#TSG is their baby accept it or move on

[migleefulmoments]

If a champagne cocktail called Boob Soup doesn't evoke a chuckle, well then, I can think of other bars that might be more up your alley

Darren Criss, Los Angeles Confidential 11/1/18

[zeppelin-and-unicorns]

can u tell us a little bit about the kids' love life?

I am not going to lie, I was kind of waiting for this question lol

(if you don't want any spoilers from the TSG sequel pls block the spoiler tag).

Here's the thing, Layla's love life is going to be a big part of the TSG sequel storyline, like, big, guys.

Hyde's a little bit jealous of his baby girl, but he's not stupid, I mean, Layla's gorgeous, he knew she would end up dating eventually, and he was mentally preparing himself for that.

But Hyde does not like Layla's first relationship, in fact, he kind of hates it.

Because Layla is dating no one other than Michael Kelso Jr. (or Mikey), and the boy is very, very similar to his father.

Hyde's not going to approve of their relationship at first, which will cause a big argument between him and Kelso. Kelso will be very bothered at Hyde thinking that his son is not good enough for his daughter, especially considering how he literally saw the boy growing up and he knows that he has a good heart, and in the midst of the argument, Kelso will bring up Hyde's past mistakes, and Layla, who was eavesdropping with Mikey, will be absolutely crushed.

Here's the thing: Layla and Hyde are very close, their father/daughter relationship is truly a beautiful thing, we can see how close they are in chapters 2 and 3 of TSG, and she always thought of her father as her hero.

She's a big romantic at heart, and she admired her parents' relationship a lot. She's literally always asking them questions about their relationship, like how they met, when they fell in love, what's the most romantic gesture her father had ever done, what made them realize they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together, etc.

And Jackie and Hyde didn't tell her the ugly parts of their relationship, because they knew it would break her heart.

Layla has put her father on a pedestal, and learning about his past mistakes will literally rock her world. She'll question her father's love for her mother, she'll question his character and integrity, and she'll even question her mother's values and self-respect, because how could've she forgiven him after what he'd done?

It's going to be a little dramatic, probably one of the most dramatic storylines from the entire series.

Things are going to be okay in the end though, Hyde will learn how to accept Layla and Mikey's relationship, and Layla will regain her respect for her father.

Layla and Mikey are going to date during high school, but they'll break up before going to college because of the distance. Layla's really smart, so she gets a scholarship to study English at Yale, and Mikey goes to UW to get a business major (because he wants to help his father out with his new business).

They'll reconnect when they're older and begin their relationship again. At this point, she's already a published author, so she moves back to Point Place to be with him and they end up together.

Dylan, much like Hyde in his teen years, is not the type of guy who gets in relationships. He has flings, and that's it. Until he goes to college.

He meets someone at college and falls in love, they date few a few years, until she cheats on him and breaks his heart (Jackie's completely outraged by that).

He swears to himself that he's never, ever getting into another relationship again, until he moves to Milwaukee to work and ends up falling in love with a special girl.

Gracie comes out while she's still in high school, but she only gets her first real girlfriend in college too.

Katie (Gracie's best friend and Laurie and Fez's younger daughter) starts dating Aaron (Kelso's youngest) in high school, but I'm not sure whether they're going to last or not, I still have to decide.

I have not come up with other relationships for the other kids, but I might someday. It all depends on what my crazy mind comes up with, lol.

[tsgjacksonmississippi]

Q&A || Getting To Know Our Favorite Photographer

We know this photographer girl around town who we particularly love because, not only does she take gorgeous photographs, but she is down to earth, lively, creative, and funny. Not just funny... but HILARIOUS! 

We love us some Karla of Pound Photography and know you will love her too. Let’s get going with a Q&A so you can find out more about how she got started, what she loves about photography, and her favorite thing to do with her 8-year-old daughter Daisy! 

TSG: Tell us a little about you!

Karla: I was born in north Alabama but grew up in Jackson and went to First Pres and Prep. My dad was a church planter for First Presbyterian of Jackson and mom was a retired school teacher. I have one younger sister. 

I loved art / photography at Prep but had to stop taking it after ninth grade because of sports. I went to Ole miss and graduated in English / Exercise Physiology. I took all the photography classes that Ole Miss had to offer but they only had two. :) I was in grad school for exercise physiology when I moved back to Jackson.

TSG: How long have you been a photographer? Tell us how you got started. 

I was in grad school in Exercise Physiology in Florida when I moved back to Jackson, but had the summer until my job in cardiac rehab started. My dad gave me my first camera, one of his old cameras, and I loved taking photographs but never thought of it has a career. It was very uncool at that time and mostly male dominated. I randomly called two photographers in the phone book who I thought had great work and asked if I could meet with them to learn more about photography and dark room. The "Master" Chris Grillis asked me to work for him for the summer and when it came time to go to my real job, he offered me a job full time. Much to the surprise of my family and myself, I accepted. I learned so much about photography, people and business. Learning on film and medium format cameras was so stressful and hard compared to digital. 

I was blessed to have many friends ask me to photograph their weddings and families that in 1999 I started Karla Pound Photography! I had a cousin that was a photographer in San Diego and a good friend that was one in NYC. I spent lots of time photographing away from Mississippi and realized that I wanted to bring something different back to Mississippi weddings that I had not seen here. I combined formal portrait as well as a photojournalist style which was not really here at the time. As I type this I realiz it has been 20 years!! Every year I would tell myself if I do not stay booked I can go back to my "real job!” Needless to say, I have stayed busy.

TSG:  What is your favorite type of event/subject to photograph?

Karla: I love travel photography! Also love photographing weddings and families. Photographing styled magazine shoots or editorials are so much fun. I love photographing the Scout Guide! I really love meeting new business owners! I’ve photographed the covers for Mississippi Christian Living for years and have done contract work for many magazines throughout the years.

I will say photographing a year old baby is another of my favorites!

TSG: What keeps you inspired as a photographer?

Karla: Traveling keeps me inspired. I constantly see the world as many framed images. I can’t turn it off! I’m also inspired by fellow photographers whose work I admire.

TSG: What’s your favorite thing about being in your industry? What keeps you going?

Karla: I love working with a bride who is anxious about her wedding photography and showing her how painless and fun it can be! I love when they see how beautiful they truly are on their day.  

I truly work as hard as I do so I can play hard also! I love to be outside and spend time with my husband and 8 year old daughter, Daisy. I really despise a schedule and love that my job allows me to never have the same day twice.

TSG: How did you and Caroline connect and start working together for TSG photo shoots?

Karla: I met Caroline when I was photographing a wedding she was coordinating. First thing that struck me about her was how hard she worked and she had such a design eye.  I immediately loved her energy and I felt like I had known her for years. She can go as hard as she can but also laugh so much! I so admire what she has done with the Scout Guide in Jackson.

TSG: What else do we need to know about Karla?! :) 

Karla: I am already bored with myself. I am not sure what else? I love traveling, outdoors, watching Barefoot Contessa with my daughter, fishing at our farm, paddle boarding and dinner with friends. 

TSG: Thank you Karla! Now we love you even more, as if we didn’t love you enough alraedy! ;) 

[theboykingofhell]

would you by any chance be up to just answer all of them rn

sjdnflskjdsnfdgsdfg this is gonna kill me and i’m so excited

READ MORE FOR ONCE to spare yalls dashboards

and i took out the ones i answered already tbh OK LET’S GO

1 : What age-group do you write?

YA!!!! i have always always wanted to write for teens. since i’ve gotten older, i do also wanna write for young adults but definitely like anything between 13-25 is the people i rly dedicate my stories to

2 : What genre do you write?

again, the closest thing i’d subscribe to genre-wise is YA... i get bored only doing the same thing over and over, but atm i have the most scifis (the most being two) so i guess that! i do fucking LOVE horror and realistic fiction tho

3 : Do you outline according to big ideas or small details?

how small are we talking... i do rly obsessively outline tho, i get the main big plot points down and then i like to know what those lil details in between are.. so...

5 : Do you write better with or without deadlines?

DON’T GIVE ME A DEADLINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..................

like, sure, i’ll DO it, but will i LIKE IT.. NAH... PROBABLY NOT... i did nanowrimo once, it was a great experience but was the final product good? nah... so... nnnnnah

6 : What would be the biggest compliment you could hope to receive on your current WIP?

GOSH I DONT KNOW.... JUST... ASKING FOR MORE, I GUESS??????? actually the biggest compliment is people building on my ideas or asking me questions about it tbh, anything that shows how engaged they rly got is NICE... i also do rly like when people compliment my prose tho kfgsdfgs

7 : How long is your current WIP?

tsg is 9449 words as of rn! i am far too lazy to open up the other documents and check but they are FAR shorter! 

10 : Do you brain-storm story ideas alone or with others?

bothhhhh... i do have way more fun with other people though, and i think other people help more cuz they can make connections and ask questions i wouldn’t think of. most importantly, if there are plot holes, maybe they’ll find them for me.. or maybe even solve them!!! eee the best

11 : Do you base your characters off of real people?

y e s yes yes i do i have so many... like, there’s a cara in every story, there’s a maeve and britt in every story, if i know you for long enough, you’ll def appear SOMEwhere.

12 : Is your writing space clean or cluttered?

what is this ‘clean’ you speak of

13 : Do you write character-driven or plot-driven stories?

def characters, man, i wouldn’t even write a plot if you’d let me... i literally have so many stories where the plot IS just the characters kind of just. living. yes. so good

14 : Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?

if i DID i forgot it

15 : If you transport your original characters into another author’s world, which world would you choose?

imma be honest, if i had to pick any author in the world it would be britt @mmementommori‘s verse. i absolutely fucking ADORE everything that went into that story, the verse is fascinating and perfect and my characters would fit in so well and also would be tortured for all of eternity. what could be better???

19 : Would you rather live in your characters’ world, or have your characters come live in our world?

i wanna live in tsg cuz then vampires would be real and i could finally be one, y es

20 : What book would you love to see adapted for the big or small screen?

i’ve been watching a lot of... rly... gay... amazing movies... like, beautifully made and SO grand and larger than life and so CAREFULLY LOVINGLY made... like the handmaiden or moonlight.. and because of that, i would LOVE to see tsg as a movie. i think it’d fit right in and the idea of a lgbt horror movie hitting the scren is... g o d

21 : Do you finish most of the stories you start?

yyyees and nnnoooo....more no than yes... the furthest i get usually is the first draft and onto revising and then i get bored and move on but i’m getting better

22 : Has your own writing ever made you cry?

what is this ‘cry’ you speak of

actually once i did this rp scene with @mvgitek and... imma be real... there might’ve been a tear or two

23 : Are you proud or anxious to show off your writing?

anxious the first couple of seconds, proud the rest of the time. i don’t doubt that my writing is good but also... WILL THEY THINK MY WRITING IS GOOD???

24 : When did you start considering yourself a writer?

in the 3rd grade when i started making lil paperback books for all the kids in my class. maybe even a lil bit before that

28 : On a scale of 1-10, how much do you stress about choosing character names?

def a 1 omg. name is usually one of the first things that pop up for me. if it doesn’t pop up immediately when my baby is a lil shyer, i give them a placeholder. no big. it’ll come eventually

29 : Do you tend to underwrite or overwrite in a first draft?

overwrite... in that... i write the first draft like its the only draft, cuz it pretty much will be i hate revising so much jfkgsg

30 : Does writing calm you down or stress you out?

calm, i suppose... i can and have zoned out and just written for hours, like, ten hours straight, more than that... that’s a nice feeling yes

31 : What trope do you actually like?

what’s with the phrasing of this question... as if i’m only pretending to like most tropes...also i can never remember tropes off the top of my head and i still have 20 questions to go sO..SKIPPING...

32 : Do you give your side-characters extensive backstories?

Y E P.... is it really a side-character if you don’t obsess about them more than the mains at times because they’re so complex and you love them so much

33 : Do you flesh-out characters before you write, or let their personalities develop over time?

nah those fuckers jump outta the brain womb fully formed, pretty much. their personalities do develop more as i write but i have a rly good grasp of them before i even start the story

34 : Describe your old writing in one word.

amazingwhatalittlecutieohmygodimisshavingthissymplisticwritingstylelikeyoubitchyoudidntevenrealizewhatyouhadandnowitsGONE

35 : Is it more fun to write villains or heroes? 

VILLAINS... duh....

36 : Do you write with a black and white sense of morality?

nah... largely cuz my own morality is skewed, also because most of the point of the stories is exploring morality and what it means and seeing how it gets corrupted in the protags

37 : What’s one piece of advice you would give to new writers?

you will be so much happier if you stop writing like anyone else and stop writing what people want you to write and just write for you and you only, everything else falls into place after you accept this!! AND PRACTICE

38 : What’s one piece of writing advice you try--but fail--to follow?

i hate almost all writing advice so there isn’t anything i’m attempting that i’m not doing tbh cuz i don’t wanna do any of it i’m a brat haha

39 : How important is positive reinforcement to you as a writer?

it’s important as in i’m narcissistic so anything negative puts me into a blind rage which is a damper on my mood omsfjgsfgs. also it keeps me vibing and keeps me hyped to channel out more work faster

40 : What would you ask your favorite author if given one question?

‘how the fuck’

41 : Do you find it distracting to read while you’re writing a first draft?

NAH i feel it to be absolutely necessary tbh. when i don’t read, i don’t write nearly as often and sometimes not even as well. i find other books to be rly healthy friendly competition, and when i read, immediately after i think ‘why isn’t my stuff published? why isn’t my book on the shelves with this one? i should get to work holy fuck’

42 : Do critiques motivate or discourage you?

depends! again, narcissistic, but i’ve gotten better and i do want to learn more. as long as it’s constructive and, by constructive, i mean that it still compliments me a lot and gives me the good AND the not-so-good then it’s fine, i get motivated. i never get discouraged, i’m either hype or i’m livid, which gives me evil hype and i write more outta spite haha

44 : How do you decide what story idea to work on?

i just get... the vibe... where suddenly i wanna work on a story so i do. sometimes i can tell a story isn’t ready so even if i feel like working on it, i won’t, but otherwise, i just wait for the vibe...

46 : What Hogwarts house would your protagonist(s) be in?

slytherin: red, bert, nora, amara, nathaniel, mal, katherine, tyler, eve and avery

gryffindor: black, nisha, rachel, caleb (unless i’m mean and make him a slytherin), cupid, aurora, frank, nicky, tasha, sinclair

ravenclaw: aaron, andrey, astra, antionette, blair, lucia

hufflepuff: jackie (unless i’m mean and make him a slytherin), cassandra, danny, ezra, emily, skylar, anna, null

47 : Where do you see yourself as a writer in five years?

book or two published, working on another three or so but who knows omfhsjgs

48 : Would you ever co-write?

i wanna co-write something so BAD......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

49 : Are you a fast and rushed writer or a slow and deliberate writer?

fast and rushed omfg i can’t write slow for shit.. wish i could.. i’m getting better

OH MY GOD I’M DONE WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH ANGEL