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hii i recently fell in love with movies again so i made a uquiz where you can find out which actor would play you in a film about your life.

Theoretically if I were to host an event in which the Scum Villain Fandom tried to write PIDW would people be interested?

I discussed this with my good friend @spaced-out-scribbles a while back but here few details that I have in my head, please stop me if someone has already done something like this before

Obviously this would be a huge project to wrangle and would need a lot of people involved to actually make it work and take a lot of time, so if this is something people are actually interested in, it would more than likely not be able to come to fruition until the start of 2025 at the absolute earliest with all the prep work it would take to get a project like this accomplished but I thought I'd throw it out there to see if people would be interested, so reblog to spread the word if this is something you'd like to see!

Once again, if someone has already done something like this please let me know, I've only been in this fandom for like a year and a half so I'm aware that a lot of fandom events have occured before my time in the fandom

Thanks, Anon!

It’s complicated. They didn’t LET me. I had access to a library and the ability to deceive from a young age lmao

I was nine years old and my dad handed me a copy of Dune and was like here this is awesome.

did you read it at nine?

It wasn't exactly easy but I plowed through as best I could. It was the paperback edition released in conjunction with the David Lynch film and iirc there was a glossary for some of the in universe stuff, and most of the stuff with the navigators and the political manipulating of the Harkonen and Atredies families flew over my head but the whole thing with Paul and the fremen and such more or less stuck.

I read it again in my teens but I only made it about halfway into Dune Messiah because I kept forgetting which character was which.

It's weird because those are way old memories at this point and I only know for sure because my later teachers thought that wasn't a believable thing to say, and any time I see any Dune media I get like flashbacks of reading where I understand something I definitely did not when I was a third-grader.

I took my mom's copy of Clan of the Cave Bear and read it when we were still living in Maryland, so I must have been 11 or younger.

And there was like... Shakespeare and stuff sitting around the house. My parents, whatever else they believed, didn't believe in restricting our reading.

I was about 8 or 9 when Kerri (mother) told me I could read whatever I want, but if it upset me or made me uncomfortable I could/should stop and could talk to her about it. Sometimes I talked to her and picked the book back up. Sometimes I was alarmed and just quietly turned the book back into the library, lamenting my mistake.

So that was nice.

That's a great plan, and basically what I did with my kid as far as books were concerned. We did restrict her movie intake -- with middling success, because @mistresskabooms did find a way to watch Episode III after we told her she couldn't because it would be too upsetting to her at six :| -- but books? We did what our parents did, and just said, you know, make good choices, and come talk to us if something hurts or upsets you.

And she did.

I devoured books, if my parents had thought a book was too old for me they probably wouldn't have noticed until i'd finished itso it was left around long enough for them to see what i was reading

I worked my way through the local library like a plague of locusts

I remember reading the spider world series by Colin Wilson [where people are people sized but insects are huge and have civilisations [in insect ways] with things like beetle bombadiers using people as slaves or others keeping them for food - which was described viscerally]

I'm not sure I'd encourage a ten year old to read them - but ten year old me thought they were awesome

and piers anthony, i read the incarnations series in primary school so I do think I probably should have had some limits, but my parents were of the opinion if it was too much I'd stop reading - which didn't happen until college with Sister Carrier by Theodore Dreiser which was the first book i started and didn't finish

Clive Barker featured too, but only weaveworld and cabal

new tag game: people who don’t have anime profile pics, if you had to pick one rn what would it be

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

stats aren't important bla bla bla yes but does anyone else like pitting their fics against each other like they're in an incredibly slow horse race?

alyssa ‘valyrian arya’ targaryen to baelon’s tradwife pipeline was insane. what did they do to her

forget aerea returning from valyria forget the dance of dragons this was the biggest horror story in fire and blood.

Help me decide what lost wip i should work on

My computer died on me recently, and my dumb ass had no backups for any of my fun-writing. I've lost about 3 years worth of work and though I want to start over, I can't decide what I should focus on first. So in honor of this stupidity + indecisiveness combo, vote on this!

The people has spoken! Su She x Lan Wangji, Endgame Suyao it is!

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

I need this to be a real game right the hell now