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nora, 35, canada. she/her.
using fandom as an outstanding coping strategy for being a weird queer kid since 2003 and for distraction from working in healthcare since 2021.

currently writing: prompt fills for rare kink buffet. the last work i posted was a cathartic story about ilya and suicide and depression but before that it was mostly porn and it'll be mostly porn again shortly

currently listening to: daphni, TOMORA, amaarae, slayyyter (i listen to a lot of 'being slutty and doing drugs at a rave' music for someone who has mostly been too tired for any of those things the past few years so mainly it's just bangers on my commute to my very responsible job)

wow i missed this format. LJ was a key part of my adolescent years so this is such a treat. kisses!!

Current Mood: tired

paperowl

You can call me Lynn. She/her is what I'm used to, but they/them works too. I'm most active on tumblr at the moment.

What I'm Watching/Reading

I've been busy with life things, who knows if I'll catch up/keep up this year.

Movie goal: 3/52

No specific movies are next on the watchlist - maybe some of the best picture noms? So far I've only seen Sinners, but I'm curious about a lot of them this year.

Book goal: 3/52 (not including mountains of fic)

Currently rereading salt slow by Julia Armfield and A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (fun fact, found her pre-Marvellous Light through her fic!). I've got two weeks left on my library loan for After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian, and I'm waiting impatiently for my hold on We Breed Lions by Rick Westhead because I need it for fic research.

TV is always weird, but I'm usually watching something. Always rewatching Heated Rivalry and rewatching the entirety of Elementary every fall. Currently catching up on The Pitt. Need to watch Artful Dodger season 2, and want to pick ER and Buffy back up at some point. Still bereft without a weekly TV show (911 had a standing appointment in my schedule for 5 seasons, I don't know what to do without it).

What I'm Working On

Fic: How Lucky He Is - 3.5k, Svetlana outsider POV

I have a Shane Hollander thesis that I'm chipping away at (wip snippet). It probably won't be done until April/May but it's my baby and I'm obsessed. As of yesterday I'm maybe also doing a Heated Rivalry Artful Dodger AU? I'll see if this AU still makes sense when I get to dodger season 2.

Rec List: Underrated Heated Rivalry Fic Recs

Have to spend some time reading, but will probably make another list in the next few months since people loved this one so much. Might post rec lists here too? Dreamwidth feels a little friendlier for long-form posts and my rec lists are, I think, impossible to shorten.

Miscellaneous Things

I graduate from a [redacted graduate degree] in May so life is hectic and weird and very uncertain right now.

I love to talk, chat to me about basically anything heated rivalry/TV/books/etc., I want to make friends!

chaentics

- anne carson, autobiography of red

an introduction of sorts.

freya (chaentics is also perfectly fine, or rozzed—whatever works!). i think that's all you really need to know about me, but you can always ask if you are curious about stuff. any pronouns.

what i am reading lately: recently finished beartown by fredrik backman, as well as an absurd amount of hrpf (500k in like 5 days). this is like mcr all over again! i have purchased the dragonriders of pern by anne mcaffrey and am slowly but steadily making my way through we breed lions by rick westhead. of course, i must also read private rites by julia armfield at some point, which is sitting unopened and staring back at me...

what i am writing lately: i have decided not to beat myself over the head with revisions on any of my original fiction until i feel compelled to do so. however i would like to work my way through a novella at some point this year. the problem is i am entirely too preoccupied with the delight of heated rivalry and the mess there in order to get my head on straight. i am sure whatever i write will have the afterimage of those guys all over it. it is inevitable!

as for fic, well, of course i am trying to finish chapter 4 of at pinpoint, which is planned out, but plans are known to change. as is evident by the spike from 2 chapters to 4. and the inevitable shane pov follow-up... i am also very much excited for the aptly named wip "raw meat & retirement" in which i return to my favorite: body horror, magical realism, and then the "rookie ilya captain shane hockey and magical powers magic realism slow burn summer party vibes" wip might get written. less succinctly named. if something else strikes my fancy i will pursue that first.

what i am listening to: soulwax dj, thanks to salad

what you should tell me if you read this: writing craft things that intrigue you! craft things you want to work on! i miss lecturing and would like to discuss writing and improving writing and cool wriitng things again but somewhere outside my usual avenues (tumblr, twitter) so maybe i will make some "craft posts" here... put it in the comments, friends and strangers!!

epistrophic

they/them, late twenties, british (unfortunately)

mostly elsewhere, usually as epistrophic or lesstheshadow. most active on tumblr and bluesky. if we're mutuals anywhere, you're welcome to follow my private twitter for personal yapping.

currently: heated rivalry hole. sometimes realm of the elderlings and fire emblem.

occasionally i write fic. epistrophic on ao3. some personal favourites:

heated rivalry:
own version of semaphore | 2.5k, explicit | barebacking, 2015 situationship-era
Shane Hollander club | 1.3k, explicit | Ilya finds out about what Shane did with Scott that one time.

realm of the elderlings:
solar eclipse viewed indirectly | 1.7k, explicit | Fitz/The Fool, The Fool/Civil Bresinga | Civil Bresinga pays Lord Golden a visit, and Fitz gets more than he bargained for
into the brilliant night | 4.3k, explicit | Fitz/The Fool | Fool's Quest, Fitz lingers in the bath in Kelsingra

fe3h — dimilix:
Thrones, Dominations | 2.2k, explicit | Felix has a bad day, annoys some counsellors, and sits on a throne
mortal temples | 2.7k, explicit | resurrection horror

fe3h — femslash
evening coming in | 2.8k, explicit | Mercedes/Dorothea | church sex number 1
the body kneeling | 1.7k, explicit | Mercedes/Marianne | church sex number 2!
the root of the root | 2.4k, T | Edelgard/Lysithea | post-canon. Lysithea reluctantly returns to Enbarr, Edelgard, and things she thought she could leave behind
rosy-fingered moon | 6.7k, explicit | Ingrid/Mercedes | the journey back to the monastery

fe3h — putting sylvain gautier in a situation
love and other lies | 1.6k, teen | unacknowledged Sylvain/Felix | Sylvain survives a war. on the other side of it lies the rest of his life
lipstick smile | 5.6k, explicit | Sylvain/Mercedes | transfem Sylvain. Mercedes lends a helping hand

mondaysoda

i've never used one of these old school blogging sites, so if i screw up posting that's why!! making this in case tumblr never rolls back this fuckass update. idk i'm excited!!

chaentics

so that there is something here:

Some years down the line, when this is too inconvenient, when Hollander stops texting him back, when Ilya gets bored, Hollander’s going to remember Toronto 2010. And it doesn’t matter that Ilya knows the first day they hooked up was a Thursday, or that he can recall the rough scratch of the hotel bedding on his skin. It doesn’t matter that he was the one who demanded his agent email CCM back and say, Get Hollander in there, too. Or that, when Hollander was hard and anxious in the showers, something inside of Ilya rattled with so much want that he felt it in his fingers.

If he puts enough bodies between himself and that Thursday in Toronto, he will forget. If he wants to, he can stop picturing Hollander’s throat bobbing, his hesitant glance downward as Ilya kissed his way down his chest, eager but still nervous. Not sure yet how to let his body do the talking. Ilya will move on with his life. He will fuck other people. He will marry, and some decades from now, Hollander’s photo might pop up for a wedding announcement, crisp shirt collar sitting low, and Ilya won’t even think about his teeth on that neck, his needle through the skin.

Ilya will be able to forget Toronto.

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