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  1. A fan of sardonic sprite (Guest) Fri 16 Jun 2023 12:16AM UTC

    Sprite, I just want to say thank you! Thank you for such a sweet comment, and also for your story, which I just commented on.

    As I mentioned I had some bad news this evening. Don’t want to get too much into it on a public message thing, but the sweet cuddle story and your comments were helpful. Your comment “As we get old, our strength doesn't come so much from defeating monsters as it does believing we can still be happy after the battle.” coming tonight, after my news, is something for me to ponder and gives me some hope and also something for reflection. Not that we can’t still defeat monsters, and not that miracles can’t happen, but like we’ve discussed the battles don’t always end the way you’d hoped they would. And miracles don’t always come the way you’d expect them to either. But we can still be hopeful and happy and believe in what’s worth believing in, whether it’s true or not, to paraphrase my favorite movie Secondhand Lions! So thank you!

    So on to more of what you commented on, yes, those types of stories and movies can be rough, definitely put on the sweet kid movie! 😊

    You probably could have put a little more overt hint in there about Dick or casted a little more doubt, but also looking back on it you can see that you didn’t leave us blind or without any breadcrumbs! I’m sure that’s a hard balance to strike when you’re writing!

    I love your funny, “cracky” stories and your happy, sweet stories, so yay! I don’t know that I want to tell you to write more heartbreaking no happy ending angst stories though! 😂

    Oh, I’m glad you think that those ideas are good! OH MY GOSH I’d love to co-write if you are interested! You’d have to help me a bunch I’m afraid, I kinda suck at writing! But let me know how we could make that happen, and I’ll see if I can do that! Oh my gosh that’s so exciting it’s like a celebrity is saying they want to hang out with you!!! I’m fangirling so much right here! 😊

    Yes fix-it is a big go to for me for some stories, I realized when I was a kid I’d keep Anakin from becoming Darth Vader when I’d play Star Wars and my sister and I would always talk about why some deaths were totally wrong in Harry Potter and she actually wrote a Harry Potter story where some of the deaths are corrected when i was in college and I was her biggest fan! She wrote fanfic as a hobby long before I knew that was a widespread hobby for many people! 😊

    Sprite, thanks so much I always enjoy talking to you and I’m glad we are friends! Thanks for making my evening a little happier! 😊❤️💕

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    1. sardonic_sprite Mon 19 Jun 2023 07:42PM UTC

      First off, you're very welcome!

      I'm so sorry you got terrible news. That's never an easy thing, regardless of what the message is, but I'm glad my words were able to help some. You're very right yourself -- hope is one of the strongest things we have.

      What made the balance particularly hard was the fact that I jumped tracks halfway to the finish line lmao, but I'm glad it wasn't TOO jarring overall.

      Ahahaha, fair enough. It seems like I have a precedent of like... one per calendar year? Or thereabouts?

      Awwww! No, I would totally be down to co-write! It would however require using another platform. Google docs is best, I have a false persona account for fic purposes, and many of my friends do too, but I totally understand if that's not for you. Let me know what you might be comfortable with!

      Ohhhhh, that is a noble pursuit of your child-self lol. And GO YOUR SISTER YAY! We love protecting our faves from their mean authors lol. I'd love to set her loose on Finnik in Hunger Games... spoiler?

      I'm very glad to have been there for you in our little way. I hope the next news are much much kinder <3

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      1. A fan of sardonic sprite (Guest) Mon 19 Jun 2023 11:49PM UTC

        Thank you, that sentiment means so much! And you don’t know how much the comment “hope is one of the strongest things we have” means to me, for many reasons! 😊

        Impressive you swapped and still pulled it off so horribly well! 😂

        Don’t make it too much more than that I don’t know that I could bear the strain! 😂😉

        Oh awesome! So I’d just make a google account with like a pen name and let you know? I’d be down for that! Personally I really think I could learn a lot from having someone experienced help me through the writing process and observe how she does it! I really appreciate this offer and am excited to try it out! 😊

        Ah, see I never realized it but Darth Vader is like the one, or at least first, evil dude I really liked… cause he’s a tragic character and he didn’t start out evil it was too much of a good thing that led him to the Dark Side. I was such a Star Wars fan when I was a kid! And still am! 😊 and yes, my sister wrote some awesome Harry Potter stories especially being her first time really writing and being so young too!
        I know my sister has read hunger games, I have not but have watched a couple of the movies. Fun fact, I was a huge fan of Suzanne Collins long before she ever wrote the hunger games… she wrote a series of books called The Underland Chronicles I was obsessed with when I was in 5th-7th grades! They’re awesome, if you haven’t read them highly recommend, starts with a book called Gregor The Overlander. Kids made so much of me for liking those books so much, I couldn’t get anyone to jump on that fandom train with me! When she came out with a new series I was so excited, then I read the blurb and it was about kids killing each other on TV and I said I can’t read that. So overtly bad for a concept… and then all of a sudden the Hunger Games was the bomb and I was like, I liked Suzanne Collins before it was cool! So frustrating for me. To this day I’ve only ran into one or two other people who read and enjoyed the Underland Chronicles. So if you read it and liked it, I’d love to fangirl about that with you too! 😊

        Thanks so much for your kindness! I really appreciate it! Let me know about the google thing, and hope you have a great day!

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        1. sardonic_sprite Thu 22 Jun 2023 11:32PM UTC

          Well, then, I'm very glad I said it!

          Yep! I created a doc, and I'll link it in another comment. You can click on it and pick or create a new pseudonym account to join it. I'll delete the comment itself right away for safety, so you'll have to just click the link in your inbox. But let me know if it doesn't work!
          I'm excited too :) XD

          My brother was a HARDCORE Star Wars fan until Disney took it over lol, so I've seen and know a lot. I enjoy it for sure, but it doesn't usually give me the 'feels' that other fandoms do.
          My first attempts at fic were also Harry Potter lol, and some Percy Jackson stuff.
          Ohhhh goodness that's rough. I have not read Underland Chronicles, but I'll have to check it out. It's very hard being the only person you know in a fandom, lol.

          Have a great day as well!

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          1. A fan of sardonic sprite (Guest) Fri 23 Jun 2023 12:51AM UTC

            Ah, awesome! I’ll be on the lookout for the link! Haven’t seen it yet, that’s awesome you know how to do that, so smart! :-)

            Yeah my interest in new Star Wars stuff is just kinda meh for the most part but the original movies and the prequels are awesome! I also liked the Rogue One movie that’s the best one that has come out since the Disney takeover in my opinion.

            I think you’d really like the Underland Chronicles! Let me know if you do read them! :-)

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            1. A fan of sardonic sprite (Guest) Fri 23 Jun 2023 01:08AM UTC

              One thing I just thought of, and it’s silly, but when I first started leaving comments I was accidentally using the wrong e-mail address (mix up between 2 account names cause I’m a confused idiot sometimes) but if you reply to one of my comments in the last 9 months to a year it should work I think I got everything straightened out by then! :-)

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              1. sardonic_sprite Fri 23 Jun 2023 01:11AM UTC

                Omg you know what? I'm a dumbass. I replied to myself 😂

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                1. A fan of sardonic sprite (Guest) Fri 23 Jun 2023 01:21AM UTC

                  😂😂😂😂😂that’s too funny sounds like something I would do!

                  I think I found it! Thanks! 😊

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            3. sardonic_sprite Fri 23 Jun 2023 01:04PM UTC

              I know you've got it now lol

              YES! i was just reading something yesterday on pinterest about how rogue 1 managed to capture the western and ww1 genres of movie that a new hope (back when it was the only Star Wars) had inside of it, and that's what made it feel so star warsy

              I will!

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              1. A fan of sardonic sprite (Guest) Fri 23 Jun 2023 06:07PM UTC

                Oh that’s awesome! I never really thought about WHY Rogue One was so good, it makes sense though that they made it as close to the Original Star Wars movie as they could and were successful in implementing those themes! I remember seeing the commercials for that movie and thinking, why go to see it, you know it’s going to end with everyone dying, but I did go and enjoyed it! they did do such a great job of making a good movie and still everyone dies! 😂😂 in fact, kinda going off what we said in this story about justified/earned deaths, I might’ve been upset if someone survived at the end of Rogue One, even though I hated that they died. What a paradox! 😂😂

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                1. sardonic_sprite Sat 24 Jun 2023 02:05AM UTC

                  Quite honestly, yeah. As much as it hurts, sometimes having a character (even or especially beloved ones) die is Right for a story

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