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volterran-wine · 4 months
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mmmh, I have a question. I recently realized it's been... a while since I found your blog (I'm the dead languages anon) and I wonder, after... years writing for our favorite vampires, which one of them is your favorite to write for now (and why if you don't mind me being curious)? Has it changed over the year? -🐦‍⬛
It feels surreal to me that it will be 3 years of Volterran-Wine in September of this year, somehow it does not feel like it has been that long. And to think some of you have stuck around for a good portion of that time? Could bring tears to my eyes, truly.
But to answer your question Anonymous; it changes all of the time.
While I am not always posting, I am always thinking about these vampires and who they are deep down. Over the last 2 and a half years they have all become dear to me.
I think Caius will always have a special place in my heart, it all sort of started with him and spiraled out of control from there. He is still the easiest to write about, mostly because I have spent so much time in his head. When it comes to who is the most fun to write; I have to give it to Demetri because he is such a character. Aro in a sense is very cathartic for me to write, while Felix leaves me with a dumb smile on my face.
I really want to write more about Renata, Chelsea and The Twins though they deserve their time in the spotlight.
At the moment I have a lot of feelings about Marcus, mainly because my inbox is filled to the brim with "Why do you think Marcus is a villain?" and "Please elaborate about Marcus". Hopefully I will be able to deliver with my upcoming story to satisfy the thirst for more Marcus content.
― 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝑁𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒
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kemet-shedeh · 2 years
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Can I ask what "Kemet Shedeh" means? 😅
𓃝 — 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 "𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐡"?
Good evening darling Anonymous, and thank you so much for your question to me; The Author.
In short; It is a play on the name used for @volterran-wine since they are sister blogs, It technically means 'Egypt Wine'. However there is a bit more to it than that;
"Kemet" is one of the most agreed upon ways to vocalise what the Ancient Egyptians would have called their land. Translated it means 'Black Land', which is a reference to the colour of the rich and fertile soil which occurred around the Nile at different times of the year.
"Shedeh" is a type of wine that was brewed and drunk in Ancient Egypt, and according to some texts it was most likely of a holy nature because it was often recorded to be used in rituals and matters of great importance. While some thought it was made of pomegranate, recent discoverer points to it being a grape wine.
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raindancer2004 · 2 years
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Hi 💛
Hi hunny,  @venusdelaroix hope you are well. Thank you for sending in this ask, answers below...
😬 Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or co-workers to stumble upon?
Two’s company, Four’s a party – It’s very heavily NSFW! I think it would be a shock to them to read this particular fic especially as they do not know I write fanfiction.
🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favourite headcanon for them. (This is something I have included in my work)
Demetri – I like the headcanon that he gave up on the idea of finding his mate centuries ago so when he finds her, he’s very happy albeit a little nervous as to whether she’ll accept him or not. Once she accepts him, he spends forever showing her how much he loves and adores her. If she is human when they meet, he turns her and promises to love and protect her forever.
🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a WIP?
This is from a Demetri WIP called “The Young One”
Later that afternoon Charlotte moved from the living room into the family room where Demetri was sitting reading with Felix seated beside him on the sofa, the three Kings in the corner. “What are you reading Demetri?” She asked coming to stand beside the sofa “Romeo and Juliet” He replied “I don’t like that story as it doesn’t have a happy ending” She said leaning her arms on the side of the sofa “Have you read it little one?” He asked her curious as it wasn’t a children’s book “No, my mommy read it to me as a bedtime story but I much prefer my fairy tales” She replied with a smile “What are your fairy tales about?” He asked turning to look at her, giving her his full attention. “They’re about princesses who fall in love with their prince, some of them need rescuing first and the bad guys always get punished, some get killed by the prince. They all get a happy ending though” She replied “They sound very interesting; I may have to read them sometime” He said smiling at her “I think you’ll like them more than Romeo and Juliet too” She replied still smiling. Demetri found Charlotte quite endearing and was looking forward to seeing how she interacted with the other Volturi members considering some of them gave off ‘unfriendly’ vibes.  
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daydreamerwonderkid · 7 months
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I can't deny that there's a part of me that's absolutely delighted that each time Bruce unjustly went after Jason, the Batkids responded in kind.
This isn't my ideal version of the Batfam, but it does warm my heart seeing Jason's siblings stand up for him.
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writers-potion · 1 month
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Storyediting Questions to Ask
As You Read the First Draft:
Are there place that surprised you as you read your first draft? - Why do you suppose that is? - Is there material there you'd like to expand?
What are the character really doing in this story? - Might they have issues you haven't explored fully yet?
Look to the places that drag. - These might be scenes where you have avoided dealing with something deeper. - What are the characters really thinking in these places? - What are their passions, frustrations, and desires?
Imagine alternative plotlines. - How might your plot be different if ti headed off on another tangent from various points in the story? - You don't have to follow them, but they might suggest other streams that can flow into the main plot.
Think About Structure:
Does you story play out naturally in three acts?
Is there an immediate disturbance to the Lead's world?
Does the first doorway of no return occur before the one-fifth mark?
Are the stakes being raised sufficiently?
Does the second doorway of no return put the Lead on the path to the climax?
Does the rhythm of the sotyr match your intent? If this is an action novel, does the plot move relentlessly forward? If this is a character-driven novel, do the scenes delve deeply enough?
Are there strongly motivated characters?
Have coincidence been established?
Is something happeing immediately at the beginning? Did you establish a person in a setting with a problem, onfronted with change or threat?
Is the timeline logical?
Is the story too predictable in terms of sequence? Should it be rearranged?
About Your Lead Character:
Is the character memorable? Compelling? Enough to carry a reader all the way through the plot?
A lead character has to jump off the page. Does yours?
Does this character avoid cliches? Is he capable of surprising us?
What's unique about the character?
Is the character's objective strong enough?
How does the character grow over the course of the story?
How does the character demonstrate inner strength?
About Your Opposition:
Is your oppositing character interesting?
Is he fully realized, not just a cardboard cutout?
Is he justified (at least in his own mind) in his actions?
Is he believable?
Is he strong as or stronger than the Lead?
About Your Story's Adhesive Nature:
Is the conflcit between the Lead and opposition crucial for both?
Why can't they just walk away? What holds them together?
About Your Scene:
Are the big scenes big enough? Surprising enough? Can you make them more original, unanticipated, and draw them out for all they are worth?
Is there enough conflict in the scenes?
What is the least memorable scene? Cut it!
What else can be cut in order to move the story relentlessly forward?
Does the climactic scene come too fast (through a writer fatigue)? Can you make it more, write it for all it's worth?
Does we need a new minor subplot to build up a saggin midsection?
About Your Minor Characters:
What is their purpose in the plot?
Are they unique and colorful?
Polishing Questions:
Are you hooking the reader from the beginning?
Are suspenseful scenes drawn out for the ultimate tension?
Can any information be delayed? This creates tension in the reader, always a good thing.
Are there enough surprises?
Are character-reaction scenes deep and interesting?
Read chapter ending for read-on prompts
Are there places you can replace describing how a character feels with actions?
Do I use visual, sensory-laden words?
For a Dialogue Read-Through:
Dialogue is almost always strengthened by cutting words within the lines.
In dialogue, be fair to both sides. Don't give one character all the good lines.
Greate dialogue surprises the reader and creates tension. View it like a game, where the players are trying to outfox each other.
Can you get more conflict into dialogue, even emong allies?
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for the author ask, i would love to know 9, 12, and 13!!
hi!
9. what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?
honestly, most of my inspo is from other fanfics (as you’ve likely already figured out), but ig most of my inspo comes from just sitting there, literally unable to write down my plan bc i’m out or smtn, and then writing it in my head. so to answer this question, i don’t really do anything for inspo other than read. listening to music does help tho (for me at least. i know quite a few writers who hate writing with music)
12. your weaknesses as an author
fluff 💀 it always ends up so cheesy-
okay seriously, it’s probably trying to come up with ideas and sticking with the idea. say, if i were trapped in a room and i wasn’t allowed out before i finished all of my abandoned WIPs, let’s just say id never have a chance to see anyone ever again. so yeah it’s probably trying to keep up the fic.
and then also dealing with feedback is an odd weakness for me, can’t really explain this one lol
and then also trying to write long fics, but also trying to write oneshots. i’ve been trying to write more oneshots recently, which is fairly obvious from my ao3 works, but i always struggle with getting passed 1,000 words, and ever since i started writing back in like year 1, i’ve always found it so hard to even just finish my pieces. so i struggle with long pieces bc i lose the plot, and then oneshots are hard as well.
13. your strengths as an author
honestly i don’t even know… i guess i’m somewhat decent at like being able to write quickly- but only if i have a plot planned out and ready… other than that idrk lol, i just write whatever comes into my head, barely edit it, kick it off to ao3, then obsessively check my stats 💀 i definitely have more weaknesses than strengths-
thanks jami!
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jajanvm-imbi · 11 months
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My two favorite anarchists 🥰🥰
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vyhonella · 4 months
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hi I'm alive here my new hyperfixation (help)
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jeeaark · 7 days
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I was always befuddled how such a mindflayer can be so hard to trust while ultimately having simultaneous goals as the team. Then I finally saw their stats in the other timeline.
It all makes sense now.
I am forever bemused by this this lower-than-the-average-squid-charisma disaster of a mindflayer.
I can only surmise that when the Emperor said Stelmane was the face of their business-partnership, it was not only meant literally but charismatically as well. Squid buddy's got the brains, none of the suave. If Emps tried rebuilding the Knights of the Shield without another business buddy, it might've been a tad difficult if morals were concerned huah.
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volterran-wine · 21 days
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oh my god please tell me you’re not a sw*ftie she takes a literal plane for a 30 minute trip and she’s a billionaire /genq /concerned
I honestly never anticipated I would have to answer this sort of question on the blog, but here we are friends.
Am I a down-bad Swiftie who does not critique her? No, but her discography is a large part of my childhood, teenage years and university traumas so I’ll always have a soft spot for the music. I’ve listened to the latest album and like it! I do however have several thoughts about the press coverage last year as well as other topics revolving around her and celebrities in general. I think her merch and album rollout contribute to a lot of hoarding among other things.
Do I support 30 minute airplane rides? Absolutely not, I vote for my countries environmental party and believe she could make better choices + have the resources to do so.
On the billionaire thing? Eat the rich, our systems are beyond broken at this point.
― 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝑁𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒
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holy--milk · 2 months
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people be like "stop calling mxtx a genius, she's not even the best author in her particular niche",
and i'm like "but have you considered that i don't care if she's not objectively the best author as long as she's able to write characters and stories that make me go Insane for literal years?"
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digital-chance · 9 months
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i wanted to send people asks about their wips and ocs more often. not only to promote them but also because everyone makes really cool stories. the sheer amount of detail and work that people put into their projects is amazing but often gets untold. and i wanted to start learning about them and trying to promote it to the best of my ability.
i sent out a bunch of asks yesterday and i want to do more. i dont want to intrude or be weird though so i wanted to get a list of people who would like asks.
reblog this if you would like to recieve asks about your wips/ocs a couple times throughout the week.
or you can comment to be put on the list.
CLOSED AS OF 8/16 8:30AM. any more requests/reblogs will be appreciated but ignored.
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lord-squiggletits · 2 months
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I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.
I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.
The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...
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Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.
I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.
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And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?
It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.
To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.
In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.
Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.
So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.
What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.
Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?
#squiggposting#pharma apologism#i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain#so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash#i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent#what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving#is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt#and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists#so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character#so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of#'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him'#but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid#and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like#the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of#being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths#then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part#and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts#and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine#this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer#and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like#how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil#and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit#like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma#but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel#and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple#bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed#but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal
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Fic Writer Asks
Thought it would be fun to make one of these myself
🫓 What is your most popular fic?
🥘 What category do most of your fics fall under?
🍲 When did you start writing and why?
🍱 Do you read your own fics?
🍛 Have any comments, tags or reactions to one of your fics every made you laugh or cry or both?
🍜 Do you ever feel pressured to write?
🍠 How long does it take you to write one of your fics or a chapter/part?
🍢 Have you ever gotten hate on a fic?
🍣 What helps you focus or get in the mood to write?
🍥 What's your favorite fic you've written?
🥮 Do you have any writing milestones you're working toward?
🍡 Which of your fics was the most emotionally difficult to write?
🍘 Is there a fic or idea for a fic that you've abandoned?
🍙 Is there a fic you wish had gotten more attention?
🍚 What genre do you have the toughest time writing?
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1, 3, 4, and 8 for the Author Asks if you don't mind!
ofc!
1. is there are a story you’re holding off writing for any reason?
…i am ashamed to say that yes i at holding off quite a few works… a schuylkill work in progress- mainly just because of writers block and i’ve never been good at writing action scenes and im halfway through the british attacking so um yeah. and then i got a request to write a fluffy lams fic- which, if the requester sees this, i am writing it, i promise. im just trying to figure out how to write a good fluff fic and not make it cheesy…
3. what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favourite scenes first? something else?
i write in chronological order, which then is from start to end. occasionally, if i have writers block, i will write out my favourite scenes and then that sorta helps too
4. favourite character you’ve written
okay either my version of Burr from my oneshot ‘take a break’ or one of my OCs, ryver (from a hamilton reacts to hamilton fic that i wrote when i was bored)
8. favourite genre to write
hurt/comfort, whump, angst, hurt/no comfort. anything under that umbrella. i’m trying to write more fluff tho, so hopefully i can write fluff scenes better if i continue trying to write that genre
thank you, anon!
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furiousgoldfish · 2 months
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every authority can and should be questioned. why did you raise me to believe this was a punishable sin
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