#I need just a tag for the Nygaards in general

[xbeautifulmonsters]

@x-violentdelights

NEW GIRL ( 2011 - 2018 ) ↳ season 6 episode 9

[markcampbells]

writing process questions!

@malionnes tagged me in this meme that came to her by way of @the-blind-assassin-12 that has also made me realize nothing I do is ever consistent. Also doubling down on Cait having tagged @afterthenovels because I want to see her answers too and because I drop an old Sherlock fic of mine in here that gave me some real flashbacks to The Days of Yore.

1: What's your preferred time to write? -- I basically write whenever I have time/motivation, and that usually corresponds to (rarely, these days) afternoons after I get out of work or, more likely, my days off in the mornings. Since I work a 4 AM shift I’m typically up for several hours (usually about as much as six) before my family is, which if I have the motivation and inspiration can be a solid amount of time to work in.

2: Do you have some sort of ritual you do when you write? -- I write in Google Docs these days. Sometimes I need to have a tab open for whatever information I need to have on hand, but other than that I don’t think there’s anything I typically need to have in order to work. Usually the information is just something I don’t know much about that I’m trying to incorporate into a piece. Recently that’s been stuff like Yankees-related podcasts that Mark could be listening to, or various kinds of health-related information I’ve had to look up for my character Ryan who’s struggling significantly with his mental health.

3: What's your preferred place to write? At your desk or on your couch/bed? -- I don’t have a proper desk, so when I write I’m either on my living room couch or in bed. Quite honestly even when I have had a desk, I’ve far preferred being comfortable in bed. When my writing was more roleplay-based when I was younger, I used to do it sitting at a desktop computer in a chair and I didn’t mind it then, but as I’ve gotten older and more used to a laptop my tastes have shifted.

4: Do you listen to anything while writing? Music, different ambiance videos? Or do you need silence? -- I honestly don’t know what I prefer these days. When I was in college and generally writing fanfiction oneshots, I had the ability to just pop my headphones in and write to music for long stretches, and damn I miss those days. I do still have playlists I keep for inspiration purposes but I don’t use them for actual writing as much as I would like to. These days I’m more likely to work in silence or to throw on a YouTuber or Twitch stream in the background if I want mindless noise (for YouTubers I like SimplyNailogical and Safiya Nygaard; for Twitch streamers I either use friends of mine or whichever random gamers I’ve taken to). One memory I really liked was writing a long chunk of a spy ‘verse piece with just “Way Down We Go” by Kaleo on repeat, because it was a song with a repetitive rhythm that was easy to sink into and make it easy to write for that particular character. Another time I remember knocking out something in one go is this old fanfic of mine I did back in my Sherlock days. I was definitely listening to music and heck if I remember what it was now, but it helped me stay focused for sure. (That piece is almost ten years old god help me)

5: Do you need snacks while writing, or certain drinks? If so, what? -- Well, this is making me seriously consider if I can remember snacking while writing and I think the answer is no, but I do tend to have something to drink. I like lemon Snapple best, but other times it’s just water or whatever’s on hand. (I don’t drink alcohol nearly as much as I could, but I do currently have a bottle of Moscato and a bottle of... um, I actually don’t remember, in the fridge, and that I don’t remember the alcohol I bought myself should tell you how often I actually drink it. If I remembered to drink before writing depressing scenes everything would probably be so much easier. [Having checked before I post this, the other bottle is a rosé.])

6: Story planning 1: in a notebook first or in a doc? -- I haven’t done notebook planning since high school, thank the lord. Getting my own laptop pre-college was a massive gamechanger. I actually miss the days when I was able to write huge amounts by hand, because these days I’m so out of practice writing by hand that it hurts to do journaling or other things I used to do without thinking about it much. I used to write huge chunks of story by hand and then type them, and I honestly do not miss having to do that double work at all.

7: Story planning 2: for a longer story: possible place and character names first, or plot first? -- Place and characters first! I don’t think I could have a plot without having an idea of what the characters who are going to enact it are like first. I’m a very character and emotions driven person and I think for me it’s always that--what emotions do I want/need the characters to experience, and how do I traumatize them get them there?

8: Do you make inspiration boards? If so, would you share one of your current WIP (without giving away too much)? -- So I have two kinds, general aesthetic boards and then more character-specific boards where each couple of @malionnes‘ and mine is broken down by character and their specifics charted out (likes and aesthetics, wardrobes, reference pics, interior design of their homes/offices). I keep the more specific ones of ours private just because it gets a little overwhelming when a board is publicly available and people are constantly repinning things, but I have permission to share the public aesthetic boards: Mark and Eva / Hayden and Cordelia / Max and Simon / Sam and Molly. (Having two couples within the same family with the same initials is in no way a disaster that came of my naming all the men in a family with an extremely ill-advised S-naming scheme. I made dumb decisions as a teenager. Why do you ask.) I started the smaller, character-specific boards for the sake of narrowing things down further and poor Cait took on the monumental task of reorganizing the larger aesthetic boards, which I’m eternally grateful for. Something I like about the way they’re broken down is that it helps give a bit more insight into what’s somewhat unique to each couple. Mark and Eva’s relationship involves a lot of cooking and baking together, so they have a ton of food (and an entire section devoted to Baker, because we love ourselves a fictional dog we made up). Hayden and Cordelia are a sculptor and a pop-up book artist respectively so their board has a section for crafts. Max and Simon have a fairly large resources section because, um, due to my poor choices Simon ended up with an anxiety disorder and Max is a rare man who deals with migraines, so it helped to have a place to put the things I need for when I have to write them handling an episode. Sam and Molly’s aesthetics section is reflective of how Molly’s a photographer and they’d probably have a ton of pictures of them together just being a young couple and yes I’m emotional about my children.

9: How do you handle being interrupted? -- It’s a fact of life of living with family and I don’t mind it at all, though I do sometimes miss when I was in high school and college and had a bit more time and discipline to really get to work. (When I was in high school and college that entailed being an obscenely early bird. Now I’m a weird gremlin whose hours are just that liminal space between late night and early morning. Goddamn you, 4 AM shift.) 

10: How many drafts do you usually need? Or do you write it immediately and just edit little bits to fix it? -- The latter.  I’ve never been a full-draft-and-then-fix person because it just gets exhausting to do the same thing over and over. I just write and then fix as I go or, more disastrously, try to do different versions of a scene I’m unsure of in the same document by just rearranging bits of text, bolding things I’m probably going to get rid of but don’t want to totally delete yet, and having two versions of a scene separated by a few line breaks. 

I don’t want to tag anyone else to do this so they don’t feel an obligation, but should you want to steal, go ahead and tag me so I can see your answers!

[the-most-beautiful-broom]

thanks for the tag @blueshirtbell bell and for everyone who’s tagged me in a couple GTKY posts over the last week! there’s one that’s going around that i actually did a couple months ago soooo i’m just tagging y’all in this one instead (ditto what isla said about this being v long and thus under the cut) ♥ ♥

last (1-5)

drink - earl grey tea

phone call - my best friend (who got engaged! she called to talk about it haha)

text msg - 'okay good because if you went to the met gala and just didn’t tell me about it, we were gonna have some issues’

song you listened to - 'cassandra’ by abba

time you cried - lol in church today; people were talking about mothers and telling their stories and how great their moms were/are and i was just verklempt

ever..? (6-11)

dated someone twice - as in, broke up and then went back to someone/they’ve come back to me? no

kissed someone and regretted it - no

been cheated on - no

lost someone special - yeah

been depressed - no

gotten drunk/thrown up - lol no

fav colors (12-14)

gray, green, blush

in the last yr have you.. (15-21)

made new friends/mutuals - yes! love y’all ♥

fallen out of love - i don’t think i’ve properly been in love

laughed until you cried - yeppp

found out someone was talking about you - yes? not to like, flip my hair or something, but like i’m tall and loud and like people so it just comes with the territory

met someone who changed you - i think everyone you meet changes you

found out who your friends are - oh goodness, yeah

kissed someone on your FB friends’ list - lol not on the current friends’ list

general (22-51)

how many of your FB friends do you know irl - like 97%

do you have any pets - not in new york :( but my parents have 5 dogs, and my sister has 1

do you want to change your name - i go by like forty different nicknames, so not really. i will give an alias at restaurants though, or to creepy guys

what did you do for your prev. birthday - went up to boston to see my best friend from 6th grade

what time did you wake up today - 8ish

what were you doing @ midnight last night - fam ya girl was asleep

what is something you can’t wait for - to be back on the pacific coast

what’re you listening to atm - my the 101 at night playlist

have you ever talked to a person named Tom - yeah i have a cousin named Thomas who we call Tom every now and then

something that’s getting on your nerves - my neighbor doesn’t understand how thin the walls are and has been cranking the base on her slow jazz for the last five (5) days

most visited site - tumblr, ao3, and pinterest

hair color - dark brown (kinda really about the gray trend though?? someone talk me down)

long/short hair - growing out a pixie, so v short haha

do you have a crush on someone - an unrequited insta crush...haven’t been impressed by most anybody i’ve met recently

what do you like about yourself - my ambition

want any piercings - not my thing

blood type - A

nicknames - ooookay so we have chris, chrisy, stina, stiona, linds, lindsay, clinz, mama tina and mama duck

relationship status - single

zodiac - libra

pronoun(s) - she/her

fav tv/on-air shows - the 100, stranger things, queen of the south,

tattoos - also not my thing

rightie or leftie - rightie

ever had surgery? - yeah

piercings - nope

sports - so i played tennis and water polo and did synchronized swimming and swam but now i don’t really work out like ever BUT i like to watch college football and hockey and i like the aesthetics of baseball but not the actual sport?

trainers - um...like sneakers? or like do i have a PT? because yes i love converse and lolz NO the last thing i need is someone watching me work out

more general (52-58)

eating - i had chipotle for dinner

drinking - tea or a latte or hot water or a shirley temple if i’m out with friends

i’m about to watch - safia nygaard’s latest video

waiting for - PIRATE MECHANIC OH MY GOD I WILL BUILD THIS SHIP FROM SCRAP IF I HAVE TO OKAY

want - to be content and proud

get married - i hope so, but i don’t need so

career - solution architect

which is better (59-65)

hugs/kisses - yes to all

lips/eyes - eyes

shorter/taller - taller

older/younger - older

nice arms/ stomach - arms

hookup/relationship - relationship

troublemaker/hesitant - troublemaker (i can pace you, i don’t want to pull you)

have you ever (66-75)

kissed a stranger - no

drank hard liquor - no

lost glasses - yep

turned someone down - yeah

sex on first date - not for me, but hey live your life fam

broken a heart - not intentionally

had your heart broken - yeah

been arrested - lol have you seen my answers to half of these?? of course not

cried when someone died - yes

fallen for a friend - that’s the dream

do you believe in.. (76-81)

yourself - i believe in who i will be

miracles - yes

love at first sight - no

santa claus - never did

kiss on a first date - sure

angels - yes

other (82-85)

best friend’s name - nikki, caroline, amber

eye color - hazel (green/brown)

fav movie - miracle, sandlot, philadelphia story, edge of tomorrow

fav actor- katherine hepburn

god i feel like a square. it was fun though haha so if any of y’all see this and want to do it, please do! and tag me if you do it! i’m specifically tagging @nightbleeder @dylanobrienisbatman @thehundredtimesobsessed @granger--danger @bb-8

[grumpy-limsan-customs-cat]

Munday Meme

(If you’re not comfortable doing this then dw. Copy and paste, and be sure to add in your own answers and tag some friends!)

general info:

♡ preferred name: I guess Otte or Milo, Ooht or Mloo, or whichever alt the person knows me by! Being called by my real name weirds me out a little. ♡ age: 30 ♡ pronouns: She/Her ♡ sexuality: Bisexual ♡ height: 5′8.5″ ♡ hair colour: Brown, just...medium brown? ♡ relationship status: Happily married!

favourite things:

♡ favourite colour: Red ♡ favourite song: Ugh my favourites change with the seasons, but at the moment  AKB48 - UZA ♡ favourite band / artist: I don’t really keep favourites when it comes to music etc. ♡ favourite youtubers: Simply Nailogical and Safiya Nygaard come to mind. ♡ favourite food: Put some cheese on it and I’m game. But mostly...Pizza. ♡ favourite family member: Don’t make me choose. ♡ favourite bird: Those Great Tits. ♡ favourite animal: Dogs are high on the list. ♡ favourite celebrity: I don’t really follow celebrities. ♡ favourite time of day: Evening ♡ favourite holiday(s): One where I don’t need to go and visit family, so...maybe Easter or Valentines! ♡ favourite season: Autumn ♡ favourite fruit: Apples ♡ favourite flower: Maybe coltsfoot, tough little guys that are first to bloom around here in spring. ♡ favourite emoji(s):  🍆 ♡ favourite app: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is most used at the moment! ♡ favourite hobby: ...drawing? ♡ favourite country: Err, Finland, I guess? ♡ favourite weather: Cloudy but not rainy, when it’s nice and slightly cool. I like it when it’s not too hot but not too cold! ♡ favourite element: Earth ♡ favourite language: English since it is mostly understood, but I could also be a weeb and say japanese...

name of:

♡ name of your crush: No crushes here, not anymore! ♡ name of your pet(s): No pets either, unfortunately. ♡ name(s) of your best friend(s): The Kroon(tm), Tammy and Chris.

this or that?

♡ introvert or extrovert: Introvert all the way ♡ nerdy or sassy: Nerdy ♡ tall or short: Tall? ♡ looks or personality: Personality ♡ homesick or traveler: Homesick ♡ musician or artist: Artist ♡ woods or city: City ♡ tv or youtube: Youtube ♡ phone or computer: Computer ♡ family or money: Family ♡ books or movies: Movies ♡ food or sleep: ...BOTH

Tagged by: @meandering-mind I GUESS

Tagging: Whoever wants to do this!

[phanfeed-ao3]

Oneshots, Drabbles, etc.

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2xHqGh2

by djhxsrh

I'm not good at summaries. This is basically just a collection of things that I write when I'm bored, need to waste time for whatever reason, or procrastinating.

Words: 104, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Pentatonix, Twenty One Pilots, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, dan and phil

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

Characters: Dan Howell, Phil Lester, Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstie Maldonado, Avi Kaplan, Kevin Olusola, Tyler Joseph, Josh Dun, Jenna Black, Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Dallon Weekes, Spencer Smith, Jon Walker, Sarah Orzechowski, Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Mikey Way, Ray Toro, Ashley Frangipane | Halsey, Melanie Martinez, Troye Sivan, Gabbie Hanna, Frank Gioia, Tyler Oakley, Ben J. Pierce, Dodie Clark, That Poppy | Poppy, Colleen Ballinger Evans, Shane Dawson, Miles McKenna, Lilly Singh, Cristine Rotenberg | SimplyNailogical, Thomas Sanders (Video Blogging RPF), Jon Cozart, Safiya Nygaard

Relationships: Mitch Grassi/Scott Hoying, Dan Howell/Phil Lester, Ryan Ross/Brendon Urie, Josh Dun/Tyler Joseph, Patrick Stump/Joe Trohman, Frank Iero/Gerard Way, Scott Hoying/Dallon Weekes, Mitch Grassi/Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump/Phil Lester, Patrick Stump/Ray Toro, Josh Dun/Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying/Tyler Joseph, Brendon Urie/Dallon Weekes, Dan Howell/Scott Hoying, Phil Lester/Mitch Grassi, Kirstie Maldonado/Tyler Joseph, Jenna Black/Sarah Orzechowski/Kirstie Maldonado, Spencer Smith/Kirstie Maldonado, Ashley Frangipane | Halsey/Melanie Martinez, Gabbie Hanna/Josh Dun, Gabbie Hanna/Brendon Urie, Troye Sivan/Scott Hoying, Tyler Oakley/Mitch Grassi, Frank Gioia/Pete Wentz/Brendon Urie, Tyler Oakley/Dan Howell/Phil Lester, Gabbie Hanna/Josh Dun/Brendon Urie, Kirstie Maldonado/Gabbie Hanna, Ryan Ross/Spencer Smith, Dan Howell/Sarah Orzechowski, Jenna Black/Phil Lester, Mikey Way/Pete Wentz, Shane Dawson/Gabbie Hanna, Troye Sivan/Miles McKenna, Colleen Ballinger Evans & Lilly Singh, Scott Hoying/Tyler Oakley, Dan Howell/Pete Wentz, Jon Walker/Avi Kaplan, Andy Hurley/Joe Trohman, Scott Hoying/Kevin Olusola, Dodie Clark/Patrick Stump/Pete Wentz, Ben J. Pierce/Troye Sivan, Melanie Martinez/That Poppy | Poppy, Jon Cozart/Thomas Sanders, Safiya Nygaard/Cristine Rotenberg | Simply Nailogical

Additional Tags: I'll probably keep updating characters and relationships as time goes on, I'm new to AO3, Most of these are crack ships

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2xHqGh2