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I love the beautiful dream-like lighting & picturesque idyllic backdrop they gave Q in NTTD. If not reunion with love interest then why Disney Princess-ass lighting. hm? ๐Ÿง

*Once Upon a Dream playing in the bg*

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Itโ€™s WIP Wednesday!

Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then tag @mi6-cafeso we can find and reblog it!

OR you can reblog this post with your WIP excerpt!

All ships, fandoms, and WIPs are welcome.

I'm late, but since I haven't posted one of these in literal months and I've finally brushed off my WIP again, I figure no one will mind that it's Monday. Here's a bit from the next chapter of my Regency!AU fic Truths Acknowledged:

โ€œWhat do you mean she said no?โ€ he demands.

Mallory raises an eyebrow and takes another sip of brandy.ย ย 

โ€œShe thinks the plan has merit,โ€ he says after a thoughtful silence, โ€œbut she has concerns with it being an official military maneuver.ย  Sheโ€™s already lost one ship along that coast, and all intelligence points to a larger conflict brewing in the east.ย  You and your ship need to be recovered for that.ย  She also asks me to remind you that you were not meant to be near the Endymion when she sank, and though your heroism saved many lives, it also disabled you and your ship during a time of great need.โ€

Bond scoffs.ย  โ€œI couldnโ€™t stand by and watch her sink.โ€

โ€œNo,โ€ Mallory agrees.ย  โ€œBut now is not the time to be flouting orders.ย  She has her eye on you, and is only half convinced your heroism is worth yourโ€ฆ shall we say loose adherence to orders or the chain of command?โ€

โ€œSuperiors rarely complain about my methods,โ€ Bond insists.

โ€œTo your face,โ€ Mallory responds with a shrug.

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Itโ€™s WIP Wednesday!

Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then tag @mi6-cafeso we can find and reblog it!

OR you can reblog this post with your WIP excerpt!

All ships, fandoms, and WIPs are welcome.

I'm late, but since I haven't posted one of these in literal months and I've finally brushed off my WIP again, I figure no one will mind that it's Monday. Here's a bit from the next chapter of my Regency!AU fic Truths Acknowledged:

โ€œWhat do you mean she said no?โ€ he demands.

Mallory raises an eyebrow and takes another sip of brandy.ย ย 

โ€œShe thinks the plan has merit,โ€ he says after a thoughtful silence, โ€œbut she has concerns with it being an official military maneuver.ย  Sheโ€™s already lost one ship along that coast, and all intelligence points to a larger conflict brewing in the east.ย  You and your ship need to be recovered for that.ย  She also asks me to remind you that you were not meant to be near the Endymion when she sank, and though your heroism saved many lives, it also disabled you and your ship during a time of great need.โ€

Bond scoffs.ย  โ€œI couldnโ€™t stand by and watch her sink.โ€

โ€œNo,โ€ Mallory agrees.ย  โ€œBut now is not the time to be flouting orders.ย  She has her eye on you, and is only half convinced your heroism is worth yourโ€ฆ shall we say loose adherence to orders or the chain of command?โ€

โ€œSuperiors rarely complain about my methods,โ€ Bond insists.

โ€œTo your face,โ€ Mallory responds with a shrug.

sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

everyone I am happy to announce that the stevebucky fanfic author I had in mind while writing this post has officially reblogged it.

This is the point. Good fanfic makes lousy ofic, because if you're taking the shortcuts allowed in good fanfic by relying on the canon your readers know (so you don't BORE them by repeating it), then you aren't doing the character development NEEDED in good ofic. Like, they are different genres. For a reason.

If you are silent about your pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston

This is one of those posts where I feel like I'm doing others and myself a disservice by not sharing. I wish someone had shown me this a long time ago.

Maybe I'd be having to do less work to break out of this shell, now.

...All of the above.

Tell your truth, and don't be afraid to have it be heard... because this is not a dress rehearsal.

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It's difficult when you've spent years being a "good person", a "exceptional one" and the first time you complain, people left you. Even some of the ones who say they loved you. But once the fake people leave you, the trustful ones will be able to enter.

Sherlock: a Posh Boiโ„ข๏ธ, literally grew up in a country manor, indulgent big brother of the One Percent/World Order, fastidiously tailored bespoke suits and a clearly unlimited Button Replacement Trust Fundโ„ข๏ธ, only the ponciest of hair products will do and WHUT DO YOU MEAN I shouldnโ€™t wear my ยฃ800 Saville Row coat when slumming the dark alleys with my homeless network itโ€™s called dry cleaning you philistine oOoOHhH lOoK a shiny new microscope where did I put Mycroftโ€™s card this will look excellent in my pushover adopted grandmotherโ€™s spare flat that Iโ€™ve ALREADY FULLY MOVED IN TO and literally FILLED WITH THE TRAPPINGS OF MY ACCUMULATED WEALTH

Sherlock: *meets a smol blond army doctor in need of a cheap flatshare with an actual TIRE LEVER for a cock*

Sherlock: *blinksโ€ฆ*

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That. This. This is gold.

Like seriously this is hella adorable.

Fanfic Writers: Directorโ€™s Cut

Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the โ€œdirectorโ€™s commentaryโ€ on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines.ย 
Or, send in a โญstarโญย  to have the author select a section theyโ€™ve been dying to talk about!

I wasnโ€™t crazy about this piece so I wasnโ€™t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured Iโ€™d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

ITS NOT A PHOTO????????

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