Writing Vs Storytelling Skills: Improving Writing

I got a new job about a year ago. It’s an IT job and part of my job involves supporting desktops running different operating systems. Every morning I log into: wanheda (Linux), heda (windows) and clexa (OSX). They are all running smoothly.

no one:

me: here’s a flow chart of 41 lgbtq+ book recommendations, have fun!

disclaimer: this is a very non-comprehensive list since I’m only including books that I’ve read

Marked for Later List

I have over 50 fanfics on my Marked for Later list at AO3. This number never seems to decrease from 50 mainly because with each story I read, I check out the author’s other works and/ or their bookmarks. I am so grateful for the fanfic authors who have shared their stories as well as taking the time to recommend other stories. My Marked for Later is the kind of endless loop I actually like, the more fics I read, the more fics I add to it!

You can find my bookmarks here

I already thought he was evil. This confirms it.

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

Clexaweek2019 Basics

Okay kru, Clexaweek2019 officially begins tomorrow so here’s a refresher on the Clexaweek basics!

THEMES:  Monday 02/25 - Useless Lesbian Tuesday 02/26 - No Strings Attached Wednesday 02/27 - Only One Bed Thursday 02/28 - Nipples Friday 03/01 - Tinder AU & Nerd/Popular Trope Saturday 03/02 - Enemies to Lovers Sunday 03/03 - Free Day

Use the tags #Clexaweek2019, #Day (_), and #(prompt). Make sure you put those first three tags in first because as we all know, tags and searching can be finicky. Feel free to use whatever other tags you want (#Clexa, #Clexa fic, #Clexa fanart, what have you), but just make sure to definitely list those three at the beginning. You can submit a link to me here, either directly to the work or to your tumblr post, and I will reblog it. If you post on ao3, add the work to the collection Clexaweek2019.

Please remember to leave a comment on a fic you read. Even something as simple as “ajfkdsajlfdk;sa” is very much appreciated. Kudos are nice, but comments are the real validation. Please, please, please leave a comment! Please remember to reblog and not just like posts on Tumblr. When people make art and moodboards etc, reblogging is how the post is spread and showed to more people. And feel free to comment on those too (and creators love stalking the tags to see what people say as well!). Letting a creator know what’s awesome about their work is what encourages them to continue creating, so please keep that in mind! We all support each other here! That being said, usually every year there’s at least one troll who posts a stupid (and terribly written) fic on purpose to try to get attention. If that happens, IGNORE it. Don’t give it hits, don’t comment on it, nothing. Report it if the tags are incorrect, but otherwise ao3 can’t do much, so don’t give the troll any attention. Our fandom is so big and awesome that new works will flood the tag anyway so yeah, just let those terrible works fade into obscurity. 

At the end of Clexaweek, I will make a masterlist of all the content created. My fandom wife @clexabookmarks also makes lists of the new fics. If you notice we’ve missed a work just let us know! It can be so chaotic running this while working full time so it’s easy for some works to slip through the cracks. Just hit us up and we’ll add it in!

If you have any questions about Clexaweek, ask here. If you want me to give you some prompts, you can hit up my ask box or you can peruse my tagged list of Clexa prompts. If you would like to view previous Clexaweek Events, they can be found here: Clexaweek2017, Clexaweek2018. There are also Clexaweek collections on ao3.

HAVE FUN! :D Can’t wait to see what you all come up with! I’ve missed you all, kru. Welcome home.

Day fifty-one

of @the-wip-project‘s challenge

I’m actually very curious to read the other answers to this question.

Q51: Do you use tools for plotting and what are they?

A51: It’s not a tool, per se, but a method:

“Katytastic's 3 Act/ 9 Block/ 27 Chapter Outling Method!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3eodLF_Uo

clexa fic recs

the business of caring (complete) (AU) (Modern Setting)

in love and war and politics (complete) (AU) (Modern Setting)

guardians of light (ongoing) (Star Wars AU)

a different landing (complete) (Canon Divergence)

princess of the sky (complete) (Eragon AU)

those icy fingers up and down my spine (that same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine)  (complete) (Harry Potter AU)

the white queen running (complete) (Canon Divergence)

lightning only strikes once (complete) (Canon Divergence)

compromised (complete) (AU) (Modern Setting)

suffrage (complete) (Period Drama AU)

a crown seldom enjoyed (complete) (Game of Thrones AU)

Six (complete) (Greek Mythology AU)

if you cry out I’ll be there now (complete) (Mythology AU)

I’m a coal train, fast lane, caught up in a dirty rain (complete) (Zombie Apocalypse AU)

fall away (complete) (AU) (Modern Setting)

For more recs see here

Signal boosting!

“At least get your facts right Leslie, Emma is bisexual”

- Parkland student activist Sarah Chadwick, commenting on a post re: her fellow student activist Emma Gonzalez.

Updated List of WLW films/shows

Attempting to provide the most comprehensive list of TV shows and movies with sapphic characters. TV shows are followed by a list of wlw characters. Some films have been cited with their original title as well as the English translation. Please message me with any missing shows or films.

A

-Adventure Time (Princess Bubblegum, Marceline)

-Aimee & Jaguar

-All About E

-All American (Coop, Patience)

-Almost Adults

-Amar a Muerte (Juliana, Valentina)

-Ana Y Vitoria

-Anatomy of a Love Seen

-Antonia’s Line

-Annihilation

-Anyone But Me (unsure which characters)

-Atomic Blonde

-Atypical (Casey, Izzie)

-AWOL

B

-Battle of the Sexes

-La Belle Saison/ Summertime

-Below her Mouth

-Bessie

-Better Than Chocolate

-BFFs

-Birds of Prey

-The Bisexual (unsure which characters)

-Black Lightning (Anissa, Grace)

-Bloomington

-Blue Gate Crossing

-Blue is the Warmest Color

-The Bold Type (Kat, Adina)

-Booksmart

-Bound

-Broad City (Ilana)

-Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Rosa)

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Tara, Willow, Kennedy)

-Bumblefuck USA

-But i’m a Cheerleader

C

-Cable Girls (Carlotta)

-Call the Midwife (Patsy, Delia)

-Carmilla (Carmilla, Laura)

-Carol

-Charmed reboot (Mel, Nico, Jada)

-Chasing Life (Brenna)

-Ci Qing/Spider Lilies

-Circumstance

-Clarence (unsure which characters)

-Cloudburst

-Concussion 

-Crazy Ex Girlfriend (Valencia, Beth)

D

-The Danish Girl

-Daphne

-Dead to Me (Judy, Michelle, Detective Perez)

-Dear White People (Kelsey, Brooke)

-D.E.B.S.

-Degrassi: Next Class (Rasha, Zoe)

-Desert Hearts

-Disobedience

-Dope

-Drifting Flowers

-Duck Butter

-The Duke of Burgundy

E

-Elena Undone

-Elisa and Marcela 

-Emmerdale (Charity, Vanessa)

-Entre Nous/Between Us

-Las Estrellas (Flor, Jazmin)

-Everything Sucks (Kate, Emaline)

F

-Faking It (Amy)

-Farewell, My Queen

-The Favourite

-Fear of Water

-Feel Good (Mae, George)

-The Feels

-Les Filles Du Botaniste/ The Chinese Botanist’s Daughter

-Fire

-The Firefly

-First Girl I Loved

-The Fosters (Stef, Lena, Monty)

-Four-Faced Liar

-Foxfire

-Freeheld

-Fremde Haut/Unveiled

-Fried Green Tomatoes

-Friends (Carol, Susan)

-Fucking Amal/Show Me Love

G

-Gentrified (Ana, Yessika)

-Gia

-The Girl King

-Girltrash: All Night Long

-Glee (Brittany, Santana, Dani)

-Glow (Yolanda, Arthie)

-Gentleman Jack (Anne, Ann)

-Gray Matters

-Grey’s Anatomy (Callie, Arizona, Carina, Penny, Amelia, Erica, Teddy)

-Go Fish 

-Godless (Mary Agnes)

-Good Trouble (Alice)

-The Good Wife (Kalinda)

-Gotham (Barbara, Tabitha, Renee)

-Gypsy (Jean, Sidney)

H

-The Half of It

-The Handmaid’s Tale (Moira, Emily)

-The Handmaiden 

-Happy End

-Hart of Dixie (Crickett)

-The Haunting of Hill House (Theodora)

-Heart Beats Loud

-Heavenly Creatures

-High Art

-High Fidelity (Robyn)

-The Hours

-How to Get Away WIth Murder (Annalise, Eve)

-The Hunger 1983

I

-I Am Not Okay With This (Sydney)

-I Can’t Think Straight

-I May Destroy You (unsure which characters)

-If These Walls Could Talk 2

-Imagine Me & You

-The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

-Insatiable (Nonnie, Dee)

-The Intervention

-Itty Bitty Titty Committee

-It’s In the Water 

J

-Jane the Virgin (Rose, Luisa, Petra, Jane Ramos)

-Jennifer’s Body

-Jenny’s Wedding

-Jessica Jones (Jeri)

-Joven y Alocada/Young and Wild

K

-Karmen Gei

-The Kids are Alright

-Killing Eve (Eve, Villanelle)

-The Killing of Sister George

-Kissing Jessica Stein

-Kyss Mig/ Kiss Me

L

-The L Word (basically all of them)

-The Legend of Korra (Korra, Asami)

-Legends of Tomorrow (Sara, Ava)

-Lez Bomb

-Lianna

-Life Partners

-Light as a Feather (Alex)

-Lip Service (basically all of them)

-Little Fires Everywhere (Mia)

-Liz in September

-Lost and Delirious

-Lost Girl (Lauren, Bo)

-Love My Life

-Lovesong

-Loving Anabelle

M

-Madam Secretary (Kat)

-Madchen in Uniform

-Margarita with a Straw

-Marvel’s Runaways (Karolina, Nico)

-Master of None (Denise)

-Mein Freund aus Faro/ My Friend from Faro

-A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres/ My Mother Likes Women

-The Miseducation of Cameron Post

-Monster

-Mulholland Drive

-My Days of Mercy

-My Summer of Love

N

-Newness

-El Nino Pez/ The Fish Child

O

-One Day at a Time (Syd, Elena)

-Orange is the New Black (a lot of them)

-The Originals (Freya, Keelin)

-Orphan Black (Cosima, Delphine, Kenzie)

P

-Pariah

-A Perfect Ending

-The Perfection

-Person of Interest (Root, Shaw)

-Personal Best

-Pitch Perfect Trilogy

-The Politician (Skye)

-Portrait of a Lady on Fire

-Portrait of a Serial Monogamist 

-Pride

-Princess Cyd

-Pretty Little Liars (Emily, Maya, Paige, Alison)

-Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

-Puccini for Beginners

Q

-Queen Sugar (Nova)

R

-Reaching for the Moon

-Red Cow

-Red Doors

-RENT

-Riverdale (Cheryl, Toni)

-Rookie Blue (Gail, Holly)

-Room in Rome

-Rosewood (Pippy, TMI)

-Rough Night

-The Runaways

-Russian Doll (Lizzy)

S

-Sancharram/ The Journey

-Santa Clarita Diet (Lisa, Anne)

-Saving Face 

-Saving Hope (Maggie, Sydney)

-The Secret Diaries of Ms Anne Lister

-A Secret Love

-Sense 8 (Amanita, Nomi)

-Set it Off

-Sex Education (unsure which characters)

-Shadowhunters (Clary, Isabelle)

-She-Ra Princesses of Power (Spinnerella, Netossa, Adora, Catra)

-She’s Gotta Have It (Nola)

-Shrill (Fran)

-Signature Move

-The Sinner (Heather)

-Skins (Naomi, Emily)

-Snowpiercer (unsure which characters)

-South of Nowhere (Ashley, Spencer)

-The Spy Who Dumped Me

-Station 19 (Maya, Carina)

-Steven Universe (Ruby/Garnet, Sapphire/Garnet)

-Stranger Inside

-Stranger Things (Robin)

-Stud Life

-The Summer of Sangalie

-Supergirl (Alex, Maggie, Kelly)

T

-Tales of the City (unsure which characters)

-Tangerine

-Tell it to the Bees

-Thelma

-Trinkets (unsure which characters)

-Tru Love

-The Truth about Jane

U

-Unfreedom

V

-V for Vendetta

-Valencia

-Vida (unsure which characters)

-Viola di Mare/The Sea Purple

-Vita and Virginia

W

-The Walking Dead (Tara)

-Water Lillies

-The Watermelon Woman

-Wentworth (Bea, Allie, Frankie, Bridget)

-When Night is Falling

-With Every Heartbeat

-Workin’ Moms (Frankie, Giselle)

-The World Unseen

-Wynona Earp (Waverly, Nicole)

X

Y

-Yes or No

-You and Me Forever

-You, Me, Her (Izzy, Emma)

-Younger (Maggie, Lauren)

Z

#

-The 100 (Clarke, Lexa)

It’s a breezy summer day and the rustling from the leaves outside sound like whispers from my small apartment. I’m sitting in front of my laptop, silently studying the 1.6 billion faces speaking simultaneously in front of me. It’s Monday, the day of the weekly conference call between all Muslims. We have been required to attend this Skype meeting from the the tender age of fetus, but I had never spoken in one of them before. 

That changes today. 

“Hey guys, what if…” I start to say. 

Nobody hears me, but I refuse to be silent. How could I show my face again on Tumblr if I couldn’t even save my mayonnaise friends from death? How could I expect to earn their respect? Anon was right; why hadn’t I done this before? Thousands of lives had paid the price for my ignorance, but not anymore.

“What if you guys….. stopped killing people.“ 

Suddenly, silence. 

1,643,398,023 pairs of eyes are on me. My heart is in my throat as the ISIS leader gives me a blank expression. 

A single tear rolls down my cheek. "Please.” I say with a broken voice. 

He is moved. 

“Aight”.