#good writing award

[digitalafterlife]

"whenever somebody gets pally with the doctor i have an overwhelming urge to notify their next of kin" says rory. you expect that to be subverted, you expect an everybody lives moment because surely, surely the logic of the story wouldn't allow him to be that darkly perceptive?

and then rita gets herself killed anyway. goes willingly with open arms and courage and faith but he was right.

that’s the beginning of the end, that’s when rory uses the past tense. that’s when the curtains start to close

#good writing award #dw #jamie catches up #the god complex #jamie.txt #doctor who

[thevulturesquadron]

Hab keine Angst. (Do not be afraid)

#magneto #max eisenhardt #erik lehnsherr #x men 97 #x men '97 #x men '97 spoilers #This episode deserves an award #such good writing

[ghostbsuter]

"I can see dead people." He mentions with a shrug, using the chopsticks to fish more noodles into his mouth.

Dick stares at him. "Huh."

"Is that why you help?" He asks, getting more spring rolls.

"Yeah. Once someone becomes a ghost, word gets out quick, and they come to me. Always tatling about unfairness and justice." The kid waves the words around, rolling his eyes.

Dick just pretens to he uninterested, despite his mind racing at the new info. He is piecing past moments together, every shadow leaping away, every note with tips, leads and—

Huh.

"Do you... like it? Doing all that?" Richard approaches thus carefully, brows furrowed at the kid opposite of him.

Danny moves his head, giving a 'so-so' answer. "It's not much to like, I can see ghosts, and they know it and use it. If it brings them to peace or whatever– well, that's just a plus."

Dick stares. He places his chopsticks down and looks at Danny worried.

In turn, the kid sighs. "Sometimes gifts become curses the longer you have it."

And Dick understands.

Mind made up, he throws a pair of keys at the kid, watching fondly as the other catches them with confusion.

"Next time use these, instead of entering through the window."

Danny mock-salutes with a shit eating grin. "Yes, Officer grayson."

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #fic prompt #writing prompt #dc x dp prompt #dick really got a kid now huh #dick: oh wow how did you get in here #danny: *fist down a cereal box and cheeks syuffed full eith food* wdym #he annoys dick during his police hours #he doesnt even blink twice when he later catches him tyring to sneak in as nightwing #dick got the most chill kid ever #dick telling bruce of how easy danny is: :D #dick then finding out about every horrifying and downright traumatic wvent in ddannys past: D: #hes calling connie raven and black canary #for the ghosts and much needed therapy #dick abt danny: what a good kid! #dick abt danny after: oh god youre traumatsied #he's parenting so hard he should get an award #tbf danny gives him a makeshift trophy with “best officer pops.ever” in glittery pen

[handkinkbis]

Notes from the ep 15 sex scene after my 10th rewatch 👩‍🏫👩‍⚕️👩‍💻👩‍🔬

hongjo giggling in the doorway and acting all shy like sweety YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO HIM

the way he went from cute and clumsy to AMBUSHING HER 👁👄👁

for a giraffe he's quite wolfish in his table manners 😏😏

PINNED AGAINST THE WALL, GOD IS GOOD

WHY WAS THAT CURSED LIGHT SWITCH RIGHT THERE

[wet kissing noises]

THOSE 6'2/187CMs ENGULFING HER

he started unbuttoning her almost immediately, (the shirt DOES look better on the floor, shinyu, u ARE absolutely correct)

the horny-cute gasp of "wait a minute [we should do it on the dresser, follow me"] WE LOVE A WOMAN WHO SHOWS INITIATIVE

the way hongjo backed up against the dresser and shinyu followed her like she was his preyyy

she was smiling but he was on a MISSION TO GET BETWEEN THEM THIGHS

he lifted her up on the dresser like it was nothing 🥵🥵🥵

hooded eyes, jaw clenched, heavy breathing 🌶🌶🌶🌶 10/10

they both looked like they were just lost in the sounds and sensations like literally blissfully unaware of anything outside that room

god bless u and your hard work in the gym, rowoon, is that a 12-pack (thanks for zooming in on the ahem scar camera crew)

the way they cooperated in stripping shinyu's shirt off him, TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

his hands doing SOMETHING outside of the frame whatttt are they doingggg

him kissing her hard and pushing her down 😌😌🙌🥂

shinyu's big hand flexing on hongjo's thigh and calf like YES SIR, GRAB IT

hongjo grasping two fistfuls of his hair to keep him where she wanted him YES QUEEN

him helping her wrap her legs around him 🥵🥵🥵🍿🍿🍿🍷🍷

the final shot of hongjo's shirt slipping off her shoulders and him moving on top of her in a pose not dissimilar to dracula and mina's in that One Scene in the garden in bram stoker's dracula

they were feraaalll

no for real he might actually be part beast

no wonder because shinyu/mujin waited 300+ years to Do That

#destined with you #ep 15 #good for you shinyu/mujin!!! #good for YOU ms. hongjo #babies were literally made that night #ALL THE AWARDS TO BOAH AND ROWOON #i wonder how many shots that took to film from start to finish #pun not intended #whoever writes the smut fic narrating how that scene ended shall have 20 years of good fortune

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

getting emotional about the last issue of sandman again (cw for major comic spoilers, discussion of suicidal thoughts)

because like. so we learn pretty early on what dream's deal with shakespeare was, allowing him better access to his creative potential in return for two plays, and we know this because we get midsummer night's dream, which was commissioned by dream for the actual titania as a parting gift before the faeries left earth forever

but we don't learn the second play until right at the end, after dream is dead, after the funeral, after sunday mourning and exiles, both of which make really beautiful endings to the story in their own right

the second play is the tempest. and there's a lot of the play that neil gaiman quotes in this issue, but i'll focus on the specific two that shakespeare reads aloud

the first is our obvious one - prospero's address at his daughter's wedding.

Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air. And like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

it's a beautiful passage, and exactly what to put at the end of this story - prospero is reminding everyone that stories are just stories, they aren't real and can't hurt anyone, but also they are the one thing that lives forever. humans are shaped and formed by our dreams, by our stories, we come from them, and in the end, we return to them.

now, prospero is the character we focus on in this issue. because there's a three-way parallel here between dream and prospero and shakespeare himself.

dream and shakespeare have both lost their sons, were both irreparably changed by that. both regret decisions they've made in their lives, and wish to leave the path they've found for themselves, but don't feel they can - their responsibilities are too great, they have no choice but to be what they were born to be. both wonder what might have happened in a world where things were different, but they know that could never have been

and prospero is the balm to that. prospero has made mistakes in his life, he's in several ways the antagonist of this story, but at the end, he gets to put it all aside. his daughter lives, and is happy. he gives up his magic - the source of his power, but also his suffering - and abandons his role, leaves the island he'd been ruling for decades. and this is his happy ending.

when shakespeare asks dream why this play, why he wanted that ending, instead of some great tragedy or drama, something more fit for a king, dream responds "because i will never leave my island."

and we see throughout the issue that that was personal to shakespeare too, it was a wish fullfilment for both of them.

but then we get to the epilogue, the second quote i'm focusing on. because shakespeare doesn't know how to end the play, until he has that conversation with dream.

this is the tempest's epilogue, in full:

Now my charms are all o'erthrown/And what strength I have’s mine own/Which is most faint. Now, ’tis true/I must be here confined by you/Or sent to Naples. Let me not/Since I have my dukedom got/And pardoned the deceiver, dwell/In this bare island by your spell/But release me from my bands/With the help of your good hands.

Gentle breath of yours my sails/Must fill, or else my project fails/Which was to please. Now I want/Spirits to enforce, art to enchant/And my ending is despair/Unless I be relieved by prayer/Which pierces so that it assaults/Mercy itself and frees all faults.

As you from crimes would pardoned be/Let your indulgence set me free.

like most shakespeare epilogues, it's a direct address to the audience, talking about the play. prospero is asking forgiveness from the audience for all he did wrong, but then reminding them that he's only human, don't we all want to be forgiven? and after all, all of this was just a story. he only wanted to create something for you. so applaud the ending, tell him it was worth it, and only with your permission can he finish the story, and finally leave.

and that's the thing, about dream's particular brand of suicidal thoughts. being dream of the endless has been weighing on him for centuries, if not millenia, he longs for an escape, but he knows he can't. when they see it's breaking him his siblings try and convince him to leave, like destruction did, but it's not in him to abandon the dreaming like that.

and that amount of responsibility, of staying alive because you owe it to other people - it's a relief, then, when a battle comes along that's too great for you to face, but there's also a lot of guilt in it. because he gave up. and he knows he did. letting the kindly ones win was the most selfish decision he's ever made

and you might say, well, he's dead, he doesn't have to face it, but that's not wholly true. because all three of the last issues deal with some version of dream after death.

there's the dream of him hob has in sunday mourning, which isn't the true dream, he's dead, except of course it is dream, because he was only ever made of dreams anyway, so does it really matter whether it's real or not?

in exiles the protagonist talks to both morpheus and daniel in the desert, and for dream this was two very different time periods, but to the man crossing the desert, they happened simultaneously, so if time can be warped like that in dreams, who's to say that the ripples of morpheus won't continue long into the future?

and then we have the tempest. dream has appeared after death as a dream, as a mirage, and finally, in perhaps his truest form, as a story.

when dream said he will never leave his island, shakespeare reminds him that all men can change. and this is the fatal flaw of dream - he doesn't see himself as a man, as a person, as anything but the entity which must fulfill his function. he tells shakespeare that men have stories, men change - he does not

and when we end this entire 75 issue run with the epilogue from the tempest, dream is prospero. even after death he's still reckoning with the guilt of making that decision. even now, he won't allow himself that freedom.

and that's the reminder, that all of this was just a story - dream's story. the reader is a character in sandman, all of this was created for us. did he manage to create something beautiful enough, despite the pain? can he be forgiven for the decisions he made along the way? if eventually he gave up, does that make all the time he fought so hard for meaningless?

and he can't be free of the story until we answer that all important question - was it worth it?

to which the answer can only be of course it was.

#you did good kiddo. take your rest. it's okay #interestingly enough the tempest isn't the only play that refers to the afterlife as a dream #hamlet does too (which you know is the piece inspired by shakespeare's dead son) #but that's just me and my shakespeare nerd #i've won literal monetary awards for my writing on shakespeare but here i am rereading sandman and crying #so you all get to cry too #neil gaiman you madman give me your writing talents #the sandman #sandman comic spoilers #dream of the endless #....it feels weird to tag shakespeare in this #wake #mine #meta #suicide tw

[save-the-villainous-cat]

wow isn't it cool that All Quiet on the Western Front won some Academy Awards in 2023, the same year in which Germany started to ban pro-Palestine protests :) isn't that amazing how we have learnt absolutely nothing?

#so Germans decide to make the most anti-war movie based on the most anti-war book there is and WIN academy awards for the #first time in forever because german cinema is. not. that. good. #and then a literal genocide is going on. war is happening. and gov decides to be a piece of shit #so many people are commenting under news sites on insta and prolly twitter too about the gov's failure and the news keep reporting about #israel but there is barely any coverage for what is happening in Palestine. one look at the comments tells you everything you need to know: #Germans do not support this genocide #I know I am not a politics blog but being against genocide is not political. thats called being a human. #no writing

[greenerteacups]

hi GT!

Lionheart had me the moment you kicked it off with “it’s a nice day to start again.” Might i ask why you chose that particular line?

And, if you havent already answered to this emoji:

❄️

P.s: you have my eternal gratitude for creating the most brilliant piece of writing i’ll ever read. I shout about it from the rooftops, share it on my socials, requested my spouse to read it so we may discuss it together (in lieu of a present for my 30th birthday), et cetera.

I see from your URL you are a fellow lad of taste.

There's a couple things going on in the epigraph for Book 1. On one level, it's a lyric from the first muggle song I picture Draco listening to on his walkman at the end of the book, so there's a cute full-circle thing there. The second layer is the theme of change and redemption, which, in Lionheart, doesn't so much come from major moments or self-sacrifice, but from the slow, grueling, everyday work of living, and living better. It's a nice day to start again because every day is. You always have the opportunity to start making better choices, no matter what lies behind you. That's the thesis of any Draco redemption arc, right? You have to imagine that he could have chosen to be better.

And then thirdly, there's the audacity of doing a full Hogwarts canon rewrite, a good 30 years after the original books came out, millions upon millions of words of fanfic later, and basically asking everyone to read the same story they did the first time around, only different. So it's a kind of winking entreaty. It's saying to readers, many of whom are understandably wary of doing it over, zeroing out the characters to starting positions, and starting from the beginning with 11-year-olds all over again. It's going: "hey. That was fun, right? Why not do it again?"

#thank you so much for the compliment -- honestly it's terribly kind #i hope your spouse likes it. for their own sake also because by god that is so much assigned reading #you're iconic for that tbh. all birthdays should come with a syllabus #oh! and ❄️ ⇢ what’s your dream theme/plot for a fic #and who would write it best? #tbh i've wanted someone to write a really good pacific rim AU for years and years #and it has always fallen juuuuust low enough on my writing pile for me to never get around to it #like it's always the thing i want to write 3rd most and i only let myself have 2 projects at a time #not sure who would write that best - I think anyone who loves and Gets the movies #the premise of which is 'what if you and your soulmate could pilot a 50-foot mech by having mindsex so good it killed godzilla?' #and if you don't want to stand up and cheer just thinking about that i don't know what to tell you. perhaps you have never seen a movie #also like it's about love and trust and trauma and healing. AND killing really giant monsters #and it takes itself JUST seriously enough to nail all of that without getting mopey or goofy #movie of all time. someday i will kiss guillermo del toro on the lips #in my (delusional) world his oscar win was actually a belated award for pacific rim.

[littlerosette]

that emmy moment with gillian anderson and david duchovny where she kisses him before kissing her boyfriend after winning thats cf everlark

#katniss mere seconds after choosing gale: where’s peeta #thinking about an actor au of them but they have whatever the fuck GA and DD did in the 90s #making out at award shows near infidelity actual infidelity chemistry so good people were writing think pieces #yes i need that #everlark

[amartgasaurus]

happy (late) trans day of visibility i hope if anyone sees this they know that whatever future you can have being transgender is better than anything that would ever have happened otherwise i love you

#trans day of visibility #tdov #poetry #my writing #im a day late sorry #i wrote this for class and held onto it because i thought it was good. it got nominated for an award at my school #i havent heard back about any kind of results though #transgender

[constantvariations]

Been listening to the rwby books. After the Fall wasn't too terrible, but jesus fuck Before the Dawn is a lesson in frustration. What is Myers' beef with Sun and why was it allowed to assassinate his character?

#rwde #myers writing style is so antithetical to my own that im foaming at the mouth w every sentence #i sincerely hope his other books arent this painful but his website doesnt give me much hope #'including the award winning' *lists every book he's written w no indication that only two of them actually won awards* #apparently the andre norton award is for middle grade/young adult books which puts his prose in perspective #but i wonder why this guy was chosen to write for rwby? what abt him made the cut that others didnt? #or is this another case of nepotism? #hard to say since i can't find much info on him. good on him for keeping his privacy but im a nosy bitch so gimme the deets lol #either way his writing is dry and tedious and i might make a whole post abt it #tho i will say that the character interactions between yatsuhashi velvet and fox are supremely fun #new ot3 just dropped #coco can go fuck herself. she's the worst part of both these books by far. hope she gets eaten again

[mzannthropy]

Favorite and least favorite. DJATS scenes? My least favorite is the overdose scene in ep 8. Like,wydm Billy called Daisy "baby?" I doubt that. My favorite is either Billy saying good morning to Camila and Julia in ep 5,Daisy kicking Nicky out,or the Camilabilly s*x scene at the end of episode 5. (and he wasn't thinking about Daisy,idk what Daisybilly shippers say. He loves his wife, aurora is about her, nothing can change that.)

I can't shut up about the Pick Up Your Kid scene from Episode 3. Bc I know how much Sam loves his kids and being a dad, I knew how difficult it would be for him to film it. The tears were unscripted, that's just Sam crying for real. I've not really thought about favourite scenes. Camila and Billy on the balcony in the finale, but that's only bc of their acting. Aside from the fact that the dialogue was ridiculous, it shouldn't exist, bc there's nothing like that in the book. Erasing the Daisy and Camila hotel room scene was a huge disservice to the characters, to the fans, to TJR. Just thank the gods that Sam and Camila are such good actors. I liked all Billy's scene with Camila and Julia. As for other characters, I liked Teddy being a father figure to Billy, the final scene with Karen and Graham. I know the poor guy was devastated, but Karen made her choice.

Least favourite, where do I start. I agree on the ending of Ep 8. (It was in fact what set of me off on a mini villain arc that lasted all through till the end of June, when I accepted that Sam was not going get an Emmy nomination, which is why I wasn't even upset that he was snubbed, bc I had already grieved it, but it was a painful process.) It should have been Simone that found her. Once again, a female character robbed of a scene. Not to mention that a man cradling a woman in his arms (while she might or might not be dying) is the most overdone scene in all of TV/film history. Start noticing it and you'll never be able to un-notice. Also, same episode, when after the press conference they walk in that corridor and Billy tries to kiss her. The whole argument, even. Cheap drama for the sake of it--nobody argues with faces that close together. It gives me so much second hand embarrassment that I literally recoil any time I think of it. I don't get triggered by horrible scenes that usually carry trigger warnings, but I do get triggered by stuff like this. Bc it's stupid.

Sam has a film, The Nightingale (dir Jennifer Kent), in which he plays the most horrible character of his career. It's a brilliant film and I recommend it, just heed the warnings bc it gets really violent. Yet it's easier for me to watch than a lot of DJATS. Bc I understand his part in the story, bc he is supposed to be like that.

ETA: Bc I misremembered, I thought Simone found Daisy in the book, (I can't check the book bc I listened to it on audio.) so I thought they should have kept it like that, but she actually just woke up herself, broke up with Nicky and then called Simone. I knew Simone figured somewhere, at least. Doesn't change my point, though, bc it still takes away from a female character. It's even worse bc it means that in the show, Daisy needed a man to 'save her'.

Yeah, if anyone had to find her in the shower, Rod would have been the better option; he's the manager after all, and if Daisy saw in his face that he was really worried about her, not just bc she was the lead singer and he'd lose money or whatever if something happened to her, but out of genuine care, she'd realise she was worthy. But nooo, they had to go for the most male writing stereotypical scene instead.

#answered #it always feels good to write it out #daisy jones and the six #sam claflin #looks like the powers that be that decide awards agree #notice that djats got no noms for writing. or directing for that matter #samblogging #camila morrone

[mittenlady]

circe has some of the most beautiful prose i’ve read in a while

#it’s literally won awards DUHHH ofc it’s gonna be good #shut up i teared up at this #books #currently reading #i literally had to scan this and save it to Pinterest i love it so much #booklr #circe madeline miller #yeah ok just needed to put that out there. I LOVE BOOKS I LOVE LITERATURE #aaaaahhhh #ignore how shaky the underlines are the book is kinda lumpy #had to keep folding and refolding it to take a solid scan in my notes app #yes i am one who writes in books and folds them but u know what. if they are well worn they are well loved

[sga-owns-my-soul]

the children* yearn for the fic snippets

*myself and our mutuals who love your writing

i know this was probably about the sheppard becomes a bad guy snippet i just posted but idc i'm taking this as permission to post another snippet bc this is my blog and i make the rules anyways this is from idk rodney's parents or something

"Mother. Father. I wasn't expecting to see you here." Rodney spoke stiffly, addressing the older couple in front of them. There was an edge of panic in his voice that only ever came out when things were seriously bad. John glanced at Ronon, pleased to see a lethal expression on his face as he watched Rodney's parents.

"Of course you weren't, because you couldn't be bothered to invite us. Was it because you're too stupid to remember, or too terrible of a child to want us here?"

"No, it's not that-"

"Don't argue with your mother. You should be apologizing to her, do you know how much we spent to come out here? And you couldn't even be bothered to give us a call. Ungrateful and inconsiderate as always, Meredith."

"I'm sorry," Rodney said immediately, looking down. John stared at him in shock- in all his years of know Rodney, the man had only apologized a handful of times, and only when he was dead wrong.

"And really, Meredith, an award on wormhole theory? Why are you wasting your life doing such useless things? Why can't you do something good with yourself for once?"

"It's not-"

"Don't argue with your father. He only wants what's best for you, you should listen to him. Why can't you be more like Jeannie?"

#this is another concept i'm obsessed with #it's sooooooooo good #basically the premise is rodney's on earth for an award and his parents show up #and belittle him #and john and the team decide to kill them over it :) #i love it tbh #so so good #asks #my writing #fic blurb #rodney mckay #john sheppard #rodney's parents #sga #stargate atlantis

[agentark]

I love S Dorran so much ugh

The way they're the scholar of the group, but not a skeptic??? They're willing to entertain more "fantastical" explanations for what's going on in Fernweh and that's very cool of them

#and also hot of them #who said that #S could've heard about the journal and thought abt your grandpa and been like 'sounds like carbon monoxide' but NO #you'll hear no 'well actually' from S (unless you're R (funniest duo award I love them)) #that line where R insults the mona lisa and S is like 'it's priceless???' makes me laugh every time #anyway!!! what im trying to say is that the scholar trope is so often played out where the character tries to find-- #--an explanation that adheres to the laws of science but S is like 'so guess what I found out from your grandpa's weird book' #S is more of a Fox Mulder type than a Velma Dinkley #fernweh saga #found this in my drafts can't believe I never posted it #more love for S is always good #they really grabbed my attention in this last playthrough I did; they're so calming I just want to curl up with them #doesn't help that I just read a Silas writing on patreon that made me swoon

[soaps-mohawk]

💭 What is something you haven't written about that you'd like to write about?

😀 What are some headcanons you have for a character in your fic?

🏆If you won an award at an award show for your fanfic, what would your speech be? Who would you thank? What would you say? What award would you win?

Thank you love!!!

💭: there's not a lot I haven't written over the years lol. There's a couple fandoms I'd like to write something for eventually, though.

😃: Soap secretly likes tea but he'll die before he admits it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🏆: lmaoo I would not even show up. Someone would be accepting on my behalf 😂 my social anxiety would never. I'd probably thank my family for giving me the trauma that made me a good writer, and all my wonderful readers that not only support me but help me through the process as well.

Writer's ask game

#idk what i'd win for lmaoo #my writing isnt that good #award shows are my worst nightmares #answered #ask game

[ghostoffuturespast]

19,910-ish. Just barely skating under that 20k mark there.

#rambling into the void #writing #fan fiction #i only read through this once hope it's okay #can't bring myself to do it again don't have the beans #good enough man #also this has to be some sort level achievement #several mentions of chickens and not a single use of the word cock #want me a tiny playstation trophy award complete with pun