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BILLIE PIPER Grazia Interview

#billie piper

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"We tried." "Not hard enough."

9-1-1 (2018-)

#911

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dean grumbling abt having to wear little outfits on a case in 1x16 when canonically we know dean loves a little outfit and then following up his grumbling with money issues being the reason he’s so annoyed:

and like. it’s played off as a joke as always like ‘ha ha our lives are so hard scamming money’ but like. money anxiety and financial insecurity would be a very real fear for dean and also it’s not the first time he’s put emphasis on how he earned his money only to have sam make light of it. and it just highlights in my mind how much dean really did shelter sam from their shitty childhood and how much responsibility dean took on when it comes to their finances for sam not to have the same anxieties surrounding spending money like in 1x05 Bloody Mary where sam just drops a ton of cash to bribe some guy and dean’s like quietly losing his mind watching this all go down and then snaps at sam that he earned that money and sam just doesn’t see it as a big deal. wild 

#spn for ts #dean and money #deanie baby #sam

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When will I find my people on this webbed site

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This is a promise. I’m not going anywhere. I’m done running. Me too.

#madney #911 #this is so good

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Jensen Ackles and Justin Hartley as Russell Shaw and Colter Shaw Tracker (2024) | 1.12 – “Off the Books”

#the way justin is holding the gun. .. . . ... #jensen ackles #justin hartley #tracker

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endverse cas definitely doesn’t die in that gunfight. he crawls his injured stolen body out of the warehouse and collapses next to dean’s body, where he will wait to die with his head pillowed on dean’s shoulder even as his corpse stiffens. their skeletons will tangle up like a married couple buried in the same grave, or even two animal fossils that will baffle whoever digs them up in a thousand years

#deancas #spn for ts #this is an IMAGE

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Etruscan names are so funny. Vanth? Tanaquil? Those are antidepressants

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Camille Rankine, from "History", Incorrect Merciful Impulses

#oh

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Immediate Writer's Block

Had a comment on another post where I thought I'd probably need more space than the notes in which to respond, so:

constant-state-of-self-discovery Oh I get the envy I feel it right now how the fuck do you manage to write without impassable writers block after 5-9 sentences because I haven't fucking figured it out lol

I do have some advice on this!

I think most writers get blocked from time to time, it's normal and my general strategy is just to wait it out, but if you're frequently blocked after only writing a very little bit, I think the problem is one of two things: either you don't know what you want to achieve with the scene you're writing, or you don't know what should happen next within the scene to achieve that goal. If you frame "I'm blocked" as "I don't have an answer I need" then often you move from just sitting there, sweating and staring at a blank page, to thinking productively about how you're going to get where you're going. It's the difference between not knowing an answer and not knowing an answer but knowing where to look for it.

An invaluable piece of advice for this, which I think I picked up from someone who got it off a National Novel Writing Month messageboard, is "When in doubt, ninjas attack." It's not meant to be literal, you don't need to have ninjas or fight scenes just because you don't know what to do, but it helps to get the creativity flowing again. If you don't know what should happen next, or you know but you're having trouble actually writing the scene, it can be very helpful to induce a moment of uncertainty or surprise -- to have a metaphorical ninja attack. One time I did this literally -- the POV character was just on the road somewhere and I didn't know how to get them from a pastoral country road to their actual destination in an interesting way, so I had them get attacked by highway bandits and have to fight them off, which also allowed me to demonstrate that the character had significant unarmed combat skills. But it can also just be like, two characters who are having a boring conversation can be interrupted by a third person, even just a stranger asking for directions, or there can be, IDK, an explosion, or something goes missing, or etc.

Sometimes it also helps to leave it alone but keep it in your mind and go do something else -- listen to a podcast, take a walk, read a book, not because those things are distracting but because all our inputs eventually feed into our brain and come out as reactions. If you're thinking about your book while you're wandering around a park, something you see in the park might have an impact on it. If you've got YOUR story in mind while reading someone else's, you might be more inclined to look at what they're saying and see what you think of it, how it might play into your work.

And honestly, sometimes you just gotta go past it. I'm working on the next Shivadh novel right now and it opens basically with Simon the chef getting into a spat with his love-interest-to-be over some cheese. He want the cheese, she won't sell him the cheese, so they get off to a very contentious start. But I suck at writing conflict especially when it's basically "A character I like is being pompous and another character I want people to find likable is being stubborn and somewhat unpleasant". I've been stalled on it for a while. But I know where the scene ends up, like I do know what the goal is, so I just...skipped it and went on to writing a scene I like better, where they meet a second time and actually discover each others' identity and that they're about to be forced into the grownup equivalent of a school project. Once I've gotten dug deeper into the story I'll come back and write it, and by then I'll have the benefit of knowing the love interest a bit better.

So yeah -- I think a lot of breaking a writer's block, especially when you don't need rest but are just stumped about what to do, is to twist and look at it from another angle. It's not that you don't know what to write, or don't want to write what you know you have to -- it's that you don't have the correct answer to a question, or you need to leave that part alone to ferment and come back to it later. At least, for me.

#writing advice #long post #ref

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looking fine

#spn fanart #spn for ts

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65/100 days of min yoongi

#yoongi #bts #i love him sm

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Dean's eye for visual patterns, symbols, and finding hidden objects and rooms 1/? | 1.16 Shadow

#deanie baby #spn for ts

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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in the morning, before anything bad happens by Molly Brodak

#oh

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No one Hot Girls like Castiel Hot Girls.

#cas #spn for ts