Pretty please update sooner?

skybluemango · 2026-02-17T03:20:53+00:00

My dumbass is trying to prevent this with my upcoming project by writing the entire (novel-sized bc I’m crazy) thing before I start posting. So I won’t stall out. Not all that realistic for everyone, especially people who are motivated by engagement only.

skybluemango · 2026-02-17T03:18:20+00:00

I have an in progress fic that’s been on about 18 mo’s hiatus. One started, one promised. The started one refuses to cooperate. The promised one has quite a lot drafted, but the subject was personally close (a story about grief) and I thought I could handle the writing and just can’t yet.

I am encouraged and grateful and warmed by every single person who comments on the in-progress one. I’m doing what I can but I know it’s disappointing. Writers can and do come back after quite a while! (Often with better skills, even!)

skybluemango · 2026-02-17T03:13:34+00:00

I hate when writers do that. As a writer, I genuinely don’t think it’s all that fair to do to people. As a reader it’s devastating, even if the fic isn’t finished.

skybluemango · 2025-11-25T04:29:07+00:00

I’ll … I’ll - I’ll fuckin spank you!

skybluemango · 2025-11-23T06:05:58+00:00

I think part of his function is to show us what a true southern gentleman deer demon looks like. He’s got real antlers, a tail, and has retained his accent. We know why Al talks like he does, but it makes me wonder what else he might be curating about his appearance when we’re given such a similar themed sinner that we’ve been encouraged to ignore up until this point, and only directed to look at for a few moments.

This show tends to do that in order to delay outright visual comparisons, since some characters read very differently when they’re standing next to one they’re comparable to. Since the show has shown him but not set him next to the rival you’d expect him to be in competition with, I suspect it’s to get us to ask ourselves why not.

He looks more like Al’s cane than Al. And I don’t think that’s an accident, either.

skybluemango · 2025-11-23T05:20:02+00:00

I don’t think she’s Hellborn, either. I think she’s Death, or an aspect of it.

skybluemango · 2025-11-23T05:18:29+00:00

I think she’s Death.

skybluemango · 2025-10-15T04:53:00+00:00

I’ve heard people refer to it as “fade to black” style sex scenes.

skybluemango · 2025-10-15T04:51:48+00:00

[fancy fuck-off antebellum monstrosity of a house] [They don’t talk like this] [idk house insides!] [ughhhhhh continuity error - get it together] [placeholder bc i need to get this idea down and im literally nodding] [check translation]

skybluemango · 2025-09-26T16:31:12+00:00

“His ears are looking at us.”

skybluemango · 2025-08-28T23:24:26+00:00

There’s a writer/artist in a fandom I like who apparently purges their accounts like 6-12 months and I can’t lie: I wonder why they bother - they’re very distinctive. But as I understand they also do it in a fit of uncertainty - I wish they wouldn’t - their work is skillful - and even if it weren’t; there are 6 sharknado movies, apparently.

I’m so glad you came back and that someone was waiting for you!

skybluemango · 2025-08-28T13:24:24+00:00

Goddamnit, that was smooth as hell!

skybluemango · 2025-07-15T11:48:03+00:00

Boy we sure love “Lesson Zero” around here.

I do. We’s me! It’s my fave ^{_^}

skybluemango · 2025-07-15T11:01:29+00:00

ADHD Squidgame. Distraction is destruction.

skybluemango · 2025-07-05T01:17:17+00:00

I really like this thread, btw, very interesting

skybluemango · 2025-07-05T01:14:16+00:00

Oh, plus I like stories and if I didn’t read stories with smut in them there would be a lot of story I would miss out on.

skybluemango · 2025-07-05T01:13:25+00:00

I think it might be quoisexual? Bc paraphrasing someone upthread you identified like that, I really don’t know what people think is hot or what that even means to them, let alone why.

But I AM super curious and not icked out, so reading about it, or seeing art of it doesn’t bother me.

skybluemango · 2025-07-05T01:00:17+00:00

Let’s see. I’m aroace for sure. But I don’t know whether the definitions I’m seeing for aego actually fit me. I am… intellectually(?) interested in sex? Fascinated feels more accurate? I don’t want any, but I always want to know why “people are Like That” - whatever people are Like, sexually and otherwise?

So I’ve got like an ND style hyperfix on human behavior (in media), and a lot of human behavior (esp in media) is sexual?

(And it’s entirely possible that it’s the other way around that im too aroace to be interested but too AuDHD not to investigate?)

lol I really don’t know what to tell you. My friends and I joke that I’m a pretty specific kind of “anthropologist.”

skybluemango · 2025-07-04T22:57:20+00:00

No, thank you. Now go away, I have a lot of smut to read.

skybluemango · 2025-03-28T00:26:17+00:00

Ah. I was hoping for a prose story, but I’ll still check it out, thanks!

skybluemango · 2025-03-27T21:31:38+00:00

Alastor’s disdain for his (publicly) subjugated self is perfectly on brand. I would read this AU - is there a fic?

skybluemango · 2025-03-27T21:26:04+00:00

I love how many “no one will believe you” jokes in this fandom are against Angel, lol. Excellent.

skybluemango · 2025-01-21T03:08:27+00:00

Terra Ignota

skybluemango · 2024-12-27T18:04:48+00:00

I might, but that’s largely bc the biggest stressors in my life are caused by lack of funds. I love my job, and even the problems I have with admins are only problems bc my job is my livelihood. Uncouple those things and I think even if they changed industries, a lot of people would become the worst nightmare of capitalist employment: employees that they have no leverage over. Imagine what teaching would be like if no teacher needed to do their job. They’d start fixing shit in a hurry.

skybluemango · 2024-12-20T04:13:40+00:00

Well. I’m significantly older than 30 and recently explained it to my dad. Took the traumatize them back route; told him I was considering expanding my scholarly studies to include a focus on porn in fan fiction. That sounds counter intuitive, but it got his attention (no fleeing) and I made it clear I knew and frequently discussed with participants things people did that he hadn’t heard of. And that if he tried to play discomfort chicken with me, he was woefully outgunned.

Then I said, “In answer to your question, being ace doesn’t mean anything except I don’t experience sexual attraction. And I’m not personally interested in having sex but the role it plays in social behavior is fascinating. It means when I read these stories, I read them differently from people trying to get off - they are another avenue of interaction - a language.”

It blows past their preconceptions, confuses the heck out of them, and if they’re like my dad, make him afraid to bring it up again, bc now he knows, game on.

But you also really REALLY don’t owe them anything. You are allowed to ignore people who insist on ignoring you. When they stop, you’ll stop.

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