oh, isn't that one of the loveliest things ever?

—Dev and Charlie, from The Charm Offensive

Siege and Storm: the scene where Alina's hair turns white

hi! I recently checked up on your ao3 account to see if pull me under had been updated, and it looks like I missed something! is the fic being continued on another site and able to be read with payment? its been a couple years since I was on ao3. I know your last authors note said there was an update on your Tumblr but I didn't see anything, sorry! I hope you're doing well, and that the years have been kind on you!

helloooo so yes at one point i had made the patreon and i was going to rewrite rule of wolves but the day it came out i finished it in one sitting and i hated so much of it i couldn’t even bring myself to retain any of the storyline whatsoever and it would have been so much work to have to write it all from stretch essentially. like writing ruin and rising at least i had guiding points for the flow of it. i wrote a couple more chapters for pull me under but i didn’t feel right taking peoples money when it would have taken so long for me to write it all.

THAT BEING SAID i am working on getting a posting schedule for original work and i would hope people would be interested in that, maybe i can write some fanfic still from time to time as well! so that’s where im at writing wise i know it’s been a while.

oh!! also if anyone has help on how to reach my ao3 audience to let them know about a patreon since i’m pretty sure we’re not allowed to talk about that stuff on there. pls if you have an idea let me know :))

Hi! Just wanted to say that I love your writing! 💗💗💗

i’ve been working on unposted original work for a second and this reminded me i can do it so thank you so much this meant the world 🥹💕

Did you watch the shadow and bone show? How did you like it?

hey friend! sorry this took me so long, i have been a hermit in his cave and have fallen behind on all the asks so forgive me!!

i will be blatantly honest— i didn’t watch season two. mainly because i knew netflix was going to cancel it anyways because they do that for all of their shows, and i didn’t want to get more invested in the new plot lines that would remain unresolved. the second is that i was wary of this new content and if it would still be good straying far from canon. when a lot of people said it was underwhelming i just felt unmotivated to watch i’m sorry 😔

BUT season one. i really appreciated the attention to detail for the set and characters, everything was exactly how i imagined and executed with a lot of quality. the casting was SUPERB. i would have preferred jesper to be darker skinned as described in the books, but kit still had an amazing performance.

ben barnes was an absolute babe- he portrayed a darkling that was very tears in his eyes emo and i loved him. he’s really different than book darkling though, and i kind of wanted to see that young boy that looks innocent and trustworthy because that was an essence and allure to him for me. love jessica mei li i cant gush about her enough shes so hot and perfect and talented and made alinas charactor even better and more enjoyable in comparison to the written series.

crows actually had a great additional storyline in my opinion and i enjoyed their parts a lot. im not sure if i liked how their characters met so early on, with alina and them, but the kaz and darkling moment will forever be iconic. their collective portrayal of the crows is chefs kiss and the one liners are my favorite thing ever.

SHIT THIS WAS LONG i hope this was a coherent enough answer 🫠

had to kanejify this one

"Love isn't having butterflies all the time, i think love is calm. Love is comfortable. I could sit in silence with you for the rest of our lives and it would mean more than a thousand words with anyone else."

enemies to lovers be like

something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.

Anne Carson, from Red Doc>

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934

Book: Night Drives 💖

"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

embroidery ghost 🧵

Art by Mandyland 👻 🍂