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@phantomato / phantomato.tumblr.com

AO3: Phantomato. They/them.
Author of fanfic that is slow, boring, and low-conflict.
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navel gazing: longer essays where I introspect about my experiences in fandom nottmort: content for the ship of Nott Sr. and Tom | Voldemort, my OTP trans voldemort: my thoughts on reading Voldemort as an allegory for the trans experience tomato shorts: shortfic posted exclusively to tumblr

Generally into old books, especially about boarding schools; E. M. Forster; Shounen-ai shoujo from the 70s; Tokyo Babylon; precocious evil boys and their loyal (?) servants

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lucradiss

“Oh the age gap was too big I aged one of them up/down so they’re the same age”

YOU HAVE SHOWN YOUR WEAKNESS! YOU ROLL ON YOUR SPINELESS BACK AND EXPOSE YOUR COWARD BELLY IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY! I DONT HAVE A SHIP WITH AN AGE GAP OF LESS THAN A DECADE! GIVE THESE MIDDLE AGED MEN A TWINK AND SOME VIAGRA AND THEYRE READY TO GO!

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mcfif

btw I don't think Seishiro is kinky I think he learned very little about sex when he was younger because he did not care (too busy killing puppies etc) and then he died right after realizing it might be relevant to him after all

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graymm

I headcanon this so hard.

Like that's his whole thing. What makes for good sex? Vulnerability, communication, humor, giving, being comfortable in your own skin, sharing. What's Seishirou? Closed off, no communication, no idea what he wants, responds only to what he likes.

Sex clueless.

He doesn't even know what he wants when it's right in front of him, let alone how to get it.

He might go through the motions, put up a front of being worldly, but when it comes to intimacy I think he's in over his head.

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phantomato

Also, this is why I think Subaru is kinky (though not safe about it, tbh). He recognizes that what he wants is to feel vulnerable with a partner, to trust someone enough to do something risky with them… but ofc he’s got a very fucked relationship with interpersonal trust that makes him choose unsafe sex.

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churlfriend

i just finished making a pot of chili and my dear ex-wife @fallout-lou-begas made a pot of chili last week and all this chili reminds me of a conversation we had when we were still living together. i like to eat my chili with a peanut butter sandwich; lou usually makes corn bread to go with hers and thought my pairing was unusual. so now i wanna know:

when i say chili i mean a bog-standard beef and/or bean chili with peppers and onions and tomatoes, seasoned with chili powder and cumin and whatnot

here is a blurry photo of my chili as it cooks down a bit:

go my psionic warriors

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Sometimes fiction doesn’t have a moral to the story. Sometimes fiction points at something and goes “Ever thought about THAT???” And you look at what it’s pointing at for a bit.

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alphacrone

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."

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Anonymous asked:

I’ve grown to like Thoros so much!

Aww, thank you, anon! I really love him too. It always makes me so happy to hear when someone follows along with my fic and comes to care for him! 💖

This reminds me that I have the final chapter of Lares ready for editing. I will make an effort to finish that!

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Anonymous asked:

this might be weird to ask, but how do I critically look at another person's writing and implement what I like in their writing in my own writing? I've been having trouble improving in my writing, and frankly Im not sure how to go about doing that, even. It's easy to see what I like about another person's writing, but hard to pinpoint exactly why...

THIS IS NOT WEIRD TO ASK. It is, in fact, the most important question EVER.

How to Read Like a Writer

Re-read. If you get halfway into a chapter and think, Wow this chapter is super creepy–I wonder how they did that. Or get to the end of a book and think, I feel the poignancy of the fragility of human life in an inherently volatile economic system–I wonder how the writer made me feel that wayGo back and re-read that shit.

Read slowly. When you read like a reader, you read pretty fast. When you go in for your second, or third, or fourth re-read of a passage, chapter, or book that you want to know more about, read it slowly. Really. Slowly.

Read for technique, not content. Readers read for content (”In this paragraph, Damien gave Harold a classified envelope.”). Writers read for technique. (”In this paragraph, the writer made me feel curious about the contents of the envelope by giving sensory details about its appearance and weight.”)

Ask the right questions. They usually start with HOW: How did the writer make me feel? How did they accomplish that?

Read small. Did a chapter make you feel sad? Find out WHERE EXACTLY. What paragraph, sentence, or WORD did it for you? Was it a physical detail? A line of dialogue? A well-placed piece of punctuation? Stories are made of words and sentences. Narrow it down.

Practice. Reading like a writer is a skill that takes time to develop. Over time, you’ll get better at it!

How about y’all? Anything to add to this list? I made it off the top of my head so I’m sure I’m forgetting something. What have been your experiences with learning to read like a writer?

Hope this helps!

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The Literary Architect is a writing advice blog run by me, Bucket Siler. For more writing help, check out my Free Resource Library or get The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. xoxo

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mckitterick

this is SO IMPORTANT for creatives! understand WHY you love things, why they move you, how the writer (or artist or whomever) did the thing that made you laugh or cry or see the world through a fresh perspective

I like to mark passages that really work for me, that reveal some insight into the human experience or deliver a beautiful image that lingers in my mind or a powerful scene our great dialogue or whatever. by marking it, one can go back later for inspiration or insight, especially when stuck in a revision or feeling uninspired

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is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

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z-a-d-i-e

i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

it's funny that this is getting notes again, because last night i went to the thai place in my neighborhood. it's run by a family and during covid times i ate there literally almost every day. later i cut back on eating out so much and hadn't been there in two years but last night we went and ate inside for the first time ever and the owner ran over to say hello and ask how i was, and repeated our old regular order. it was sweet. it's so easy to feel like you are an island, but stuff like this reminds you that you are part of a community.

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“am i bothering you?” no !!!! i really enjoy hearing you happy about your interests and you deserve to have someone who enjoys listening to you !!!!!

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Hehe, DP. 😉

D. A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

Hmm. A couple of years ago I would have said Tom Riddle/Harry Potter, for community-fit reasons. But the ‘just can’t’ won out and I moved on from trying to make connections in that fandom. So that might be my most honest answer—these days I scope out the community and ship tropes/trends before I commit to it, and I don’t get into something that I don’t think I’ll enjoy the community space for. Which might seem a little backwards to how I’ve usually seen people discuss fannish feelings, but idk! I have plenty of other things to do in my free time, so what time I give to fandom has to feel fulfilling.

P. Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

MMORPG AU. Each half of the ship plays the same online game. Do they live in the same city, or across the country/world from one another? They flirt in chat but deny they are flirting. Other characters from the canon are variously guild members in the game or real-life friends. The intimacy milestones are moving from in-game text chat to external text chat to voice chat to video calls or meeting in-person. There can be an identity porn aspect of it where they actually have met offline and didn’t know the other person was their in-game situationship! Long nights revealing personal thoughts over mob grinding sessions, anticipation as the guild prepares for a boss raid, petty arguments over whose in-game class is best. And, for the long-distance couples, sleepovers together during those offline meetups. 💖

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