Spent a good chunk of last night reading this Community fic, which made my heart swell in the most wonderful of ways. It's a complex, loving, funny, and stunningly-in-character exploration of Troy/Abed, and it's an ensemble story, and it's a love letter to the entire show. It's full of Easter eggs if you know the show well but accessible if you don't, and it fucking gets the sex right, in this way that is heartwarming and hot and so perfectly them.

Received the most flatteringly gushy comment on one of my British comedy fics. I keep bouncing it around in my head and am so deeply, effectively flattered by it that I've found myself inventing ludicrous worries to counterbalance it: What if they were being sarcastic? What if the thing they praise is literally the only thing I'm good at in the world? (I know better, promise. I'm less compliment-fishing and more opening a window into the odd things my brain does when left to its own devices.)

I'm writing first-time porn for the, er, first time, and it's got me thinking about kisses. Specifically, how reflexive it seems to start any kind of scene with a kiss - and the assumption that kissing is something that everybody wants, that it's basic and easy, that it's first base - and how I don't want to write under that assumption, that's not even true for me IRL, but I didn't even realize that, really, until I started writing a scene that started with a kiss and it just felt wrong.  So now I'm trying to think through how to deal with that, how to deal with having a kinky character navigating a world where people may not even realize you can't assume everybody wants "the basics," and it's hitting really close to home but is also a really exciting thing-to-figure-out-through-writing. Plus it's making me really appreciate the stories I've read where whatever erotic interaction doesn't just start with kissing. There should be more of those.