My middle schoolers read excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream today and that script had them ROLLING. They want the local youth director to add it to the next season of performances.

They REALLY liked when Bottom (as Pyramus) said “now I am dead.”

i think i just witnessed a miracle

Something Something what if the backstory of Thomas creativity splitting into roman n remus is literal Something Something what if there was a guy before them who just ceased to exist cause those 2 are there now Something Something as far as remus knows he was just some guy n then suddenly he had a fall from grace n became the black sheep Something Something i dunno insert existential horror here i am bad w words you get what I'm saying? You see the vision????

Fander Fic Rec Friday Saturday Sides Suggestions

Just another post in case anyone misses it: this week's rec-list has been posted.

It's #69 this week, and the specific content related to the theme seems to have tripped tumblr's "uh-oh" filter. It isn't showing up in the tags for me, so I thought I'd make a second post in case anyone isn't seeing a notification.

super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:

• copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook
• if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things
• state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy
• ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?
• make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]
• just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”
• just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”
• just stick a meme in there
• honestly who cares
• just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

The Big Lie Masterpost

ALT

They’d been there since the beginning but needed Creativity to give them form.

To give them names.

Heart, the holder of their feelings, including their sense of what was right. And what was wrong.

Curiosity, the keeper and seeker of knowledge.

Protection, the one who kept them safe from harm. And from punishment.

Over the years, their roles and their names would change, but they could never forget who they were, what they were meant to do. And most especially, they could never forget what they meant to each other.

Until, slowly… they did.

What will it take for them to remember?

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Welcome to my 2025 @tss-storytime Big Bang story, The Big Lie! @starsingerart's awesome art is here, and the chapter list and detailed shout-outs are below. tl;dr: Special thanks to @thewickedcompanion, @typically-untypical, and @fullrainbowallthetime for beta reading different versions of this story!

I'm super excited to finally share this story. It started with At Any Price, my 2021 recursive fic of @magpiemorality's soft Free Hugs. In that story (spoiler), Logan and Remus are both touch-starved.

I couldn't stop thinking about what must have happened to have caused Janus, Mr. Self-Care and Self Preservation, to allow not one, but two of Thomas' Sides to become touch-starved.

The Big Lie answers that question.

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❝ so i put it in the pros column of the plan. ❞

Why is Dating Scary? (2025)

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started