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Hii can i request yandere Johnny with a s/o who escaped only to find them nonchalantly walking back 'home' with a cat in their arms.
*this takes place post part 7 events btw*
Yandere! Johnny Joestar x accidental runaway! s/o
Lucky, you were so lucky he stopped at the last minute. His heart was still pounding as he saw your visage in the distance. He would’ve broken a bone if he didn’t figure out you saw something, and he’d do it without hesitation if it came down to it to keep you from running away. There was this odd numbness coming through his body now, adrenaline from assuming the worst.
The blond sighs as he walks to meet up with you, locked on you like prey. Lingering thoughts you could still turn around and burst off, but he could catch you from here. Yet from what he could see in the distance of your body language it was composed, relaxed even. The ball of fur in your arms was smaller, most likely a cat.
All of that trouble for a cat. He couldn’t believe this honestly.
The distance between the both of you quickly closed, a silly little grin on your face as the cat in your arms purred in content. It’s like you didn’t even know what line you almost looked like you were about to cross to Johnny. Not to mention that cat could’ve been used to lure you to danger.
“Johnny?” You asked rather chipper
His blue eyes practically pierced yours in an instant, there was a few short stomps and he was now a few inches away from you. The cat in your hand being the only thing separating you both.
“Y/n what the hell were you thinking?” He held back on adding venom into that question just barely.
You tilt your head and your e/c eyes almost look at him bewildered.
“Hmm?”
“When I came home, it looked like you bolted out… that you ran away” His tone darkened “Do you know what would’ve happened?”
You look at him and almost casually shrugged, that nearly melted the Joestar’s heart right there. He proceeded to put both of his hands on your cheeks.
“I was about to hunt you down to the ends of the earth, whether you wanted it or not” His gaze was like ice, and he could feel you shudder in response.
“I managed to glance at some small paw prints that were made by a cat…so you got lucky there” He added on
“Guess, I got too invested in finding this little guy” You shrunk back trying to break the cold atmosphere that hung over the both of you. With it finally dawning on you on how you almost gave Johnny a panic attack from you being fascinated to get a kitty, you awkwardly apologize.
“Just come back home with me….” Johnny whispered proceeding to kiss you on the forehead.
“Can I at least keep the cat?”
The blond almost doesn’t respond to that, the dark glimmer still in his eyes looks down at the feline. It looked tense, probably from his mannerisms, but it seemed satisfied to be in your presence.
“It can stay inside with you, you’re not going anywhere for a while after this” He calmly tells you before leading you along back home, safe in his arms. Hopefully that cat was worth being locked up in your house for a few months.
#yandere x reader#yandere imagines#yandere#yandere jjba#yandere jjba imagines#yandere jjba x reader#jjba imagines#yandere johnny joestar#johnny joestar
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can you tell us about your trolls x su au or tell us the basics of the story?
Sure! There probably won't be a lot of details because there's a lot of things i still need to figure out.
The idea for the au came because i remembered the song drift away and thought "this is so floyd and branch" and then it spiralled from there. None of this is final btw. things can and probably will change because I don't make aus often. 💀 Also don't think too hard about the su part of this au. Im probably only gonna use the basic parts of it and will barely use anything from the show because I'm mostly focusing on the movie of su and not the serie and epilogue.
I currently only have the roles for the main characters so
Branch is Spinel
Floyd is Steven (but he's still the one who makes the promise with branch even though in su that was pink diamond and not steven.)
Clay is Amethyst
Spruce/Bruce is Pearl
And JD is Garnet
I want to add viva, poppy and brandy too but I don't know which characters they would be yet.
So brozone breaks up. JD, spruce and clay leave and before floyd goes he makes the promise with branch, he stays and one day he'll come back for him. Years pass by and floyd still hasn't returned. Branch's colors are becoming duller as the years go by, he starts doubting himself but never fully gives up hope.
Here's where i struggle a bit with the story because i don't have a reason yet why floyd never came back. At some point floyd reunites with the others but idk the reason yet why branch isn't part of that reunion.
Just like in the song drift away i want branch to get a message that shows floyd and the others so that he realises that he's been abandoned and that floyd broke the promise. That's when branch would go grey. (Idk if I'm adding rosiepuff in this au)
So this is when the su plot comes in. Branch comes with the injector. He fights brozone and in the process everyone gets reset except floyd. When they get reset they're back into their roles before brozone broke up. So clay is back to being the funboy, spruce the heartthrob and jd the leader. With branch i think he would act more childlike or innocent? Because im not gonna make an adult act like a baby 💀
So now floyd has to figure out how to turn his brothers back to normal. I think the order of who comes back is gonna be the same as the movie so clay->bruce->branch->JD.
Oh and the others didn't know about the promise. they didn't know that branch stayed in the garden all those years, Floyd never told them.
Have not thought yet how floyd brings them back.
After clay gains his memory back they go back to the injector and try to turn it off when they realise it's harming the land. They make it worse and now the injector is going faster(?) So they realise they NEED branch to get his memory back or else they can't turn it off.
when floyd manages to bring branch's memory back they talk and he's on their side. He removes the injector and everything seems to be going fine. It's then when branch fears he is going to be abandoned again and thinks floyd will reset him again after he removed the injector so they fight. Somewhere during that JD gets his memory back too. I think most of this part from the movie I won't change. So floyd and branch fight one to one. Floyd sings the song "change" maybe? Idk yet. Branch saying that he can't just make everything better just because he sang a song. He tries to continue fighting floyd but he tires himself out so then this scene happens
I am changing the lines though. I think something like "i just want my brothers back." Idk
I think that's all i have at the moment. I'll add more to this post if i think of anything. Most of my ideas for this au was me looking at spinel clips and thinking "oh i can draw that with branch!"
I hope this is readable because I'm writing this during midnight and am NOT good at explaining stuff. 💀
If anyone has ideas i would love to hear it! because im not good at figuring stuff out
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HEY LOOK AT THIS COOL THING I MADE FOR A CLASS PROJECT LAST SEMESTER THAT I KEEP FORGETTING TO UPLOAD PICTURES OF :D
(Long-ass rambles to follow, feel free to skip down to the additional box pics. Short video of the laser cutter working at the bottom!)
This is a laser-cut wooden box! The parts were designed in SolidWorks, then drawings of those works were converted in Autocad to be uploaded to the laser cutter. I had a lot of fun with the designs, as you can tell :] I took inspo from the little heart-embroidered-thing c!Philza has on his shirt in SAD-ist's design because it incorporates what I like to call the "narrow eyes" of the Hardcore heart without the lines ever breaking, making the design possible for a solid object...
...but I couldn't do all the curvy bits because SolidWorks hates me lmao.
The emeralds are for emduo ofc. I thought about doing a crown or pig mask or a sword for Techno, but I was running out of time for the project, mostly because I spent like way too long trying to make the wings curvy and realistic :( In the end, I went with a more geometric design, which I think I like the most. Also, it's more stable overall. The emeralds are on either side of the box btw.
I might come back to this post and add pics of the SolidWorks parts/drawings themselves if I can find the files.
The box's dimensions (LengthxWidthxHeight) in inches are 4.25x2.75x1.75 ignoring the lid. Here is sharpie for reference.
I added the color to the box design by scribbling in color with sharpies on paper, then sticking that paper on the inside of the box behind the designs. I was originally going to paint the box too but uhhhhhh I got lazy. Also I think I like being able to see the imperfections on the wood more anyway.
Oh!! Also the box currently holds my shinies (earrings)!!
You can see the paper lmao.
One last thing I got out of this project: after the wooden designs are cut out, you can fish the bigger scraps out of the machine, so guess what I made? :)
(Colored it with sharpie ofc.)
And uhhh that's it! Vvv fun to make! SolidWorks is awesome once you learn how to use it. I'm hoping to practice more once I have time (and possibly my own computer that won't melt if I try to run SolidWorks on it.)
Okay here's the vid :] It was longer but it had my voice in it so I had to cut it short, but I think it's enough for you to get the idea.
#my art#i guess this qualifies as art lmao#philza#philza fanart#dsmp fanart#emerald duo#emduo#c!philza fanart#solidworks#autocad
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I think he may be acknowledging and engaging a bit more with some fans on Twitter after his ‘ break- up’ with ex super fan Ceej just to make a point , as well as the free ads . She still claims innocence but frankly I saw some of her tweets I’d have blocked her , she has or had a nasty side sometimes.
Doubt it had anything to do with Ceej getting blocked by him. It's more like it's 4th of July soon, so he hit up the 'marketing'. His avid buyers are mostly on Twitter. There's visibly more buyers on Twitter than on IG. So there is where he needs to get his sales from.
Ceej is a bit moody from time to time I think 😉, and she isn't that good in hiding it. She rather wants to show the whole world her moods. 🤷♀️
But hey, after one day mourning and telling she didn't want to have anything to do with this fandom and him anymore, she was already going from not wanting to watch OL any longer to well, she had to watch because she wanted to know how it will all end. And after she posted she's not going to sign up for MPC, posting that she had some MPC flags to sell, and was glad she didn't had to support his business any longer, the next day she created another account. It took one more day and she followed him again from that account. (because, you see, she's an admin in some FB groups, so she had to 😉). And then she found a little comfort in what she saw on Deuxmoi!^^
Noooooooo.... it wasn't him, it was some stupid intern! Blame the intern 🙈
Btw. The new account named WhiskySipper77 on Twitter, is also the name she's an account right here on Tumblr, where she tries to convince others that he's not using Twitter since 2020 and it's all a PRAgency. See her post
Guess that PR Agency was also responsible for his tweets about Charles III, him being annoyed when he had to wait in line for a long time at Heathrow, and is happily Tweeting and RT-ing coincidentally when he's having night shoots. The intern even adapts to his times when he's in another timezone... smh. Yeah, well, she needs to comfort her self I get it.
She's still angry at him though
Best show not on TV... to be continued....
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appreciating the unique quirks of the many PSP models
Someone posted a picture of a PSP ad from back in the day, and it inspired me to crack my brain open and dump a buncha knowledge of mine into this here post!
So, let's talk PSP's!
This here is my PSP, or at least the one that survived long enough to be considered that. It's the vibrant blue PSP 3000, which was the last revision of the PSP that stuck to the original design. Speaking of designs, lets jump right into breaking down the several major PSP redesigns!
(I took some pics from this video btw y2u.be/EkNXNmgPCoc)
First, you've got the PSP 1000, the eldest
This particular one in a very sleek white :0
Now the PSP 1000 is real good. Unlike a lot of launch edition consoles, they pretty much had it down from the get go. All the basic bits and bobs you expect in a PSP are in here, with the only special characteristics of the 1000 being its heft.
That's right, the PSP 1000 is chunky! I do not say this to make fun, however, because the extra weight makes the 1000 really comfortable to hold. Look, without being too crass, the PSP has a massive ass- I mean look at this size comparison!!
I AM ACTUALLY JEALOUS OF A VIDEO GAME DEVICES ASS- WHAT??
ahem- Point is, the PSP's extra heft gave it... I hesitate to use the term love handles but- WHY CAN'T I BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS WE'RE MOVING ON
to the PSP 2000!
In a delightful blue! Similar to mine, but not as pretty :P
The PSP 2000 is notable for a couple reasons. Mainly because it introduced the new skinnier form factor that they pretty much stuck with for the rest of the consoles run (until they radically changed the entire design, but I'm not going there today).
The slim design is alright. While I'm no proponent of unrealistic body goals, I can see why they shed some of the PSP's pounds. The dumpy made it a little less than ideal in the pocket, and the console was also much lighter to boot. I mean it too! The PSP dropped from 280 grams to 189. That's 91 grams lighter!
The real great thing about the PSP 2000 though is that it's around this time that Sony decided to whip out the crayons and start going wild with the colors.
There were simple, yet elegant colors, like Lavender and Mint Green
But more interestingly, we started to see more multicolored themed PSP's, like...
This sleek Gundam one
This beautiful Monster Hunter one
And, last but not least, The Simpsons one!!!
"that is so effin' badass"
Awww yeah! The wide array of color options was certainly not unique to the PSP as far as handheld consoles go, but I'm such a freakazoid for this design- I can't get over how cute all these different PSP's are.
Whenever I see all the different colored PSP's, I imagine an eclectic group of people riding the Yamanote line, with the one connective link between them being the fact that they're passing the time during their train ride by dinking around with a PSP. You might even be able to tell at a passing glance something about the persons character as you notice the color they chose, or maybe you're just looking too far into it. After all, what would somebody tell about you, rocking your Simpsons PSP. That you like the Simpsons? That you like the Simpsons enough to have committed to staring at a Simpsons themed device every day on the train? Is that something you feel you should base your entire identity around? in Tokyo, Japan circa 2006? ...The answer is sure, why not! The Simpsons rules!
And so does the PSP 3000!
In a silver that reminds me James Bonds car... Oddly specific, that one
Now, I'm putting a lot of faith in you right now to spot any kind of difference between this device, and the last device. To be fair, I was putting a lot of faith in you to spot any kind of difference between the last device and the first device- but I digress.
I think the majority of people would agree that the 3000 is the best PSP. It's basically the 2000, only with a WAY better screen. The contrast between light and dark is much better, the colors are more vibrant and vivid, the awful ghosting effect from previous models is all but gone- it's wonderful!
And no, I didn't mention the ghosting effect in talking about the previous models, and that's mostly because well- have you seen what the competitions screens were like at the time?
It's like I'm playing a video game in a Zach Snyder movie...
Yeah- the standards were low as heck, which makes the PSP 3000 that much more impressive! It really is a nice looking screen even still, and I speak on good authority because, well, this was the model PSP I owned and used for years!
As previously established, I owned the Vibrant Blue 3000, but there were tons of other fun colors too!
You had, as before, simple but elegant colors like Blossum Pink and White Blue
but also the SUPER fun themed ones, which started to get cool as heck with the 3000!
You've got the Hatsune Miku one, of course
ok this one is sorta underwhelming, tbh
This 'so classy it's criminal' Monster Hunter one
don't know who I was quoting- but the gold highlights- AAAAA
And there was even a One Piece themed PSP!
Which also happens to look quite similar to the MonHun one! Just with less class (sorry luffy)
At the end of the whole PSP lifecycle we wound up with so many unique colors and variants that just collecting the different colors of all the different PSP's could be entire decade long endeavors in it of themselves! I'd like to say that one day I could own them all but likeeeee-
I think student loans will probably prohibit me from ever being so frivolous, though it's fun to dream!
or is it depressing...
In any case, that wraps up my PSP worship appreciation post for now!
Keen PSP appreciators may have noticed my failure to mention the PSP GO or the PSP Street. I am aware of those 2 revisions, but I chose not to include them because:
1. I've never seen either of them in the flesh before, so I have no personal experience with them and thus couldn't confidently speak on their ergonomics or screen quality
2. They only had 2 colors each, which is lame and not fun!
and 3. It's 3 AM and I have to get up early tomorrow- I kinda wrote this all on a whim because I saw someone post a picture of a PSP and it put my brain in hyperdrive
ANYWAYS
I hope you enjoyed this slightly structured ramble! I will leave you with a fanmade commercial for the PSP I found on youtube dot com
youtube
hehe, 2005 was nuts-
goodnight :)
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OKAY THIS ISNT A QUESTION BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU I FOLLOWEED BECAUSE OF THE AMAZING DEVIL LYRICS ON YOUR BLOG OK MAYBE I HAVE A QUESTION HOW MUCH OF THE AMAZING DEVIL'S ALBUMS DO U THINK FITS INEFFABLE HUSBANDS (THIS IS A TRICK QUESTION BUT ALSO THERE IS A CORRECT ANSWER) no pressure btw i just got rly fucking excited
OH HI THIS ASK MAKES ME SO HAPPY I LOVE CHATTING ABOUT THE AMAZING DEVIL!! This is so funny I was literally ABOUT to make an ineffable husbands post with amazing devil lyrics as the caption
BUT ANYWAYS SO MANY OF THEM DO!! I may have just added the entirety of Love Run to my playlist lmao. After the new season ruin and marbles and rockrose and the thistle make me weep :’)
Also battle cries!! (I won’t let you turn our last night into this I’m going to binge watch a box set, drink wine, reminisce this isn’t a break up, dear heart, it’s a season finale) Blossoms fits very well for both of them after this season in my opinion, and horror and the wild fits for the line “give me back my heart you wingless thing” hehe
If you can’t tell amazing devil has been on my mind these past few days, ty so much for asking!! :DD
#this just made my day#!!!#(I’ll scream but you won’t hear Forget me not)#:’)#soni rambles#good omens#good omens 2#i tried to mostly make this ramble spoiler free there’s really only references to the finale#tad songs take up most of my mental space :) they’re just magical#the amazing devil#ineffable husbands#ineffable spouses#soni’s asks#i dunno if that’s actually a tag i can’t remember#and the words that you wrote come blacker than smoke im so sorry I’ve done it again…#had i taken more care i might have seen all the rot in the rungs…#zira going back to heaven….#all the rest of blossoms is crowley
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Accomplishments! Quantum Break fansite in progress!
(originally posted June 8th, 2023; crossposted from dreamwidth.)
Well, I removed Tumblr from my phone to prevent me from wasting so much time there, which means I now have nowhere to easily and quickly post my inane thoughts (at least not without feeling like I'm bothering people on Discord or in direct messages, though perhaps that's something I should work on). You know what that means! It means I'm probably going to try posting them here instead.
Thing I want to post about: I'm making a Quantum Break fansite! I've been wanting to do this for ages, and actually started putting together a couple of little graphics for it during the "Quantum Break Appreciation Month" event I ran on Tumblr in April, but I hadn't made much progress on the project since then... until the past few days, anyway, when I started brainstorming what I actually want to do with the site, how I want to lay it out, and so on. Yesterday I put together some CSS for the site, and today I did The Hard Part: I set up a git/GitHub repo for the site, and got the "deploy to neocities" script working for it, so I can easily and quickly make updates to the site in VSCode, then push from there to GitHub to neocities all at once, like I do with my personal site.
Was this an absolute pain to set up? Yes! Somehow, it took me even longer to do it a second time than it did the first! But I did it myself, with a lot of encouragement and rubber duck-ing from a few very helpful people in the Fandom Coders chat. Can't say I'm not proud of myself for that. I would not have had the skill or confidence a year ago to do something like this, especially not all the mucking about I did in the terminal trying to set up the git repo in the first place.
Anyway, I am, to put it mildly, extremely fucking excited to continue working on this site. I've got big plans: first order of business is to get an archive set up of all the Quantum Break fanfic I can get my hands on (and get permission from the authors for). After that, I'm probably going to do the same for fanart and image edits like photosets and gifsets from Tumblr, since the CSS page styling for those will likely be similar (though I expect to run into some attribution problems with older Tumblr posts, what with so many deactivated or moved blogs post-2018). Once that's sorted out, I'm considering looking into the best way to archive fanvids, but honestly that might be put off for a while longer, as video hosting and video players are way out of my skill level currently. Maybe I'll import some of my Quantum Break playlists from my personal site, too? Oh yeah, and at some point down the line, I want to make a searchable wiki with transcripts of all the in-game narrative objects. But "searchable" is probably going to be a stumbling point there, and transcribing takes ages, so this will be last priority, I think.
Wow, that's... a lot, actually! Damn! This is gonna take a while. Not that I mind spending a couple of years poking at a project, obviously. *Gestures at my longfic that took four years to finish...* I've been neck deep in this fandom for over seven years, what's another five or ten? XP
btw, since it's fairly easy to post images on tumblr (compared to dreamwidth, anyway), here's a screenshot of the section that's currently in progress: the fic archive index!
(ignore my filler text... i usually use karkalicious as my lorem ipsum, so at least i'm not committing THAT particular crime here.)
i'm still futzing around a little with the styling (negative margin my beloathed) but it's coming along pretty well! i've already got a branch where i've started... you know, actually adding fic to the site, but i won't merge that into the main and add a link to the front page until the style problems have been fixed (or at least, fixed enough to be easily navigable on mobile, which... is not the case right now, lolrip).
#quantum break#coding#fansite#dreamwidth#cmdonovann#well that was surprisingly easy! i didn't expect copypaste to preserve the formatting...#also added some commentary#because it's been a couple days since the dreamwidth post#and i've been working on the site since then lol
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Hey baee! I wanted to ask what your writing process is like, when writing Roads to cross. And also any updates? (Btw this is is by no means me trying to rush you!! I’m just curious lol)
W-writing "pro-cess"...?
Hahaha, hello, love! 🥰💕 Alright, I'll try to break down the process. This might get long. Spoiler alert: don't expect a lot of method here. I'm a panster writer, flying by the seat of my pants 😂
Okay, so, it all starts with daydreaming tbh. Or nightdreaming; usually when I'm falling asleep at 3am my brain gets especially creative for some reason 😂 I have a lot of dialogues written down in my phone's notes app that confirm that.
Usually, the first things that come to me are dialogues. I'll be daydreaming and a line of dialogue comes along and I go "Oh, that's good, I gotta write that down."
In the case of Roads, a lot of these loose dialogues/scenes piled up until I went "Okay, I gotta organize this sdkjfn". Which meant, okay, I have all these things I want to happen-- In which order should they happen? And since Roads it's a Canon Divergence fic, that meant I had to make these scenes fit between canonical plot points of season 3. To help myself with this (because I don't have a superbrain and my memory sucks) about 2 or 3 years ago, I don't remember, I rewatched some episodes of season 3 and wrote down in a Word document called "Timeline" everything that happened in each episode so I could remember later, separating them by day. So, if, for example, episode 35 started during the day, went through the night and ended in another morning, that would be Day 1 and the start of Day 2. I did this from episode 41 to episode 50. That document is 28 pages long😂
So, having all the pieces down, I had to organize them. It was kind of a game of Tetris hahah. Or probably more like this:
This should happen before this and this should happen after this, and some days should pass before this happens, BUT WAIT, THIS CAN'T HAPPEN BEFORE THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE, AAAAAAAAAAH
It was at that moment that I decided to use my bedroom wall and post-its to organize my shit and make a somewhat functional timeline for the story😂 This is a step I like to call Decisions. You gotta make decisions about the story, when this scene you thought up will happen, in which chapter and in which moment it'll happen, or even if it'll happen at all! Like, what if it doesn't fit in any chapter? Should I force it? It is really necessary?
You gotta make decisions and you gotta commit. I hate this step. It takes so much time because I overthink everything.
But then, THEN, by some happenstance or meteor strike as Taylor my beloved would say, I manage to get the skeleton of a chapter. Which means, I've got about 5-7 loose dialogues or bits of scenes, in a specific order, and now I just gotta fill in the blanks... which usually means going from a 1k draft to a 7k finished chapter😂
For example, this is what "It is said that there's no such thing as coincidence" looked like before I actually started working on it.
If you compare it to the finished version, you can see what actually working on the chapter means: adding the narration, the dialogue tags, etc etc. And oftentimes, new ideas pop up in my brain while I'm writing it, so I add that too.
Since Roads it's a bunch of loose scenes that came to me randomly and in disorder, when I actually write the story down one event after another, this curious thing happens called natural progression of things ✨✨✨ Or, Event->Logical reaction to said event. Like, "Hey, this character broke his arm in the previous chapter, the others should... probably.. talk about that???"😂
So that's how new things get added to the chapter that I hadn't planned but just make sense, u know?
Now, this step of actually working on the chapter is... pretty slow skdnf. I especially HATE dialogue tags, I hate that I gotta add actions and thoughts and smells and sounds between what the characters say; sometimes I really don't know what to put there kjsd.
Oftentimes, ideas of what to write in a certain scene come to me while reading something else, like a fic or a book. Which doesn't mean I steal their narrations sdkjfn, it's just- the book will mention a certain word or feeling and I go "Oh, this is like in my fic! This is what X character is going through!" and I start daydreaming about it and the right words come and I run to my Word documents to write the magic down before it leaves me 😂💖
This doesn't only happen for the current chapter I'm working on, btw. Nonono, that would be too organized for my brain. Too normal. Too easy.
When I say my brain gets loose, random, disorganized ideas, I mean it. I'm currently working on chapter 27, and yet, I've written some bits for chapters 30, 31, or even 40. If I get an idea, I gotta write it down or I'll forget. Sometimes, I have a clearer view of what a future chapter will look like than what this current chapter is, but hey, that's life 😂
Now you get why I had to use my bedroom wall, right? I mean, when you have a timeline of about 20 future chapters and a hundred loose scenes to fit into those 20 chapters, things get overwhelming. I needed a visual way to fit the pieces into place or my brain was going to collapse.
Or I was going to cry.
Anyway, in summary.
Step 1: Daydreaming. This happens naturally; can be out of nowhere or from reading something else.
Step 2: Write the daydreaming.
Step 3: Decisions. Try to organize the loose ideas I've got in my phone or Word into a chapter structure that makes sense.
Step 4: Fill in the blanks. Once the chapter structure/skeleton is there, I gotta actually work on it.
Step 5: Proofreading. Once the chapter is done, I read it again to look for typos or just to overthink the whole thing again until I'm truly happy with how I narrated every single thing. I also use Grammarly to help me out caught errors.
And that's it! Another Roads chapter is done!
...I gotta translate it to Spanish to post on Wattpad though. (Kill me, I hate this, this is cringe, I'm such a terrible writer, English makes everything sound better, why did I think this was a good idea? Why do I always repeat this same word/sentence structure? Okay, whatever, I don't care anymore. No, wait, I do, this has to be good. Why though? Only 12-year-olds read me here. Okay, it's done, IT'S DONE, BYE, I DON'T WANNA WRITE THIS SHIT FOR ANOTHER MONTH, I HATE IT)
Rinse and repeat 😇
...Sorry for writing so much.
Now, updates! I have this page in my blog called "Progress status" in which I usually update how the chapters are going along: https://hide-in-imagination.tumblr.com/Progress-Status How I see it is: if a scene needs to be finished/ it's half-done-> That's 5%
If there's a scene I need to write from zero-> That's 10%
So, for chapter 27, I have 5 scenes half-done and one I gotta write from scratch, so that's 25% + 10%, 35% left to do. Meaning, chapter 27 it's currently 65% done.
This page can be found in my sidebar, btw. But if you use mobile I guess you can't see it.
Aaand, that's it! That was all your questions. I'm guessing I sated your curiosity with... way more information than you ever wanted to know🤣
Thank you for caring about my story❤️ See ya!
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Breaking a Beta-Reading Relationship Part 2
Last time we talked about beta-readers walking away from stories and writers. This time we’re talking about writers taking their stories away from beta-readers.
Let’s start with the why you would want to do this.
The story has taken a new direction and you know this new direction includes a no-go for your beta-reader
You have a deadline approaching and the beta-reader has not done anything yet
Beta-reader stopped responding to you
The notes the beta-reader gave you are not what you were looking for
The notes feel like they are trying to change the story
Which is often because the reader doesn’t understand the intent of the story
But also, this might feel like they are trying to co-write instead of edit
The notes the beta-reader gave you made you feel like a terrible no good very bad writer and person
Personality Conflicts
Long post is long underneath the cut!
In general, any time you have to end a relationship with someone, communication is key. So, when we look at things like 1 & 2 (Knowing your beta-readers no-gos have now been added to the story or having an approaching deadline) talk with them about it. Offer your reader an out of the project if they need, thank them for the work they’ve done or the offer to volunteer. But the key here is communication. Feelings are less likely to get hurt on all sides if you just say something. Sometimes folks will message me with something like “I’m sorry, I don’t want to be a nag but there’s a deadline coming up and—” Don’t apologize!! I’m a very busy person with a lot of beta-reading projects and while I now have a spreadsheet (which is working great, btw, 10/10 do recommend) to help me not lose sight of things—things still happen.
And communication even works when the beta-reader ghosts you. It’s an unfortunate thing when it happens, and I wish it didn’t, but alas. It’s one of the drawbacks of online communities and asking for free labor from folks. I have some rules for establishing whether or not I’ve been ghosted. I like to reach out and make sure they just haven’t been swamped and forgotten. But if someone stops replying to the pings after the 5th ignored ping, I move on. How often do I ping them? Depends on the project and the timeline that we’ve discussed tbh. This mostly only happens on longer projects without strict deadlines, so if you have a looming deadline hopefully you’ve already moved on. But also, if they reply but they keep saying the same thing (think: “yes, doing it this weekend!”) three times in a row and don’t respond to the fourth ping…that’s a sign. If you’d like to send a “Thanks for the work you’ve done/volunteering! I think I’m going to find someone else to read this for me” message, that’s totally allowed, but if they ghost you with no message, you’re allowed to ghost back.
Where communication alone is not enough is when we start getting into the types of notes people are giving. This is where setting boundaries as a writer comes into play.
When you first ask for a beta-reader, you should be clear about what you are looking for from the beta-read, and when someone volunteers, you should start with a conversation before handing off your story where you clarify and confirm what kind of notes you are looking for.
Just like writers, beta-readers have different level of skill in the work they do. So even with this conversation, you may find a beta-reader giving you notes that aren’t quite what you were hoping for. Beyond skill, in the last post I talked about how there’s a lot of fear in beta-reading sometimes. You don’t want to offend someone you don’t know well, beta-readers aren’t always confident in giving good constructive feedback, and some writers aren’t great at receiving constructive feedback. So, you might get a lot of “no this is great! No changes needed!” notes when you know you’ve got some misplaced commas.
There’s also a line that beta-readers have to balance where they offer suggestions and fixes from their brain, without changing your story. And some readers are better than this than others. I’ve also had very green beta-readers jump into a story of mine and start off with giving their AU-ideas to my AU, and then offer suggestions not for the story in front of them, but the story they want to be reading instead. Sometimes readers might miss the point of the story and their suggestions are in good faith, and sometimes it feels like they are trying to hi-jack your story.
In both these cases you’ve got two options: First you can thank them politely for the work they’ve done, let them know you’re going to keep working on the story “with their notes in mind,” and that you might find another beta reader to get “more fresh insight!” Then you can restrict their access to your story by changing the link sharing permissions, or removing them from your Google Doc, etc. and move on. Your other choice is to do the same as above, but also be more explicit in why you’re moving on. I would only recommend doing this if you know that you’re good at letting people down, positive you can be “professional” and kind, and not afraid of consequences that may come regardless of how well you handle the situation. Here’s some example scripts.
Start with:
“Hi there! Thank you so much for your work on [fic]. I’m going to keep working on the story with your notes in mind, but I also think I’m going to find another beta-reader to take a look.”
Then say either:
“I am looking for more notes about [specific issue]/Less squeeing, and more constructive feedback on things that need change, and I think getting a second pair of eyes for that kind of thing will be helpful for me.”
or
“I think we’ve got a disconnect on what this story is about, and I want to make sure that this isn’t because I wrote my idea poorly, but because we’re on different wavelengths.”
And finish with
“Thanks again!”
The above scripts can also be used and adapted for the final two issues you may encounter in which a beta-reader leaves notes that are, quite frankly, mean and dispirited, or if you have other personality conflicts or disagreements outside of the fic. But just like I said to beta-readers who might have conflicts with their writers, you do not owe an explanation to someone who has harmed or offended you, and “Thank you for the work you’ve done, I think I’m going to find someone else to also take a look” and then walking away from the conversation is a totally valid way to handle the situation—even if it is terrifying. And if they fight back, block them. It’s the internet. You can do that.
“Should I credit them if I had to block them?”
Ugh. Great question. Did you use any of their suggestions? If not—don’t bother. If you did—bleh. I work in the entertainment industry, so I am a big proponent of credit given where credit is due. And in this case, they did do some work for you, presumably for free, for a fanfiction. You should at least say their name. But if someone seriously got gross at you (and I have never heard of this happening and hope I never do), set those boundaries and move on with your life. Especially if it’s free fanfiction. I won’t be upset with you.
As far as taking your fic actually away from them—in writing this I realized it may be helpful to do a primer about Google Docs but change your sharing settings on the doc! Or delete that doc and start a new if it’s possible with a fresh link. If you didn’t just send them a file, there’s ways to make sure they can’t get into your fic again without your permission or until it’s posted. So, take those steps.
Breaking up with a beta reader or a writer can be pretty complicated, so feel free to reach out with your questions if you have them!
#HK's Beta Reading Tips#editing#beta reading#beta reader#writing advice#writing tools#long post#fanfiction#fanfic
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Finally got around to working on that Poppy Playtime AU I’ve mentioned a few times before!
Dang thing has taken multiple hours at this point but gosh am I proud of it 🥹 Would love Feedback n Questions (It has unrelated worldbuilding lore bits which I shall explain later)
I am so so sorry for the word chunk I can’t figure out how to do that ‘read more’ thing on mobile T-T
Think of this as a dlc with added bits of lore + shifted details. World-building will be explained in a future post.
-You spawn in a worn down parking lot near the factory at night, police tape n the like speckle it’s exterior.
-You have a key ring with 2 keys, one to enter the building the other unknown for now.
-At first it’s vv dark inside but upon shutting the door the lights flick on along with a TV that auto-plays the first tape’s message. (Makes the sensor claim more realistic)
-left side from the entrance is the locked door to the security room, upon walking closer you may step on a disturbed floor tile that creaks.
*upon gaining the grab pack you can return to the tile and pull it up revealing a small hole where old pictures are the faces scribbled out can be found. (They show up when using a camera tool so I thought it’d be neat to use them as a Easter egg of sorts)*
-right side a lil gift shop which you go to after a failed search, some train cars rest on the ground make you look up and discover the code almost like it had been intentionally done.
-Inside the security room the grabpack only shows up when the player turns to leave or fiddles with the glass shield.
-Climbing over the turn stile you use the pack to unlock the door and find the area where a Huggy statue is located.
-Scanning the door to their right rather then the key popping up in Huggy’s hand it’s at his feet.
*lil timeskip til your about to get the red hand*
-Rather then it being automated you have to do a crane game styled action, nudging it off doesn’t work and has to be tugged til the case snaps free.
Originally you were gonna snag it with your blue hand once it’s close rather then just letting the claw drop in worry of it breaking but it slips falling anyway. (The idea for the lil crane game was shown in a incomplete model and I liked it enough to incorporate it plus make it more realistic. The red hand is the only one we can find atm so just letting it fall feels risky)
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The stuff between these lines is where I do a significant difference to the normal gameplay:
-Upon ‘meeting’ Huggy you go into the vents like normal but the chase is a bit longer and instead of going to the box related part like normal you end up in a large office area with lots of cubicles and a bathroom. (You find a note/tape mentioning the bathroom has a damaged vent, perfect for a quick getaway)
Btw the chase was more time sensitive rather then just being caught cus the gates seemed to be almost trying to force you onto a different course.
-You search the trashed area for a usable set of bathroom keys and after finding them use them to unlock the bathroom door that held the open vent. (the company doesn’t like giving long breaks already so them having somewhat limited access to the bathrooms sorta fit)
*During the search you may come across a cubicle that looks a bit different, looking around it you find the desk’s drawer is locked and using the mysterious key you had since the beginning you open it…. Haven’t decided what’s you’d find yet.*
-Wandering a bit thru the locked vents you pass by some that peer into various rooms like a sorting room, a small theater for worker meetings(?), and a room where doll heads sit in frames (yep I love blending unused content into this plus it makes for a nice filler)
-After exiting the vents once more and exploring a bit you again (in that unused hallway) run into Huggy who chases you into a office (Like in one of the early trailers that isn’t Elliot’s but some other unknown peep owning it.
-Slamming the door shut you begin to feel stranded with Huggy slowly breaking the door down only to find a sus bookcase just in time which after much pushing moves to reveal a slanted hallway with odd design. (aka the cannon one that leads to Poppy’s room)
Quicking slipping inside you struggle to shift the bookcase back into place just as Huggy breaks in trashing the room in search for you.
Peering thru a crack you get to watch the scene holding your breath as they try to find you before eventually giving up and leaving.
-Too scared to dare go back out in fear of them waiting you gain the hope that this will lead to somewhere safe and venture deeper.
-You soon reach Poppy’s room not liking the red tint the case you find being more opaque then clear, thinking it could be some lever that’ll maybe open an emergency exit you pull it open only to find a doll the lights flickering before going out.
{Huggy doesn’t die in this since the box scene doesn’t happen but thankfully they don’t show up anymore either… Might edit this tho once chap 3 comes out}
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Back to normal now… for the most part~:
*Timeskip til just before Poppy gets kidnapped*
-Rather then simply show up at the hole Poppy comes out of a vent mentioning they need to get past the door which is sadly locked.
Offering to unlock it from the other side you build Poppy a staircase up to the other vent (either you try to pick her up and she gets vv uncomfortable or your not comfortable with picking her up settling on doing the staircase instead, either option works)
-Once in you walk in with Poppy to the lip of the hole saying her normal line before being snatched.
Only other thing I wanna mention was that in the wack-a-wuggy game there are holes in the ceiling tho they are boarded up since it was mentioned that it would be unfair for the children. (Was in a unfinished version n I liked the detail)
Hope you like this feel free to give feedback n questions ^^
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Istg these writer questions are all too good I want to ask you every single one but that'd be a lot so...17, 22, 34 + a question you'd really like to answer!
im so sorry this took a while things been all over the place on my end, this is going to be very all over the place but anyway
17. talk to me about the minutiae of your current wip. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.
uhh so i got several wips that are v much on a break but I started reworking an old arcana self insert fic of mine from 2019 cos tbh the writing is ass and I can make it sound a lot better now idk how that bitch has so many kudos on it, its not good!!
the plot is basically that the MC (reader) has chronic joint pain in the winter when its cold and Julian helps to look after them. The inspiration was that i have chronic joint pain that's way worse when its cold and i wrote it as a comfort thing lol. its still up rn in its original state but will be updated soon hopefully
my other main wip is my dmmd fic that i worked on p much all of last year but now i have burnout so im taking a break rip.
its kinda a re-write of the reconnect game but with more characters and set in my own universe but i think once i get over the bump of the main story line its gonna be more slice of life/ romance focused as a change of pace to the first half. Unlike the reconnect game i also focus on other characters that arent the main character's love interest because if i was a reader i'd wanna know what everyone else is up to post canon. It basically feels like a sandbox for me to write my character head canons lol.
22. how organized are you with your writing? describe to me your organization method, if it exists. what tools do you use? notebooks? binders? apps?
everything is in google docs, i have notes pages and a loose colour coding system going with how I edit things e.g green= published, orange= needs work/ to be changed, purple= notes about canon/ in fic lore.
Sometimes if i feel my work is getting cluttered i'll move it to a separate doc so i end up with about 3 documents that are different editing stages of the same chapter.
Theres also a "cutting room floor" doc where i put stuff that didnt make the final cut in case i wanna refer to it later and its not lost to the back space button.
34. thoughts on the oxford comma, go:
fam I dont even know what a oxford comma is, I just be putting them shits wherever feels right. Like a granny adding seasoning to her cooking.
Ok i just googled it and I dont tend to use it i dont think but honestly do whatever u want, who give a shit. language and grammar are fake.
extra question picked at random :D
12. if a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current wips into lorem ipsum, i don’t make the rules
first wish is to know how characters feel in response to whatever is happening to them, my biggest thing rn is being unable to put myself in their shoes and i think it would help a lot.
second is to consistently remember HOW to write well, cos i have bursts of knowing wtf im talking about but will suddenly lose it even if im in the middle of a work
third is knowing the exact word or phrase to describe scenery, emotions and facial expressions. I struggle with those the most for some reason.
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c3x6 3xk the triple killer
Seeing the face
uwu secret admirer
alexis the little detective
“narrowing down suspects”
Really really dark bruises on the ligature marks. It’s not just a general bruise of strangling, it’s like it was stationary.
Linda Russo
Beckett actually asked castle what his theory was?
911 has that effect on her
RC: I believe that was my idea
LP: Yeah but I only listen when it comes from her
(could clip)
Wow they’re serious about this, so serious they’re showing a huge briefing onscreen.
RM: He has a menial unimportant job
KB: Still you, castle
RC: Just for that I’m basing my next book off esposito
KB: *looks at him in insult*
(could clip)
Three murders one week. Posing them like this. Tyson & his MOs. Wearing disguises. Dysfunctional relationship with his mother. (later on in this ep & his arc: getting other people to do the thing & getting people to look like people)
Ooh horticulture! (Kb: ?? Ryan: Waters plants)
(my man’s rly pretty)
KR: Ex-wife. They were divorced last month after being married for four years.
RC: So in a way, he did just get out of prison.
[He’s sort of joking, but he’s serious regarding the timeline]
Bro some people have medical conditions, don’t make it like a jab on moral character!
(Who is this security guard??)
Wow lots of facial hair there mr esposito
(Who is the security guard????)
Kin Foster
How did she get a liver temp already?
Gas repair
JE *can’t find the phone bc ppl kept moving it between takes*
RC: The pillows
JE & me: What’s wrong with them?
Found a penny XD
That was quiet. “Sir, a mr townsend wants to see you?”
Ew reporters
They’d better hold to that. Let Him Know.
My older bro thought that this guy might be the killer
KB: From four years ago. I took a look at calls made to the Triple Killer tip line and this one stood out for me. It’s from May 21st, 2006, which was a week after the sixth murder. A woman called and left a message, but she was too afraid to leave her name. But she did mention that she lived at 24th and 10th.
(He wasn’t carrying the right tools? 3xk has improved since then. I mean yeah eight years will do that)
u got the phone records from 4 years ago? really???
(except linda russo did not see HIS face)
(why no pic of the tat on the murderboard? also does he fit the profile, bad mom menial job? Oh his mom died when he was 4. Gates was convicted of the bottle break tho)
Sociopath??? really? You think antisocial personality disorder makes this guy a consistent killer?
Who was the individual walking by castle’s house tho? (nobody important, nvm)
Oh you know, someone died, someone else did it.
(don’t want to clip)
some … pervert watching you from afar with high powered binoculars.
I always love the parallels. Rick just wants to protect his daughter & when we have a case like this he’s sure to freak a bit.
“I’d better check they’re actually locked.” Love castle sm.
(apparently that was an ad-lib. could clip ig)
Another point for the Ryan ADHD headcanon. I have a system, you’re messing up my system, it might not work for you but it does for me. I’d record this bickering to post but I don’t feel like it. Btw, I think this was also adlibbed
(ok so I guess I already wanted to clip this)
(I’ll clip both together actually)
Robert Duncan? Is that their name? Interesting choice here.
OH WAIT IT WAS HOLD MUSIC
(btw, the detective to beckett’s right is the half asian looking guy, I can’t see what his nameplate reads tho)
Jelly Tyson
(the cameras watching castle correct her writing lol)
Love handwriting differences. Castle <3
(“my girl” he says)
Wow acab
Is pruno booze?
I like how he doesn’t actually remember the exact name, he just knows it’s hog something. (Or so he claims.) That is realistic I think.
Nice jacket, but that shirt. Idk whether it’s good or bad. Probs good for undercover recon.
Nice music
Aww helping him into his vest
(clip that)
(suddenly has their guns in their hands even tho they were literally doing up the velcro a heartbeat ago)
Well that’s a lot of people.
(Monty’s gun-- that’s the one he has in future episodes. It’s an old-style gun, not one of the ones with the fancy magazines)
XD Castle
(Clipping this too)
Cocky man. He’s also for sure the guy in the teaser
Captions were wrong there. esposito said that, not monty
I like the literary flair but I don’t think this is the time.
Not my type
HE’S SOO GROSS OUH i LOVE IT
Esposito <3.
Marcus touching the stuff
He’s good at this. From the perspective of a citizen I respect him. I respect him a lot. From a just perspective I totally want him done & gone.
Good for him tbh.
Rick wearing jeans & that colour shirt, so nice btw.
How is esposito taller than monty here?
Seven not eight? He killed two women at this time & he also killed a fellow six four years ago.
(Nothing in his apartment ok, but why? We know he (you know who is you know whom) but we also know he DID (do you know what on behalf of you know whom))
he already IS the focus bro
he really is so calm
& they just happen to have a traffic cam there?
Tbh the changing clothes is easy to do.
Yeah acab, they think they have the one who did it so they ignore evidence to convict them.
MG: you all better keep your loved ones close
Me, having seen the end of the episode: OH
MG: Sure hope you catch him
Me, having seen him again in s7: I SEE
You can say “S.O.B.” & not actually swear
pimply teenagers XD
(not clipping)
OH SUS NO NOPE NO WAY.
Oh I love Martha. What a great gal.
Tell her you’re afraid someone thought your strawberry-blonde daughter is being killed tonight?
Lmao martha I love her sm (not clipping tho)
MR: Richard, darling, she’s right. You are being utterly irrational. It’s like when I was doing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and I thought my understudy was trying to poison me.
RC: Oh yeah, the daily blood tests I paid for. Wait, she did poison you. The Swiss chocolate she gave you was a laxative.
MR: Ahh… it added a certain urgency to my performance. But, the point is, you indulged my paranoia. So therefore, I am going to be in the park, five o’clock, at a discreet distance to make sure that Alexis’ secret admirer is not an axe murderer.
Oh & I love her for taking care of alexis
Who is Donna Gallagher though? She is NOT tyson’s gal.
Gates was the one arrested for breaking the bottle, it is in his record.
tyson was beat up in the prison yard this morning, alexis has a note telling her to visit someone at 5pm today, martha is trailing her, it looked like daytime outside the apartment, then beckett calls, then they cut to talking to tyson, then it is DARK & they are at a random motel
Lmao “My name is detective ryan, I’m your new best friend”
(not clipping)
Oh no he already has donna doesn’t he?
(Why would 3xk make it so he has an alibi? Wait spoilers within this paragraph I figured it out: so tyson needed to get out of jail & the only way they could get him out is to prevent gates from getting arrested until tyson was out, then once tyson was out he used his magical money to pay for paul’s surgery, & only then can he confess to the 3xk murders. I was thinking “why give him an alibi & tell ppl that 3xk used partners? esp if u want him convicted” but even as writing that I realized it’s good bc then his brother gets involved & he has a REASON to confess & it is not sus, it would be sus for him to just spontaneously decide to confess) (end spoilers, except that this entire liveblog is spoilers)
(Never used the same partner twice, except for Her)
Big bro called it! Body double!
(I genuinely thought that he was just one step lower on the stairs to the building)
They both have the same tattoo?
(but we thought 3xk told the perv paul mccardle to back off...?)
Oh when did Ryan get here?
(Oh lol they were in a foster home together, I forgot. I thought they were bio brothers but then they had different last names. they looked similar enough that I thought they were related)
I swear Jerry is the real 3xk
(going back to read my liveblog like...)
Good gracious, esposito breaking in alone!
(could clip... won’t)
I was right, he already has Donna.
You can probs get him on attempted murder rather than assault & tax evasion here.
MG: I’ll try not to disappoint you.
He looks like a mouse
Castle just stammering asking if he can follow Ryan XD
KB: Just don’t get in his way
(there was a deleted line: “I’m driving” bc esposito always makes ryan take shotgun. then in 4x14 blue btf ryan lets castle drive lol)
WOW US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
(apparently the breath tube was added in post)
Man also doesn’t have the hair nor tattoo to make him look similar enough.
Gates sent him Get Well flowers! That’s genuinely something so big to me.
Girl you might want to leave them to talk to Paul anyways
But the thing is do you have enough evidence to convict him of accessory to murder?
Only if paul gets immunity? Paul’s going to be the real killer then
(also YES get that in writing, cops can lie to you)
Oh they remembered the dad!
Definitely lying. Plus he only said Linda Russo, Sara Townsend, & five other women. It was six the first time. He killed two after prison. He’s missing a Kim Foster.
(at abt 35:30)
RC, reading my mind: I don’t understand the operation.
KR: No big deal, my dad had one.
RC: It is a big deal if u r broke!
(how did his family afford that? Raising ryan & two or three sisters, paying for piano lessons apparently, plus a $100k heart surgery at some point? Ouch. Maybe he had dual citizenship tho & got healthcare in ireland, like he’s REALLY irish not just “my family from the 1800s” irish)
Ryan’s walk <3
That flat “I guess”
“You accumulate a lot of stuff even in the slammer,” esp if gates left all his stuff to you, WAIT GATES LEFT ALL “HIS” STUFF TO TYSON
KR: You were right, he did try to go after Donna
KR: But she’s ok.
JG: & gates?
KR: He confessed, it’s all over.
RC: Aren’t you going to ask?
Me: Bro you literally said donna was fine & that the man going after her is held!
(3xk really improved his methods as the series progressed tbh, he improved his performance of them)
Why would Castle ask “aren’t you going to ask what happened?” in that loud rude tone “to your girlfriend >:( Donna”
& only THEN say “unless... *realization strikes* as if he didn’t have it clicking into place yet
He’s removing the evidence he was ever where? Where bro? What evidence?
RC: He’s the real 3xk!
But then why did he send two other people to kill for him, huh? This guy couldn’t have killed them himself, we saw that. We know that. He was in prison during the first murder, in fact both. & then again Gates was the one who attempted on donna’s life.
(Me: getting my clips after having seen all the 3xk episodes into s7)
Oof Poor Ryan.
(also clipping the spin scene & ryan whack scene)
(abt 36:45 for the precinct flash-to; yeah no this is just too long to clip, I’ll get smaller bits)
RM: Maybe [Ryan] & Castle went out for a cold one. That’s what I’m doing on a day like today. Care to join me?
KB: Yeah! Yeah I’d love to.
RM: Let’s hit it.
Ok listen I know it is not super big but this little scene adds so much to the story. Social. People. The language each individual uses. Fellowship.
(could clip, idk)
They honestly appreciate each other. He is her second father, he is her friend.
Awwww it looks like wire. If it was duck tape I’d be smiling because Rick has escaped from duck tape before. Darn it.
Jerry is kind of cool & smart in an evil way. Takes ryan’s gun & phone, checks the last calls, even steals his badge. If it wasn’t so tragic I’m sure Ryan would get teased for that.
(Me, having seen 4x4 kick the ballistics & the s6+7 3xk eps)
Storyteller rick! Making it out!
(me: has watched all the way up to s7)
Ooh rick’s childhood trauma coming back again! Just like the vampire episode!
That’s his mom’s PFP on his phone? That’s so Martha.
Wait no it says “home” & “mobile” so is it Mom on her Mobile or is it Home on the Landline?
(I don’t feel the need to clip this...)
(too bad, I did, it was actually REALLY really good)
So sweet that the mom calls him & so sweet that the secret admirer was ashley. Cutest thing ever.
MR: Richard?
RC: I love you.
B’y this is why I have a codephrase with ma family so that whenever I’m in a hostage situation I can say smth completely normal that my captor won’t see as a red flag but my family will KNOW it means something.
& bud if you hang up the phone for me without letting me say goodbye everyone will know I’m in danger. I always try to say bye.
Bro we can only hear the sirens once we see them? If we’re in a stationary place & they are travelling at that speed we would be able to hear them.
Also, why did they come here? I thought they were getting drinks?
RC: It’s clear, he’s gone. I’m fine, Ryan needs an ambulance.
KR, muffled from his face being in the carpet: No I don’t.
Girl if you got hit hard enough to knock out, you need to go to urgent care or a medi-centre or even the ER. You have a concussion. Not ever concussion sends you unconscious but every ko means you’ve been concussed.
JE: *kneels down beside Ryan immediately*
(btw they cut a line: jerry tyson? more like mike tyson)
(I think I’ll clip this)
Oh she came here bc she was sus that they didn’t come back from talking to Jerry. & as she says, “Your mom called. She said you told her you loved her & figured something must be terribly wrong.”
RC: I figured she might. Good girl.
Poor ryan, getting lights shone in his eyes bc he probably has a concussion. At least Esposito & Montgomery are there with him. Lmao he says “No I don’t” & they force him into the ambulance anyway.
(I’ve taken a pic of this, I don’t need to clip it. I do need a fic of it tho.)
She gave him coffee
He let castle live but he let ryan live too.
Comfort <3
Is this a Mycroft moment? In like the fourth episode of Murdoch Mysteries, they got the wrong guy & let Harcourt/Mycroft go. He ran away into the night & was never seen again in 16 seasons. I kind of hope we do see him again, just for the giggles & shock factor. Whether he is an unstable fellow or turned himself around. The 3xK is gone & I have a feeling we will never see him again. We could tho, another couple years later? A couple seasons from now? I think it would be great. Maybe also a dread pirate roberts thing, since Jerry didn’t actually kill any of the last three victims personally.
(Me: looking back on this liveblog after I’ve seen 3x6, 4x4, 5x5, 6x9, & 7x14+15)
Well that was fun. Good episode. I like the detail with ryan esposito montgomery & the paramedics all in the background during the caskett scene
I can totally believe that I basically rewatched 3x6 3xk & reliveblogged lol
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writing angst
hello hello! it’s your favourite angst connoisseur (audrey btw) here to deliver a brief guide to writing angst. this post will cover what signifies as writing ‘angst’, how to do it and how to do it well. buckle in, folks :D
introduction
what is angst? the definition of the word angst from the merriam-webster dictionary is ‘a feeling of anxiety, apprehension or insecurity’. the definition of angst in the world of writing is a bit different. angst in writing revolves around character journeys and scenes with angst intend to invoke strong emotion from the reader.
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writing angsty sensitively
we already went into this sort of thing in our ‘writing queer characters’ post, but I do think it’s worth going over. a lot of times, we write characters that go through experiences that might not be something we’ve gone through ourselves. in these times, it’s super important to do your research and maybe even talk to someone who understands this specific challenge. when writing these un-lived experiences, writing them in a way that devalues or romanticises certain issues does a disservice to anyone who has gone through them. finding sensitivity and/or beta readers is always great for getting the input of multiple readers :)
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word of warning
the problem with angst is that you need to be really careful about not using gratuitous amounts of angst instead of plot and using pain for the sake of getting readers to feel sympathy for your characters. things like tragic backstories and un-foreseen events need to happen for a reason.
heaping a ton of angst onto one character for the sake of garnering reader interest is something that we would definitely caution against. every facet of a tragic backstory has to go towards influencing the eventual goals, motivations and conflicts of characters. for any negative event, showing the impact that it has on a character makes it so much more meaningful in shaping what kind of journey they go on.
for example, maybe there’s a character who experienced a fire breaking out in their family home. then maybe because of this negative event, they have long term health problems due to smoke inhalation and/or apprehension towards fire. this character might encounter more issues later down the line because of how this event has created such a severe impact.
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balancing it out
when it comes to writing angst, balance is key. it’s really easy to get caught up in giving your characters the worst time of their lives ever…you want your characters to go through a journey, to even put your readers through the wringer sometimes (it’s tempting, I know). to write effective angst, what you need is balance.
angst is one of the ways that readers can connect with a character but it’s not the only way. balancing heavier moments with lighter moments allows for not only less overwhelm for your readers, but also for scenes with higher intensity to hit even harder. it’s difficult to appreciate the dark without the light, think of them as complementary forces.
or example, reading about a soft, loving scene between a family before seeing the separation of said family would definitely make the latter part more impactful. moments of humour, relief and comfort can do so much for not overwhelming your readers with scene after scene of heightened emotional tension.
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a light at the end of the tunnel
characters retaining their hope and humanity will be all the more beneficial for both them and your readers knowing that everything is going to (maybe) turn out okay. when treating the adding in of lighter moments as a reprieve for your readers, think of it as a reprieve for your characters too.
like any other person in real life, your characters can seek out ways to make their situations more bearable for themselves. these can be things like small successes. it’s not allowing them to win every single battle but more like having little wins alongside the losses. these happier moments can even serve as a glimpse into what the future could be like for your characters, like a light at the end of the tunnel.
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conclusion
thank you for reading to the end of this post! I had a lot of fun doing this one and see you guys next time :) - audrey
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what do you think of aang's comments in "the southern raiders" and what they meant to katara? I watched that episode recently with my sister who dislikes atla, and assessed similar things to what certain people of the fandom are saying: "aang didn't understand her", "aang was pushing his beliefs onto her", "it didn't seem like he knew her", etc. she was more fair than those people of course because she did say it was realistic that he'd be so worried since she recognizes that he does love her.
Honestly those arguments are all,, tired. They’re outdated. They’re boring. They’re wrong. They’re a result of a fundamental misunderstanding of A:TLA canon. This isn’t to say that those who genuinely, truly believe these arguments are terrible people (obviously not lmao), but somewhere along the line they had a seed planted in their mind that posits them to have inherent dislike for Aang. And honestly? I just feel sorry for them, because not understanding and appreciating Aang means their A:TLA experience really can’t be that great. But I digress!
“aang didn’t understand her”
Oh, what’s the post? Right - “Fandom once again forgets that Aang is the sole survivor of genocide.” Aang understands better than anyone else what Katara is going through*. There is a direct parallel between Aang finding Gyatso’s skeleton and Katara finding Kya’s body. I’m not going to sit here and argue which was more traumatizing (literally can’t stand when people do that) because you can’t quantify grief like that, but it cannot be denied that Aang has experienced something incredibly similar to what Katara has gone through: the loss of a close parental figure followed by finding said parent’s corpse. Not only that, but Aang and Katara both share a unique sense of helplessness intertwined with their grief regarding their parental figures’ deaths. For Katara, there are the questions of:
- what if I wasn’t a waterbender
- what if I had run a little faster
- what if I had fought against Yon Rha back then
All leading to “Could I have saved her?” For Aang, there are the questions of:
- what if I wasn’t the Avatar
- what if I hadn’t run away
- what if I had stayed to fight the Fire Nation back then
All leading to “Could I have saved him?” Both of them feel incredibly guilty on a personal level about the death of their parental figures, thus blaming themselves. Katara tries to push it off onto Zuko/the Fire Nation and Aang tries to suppress it entirely, but ultimately it is revealed how closely they hold responsibility to their chests. For Aang, it comes out in “The Storm.” For Katara, it comes out in “The Southern Raiders.” So, bullshit that Aang doesn’t understand Katara! He understands her grief better than anyone.
Also, many, many people have gone into this before, but Aang’s example of Appa being stolen was not callous/rude/etc. Appa was the last living piece of his culture. Appa is not “just a pet.” People who insist so are the actual ones being callous, not Aang. And, as Aang himself says, “How do you think I felt about the Fire Nation when I found out what happened to my people?” Aang has experienced more hurt at the hands of the Fire Nation than anyone. There’s a great meta here that delves into Aang’s experiences as the sole survivor of genocide. I don’t understand how someone could acknowledge all that Aang has lost (read: he has lost everything) and then argue that he doesn’t understand Katara’s pain. Like, what? Do you have no sense of empathy?
But most importantly, from Katara herself: “Thanks for understanding, Aang.” She says this after her initial dismissal of him. So take it from the source, my friend - Katara believed Aang understood her. Who are we to argue?
*The only exception perhaps being Sokka, since Kya was indeed his mother, too, but it is worth noting that Sokka did not have the same experience of seeing Kya’s dead body or feeling the intense self-blame that Katara did.
“aang was pushing his beliefs onto her”
It is SO funny how those SAME people have NO problem with everyone in the Gaang telling Aang to kill Ozai the finale! Y’know, when they were disregarding the pacifistic beliefs of his people in exchange for emphasizing their, ahem, more aggressive ones? SO funny! I’m laughing SO hard right now!
Heavy sarcasm, in case it wasn’t obvious. They’re hypocrites and they know it.
But, more importantly, Aang was not pushing his beliefs onto her? At all?? Tell me where in the episode Aang:
- refused to let Katara go after Yon Rha
- told Katara what she was doing was wrong
- told Katara that HE was right and that SHE needed to listen to HIM
Here’s the thing: none of that ever happened! Not only does Aang accept that Katara needs to go (see: “I wasn’t planning to [stop you]. This is a journey you need to take. You need to face this man.”), but he allows her to take Appa on her journey. Appa, the last living piece of his culture. Aang has incredible trust in Katara, and his choice to send Appa with her (essentially sending a piece of himself with her) demonstrates this fact clearly. That should end the discussion point blank, but I guess I’ll break down the lines people seem to have issues with:
1) “It’s okay, because I forgive you. [Pauses.] That give you any ideas?”
Honestly, the criticism this line gets is laughable to me. People use it to argue that Aang was being disrespectful to Katara’s feelings and?? I hate to break it to them, but you HAVE to look at the context a line is in if you’re going to judge it. That is Analysis 101: Context is Everything. This moment is used to break tension. That type of scenario is an entire literary trope, okay? A:TLA did not invent it! Shakespeare literally did it in Romeo and Juliet when he had Peter argue with musicians about something stupid after Juliet’s “death.” The whole point is to break tension before more serious scenes. In R&J, it is before the lovers kill themselves, and in A:TLA, it is before Katara leaves with Zuko to confront Yon Rha. That’s why there’s another moment just like it at the end of that scene! Y’know, Sokka asking to borrow Momo for no reason? It breaks tension! It’s a moment of respite before weighty scenes! It’s incredibly common in every form of media! This is what no Humanities classes did to some of y’all, I swear to God. So yeah, Aang was not disrespecting Katara’s feelings with this. It’s just a tension-breaker. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for those who devoutly believed it was a sign of Aang being a Horrible Person. You were wrong, ain’t no big thing, go drink some water and stay hydrated okay darlings?
2) “I don’t think so. I think it’s about getting revenge.”
Um, a major point of “The Southern Raiders” is that Aang was right about Katara’s initial drive to face Yon Rha? It was a quest for revenge? Katara literally bloodbends, an ability she was forced to learn and essentially feels cursed to bear? Also, nowhere here does Aang tell Katara she was a horrible person for feeling angry and wanting revenge. He simply brings her attention to the reality that what she’s currently seeking is revenge. He’s worried about her. She’s his best friend! He loves her! He doesn’t want her to kill Yon Rha because he knows that for Katara to have blood on her hands from a revenge quest would hurt her tremendously. (As a matter of fact, the audience knows - or should know - this, too.) So, sorry that Aang expresses concern for her? Apparently not wanting your best friend to murder someone is forcing your beliefs onto them? Damn. Y’all are harsh these days.
3) “The monks used to say that revenge is like a two-headed rat viper. While you watch your enemy go down, you’re being poisoned yourself.” // “Katara, you do have a choice: forgiveness.” // “No, it’s not. It's easy to do nothing, but it’s hard to forgive.” // “But when you do, please don’t choose revenge. Let your anger out, and then let it go. Forgive him.”
I put all the forgiveness quotes together since people tend to complain about them as a whole. But like,, I really don’t see how this is Aang forcing his beliefs onto her? He asks her to choose forgiveness. And just speaking plainly: on an emotional level, it is better for someone to forgive than to murder. Killing someone is not easy, even if you hate that person with every bone in your body, and it will mentally scar whomever does it. Y’all know this! It’s obvious! I shouldn’t have to say it! But Aang knows this, too, and thus he doesn’t want to see Katara kill Yon Rha and perhaps kill a part of herself in the process. Katara is not a killer. I’m not arguing about whether she could have or even if she wanted to, because you know what, she admits she was tempted, but Katara is not a killer. An FMA quote is very fitting here:
“Your hands weren’t meant to kill. They were meant to give life.”
Why should Katara have to live with a man’s murder on her conscience, especially when his death would be a result of fruitless revenge? The answer is simple: she shouldn’t, and Aang doesn’t want her to. Katara is a warrior. A healer. A leader. A friend. But not a killer.
Anyways. Back to my point: Aang is not forcing his beliefs onto her here. He’s offering her another option, the option she ends up choosing, albeit she extends forgiveness to Zuko instead. And Prince Holier-Than-Thou (jk love you Zuzu) acknowledges it himself: “You [Aang] were right about what Katara needed.” Aang didn’t force anything on Katara here. He reminded her of her choices, he reminded her about the consequences of revenge, and he reminded her about the value of forgiveness. Never once did he tell her she had to forgive Yon Rha or else. And when it came down to it, he stepped aside, and he let her go, because he knew this was a journey she needed to take. So… He actually did the exact opposite of forcing his beliefs onto her! He respected her feelings and let her make her own decision! Seriously, how many pairs of anti-Aang goggles do people have to wear to genuinely believe otherwise??
“it didn't seem like he knew her”
Ohhhhhh my God this is SO close to one of the actual points of the episode! So close!! It’s not that Aang didn’t know her; it’s that Katara wasn’t acting like herself. I’ve talked about it before here and here, but Katara was incredibly consumed by her emotions in “The Southern Raiders.” It’s why she ignores Zuko the entire time before they leave on Appa! It’s why she makes that callous comment to Sokka about their mother that we know she never would have made normally! She is drowning in grief about her mother’s absence, guilt regarding her mother’s death, and anger about Zuko (she still does not trust him, and yet he can lead her to her mother’s killer; I don’t know about y’all, but that is really freaking difficult to reconcile). So when Aang compares her to Jet, it’s not a far-off description. She is acting like Jet, because she’s consumed by grief and hurt and anger and she’s not acting like herself. It is instrumental, too, that Katara isn’t acting like herself, because it makes her decision not to pursue revenge and instead offer a second third chance to Zuko even more profound. “I’m proud of you,” Aang tells her, and damn! The audience is, too! I was incredibly proud of her for finding her way out of what can be a bottomless spiral for some people. So again, it wasn’t that Aang didn’t know her. It was that Katara wasn’t acting like herself (I guess meaning… no one knew her?).
In conclusion, literally all of these anti-Aang arguments regarding TSR are exhausting and so easily disprovable. The fact that they somehow manage to live on is evidence that people just want excuses to hate Aang, plain and simple. Like, it’s so easy to just say you don’t vibe with his character? You don’t have to pull BS excuses to “justify” it? I don’t vibe with Ty Lee as much as I do other characters (although I have recently grown much more fond of her; bless the Renaissance for more Mailee content, even if some of it is just a Zukka byproduct), but y’all don’t see me twisting her sacrifice in “Boiling Rock” to make it seem like it was selfish or something (mostly because, spoiler alert, it wasn’t). Like, you can say Aang isn’t your favorite and move on instead of using the same boring rhetoric over and over and over that just makes it look like you lack critical thinking. :/
TL;DR - Aang’s comments to Katara in “The Southern Raiders” came from a place of concern. A place of wisdom. A place of love. And honestly? I think Katara realizes this, and she’s grateful to him all the more for it.
#if y'all even mention zuko on this post i will stomp you to death with my hooves. this is not about who understood katara better!!#this is solely addressing bs anti aang arguments#aang#katara#atla#avatar the last airbender#adding line break after i post btw!!#atla meta#atla analysis#the southern raiders#yon rha#amy answers#amy analyzes#queenaleesbiggestfan-writes
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Can you do like rfa members were having a bad day so they come home and argue with a mc who isn't feel well or sick or faint that the rfa don't know. I hope you understand . Btw i don't know how many time i read your posts . They are awsome
RFA coming home stressed causing an argument with Mc who is feeling sick / and faints
Hey! I hope I got it right, I wrote it in two ways: Mc falling sick after the argument and before, I mixed it so that both versions can hopefully make you happy! Have a nice day and please give me feedback! LOVE YOU
Jumin
A big sigh left the mouth of the CEO in line as he stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where several of his bodyguards were waiting to open his door.
Somehow the stocks fell today and he couldn’t do much to stop it.
Jumin Han knew that little things like that couldn’t hurt the big company, but still - he had pride and at the moment he was pretty hurt.
The stocks fell under his surveillance and he was ashamed of himself.
Normally it would help him to see your smiling face and receive your warm hugs, but somehow it didn’t help.
You didn’t notice right away that Jumin was a bit annoyed since you were busy yourself with the newborn in your arms, just happy to have your husband with you as you felt feverish the whole day.
,,Jumin, you’re finally here. I missed you,’’ you whined and looked at him with almost puppy eyes.
The black haired man stayed mute and took off his shoes.
,,Could you please take him? I want to check if I have a fev-’’
,,You always whine even though you don’t even go to work!’’ he hissed, something he never did.
It was out of character, but right now his eyes were so dark and suddenly you could see the bags below his eyes.
,,You… you’re right, I’m sorry,’’ you mumbled. For you this was out of character too. Normally you would have said something back, but you felt so sick that you decided to just stay silent.
,,Take your time,’’ you mumbled and quickly walked back to the shared bedroom to place down the baby as you felt rather dizzy.
Maybe ten, fifteen minutes later, Jumin decided to check on you, regretting the harsh words towards you.
However, all he saw when he opened the door were your legs on the floor - your body on the hard floor.
The worst case scenario was in Jumin’s head as he saw you and even an hour later, when you were finally awake again after several doctors checked on you, Jumin still didn’t stop apologizing and feeling bad...
Zen
You were watching your boyfriend as he once again made a mistake while rehearsing.
Without noticing, you began to bite your lips as you observed Zen, not just as his girlfriend, but also as his manager.
You knew that Zen needed to calm down after the director made him take a break after the third mistake.
,,I was so shitty today!’’ he hissed when he came home, throwing his bag on the floor and making his way to the fridge where he quickly took out a can to drink a fresh, cold beer.
,,Hyun…’’ you sighed, approaching him and rubbing his shoulders.
,,Please don’t drink. Let's just rest today. You’re stressed and it’s totally normal to make mistakes when-’’ you couldn’t even finish when he began to hiss at you.
,,You don’t know anything!’’ he began.
,,I work so hard to get the roles and then this! You don’t do the hard work like I do! You can’t relate!’’ he added.
His words, even though you knew that he was just angry and stressed at the moment, hurt you and so you quickly tried to wrap up this argument, but also decided to not talk to him for the rest of the day.
One thing turned to the next and the days without exchanging words weren’t just a day, but two, three, four and finally five.
At some point, Zen thought that he finally had to apologize for his words as you went earlier than him, even though you would normally go to work with him, and come home later, even though you didn’t like coming home late in the evening.
Well, Zen never thought that the reason for you coming home so late was that you were doing unpaid work, overworking your body even though you had a slight cold.
He just noticed when you didn’t wake up one morning.
He thought you were dead, but as soon as he tried to wake you up and his hand touched your body, he immediately pulled his hand away. You were just way too hot.
,,Mc! Mc, please! Wake up!’’ he suddenly sobbed.
,,Shit shit shit, towel, towel, towel!’’ he cracked and tried his best to help you.
Only half a day later, you finally opened your eyes and in that very moment Zen noticed how hard and what effect his dumb words had on you.
,,I swear, I will never ever say again that you don’t work as hard as me,’’ he whispered.
,,Your coworkers told me how hard you were working, I… I’m really speechless and sorry…!’’ he wholeheartedly apologized.
Yoosung
The crying woman held the paw of her beloved pet as Yoosung silently let a few tears roll down his eyes.
He failed. He wanted to become a vet because of Rika and her dog Sally, but even this job… even a task like that was impossible for Yoosung.
And so a long, hard, and stressed day went by and the blonde man couldn’t wait to finally be home and just cry.
Well, he would have loved to do so, but exactly on that day he and you argued and it seemed to be an endless argument.
,,I don’t understand why you can’t just talk to me! I understand that you go through hard times, but I am your wife!’’ you hissed.
,,I know but… I don’t want to talk to you! There’s no need to!’’ he hissed louder, making you flich.
,,Why?! Because I’m not Rika?!’’ you hissed back, angrier at you than him for that stupid comment of yours.
Yoosung, acting out of stupidity, even agreed with you, something he regretted immediately.
,,Wait, no, I’m sorry I-’’ he was about to apologize and try to clear the argument.
You instead were just on your way, away from him, not because he hurt you. You totally ignored his mean words, but on the way to the toilet you slowly felt sick and had the urge to throw up your whole lunch.
Yoosung on the other hand, regretting his words, tried to pull you back, causing you to throw up in front of his legs.
The whole scenario came unexpectedly.
It was even worse that suddenly you felt dizzy and were slowly falling back, almost fainting into his arms if he didn’t catch you with his strong arms.
,,Mc?!’’ he gasped and quickly tried to lay you down on the couch to make you rest.
,,Please… can you clean it up?’’ you asked him, disgusted by yourself as your husband put something next to you just in case that you had to throw up again.
,,I will. I will do everything for you because I am your husband and you are Mc, my wife,’’ he mumbled apologetically and suddenly all his bad feelings disappeared.
,,Yoosung,’’ you whispered lastly, ,,Whatever happened, it’s not your fault… some things happen for a reason and remember that you did your best,’’ you whispered before falling asleep, making Yoosung tear up again.
Jaehee
You proudly smiled at the documents you prepared for Jaehee while she was at the meeting for startups.
Knowing that lately she was very stressed, you thought you could help her by doing things for her. However, you were kind of wrong.
Jaehee came home angrily and somehow you said something she didn’t really enjoy hearing.
Jaehee couldn’t even remember what you said to her. She just knew that at the moment the two of you were yelling at each other, saying hurtful things and somehow managing to not talk to each other anymore at all.
,,I don’t understand. Maybe I should go to the meeting next time!’’ you hissed, pointing out that she seemed to be pissed at you every time she came from a meeting.
,,Right, you go so that we can close this shop right away,’’ she mumbled and left the room.
The papers you prepared caught her eyes. However, she felt way too proud to go back to you and apologize or even say anything like that.
However, she quickly regretted her words and actions when she saw the bathroom.
Medicine was all over the little table you had.
The heat packs were open on the bathtub and it seemed as if you threw up as the air somehow smelled sick.
Jaehee put on a grimace to go back downstairs to check on you.
And in that very moment, she was so happy she did as she saw you sitting on the floor, crying uncontrollably.
,,Mc…’’ she called you and noticed how hot you were.
,,Let’s go and get you well again… I’m sorry… let me help you… just like you helped me in the past as well as now. I’m sorry…’’ she honestly confessed and managed to get you into bed...
Saeyoung
,,I can’t even count on you for things like this!’’ Saeyoung hissed, something you didn't expect from him when he came home this afternoon.
Saeyoung must have been very stressed, you thought, and so you decided to not say anything back at him and instead grabbed your shoes and jacket to go shopping for some chips and Dr Pepper like he requested from you.
Not even a few seconds later, the long haired man went out of his room. ,,Did you see your fiancé?’’ Vanderwood asked him as he rubbed his hands together.
,,Yeah,’’ he hissed and actually began to regret his burst.
He could have gone to the shop himself, right?
Instead he hissed at you, making you feel bad.
But as if this wasn’t enough, Vanderwood told him that he wanted you to lay down.
,,I don’t know why, but she fainted today so I wanted her to lay down, but instead she came to meet you…’’ he mumbled.
In that very moment, Saeyoung’s heart skipped a beat and with his bare socks, he ran out of the house just to catch up to you.
,,Why didn’t you tell me?’’ he whined when he finally approached you, your eyes puffy and red as you were crying for a while now.
It didn’t take him long to take you in his arms and carry you back home.
,,The groceries…’’ you whispered, enjoying the warmth he gave you. ,,As long as I have you, I think that I can live without my chips…’’ Saeyoung confessed, but never noticed that you already fell asleep on his shoulders...
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Payday prompts/ideas that i must write down or else i will turn feral within the next 2 days
I'm going to look at this and regret it huh
(Anyone can write these if they want, just give me the link so I can read it and cry tears of joy)
There's 2 sections to this
Long Ideas/very detailed prompts
Freeflow/short ideas
Long Ideas/very detailed prompts
Kento being found earlier
Ok ok ok
Let's say that Jiro found Kento much earlier then Henry's Rock
I don't exactly know how since they wouldn't be able to recognize each other
But here are some ideas:
Word that a person had been going around and looking for a person named Kento reaches Kento
Kento was much older when Jiro was arrested, maybe around 14 so that they could recognize each others faces
They randomly meet each other one day and become friends, slowly finding out that they are related
The plot line would change with each idea, mostly if the story were to follow the third option
But here are the basic beats
Jiro finds his son after so many years and takes a break from the Payday gang to just spend time with him
Kento is still having conflicting emotions since it's been so long since he's last seen his father
(Possibility of the Dentist kinda being a toxic father figure to him, and another possibility of Kento having validation issues)
Cue Jiro and Kento bonding and working/processing through trauma from both parties
Jiro starts thinking about leaving the Payday gang since he's found his son
(The gang would support him in his decision btw)
But then Locke "backstabs them"
See, during this whole bonding time between Jiro and Kento, Kento has obviously still been reporting and doing work for the Dentist
Kento has been doing a pretty good job in covering everything up but the Dentist catches on that Kento is (at the very least) sneaking off
The Dentist basically makes Kento check in more and do more work with less hours off
And this is happening around the time that shit starts hitting the fan for the Payday gang (Post Locke but Pre Bain Kidnapping)
Kento starts ghosting Jiro to protect him from the Dentist
But Jiro just sees this as him slowly losing his son again
After a confrontation, Kento also shouts that Jiro hasn't exactly been there for him these past weeks
Jiro kinda freezes at this and just. kinda walks away
Kento starts breaking down a little because ohmygodijustpushedawaythelastpersoninmylifethatcaredohno
Jiro calls Bain for advice (or maybe someone else) and after some long and hard thinking, decides to just come clean to Kento
He sets up a meeting between the two, and even with their rocky relationship right now, Kento has attachment issues and quickly accepts
They met up and Jiro just comes clean about everything. Even offering to take him to the safe house
And the whole time, Kento is just panicking
This man could be sent to the ER with how much stress his body is going through
Kento, still going through the first stage of denial asks if Jiro could show him the safe house because is this actually real
Jiro agrees and after seeing how tight knit everyone is, he starts thinking about revealing himself as a Murky
Then the Dentist pulls him aside one day and says that he's going to let the raid on Bain's house
(Maybe Kento meets/talks to Bain that day in the safe house, adding another layer of angst to this cake)
Now there's many ways for this to end, both in good and bad ways
But honestly, I have too many endings for this so I'm setting all of those on the backburner if anyone wants them
Bain's house is broken into by the Payday gang lol
(Basically @what-yadoking-likes second prompt in that Dallas/Bain prompt post which I fixated on for a week. Though I changed the fact that its Dallas/Bain cause I like aroace Bain too much to let him go, you could totally see it as that)
The base idea is that the original payday gang robs Bain's house on accident
There's two ways for this to happen
Bain has been pretty dry with contracts and the gang has been going crazy (Fluff)
Someone (probably the Dentist) contracts them without Bain as the middle man. It probably happens during a time where Bain's leadership is being questioned or something (Angst)
I'm going to write both ways separately cause they're so vastly different
Fluff
It's been at least like a month of the contracting lands becoming dry
Normally the gang are able to just ride out these dry times but everyone has slowly been reaching the end of things that they can do the pass the time
So they just decide to do a simple stealth mission
Dallas tries to rationalize it as a way to practice stealth and do info recon without needing Bain to carry them
But even he knows this is a just a thinly veiled excuse to get out of the safehouse
Only really the main gang are facing this need to get out though, since the rest of the crew have been used to not getting contracts at all, so only Dallas, Chain, Hoxton, and Wolf go
They scout out this place thats a little far from the safehouse but its close enough
Its far away from any city so its a good place in case a shootout happens at they don't have Bain to do cleaning costs
And the house seems semi big enough so maybe the owner has some good cash?
After a week of planning, they drive off to the house they plan on robbing
They loot around the house, picking up loose pieces of cash and spending too much time eating the week old cake the owner baked
But there's no jewelry
No safes
Even less then your average middle class house
Like all the loot so far has been one PC and just random cash lying around
Not something you expect from a house that supposedly cost 4 million dollars
Hell half of the rooms don't even look touched
But then, Wolf notices a odd detail
There's a random bookshelf at the end of a hallway with nothing but that bookshelf
He would write it off as rich people are weird but he notices that not a single book is out of place and that the books feel... weirdly hollow?
After spending an embarrassing amount of time pulling books off, the bookshelf opens like a fucking spy movie
(Btw, I think Bain would totally have his little crime.net hidey hole modeled after a classic spy one from movies)
Revealing a door asking for a keycard, code, key, and password
But Hoxton doesn't fuck with that and before anyone protests, he brings out a full ass saw to slice open the door
This takes a while and Bain (being inside the crime.net cave) curses and grabs whatever gun he keeps on hand
Hoxton breaks down the door and is about to shout a victory cry when he see a random ass dude with long hair holding a (put some gun here, i have no idea what Bain would main in. Well I think sniper but I doubt he's bringing that to the door)
Before Bain can breathe a sigh of relief, Chain tells him to get the fuck on the ground
Bain looks at them straight in the eye and a moment of silence passes before he slices the tension with a simple "no"
Cue a symphony of "BAIN?" "BAIN IS THAT YOU???" "BAIN I FOUND YOUR MAN CAVE" "BAIN WHAT THE FUCK" "OH SHIT WE BROKE INTO BAIN'S HOUSE"
Angst
I live and breathe for angst so yes i made really made a angst version of the fluff version
Bain has been pretty dry with contracts, and this happens during anytime where Bain's leadership is put in question
The Dentist approaches Dallas, since Dallas is the only one in the team that goes a dentist regularly
He offers him a under the table job, with no Bain as the middle man
The Dentist wants Dallas to find this random guy's secret attic, kill him, and download everything on the guys computer onto a usb
Dallas takes a moment to think about it before accepting. After all, the gang and him are still the ones going out there and doing these heists, not Bain
Now the story could have all of the gang out there doing the heist, or just Dallas (for the sake of sticking to the prompt better, I've only done Dallas)
Its the same thing as fluff, but with more of a edge to it
A sense of unease if you will
Dallas finds the door, and brings out the saw that the Dentist specifically told him to bring
The door flies open to a semi-lit room, a computer with 6 monitors and a guy sitting in the middle of it all, holding a (gun here)
now
like the kento one, i have like 10 endings on the backburner for this thing
so if anyone wants to hear them; just ask me
Short Ideas/normal prompts lmao
ok now its time for badly thought out prompts and not just badly thought out fanfics
wolf meets his family again during a heist (bonus: they thought he went missing)
Clover and Hoxton's last heist before they split
You know how some of Locke's lines in hells island are along the lines of "don't fucking die bain i swear to god." Guess what. Bain dies right as they reach him on the rooftop. And Kento's the one to kill him (bonus: j i r o)
So I was listening to House of Memories the other day and for some reason it gives off Dallas/Bain vibes and just listen. Immortal Bain/Reincarnating Dallas but with a twist. At the end of Payday 2, the secret ending makes it Immortal Dallas/Reincarnating Bain
The three kings used to be close.
What is the chaos that is April Fools
Chain and Hoxton have a very heated argument about who can drink more which is cut short when Duke walks into the room, opens a cabinet and drinks a whole bottle of vodka without blinking. They team up to defeat Duke in a drinking battle
Jacket finds a cat and it's now his best friend
This is one of the more complex ones but it's basically; the whole Payday gang used to be a gang a long time ago. Bain was a actual hesiter and they did some low hanging crimes. After a accident that nearly kills one of them, they split up and basically told each other to stop doing crime and meeting each other because it was too dangerous. Ironically, they all continued to be illegal, just without each other nothing. They all make new aliases, and after 10 years Bain (under a new alias of course) askes all of them to form a gang again. Since they're all wearing masks and have voice changers; they don't know this. After 5 years of them all being a gang, they decide that during the 5 year anniversary, they would reveal their faces to each other (including Bain).
Houston straight up dies from the murkies during Henry's Rock. Dallas thinks that isn't very pog
This isn't very original/creative but the gangs reactions to Bain's last message in the Reservoir dogs heist. Alternately, the reactions to the electric chair room in Hells Island
Sokol runs into his hockey team during a heist in Russia who all try to nudge him to come back
Wolf is in custody!
#payday 2#payday#wolf payday#payday dallas#sokol#jacket#bain#locke#clover#hoxton#jiro#kento#houston#chain#the dentist#prompts#so many prompts#angst#i might write these#but maybe not#i will go feral if i don't write these all down though#really long
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