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Hi again writeblr! I’m Danny (or Early, or even Auden), 20 years old, any pronouns.

I’ve been writing my whole life and can’t imagine ever stopping. My recent writing has mostly been TV pilots & planning (support the WGA strike AND the SAG strike!) and skews toward the SFF area, along with some fanfics and contemporary sprinkled in.  I take a lot of stylistic inspiration from shows like Better Call Saul and The Bear and developmental inspiration from other media like Six of Crows, classic Disney and Midnight Mass.

Beyond that info, I’m very autistic, very aroace, and very intent on increasing the amount of disabled and queer characters we see in mainstream media.

Under the cut are my primary WIPs, though there’s lots more behind the wall of my Pages account.

#writeblr#writing#writers on tumblr#writeblr intro#writeblr introduction#writblr#writblr intro#intro#my writeblr#danny.txt
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So Nanowrimo is actually dead.

After 25 years of operation, Nanowrimo is shutting down.

An email came out in the hours approaching April Fools

A video was attached to the email, which can be viewed here:

The video is on Kilby’s channel and not the long dead Nanowrimo channel. The video is full of…

Kilby logic, but there is some relevant information contained within.

If have anything on Nanowrimo you need to get off the site, take it now. The site will likely not be around for too much longer.

Despite everything that the organisation has been through, the closure of a 25 year old nonprofit is still a tragedy, and my heart goes out to everyone that’s grieving from this. Nano has hurt a lot of people, but it meant a lot to so many, and I will be sorry to see that go.

Even if I don’t agree with many things in the recent video, I can agree with the sentiment of one slide.

I will update you all if and when relevant information comes out. Despite everything, I now doubt that this will be my last post.

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Seeing as I was never an expert on Nanowrimo I haven't much to say other than "AI killed them" rings untrue. The reason they promoted AI would be the same reason Tumblr and other sites did: they were bleeding funds and AI companies are offering bundles of free money.

#i’m genuinely sad to see them go#i spent my entire teenhood doing nano/the camps and thinking about the upcoming events all year and made real friends on the forums#almost tried to intern there once when they still did that and desperately wanted to go to night of writing dangerously#but they lost me completely near the end#and i hate how they’re going down in disgrace with people including me cheering instead of as a loved institution of the writing community#that just couldn’t stand the test of time and capitalism#though i have to say they can screw off with the “ not a salacious tale” bs that’s a complete and utter lie and they know it
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I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

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I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.

(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)

Tumblr's Favorite Movies
A list of movies that have been extremely popular with tumblr users over the years -- for better or for worse. Apologies that Goncharov
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#38/100 which was still way better than my 25/100 on the other one kdjkjsfg
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THE LICE ONE IS MAKING ME FUCKING CRY OH MY GOD

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BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

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My own addition:

A lovely social media friend I barely! Knew! came to visit me for the first time. Like you do, I put them in my car and took them out for Chinese food and on the way home almost swerved into a truck.

I absolutely panicked trying to apologize and indicate I was glad I hadn't harmed them and wound up shouting "I'M SORRY I DIDN'T KILL YOU!!!"

I was mortified but they fortunately found it hilarious.

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I was mortified

but they fortunately found

it hilarious.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

#like a week or two ago i was working the drive through where my script is#Me: hi how are you?#Them: [answer usually involving “good And you?”]#and then i move onto “doing well what can i get you”#but the other day i opened my mouth and what very nearly came out was “not good!”
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Anonymous asked:

Have you ever been outed (as a queer person)? How?

  1. Yes, to family - through personal diaries, messages, etc.
  2. Yes, to family - through people
  3. Yes, to family - other
  4. Yes, to friends - through personal diaries, messages, etc.
  5. Yes, to friends - through people
  6. Yes, to friends - other
  7. Yes, to teachers or authority figures - through people
  8. Yes, to teachers or authority figures - other
  9. Yes, other
  10. Yes, multiple of the above
  11. No
  12. Not queer
apolladay answered:

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#no but my brother has 100% figured it out and i’ve just been dodging his questions for 2+ years jksfhsk
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some things about sunrise on the reaping/the hunger games universe i'm thinking about today

  • haymitch was close friends with katniss's father when they were teenagers... how many times did haymitch see her at the hob or around town and do a double take?
  • burdock everdeen is lenore dove baird's distant cousin, meaning katniss is connected to lucy gray's bloodline... literally snow's worst nightmare come back to haunt him, down to genetics
  • reaping day is on the fourth of july. idk what else to say about this one i think we're all on the same page about this
  • katniss wanting wiress, beetee, and mags as allies despite over half of the victor tributes wanting to pair up with her... the three victors who helped haymitch win his games
  • haymitch, the victor of a games with twice as many tributes, bringing two victors home as a mentor in the 74th games
  • despite having the most tributes and therefore the most deadly, with the least odds of survival per tribute, the 50th hunger games had the most alliances out of any other games
  • beetee's son being a victor in the quell- i know we're all there already and it's been talked about endlessly but i'd like us to recall in catching fire when katniss tells the reader that the children of victors are reaped at a disproportionate amount... ampert was not the first nor was he the last. how many tributes were reaped to punish previous victors? "you tried to take away control from the capitol... look what we can take from you"
  • the circumstances of ampert's death: mutts that were engineered just for him, just for beetee, designed to literally strip him of anything that made him recognizable while they killed him. beetee and his family didn't even have a body to bury, just a pile of bones
  • we also know that at the end of sotr, beetee's wife is pregnant, but when beetee comes to district 13 in mockingjay his is alone. was his family killed in the uprising, or was yet another one of his children sent to the games as punishment for beetee's actions before and during the 2nd quarter quell?
  • effie was the last person haymitch saw before the games began. she came into his launch room before he went into the tube... she was the last face he saw, the last person he touched, before the games changed him forever. she was the last person to know the "old" haymitch
  • maysilee didn't even like the mockingjay pin- it wasn't a beloved token that had a deep meaning to generations before katniss. it meant nothing until katniss made it mean something- until madge, maysilee's niece, made it mean something
  • gale mocking madge for wearing a nice dress and trying to present herself well on reaping day, and her defending herself by saying "i want to look nice if they send me to the capital" - maysilee being scorned by haymitch for her nice clothes and her necklaces until he realizes it's her own way of rebelling against the capitol... "i am going to make you see me as human too if it kills me"
  • haymitch mentions that hattie used to tell him "fire is catching", which later became one of the slogans of the rebellion via katniss's propos with plutarch
  • haymitch's token being a flint striker, and katniss being the girl on fire. katniss inciting the rebellion by succeeding at the exact task at which haymitch failed- destroying the force field
  • we've always seen the quarter quell as a way of snow getting back at katniss for her rebellion in the 74th games, but after sotr we know she is hardly the first victor to rebel against the capitol. beetee was already a rebel in his own right, wiress and mags were instrumental in haymitch's victory in the 50th games, we can infer from johanna's characterization as loud and outspoken and certainly less than palatable to the capital's propoganda that she may have had a less than ideal (to the capitol) history... how many victor tributes were reaped on purpose? how many of them won their games through an act of defiance that was covered up?
  • similary, we know plutarch's plan with katniss was similar to his plan with haymitch... but surely they weren't the only two. how many other tributes, district 12 or otherwise, did plutarch and co. try to use as weapons, simply by being victims of circumstance? how many families of rebellious tributes, whether they were victors or not, were punished, because they went along with plutarch's plan thinking they had nothing left to lose seeing as they were probably going to die anyway? so much of haymitch's games was covered up and rewritten to hide his defiance of the capitol,,, how many other games were significantly or almost entirely fabricated by the capitol because of "unruly" tributes? was any of it real?

anyway i may be reaching with some of these but suzanne collins just gave us so much to think about with sotr!!! i've seen some dissent about how some of sotr disrupts the canon of thg but i think that's entirely the point... none of what katniss knew about haymitch's games was real to begin with, it's just what was fed to her by the capitol.

don't let media literacy die friends there are too many stupid people in the world already!!! mwah

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Okay but it’s fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.

Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless they’re planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitch’s games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.

But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, that’s the point.

We didn’t really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitch’s perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.

Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.

#this stupid book is truly wrecking me
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Twenty years ago, February 15th, 2004, I got married for the first time.

It was twenty years earlier than I ever expected to.

To celebrate/comemorate the date, I'm sitting down to write out everything I remember as I remember it. No checking all the pictures I took or all the times I've written about this before. I'm not going to turn to my husband (of twenty years, how the f'ing hell) to remember a detail for me.

This is not a 100% accurate recounting of that first wild weekend in San Francisco. But it -is- a 100% accurate recounting of how I remember it today, twenty years after the fact.

Join me below, if you would.

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you want to read this

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fuckthisbloganditscurses

Happiness Will Come To You.

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gaymacs

when tho

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sandvendor100

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

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reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

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I am the only survivor on this post REBLOG FOR HAPPINESS IN LATE MARCH AND TO SURVIVE THE MARCH OF TIME!!!!

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Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

#i’m only like halfway through SOTR right now#but if people are making this book about stupid ships i will throw them into the arena myself#the only relationship that matters is the one we know the ending of#AND IT’S NOT THE POINT OF THE STORY
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