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[writing commentary, potential FFXIV spoilers, smut] I wanted a plurk to collect my fanfic writing musings, since apparently I'm doing that again.
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This starts with "why is it that I either want to do nothing but write, or I cannot write at all"
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With a side of "what are these FEELS in my PORN, I did not order this"
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What I WANTED to write was dirty, dirty bard smut.
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What I instead have written is a heartbreaking polyam relationship that mostly isn't even super explicit and doesn't even actually include one of the main characters I started writing this SPECIFICALLY TO INCLUDE.
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Also, I have gotten almost no work done today, but sure as shit did write almost 2k words of this fic.
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brain. y.
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I can't even wholly MIND, because at least I don't have writer's block, right?
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oh, hey, that's me today
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can't write tags but sure did quickly bang out 500 words of a plot and background to a story?
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your stuff sounds good though 
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I think you will like it.
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Also, the “book club” Discord I joined is having a rare pair August challenge and no promises but if I do write something for that, I think you will also like what I have in mind for that.
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It’s pretty spoileriffic for the Bard quest line and kind of has a major HW spoiler, though it never quite comes out and outright says what’s happened.
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The one I’m currently writing, I mean.
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I found a little bit of it that doesn't have any spoilers. :3 How about a tiny WIP peek.
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Bars tended to slide free drinks your way if you ent...
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Ooh 
ᴅᴀᴡɴᴛʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ
I know I've said it before but I love the way you write. I hope you'll let me read when you're done (and if it has spoilers I'll just need to get to HW faster)
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Aww thank you!
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Other than that it involves the NPCs in the Bard questline and therefore makes vague reference to what's going on in that, it's really not VERY spoilery.
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The one major spoiler is basically just SOMETHING TRAUMATIC HAPPENS
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And I won't go into details, but I'm betting you already know it.
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I am hoping to do bard quest part 2 tomorrow, I'm almost at 35
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But if you mean the HW spoiler of SOMETHING SAD HAPPENS then yes, I do know the big spoiler
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Yeah, then I think you would be safe. Other than obviously that there are characters in this you haven't met yet. There ARE some spoilers, but they're like... things that you won't know are spoilers and won't remember? If that makes sense.
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Yeah, that makes sense
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I have no idea if this is about to be a 
moment for
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or a NO WAIT THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT.
moment for
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or a NO WAIT THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT.
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But this is also your fault regardless and so you get called out for this piece of what I'm working on
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CW:NON CON and violence, pre-smut, m/m, lancer questline spoilers
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With one hand holding the knife to his throat, the o...
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hi hello, here is my glowing stamp of approval
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Eeeexcellent. 
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Ended up putting together new furniture tonight through my normal time to do tags. I should get to them tomorrow though. In the meantime, have some more fic snippets tonight since I've been moving right along on that.
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First, a few bard husbands snippets from various spots:
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(minor BRD questline spoilers)
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“Not… what?” he looks at her, honestly confused, try...
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(Minor spoilers for BRD questline, MAJOR spoiler for Heavensward, though the spoiler is not directly named, small cw: violence)
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Something has gone <i>horribly</i>, irreversibly wro...
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(minor BRD spoilers)
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Somewhere, deep inside of him, something… well, snap...
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And actually I was going to post more of what I'm doing for the "bookclub"'s rare pair challenge but I realized I haven't really written more on the LNC spoilers non-con one and the other one is...
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Uh.
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I mean, I'm going to post it, obviously, but it's still more in draft form than I remembered it being and it's also definitely going to need a cw:incest tag on it. >_>
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Incidentally, it's always frustrating when there's a thing, whatever it is, that is some people's kink, but it's also a trigger or squick for a lot of other people.
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And so you end up in a weird space where like... you really need to WARN for the thing so that people who don't want to interact with it at all know not to read the thing, but you're pretty sure if someone was kinking on the thing, they would be really disappointed in your fic.
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Anyway, here's wonderwall
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Saint of Song - seastheday - Final Fantasy XIV [Arch...
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NO BETAS, WE DIE LIKE MEN
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I saw that tag once and was just like “well that’s going on everything ever”
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can't wait to meet bard husbands
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And then there's: To Grieve, Together - seastheday - Final Fantasy XIV...
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cw: Heavensward big spoilers, incest, grief topics, etc.
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You'll be fine on the spoiler front if you already know... you know.
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Who lives who dies who tells your story kind of stuff.