— novels & favourites —

The Hawthorne Legacy
★★★★☆
Caraval
★★★★★
Piranesi
★★★★★
Rebecca
★★★★★
Bunny
★★★★☆
Flowers for Algernon
★★★★★
Never Let Me Go
★★★★★

— fanfiction & online stories —

ao3 ✦
Snakes and Lions
★★★★★
ao3 ✦
love you like i mean it
★★★★☆
published fic ✦
Carry On
★★★★★
ao3 ✦
A Long, Hard Look
★★★★☆
ao3 ✦
Twist and Shout
★★★★☆

— currently reading & recent additions —

Babel
★★★★★
Mexican Gothic
★★★★☆
A Memory Called Empire
★★★★★
The Midnight Library
★★★☆☆
Anxious People
★★★★☆

the writing desk

untitled novel thing
literary fiction / coming of age

the one about the girl who inherits a house full of someone else's memories. sitting in the drafting phase. ending is taking longer to write than i expected.

word count 72,400 / 80,000
chapters drafted 15? / idfk
the fic i can't stop writing
fanfiction / slow burn

started as a oneshot. now it's 40k and i'm in too deep. the characters refuse to behave and honestly i love them for it. currently on the big confrontation scene (finally).

word count 41,200 / ~60,000
chapters posted 11 / ~18
✦ currently writing
  • ch19 confrontation scene
  • outline act two of novel
  • that short story idea from 3am
  • maybe a poem?? no. yes.
✦ milestones
first 10k words of novel
upload just one fic
finished a short story start to end
finish the fic (so close)
write 80k on the novel
actually edit something
ideas corner
i lied, i do want someone to choose me without hesitation.
two astronomers who've never met but chart the same star
the last bookshop on a street that keeps changing