Mae Crowe Writes

@touchingmadness / touchingmadness.tumblr.com

mae | 24 | she/her | bi/ace i write about human nature, societal failings, and consequences. my favorite genres are soft sci-fi, light fantasy, and spec genrebends. follow for writing, inspiration, tips, community, and more. [main wip || touched]

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✦ Writeblr Reintroduction ✦

a sff writer makes a heroic return to her writeblr account after a year of relative inactivity! the audience gasps! a return!? after so long!? is that allowed!? but our heroine has no care for what is allowed! she scoffs in the face of mockery!

Hey everyone! I’m Mae Crowe (@touchingmadness)! Some of you might already know me, but most considering the upheaval in the Writeblr community recently... Well, most of you probably don’t. I’ve been on Writeblr for six years as of August 2022, but I’ve been relatively inactive for the past year due to senior year of college, thesis work, and job applications.

In the time I’ve been away, I have a new contemporary fantasy WIP in the second draft that I am excited to share, as well as three WIPs in planning stages that I’m hoping to share somewhere down the road. I am also looking for some writers and WIPs to follow, because how else do you make friends on here?

[Banner made using “Astrolava’s character creator!” picrew.]

More about me, my writing, and what I'm looking to follow below the cut. Signal boosts allowed and appreciated!

#writeblr #writeblr intro #writeblr reintro #writing #new writeblr #writeblr search #writing community #science fiction #fantasy #speculative fiction #write away my friends

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Reblogged yvesdot

i think i got the major ones

i realize this is probably not the most exciting poll i've ever done

gallusrostromegalus

It sounds like a joke but the "Comic Sans Hack" of "writing your drafts in Comic Sans makes brain flow better" actually works.

#i use different fonts for different stories #basically whatever fits the vibes and makes the words go #whether that's a pretty standard font #or nearly illegible handwriting onrs

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Reblogged albatris

isabellebissonrouthier

#a few years ago i would have said trad #because i don't particularly want or need to do all the marketing for my own work #but lol even they seem to require a lot more now so who knows #(even then though publishing was never a priority)#(merely an option)#anyway yeah no clue how to answer this anymore which is sad

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Reblogged maris-sol

allthingswhumpyandangsty

Anonymous asked:

Do you think people who are virgin should write smut? I feel like most of them don’t even know what they’re writing and just write what they think sex is

allthingswhumpyandangsty answered:

the implication this ask suggests that people who write about murders, cannibalism, politics, magic, royalty au, sci-fi, wars, supernatural, time travel, medieval era, werewolves, vampires, mermaids or goblins must be murderers, cannibals, presidents, wizards, royalties, astronauts, ghost hunters, soldiers, time travelers, knights, werewolves, vampires, mermaids or goblins in real life is so funny to me

#as an ace writer who writes smut this is doubly funny #ANYWAY lol i don't pretend all the smut i write is realistic but in my experience that's what people like anyway

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Reblogged marrowwife

I have to say it. 'enemies to lovers' started going down the shitter when people began treating it like 'people who kind of annoy each other to lovers' ENEMIES to LOVERS is about if two girls FOR REAL want to KILL each other

#enemies to lovers when it is like...#rivals at absolute best #boooooooo #not what i'm looking for

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and if i tear myself apart and reforge myself in a desperate bid for someone to choose me... would anyone mourn what i had destroyed? would that version of me be worth notice once out of reach? and which answer is more tragic?

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Reblogged siarven

I am both.

#one weird counterintuitive aspect of being asexual #is that im more open to kinky or weird shit #im not HAVING kinky or weird sex it's all theoretical

Hey @rosierugosa I hope it’s okay that I stole your tags because YES.

Because sexual desire is so weird and alien to me, personally, I find myself more accepting of weird and alien sex: I’m definitely not a monsterfucker in that I don’t wanna fuck the monster, but I fully accept and respect all monsterfucking because hey, sex in general -- straight, gay, or otherwise! -- is already so weird to me. Wanting to fuck Chad McDude down the street is just as strange to me as wanting to fuck the mothman. So my attitude is...go for it, I guess! Here’s a water bottle.

#this is pretty much the exact explanation i gave my allo friend when she found out i write smut #sex is already so goddamn weird #let's make it unique and actually entertaining

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Hi if anyone needs or wants to talk about anything - whether that'd venting or finding a distraction - please know my DMs are open and I'll pass out my discord if anyone wants it

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Reblogged andromedaexists

Enough posts about sad pathetic men covered in blood, more about them basking in it, come on people

#i have room in my heart for both #hell i can even ship them

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Reblogged albatris

Saw this on Twitter. What 3 potions would you drink?

I would take brown, white, and yellow!

#blue white green

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Reblogged penname-tbd

oliversrarebooks

Chosen One Whump

You're exhausted, you're not recovered from your wounds, but you have to go and fight the latest threat anyway. You're the only one who can.
You disguise yourself, making yourself seem as small and ordinary and nonthreatening as possible, so that people don't recognize you, because the hero worship feels so uncomfortable.
Your sworn companions are the only ones who treat you remotely like a human, but even so, you can see the distance and fear in their eyes when you return to them soaked in blood.
You're used to hard travel, long days walking or riding, short nights sleeping in a bedroll on cold, damp ground, taking shifts to watch for threats.
The people in the city who take you for granted, laughing about how threats will never touch them, not with you to protect them.
Worse, the people who whisper behind your back about how you're not doing enough.
The smartest and most cunning of your companions has a plan in place to defeat you if you're ever corrupted into evil. You smile and nod, knowing it wouldn't work. You would crush all of them like ants under your boot. You suspect that your companion knows it, too.
The healing magic drains you, leaving you feeling like a hollow shell, but you have no choice but to use it. Healing your wounds the normal way would leave the city vulnerable for too long. You feel as if your body is barely stitched together by magic.
You must attend meetings and balls and diplomatic events, awkward in uncomfortable formal clothes. You're there as a weapon, as a threat, and everyone knows it.
Every two-bit villain and their lackeys wants to kill you. You can't go anywhere without the threat of assassins in the dark and poison in your food and drink.
You've nearly died so many times, and each time the threat of death is more of a relief. You don't want to think about what that means. If you die, everyone else will too.
Your sleep is full of nightmares of all the things you've seen and done. Even in sleep you can't get a respite from fighting.

vaguely inspired by FFXIV

#oh this is the stuff i play with in my one dragonquest fic #it's really fun #and he's just a boy

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Reblogged asexualbookbird

rhaenyra-the-gracious

Please reblog for a bigger sampler size!

#i start to speed read and skim when the book isn't really working for me but i want to see if it gets better #granted i still have a pretty high comprehension rate when doing this #but yeah i do it

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Reblogged duckprintspress

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

#sex unfavorable ace who enjoys writing smut here #in my groups #many such cases

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Reblogged apple-duty

screaming, crying, throwing up, as I force myself to write a story i'm very passionate about and love writing and have no obligation to write except that i want to

#the screaming crying throwing up is directly because i love it btw

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Reblogged

The first thing about writing fic is that there are always those characters that you love writing POV for because they feel like you in so many ways.

The OTHER thing about writing fic is that there are those characters that you CAN'T write POV for because they too feel like you in so many ways.

#reblogging this here too #because the only thing i've written lately is fic

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Reblogged captaincrowe

i need to write, but first i need to read to remember how books work, but first i need to get over the mother of all reading slumps

…anyone have any tips?

#short books to start #i usually ease back in with manga or other visual stuff #and even if you don’t take that route #find something over the top #something with a silly or outrageous premise #or a type of book you like to poke fun at #(random romance novels of That Type tend to do it for me)#just something you can giggle your way through lightheartedly #while your brain gets used to reading again and you can't miss much #and ideally after a few of these reads #your brain goes #what if this was good???#THEN you start getting into longer and/or more serious books #also dear god i cannot recommend ebooks enough for getting back into reading #yeah i like physical books better #BUT when you're getting over a slump it's convenient to keep it in your pocket and keep the tab open #you might find yourself reading without meaning to #(sorry wrong blog first time)

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Reblogged mecharose

sometimes a relationship with a woman and a man is anything but straight. hope this helps

#if you call any of the m/f pairings in my stories straight #i am ripping you open with my teeth :)))#those fuckers always got something else going on #(and erikade has all those something else's going on simultaneously)#also since everyone in the the tags is taking the bi and Gender approaches #(very valid)#i must say aspec!!!!#aspec too!!!

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