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wardeningo · 2 years

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idk im cringe but im free here’s a submas hc post. no particular order. We love angst we also love projecting lets gooo

Both Ingo and Emmet are autistic, Emmet also has ADHD.

Emmet is a trans bi man and Ingo is genderfluid and unlabeled, though he’s fine with using gay or queer as umbrella terms to describe his attraction.

Their parents intended for their starters to be Klink, however Ingo ended up befriending a Litwick at school and brought it home, and Emmet snuck out and caught a Joltik about a week before their 10th birthday.

Their birthday is May 20th.

Ingo was planned, Emmet was not.

Emmet’s generally a nice person, but if you tick him off he’s going to start throwing rocks. If you specifically target his brother, he’s going to start aiming for the head.

Ingo has brain damage from an incident involving construction work and wild Durants tunneling. Neither of the twins blame the Durants for the incident, Emmet eventually adopting one of them onto his team.

Ingo’s Fraxure evolved into Haxorus during the aforementioned incident.

Emmet will not go to sleep until Ingo does.

Emmet will also check on his brother throughout the night.

Their family has a history of addiction so Ingo has Emmet hold onto his painkillers as a precaution. Problem is Ingo’s stubborn as hell and will put off taking any until he’s incapacitated.

Both Ingo and Emmet are partially deaf, with Emmet’s being train related and Ingo’s being blunt force head trauma related.

Both boys have commitment issues but for entirely different reasons.

Emmet got asked out a lot in middle school as a joke. Had a girl date him for a month in high school but only because she lost a bet. Turns out if you get told repeatedly that someone wanting to date you is “embarrassing” you start to believe you’re unlovable.

Ingo struggles a lot with hypersexuality and being sex repulsed. He’s definitely slept around and has had a few flings, for better or for worse. The idea of someone wanting to stay in a relationship with him is scary.

Both boys have also been called “robotic” as an insult so they’ve internalized that shit too.

Ingo has cried about Daisy Bell and will cry again.

Ingo was a very sickly child but got better by his teens.

Emmet sometimes forgets that he’s the younger twin out of the two of them.

Ingo puts too much thought into how to express himself and it often comes off as ingenuine or strained, Emmet doesn’t have this problem, but he’s really good at repressing his emotions.

Emmet relies on Ingo to know how to respond to a social situation. Emmet only really laughs at a joke if Ingo laughs first, otherwise it just doesn’t occur to him that that’s how he’s “supposed” to react.

Emmet has. many. MANY problems with Clay’s gym layout.

Ingo has eisoptrophobia, which is horribly ironic given that he’s an identical twin. He tends to avoid elevators despite Emmet telling him not to.

Emmet on the other hand is deathly afraid of squirrels. He watched an emolga scurry off with the corpse of a patrat and he has not been the same since. Yes this affects his relationship with Elesa he cannot be in the same room as her pokemon he will v*mit and Cry.

Emmet had to go through speech therapy for a number of years. He's also selectively mute and knows sign language.

Ingo really likes theatre

Ingo also really enjoys fashion.

Ingo skipped a grade as he was the uhh Gifted Kid(tm) and this went well for a while until he had a mental breakdown in high school and his parents had to pull him from the system and essentially force him to drop out (he wouldve worked himself to death otherwise)

During their school years the boys were admittedly kind of distant. They didn't hate each other there just, wasnt really a bond between them at that point.

Both started working at gear station at 16, Emmet started first and Ingo joined him not too long after, which rekindled their bond.

This is all I can think of rn this has been in my drafts for months I'm just gonna post it.

#｢bravo!! ｣ : talk tag #submas #sure why not i'll main tag it.

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petertheparker · 4 years

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can you do number 82 and 99 from your angst prompt list?

Hey, yeah I can sure try!

82 “You just lost the best thing in your life”

99 “Sorry can’t fix this!!”

word count 1.3k

Warnings cursing and feelings

Losing

It was in April. Just another average Monday. The days prior were filled with rain so the following days would be that type of weather where it was just all clouds and gloominess. You didn’t expect this type of ‘incident’ to happen to you. You never did. But the way your heart dropped when you read his message.

Can we talk?

Your mouth suddenly felt dry and the quickening of your heart just made matters worse. All the negative outcomes started to pour into your head. The feeling of being a cup that has to much water in it but continues to be filled.

At that moment you started to spiral. Every hurtful possibility started to attack your mind. Your arms burning at your grasp due to your nails digging into you. You felt a deep pit of despair start to rise. Each feeling of Anxiety, fear, and even hopefulness consumed you. Every breath you took felt jagged and constrained. Each feeling sitting on your lungs. squeezing at every inhale and release.

A familiar ping brought you back to reality.

Meet me at Forest Park.

You didn’t even reply and yet you still went. During your walk there you calmed down your breathing and even thought about the possibility where it wasn’t even going to be a bad conversation. it could just be another meetup or even a surprise of some sort. yeah.

The last time peter acted like this was when you got accepted into Cornell University and all your close friends threw you a party to congratulate you. Peter being himself couldn’t keep secrets so he distanced himself from you keeping all interactions short afraid he might ruin the surprise. But what you didn’t know then was that you were completely and utterly wrong.

When you finally got to the center of the park your mind started to wander to all the past dates you and Peter when on in this park. The picnic under the great oak tree. Ice cream and bicycling riding. Duck feeding near the pond. Your breath hitched and the tears you’ve been suppressing started to surface. But you put your brave face on and smiled.

It’d be about ten more minutes until Peter uttered those dreadful words. At that point, any emotions that you locked away came bursting out like a blown up dam. You remember not talking at first but you remember the painful look upon his face telling you he didn’t mean it but he still walked away. He walked away. You feel to the ground ignoring the sharp pain in your knees and cried. Cried until there were no more tears no more emotions no more anything. But one single thought. You just lost the best thing in your life

It wouldn’t be until 6 months later that you’d see Peter again. It was your week visiting home from Cornell. You spent that time catching up with your old friends. talking about your new collage, dorms, and friends. MJ especially avoided the topic of new boys. Considering the last encounter with them left you with her at your house every day for 2 weeks comforting you and being your shoulder to cry on.

During the last day of your visit, Betty insisted that the three of you go to a party one of her frats were throwing. Due to popular demand, aka Betty’s constant nagging about it you finally caved. She thought it was the perfect opportunity for you to get back out there but not completely. Just try to talk to some new people even though you probably were;t going to see any of them ever again.

She also insisted on dressing up for the occasion. You didn’t fight her on it just went along. You ended up showing up with some casual dark wash jeans and a black long-sleeved cropped shirt with a deep v-neck. Betty with a shirt mini skirt and crop top and MJ with black skinny jeans a red shirt and a denim jacket.

Betty was the first to get you all drinks and find an attractive looking guy to dance with. Leaving you and MJ to talk in the corner. After about ten minutes MJ left you to find the bathroom finding all this a bit too cliche in her opinion. Keeping to yourself you walked to the kitchen and poured yourself another drink.

You then felt your body shiver with goosebumps feeling as if someone was staring at you. It was an odd feeling that you couldn’t push away. Your ears started to get hot and your stomach started to spin. You didn’t dare look around you just downed your drink feeling the burning sensation as it went down your throat. You placed your cup on a random counter and pushed pasted all the dancing bodies and intoxicated individuals until you were in the backyard.

You didn’t realize how hot you have gotten until the brisk October air flushed around your exposed skin. It felt nice to get out of there anyway. The aroma started to feel stuffy and suffocating. what am I even doing here? The nagging thought racked your brain until you felt someone’s presence behind you.

You turned around and faced a pair of familiar chocolate brown eyes you wished you would never see again. But here they were, here he was. In the flesh. Holding two red solo cups filled with kool-aid? Your gazed wondered from his eyes to his body and then back up. Peter now looking nervous since you just checked him out.

“Hey Y/N-”

“No”

“what?”

“I said, Peter, No”

You looked into his eyes knowing yours started to fill with fire and rage. “You don’t get to talk to me after what you did” Even with all the hate in the world in your gaze your voice couldn’t stop from cracking and your eyes to well up ruining whatever eye makeup you had on. But that didn’t matter now. All you could focus on was his scared and hurt face and the heaving of your chest.

“I just wanted to say that I-I’m sorry and-”

“Are you fucking serious?” you threw your hands up and peter took a step back. feeling the anger radiating off you. Suddenly not feeling the crisp October air.

“Sorry can’t fix this!!” you pointed between you and him tears now pouring down your face.

“You, you Peter Benjamin Parker hurt me more than words can describe. And you didn’t even tell me why.” At this point your screaming at him gaining some attention from some onlookers.

“I loved you, and you want to know what you did?” Peter looked down at his sneakers and avoided your gaze knowing that whatever you said next was true. “huh, you ripped my heart out of my chest and ripped it apart and expected me to be fine afterward.” Your voice spat pure venom but your face read extreme hurt and betrayal.

“I never want to see you ever again, if you see me don’t talk to me, don’t look at me, don’t even fucking think about me. You are a coward” Your voice cracked and your breathing quickened as you spoke down to him. Peter, the boy you once loved, the boy you thought was yours forever. The boy that broke you completely.

As you regain some of your composure you grabbed one cup from Peter’s hand grazing him only slightly, and you poured it on him. The red cool liquid littered all over his face and brown locks. You stared him down the whole and time and did it again with the second cup. Peter knew he deserved it.

“I hate you, and I hope I never cross paths with you again and I worry for the next girl you hurt”

There would be no other girl, he only wanted you and you made it very clear to him that you wanted nothing to do with him. But he wouldn’t stop trying. He would love you from afar even though you would never love him like you once did.

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sorry I haven’t posted in months, I have so many drafts but not the confidence to post, to me my writings need work but the messages from you guys keep me going. and wow, that was sad, it is currently 23:48 but hoped you enjoyed it!!! If you want more request just send me an ask and I’ll do my best to answer that request!!! use my Prompt list!!

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coffeeandcalligraphy · 5 years

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Animal Instinct + Dead Disco | Writing Update

Hey People of Earth!

We’re back with another Moth Work update because ya girl has finished two chapters and is here to spill all the tea! If you missed update one, and two, be sure to check them out before reading this one! I’ve been having a bit of cabin fever with this project lately which has made it difficult to really immerse myself into the project. But we’re almost at the 20k mark of this project which is wILD! I never imagined writing so much of this story (which was initially just a guilty pleasure) and I’m happy with how much I’ve learned about my characters just through this small detour in the series.

The first chapter I’ll be updating on is chapter four, ANIMAL INSTINCT.

This chapter was a giant pain to finish! It had about 5000 revisions mid-draft, and I definitely feel like I had blinkers on when writing it. Because of that, I lost sight of the big picture and really got stuck on the little things, like the writing and overall quality of the project. This was not actually the purpose of Moth Work--it was supposed to be a dumping ground for whatever. However, in this chapter, I became really hyperfocused on all the small details I disliked which made drafting it a month-long process. I’ve now come to a slightly healthier place with quality in this draft, and found a middle ground between trash-dumping and nitpicking.

What’s it about?

Animal Instinct is a major point of tension for Lonan and Harrison as their goals deviate. This chapter focuses heavily on the volatility of their relationship and highlights Lonan’s current irrational mental state. The title stems from this idea of calculated action for the sake of a single person’s benefit.

The writing bit:

I struggled to write this chapter quite a bit. It took me the majority of July to complete because of a major logic problem I kept running into. After struggling for a few days, I finally realized by fleshing out what I’d written initially, I could overwrite the logic problem. The solution took a lot of work/test scenes to figure out, but eventually I got it!

Excerpts:

I shared this excerpt before because it’s one of the only paragraphs I don’t mind in this chapter! I think the flow is a lil funky but I dig the concept! This outlines the last bits of the cabin, specifically Harrison’s final check around the perimeter.

Around the corner, the back patio is static—like Anna and her son never stopped sitting there. Her bowl of avocado and Greek yogurt—the holistic remedy Emily said would make her glow like an angel—sits gummy and pestered with flies. One of Milo’s toys is wedged under the cheap lawn chair. It haunts him, seeing them while not seeing them, but he leaves everything like it is. Anna and her son will always remain on the patio, Anna with her cheekbones splayed for the moon, Milo babbling mildly about his father like he hasn’t made the connection. They’ve gone invisible.

After this first scene, Harrison does some driving in the dark which gives me major book three vibes lol, and eventually pulls into a motel somewhere in Nevada. This route from Oregon to Boston makes no sense but I conveniently needed Lonan to end up in Vegas, so!! do it for Vegas!!

In the motel, Harrison meets Jeremiah, his potential new man lol. Harrison is focused on getting in and out of there as quickly as possible, but he’s like dang mans teeth are the straightest I ever did see (me too tho). Because he gets distracted, he fails to notice his car turn off, and only makes the connection after passing it a few times in the parking lot. He minorly paniques as he looks for Lonan, but eventually finds him around the building.

The scene that follows gets volatile as heck, and really showcases how similar Lonan and Reeve are? Like dang that whole family tho? (Can I join?)

I’m not going to share much of this scene because she gets dramatic, but this is the wildest dialogue I’ve written in a while and I think I’m going to steal it and make Reeve say it because something like this would come out of her mouth:

“Do you feel that, Harrison? I could burn you with a cigarette and call it a wolf bite and nobody would know the difference.”

sounds normal at first then NOPE

The next chapter (chapter 5) is called Dead Disco:

This chapter came together very quickly because I’d had it basically planned out, however, it veered into an emotional direction I wasn’t expecting. This chapter was supposed to be fun and lighthearted, and it ended up being... not that??

What’s it about?

After the tragic drama that occurs in the previous chapter, Harrison wakes up the next morning to notice that Lonan has #left and #taken the car. This is v/ not good, but instead of getting super worked up he chooses to chill out at Jeremiah’s place and chill ft. some disco. I meant for it to be cute but Harrison ends up in a mental place I wasn’t expecting, so the chapter feels a bit “derealized” to me. After both Lonan and Harrison head out on their solo endeavors, they meet back up and this encounter ends *badly*.

Playlist:

July 31st Rachel was feeling very enthusiastic about the playlist for this chapter (I was writing while listening to music) and wrote down a list of songs that describe the progression of this chapter (in order + all Nothing But Thieves because predictable!):

Holding Out For A Hero

Crazy

Afterlife

Hanging

Excuse Me

Forever & Ever More

You Know Me Too Well

I’m Not Made By Design

Amsterdam

Number 13

Itch

Hostage

BUT SHOUTOUT TO: Disco by Surf Curse

Probably the most accurate vibe here lol

Excerpts:

This first excerpt is Harrison angsting hard about missing his friends. I don’t *love* her but I don’t *hate* her! I tried revising it but it... flopped, so here’s the failed revision:

Lonan could say those words and it haunts him, how easily he taints him like a bad omen. There are so many things Emily would tell him to do to cleanse the bad magic, but Harrison recalls none of them properly. He remembers words like moon, and black walnut, and quartz crystal, and cardamom, but can’t think of what to do with any. He wishes he were like Foster, curious enough to carry around a pocket dictionary, or like his mother, clever enough to make something up on a whim. All Harrison can do is bury his face in his palms outside the restaurant and hope no one watches him. The main road bustles by and he wishes to be invisible, like Anna and her son. He wants his friends back. Foster could lull him to consciousness with a quiz on the different kinds of plants, which are edible, which are poisonous. Reeve would split a cigarette with him and scare him back to life with her driving. Emily will never speak to him but at least she’d cast a curse on him, and even that’s better than his nullified state of living. It’s disorienting, to feel asleep while awake. Harrison blinks hard, but everything feels the same—the buildings all shimmering, the people staring barely even people, everything derealized like it’s all been coated in REM.

(tag urself i’m foster’s pocket dictionary)

This next excerpt outlines Harrison getting turnt with his new man and then getting philosophical? drunk Harrison be Aristotle and Madonna smushed together idk

Harrison knows he shouldn’t drink around a stranger but Jeremiah’s got a handmade bracelet and scribbly tattoos on his forearm so it’s hard not to trust him. Photo prints of hostels in Japan, statues in Europe, cathedrals in Paraguay decorate the walls in perfectly cut rectangles. Each is plumed with a dried flower and it reminds Harrison so much of Emily, he has to look away, back to the Lonan-coloured drink. He studies the shot glass like it isn’t transparent, the grooves around the perimeter, the engraving that reads Cancun 1987. He loses Jeremiah’s absent swish around him, and gets lost in the blue. The trifecta amazes him, how a colour as unnatural as this has manifested in Lonan’s eyes, his earring, this drink. He tips the glass back and finishes it in one go, and even though it’s strong and should taste like artificial blueberries, his mouth is tasteless and numb.

“You live here alone?” Harrison asks, raking his fingers through his hair. The apartment overlooks the strip across the street and Harrison gets lost in it, the artificial signs like bad advertising, the neons ill like influenza. When he looks toward Jeremiah again, his glass is refilled and he has to think hard to remember if he emptied it in the first place.

This is where Harrison manages to make disco big sad + some lowkey salt at Lonan which is always! a! win!:

Together, they move in a trance, limber and manic. The glass in Harrison’s hand isn’t a weight—it’s a lifeline. The apartment blurs, and waves in slow motion. Harrison doesn’t hear the music or taste the drink; he feels nothing in the ground, and everything in his tongue. His hair swims in his face like Lonan’s, moving like he did in the water, careless in his forehead, his eyes. The pictures on the wall become the pictures in his bedroom, and the blinking doesn’t get rid of them. In his sidesteps with Jeremiah he sees him, in the glass, across the street, under a streetlamp. Taking his cigarettes, his light, his car, his mouth like a cannibal.

To end this update, here’s some dialogue ft. savagery:

“You’re patronizing me.”

“You’re patronizing yourself.”

A meme to accompany this lol:

So that’s it for this update! At the time of drafting most of this post (which was a few weeks ago), I wasn’t really feeling this project, however, after writing chapter 6 and switching POVs into Lonan’s head (where there’s lots of messy stuff to work with), I’ve been having a lot of fun!

I’m sorry updates have been slow on this blog--I’m in the process of moving so I’m getting busy, however, I hope to post at least one more update before I go off to school! Thanks for reading. :)

--Rachel

#writing #writeblr #amwriting #writerblr #fostered #writingupdates #mothwork

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2queens1prince · 5 years

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Fan Fic Ask Game

Between @teaismyqueen, @lilacmermaid25 and a couple of anon requests, they hit most all of the questions. I just thought I’d answer them for anyone who cares to read. :)

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]? Shock I absolutely suck at titles. I can come up with all of these weird, elaborate scenarios in my head, but ask me to title a story and it’s like all creativity is gone. I chose Shock because I needed something completely non descript, and I knew the end of chapter one would be a shock. See? Totally lame.

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience? Some of them. I would say that even if the events are not from personal experience, a lot of the emotions are. I think that’s why a lot of my writing is angsty. I’m angsty all over the place, but there’s no outlet for it in my life.

C: What member do you identify with most? Elizabeth

D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]? No. I typically don’t listen to any music, although, I did at one point create a wedding playlist of songs for Henry and Elizabeth’s wedding reception for Evolution.

E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about? I really don’t know. Perhaps The First Time needed a sequel instead of the time jump at the end, but I’m not really sure.

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it. Anything Phyllis said in Evolution. For being a non-canon character, I loved her so much.

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order? Start to finish, although sometimes I know there are things I want to include and I make notes at the end, but not whole scenes.

H: How would you describe your style? I’m sure someone else could describe my style better than I could. I’m an emotional writer, but I like the characters to show progression.

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)? Give me a good hurt/comfort fic and I’m all over it.

J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic]. The obvious answer is Evolution because when I started, Henry wasn’t going to be a fallen away Catholic, but as I wrote it, I sort of came to the conclusion that he couldn’t be anything like he is in the show if he were still a Traditional Catholic. Not good or bad-it just would become to OOC for me.

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with? Due to accident or illness, one of the McCord children dies.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting? This has changed over time. Now most of my writing goes to my betas after the first draft. They offer ideas and then it sits for a while. With multi-chapters, by the time they are posted, I’ve been through them 8-10 times. Often, after the third draft, I don’t change much other than some wording or punctuation.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share? I’m currently writing a fic in which Henry and Elizabeth remodel her parents’ home together and I think my next one has to do with a self-defense class and a very arrogant Elizabeth.

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you? Pool Party! Gah! I started to turn it into a multi-chapter and stalled. Also I would like College and Coffee to go somewhere.

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters? The plot, always.

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?) I am a gardener. Most of the time I start with an opening scene and I have no idea where the story will go. An excellent example of this is the “Hiking” there is only one bed prompt. How did that prompt end up the way it did? Who even knows?

Q: How do you feel about collaborations? I collaborate on ideas frequently with several writers. I haven’t written with someone only because the opportunity hasn’t come up.

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence? I think smut is incredibly difficult to write, so there are a lot of writers, particularly the veterans in the group that I go back and read.

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist? Give me a slow burn romance with a fair amount of angst and I’m in my element.

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand? I feel like I might offend people who have stories that may fall into these categories. It has nothing to do with the writer, only the topic that I don’t care for.. Unrealistic smut and unbelievable pregnancy fics. Additionally, I have a thing about Elizabeth’s name, so I’ve been known to stop reading a fic if I don’t like the way Elizabeth’s name is used.

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much. @pillar--of--salt‘s smut is hands down the best in my book. @laineyvb131 and I share a brain, so yeah, everything she writes resonates with me, and @fsulinz because she is the perfect example of someone who has outstanding ideas and the writing skills to pull them off, but was hesitant to put herself out there and after some peer pressure, she did it and she’s great! Oh, one more. Nonadhesiveness needs a mention because her stories are woven together with an extreme amount of skill, and I’m jealous at hell!

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose? Strongest Convictions-I really think a well written prequel to what happened to Elizabeth and Henry when they were in prison would be riveting.

W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones? I like @lilacmermaid25‘s prompts, whatever those are.

X: A character you enjoy making suffer. Dmitri and Craig Sterling although I don’t think I’ve written about either, but if I did, they would suffer.

Y: A character you want to protect. I think Elizabeth in a certain way. Shit always seems to happen to her, but she’ll always come out on the other side if I’m doing the writing.

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate? I’ve read it and I tolerate it all. There’s just a lot of tears.

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thwip--thwip · 5 years

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This is iron_spider on main, lmao. For the fanfic ask meme! E for ‘the world is not kind’ H, K, L, M, T, V, Z

asdfghjkl oh boy hellooo!!

E (the world is not kind): I think the only interesting sequel would be a companion piece from Peter or Ben’s point of view, as opposed to a continuation (because.....the MCU really loses traction for me after Endgame, and right now I still need to figure out what an FFH fix-it looks like!). But Ben’s POV in particular could be interesting because I really enjoyed exploring him-as-a-character from the outside, i.e., Tony’s perspective, but exploring Tony from Ben’s perspective might be cool. Getting a glimpse into his mind (and May’s, to an extent, because I probably wouldn’t be able to stop myself from exploring their similarities and differences) and what he takes from Peter being Spiderman and Tony stepping into Peter’s life.

H: bold of you to presume i have a writing style xD I think I usually try to find a specific character’s voice and POV to tell the story from. I’ve found that trying to write group pieces without one character as the ‘main’ just ends up turning into a formless mess, for me as a writer. It’s much easier for me to say, ‘well how would X see this happening? What would they notice about it? What would they connect it to, in their own life?’ than to try and be totally omniscient. I do break this often, however, to add authorial asides (it happens a lot in the world is not kind, because I added in details of things that weren’t actually happening in the scene). But I feel like that takes on more of a neutral narrator quality. Last but not least, I feel like sometimes I end up adding too much detail, but half the time I consider deleting it and then think, eh, even if no one else likes it, I think it’s interesting, and leave it in.

K: HMM tough to say. I think it would have to be either of these two ideas:

AU where Tony and Peter don’t meet in a cozy Queens apartment; they meet in the bowels of the Vault, a place for the lockdown of Hydra’s most valuable assets. Peter gets kidnapped by Hydra when they find out about his powers and Tony gets snatched sometime between Avengers and AOU. Lots of torture and surviving together, and Tony taking over the Yinsen role. (I have like 5k of this written in my drafts buuuut)

A one-shot where Peter’s 35 when he bites the dust, which is longer than he’d thought he’d make it, if he’s being honest. He meets Tony in the afterlife, and they have an emotional talk where they’re equals (Peter has been training the Young Avengers with Miles and Kate, etc, and he knows now what Tony had to go through with him), before Tony leads Peter to the Beyond.

L: I was actually surprised to find that my non!powered-Peter-as-a-nurse AU was so uncommon, but apparently. I also think Source-Powered is an incredibly underrated AU in the MCU fandom (another thing I have like....3k words written on that will likely never see the light of day). Really dig the weird niche AU’s like climbed-in-the-wrong-window-at-3AM-and-you-hit-me-with-a-baseball-bat or a personal favorite, you’re-my-upstairs-neighbor-who-walks-super-loud-and-i-keep-banging-on-the-ceiling-but-one-day-i’ve-had-enough-so-i-go-upstairs-to-yell-at-you-and-turns-out-you’re-deaf.

Or a good Chef’s Competition AU, c’mon, Iron Chef??? Peter as the chef prodigy?? How amazing would that be.

M: I’ve got about four fics that I seriously need to write because they’re already planned out, but one of them is a Pepper-Tony relationship introspection in the same style as the world is not kind, where we look at them through the years. I dunno I was listening to Elton John and I got really soft for these two.

T: Thor being portrayed without the intelligence he has beneath the veneer. I think this was more of an issue before Ragnarok, since the movies were such a shitshow for his character - Ragnarok gave writers something concrete to build off of, but before that I feel like we clung to the pop tarts joke collectively as a fandom, and most people just either wrote him out, or wrote him as a pop-culture illiterate oaf.

V: Harry Osborn. I really really love Harry (blame @razor-bats, it’s entirely her fault), but with this new MCU wave I think people don’t use him as much or relegate him to the bad guy (partially a leftover TASM influence, since they fucked over Dane DeHaan’s portrayal so hard with that one). I think there’s more than enough room for both him and Ned, and I’d love to see what potential he could have with Holland’s Peter Parker.

Z: I’m so guilty, I read/write all of it. Most of the time it isn’t permanent though! I like angst with a happy ending. Funnily enough, the one character I don’t like dying is Aunt May. I feel like most of the time when she dies in a fic, it’s a means to achieve an end - and most of the time that end is Peter becoming an Avenger, or getting adopted by Tony. As though May’s an obstacle to overcome, and not the one person in the world that means more than anything to Peter. If you’re going to kill May in a fic where Peter’s already lost Ben, you better have a damn good reason (I’ve yet to see one).

#ask meme #asdfgjk thank you for asking me these!!#this was fun omg #i speaketh #thwippity thwip #fanfic #writing #ask #karategirl448 #iron--spider #ily #the world is not kind

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What exactly did she retcon about Kent? Not snarky, just really curious, because he's my favorite and I want to know what changed about him. Was it her feelings about him where she said that he was one of her favorites and she had to change it by saying "they're all my favorite"? Or was it a characteristic of him? I want more Kent. He's he only thing keeping me invested at this point because he has motivations and stuff. And I want him to be happy if happy endings are the endgame of this comic.

Just to be clear, retcon refers to reframing past events to serve a current plot need. For an old-timer like me, but maybe it’s just me?–the Kent/Jack relationship was retconned.

I started following the comics a few chapters in, lost interest in it, and came right back before when Kent was first introduced.

I want you to imagine reading right there with me.

So I liked this new character Kent but we knew so little about him. We knew then he’d figure in Jack’s life–and this was before Parse 1 2 3–because he was right there during Jack’s awkward teen years, Jack backtracks talking about Kent while Bittle was having his moment. Updates were scarcer than the number of movies Robert De Niro made in 2013, we pick up bits and pieces of what we could in between long time gaps, try to make sense of them (to be honest, speculating about Kent’s motivations and backstory was the most fun this comic ever was, but also the worst because haters). There were little bits of information that were set in stone:

kent was jack’s first best friend

kent was the only one who called jack “zimms”

jack called kent “kenny” fondly: You know when it’s the last summer of your childhood and you’re just hanging with your bro and you’re smoothing out his cowlick and you fondly call him Kenny while trying not to think about how mercilessly cruel fate is lol you know bros being bros

there were pre-angst shenanigans

the 34 days before the draft were “perfect” and Jack smiled a lot then

when Bitty first asked about Kent, Jack said “parse and i owe each other a lot of apologies”

To a Parse fan like me who’d been reading along, these weren’t just bullet points. I held onto them like a lifeline. These were the only ‘canonical’ material we had on Kent except one night of douchebaggery, but even that reeked of yearning and lashing out out of spite out of being rejected; notably what we knew of Kent and Jack before they had a falling out were largely painted in a positive light. I think you’d have been blind then to ignore how it was heavily implied that that relationship was emotional in nature. Arguably romantic, but definitely emotional. To quote a more expounded meta on this:

it’s been established that jack and kent were best friends when they were teenagers. jack is characterized as kind of awkward and private. he grew up with celebrity parents and was a hockey prodigy growing up around a lot of attention and pressure. i think it’s important to acknowledge that while jack was probably going through a lot around this time, parse was able to befriend him and support him as a best friend. as best friends they probably trusted each other with a lot of secrets, but after whatever happened to break that trust with each other, those secrets turned into ammunition. in parse3, parse happened used his on jack to express his anger and bitterness. jack probably has ammunition on parse as well, but wasn’t in a position to use it. based on the reading, i think the most realistic theory is that jack and kent are involved in a conflict where both parties are at fault.

Looking back on it now, I’m trying to read all of the above and ask myself if that was a lot of extrapolation to have made. Because right now, I still can’t look past the belief that that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption to make.

Now, after the Year 3 Comic 7 update, if you take Jack at his words, they (1) only hooked up a few times, (2) it’s Kent who never got over it (3)that relationship with Kent wasn’t anything more than “physical hockey.” Should we take him for his word? Maybe, maybe not, but I think that’s a moot question, because the comics hinged Kent’s relevance based on how heavily he affects Jack. And after that update, Kent’s relevance is nothing. The comics would present Jack now as a matured, well-adjusted adult with a lot of perspective (without any trace of his other issues existing at all) and that’s who he’s supposed to be when he says those words, and according to him, it was a meaningless relationship and Kent was just a guy he used to do sometimes.

Did we over-interpret? Maybe Jack only smiled a lot because he was getting some? But how about the things he knew he should apologize about to Parse? What about freezing out his best friend and shutting him out for years and refusing to talk to him even though he apparently knew Parse had feelings for him?

Maybe N changed her mind midway. Maybe the canon was intentionally misleading. In any case, the tvtropes page for retcon includes this:

As the number of twists and misdirections in a story becomes higher, it becomes more difficult to tell whether an event actually is a retcon (which implies that the writers changed their minds), or a misdirection (which implies that the writers intended the “retconned” version all along, and had been deliberately misleading the audience before). In some cases, it is impossible to tell, short of reading the author’s mind (even then, it might not helped, as it’s entirely possible for an author to be on the fence about what they’re planning to do)

But at the end of the day, it was still Jack buddyfucking his bestfriend while calling him a petname, and then snubbing him afterwards.

But to answer your question here are some of the information that have their ORIGINAL source material deleted by Ngozi:

this post which the wiki cites as material for the following

Kent is 5'10" and about 175 pounds

He arrived at the Epikegster in a rented Porsche 918 Spyder, which the lacrosse bros took pictures with.

He was Jack’s first best friend.

He is the only one who calls Jack “Zimms”

most of the above info were reposted here except the Porsche bit.

The sources for the following information were deleted by Ngozi too:

Kent’s middle name starts with V

that Kent has a cat

that Kent was born in NY

on July 4, 1990

that tweet where she says Kent was Jack’s first best friend.

#omgcheckplease #omgcp critical #kent parson #jackparse #Anonymous

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Destiel Fic Rec List Part 4

Last Updated in October 2014. Posted in May 2020 for posterity. Header graphic used with permission.

This list contains: 33 fics.

Other Destiel Rec Lists: Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.

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Casturbatus Interruptus by gaugbrojotr

E | 6k | Canon!verse, Hot, , PWP

post-9.01, in a slight AU wherein Cas comes to live with the Winchesters at the Bunker. Written before 9.03. Crossposting from Tumblr. Written for a prompt from hightopsandsharpies: "Okay, so Cas is a virgin, and has no idea what pleasure is and Dean decides to show him and Cas gets all cuddly and needy afterwards. Dean walks in on Cas masturbating. He’s doing it all wrong, but when you’re a bazillion-year-old virgin, that’s to be expected. Dean decides to lend him a hand in a totally platonic, non-romantic way. Things get a little out of control.

that awkward moment when... by highermagicv

E | 7k | Hot, wing!Kink

All in all, with a full tank of gas and his radio turned up loud, Dean was in a pretty damn good mood. All that vanished into shock and concern when the sky lit up like daylight, as though someone had decided that black was so passé for nighttime.

This Temporary Flesh and Bone by misachan

E | 5k | Canon!verse, h/c, wing!kink

Castiel doesn't serve Dean, fine, Dean has no problem with that - he just wants to know why Castiel's showing up in his dreams again.

What a fabulous little Fic. Very emotional. S4 cas is my FAVORITE.

Only Fools Rush In by baka_sensei

E | 18k | Canon!verse, soulbond

Dean does something and in angelic tradition that means he's become Castiel's fiancé. Dean doesn't know if he wants to get married, but he doesn't want to let Castiel down either. Cas lets his feelings run away with him, Gabe is a total dick, Sam is concerned, and Dean has to make a choice.

Learning Curve by blualbino

T | 1k | Fluff, Canon!verse

Cas has nice lips. They’re soft looking. Plush even. Dean can do this.

Dinner At Katz's by nanoochka

E | 2k | Hot, canon!verse

Dean might have to teach Cas how to have a When Harry Met Sally-esque orgasm, but he certainly doesn’t have to fake it.

Free With His Hands by watermaline

E | 2k | canon!verse, handprint!kink

The first time it happens, Dean chalks it up to…well, he doesn’t chalk it up to anything, he’s too busy coming his brains out in his jeans with Castiel’s hand on his shoulder.

Desecrate that Sanctuary by brokentoy

E | 3k | Hot, Alt!Canon Verse

Dean develops a fascination with Cas' bones.

What Once Was Sacred by saltandbyrne

E | 55k | Hot, AU, Cop Dean, DJ Cas

Los Angeles detective Dean Winchester works tirelessly to atone for the sins of his father one case at a time. When his best friend Charlie drags him to visit Sam at his new job, Dean stumbles onto a bizarre string of deaths that brings him uncomfortably close to his past.Dean can't stop thinking about Castiel, an enigmatic DJ who plays the sexiest music Dean's ever heard. A chance encounter at Castiel's house reveals that Castiel is an incubus, and Dean must face the lies and the reality of his childhood as a hunter. Dean comes to see that he and Castiel have more in common than he thought, and that guilt can be the hardest thing to cast aside.

Freefall by LastKnownWriter

E | 128k | Hot, Fluff, AU, Teacher Dean, Firefighter Cas

AU. The most exciting kindergarten teacher Dean Winchester's life ever gets is when he plays mechanic in his uncle Bobby's shop on the weekends. That is until a birthday party goes tequila-nova and he trips into a one-night stand with an incredibly hot firefighter named Castiel. Dean's life gets a lot more exciting after that.

The Best Years of Our Lives, My Ass ❤ by ireallyhatecornnuts

E | 110k | Hot, Fluff, HS AU but not really,

AU after Season 8, episode 6, "Southern Comfort." Dean goes to sleep in a motel room in Texarkana, and he wakes up 17 years old, in his childhood bedroom in Lawrence, Kansas, 1996. He has no idea how he got there, why his parents are still alive, why his brother is an adorable freshman with no memory of his adult life, and why the only ally he has in this place is the angel he left behind in Purgatory – somehow also 17 years old. They have to get out, that's the important thing. Only, falling in love with his angel wasn't a part of the plan....

It's like a HS AU... but better! I love how Dean is given a second chance at growing up, and Cas gets to engage with his humanity is painfully familiar ways. Some homophobia from non-central characters.

deus ex nihilo by Valyria

E | 7k | AU, dubcon, god cas

Lost on an uncharted island, Dean Winchester is captured by the local villagers and offered up as a sacrifice to their winged god. Castiel takes one look at Dean and decides he wants him for a mate.

Twist and Shout ❤ by gabriel

E | 97k | Angst, AU, Main Character Death

What begins as a transforming love between Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak in the summer of 1965 quickly derails into something far more tumultuous when Dean is drafted in the Vietnam War. Though the two both voice their relationship is one where saying goodbye is never a real truth, their story becomes fraught with the tragedy of circumstance. In an era where homosexuality was especially vulnerable, Twist and Shout is the story of the love transcending time, returning over and over in its many forms, as faithful as the sea.

Do I really need to say anything? Twist and Shout is one of my favorites simply because it made me bawl. Didn't love the characterization, but I still liked it overall.

Angel Slayer by emwebb17

E | 138k | Jensen/Misha, Mystery, AU

FBI Special Agent Jensen Ackles tracked a serial killer dubbed the Angel Slayer for six months in Washington, DC—the murderer was vicious, depraved, carved the names of angels into the victims’ chests…and eluded capture. Over eight years later, a murder in small Elton, NH has too many similarities for Jensen to ignore. Paired with a green agent, Jared Padalecki, Jensen travels to Elton to solve the case that has been haunting him for nearly a decade. In the course of the investigation the agents come across a local police officer named Misha Collins—who may have a deadly connection to the Angel Slayer.

Carry On ❤ by TamrynEradani

E | 148k | Hot, AU, Sub!dean, Dom!Cas

When Sam gets into Stanford, Dean needs a bigger paycheck than Bobby's garage can give him. Luckily, he knows a guy.

Forget 50 Shades of Grey, they should make this fic into a movie! Even if you are not a fan of Sub!Dean, give this fic a shot, because it is nearly perfect.

Glasses by Samanthapin

E | 9k | Fluff, High School AU, punk!cas, nerd!dean

Teasing turns flirting turns dating turns grossly soppy boyfriends

beer and bacon happy hour by outpastthemoat

G | 2k | canon!verse, s8

The problem is that Dean’s been having good ideas all night. “No one insults the trenchcoat,” Dean says, and drives his fist into the other dude’s face. Dean figures he was bound to run out of good ideas eventually.

Hard Road ❤ by aleishapotter

E | 54k | Canon!verse

Dean discovers a few truths about himself when he and Cas are forced to go undercover on a hunt to the very last place Dean ever thought he'd find himself: a gay resort called "Last Hope" that is geared towards helping troubled homosexual couples repair their relationships. This fic is hilarious and hot--my favorite things.

Dean Smith Verse by TamrynEradani

E | 17k | Hot, BDSM, AU, Sub!Dean

Dean Smith is a man of routine. Castiel takes him apart.

Bratishka: Little Brother by Valyria

E | 33k | Cop AU, Cop Dean, Lawyer Cas

Dean thinks he knows pretty much everything there is to know about his best friend Castiel Novak - he's a smart, gorgeous DA who probably lets Dean get away with more than he should to see the bad guy locked up - but it turns out Cas is hiding some dark family secrets.

the way to a man's heart by mkhunterz

M | 15k | Fluff, Canon!verse

Dean teaches Cas to cook, and other things as well.

Branded by garrisonbabe

E | 12k | | canon!verse, soul bond, marking/claiming

Michael mocked Castiel, telling him he'd never get Dean the way he truly wanted. No matter the mark on Dean's soul, he'd never get him the way the archangel could take him. Dean finds a ritual that fixes that and a few other issues.

Our Bodies, Posessed by Light by obstinatrix

E | 39k | canon!verse, sastiel bromance, Fluff

Purged of all his souls, Castiel is a changed being, stronger than an angel and too powerful for Jimmy's body to contain. Happily, there's an archangel's vessel on hand, and he could use fixing, too. Dean isn't too happy about the idea of his brother acting as a vessel for Castiel, and Sam can guess why, but it isn't until Castiel gets inside his head and they learn to share the vessel -- and their thoughts -- that Sam realises Cas is as in love with Dean as Dean is with him. It's unfortunate that there's nothing much to be done about it now, but Castiel will get another vessel soon. The Winchesters will make damn sure of that. In the meantime, it's up to the three of them to establish their own strange accord, and Dean realises more fully than ever that it's Castiel, and not his vessel, that he loves.

So Glad We Made It ❤by scaramouche

M | 16k | Fluff, AU

At twelve years old, Dean makes a friend, who becomes his best friend, who will eventually become the love of his life.

Oh, the best friends who grow up together AU. I have a soft spot for fics like these-- comes with pining, awkward misunderstandings, and a good basis for a realistic relationship.

Shut Up (Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is) ❤ by kototyph

E | 23k | Fluff, college au

Dean's done some pretty stupid things, but getting drunk-hitched in Vegas to a colleague he barely knows might just take the cake. His surprise husband, Castiel, is a little weird but likable despite that, and Dean figures they’ll go back to Boston, get a quiet annulment, and go their separate ways. Six weeks later, he’s still married to one of the strangest, most genuine and definitely most dangerously lov-- likable guys he's ever known. Dean doesn't know why or really even how it’s happening, but it’s getting harder and harder to remember that he has divorce papers to file.

FLUFF EVERYWHERE! This is definitely a feel-good fic and I love reading it when I'm sad. Or just you know, whenever.

But the Fire is So Delightful by kototyph

E | 5k | Hot, hate then love, College AU

Apparently, it’s been snowing all day. [Dean is a Douchebag Fratboy with a Cherry Ass, Castiel is Angry and Aroused]

Stitches by askance

T | 23k | Fluff, h/c, blindness, Canon!verse

Castiel survived Leviathan--but only barely. Vessel mauled and eyes destroyed, Cas is barely clinging to what's left of his grace when Dean finds him naked and alone on the reservoir's edge; in a panic, Dean brings him home to the cabin where he and Sam have been holed up off the grid. What follows is the slow process of the angel's recovery and the unexpected changes that come with his being blind, and in the three months this takes, their little family slowly begins to patch itself back together in forgiveness, love, and darkness.

When Charlie Met Cas by riseofthefallenone

E | 25k | Fluff, canon!versE |

Charlie is back in all her glory. The Winchesters have showed up on her doorstep and she’s making the best of it the only way she knows how. By being the little sister Dean never wanted and shipping the shit out of Destiel.

The Curious Case of Wee Baby Cas Things by tracy_loo_who

G | 4k | Gen, crack

In which Dean and Sam get saddled with a herd of Cas-like baby animals. Meanwhile, Castiel just wants a hug.

The Life After the Morning After by saltyfeathers

T | 17k

Dean and Cas get uber drunk on their last day of University. They end up married. Neither of them seem to mind.

The Girlfriend Experience ❤ by Rageprufrock

E | 15k | Hot, Canon!Verse, First time

While it's not like Dean hasn't had a couple of truly regrettable hit-and-runs in his sexual history, this is probably the saddest fucking thing that has ever happened to him.

Classic Casturbation fic. Complete with steamy sexytimes, hilarious dialogue, and fed up and clueless Dean. Perfect.

Asunder by Rageprufrock

E | 23k | Sam/Ruby, Hospital AU Fluff,

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:6)

Hands, From Which All Things Are Built by MajorEnglishEsquire

T | 14k | Canon!Verse, s8

Castiel travels with the angel tablet and without the Winchesters. One day, Dean gets a text from some anonymous number. (They speak in the language of need.)

#destiel #deancas #destiel fic recs #supernatural #spn #*#list

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Heyo, its ya girl, stars anon, back at it again with the daily request. How would the RFA + Saeran + V react to MC being an actress / voiceactress in their favorite show / movie / video game? Thanks for the good work!! Oh just a heads up, tomorrows request is gonna be a bit angsty (i lied its gonna be v angsty, lolol) ! Anyways, I hope you have a good day / night !! Stay safe and be positive !! -Stars Anon

Stars Anon~ it’s always nice to see you in my inbox(✿◠‿◠) as always, i love your requests and you!!!

Thank you for always stopping by! you always make me feel so appreciated ahh have a good night / day too! and i’ll get myself ready for angst, thanks for warning me

all that was in my drafts from last night but here we go!

zen

when mc first came over, he knew they looked familiar

but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it

which was fine, he was still so happy to have them over

but when they left and he was getting ready for bed, it hit him

wait. that was his favorite actress for the lead role in his favorite musical

and he is shook. wait wait wait, that was mc????

he had been dreaming of getting a role in that musical one day

with someone who could do half the justice mc gave that role

and he met them. and he didn’t realize it until now

tries to keep his fanboying lowkey, but loses it when they sing

they ask to sing the duet with him

zen just about faints

but they sound so good together!!

yoosung

yoosung recognized mc’s voice, but barely

it’s over the phone, so maybe they just sound like someone else

he really doesn’t notice until he got bored one day and decided to log onto LOLOL, for old times sake

he goes through those random voice clips they give sometimes

and he gets on to this one character and plays a few

that one character sounds familiar…

“hey yoosung!” mc says, “look what I got from the store. it was a total score!”

that was conveniently what that character just said and they sounded the same

“wAIT MC REALLY?” “..yeah? they were on sale..?”

“no i didn’t know you were a voice actor on LOLOL!

oh yeah, that was A Thing they did

yoosung always asks them to say stuff and they let him meet his favorite character’s voice actor

a total score, indeed

jaehee

jaehee was really into this movie

zen had a small role, but she was really into it for this one actor

like,,,, holy shit

noticed right away when she met mc

tried to keep her fangirl down, but had to ask…just to be sure

mc confirmed and she squealed just a little

mc finds it adorable

they’re also a little embarrassed when they watch that movie, but they get back at jaehee for it by whispering some lines to her

jaehee gets really blushy when that happens

it’s adorable

sometimes jaehee continues the line and then they end up acting out the whole movie

jumin

its rare that jumin is really interested in something

but he does have a guilty pleasure - which is this one soap opera

he met mc, and recognized her

asked right away, but showed no signs of fanboying

:((

mc confirmed and he complimented them on their work

however. jumin does fanboy a little

he just shows it in different ways

meaning: he totally reenacts scenes with them

it’s amazing, really

mc really likes when that happens because it shows that he’s really interested

reruns were playing once and they found jumin crying at this one episode

“honey! what episode is that-”

“the one where your character gets hurt..”

what an angel

707 / luciel / saeyoung

this boy knew

and had no shame in fanboying

thought he was out of their league

but also played along

“if you voice act this character, does that mean you can really act like them?”

makes cosplay for them

mc actually really appreciates it and wears it more often than they probably should

not that saeyoung is complaining

he loves it

“your character can’t have a love interest unless it’s me, whoops”

v / jihyun

what a supportive baby!!

but he’s also totally in love with their acting

it was his favorite movie!!!

thinks they really capture the scenes and the emotions

is lowkey jealous of that onscreen kiss they did once

mc teases him about it

he always rolls his eyes and is like, “it’s fine, you’re mine after all.”

mc grins and kisses his cheek “I know, jihyun”

he’s still lowkey jealous though

“…do you kiss me like that?”

“no, jihyun.” he pouts

“I kiss you with even more passion.” and now he’s blushing

saeran

what is saeran into, you ask?

this one video game, but its a kind of an obscure one

so even mc is surprised he found it

gasps when he finds out and asks them about the experience

they describe it to him and he thinks its so cool

mc has developed a habit of saying those little encouragements from the game to saeran

it actually helps him, how cute

it’s an automatic pick me up trick for mc

sometimes he complains about it being unfair

but he loves it, please don’t stop mc

#mystic messenger #mysme #mystic messenger hc #mysme headcanon #saeran and v's are short :((#zen mysme #hyun ryu #yoosung kim #jaehee kang #jumin han #707 #saeyoung choi #v #jihyun kim #saeran choi #ams has rambled #anon #a request!#the stars anon

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resbang-bookclub · 7 years

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AMA Transcript: Now the light falls

This week, @lunar--resonance stopped by to talk about their Resbang, Now the light falls! Here’s some of what went down!:

Q: What inspired this fic?

Lunar: makapedia sent me a prompt for Ghost AU back in 2015 and I wrote this: http://lunar--resonance.tumblr.com/post/119962051400/41-for-soma-o. I had so much fun with the prompt that I started a notes file on it and it got so long that I was like, yeah I have to split this up into different fics. I knew from the beginning it was gonna be a trilogy, and I have basically all of the plot points planned out for each fic which is why there are some things that go unexplained in Now the night falls. Some of what I wrote for the original prompt differs from the actual fic but that was where it all got started. :D The plot went through many drafts and revisions ahah. What I envisioned when I wrote the prompt is v different from the fic. I had a draft running before Resbang started and then I hit a rut so I had to take it to pieces and regroup halfway through so that was fun.

Q: I want to know if Soul actually made Hiro's pudding explode cause he was jelly or if it was just Hiro being Hiro.

Lunar: Soul got jelly, but he didn't mean to make the pudding explode lmao.

Q: I'm super hype that this AU will have more stuff! I was like "they didn't answer a bunch of questions, this universe is super huge and well developed." "IMMA ASK ABOUT A SEQUEL!"

Lunar: YES I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH THE WORLDBUILDING AND YOU WILL SEE A LOT OF THAT IN THE SEQUEL. Esp with Ghostbusters squad. I'm so excited for them to play a bigger role in the sequel.

Q: What was your favorite part to write?

Lunar: I really liked writing when Maka and Soul are out on the roof because that's one of the first times they truly connect. And I was really looking forward to writing the possession scenes lmao, like I had that planned way back in the earliest drafts. I had to do it. And it's also going to be a big plot point in the sequels. ;D

Q: The roof scene made my heart burst.

Lunar: The roof scene was one of the most emotional scenes I wrote and at first it was originally slanted that Maka was the only one going through anxiety stuff but after one of the revisions, I made it so Soul was also going through stuff (for secret plot reasons) so it was interesting to write two characters who are both very not okay support each other.

Q: What have you learned from participating in Resbang for three... years? FOUR?

Lunar: I participated in Resbang when it first started which was in 2013 I think?? So four years. WOW THAT'S A LONG TIME. I would definitely say that my writing process has been developed and refined so much, I basically had just begun to write when Resbang #1 rolled around so basically my process was just WRITE. Now I actually list and plan everything out in plot instead of being like, oh I didn't know the story was going this way. Which happens sometimes still lol, just not as much.

Q: What was your process like?

Lunar: For writing I like to go through things chronologically because my brain allows no other alternative so generally I make an outline of the main points I want for each scene. Generally snippets of what I'm envisioning come alive during that part so I also jot those down and by the end my doc is a trainwreck so I re-organize and that really helps me cement the timeline for the scene/chapter. Then I start writing and if I hit a rut then usually what I do is force myself to write in bullet points of what I want to go down but just....can't find the words. Because I know if I stop writing I'm just going to be staring at a blank page for two hours lol. OH AND MUSIC. That is super essential for me getting into the headspace of a character. I can't write without it.

Q: Do you have playlists you'd like to share? Or general artists you listened to a lot?

Lunar: I didn't make playlists because I would have procrastinated with that instead of writing but I basically listened to these songs on repeat while I wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwx6BNwXBaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VBc7VIibRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so8V5dAli-Q http://listenonrepeat.com/?v=7FDAkpQSJVA#Fountain_soundtrack_-_Death_is_the_road_to_awe. With the exception of Control all of them are instrumental, which helps bc sometimes lyrics can get distracting.

Q: Is the pudding exploding an HP reference?

Lunar: YEAH THE PUDDING WAS AN HP REFERENCE LMAO.

Q: That bullet point thing is neat! Do you find it helps you to get out of your rut when you're having a hard time with a scene?

Lunar: The bullet points help SO MUCH. From past experience I know if I run into a block its going to take me forever to get out of it, so forcing myself to write and flesh out the scene def gets my inspiration going again. Breaking out of blocks is such a difficult struggle x.x It wasn't until my last Resbang fic that I figured out the bullet point method was the way to go lol.

Q: Did you have to do any extra research for this fic, and if so, what kinds of things did you look into?

Lunar: Working out the different levels of ghosts and how they evolve into each other took some research, I only hinted at it somewhat in the story but ghosts and the poltergeists are related as well as other ghosts that we haven't seen yet ahah. Also names of places like Orcus Hollow. I put some research into that bc symbolism and future plot points. Supernatural stuff was the main thing tho.

Q: Did anything inspire that sort of in between world with all the spiderwebs?

Lunar: Mmm so the in-between world is the new witches' realm; it's kinda like its own dimension overlaid on ours. So Arachne's part of the realm is overlaid on Orcus Hollow which was why there were all the spiderwebs and spider beasts and is also why Soul and Maka ended up in the same place in that dimension.

Q: That's v neat - looking forward to seeing it play out in later parts of the series. ;)

Lunar: Me too. ;v; There was so much that I put into developing this universe but there's only a fraction revealed bc the story is only from Maka's POV (with the interlude being the exception) but in the sequel I know for sure I'm going to be switching between Soul and Maka pretty evenly and adding in some other characters' POVS as well. So that will be fun ahah. I've been working on the sequel and there is gonna be angst. The obvious conflict is that Maka is alive and Soul is not but there is other pain that I kinda hinted on in the story that will be a much bigger part of the two sequels, especially this upcoming one. I have like, one happy ending and several sad ones ahahahah.

Q: What was the most rewarding aspect of this Resbang for you?

Lunar: Ahhhhhh there were so great things but I really enjoyed bouncing ideas with my artists, they helped keep my inspiration up. Also after being haunted (haha) by this idea for so long I was excited/nervous to see what people would think and if it lived up to expectations or not.

Q: I'm still waiting for ghost fam to make a reappearance. Q: Same. What happened to ghost fam? Except jk we will probably find out in the sequels, I hope.

Lunar: I LOVED GHOST FAM. I GOT INVESTED LOL. That was one part I meant to not go in much detail in but I realized it was needed to explain Maka's issues with ghosts later on. AND YEAH YOU WILL FIND OUT IN THE SEQUEL. ;D

Q: Are we gonna get to see more of Soul learning about modern things? Cause that was one of my favorite little details of the fic.

Lunar: That was a fave detail of mine too ahah. I have sections that I wasn't able to fit in the story of Soul experiencing riding in a car and going to the mall for the first time. I'm debating whether to see if I can work it into a prompt for SoMa week?? Or just finish and publish them lmao. It will get published one way or the other lol.

Q: Whats your [worldbuilding] process? Have you developed and tricks or hacks?

Lunar: Generally I start out with: what is necessary for the plot, especially from a reader's perspective? In answering that question, it's very easy to expand on that and develop from there. Like, for example I knew that Soul was going to be a unique kind of ghost so I figured out what kind of ghost he was, then built on that to make the other levels of ghosts you see in the story and in the sequels.

Q: Where did [that] idea come from?

Lunar: I was rewatching the episode of Maka and Soul facing off free while they were fighting and the part where Maka is like, is Soul trying to eat my soul, made me think about the process of becoming a kishin in canon. And I was inspired and borrowed from that in making the different levels of ghosts in Ghost AU.

Q: How'd it spiral into a trilogy? Was that always the plan?

Lunar: The plan was always a trilogy from the get-go; when I was initially planning out everything, I knew that all of the plot points weren't going to fit into one fic, but luckily there were two breaks within the plot points that made it easy to section it into a trilogy.

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‘The Wrath of Jeffrey Keaton’ Review

Fellas, I got a confession to make: the following review is HEAVILY biased.

Y’see, I helped write what I’m about to assess.

Okay, so, there’s this collective of horror nerds living somewhere in the States, and they write creepypasta audio dramas. Back in 2014, I reviewed one of them - ‘Needles and Smiles’. I said it wasn’t very good, and explained why for about two thousand words. They found the review, and were so impressed (?) that they contacted me via the comment section on Wordpress to ask if I would like to edit their latest script.

A caveat: editing one of their scripts had, at that point, been my dream - no, fantasy - for more than a year.

I agreed - this was August 2016 - and they sent me the script in September. It released in its entirety a couple of days ago. The lad who hired me has asked me to write a review of it, and hell, it’s the least I can do to thank him for letting me fulfill my dearest wish: proofreading.

Let’s get to it, lads!!

Production Values:

Chazz Ravenelle spent eighteen months mixing this thing. Fuck you for even thinking that I’m gonna criticize even a single second of his work. I think it broke him inside a little. So, in sum, the acoustics, soundtrack, and ambiance of this entire drama kick ass. There were a couple of moments where a certain character’s Voice of Legion made one or two words hard to make out, but that’s just a quibble. Well done, Chazz. It sounds better than some Hollywood movies I’ve seen, and I didn’t have to buy a ticket to see it. Score: 10/10.

Acting: Possibly the best out of all the dramas so far. I particularly liked how Patrick Ferguson, who plays Jeff, injected a whole array of emotion into what can be a one-note character - rage, defeat, amusement, glee. And Chazz as Eyeless Jack was deeply impressive - he pinned down the perfect mix of British arrogance and grief-stricken vulnerability (in this version of creepypasta, Jack is London’s Jack the Ripper). I also enjoyed David Near’s raspy, angsty turn as Toby Rogers. Good work, lads.

The Script:

I helped write it, so I’m not even sure if I’m allowed critique it. That said, I’m gonna try. See, Chazz sent me his own draft to edit, and I have to say that what came to me was already pretty decent. All I did was polish the syntax, fix some wonky lines, and - the fun part - beef up Jeff’s character. I figured that he’s getting pretty tired of being repeatedly blown up/filled with cockroaches/shot to death by his own sister, so I amped up the angst a little. But it really didn’t need any serious alterations. Chazz had the plot and research pretty much down, so I really didn’t need to do much.

Personal Reflection:

Look, I do have a couple of regrets. But they’re nothing to do with Chazz or Patrick Ferguson. One of those regrets is the inclusion of a wendigo in the script as a generic scary monster creature. Had I done some research myself, I would’ve found out that a wendigo is unlike other mythic creatures in that it is strictly a Native American legend and may not be appropriated by folks such as myself. Sorry, guys. Also, looking back, there were maybe one or two lines that weren’t strictly in-character, which I apologise for.

But, on a more positive note, I adored this project. I want to stress that this was not a dream, but a daydream - the kind of daydream where I’m competent and handsome and in charge of something important. The daydreams I had where I wrote for the Jeff Keaton saga were in the same category as the ones where I marry a beautiful woman who helps me write the Great Irish Novel, and then we win the Nobel prize for literature and make a baby. That kind of dream. The fact that it came true - that something I helped make is on Youtube, currently being enjoyed by thousands - is still difficult to believe. Thanks, Chazz. Thanks, Patrick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3597s&v=vaf9HWBYhp8&app=desktop (Chapter 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVb4HCoRvB8&t=2756s (Chapter 2)

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