#I can describe the scenes later

[adeptune01]

Marauders TV Show Pitch

First of all, I don't understand why they are releasing a new Harry Potter show to HBO. I don't understand why this will exist, why people want it to exist, and why they did it this way. Second of all, if JK Rowling has anything to do with it, I will not support it or watch it.

Now that that's out of the way, this is what I would do instead.

Create a TV show following the Marauders (not necessarily a recreation of ATYD).

It would be so easy.

Each character already has their own tragic backstory:

James was raised in a wealthy home with loving parents, but is worried about living up to his family's expectations.

Sirius was also born into wealth, but into a family who value tradition and dignity above all else. He is the literal "black sheep" of the family and has to break away from their deeply ingrained bigotry.

Remus is an orphan, bitten by a werewolf when he was a child and raised in an accommodating but spartan muggle orphanage.

Peter has always been average, falling just short of his exceptional friends so he turns to darker powers, hoping to succeed where his friends dare not tread.

Besides the characters, there's also ready-made romance. James and Lily- a classic enemies to lovers tale that's already canon. And, obviously, Remus and Sirius- a beautiful friends to lovers relationship.

The show starts as the group enters year four with a lighter tone and then, as they get older and the war starts to seep into life at Hogwarts, there's a shift to a darker one- and once they graduate and join the Order of the Phoenix it gets downright tragic.

However, in the first few seasons it could do what Stranger Things did and lean into the aesthetic of the decade- the 70s. Using funky clothes, good music, and a golden filter over everything, it could build a solid vibe and attract an audience.

I even have a few episodes planned out.

Pilot: The Marauders meet to discuss their summers in a compartment of the Hogwarts Express on the way back to school. The episode features their tales boasting of summer fun juxtaposed with flashbacks showing what really happened.

Ten-Point Tosser: James becomes captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, but his friends fall out of his sight as his vision narrows to winning the upcoming match against Slytherin.

Box Clever: As of late, the head-boy is a particular pest so the Marauders decide to take action. It's revealed at the end of the episode that the head-boy's father recently died in the fight against Voldemort.

Hop, Skip, and a Skive: Sirius skives off class one too many times and the rest of the Marauders are left to cover for him. Features increasingly ridiculous lies told to Professor Mcgonagall and her attempts to catch them in the act.

Annual Brilliance: It's time for the semi-official prank of the year, but the Marauders have all landed themselves in separate detentions. Throughout the episode they work under the professor's noses to pull off their biggest prank yet.

There's more I haven't mentioned (even a few full scenes planned out) but I think I've proved my point. That perfect mix of comedy, drama, and romance. The world deserves a marauders show.

[extravagav]

AND WE JUST DONT TALK ABOUT THIS?!?!?!!????

[lunarharp]

into the deep end - 30k T orufrey fic, focusing on memory trauma, disability, and romance.

the sweet oblivion of the victim, the poisoned freedom of the other.

for one moment - it had felt like two parts returned - the needed reunion of two disparate halves. no more secrets, no more pain.

the moment you get to give back what you never wanted to take. that moment, under the night-blooming flowers, when they had both let out the same single broken sigh of relief.

but they were never whole to begin with, were they?

qifrey swore he wouldn't say 'sorry' to this man any more if he could help it - sorry is cheap now. he didn't want to be in a position ever again where you only have 'sorry' left. so he just looks down into the threads of his blanket, strains his eye until it hurts, feeling his insides - his throat, heart and head - burn with pain. he expects more, but olly says nothing.

olly says nothing.

[qiu-yan]

in MDZS the novel, the innkeeper in Yunping mentions that people are too scared to go petition Yunmeng Jiang for help because someone once walked in on Sect Leader Jiang whipping a guy in the main hall, supposedly because the guy was a demonic cultivator.

[aphelea]

first time we see alvar he chugs a glass of wine in a sip, talks about his 3 girlfriends and proceeds to call known facts a hoax. truly what a guy

[skunkes]

how did u feel about the 2nd Terrifier movie? i saw it on a first date so it wasn’t the best experience… but revisiting it I can enjoy it more. good sfx

So the first one is 1h30m i believe, and I know when I watched it and saw I was 40 minutes in i was like wow its been that long and it feels like not much has happened huh. But then it did what it did and it ended.

For the second one I was like oh its been 40 minutes. Hopefully it starts kicking off like the first one. And then after what felt like an hour only 10 more minutes had passed LOL and the entire rest of the movie felt dis way

I like that this one had more of a semblance of a plot... The clown cafe song is stuck in my head... Sfx is good but hm im not sure how to describe this....im not one of those "omg this is just a legal snuff film u guys are evil for watching this" people nor am i a "ermm if u cant handle this ur a prude and a little baby actually" person but more somewhere in between or outside. I love movie gore, when i was younger I watched Saw SOLELY for the traps, i didnt even know the plot until more recently LMAO

but obviously That One Scene...idk! I dont think it was too much in the "prude" way nor was i clapping and cheering but it did evoke a "ok come on wrap it up" feeling from me...like these faces combined...does dis make sense. Not walking-out-of-the-theater disgust and revulsion OR enjoyment/glee but just mostly straight faced this ⬇️

The first movie has a naked woman being split in half from coochie down so its definitely not the gore itself here that evoked this emotion ykwim

[mercless]

🗡 mad cowboy disease....

[gothsuguru]

getting an iced pumpkin chai in the morning and then my personal goal is to spend the whole day writing and i hope i can come back to this post tomorrow and rb w how much progress i’ve made!!!

[keeps-ache]

hm hm hm !!

[devondespresso]

I voted for stoncy having a chat but please tag me in any and everything!

sorry this took so long, i totally forgot i worked all weekend lol. so far yours was the only ask for the wip game but im considering giving little snippets for each and tagging the people who said they voted for that (and if i do ill absolutely tag you!! <3) for stoncys little chat ive got my staright-from-brain, 0 editing word mush down in a play by play of events. ive taken out bits that are too revealing or just basic reminders of character motivations to present to you the most basic version in my process (wahoo!)

Nancy takes a deep breath and is like "we need to talk about.. A lot." And Steve nods. Both have a sec to try and think of how they want to bring their different confrontations up. Steve opens his mouth to talk but fails but Nancy notices and switches to encouraging him to say what he wants.

he doesn't really know where to start and doesn't want to start with an accusation or big vulnerability so hes like ".. I want to talk about what happened in the bathroom at tina’s party, our fight." And shes like. "Okay lets start there then (thinking it'll reveal if it was a breakup or not). I know i said things while i was drunk and i promise i actually don't remember." And hes like "no no i didn't think you were lying about that." And shes like "okay..." and doing a face thing to prompt what he did think. And he struggles a bit before saying "well you uh you were trying to get punch off your shirt and was getting frustrated because it wasn't working. And then you started say bullshit a lot, just like ‘its bullshit’ over and over. And then uh.. You said it was me, that was bullshit. And that whole.. Thing, where i don't care that we.. with barb. and we’re just pretending like we’re in love, which (shakes his head no). And then i asked if you loved me and.. (vauge-ass hand gesture) ‘its bullshit’ so.. So i left. and im pretty sure Jonathan took you home."

[unproduciblesmackdown]

i'm the first to admit i'm doing a bad job of not liveblogging, but i gotta be nogblogging

[starbuck]

“i can’t believe i’m doing bird research for this breaking bad fic” says man who decided to include a bird in said fic in the first place

[nervousunknownfox]

I haven't been able to write anything for 3 months now. I just had an idea for a fanfiction, and of course it must have occurred to me in the middle of the night.

Why is my brain like this...

[ontologic-catgirl]

4 Gods of the Undersea

Each lesson can only be used to create certain effects. The types of these effects correspond with the 4 gods of the Undersea. For instance; Lesson of Rivalry (4) After traveling to the Dhingy Islands of Iskander, you thought yourself fortunate enough to find friendly faces. Unfortunately friendly faces do not always equate to friendly hands your map stolen and you ship cut free without supplies this is the lesson you learnt. Blade 2 Wine 2 When choosing to roll lesson of rivalry each success on the dice can be put towards a beneficial effect in line with the gods listed up to the cap listed next to the gods name. So if we where to roll 3 successes we could put 2 into Blade and 1 into Wine, or vice versa. Perhaps the play character finds themselves bargaining engaged in debating pirate monks on why it would be un-theological to board her ship. Using one of her successes she invokes wine to convince the monks she knows the location of hidden scriptures and can reveal it to them marking off 1 use of Wine. The 4 Gods of the Undersea are Flame Restless and ever changing. Invoke Flame to change the situation, do something reckless, sacrifice things to gain advantage, power through. Silver Serene and cold. Invoke Silver to create calm, find steady footing on roiling sea, talk down a vengeful sailor, heal wounds. Blade Sharp and strong. Invoke Blade to define the world, cut through a orators arguments, break open doors, declare your true self in an impassioned speech. Wine Tempting and corrupting. Invoke wine to tempt other, know forbidden knowledge, engage in unwise acts. Notably there is some amount of overlap. If I found myself in a town riot and wished to spend a success to find a moment of peace to engage my rival in some witty banter and a one on one duel. I have some options. I could invoke Silver to declare that the chaos of the riot funnels away in a stampede leaving me and my rival in the strangely calm wreckage. Or I could invoke Wine to climb up on a nearby rain slicked roof and have my rival see this and against all common sense go after me. In either case the chosen god should influence the focus of the action even if the end result is the same!

[mariocki]

Susannah: Yes. Yes, he did risk himself. We all did. A lot of it... OK, a bit half-assed but at least... some of it will stick! You have to try. It's not going to work any more, running for the same old burrows... we're rafting off into space - God! Frank sees it. He said to me one day, 'Suse... you know what's going to do for us all? Not the failure of intellect, moral, muscle - but the failure of imagination! They're all too busy with their snouts in the trough to smell the fire.'

Crystal: Yeah, he says some really daft things.

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Pam Gems, Loving Women (1984)

[shrekshugebadussy]

so there’s this story that i had started to kinda put together back in my Episode days.. it wasn’t super thought out and was just kinda me trying to play around with getting used to the platform. but then i kinda started doing research for the story (zombie apocalypse centric) to make things more realistic & and then i kept imagining scenarios, and now i have notes upon notes & so many various small scenes for this story that i never actually planned to write 😭 and last night i wrote almost 5k words for a scenario i thought of… which is… a lot considering all this past year i’ve written 0 words towards a story 💀 so uh idk what that was about. but now im ready to kinda write some more so idfk