Someplace bright and new, a little gift exchange niblet for @515253545.bsky.social archiveofourown.org/works/77207206 With a truly lovely podfic by @kninjaknitter.bsky.social here: archiveofourown.org/works/77342976

Had a conversation with an IRL friend who is very active in a different fandom and we both agreed that while Heated Rivalry is fucking great it could’ve used a touch more hockey. I am here to learn something via blorbos, ok???

My year in fic has far and away been about collaboration and/or friendship inspo! Starting (and ending!) with water like a stone, my beloved collab with @gaywatson.bsky.social: archiveofourown.org/works/621530...

A guy on the street called me a "Lou-Reed-looking motherfucker"

You can like multiple things at the same time! Liking one thing does not diminish how much you like the other thing!

Survived my first year of graduate school, presented at a conference solo, parented a very stubborn child, didn't give up writing for fun entirely.

Time is a flat circle (I thought this was Teen-Wolf-era Tyler Posey for a full minute)

Tired: “which one of you is the man?” Wired: “which of you smirks smugly behind their coffee cup as presents are opened and which of you handles the trash bag of wrapping paper and packaging?”

What I’m not gonna do is read a bunch of Heated Rivalry fanfic before I watch the actual show because that’s how I got into the OFMD fandom in the first place & two would be too much

I gotta say, I think there's a critical period for Muppet exposure, and if you miss it and come to the Muppets as an adult, they're just noisy jerks.

Take. Eat. This is my body. A sacrament. Chapter 6 artwork for Water Like a Stone: archiveofourown.org/works/62153089/chapters/199526636 #OFMDfanart #OFMDfic

Time zone bump if you’d like to read this completed Stizzy fic that begins and ends on Christmas Eve and is full of shared grief and yearning and gorgeous art archiveofourown.org/works/621530...

Me: nothing like a sweet little gift exchange fic to get me out of this writing slump! Just gonna bang this one out easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy Also me, sixteen Wikipedia pages deep in research about [REDACTED]

And with this, it's finished! Rating goes up to E with Ch 7, FYI. archiveofourown.org/works/621530... This has been such a labor of love and such a special collaboration.... 1/?

Ch 6 of Water Like a Stone: the end of the story except for the epilogue, which will post in the next day or two. @gaywatson.bsky.social's art for this chapter is truly exquisite, & this has been SUCH an absolute joy to work with them on this throughout the year! archiveofourown.org/works/621530...

Saw this in the window of an antique store in town and now I need an AU where Fang is an old folk musician who used to tour with Auntie until a misunderstanding broke up the band. Thirty years later, they reconnect…

AU where Stede is desperately trying to buy the last Tickle Me Elmo in the store but Izzy swoops in and steals it out from under his nose and they have a light saber battle in the toy aisle to win it back

Buttsex tbh

My child made a little Old Bae fanart at school today

RAFFLE TIME! I'm running a raffle for one copy of my OFMD as Birds print below, thanks to a lovely donation from an anonymous pirate who wanted to spread some cheer! The print is 11" x 6" (280mm x 153mm)-to enter please donate $5+ to Transanta (more details below) #OFMD #OurFlagMeansDeath #birds

I re-listened to @kninjaknitter.bsky.social’s podfic of my “Both Sides Now” to really put me in the spirit of the season & highly recommend you do the same: m.soundcloud.com/user-3761719...

Eavesdropping on my child and my wife chatting in the kitchen and I just realized my kid is WRITING A WILL so that someone will take care of her favorite stuffie when she dies WHY ARE KIDS SO MORBID 💀

"Despite the obvious non-normal distribution of the outcome variable we see in the histogram, we can assume normalcy because of the Central Limit Theorem" is basically just "the David Jenkins School of A Normal Distribution"

Happy anniversary of my very favorite targeted ad ever // maybe someday I’ll write the misdelivered post AU where Ed is a prof chef and Stede is Afraid

Agonized about what to bring to the department bake off this afternoon & finally decided fuck it, I’m bringing sweet potato pie bc *I* think it’s delicious & I’m proud that the crust is maybe the nicest I’ve ever rolled (this post is also about fanfic)

It surprised me to learn I wrote ~44k this year because the back half of the year sure has felt fallow. Highlights have been collabbing with @gaywatson.bsky.social on water like a stone and getting to channel @loopslip00.bsky.social for on magpies and becoming 💖

And here’s the difference between my wife and me. Me: you know how everyone has a light inside them? Sometimes being in love with someone makes that light shine brighter. My wife: it’s about taking a bath on the roof

My kid asked of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, “What’s this song about?” and it turns out it’s tricky to explain the loneliness of Jewish skepticism and how sex is the closest thing to grace most of us will ever come to a 5yo whose only knowledge of religion comes from Greek myths and Quaker school

Been having a real crisis of confidence in my PhD program which has bled over into my fun writing. Me 🤝 Edward Teach: being meaner to ourselves than any person could possibly be to us as a protective strategy.

Come on you cowards, make it queer. George and Noah are rival lexicographers but while they’re snowed in at a rustic New England cottage over the Christmas holiday, each begins to suspect that he might have found the meaning his life had been missing…

The fact that I have been unable for work-related reasons to inhale this like nitrous at the dentist's is HOMOPHOBIC

Recurring nomadsland fic things: self-improvement, dad jokes, it’s basically a travelogue, children depicted accurately, “impossibly,” Stede’s self loathing could be its own character, here have an unhinged simile while you’re at it

Hey I just reread this and it’s pretty good imho

Few things more satisfying tbh

As it happens, I got all spiffed up to go to a wedding yesterday

Modern AU where Ed is in his handyman era and rewiring the house and when he’s done Stede hands him the Hitachi and makes him test it on every outlet

Update: I did it and it went great

Seven years ago my wife and I Quaker married ourselves in our friends’ kitchen. 17/10 would enspousen again.

It is taking every piece of my self control to not include “dickfuck” as an example in my upcoming presentation on the psycholinguistics of compound words

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Honestly the only possible way to make the holiday season more unbearable is Malört every day

Friends, what are your favorite albums? I want whole albums where part of what makes it enjoyable is how the songs hang together. Two of my faves are Ten by Pearl Jam and Beyoncé’s Lemonade.

Chapter 3 of the Martian AU “the light that never warms (until it does) (fuck you thermodynamics) by @ghostalservice.bsky.social & @nomadsland.bsky.social with art by @merryfinches.bsky.social and podfic by me is ready for your eyes and ears! archiveofourown.org/works/69533706

The first sip of coffee in the morning Laughing so hard your face hurts Potatoes A book so good you have trouble re-emerging The cat activation noise Closing all your browser tabs A crisp fountain pop Being just the right amt of buzzed around a summer bonfire Shore birds A meaty fanfic comment

Sometimes parenthood means sprinkling a little black pepper onto day 3 leftover butter noodles and telling yourself it’s cacio e pepe.

This is so cool! Feeling very 🥰 that these folks felt inspired to transform so many of my stories for your ears!

Good news (for me): I have a fic idea Bad news (for everyone and also me): it’s in a fandom I ought to have abandoned in 2013 (not that one)

the light that never warms (until it does) (fuck you, thermodynamics) is maybe my favorite in a long run of unhinged titles for this reason

I love them, your honor

Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now? Not Completely Straight (following a raging crush on my boss): 22 Oh Shit I’m Actually Super Gay (following first practical demonstration): 26 Gender? Hardly Know ‘Er: In process I’m 36 now.