#(bits in brackets are what i feel like the line means? but don't take my word for it)

[ckret2]

If you don't mind my asking, what is your outlining process like? Is it a bulleted list of scenes, or paragraphs describing what you want to happen? How thorough is it, and how much do you just figure out as you go? I'm about to attempt to write a truly longform fanfic for the first time, and I've been a fan of yours long enough that I feel you probably have some sage wisdom on the matter.

You know what, I get this question with some regularity, so instead of trying to remember how I explained it last time, I'll just drop one of my outlines so I can link this the next time someone asks. Here's my full outline for chapters 33/34/35. Copy/pasted from my plotting sessions in discord with my writing buddies.

This is in two parts. The first part is my actual outline, which I ALWAYS had open while actually writing the chapters—I recommend open my outline and the finish chapters side-by-side so you can see just how closely the chapter follows the outline. My outline is VERY LONG and VERY DETAILED, down to exactly what happens in the conversations; this is because I've found that, for me, "write out THE ENTIRE chapter WITH all actions & dialogue (but writing it super badly)" + "writing the chapter well (but not needing to think about actions & dialogue AT ALL") is much, much faster than "do a simple outline (but figure out the action, dialogue, and how to write it well all at once)".

And the second part is a bunch of snippets from other plotting sessions where I was figuring out how to fit the tooth fairy arc into the whole fic, so you can see how I work on overarching plot lines.

Anywhere there's a "####" divider is a separation between different plotting sessions on different days. Anywhere text is in "[brackets]" it's either a paraphrase of something one of my writing buddies said (I don't post direct quotes publicly) or some kind of note to myself.

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[This part is my actual outline I used to write the chapters]

So! Stan's having breakfast. Bill comes into the kitchen, plops down, "gooood morning—" "go away."

"Haha funny. Anyway! I need you to take me to your dentist." "No. I took you to the mall, you almost made my niece cry, my brother left a Shopliftaholics Anonymous flier on my bed, and all I got out of is was a crummy ring. You wanna go anywhere, talk to Soos."

Nope, it's gotta be Stan. (he doesn't wanna hang out with that loser Soos anyway.) Bill's trying to get fillings, and Stan's dentist does them for free.

Which is true, but it's weird that Bill knows that. Stan's dentist is some weirdo operating out of a back alley, with a weird pay structure. He charges normal dentist rates for regular dental maintenance, but he does gold fillings for free, and he'll pay YOU if he needs to pull your teeth. He's great! Stan hasn't had to pay for dental care in thirty years! Stan also wears dentures now, but hey, at least they were free.

So, since it's Stan's dentist, he's the only one who can take Bill. Stan sees where Bill's coming from; but he says no, because he doesn't wanna.

Okay, bill's gonna try another tact.

Stan, Bill is a simple creature. A simple creature who's used to being coated tip to base in a thin layer of pure, lustrous, 24 karat gold. Having skin makes his skin crawl. He doesn't *need* any dental work done, his teeth are fine, but he'd really, *really* like to have just a *bit* of gold, *somewhere* on his body, so he feels a *little* more like himself in his final days. (you're losing my sympathy by the second, cipher.) ... And then once he's dead, he supposes he'll be leaving behind a corpse with a mouthful of free gold that whoever's disposing of his remains can do whatever they want with, do you catch his meaning Stanley?

That's absolutely *disgusting.* ... But okay, he's bribed! ...... They're not telling Ford about this, right? Right. They're shaking on it. Agreed. They'll take this to their graves. ... Or to Bill's grave, anyway.

Hey, it's free gold that Bill is offering him totally voluntarily. After all the trouble this demon's brought into their lives, the LEAST Stan can get in return is a little financial compensation.

Great! Deal made! Time to go get the cursed friendship bracelets and then they can head out—

Ohhh no, Stan isn't trusting a bit of colored lace and some mystical hocus-pocus to keep Bill contained. They're doing this PROPERLY. He's gonna MAKE SURE Bill can't escape. They're going to Soos and getting the REAL, METAL handcuffs from him. Try to get out of THAT! Now... to the car!

... Bill's right wrist is cuffed to Stan's left wrist. This puts Bill on Stan's left side. How are they gonna get Stan in the driver's seat.

... Does Stan want Bill to drive— NO, no, NOPE, he is NOT letting Bill drive, under ANY circumstances, NOT a chance. Okay fine so how are they doing this.

Cue Stan driving with Bill cuddled up against his right side and Bill's right arm stretched across Stan's chest. It's very intimate. Very romantic. You can practically hear Unchained Melody playing in the background They are both so very very uncomfortable.

[imagine a gif from Ghost]

Exactly like that but imagine them grimacing in disgust the whole time

Definitely one of the worst experiences Stan has ever had handcuffed in a car.

So after a VERY unpleasant drive they park, get out—and immediately cross paths with Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland. Stan's like ah great, last thing they need, police nearby while they're doing something weird. Well, if they don't make eye contact and go about their way—

Bill waves like HI DARRYL, HI EDWIN, HOW'S IT GOING? WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING HAHA and they're like OH HEY GOLDIE HOW'VE YOU BEEN, DID YOU HAVE A NICE SUMMERWEEN and Stan is like "*Bill what do you think you're doing getting their attention, do you want them asking questions*" and Bill goes "🙂 I did not think this through 🙂"

Which is of course when they go "hey why are you handcuffed to Mr. Pines? You need some help there? I bet we've got a key that matches that handcuff model" and oh Stan BETS that Bill would LOVE to accept that offer and go traipsing off into town with the cops, so he goes "NOPE, that's fine, thank you officers, but we're keeping the handcuffs on. ... Because. They're necessary. ... For me. ... Because I'm old. ... It's to keep me from wandering into traffic."

Bill's a quick liar, he goes haha yep that's true!! This guy's cataracts are so bad, sometimes he asks us if he's dying because all he can see is a white light at the end of a dark tunnel. And the way his mind's going, woof—" "(all right you don't have to lay it on so thick)" "—he's so addled it's like he's completely forgotten the last century of transportation advancements, he'll just walk right off the curb and expect the horse-drawn carriages to stop for him—" "Hahaaa, but we won't bore you with my medical history! *C'mon,* Goldie, you're gonna make me *late* to my *heart doctor appointment.* You don't want my life on your hands, do you." "(You know, I think I kind of do.)"

The cops are like, you can't see? didn't we just see you get out of the driver's seat of your car? and they're like ......... Goldie's giving him directions. 😃

Oh! That makes sense. Okay. They'll let them get to their doctor's appointment. They wander off like y'know i think Goldie's a step up from that seeing-eye bear

They look at each other like, all right, good improv, you're not bad. They can respect each other for that. Stan thinks Bill wouldn't be bad to run a con with if he were literally anybody other than who he is. Okay, on to the dentist.

So the dentist's office is a little garden shed around back behind some other totally unrelated business. Whatever business I can think of that would be funniest. It's a ramshackle nightmare. The dentist, also, is a ramshackle nightmare.

[candy store]

He's surprised to see Stan there, on account of the fact that Stan has no teeth. Because the dentist pulled them all. ... he's not mad is he

No, no, the dentures are great! They're lower maintenance! Sort of. In a way. Anyway, he's here to refer a new customer! ... does he get any kind of referral bonus or

Yeah have a uhhh gold coin or something, here. Okay! New customer! What can he do you for?

Fillings! Okay, on which teeth? Whichever he thinks would look best with some! Dealer's choice! Bill's leaving it in his hands! All that matters is that currently Bill's teeth do *not* have any gold in them, and he'd like that to change by the time he leaves.

The dentist gives Stan a look like "is this freak serious" and Stan sorta shrug nods like "yeah he's serious" and the dentist is like okay!!! Super! This'll be fun! Let's see what he has to work with.

The dentist is amazed at Bill's teeth. Wow. So clean. Perfectly white. Did you just get these cleaned, where'd you get it done at? No? Well, looks amazing. And no wear at all, remarkable... Do you mind if he takes a few pictures? Have you ever considered having any of these pulled?

Stan's like yeesh, he forgot how creepy this guy is. He's like a serial killer crossed with a nerd with a tooth fetish.

Well, the dentist is sorry to say that all of these are pristine. Not a hint of cavities—not even plaque. It'd be a shame to drill them. You *sure* you don't want one pulled...?

Stan is 😬 but Bill is handling this like it's a totally normal question for him to be getting. Y'know what, just the fillings today—but who knows, maybe he'll feel naughty and be back in a couple of weeks haha. Just pick a couple of your least favorite teeth to drill into!

Okay, suit yourself. Let's gas you up and get drilling.

This is the first time Stan's had an opportunity to watch the dentist at work. Which is how he learns for the first time that he saves all the little tooth dust & shards off his drill in a tiny Petri dish. Yeesh. He's an even bigger creep than Stan thought.

Bill doesn't handle the gas well. It's not that it makes him sick or anything. He just forgets how to human. The dentist tells him to hold his mouth open and he holds his eyes open until they water. He keeps forgetting his mouth is occupied and talking to the dentist while he trying to drill. When he's let go, he heaves himself off the chair and immediately falls on the ground because he expected to float. Stan has to support him to the door and he keeps trying to walk sideways. Bill doesn't mind, he feels great! Waves at the dentist as they leave. Thanks for the gold, Atlantis is rising as we speak, you have seven years to prepare for the plague, tell the little lady he said hi! Byyye! Stan is desperately trying to drag him out the door, he turns to Stan like "I made up the bit about Atlantis" "okay now shut up and stop saying weird things"

But not the plague part

The fic *does* take place in 2013

They're driving home. Smushed together all intimate-like. You can almost hear Careless Whisper playing. Except this time Bill is loudly and terribly singing along. He keeps trying to take the steering wheel and turn it like a kid playing in a toy car and Stan has to keep swatting his hand away. Bill's like "I can't feel my tongue at all! I bet I can chew it off!" "Don't do that." "The last time my mouth was this numb, my girlfriend had just gotten done with me, haha. I was almost blind for the next hour from all the spores—" "I swear if you don't shut up—" "I just realized I haven't gotten any action since I died. Wow. This isn't a weird time to bring that up, is it?" "Bill if you say ONE MORE weird thing you're riding home on the roof of the car."

Bill is quiet for three seconds. "Your arm's really beefy! What's your favorite flavor of cancer?"

Mabel: "why are you on top of the car?"

Bill, eyes wide, hair disheveled, one arm hanging through the driver's door, sprawled out desperately clinging to the roof like his life depends on it: "I don't know, it's all a blur." (Note to self, mention Mabel and dipper are heading out for a sleepover or something)

Well, *that* was fun! 🙂 Bill thinks it was fun, anyway. Stan doesn't agree. Anyway, where's Soos? They need the key to the handcuffs.

Soos is having dinner with Melody's family this evening. They call him to ask where the key is. Haha, sorry dudes! He totally forgot he still had it. Yeah, it's on his keyring. Is that, like, gonna be a problem, or...

Well—pff—when are you gonna be back?? Uhhh he's not sure, kinda late maybe. Well, can he duck out and bring them the key? Uhhhh he WOULD but, he's REALLY worried about impressing Melody's parents, and the casserole's about to come out, and he thinks they might judge him if he leaves, and it would probably ruin dinner... Okay FINE, then what if they drive over to get the key? ("STAN CAN I DRIVE THIS TIME—" "ABSOLUTELY NOT") Oh sure, they can drive over if they want—anyway Melody's parents' place is in Portland.

Which is waaaay outside the barrier around Gravity Falls

Welp. That ain't happening. Looks like they're stuck.

... They could call Blubs and Durland—?

NOPE Stan is NOT calling the cops for help NUH UH, he'll WAIT ALL NIGHT if he has to. ... so. What do they do until then.

Cue them grumpily watching a game show together. Bill refuses to sit in the living room with Stan so Stan's on the couch and Bill's sitting in the entryway on the stairs and their handcuffs are strung through the doorway. Hey Stan, still glad you went with the handcuffs instead of the friendship bracelets? Shut up.

Bill's shouting out the answers to every question on the show almost sooner than they're displayed and eventually Stan is like, man, we'd clean up if we put you on this show. No one would ever figure out how you're cheating. And Bill's like HA, listen to you!! If you were Ford you'd be mad that I'm giving away all the answers before you can guess!! That's the great thing about you, Stan, you don't get irritated at Bill for stupid little reasons, you're more fun. HEY FORD DID YOU HEAR THAT, STAN'S THE FUN TWIN— And Stan's like shut up you idiot ford's in the basement he can't hear you. And what are you talking about, you irritate me all the time. I'm constantly infuriated by you. And Bill's like, oh, well, i guess i just don't care when you're irritated then lmao.

Stan's like what's with you anyway, why are you so obsessed with Stan's brother. And bill says SDFHFJF?? DSFKLGLJ??? FLKJFHGD???? EXCUSE M. EXCUSE ME?? OBSESSED??? MOI???? I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT

Is it OBSESSION to SOMETIMES PAY ATTENTION to the one person in the house he HAPPENS to know best and to whom he HAPPENS to be a teacher and muse and friend— and Stan's like oh that's a load of bull, you're not ANY of those things to him. Friend?? Friend???? HE WANTS YOU DEAD and Bill's like WELL IF THAT'S *SO* then doesn't it also make plenty of sense to keep an eye on, you know, THE GUY THAT *KILLED* HIM, like there's nothing mysterious about why he'd focus a *little* on that person—

THAT'S IT, THAT'S JUST IT!!!! There are TWO people who killed Bill, remember? That was a two-man con he fell for! But he keeps treating Ford like he was the only one there! If Ford's in the room, he's the only person Bill talks to, and if he ISN'T in the room then Bill's yelling across the house for him, and Ford wants less to do with him than anyone else, what the heck, it's creepy—

Only *one* person killed Bill. Stan's not the man who killed him; he's just the place where Bill was killed.

And that baffles Stan into shutting up a second.

Bill's like, do you even remember what happened in your brain?? and Stan's like :/ so Bill's like LMAO!! We were both trapped in there when Ford fired the gun. Completely powerless. Stan was weeping and begging for a way out even, but there was nothing Bill could do by then— and Stan's like all right I KNOW that THAT didn't happen! so Bill's like fine fine okay all right you got me, we actually had this big psychic laser fight, imagining up all sorts of fantastical weapons. And Stan's like, ehhhh, all right, that sounds more like me. And bill says but it was all IMAGINARY, it was a vast illusion, at that point there was nothing I could do to you and nothing you could do to me. We were just two victims locked inside a burning house as it came down around us. YOU didn't kill me, you didn't have the POWER to kill me. And Stan just, gives him this discontented look. Hm.

Oh, oh wow, okay, Bill sees what's going on. Stan's jealous, isn't he. He thought offering up his body to be the scene of a murder finally made him a co-star instead of a sidekick. All their lives, Ford got more attention from daddy, more attention from the teachers, more attention from the WHOLE WORLD—and Stan finally thought he'd at least get a little attention from the big bad living nightmare. Just because he let his brother shoot him in the head. You weren't special enough for anyone else, why do you think you're special enough for Bill?

Oh yeah?? Well he bets he's special enough to break Bill's face— jerks him by the chain into the living room, fist raised; and Bill immediately pulls back as far as he can and tries to shield his face.

As a helpful reminder, Bill's death actually went like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D3adyJQDqI so 1) he is VERY much lying to Stan, and 2) getting punched in the eye by Stan in the living room is still echoing in his nightmares.

So there's a split second where Bill is absolutely blind with terror, gets out a strangled "NO—!" and then they both freeze and stare at each other. Stan knows what just happened. And Bill knows Stan knows. And Stan knows Bill knows Stan knows.

Bill immediately plays it off, "come on, I just got all this dental work done, at least give me a couple days to enjoy it before you pound it in. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mine having a flatter face, all these bones and cartilage jutting out never did feel right—"

Stan feigns a punch. Bill flinches. Stan laughs at him.

And what's Bill gonna do? Fight him? He is not trained in 3D brawling. He tries, very hard, to explode Stan with his brain. This usually works on people who are annoying him. But alas. "If I had one billion-billionth of my power back I'd have already destroyed you—!" "But you DON'T, sucker!!" Bill screams in frustration and stomps off to go sulk somewhere

Aaand is immediately jerked back because of the handcuffs. Whoops.

"... Whatever I don't even care about your stupid aggressive mammal posturing. It's fine. It doesn't bother me. I'm calm. You're just making yourself look stupid. ... I wanna go to bed."

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So!! Attempting plotting. When we left off, Bill wanted to go to bed. Which is a problem since he's still handcuffed to Stan

Cue Ford going "Bill. Why are you sleeping on the floor in front of my bedroom door."

Well you see, STAN got them handcuffed together until morning, and Bill tried to be accommodating, but Stan doesn't want to sleep in the attic and won't let Bill sleep in the guest room— (Stan yelling "and Mr. Accommodating here refuses to sleep in the living room") —so the best compromise they've got is sleeping on the floor with the handcuff chain strung under the guest room door, see. Does Ford want in? It'll take a little coordination to get the door open but they've done this once before—

Ford's not messing with this. He's sleeping in the basement. Good night.

At some point in this I've gotta establish that Mabel and Dipper are out of the house for the night. Maybe they're just leaving as Stan and Bill get home. Anyway the point is Bill and Stan are effectively at home alone for the night. Maybe Soos's grandma is still there, she's a little old lady, she wouldn't be much help in a fight

So. Somehow I've gotta get them from being asleep to getting woken up by the dentist being in the house, with the tooth fairy. There's some transitional material I'm missing that I've gotta fill in later.

Maybe Bill wakes up with the dentist's tools already in his mouth, ready to pull. Waking up at 2 am to invasive dental surgery. Bill's like, hello, very forward of you.

[horrified face]

That WOULD be a more appropriate reaction, if Bill weren't so weird.

Bangs on the door to wake up Stan, WE HAVE VISITORS, WAKE UP

Dentist realizes that Bill is stuck in place with the chain, pins him against the wall, and tries to go for his teeth. STAN SURE IS TAKING HIS TIME— Stan gets the door open just in time, Bill tumbles into the guest room, Stan goes wtf why is the dentist here?

The dentist goes uhhhh he just wanted to check on Bill's fillings, yeah, he thought one of them might be a little loose— Bill's like cut the crap, your boss put you up to this, what the heck does the little lady want with his mouth?

Stan's like what? What "little lady," this guy is self employed, what are you talking about— and Bill goes the TOOTH FAIRY, genius, why did you think your dentist pays YOU to pull your teeth! Who'd you think was funding him?! And, well, Stan can't say he ever put much thought into it. He just sort of took this whole thing at face value. But like the tooth fairy is fake right, like that's just stupid—

Which is when a fairy wearing baby teeth jewelry pops her head out of the dentist's bag. Stan's like oh well never mind, just one more crazy thing happening in this town. And Bill's like oh shit she's actually HERE, the situation just escalated significantly.

I've decided the tooth fairy's name is Pearl E. White.

Bill skips straight to addressing her by first name, which disconcerts everybody, not least of which is the tooth fairy herself. Lady, if you were toeing the line of your treaty any harder, you'd be tripping across it. What are you doing here and what do you want?

She's WELL within the bounds of the treaty, she hasn't laid a hand on Bill and she's not about to start, and she's been offering MORE than adequate financial compensation— Bill's like oh yeah I bet the queen would have something to say about you ordering your helper to rip out someone's teeth in the dead of night— and Stan's like hi, question, what the Fuck are you all talking about

Oh Bill can explain, Bill knows lots of things! So this fairy here has a *thing* for teeth. To the extent that she got into a habit of stealing them straight out of humans' mouths! And went so crazy over it that she actually dragged a fairy court into a war with humans over her teeth-stealing habits! Currently, she's only allowed to accept *already freed* teeth that are *voluntarily* offered to her by the owner, which is why she started bribing kids with money.

She starts getting into a gray area working with hired dentists—once a tooth has been handed over to a dentist, that dentist becomes its "owner," and can give that tooth to the tooth fairy—buuut the fact that he *extracted* the tooth puts it on shaky legal ground. Really, Bill thinks the only reason she's been getting away with THAT racket so long is because nobody's raised a legal challenge to it yet. Probably because most humans don't know it's even happening. And with the price of dental work being what it is, yeesh. But—by *any* reading of the treaty, hiring a human to nonconsensually rip out teeth on her behalf is beyond the pale. So she'd better have a good explanation for this!

Yeah, she does have a good explanation for this. SHE WANTS BILL'S TEETH! She'd do ANYTHING for one of his teeth! They're the most amazing teeth she's ever seen!!!

The dentist is like, holding her back from lunging at Bill's face

Okay, great! Fantastic! Bill's not above a little bargaining and he's not too attached to this body—so how much gold you got on you, kid?

Oh no, she's not bargaining. Bill already knows too much, she's NOT about to get blackmailed by a human, and she's not going back to fairy jail. So here's what she's gonna do: she's gonna have her guy rip out every one of Bill's teeth, and then rip his head apart to destroy the witness, and the only negotiating Bill gets to do is on whether or not her guy uses the local anesthetic. What's it gonna be?

Stan cuts in like hi, hey, listen, he'd love to see Bill's head get ripped apart, but—crazy thing—it turns out there's 50/50 odds that killing him will lead to the end of the world, so maybe let's talk this out—

Tooth fairy points at Stan like he's got nothing left of interest to me. He's a witness. Kill him too.

Right, cool cool cool, hey Stan you know that spell Ford's got on Bill? Well if Bill casts it on the dentist, can Stan handle things from there?

Yeah, Stan sees where Bill is going with this. The dentist & fairy don't expect Bill and Stan to lunge for them; Bill casts the can't-use-doors spell on the dentist, Stan drags Bill with him into the hallway, Stan slams shut the door, and now the fairy's bellowing OPEN THE DOOR YOU IDIOT and the dentist is yelling HOW????

They retreat to the entryway. From there they can go out the front door, into the kitchen, into the living room, or upstairs. I need to keep them from just going out the front door, I'll need to think up an excuse for that later. Something magic maybe idk. I also need to keep them out of the kitchen, but that's a likely dead end unless they feel like climbing over the kitchen table to break a window. Basically, I need them to be limited to the living room or upstairs.

The living room is the better option—it has a door to the gift shop, and the gift shop has a door straight outside, as well as doors to the mystery shack museum & the hidden elevator to the basement, lots of great options in there. But Bill drags them upstairs instead. Bill you idiot what are you doing, this is obviously the worse direction??

Shut up we're going this way and Bill doesn't care what Stan thinks about it.

Why are we going this way?? How the heck do you expect to get out of here from up in the attic?! Bill doesn't know, it just seemed like a better idea! There should be a ladder in the storage over the kids' room, maybe they can take that and get down out a window, come on

Meanwhile the fairy is hollering about how YOU DON'T DESERVE THOSE TEETH, THEY'RE TOO GOOD FOR YOU! They're the most beautiful, pristine, unblemished, perfect teeth she's ever seen in her life. (Bill's like "are they really that great?" and Stan's like "eh, a little asymmetrical, honestly.") She's NEVER seen adult teeth so pure and HE'S RUINING THEM by carving out chunks of PERFECT TOOTH to put in unnecessary fillings! He doesn't have the right to those teeth, she deserves them! ("Hey Bill so you knew my dentist was working for the tooth fairy?" "Yes." "And you knew she goes crazy for nice teeth." "Yes." "And it didn't occur to you that she'd be outraged by you carving up your new teeth." "It's in the past, Stanley, focus on the present.")

—and she doesn't even KNOW how he got MAGIC TEETH! Fully adult teeth in a fully adult mouth but SOMEHOW they're barely a month old! It's unbelievable! She couldn't believe it herself until she saw his mouth with her own two eyes! She MUST have those teeth, as soon as possible, so she can preserve them like this, who knows if she'll ever find such a novelty again— Ahhh, so THAT'S what's motivating her. Welp, nope, sorry, Bill didn't see that one coming at all.

... hey, she's been buzzing around shouting at them but they don't hear her trying to help her dentist OR coming after them directly, what's she up to? Stan leans out the door to look into the main attic.

Huh, weird. She's just flying in a circle with what looks like a container of veggies from the fridge?? He thinks it's the sliced portobello mushrooms

WHAT!! OH THAT LITTLE CHEATER IS MAKING A FAIRY RING, THAT'S NOT FAIR—

Aaand poof, the dentist appears in the ring. The fairy must have already made the matching ring downstairs.

The dentist still needs a dumb name

[Drilliam]

Dr. Illiam. It was william but the W fell off his sign

[any relation to dr acula]

Went to dental school together. Dr. Acula kept mislabeling teeth, he always thinks the canines should be longer

He switched career tracks and became a phlebotomist

and speaking of drills — Fairy yells GET THEM, the dentist reaches into his dental tool bag, and pulls out a drill. Not a dental drill. A drill.

They slam the door. The dentist goes AW, F— AGAIN??? The tooth fairy's like JUST BREAK THROUGH IT, YOU HAVE POWER TOOLS

Bill has an idea. Stan, open the window, Bill's tying bedsheets (from Dipper's bed) together. Bill doesn't expect them to climb out that window, does he? No, he expects the *fairy* to think they went out that way, and they can hide in the closet until the fairy and dentist are past them so they can run downstairs.

Stan doesn't like the idea of hiding like cowards instead of fighting. Bill's like I can see a dozen futures that end with our brains splattered across Mabel's dolls you do NOT want to fight against power tools now COME ON

So they hide in the closet. It's uncomfortable in here. They're trying to stay quiet and listening to the dentist mauling his way through the door. Okay smart guy now what? What'll they do when they get downstairs?

Whispering at each other, "Why that way? Why not the living room, it's a lot faster to get out through the gift shop." "... Yeah. Fine—" "What's the matter, Bill, you got a problem with the living room?" "What? No, I SAID fine. It's fine." "It took you a long time." "I was trying to figure out if that was the fastest way out—" "Oh, really??? You sure you aren't SCARED to go in there with me? You think I haven't noticed how you bolt out of the living room any time I come in? Or how you flinch every time I raise my hand?" "... I don't know what you're talking about." "Do you REALLY think I don't remember how you died." "..." "As if I could forget the best moment of my life. Watching you on your knees, begging for mercy, while I put my fist through your face like a cheap mirror—" "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!" "ADMIT IT! ADMIT THAT I KILLED YOU TOO! I PLAYED JUST AS MUCH A PART IN IT AS HE DID!" "YOU DID *NOT* KILL ME, YOU *COULDN'T* HAVE KILLED ME, I'M NOT *CAPABLE* OF BEING KILLED BY SOMEONE LIKE YOU!" "*THEN WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME!*" "*I'M NOT AFRAID—*"

Unsurprisingly, the dentist puts a drill through the closet door.

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For now though: Drilliam is drilling. Bill and Stan are screaming. Bill's shouting IS THIS WORTH IT?? WAS GETTING YOUR DENTAL SCHOOL LOANS PAID OFF WORTH THIS?? DO YOU WANNA BE A MURDERER MAN and he's sobbing I CAN'T STOP NOW, I'M IN TOO DEEP this man is having the worst night, like sure he's obeying the tooth fairy but it's clear she's the bloodthirsty one here

Okay count of three Stan and Bill are kicking the door open. Bill falls flat on his ass and has to scramble back up but they manage to wedge the dentist behind the door in a corner with his drill stuck in the door. Waving at their faces, menacingly. Stupid cordless magic-powered drill. The fairy's buzzing in their faces making them swat at her, the dentist starts to wiggle out, they give the door one last hard shove to knock him off balance and then run for the stairs.

And, of course, they continue the most important discussion as they go. "WHY DOES IT MATTER to you so much whether Ford killed you or Ford *and me* killed you? Why is it SO hard to admit that I threw a punch that took you down?!" "You DIDN'T kill me, you CAN'T have killed me because YOU DON'T MATTER. YOU AREN'T IMPORTANT." "Dsklfslkjf NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO *KILL* YOU?! HOW DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE?!"

And Bill senses he's found a weakness he can needle. "It's true! I've looked into countless universes and you just don't matter! No matter where you go or what you do, you just AREN'T IMPORTANT! If *anything*, all you ever do is make things *worse.* You know, I first tried to work with Ford in a universe where *you don't exist*? And I couldn't do it! He wouldn't give me a chance! Because YOU weren't there to ruin his life and make him desperate enough to turn to an alien, and YOU hadn't spent your whole childhood *training* him to put up with a manipulative con artist's lies—so he'd be *ready* when he met me. Isn't that funny, Stanley?"

Bill's dragged them to a stop now so he can rip into Stan: "You were stillborn in that universe. Your brother had to grow up without a twin watching over him—so he actually learned how to make friends. Your mother was DEVASTATED that she'd lost you—but you know what's funny? I think your family loved that dead baby you more than they EVER liked the disappointment you turned out to be—"

And That's When Stan Punches Bill As Hard As He Can

Bill goes DOWN. There is blood everywhere. Oh shit Stan didn't mean to do that much damage are you okay?

And THAT'S when Stan realizes that they're in the living room. Right where Bill died. Bill goaded him into it

And Bill holds up a tooth, like, thanks for the tooth fairy bait. (Staring Stan dead in the eye with this look like, SCARED OF YOU, AM I?? WHO'S SCARED NOW)

And Stan... Stan is really big on macho, "face your fears," "stand up for yourself," "fight back" displays of masculinity. Stan's figured out Bill isn't much of a physical fighter. He might never be able to throw a punch. He's got tiny little baby hands. But—but—if his response to "I think you're scared" is plunging himself directly into the situation he's scared of, making it as terrifying as possible, and taking it without flinching... Stan, grudgingly, has to respect that. He doesn't WANT to respect that. But it's the kind of thing he respects. [when it comes to fighting, he might be able to dish it; but he can take it]

So now he kinda sorta grudgingly respects Bill. ... But also kind of feels bad for Bill? for reasons he can't quite specify. (Because it's the kind of desperate-to-prove-himself stunt that a younger Stan would have pulled, when he was scared and alone and homeless and trying to earn his fortune and a macho mask was the ONLY thing he had going for him. And he's never seen Bill like that before—all he ever saw was Mr. Big Shot Triangle who always had everything under control up until he was tricked into dying. It's never occurred to him that Bill is scrambling too. That Bill might also be lost.)

(It doesn't escape Stan that, in Bill's efforts to get under Stan's skin, Bill slipped up and called *himself* a manipulative con artist.)

But no time to wax poetic, Stan's not an introspective guy. Tooth fairy bait! A whole entire tooth! What are they gonna do with it?

I still need to figure out this part. They've gotta set a trap to catch a fairy, they've gotta separate her from the dentist, and they've got to do it extremely fast, because being stuck behind a door in the attic isn't gonna hold the dentist for THAT long

What kinda stuff traps fairies. My initial thought was "salt rings" but no i think that's demons. Not sure that works on fairies too

[iron. Not a clothes iron]

idk, chucking an iron at a fairy's head...

Like that post that's like "i know traditionally it takes a wooden stake to the heart to kill a vampire, but i think we oughta give hitting them with a pickup a shot"

It'll probably be something in the gift shop, since they're getting corralled that way. Stan hears them coming and shoves Bill through the door and follows after him. This is a very baffling experience for Bill, as the door was previously closed, and Stan didn't open it, and yet Bill is going through it, and he does not understand enough about doors to make sense of this. (It's a swinging door, it doesn't lock or latch.) The dentist is coming at the door ready to drill it (he doesn't understand swinging doors either) and obviously if he tried to hit the door it'd just swing open which would be bad news for them so Stan is like HOLD IT, that door is LOAD BEARING, if you start hacking holes in it the WHOLE SHACK COULD COME DOWN ON US! And the dentist pauses like. Now that doesn't sound right, but i don't know enough about doors to dispute it.

A load bearing door. ... that swings.

The fairy's like WHAT ARE YOU STOPPING FOR YOU IDIOT, HE'S LYING, DOORS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT— and Bill's like HEY CHECK THIS OUT. Waving his tooth around. YOU WANT THIS???

She's so outraged, YOU KNOCKED IT OUT, what if you CHIPPED IT, she's zooming for it

And Bill chucks it in... something. Undecided. Maybe I'll decide what it is later and then cleverly find a way to foreshadow it earlier in the chapter. Anyway it's totally an effective fairy trap, possibly made out of iron.

BAM, now she's TRAPPED. The dentist is dropped down on the ground to peer through the gap under the door (there's like a three inch gap at the bottom of the door) and goes NO and pounds the door. It swings a few inches open. He stares in bafflement. It swings back and hits him in the forehead. At least Bill's no longer alone in his suffering re: the mystery of doors.

Right! Looks like they've got a proper hostage situation here, don't they! If Drilliam would please drop the power tools and back away from the door. Very good. Stan picks up his bag, holds the dentist at drill point, and tells him to get walking, he'll escort him outside. Stan doesn't trust Bill with power tools, so he can stand guard over the fairy.

... which means Bill is alone with the fairy.

*So*. Bill believes they were negotiating? 🙂

She's not negotiating ANYTHING with him. Look at what he did to this poor tooth. She's hugging it.

SHE'S obeyed the letter of her treaty, even if not the spirit, and when the fairy court hears tell of this they'll back her up and come free her, and oh, THEN Bill and Stan will be in trouble—

WAIT I JUST REALIZED. HOW CAN STAN LEAVE IF HE"S HANDCUFFED TO BILL.......................

See this is wh. This is why i outline. This is. The reason i do it. Invaluable process.

Maybe the handcuff broke when Stan punched Bill. Turned out it was a cheapo flimsy chain. Maybe they're still handcuffed together and I'm just gonna have to dial back how much Bill can say to the fairy because he knows Stan is listening.

I feel like separating Stan & Bill's cuffs would be a cop out, unless I can make it a really good moment

You know what, if bill had an opportunity to talk to the fairy alone, he would've tried to rope her into getting him some help that i do NOT know how to pay off. I was gonna have him promise a tooth off of his stone corpse in return for Assistance (As Yet Undecided), but i feel like giving Bill an in with some nebulous organization of fairies might be giving him too much power too soon?? Like, "what COULD he do with a huge favor from a fairy" versus "what do I want him to currently be ABLE to do" + "what do I want people to THINK he can do," a fairy favor might be too much??

I'll try rolling with them still being chained together, see how i like that. Okay so ignore what i just said, Bill is going WITH Stan to kick out the dentist—they just shove him out the gift shop door and he stands out there making sad puppy eyes at them—and then go back to negotiate with the fairy.

And her buddies are gonna be mad when they come to get her!

Bill's like, but that's assuming they come for her, which they might just not, once they hear where she is. IF they hear where she is. She DOES know where she is, right? (Sure she does, this is the Mystery Shack.) And she does know who owns it, right? (Sure she does, he's right there—) Who REALLY owns it? (...) Are you *sure* they'll come for you here?

It doesn't matter who owns this place, HE'S been gone for decades— Oh, has he? You sure about that? You didn't think it strange that an odd person with magical teeth and weird eyes—a real bonafide freak—happens to be in this shack, getting escorted around by handcuffs? That didn't make you ask any questions?

Stan puts a threatening hand on Bill's shoulder like *hey, easy how much you spill*—most people don't notice Bill doesn't look quite human until he points it out—and seeing *that* gesture terrifies the fairy more than anything else Bill said, like oh shit, he's not bluffing, she's been hunting somebody else's prisoner.

So how about this. If *she* promises to leave and never harass them again, *they* promise not to wake up the jailer and ask how he wants to deal with her. Because Bill just wants to be left alone, and he assumes Stan just wants to go back to bed—but *him,* oh, he wouldn't hesitate to pin her wings to a board. Sound fair?

Yes, yes, it's fair, she'll leave them alone! Just let her go!

Great. 🙂 Oh, and one more thing. His payment for that tooth?

She gives Bill a gold tooth. 😠 And they let her go. She's a fairy, her word's as good as law. If she promised not to bother them again then she won't. Can't lie.

... so. What was all that about the true owner of the shack?

Oh haha yeah! Fordsy's got a bit of a reputation around the town's paranormal community. He actually wasn't much more personable with the freaks he was studying than he was with the other humans in town—he had a tendency to catch, study, release. One or two times he *didn't* release. Rumors grow with time. And well, if it's useful to pretend to be one of his specimens...

The idea of keeping a person (a person!) prisoner to study does Not sit well with Stan. "You're *not* one of his specimens." "No? Has he been studying me?" "Of COURSE not" but now he's thinking about it.

... Well. Back to sleep? ("Are you gonna let me sleep in the guest room now?" "*No.*" "Aww, I thought we'd bonded a little!" "After all the horrible shit you said earlier??" "Haha you're too sensitive.")

......... WAS the horrible shit Bill said true? Or did he just say it to get a rise out of Stan.

Naaah, he just thought it would be funny to make Stan mad. He never saw a universe where Stan and Ford weren't inseparable as kids. But then he never dug that hard. It wasn't one of his priorities.

Stan doesn't think Bill's telling the truth now; but Stan doesn't think Bill was telling the truth earlier, either. Bill's not telling Stan what the multiverse is like; Bill's telling Stan how he wants Stan to feel. Bill *could* have said everything he'd said was true, but he didn't.

"You're not a half bad liar, Cipher. It's too bad you're a lousy dirtbag bent on world domination, or you could've made a decent partner-in-crime." "Yeah? Well, my schedule's clear, I'm bored, and running a two-man con sounds fun. Let me know." "Don't count on it."

The end.

Epilogue: next morning Ford goes "did you two sleep well?" (He's not actually asking Bill he's just asking Stan. He hopes Bill got an annoying crick in his neck that'll never go away.) "Oh yeah, no problem. Got comfortable and didn't move all night." "We barely even noticed the handcuffs. Slept like babies." Well, Ford's relieved nothing weird happened last night.

There's a knock at the door. He'll get that.

It's a very sad and bedraggled dentist. Can he please have his ability to open doors back? He had to sleep outside last night. 8,C

... only the person who cast the spell can lift it. Hey Bill, get in here. "Slept like babies," huh?

The end end

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[everything after this is various points in other conversations where I was discussing the where & how the tooth fairy arc would fit with the overall story, to show you what kind of plotting-over-time I do for the big elements of a story.]

You know what I'm gonna go with a tooth fairy. The show's featured gnomes, mermaids, subterranean dinosaurs preserved in tree sap, and Cupid. A tooth fairy works.

A dentist who worships the tooth fairy. The fairy gets a glimpse of Bill and goes "WOW I've never had ALIEN TEETH before! *Bring them to me.*"

[hell yeah alien teeth]

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And probably the chapter after that is gonna be Stan Takes Bill To The Dentist. Where Bill goes "you don't have to worry about me running off, we can use the friendship bracelets." "Oh ill friendship bracelet YOU. And I'll do it WITHOUT MAGIC." *slaps actual real handcuffs on himself and Bill. Loses the key.*

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He played himself. I think I'm gonna have them be handcuffed through the ENTIRE tooth fairy arc. I think it would be really funny.

Ford like "Bill, why are you sitting in the hallway outside my guest room."

"Because SOMEBODY decided to HANDCUFF US TOGETHER and then LOST THE KEY so I have to SLEEP IN THE HALLWAY with the HANDCUFF CHAIN STRUNG UNDER THE DOOR. ISN'T THAT RIGHT, *STANLEY.*"

"Right. ... I'm going to sleep in my lab tonight."

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Things going on:

- Stan unwillingly getting dragged into his "befriending the evil triangle" arc. Woe, friendship be upon ye.

- Bill copes with traumas by setting himself up to relive them until they stop hurting. Burning down your dimension devastated you? Become a serial arsonist, stare into the flames over and over again! Flinch every time the guy they punched you to death raises a fist? Goad him into following through, now it's not scary anymore!

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Where I am right now: Mabel has just won Bill's loyalty forever. Where I need to get to: the next "episode," which is *probably* gonna be Stan taking Bill to the dentist and getting tangled up with the tooth fairy, unless I come up with another plot I think might be more appropriate to come first. I feel like I can't just hop straight into the next episode, because Mabel's JUST befriended Bill, so I need to spend a little time showing them BEING friends so that that convincingly sticks. And I can't "just" show them hanging out coloring pictures or whatever, I've gotta have something, like, *happen.*

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Today's mission: figure out how to jigsaw in all the plot points I need to establish before the season one finale (when [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS].)

I've made a list of all the things I'm pretty sure need to happen:

- Bill makes progress on lucid dreaming 

- Stan emotionally invests in Bill

--- ( this will be the Tooth fairy arc)

- Ford decides Bill isn't gonna kill them

--- the eclipse

- Ford likes Bill a tiny bit

- Dipper decides Bill is harmless

--- (I'm planning a gag where bill gets accidentally locked in the bathroom all day, this'll achieve that)

- Dipper decides Bill might be useful

--- (The eclipse)

- Bill makes contact with cultists

--- (cultist visits shack looking for bill)

- Bill finds a way to sneak outside

- conversation with dipper about the third dimension

- Fiddleford finishes the gun

--- (this will probably necessitate another Fiddleford visit)

This isn't everything that COULD happen before the season 1 finale, but it's the BARE MINIMUM everything that needs to get done.

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There's plenty of other things that could happen before or after this, but i might need a better idea of how I want to shape season 2 before I can decide what to put before and what to put after

Like, the monster truck plot. I'm toying with whether I want it before the s1 finale (which would mean Bill can use Gideon to make contact with his cultists) or after (which would mean [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS])

Somebody else put this together into a coherent plot arc for me o|-<

I keep pushing back writing the tooth fairy arc because i keep going "no wait, i thought of something else i need to do first—" and part of that is because, i feel like, once the tooth fairy arc happens, that kicks in gear Bill interacting with Gideon (because then he's got a gold tooth), which naturally leads to the monster truck arc, which is a big event, so anything that needs to happen "early" in the fic needs to happen before then—but if i do decide to push the monster truck arc to later on, that's less of a concern. Instead I could spend more time on foreshadowing Bill messing with Gideon.

[vote push it back]

you may have a point. The main thing is if i push it back, it would make the most sense to go in season 2 (when [SPOILERS SPOILERS]), BUT: one of the things I'd *like* to do with the finale is [SPOILERS SPOILERS x100] which needs Gideon. (Alternatively, I could make up some new, lower-key method for Bill to get Gideon under his thumb without meeting him at the monster truck rally—but I'd have to think up some Whole New Plot that's Interesting enough for that.)

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Okay so i think my rough roadmap is. Tooth fairy plot -> Gideon chapter -> the axolotl eclipse -> the season finale. These four events contain most of my "MUST be done before the finale" events

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I think the "makes progress on lucid dreaming" can be achieved during the Gideon chapter. I can bookend the chapter with a couple of his efforts, to show how he progresses over the chapter. *Maybe* I can shove one into the tooth fairy chapter, have a dream be interrupted by the dentist waking him

Yeah, there are two dreams I know I want to happen; a replay of Bill's mom dying where he "remembers"/admits that when he realized he hurt his mom, he *kept on pushing*; and a second replay where he seizes control of the dream and rewrites it so that it's like a big fun gory game (and thus re-burying the traumatic reality of what happened). I can put those at the beginning and end of Gideon's chapter.

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Okay I think my current road map is:

tooth fairy -> bill figures out how to sneak out/dipper finds bill locked in the bathroom -> Gideon (+lucid dreaming) -> (Bill talks to Dipper about how he perceived the universe, leading to) The Eclipse -> Ford brings home a copy of Flatworld, letting the kids learn more about Bill's backstory/Fiddleford tells Ford the gun is ready, leading to -> the season one finale.

We're in the final stretch! No more random diversions, probably!

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[puckpocketed]

30/06/2024 - The Colorado Avalanche draft Tory Pitner 185th overall.

I think that I can use my brain and really bait other players into plays that they don't want to make and then close out. Really take away time and space, and ultimately just be a prick to play against - I don't know if I can say that on this - but I think that I can defend really well.

[full draft day interview transcript + an introduction by me under the cut]

Foreword: This transcript was done by hand to the best of my ability and edited for clarity. In bold text are my highlights, parts I thought were noteworthy and interesting. I removed filler words (um's and uh's). In square brackets are where I've added words or adjusted words for clarity. In the regular parentheses are small notes for added context. Tory Pitner is a fascinating player. He does not have the high-end skill you saw go in the first round. He is foremost a shutdown d-man. But he is smart, driven, methodical in his preparation and training, and most of all a true scholar and lover of the game. If anyone has an EP Rinkside subscription, I would encourage you to read the article written about him. The bulk of it is an interview, in which he goes into vivid detail about several top draft picks from this year whom he has played against, and how he goes about shutting them down. He has their on-ice habits broken down and analysed; from their handedness to the types of shots they like to make and the dekes they like to use. He watches NHL defensemen, describing his study with the fervour of an academic, a mad scientist, and a fan all at once. He has charmed me utterly, and I think it's because we love hockey in such similar ways. I love the details of the game, I love watching good and interesting hockey above all else, and I absolutely love studying it (albeit on an amateur level). And, okay, I don't like to make bold predictions, so I won't. All I have is hope. I hope he grows and thrives, I hope everyone one day recognises how special he is, and most of all I hope he makes it. Tory Pitner, no matter who you play for and where you're playing, I will always be rooting for you!!

Q: How would you describe [your] feelings right now?

TP: It's pretty unbelievable. I mean, it's a great feeling. Colorado is a great organisation, and especially down the road from Denver [University] it's going to be really, really fun to go to a lot of games and just see the progression in the team - in my game - to hopefully one day be there.

Q: So, knowing that you were going to D.U., were you maybe kind of hopeful that it'd be the Avs?

TP: Yeah. I talked to the Avs a little bit during the year and stayed in contact with some of their scouts, so every time they picked I was kind of on the edge of my seat - but I'm happy to be here and really excited.

Q: What are the strengths in your game?

TP: I'd say that my defending is probably my biggest strength. I think that I can use my brain and really bait other players into plays that they don't want to make and then close out. Really take away time and space, and ultimately just be a prick to play against - I don't know if I can say that on this - but I think that I can defend really well.

I'd say my player comparable is John Marino; his ability to play against those top line guys and shut them down every night. I mean, you just saw him get traded so [he's] obviously a very valuable piece in the NHL, and he was a sixth round draft pick too. I'm really excited to hopefully continue that development path over at D.U. to round out all the other areas of my game to play in the NHL.

Q: So you'd say Denver is a good choice for you, for college?

TP: Yeah. I'd say, obviously, the coaching staff first of all, [David Carle] is an unbelievable coach; and then just the proven track record they have at developing NHL defensemen. Being there every day, you see all the guys that come back, and they want to be at D.U. All the guys that they've sent to the NHL, they still come back to train there - train with Matt Shaw, the strength coach, and skate on the ice. Everyone there; it's kind of a brotherhood. It's a great system for [anyone] to go through if they want to get to the NHL.

Q: Did you get a chance to speak to Jake Fisher? (Colorado draft pick #121 overall)

TP: I'm actually roommates with Fish at D.U. We moved in on Sunday and so it's kind of cool that we both got picked here.

Q: So have you talked to him since?

TP: I haven't. I gotta be honest, I put my phone down after round three and kind of tried not to go on it. But yeah, no, we'll definitely talk. I'll see Fish [on] Sunday when I land. We probably have some studying to do for our Geography class. No, it'll be good. I know he was really excited, I'm really excited, too.

Q: Have you ever been to an Avs game?

TP: I have not, no. But I heard that the D.U. guys go all the time, especially with it being right downtown, so [I'm] really looking forward to getting out there and seeing Ball Arena live. I've driven past it a few times, just heading back to campus and whatnot, but I'll be really excited to get inside and see what it's like.

Q: How did [the Youngstown Phantoms] help you develop, to get to this point? (inaudible)

TP: For sure. I mean, obviously it was great my first year, getting to experience winning the Clark Cup Championship there was super cool for me, and it was a great learning experience being able to be around great leaders like Shane Lachance and Chase Pietila - who got picked earlier today. Being able to be around those kind of guys was awesome for me. And then my second year, taking a step into a bigger role with the team, talking with [coach] Andy Contois a lot about my game, working on different areas that I need to improve, and improving on my strengths, too, [like] being hard to play against. So I think overall they helped me round out my game, and I'm looking forward to keep rounding out that game at D.U.

Q: What has your Draft Day experience been like here at the Sphere? (inaudible)

TP: Yeah, no, it was long. Woke up early, couldn't really sleep too much. Woke up, just kind of got a workout in to get moving, you know, have something to do. Then walked over here - I'm staying at a hotel that's not too far - so, walked over. Sat down after having some breakfast and then kind of just watched the draft. It's been pretty cool, though. I have my family here, my agent as well, [and] one of my coaches. It's been really nice to have everyone here supporting me.

Q: What about the way that Colorado plays defence excites you?

TP: I'd say that I love how they're pretty freeing with all their defensemen. Even down the lineup, you look at Josh Manson still getting up in the play joining as a fourth man. Sam Girard obviously loves to do that. They obviously have great defensemen like Cale Makar running their power play. [They] love being really active. I think that's something that I'm looking to add more to my game, too, and so the freedom to do that in Colorado is something I'm really looking forward to - especially at D.U. as well, having that freedom. Finding the middle in a lot of their breakouts, not a lot of off-the-glass plays or up the wall; they like to really possess the puck. I'm really looking forward to being able to hold on to the puck a little bit longer and find some middle support, which I think will ultimately help my game break down the opponent and just add another element - which will be really fun.

Q: What players did you idolise as you came up?

TP: It's kind of been a lot of different ones, but I really wanted to play defence because of Nick Lidstrom. When I was younger, one of my coaches - actually, Anže Kopitar's brother - Gašper Kopitar; he was my defense coach in LA when I played for the junior Kings when I was younger, and he told me 'If you want to be a defenseman, [go] watch Nick Lidstrom.' So I found some YouTube video - and I think I've watched it like 400 times or something like that. I've watched his NHL 36 multiple times, just to get me going or just to learn his routines. So idolising him growing up and then seeing the great person and defenseman he was; it really made me want to be [one], and I wanted to play hockey even more.

[luveline]

hi jade! i read you were a bit anxious, so i just wanted to say that we're all here for you and i hope you feel better soon <3

can request something for those little blurbs you're gonna write? if not, you can just ignore this!! but maybe something similar to what you wrote for remus a while ago about him seeing reader's sh scars for the first time, but for sirius? i feel really insecure about mine sometimes and some sirius being a really good and understanding bf would be lovely! <3

thank you and have a great day/night :)

Hi! Thank you, and thank you for your request! This is my favourite Sirius fic I've ever written, I hope you like it!! fem!reader, tw implied/mentioned self-harm

"That was a good time, huh?" you ask. 

Sirius smiles to himself in the mirror, pulling at the knot of his tie. "Anywhere is a good time with you, my love," he says, with an air of drama and yet entirely genuine. 

He peeks out into the adjoining bedroom and watches you cover a smile with the back of your hand, sitting at the end of the hotel bed. Your fingers curl into a fist. 

He really likes having this effect on somebody. To inspire not lust, but a flustered affection in you, is a sacred pleasure. You catch him watching you and your expression screws up. You flop down on your back. 

"Don't be embarrassed," he says lightly. 

You kick a half-hearted foot in his general direction. Which is another thing completely, your thighs all soft now you've sat down, looking really, really squishable. Why hasn't he noticed how lovely your thighs are before? 

Of course he has. But this is his first time seeing you in a dress.

"Have I mentioned how stunning you look today?" he asks, tie peeled from his neck, fingers working the two highest buttons of his shirt open. 

"Only all day." 

He hums and joins you in the bedroom, kneeling on one knee beside your plush thighs. The mattress dips with his weight, and his hands fall to your waist for balance. 

Your dress has risen all the way to the lace edge of your underwear, and usually that would command his attention, but he's stopped short by a surprising discrepancy. Uniform lines, bold and less so, climbing the top of your thigh. He assumes there are more to follow under the thin skirt of your dress. 

He reaches out without thinking, squeezes, and then pulls his hand back. "Sorry," he says, a murmur, unlike himself. He looks up and away from your thigh, meeting your startled gaze. "Sorry, doll, I should've asked." 

You take a second. You smile a small smile. "No, it's okay. I knew you'd see them eventually, and I… I didn't want to always have to be in the dark, with you." 

That's a dot connected. Siri, could we turn the lights off? 

"Do you still–" 

"No." You lift a hand and he lowers his face, your fingers cupping his high cheek. "It's okay. It's not a big deal." 

It feels like a big deal, but Sirius would never make this about him. He doesn't want to make it about your thighs, either, that risen hatching. He wants it to be about you — wants to make up for whatever it was that hurt that badly. 

You tense up momentarily as he settles on top of you, chest to chest, forearms bracketing your head, your lovely hair. He squints at you to try and lighten some of the unspoken tension. 

You turn limp under his weight. "Sorry, I should've told you before, but it's embarrassing." 

"Is it?" he asks, lips skipping over yours, he's that close. 

"I mean– Yeah." You sound like you have more to say, but he waits, and you don't say anything else. 

Your eyes close as he closes the last millimetre. He kisses you softly, then moves to your cheek and kisses there, too. 

"You have��" His nose strokes your skin as he raises his head, finding you wide-eyed and waiting. "Nothing to be embarrassed of." 

Your hands card through his hair. "You don't mind?" 

He shakes his head. Another time, soon, he'll tell you in detail how much it doesn't matter. How it would never change how he feels about you, or how perfect he thinks you are. You're not embarrassing, you're seraphim. You're beautiful. 

But tonight you're happy. The wedding had been perfect, slow dancing and cold drinks; you'd outshined the bride. You're eager to move away from the conversation altogether, and he's eager to help you into your pretty cotton pyjamas, eager to sequester you away from the world for as many hours as you'll let him.

He holds your gaze. "You swear–" 

"I swear to you," you say, "I'm just fine." 

"If you keep interrupting me, you won't be," he threatens. 

He watches your eyes snag on his loving grin. "Promise?"  

"Yes. Now, where's your suitcase, sweet girl? I'm desperate to get you out of that dress." 

[seven-stars-in-his-palm]

😈🖊️🌝 my lovely, if you'd be so kind 💕

some special questions here.... and i shall. thank you rhi 💞

😈- Is there anything you enjoy doing that you think your readers hate?

i havent really thought about it!! i suppose it might be the long droughts of no fic when i don't write whole wips at once before publishing. sometimes i wont touch a wip for months and no one will know since its a one shot or a short multi chapter, but for fucs like do you remember hanging up the stars, i leave thus hugeee narrative left hanging with unpromptu hiatuses. while it gives me time to think and exist, i feel bad for leaving my readers hangin like that </3

🖊 - Post a snippet from a current WIP.

i was JUST working on that 1793 rewrite chapter rn!! i'll pass you a little bit of paragraphs...its a bit clunky. but i like the intent

“Who is this?” Jean-Claude snaps, reaching for the sword hung to his belt. “Traitor! Spy! You dare interfere with the execution of the—” A brick is then unceremoniously thrown at Jean-Claude’s face, causing him to collapse like a sack of said bricks. [Crowley] steps over the body without much fuss, giving the prisoner a knowing look as he stands in front of him. “Oh,” [Aziraphale] says, now realising what this had been intended to be, “good Lord.” “A thank you is in order, I’m afraid.” [Crowley] reaches for one of [Aziraphale's] wrists, taking out a large official-looking key from his inner pocket. “Just because you pay me doesn’t mean you’re excused from being polite.”

the brackets are because they aren't called aziraphale and crowley in this particular chapter it makes sense when read!!

🌝- Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

SHADWELL. SHADWELL. SHADWELL. SHADWELL. i mean like i did a few lines of dialogue for him once but not a whole scene!! i want to get into his little fucked up raging homophobe head!! i want to study how his dialogue is written so i can replicate it!! PLEASEEEEE!!!!

[trappedinmymind]

3, 7, 8, 16, 19 from this ask game

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

I'm not entirely sure I'm interpreting this question correctly, but I'll try my best. So, since I typically have multiple writing projects going at a time (especially right now), my brain mentally categorizes them into "computer projects" and "phone projects". Computer projects are more 'important' (not really) and feel as though I have to work on them in a professional environment (i.e. sitting at a desk) and take them seriously. Phone projects are more relaxed, I'm-doing-this-just-for-fun projects (again, that's not actually true it's just how my brain perceives it at the time) where it feels appropriate to do anywhere, at any time. It's fine to do phone projects on the computer, but I Can Not do computer projects on my phone (I technically can, it just feels wrong). These categories are not fixed and in fact change regularly.

As for the actual writing process, phone projects tend to just be stream of consciousness. There are a few places I might need to edit, but they're usually [forgot this word] or [transition here] and other small edits. (As a note, I use brackets to signify where I need to edit, with whatever's inside describing my idea of what I need there. It makes it very easy to find with ctrl+f). Computer projects get something comparable to an actual outline, with lines of ideas of what I want to happen interspersed between [descriptions of what I want to happen here] and [more context/detail] and etc until I basically have the whole chapter planned. Then, I'll go back through and add whichever scenes I feel inspired for until the chapter basically looks like how a phone project would.

I usually take at least a few days off of writing after this, just to clear my head and come back to the chapter with fresh eyes. I'll make minor edits to phrasing, add some [more here] and other things just to lengthen scenes that feel a bit too short. If the situation is particularly dire, I'll put brackets around a whole sentence or even paragraphs that I feel need to be re-written, then come back to it at a later time.

Then I'll whittle away at those, and finally once I've gotten rid of all the bracketed sections, I'll paste the whole chapter into google docs and do a grammar/spelling check. After going through all of those and making whatever changes I think are needed, I'm basically done with the chapter. Sometimes I'll come back a few hours later to give it one final check before posting, other times I just want to be done with the chapter and post it straight away (usually the latter).

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

I like the daydreaming portion of it, where I haven't written anything yet but am convinced it's gonna be great :).

Nah, in all seriousness, there's a lot of little joys in writing for me, but I'd say my favorite is weaving in all the little details and hints that are gonna come back later. The things that start out small, seemingly insignificant, but grow and grow until there’s no way to ignore it. I love those little things that mean everything. They’re like gold bars to me. Small, but heavy, and priceless.

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

Without action. I think I could imply a lot of action in the dialogue, and descriptions and character's thoughts can be used to lengthen the scene, imply pauses, and etc easily enough.

Without dialogue, readers are left with long paragraphs of text that might be difficult to keep track of. Even when I'm writing action-heavy scenes, I try to intersperse some little bits of dialogue or at least markable thoughts that gives a bit of a break from having to visualize everything. I don't think I could write something without dialogue in a way that makes it enjoyable.

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

I'm not sure - it's usually a business card or receipt that was left in my purse, or the torn-off corner of a piece of paper that was just laying around. In an emergency, I have used another book as a bookmark, but I was planning on coming back to it as soon as I could, so that might not count.

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?

I started when I was a kid. The first thing I wrote was a mcyt fanfiction, but admittedly the plot was kind of good so I might reuse parts of it again. Then I didn't write for a while, but I started getting into mental health stuff and wanted to write stories from the perspective of people with different disorders to try to help destigmatize them (again, I was a kid. I'm now well aware that unless I have those disorders, that's not exactly my place) as well as a few things playing with the concept of time and souls.

I first started putting stories online when my friend got me into a fandom and we created a joint account. It was mostly my friend publishing on there, but I posted a few things, too.

I don’t know how I stopped writing, but I did. Some time just before or during the pandemic. Maybe life got too much. Maybe I just didn’t feel comfortable writing for the new fandom I was in (it involved real people, and I hate writing based off of real people) and couldn’t focus long enough on something I did feel comfortable writing about. I’m not sure.

I think it was Nimona that finally brought me out of that writing slump. I couldn’t get my head out of that world, and it got to the point where the only way I could get out was to write it down. Then of course I went back and started writing for my old fanfics again, and came up with a few ideas for potential original works

[colleitheglidingchampionofsumeru]

No but it was just a random thought I had but if it's okay can I please ask for chuuya but how would he be in a relationship with ema

She's an OC of mine you can find more information about her on my page here on Tumblr and you don't have to take this request if you don't want to

Will do!

Chuuya Nakahara x Ema

How he is in a relationship with Ema

Warnings:smut,fluff,(let me know if I missed anything)

Note:MINORS DO NOT READ

Word count:sorry if I forgot

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Fluffy

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Chuuya really hasn't been in a relationship with someone maybe once but they weren't like Ema she is nice to him and values his thoughts and feelings sure she's a part-time assassin but he was in the Port Mafia so everytime she would bake him something he would injoy it sometimes Ema would catch him eating what she made him at his breaks he had a soft spot for Ema sometimes the leader of the assassin place where she works would as Mori for one of his men to go with Ema and it was usually Chuuya he knew she only killed if the person deserves it and he respected that one day Ema almost got in big trouble with one of the guys they were out for but he used his ability to help her and they made it back safely they would hang out at Café's or parks most of the times just inside watching TV and eating sweets he would hold her hand a lot and would keep her safe one day (when it was his birthday) Ema gave him a gift it wasn't any food this time but it was a bracket he wasn't the jewelry type but he did take it he loved it and he did know she was a bit scared and after he took it he hugged her and said "thank you doll I love it" Ema hugged back and said "I'm glad you do" and actually the next day Ema saw him wearing it he would take it off during missions to make sure nothing bad happened to it and he knew she believed in God and he didn't try changing it he loved Ema the way she was no matter what he would sometimes come home drunk and all what he'll do is love on her and kiss her on the lips forehead cheeks hands arms anywhere honestly he would than just hug her in bed mot letting her go until he fell asleep he made sure nobody knew how soft he could be with someone only Ema because in his view she was perfect and wonderful just the way she ways and nothing would change that

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His relationship with her about sex is fine before they had sex actually he would be soft to her but after he would reallllly be soft to her of course they use protection if one day she didn't want to he wouldn't he Honestly just listened to they always did it when they were home maybe once they did it somewhere else during it he would be very gentle with her and if she wasn't in the mood one day he would understand and ask her if she wanted to just watch some TV than she would agree and before she even asked about the sweets he already had them ready if he was working and she wanted to do it he would tell her give him a few minutes and he'll be leaving people would notice sometimes Chuuya leaving early and asked him why he just said "none of your business why I am leaving early plus the boss let's me" they stopped after he death stared them his and Ema's life weren't their business so he had no need to tell them it was his and Ema's relationship not theirs sure Mori was confused and wondering he would tell him that Ema needed him for something important and Mori would just let Chuuya leave he was also careful with Ema he would do things she liked during sex and if she didn't like something he wouldn't do it he is respectful to her a lot more than anyone else even if her life was on the line if he had to choose between him and her to die he would choose him to die Ema means to much to him he can handle losing her sometimes when they were watching TV they would get in the mood and do it yes they took breaks if she wanted to take a longer one he would take a longer break and during sex he wants to make sure Ema is comfortable and safe more than anything he also wanted to make sure she felt good to he would give her princess treatment a lot and buy her things too

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Hoped you liked it and hoped it was what you asked for ^^ and I know I said it would be done within a week or two but I got bored and just make it the same say so ^^

[spoiledleaff]

some things from the ask game for you, my love!! <3 1. my favourite fic of yours: unholy eyes. not that i'm biased or anything... it astounds me every time i read it. dew's hesitancy and his undercurrent of self-loathing that rain slowly pushes away in favour of loving him?? impeccable. they/they rain??? amazing. URGH it's my favourite fic of all time. it's awe-inspiring. wonderful. fucking hot-

8. what i like most about your writing: i'm not sure of the best way to phrase it, but it's very artistic and descriptive!! i adore all the little bracket-paragraphs you throw in your fics for extra information. and your writing style is... flowy? artistic? i've always thought of it as quite metaphorical :) whatever the right descriptor for it is, i love your writing style <3

14. a fic i didn't expect to like so much: we dance once more (i feel your hands are cold) it's not that i didn't expect to like it, it's more that every time i reread it, i forget how much i love it!! something dewdrop being taken care of so lovingly is just very ��🫠🫠. i know the main 'plot' is kinda, uhm, porn, but it's one of my comfort fics for sure :)

i'd love to answer all of these, but i think i'll spare your poor ask box for now <3

my love, you do always know just how to spoil me :')

i really can't tell you how grateful i am to know that you enjoy unholy eyes. so much!!! i mean, it's your fic, ya know? :) i may or may not have been projecting onto both dew and rain quite a bit throughout the time i spent writing this fic, especially after that one conversation we had about feminizing clothing and our borderline catholic guilt, haha! oh! that's actually where that one line from rain came from; fun fact :) and they/them amab rain specifically will always have a special place in my heart! they're just so *feral screeching* you know? haha!!

whenever i see/read people telling me how much they enjoy my "flowery language", so to speak, i always get a little defensive, haha!! i enjoy writing, don't get me wrong! but there's something about when i read back my work to try and get a bit of editing in before posting it, and i just ready it... and read it, and read it, and i'm still reading and they haven't even boned yet???? haha!! i'm a little self-conscious about it actually, so if i ever say something like "oh my god i just posted smut and it's only 5k words???" and i'm very excited about it?? this is why, haha!! it's because of this that sun-kissed chocolate chips. is such a monument to me, almost. because it's under 10k words, haha!! but, needless to say, i'm more than overjoyed if a little apprehensive haha i'm so sorry when people tell me how much they enjoy my style of writing specifically!! it's definitely a bit of an insecurity of mine, haha. i mean, look at this response!! :'D

ah!! we dance once more (i feel your hands are cold). is such a guilty pleasure fic of mine, haha! it was something i had started casually after discovering the transfem sunshine headcanon, and i actually don't really remember writing the whole thing, haha! i just remember that this was as winter was just starting to roll in for me, and my fingers were fucking numb, haha!! hence the constant reminders of how chilly the abbey was! i also like the idea of dewdrop actively looking out for the siblings and abbey ghouls during this time, and his pack mates taking notice and caring for him in return :) i chose sunny, 'cause trans women are also very *more feral screeching* and rain just kinda wormed their way in there for the temperature difference :) i actually wasn't expecting a terribly lot of traction, especially considering how much of a guilty pleasure fic it was, haha!! but, to my surprise, it actually grew to become quite popular over time!!! :0

my love. NEVER SPARE MY ASK BOX. SLAUGHTER THAT THING BABY!!!! HAHAHA!!! i absolutely adore interacting with everyone!! and, as i'm sure you know, love, i always get so excited answering questions, haha!!

[mariecason]

Today I wanted to cover a complicated topic that is based on extensive research, credible sources, and application of the knowledge gained from it. This topic is all about marketing. Though I am in nowhere an expert on the matter - it is something that should be discussed when looking to build your brand and business.

So please feel free to take my advice and if you have any further questions, I will be live streaming for a Q&A for an open discussion.

What you should be aware of:

Marketing has several branches worth taking note of, but we'll cover that next. First things first, who is your target audience?

[Market/Data Analysis] This parameter sets the foundation of who, when, where, why, and how your flow will go. Think of it like mapping out a trail to restaurants in your area to visit. Each individual restaurant will have a specific trait that would contribute to your success.

Example:

Upon launching your content/product/service, there is a specific demographic you are trying to reach.

User: Sally Molly Race: Asian American Age Bracket: 20-25 Education: Associate Degree Career: Bookkeeper Annual Salary: 65,000$ Shopping Habits: Fashion, Pets, Home Decoration

User: Billy Nilly Race: Black/African American Age Bracket: 40-45 Education: Bachelors Degree Career: Freelance Carpenter Annual Salary: 75,000$ Shopping Habits: Small Business Items (office, materials, rental space), Advertisement/Marketing, Equipment

[Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization]

This serves as a method that goes hand in hand with content writing. So if you enjoy writing summaries or just in general, this will come smoothly. Even if not, don't be discouraged since there are tons of samples or examples to review.

Best Software/Tools:

aHrefs

Semrush

Google Analytics

[Digital Marketing]

This is the most common method that has been taking media to a whole new level! Content creation, video marketing, email marketing, mobile marketing, and so many more items reside within this branch of the marketing spectrum. When you've tuned into some creators' or business owners' content, you may have heard them mention the algorithm and how consistency in content is key. You'll be happy to know that they don't mean spam posting.

Instead, you will want to coordinate, also known as site mapping, the path you'd like your audience to take to view your content. So if you use Twitter to launch promotions, you can place your official website link or collection of links in your profile. Since you spend the most time there the organic traffic will work in your favor.

Lastly will be a brief summary of obtaining traffic using both the SEO and Digital Marketing methods, which depends on which one you wish to focus on. Most times you'll notice that once one milestone is attained then the balance game begins. What I mean is that there is direct traffic, organic traffic, and paid traffic as the primary funnels.

The breakdown:

Direct (SEO/Search Engine Optimization by content writing, quality photo and/or video content with the appropriate tags and description)

Organic (It's a bit more natural. Kind of similar to word-of-mouth or handing out business cards with brochure literature. You may be a public figure, musician, public speaker, front-line worker, or something else; this would work in your favor since you're in-person.)

Paid (This is pretty self-explanatory. Believe it or not, this is more so for individuals who deal with a different responsibility of building their business. A prime example would be if the content creator is great with photo and video production but may lack in the promoting part. This hires a marketing/advertising company to optimize your business on multiple websites! I highly recommend reading through the features, frequently asked questions, and blog sections to get familiar with how they work and what to expect. If you still have more questions, they'll be happy to help via email the majority of the time. If they have a live chat option, even better!

[Communications/Email Marketing] So now that you have your audience, content created, and even thought about how you'll get more site visitors - how do you plan to communicate with them?

Sure the whole 'hit me up in my DMs' is straight forward but the issue is where? Where is it most reliable that you'll respond to your direct messages from your audience? Some may prefer through social media platforms, others through email, and others through instant messaging apps. Each one holds value on how you keep the attention of your audience to then convert into followers/sales.

Example:

Twitter (Promos) -> Tumblr (Blog Post/Info/Link) -> Streaming Platform/Store page -> additional information on your business social media/professional page

Just make sure to produce a draft for this information so that when you start posting, you have your arsenal of content and helpful data ready to roll. For further assistance, send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Hope this helps you on your journey!

[fwoopersongs]

少年志 - Resolve

The fire that warmed the wine smoulders; affection exhausts hatred's remnants. The room's lamp still flickers invitingly and in my dreams I meet a wandering spirit.

The more we hide, the brighter the moonlight in this foreign land; ever such a lonely sight. Fear and indecision in these troubled times, like a gust of chilling wind, engulf the stars and winter frost.

The aspiration of youth for fame, to be immortalized in history, was dashed by a century of chaos and war that diminished, erased, even their names, and the rest of their lives they sacrificed to the world's restoration. Songs of sorrow are sung throughout the land.

I wait by the doors of this old city for one who left for battle, who has yet to return; the bustle of crowds all around a testamant to these times of peace.

"The rivers run on and mountains stand tall; how have you been? I hope you are well." Words that hide my yearning for you. The dark night passes; the sun peeks at the horizon, illuminating the way through snow and storm.

The aspiration of youth for fame, to be immortalized in history, was dashed by a century of chaos and war that diminished, erased, even their names, and the rest of their lives they sacrificed to the world's restoration. Songs of sorrow are sung throughout the land.

The aspirations of youth endure; with sword in hand we face the chaotic times, unafraid. May we never see the flames of war once more, (now that) a new moon shines over us all.

The aspirations of youth endure, pure heart burning still after this century of chaos. Perhaps with our remaining time we'll fulfill that wish for peace and order; a wind begins to blow again (our world falls back into its rightful trajectory).

少年志 曲：陈雪燃 词：郑乃俞

煮酒的火 还尚温 多情 空余恨 夜话的灯 还撩人 长梦 遇游魂

欲盖弥彰 他乡月光 荒凉 某个 眼眶 现世彷徨 阵阵风凉 沉沦了 多少个 星霜

少年之志欲留青史 乱世百年剩无名氏 唯有余年祭天下事 悲歌 唱山河

旧城的门 还在等 出征 未归人 喧闹的人 已见证 下世 皆安稳

江山如常 别来无恙 暗藏 故人 思量 暗夜已去 微露天光 照亮了 多少个 风霜

少年之志欲留青史 乱世百年剩无名氏 唯有余年祭天下事 悲歌 唱山河

少年之志不渝终始 乱世百年不畏剑指 但闻余年再无狼烟 新月 照人间

少年之志不渝终始 乱世百年皆如赤子 但使余年了清平愿 风落 归人间

[zoejayw]

hello im back with my questions,, ty in advance !! - do u have any tips for the composition of front pages/ cover pages? like how to position the title and the text etc? - what are your thoughts on studying art you dont like? do you think its worth spending time to look at a piece and just pick out stuff u dont like so u can avoid it? - your post on your other blog about how you dont want to be a professional artist but youve also never wanted anything else just resonated with me so hard. did u find enlightenment in the ~3-4 days since u said that and could u share it w us pls and ty - i really appreciate art like yours where symbolism etc isnt extremely obvious and it means that when i revisit that work i get to discover new stuff each time!! its wonderful. any advice for making sure your art is conveying that level of info correctly and youre not overdoing it or making it so subtle that no one picks up on it?

hihi anon welcome back ill stick these under a readmore because its getting very long

i honestly have no specific advice regarding this one! i would go about treating it the same way i'd treat any other combo of images/words, where i view the space taken up by the words as it's own compositional element same as anything else. i'm very very bad at typography and i'd suggest looking at the works of people who do do typography for inspiration, because the way people who Know typography use text is soooo different from the way the rest of us plebians are doing it. but anyway, heres a few really rough examples of the way you could position text on a title page for something. you can see immediately that the aspect ratio of the areas where your other visual elements would be is wildly different between all of these things, which means you'd need a different proportioned drawing to adequately use the space in each case. so i feel like this is the kind of thing it's really important to thumb out ahead of time, just so you're not left with awkward crops or dead space once you go to add text

i think studying things you don't like is insanely critical in all areas, not just art. in many ways engaging with something you like is much more passive than engaging with something you don't. I find that on average, people are less likely to pick up on individual elements of art they like compared to art they dislike. You need a little bit of roughage for things to stick in your brain, sometimes. It has to burn going down a bit. Being able to understand and articulate what you think isn't working about a piece or a style lets you isolate elements that do work, and lets you get that much more in line with your own taste. The array of art I like is impossibly wide and varied. The stuff I explicitly and without exception dislike is a much smaller and more concrete pool of things, and knowing what those things are so I can avoid them is much more helpful for narrowing down my own technique than having five billion different styles I actively aspire to. I think analyzing stuff you dislike is also interesting when you take the time to question if what you're seeing and disliking is an area where the artist is unskilled on a technical level, and failing to execute something, or if the execution is intentional/successful but merely outside of your taste bracket. This can be kind of an arbitrary distinction at times but I find it helpful to at least give some thought to. If something feels unskilled - what would a more skillful execution look like? Would you like it then? If something is just outside of your tastes - where do you think the appeal lies for people who do find it appealing? You can get a ton of mileage out of this stuff

unfortunately i did not find enlightenment there. my problems with becoming a professional artist are not the same problems everyone else is having for the most part. there was a lot of replies on that post about how being an artist under late stage capitalism sucks and while thats true thats not whats stopping me. what's stopping me is my horrible health problems and recent development of a life ruining disability. i Can't pursue art professionally, or literally any other field, because i can't put in more than a couple hours of work a day max on anything. i had to delete that post because it was honestly really frustrating to have to sit through a bunch of tags in my notifs that boiled down to 'ugh yeah i would LOVE to be a professional artist if it didnt involve doing/learning stuff i didnt want to sometimes, and instead i was just giving enough money to live on to do exactly what i want whenever i wanted' which is just to me a deeply entitled mindset. A lot of creatives actually Do get paid to make whatever they want whenever they want! But these are the kind of people who have spent years and years of their life building up a following and improving their craft. I'm not sure why people think they should be allowed to skip that part and go right to getting paid for it.

As for symbolism, I think you're looking at it a little bit wrong! There is no one level of symbolism i'm using that can get 'correctly' conveyed, it just isn't possible. Communication in general, but especially in the case of more abstracted symbolism, is an inherently asymmetrical act. The ability to communicate something relies just as heavily as it does on your audience's ability to understand and interpret as it relies on your own communicative skill. Visual literacy in particular varies a lot from person to person, because it's not taught in the same way as textual literacy or verbal literacy. A find a lot of the symbolism I use pretty blunt and not that subtle. Some of it is also stuff that I know nobody but me will ever notice. Plenty of stuff is in the middle ground between these two extremes. Having a wide spread ensures that there will be at least a little bit of something for everyone, and that those people who are dedicated enough to return back to your work later will find it newly rewarding. I really don't know to convey How to do this because there's an almost infinite number of things you can do with visual symbolism, so my advice would be primarily

understand when you are working with imagery that has become cliched. Almost everything has been done before, but some things have been done more than others. The term has a lot of negative connotations, and is very much down to a matter of opinion/culturally dependent, but there's some types of imagery that are just sooooo overused that anyone with familiarity on the subject is probably already sick of it. This does not mean you can't use them. This means you have to be careful. Think about stuff like biblical imagery in the west, like something being in black and white with one object selectively colored, like red string imagery, like visuals where a character looks into a mirror and sees a reflection different from their true self. This is all stuff i'd consider to be cliched. The benefits of cliched imagery is that it is accessible enough for even the least visually inclined viewer to understand what is being conveyed by it. The downsides are that it's very easy to come off as trite to anyone with more familiarity. My personal tastes for working with cliche is to lean into it. If you know what you're doing has been done before over and over again, embrace that. Don't try to be subtle with it; trying to be subtle with something that is too culturally ubiquitous for subtlety always reads as insanely condescending to me. my gut reaction is 'oh you think you're being clever with this? youre not!' so i try not to be clever. like with how i'm using tarot imagery for my comic. tarot stuff is obscenely cliche at this point. although some individual instances are more or less subtle than others, overall there is zero attempt to mask what i'm doing. it's pretty much got a big neon sign on it that says 'hey guys! we're doing a tarot thing! so lets all have a fun time with that!' when you use cliche, try and do it because your audience is familiar with it, not despite that.

trust your instincts. you don't have to understand your own symbolism. you don't have to be able to sit down and explain in words what everything you're drawing means. if we were only going to limit ourselves to things we could explain in words, we could just be writing things instead of drawing things. visuals don't have to translate 1:1 to concrete literary ideas and something just feeling right can be more than a good enough reason to include it. it's not bullshit or fake symbolism or pretentious just because you can't sit down and bust out an essay about it. some stuff is allowed to be ambiguous or weird. we would never get any New imagery if we were limited to using imagery that could be explained. toss whatever you can in wherever you can and let it coagulate into something coherent as you go.

consider the way your body of work informs itself. if you randomly stick a pineapple into one image, that could mean something, but it could also not. if you become the guy who sticks random pineapples into every drawing, then it definitely means something. you don't need to artificially curate this, but rather, you can just lean into the sort of visuals you find intriguing/compelling and allow that to become symbolic or meaningful through its presence in your larger body of work. symbolism is inherently relational, there is no discrete visual which is on its own a symbol. it has to relate to something outside of itself to mean anything. you can build that meaning yourself.

hope this is helpful or interesting at least!

[fr1d4y-wr1t1ng]

Your “Love Song”

Request: nooooo, I wanted to do an intro kinda writing thing lol.

Can I request?: absolutely.

Genre: Fluffy romantic head canons of the CC’s!

Content Warnings: none, except for swearing maybe. And of course my music taste /j (thought I would put this here, any references to a “her” or “him” has a they/them in brackets just letting y'all know)

CC’s in Post: irl!Dream(wastaken), irl!Sapnap, & irl!Wilbur Soot.

Description: These are the songs that I think would fit for your relationship with these CC’s!

Dream:

Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast In America - Gym Class Heros

Holy shit Dream loves you so so so much it's unreal.

Like he would quite literally do anything for you like quite literally ANYTHING you can imagine.

Your day was shitty and you don't wanna do the dishes? He's got you covered.

You're sore from doing something physically exhausting? Don't worry, he'll do ANYTHING to make you feel better.

You got sick? He's already making soup and nursing you back to health.

He's semi-clingy like that you know?

Sometimes you may have to tell him that he doesn't have to do EVERYTHING for you, and that sometimes you can just do things yourself.

Remind him to take breaks too holy shit!! Like seriously mate go in there and REMIND HIM!!

But that's just because he loves you so much, he just can't express it any other way dude!!

I think the line that PERFECTLY sums up how he feels for you is “if I had to choose [them] or the sun, I'd be one nocturnal son of a gun.”

Just make sure you treat him the same, trust me on this one okay????? Pls?????

“Take a look at my [s/o], [they're] the only one I got!”

“George!!”

That's the only thing you've truly heard since he started streaming. You'd been sitting on his bed, scrolling through Twitter while minding your own business. You hadn't done anything to disturb him given the fact he was streaming and well… he hadn't exactly revealed you yet.

You looked at your boyfriend, just wanting your clingy little teddy bear back, you stared at him for a second, before seeing him mute and turn to you.

You two stared at each other, a slightly awkward but… mostly comfortable silence. His eyes looked like they had literal hearts in them. He chuckled quietly, looking at you until you spoke up. “...Clay?”

You questioned you boyfriend until he muttered, “you know, you're the most attractive person I've ever seen… right?” You started to laugh as your boyfriend got up and sat next to you. He quickly pecked your cheek and went back to his stream, attempting to make up for having chat wait.

To say this happened often would be an understatement.

Sapnap:

Never Ever Getting Rid Of Me - Waitress

I know people like to use this song in a more... stalkerish tendency. But, I don't think that's the meaning, you know.

Sapnap is very much... newer to love. It may come off in the wrong way, but he's trying to show you that he's not going anywhere because he loves you.

He can be awkward, but of course he's just excited!

You're his first s/o!!! How the hell could he not be excited?

Sapnap can be very “clingy” when your relationship starts... but don't worry. He calms down quickly.

Before you even know it, the relationship becomes natural, like you've been together for several years.

You two kind of end up acting like newly-wed’s when you get settled? If you get what I mean?

It's like you've been together for god knows how long, but you're just getting super settled and shit into a whole new level of your relationship.

I feel like the line that really represents how he feels is the line, “Oh, I'm gonna love you so. You'll learn what I already know, I love you means your never ever getting rid of me!”

He really believes that you're the one! So maybe (if you can) try to give the same energy back! Tell him you love him like, a lot!!

“I will never let you let me leave, I promise I'm not lying!”

What the fuck was that? You lay awake, thinking about the nightmare that just woke you. You slowly turned toward your phone. It's 4:08 am. You really shouldn't be up this early, should you? As you try to get back to sleep, you hear a muffled groan from him.

“Babe?” Sapnap asks, barely able to keep his eyes open, “Why ‘re you up?” You turned back to face him, wrapping your arms around his midsection. “‘is nothin’. Don't worry.”

His brows furrowed in thought, trying to stare at you for a second before asking, “Ya’ sure? You can tell me anything-” you quickly peck his lips, effectively shutting him up before mumbling, “it's just a nightmare. I'll be fine, as long I have you with me.” a small chuckle came from him before replying with,

“M’kay… love you.”

Wilbur Soot:

Telephone - Waterparks

At first when he falls for you he's... really fucking nervous.

He doesn't wanna mess your relationship up AT ALL.

He thinks the you'd legitimently regret being with him, but we all know we trolley want a man like Wil.

But, there's still apart of him that really wants you to feel the same.

But once you start dating, this kind of stressing about making you regret dating him calms down a bit.

Keyword: a bit.

The intrusive thoughts about you two dating can still get to him yk, so, please just remind him that it'll be okay babes-

He's so soft when he's with you though, like, legit it's such a magical experience.

When he's not streaming or making music he's usually spending time with you!

He's just so sweet man, tbh I want a bf like Wilbur 🥴.

I think the lyric that really explains how he feels is “I can be your best yet, future favorite regret.” because he can be the softest motherfucker ever!! (or... well... hm.)

“I’m interested but distant to a fault, and I'd never want to complicate your heart!”

Boop ba boop! Boop ba boop! Your phone's ringtone filled your apartment as you dragged yourself from your bed to your desk. You sighed, looking at the number and realizing who was calling you. “Hey Wil.” you answered somewhat bluntly.

“[Y/N]! Hey!” Wilbur’s sweet voice rang through your ears like a whimsical melody. Your lips perked at his response, “Whats up?” you ask, your cheeks filling with heat as you looked at the screen. “Well I-” Wilbur cuts himself off at the noise in the background.

“...anyways, I'm coming over!” he finished. You realized he was probably walking his happy ass to your flat. You looked around at the mess, a small sigh escaping your lips as you replied, “I'll see you in five then?” a chuckle escaped his lips, “yup! See you in five!”

Note: AAAAND THATS FINISHED, FINALLY. Why the hell did this take 2 days holy shit!? So, uh, I have an idea for making a part 2 but like... with the song that kinda describes the breakup (if there is one)? So let me know if you want that! Kay, see ya, byeeeeee!!!!

[finitevariety]

hello your writing is legitimately so masterful like, every sentence and word sounds so in place i was wondering if you have any specific thoughts you want to share about your process or thoughts about writing in general, i guess? like i completely adore the way you manage to have each line serve function and characterization and metaphors that somehow always work? i would love to peek inside your brain if you want and if not that’s chill too, just popping in to say your fic is so awesome!! thank you for sharing

hi OP I read this at work and was smiling most of the day waiting to come home and answer--thank you so much 🥺🥺

Below the cut I talk at length about my ~process~. Though it is pretty long, it does contain screenshots of draft fics if that's your thing :)

If after all this you want to talk more about anything I mention here (or don't mention!) please DM or ask off anon. I don't mention much about my particular writing style here but I'd be happy to go into more detail if you like about why I do certain things/don't do others.

My process, such as it is, definitely doesn't suit everyone, and looks like this:

one: have an idea. stream of consciousness this idea into a google doc.

I throw out random ideas for dialogue, and beats I want to hit (and sometimes why). Some of my writing for this part plays around with 'blocking' (i.e. who is where, doing/saying what), but most of it is handwavey and excited and extremely cringe. I actually have a 'succession odds and ends' doc where I dump everything that's not quite big enough to be its own thing. It's the source of this illustrative example, which is part of a probably-won't-be-written plan for 'what if Ben Elton Stark but for the Roys'

two. start fleshing out the story more.

this depends on whether it's a long or short fic but typically i will start at the beginning and do a 'first pass' to really think about who does what where (and why). This process is less manic and unlike step 1 doesn't happen in one great burst.

take this, for example, from a half-written affair fic:

you'll see me still not giving a shit about punctuation, spelling, or formatting--I claim there's method to this. I also have a habit of talking to myself in square brackets when I have a thought or know something's not quite right.

Sometimes these notes are useful for future me in picking up the thread of the vibe:

but sometimes they're just useless, e.g:

Above examples from the final chapter of bold and forth on, which is 1/3 fully finished and 2/3 in the write/edit steps below.

Anyway, I keep doing this right up to final edit stage so the doc becomes a dialogue with myself. Re: dialogue, I find that this stage is where I get the script right: it tends to change very little between here and the 'actual writing' stage--though more scenes often emerge later, and with them new speech.

three. actually writing the damn thing

I do this VERY slowly and edit as I go, meaning that it takes fucking forever to finish a scene. I sometimes find it hard to start writing properly--this is the most rewarding part, but steps one and two feel pretty cathartic without a lot of effort, so sometimes I just want to keep spitballing instead of actually writing the damn thing. To ease myself into it, I start by fixing the spelling, punctuation, and grammar from the touch-type madness of the previous steps (see! method!). Before I know it, I'm in the zone.

To help myself along I will:

leave notes to myself in square brackets, as above.

read parts of the fic aloud. This is absolutely key for me in getting the rhythm of dialogue and images down.

simply keep the tab open more often than I have it closed. I find that all change to a fic is useful change in the end, even if it might not feel like it 'up close'.

This is a bit rich for me to say given the word count of bold and forth on, but I do think it's important to be ruthless with your writing. I write and rewrite sentences so many times only to end up removing them entirely. There are whole scenes that did not make it into BFO.

Sometimes I have trouble deleting scenes, sections, or even phrases that I like but which don't fit. To that end, I have an 'odds and ends' file where I shove everything that doesn't quite work. It really helps me feel less shit about removing things, even though I never end up using them elsewhere.

four. final pass edit

I think something is 'written' when all my square brackets are gone. At this point, I'll read it through aloud AGAIN and sometimes read back from earlier if it's a multichapter thing, to check that the tone's consistent. I tend not to change too much at this stage, but I do have to let it rest for a while to be sure.

[magic-is-something-we-create]

since you're editing echoseers, may I ask- what is your editing process like?

hi!! sorry for the wait in answering - it's hard to get words to make sense today!!

(also this got a lil long, sorry about the cut midway through 😅)

for me, editing doesn't have very well-defined stages like i've seen other people go through simply because i tend to do a lot of line editing and minor plot-tweaking as i draft!! depending on how many days it takes for me to finish a chapter, any particular scene can go through 2-6 passes by the time the "first" draft is done, so usually when i go in to start actual editing, it's already in a state that's pretty presentable

true editing, in my case, tends to start with gathering all the little notes i've taken throughout drafting about what things have changed since the start, because i'm a pantser and no matter how much i think the story will go one way, the characters will almost always shove it into a different, better direction.

those notes can be about plotlines that didn't pan out the way i expected, questions my alpha reader had that weren't just "it's been a week since i read the last chapter what's happening again?", ideas for future plots that may or may not happen but will need buildup/foreshadowing if i go with them, bracket [CHARACTERS DO THIS] moments, etc.

gathering all of the little notes i've already got into one doc/list gives me a good direction, and then it's a lot of rereading to remember more things that changed. during that first reread, i also tend to rewrite clunky bits that don't quite flow the way i want them to, add in foreshadowing that i remember on the spot, rename/conlang what i couldn't bother to before, etc.

i also tend to pay special attention to the chapters that were drafted quickly, because when i have a big bout of motivation/inspiration, it means a whole chapter gets done in 1-2 days, and thus it gets brushed over completely in the usual line edit passes and is super clunky and weird when i look at it again

(also, part of the reason i don't have definable stages of editing is because i jump around a lot between what kinds of things i'm fixing and where i am in the story - up until the last two chapters of the latest pass over firebreathers, i was editing bits and pieces of part one as i realized i could fit things in that i needed/wanted)

usually, i like to have a few weeks/a month or two between the end of drafting to the start of editing, just so i have time to distance myself so that i feel better about removing/changing things i was proud of at the time... because sometimes i'm proud of something while drafting and on a reread, it sucks, actually. or it's clunky, or the plot never happened, or or or - and having a cuts document/saved iterations of every stage of the process still doesn't register when i'm freshly off the drafting brain

and then, finally, when i can't look at it anymore, i gather beta readers.

and then do that whole thing again. preferably once ive drafted the next book, so i know what other foreshadowing/foundations i need to lay down, because, again, no matter how much i think i know the story it always changes.

[nikkywrites]

Tortellini Soup: What is your worst plothole right now

But like, the kind you know how to fix gut haven't gotten around to it, not the kind you don't have the thread for and the store is out

Thanks so much for the ask! Sorry I ignored it for like two hours

So, when I was first starting Maidens and Monsters, I wasn’t thinking too much about when it was taking place compared to other things. I was just writing with no thought to that whatsoever. It smashed over my head though, on like the third scene I was writing. I had a “hold on a sec…” moment where I put some thought into it and realized that parts would have to be removed. Let’s focus on Helen of Troy as an example. Calypso references her as being one of the Fately beautiful woman that she’s heard of.

But she can’t know that.

Because in the Odyssey, which is just after the Trojan War, Odysseus and crew come across Scylla post-monsterization. Meaning Maidens and Monsters has to take place before (a good bit before) and Scylla is not another in a long line of the Fately beautiful but one of the first. Meaning I have to take out references to the others and Calypso’s innate knowledge of these tragic stories.

Which sorta ruins Calypso’s rising, but it’s an easy enough fix, I think. Calypso is a goddess of ruin and tragedies are closely related, so Scylla’s name, when told to her, has a strange weight to it. And there’s a knowing in Calypso, that she can’t fully grasp but is aware of: that this nymph, sweet and pretty as she is, is capable of something terrible. Which might be a slightly better motivation and better for the plot overall. But I am a little miffed that I gotta take out some of those bits. Haven’t because effort and I don’t have a version of the beginning I really like and I don’t really wanna get back to it now, so. It hasn’t been fixed. One or two have been marked with brackets but that’s as far as I’ve gone XD

It’s really not that big a deal. It’s actually going yo be good for the story, I think, and the pacing (that’s not the right word. Brain is mush today. The vibe? Tone?) of it.

It’ll make the whole thing a bit more of a mystery for Calypso which is probably much better for plot. Because her sticking around Scylla after she realizes she loves her if she knows that something awful is coming (that could, in theory, affect her)? I’m not sure she’d do that. But if she’s not sure what is coming, or when? If all she has is this nebulous feeling in her bones, stuck in her Kraken scales? Well. She’d stay, then. And the ending will be worse, because while she had a suspicion she didn’t know.

She didn’t know it would go like that.

And isn’t the inevitableness of it, the bitter realization at the end, the best part of a tragedy? What makes it? Maidens and Monsters is gonna hurt more for Calypso not knowing and it’s going to hit her harder.

[inahc3]

How about some general advice on writing when ADHD/anxiety/etc don't want you to? That's where most of my experience is right now 😂

It's past my bedtime, so this might get a bit meander-y and disjointed.

There's a post going around about [square brackets] - they are super useful. Instead of going down an ADHD research rabbit hole and finding yourself somehow reading about alpaca farms three hours later, write [look up duck thing] and move on. Instead of being frozen by the feeling a word is wrong, write [not X but kinda] and move on. Anything that stalls you out and isn't a plot-stopper (when in doubt assume it isn't), make a note and keep writing the parts you *can* write.

If you're stuck trying to figure out where your plot is going, have your characters argue about it. Crowley and Aziraphale are great for this, they can argue about anything. :) shove them in a room, give them something to bicker over, and see where it goes. Whether it ends up being an actual scene or just a behind-the-scenes thing isn't important. They may in fact run with it and take over the plot entirely, and this is probably a good thing? :) (Crowley has more fun ideas than me, but Aziraphale is actually a little scary. I think he gazed into the abyss of my subconscious a little too long.)

If blank pages or piles of [fix this] make you freeze, wiggle out of it. Find alternatives for writing that don't trigger the freeze response, like writing into a chat app instead of your actual document (I have several discord channels just for this) or writing the word "and" over and over until something else comes out. Find ways to make editing less intimidating, like doing a pass where all you do is categorize the *type* of fix needed, so you can come back later and do a batch of check-that-episode or find-that-word. Nibble away at it. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Remember that perfect is the enemy of done. Try to find a balance of good *enough*, and if you know perfectionism is holding you back, err on the side of just posting the darn chapter. If you reread your draft too many times, your brain will melt a little and you won't be able to reason coherently about it anyways. (I'm sure there's a grammatically smoother equivalent to meander-y (yes it's still bugging me several paragraphs in), but I'm too tired to remember it and I'm pretty sure nobody but me gives a single fuck. Plus, it's funny. Rule Of Funny covereth a multitude of sins 😁)

There's at least one time when *not* writing may be better: when depression or burnout is in play, be gentle. Make it easy to come back (that chat app is good for this too), but step away a bit, don't push. Check on your feelings gently. Read just for fun. I've discovered that even when I'm trying to read for fun now, if I'm not thoroughly depressed it'll often spark ideas that I'll jot down for my own fics. Sometimes really bizarre ones - ah darnit, I regret not writing down the source of one that made me laugh at how unrelated the idea seems to the line that prompted it. I think Crowley and Aziraphale were having some argument or other, and I jumped from that to "do all angels...?" and went down a rabbithole of angel culture, then popped out at the other end of the field with "some angel is really frazzled because God keeps randomly harassing them about whales" 😂

So, uh, I guess what I'm saying is, read fanfic while ADHD; ideas will inflict themselves upon you.

Anyways, I think that's all the trick-yourself-into-writing advice I can remember tonight. :)

PS: that point about humour in canon is great, I love how Crowley can mix dark and silly. :)

PPS: the vocalizing thing always confused me, and my current theory is that since I hear everything I read in my head, maybe other people don't, and I'm basically subvocalizing by default? It might explain why I find typos so jarring and unignorable. 😅 (Trying to read 中文 when I'd remember a character's meaning but not pronunciation was super trippy too)

Hi! Love your fics so much thanks for writing and feeding us!!!

Do you have advice for writing GO fics?

(no pressure to answer)

Thanks anon! I'm happy you like my fics 💜

As for advice... Wow! Do you mean any advice at all, in general? I'm trying to think of things that would be specific to the Good Omens fandom and not just to all fanfic, but I'm having a hard time thinking of something.

So how about just some things I do when I'm writing a GO fic?

Rewatch the source material (even if it's just 5 minutes every few chapters or so, to remind myself of how the characters sound)

Vocalize dialogue to make sure it flows OK (and yes sometimes I do the accents, though not very well, heh). I try to visualize the characters saying it while vocalizing. The looks on their faces, their mannerisms. (I uh, don't do this for the sex scenes though... The vocalizing part anyway)

Use my own personal religious trauma as a jumping off point to really get into the characters' heads (haha) (*cries in ex-catholic*)

Also, if you haven't already, read the original novel! (Please do this even if you don't write fic, you will get SO much more out of the show by reading the book. Plus, you know. The book is fucking brilliant.)

Maybe my followers have some more advice too?

[chosenimagines]

Hiiiiii ...

I'm here to request lol , for an imagine.

F (S) P (06 , 55 , 35 ) T (O) Y/N

Lol I'm really sorry but I found your request thingy a bit complicated but I'll mention them here just to clear and also to know if I requested correctly (I mean according to the way it was explained)

Fandom - Spiderman (preferably Tom Holland's spiderman)

Prompt - Friends - 06 Of course it is your fault! /Angst - 55 You broke your promise / 35 What is this between us? (Please feel free to take any of these prompts or even all of them)

I also wanted to request for the troupe to be bestfriend to lovers (i.e. O )

Plot idea - It could be like Peter and y/n are bestfriends . One day (just like everyday) they get into an argument but this one turns pretty intense because they both go super personal and rude (maybe because y/n was not in good mood due to Peter pinning on Liz or maybe because Peter was not in good mood due to flash pinning on y/n or maybe even because they were supposed to hang out but Peter disappeared for .. you know what , y/n doesn't know ..or anything along these lines I really don't want to be super specific I want you to have your freedom) ... I think you can take it from there lol . In the end , could it be fluffy ?

No need to take my plot idea , you can form your own interesting one , because I find mine a bit clichè lol . But you can do anything freely , just make sure it ends in fluff hehehhee ..

Thank you and please take your time !

Take care ❤️

And please tell me if , I'm sure I did some mistake or broke a rule while requesting lololol

Heeeey! Thank yooooouuuu for your request! I hope you will like it.

Neglected

I am so sorry that you couldn’t understand my request board! I’ll try to explain it and hope that you will understand. Your request was almost right. I am first showing how it should have looked and then explain how it will be done.

F(T1) P(A)35 P(A)55 P(Fri)06 T(O) Y/N +the plotline you have written done

My request board works like this:

first write down the first letter of one of the categories example: F for Fandom, P for Prompt, T for Trope then you are writing in brackets what you want from that categories (which are mentioned above) example: F(T1) which is T for Spiderman and the 1 is for Tom Holland the only exception is the prompt categorie because we have categories within this categorie so you first write the P for prompt put the first one to three letters of the category into the brackets and then behind the bracket you are writing the number of the prompt example: P(A)35 (that is the 35th prompt of the category angst) P(Fri)06 (this is the 6th prompt of the category friends)

I hope you understand what just tried to explain if not please send me all the questions you have

Btw you always can add things like plots or write more to the prompts or take somethings away from the prompts

Love you and take care