#(not really writing but its adjacent)

[inkyprince]

i have two au’s /stories that sit in my head rent free but my stupid shoulder is preventing me from drawing them gaah

ig i could work on writing them down, but my brain has so many thoughts swirling idk where to start dhdhjee

[darkscaleswriter]

thinking about lego monkie kid again and i have... So Many unposted AUs where macaque and mk have some sort of connection to each other pre-canon, bc their relationship is fascinating and i love them. but also, a big part of macaque's character to me is that he's so mean. he's so mean!! he's a scrungly feral cat who will look you in the eye as he bites the hand that's feeding him with 0 regrets.

so, to make a pre-canon connection with mk work in my head, macaque needs to have a REALLY good reason to care about this kid. sometimes, that's a genetic relation (bc it never fails to amuse me that mk looks more like macaque than swk, especially when they're in bird form lmao). sometimes, it's a "i helped you one (1) time out of self-serving reasons and now you keep showing up at my house and refusing to leave me alone (and i won't admit it but you're growing on me like a fungus)" type of dynamic. sometimes, it's even "you're a critical part of my stage tech crew and opening night is tomorrow, if swk makes you skip work for 'training' then i am taking that Personally."

regardless of why macaque cares, he's almost always mad about it lmao. classic villain turned antihero character. he has been conned into becoming invested in this kid and it sucks!!

then, after the monkie kid thing happens, macaque is alternately tying himself into knots about it and resisting (or not resisting) the urge to break into swk's house to fight him, bc how dare that stupid monkey king put a claim on mk. macaque has dibs! he was there first!!!

usually in my AUs, macaque ends up training mk out of spite, bc swk sure wasn't doing it in the early days of mk's stint as the monkie kid. this has Consequences when swk finds out and mk always gets caught in the middle, poor kid. how the story goes from there depends a lot on the AU. regardless, macaque and mk have the snarkiest mentor-mentee relationship ever and it's hilarious.

[goosewizard]

thinking about tommys death and resurrection. thinking about dream, with no access to anything outside of what is in his cell. dream, bludgeoning tommys corpse and tearing apart skin and muscle to grab at his new tools. dream, with bone shards for scalpels and sewing needles, with tendon for string. tommy wasn’t using it right anyway. dream, who puts tommy back together piece by piece, just to destroy him again. and tommy, who is broken and made anew over and over, tommy, who paradoxically loses as much flesh as he gains, tommy, who is never whole but retains all the pieces, tommy, who’s cracks are not filled with gold but his own flesh, twisted and wrong, tommy, who’s broken and ugly, tommy, who walks with a limp now, tommy, whos bones never set right, tommy, who never fully left the prison, tommy, who is still sitting shiny and new on dreams countertop.

[every-sanji]

[themyscirah]

Ok game time which 3 series would you just DIE to get a run on ? I'm talking full creative control, can be as a writer or an artist + plotter if that suits your vibe best

My 3 are

Suicide Squad

Wonder Woman

Green Lantern Corps/Green Lanterns

(in that order)

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

it's no coincidence that in soul punk the song order goes from a song that discusses selling yourself out to the music industry to a song about alcoholism as a metaphor for burning out and music making to a hidden track about how fame dehumanizes you and makes your very existence cryptic to a song about how greed consumes everyone and how capitalism fucks everyone over.

[waywardsalt]

there is undeniable opportunity to make bellum x linebeck fucked up but i dont have it in me. im a sucker for it just being fine with a side of like. light nautical crimes against nature but i cant make it toxic or w/e after a certain point. theyre chilling

[moe-broey]

There are so many details I love about Moe, one of which being the Wrong Gender effect.

Where, Moe, when presenting as "female", sported very short hair. Never was much of a makeup guy, either. Its choice in fashion was highly feminine, but its face didn't really match that.

Then it cracks. Realizing, it's not a girl. It Feels distinctly masculine in identity, but doesn't quite get it "right" for A While. LIKE... esp focal is how Moe doesn't feel it fits perfectly into traditional notions of masculinity, either. So, what does it do? It grows out its hair. And since it had short-short hair pre-transition, and hasn't had Long Hair since it was a kid (the kid self, feeling devoid of gender until it was suddenly Forced upon it)... it feels dysphoric, if its hair is too short. It feels more masculine, when its hair is long.

It's. About the gender non-conformity. About the mishmash. About how admittedly arbitrary things deemed "masculine" or "feminine" are just cobbled together in Moe. Not haphazardly, though. Even on a subconscious level... I think it was always very intentional.

[lazer-screwdriver]

Liz thinks Strax is the absolute best and is chill w Jenny & Madam Vastra BUT.

Instead of the grin or commiserating scoff she expected, the other woman frowned at her curiously, tilting her head slightly.

“Your insistence on a rigid gender dichotomy concerns me, given your supposed citizenship to a more advanced civilization.” She said, as casually and lightly as one would comment on the weather. Madam Vastra blinked at her and got a raised eyebrow in return.

She turned back to watch her strange rude friend cut his way through the crowd away from them, a small wry smiling tugging its way through her blank expression. “He would be just as awful as a woman, I promise you.”

[organised-disaster]

Burrergh I'm making horrible progress I haven't even started chapter thr-

Oh

[llycaons]

truly do find 'perfect' sweet little kids who exist to be cute and protected extremely boring to the point of aggravation but alluka DOESN'T fit that description because she's been neglected and isolated her whole life, she is soul-bonded with a horrifying (to many) and nearly omniscient being, she is endlessly sweet and loving to really only one person, and she STANDS UP TO that person when he hurts someone else she cares about!! she may not have a lot going on but her character and personality contrasts her situation so much to make it really striking. and I'm a sucker for close brother/sister relationships!! so sue me!!!

[miraclemaya]

for the game im "making" i keep on thinking of how to best portray this society that is like a cyberpunk dystopia that is at the higher levels of society utterly consumed by a false worship of elder things and old gods and what not and i think i want there to be a quest line where some like actual cultist of some god asks you to bomb board room meetings where scarfices to elder gods are happening noy because it's an enemy cult but because this cultist is so disgusted by the fact that they don't even actually worship the god in question they just use it to make the line go up

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

Adrift In Starlight

space opera adventure romance

a courtesan is hired to seduce the soon-to-be-wife of a famous actor

a historian who’s focused on her career & has no idea her marriage has been arranged by her rich parents

after a museum tour they and two co-workers accidentally resurrect an ancient alien artifact and end up on the run from the law, traveling from planet to planet

pan nonbinary transfemme MC, touch-averse ace MC

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Me in the brainstorming document saying, "That could be so fun!" But the thing that could be so fun is "The one that came back is actually fine and learning to love their second chance at life, but the one that brought them back has become paranoid and reclusive in her attempt to bring them back, so this new happy version is not the person she thought she was bringing back and anyway she's changed so much that the person she thought she wanted to bring back wouldn't have fit into her life the same way anymore."

[mantisgodsdomain]

OK we're done talking about spoilers now. Mad Rat Dead is fun because it's in the category of "things that, despite giving little to no indication on the cover that a specific subject is even present, handled it significantly better than a piece of media that specifically markets itself on Handling That One Subject". Despite not really marketing itself on the inevitability of death and figuring out how to live a life that you're happy to die with, it still works a damn good story on those terms, and you probably wouldn't guess just how well it works with those themes by initial presentation. Also, the soundtrack slaps.

[paigemathews]

Whenever I actually sit down and start posting the next gen series, one of the things that I really wanna do is kind of... incorporate reader's choices into it? Not in big ways bc my plan is to write like a full season before I start posting episodes and that can affect it, but like. smaller beats.

One example is that I have an episode idea where there's a big emotional thing for three different characters and our resident empath has a discussion with each of them, but it's reader choice which scene we see. Another one is an episode where it's reader's choice for who gets hit with some kind of emotional puncture and just spews emotions everywhere. It'd be mostly character and relationship scenes for arcs that are already happening, but readers would have the chance to see their favorite or the one that they're most curious about up close on "screen." Not for every episode, but like. maybe once or twice a season or something. Idk, thought it might be interesting.