Fic Authors Self Rec! When You Get This, Reply With Your Favorite Five Fics (if You Haven't Written That

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics (if you haven't written that many, fine 🙄😉) that you've written, then pass on to your favorite writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💜

Thanks, @mrsbsmooth! This is fun, but I have exactly five fics, so it wouldn't be helpful 😆 My favorite fic I think, is the one that gets the least lovin'. Sometimes, They Win. It's a Noah/Seb horror AU. I was so proud of it. Before I started writing love stories I used to dream of being the next Stephen King, so it was a lot of fun to delve back into that. Also writing Noah and Seb getting it on was a blast.

My other fav is probably the dirtbag con artist Lucas fic, The Bad Guy. Oddly enough, both of those are not straight up romances with guaranteed happy endings.

"she's a 10 but..." with love island S2 female characters (part 2)

Lottie: she's a 10, but she thinks girl code means hating men for no reason

Hope: she's a 10, but she lets herself be manipulated by a mid librarian

Hannah: she's a 10, but she thinks her life is a romance novel

Marisol: she's a 10, but she would hit on your partner and blame you

Priya: she's a 10, but she thinks toying with people's feelings is fun

Blake: she's a 10, but she's a cheap copy of you

Chelsea: she's a 10, but she thrives on mindless drama

Elisa: she's a 10, but her whole life is manufactured for her 'gram

Jo: she's a 10, but she's "not like other girls"

Shannon: she's a 10, but she has an unhealthy obsession with murder mysteries

special mention,

MC: she's a 10, but she's a doormat

In my early life (before the internet became a real thing), I collected all things fairy. Ceramic figurines, books, posters. All of it. And there were none that looked like me. All fairies were white. There was no media with black fairies or black princesses or black mermaids or black heroines at all (at least none that I ever saw), and there was no widespread internet like there is now, to even seek those things out. When I started reading romance novels, there were no brown heroines on the covers or between the pages. And for many years of my life, I hated myself for not being "normal." I dreamed of having long, straight black hair that moved in the breeze and fair skin and light eyes. It took a long time to undo that.

For people who could always see themselves represented, I'm sure it feels like no big deal. For people like me, even as an adult, it means everything.

TLDR: This is the cutest fucking post and it made me smile.

✨🧚‍♀️ Women as fairies 🧚‍♀️✨

LITG Suresh Faceclaim

@mrsbsmooth twisted my arm until I posted this. I didn't want to. She left bruises and everything. Suresh is a toxic douche and I'm not feeling him at all. But I AM obsessed with trying to track down the models for LITG characters. He was a tough one. I looked at so many Sri Lankan male models and no one had his longer face or those prominent lower lids. Until I found Mr. Global Sri Lanka 2017, Menuka Alwis. They probably used a second model for some of his details, but I feel reasonably sure that he was the baseline. Even the shape of his body is very similar. In the second picture, note the look of his arm and his closed fingers and then look at the drawing of Suresh's arm and hand.

S2 OG BOYS