Thank You For All The Effort You Put Into It! It's Truly Lovely And Had Me Smiling All Day.

Thank you for all the effort you put into it! It's truly lovely and had me smiling all day.

I was not "white passing" as a kid (I had lovely brownish skin) but because I've spent most of my adulthood indoors in front of a computer, I'm a lot lighter than I was back then and most white people assume I'm white, despite my hair telling a different story 😄So it's weird. I've been both. But I definitely ache to see myself and other WOC represented.

When I started writing fanfic, my approach was that I only wanted to write brown/black heroines. I didn't see myself repped in my fandom, and there was a lot of icky attitudes about race within it. At the time, nearly every fic heroine was white, and there were a lot of white fans gushing over having "exotic" mixed-race babies with black or mixed male characters. It was pretty gross and dehumanizing. Reminded me of that episode of Ab Fab where Eddie went crazy to find out her grandbaby was gonna be mixed race. "A mixed-race baby is the finest accessory anyone in my position could ever have, sweetheart! Oh, my God, it's the must-have of the season! It's the CHANEL of babies!" So I only write black or brown original characters for the fandom. Complicated women with real problems and lives. Some nice, some not so nice. But all as three-dimensional as I can write them. And I've been blown away by the amount of readers who commented on it and how happy it made them to be seen. It turned out, there are plenty of people of color in the fandom who'd been feeling like they didn't belong. One of my greatest joys is showing them that they DO belong. And showing them reminds me that I do as well.

✨🧚‍♀️ Women as fairies 🧚‍♀️✨

Keep your head on a swivel. We're everywhere.

Fact: Today (September 23rd) is bisexuality awareness day. Be aware of bisexuals. They are dangerous.

For the ask game!

📥 What is your fave fic to receive comments/messages on?

✏️ Do you write every day?

🖊Post a snippet from a current WIP.

📥 Oooh this is tough. TSIME gets so many lovely comments that make me cry, but I think I'll go with "This is a Cry for Help," my Jakub one shot. I get a lot of joy out of people who are mad at me for suddenly finding Jakub sympathetic 😆

✏️ I do not. I write most days though. I work full time and have a disabled partner, so it's not always possible. But I def write at least four or five days a week.

🖊 Oh lort. Do you know how many WIPs I have? I'll go with the one I'm posting this week. From "This Momentary Blue." “You drive me so fucking crazy. You infuriate me. You know that right?”

Felix’s breath hitched. "Yeah, I know.”

"You just, you never shut up. And everything you say is shite. And your clothes are ridiculous.”

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry! Just be--" He slapped his hands on the wall. “Fuck, this is so stupid.” He stepped closer, so close their chests were touching. So close that Felix was overwhelmed by Kassam’s cologne. It was complex. Leathery, minty, earthy. It was somehow bright, sulky, and arrogant. Like Kassam himself. A shiny, beautiful dirge.

Thank you for the asks!

The eternal struggle.

I want to read a fic exacly like my most beloved favorite fics but also NEW and DIFFERENT. but also the same. 

Pass the happy! When you receive this list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications 😙✨

Thank you anonymous, this made me smile. You asked for five things that make me happy, but it made me happy to list things that made me happy 😆 So you get ten of them instead. In no particular order.

🥰 Receiving comments on my fics 🍫 Cadbury Eggs 🍂 Fall leaves crunching underfoot 🦄 My bestie/beta reader Sam/ThroughTheJunoBush 🎶 When my favorite musicians drop new music 🖤 Painting my nails black ✨ Sparkly eye shadow ✍️ LITG FF Discord 🤏 Shoulder massages 👖 When Pandora plays Sugar, We're Going Down

😂😂😂

when I was driving home today, I saw about 4 old women wearing head to toe gothic gear. Black lace, black facinators, black jewellery, black parasols

And I got super happy, just delighted that older woman in my area feel comfortable dressing in alternative fashion

it was only as i got halfway up the road that it dawned on me they're probably wearing mourning outfits cuz the Queen fukkin died