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100 Days of Writing: Day Sixty-Three

I decided to catch up on The 100 Days of Writing and then I... accidentally wrote a large number of words. In my defense, this is like 2 weeks’ worth of questions. Also I skipped the ones I didn’t have anything to say about so actually this could be worse.

(I’m not even kidding, this is really long. I talk about writing rituals, tools for plotting, my thoughts on opening with dialogue and why I don’t like it, my favorite topics, the weather, and what length of fic I like to write.)

I’m tagging, and apologizing to, @the-wip-project and fellow participants @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold, @thelittlefanpire, @hopskipaway, @easilydistractedbyfanfic, @dylanobrienisbatman, and @fontainebleau22.

Day 49: How do you get yourself in the mood to write? Do you have a ritual?

Every time I tell myself I’m going to get back into doing these questions, I see this one in my bookmarks and go nope! and turn around. It’s not a hard question; I’ve just been having trouble consistently getting into the mood to write, so I feel like any answer I try to give to it will be, in some sense, a lie. Like do I ever get “in the mood” to write? Really?? Also, I feel like I’m relying too much on ‘ritual,’ building up ‘the perfect writing situation’ in my head, which at the end of the day is less important than just saying ‘I’m going to do this now’ and then doing it.

I do have some things I always do when I sit down to a writing session. I write on my couch. Almost always (unless I’m on an event deadline where I just have to write in bits and pieces whenever possible), I write in sprints—I use write or die to keep me actually typing and not staring into space. I write in order, and I often write a whole scene at a time. So before I start I need to have at least a couple solid opening sentences in mind, plus some kind of idea about what happens/needs to happen in the scene. In order to get in the right headspace, I usually spend some time just thinking before I actually get to writing. I reread my outline or notes, and skim whatever I might have already written on the project. Sometimes I look at images that help me get in the right mood. Sometimes I just imagine or daydream for a bit. The difficulty, especially recently, is in making sure I do this just enough and not too much, because then I get too caught up in my head and I can no longer translate what I’m seeing into words.

In a broader sense, I also have a building up to writing ritual—again, I think this is part of my problem, that I don’t know how to balance this build up with actual writing. In the hours/days before writing something, I turn it over in my head a lot. I practice different versions of those critical opening sentences. I play it out like a fantasy just to see if there’s a possible flow, even if the final version is different. Basically, I try to turn it into something that just needs to be written, that just needs to get out. But again—this can lead to overthinking and frustration.

The best way I can describe writing for me is that, when it goes well, I find a rhythm, or enter into a zone, where I can describe the images in my head in a way that’s both accurate and pleasant to read. But entering that zone or finding that rhythm is like jumping into a game of jump rope. If you don’t do it right, you’re just going to trip over your feet and get tangled in the rope. But if you do it correctly, it’s fun and exhilarating and you can keep jumping for a long time. Sometimes it takes me some false starts to jump in. And recently I’ve been having days where I just can’t at all, where I tangle the rope up so much I can’t unknot it. Those are the days I just have the same sentences repeating over and over in my head, sounding wrong, and I can’t do anything about it. On the other hand, I write in much longer sprints than I did a couple years ago. I used to only write partial scenes, maybe a few hundred words. Now I can write whole scenes without stopping, and on a few occasions, I’ve written multiple scenes or even whole stories without stopping. So in other words, when it works, it really works. But it doesn’t always, and there’s not a lot of in between.

Day 50 What fic/story made you?

Um… honestly I’ve been writing, in general and fic specifically, for such a long time that I didn’t have a ‘maybe I can do this’ moment. I mean one problem I’ve never had is thinking I can’t do this. I had positive reinforcement for my school and academic writing, and for a long time my fictional stories were just for me, and I knew what I liked. Even just thinking about my fic writing… I’ve been posting fic online since 2006, and I’ve been in multiple fandoms. I don’t really have much connection to a lot of those early stories anymore. They feel like they were written by someone else, a little. I’ve also moved on from most of the fandoms I wrote for in my early fic days so I don’t feel like I can really judge them anymore.

That said… there is kinda an obvious answer for my Star Trek fic lol. I also have favorite stories, and stories that stick out even years after I wrote them, in all (or at least most) of the fandoms I’ve been in. But I’m not sure if that’s the same.

Also, I had two teachers who were really encouraging of me and who I still think about often. One was my seventh grade English teacher, who had us do a lot of writing exercises of various types, both large and small, including keeping writing journals we wrote in every day at the start of class. He once told my mom that I wrote well, not for a seventh grader, but in general, and to be honest I still think of that with some regularity and take a lot of pride and comfort in it. The other was my creative writing professor in college. I don’t think I did my best work for that class, but she was very encouraging and seemed to like what I did. At the end of the semester, as I was preparing my portfolio, she told me that if I didn’t want to do much editing, I didn’t have to, because my unedited work would stand on its own. Again, especially considering all the problems that I saw with my writing for that class even then, I really took that comment to heart. When I’m feeling very self-critical, I remind myself that even my raw scribblings have, perhaps, something to them, and it helps ease the excessive and unwarranted pressure I put on myself. These aren’t really stories about specific writing pieces that ‘made’ me but I do think they speak to that ‘maybe I can do this’ feeling.

Day 51: Do you use tools for plotting and what are they?

So, generally, no. Sometimes I’ll look at various writing/plotting/organizational tools as a method of distraction, but my actual process is very simple. I use plain old notebooks and pens, and word documents on my computer, to plan all my fics, from the one-shots to the multi-chapters. I start by writing down general thoughts and brainstorming, then I build a scene list and/or outline, and then, if necessary, I separate the scenes lists into chapters. Sometimes I break down the scenes even more, if I have additional ideas I don’t wan to forget or if I know I need to hit certain points in a specific scene. The process varies a little bit from project to project, but that’s basically all I do.

I did use Evernote to plan the (still unwritten….) Ark AU. I don’t know if that was the best program choice or if something else exists that would have more precisely met my needs. But that’s what I used and that’s how it is. It’s a little annoying that every time I open it, it’s been updated, and the interface looks totally different and I have to relearn where everything is. But the tagging system has worked decently to allow me to see the big picture of this complex, multi-strand, multi-character, multi-ship disaster epic of a story. I struggled to plot it for a long time because I didn’t know how to balance all of the different parts. In Evernote, I made one ‘note’ for each character, and one for each scene (in addition to miscellaneous notes about sub plots, relationships, questions, etc.). Then I tagged each of them, including tagging the scenes by chapter. So now I can look at a list of all the characters, or all the scenes, or all of the scenes in chapter 8, or whatever, but I can also look at just one particular note at a time, and not be distracted by anything else. That said, I do also have one note that is just a total scene list for the whole fic, which is pretty reminiscent of my usual outlining process.

So… somehow this helped me plot (tentatively) the whole thing, but as I’ve written almost none of it—I finished outlining this in February 2020 so in my defense… I think you can see why it stalled—I’m not yet sure if it was a successful experiment in a ‘plotting tool.’

Day 60: How do you start your chapters? Do you start with dialogue? Why or why not?

While I am definitely against prescriptive “writing rues” generally, as my own personal rule, I try not to start with dialogue unless I have a very good reason.

To be quite honest, I think it’s lazy. I do think that dialogue openings can be used well, if the writer acknowledges that they are intensely stylistic and, from a reader’s perspective, quite difficult. Even within fanfiction, where a line of dialogue (especially if accompanied by a dialogue tag or swiftly followed by a reference to the speaker) gives a lot more information to the reader than in original fiction, opening with dialogue still shoves the reader directly into the deep end of the scene, with very little to orient her. WHERE is the speaker? WHO is being addressed in the dialogue? WHAT is the context of the conversation? Who ELSE might be present in the scene?

There are reasons you might want to throw the reader in the aforementioned deep-end. Maybe it’s an in media res situation and you want to emphasize the overwhelming nature of the action—starting a scene with “Get down!” for example. Or maybe the overall mood is one of disorientation or floating or uncertainty, and you want to create the same effect in the reader.

But I think if you’re starting a scene with dialogue because that’s the first thing that comes to mind for you—the person who conveniently already has the setting, character list, and even future plot already in mind—and it’s just simplest and easiest to start that way, you’re doing a disservice to the reader.

For example, I actually am planning to start the next chapter of the Sleeping Beauty AU with dialogue. My POV character is in a room with multiple other characters, and she’s examining something meaningful to her and not fully listening to the conversation around her. So I want the dialogue to float around in the background, to feel unmoored, and to stand in contrast to the very precise, detailed thoughts and memories that she’s experiencing, which are grounded in physical sensations like touch.

I haven’t quite gotten it to work yet, though, in part because opening with dialogue and doing it well is, in my opinion, quite hard. The difficulty lies in alleviating the challenges the reader is experiencing and making the text fluid and easy to picture. You need to get all of that scene-setting information—the who, what, when, where, and why—in very quickly, but without being jarring. In this scene in particular, I have multiple characters, all in a comparatively unusual location, and I need to establish where they are, who exactly is there, how they’ve come to meet my POV character (which happens ‘off screen’ between the end of Ch5 and the beginning of Ch6), all on top of the character’s thoughts and feelings.

I know all of this very well. To picture the scene in my own head takes only a moment. I just think about it and I see all seven of the characters, where they’re sitting, how they’re positioned, what their facial expressions are, and I also know roughly what each of them is thinking and feeling. To describe all of this in words would take several sentences. Do I put all those sentences on the front end? Do I weave them in among other description and dialogue? Is all of it even necessary—maybe we don’t need to know who’s sitting in what order on the couch, for example.

I’ve gone over a couple of different ways to do this in my head, and I’m sure it is possible, but I’m struggling to get it all down in a coherent way. (Admittedly, I’ve only made one solid attempt. As I was describing above, I’m probably going to jump in with several false starts, and then it will suddenly click.)

My initial attempt to set up the scene relied heavily on dialogue, but when I read it over, what sounded snappy and interesting in my head just fell completely flat—because it lacked context and thus, any meaning. I think the gulf between how dialogue openings feel to the writer and how they feel to the reader is large. To the writer, they feel easy and natural. To the reader, they can feel forced and, contrary to the writer’s intention, serve as an additional reminder that this is a constructed narrative rather than an immersive experience—the opposite of natural. In other words, as I said, they’re a highly stylized form of writing.

To illustrate, this was my first try at the Chapter 6 intro:

"I still can't believe it," a lightly awed voice says from somewhere behind Clarke. "The Princess of Alpha Station really used to live in our quarters.”

She pictures Miller, sunk into the couch cushions, slowly shaking his head, the expression on his face equal parts satisfied and amused.

"Really? That's what you think is the oddest part of all this?"

"Yeah, Bry, I do. Would you prefer I gloat? About being right this whole time? Who says she's just a legend now?"

My current idea is to still start with dialogue, but to move back into a significant amount of description pretty immediately afterward, and only then add more dialogue. Even this is a little hazy, since I haven’t thought much about this fic in a while. But I do think it’s quite clear this won’t work.

As for how I DO start chapters/scenes/stories… I like to start with a strong image that sets the scene and mood of the story, and hopefully leaves the reader wanting to know more. Here are some examples of story openings I’ve written recently, which I like a lot:

When Bellamy is angered, deafening bouts of thunder shake the heavens.

The cawing of the crows—high, sharp, angry shots of sound. The buzzing of the telephone wires.

Marcus Kane's body shows up again in June, skeletal and rotting, six months after his disappearance at the turn of the year.

The sky has turned a bruised yellow, like the inside of a plum, by the time Bellamy starts seeing the robots in the fields.

At noon on the third-to-last day before Christmas, Murphy leaves the cafe, with a single peppermint mocha and a small paper bag, and heads right, walking parallel to the ocean.

The last one doesn’t seem as interesting but consider: you get the who, what, when, and where, the mystery of the paper bag and where he might be going, and also the immediate understanding that this is probably going to be a Fluffy Beach Christmas story—which is correct, that’s exactly what it is.

I’m not saying that I’m always creative or unique. I often start stories off with descriptions of the weather. And I have committed the ~~cardinal sin~~ of starting with a character waking up, heaven forbid. I don’t have any hard and fast rules for myself other than that I try to avoid dialogue, or at least, be careful about its use (another example: I use dialogue to start off Mad Women—but it reads like narration, until it’s rudely interrupted, a sort of in-joke/reference/twist). I try to match the mood of the story and, as I said, include something that will create a question for the reader, some version of why, that the rest of the story will answer.

Day 61: Do you describe the weather? Try changing a scene you wrote by adding weather effects.

After writing a book for the last question, here’s an easy one! Yes, I describe the weather. A lot. Often. In detail.

(Though if we’re talking about the Sleeping Beauty AU as my “current wip,” I actually don’t do much weather describing there, because 4 of the 6 chapters take place in a location with no weather.)

Day 62: What is your favorite thing to write about?

Honestly I like to write about people being dramatic about their emotions. That’s what I’ve discovered while writing my surprisingly self-indulgent Troped fic: I want to describe people acting as if Everything was the Most Ever. It’s fun. Part of this is getting into the usual romantic tropes—longing, pining, exaggerated touches and glances and the like—but why stop at romance when you also have stuff like The Weather and Random Feelings to contemplate?

I also like setting scenes that I find soothing, which is part of why I like Seasonal Stories.

Day 63: Are you more of a drabble/flash or a longfic/novel kind of writer?

I’m in the middle. I mostly write one-shots, and I’ve noticed that a lot of them fall in the 4-6k range. Long one-shots can get all the way to 10-12k but I feel like most of those are, semi-objectively speaking, too long, and would probably have been stronger if they were pruned down to 6k, or, better yet, never made it past 6k in the first place.

I have written some multi-chapters, or, uh, started multi-chapters, but I’m VERY bad at it. The only thing that makes me slightly less bad is being stubborn. Hence the existence of a WIP that I’ve had going for over 10 years now and refuse to call abandoned. Hence this year’s extended angst about the Sleeping Beauty AU, which is only 6 chapters but has taken me literally years to write. I don’t honestly know if I’ve ever finished a multi-chapter WIP, like, properly speaking. I’ve done some short multi-chapters that I wrote as if they were one-shots and then split up for ease of reading or, I dunno, just because. I wrote a Big Bang once, but it’s not very good. Nor very long, if I remember correctly. Generally speaking I probably shouldn’t be allowed to write novels lol—I have a lot of them in my ‘I should write this one day’ idea list—but as it so happens, no one can stop me, so here we are. I definitely have wild fantasies of writing multi-chapters with ease but I’m just a very slow writer and my ideas can’t keep up with my actual-writing. Thus one shots are much easier than multi-chaps, and one-shots on a deadline are much easier than ‘I’ll finish this whenever’ one-shots. One-shots written for events or exchanges also tend to be shorter (and, imo, better) because of the deadlines they’re written on, and are thus more likely to hit that sweet 4-6k spot than stories where I’m allowed to ramble at will.

All that said, I ALSO write a good number of drabbles/writing exercises. I used to write them more often than I do now, but still over the last five years I’ve produced 110,000+ words in free-standing scenes so like… that’s also a thing I guess.

#100 days of writing #my 100 days of writing #100daysofwriting

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mavofficial · 3 years

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🔮What does your OC think is their best trait. What is actually their best trait? What about their flaws? Are they one to admit these flaws or do they like to pretend they’re perfect?

🌸 What’s a sentence that would make your OC’s day better? One that would make them laugh? One that would make their day worse? Why? What words would you have to say to them to completely ruin their day?

🌷 How much effort does your OC put into their looks? Do they care much about how they’re dressed or what their hair looks like or are they not bothered? Could they be considered a snob or a slob?

holy shit i accidently wrote a novel

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I GOT THIS THREE TIMES askfdj;l When I got it the first time, I put it off because I was like "fuck if I know" then I got it two more times, so here I am. I guess the people really wanna know. 😂

"Oh, I'm an amazing sweet talker. Natural charm, breathtaking charisma. There's a reason why people love me in front of the camera."

I'd say Aiden's actual best trait is his creativity. I don't get to show it much because it's often buried under a lot of his baggage. While he hasn't honed in on his writing skills, he's still an incredibly talented storyteller; his approach to his characters are out-side-of-the-box; God, you should see him play in a D&D campaign - he'll full immerse himself into the game and it's just a thrill for everyone involved.

And that's where his flaws come in: Aiden often thinks that his biggest flaws is that he's a liability and an all-around toxic person. But the truth of the matter? His biggest flaw is that he's quick to give into self-fulfilling prophecies and spends time trying to be someone he isn't trying to mitigate damage of being rejected. Aiden's creativity is hidden behind his manicured personas, his substance abuse, his struggling mental health. No one really knows who he is; he doesn't really know either.

So would he admit his flaws? To his close friends and family? Yeah. To anyone else? Nope, he'll try to be as perfect as possible and the flaws that he presents to the public are vague and generally admissible.

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"Hey Mer, everyone loves gaming with you and really wants you to take the open spot in my D&D campaign."

---This would brighten up his day because he's actually being asked to particiate in something he love AND people apparently love having him around. Also the use of his first name means that it's with someone he's close with, which is incredibly validating.

" 'Why, You Stuck-Up, Half-Witted, Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herder!' "

---Aiden adores Star Wars, he'd love to sit with someone and just banter about the films. He'll laugh to out of context quotes, memes, jokes that use Star Wars as an element, the list goes on and on and on. Basically guaranteed to put a smile on his face.

"Oh... you aren't like how I imagined you."

---Aiden strives to be perfect in the eyes of so many people. There's something that would hurt him a little if he realizes that he didn't live up to a fan's expectation of him. He can't imagine how heart broken if he met -say- Mark Hamil and the guy was nothing how he imagined. The idea that he could do that to a fan hurts.

"Don't you think that all these games and silly space fantasy stuff is a little childish... and you know, perhaps you should probably find hobbies that are more your age?"

---Aiden's relationship with childhood is kinda an unspoken theme I have going on with him. A lot of the things he loves now and an adult are thing that he'd been familiar with basically his whole life. Video games, tabletop, Star Wars, Lord the the Rings? He was into that stuff before he started working at Disney. This is the stuff that gives him comfort when he's in a bad headspace and all of it is kinda sacred in his head - someone telling him to give it up and grow up would be devastating to him. What would make matters worse, there's a fair chance he'd do it as a means of keeping that person happy with him. A lot of his childhood keepsakes were thrown out on impulse; so what he has left are prized possessions. A good example of this is his LotR blanket, one that he absolutely refuses to use when he'd under the influence in anyway. It feels like he'd taint the blanket if he did.

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He puts SO much effort into his looks and has two personal stylists to make sure there's always effort put into his looks. He keep tracks of tends and makes a point to know what's in and what's out. He cares about what he wears, when he'll be wearing it, how he wears it, and what people think of him when he's wearing it. He can be pretty lazy with his hair on a bad day but when he has time, he has a full hair-care routine.

He has wardrobes built with certain events in mind but it's not like he'll publicly wear the same thing twice to a similar event (perhaps a modified version to a smaller event or when he's out with friends but his wardrobe is always up to date). He gets really particular about red carpet outfits and interview outfits. He's loyal to a handful of brands: Armani, Hermes, Calvin Klein, and Moschino immediately come to mind.

To top it off, he'll get like this with his friends as well. Their looks affect his looks and if the squad doesn't look on point, he might be a little pissy about it. (...so it's probably pretty obvious that he'd a snob at this point jkfkjsda)

I think this is a fun part about Aiden's character because this is actually him being pretty genuine. I think this comes from him taking comfort in knowing that he's allowed to be more expressive with his clothes as long as he's picking from the top brands; it's a way for him to quietly engage with a tiny part of the queer community while he's in the closet. Some of his fashion choices aren't genuine but the general act of being into fashion & style is very much a part of who Aiden is and will be around when he's being his authentic self. You can see his love for it carry over into his true interests where he'll often show up to a D&D session dressed as his character and even pour money into having a cosplay professionally made.

#✰ asks ✰ plasticine dreams; cigarettes; and beauty queens; goodbye to your privacy #✰ headcanons ✰ your drunken mind's nostalgia grabs the wisps of a boy you once knew

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terribleben10opinions · 5 years

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Ranking mutant Kevos

Birds fly, fish swim, I’m a high functioning moron with both a superiority and inferiority complex and Kevin will always mutate into a scary mutant boy, but not all these mutations are equal because I said so. Lets kill more time while my gamers thumb heals (yes that’s a real thing and yes I hate that it’s called that) and RANK EM.

6. Alien Force mutation

This guy is at the end for 2 reasons. First being it’s pretty boring, homeboy get’s an entireful of omnitrix energy and all that happens is that he gets rough skin? Having this power swap didn’t even become interesting because it was always surface level “oh I’m big uggo now” it would’ve been cooler to show practical problems to this like his wooden legs catch on fire or he has to wash up with WD-40 to prevent himself from rusting, he’s just ugly and can make hammer fists PLUS he owns an ID mask so he can just be normal?? I’d like it better if he put on the teenage mutant ninja turtle get up with a fedora and trench coat. Second reason for it being shit is that it doesn’t make much sense, with the other mutations it followed a set logic, Kevin absorbs multiple flavours of alien transformation energy so he transforms into a fusion dance of them, so why this time did he just become seemingly earth materials? Is it because he absorbs the matter so much it’s in his DNA?? DOES HOMIE HAVE DIAMOND AND WOOD IN HIS GENES???? It just seems lazy in design and usage HOWEVER we did get some sick episodes like the one where Kevin tries to reverse his shit with DarkStar, that was dope. If I was making this I’d have Kevin do the halfer omnitrix mutations when he absorbed stuff and always a little bit stays over i.e he absorbs stone and get’s the stone bit on half of him and then the other gets one big chill hand and half a face but normally it’s just the hand and half a face meaning that there’s some stuff the ID mask can’t cover up), this would’ve made more monstrous looks for Kevin and given him more powers AND for cartoon Network WAY more toys.

5. Ultimate Kevin

Okay I get what they were going for here and before I get into criticisms I want to give some due credit. I appreciate that he’s supposed to be an even MORE patchwork version of the OG Kevin mutation but even stronger and more unhinged, and honestly I like seeing the LODESTAR shoulder poking out of the swamp fire arm BUT with this due credit comes I think due criticism which is that this design looks ugly and stupid. How can you create this ugly motherfucker and not make him one, include all 10 original aliens in the design and two not make him look scary?? I get the feeling the designers gave Kevin the cloak to make him look brooding and menacing but it really just looks like my man is into LARPing. Also why does he have just a couple brainstorm legs dangling where his legs are supposed to be? All the other designs kept the legs the legs and the arms the arms so why for this one did they change it? It doesn’t look horrific or anything it just looks bad to me, like they couldn’t think of any way to include brainstorm so they just tossed the legs there.I think the most damning design choice they made was fucking up his head. If I was making it I would’ve gave him a more Kevin face (instead of Jetray the ugliest alien ben has) and given him alien eyes, maybe one echo echo and one big chill?( I know most of the UAF aliens have similar eyes but you gotta keep some aspect of the eyes thing, especially if they’re both just green.) I think the face and eyes thing really helps show the humanity but also the lack of it. Or they could to the opposite and keep the jetray face but give him normal Kevin eyes to show the humanities. Finally the mismatched feet are just odd and what's even odder (more odd?) is that he walks just fine! I TRIP JUST WALKING IN MY SKETCHERS AND THIS GUY IS FINE SUPPORTING 10x HS NORMAL WEIGHT ON 2 MISMATCHED FEET HE’S NEVER USED?? This design went hard but when you go too hard you just have a boner in biology and look stupid.

4. Omniverse Kevin (old)

Honestly for the most part this design looks good, the colour contrast is nice and I like how his head is Kevin straight but with red evil eyes. The curse of this design is that half the aliens are more “serious” aliens (Grav attack, Feedback, crash hopper, astrodactyl and shock squatch) and then the other half are the jokey more fun aliens (Bloxx, Peskydust, the worst, ball weevil) so his whole tone is kinda inconsistent. I think for this one they should’ve gone with AtomiX for the bloxx arm, dual astrodactyl wings, whampires head thing (or toe picks) and just remove the two extra arms. This is nitpicking but how does Kevin even have the extra arms? THere’s no forearms/ spidermonkey DNA going on so it seems weird to have the extra arms. I’m being mean though, this design is aesthetically pleasing just a bit too all over the place.

3. Kevin 11,000

This design isn’t bad per say, it’s problem stems from having Kevin call himself “Kevin 11,000″ and then add like 2 extra alien powers. I like the cthulhu like tentacles and the upgrade one jutting out of the four arms arm also the spooky heatblast head is badass. But c’mon guys, he still has those 2 wildmutt arms? What’s he even use them for? Ass scratchers?? This is a cool design but promised too much and gave us very little, that being said for a like 3 minute max screen time it’s an impressive design.

2. Rooter Kevin

This one honestly shouldn’t be this high but it represents something I really hoped for in the original series which was to make a new fusion Kevin with Ben’s new aliens and this is a good design! I like the Eye guy eyes used as cannonbolt’s arm armour, I love the use of Way Big’s head fin and give him an excuse for size and strength and that this actually managed to walk the line of having Kevin’s face be recognizable yet fucked up. My only problem with it is that BenWolf (Blitzwolfer if you’re wrong) is only in Kevin’s right eyeball which is a bit lazy, i’d’ve liked the tail to be it but that’s just me. Major kudos also for having a Kevin mutation while also not giving him double arms (no alien force doesn’t get credit because this one was a stylistic choice and alien force’s was most likely a “ooooohhhh but that’d be hard :((((( )

1. Kevin 11

OOOOOH MAMA THAT’S A GOOD DESIGN. This patchwork design looks intimidating and powerful yet also maintains this weird uniformness by having a main anchor point of the design be Fourarms so our brains recognize the familiar fourarms but also seeing the strange additions making it walk the line between looking normal and monstrous. I enjoy how he uses the Wildmutt arms to help him run because his upper body is so massive. I like how he has that vestigial RipJaws dangler but for some reason can also swap his jaws out for RipJaws’s kinda like a real angler fish. The mismatched eyes are also awesome and I’d be really curious to see his line of sight. I only wish that his upgrade and ghostfreak parts were used more but even as just aesthetic pieces it’s fine. The only real dumb part is that he has normal feet instead of the XLR8 balls so his super speed is kinda weird to have but it’s fine, probably has to do with the muscles inside his legs anyway. I think real care went into this design and I like how Kevin has Ben’s powers filling the “evil man with heroes power cliche, but kinda subverts it by making them 10% as strong but also letting him use combos on the fly to make up for it. In short, good design.

#ben 10 alien force #ben 10 #ben 10 ultimate alien #ben 10 omniverse #kevin 11 #ultimate kevin #kevin 11000

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ibythetidepromotions · 4 years

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An interview with: Wax Vessel

Could you introduce yourself to the readers?

Nik Velleca - Founder/Owner/waytolongofaresponder

What led to the inception of Wax Vessel?

It’s actually a story in a couple of parts: the name (which is not interesting), the year before it started (mildly Interesting) and then the actual launch! Maybe two years ago I really wanted to get in to the whole Instagram vinyl collection showcase scene. Made a second account called Wax Casket (because it sounded cool) and did a couple hundred posts. No big deal. But at that time, it kind of out the inkling of an idea in my head. Fast forward a year or so, and Simon from WFAHM and I were taking about how literally every influential album from 2000-2010 was never pressed on vinyl. We thought about teaming up to do Ion Dissonance in vinyl (which is still a huge goal). It never materialized, so the label pages (renamed to Wax Vessel) kind of got shelved. Speaking of the name Wax Vessel (rant incoming) I landed on that name because I’m so fed up with the start of digital. MySpace deleting song libraries. Hard drives crashing. CDs getting bit rot. The only try archival format is vinyl. You could pull a WV release of a shelf in 2219 and it would still play. It’s a “time capsule” or “Vessel” for preserving history. Anyway. Fast forward to like 5 months ago - I had just stumbled upon PRR and they told me they were doing Destroyer Destroyer. I asked if I could just press the records to accompany that release, and viola! Here we are!

Wax Vessel is very unique, you what always comes to mind when I think of extremely rare and beautiful presses. What process goes into getting your visions to come together properly at the pressing plant?

So I’m glad you touched on this, because artisanal (barf) pressings are one of the tentpole features of WV. There’s so much that can be done with the format that it seems like an insult to just do single color records. I figured if I was going to bring all of these albums back from the dead after decades of never having a physical release, it might as well be in style! Otherwise someone will just repress it hah. But each release is its own project. My goal are always to have the color play with the album art, while also pushing the physical medium itself. Everything is very case-by-case, with the number of variants and the type of variant really just being subject to my mood haha.

Recently announced was the pressing for Dr. Acula’s S.L.O.B, congratulations on making it to WV007! From the posts I’ve seen on social media, you guys are really excited about this release. How would you describe Dr. Acula to someone who has never heard of them before?

Thanks! Dr. Acula was a huge one for me, they’re one of the forefathers of Deathcore in my opinion. They’re that early, wonky type of proto-Deathcore that uses a lot of samples before breakdowns and has a lot of inside jokes. It’s just fun, without taking itself too seriously.

They obviously got much bigger later, but SLOB was such a classic album, and a standout release from 187 records at the time (who really deserve all the credit for basically being the label pioneers of the genre along with Debello and BMA).

Wax Vessel focuses on pressing music from the MySpace era of metal. What about that era made it so memorable and dear to your heart that you decided to resurrect it in the wax form?

Man, prepare to watch me get spun up on this, haha. I’m really terrible at organizing my thoughts in to a cohesive essay on the topic, so as a kind of “stream of conciseness” ramble please accept this: 2000-2010 was just peak music. It was a digital Wild West with a bunch of talented Midwesterner pioneering new sounds for niche audiences. It was a perfect storm of a bunch of cultural factors playing out all at once. Literally all of these trailblazing bands were pushing envelopes and rail blazing new genres for No monetary gain and no fame. Every single review form music media was “this is unlistenable garbage”. They absolutely did not get the recognition they deserved at the time. I mean the “scene revival/20-9-scene” is more popular than the actual scene at the time! So what happens when you mix this new way to make music (digital production) with a new way to reach fans (social media/MySpace)? You get a fucking no holds barred race to make the most niche, unlistenable music in existence. The decade was a fucking blip in music history and then was lost to the ages. The internet was too young to preserve it, and to young for anyone to really use to their advantage. Just a lost decade. So I think that’s worth preserving. Especially since YouTube rips are the only thing left.

The default vinyl color of black is never an option with your releases, always seeing high quality, creative options for your limited presses. What is the reasoning behind this stylistic choice?

Black is such a fucking cop out. It’s only to save money. It’s lazy and requires no finesse or imagination. If you’re going to press records, go all in. Like imagine building a house in 2019 with all the modern amenities and building materials we have at our disposal and just building a 6-sided box. So boring. And for everyone who says it sounds best - black (carbon) is an additive for strength. Natural PVC is additive free and sounds better. So when I need a cheaper variant to offset the cost of some of the more expensive ones, natural PVC is always my go-to.

Have there been any challenges so far with the process of mastering these old files on vinyl? Were any of the music files hard to come across?

You have no idea! I feel like a lot of people see WV and then want to start a vinyl label, haha. But there’s so much craziness behind the scenes! Let’s start at the top - WV will only do a release if the band is on board, and the rights are retained. Mechanical licensing retained. Full quality tracks hunted down and mastered for vinyl. New art made (no one has their old art files) and laid out for vinyl. Then after all that, I have to drop $4k at the plant to get it pressed. Then promos and art made, coordinating with ZBR on timelines, etc. But none of that can happen without the tracks. Most of the time the band will have the master bounces, and it’s not that difficult. But on a couple of occasions I’ve had to rip old demos from personal CDs. I’ve even had to pay for a hard drive to be recovered for a band member so we could get tracks! I really believe that vinyl isn’t just for the fashion, so having great sounding records is top priority. Can’t do that with a YouTube rip! If we can’t get the best quality tracks, I won’t do it!

Any possibility of there being Wax Vessel merch down the road?

I mean I’m not sure anyone would give a shit! But if like 10 people messaged me and said they wanted a shirt, you bet! We would whip up a cool “no represses” design or something, haha. Maybe 2020!

With a new year right around the corner, what are some goals for kicking off the new decade in 2020?

2020 souls have some cool “firsts” for sure! I’ve got our first multi-LP box set dropping. First project with a hand-painted cover. First modern release (under a different side name, don’t want to dilute the WV name haha). Really what if love to do in 2020 is press Psyopus to round out the techgrind section. That’s a big goal! I’d also love to have a both and sell LPs at like a festival, but they all sell out too quick!

Anything else you would like to tell the readers before we go? Just a couple of blurbs! People always forget that wax Vessel is a non-profit and we give 100% of the money to the bands. So remember that the next time you think I’m an asshole for not doing something you like! We got a lot of hate mail about not doing represses, haha. To that point, there will never be represses. It’s a sticking point. I don’t want to make records that end up in dollar bins and eBay lots. I’d rather leave money on the table. I want to great collector items that will be cherished. All of these bands have been defunct for a decade. No one is coming back to just to try and make a quick buck. These are all swan song little fun presses for the core group of fans. For the 200 weirdo left who still care about early 2000s techgrind and vinyl, haha. It’s niche, but no one wants to make any money. It’s just a fun thing for the scene. Remember this is all for fun! Additionally, I see a lot of miscommunications that I’d like to get on the record! Please remember: Wax Vessel is its own thing. Not an imprint or affiliated with anyone. I shoulder all cost, design, etc for everything! So it’s very much WV as the label. I hate shipping and fulfillment, so ZBR [Zegema Beach Records] is WV’s official store. The mega studs over there (Dave and Dave) definitely allow WV to exist. If I had to ship everything, it would be one release a year haha. And super not last, WV couldn’t exist without Ryan Peter. I have absolutely no scene Fred, and Ryan gets fucking results. He almost single-handedly spreads the word and gets bands on board. Literally invaluable. All the records in the world mean nothing if you can’t get any bands to agree to get pressed! He’s a MySpace madman!!

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Ruin The Friendship (part VI)

Title: Ruin The Friendship (mini-series) Part 6

Word-Count: 6.7k

Pairing: Jay Park/ Reader (kinda)

Summary: Best friends to lovers. Inspired by Ruin The Friendship - Demi Lovato.

Genre: Smutty Fluff

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

I try to hide the smile on my face as Jay is scolded by his mother on the other end of a phone call. She barely lets him get a word in. Instead, his mouth is left open, little sounds coming out to interject.

“No, Eomma, I didn’t mean to keep it from you,”

My conversation with my own parents this morning went pretty much the same way. My mother scolded me for not telling her Jay and I had gotten together finally. My father had asked me to keep the public displays of affection to a minimum, in reference to the picture that has now been posted on almost every Korean blog site, and even some Americans sites.

There are also photos of me at Jay’s events popping up from the depths of the internet, all of my social media accounts have doubled in following, and there’s been a few younger girls trailing around my apartment and office. No one seemed to care when I was the friend from back home. As much as I thought none of this would be an issue, it’s turned out to be a bit inconvenient for me. I wouldn’t say it’s life-changing, I would just rather not have kids coming up to me to ask me about my boyfriend.

“Ok, we’ll make a trip soon. I promise. Yes, Eomma, I love you too. She loves you too. We’ll see you soon,”

Jay sighs as he finally hangs up. He sits on the edge of my bed and falls back, his head resting on my thigh. I reach out, running my hands through his hair.

“She thinks we’re getting married by next year. You also owe her an explanation so prepare for when you head back home,”

I laugh. “Yeah, well my dad’s not too happy that there’s a picture of me with some guy’s hands gripping my ass while he tongues my throat,”

“Those were his exact words?”

I smack his shoulder, laughing. “No, but he wants to speak with you the next time you’re in town,”

He blows out a breath through his pursed lips. He reaches up and grabs a piece of hair that hangs down in front of his face. “Are you ok?” He asks me seriously. “Really, Y/n, I need to know if you’re cool with all of this,”

I smile down at him. He’s been worried about me for the last week and a half since this first came out. No matter how many times I tell him that he’s worth all the small annoyances in the world, he still checks constantly. I think me potentially being stressed out is actually stressing him out which is counterproductive in general.

“My world is hardly collapsing, Jay,”

“People can be mean,” he whispers.

“So can I,” I tell him. “Everything is fine. I promised I’d tell you if I can’t handle something, and I will,”

He rolls his body so he can lay on my bed beside me. His arms come around my waist as he rests his head in my lap. He’s been more tired than usual. He has a few shows lined up the next couple of weekends that he’s been getting ready for along with what he calls a small American tour with some new music some of his artists are planning to drop soon. He’s been incredibly busy, we both have.

I have a few clients who need fittings and I told Jay I’d go with him to his first show in Macau next weekend. We’ve both been too exhausted to do anything more than fall asleep as soon as we see a bed. Most of the time lately, he’s been in his own bed and I mine. There’s been a night or two when we managed to stay up just long enough to fall into each other before crashing.

We’re both up early today, hoping if we start earlier we can end early too. Jay has a few radio interviews he needs to do for his upcoming U.S debut under roc nation. I’m on breakfast duty, which just consisted of me ordering food and waiting for him to get the door.

“You excited?” I ask him, running my fingers across his jaw. We’ve been in a good space lately even with our relationship going public. We talk again, just like before. We laugh and fall in love with new things. But we also give ourselves space. Sometimes you just have to miss someone to appreciate how much you want them close. We’re used to not seeing each other for periods of time. Neither of us wants to become too dependent on falling asleep right under each other every night.

We’ve discovered we aren’t set up to be clingy and inseparable. It’s never been like that. After we made up, we had a conversation about all the misunderstandings and faults we were having. For one, we can’t overthink any of this. We’re still the same people we were before he kissed me. It’ll be complicated if we make it complicated. So, we’re taking it a day at a time, and it’s been working for us. I also made sure to let Jay know where I drew the line at jealousy and possessive. I think he got it. My flowers are still placed around my apartment, thriving. No doubt they’re the expensive sets that last months without even wilting a little bit.

“For what, the interviews?”

“No, for everything else. The album, the tour, it’s just something different than what you’ve done before,”

His thumb circles my sides, gliding over my skin as he thinks. “I mean, I don’t want it to become something that’s too big for me. It’s different but I want to treat it all the same way I’ve been doing everything over here,”

“You nervous?”

He scoffs but I shoot him a look. He hates opening up. He rather keep the mood light and positive. He forgets I know him better than anybody.

“A little. Like you said it’s new. I’ve never been in a relationship on tour before. I’m apprehensive about how it will affect us,”

“Us?”

“I feel like I have to protect you, or I should say I do have to protect you,”

“I can handle myself,” I roll my eyes. “And protect me from what?”

He shrugs. “I don’t know. Whatever comes up. I just don’t ever want you to think I’m not thinking about how every move I make is going to impact you,”

“You can’t live your life for me, Jay,”

“You moved out here to be with me, Y/n. We can try to pretend that it’s not true and that your dream has always been to be a stylist in Seoul to up and coming idols, but I know it’s not true. The least I can do is be worth your time,”

“You’re ridiculous you know that?”

He laughs. “How am I ridiculous,”

“You should listen to yourself talk sometimes, that’s all. One day you’ll understand that I’m not just here for my health,”

“Then why are you here? All this time, I was with other people and you’ve just been here,” he trails off.

“Waiting, I guess,” I finish for him. “I’ve been waiting for myself to realize that it’s always been you. And waiting for you to get your miles in,”

“But why? How could you just watch me live that life and still want me like this?”

“You were happy,” I smile down at him. “And I was too. I just wanted to see you do well and enjoy everything around you because you deserve it,”

“That’s wild to me,” he says quietly. “I hated every single guy you’ve been with by the way,”

I gasp and hit his shoulder again. “You’re lying. You got along with most of my ex-boyfriends,”

“I didn’t have a choice. You loved some of them. In some way, at least. Like you said, you were happy, I was happy. We were stupid,”

“We weren’t stupid. We just weren't ready to be together,” I tell him.

“We wasted so much time,” his hands run over my thighs. “We could’ve been doing this years ago,”

I laugh. “Years ago you didn’t want anything other than aomg. And I was trying to figure my own life out,”

“I think we could’ve done it,”

Maybe so. Maybe we aren’t giving ourselves enough credit. I rub his jaw, the pad of my fingers drifting over his skin softly. He looks tired, if he’s not in bed he’s at the studio working. I keep telling him he doesn’t have to keep up with anyone but himself. He’s running himself ragged trying to help other people with their projects as well as working on his own. Of course, he won’t have it any other way.

“Why don’t you rest here and I’ll come get you when the food is here?” I say bending down to kiss his cheek. I try to get up but his arms tighten around my waist.

“I can’t the first interview is supposed to call in a few minutes,”

I try to get up again but he holds me tighter, burying his face in between my thighs. His teeth pull at my skin gently. The bite turns into suction as his lips work over my skin. I will never get his obsession with leaving marks on my skin. No one will see them so it’s not like it’s for anything other than his own self-satisfaction. He pulls back to stare at his work, a smirk on his mouth.

“You’re like an eighteen-year-old boy,”I roll my eyes at him while he switches to the other thigh. This time he bites a little harder.

“You’re coming to Wegun’s wedding with me right?” He asks suddenly.

“Do you want me to?” I raise an eyebrow at him. I’ve known about the wedding for a while now, and he’d asked me to go with him a while back. Now just seems a little more formal. I don’t spend much time with any of Jay’s friends, it’ll be weird to see them again as someone he’s dating now.

“Yeah, I do,”

I sigh. “Yeah, ok I’ll go. When is it?”

“Next Friday, then we’re flying out to Macau,”

I run my thumb over his shaved eyebrow. “You know how to keep a girl busy don’t you?”

He laughs and sets his chin against my thigh. “I’m not quite ready not to see you every day again,”

I push my hands through his hair. “Are you worried?” I ask him. “About us, I mean, not me,”

He shakes his head, pressing his lips against my skin. “No, not at all. You’ve always been my reason to come home. Even when we didn’t know it,”

I smile, pulling the corner of my lip between my teeth. It still feels like I shouldn’t be so lucky to hear him talk like this. Not about me. I’d always imagine what he’d be like in a relationship. If he was softer, and gentler, behind closed doors, it feels weird still to actually see it. The soft eyes, lazy smiles, he’s as much my dream come true as I am his.

“Why do you look like you’re about to cry or something? I’ve reached my quota of tears with you last week,”

I roll my eyes but force myself not to get emotional. I bend down to press my lips against his cheek, running my fingers over the spot.

“Be nice to me, we only have a few more days before you’re leaving me again,”

His arms tighten around my waist. He’s quiet for a while. There’s a wrinkle between his brows that tell me he’s thinking about something important. His mouth opens, he draws in a breath only for his lips to smack shut again.

“Spit it out, Jay,”

“I’m trying to be tactful, baby, give me a minute,”

“Tactful?”

“Yeah, you know, delicate easy-“

This guy I swear. I scoff. “I know what tactful means but when are you ever anything but blunt,”

“So, I’ve been thinking,” he starts.

“Yeah, I can tell by the way your nose wrinkled up just now,” I sigh.

Jay clears his throat. “No I mean, lately,”

“Jay,”

“Y/n,”

“Jay,”

“Can you just shut up for a minute,” he sighs looking up at me.

Whatever it is is important to him. I shrug my shoulders for him to go on. He starts again.

“I’ve been thinking that it would be easier for the both of us if-,”

I’m about to say something but he reaches up to grab my lips as he continues to talk. “You moved some or all of your stuff to my place. You know, if you want to,” he trails off as I shake free of his hand against my mouth.

“You want me to move in with you?”

He narrows his eyes at me, his head tilting. “Yes...no?”

“Absolutely not!” I say.

He sits up beside me.

This is the final piece of evidence I need to support the idea that men are literally the dumbest creatures on earth. Exhibit A, my boyfriend Park Jaybeom.

“Is that your answer to the question or a denial of the actual question?”

“It’s absolutely fucking not,” I laugh crossing my arms over my chest. “It’s no in every language, even the dead ones. Are you crazy?”

“I asked if you wanted to move in with me and you say no in every single language?”

“Absolutely not, Jay,”

I stand up, my feet carrying me around my room as I calm my nerves. I shake my arms out, crossing them, un-crossing, and then recrossing them. He’ll give me an early death. And the worst part is he’ll get away with it because he’s beautiful and can sing. Bastard.

“Can I ask why ‘absolutely not’?”

“Because for one, we don’t know how to operate seeing each other every single minute of the day. We just decided to give each other space,” I shoot at him, still pacing around my room.

He tries to say something but I continue to tick off the reasons he’s absolutely ridiculous on my fingers.

“Second, we’ve been dating for a month and a half,” I hold up my finger as he tries to give the bullshit about being in love with me for half our lives. “Third, moving in is basically marriage and you really don’t want to get married. You never have,”

“But why shouldn’t we get married? We’re in love, we’re happy, we’re in a good place,”

“Exactly! Wait, what? We’re not getting married. We’re in a good place. Do you know what they say about marriage? No sex, Jay. Can you live with that? No sex one day, then the next I’m going through a mid-life crisis because my husband is never home because he’s fucking Jay Park and then I have my mom asking why we aren’t having kids. And we can’t raise children with you on the road like this, right?”

I realize I’m rambling and I make no sense. But neither does he.

“Why would you even suggest it? ‘If I want to’?” I mimic his voice.

“One minute we’re fine the next I’m picking up your underwear and falling into the toilet because you left the seat up and then you’re complaining about how my shit everywhere,”

Jay stands and catches my waist as I pass by him. One arm snakes around my waist while the other pushes my messy hair away. He’s so soft. Even as I reject even the idea of living with him.

“Relax, baby. Relax,” he says again when I open my mouth. His stupid full lips pull into a smirk. His hands come up to hold either side of my face, thumbs working over my cheeks.

“I got it at ‘absolutely not’, it’s ok,” he tells me.

The way he’s looking at me is too much. His eyes soften on my face as I stare back trying to figure him out. Marriage, right now, is out of the question. Not only because we don’t have the time in his schedule, but we wouldn’t be doing it for the right reasons. We love each other, of course, we do. We just shouldn’t rush to take up each other’s space, even if it would be nice to fall asleep wrapped around him every night or to be who he comes home to after work.

“I’d be lying if I said I never thought about it,” I start slowly. “But when I do think about it, we’re more,” I trail off searching for the words I want.

“Settled,” he says.

I nod in agreement, dropping my eyes from his gaze. I focus on the cluster of stars on his neck instead, because now I’m thinking about it.

I run my hands up his sides underneath his t-shirt. “Why are you always ready for the next step?”

His lips press against my forehead. “I love you, Baby. I can’t get enough of you,”

I lean my head against his chest. No one has ever loved me the way he does. No one has ever been so determined to keep me their life the way he is. He’s simple, straight to the point, and it’s hard not to feel the same way. All those excuses, are simply just that. Excuses. Non-reasons meant to placate my anxiety over moving a step too soon and losing him.

“After you finish these next few shows, give me a month to get everything in order here. Then you can help me pack up my stuff when you get some time off,”

“You’re moving in?” He smiles so wide I can’t help but lean in to kiss him.

“Not right now, but yes,” I smile at him leaning my chin in the middle of his chest while I look up at him. His hands come up to smooth my hair away from my face.

“There’s a weekend no clothing rule for residents,”

“Funny you tell me that after I agree to live with you,”

“I don’t make the rules, babe,” he sighs and shakes his head like it’s out of his hands.

“Ok, I agree to your no clothes rule, but I want unlimited access to your closet and freedom to give away any repulsive clothing,”

I hold my pinky between us, wiggling it so he can latch his own finger around it. I press my thumb against his own, sealing the deal. He kisses my lips, then my nose and my cheeks, he moves to my mouth again. His tongue moves past my lips. As soon as I open my mouth for him, we jump apart as his phone rings. He scrambles to grab it off of my bed, pressing it to ear.

“Hello? Yes, this is Jay,”

I pass by him pressing a kiss on the back of his shoulder as he gets into his interview. I grab my own laptop to check any emails from Bora. Her and Jin landed a few days ago in L.A. From all of the pictures she’d sent me, they were having a good time, which makes me going that much more so the right decision.

I sit out in the living room and scroll through my recent emails. Several social media sites asking me to verify my accounts. I open the message up top.

*Hello, Mrs. Y/N. My name is Gina Waters. I work for a small American fashion magazine called Haute. We heard that you were involved with styling a rising artist for an award show this week. We’re interested in doing a feature on how you’d ended up in Seoul with your own company. Please contact us if you’re interested.*

Holy shit.

Press means publicity. Publicity means more clients. I could never imagine a time when my business could be in any kind of fashion magazine. If I’m honest, there’s not much of a story behind my business. What would I even tell them?

*I followed my best friend across the world because I was secretly in love with him and here I am!*

Jay comes out of my room. His phone in his hand. “Done already?” I ask while re-reading the email.

“One down, twenty more to go,” he laughs. He sits beside me throwing his legs over my lap. I lift my laptop and set it on his shin.

“Read this,” I turn the laptop toward him. “Do you think this is real? I mean they seem like they did a little bit of research,”

I watch his face as he reads through the email. He types something into his phone before handing it over to me.

“It looks pretty real,” he says.

I look at the page; full of links to online articles with a few thousand hits. This isn’t just a small magazine. They have a pretty decent sized following.

“You should do. Think of all the people who would be interested in how shit you are at learning Korean,”

“You’re really a pain in the ass,”

“You say that a lot,” he notes tilting his head. “Anyway, I have a few more calls and then I’m going to head over to rehearsals. I’ll pick up dinner on my way home,”

“You don’t live here,” I remind him again.

“So you don’t want me to get dinner?” He smirks. “Because I can just take it back to my place and let you starve,”

I set my computer down on my coffee table in front of me. I turn to Jay and wrap my arm around his waist. He pulls me down so that I’m laying on top of him. I wish we could stay here all night, watching bad tv and getting on each other’s nerves.

“Can you buy me ice cream too?”

Jay’s hands stroke up my back, his fingers pressing against my skin. I close my eyes savoring the feel of him. We have a week before Macau. A week of contented domestication until everything gets crazier.

“Actually, just stay here,” I say gripping at his T-shirt. His chest vibrates with a laugh.

“You go from telling me not to come back to wanting me not to leave,”

I lift my head to look at him. “I don’t want you to go on tour. I don’t want you to be big in America. I want you to stay here to love me and buy me ice cream,”

Jay sighs. His mouth touches mine softly before he pulls back to rest his head back. “15 shows. I’ll be home when I can. I’ll fly you out. We’ll figure it out, baby,”

“I know,” I say. “I know. I just, I missed you a lot before, but now,” I trail off pressing my face against him.

“You’ll be fine, Y/n. You’ll do better than I will. Besides you don’t even like me half of the time,” he laughs. “You’ll be so busy doing interviews you’ll forget about me,”

“Shut up,”

“I’m serious. I’m going to be begging for your attention while you sip margaritas with the Kardashians at the met gala or some shit,”

“First of all, Kanye is the real fashion icon of that family. Second, if you happen to get invited to the met gala, I’ll kill you if anyone else styles you,”

“Noted,” he smiles down at me.

Sighing, I sit up; straddling his hips. His hands go to my thighs, stroking up my skin. I smooth my hands over the center of his chest. “Go to work, and don’t forget my ice cream, and try not to come home too late,”

Jay shakes his head at me; a wide smile on his face. “So demanding,”

“And you want me to move in with you. Are you sure?”

“It's the reason why you’re moving in, baby. You’re just so damn hot,”

I stand, rolling my eyes at him. “I take my pinky shake back,”

“That’s not how it works,” he smiles back.

We eat and he heads out to work. I remind him not to take forever and he reminds me that he has a tour coming up.

I email the magazine back, deciding that nothing bad could really come out of it.

I call Bora too to see if everything is going well with Zino.

“Y/n!”

“Hey, Bora. Are you having fun yet?” I laugh. From the pictures she’d sent me, it’s like her and Jin are having a pre-honeymoon. They’ve done so much in the last four days I’m actually jealous I didn’t go.

“Jin says we should we relocate to the states,”

“Tell him he’ll get tired of L.A after two weeks,”

“Seriously, Y/n, we need to take a girls’ trip or something. I love Jin but he gets agitated in the sun,”

I laugh. “We’ll schedule something. We can bring Chae with us too,”

“God that would be amazing. Anyway, so everything is set for tomorrow. I’m going to email you a copy of the final accessories he picked out for the lookbook. He wants to do an outfit change for the after party but we’re not sure if he should just do no jacket to be consistent or just do something new,”

“Try no jacket and switch the button up for a plain white u-neck. What is he doing for hair?”

“Slicked back. He’s getting a cut in the morning,”

“Perfect,” I smile. “Honestly, Bora, what would I do without you? Listen, I just got an email from an online magazine. They want to do a feature on the company,”

“What! That’s amazing! You’re going to do it right?”

“I want to. It’s exposure right?”

“So you’ll do it, Vogue will see it, fall in love with you and you become the next Anna Wintour,”

“Hardly,” I scoff. We talk more about how her trip is going, and she makes me promise we’ll take a trip back out before she has to go rub ointment on Jin’s sunburns.

Jay gets back late. He’s so tired I can see the dark circles under his eyes. Still, he curses at the fact that he forgot my ice cream.

“Jay, you’re not going back outside. It’s close to midnight,” I wrap my hands around his thick arm and pull him toward the bathroom. “I’ll pick some up tomorrow. Go shower and come to bed,”

His arms come around my waist. “Come shower with me,” he says in my ear slowly. I feel goosebumps rise on my skin as he walks us to the bathroom.

“I showered right before you walked through the door,” I say pushing my bottom lip out.

“Well come help me get clean. I’m too tired to lift my arms,”

“You’re full of shit is what you are,”

Jay pushes his hand up the hem of my T-shirt. His fingers close around my breast, squeezing. He kisses my jaw pressing his bulge against my ass. I moan as his teeth scrape softly against my skin.

The hand that isn’t under my shirt reaches down beneath my shorts and underwear. His fingers glide against me slowly.

“Y/n,”

“Shower,” I sigh as his fingers move against me.

Jay laughs, stepping with me toward my shower. His hands make quick work of my clothes, leaving me standing in nothing. I turn the shower on as he strips behind me. I can tell just how exhausted he is with how sluggish he moves.

He reaches down to grab his wallet out of his pants and pulls a condom out. He holds the foil packet between his teeth, his hands coming to my waist so he can hoist me up on my sink. My ass presses into the cold ceramic but he’s there between my legs to warm me up.

I grab the foil square from between his teeth and tilt up to press my lips against his. His hands reach up to cup my face as he holds me against him.

“Can you imagine this almost every night? Waking up next to you,” his hips press into mine. “Fucking you whenever I want,”

“That’s the only reason you want me to move in, right? So you can use my body however you want?” I laugh. Jay cuts the sound by bending down to take a nipple between his teeth. He looks at while his lips wrap around the little bud.

“Fuck,” I curse, grabbing his hair. My legs come around his waist.

“Let me get this on,” he says taking the condom from me.

He sinks into me slowly as steam starts to surround us and fog up the mirror. He moves so slowly I feel desperate. I don’t think I’ve ever truly understood the meaning of the world euphoria. I never tried drugs, I’m not one to get drunk, sex has never been my vice, but when Jay moves against me, it’s love and lust and everything good in the universe wrapped in a single moment.

“I think about you every second I’m not with you, Y/n. When I’m working, I’m writing songs about you, when I should be sleeping I’m worried about you,” he says.

Still, his hips move painfully slow against me. I throw my head back against the mirror behind me as he hits a particularly sensitive angle.

“I want you in my space. Especially when I’m not home, I want you getting into my stuff. I want to find your makeup brushes all over my room, I want to trip over your shoes. I want all of your messes,”

He kisses me hard, his arms wrapping around me. His hips pick up speed, moving just a bit faster enough to make me call out his name. I reach up to wrap my arms around his neck, pulling him closer.

“I’m going to come,” I sigh against him. “Fuck,”

“Let go, baby,” he grits out between clenched teeth.

My legs shake around him. Jay leans back, holding on to my hips at he rolls against me harder. I watch his eyes follow where we connect. He pulls his bottom lip between his teeth. His head throws back as he fucks me harder. I don’t think I’ve ever found him more attractive.

After a few more minutes, he falls against me, trying to catch his breath. His chest moves rapidly against my own.

“Let’s get cleaned up so you can get to bed,” I say, running my hands through his damp hair.

He moves back so I can hop down off the sink. He holds my hand and helps me step into the shower underneath the hot water. He steps in beside me.

We get cleaned up and head to bed, wrapped around each other. I count down how many more nights I’ll get to have him like this; seven more. That’s all I get of domesticated Jay before he’s gone again.

“What are you thinking about?” He asks with his face pressed into my neck.

“I accepted the interview,” I say.

“Even in the dark you’re a bad liar, baby,” I feel him smile against my neck. “Still, I’m proud of you. You deserve for everybody to know your name,”

“I’m also thinking about how much I’m going to miss you,”

“Don’t think about it. You always sound like you’re going to start crying and I can’t handle you crying anymore, Y/n. I’m tapped out,”

I laugh. “Shut up. Sleep,” I tell him. We both pass out in each other’s arms.

In the morning, I have another email from Haute asking me to call Gina Waters as soon as I can. I call her on my way to my office deciding it’s better to just rip the band-aid off.

“Is this Y/n?”

“Yes,” I say nervously. “Gina, right?”

“Right! I’ll be doing your phone interview. It’s super informal so don’t be afraid to tell me if you aren’t comfortable answering something just say so and I’ll immediately move on,”

“Ok,” I stutter. “Right now?”

“If you’re not too busy,” she says brightly. “Our blog is all about the love of fashion and the places it could take you. Your story has been interesting to me since I heard about you and I’m excited to get started,”

“Oh, okay yeah that’s fine I guess. I have about an hour. Will that be enough time?”

“Awesome. Why don’t you start by telling me how you got into fashion and what prompted you to move to Seoul,”

I start from the beginning and she asks all the right follow up questions. By the end of the conversation a little more than an hour has passed and I’m actually comfortable enough to answer her questions about Jay.

“I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask the question you thought I would lead with, Y/n. Are you dating Jay Park?”

There’s really no reason to deny it. My face is everywhere, there are pictures of me coming out of Jay’s place from a few days ago. I also should have to lie.

“If you aren’t comfortable, I completely understand, Y/n,”

“No, it’s fine,” I insist. “Yes, I’m dating Jay Park,”

Gina laughs lightly. “And if I may, one more question about Jay; can you tell me one thing about him and fashion. Anything from his preferred style to something he hates wearing,”

“His style is very easy I think. He gets into his phases. So right now he’s very into t-shirts, joggers, and silk button downs. So I just buy him things that he’s into,”

“So are you his personal stylist?”

“Unofficially,” I laugh. “I’ve been telling him what to wear for years. He was my first client, you could say,”

Gina laughs too. “Thank you so much, Y/n. You can look for the article in the next few days on our website. If you have any questions, please shoot me an email,”

And just like that, it’s over, taking with it my stress and anxiety.

Jay is staying at his place tonight. I know it’s because he doesn’t want to tell me that he won’t leave the studio until at least two in the morning. I always try not to be the nagging girlfriend, and I can tell him how ridiculous he is thousands of times but nothing can compete with that boy’s work ethic.

After a few meetings with clients and shamelessly saving my first American red carpet look on my phone, I head home. Zino looked amazing. He even shouted out Bora and me as his stylists which was pretty cool of him.

My place feels too empty. Ever since I decided to move in with Jay, it’s like it knows I’m getting ready to leave it behind.

I send Jay a text message before I fall asleep. In the morning I wake up to my phone ringing. I have ten missed calls and a bunch of texts from Bora and Chae. I open Chae’s first message before anything.

Chae: Your interview with Haute came out..

Chae: it’s not bad...but it’s not good, Y/n.

Chae: call me when you can. I love you...

I switch to Bora’s angry messages.

Bora: This is why we don’t deal with American media

Bora: all they care about is who’s dating who

Bora: can we sue or something. I mean they promised you a piece on your business, not your boyfriend

My phone rings again, Jay’s face flashing.

“Hello?”

“I’m outside. Can you let me in?” He asks.

“Yeah, I’m coming,” I hang up and get up to let him in. When I open the door, he kisses me hard; pushing himself into my apartment. I pull away, covering my mouth with my hand.

“I haven’t brushed my teeth yet. I literally just got up,”

“Your article came out,” Jay says as I make my way back to my room. I turn to look at him, a frown on my face.

“For Haute? We just did the interview yesterday. She said a couple of days,”

Jay grabs my laptop and types quickly before pushing into my lap.

Jay Park’s New Stylist Girlfriend

I scroll down to my article. A picture of Jay and I at some event is the photo they chose to use.

“We weren’t even together,” I whisper.

Jay sits beside me and takes the laptop. “Do you want me to read it for you?”

I nod. I can’t read it. Not when they didn’t even mention my name in the title.

“Korean-American singer Jay Park brought more than his music over from America when he moved to Seoul, South Korea,” Jay pauses to look up at me.

“Keep going,”

“American stylist, Y/N, came into fame only weeks ago when news of her relationship with the singer was made public. Sources say that the two have been dating for a little more than a month, with Y/n attending concerts and events affiliated with Jay’s record label. When asked who her favorite person to dress was, she couldn’t help but gush about her fashion-forward boyfriend stating, ‘We bond over clothing. I buy him things I know he’ll like and he’ll send me a text asking if I like something. It’s something entirely different from work’. Sources say that the singer, who has just signed a contract with Rock Nation And is embarking on a 15 city tour, is the reason Y/N moved to Seoul from their hometown of Seattle. She co-heads her own styling company with social media queen Kim Bora,”

There’s more but it’s more or less the same as the other two paragraphs praising my boyfriend. I feel ridiculous. I talked to her for an hour and a half. I told her about everything. I trusted her to do the right thing with my story so much that I didn’t even mind answering the one or two questions about Jay.

Jay reaches out to me. “Hey, don’t cry. Dammit, Y/n,”

I wipe my eyes. “This just feels super shitty, Jay,”

“I know, baby. I’ll fix it,”

He pulls me into his lap, his arms coming around my body.

“It’s already out. There’s nothing to fix,” I sigh, closing the laptop.

Jay is quiet for a long moment before he pulls me into his lap. His lips come to my neck.

“At least we look nice in the picture,” he smiles against my skin.

“Shut up,” I laugh leaning against him. “It is what it is, right?”

“You don’t need validation from an online blog,” Jay tells me. “You’re working with people far bigger than they could know. All those girl groups, you’re responsible for making look amazing, and you’re good at it,”

“I know, I know. I just thought that finally, I was breaking into things,”

“You’re already on the scene, baby. You’ve been so busy you haven’t taken time to look around you. Bora is in L.A for some big award show. You’re doing award shows here, video concepts, debuts, comebacks; it’s all you,”

I look back at him, reaching up to cup his face in my palm. He wraps his hand around mine, the letters on his fingers lining up perfectly with my own fingers.

“Since when are you so good at pep talks?”

“I’m just telling you the truth. If this was a pep talk I’d tell you to get over it. There’s plenty of other blogs out there that would kill to talk to you,”

“You’re the king of backhanded-ness,” I sigh.

He wiggles his fingers that spell out ‘King’ in my face, a wide smile in place.

“And lame-ness,” I add.

“Lame?” He raises an eyebrow at me, his arms come under my legs and he tosses me on the bed behind him. He stands above me for a second before pulling his shirt over his head. He stalks forward slowly, a smirk on his lips. His legs come around my hips, straddling me. His arms trap my head as he bends down to kiss me.

“Honestly, Y/n,” he says seriously. “You and Bora are too amazing at all of this to worry about them,”

I reach up to wrap my arms around him to pull his body flush against mine.

“Thank you,” I tell him.

“For what?”

“Being my favorite person in the world. For supporting me. I don’t really know,” I laugh tiredly.

“Always,” he says simply before kissing me again.

#jay park #aomg #h1ghrmusic #rtf 6 #rtf mini #jay park imagine #jay park scenarios

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franeridart · 7 years

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Hey, Fran! Have u ever consider headcanon abt Baku and Kiri met before they entered Yuuei? I mean, just think about it: Baku is a huge bully while Kiri stand up for them who get bullied. Like?? What if they got into fight?? How would they react when they meet again in Yuuei?? WHAT IF KIRI HATED HIM BEFORE

Aw anon, I’m so not gonna give you the answer you hoped you’d get to this haha I’ve talked briefly about something on these lines on my main blog not too long ago, but in general the way I feel about this is, there’s no way Kirishima could ever hate Bakugou. I’m positive their relationship would have been a friendship whatever moment in time they were to meet, tbh!

And this is in part about how Kirishima just doesn’t seem to know how to hate, like, anything so why would he hate Bakugou of all people, but it’s also about how I don’t feel like Bakugou changed all that much between middle school and the first day of high school? Kirishima didn’t meet a perfect version of Bakugou, he met a Bakugou that lauched himself at Deku and had to be restrained by Aizawa, a Bakugou that blew up half a building to beat Deku, a Bakugou that was more yelling and explosions than anything else - and Kirishima looked at him and saw him anyway, you know? He looked at Bakugou fighting against Deku and thought “he looks desperate”. He looked at Bakugou and didn’t stop at his yelling and violence, not even in the very beginning. This would have happened before their UA days too, in my opinion - Kirishima and Bakugou, they have personalities made to fit together. You don’t need to chip anything away for them to like each other, they see worth in each other, they understand each other. When they first became friends Bakugou wasn’t any less shouty and angry and Kirishima wasn’t any less righteous and earnest than how they were back in middle school, all in all!

Well, what you were talking about was a one-time meeting anyway, right? Considering Bakugou’s always been cocky and shouty but has never engaged in uncalled-for fights, and how all his bully-like behaviours have always been restricted only to interacting with Deku, I doubt he would have actually fought Kirishima. At best he could have told him to mind his own business before angrily stomping away, tbh. A meeting like that would have hardly left an impression on either of them, let’s be real haha

Anon said:i love ur art SO. MUCH. every time ur on my dash its a blessing ty for what u do

GOSH thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *O*

Anon said:Came here to compliment you ab your art but I'm just speechless..? Y'know that one scene in HQ!! Where Kiyoko is like "good luck" and the third years + Tanaka and Noya just start crying? That's me with ur art Fran.

Oh my god hahaha thank you???????? this is actually so sweet I’m smiling a lot aaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Hi! I like your work, I'm just confused why you left out noses in some of your drawings :0 not meaning to offend, I just was wondering why

Maybe I’m just a huge fan of Krillin, what do you know :O lmao nah, you might say it’s a laziness-driven stylistic choice to make my drawings faster to finish - there’s no deeper meaning behind it aside from “eehhhhh I can’t find a way to draw noses I like and find comfortable so I guess I’m just gonna stop drawing them when I can avoid it” haha

Anon said:have u read the kiribaku fic on ao3 called 'stamina' by razorwings? its pretty new so maybe not. its really good if u want 2 read it!!!

Ahhh boy, I’m.... so not good with first person fics........... orz

Anon said:I love when you draw them smiling in the kisses. It's so happy. Really the best.

OH BOY I’m sure happy you enjoy that cause honestly that’s my fav way of drawing kisses anyway!!! So it makes both of us happy, which is the best outcome a drawing can have, for me!!!!

Anon said:Evey time you post I get really happy and excited!!💓💓

;O; I’m so happy to hear that!!!! thank you!!!!

Anon said:I too have not been to tge beach

#sob we can be sad about our missed beach times together anon ;~;

Anon said:hey i wanted to say i convinced my friend to read bnha by showing her the drawing u did of tamaki smushing his face, she loves ur art and so do i

THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH!!!!!! And I’m super happy she decided to give the manga a go!!! I’m also even happier her reason was Tamaki to be honest, the awkward son deserves as many fans as he can get!!!

Anon said:If you could have a character from dgm and a character from bnha meet, which ones would you pick, why, and what would they talk about, do you think? Or, at least, what would you want them to talk about?

ALMA AND KIRISHIMA!!!!!! I don’t even really care about what they’d talk about, I’m just thinking about them being pure and bright and soft hearted little shits together and it’s making me so happy it’d be like staring at two suns I can’t believe how good of a visual that is I’m crying

Incredibly interesting would be Kanda and Bakugou too, they would fight a lot and it would be amazingly entertaining - Lavi would get on Bakugou’s nerves SO MUCH too oh boy but maybe Sero would be the one I’d want Lavi to interact with the most?? Either him or Denki, they’re similar enough as far as whining and being pessimistic and wanting to sleep and being huge assholes in disguise go haha interestingly enough I feel like Allen might be the one out of the main group Bakugou would end up having a good relationship with, he’s strongwilled and powerful and a hero in all the right ways, after all - they might bicker cause who doesn’t Allen even bicker with, but after all they’re get along ... Bakugou would probably hate Neah with a passion, tho

Link and Iida would be amusing and entertaining too, wouldn’t they? lmao and I wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to see Dabi and Tyki interact either, what a good - ahhhhhhhh but yeah after all if I gotta pick one it’s Alma and Kirishima. Possibly bringing Alma in the bnha universe. Let my son live, please ;-;

Anon said:Thank you for blessing us with smiling Bakugo.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you for liking him!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:I'll be honest I'm not a fan of kiribaku. BUT whenever you draw kiribaku, I always get so giddy and happy and can't stop smiling. So please keep drawing for a long time, it really and truly makes my day whenever I see you posted new art

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t get why you wouldn’t like the good ship, but I’m glad you enjoy my stuff either way!! Thank you!!!!!

Anon said:Hello! I hope it's alright to ask you this: I opened a Redbubble account like 2 days ago, and on my page, under my bio, I can only see thumbnails of my designs... how can I get it to show products and prices instead, just like on your page? Thanks in advance!!

You might not be in your actual shop page! See under your bio if there’s a “Shop” button and click on it, it should being you to the part of the shop your costumers are actually gonna see :D

#fran answers #answering them asks to keep myself busy waiting for the chapter #haha #i can't do anything while i wait thats such a huge problem #even tho the bc chapter was so great #and the hq one so much fun #im still like okay but where bnha at #my biases #they're way too obvious #hahaha #anyway about that first one #im sorry if you wanted angst and tension anon!!!! im just #the sort of kiribaku shipper that sees these two as made for each other always #oh well #we all know angst is rarely my thing anyway lol #anonymous

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thunderheadfred · 7 years

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4, 6, 8, please and thank you! :D

4. How much do you trust the reader?Honestly, trusting the reader had never occurred to me before. Maybe it’s perverse since I’m so gluttonous for feedback, but when I’m working out things like context clues or crazy plot threads or stylistic choices, I don’t really think about the readers at all. I plan what makes sense to me, and then write whatever I feel serves each story and gets my point across with the least amount of fuss. I figure people in fandom will read what they want, and likewise everyone has a vastly different personal background and reading level, so they’ll comprehend whatever they can. Whether or not they understand or enjoy my writing seems mostly out of my hands, so I don’t think about it much. Whether that’s a good approach to writing? I have no idea? I’m a grade-A amateur. *shrug*

That said, I try to keep hypothetical readers in mind when I’m dealing with stuff like race and sexuality, or if I’m writing violent/polarizing subjects. I’m white, straight, and privileged in any number of ways, so I try to put myself in other people’s shoes as much as possible when writing characters of color, or I’ll agonize over how often I describe/fetishize Jane’s whiteness via Garrus’ gaze… Likewise, I try to make empathetic and compassionate choices with sexuality, even if that just means putting in extra warnings at the top of the chapter, or vaguely hinting via background clues that almost everyone in Red Streak is bisexual, or trying to tackle a completely asexual romance with all the respect and poetics I’d give to a sexual pair, (Paradox).

Sensitivity is something I can always improve on, but I try. It’s also probably why I freaked out so much when I got a single tepid comment on Pollen, since the story features a touchy, underrepresented subject that is personally relevant to me (demi-sexuality)

BUT ANYWAY

6. What’s your guilty pleasure as a writer?Sex scenes. I got into Mass Effect fanfiction for the porn. Exclusively. After many sporadic years of binge-reading every once in a blue moon on the kink meme and AO3, and just being a lurking, anonymous pervert, I finally started engaging with the fandom and developing opinions on things other than Garrus Vakarian’s dick. Like, for instance, Kallo Jath’s dick! See? I’m really growing as a person.Heh. Growing.

8. What parts of writing a fic do you think are a chore?Can I say all of it? All of it. The trick is conning myself into a state where the reward seems greater than the amount of work and emotional investment involved. To be dead honest I am fatally lazy and everything in life is a chore when I get straight down to it, especially with ADD and/or depression stealing my thunder. Depending on my mental state in any given hour, writing a single word can seem as painful and pointless as slicing off a limb, if you’ll excuse the drama. My point is, the butt-in-chair aspect of writing is by far the most difficult thing for me personally.

Specifically, though, once I AM writing, the most chore-riffic parts are the technical aspects. Research, world-building, critical self-editing. Action scenes are extremely difficult because I’m a bit of a live-it-while-writing-it kind of writer, (is there a term for that?) and high-intensity action is really super-duper stressful to maintain. Being in that heightened mental space keeps me from sleeping, eating, thinking… Fairly certain that the Akuze flashback chapter from Red Streak shaved a good ten to twelve years straight off my life expectancy. GUHHHHHH.

#theherocomplex #you got questions I got answers #fred answers

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loughlinpatrick · 4 years

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Editing 101: Polishing Your Writing to Get Results

Watch the video at: http://youtu.be/xe96V0XlQFc

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I’ve spent years working on the preliminary drafts of my first novel, and this week, I’m putting the finishing touches on my final draft, so I can start pitching it to agents and publishers. This is the three-step process I’ll be using to get the best out of my writing and maximise my results.

In my last writing video, which was all about the mistakes we can make in the writing process, I talked about keeping your writing and editing separate so that your brain can focus on one thing at a time. That same idea applies to how I’m approaching my editing, because there are three different types of editing, and they each require three different approaches to writing.

The vast majority of my editing is complete, and I wrapped that up a couple of months ago. After that, I left my novel be, and spent the time since then thinking about how to really streamline the narrative and keep the sense of mystery going from start to finish.

Phase One: Narrative Edit

A big part of streamlining my novel in my initial edits involved “closing” my ending, because it was originally written as part of a trilogy with the ending of book one leading directly into book two. With the realities of the publishing industry — especially as a lot of people have much less disposable income to spend on entertainment than they’re used to for the foreseeable future — I had to make my novel work as a standalone story, with potential for a series later if the book does well.

But now that my novel works as a single narrative, in my final edit it’s really important to focus on making that entire narrative as cohesive as possible. That means reading through your work, identifying plot holes, and filling those holes in so that your readers aren’t left unsatisfied, and with a heap of unanswered questions. As I’m writing for the mystery genre, it means making sure that the ultimate answer to my mystery makes sense, and providing enough clues and red herrings to make that possible in hindsight while also keeping readers guessing before the big reveal.

Streamlining your narrative also means making sure all of your characters are there for a clear reason. If erasing one of your characters from existence and giving their plot to another character will help readers follow your narrative, and provide you more space to build up the characterisation of just a core set of characters, then it’s time to say goodbye. At the same time, if one of your characters has so much going on that they feel lost and don’t have a distinct identity, it could be time to give them the new brother or sister they always wanted.

In terms of my book, I’m using this final edit to add in key clarifying scenes that make the motives and personalities of my characters much more distinct. But, I’ll also be making a few of my characters much more suspicious, as the key driving question of my narrative was originally a closed “yes” or “no” question that was answered before the end of the book; streamlining my narrative, defining my characters, and making readers invest in a more open ended question will keep them engaged and hopefully, entertained.

Phase Two: Scene Edit

Now that I’ve finished my narrative edit, it’s time to get more focused in phase two. This next phase of editing is all about getting specific scenes to feel cohesive. This means turning your attention to dialogue; making it feel natural, and making sure it’s like how an actual, real-life human person would speak. It’s making sure that your dialogue serves a purpose, either to progress the story or to define your characters identities.

However, don’t have your characters discuss things that they both already know about just to reveal something to your reader, because that definitely isn’t realistic. In real life, would someone randomly say to their friend “Hey, Johnathan, remember that dead guy who I hit with your car last summer who we buried in your backyard together because you didn’t think the cops would be convinced it was an accident because he cheated on your sister who doesn’t talk to you anymore because of your unresolved anger management issues? It sure would cause a lot of problems for both of us if someone found him, considering that I’m an accomplice and I already lost my licence because of all my drunk driving to due my continued struggles with the alcoholism that runs in my family that led to my parents murder-suicide.” No. Because most people only have one or less dead people buried in their backyard, so there would be no need to clarify. But seriously, it’s really important to make sure that your dialogue isn’t clunky and that you’re not using unnecessary exposition as a crutch for lazy writing.

This scene-level editing also means taking a look at your use of description. Are you taking ages and ages to describe something that could just as easily be conveyed in a sentence or two? Are you providing details that your readers care about? It’s important that your description flows, and that make sure your sentence structure is easy to read. It shouldn’t feel like you’re working at reading what you’ve written, but that your sentences have a natural flow to them that make your scenes easy to digest.

If your sentences stretch for more than a line and a half, it’s definitely time to consider breaking it up into two. And it’s also important to make sure that you’re writing in active voice and not passive voice. For example, saying “Sally stabbed Johnathan,” instead of “Johnathan was stabbed by Sally.”

One of those takes a lot less words to say, and flows so much better. Sentences written in active voice — where you put your subject that performs an action before the verb — are also so much easier to comprehend, which is good news if you’re revealing an important detail your reader needs to remember for later.

On the other side of things, your description shouldn’t be so streamlined that you’re just outright telling people what is going on. Sentences like “Sally is nervous,” aren’t fun to read, and telling your readers about your story — instead of showing them through describing specific details so they can make their own inferences — treats them like they’re stupid, and robs them of actually experiencing your story. If you write something like “Sally’s palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there’s vomit on her sweater already, mom’s spaghetti,” it doesn’t take Einstein to figure out that “Sally is nervous.”

Phase Three: Grammar Edit

The last phase of your editing is exactly what you think of when you think of editing in the first place: making sure your spelling and grammar is absolutely perfect. This phase of the editing process is also why I need to finish my edit this week, because my Grammarly subscription runs out on Friday and I do not have the money to renew it.

It’s really important to leave this phase until last; no cheating. Because if you change-up a scene after you’ve just gone through it correcting all the grammar, you can’t be sure that you haven’t just made another typo that you now have to fix. So don’t waste your own time by doing this bit first, because you’ll end up undoing all your fine level grammar editing and have to do it all over again anyway.

In addition to making sure all your words are spelled correctly and your punctuation is on point, it’s also important to make sure that it’s consistent. For example, how are you writing times? Are you writing your a.m’s and p.m’s with dots or no dots?

It’s time to make a decision about these stylistic grammatical choices, and it’s time to commit. Once you know what kind of presentation you want to go with grammatically, it’s pretty easy to use “Find and Replace” in Pages or Word to make sure everything matches throughout your book.

Unfortunately, spell check and services like Grammarly can’t pick up everything just yet, so it’s important for you to read your novel through to catch any typos your tech may have missed. To make sure you get absolutely everything, change the font of your book to Comic Sans and get a head-start on your audiobook deal by reading your novel out loud.

Comic Sans may look really cartoonish and ugly, but the actual letter-forms that the font uses are really distinct, and are extremely helpful for people with dyslexia. Changing your writing to an unfamiliar font and reading it out loud also forces your brain to work harder to actually comprehend the writing, and not just gloss over your mistakes using the context it already has.

I’m Done... Now What?

Now that you’ve completed these three stages of editing, your narrative should be cohesive, your scenes should flow, and your grammar should be absolutely perfect. Your work is now the best you can make it, and now it’s time to show to some other people for some last minute feedback, or take the plunge and start sending off pitch letters. It has all led up to this moment.

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If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista. – Peter Thiel • Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. – Andrea Illy • Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies. – Renzo Rosso • Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend. – Lucy Liu • Everything I commission – whether it is for me or for a client’s home or for a hotel or office – is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions. – Kelly Wearstler • Everything I do is unfabulous. Im the most normal person. I love walking everywhere, and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people. – Ashley Benson • Everything kind of was leading towards that and I had so many specific ideas always about how exactly I wanted something to look. I would customize so many things in my wardrobe that were vintage or things that I was buying, and it just really all aligned and the timing was perfect. – Rumi Neely • Everything was just so spot on and character-building for me in terms of creating Celia [Bryant]. The ability to get to wear all these vintage pieces and immerse yourself in that world and get to wear all these amazing hats. And the shoes! – Lily Collins • For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it’s Church’s and Russell & Bromley. – Matt Smith • For my own style, I love vintage. 60’s and 70’s are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that – maybe I’ll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. – Elle Fanning • Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. – Tony Visconti • Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones. – Andrew Bird • Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. – Logan Pearsall Smith • He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. 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Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives – a quirky combination, but it works. – Sarah Ban Breathnach • I am more vintage than I am high fashion. – Katerina Graham • I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired. – Olivier Theyskens • I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses… I am the proud wife beside her husband… I am the writer who has written a new novel. – Ann Hood • I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC. – Leona Lewis • I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage. – Robert M. Parker, Jr. • I buy what makes my heart sing. So, it’s not that I follow one specific track. It’s sort of what I like. I love colors. I love unique pieces. I love vintage clothing. – Tracee Ellis Ross • I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. – Chloe Sevigny • I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime. – Katy Perry • I do a lot of vintage shopping. I love going to second-hand stores. – Victoria Justice • I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I’m not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off. – Morgan Saylor • I do take a computer to do some processing live and I might use a couple of plug-in synthesisers, ’cause obviously you can take quite a lot of power in terms of sound generation on a computer that I can trigger from a couple of keyboards. And it means I don’t have to take some of my vintage stuff and have it trashed by various airlines which has happened in the past. But I still take some vintage stuff with me, I’ll take that risk because I like using all that stuff. – Thighpaulsandra • I don’t at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs. – Milla Jovovich • I don’t come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products. – Eva Mendes • I don’t get what’s happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He’s lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you’re the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about ‘everyone hates us and we don’t care’ sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang. – Peter Chapman • I don’t know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations. – Thomas Friedman • I don’t like new cars; I’m into vintage cars – there’s a Jaguar E-Type in the ‘Goldie’ video. – ASAP Rocky • I don’t like the idea of things being off-limits to kids – like a fancy sitting room where they can’t touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect. – Debi Mazar • I don’t really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me. – BØRNS • I don’t think fashion has to change every five minutes. I’d like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time – ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet! – Tom Ford • I emcee how I feel for the moment. I’ll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I’ll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP… which, in my heart, I’d love to do for the fans. – Phife Dawg • I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I’d wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers. – Tinie Tempah • I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, “I think this should be our color palette.” – Jessica Simpson • I got a job as soon as I could – 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I’d go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff. – Natasha Bedingfield • I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad’s a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars – how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I’ve always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car. – Amber Heard • I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. – Edgar Rice Burroughs • I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I’m not like a guitar collector, I don’t have all vintage instruments. I don’t even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don’t have one. – John Petrucci • I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm. – Sonam Kapoor • I have this threadbare caftan from the ’60s that I got at a vintage store years ago – it’s basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It’s this light fabric that just moves with me. – Gabrielle Anwar • I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it. – Alicia Keys • I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn’t a hope in hell, bless it. But they’re both beautiful, and they’ll stay with me just as long as there’s a roof over my head. – Matt Roper • I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I’m there every few weeks for the flea market. – Theo Rossi • I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses. – Karen Elson • I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it’s horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it. – Kelly Osbourne • I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. – Cara Delevingne • I like fashion because it’s sort of my job, so I’m into it when I have to be. But when I’m not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts. – Kristen Stewart • I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I’m just more in tune with that than anything else. – David Boreanaz • I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal. – Zooey Deschanel • I like the old, vintage Hollywood look. – Gwen Stefani • I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself. – Cher Lloyd • I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It’s how I create my own style. – Carly Rae Jepsen • I like vintage a lot. – Kesha • I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end. – Theophilus London • I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they’ve been used. – Channing Tatum • I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this ‘Sgt. Pepper’ cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn’t even know how much it cost – I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most – till I got to the register and was like, ‘Oh mah gawd!’ Good Lord. But it’s classic vintage rock, you know? – Kid Cudi • I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago. – Nate Berkus • I love Ali MacGraw and her style – I’m into vintage ’70s outfits at the moment. – Kim Kardashian • I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I’ve always loved it. And the fifties, I’ve always loved. – Elle Fanning • I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. – Meagan Good • I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats. – Rachel Zoe • I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there’s a lot of ’50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around. – Elle Fanning • I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It’s fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well. – Miranda Kerr • I love hats! I collect vintage ones – I find them at antique shops in Kansas. – Lindsey Wixson • I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that’s why I love vintage and antiques. – Kelly Wearstler • I love old, vintage cars. I’ve got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there’s only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It’s gorgeous. – Danny Trejo • I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace. – Helena Christensen • I love things that have a vintage feel to them, just because there’s a certain texture to them that we just don’t have anymore. In fact I think I’ve been stuck in the 50s or 60s for a while… – Amber Heard • I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop. – Bridget Hall • I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie’s Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.- Georgia May Jagger • I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it’s just such great value for money. – Lianne La Havas • I love vintage and prints. – Georgina Chapman • I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.- T-Pain • I love vintage clothes. I have a real passion which probably comes from the days of my mum who had this great dress up box that she put all her clothes from the 60s and 70s in – platform shoes and jumpsuits and boots. – Rachel McAdams • I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay. – Chelsea Leyland • I love vintage shopping, I think it’s really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less. – Emma Roberts • I love vintage, but it’s so expensive now. – Alexandra Roach • I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box. – Boy George • I really like the bohemian look, and I’m a great fan of mixing vintage and modern. – Kierston Wareing • I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don’t shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers. – Sarah Jessica Parker • I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there’s a history behind the piece I’m wearing. – Gabrielle Anwar • I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels. – Ezra Miller • I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes. – Jennifer Aniston • I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day. – Martin Gore • I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist’s career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L’Age d’Or vintage Buñuel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn’t very good at it. – Guy Maddin • I think my mum was really very ahead of her time. She wore very little makeup. She really explored the way that she wore clothes in a very honest way. She wore a lot of vintage stuff and mixed it with bespoke men’s tailoring and things like that. That was a huge influence on me, seeing a woman in the spotlight carry herself in that kind of way. But mostly, for me, it was just that she was an incredibly honest and sort of natural person. – Stella McCartney • I used to collect vintage clothing – exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry – but that’s just not me any more. – Britt Ekland • I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager. – Marv Albert • I was always involved in low level motor clubs, competitions and with the Vintage Auto Association, and I believe this really helped me on my way. – Liz Halliday • I was collecting Barbies. I know… embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I’ve collected two things. – Kristin Bauer van Straten • I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s. – Huey Lewis • I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I’d come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.- Paloma Faith • I was watching a collection of vintage ’80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes. – Ernest Cline • I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back. – Bill Orcutt • I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop. – Lily Donaldson • I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. – Julia Stiles • I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I’d dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. – Illeana Douglas • I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I’ve always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn’t been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it. – Elle Fanning • I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving. – Anne Hathaway • If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it’s so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it. – Helena Christensen • If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates. – John Burroughs • If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin. – Connie May Fowler • I’m a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage. – Emma Watson • I’m big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever – to me, that is total sustainability. – Elizabeth Rogers • I’m definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style. – Camila Alves • I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini. – Ben Folds • I’m doing a fun EP. It’s called ‘Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.’ It’s radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I’m just letting my voice be heard. – Phife Dawg • I’m into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts – everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I’ve got a Chicago one worth $100. – Michael Rosenbaum • I’m not a big shopper. I’m very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective. – Jaime King • I’m not a vintage/thrift shop girl. I don’t have the patience. – Robin Givhan • I’m not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I’m not 20 anymore. I don’t want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that’s not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they’re still here. That’s who I’m trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it’s great but I can’t do that. I’m going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That’s what people want. – Ginuwine • I’m not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I’m too rough on instruments. – Tommy Shaw • I’m shocked at how much I’m into Christmas pillows. There’s cheesiness, obviously, but then there’s really cute ones that are metallic that say “Ho Ho Ho” or “Merry” or cute vintage needlepoint ones. – Emily Henderson • In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can’t really be applied to a nine-to-five. – Johnny Weir • In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. – John Steinbeck • It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.- Tony Visconti • It’s a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn’t feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they’re excited about it, and it’s cool. – Usher • It’s so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that’s floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly. – Brittany Snow • I’ve always loved fashion so much and I didn’t have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping. – Rachel Roy • I’ve always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has. – Jillian Hervey • I’ve come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn’t properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That’s what shock is. – Darin Strauss • I’ve making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm… footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way. – Lana Del Rey • I’ve never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for — civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don’t care about — dark-and-weird-but-fun — and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me! – Ransom Riggs • Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes. – Madison Davenport • Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots. – Twiggy • Ladies, apologies, but isn’t ‘vintage’ just used stuff? – Bob Saget • Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think. – Adela Florence Nicolson • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. – Julia Ward Howe • Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I’ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10. – Winona Ryder • My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. – Brandi Carlile • My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998. – Joe Bastianich • My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. – Poppy Delevingne • My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. – Zoey Deutch • My most cherished possessions are my grandma’s letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook. – Sandra Lee • My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something. – Pierre Cardin • My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way. – India de Beaufort • My vintage Levi’s are my favorite on the show, ’cause they really fit. – Laura Prepon • My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure. – Bill Bailey • New York vintage is too expensive! – Kirsten Dunst • No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity – Taylor Swift • No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love. – Yves Saint Laurent • Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella. – Stephen Colbert • Of course I am grateful, and I’m sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage,” Bill said politely, “But I have my own wine cellar. – Charlaine Harris • Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime. – Shia LaBeouf • On the same Australian trip, I brought back a pair [of Ugg] for my then boyfriend who was a photographer. He wore them all the time. He used to wear them with Levis twisted jeans and a vintage T-shirt. This is 2002. They looked great on him. I guess it takes a certain kind of man to pull them off but they have other ones that are less typical of this, I think. – Alexa Chung • Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there. – Charlotte Ronson • Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. – Romola Garai • Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. – Sloane Crosley • Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings. – Ian Holloway • Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer’s or Shakespeare’s time was no better and no worse than that of our own – just different. – Jean Aitchison • Short boughs, long vintage. – George Herbert • Some things are better than other things: Google, Gmail, my vintage Montgomery Wards socket set (30+ years, still going strong), my Estwing framing hammer, and my Dremel rotary tool. – William Gurstelle • Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn’t usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together. Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T. – Sherrilyn Kenyon • The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn’t drive across the country. – Robyn Hitchcock • The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding. – Kelly Wearstler • The biggest ones [online stores] I go back to are Amazon.com and eBay.com because it’s great for music and books… I collect vintage vinyl records. – John Varvatos • The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear. – John Petrucci • The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage. – Samuel Eliot Morison • The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes — mostly sexual encounters with women — which make up this short novel don’t play to Roth’s strengths. (…) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will. – Philip Hensher • The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it’s not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs. – Ed Rendell • The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape. – Zoe Kravitz • The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage – it’s okay for clothes not that great for people – Karl Lagerfeld • The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon… In capitalist countries they reward artists because we’re ineffectual. – Danny Lyon • The Specials was always going to be an underground, underdog kind of movie. But I love when people bring that up, because it’s very early, vintage James Gunn. – Rob Lowe • There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the ’60s and ’70s – but they’re so itchy and hot. It’s not worth it! – Zooey Deschanel • There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. – Tori Amos • There’s a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend – we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It’s a little bit dangerous, because you’ll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation. – Brandi Carlile • There’s a vintage which comes with age and experience. – Jon Bon Jovi • There’s nothing like a string of Xmas lights inside the house to make the whole family feel like they live in a vintage clothing store. – Dana Gould • This is not really currency that circulates. It’s like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, “Wait a minute. This has gone bad.” The answer is, “Well, that wine isn’t for drinking; that’s for trading.” These $100 bills aren’t meant to circulate. They’re not to spend on goods and services. They’re a store of value. They’re a form of saving. – Michael Hudson • Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them. – Dan Kimball • To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens • Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. – Josh Lanyon • Vintage was brilliant! – Gavin Turk • Virginia Madsen big part in that movie [‘Class’] required her shirt to get ripped off, and looking back, it couldn’t be a more egregious, vintage, lowbrow, 1980s Porky’s-esque, shoehorned-in moment. Like, you would never have that moment in a movie that aspired to be what that movie did today. – Rob Lowe • We always need to have a smart black blazer in our closets. It’s just a nice clean way to dress up even something as simple as jeans and a t-shirt. And something I always have in my closet, I always have a vintage headscarf with me, to tie around my bag or protect my hair from the sun, it depends but I always find a use for it. – Nicole Richie • We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. – Carl Jung • When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars… I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive. – Marc Faber • When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. – Alexis Lichine • When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I’ll choose the truck every time. – Amy Dickinson • When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you’re not just buying the fabric and thread – you’re buying a piece of someone’s past – Isabel Wolff • While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman. – Neel Burton • While in a vintage restaurant…”the past isn’t quaint while you’re in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life’s been squeezed into. – Margaret Atwood • Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman. – Neel Burton • Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it’s also fascinating. It’s the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again. – Robert M. Parker, Jr. • Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties! – Helena Christensen • Yeah, okay. You’re right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn’t tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend’s yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year. – Gena Showalter • You deserve to die,” I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv’e said the words aloud. “Excuse me?” “Nothing.” “Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve to be maggot feed.” “Not maggot feed, just-” “Dead!” “Forget it” “I don’t know why I said that. Just daydreaming, I guess.” “Daydreaming about my death?” “Forget it”, I repeat. “Are you sure you aren’t still mad that I wouldn’t let you borrow my vintage fishnet leggings?” “More like I didn’t want to borrow them. – Laurie Faria Stolarz • You don`t have the same reaction to a girl walking around the street today in a nightgown and a vintage coat and sneakers, that you did six years ago. – Marc Jacobs • You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you’re smart you’ll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo. – Arlene Dahl • Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future. – Aesop • You’re drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine. – Elvis Costello

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