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To all the women who quietly made history.

Finally, and this is important: even those women who weren’t inventors and intellectuals, even those women who really did spend all their lives doing stereotypical “women’s work”—they also built this world. The mundane labor of life is what makes everything else possible. Before you can have scientists and engineers and artists, you have to have a whole bunch of people (and it’s usually women) to hold down the basics: to grow and harvest and cook the food, to provide clothes and shelter, to fetch the firewood and the water, to nurture and nurse, to tend and teach. Every single scrap of civilized inventing and dreaming and thinking rides on top of that foundation. Never forget that. (x)

inktober day 1

I respect your integrity. I would thus still value your opinion. ... Okay. Here's what I've got.

We all have our gambles. Just ‘cause I’m willing to bet on the long shot doesn’t mean I don’t know the odds.

I’m well aware that there’s a high chance that what we’re doing may result in doomsday for us all. But I pushed my chips into the middle of the table long ago, so I might as well play my hand to the end.

Apples

|| But Clio what could you possibly have been doing if you weren’t working on drafts ???

This. This is what I did today.

An episode from the main AU Rilwen and I have, in which Sauron and Langon rule Mordor together, and in which Sauron does not die at the destruction of the One Ring but Langon saves him — and they are both turned into evil Istari, basically.

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The village is putting on a pageant of the events of the War of the Ring, and Sauron has … mixed feelings.

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first doodle with my new tablet stylus, courtesy of @whosamawhatsit!

New chapter up for Climbing to the Light!

missingrache replied to your post “looking into the depths of my WIP folder is always a weird mix of…”

a les mis au of What holli i’m dying to know

it is in my drafts as ‘les mis dads au’ and in it, for reasons that don’t need exploring at this juncture, Javert raises Cosette and Valjean raises the Thenardier kids and Cosette and Eponine meet again in Paris shortly before the failed revolution and that was as far as I got.

chapter sixteen of Climbing to the Light is up!

or: the one where I fudge writing Quidditch, and shamelessly ship Marius’ mother with an original female character to boot.

I want a discworld fan works week or something in honour of Terry