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It’s been long enough since the first time I read SWAN that I can’t spot the differences, but I really enjoyed reading this! My first gf and I read SWAN together when we were Weird Queer Kids in high school, so I have ~feelings~ about this.

The differences are PRETTY MUCH ALL OF IT, haha, but I am pleeeased to hear this, because I really enjoyed making it!

I ended up with a girlfriend directly because of this original story, and creating it made me think about an awful lot of identity things, many of which didn’t make it in, but will this time if I ever go beyond the three I’ve written. I literally got queerer (or found some surplus queer inside) from writing this thing, and I think this story went through school with a lot of other Weird Queer Kids, and since queer teenagers are the demographic most important to me as far as media creation, that makes me really happy.

Thank you so much for reading it!

I can’t stop laughing.

my internet always breaks precisely the portion of a website i’m trying to use

Song Without a Name (Reprise) - LadyYateXel [JTHM]

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Sharing a bit of a personal experiment in rewriting (some of) ‘Song Without A Name’, a fanfic I began writing in 2004. May never go further than a few chapters, though if you want to see the/a conclusion written by a version of me ten years younger, it’s the first part of this series and is complete along with its sequel from 2008. Just keep in mind that things have changed. :)
The original summary should still apply and is thus:
“Reincarnation is complicated, and apparently, not a refined system. When the lines between lives are blurry at best, and memories seep in from the person you were, do you stay the person you are? Who do you want to be, and do you want to be seen?”
Even more excessive notes inside~!

So this is the first part of the thing! This has been a really fun experiment. I’ve done three chapters of material so far, and this is just the first one. I’ll be posting the other bits at some relatively close future time. I hope dearly it’s not a disappointment to people who have been excited hearing about it in that it’s not technically a new part of the story, but I did warn you that it was odd. (And I do have something I could give people who want something new, it just has a giant hole in it right now. :X)

This is almost entirely new things, however, and I actually found it really exciting to write it both as a revisiting and a restart. It’s fleshed out and changed quite a bit and I think if you ever just wanted to see more of the world the Homicides lived in, more of their interactions together, and more of their background, you’ll enjoy it.

I wish I could upload oceans of music like I used to, but it will not happen on this internet connection. I am grooving so hard right now and I wish I could share with you guys.

Got you, motherfucker.

our-savior-the-glow-cloud:

turntechdave:
spatsula:
dardanos:
actualmioda:
Why bring back old memes when we can back this song?
2004 is calling me… whispering
numa numa yay
the funny thing about this is I sincerely have followers that were born in the same month i discovered this flash video on newgrounds
fuuccckk I completely erased all memory of newgrounds.

I have this whole album.

(via feltelures)

humansofnewyork:

“It seems that the more I tried to make my life about the pursuit of art, the more money controlled my life: collecting unemployment insurance, the humiliation of borrowing money from friends and family, tossing and turning at night while trying to figure out how to pay the rent. To survive I had to work hard jobs and afterwards I’d feel too tired and too stressed to paint. It’s very hard to create under those circumstances. Creativity is a delicate process. Often times I wonder if I should have just pursued a career for the first half of my life, obtained some degree of financial security, and then transitioned into art.”

(via humansofnewyork)

jainz:

Eaglemoss DS9 diecast model
As soon as this is back in stock I’m buying it so hard.

(via cardassians-blog)

Anonymous asked: About a month ago I had my brother read SWAN/ISH and he loved it. I never thought that universe would be touched again and he was really disappointed about that, but we would talk about the characters, the songs, at which points we wanted to scream... I have a bunch of musicians I was introduced to through the fic that I still love. He's so lucky. Right when he gets into it, something new is announced. Even if it's tiny, we'll both be looking forward to it!

Oh, I’m so happy to hear about this! I love the idea of people sitting and talking about it and wanting to know what other stuff this universe held~ It’s always so strange for me to hear of someone reading it for the first time lately, since it was so long ago for me and I feel like it’s not easily found anymore, but I am so touched that people still do check it out, especially with how rough the first several chapters are (they are so hard for me to look at) and how daunting a task it can be to go through that many words. So, wow, thank you for sharing it with your brother, I’m so delighted you guys enjoyed it! :D

Since you’ve read it so recently, I hope what I have to put up isn’t disappointing!

As a word of vague comfort to anyone who might be sad to see me leave a universe or fandom for a while: Perhaps I’m alone or uncommon in this, but once I love something, I don’t really stop. Different things come into focus and let me recharge my batteries or express different stuff, so I might appear to have ‘moved on’ for a long time, but I feel sort of like my fannish shit is a churning ball of stuff, rather than a straight line, and I could be on a streak for a long time and then suddenly pop up with something else at any time.

I spent something like 8 years being like, all-SWAN, all the time, so there’s pretty much no way I’ll ever be rid of it at this point, even if I wanted to be, it’s too much part of me. :)

(And I am still trying desperately to maintain some kind of balance in my creative endeavors, and I have improved since my SWAN days of High Intensity Tunnel Vision, but am still frequently foiled at every turn, which is why there’s 28 pages of new SWAN shit right now, fml.)

SWAN/ISH is so much more suited to the kind of work I make and the themes I like now than it ever was when I made it, so it’s really interesting for me to go back to it. It’s feeling a little ouroboros, really. Like SWAN shaped me into a person who could later properly do SWAN.

I’m currently sorting a bunch of shit on AO3 to be able to post some of this, so you’ll see some soon! Thanks so much for sending me a message!