#THE FREEDOM REIGN

[r3v0lver-0c3lot]

featuring dante from devil may cry series🔥🔥🔥

[cryptocism]

I 100% get it, I had started writing a script for a comic (developed off of old fanfiction that I revamped then revamped again in the DC universe) and immediately got Really Defensive because if I were to pitch it to DC and it got picked up that's just There now for Editorial and other writers to fuck with because they're a product of their own story and I feel would get turned into this certain flanderized (or worse since these characters are not White) over time. It hasn't gotten far/probably wouldn't have but I do think if I go forward it's gonna be indie route because I think once the character's story is through it needs to be left where it ended.

The defensiveness really blindsides you its wild!

tbh I think everybody who reads comics knows of at least one run that completely ruins a character, or a famously bad editorial decision or retcon that has negative consequences on canon for decades. The idea of that happening to your story or your characters is a genuine shot of anxiety that can really take the wind out of a writers sails.

I think about the Mark Waid interview where he talks about Flash: Fastest Man Alive and what they did to Bart's character, and how he openly said he'd rather Bart be dead than misunderstood/mishandled. Which is probably a lot of writers' sentiments about the characters' they created decades ago turning into something unrecognizable before their eyes.

But it's also an unavoidable reality of writing comics in an interconnected universe manned by corporate interests. It feels like if you want to commit to writing the characters you grew up loving or create new characters for that existing universe, there's some level of letting go that needs to be done. which is why i think despite not necessarily being as financially successful/stable or mainstream, the indie comics scene is still thriving with cool stories and amazing writers.

[gaytobymeres]

i think the point of a university-level education is a bit lost on some of my course mates...

[suffarustuffaru]

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What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

MY BAD it has taken me a little while to get to every fic writer question ive been asked pfft but i appreciate all of them and theyre really fun to answer :o and alright ok common things—character psychology is a big thing in all of my work :o aa every time i write a characters pov i try to do at least some research into their personality, backstory, etc etc bc my writing is almost always like?? character study type things?? i Really like delving deep into how characters think!!! :o so a lot of my works are like. you Will hear almost every thought in their head HAH. ive been told i have a very recognizable writing style widndnd but i do try to switch up internal dialogue at least a little bit depending on the pov character. i dont know how effective i am at that but i try HAH plus i think its fun trying to capture how someone thinks in the same way that youd try to capture how they speak in their dialogue. i think the most obvious example is probably my recent reinhard stuff—i tried to sound more formal with him? even with little kid reinhard i wrote his internal dialogue kind of formally because i figured that Might be able to create that bit of Dissonance that reinhard has as a character, you know? hes uncanny.

and uh because i focus on internal dialogue a lot, by the nature of things i kind of Have To slap the unreliable narrator tag on the vast majority of my fics HAH but unreliable narrators are fun and i love playing with them!! and i think its realistic in the sense that even a character thats very fair and just and honest may still have the wrong information at times or have emotion cloud their judgment or be a little unreliable for those reasons. that and i tend to pick the mentally fucked characters (which is pretty easy with the rezero cast HAH) whenever i write Very detailed internal dialogue so!!! unreliable narration and spirals into madness it is!!! i just really like exploring like. the humanity behind each character and all their nuances <3 and i Love having to squint at internal dialogue and add that up with a characters thoughts and actions and figure out who this person Actually Truly Is Like?? its like a puzzle :o !!

as for themes. i went into this a lot in another fic writer ask thingy but Definitely like. when characters change as a result of shit hitting their fan and/or their own choices and now theyre Different from the person they used to be. they came back wrong so now what are they going to do? how are the people around them going to treat them now? how will they treat the people around them? i just really like going into like. identity crisis… and um…. suffering that triggers massive self searching bc. the character changed in some way in order to survive through it physically and/or mentally. like seeing characters change for the worse and seeing them either try to crawl their way out or they. keep going down. it can be hopeful or very tragic!!! (bc i love hurt/comfort and tragedy a lot ajdnd) and complicated relationships are a huge favorite of mine to tackle. fascinating multi-layered stuff that i want to study under a microscope!!! i like when multiple contradictions exist within a dynamic or like. a character and their journey. the complexity feels very real to me and i find it intriguing :o

i also love queer themes but due to um. some of the toxicity in this fandom i do hesitate to do stuff with that in this fandom but i DO love queer themes its just not in most of my work atm but thatll change eventually 👍 ill at least slip in a little bit every chance i get 👍👍 (i have exactly one fic with queer themes atm wjdnd)

motifs/random imagery i use a lot also!!!! mostly bc i find them cool and fun but. yes theyre there for a reason. in my first pride otto fic i used second person pov and avoided using his name at points to emphasize that hes 1. being dehumanized and 2. hes dehumanizing himself too as a result. i uhh have also used star related things for subaru a lot bc Of Course. butterflies and moths for emisuba things…. economics themed titles for my pride otto multichap…. bugs for general pride if things…. comparing the knights uniform to bird wings in my reinhard and heinkel fic… i like to describe outfits in general too (pride otto vs main ottos outfits, also felix not wearing blue in the 2 seconds of screentime he has in my pride if fics atm wkdndn) etc etc :o

[biancabelairs]

pUnK wAs BoOkInG tHe SuMmEr WiTh tOnY 😡 is such a funny thing for people to get mad at, like it's not common knowledge everyone in aew is expected to come up with their own storylines or they get stuck in generic "i wrestle more good than you" feud #547

[deathfavor]

We're just a little late it's fine. pirate & siren tag drop for multiple muses. time to go tag the verse description posts-.

[moe-broey]

Gustav would probably bitch about Alfonse and Sharena trying to be retainers and that’s how you know it’s great and funny and I love them

Gustav rolling in his fucking grave for his eyes to snap open about it like

[miraclemaya]

i had this one setting of this infinite city in which humans barely manage to survive with all the weird eldritch monster and cracks in reality and i was gonna make a game with it but i felt like the setting didn't fit as much with the themes i wanted and i have now found out the solution to this and that is to make it cyberpunky and about fascism

[anachronistic-falsehood]

writing dreamstuck dialogue is so fun. ranboo leaves the group chat for two minutes to translate an alternian message and comes back to aimsey and tubbo singing mickey mouse clubhouse and tommy makes fun of him for not watching it as a kid. i do not know how this happened. the dialogue just runs away from u its like a dog without a leash shits runnin away and before u can grab the leash it's GONE

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Corium University

Author: C. Hallman, J.L. Beck

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, romance, fantasy, contemporary

Blurb: She came here for protection, but that’s the last thing she’s going to find. Welcome to Corium University, where the most dangerous criminals in the world send their offspring - assassins, mafia leaders, arms dealers, and art thieves; you name it, this college houses them. Here, nothing can touch them. Upon arriving, Quinton knew Aspen would be here. She was the daughter of his enemy, a snake in the grass like her father. He had no intention of sparring with her...that is, until she opened her pretty little mouth. One sentence and she became his next target, and a woman that he would do anything to see on her knees at his feet. If she thought the university was the only nightmare she would have to face, she was wrong. Quinton was the king, and this was his kingdom.

[queencvbra]

thinking about how there are so many normal teenage things Tory doesn’t understand because she’s been basically living unrestricted since she was 13, even more so after her mom’s sickness got worse and there was no way she could enforce any kind of parenting on Tory

[angelkwill]

Verily, verily

Heaven,the realm of truth—oneness;the space for rest,being. The invisibility and immortalityof power and authority. Earth,the realm of experience—duality;the place of action,doing. Where power and authoritymanifest in visibility and mortality. In the beginning… all that was made of dustwent back to dust, andall that was made of Onenesswent back to Oneness.So, too, in the end;eternal and…

[yoonyia]

I have said again and again that the United States of America has one of the worst propaganda programs I have ever seen

the worst part is that it works perfectly

[idealog]

I Shall Now Live in Peace and Harmony. If you continue to affront it, you are not welcome in my Realm, or around me or Mine, including My Peace and Harmony.

Thanks,

JESUS