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mostly in the weeds with #911onABC atm but still sometimes #dc and #mdzs • she/her • thirtysomething lesbian • sometimes nsfw • islandoforder on everything except ao3 where i am oceanofchaos • #caliiwriting for fic and #caliiart for art

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 26d

maybe i have been obsessing over the 9-1-1 & 9/11 academic panel happening tomorrow morning, who could say

more of a comment than a question | 2k | G | preslash buck/eddie

buck's working on natural disasters & ends up on a hotshots panel

archiveofourown.org/works/72024876

#buddie #caliiwriting

more of a comment than a question by oceanofchaos

summary:

The conference as a whole is on The Rise and Fall of the United States of America, something like that, which honestly seems like it could be pretty fun. He comes up with a grandiose enough title, Out of the Forest Fire: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters and the Los Angeles Fire Department, emails it off, and promptly forgets about it under the weight of his next deadline for his supervisor.

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Or, Buck's a PhD student working on natural disasters, who accidentally gets put on a panel about the show Hotshots.

additional tags read:
au - academia
pre-relationship buddie
fluff
au - college/uni
meet-cute

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts like this is literally why I’m debating making cat yarn to crochet with bc there is cat fur in everything in crocheting anyway

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Stolen from @shelfthe-reader.bsky.social! Ask for a specific q, but I’ll also answer in order of likes

Fanfic Author Asks!
1. How many WIPS do you currently have?
2. Do you prefer oneshots or longfics?
3. What was the last thing you looked up for a fic?
4. Do you save your 'cut scenes' from your fics?
(Want to share one?)
5. Where do you get your title inspiration from?
6. Do you listen to anything while you write? Or do you prefer silence?
7. What fic are you the proudest of?
8. Has anyone ever drawn fanart for one of your fics before?
9. What time do you prefer to write? (Day, night, etc.?)
10. How much do you write before you post?
11. Do you outline your fics before writing them?
12. Have you ever made a moodboard for a fic?
(Do you want to share it?)
13. Have you ever made a playlist for a fic?
(Share?)
14. What is something you really like about your work(s)?
15. Do you look at comments right away? Or save them for later?
16. How do you write your fics? (Handwritten, google docs, word, etc)
17. Do you regularly discuss your fics, or do you keep most of the info to yourself before you start posting?
18. How do you decide what POV to write in?
19. Do you work on multiple fics at once or only one at a time?
20. What made you start writing?
21. What is something that no one has caught about one of your fics?
22. What is one of your favorite tropes to write?
23. Do you post your fics on a schedule?
24. Do you have any writing goals? (Word counts, chapters, finishing fics, trying something new?)
25. Is there a scene you are dreading writing?
(Want to share what it is?)
26. What is your favorite part about writing?
27. What is a question that you never get asked about your fics that you really want to answer?
28. Do you prefer canon compliant fics or AUs?
29. What fic are you the least proud of?
30. Is there something you would go back and change about a fic if you could?
31. How do you stay motivated?
32. Out of all your fics, what is your favorite title?
33. What is your favorite line from *insert fic name here*?
34. Have you ever done a collaboration? Would you?
35…

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

10. How much do you write before you post?

guess i’m the fool is the first time I hadn’t fully finished writing before I started posting and still actually finished it (and I had written probably 85% before I posted chapter 1) but normally I write it alllll first

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

9. What time do you prefer to write?

Night, though that might just be when I have time and also when my dear online international friends can sprint with me

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

8. Has anyone ever drawn fanart for one of your fics before?

No 🥺🥺🥺

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

7. What fic are you proudest of?

That’s tricky. Probs “guess i’m the fool” because it’s the longest and most personal fic I’ve ever written, but I’m still so proud of making natasha romanov’s backstory make sense in “to have a home” and of playing with form in “so full of love (I can barely eat)”

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

6. Do you listen to anything while you write?

Oh 100% I listen to music the entire time while writing pretty much - sometimes playlists but mostly albums which resonate, and occasionally the same song on loop the whole time

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

24. bsky.app/profile/isla...

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

24. Do you have any writing goals?

I go through phases of wanting to write a little every day, bc I think it’s easier the more you keep in practice. At the moment, my only real goal is to finish the wips on my docket, and maybe look back over some original stuff before the end of the year

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

5. bsky.app/profile/isla...

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

5. Where do you get your title inspo from?

Honestly usually a song I was listening to while writing, or occasionally a line of poetry/quote that resonated with me re: the story

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

5. Where do you get your title inspo from?

Honestly usually a song I was listening to while writing, or occasionally a line of poetry/quote that resonated with me re: the story

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 1d

4. Do you save your “cut scenes” from your fics?

Honestly I don’t really write scenes that I don’t use? On the rare occasion something doesn’t fit where it is, I either write more to make it fit, or rework it to make it fit

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

This is fixable surely

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Like. There is a crucial difference between something hurting your feelings bc you’re invested, and bad writing. I also love Bobby! And as such, I love to see that they’ve given his death such weight and are handling the grief of the other characters with such care!

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

I know this is a controversial opinion in 911 fandom but the way that they have handled Bobby’s death and the ongoing ramifications of that for the characters who loved him has, in my view, been so careful and beautiful and well done

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Space travel to explore grief, isolation, and depression…. This show has never been more made for me

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

literally PLEASE

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

yes May at dispatch would be good, but have we considered May as ER doctor mentored by hen’s friend from when she was in med school?

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha so happy to have reminded you of an old fave!

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Love a rosti, LOVE to make gnocchi, have been having a lot of fun with smashed potatoes lately, potato soups are always good (espec if you need a texture change)

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

what do you MEAN penetrative sex has only just gone canonical

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, yeah, I feel you - I do know the feeling, I wouldn’t call it stale, but idk what I would call it haha

cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like stale coffee can happen but it’s bc the beans got stale so the drink is effected as a result (not sure what the beans are in the book metaphor tho)

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 3d

A rare happy story: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has restored its holdings of the works of the enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants, following the pattern of Holocaust art restitution, the first time a museum has restored a work produced by an enslaved person.

MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs

The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

www.theartnewspaper.com

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cx 🐰 @islandoforder.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha ilysm babe