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perexcri · 1 year

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for the writing ask: 1, 13, 19, 40 :)))

AHHH hello Lark!! :D

i just answered #1 here!! i would add more but. i honestly have no more to say lol

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

oooh i just answered this one here too, but i have some more i can add!!

for difficult subject matters to write, i also have a very hard time writing about illness. this is again because of personal/family matters, but yeah. i'm not sure i could even do a sick fic (except for like one idea i have, but it's far removed enough from the usual context for me to be able to handle it)

easy to write? in a weird way, apocalypse/end of the world scenarios! this is partially because of the part of the country i grew up in and how the end of the world is something that is often talked about with glee, so there's already just this desensitization to it. but i also just like how,,,symbolic the end of the world can be? like not necessarily The End, but sometimes, the end of the world can be just having a bad day, right? i like the flexibility of the term and how it can be explored

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

ooooh ok, i think i have a fun one for how this started!

so in another ask a while ago, i had mentioned i'd started writing stories particularly after a difficult time my family went through. so now i'll talk about poetry!

i started writing poetry because of a church camp. no seriously. it was a kids camp between my 5th and 6th grade years of school, and the theme was the arts, so me and all of my schoolmates went to this camp, and all of us had gotten super into manga and drawing in that style the previous school year, so all of us had signed up for the visual arts section of the camp, of course. well basically every single one of my schoolmates who attended the camp got into that one except for me! i ended up in the poetry and cooking section despite not wanting to bother with either, and i was lowkey miserable! i remember feeling crushed because i didn't get to do drawing for that week, but also because i wasn't gonna be with any of my friends, and as an incredibly shy person, that was absolutely distressing

but as i started working on the poetry stuff, i actually (begrudgingly) came to like it? my final piece for the camp was an acrostic which was Not Good by any means, but i was like 11, and i'd never written poetry before, so why would it be good, right? anyways, after that i started exploring poetry more as a way for me to get my emotions out, and i even competed in poetry in this art competition my church's denomination runs at the national level, and i submitted a few poems to students journals when i was in high school. i haven't done much with it since, but i still write it and try to make time with it when i need to get my feelings out (i even went to the beach to write one today!) so...yeah. funny how things happen, right?

speaking of poetry...

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

you served me well with your sappho poem, so i tried my best to find one from my favorite poetry collection book i've had since my freshman year of high school :'D i just liked the imagery of this one and how relaxing it is, so i hope you enjoy it, too!

"Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

Let the light of late afternoon

shine through chinks in the barn, moving

up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing

as a woman takes up her needles

and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned

in long grass. Let the stars appear

and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.

Let the wind die down. Let the shed

go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop

in the oats, to air in the lung

let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t

be afraid. God does not leave us

comfortless, so let evening come.

thanks for the ask my friend!! i hope you are doing well :] 💜

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tuiyla · 2 years

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How do you see brittana's relationship after season 4 finale, before they get back together? Do you headcanon them calling, texting often or not so much? But also do you think brittana would've gotten back together sooner if Heather were available during the first half of season 5? Actually, do you think Brittany and Sam would've broken up if Heather didn't have to leave the show? (I maintain that as lovely as those scenes were everybody crying and just being super sad about Brittany leaving for MIT made zero sense lol especially Santana, hey Britt you're moving to a state right next to mine, damn I'm so sad you're leaving Ohio)

My heart says yes, they'd text and call, but canon evidence says otherwise. Brittana are best friends, first and foremost, and I think the main reason behind their breakup was to safeguard that before it ends on bad terms and they lose that bond. But the sad thing is, it seems to weaken regardless in season 4. Part of it is just the nature of the TV show, so of course we'll see them have convos on occasions when Santana is in Lima rather than implying that they keep in touch. But Santana also heard about Bram from Tina and then we see no hints of interaction between the two until 4x22, when Sam tells Santana about something not being okay with Britt. Again in season 5, it looks like Brittana haven't talked or at least not honestly since Brittany left for MIT. And again I can say this is because their plot was confined to those two eps so having convos before then is just inconvenient for the plot and the structure of the show, but it's still the way it goes.

I think, if they had remained apart for longer they would have bounced back to being best friends but they don't seem to have that in season 5A. I guess it was beyond the Glee writers to imply something small like the two sometimes calling but still it wasn't there. I think 4x22 marks an important milestone in their dynamic, specifically broken-up dynamic, which I'm happy to elaborate on in another post. For now, let's just say that I think they get past the initial post-breakup post-Bram awkwardness there but thinking about each other still hurts too much to keep in touch too much. I think while Santana's with Dani she feels less of a temptation, too, at least that's what she tells herself. SO all this to say that, based on what the show gives me, I assume they rarely ever talk beyond the occasional funny cat meme. They're both pretending to be someone they're not, essentially, during this time, and try to convince themselves it's the right path. And when they meet again, they find themselves again, too. Season 5 Brittana rights.

As for production perspectives and Heather's pregnancy, phew, anyone's guess. This is a tricky thing because there's a different version for every scenario. I wasn't there so I don't know, but I'd assume whether Heather was ever coming back was very up in the air. Had they known that she would for sure be up for returning and on a semi-permanent basis after her maternal leave, hmm. Well, I believe Ryan Murphy stated/at least implied Brittana weren't gonna get back together. Purely speculation on my part but I think Cory's death changed a lot of things about the show's direction. So I think it was when they were doing the end of season 5A that they decided what Brittana's fate would be.

Here's the thing: if Heather was available during season 5A, that's pretty much a "she never left" scenario for me. Let's say she didn't get pregnant at that time, maybe only years later. Brittany would stay part of the Lima storyline. She and Sam would still break up because it ran its course, just for a reason other than MIT. I think the writers would still decide, ultimately and affected by Cory's death and the restructuring, to get them back together in the 100th/101st. Say, in a version where Brittany goes to MIT but Heather is still available at least as a guest star, she might make appearances in season 5A but I still think Santana's storyline is fairly intact and the 100th goes much the same way. It just makes sense, you know? With the way things turned out, for Brittana to get back together then. I don't see it happening sooner even if we change factors like Heather's pregnancy/availability. Only if we change Cory's death, which sadly we cannot - not that we can change the others but, you know.

As for your point about Brittany's goodbye scene, well, yes. I think we have to consider the production side of things here. While yes, Brittany is only going to Massachusetts, Heather is leaving potentially for good or at least a long while. No one knew for sure when or if she'd ever come back, right? So that bleeds into it and personally I don't mind that, she had the second-longest streak of episodes at that point and that's a pretty big deal. Even if we ignore the Heather side of things, I still think the emotional truth of the scene makes it make sense. Like yeah Anon we can say "she's just going to Massachusetts, this makes zero sense!" lol but I think that's being a bit harsh on the scene 😅

Even just as Brittany the character, I love that scene for her. I love this whole episode, actually. No one ever expected her to go far, bar Santana. She was the dumb blonde, the hot cheerleader everyone liked but no one really saw. She was given a voice in that choir room, she fell in love there, and she found people she could call a family. She was doing her second senior year, on the brink of believing everyone who ever called her stupid and now things are moving so fast and it's scary and exciting but also sad because she's leaving all this behind. Even if she's only going to MIT, this is her graduation. Except she doesn't get the gowns and all because she missed her chance and now it's all happening all at once. (Some noise for the Santana getting Sue to include Britt with the 2013 seniors scene, thank you very much.) This is her goodbye, no matter how far she's going physically.

In regards to Santana and MIT being closer to New York, actually, well. I guess this circles back to them keeping in touch in season 5A which I don't believe they really did. Because it's not about the physical distance, it's about the moving on portion. Santana has already moved on from Lima and it broke them apart. Now Brittany is leaving too, and it's bittersweet but it's a fresh start. A fresh start for both, separately. Until, as mentioned, they realize they needed each other to stay true to themselves.

#anon #glee asks #brittana asks #brittany asks #interesting things to ponder #i really do love 4x22 and s5 brittana #i think they /could have/ been close in s5a #there's a timeline like that out there #but this wasn't it #long post #did you expect anything less #gleewrite

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angelhummel · 2 years

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What are your family head canons for Kitty? I forgot to ask a while ago but I remembered to again 💖

Omg I actually had a few a while back. Since like I said she's oddly one of the only characters whose families I've gotten super excited over speculating about lmao. I can't find all the posts now but

Basically I picture Kitty being the middle child out of five girls. In like an upper upper middle class suburbia type environment. Very sheltered, very weirdly Christian upbringing. Parents met at college, dad probably played football and mom was a cheerleader. She dropped out when she got pregnant with her first kid, he started working for his father's company, etc etc. That whole deal, right?

Anyway so the mom was super into cheerleading her whole school career until she had to drop out, so basically as soon as one daughter is able to hold pompoms, she signs them up for like baby's first cheer class or whatever it is. And gymnastics, and probably at least one dance class, the whole stage mom shebang. Oh, and baby beauty pageants. That's canon that Kitty was in those I think lol

So yeah, stay at home slash stage mom who honestly acts like she's the oldest sister, and an absent dad who has all the parenting skills of a 50s business man. And five little blonde haired blue eyed girls of various heights running around the house. But Kitty has green eyes tho, maybe that's the first thing that sets her apart from her sisters lol

Ooh wait the first time I saw Grease was at a church lock in lmao. Lemme just pick that out of my own brain and throw it onto a fictional character real quick. So that's basically Kitty's introduction to musicals and she's lowkey obsessed with it to the point where she subconsciously decorates her whole bedroom to look like the one in the movie. And she's always dressing up in costumes and acting out the whole movie as basically a one woman show bc none of her sisters want to play with her

Anyway so she gets a little older and is at McKinley and the first musical they put on while she's a student is Grease! And she's so happy and she's determined to try out and get a good part bc it's her favorite musical. And it's something that's just her own, that her sisters haven't done or won't do. There's some dancing but it's mostly just acting and singing and so she's super excited to dive into something new and different and get to perform in public, the show that she knows by heart

So she sticks her neck out and tries to be the little trailblazer in her family just to get stuck with one of the smallest parts in the show. So she's upset and she's lashing out but she still does it bc it's still one thing that's just hers and maybe she'll get more chances later who knows (and she does cause she joins the glee club afterwards!) but no one in her family comes to support her during the show's run which also stings

But then she joins glee club and realizes that the family you're born into doesn't have to be the family you're stuck with forever. And goes from being surrounded by people that look and think and act just like her to people who are everything she's not, and learns that that's a good thing and learns to love them. And she eventually breaks out of her narrow minded (and yes, bigoted) little shell and finds a new family in her wonderful friends that love her unconditionally and want to see her happy and following her dreams

Also Kitty is a lesbian ♥️ Ty for coming to my ted talk

Here's another post where I was talking about here family lol

#glee #kitty wilde #my thoughts #my headcanons #long post #asks #gleekidshooray #love that username #also love how that ask i linked starts with #going off your other headcanons #and yet i cannot find the post with the original headcanons #life is a struggle

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retvenkos · 3 years

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alright, Olive, I'm back with a weird question. (but first of all, I hope you're doing good! how awfully rude of me to not start my ask by that) because you're so good at psychoanalyzing people (and I adore your rambling thoughts), I was wondering if you could maybe help me? I've always wondered who my godly parent would be in the PJO universe - it's been the biggest mistery in my life since I was 8. I just haven't found myself in any figure of the Olympus, maybe because I'd be the child of a minor deity? I've thought about Apollo, and I genuinely like it, but idk, maybe I need a more thorough analysis. I've also gotten Iris and Hemera from other people? I just think your piercing mind could see right through me. anyway, this is weird lol, I hope you don't mind me asking this! and don't worry if you can't answer, it's totally fine. 💜

asdfgfddfgfd, when i get my two weeks off for summer break, i should just do placements for inquiring mutuals because honestly it's one of my favorite things,,,

also, before i get into it (because i have some thoughts™), i'm going to plug one quotev quiz that i think is better than the rest when it comes to these matters: this godly parent quiz.

now, clara, i am not nearly as versed in pjo cabin placements as i am in hogwarts houses, but i'm going to give this my best shot:

first, i think i would be remiss not to mention that you are a libra, and libra is associated with themis, (idk really what that means since i'm not into astrology, lol), but themis isn't mentioned as one of the gods with a cabin, so i'm disregarding that. if we are following this logic though, i think that aphrodite is also associated with libra, so perhaps you could fit into that cabin? personally, i don't see it as strongly as i see others, but you do have a hopeless romantic streak, and a strong sense of community, which could sway you in that direction.

as for apollo, i'm going to unpack that for a minute, because it's very interesting that you'd place yourself there, and i'm on the fence with that myself, lol. (this is very stream of consciousness, so let's see where this section takes us)

i definitely see the association with the arts - music and poetry - although in my mind apollo has always been the performer, and less of the creator. i always associated the muses more with the creation stages of music and poetry. like... the muses are the fashion designers and apollo is the model going down the runway. or the muses are the writers and collaborators in the writers room and apollo is the actor or director. so, while i see the association, i think it's a little weak, because you strike me as more of the quiet artist who's behind the scenes, rather than the bard singing in the pub, trying to get coins. but, you know yourself better, so maybe it's a good association.

and after that, what always strikes me about apollo is the volatile contradictions of his personality. i mean, he's associated with the sudden death of children (rightfully so, i mean he slaughtered all of niobe's sons), along with his sister, artemis, but he's also a healer. he's like that "i'm a healer, but..." meme, which is funny as hell but also a little concerning. like, in many stories he is that godly sort of intelligent strength, but also he's really volatile and has quite a temper on him. i don't really think this relates a whole lot to you, because i get the vibes that you are generally mild mannered, but when something pisses you off, you let is really simmer. i feel like you aren't one to fly off the handle - if you do, it's probably been stewing within you for a while, and whoever your anger is directed at really knows that you're upset, and they knowingly pushed you to that place. i feel like you're more of a grudge holder than hot-tempered (but girl, same).

and then, of course, we have apollo's prophecies. now, maybe this is me reading too much into your scientific mind, but i think you are concerned with the future, but also don't think too much of it is predetermined. i feel like you are more of a trailblazer than that, and might just be prone to ignoring or actively working against anything you saw in the stars, asdfghgfsdfggfdsdfggfd

oh, and, apollo just has so many unfortunate romances, and on one hand, i have you quoted that you are more of an eponine than a cosette, but also, no hate to apollo and his tragic affairs, but he's openly mocked eros, and that truly gives off the vibes of working off of one (1) braincell, and you are too good for that, clara.

and just going back to personality, i think you have a lot of flexibility that just doesn't fit with the apollo cabin.

tldr; kinda but no?

now, i'm gonna kinda hop back into possible theories.

one of my gut reactions was the say athena, but after thinking about it, i'm still a little unconvinced. you have the intellect and pride for this cabin, and i feel like you would get roped into helping a lot of heroes like athena, but you also just have a charm to you that athena lacks. part of athena is that she's unapproachable and her pride is excessive. you, again, are too flexible to be athena. she's staunch where you are willing, and i feel like the rigidity of her nature is too constricting for you. it's very similar as to why i didn't place you in ravenclaw.

i also considered nike because of your competitive streak, but this placement kind of takes away from the underdog vibes i get from you. the righteous fury... the glee in the moment... it's definitely there, but i feel like there's a level of unsurety to your psyche that you don't really get with nike.

which leads me to my final analysis, where i think you would do well as a child of tyche.

let me go through this. so, i mentioned your competitive streak with nike, and that is 1000% evident in tyche. tyche is all about luck and fortune, and i feel like competition is a shoe in. children of tyche like to dabble with the unknown or the novel - it makes life interesting. they like to go against another and see where the cards fall, and if lady luck isn't on their side.... well, tonight's just not their night. they have a secure base to fall back on, and that allows them to stretch their wings and fly.

furthermore, with nike, victory is expected and guaranteed. luck is far more fluid and unpredictable - it's harder to pin down. you can have a lot of luck and a lot of things working in your favor, but still, the desired end result isn't set in stone - it's likely to happen, but there's always risk. this risk leaves for an air of quiet self-assuredness that isn't overbearing. there's always uncertainty in the mix, and that leads to less overt confidence. it also adds to the thrill (or the anxiety).

plus, i think that the gap between fortune and certainty (a pitfall of risk) leads to a lot of checks and balances that i really see in you. there's a lot of clear headed logic that gets weighed against ambition and desire, and it makes for a kind of pragmatism that doesn't stomp out dreams, just looks at them realistically.

which means i feel like a lot of people ask you for advice, clara. it also makes you a decision maker for sure. you might falter for a moment, but in the end, you make a choice and you live with it.

also, i have a personal headcanon that children of tyche are really well rounded, which harks back to my gryffindor analysis of you, where i mention that you have many tools in your box. you are able to manipulate many different things, and you can look at them from many angles, and i love that for you.

i also think this is a good placement for you because luck is all about what-ifs. it's about actively manipulating the world around you. like i said when i mentioned apollo's prophecies - i don't think that you do very well with the predetermined. some things, certainly, but one (1) you are too stubborn to believe you can't change things (oh, the contradictions of a gryffindor and child of tyche), and there's also a level of desperation that things won't always be like this. luck can come to anyone in any place. this is definitely tied to your bleeding heart - you care for people who have fallen on hard times, and you can't help but pray that it's only temporary.

oh, and i headcanon that tyche holds grudges sO BAD. she is only outdone by nemesis and hades.

anyway, this was long and it winded, but TLDR; i hereby herald you a child of tyche. you are my lady luck, clara.

#asks #mutuals #lol i need to get a tag like:#olive psychoanalyzes friends #anyway i hope you like this! i feel like i kind of raked apollo through the coals asdfghjhgfdfghjhgfd #but lISTEN you don't get to be one of the big name gods without being messy as hell #but lol now i feel like i need to re- assess my status as a child of hecate because i didn't go this in depth for mYSELF

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thnxforknowingme · 3 years

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@useless-fanfictions-for-glee tagged me (here's their post) and I actually already did this a while ago (here) but I've written more fic since then and I'm always up for an excuse to avoid the work I should be doing, so I'll answer them again 😊

My AO3 is hundredindecisions! (on the last post I included my other account too) (also I'm cutting the questions that I would just answer the same way I already did on the last post)

how many works do you have on AO3?

what’s your total AO3 word count?

53,266 (although my current WIP has probably another 40k that has yet to be posted)

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

I have 4 fics for Glee on this account and one for Hades

what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Since I only have 5 I'll just give you the top two:

Always Has Been (Kurtbastian, 18k, complete, inspired by Queer As Folk UK) Kurt and Sebastian have been friends since they were teenagers. As an adult, Sebastian is successful in his career and his social life, with the power to charm and attract any man he wants. Kurt’s life is simpler, less glamorous, and less lucky in love. When Kurt meets someone new, their easy friendship becomes a lot more complicated.

In Orbit (Klaine, currently 28k, in progress) Blaine starts attending NYU, and he and Kurt weave in and out of each other’s lives - as friends, exes, friends with benefits, and harder-to-define labels - while they navigate college, relationships, and adulthood in New York.

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

On this account none of my story endings are angsty lol, but the multi-chaps and Know Your Score all have some element of angst before the resolution.

do you write crossovers? if so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I realize when I answered this last time I just fully forgot that I'd written a Spider-man Kurtbastian fic on my old account...but anyway I don't write them often, no.

do you write smut? if so what kind?

Not really! I've gotten closer to smut than maybe ever before in In Orbit, but it's still not super explicit. Smut writers are braver than any US Marine and I admire their willingness to be that vulnerable in putting that kind of work out there...maybe I'll be that courageous someday.

have you ever co-written a fic before?

No...I like the idea in theory, but I think I'm also kind of a control freak when it comes to writing. Collaborating with another writer to write alternating chapters or POVs might be fun though.

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I haven't posted any stories that aren't going to be finished...but I have A Lot of ideas right now, especially for multi-chaps...and I am worried that I'll never get the time/energy/motivation to actually see them all to fruition.

what are your writing strengths?

Something that I've been working on recently (inspired by advice from Maggie Stiefvater's writing workshop) is having good flow, a good balance between dialogue and description and internal character thought, and I think I'm decent at it? At least, I've become more aware of when other people don't have it and trying to avoid that in my own work, but maybe that's just me being an asshole and not me being good at the technique.

what are your writing weaknesses?

Titling things is the worst. Also, I probably have too much filler? That's something you can get away with in fic in a way that's harder in original writing, but sometimes I'll have scenes that probably aren't doing enough work but I like some aspect of them so I keep them in instead of killing my darlings.

what’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

On my new account, it's gotta be In Orbit. There's just so much that I love about it, and I find myself rereading parts of it and just thinking yeah, this is fantastic. I feel like exploring both Kurt and Blaine's growth on a longer timeline is really interesting, I love the tension and the angst and the messiness of their relationship (or lack thereof), and it's also just been a delightful way to relive my own college memories.

#my fic #about

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