#40 writer questions meme

[adolin]

for the fic writer asks: 37. ramble! you deserve it!

[37. talk about your current WIP]

anon!!! you're twisting my arm soooo bad!! ❤️ I'll talk about my current WIP if you insist... one that's been slowly cooking but I haven't actually talked about here is the royjamie amnesia fic. There are many really cool fics with this premise in the fandom already, but what EYE am interested with is not “surprise! you lost your memory and you're in a relationship now” but rather... “Surprise! You are a professional athlete and judge your self worth based on how well you can kick a ball. The you lost your memory and you're retired now and you don't remember the end of your career. Who even are you now?”

anyway. that's it. that's the WIP

[kitkatt0430]

5, 8, 9 and 12!

5.) Share one of your strengths.

My imagination. My brain is always going 'what if this' and 'what if that'. So I'm just constantly coming up with new ideas. Some of which I even manage to finish writing. :D

8.) Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

"Mark Mardon attacked the station today.  He went after Joe and put Captain Singh in the hospital.  Joe's fine, but he's gone looking for Mardon," Barry said, leaning against Eddie's car.  "He's afraid that Mardon is going to go after one of us."

"Because he shot Clyde to protect me," Eddie said, sounding a bit distraught himself.

"To protect both of us," Barry corrected quietly.

~ From Hurricane

I'm a sucker for fix fics for the Out of Time/Rogue Time episodes and this one featured pre-Westhallen with Barry choosing to out himself as the Flash to Iris and Eddie - twice over thanks to time travel. This is from the first time he tells them right before Mark makes trouble with the hurricane and tsunami over the lake. (I think the trouble Mark causes on the lake in those episodes is what convinced me that Central City and Keystone had to be located on either side of a river feeding into one of the Great Lakes despite where it's traditionally located in the comics.)

I particularly like this fic in part because it was unexpected. I hadn't intended to write any fics from PoVs other than Cisco and Hartley in this series, but once I finished Hartley and Cisco's take on the two episodes I felt compelled to write an accompanying fic from Barry's PoV.

But I especially liked having the chance to explore Iris and Eddie's reactions to Barry voluntarily telling them he's the Flash. The first time around, Barry has the realization that not telling Iris the truth from the start was a mistake and so was continuing to hide it from Eddie too. And when he has to repeat the day, he chooses to tell them again, this time less impulsively... in part because the first time around went well.

Iris is upset over Barry hiding it from her so long but she loves Barry so all she really wants is to be there to support him. And Eddie knows he was basically a stranger to Barry in September, so that Barry values Eddie enough to trust him now?

I do see Barry's actions in canon as seriously damaging his friendship with Eddie after these two episodes - so I wanted to show Barry making the opposite decision here. Twice over. He chooses to strengthen his ties to both Iris and Eddie and it starts here with admitting he was there the night Clyde Mardon died.

9.) Which fic has been the hardest to write?

The Day After the World Ended (It Continued Spinning On It's Axis Just Fine)

I started writing this and then part way through both wrote myself into a corner I've been struggling to write my way out of and screwed up my knee tripping over a vacuum cleaner. I've tried finishing it, I've tried starting over with a rewrite and... it's just not working.

I'm determined to finish it eventually, but I just don't know when it'll happen.

12.) Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

Since I'm such a Hartley fan, probably The Sound and The Fury/Crazy For You. Not a single episode, I know, but the two episodes carry Hartley's S1 plot line and I've definitely gotten a lot of mileage out of them when it comes to writing Hartley focused AUs.

I think the next runner up would be S2's Welcome to Earth-2/Escape From Earth-2 which have inspired things like my character study/AU fics for E2 Killer Frost and Reverb and the E2 Coldwestallen fic where E2 Barry is precious and Harry has guessed more about their love lives than he likes.

[katkat030]

Hey Kat! o/

Could you answer your favourite question from your recent reblog '40 questions - meme for fic writers'?

I'm curious which one is your fav! (And what your answer would be ^-^)

(No pressure of course! :P)

Hello hello!

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

A fair few! From a glance at my documents, I'd say about nine, three or four of which are half-formed ideas that probably won't see the light of day unless I get a sudden burst of inspiration to finish them.

I know fic usually means fanfic, but I do also have a poetry-style project I picked up a few days ago for chipping away at as atmosphere building practice, based on an irl setting!

Among my wips is a college au that I decided to create solely because it's debilitatingly funny to take Life Series and Hermitcraft events and translate them into real world scenarios.

The cactus ring? Grian accidentally punched Scar as a fight-or-flight response and, embarrassed, crashes at his older sister Pearl's house, who just so happened to need someone to look after it while she goes away for a few weeks. When he returns to school, Scar isn't there, so he tells his friends jokingly that he murdered the guy.

Cleo's stitching like tattoos? Every time someone asks why she has them, Joe, her best friend and resident literature student, gets to come up with even more elaborate and blatant lies. That's where the rumours that she's a zombie came from. He takes great pride in quoting Frankenstein and insinuating she's some modern-day version of his monster, and they both find it hilarious.

The roomies get to be roomies, because I say so. <3 When left to their own devices, Etho and Bdubs sometimes stretch the duvets and blankets between the top bunks in some sort of blanket fort to sit under while they play video games together. They dub the tradition the making of snow forts (Last Life my beloved) because it's really cold in winter without blankets. If Etho lends Bdubs his puffer jacket, that's between them.

Before becoming roommates with Scar, Grian occasionally saw two smaller Jellie look-alikes (she often accompanies Scar to classes, and since they both take architecture he's learnt her name), and assumed that by some witchcraft, Jellie must somehow spontaneously split into two. They're actually just a pair of trouble-making kittens, Katy Bee and Mr Finnegan. After moving in, Grian, resident pranker, takes them under his wing and teaches them how to properly get up to mischief.

[irrealisms]

8 for the ask game?

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

i'm gonna go with a section from isolate song--

“I can’t fly. It’s a, it’s an alarm call. You are being so insensitive right now, to, to bird culture. You’d understand if you couldn’t fly.” He’s suddenly acutely aware of how high up he is. Of the fact that he cannot fly down. He remembers earlier, of being in a box, closing in on him from all sides, and needing to get away, and he shudders. Techno pushes his glasses up on his face to peer up at Tommy. “Tommy, you may be surprised to learn this, but I actually also cannot fly.”

i really love bedrock bros but i struggle soooooooo much with writing them because-- well honestly i struggle with writing techno in general because he's really incredibly funny, and i am less funny than he is? tommy is also funny but i have more of a handle on writing him. so i'm really proud of this snippet because "I actually also cannot fly" is funny in a way that feels accurate to technoblade & which i often struggle with. tbh i'm proud of a lot of the bedrock bros banter in isolate song for this reason, it was fun to write and i think i did a good job of it & succeeded at writing both reasonably IC and funny but it was definitely harder for me than my traditional "the characters whose voices i have nailed down angst at each other" & as a result i'm definitely proud of it.

(40 questions meme for fic writers)

[shanastoryteller]

For the 40 question -meme for fic writers, the 28?

28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

oh man. okay in no order or preferance besides they came to me first:

vathara because embers is one of my favorite works of writing and an education on world building

owlpostagain because her teen wolf fanfic feels so cozy and also just hits all the characters exactly how i like to read them

metisket for using language very perfectly and precisely and writing to hurt, which is a compliment, and something i could do more of

[askbensolo]

Journal Entry #40: Trying to figure out my purpose.

I’ve been thinking about the Force lately. I wouldn’t say I’m super in touch with it, but I’ve come to understand that it’s always there. If I quiet my mind and sit in silence, I can sense it, like a humming in my chest. But…I don’t often make the time to meditate.

I elected not to become a Jedi, but I think I have a higher Force sensitivity than most. Especially since my uncle has taught me how to recognize the Force—not to wield its power, but to observe its energy passing through me.

I wonder what it means to be a Force-sensitive non-Jedi. To be a Force-sensitive working a 9-to-5 desk job in the most banal sector of corporate news media. Am I serving some higher purpose in the galaxy, with my restaurant reviews and community event coverage? Is it the Force’s will to assist me in meeting a Friday deadline, or not losing my mind when that one coworker is getting on my nerves?

I think of Luke, rescuing orphans and training them in the way of the Jedi, empowering them and sending them out to bring light into the darkness. I think of my old pal Fannie, one of Luke’s students, who went back to Ryloth to help free women from slavery. It’s no question that their lives’ work hold immense purpose.

My life runs on a never-ending loop. My alarm goes off in the morning, I get up and make caf, drag myself out of the apartment, go to the gym, go to work, come home, scrape some kind of dinner together, look at memes, go to bed, and then do it all over again. And it’s like…what am I even doing? Did my parents fight a war just so I could do…this?

Sometimes I think that, if I took some time to attune myself to the Force, everything would become clear, and even the most mundane of things would come alive with a new sense of meaning and purpose. But somehow, I’m afraid to reach out to the Force. I feel like the Force knows me…knows that I am a son of Skywalker and yet denied the path of the Jedi. And for what? To sit at a desk, churning out low-stakes articles for people to glance at for two seconds before they scroll to “breaking news.” Is there now a hole in the galaxy where I should have been?

Maybe I was supposed to become a Jedi after all, as much as that scares me. Maybe I’ve missed my destiny…

Or maybe there was no destiny written for me in the stars, and the pen lies squarely in my own hand…and I seem to have the worst case of writer’s block, ever.

My mom didn’t want me to move out and go to college. She was worried about Snoke preying on me again if I was separated from the family. If I was going anywhere else, she wanted me to be with Uncle Luke so he could watch over me. But Dad and Luke stood up for me, which surprised me, and reluctantly, Mom let me go. I think part of her was hoping I’d come back home after I finished my degree.

I wish I could prove to my mom that I’ve done it. That I’ve made my way, and that I’m happy with my life. But my life doesn’t feel quite right, somehow, and I’m not really sure what’s missing. I mean, things are okay. But I don’t think life, this grand adventure only experienced once, is supposed to be just okay.

I guess I need to spend some time thinking about this. But, like I said, my life is on a loop and now it’s time to make dinner. One plum-tomato and sardine sandwich and a blue milk protein shake, coming right up.

[redbelles]

5, 18, 69, and 76 for the fic writer meme!

5. how many wips do you have? what fandoms/pairings are they for?

yeah i've got wips

kidding! (mostly! not really. but only kind of. it's fine!)

i have just. so many fucking wips. don't wanna talk about how many i have because it's embarrassing, actually! this is absolutely because i consider anything i've written words for/thought about for more than a hot minute a """wip""" but that's a me problem, so here, have semi-comprehensive list of wips i'm determined to finish this year:

the chimneys hardly ever fall down masters of the air; post-war john/gale/marge

gonna stand here in the ache the punisher; post-season one frank/karen

our hands are cold, the moon sets low asoiaf/got; post-season eight jon/sansa

butchered tongue still singing berserk; post-canon guts/casca

something in the night gilmore girls; keg max!au jess/rory

don't you hear me howling, babe? shadow & bone; season one canon divergence darklina au

the second hand unwinds (time after time) stranger things; post-season four hellcheer au

and then, for fun, some wips that aren't top priority atm:

prophetic perfect tense dune; always a girl!paul atreides au

i've walked for miles top gun; post-canon icemav road trip au

more than kin and less than kind hotd; rhaenys flambés the greens at aegon's coronation au

the knife i turn inside myself dune; irulan/feyd post-kanly hatefucking + marriage of convenience au

18. do you enjoy research? which fic of yours required the most research?

yeah! i'm a nerd at heart and also i have a burning need to be canon-compliant with both canon and reality, so i love getting into the research weeds when i'm all in on a fic!

the most """research""" i've done for a fic was, astonishingly, for the fucking,,,,, robert baratheon story (that started life as, and i cannot stress this enough, a joke). i spent so many hours on a wiki of ice and fire i'm pretty sure i made up at least 40% of the site's traffic during the calendar year time it took me to write the damn thing. extremely normal behavior!

anyway! i'm actually in the opposite situation with chimneys, which is super weird. i know a staggering amount of information about the post-wwii usaaf/usaf, and i have to actively stop myself from a) infodumping about things like the development of the american bomber fleet and b) trying to make the timeline accurate, because the entire premise of the fic relies on me Ignoring what was actually going on. anti-research. insane! everyone pour one out for @sluttyhenley— she's spent the last two months taking one for the team and letting me rant at her about curtis lemay so i can get it out of my system and spare everyone who's there for porn instead of a dissertation on strategic bombing doctrine <3

69. what are your favorite fics at the moment?

first of all: nice 😏

second: i feel like i've blathered enough about my own fic today that i'm gonna take this as a question about what i've been enjoying as a reader, so! some recs!

moon's low (can't say no) by @meyerlansky delicious introspective curt pov that nuances an already insanely interesting scene! love this for me! in related news, i am barking and frothing at the mouth as i wait patiently for the follow up to dancing cheek to cheek (to cheek)! tumblr user meyerlansky comin' in hot with THEE definitive curt biddick voice!

never saw the sun shining so bright by @sluttyhenley absolutely shrieking about this series! marge deserves the world! and also both of the buck(y)s! good for her.jpeg! i'm lucky enough to be getting snippets of this as m writes it, and i cannot wait for the next few installments to go live

careful fear and dead devotion by @everyangel another john/gale/marge series i'm currently losing my mind over! the marge voice is so delicious, and i love the pre-war angle that underpins the first fic! cannot wait for more!

enter night by @rhaegang monsterfuckers and barry keoghan enthusiasts rejoice! the writing is top notch, the sex is blisteringly hot, and the tension and pacing are superb. rhaegang truly never misses

nothing safe is worth the drive (follow you home) by @yoursummerfrost i never really had a buffy phase, but i came across this fic the other day and boy howdy does it have me by the throat. deeply emotional, very sexy, and written with so much love it's got me thinking about giving the series more than a cursory "well, it was on when i was home sick from school way back when" watch. also! i've devoured every buffy fic they've written since i found this one and i'm happy to report that they're all incredible!

76. how do you deal with writing pressure, whether internal or external?

mature answer: i try to take a step back and remind myself that this is a hobby i am doing for fun and for free and i should calm the fuck down about it

follow up answer: and if that doesn't work, i whine ceaselessly at my writing buddies until i'm over it

send me some fic writing asks!

[practically-an-x-man]

15, 23, 29 please for the fic meme list you just posted?

Thank you so much!!

40 Questions - Meme For Fic Writers

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

Hm... I think most of them are pretty cinematic just based on how I visualize them and the way that translates into my writing style, but I'd probably go with Taking Flight. I already would love to see a Fablehaven screen adaptation, and it would be even cooler to see Kestrel and my additions as a part of that (not really, if they were going to make a Fablehaven movie I'd want it to be accurate to the books, but you know what I mean)

23. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?

I've thought about rewriting my first fic, I'll Be There To Catch You, and I've thought about rewriting the old, early chapters of A Love Once New and Smoke and Mirrors since they're a little choppy compared to my current writing style (but I'm still proud of the story), but I don't think I'll ever actually revise or rewrite them.

For one thing, I've got way too many active projects to even consider a rewrite like that on top of everything else, especially since I know the writing isn't really *that* bad. And for another thing, I want to keep them as a record of how much I've improved, so that if I ever feel bad about my writing style I can have them as a reminder of how far I've really come.

29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Hm... that's really tough, since I wouldn't want to take over anyone else's ideas for their story. I mean, my version of the story would never be exactly the same as what the original author had planned, and I like that.

But if I had to pick... I might take temporary custody of @negative-speedforce's OCs Laila and Athena and try to write up my rendition of their backstories before they met... or a sequel after they're together, or something along those lines. Idk, I'm just really obsessed with them as characters and their story and I'd love to try my hand at writing them! (and in more than just a gift ficlet or two)

[gingerpeachtea]

2, 8 & 37 for the meme for fic writers

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

AOUGHH idk!! i feel like i can’t think of tropes off the top of my head for some reason?? fwb to lovers might be a fun challenge :3 on a completely unrelated note i need to reread sleeping with the opposition

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

AOUGHH okay so like. all the snippets i wanted to use for this are from something's in your eyes BUT i don't want to spoil that fic SOOOO have this excerpt from my moulin rouge post-canon satine lives fic :3

“If there were reason to worry, I would tell you,” Satine said. A tone slithered into Christian’s voice. A twinge of bitterness, not rare from him, but seldom directed towards her. He looked down to his own hands, where the wood’s edge dully bit into the flesh of his palm, his fingers curled around the backrest’s frame. “Months, we were together, and you made every effort to hide how sick you were from me.” “From everyone,” Satine corrected. “It was no more hidden from you than it was from anyone else.” She would’ve recoiled, were Christian’s reaction born from anything other than fear. But she knew better. Christian hung his head and sighed. “How can I trust that you won’t hide it again?”

37. Talk about your current wips.

YIPPIEEEEE okay SO i technically have somewhere between 10-30 wips rn so i’ll just talk about my two faves.

one is THEEEEE graceland wip of all time, something’s in your eyes, and it’s about an op gone wrong that forces the house to Make Connections about mike’s childhood (ft. poly graceland of course. because i have brain worms). it’s been in the editing stage for SOOOOOO freakishly long. it’s my BABY i’m so proud of it and i’ll probably cry the day i post it. there are So many lines in it that i’ll never be able to get out of my head and i’m going to post about it soooooo much once it’s finally posted.

the other wip i wanna talk about is (TENTATIVELY!!!!!!!! POTENTIALLY!!!!!! MAYBE!!!!! POSSIBLY!!!!) titled burning suns, it’s my first moulin rouge fic!!! and it’s just me projecting my problems issues etc onto satine but chronically ill post-canon satine is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO crucial TO MEEEEEEE<3333333 she survives her original fate but not without consequence and that is its own kind of tragedy!!!

(40 questions meme for fic writers!)

[fullofmuses]

Hey everyone, the name is 𝘿𝙀𝘾𝙊, he/him, and 28 years-old. I run on Pacific Time (PT) where I happen to be online for vast majority of the day. Definitely way more reachable on discord for chatting & roleplaying purposes. Writing has been an integral part of my life now and it's continued to grow and evolve with time. In between a very busy schedule where I work full-time of roughly 40-50 hours on any given week. My job is flexible and allows me time to be responsive throughout the day, hence why I don't foresee anything stopping our time from writing. Should anything defer me from being active on here for a few days or weeks, any emergencies that would see my time decline, I promise to always be responsive and make sure that whoever I'm writing with is kept in the loop. More about me, I love zodiac signs and conversing about them (ask me about mine), love talking about traveling and nature, goals as writers that we want to accomplish and love films / television. Overall, I'd say that I'm a writer that isn't all about just writing, ooc chat and swapping memes is something I also enjoy doing!

one. The writers that I'm hoping to engage with should be 20+, just for my own comfort based on previous experiences.

two. Male roles are the only roles that I will be playing, preferably roles that aren't a teenager or child.

three. A huge fan of mature / dark storylines as we progress into some unorthodox themes that others might be afraid to play. No children or abuse to any sort of a animal, but open to hearing out what anyone is comfortable with as long as it's consensual for both.

four. Themes and genres that I find myself drawn to happen to be : 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥, 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐜𝐢-𝐟𝐢, 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲/𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 (𝐃𝐂/𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥), 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 / 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧. If there are any other storylines or themes that you might want to try out, feel free to let me know as I usually keep an open-mind to anything worth writing.

five. Intimacy & smut are themes that I do write, however, I understand that many don't feel comfortable with so I can also fade to black if that's what you're comfortable. Ship storylines are highly coveted and intriguing as long as we don't make it a perfect fairytale.

six. No godmoding by any means necessary.

seven. Be respectful, this is just a roleplay site where I'm giving my time to you guys … please do not expect me to revolve around your world. I've had this encounter with many writers on tumblr before and it's unfortunate how some use this platform as a means to truly be cruel and weird. Treat me as if you'd be treating someone in RL and not on the internet, do that and we'll have no problem getting along.

eight. Banned face-claims or faces I just don't want to interact with / or use: Johnny Depp, Sydney Sweeney, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, Timothee Chalamet, Halle Bailey, Justin Bieber, the Sprouse twins, anyone that is deceased.

/ - If you have any other questions, feel free to ask away. I do try to answer all of my messages or asks, but definitely let me know so we can begin writing incredible stories.

[nientedal]

Writer ask meme!

9, 16, 32 and 40!

Yeeeee! Questions are from this ask meme! Great minds think alike, so 16 and 40 were answered here, but:

9) Tell us your favorite thing to drink when you write

Plain seltzer water. Or seltzer with lime juice added-- I have lime juice I add to my plain seltzer to make the world's simplest mocktail, lol.

32) Which fic would you most like to write a sequel to?

COLD FUSION, LOLSOB

Kidding, kidding, I am actively writing the sequels to that one. I'm just real slow and I keep getting distracted. I think the fic I'd most like to write a sequel to that I probably won't would be Scare Away the Dark?

Or Swansong. I even have a couple scenes from Swanknight (look, I have a title and everything, wehhhhh TT^TT) sketched out, I've had them sketched out for years, but I doubt I'll ever do much with them, alas.

I wouldn't mind also writing a little one-shot or two-shot in the future of the With Every Heartbeat universe. I need Megamind picking up his niece from middle school, and I need Derya and Keiko to be friends in this alternate universe, lol.

[tracybirds]

hey um. what's geostationary orbit and why is it impossible for TAG's TB5 to achieve?

Hello!! I'm assuming you're coming in from the stack of memes I made lol so welcome welcome, this is my well-known pet peeve and I will happily explain because it involves my favourite subject - physics!

"Impossible to achieve" isn't quite accurate - my argument is formed purely on the observational evidence of where it is, such that when the show makes references to TB5 being in geostationary orbit it doesn't make sense because it's simply.... not.

So strap in, I'll go through this as clearly as I can but feel free to ask follow up questions :D Or just generally hang out lol TAG is a fun time despite the handwave-y physics ahaha :D

1. What is geostationary orbit?

Geostationary orbit is the specific orbit where a satellite/space station/whatever moves with the exact same period as the Earth's rotation i.e. 24 hours AND is placed so that the object is directly over the equator, it will move in that orbit at the same rate as the location it is over, so that it will always be over that position at all times. This gives it the name "geostationary", implying that the Earth doesn't move relative to the orbiting object, or if you look down you'll always see the same place.

Both conditions must be met for geostationary orbit to occur; an orbit with a greater or lower period will fall out of step with the Earth fairly quickly, and if not on the equator, you'll get a related type of orbit known as a geosynchronous orbit which will move up and down relative to the equator rather than staying put.

Furthermore, I won't take you through the calculation (1 | 2 | 3), but using Kepler's Third Law which is sufficiently accurate for this scenario, this orbit must always be ~36,000 km above the Earth, or the quoted 22,500 miles in the show. That is the main evidence in the show that implies that the writers intended for TB5 to be in geostationary orbit, like TOS was written to be.

However....

2. Why can't TB5 be in geostationary orbit?

It's not that it can't, it's that it isn't! There's two main reasons for this that I return to when grumbling about this to my friends (they are long-suffering on this point lol thank goodness they're reasonably good-humoured about it...)

Reason 1: The size of the Earth from TB5

This is the most damning evidence. Let's make some visual comparisons.

This is what the Earth looks like from the International Space Station which maintains an orbit about 400 km above the surface of the Earth (in a region known as Low Earth Orbit).

It's a little more complicated to show what Earth looks like from geostationary orbit as many satellites in this region are communication relays or broadcasting satellites (very appropriate for TB5 it must be said!!) But that being said, this is a full disk image of Earth from Japan's Himawari 5, a weather satellite in geostationary orbit.

Now take a look at the animation in TAG and decide for yourself what was being used as inspiration!

But I'm a physics nerd, so I won't take blind faith in some pictures! No, no - if there's a specific height that an orbit must maintain in order to remain in this orbit and the size of the Earth doesn't change, then it should follow that the Earth must be some kind of stable "apparent" size that we can figure out. Think about a freestanding house from 40 m away. It doesn't matter in which direction the 40m is, the house takes up the same space in our vision. The same follows here.

Once again, I'll gloss over the calculations ( 1 | 2 | 3) and simply state that from geostationary orbit, the Earth should take up no more than about 20° of our field of vision. In comparison the visual angle of the Moon is about 0.5° so it's still going to look really big!! But not as big as you'd see from the ISS :P If you make both hands into fists, place them next to each other and hold them at arms length from your body, that would be the approximately the width of the Earth from geostationary orbit.

So TB5?

....might be a wee bit closer than that 😂

Reason 2: The locations on Earth

This one's a little looser, but it illustrates my second point - in order to be geostationary, TB5 needs to..... stay over one location? Like okay sure it has rockets and engines so that it's able to move around, we've seen them plenty of times. But that doesn't change that fact that even when these are not in use, TB5 is never in one place.

Here's some examples…

The Strait of Gibraltar (Spain and Morocco) | 1x07 (Runaway)

Looks like Japan in the background to me | 1x07 (Runaway)

Ireland and Great Britain | 1x08: EOS

Cheating a tad, but he's only just launched so it's reasonable to assume that here TB5 is over SE Asia | 2x02 (Ghost Ship)

None of these are examples where John's manoeuvred TB5 into position like he does in Skyhook (1x11) and Impact (2x09) so it's reasonable to assume that TB5 is following its assigned orbit... and its not geostationary!

Moral of the story: TB5 could be in geostationary orbit, there's nothing stopping it! But uh... it's not. Thanks for listening ;D

All images stolen either from the thunderbirds wiki, or I've attached a click through link to their origin :)

[kitkatt0430]

4 and 7?

4.) How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Too many to count and there's always something new showing up when I least expect it. Both a curse and blessing to be a fic writer with an overactive imagination.

So one that has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while is the Code Realize fusion fic where Eddie has a toxic touch. I haven't really written anything out yet, but I've got a general idea of how the first part of the story would go.

It would start with the local military of Central City, led by General Eiling, converging on a nearby abandoned town. Specifically a house where the town's sole inhabitant lives. Eddie Thawne. Eddie knows he's not supposed to go anywhere - the house he lives in is the only one where he can touch anything without his melting away to nothing. He never grows hungry and his boredom is relieved by the small library of books within, but Eddie longs for companionship.

Companionship his father's letter forbids him. Because, according to Eobard Thawne, Eddie is a monster.

But Eiling's arrival changes things. The General refuses to leave without Eddie and threatens to destroy the house itself if that's what it takes to force Eddie to go with him. Eddie can't risk his one sanctuary being destroyed and, reluctantly, agrees. But Eiling destroys the house anyway. 'Cause he's a jerk.

Dismayed because now the only things he can touch are the ones Eiling stole from the house before setting it on fire, Eddie thinks his only choice now is to go with Eiling; he can never escape to go home now, like he'd been hoping. But at the outskirts of town, a new option appears - a phantom thief calling himself the Flash appears, taunting Eiling and running off with Eddie in his arms.

The Flash introduces himself once they're safely away. His real name is Barry Allen and he needs Eddie's help, if Eddie's willing to give it. He's looking for Eobard Thawne, Eddie's father... because he has reason to believe Eobard Thawne is planning a terrorist attack on Central City. Eddie wants to find his father too. To find out whether he's truly planning something so terrible... but also to find out why he's a 'monster' and what it has to do with the shining stone he has in place of his heart.

That's when Cisco would show up with his steampunk car, introduced as the first of Barry's allies.

Since the game is heavy on the steampunk, I'd want to keep that as the setting for the series. And the eventual main ship would be Westhallen, though I'm still debating how to introduce Iris. I think it'd be fun to have her be the detective nemesis of Barry's, but that's a bit fuzzy right now and I want to be sure of what Iris' part in the series is before I start writing... for all that she won't show up for a while regardless.

7.) Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“Oh, honey,” Lisa patted his hand, “you look like you’re gonna cry. I’m a good listener if you need someone to talk to about what’s going on?”

She was the first person to just… touch him like it was no big deal since the lightning struck. Iris always hesitated, always had pity in her eyes. Joe looked guilty, as though he felt he should have protected Barry better. (And he should have; he’d laughed off Barry’s concerns about that damn skylight like everyone else did and now look at him. Barry was never going to be the same again. Scars like these don’t go away over time.) But Lisa didn’t flinch at the sight when he opened the door. Didn’t look him over with disgust. Didn’t make him feel like a freak just for surviving something that left its mark on his skin.

Barry started crying.

~ From Chrysalis

So in this fic series it was important to me that Barry had scars left from the lightning strike. I'd been rewatching some of S3 at the time and I was reminded of how Savitar's scars on the show were part of what marked him as the evil Barry - just some more of the show's casual ableism really. I wanted to write something where Barry had those scars - or similar ones, anyway - and it didn't make him the bad guy.

Once I had that premise, I had to consider what everyone's reactions would be. And that Barry would be pushing away Iris and Joe as much because of their actual reactions to him as well as what Barry was imagining their reactions to him were. Everything always seems worse when your stuck inside your own head, after all, and Barry is very much that here, struggling with the way strangers look at him now and the way he feels about himself when he looks in the mirror.

And then finally I arrived at this scene where Lisa shows up. She's been a bit worried about her shut in neighbor and her concern for him isn't something he can write off as obligation or morbid curiosity. She's just kind when he needs it most. And it was a turning point in accepting himself that Barry needed.

I was really proud of how this fic turned out and that there wound up being more story to tell afterwards. But I think this first one is still my favorite, thanks to the way Lisa and Barry's friendship develops from here.

[snowbryneich]

Info post

About me

She/her - early 40's -UK based. I live in my own timezone for various reasons but occassionally have to operate on GMT.

Most people call me Snow because bryneich throws people obviously.

I do not have another blog for none fandom stuff because I'm interested in nothing real world online especially on tumblr. No politics. Don't send me gofundmes.

Writing etc

It can all be found here on ao3 I am too lazy to keep an fic list up to date on tumblr.

Asks and DM's

I am happy to receive asks and dm's.

I am happy to discuss my WIPs.

I am really not as grumpy as my answers to some asks might make me appear.

That said if you want to ask me the same question nine times I am just going to ignore it or post the you'll have to wait and see gif. Take a hint. (I also tag everything about my fics with the fic name or anon asks so maybe have a quick look and it's the same question I've had nine times I'm going lean into assuming you're the weird purity hole anon - that's just the way it goes when I'm being harrassed regularly - sorry not sorry)

I am happy to discuss my writing. Happy to discuss pairings I ship (which should be really obvious from this blog) I will not be telling you what happens in stuff I haven't written yet. (If I had a working crystal ball I'd be getting lottery numbers so I can do this full time.)

I am not going to bitch about other fic writers, other pairings, other interpretations of the characters. I'm not here for anyone who wants to do that.

I will not be entertaining any notion that fic writers are misogynstic for writing dark fic.

My writing smut in fanfic does not mean a) want to answer weird personal questions or b) that I wish to receive smut in my inbox - get an ao3 account.

I will not be here for language lawyering such as 'I didn't say that I said like that' - you still said it - get in the bin. 👀

Lastly a reminder for a particular anon:

Meme credit to @mirabellemoira as are most of the ones i post <3

[kiwiana-writes]

HELLO :D AM HERE TO BOTHER YOU WITH QUESTIONS ‼️

(7 or 8, 14, 15, 28)

i hope you’re doing well!! 🥹🫶🏼

Well hello you! I'm doing well enough for a long weekend that's flown by far too fast lol ❤️

I just answered 8, so while I'm sure I could come up with another one, let's go with...

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Alex's sexuality musings from Puck It, aka the hockey boyfriend Henry fic:

Alex is aware that he might be bisexual in the same way he’s aware that he might be allergic to cats; there have been a few brief interactions to make him think it’s probably true, but so far it hasn’t had any impact on his life, so he hasn’t really had a reason to look into it and find out for sure. Now, faced with Henry’s clavicle and the sudden, vivid mental image of sinking his teeth into it, he’s not sure how theoretical it is anymore.

I'm just a slut for a good analogy and when I feel like I've nailed one I'm, like, cheering internally lol.

14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

I'll preface this by saying I definitely don't think it's the worst writing advice for everyone; in fact for some people it's probably exceptionally good writing advice. But no advice is one size fits all, and for me, the ongoing and at times very firm narrative that of COURSE your first draft will be complete dogshit and if you're not embarrassed to show it to people you don't have a good sense of your own work and blah blah blah REALLY fucked me up as a writer for a long time. Because that is just... not my experience. I write clean copy and do minimal editing because 90% of the time my first draft is the story I want to tell! And I got very much in my head about that particular piece of advice and how it must mean that I was a really shitty writer or just had no sense of good writing, if I was reading my first draft and thought it was good, you know? Turns out we all create differently and, spoiler alert, not all advice is helpful for all people. It took me a while to get there, though.

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

I mean. It's gotta be the actor AU, right??? It HAS to be.

28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

Ugh, only three? This is cruel. This is, like, a fraction of a very long list.

Right.

@clottedcreamfudge - Has this particular flavour of "Alex is just ferally horny for Henry immediately' that I both adore and yearn to aspire to. Her college AUs are just so nice to lose myself in when I want to escape the bullshit in my own head for a little bit

@myheartalivewrites - Writes the richest, most gorgeous, completely fleshed out relationships between Alex and Henry, whether canon/post-canon or AU. Their love for each other just rings so true and I want to roll around in it.

@sparklepocalypse - Has this way of getting me a thousand percent on board with even the most off the wall pitches. Time-travelling threesome? Fucking sure. Henry as a cecaelia? Let's fucking go. Alex as a god? Nothing's ever made more sense, actually. One of those authors that could write literally anything and I'll be like "I don't know what I'm about to witness but I know I'll fucking love it".

[40 Questions — Meme for Fic Writers]

[irrealisms]

hello hello! :] for the 40 questions ask game, any combination of [ 1, 15, 29, 32 ] ?

Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

there's a long section of rambling internal monologue from a character who is in both physical and emotional pain, but the overall fic is dialogue-heavy. the fic is in part or whole about the absence of a character. the pov character is justifiably afraid of their own desires. the pov character is suicidal or at the very least miserably making self-destructive decisions. if it's not in an mcyt fandom, there's dubcon. the fic is angst; it might have a happy ending, an ambiguous/mixed ending, or a fully downer ending, but most of the fic is spent on angst. it's close third person pov and sticks very close to canon. i'm probably missing some very typical heartsfic Things but this is off the top of my head

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

ooooh tough question. might go with and by way of honoring the things we once both held dear if we allow "animation" to count as filming, we already have the audio for all the dialogue but it's just to minecraft and i have such a vision of the weird fucked up landscape surrounding four girls and a corpse all in gorgeous pmmm animation. uhhhhh either that or wherefore art thou come, in order to give back to the russingon community. silm fandom deserves a visual to work with--WAIT. forgot about my numenor fics. hmmmmm. let's go with pitch black, pale blue bc the world needs more femslash in it

29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

HARD question . mostly bc ..... i could in fact ask for permission to write sequel/prequel fics? i don't because i. mostly don't want to. esp fics that compel me enough to be ~inspired by them are more often ones that are ~complete on their own merits? hmmmmm. do i have to write it or can i make someone else write it. uh. pass? this one's hard i'm sorry i got 5 pages into my bookmarks going "man i'm not sure i would particularly want to write a sequel or prequel to any of these" and i'm officially giving up

32. How do you feel about smut?

ahahaha. this is also sort of a hard question except for how it's really easy. i feel complicated about smut? let's go with complicated. i find smut (and to some extent sex scenes in general) really easy and enjoyable to write, and also i'm Catholic, and also i have all sorts of IssuesTM around sex, and also i've spent the past 3 years in rpf-adjacent fandoms. so....complicated. i feel complicated about smut.

(40 questions meme for fic writers)