drifting-along-cosmic-currents
Reese | they/them | over 21 | a little too in love with sugar, cats, and writing
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Sometimes self-care is going back and re-reading all the comments people have left you on every fic you ever wrote
it’s after midnight, time to post about my star wars rewrite [ID: costume redesigns of the main four from the Star Wars sequel trilogy for the replacement of Rise of Skywalker. Rose is in a bronze Mandalorian armor with orange accents. Her helmet is molded like Din's but bronze and tan. Rey is in a sleeveless take on a Jedi Knight uniform, the linen shades of white and grey. She's holding her lightsaber and her right hand in a full grey glove. Finn is in a tan Jedi top that's tucked into deep brown pants with a tuxedo stripe. His lightsaber's strapped to his belt and has a ring on a necklace. Poe's in a dark collared top and grey-tan pants, also with a tuxedo stripe and wearing a ring on a necklace. He has multiple belts and a thigh holster. /END ID]
Does anyone else just sit and think about the fact that Six of Crows is literally the perfect book?
Like, we have a morally grey character who's actually morally grey and has a real reason to push people away other than "once I killed someone in self defense, so I'm a terrible person and we can't be together." And every other character has a super fleshed out backstory as well, including real world problems that don't usually get talked about in fantasy books.
There's just as heavy an emphasis on platonic love as romantic love, instead of "I can fix him", it's "he can fix himself", there's a gay couple that's actually happy and not suffering every five pages, and all of the gay characters have personality traits outside of the fact that they're gay.
And speaking of the romance, it's so not rushed or sexualized. No one even kisses in the first book, but it's still so obvious how much they love each other. Each couple has such a different dynamic, and the way their pasts mirror each other? Perfection. (I also firmly believe that Kanej is the best couple in all of YA prove me wrong)
And then the diversity??? 3/7 of the lead characters are POCs, 4/7 are queer, 3 have disabilities, 2 have addictions, 2 have PTSD, 2 are religious, one was raised in a cult, and it's not one of those books that has diverse characters just for the sake of being diverse!
The plot is so unique, especially among fantasy books, and despite the fact that there's so many moving parts, there is not a single plot hole. And the CK auction scene will forever be one of the best end of series climaxes I have ever read.
So basically I don't get why other authors even try anymore cause I'm sorry but no matter how great their books are, it's not going to be Six of Crows.
Longing
Just a tiny guy watching fish and missing his "best friend".
@devinsisland apocalypse AUs, but it's just chill gardening between two raids outside to scavenge seeds
People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.
Trying out a new fountain pen.
For those curious about tools, this is an Esterbrook Leaf pen (picked up at a recent trade show) with Diamine Emerald ink!
“I serve the weak. I serve the forgotten. I serve the dirt beneath my feet.”
Okay Ashton that fucks, you win on that one
Sometimes love is just a kitchen with sunlight and a cat 🫶🏾
not to sound like a medieval peasant or a catholic but i resent anti-carb propaganda so much like bread will never be evil it is holy it is divine it is one of life’s most simple yet decadent pleasures. love is stored in the bread
K so not to be dramatic or anything, but there's a free vintage French pattern book available on antiquepatternlibrary so if you like to crochet/weave/make pixel art/tie epic friendship bracelets don't walk- RUN.
It has scenes from aesop's fables! Cherubs doing things! Beheadings! Greek muses! Little farm people! Intricate floral pattern! Goth stained-glass window like patterns! Fun little corner pieces! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/C-TT008-180.htm
writing not going well. will be retiring to the countryside to start a life of crime. adieu.
The idea of Luke coming up with his impression of Din solely from what Grogu tells him before they meet again is hilarious to me because
Grogu, probably: my dad is so cool and smart and calm and good at fighting and a great pilot and
Din in real life:
This is so real.
With SW fic, I always run into what I call, in my head, the Marvel Problem. Not for any super deep reason, but just because I'm also a newcomer into a fairly old, expansive, and well-established franchise. Writing SW fic as a casual fan is always rough because I *want* to respect the source material and keep my work canon-accurate, at least for the most part, but there's just so much lore and so many tangential works that I couldn't possibly keep up with without allocating some serious time to watching/reading/listening to/etc (time that I don't really have). So wookiepedia it is, even though the articles might flatten some helpful details despite their usefulness.
Also trying to figure out flight distance and flight paths is a nightmare.
“time spent writing star wars fic”
bi/pan erasure and poor reading comprehension are some of this hellsite's mainstays. But the post chain is hilarious
all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing
🐭🍎❤ Inspired by this video from simon_dell_tog
right now on earth there’s a kindly old stray tomcat who just got adopted and he’s receiving enough food to fill his belly for the first time in his entire life and he’s so so so happy and he doesn’t even know that it’s going to be like this forever :)
bonus:
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Go Claws Out While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
