#it's for the plot

[melissa7102004]

Oh.

#dreammare #that feeling when you wait for more than 500 years hoping to reconcile with your soulmate and then hearing this #nightmare #dream #and my horrible handwriting #as usual #and that is a flower ring anyway #dream asked ink to solidify it so it won't withered #background bsp #it's for the plot

[kottkrig]

*unalives and necromances you again*

#undead dks are so sad #bro you went through this twice #it's for the plot #character: mordvic #kottart

[nolita-fairytale]

welp. all the life-ing has caught up to me and i think i've been out here in the real world for long enough, now filled to the brim with inspiration. tonight may be the night i break my hiatus. hello again!

#my life choices? #it's for the plot #carmy berzatto x reader #chef luca x reader

[unhinged-arsonist]

Zeus: *calls all the gods to war against Kronos*

Dionysus: *God of wine, orchards and fruit, and vegetation, not sure how he's supposed to help fight the King of the Titans* Get ready to get mad drunk cause ain't no way I'm doing shit sober!

#incorrect quotes #heros of olympus #incorrect percy jackson quotes #percy jackson #greek mythology #mythology and folklore #mythology #zeus #dionysus #wine god #dont come at me #i know he has more titles and he's not powerless #it's for the plot

[velocitytimes2]

@adrenaline-revolver and I talk all the time about there having to be some form of big reveal brewing with Steve’s parents. 

Like, he’s been in every season as a pivotal character and we still haven’t met them? We don’t even know their NAMES? You cannot look me in the eye and tell me that that isn’t deliberate and thought out. Them being absentee in S1 was plot convenience. Them just being... never around after that? Except in small one-off comments? Yeah I don’t buy that as plot convenience any more. 

The only other main character who I can think of whose parents we never see or know about are Robin’s but there’s extended media where we DO know about them (The podcast). 

Steve’s are still this giant blank space in the lore and it makes my skin itch. 

Are they involved with the lab? Does Steve even have parents? Are they alive? Dead? What’s the STORY here? 

Maybe I’m watching too many lore-centric shows and shit but I just have this feeling they’re important to s5? 

#steve harrington #stranger things #stranger things s4 #harringroveson #harringrove #steddie #it's for the plot #like yeah #but WHAT PLOT

[payte]

“Cinderella”

Excuse me are you actually going to do what I hope you’re not going to do?

After all of this time I’ve been invested in Snow and Hunter?

You’re going to trample on my heart like this?

😭😭😭

#asks #It's for the plot #anon

[mrbexwrites]

Last Line Round Up

Tagged by the fantastic @dontjudgemeimawriter. You can find their awesome snippets here

I’m working my way through some awesome feed back from Beta Readers, so back on the editing train, whilst I work out the plot kinks for my next WIP in my head.

Passing the tag onto some of the new people who found me!No pressure, as always, and if you’re not up for future tags, please let me know :D

@palebdot @mjjune @elbritch-kit @leebrontide @btranscrolls hello there!

Snippet, as always, below the cut-

From Memento Mori Part II:

I sat on the bed, and held my face in my hands. 

Taking deep breaths, I tried to force down the panic that threatened to overwhelm me. I gulped in air as my ribs felt like they were trying to squeeze my lungs out of my chest. 

“You’re okay. You’re going to be okay. Everything is fine. You’re going to be okay,” I repeated to myself, gripping the edge of the bed, and rocking back and forth. “You’re safe. Everything is okay. Get it together.” 

Gradually, the panic subsided. I was able to breathe again, and I wiped the tears away from my cheeks. Ideally, I would have splashed some water on my face, but that was an amenity I was missing. I could tell that my face was puffy and blotchy, so the thought of walking out to the shower block again, with the risk of bumping into the soldiers who would instantly know that I had been crying, kept me where I was.

#Morgana Dodds #She's having a bad time #but when isn't she #sorry Morgana #it's for the plot

[rhaenys-queenofkhyrulzz]

Listen right, the mctna ep 14 canon divergent fic I'm writing? Warning from now that's it's going to be VERY fucked up. So you dear Tumblr users can decide one level of fucked-uppery for the fic.

#mctna #my country the new age #my country: the new age #seo hwi #nam seon ho #yi bang won #fanfiction #Wip #I swear I'm a normal functioning person in society #It's for the plot

[musicalchaos07]

Chapter 9 might be an Argyle sidequest

#it's for the plot #and also the laughs #and a little for me #personal #academic rivals au

[tenrose]

Why do the fuck do they all want to touch the unknown matter? Are they being stupid on purpose? 😤

#i know it's a show #it's for the plot #hopefully irl nobody would be this stupid... #yes???? #1899 #1899 spoilers

[asteroidtroglodyte]

#troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost #anti doomscroll patrol #fuck advertisers #fuck youth worship #you’re just getting started sweetie #there’s so much plot left to uncover

[bethanythebogwitch]

Some writers: *meticulously plan out every plot point and the tone and meanings before they start writing*

Me:

#My plot is a skeleton and I throw words at it to see what sticks #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writing memes #wallace and gromit

[apollos-boyfriend]

we have GOT to kill tiktok/twitter self-censorship i just witnessed a grown adult say the word “smex” out loud to our professor

#icarus speaks #JUST SAY SEX!!! #my proof professor was SO confused too #because she had said sex. other students had said sex. IT IS NOT WRONG TO DISCUSS THAT!!! #WE WERE WATCHING A MOVIE ON FRIDA KAHLO. THIS IS INTEGRAL TO THE PLOT

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

#good omens #gos3 #season 3 #s3 not plot #not plot #arnold the animated aardvark #funny #3ep1

[reactionimagesdaily]

#this is the plot of Dragon Age #reaction image #reaction meme #daily reaction images #image mood: [undefinable]

[figtreeandvine]

I want to write a movie that is sort of the flip side of a Hallmark holiday movie. Not an anti-Hallmark movie, just like the other side of the same coin.

It starts with a well-dressed professional woman driving a convertible along a country road, autumn foliage in the background, terribly scenic. She turns onto a dirt road/long driveway, and stops next to a field of Christmas trees, all growing in neat, ordered rows, perfectly trimmed and pruned to form. She steps out of the car--no, she's not wearing high-heels, give her some sense!--and knocks on the door of a worn but nice-looking farmhouse. An older woman, late fifties maybe, answers the door, looking a bit puzzled. The younger woman asks if she can buy a Christmas tree now, today. The older woman says they don't do retail sales--and the younger woman breaks down crying.

Cut to the two women sitting at the kitchen table with cups of tea. The young woman (Michelle), no longer actively crying, explains that her mother loves Christmas more than anything, but is in the hospital with end-stage cancer. Her doctors don't think she'll live to see December, let alone Christmas. Nobody is selling Christmas trees in September, so could the older woman please make an exception, just this once? The older woman (Helen) regretfully explains that they have a contract to sell their trees that forbids outside sales. The younger woman nods, starts to stand up, but the older woman stops her with a hand and asks her what hospital her mother is in. After she answers the older woman says that "my Joe" will deliver a tree the next day. "Contract says I can't sell you a tree, but nothing says I can't give you one."

Next day "Joe" shows up at the hospital in flannel and jeans, with a smallish tree over her shoulder. Oh, whoops, that's Jo, Helen's daughter, short for Joanna, not Joe. Jo sets up the tree and even pulls out a box of lights and ornaments. Mother watches from hospital bed with a big smile as Jo and Michelle decorate the tree. Cue "end of movie" type sappiness as nurses and other patients gather in the doorway, smiling at the tree.

Cut to Michelle sitting in her dark apartment, clutching a mug of tea, staring out at the falling snow and the Christmas lights outside. Her apartment has no tree, no decorations, nothing. She starts at a knock on the door, goes to open it. Jo is standing there, again holding a tree over her shoulder.

Plot develops: the second tree is a gift, because Michelle might as well get it as the bank. The contract for the tree sales was an /option/ contract, which prevents them from selling to anyone else, but doesn't guarantee the sale. The corporation with the option isn't going to buy the trees, but Helen and Jo can't sell them anywhere else, and basically they get nothing. They'll lose the farm without the year's income. Michelle asks to see the contract and Jo promises to email it to her.

Next day at a very upscale law firm, Michelle asks at the end of a staff meeting if anyone in contract law still needs pro bono hours for the year. No one does, but a senior partner (Abe) takes her to his office and asks about it. She says the contract looks hinky to her ("Is that a legal term?" "Yes.") but contract law's not her thing. He raises an eyebrow and she grins and pulls a sheaf of paper out of her bag and hands it over. He reads it over, then looks up at her. "They signed this?"

More plot develops. Abe calls in underlings--interns, paralegals, whatever--and the contract is examined, dissected, and ultimately shredded (metaphorically). It's worse even than it looks--on January 1st Helen and Jo will have to repay the advanced they received at signing. The corporation has bought up a suspicious number of Christmas tree farms in previous years after foreclosure, etc.

Cut to Abe explaining all this to Helen and Jo while sitting with them and Michelle in a very swanky conference room. The firm is willing to take on the case pro bono, hopefully as a class's action suit for other farmers trapped by the contract--but there's no way it can go to court before January. Which will be too late to save the farm's income for the year. They might get enough in damages to tide them over, but….

After Michelle sees Helen and Jo out, she comes back and asks Abe if there's anything they can do immediately. Abe looks thoughtful for a long moment, then gets a really shark-like grin on his face. "Maybe…."

Cut to Helen wearing a bathrobe, coming into her kitchen in the morning. She looks out the window…and there's a food truck stopped in her driveway. She pulls a coat on over her robe and goes out--two more trucks have pulled up while she does this. Driver of the first truck asks her where they park. Another truck pulls up behind the others. Behind that is a black BMW--Abe rolls down the window and waves. Helen directs the trucks to the empty field/yard next to the house. Abe pulls up next to Helen's car and Jo's truck and parks. He and Michelle get out--Abe wearing a total power suit, Michelle in weekend casual.

The case will be easier if the corporation initially sues them for violating the (uninforcible!) contract, rather than them suing to corporation (damn if I know, but it's movie logic). So they're going to sell the trees now, and rounded up some food trucks and whatnot to draw people in.

Cue montage of Jo and Michelle running around helping people set up while Abe and Helen watch from the kitchen table. The table starts out covered in file folders…and slowly gains coffee cups and plates of cinnamon rolls. It becomes increasingly clear here that Abe and Helen are becoming as close as Jo and Michelle.

Everything gets set up and a very urban, very motley crowd appears--tats and studs and multiracial couples and LGBTQ parents and everything--and everyone is having a wonderful time eating funnel cake and choosing their tree so Jo and a bunch of rainbow-haired elves can cut it for them. At which point someone shows up from the corporation (maybe with a sheriff's deputy?) and starts yelling at Helen, who's running checkout. And suddenly Abe appears from the house and you realize why he's wearing that suit on a Saturday….

Cue confrontation and corporate flunky running off with their tail between their legs, blustering about suing. Cue Jo kissing Michelle. Cue Helen walking over and putting a hand on Abe's shoulder and smiling at her.

I want the lawyers to be the heroes because they are lawyers and know the law. I want a lesbian who lives in the country with her mother. I want urbanites to turn out as a community to help someone who isn't even part of their community. I want Michelle to keep working at her high-power job, loving Christmas and grieving her mother.

#hallmark #anti-hallmark #movie plot