#40 writer questions meme

[liesmyth]

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

[exhuastedpigeon]

8 & 38 🩵

Hi Tanis <3

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

Okay this is HARD because dialogue is one of my favourite things to write. This is from loves a game, wanna play, my Buddie Love Island AU. I just love writing Eddie being a sappy romantic and I got to write a lot of that in that fic.

“You got to give a big romantic speech tonight and I didn’t get to,” Eddie said, handing Buck a glass of wine. “But I wanted you to hear it, because I practiced in the shower this morning and everything.” “Is it going to make me cry?” “I’ve seen you cry at videos of kittens cleaning each other, so it might,” Eddie said with a shrug. “I’m more of an action kind of guy though so maybe it won’t be very good.” “Now you’re just sandbagging,” Buck said fondly. "Go on then." “When I met you I had been drowning for a really long time, so long that I didn’t actually remember what it felt like to be on solid ground,” Eddie started and then had to pause because he got choked up. “And then you came into my life like a bratty tornado and turned my entire world right side up.” “You saw that I was drowning and instead of doing what other people had done before and tried to tell me different ways I could have avoided drowning, you just - you threw me a life raft and helped me save myself,” Eddie let the tears fall. “You’re always choosing me and I need you to know that I choose you too. Easiest decision of my life.” “Eddie,” Buck said and then he was kissing him. It was a little salty since both of them were crying, but Eddie could not have cared less. He was here in paradise with the man he was so fucking in love with and they were finally, finally together. 

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

This happened just this week - someone left a comment on loves a game, wanna play that was detailed notes they took as they read it and it was so long they had to break it into two comments. It made me cry and was just so lovely and kind.

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[redjaybathood]

37 Talk about your current wips.

ohhh thank you for this question! There're so many of them I'm gonna talk only about the ones I opened the file for at least in 2023.

the jaytim thing, which, is actually going to be a story about jason forgoing revenge and murder, and still tormenting tim.

jaytalia, which - let's just say, she didn't show up at that hotel room to congratulate jason on killing the joker. she has her own life! and she's in trouble. it's gonna be a road trip fic.

hey, judas - actually changed my mind on the ending! but i don't know which ending is better, if jason becomes what bruce saw in him, or if he raises above it. while first will be a moral failing, and a self-fulfilling prophecy, Bruce creating a monster when he thinks he's fighting them, but Jason personally will be free and happier. and the second will only mean bad things for him. for literally no fault of his own. and I'm like. very much on the fence.

fake marriage for real - this is a story with my favorite brujay plot bunny. Bruce suspects Jason is evil. Jason wants to con and possibly murder Bruce - or is he? This fic kinda reminds me both of A Renaissance Man (more in the drafts than published; which, hey, is silly, so I am gonna go and update it) and This Should (not) Be A Love Story (I don't get why people like it better than my other stuff that I personally like better, like the next on the list).

Myth You Have To Believe - you know, the fem!Jason carrying a possible demon child. Or possibly, her father's. Which! Is a horror in any case!!!

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[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)

[c-goldthorn]

hello my most favourite writer :cuteeyes: i'm here to pester you for the 40 questions meme >:)

3, 4, 12, 15, 19, 20, 30 plsss

– sam :smilecat:

(question list) tee hee hi my most favourite tumblr friend <3

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

absolutely: hs au/underage is absolutely not for me and i will never write that.

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

umm 6 like actively thinking about them and have at least 4 more on the list of wips. toggling between hmbtr and benny cross pool table rn. obvi not including any extra secret aus from the disc

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

mota eps 2 and 4 really get my brain going :)

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

sugar coated. or actually baby my tongue goes numb. for no reason at all haha nope just a random answer

19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?

callum turner u beautiful beautiful man

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

to do list empty, house clean, hot tea and a plate of biscuits nearby, rainy outside (this never fully happens lol)

30. Do you accept prompts?

yes!! i don’t have a ton of prompt lists rbed rn (if u find a cool list pls send me) but ask box is always open and i’m always open to prompts, from a list or self made :) wanna work on writing short n sweet requests so if anyone has any ideas hit me up :)

[exhuastedpigeon]

Han!!! 4, 8, and 16 for the fic writers ask game pls 🥰

Hi Emily!!!

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

I'm nurturing a few! I think the one I'm most excited about is a called What's the Deal, Hotshot! It's canon divergent in that I started it before the season started and it's different from what's actually happening in s8, but it's Bobby on set dealing with all the hollywood nonsense and also dealing with the 118 showing up at his apartment like they did in s2 when he was suspended asking for advice. I'm so excited about it. It's my first Bobby POV, Bobby focused fic and I'm very ready to write some spicy Bathena.

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

16. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be? I want to say Buddie, but I think the real answer would probably be Sterek since I started writing them in I think 2014 and I don't wrote them often now, but I do still write them! I think if you asked me this in a few years the answer would be Buddie, assuming I'm still writing them :)

40 Questions — Meme for Fic Writers

[redjaybathood]

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Thank you for this question! Did make me think....

In my typical fic, either Joker dies, or Jason. Just kidding - although it does take up a chunk of my stories.

No, in a typical me fic there's low-key angst and if there's humor, it's going to be of "haha oof" variety. Common themes are family, trauma, trauma inflicted by family; length 1-2K. Overused tropes galore: time travel, amnesia. Open ending or a happy end.

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[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.

[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.