#booooo ouat

[henryhas2moms]

sometimes it does feel like ouat is trying to be a bad show. there’s no better explanation for why they fridged marian not once, not twice but THREE distinct times, each more morally dubious than the last.

#i mean there’s a pretty big leap from ‘she died :/‘ to adultery to ‘nobody writing for this show has any idea what consent means oh my god’ #i mean even from a writing perspective it’s terrible— there’s marilena’s retcon fridging— to say nothing of the puns her ice coma invites! #i enjoy zelena sometimes but i wish they brought her back literally any other way #booooo ouat #and not just adultery but ‘having an affair while your wife’s in a coma which you could wake her up from if you actually loved her’ #okay it was kinda funny when robin was like ‘i can’t wake marian up with tlk because… i love yooou regina 😍😍💐’ #and regina’s like ‘well that’s nice but you’d better fucking stop that if you don’t want the mother of your child to die #bc i am working my ass off trying to save her and getting nowhere’ like regina worked so hard to try to help this women she kind of killed #one time and robin can’t even do the bare minimum of… not cheat on her. some ‘code’ smh #well that’s not entirely fair— it takes two to cheat but regina did push him away (twice iirc) before giving in and OH why does THAT sound #familiar? god i hate this show sometimes #oh that got a lot rantier than i meant it to. sorry i’m a very bitter person :/ #like okay i get that robin moved on and marian says she doesn’t want to be chosen out of obligation but you could at the very least wait unt #until she’s conscious to work that out— but i remember writers chose this fridging to get oq back together and like. ugh :/ #anti ouat #anti outlaw queen #very much so in the tags #anti robin hood #anti fridging marian #so very anti fridging marian ugh #and also the fact that robin doesn’t seem to know or care (idk which is worse?) that regina fridged her the first time #which regina works very hard to make atone for by saving her a lot. and then aparently that was zelena the whole time (which i do not accept #text #tag essay

[silvertonedwords]

Writer meme

Tagged by @scamanderishredmayniac

Name: I picked my blog name because I like the sound of it...it doesn’t mean anything. Lol. 

Fandoms: So, right now, Newtina. Before that, OQ in OUAT, and Mary/Matthew in Downton Abbey (booooo to both of them; are we seeing why I’m glad my newest obsessions are definitely alive in their 90s?). It’s the female lead characters that are probably my biggest obsession (Tina, Regina, Mary), but obviously also into the male characters and the couples. Back in the day, Klaine. I love lots of other things but I am actually drawn to write fanfiction mostly for things with big gaps or that are actually somewhat poorly or unevenly written. Which is a balance, because, see notes above re: asshole writers killing people off for shock value. 

Where you post: Tumblr and Archive of our Own. I used to and have on fanfiction.net but apparently that’s not where the cool kids are these days. 

Most popular one shot: In this fandom, I think perhaps the very first one I did, After, mostly because lots of people who didn’t get into the fandom long-term were looking for stuff in the few weeks after Crimes of Grindelwald came out. But the one that gets the most ongoing engagement is probably a giver, or Breathe (M-rated stuff gets more views but less reviews/comments etc. which, lol).

My favorite is probably a giver. 

Most popular multi chapter:  File not found. Well, in this fandom. I wrote one for the previous fandom that was popular, and that’s the only one I’ve written ever.

Fics you were nervous to post:  I mean, I’m always nervous, but I still feel like there’s something not right about the most recent chapter of Newt in New York. The flow and characters just feel a little...weird to me in a way I couldn’t seem to fix. 

How do you chose your titles:  If it’s a prompt, I’m usually lazy and use the prompt. Otherwise, I like to choose a phrase or word that appears in the writing itself and is central to its point. I’m picky and sometimes it takes me a bit to figure one out, although I can rarely be kept from posting something I’ve finished by not loving the title. It’s one of those I-know-the-right-one-when-I-see-it things.

Do you outline: Yes and no. I don’t write super long things very often so I have no real need of plot outlining. I often, however, word vomit on a page all of the ideas that come to me for something, and then actually work them into sentences and paragraphs. So I might have bits and pieces of dialogue and a general sketch of what’s going to happen, and a lot of it might change as I go, but that way I’m working from something and have gotten what I have figured out onto the page.

Completed:  Many things, actually, mostly short. I don’t tackle longer fics very often because 1) I hate coming up with plot 2) I am bad at coming up with plot 3) I am bad at writing action 4) It’s the characters that fascinate me anyway, and plot is somehow a time-intensive and frustrating hurdle with which I usually cannot be bothered. 

Do you take prompts: People are always welcome to send. I do the ones that strike my fancy when I get a good idea. I find prompts help inspire ideas sometimes the way a landscape might inspire a painter. I write plenty of things that are not prompted, though.

Works in progress:  All of the little bits and pieces of prompts.

Coming soon:  IDK. It’s a weird and stressful world and I just haven’t been feeling it lately, but more things to come eventually I’m sure. I have the start of a Newt in New York chapter where Tina doesn’t make it to France until after the events at the cemetery, and runs into Newt later, with both of them prickly about the whole why-did-you-stop-writing thing. 

#my writing #about me