#Metallideth

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So apparently, Megadeth's "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" started life as a rejected track for Metallica's 1988 album ...And Justice For All.

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5 Things I Never Get Tired of Writing

I was tagged in this game by the great @metallideth01. (Thank you!) Wanted to participate last week, but it was a stressful one. The question is:

List five things you never get tired of writing. It can be tropes, themes, characters, phrases, whatever brings you joy. Then tag five people!

I suspect some of my answers will not be all that unique:

Angst

I mean, come on. It's what I (and 90% of all fanfiction writers) live for! People wonder what gives us the urge to put these silly characters from silly kids' comedy cartoons through so much pain. The way I see it, it isn't a contradiction. They're put through so much angst in fanfiction because they don't have much in their show. You get really attached to these characters, not in spite of their comedy and innocence, but because of it. So you want to see them in more relatable, serious situations. You want to see them out of their element. So, you go read fanfiction. Eventually, you start writing fanfiction. Animaniacs in particular has a lot of buried threads of angst that hide just below the surface. They're very tempting to pluck at, and I will never be able to stop.

2. Fluff

But what's the point of angst if there aren't any happy moments to follow (or precede) it? I am very lucky to have a loving family of my own, but there's something so particularly satisfying about writing characters you love, well... loving. Loving the people they care about. It's another thing that may not always be explicit in those irreverent comedy shows I like to write about. Well, that one irreverent comedy show I like to write about, anyway.

3. First person/close perspectives

This one relates particularly to Animaniacs (as if the first two already didn't). I find it very interesting taking these wacky, silly characters, and breaking them open to explore what they're thinking on the inside. How they see the world. It reveals details you may not ever think about when seeing them as you normally do, in third person through a screen. There's a (fictional) real brain in there, powering all that comedy and silliness. Let's see it.

4. Grand adventures

This is something I actually haven't done much with Animaniacs yet, but I think it's possibly the type of story I'm best at writing. These are the ones where there's some big, usually overly complicated quest to solve that's always driving the plot forward. The characters work towards a final goal, there's twists and changing emotions along the way, it's great. You don't need to deal with any of that gross ambiguous realistic stuff like you do in the actually good and deep fanfics. You just set off and start writing.

5. "Why doesn't this already exist?" fics

What the heck does that mean? I like to write fics that fill in gaps in canon, or cover topics that you'd think would be obvious to write about for a certain fandom, but somehow haven't been done yet. Stuff that you could slot neatly into the real show's canon and not have anything changed, or even have it add more depth to what you're seeing in the source material, if you choose to accept it as your personal headcanon. Obviously, as the healthy Animaniacs fanatic I am, I have come to know the canon inside and out, so I find it very enjoyable to weave my fics around it, leaving little details/references in there for those who are able to notice them. I like to look at canon storylines and wonder, "what is the realistic conclusion to this after the episode ends?" or "what could have possibly led up to this?"

I'm super shy with tagging (and in general). Metallideth would be one, but otherwise I'll just do two (only respond if you want to :) ): @morbidmotive and @mx-mint323

There's so many talented writers out there, so if you want to participate in this, you totally should, tag or not.