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hi! i’m hannah (she/her, 25) and i live in the midwest usa! this is my main blog (i’ve been here for over a decade and i gave up on keeping up sideblogs many many years ago) so you’ll find a bit of everything. abandon hope all ye who enter here.

i post a lot about video games, especially sonic the hedgehog, persona/metaphor, ace attorney, and zero escape/aitsf! i am extremely normal about mia fey and goro akechi i promise :)

i also love music (my favorite artists are phoebe bridgers and clairo) and i will gladly welcome any artist/album recommendations at any time

i’m a fic writer who has been posting on ao3 for more than 10 years! (but i also work full-time so i post sporadically at best) i multiship so i like a lot more than just what i’ve written about but here are some of my recent/ongoing works:

(n.b. some many of my fics are nsfw, and i’ll be posting links here, but any snippets i post will be suggestive at most. i tag nsfw posts and reblogs with #sunsetinorbit if you would like to block. or browse if you’re a freak like that.)

my inbox is open for headcanons, song recs, selling me on your rarepair, whatever!


socials/other places to find me

twitter | bluesky (i am never active on here but just in case that changes here it is)

ao3 | spotify | letterboxd | backloggd

if you see hannahsflahnnels somewhere on the internet, it is probably me! (including discord, and you’re welcome to add me there, but just send me a dm here when you do so i know who you are lol)

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firawren firawren

People who are hard on yourselves: may I humbly offer you the 100 floors of frights philosophy?

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In the SNL David S. Pumpkins sketch, a couple is on a ride called "100 Floors of Frights," where they see a different scare on each floor, and at one point they complain about many of those floors being lame. And then Kenan Thompson delivers this line of deep philosophical wisdom: "Hey look—it's 100 floors of frights, they not all gonna be winners."

My husband and I use this line all the time to give ourselves grace. For instance, I'm a good cook, but when I make a dinner that doesn't turn out well, I will literally say out loud, "It's 100 floors of frights—they're not all gonna be winners," or just "Look it's 100 floors of frights."

It just means when you do a thing a whole lot, there's bound to be some instances that are bad. You don't have to be good at the thing 100% of the time. You can't be good 100% of the time. Some of the 100 floors are gonna suck. It doesn't negate your skill at creating the rest of the 100 floors.

You can use this for anything: art you make, performances, school assignments, days at work, outfits, sex sessions, literally anything that you are too hard on yourself about when it doesn't go great. Listen to Kenan Thompson and remember that it's impossible for them all to be winners, and that's okay.

claudiagray claudiagray

My husband and I use the phrase this way ALL THE TIME. It's helpful!

mechamiku628 mechamiku628

Really glad hbomberguy took care of James Somerton so I don’t have to hear what surely would’ve been the worst heated rivalry takes in existence from him

i’m going to go out on a limb and say that the ai fanfic witch hunt going on right now is more about consumer reader comfort than any actual respect for the sanctity of writing or whatever

#hannah.txt#bc why are the same people who 2-3 years ago were getting mad at writers for not completing their longfics before posting them now getting#mad at writers for posting their longfics all at once bc 'no one writes that fast it has to be ai'#it's because they want a product on their terms but also want to feel like they're consuming that product ethically#this is sooooo cynical but i unfortunately have a twitter account and have to see posts from *** fans on the regular
dugaodna dugaodna

just hit flow state and wrote 50 words of my essay. might scroll on my phone and write another 25 in about an hour or two. nobody is doing it like me

i wonder why post 3-4 mia resonates so much with me and most of the fanfic i write is set in that era *remembers that i too had a traumatic work experience at 24* oh!

#hannah.txt#ace attorney#mia fey#my (former) work besties and i started within 2 weeks of each other a year and a half ago and now we all have new jobs#so we were hanging out last night and reminiscing and it lowkey unearthed my repressed florida trauma. i may have cried a bit.#anyway#mia fey is the guardian angel of gorgeous gorgeous girls in their mid 20s trying to navigate their early careers & advocate for themselves