#but they're all thrilled and like colin better for it

[sea-owl]

I personally want to see jealous Colin because I think it be funny with how dramatic the Bridgertons can be. Particularly, I want jealous Colin in this specific scene.

The scene I'm talking about is when Colin stalks follows Penelope to St Bride's church. As he's following her he notices that they are traveling in the direction towards his bachelor lodgings.

After they rolled along for a few minutes, He poked his head outside to make sure his driver had not lost sight of Penelope's carriage. There she was, right in front of him. Or at least he thought it was her. Most hired hacks looked the same, so ge was going to have to trust and hope that he was following the right one. But as he looked out, he realized they would have a much further east than he would have anticipated. In fact, they were just now passing Soho Street, which meant they were nearly to Tottenham Court Road, which meant-

Dear God, was Penelope taking the carriage to his house?

Bedford square was practically right around the corner.

A delicious thrill shot up his spine, because he couldn't imagine what she was doing in this part of town if not to see him; who else would a woman like Penelope know Bloomsbury? He couldn't imagine that her mother allowed her to associate with people actually worked for a living, and Colin's neighbors, though certainly well enough born, we're not of the aristocracy and rarely even of the gentry. And they all plodded off to work each day, doctoring and lawyering, or-

Colin frowned, Hard. They just rolled past Tottenham Court Road. What the devil was she doing this far east? He supposed her driver might not know his way around town very well and thought to take Bloomsbury Street up to Bedford Square, even though it was a bit out of the way, but-

He heard something very strange and realized it was the sound of his teeth grinding together. They just passed Bloomsbury Street and presently veering onto High Holborn.

Devil take it, they were nearly in the City? What in God's name was Penelope planning to do in the city?

First of all Colin, how would Penelope know where you lived? Is your siblings giving out your address? Because I know you didn't tell her outside of saying you were residing in Bloomsbury. Second of all that's inappropriate for her to do so good sir and you know better. Yes she's a spinsterr now, but she's still a lady and even you commented earlier how she shouldn't be leaving her house without someone with her. This man just wants the, unknown to him, love of his life by his side and does not care about the social implications. It's so funny too when he gets all pouty when he realizes that she wasn't coming to see him. Again Colin how would Penelope know your address?

And then when they're in the church and fighting for Penelope's letter.

"Colin," she whispered."Please . . . don't."

She's seen his secret writings. Why shouldn't he see her's? Did she have a lover? Was all that nonsense aboutnever having been kissed exactly that-nonsense?

Dear God was this fire burning in his belly . . . jealousy?

"Colin," she said again, choking now. She placed her hand on his, trying to prevent him from opening the envelope. Not with a strength for she could never match him on that, just with her presence.

But there was no way . . . no way could have stopped himself. He would have died before surrounding that enveloped her unopened.

Dramatic ass Bridgertons always do things the most dramatic way possible. This man was ready to fight Penelope's lover that he made up in his head. I want to see how dramatic Colin can get now that he has a face to put the lover status for Penelope. He's going to lose his mind.

#bridgerton #polin #jealous colin bridgerton #colin bridgerton #romancing mr bridgerton #now please don't confuse this with that's how he realizes his feelings #that i would rather see him pondering on his own with possibly the first sparks happening when the status quo is thrown off

[writingquestionsanswered]

My fear with writing the story I'm working on is that it's an interesting concept, but I'll fail when trying to execute it, thus making it not as effective and easily dismissable. And then someone else out there could take my concept and make it into something better than I ever could. Is there any way to prevent that, or do is it just always a threat to everyone who creates something?

Afraid Someone Will Take Concept and Do it Better

Story concepts and general ideas aren't protected by copyright. So, once you publicly share or publish a story, there's nothing preventing someone from taking that concept or some of your general ideas and trying to do something different with them. However, they can't take your specific ideas and use them without it being plagiarism.

So, say for example you decide to take the Wizard of Oz and set it in space. This is a general idea and there's nothing stopping anyone from doing the same thing. The original Wizard of Oz books are in the public domain, so anyone can take those characters and ideas and do whatever they want with them. And taking those characters and ideas and setting them in the very broad setting of space--that's not specific and unique, so anyone can do that.

But, let's say you make Dorothy non-binary and call her "Dot," and let's say you make Uncle Henry and Aunt Em the proprietors of a silica mine instead of farmers. And when Dot gets to Oz, they encounter a civilization of cyborgs called the "Machiniks" rather than the Munchkins. These are all specific ideas and they belong to you. Someone could do a version of Oz in space and do something different with the Dorothy character, but they couldn't make Dorothy a non-binary person called "Dot." They could make Uncle Henry and Aunt Em something other than farmers, but not specifically silica farmers. And they could have the Dorothy character encounter a completely different version of the Munchkins in Oz, but they couldn't be cyborgs called Machiniks.

And, I think we have to be careful about the idea that someone else could "do an idea better" than we can. Better how? According to who? Who is the arbiter of "better"? Because no matter what a person does with your idea, they're not any more likely to thrill 100% of people with their version than you are with yours. "Better" is subjective...

Jane Austen published a novel called Pride and Prejudice in 1813. It was adapted for the stage in 1935, into an Academy Award-winning film starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier in 1940, a BBC version in 1980, and an even more popular BBC version starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in 1995. And it was made into a popular feature film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in 2005. It was even made into a popular web-series (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries) in 2012. Not to mention the numerous popular re-imaginings done over the years, including Gurinder Chadha's 2004 Bollywood musical version, Bride and Prejudice; the very popular Bridget Jones's Diary books and movies, Seth Grahame-Smith's 2009 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; and one of my favorites, Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix by Ibi Zoboi.

--NOW, I want to pause a moment here and clarify that copyright expires, so really old stories like Pride and Prejudice are in the public domain, making them fair game. You can use those specific story elements in your story because they're no longer under copyright. However, you couldn't make Elizabeth Bennet a zombie hunter, because that idea is unique and is specific to Seth Grahame-Smith's copyrighted book.

My point, though, in bringing up the many different versions of Pride and Prejudice is to point out that every single one of those versions has their fans and critics. There are people who haaaaate the original Jane Austen version, but they love some of the re-imagined versions. I am quite certain my grandmothers would have felt that the 1940 film version was far superior to the later film versions. But there are modern day Janeites who would cut you if you said that Colin Firth wasn't the best Darcy ever. Likewise, there are people who think the Ehle/Firth version is boring and unwatchable, but they know the Keira Knightley version by heart. Jane's original idea has been done over and over and over again through the centuries, but nobody did it "better" because nobody can agree on what "better" is. They just did it different.

So, those are the two THREE things (lol...) you need to focus on:

No one can steal your specific, unique ideas.

No one else can tell the story you want to tell in the exact way that only you can tell it.

No one can ever take your idea and make it unanimously better than your version of the idea.

I hope that makes you feel better! ♥

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Have a writing question? My inbox is always open!

Visit my FAQ

Find answers fast on my Master List of Top Posts

Go to ko-fi.com/wqa to buy me coffee or see my commissions

#writing #writing tips #writing help #writing advice #wqaadvice

[getmemymicroscope]

You know, the problem when you're depending on the "thrill" coming from things happening at night - which is understandable, to a point, because you're trying to surprise other characters who would find it much easier to see you in daylight - or in dark tunnels or the likes is that ... well, it makes it very freaking hard to see what is going on in the movie. And this movie suffers from that reality immensely; I feel like almost 60-70% of the movie takes place in the dark. Even when they're indoors: the Brother Dumbledore's place is kept dark, the "prison" that Newt's brother is in is super-dark, and overall it's just insanely hard to see much of anything.

There is absolutely no mention of why Grindelwald's face looks different. Interesting decision to just pretend it never happened, I guess. We already saw Colin Farrell (sorta) and Johnny Depp play him, and that change was explained, but this one goes unmentioned. Also, I think Depp played him better, but that might also just be a role thing and my general dissatisfaction with this movie (mostly cuz I couldn't see half of it unfolding).

These 'secrets' the title talks about: I feel like we already knew them? I don't know if it was just theories, or actually stuff from the HP books, or what, but I'm not sure there was any 'revelation' that popped out to me as "oh, that's a new one."

Tina went from "star" in the first two movies to "two scenes" in this one: one where she's in a crowd, watching a screen; the second at the very end, when she shows up for the happy ending. Disappointing.

I think the takeaway from this movie is very simple: some power-seekers (most?) are complete asshats, and the ones that rely on fear and intimidation and hatred do not deserve to be heard and do not deserve the space to broadcast for others to band behind. Humanity is a thing, a very important thing, and anyone who wishes to crush that does not deserve that voice. I know it almost seems hypocritical, but there is a large difference between silencing one who would create so much chaos and hatred and destruction and destroying many because of fear or hatred. Grindelwald being cleared of his crimes, being allowed to run, being given the scope to spread his word of hatred: none of that should've been allowed. Power and wealth and whatever else should not circumvent the lack of basic humanity.

Hate has no place in the world, and those that champion it should not be given the space to brainwash others into following. There needs to be some sort of humanity and morality amongst all such people running for such positions, and anyone that lacks either should be immediately disqualified. Hatred and fear-mongering just leads to horrible things.

Speaking of the brainwashed asshats - they somehow both think that Jacob is a muggle and also that he was going to assassinate Grindelwald with magic. Like, I know you're brainwashed into hate, but just fucking think about that for a second.

I know it's the mid-1900s in this movie, or something like that, but light bulbs. Lamps. Activities in the daytime! Anything more than just a bug-driven lamp that only allows us to see Newt and his brother dancing thru a tunnel - we can't even really see what they're dancing for, or from.

I guess this, in some way, sets up a sequel that no longer requires the presence of Newt & co. - maybe a Dumbledore v/s Grindelwald sequel, at best. Not sure how you call it 'Fantastic Beasts' without Newt. Of course, the 'Fantastic Beasts' part has been sorta iffy for the last 2 movies too.

This Dumbledore & Potter family drama has been drawn out even more than the Skywalker family drama, at this point, and it might be time to move on to ... I don't know. Other families. Other things. The whole wizarding/force worlds do not just exist around 1-2 families, as far as I can tell.

95% of this movie, beyond the "can't see it" issue, is also complicated by the "what in the hell is going on" problems. Like, they explain it as "we need to be confusing to confuse" but like, it feels like they just filmed a bunch of stuff that didn't fit together so then decided to go with the "no plan is the best plan" approach.

The Credence arc was not only predictable, but after the build-up for the past two movies, it sorta just comes to a 'bleh' ending in the sense that, well, it just sorta happens amidst all this other stuff and he doesn't really get much scope beyond writing in a few mirrors.

The movie is, while a mess, not necessarily bad - the parts you can see, at least. It's confusing in how things play out, and sorta answers some questions while making huge jumps in others, but then, I guess they wanted to finish everything in that 2.5-hour run-time. Will there be a sequel - unknown. Does there need to be - probably not. But then, arguably, these past 2 stories at least (maybe all 3) would probably have been better told in writing anyways. So I guess we can't rule it out.

There's a reason the first word of "lights camera action" is lights. A very good reason for it.

#movies #movieblr #gmmm does movies

[honestgrins]

Polin + family reactions to their engagement. (Or if you prefer, Klaroline with the same prompt, whichever ship you feel more in the mood for)

Anonymous asked:

Could you write a fic where Colin announces his very sudden (they better keep the propsal as is i swear) engagement to Penelope to his family

The scene with the Featheringtons in the book is so good, but i feel we were robbed of some really flabbergasted reactions from the Bridgertons (especially Violet) that Colin is indeed engaged. (If you want to use show canon, comparing it to his proposal to Marina would be interesting especially since both are rather sudden)

Please forgive me for combining these two delightful prompts!

Having said his goodbyes to the Featheringtons, with a promise to call on Penelope the next day, Colin stepped onto the street with a new understanding of his place in the world. He had proposed marriage. After thirty-three aimless years on this earth, he was going to be a husband.

He was going to be Penelope's husband, a thought that gave him no small amount of pride now that she had officially accepted. Well, he still had some arrangements to make for the 'official' part, he supposed.

Turning right, he made his way to Bridgerton House. Though his mother certainly deserved to know all her machinations had finally reached a result, Number 5 would have to wait for the viscount's blessing.

Not that he was the one who would execute all the necessary bits. "Kate," he called, informal as ever upon entering his former home. The staff met him with a tired wave and an assurance of refreshments. "Is the viscountess in?"

"No, but your brother is." Anthony's dry voice was soon followed by his person, coming down the stairs with little Charlotte in his arms.

Oh, Colin might have swooned. There would be children, too.

Anthony frowned. "Are you quite well? It's not like you to visit outside a proper meal."

"I'm getting married."

The frown deepened, and then, "Come on, right to the kitchen with you. You're clearly faint with hunger."

Snatching his niece to keep his temper, Colin bounced them both. "I tell you I'm getting married, and-"

"It's Penelope, isn't it?!"

"Mama!"

Kate rushed in, wrapping both Colin and Charlotte in a hug. "Tell me it's Penelope," she insisted, her smile encouraging and threatening.

He dropped to kiss to Charlotte's head, then his sister-in-law's cheek, full of love for his brother for bringing them into their lives. "It's Penelope."

"Honestly, it's about time. Another month and I would have lost the wager." Leaning around him, Kate pinned Anthony with a most charming sneer. "You owe me ten pounds."

Colin blinked. "Is this what marriage is?"

Fondly exasperated, Anthony reclaimed his daughter and pinched his wife's waist. "If you're lucky. Congratulations, brother, you chose well. We can go over the details whenever you'd like."

Biting her lip, Kate leaned in. "Have you told your mother?"

"I believe Daff is visiting this afternoon," Anthony offered, "which means you can tell them both, along with Eloise and Hyacinth."

Again, Colin blinked. "I...may need reinforcements.

Prompt me!

#polin #feeling bubbly #1jemmagirl22 #anon anon #thanks for the prompts! #it's not the whole family to keep it manageable #but they're all thrilled and like colin better for it

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

Neighborhood lighting competition gets a bit too intense.

UMMM why does this suddenly seem INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT to be a wwdits fic??

so, i've discovered after very little soul-searching that i definitely don't have the confidence to write what we do in the shadows fic! nope nope nope! can't do it!

however, what i envision for this scenario is--

so, laszlo's human bestie shaun is like, "why don't you guys ever decorate for christmas, huh?" (he conveniently doesn't notice them all hissing and recoiling at the "christ" bit of that word.) "what are you, a bunch of satanists?"

and they're like, "a ha ha ha, we are definitely not satanists or creatures of the night! we do normal human things! remember the superb owl party??"

so, to continue this fiction, they go to the store and LOAD UP on yard decorations and lights, the more elaborate, the better. the vampires are extremely thrilled to discover that xmas (they have to call it "xmas", obviously) has wandered so far from its original purpose that now it's just about putting giant inflatable dinosaurs in santa hats on the lawn. that cannot hurt them!!! and guillermo's just like, "sure, this might as well be happening." obviously guillermo is the one who has to actually do all the decorating.

so while they're out on the nightly prowl looking for people to drink, the vampires start paying EXTRA CLOSE ATTENTION to all the different kinds of lights and inflatable lawn decorations and what freaking have you. and they're like, "yeah, we're gonna need that too." (including the one where santa is peeking out of an outhouse. i saw this with my eyes at the store a few days ago and now y'all get to know about it too.) "GUILLERMO!" so poor guillermo has the longest-running shopping list ever and just has to run around town looking for six foot tall inflatable christmas minions and crap

but maybe it's worth it for how happy the vampires look in the glow of their garish xmas wonderland when it's finally all set up!

(especially nandor. definitely just take a moment to picture nandor and guillermo making quiet googly eyes at each other in the glow of one million xmas lights!)

unfortunately, the xmas-ifying of their house motivates carolers to come, and then they start singing all the jesus-y classics and all the vampires start screaming and catching on wee bits of fire and stuff until colin robinson makes them all pass out (and possibly die) by going out onto the front steps and recapping the 'starbucks hates christmas, there's a war on christmas' saga

also, definitely at some point in this scenario laszlo wears a santa hat at a jaunty angle and looks DIVINE

THE END!

#dollsome's deep thoughts #post shaped fics #what we do in the shadows (fx)

[coinofstone]

3x01 The Tears of Uther Pendragon pt 1

(Since there's commentary for this episode, I will not be combining 3x01 and 3x02 into a single post.)

The double fisted callback shots are interesting. First, Arthur & co walking into a deserted camp only to be ambushed, complete with whizzing crossbow bolts (have you learned NOTHING) which is essentially the same exact scene as in 2x11 The Witch's Quickening when they come upon Alvarr's camp. It's a neat nod to the audience, who already know that Morgana wasn't exactly captured, she was (from Morgause's perspective anyway) rescued after Merlin tried to kill her. So calling back to that ambush sequence is a nice way to signal to the audience that Morgana is once again knowingly and willfully colluding with Uther's enemies in a plot to destroy him, despite all the dialogue giving the impression that she needs rescuing. That Morgana had in fact aided in setting the trap for Arthur & co is both further pushed by and contrasted with the second callback, when she emerges from the woods looking like a hot mess. This references 2x04 Lancelot and Guinevere when Morgana had in fact been actually captured, but she managed to escape and find Arthur who'd been out looking for her. The difference of course being that Morgana is full of shit this time, but repeating that moment is a clever way of demonstrating Morgana's intent to trick everyone into believing she's the same damsel in distress she'd once been, while we, the audience, know she isn't.

Uther's unquestioning acceptance of Morgana's return is irksome. I know it's been over a year but has he just forgotten that she helped Alvarr escape? It was made perfectly clear that he knew and that they were at odds with one another, yet it's like none of that ever happened. He's just thrilled to have her back and has no memory of any of those events.

Drunk!emo!Uther is amusing as hell. Also a little odd that they're worried about explaining Uther's behavior at the well as tho they didn't have the perfectly viable excuse of him having been drunk off his ass and emotional about Morgana's return.

Morgana being a dick to Gwen even as she tries to convince everyone else that she's back to her old self is just as confounding as Uther's lack of suspicion.

I love Tom Ellis. Everyone loves him for Lucifer, and you can definitely see some early shades of Lucifer in Cenred, but he will forever be Gary to me. Idk why Lucifans aren't all over Miranda, I mean just look at what you're all missing:

What's not to love?

I can understand Morgana leaving the sentry alive by accident, but why in God's name would she leave her dagger after stabbing him?

You'd think the king would have better security while he's ill, and servants competent enough to notice motor oil dripping onto the floor under his bed.

I cannot adequately express how much I LOVE Morgana's calling out Merlin after he's followed her to her meeting with Morgause. "Did you really think I was that stupid, Merlin?" YES HE DID, BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE INEXPLICABLY SEEMS TO BE. Merlin is clumsy as fuck and yet somehow he's the stealthiest dude in Camelot. I looooove Morgana calling that shit out 😂

I know she's evil and stuff but Morgause is so cool.

Merlin rockin the wackest shibari of all time. It's a little hard to see but they've got it wrapping his legs as they're bent too. That can't have been very comfortable to film in.

Roasted scorpion, offical delicacy of Camelot.

I know it's stupid to question the summoning of a talking dragon via a magical language but honestly I can't help myself wondering whether Kilgharrah hears Merlin or if it's like, dragon-radio where wherever that language is spoken by a Dragonlord, every dragon can hear it? Cuz either way I still have questions.

Commentary by Bradley and Katie.

They've made comments about the weather during the first scene and then promptly forgotten they're supposed to be doing commentary 😂 apparently it's they were brought in to do this very early in the morning during the last week of filming, which probably explains why they're so quiet.

Cracking jokes on shirtless Arthur, and how Gawain puts him to shame later on, then going on about how he's got the best hair in Camelot.

I love that Katie asks how Bradley did the blindfolded swordfight then doesn't let him answer😂 I would've liked to know how exactly they coordinated that

So for S3 they built additional corridor stages in Wales to reduce the amount of time they spend shooting in France. Katie's disappointed by that, but Bradley was happy it meant he got to go home to watch more of the world cup, except that England did horribly that year - Katie is surprised to learn the world cup happened that year 😂

I normally love Katie on these things but I think because Bradley's not entirely awake his storytelling is a bit slower or more drawn out, and Katie keeps cutting him off so he keeps like, dropping stories halfway told. This annoys me for two reasons: I'm a woman whose friend group is mostly men, who do this to me irl ALL THE TIME and it's INCREDIBLY annoying, so I'm over-relating to Bradley in this moment. And also, because I really would've liked to hear the rest of these stories! What did Tom Ellis do at the read through! Why does it make no sense that Sir Leon is alive? I counted bodies of least two knights that didn't get burned. HOW DID THEY DO THE BLINDFOLDED SWORD FIGHT. Let the man speak

Bradley makes fun of Colin for being overly excited by how great the music was during the episode screening they did.

They've talked more about Bradley having a stretch than they did about the entire episode.

He's got a really irritating laugh, not in general but like just this one particular sort of shrieking bark that irks me.

You can tell they were DONE with the commentary because they wrapped it up before the credits actually started 😂

#bbc merlin #bbc merlin spoilers #merlin #merlin spoilers #merthur #bbc merlin 3x01 #merlin 3x01 #3x01 #the tears of uther pendragon #the tears of uther pendragon pt 1 #onceandfuturerewatch

[sea-owl]

Ah I the older Penelope AU. I do think, despite Benedict’s teasing, that Colin and Penelope were trying for a baby but it just wasn’t happening. This probably didn’t help Penelope with her thoughts about how she was potentially ruining Colin’s future like she thought she would. I can see Colin holding her after each time she gets her period and reassuring her that all he wants is her, kids or no kids. Still, he’s thrilled when Penelope announces her pregnancy after their visit with Sophie and Benedict. However, he adamantly refuses to raise Benedict Bridgerton the II.

Colin cried tears of relief and happiness when little Agatha was born a girl. He wouldn't survive raising Benedict Bridgerton the second. He's gonna leave that to Gregory.

But in all honesty I don't think in the early years of their marriage Colin and Penelope cared much when they had children. They're still wrapped up in each other and they would still be traveling at that point, Colin still needs more material for the travel journals.

Also because Penelope has been denying her feelings for Colin for so long he's eager to spend all his time with just her, and no Benedict to cock block.

Though it was hard to figure out who was more excited that Penelope was finally pregnant. Sophie made a comment that if she didn't know better she would have thought Benedict was the father.

Benedict and Sophie are also gonna be the first ones to show up at Colin and Penelope's house qfter the birth. Benedict is gonna demand it as his right as godfather.

#bridgerton #older penelope #older penelope au #polin #besties benedict and penelope