Guh.

Guh. 

“The Dark Side urged Kylo to fight and destroy, but Rey’s Light was too strong. Attracting him to her. Setting his body on fire. Kylo tried desperately to search the control inside him, but when he closed his eyes, it was Rey who was there. Waiting for him in the darkness behind his eyelids.”  😏

Charlie Cox's birthday is next week!

This is the 3rd yr Wukky1 (on Twitter) and @dichotomystudios do a charity fundraisers for CharlieCox's birthday! 100% of the proceeds go to Sightsavers, an international charity Charlie loves.

Team #SaveDaredevil love Sightsavers too. They're a wonderful organisation working in some of the poorest countries in the world. Please consider donating to this worthy cause and making this world a better place.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/charlie-coxs-sightsavers-birthday-fundraiser

Older than I am! I’d like to think only another year or two, but I’m not counting on it.

Amazing! 

I’ve illustrated another portrait, this time focusing on the Master of the Knights of Ren.

Sometimes I look at a picture and think...Why haven’t I written a fic where someone has to jump into a pool to perform a brave rescue and then afterwards drinks a beer while sitting with wet clothes clinging to every curve of his body while the rescued person is recovering? Because, of course, he’s trying to look nonchalant about it, even though he’s deeply unsettled by how close he came to losing this person. Why hasn’t that even occurred to me? 

Tom Ellis for "Man's Health"

I went through this period where I kept fantasizing about just driving away...in the morning, driving past my office rather than going into work, in the afternoon, leaving work and driving somewhere, anywhere, rather than home. I didn’t know where.

And then I wrote I Dream of Jinn, where Ben (AU Obi-Wan), with a better job than mine, felt that same dissatisfaction, and did it, drove away one day, and found a bottle with a version of Qui-Gon as a genie. It was a very fun fic to write and I only realized months later that I no longer had that desire to drive away. It was gone. Not that my life had become perfect, but somehow writing someone else actually doing the thing and it turning out great for him ended that need for me. 

I use my life and things that happen around me ALL the time in my fics, but that is the clearest I can point to, writing resolved a problem for me. I highly recommend it.  

So I went to my therapist the other day, and later in the appointment I mentioned that I like to write self-insert fiction to cope. I also said that I generally hide it and felt embarrassed mentioning it due to the way people treat the concept online.

She said that self-inserting yourself into art and writing is an incredibly healthy way to feel good about yourself, and that she was appalled when I told her about the way it’s mocked on the internet.

So never feel bad about self-inserting or enjoying reader insert fanfiction, 1/1 professionals agree that it’s good for you and that the jerks who say you’re doing something wrong are just uneducated and don’t understand. Never listen to the anons who try to make you feel bad <3 

Have a really nice day!