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You mentioned the ao3 author curse in one of your asks and I’ve never heard of this before? I am now super curious if you could maybe elaborate?
Oh BOY anon! Welcome welcome, this is a fun one.
You ever see one of those posts floating around, either here or on other social media, that's just a compilation of the most unhinged AO3 author's notes you've ever seen? The ones that are like "sorry this chapter is a day later than normal! My house was flooded and my fish died and my grandfather was struck by lightning three times in a row so I had to finish editing this in the hospital overnight. Please forgive me, next week will be back to our regular schedule!"
That's the AO3 author curse. It's not an always thing. It's not even a most of the time thing. But sometimes life goes to absolute shit, and sometimes that happens when you're in the middle of posting a fic, and sometimes you end up being incredibly apologetic about schedule slippage on writing that you are doing in your spare time for free while you're having to deal with Actual Real World Stuff and explaining why the schedule slippage occurred in the author's notes that makes your life sound completely batshit.
A couple of examples:
(Me: I haven't yet had anything happen while posting, but while co-writing a fic with @ships-to-sail that was literally set in the afterlife and all about grief and the impact we have on the people we leave behind I had multiple family members/family friends die, which was uhhhhhhhhh not conducive to writing that particular subject matter lmao)
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What do you have against color?
11K • Explicit • Firstprince • Urban Sketchers AU
Upon opening the hardcover of a found sketchbook to locate the owner's contact details, Alex discovers only this inscription: > In case of loss, please return to: Instagram @henryfox.usk He, of fucking course, knows who Henry Fox is. That striking yet humorless, rude, and self-righteous British prick he met on the first day of the symposium.
Or, an AU where Alex and Henry are urban sketchers. A short story of how they get to know each other, fall in love and in bed within one day.
Please note that the sketches in this work were all generated with ChatGPT and then manually edited by myself with Procreate. They were not entirely hand-drawn by me, although I do wish I had that level of skill. 😭
Alex books an Airbnb studio with a shared bathroom across the hall. The other studio is occupied by a man with lush pink lips and impressive personal hygiene — really, he’s super diligent about lathering and rinsing. Alex would know, seeing as the lock to the bathroom is seriously unreliable. Or: the Airbnb romp you didn’t know you needed.
2K | M | Strangers To Lovers
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Henry and his ties: (part 2)
Here for part 1
Blue and white stripes (same as PR handshake)
Formal and serious, navy is the color of authority
Dark blue with red dots
Required formality, even alone he still needs to wear clothes suitable for a royal. Red can mean danger or his enclosed love
Red with light blue and white stripes
Public image, wearing red is attention-grabbing and, even if he doesn't want to get public after the emails leak, he's forced to
Royal blue and white stripes again but thinner
Power and authority, it's Henry's moment to stand up for himself and fight for his own future
Yellow roses
Hope and youth, as Henry says, it also has a link to Texas history: "Yellow Rose of Texas" is a popular song since the 1930s with a full story on it's own. (You can read here.) Henry is finally getting the happy future he deserves and can hope for a bright sunny future with the love of his life
Side addition: solid tie is the basic pattern that doesn't add anything to the tie and lets the color speak for itself; polka dot adds playfulness and/or sophistication; stripes mean classic and elegant but can differ from one another (Henry always wears the British type with stripes that run from left shoulder down to the right side)
Henry and his ties: (part 1)
Pink
Affectionate and soft, the adjectives given to the Prince of England's hearts
Blue and white stripes
Formal, navy is the color of authority and power
Blue and light blue stripes (Henry focus pls)
Simple but formal, two colors often used for work settings. Light blue adds friendliness
Grey
Conservative and conformative, add mysteriousness
Orange Copper
Wealth, copper indicates luxury and sophistication
Blue and silver stripes
Grace and elegance, Henry needed to be pretty for his date 💕
Carmine with green stripes
Love, red is associated with passion and sensuality but also prohibition (+ green can indicate outlaw lifestyle)
Sky blue with thin white stripes
Peace, sky blue symbolizes daydreaming and conveys serenity; white is associated with purity
Side addition: solid tie is the basic pattern that doesn't add anything to the tie and lets the color speak for itself; polka dot adds playfulness and/or sophistication; stripes mean classic and elegant but can differ from one another (Henry always wears the British type with stripes that run from left shoulder down to the right side)
fanfic speedrun: write the scene you want to write and skip the rest of the fic
(same goes on the reader side of things)
I'm in tears 😭 This is extremely beautiful. Thank you so much!!!!!
the little merman and his prince
inspire by jumpsuit's fic
