Tabitha Blankenbiller

JUST SAYING my birthday weekend is AO3 drive weekend and I really want that mug...........

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Got the fanart I’ve received from my fics framed for my writing desk 🥰
What have you done for me lately, personal essays?!??

Samantha Jones being annoyed by a man at a wedding

It’s never too early in the week to dissociate, divas

Seeing a lot of stuff from people I used to know as a different person because 2014 was a lifetime ago, I guess?

I wonder what it was like to just gently move on before social media 🫠

Why are the airport days when my writing is flowing like a damn TIDE the ones with absolutely zero delays, pure clockwork?

That thing where I am procrastinating on writing this chapter because I know someone's about to die.

I’m helping to host a fan theme week and someone I’m lucky to know posted this fanfic that left me sobbing uncontrollably at 1 am in an Indiana Courtyard by Marriott, and if that isn’t the actual power of literature I don’t know what we’re doing here.

My parents sent me this pic from 2nd grade doing Laura Ingalls Wilder cosplay and all I can say is, time is a flat circle.

Happy birthday, friend! 💕🎂🍰🎁

My child wants to know why tf it takes me so long to write a 140k word fanfic…
“You’re still working on that?!”
😒

If I win our local tea salon’s best-dressed contest with this, I can officially say my gown is paying for itself/I’m a professional cosplayer 😂

Looks like I’ve got another 120k worth of fic to write 🫠

I’m working from home today 😮‍💨

Because apparently there is some mercy still left in this downfall timeline.

I know everything is bad BUT there’s new official Ganondorf concept art

🐐

I got an actually encouraging and thoughtful agent rejection for my novel today that made me feel something I’ve been missing all year…
Wanting to … keep trying…?

We’re making personal pan pizzas 🎉

I'm trying to write on my front porch, but I think....I think I see a couple of slugs fucking...?

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OH MY GOD THESE SLUGS ARE TOTALLY FUCKING

You know that essay you want to write but you know your family would read it and it would become A Thing and you don't want them to be sad because then you'll have to talk about it and you have too much going on for that?

Got my Princess Zelda-inspired fantasy dress cosplay pics back today, so this is basically just becoming a loz fan account.

Omg take me with you

I think it’s nice when someone says “your fiction feels lived-in!” because it’s a compliment but also yes of course it should because I am thinking about these fucking characters and where they live and what tf they’re doing every waking moment and I need help please send some.

This and the horn factory and the crayon-making 🤤

I'm not surprised, there's so much good happening there! Love to hear it.

Okay and yes you will get the occasional unhinged hate note but at least at that point you know someone picked it up.

What I don't think literary writers understand about fanfic is that if you do it long enough you start to get amazing regular readers who drop theoretical thinkpiece essay comments in response to your chapters and it is a joy like nothing else.

My daughter is running around the living room yelling about all of her K-Pop Demon Hunters ships, because apparently everyone is going to “smooch and get married.”
I guess she must have been switched at birth. 🙃

We don’t talk enough about how hard it is to go from floating through a gothic library dressed as a queen for a cosplay shoot to replying to emails about managing the company Sharepoint. 😭💔

Archive of our Hoes The audacity of women writing women on the internet

Put up some thoughts about writing The Sluttiest Slut on the Internet up on my Substack today.

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Still my favorite credit 🥹