

This Is More of a Comment Than a Question - Chapter 10 - caterpills - Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org

An even more exciting - @miharaikko made these LOVELY covers for Henry's book!! AHHH I scream!!

#rwrb#rwrb fic#firstprince#firstprince fic#i'm feeling a certain sort of way#creeping toward one year since posting the first chapter#and a kudos milestone that feels unreal#and getting very emotional about it#so i figured i'd put this on my dash again
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Last Line Tag

Thank you to @cha-melodius for the tag!

Poking around in a bunch of different docs lately, but Errata (Henry's POV of Comment/Question) is going well:

All the noise and energy that Alex brought with him dies a quiet death with his departure.

❤️!

Some low/no pressure tags to a few - and of course open tag if you want to do this!! @alasse9 @firenati0n @anincompletelist @cricketnationrise @theprinceandagcd @faketrex @14carrotghoul @dezinthecloud @jafffacakess @suseagull5914 @incalamity

#last line tag#rwrb#rwrb fic#firstprince#firstprince fic#writing is slow but it's going and that's the most important
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Me reading another person's writing: Oh they missed a period there, no worries mistakes happen :) Three adjectives in a sentence? Adverbs for days? No worries I love descriptions and this story is fire.

Me seeing the same thing in my work: Wow am I illiterate? Am I actually ok? Who the actual fuck told me I can write so I can go and curse their entire family for the time it took for me to carefully craft this GARBAGE.

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hello all! just dropping in to say that I've opened a redbubble shop where you can get stickers etc. of the pieces I've posted here and on other socials! you can check it out here if you want!

(the link will also be in my pinned post for future ease of access x)

#rwrb#rwrb art
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thetrekkiehasthephonebox

me, seeing someone left me a comment: screaming, running around the room in circles, kicking my feet up in the air, jumping up and down, giggling to myself, squealing, wiggling, dancing around...

me, replying to someone's comment: Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

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20 Fanfic Author Questions

Hi!! I was tagged by the lovely @cha-melodius and @anincompletelist for this!

I've only written 2 (!!!) fics, so you're going to have the excuse the repeats in answers!

1. How many works on AO3?

2 🥰

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

99,315

3. Top 5 2 fics by Kudos

4. What fandoms do you write for?

Red, White, and Royal Blue

5. Do you respond to comments?

I do! If you've left me one, I have probably responded to it. I love getting comments, lots of warm little fuzzies. Plus I'm always so excited to see what others liked or noticed about the fic 🥰 (Sometimes commenters picked up on things that I didn't even realize and that is just awesome.)

6. Angstiest Ending?

Uhhh, I don't really write angsty endings? Comment/Question is angsty (but not terribly so) but the ending is still happy, full stop. I'm probably always going to put characters through it, but they'll end up together. I'm a sap, what can I say?

7. Fic with the Happiest Ending?

Happiest? This is More of a Comment Than a Question. While, yes, If You've Got It, Haunt It is pure hilarious chaos aka "a silly goose time", the payoff (I believe!) is more satisfying in Comment/Question, just by the sheer nature of it being a multi-chap versus a short one-shot!

#writing meme#fanfic questions#i don't really know how to tag this#ask game
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Top 5 on Repeat!

Thanks to @14carrotghoul for the tag! ❤️❤️

Can confirm that one (or more?) of these are WIP related. ☺️

Open tag to anyone who wants to play along!!

#music
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ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

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later you find out that applecock is like a) the nicest lady in the world, b) in her late fifties and c) is a well respected senior member of a career you didn't know existed like head mop taxonomist or chief piano refurbishment factor or secretary of racehorses and suddenly a few of the comments in the longest orgy scene are even funnier.

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see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

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@ everyone reblogging this i'm so sorry hang in there and be kind to yourself

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Anonymous asked:

If you receive this, you make somebody happy! Go on anon and send this to 10 of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs cheering up. If you get one back, even better 💖💖💖

Hello anon!! (And the other THREE anons in my inbox!!) Thank you so much for sending this: I'm both so happy that I make you happy, and this is much needed today since I was feeling a little down and this definitely cheered me up! I appreciate all of you!! ❤️❤️❤️

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thank you to every single fucking person on this god forsaken site that has ever posted your own art or writing. You really put a vulnerable, important part of yourself out in the open on the hellscape that is the internet and if that isnt an act of bravery and a labor of love I dont know what one is

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i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

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Gotta recirculate this post periodically just cuz

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Just don't read the post too many times.

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Oh god oh fuck

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