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@iceboxplums.bsky.social
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Queer enby audhder, adhd coach, folk witch, New Orleanian at heart. She/they. ‼️ MDNI ‼️ Discord: iceboxplums www.welcometotheporchlight.com Author of the Newskies Guide to Bluesky: bit.ly/newskies-guide

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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
We started DMing back and forth more often, about more topics than just the fic. We really hit it off and by Thanksgiving we had each other's numbers saved in our phones and would text pretty much constantly. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Before Thanksgiving, S paid me a house call.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
So it was a surprise to both me and EB when I posted a video reading a snippet from my fic in which S has a monologue. I used a Southern accent that just Felt Right™️. "The accent, the pacing, the cadence, everything is on point, I'm so impressed," EB commented. In a DM, she admitted to being shook.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Mind you, I had never been to New Orleans or Acadiana, never met anyone from there, and was only mildly interested in the place as a concept before the fall of 2023. I thought the 504 was neat, but I've never been one of those "it's calling me home" girlies. That's changed now, obviously.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
It was important for me to get S's character right. They have a specific way of talking and interacting with the world in the source material, so I'd send snippets and ideas back and forth with EB, and she was always very encouraging. "Wow, you've got a really natural intuition for how they sound!"
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
More background: I'm still married, though currently separated from my spouse. At the time, I was unhappily married. We went to a lot of couples' counseling and really tried to make it work. The fic was definitely a way for me to distance myself from him, though I would have denied it then.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
For privacy's sake, we'll call her EB and the character I asked to borrow S. If you're on spiritual tiktok, you've probably seen her videos a time or two, especially if you're into New Orleanian folklore and stories. I'm not going to give any more details than that. This isn't a name & blame thread.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
A little more than a year ago, I was deep in the writing process for a Good Omens fan fic. This thing had me by the *throat*. Hours upon hours a day writing. I reached out to a fellow author on TikTok to ask if I could borrow one of her characters from her books for the fic. She said yes.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
So, just to set minds at ease up top: I am currently safe, relatively sane, and mostly stable. Some of the events that happened over the course of the last year involve the supernatural, unexplainable, and ineffable. I am not and was not in a state of spiritual psychosis (my therapist agrees!).
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Oh wow, y'all. Some Things have happened to me since I was last here. Sit down a minute while I yap about them. They include a life changing cup of tea, the City and Spirits of New Orleans, and the consequences of fucking around and finding out. Get ready for story time!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Hozier hozier Hozier!!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Very, yes!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Thanks, I needed that laugh. :3 pls tell Chani she's a good girl who doesn't need to be useful if she doesn't want to be!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
A ton of meta-connected apps (Spotify, Chani) are struggling to load for me today too.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Hey, we'll take still kicking! The last few months have been A Lot™️ but deeply transformative, magical, and necessary for my personal growth. Sometimes it feels like dying to learn how to live, you know?
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Hi Mel! How goes?
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Tony Bourdain. I got calls and texts from friends and family members as though I'd lost a close relative. I was fairly distraught for weeks after and he's got a place on my ancestor altar.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Les Mis, Into the Woods, West Side Story, and Come from Away, with honorable mentions to Hadestown and Evita.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Oh hi! I've been busy with Life Stuff but I was just poking around here earlier today! What have I missed?
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
So damn hype to see @chuckwendig.bsky.social speak next Monday and taste (possibly evil??) apples at Rose Hill! Happy book birthday!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Thank you!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Writing, some work, going out for fancy pizza with the spouse later on. Small dinner party with friends tomorrow! 😍
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Thank you darlin!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
It's my birthday and I'm about to make it everyone's problem. 🥰🎂🎉✨📚
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
I call that "rude", lol (I'm right there with you)
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
I'll French your dip
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
You guys look at my cat
An orange and white cat is inside a hidey hole in a gray cat tree with his head poking out of a small window in the hidey hole, looking curious and adorable and very cozy.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Oh hey there have been some updates to the fic since the last time I remembered to cross post! Go read about my favorite millennial witch and her silly demon and his silly angel.
archiveofourown.org
Show Chapter | Archive of Our Own
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Oh hey there have been some updates to the fic since the last time I remembered to cross post! Go read about my favorite millennial witch and her silly demon and his silly angel.
archiveofourown.org
Show Chapter | Archive of Our Own
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Yeah, I am Not Normal about this album much in the way I'm also currently Not Normal about Good Omens but "Butchered Tongue" made me weep bc it reminds me so much of Tony Bourdain (eternal hero).
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Oh that's good! Thank you!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Yeah, I'm thankfully pretty good at going for walks and stuff and seeing friends in real life, according to one of my other author friends this is fairly typical for a first draft of a novel length work 😅
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
So, #writingcommunity - I'm running into a weird problem. I'm drafting and having an awesome time with the story and characters but like... It's impacting my sleep. I'm tired and a little grumpy pretty much all the time but hitting the stop button is really hard. Any advice?
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Me, reading about Giuliani and Trump's mugshots being released today: oh it's picture day at school!!!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Thanks Je! I thought so too - wasn't even trying for good composition here tbh but it happened anyway 🥰 hope today is falling softly on you!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Well friends, we crested 25k on the fan fic yesterday and I'm realizing I have no choice but to see it through to the end. It's a little scary, if I'm honest. It might be the longest thing I've ever written that's not NaNoWriMo content and I want to do it Well. Just have to trust my characters.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Happy Wednesday from this lovely meadow phlox!
A cluster of small pink-purple flowers amid summer greenery. The edges are ruffley and there are many more buds waiting to open.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
Well, depending on where you're staying - New Haven style pizza is weird-good and worth a trip to go find it.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
Welcome to my weird little state! Enjoy the pizza and lobster rolls!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
bit.ly/gofic - a bunch of new chapters are up now and the plot is firmly on its feet. Go read if you want! (Spoilers for Good Omens season 2, obvs)
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
Yeah, there's an AO3 link somewhere on my profile I think, but it can also be found at bit.ly/gofic if you want to give it a shot. The first chapter is actually the weakest so far but if you give it a chance it gets better!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
Coming to this late, but I'm currently about 20,000 words deep drafting a Good Omens fanfiction and it's been a decade since I've been this invested in seeing a story through to the end, and that's pretty fuckin' magic, I think.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Oh no oh no Hozier album has song lyrics like "Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I" someone needs to check on the good omens fandom
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Be safe!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Hey friends, welcome @greengaybles.bsky.social to our weird little corner of the Internet. She's a queer blind writer in Oklahoma and we've been pocket pals for aaaages since the 2_lines community on LJ. 💜 (Purple heart emoji)
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
The radar map is just all red and yellow over the nearest hundred miles or so. It's massive. Storms make me weirdly giddy so I'm just gonna sit and sip coffee and watch it!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
What a storm! Thunder is shaking the house and lightning is going off every thirty seconds.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
If a task is feeling overwhelming, break it down to yourself like you're trying to teach it to someone who's never done it before.
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Lol, I reference the "should have been an email" thing a few sentences ahead, but that could work if I switch some things around!
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Plums ⚜️💜💚💛 @iceboxplums.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Because of Story Reasons, I'm trying to come up with Pratchett-esque names for conference rooms in Heaven, and so far "Awkward Gathering Space 1.5" and "Room No One Actually Wants to Occupy" are the top two. Any other ideas?
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Katrina Kortright @katrinakortright.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Here's the 17 August word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): TURN. I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word or inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters. *It helps if you repost the prompt post.* #writingprompt
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