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Oh my god I woke up this morning and my Stardew Valley meta post had almost 150 notes????? Hello?????????? Anyways I started writing this last night because @moon-is-pretty-tonight left nice tags on the original so thank you so much!!
We know from the starting scenes of the game that the farmer's grandfather loved Stardew Valley. So why did he leave? Pelican Town is a good place to grow old; George and Evelyn are just fine. It's a fine place to raise a kid, but maybe he just wanted to raise his child closer to real schools and other children.
Or maybe, just maybe, he understood.
Was there a day when he was in his thirties where he looked at his friends and realized they weren't like him? That he could run faster than them, work longer, explore deeper into the hidden places of the valley?
Was there a day when he went to the wizard to ask him for help, for knowledge if nothing else? Did he learn then that his family was different? Special? Chosen? And how did he react? He couldn't possibly raise a child in the valley if they would be as strange and fey as him. He had to leave. There was no other way.
But years later, on his deathbed, did he regret that choice?
Is that why he gave the farmer the letter?
Is that why they went back home?
When the farmer steps off the bus that first day, the valley is still on the cusp of winter, just barely tipping over into spring. The flowers are starting to bloom, but a chill still hangs in the air. As soon as the farmer's boots touch the soil there's a change. The air gets warmer. The trees get greener. Not by too much, not all at once, but it changes.
The junimos watch the farmer as they do their work. They're new to farming, but take to it with frightening speed; their first batch of crops is perfect. None of the townsfolk tell them that parsnips don't normally grow in less than a week, that cauliflowers don't grow to be ten feet tall, that fairies don't visit when the sun goes down and grow potatoes and beans and tulips overnight. The junimos talk amongst themselves in their strange, wild language, and agree: this is the one. They're back. The valley recognizes its own, even when they've left for a generation. The farmers have come home.
Things change fast in the valley. The community center, empty and decrepit for so many years, is rejuvenated. (Lewis says it was abandoned only a few weeks after the farmer's grandfather left. Strange coincidence, he says, that it both came and went with the farmer's family.) The mines and the quarry, similarly abandoned, are explored for the first time in ages. The town becomes cleaner, brighter, more vibrant, happier.
And it is happier. Not just the environment, but the people. It's the talk of the town for weeks when Haley does her first closet purge. Leah's art show in the town square is a huge success. Shane's smiling for the first time since he moved to the valley. All of them, when asked, say it's all thanks to the farmer.
People love to ask why Lewis didn't fix the community center on his own. Why Willy never repaired the boat to ginger island. Why Abigail or Marlon never went down to fix the elevator in the mines, or why Clint didn't fix the minecarts.
But isn't it so much more interesting to ask how those things were there in the first place? How they got so broken down? If the stories the townspeople tell are true, the valley was once a beautiful place, flourishing and full of life; why did that change? When did it change?
Was it when the farmer's grandfather, the locus of the valley, its chosen representative, left town?
And if so, what happens when the farmer comes back?
#lich says shit#stardew valley#stardew farmer#sdv#my writing#Hope y'all enjoyed!#I'm thinking about developing this into. Like. An actual Fan Fiction. Still sort of short-form but like with more detail?#LMK if you'd be interested to see that! Also if you want to be tagged in future installations of this please just let me know :)#I'm super into this version of the farmer as like. Blessed and cryptic child of the valley with all the strange behavior that entails#If i DO write a more in-depth version of this it'll be from the perspective of someone in town#maybe Leah? She seems like she'd be the one to notice the farmer being Odd. Either that or I'll do it from the perspective of multiple--#--different people to get their unique insights and stuff#I'd also want to dig into like#The family history of the farmer. And what that's like.#Because like why did grandpa leave?#He clearly loved the valley#So why didn't he stay?#Why did he give the deed to his grandchild and not his literal child?#And is it a coincidence that everything in the valley went downhill when he left?#I don't think so.
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alright gamers let's mer some mays 🐟🐠
written list under rm 👇
1. morning
2. basking
3. beachcombing
4. hunger
5. glow
6. shipwreck
7. hook
8. bait
9. capture
10. leviathan
11. taboo
12. lost at sea
13. drowning
14. storm
15. message in a bottle
16. song
17. home
18. disability
19. mine
20. metamorphoses
21. camouflage
22. stranded
23. curiosity
24. purr/growl
25. hunt
26. secret
27. promise
28. magic
29. thingamabobs
30. aquarium
31. night
#these prompts are all purely self indulgent#but you're free to use them for yourself too!#YES there is a disability prompt. i am disabled and i want to see more of that shit in fiction#mermay 2024#mermay prompts#not going to tag this with DCA since it's not strictly For that#even though it's what I'll be writing with these lmao
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my dad was talking about how love is a ghost. it slips under door frames, lies forgotten in the attic, leaves the windows open for the breeze to blow in and scatter the papers on your desk. love is a storm, it's what haunts you at night. he said that love is a ghost we chase our whole lives.
my mom said that love is a garden you water everyday. you can poison it, or grow it with love and sunlight. there will be disasters that uproot your garden, but just like the patience with which you wait for plants to grow, you have to let your love grow back like apple blossoms after a winter storm.
maybe the most important question you can ever ask someone is, "what do you think love is?" because understanding is instrumental to love. you have to love someone in their language, you have to fight for someone who thinks that love is won after a hard battle, and you have to wipe away the blood of someone who thinks that love is a sword held by its blade.
#warm up#its been a while since ive written something#writeblr#creative writing#writers on tumblr#writers of tumblr#what love is#fiction#excerpt from a book i'll never write#writing life#writing community#writing tag#writerscreed#writer things#writer tumblr#writer talk#kinda rough but i wanted to post something
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this is a genuine question not at all meant as a rude gotcha, but I feel like I've seen lots of people cite the relatively low barrier of entry as a huge advantage of podcasts as a medium, "if you have access to decent audio tech you can make a podcast" etc etc. So where does the need to sell a script come in? Is it a financial thing, and IP thing, something else?
this doesn't read like a rude gotcha at all, it's a really good question! there is a much lower barrier to entry when it comes to podcasts compared to tv, film, theater, etc. (though not as low as writing a book if we're talking about hard resources - you can technically write a book with just a laptop and a dream and then self publish! though as a writer who has written a lot of scripts and four books (3 published) writing a book is a much bigger psychological burden imo lol).
the need to sell a script, for me, is entirely a financial thing. if I had the money to produce podcasts at the level I want to entirely independently, I would! I know how to do it! but, unfortunately, I really only have the funds to produce something like @breakerwhiskey - a single narrator daily podcast that I make entirely on my own.
and that show is actually a great example of just how low the barrier is: I actually record the whole thing on a CB radio I got off of ebay for 30 bucks, my editing software is $50/month (I do a lot of editing, so this is an expense that isn't just for that show) and there are no hosting costs for it. the only thing it truly costs me is time and effort.
not every show I want to make is single narrator. a lot of the shows I've made involve large casts, full sound design, other writers, studio recording, scoring, and sometimes full cast albums (my first show, The Bright Sessions had all of those). I've worked on shows that have had budgets of 100 dollars and worked on shows that cost nearly half a million dollars. if anyone is curious about the nitty gritty of budgets, I made a huge amount of public, free resources about making audio drama earlier this year that has example budgets in these ranges!
back in the beginning of my career, I asked actors to work for free or sound designers to work for a tiny fee, because I was doing it all for free and we were all starting out. I don't like doing that anymore. so even if I'm making a show with only a few actors and a single sound designer...well, if you want an experienced sound designer and to pay everyone fairly (which I do!), it's going to cost you at least a few thousand dollars. when you're already writing something for free, it can be hard to justify spending that kind of money. I've sound designed in the past - and will be doing so again in the near future for another indie show of mine - but I'm not very good at it. that's usually the biggest expense that I want to have covered by an outside budget.
but if I'm being really honest, I want to be paid to write! while I do a lot of things - direct, produce, act, consult, etc. - writing is my main love and I want it to be the majority of my income. I'm really fortunate to be a full-time creative and I still do a lot of work independently for no money, but when I have a show that would be too expensive to produce on my own, ideally I want someone else footing the bill and paying me to write the scripts.
I love that audio fiction has the low barrier to entry it does, because I think hobbyists are incredible - it is a beautiful and generous thing to provide your labor freely to something creative and then share it with the world - but the barrier to being a professional audio drama writer is certainly higher. I'm very lucky to already be there, but, as every creative will tell you, even after you've had several successes and established yourself in the field, it can still be hard to make a living!
anyway, I hope this answers your question! I love talking about this stuff, so if anyone else is curious about this kind of thing, please ask away.
#lauren writes things#audio fiction#producing#also I say I don't like doing it anymore#but that's exactly what briggon andrew and I are working on#it's gonna be a show where we just split profits equally bc I can't afford to pay them lol#and I'll be sound designing it myself#so apologies in advance#also my GOD lauren can you be succinct once in your GODDAMN LIFE#why are all my posts so long i'm so sorry#also I don't get into it in this post#but using my book example as a jumping off point#obviously it is MUCH more complicated than that#bc self publishing/promoting/etc.#and writing the book in the first place!#is an ENORMOUS effort#as is making an audio drama!#also the grand irony in this#is that the show i was referencing in my original post is a show i first came up with to do independently lol#a two person show for briggon and andrew in fact#and then I happened to mention it to some producers I know and they liked it#so that's a show I COULD make for no money!#but they want to pitch it out and there's no harm in asking around#and in the meantime i just came up with another show for briggon and andrew haha#lauren answers things
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My thoughts on the Aventurine drama
I've been inactive for a while, I was (still am) busy in real life but coming back online to post and seeing discourse about a newly crowned favorite character is disheartening. Even more so, that people are harassing other writers over a drama I feel is overblown.
I have thoughts regarding it but I'm unsure if my opinion would be appreciated. But if you'd like to peacefully talk it out with me, I'd be happy to lend an ear. I'd like to hear both sides, as meager as my opinion may be.
Oh boy, here we go.
Aventurine is a character, a fictional being born to entertain the players. He is not real. He can not be offended by what you create of him. There is no point getting upset on the behalf of a character and prioritizing fiction over a person who does actually exist.
If we do want to condemn slavery fics, why not also cancel slave reader fics? Or ones that include things such as dead dove (including yanderes in general) fics because those topics are equally terrible to condone and write about from that point of view. Or how about other characters that have similar topics in their lore. Should those also be canceled too?
*There are also folks who make problematic pieces to help cope with their own trauma. Does that mean they should be canceled too? (On that note: making a piece that holds problematic content does not always mean the person condones it in real life. Fiction is fiction for a reason.)
In the end, I think everyone can have their own opinions, but I would like to say that your opinions do not justify terrible actions. Just because you disagree with something does not justify you bullying someone into deleting one of their works, whether it is art or writing or anything else, I do not think that is justifiable. Harassing someone or calling people to harass them is not right either.
*If you did disagree with it, why not message the author about it instead of making accusatory posts? Even when done with good intentions, all it does is cause harm when it's practically inviting people to go harass someone over a fanfiction. A very mild fanfiction at that.
If you disagree with a piece, cool. That's your opinion. Just don't interact with it then. Block that creator or that tag or whatever it is that led you there. Or if you're curious, ask that creator.
Also, to reiterate, in my opinion, fiction is still just fiction. Especially when it's a fanfiction about a fictional character. Yes, his canon lore exists, but people can use that basis in fanfiction, something that will inherently warp canon because we are not the original writers and can not capture him in the exact way he was created. In case that doesn't make sense: Fanfiction does not have to comply with the original lore. Also since some of you seem to be forgetting: fiction does not mirror real life.
If you are truly that concerned over sensitive topics like that, directing that energy towards projects that involve such topics in real life would be much better than attacking people on the internet.
#Ink stained letters#I'll probably delete this#If I remember#Sometimes I forget I post stuff#aventurine x reader#The slavery fiction drama#That I have#Let's say thoughts on#Will maybe start posting stuff again#Harassing people is not it though#Isn't that a saying#Two wrongs don't make a right#What an unfortunate time to return to#Killed my will to post things#I'll still post something today or tomorrow to make up for being gone#And for this post#Also people getting mad for a character is really strange#In my opinion#The characters aren't real?#They can't get offended?#Why are we hurting real people over a character that isn't real#This is my take on the drama#Can everyone stop harassing other people over fiction#I don't find any sense in it#This is my opinion#hsr aventurine#Also from my experience#Call out posts are generally just harmful#Especially when you don't make it a secret of who you're talking about#Let people write what they want
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self care is unfollowing people who spread negativity on ur dash!! like Damn! yeah i theoretically Agree with your crit but i really Don't wanna see it either bc i want to Celebrate content instead of hyperfixating on the stuff i didn't like about it! yeet!!!
#jen rambles#i had someone call a SU fic i wrote once a 'fix it' and i'm just like#NO!!!#it was Not a fix it!#because a fix it would assume that i think i am Better and More Smart than the creators and that is hubris i really don't want#to take upon myself#i just like!! taking the elements i like and writing More of it!#that's all#i also feel like there's lots of people who just crumple when things in fiction aren't coherently explained#but i've always seen those holes as Opportunities?#idk like on one hand is leaving holes in your narrative bad writing? likely#but also the very soul of fan creation has Always been stepping alongside canon and re-imagining it#and oft filling those holes#and i just wish more people would join me in doing so in good faith to the source material#instead of doing it in that sort of 'ughhh so like since canon fucking sucks i'm fixing it :)' way#one day i'll prob Myself talk about the issues i had with the plotting of This Thing and you'll see tons of overlap with what#others are saying about it#but like idk. just why make that your sole focus? doesn't that bum other people out too?#like it kind of breaks my heart seeing people so fixated on the imperfections that they can't even enjoy what Was#i just don't get this mindset
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i always think my old fics are super cringe and not even good enough to read, but i go back and read the comments on some of them and i don't have the heart to delete them because of them.
like, a reader had gone back to read an old zhongli fic of mine and commented about how they had to come back and revisit it because it's cute even though i personally think it's lame and it makes me :((
#didi talks#hi everyone i'm not dead lol#i'm revisiting my old fics before i head to classes#and now i'm crying before going to my lesson because of people's comments LOLL#i promise i want to write again. i really do#but life is so busy these days :((#i miss having the time and energy to write what i want#i hope everyone is doing well <3#i'll be back and kicking after the semester is over or after my summer program is done :flex:#trust. i have so many life experiences to thrust fictional characters onto LOLLLL#found out yearning for someone and them not liking me back SUCKS#but that's okay :) i wasn't expecting it back anyways
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From a fic writer, please don't say 'I wish there was a second part to this!' or 'part 2?' to writers, like, ever, because it is unfortunately not the compliment you think it is.
Don't get me wrong, I love every person who's taken the time to comment and make sure I reply to them, but it always brings me down a bit to see people asking for a second part, especially if it is quite clearly stated as a oneshot. It's half of 'oh hey! They think my writing is good and want more of it :D', so I recommend the other stuff I have on my page, and half 'They just want more.' because, when it comes to those comments, there is nothing else but asking for more.
In a general sense, the author has put time and effort into making that fic//oneshot happen! Might've been inspired by a song and written out in two days, or it could've been intractably planned over weeks! It is still time and effort and self indulgence! Don't ask for more when there is obviously nothing else planned.
I think, nowadays, even with fic reading, it's become a matter of quantity; basing whether to read a fic off of kudos:reads ratio, only being able to read fics over 50k words and not accepting any less etc. People also have seemed to forgotten that fic writers are apart of fandom as well; they aren't influencers farming out massive fics every two months, and, when it comes to a oneshot, quite possibly want to leave it as that. A oneshot.
So, instead of asking for more, maybe compliment what is there! Talk about a favourite line or scene, or give some constructive criticism if the author allows it. Fill your belly on the food served and don't think of the extra plate you could have.
#hoping this doesn't come off as too mean!#like when I first started uploading oneshots again the main amount of comments that I got was 'will there be a part 2??'#and is still the majority of comments I get#which I love! I'll still reply and rec some of my other fics! any sort of interaction in this day and age is taken gladly#but it just makes me feel like my work wasn't enough in that sense?#like I know it's only short (lets say 3.5k) but it's still something I indulged in and enjoyed writing#but apprently that wasn't good enough#I think (personally) it's because I like to leave my one-shots open ended so maybe that just makes readers want to know what could happen -#next and ask for it? idk#maybe this is just a pet peeve of mine#mel's thoughts#mel's rambles#ao3 author#ao3#fic writer#fic writing#fan fiction#fan fic writing#fan fic stuff#quotev
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hot take but I think a lot of current fantasy has lost the "what the heck" nonsensical vibes and that's why a lot of it is so bad
#people are so obsessed with 'being like tolkien' that they forget that a key part of fantasy#is the magic and wonder and inexplicable occurences#some things we need to accept on faith and move on#like you don't NEED to understand the mechanics of portals to other worlds or magic#or have a logical realistic fantasy realm#it's fantasy!! it's by definition UNREALISTIC and WEIRD and INEXPLICABLE#tolkien himself said something along the lines of 'if you explain how it works#it's not magic anymore'#(somewhere in on fairy stories I think)#but the point is that I actually could not care less about whether your fictional languages and histories etc etc#are realistic or sensible#if I wanted to read about a different culture or language or place I'd pick up a regular fiction novel#fantasy means that there's magic and things beyond our ken#lots of things will not and should not make sense#(logically. they should make sense in terms of fantasy)#(paraphrasing from sir terry here but it's unrealistic and nonsensical#for the third brother to succeed or for the sword to be pulled from the stone or for kindness and bravery to always win the day)#(but in a fantasy that is what makes sense; the illogical)#someday I'll write up my discord rant on modern fantasy as a true essay but it is not this day lol
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Hot take: don't fucking listen to any "this is how you do drafts" post. or at least don't take it as the one Best Way to Do Things. Everyone does drafts differently. is it efficient? is it as "good" as someone else's method? why does it matter? at the end of the day it's YOU writing it, and doing in the way someone else would *can* be helpful, but at the end of the day, at least, in my opinion, it should be you who decides how to draft and you who figures out how you work best as a writer, not someone else. It's your story, after all, and your voice and method that matter. Someone else can HELP you figure out how to write and structure your story, and do drafts, but they should NOT decide for you, and their vision certainly shouldn't override yours. Just sayin'.
#hot take#LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK#writing#writers#writers on tumblr#writeblr#like it's so crazy how many of these posts I'll see that say “best way to draft.” yeah. for YOU. not for me!!#everyone writes differently that's the whole fucking point#use your real voice. sterilization of fiction is exactly what you want to avoid#it's a huge problem and i fucking hate it#write the story your way. don't let an editor fuck you over on YOUR vision.#raven talks
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Okay, no, sorry, I’m still mad about this. “Be critical of the media you consume and examine why you react to it in the way that you do, support marginalized and stigmatized identities.” Yeah, until it’s about mental illness.
A woman (or even man, if he’s deemed over-emotional) makes music about suffering from mental illness and people just go, “What are they complaining about, that’s so immature, hashtag wangst.” (And then, sometimes, inexplicably, if the mentally ill woman gets better and writes happier music, they then talk about how artistically bankrupt she is now and that she should go back to hating herself.) People LOVE cis white pRoBLeMaTiC (straight) fictional men until they are realistically mentally ill, in which case they’re “whiny” and “insufferable” and deserve to die violently, apparently (or, if fandom is merciful, they’re ignored). (And then they celebrate when they DO inevitably get killed off.) “Do your duty and watch [thing I, mc13, personally find insufferable] For The (white) Gays because it has Gays.” Sure, will you watch c4 Pure, the ONLY show specifically about OCD, then? (No, the answer is no, it’s always no.)
I can’t get anyone to watch Doom Patrol. I couldn’t get people (in general-I did convince a few irl friends thank GOD) to watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. One of the most popular and acclaimed shows right now has a character with schizophrenia who was turned into the Big Bad Villain for no fucking reason. One of the most commonly-cited examples of Iconic™ queer media involves a mentally ill man being broken over and over and over again before The Ship™ can reasonably happen. DW introduced a major character who was at one point suffering from mental illness in her past, AND THEN ALL MENTION OF THIS WAS COMPLETELY DROPPED IN THE FUTURE, WITH NO BEARING ON ANYTHING TO THE POINT WHERE I FORGOT IT EVEN EXISTED??!?!? R*tched was a thing that existed despite the Sad Sympathetic Backstory treatment being IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION OF WHAT PURPOSE THIS CHARACTER SERVED IN One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. THEY GAVE. A SAD WOOBIE VILLAIN TREATMENT. TO THE /LITERAL PERSONIFICATION/ OF ABLEISM. THAT IS HER FUNCTION. TO EXIST AS A SYMBOL OF ALL THE WAYS SOCIETY OPPRESSES THE DISABLED AND MENTALLY ILL.
I am!!! Literally!!!!! The only one!!!!!!!!! Complaining about these things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one else has said ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one is talking about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#*OBLIGATORY COMMENT ABOUT HOW REPRESENTATION/FICTIONAL DISABILITY IS NOT THE END ALL BE ALL OF ACTIVISM*#*OTHER OBLIGATORY COMMENT ABOUT HOW LIKING '''pRoBLeMaTiC''' CONTENT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BAD PERSON OR A HORRIFYING ABLEIST*#THIS WAS JUST ME GETTING MAD IT'S NOT THAT DEEP#In the Vents#the real horror was the ableism we found along the way#like. in some of these cases yes I /KNOW/ it was not meant to come across like that!!! but y'all accept that as a valid type of media#criticism when it's about anything else!!!!!!!! just not this apparently????!?!!!!#I do not understand how there is such an ABYSMAL treatment of the subject of mental illness in fiction when this is the#memetic Mental Illness Website like genuinely I do not get it I am scaling my walls and banging pots and pans and growling like a rabid dog#IF YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THE MESSAGE A STORY IS TELLING YOU GOTTA APPLY IT HERE TOO#I AM ALSO THE LAST PERSON TO SAY THAT YOU'VE GOTTA ADD A DISCLAIMER OF SOMETHING'S LAUNDRY LIST OF FLAWS BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT IT#BUT JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ON SOME LEVEL EVEN IF IT'S JUST TO YOURSELF THAT THINGS HAVE FLAWS#YOU'VE GOTTA BE AWARE OF SHIT#WHEN WILL WE HAVE THE OUTCRY OVER BURY YOUR DISABLED THAT WE DO OVER BYG (WHICH IS ALSO BAD BTW)#I GUARANTEE YOU WE WON'T BE GETTING A SEPARATE FUCKING CON OVER FANDOM OUTCRY THAT'S FOR SURE#I'm making a rule: if you can prove to me that you've started cxgf after reading this and/or if you can prove to me#that you've watched pure (channel 4/hbo max-the one with charly clive) I'll write a fic for you#let's see if I get sniped for criticizing both the beloved sacred mads show AND the plane crash girls show#if I see ONE more comment about how either of those is a perfect show that Gets What All The People Want I will in fact spontaneously#combust.#(and before you @ me yes I have any and all permutations of show tags blocked I'm not just being mean to be mean)#my god remember what happened the last time I tried to talk about this a;lsdfkajs;ldfkj#good thing I turned off anonymous asks!!#this is not even getting into some of the SMALLER fandoms#like I do not ever want to think about the takes I saw for ctrlz EVER again
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Thor: Ragnarok is the best Thor movie and you can tell because nobody ever tries to make a desperate claim for prestige and reflected quality by calling it "Shakespearean," they just say they enjoyed it and they liked the jokes.
#thor ragnarok#“oh but ragnarok made the characters look silly” jan. jan. JAN. look at what they're wearing jan. look at the sets. recalibrate the sensors#i don't WANT to start sentences with “so with your vast experience and knowledge of Elizabethan/Jacobean English drama -”#or rather i do WANT i just DON'T (because one of them probably CAN name another early modern dramatist and i'd get that one for sure)#i KNOW they don't talk like the 16th century because i can actually understand the shite they're attempting to convey#also maybe you could look up when “the Viking Age” was and then when Will S was writing his dialogues. (i'll wait.)#“oh but they're in 21st century movies so they wouldn't -” YES EXACTLY.#they talk like characters from low-accuracy historical novels WHICH IS FINE but the genre-blindness on here bugs me :|#they talk more 'normal' in ragnarok and that's a good decision which i support fully (and also i enjoyed it and i liked the jokes)#and something about class and education and Literature and what we're 'allowed' to like and how SF is generally looked down upon#to the point where people who should know better insist on saying a film they like is actually more like a thing with much more prestige#i wouldn't put MUCH money on “i bet these film-makers explained how It's Not Reallly Science Fiction Though” but i'd put a wee bit on it#thor movies
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Me: tries to keep a mostly WN-related dash and for that reason only follows a little less than some 20 blogs
Also me: jeez why is my dashboard always so quiet
#sometimes wanting things to be super organised... is a bane#or maybe it's a blessing because i have some three different texts i should be writing and the slow day should inspire me to get off tumblr#(if ever you wondered why tumblr user sisterdivinium likes/reblogs you but doesn't follow you... it's the wn to general post ratio)#(some of you seem lovely and fun but there are so many non-wn things on your blogs that i can't bring myself to follow so i just lurk lol)#(it's not a comment on anyone's blog quality but simply on wn post quantity!)#anyway. place your bets on what will be done first#long doctor superion oneshot i should not have stopped writing to start debris OR#short doctor superion oneshot that literally came to me in a vision and is completely insane OR#non-fiction pro mother superion preaching#tip: it probably won't be the long oneshot lol#silly blabbering#now that i think of it i have a drabble to rewrite too. hm. maybe i'll do that.
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Did some formatting and it's almost 700 trade-paperback-size pages long, which makes no sense at all. How did I manage to write a Tad Williams novel.
Just had a lot of Feels, I guess.
#BDE (Big Draft Energy)#tomorrow I'll do an actual scene-by-scene wordcount breakdown to see what I've got vs what I need#but I am rather pleased with myself#I wrote a thing!#I'm afraid if you squint at the epilogue you see my hunger to write a sequel#it's secondary-world fantasy but there is no magic!#I just wanted to write historical fiction without having to use actual history (or only use the parts I find useful)
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Every day I get closer to writing that fic where El and Max get sort of drunk (and sad) together after S3, and the only things stopping me are 1) how emotional these kids make me, and 2) my inability to remember what the hell even happened in S3 except that it was super fucked up (and, in many ways, incredibly absurd).
#writing tag#stranger things#like i remember the broad strokes i guess#but it's been like 10 months i really do have to watch it again#all i remember is that El and Max had Big Reasons to be very fucking sad afterward#and i want them to have deep tipsy teen girl talks even if they don't talk about what happened#i'll be honest if you think i'm too much about jonathan and all his baggage#you can't even imagine how intolerable i'd be if i let myself get sucked down the max rabbit hole#i feel so so much and so many things for that fictional child i want to swaddle her in a blanket and make her hot cocoa
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If we discussed Oscar Wilde like The Beatles fandom discusses mclennon we'd be in other places
That being said you should go follow my Beatles blog @maccas-glass-cornflake
#I'm so up for it if anyone wants to have deep evidence discussions over Oscar Wilde and His Men and such#(except my copy of Oscar Wilde: A Life In Letters is loaned to a teacher right now but thats okay I can still have deep talks)#oscar wilde#yknow what im cruel im putting this under the mclennon tag#mclennon#y'know I'm just afraid that the world will never be ready for Oscar Wilde roleplays (I swear if anyone does this I want to know how-#you got to that point in life before I decide how I feel about you)#now I'll admit I did once write Oscar Wilde in a fanfic once but I think I was a freshman and a theatre kid#and it was Good Omens fan fiction#and it was kinda bad... not the fan fiction but Mr. Wilde was not characterized right if I recall#I swear if anyone goes and finds it I want to review how awful it was#i cringe at my old writings#and I love my readers from back then but why did they cry at my angst fics when really it wasn't that deep half the time (or maybe it was)#(maybe i just write deeper angst now)#(anyways does anyone want to read my gay Victorian romance with a little hint of murder and an examination of humanity)
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