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escapingpost · 5 years

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Five Things Everyone Knows (Final)

Part 1: Five Things I Know About Cho Seungyoun

Sequel: Five Things Cho Seungyoun Knows About You

Suggestive and language warning.

The kiss in the alleyway would have been the cherry on top for this mess of romantic comedy. It would be the turning point of the plot where the next few scenes were merely a fast-forwarded, shortened down versions of what would be to come with your perfect “friends to lovers” relationship.

But, you were hit with the reminder that this was not an actual romantic comedy and reality is much harsher.

The next day, you woke up from a text from yours truly telling you that the girl he was texting ages ago finally got back to him. They were going on a date this weekend.

Your mind went through different thoughts in a span of one minute:

Were the two of you that drunk yesterday? If that was the case, you would have a hangover. And Seungyoun? You were sure he was too busy making Hangyul drunk to drink himself.

Were you just dreaming? No, your hair definitely smelled of rain water and you could still almost feel Seungyoun’s strong arms around your waist.

Then, what the hell was this?

As if answering your thoughts, Seungyoun sends another text message.

younie: I smell like sewage right now. What even happened last night.

And with that one text message, you were brought back to the reality of romantic relationships in your twenties.

Romance was dead and so were your feelings.

NOT my best friend: Dumbass, how am I suppose to know.

“I can’t believe you did that.” Woohyun was currently hovering over Seungyoun on the couch as Seungyoun holds his phone out of his reach. Woohyun gets up and dusts himself off. “Have fun being lonely. I’m rooting for Hangyul.”

“Wait, Woohyun.” Seungyoun also gets up from his couch. “I’m sorry. I just, I can’t do it.”

“Seungyoun, what do you mean, you can’t?” Woohyun says trying to keep calm. Him and the guys did the most to get Seungyoun to realize his feelings, but when he actually does, it backfires.

“I don’t want to mess us up.” Seungyoun says, avoiding Woohyun’s gaze.

“You know the feeling is mutual, so why?” Woohyun asks.

Seungyoun takes out a few crinkled pieces of paper from the small trash in his studio. He takes the first crumple piece of paper and hands it to Woohyun.

Woohyun looks at Seungyoun weirdly before unfolding it and reading his chicken scratch writing.

I wish you happiness

It's okay if it's not me

I don't think I'm good enough for you

We're so different

Woohyun takes the rest of the crinkled papers and unfolds them.

Tell me you're tired of me

Tell me you're seeing someone else

For me, even just a little bit

To hate you, just lie to me

Woohyun stops reading and crumples the paper into its original state, “This is different from the last time. You know it.”

“We’ve been best friends for years. I just can’t risk that.” Seungyoun looks down, his fringe hiding his eyes.

And Woohyun could not think of a comeback with Seungyoun looking like he already lost the most precious thing in his life.

“You know, its true what they say about musicians. You are all creative, crazy messes.” Woohyun says with a huge sigh.

Which brings us to the first thing everyone now knows: 1) Seungyoun, for a fact, has slight commitment issues.

A week passes by after the night with Seungyoun. You try your best to avoid him, but he stuck to you like nothing had happened. Sure, it was only the alcohol that made him do it and the reason why he could not remember. But, he should take some sort of responsibility, right?

The day of his date with the girl, you went to a library to study for your classes, but the silence was worse. It only made your sad thoughts louder. Letting out a deep sigh, you run your fingers through your hair and leave the quiet room.

“Hey!” Before you could start walking down the staircase to the lobby, a familiar voice calls your name.

You close your eyes. You knew exactly who it was and he was probably the second person you did not want to run into. Quickly changing your expression into a neutral one, you turn around to him, “Hey, Hangyul.”

Long story, short: You and Hangyul did go on a date. You actually had more fun than you thought and he said he would call you back, but never did. When he did end up calling you for a second date, the two of you still had unfinished business. Seungyoun crashed your second date before the two of you could talk about it.

Hangyul scratches the back of his neck, a habit of his whenever he felt uneasy. Your fake expression was apparent to his eyes, “Do you want to go to a cafe? I hated the silence in that library.”

You said yes and maybe it was the fact you wanted to show up Seungyoun for being on a date. Or, it might have been that you believed Hangyul was a nice, decent guy so he deserved some sort of explanation.

“I just wanted to say sorry for everything.” Hangyul says with a soft smile.

“Sorry about what?” The warm tea hits your throat and it calms your nerves.

“Sorry about not calling you when I said I would.”

You let out a petty laugh, “So you did know.”

Hangyul moves in closer, “Of course, I did. I was just confused and needed time to think.”

You purse your lips, “Well, I’m sorry for taking Seungyoun along on our second date.” You look down at your cup of tea.

Hangyul plays with the straw of his smoothie, unsure of what to say.

“It was a dumb decision.” You add.

“Did something happen?” Hangyul carefully asks.

You shrug, not wanting to think about it, still looking down.

Hangyul takes a deep breath and lowers his head so he was in your peripheral view, “Hey, to be honest, I wasn’t sure if you were actually available.”

You are forced to return his gaze, his face a little closer than a few minutes ago, “What do you mean?”

“I know you don’t have a boyfriend.” Hangyul was now staring at you intently with a soft expression, “But, on our first date, it didn’t seem like you were emotionally available.”

And that’s exactly what everyone thought: 2) No one else was really good enough for you, but him.

The guy with cute dimples? You preferred adorable rabbit teeth. The talented vocalist? A high-toned voice with the duality of IU’s ballads and Flowsik’s rapping was more your genre. The possible future president of the country? How about the person who you trust all your secrets, dreams, and inside jokes with?

As exaggerated as it was, Seungyoun just started to infiltrate your mind with no invitation.

You gulp and slowly nod your head, “Sorry, Hangyul.”

Hangyul feels a heavy weight lifted from his shoulders and he gives you an assuring smile, “We’re good.” He pats the side of your head.

You return his smile, feeling ten times better.

"I’m not sure what happened with you and Seungyoun, but if you want, I’m meeting with him later with the guys. Maybe you want to come?”

Your ears perk up at hearing his name, “Wait, Seungyoun is hanging out with you later?”

“Yeah, Seungyoun and some other people from the Taekwondo club.”

‘What about his date?’ You think. ‘Did that brat lie to me?’ You add. Did you not just have a small monologue on how great he was?

Hangyul calls out your name.

You snap back to reality, “Oh sorry, why don’t you text me the address and I’ll meet you there?”

The night was a little colder when it was predicted to be a warm summer night. Mercury was in retrograde or something along the lines of a pseudoscience explanation. 3) Everyone just knew it was going to be an interesting night.

“You like to hurt your own feelings?” Dohyun scratches his head.

“Masochism. Its called masochism.”

“Yohan, shut it. Don’t teach him that.” Hangyul rubbed his temples.

“Well, at least you’re better off than Seungyoun. He didn’t even give closure. He completely made his whole friendship awkward as hell.”

Hangyul blows out air from his nostrils. He wanted to keep it a secret and was not planning on inviting you to see Seungyoun. It was his chance to ask you out for a third date. But, taking advantage of your vulnerable state was the last thing he wanted to do.

Yohan hands Hangyul his black jacket, “Here, buddy. At least look cool while setting up the two idiots.”

Hangyul turns to Dohyon, “Don’t you dare learn from Yohan.” Hangyul moves closer to whisper in Yohan’s ear, “Yohan thinks he’s some sex god.”

Yohan has an appalled and disgusted look on his face, “A dude grinds on the floor one time and automatically becomes the icon of greasiness.”

Hangyul receives a text message alert and stops their conversation.

soju girl: Hey, I’m already here. My phone’s on vibrate so just text me when you get here! Too loud to take a call :(

“Lets go, idiot three.” Yohan puts his arms around Hangyul.

hangyul: see you soon

You bite down on your bottom lip and pull down on the short black dress that you wished did not sacrifice to cover either your chest or thighs. It was one or the other. You furiously shake your head to get some sense in you, “I need a drink.” Or not.

One drink turned into two, then three, then four and it all went downhill from there. The last sober thought you had was the fact that you could change your social media addiction and put your energy in making a blog about the wonders of alcohol.

“Close her tab.” you hear a voice and the person has reached over the counter. That was weird because you only conditioned yourself to listen to one specific voice through a loud bass of music.

“Oh? Its my best friend, Cho Seungyoun.” your voice slurs and you see he is confused because he can’t hear anything through the music and you made no effort to talk over them music. Seungyoun quickly scans your state and has you wear his oversized bomber jacket. You do not put up a fight while he quickly zips up the jacket. “Am I your date for tonight?” You say with no energy or volume.

Seungyoun gets to eye level with you and smiles, “Lets go.” He mouths.

The unapologetic smile, his eyes that assured you that your were safe, and his eyebrows that drooped in worry made you furious. The alcohol spoke and made the decision for you, “Fuck that.” You push him away and stagger through the dance floor.

And Seungyoun never felt so awkward trying to keep you away from other people on the dance floor while still remaining a sinful centimeter away from you and that miniature piece of fabric people called a dress.

His eyes darted around to catch the glimpses of other people on the dance floor to make sure they knew you were with him. Just when he thought people were getting the hint, a stranger attaches himself behind you.

He quickly snakes his hand around your waist and pulls you into a secure hold, turning your whole body like a tango move.

You continue to shamelessly dance, not giving a two coins because all you could see are the blurry lights, your mind was still buzzed, and whose ever arm was around you felt too good.

No matter how much he tried, there was only one answer to your shenanigans.

If you can’t beat them, join ‘em.

Seungyoun brings you into his chest as close as humanely possible and lays his hands on your hips as you two dance. He can only catch glimpses of your face, but when he did see you through the club lights, the look on your face got to him.

Your eyes were no longer the awake eyes that he could see from a distance away. Your eyes were half-lidded and seductive. Your baby hairs stuck to the side of your face and your cheeks flushed pink.

Then, Seungyoun’s ears were blocked as if he had water stuck in them. Your mouth was moving, but he could not understand what was happening anymore. The loud bass drowns out any reasonable thoughts.

Seungyoun did not drink any alcohol that night.

But, he got the same sweet alcohol on the tip of your tongue and caught the same alcohol buzz.

When Hangyul left the club that night and did not get to see you or Seungyoun, it was already a given: 4) The literal climax of the story that everyone would know of.

By the time you were all partied out and the two of you got to his apartment, the alcohol high wore off, but neither of Seungyoun’s or your hormones did.

The conversation was said through messy kisses, but it went something along the lines of Seungyoun apologizing for being a coward and a liar. Then, you try to say something back, but whatever he was doing down there did not help you form a coherent thought.

It was the climax that happened in Seungyoun’s small studio, both emotionally and physically.

Finally, it was the scene before everything fell into place. At least, as much as reality allowed you to.

“That dress wasn’t going to cover anything.” It was the morning after and you did not wake up glamorously. It was a good thing Seungyoun always saw you like that and nothing about his feelings changed. He laid on the couch and watched you find your stuff that was lost in the hurricane.

“Yeah, but your sweater will.” You quickly slip into it a sweater that he left hanging on his chair and Seungyoun curses in his mind for being weak to the cold.

“Wanna get breakfast?” Seungyoun sits up and also looks around for his lost t-shirt.

“Not like this.”

“I can pick something up from the convenience store.” Seungyoun finally finds his clothing piled up on the side of the couch.

You two only had to be apart for ten minutes, but Seungyoun was running back from the store like he left a stove on.

Also, you had no idea what you were getting yourself into until Seungyoun drops the food on his small desk and starts to make his way towards you. Alert, you hold him back with one finger, which stops him for a grueling second until he picks you up like a bride and lays you down on the couch.

You always thought Seungyoun looked like a rabbit with his two front teeth. Now, he looks like a tiger creeping up on his pray (read: you). You were quickly reminded Seungyoun was actually a bear because he pulls you into a warm hug as the two of you lay on his couch.

“There’s not enough space, so we have to stick as close a possible.” Seungyoun is breathing down your neck and you were not sure if it was on purpose.

You stir in his arms and he looks at you.

The images of you two playing tongue hockey in the middle of the dance floor flashes through your mind and you wanted to dig a tunnel into the couch because this time, he was there to remember it.

Seungyoun bit back a silly smile.

“Shut up.”

“I didn’t say anything?” He says with a smirk.

“Hey, we can’t tell anyone.” You are talking to his chest because you could not bear to look at him without being reminded of last night.

“Why not?” Seungyoun, on the other hand, had no shame and kept his eyes on you. “I swear, I was going to post this on my story.”

“Seungyoun!”

He gives you his cheeky, smiling eyes and presses his forehead on yours, “I’m sure every already knows.”

“That’s a little bit T.M.I, no?” You ask him.

“Not with them. They know everything.”

The two of you look at each other both thinking that everyone was weirdly invested in the two of you getting together. You and Seungyoun laugh knowing the same thought went through your head.

“I like you so much.” Seungyoun unconsciously says.

“I like you too.” You say making random shapes with your fingers on his chest. “Hey, um.” You finally muster up the courage to look at him.

“Yeah?” Seungyoun gives you his full attention.

You gather your arms and push him off the couch, “I’m hungry.”

Even if you were not hungry, Seungyoun’s scent was getting to your head and all the red flags went off.

He didn’t have to know that, though.

Months pass and you two are still together and annoying.

“Can you not?” You step on Seungyoun’s foot under the table.

“What?” Seungyoun moves his hand closer to your inner thigh, but you swat his hand off.

“Can you two just stay in Seungyoun’s studio? Forever.” Wooseok pretends to barf.

“We would, but the AC is broken.” Seungyoun shrugs.

You smack him on the side of his head.

“I don’t even want to sit on that damn couch now.” Seungwoo slowly shakes his head.

“Maybe it was better for you two to stay single.” Yohan taps on the table.

“Hey, I’m all for that.” Hangyul chuckles as he opens a bag of chips.

Seungyoun’s neck almost breaks turning to Hangyul, “If you eat chips like that, your fingers are going to stain.”

“Well, I’m gonna eat it with chopsticks.” Hangyul retorts.

“Where are the chopsticks, genius?” Seungyoun mocks Hangyul’s matter-of-fact tone.

Hangyul’s eye darts back and forth, until he sees you slipping him the chopsticks. “Here.”

Seungyoun makes a face at you, “Whose side are you on?”

You give him a chaste kiss and the self-proclaimed all rounder turns into one thing and it was the fifth and last thing everyone knew.

5) “Whipped.”

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nightcoremoon · 2 years

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morbius is not a bad movie.

morbius is a fucking terrible movie.

forget the memes. forget jared leto. forget morbing out.

I’m glad I didn’t, and refuse to, give it a single cent.

it is a slapped together formulaic pile of shit made by people who don’t care about originality or cohesion and just want to profit off of the care that goes into the mcu films without putting in the effort of any heart or soul. and yes I say this as someone who thinks everything post-endgame is shallow and empty and not very good (in fact a lot of endgame was bad too especially after I rewatched cap 1). but even then it’s still better than sony’s atrocious log of poo they tried to call a movie.

the trailer? hot garbage. the venom line is dishonest. the vtuber interview was the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen and if you have no idea what I’m talking about don’t look it up please for the love of god I am literally begging you.

it opens with a flashback that flashes further back then flashes forward then flashes forward then returns to the present day. instead of just going in chronological order. it’s jumping around for the sake of jumping around and pretending to be deep and meaningful like it’s memento or kill bill volume 1 or pulp fiction or the butterfly effect or slaughterhouse five or some other actually good movie with heart and soul poured into its script and narrative. this was somehow WORSE than beyond two souls was. SOMEHOW THEY MADE A WORSE NARRATIVE THAN BY DAVID FUCKING CAGE. CONGRATULATIONS 🎉

the plot is basically jurassic park but with vampire bats. see, morby and his bestie have a blood disease so mister morb became a doctor who was so good and cool and awesome they devoted two entire scenes to showing just how of a good and cool and awesome doctor he is. he talked to a little girl and said he was gonna save the world awww how sweet he loves children what a swell guy. he even declined a nobel prize because he’s just so sweet and kindhearted and generous! and he was so good of a doctor he did research on vampire bats because, and I am directly quoting the movie here, VAMPIRE BATS ARE THE ONLY KNOWN LIVING CREATURE WHO EVOLVED SOLELY TO FEED ON BLOOD. even though vampire bats eat a varied diet including fruit. even though ticks fleas and the thing they ripped off MOSQUITOES also solely feed on blood. but I guess we’re just ignoring that insects exist. whatever. pseudoscience bullshit even by comic book standards.

so he goes into morb mode and splices his own DNA with vampire bat DNA (like spiderman but stupider), which turns him into a vampire. but a science vampire without any magic. besides the magic wispies that trail behind him when he flies. because he can fly for some reason. but it makes him *lightning crashes* crave blood so he goes crazy and kills a bunch of people and he’s like OH GOD I’M A MONSTER and if this movie were made fifteen years ago it would have played animal I have become by three days grace or monster by skillet or something which honestly would have improved it by making it bad enough to enjoy making fun of. not here.

so, he drinks the artificial blood that he invented to keep the cravings down. but he says that it’ll stop working soon. eventually. the movie doesn’t subtly indicate this, no, it has the main character talk to the camera like this is dora the explorer or mickey mouse clubhouse or some other show made for literal babies. eventually he resorts to stealing real blood. which would solve the problem. remember this is a big deal and a central driving force behind morb’s motivations. he will kill if he runs out of blood. YET AT THE END OF THE MOVIE HE JUST FUCKIN DRIVES OFF INTO THE SUNSET??? FUCKING GOD DAMN IT (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ 🤬 SO STUPID 🤬

anyway the best friend he had when they were kids is like hey you cured your horrible blood disease that kept you relegated to walking on crutches just like I had so can I have a cure please? morb says no I will save you from this curse. so best friend is like fuck you I’m gonna become evil then. so he does. he become evil morbius. he’s matt smith the eleventh doctor who by the way. and during this scene he’s got red light on him in every shot and he walks down a street with red shit in the shot and he goes into a nightclub where everything is red HEY IT’S RED LIKE BLOOD AND EVIL DO YOU GET IT??? SUBTLE CINEMATIC STORYTELLING CHEFS KISS. STUPID! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ YOU FUCKING HACK!

morby also along the way randomly decides to stop a meth lab because he overhead thugs talking about it so he beats up the meth lab people and remember the cringey trailer where he was like “I’m venom RARGH ha just kidding I’m michael morbius at your service”? yeah well they kept the “I’m venom RARGH” part but the entire rest was gone. that’s right. THAT WAS A TRAILER ONLY MOMENT. AND MORBY LITERALLY ACTUALLY SAYS HE’S VENOM. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ 🤬 DUMB 🤬

anyway some dumb shit happens and Token Wimmin gets killed to give Morby ManPain™️ and motivation to fight the bad guy and protect the innocents. except she doesn’t die she turns into a vampire for the sequel. 🙄

Morby fights some cops and stuff with Zack Snyder Random Slow Motion which looks fucking atrocious. Which remember the cops are trying to stop him for all of the murder he did against all of those innocent people but oh don’t worry he told a dying little girl in a hospital that it would all be all right because he’s still a good man on the inside he’s just a monster on the outside augh it’s so goddamn fucking cheesy I hate this stupid movie but there’s only so much of if left thank god fuck everything.

Morby’s final showdown with Evil Doctor Who is just basically he points at him and the vampire bats that he for some reason has magical control over (remember there’s no magic and only science) and then he kills him oh no how sad stupid bullshit happens and he flies away on the backs of the vampire bats into the sunset.

And then the Spiderman No Way Home sky thingy just shows up in the sky and Michael Keaton as Vulture from Spiderman shows up and he talks to Morb and says that he wants to form a team to stop Spiderman. Which… is completely not in line with what No Way Home meant. It’s like they didn’t even fucking watch the movie. I didn’t even watch the movie and I know that’s fucking stupid. Meaning that Sony wants to open the gates for the Sinister Six movie.

So, the Sinister Six was Doc Ock, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio, Sandman, and Vulture. Then the roster changed around to include Hobgoblin, Scorpion, Shocker, Venom (briefly before they betrayed him), Lizard, Chameleon, and Rhino. Green Goblin was too technically but only once and even then it was the Sinister Twelve. Morbius was in the Sinister Sixty Six. Neither of those count or are that marketable and thus will never ever happen. So out of the roster we have left who weren’t basically removed from being threats (or killed), you have Vulture, Kraven, Hobgoblin, Scorpion, Chameleon, and Rhino. Okay fine I’m sure that with Leto’s Morbius, Keaton’s Vulture, Giamatti’s Rhino, Hardy’s Venom, it would be easy to pick from the other four. I might actually like to see Kraven or Hobgoblin or Chameleon implementer in a Spiderman film. So it’s definitely POSSIBLE. But how in the fuck are we gonna EVER get a good movie from Sony with six villains??? THEY COULDN’T EVEN DO THREE CORRECTLY, AND THEY TRIED THAT TWICE. There is no possible way on this earth in this universe in this timeline they’re ever going to make it not a complete steaming dump all over Stan Lee’s legacy. Morbius alone is a clusterfuck. And Venom is only good because they know what they’re doing and marketing it towards their specific niche. He would not work in an ensemble cast. Even a director who’s good was barely able to hold together Two-Face and Joker, and even a director who’s competent was barely able to hold together Green Goblin Jr, Sandman, and Eric Foreman Venom. And these useless fuckers want to do six. Please.

Morbius was trash and I hope it disappears completely as nothing but a footnote on KnowYourMeme dot com.

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izzyspussy · 7 years

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ALL 50 QUESTIONS BITCH

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1: Age Group For fic tbh whatever, I know a lot of people in fandom are underage and are exploring and figuring out what they like, etc. Plus not all my stuff is explicit, and some of the stuff that is still isn’t porn so. As for original stuff that will likely all be explicit as well, so an adult market audience.

2: Genre Usually fantasy, sometimes science fiction.

3: Big Idea or Detail Oriented Outlining binch i cant outline for absolute shit. I guess big picture but like…. ?? the biggest possible picture, almost to the point of being useless lmfao. someone help me.

4: Line Editing or Plot Revision I prefer line editing for fics because I’m lazy and it’s for free, but overhaul type revision results in a better finished product so I use that for original stuff (and commissions).

5: With or Without Deadlines With deadlines, definitely. I can crank out 1k in an hour if I have a deadline, but without one it can take me 2 years to write just as much (see: Zwangsneurose, started the second I got home from seeing The Winter Soldier, still not finished, word count at ~800 lmfao).

6: The Biggest Compliment I love it when people mention details that they noticed! Or if god forbid I was funny once.

7: Current WIP Length I have 12 fic WIPs right now and the longest one is 7.7k. I have 4 original WIPs right now, but they are all in development stages, with no word count yet.

8: Author Comparison Goal @neil-gaiman 110%. He is my ultimate goals and a huge inspiration, not to mention just a plain cool guy. I also would love to be compared to Rick Riordan or Gillian Flynn.

9: Biggest Struggle Foreshadowing probably. I sort of wing it as I’m writing, and I can’t do a very good outline like I said, so it’s tough to get good hints and clues as to what’s coming. That’s part of the reason my originals are taking so much development (not just because I have to fill in all the worldbuilding that is already mostly done for fic).

10: Brainstorming With Others or Alone I like to do a bit of both. I really appreciate input, plus talking things out can really get the creative ball rolling. But I like to get into Deep Shit on my own too, especially with worldbuilding. I’ll always share with others though, even the stuff I wanted to come up with all on my lonesome.

11: Characters Based on Real People I’m sure there are aspects of people I know, and of myself, in every character I create, and likely even in characters that have already been created. What you know will always leak into your writing. However, I don’t usually base a character fully (or purposefully) around one real person. I do namesakes though, but they’re almost never modeled after that person, it’s just a shoutout to someone I find inspiring in some way.

12: Writing Space Clean or Cluttered cluttered af binch u been here & seen it smh make me drag myself in front of everyone……

13: Character Driven or Plot Driven Always character driven!! what kinda question

14: Favorite Writing Related Quote “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which sometimes pay the rent.” - guess who lmao

15: My Characters in Someone Else’s World I would transport my characters into (brace yourselves for a shock lol jk) American Gods, primarily so that they could get some good old fashioned “help” from the Big Guys.

16: Movie or TV Show Well two of them have pretty finite endings. The romance legend could be a tv show but with a limited amount of renewal, ala A:TLA (but I’d like it better as a graphic novel). The vampire tragedy has a very finite ending so that would make a better movie. And the witch noir and girl gang are both a bit neverending-WIP-ish so they’d make pretty good shows.

17: Soundtracks Yes! They help keep me focused and writing in a cohesive tone when I have to leave and come back. Y’all can listen to the playlist I have for witch noir here. Eventually I’ll split it up for character and/or scene mood, and I might add some scene suitable ambient noise tracks too.

18: One Song to Sum It Up witch noir - Temptress, S.J. Tucker romance legend - Take Me to Church, Neon Jungle vampire tragedy - Bodies, Celia Pavey girl gang - Weapon, Bastille & Angel Haze & FUGZ & Braque

19: Me There or Characters Here …me there, I guess? In the romance legend, vampire tragedy, and girl gang not anything would really be different, but in the witch noir I’d probably have inherited some sweet powers. Not many of my characters are very friendly tho lmao.

20: Most Wanted Adaptation Probably (a piece of) the witch noir. It’d be neat to actually see all those neat film noir lighting tricks.

21: Finish Uh. I finish one shot porn a lot? lmao. Other than that, damn… no.

22: Made Myself Cry lol yah

23: Proud or Anxious usually I’m more proud, but sometimes when it’s something that’s very deeply personal or controversial I can get anxious.

24: When Did I Become a Writer tbh sometimes I think I came out the womb that way. I don’t remember not being a writer, and I know I had legit novel ideas as early as like 3rd grade, and was making shit up with pretty words even earlier.

25: Must Reads in My Genre three guesses what i’m bout to say y’all. Literally anything by Gaiman. Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart series. Any Pratchett. Donna Gillespe fucked me up with The Light Bearer. Bear Daughter by Judith Berman (although that is kind of a tough read, so I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it for everyone).

26: My Genre Needs More… Diversity in general, specifically more people of color, queer people, and people with disabilities (that aren’t magically erased). Also in my opinion there needs to be more things in between grimdark and go-lucky fairytale.

27: Inspiration Source History, anthropology, and pseudoscience.

28: Character Naming Stress from 1-10 Probably about a 2 or a 3. I use behindthename.com which can be searched for meanings, sound patterns, usage, and origin, and has a handy “name themes” search algorithm. I also recently found the legit U.S. census thanks to @peppersandcats helping me out with search terms, and that can be sorted by ethnicity, gender, time period, and geographical location. So I’ve got names pretty well covered!

29: Underwrite or Overwrite First Drafts It could go either way, but generally speaking unless I have a word limit I usually like to add more during editing. Except when something is confusing or too complicated, then I’ll cut it.

30: Calming or Stressing Not really either tbh. I enjoy it a lot, but it’s mostly exciting! Not calming or stressful, but either a fun adventure or a challenging puzzle.

31: Favorite Trope Tough to pick just one tbh. I love tropes when they are done “right”. Even tropes done classically can be great (as long as they’re not -phobic of some sort), but I especially love when they are done satirically or inverted.

32: Backstories for Side Characters Guilty af. Even characters that might not even make it into the finished book have backstories, personalities, and quirks.

33: Characterize Before Writing or Develop with The Story A little bit of both. I like to have a solid character to work with at the beginning, but for in-text character development I like to let that unfold with the plot and the other characters.

34: Old Writing in One Word Prolific

35: Villains or Heroes I like them both pretty well, but my favorite characters of all time are always a little ambiguous so if I had to pick just one kind that’s what I’d go with.

36: B&W Morality No way! I live in the gray area.

37: Advice Have fun! Be proud of yourself for what you come up with and celebrate your creativity even if you think it doesn’t compare with other writers. The happier you are to create, the more creative you’ll get. Also, like with any other kind of art, pick a couple role models to emulate and that will help you develop your own solid style.

38: Advice I Fail At The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. I spend too long line editing while I’m writing my first draft and that makes it a lot harder to finish anything.

39: Importance of Positive Reinforcement I’d say reasonably important. Definitely helpful. But I know I’ll keep writing even without it.

40: Question for Favorite Author How much difference is there between how his creation is in his head versus how it came out in the words, and does he ever think about rewriting things that are long finished?

41: Distracting to Read While Writing Actually, no. Reading other comparable works helps keep me motivated, inspired, and focused.

42: Motivated or Discouraged by Critiques Tbh I don’t think I have ever received a real in-depth critique so I’m not certain? I’ve had idle “I liked this, but I didn’t like/understand that” type of feedback, and that has usually been pretty helpful and appreciated. If nothing else it lets me know what parts of the story might not be as accessible to an audience.

43: Protagonists in My Likeness Yes, there’s a little of me in very many of my protagonists, and often even in fic characters that I write. But, like with other real people, they’re not usually modeled after me, we just have some stuff in common because I leak over into them (and sometimes they leak over into me) when I’m writing them.

44: Choosing An Idea This is something I struggle with, really. My process is usually to try writing a bit of it, and if I hate it it’s probably not viable.

45: Harder or Easier While Stressed It’s usually a harder to write when I’m stressed, and what I do manage to write doesn’t have as much quality.

46: Sort Protagonists !!! There are too many!! these are just the Big Ones (so far) in witch noir Gryffindor - toots, eddie, maddie, anca, seth Hufflepuff - lily, charisma, s.j., angel, iris Ravenclaw - fred, ariel, dido, father piero Slytherin - evelyn, jessica, sloan, clara-claudia, aixa

47: Five Year Goal Hopefully I will have fucking finished something. Maybe published? Or maybe getting my manuscript looked at. (I have a humble-ish time frame, I think. Writing is a lot of work, and five years is a lot less time than it sounds like.)

48: Co-Writing I’m a huge control freak, so probably not. At least not with original characters. Maybe for fic tho, because that can be much lower stakes lmao.

49: Fast or Slow When I’m in The Zone I speed thru, but it can take me a while to get started and I come up on blocks pretty often so I’m a slow finisher.

50: Worldbuilding or Characters Shit man, that’s a tough choice. I guess characters? I don’t know.

#ask meme #writing stuff #jack chats #kelsie #writing process #jack facts #jesus this took me like an hour smh #lovemea-malia #hc

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virovac · 8 years

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MonsterVerse : adding to roster for eventual “Destroy All Monsters” style movie

Since a huge monster mash is likely down the line, one issue with the Monsterverse became apparent to me in doing so: copyright and trademark in Japan is harder and more of a maze than in America. While the Save the Earth videogame was in development I learned a large part of the fees for licensing much of Toho’s monsters is to pay for the hassle of finding and contacting every co-owner to a character. While Legendary is willing to fork over money for the big names like Rodan and Mothra; for rounding out the cast of an apocalyptic level film they might be able to get more cheaply get some Warner Brother owned or public domain monsters to pad the cast. Out of curiosity, I looked up what they could use. Links have been provided for nearly every monster mentioned

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms: Godzilla’s American Granddady. Works good as a smaller monster in the vein of Baragon and Varan. Should probably be no larger than the scale used for the Kong-sized skullcrawlers.

The ants from Them!: I almost didn’t include these guys since they are explicitly regular ants turned giant in their original movie rather than prehistoric monsters, but majingojira mentioned that they get vaguely referenced to on Skull Island. and there’s no reason there may not be more nests in other parts of the world. Heck, lets go crazy and make them semi-heroic with interactions with humans varying because the emergent behavior of mob mentality. If one ant has a taste for human flesh nearly all it fellow hunters present will attack, while another ant that was helped by a kind human in the past might remember and overrule and stop the attack. We know nowadays from research that ants can have individual personalities, they can be lazy, and queens that go berserk may be locked up and restrained. Introducing such research into the portrayal can add to the mystique of an adventure story, and complicated feelings for the audience when the military makes the sound judgement that overall the colonies are threats, even if we meet a few friendly ants. Of course , with pheremone knowledge the possibility of a nonviolent solution may be possible, a way to pen the ants in...

Definitely not from Godzilla’s era, ants are from the Cretaceous.

As for powers, the old trailers explicitly mention venomous fangs, so lets make them dangerous at both ends, though if you some survive being maimed, the bad news is the venom at the mouth and at the spray glands of the rear are different and would require two different antidotes.

The Giant Behemoth: A British Monster co-produced by Warner Brothers, from a film written by the screenwriter of the The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Daniel Lewis James, who also wrote Gorgo. While the name is uninspired, its terrestrial design with its aquatic habits make an interesting contrast, and bring to mind Christian stories of monstrous animals that survived the Great Flood through sheer determinations Works perfectly as coming from the same ecosystem as Godzilla, and has an interesting electric blast/atomic pulse attack. (By pseudoscience it gained from the power to use its natural electric-eel like abilities to project the radiation it’s body was contaminated with.) Like how Godzilla is not played for pathos, the monsterverse Behemoth would probably also be much more chill than its original portrayal , since it would be a natural radiovore rather than a victim of radiation poisoning in order to fit in better with the other monsters.

Gorgo and his mum: Not sure if these characters can be used, they might still be trademarked even though the comics are public domain. Still, to have all three monsters of Daniel Lewis James screenplay’s in a movie would be amazing.

The Black Scorpion: Mexico’s murderous arachnid from a Warner Brothers production. It brings with it a whole new ecosystem of underground terror. You know the lost spider pit scene from Kong? Several props were reused as one-scene wonders in the Black-scorpions cave. For added distinctiveness, and following the “nature spirit” design philosophy for Skull island, perhaps they can play up petrified forest aspect of the Black Scorpions’ ecosystem and give its armor a stone-like appearance, to play up how it has only one real vulnerable spot just under its neck.

Reptisaurus: Public domain comic book version of Reptilicus, started into a continuation of the movie, became its own thing once they lost the rights to the name. Not sure if they can use the green slime from the American edit, but they very least they can probably give it corrosive blood, and the movie lab scenes showed fact they turn any water they regenerate into basically a pool of digestive fluid (I appear to have had been misinformed here after finally seeing the MST3K version. Or I got it mixed up with a summary of the novelization) Their regeneration has great capability for body horror: we know a limb can regenerate into a new monster but the process was never explored:. Imagine a foot crawling like a spider, it grows a mouth to eat. It eventually gets enough mass to grow a serpent-like tail. Eventually the hand is replaced by a head and new limbs grow out from the sides of the trunk. The regeneration would likely be slightly different each time,possibly linked to the sheer adaptability of the speices. In the comics after a huge design change to be less like the movie monster, Reptisaurus sexually produced two differennt spawn: one resembling a reptilian rhinocerous , while the other was more like one of the intermediates between amphibians and reptiles. (see below). Personally I’d keep try to merge the multiple designs of reptisaur in the way that works best and is most distinctive, but I prefer the old fashion dragon head.

MGM’s The Kraken from Clash of the Titans: Warner Brothers has the rights to the MGM film library. Skull Island’s wildlife has let loose the door open for more fantastical designs. You don’t even have to bring up Greek or Norse myth, we’ll all know who it is.

I support also getting the right to Titanosaurus from Toho just for the greatest “Clash of the Titans” joke of all time.

Finally:, and remember the point of this is to point out what Legendary and Warner Brothers can do, not what they should do, Warner Brother has the rights to a particular segment of Godzilla’s history

Hey with the right writers, and a proper redesign it could work. Godzooky’s mix of bravado and cowardice mixed with a more realistic portrayal of how cornered animals can be the most dangerous could make him an interesting character. Let Godzooky maul a terrorist like he should have done in the Island of Doom episode and I bet everyone will forgive him.

I discovered Warner Brothers has the Valley of Gwangi in their film archive. While no way they could have a hidden valley of prehistoric life on the mainland , we could still size up Gwangi himself and have our Gorosaurus expy. Though honesty Gwangi might be much grumpier than Gorosaurus.

(Look at that sneer.)

Bonus points if they have a flashback show him being captured and moved to monster island by lassoing him with planes. If they have to update his design, the best way to approach it would probably be an allosaur that convergently evolved more Tyrannosaur style jaws, with the back armor osteoderms of an alligator. Gwangi was meant to be an Allosaurus but was based off various Charles Knight paintings of theropods, so its a good way to tie things together.

Now two monsters I thought might be in public domain that I sadly have to shoot down:

I have found that the original portrayal of Yongarry might be in the public domain, but it may be too risky to take. A shame, since an old DAM poster had what was meant to be either Godzilla or Gorosaurus looking like Yongarry.

Gappa is off the table; due to strange international copyright law its only public domain in the U.S. and that doesn’t really work for an international franchise, and the deign might still be trademarked. It would have been fun because the Gappa parents was inexplicably on a Turkish poster for Destroy all monsters.

#Godzilla 2014 #kong skull island #monsterverse #legendary pictures #yongarry #gappa #reptisaurus #reptilicus #the valley of gwangi #gwangi #the beast from 20000 fathoms #the black scorpion #the giant behemoth #them!

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allineednow · 7 years

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Here's your 'Putin Did It!' Survival Guide...

This article first appeared in November 2016 on GR.

As the Duran reported, it was only a matter of time before the ‘Putin Did It’ (see The Duran Lexicon for more) line crept back into the news in light of a re-opened FBI investigation, following the discovery more incriminating Hillary Clinton emails. Sure enough, Howard Dean, the guy who ended his own presidential campaign by acting like a crazed hooligan on stage, has said that now the FBI and Putin are on the same side.

This comes days after Putin reassured the world that he really doesn’t want, need or care to meddle in the US election. Of course the usual suspects from the western mainstream media don’t hear Putin because he’s too damn reasonable. It appears that western mainstream media are confounded by Putin’s calm, his consistency, his logic and moreover from the fact that he doesn’t seem too perturbed about the issues that western pundits go hysterical over on a daily basis.

To be able to make life simpler for those who ‘question more’ in the following week, I’t come up with a list of the varieties of people who say ‘Putin did it’ and why.

1. THE OLD ANTI-SOVIET COLD WARRIOR WITH IMAGINARY NUKES AT THE READY

This is an group of people who lost their raison d’etre following the Soviet Union's prohibited break-up. Like the members of the CPSU who rallied against the leadership of Gorbachev in 1991, the loss of power equally devastated this wide variety of person. The lack of the USSR meant that they could talk about nuking Moscow in order from Communism; to & lsquo; rsquo & free the people. In an instant they went from being defenders of freedom, to trigger happy weirdos.

But life has recently got a lot better for them. These people go home at night faking the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation isn't Gennady Zyuganov however Vladimir Putin. To them the Soviet Union is back and so too is the wonderful crusade against it.

Many of these people couldn’t care less about Hillary Clinton’her crimes against everybody from Bernie Sanders to foreign heads of state and s mails. They’re happy that a mainstream political figure has allowed them to once more feel relevant. The USSR is back, it has to be destroyed by any means necessary and the former Goldwater supporter Hillary Clinton is their type of gal. Put on your cowboy boots…

2. THE PATHOLOGICAL ANTI-RUSSIAN RACIST

This group has roots which date back far beyond America’s ascension as a world power. Unlike the previous group, these people are no laughing matter. Where the anti-Soviet cold warriors have a particular Dr. Strangelove worth to them, one which even in 1960s America wasn’t fully taken seriously, the anti-Russian racists have been spreading vile propaganda in the west for centuries.

To these people, Russians are barbaric by design. They are expendable and their country is fit as they see fit to be used by powers. This mindset reached a fevered pitch during the so-called ‘Great Game’ between Britain and Russia from the mid to late 19th century.

The kind of propaganda held that Russians have no education no culture, no civilisation and most importantly, that Orthodox Christianity is a poor faith vis-à-vis varieties of Western Christianity. This was said in spite of Orthodoxy’s direct connection.

When Sir Halford John Mackinder suggested that Russia should be used as a region that the west must control in order to better dominate the Orient this mindset was later elevated to the realm of pseudoscience. According to these people, rsquo, Russia wasn &;t even worthy of colonising, it was a motorway that ought in order to get to the final destination to be pacified.

These ideas consequently became highly dangerous under the Nazis and were refined. Hitler sought Lebensraum or living space for the German race. To be able to achieve this, so Hitler could use the land to provide resources for the races, mainly Russians, Slavic populations, had to be eliminated.

Their attitudes have a similar origin, although few of those & lsquo; Putin Did It & rsquo; brigade associate themselves with Hitler. It is a deep set mindset whereby those of western European lineage and those of a Western Christian persuasion believe they're implicitly superior to Russians, black people, Jewish people, Orthodox Christians, Arabs, all Asian people and indigenous peoples of the Americas and Oceania. Russia is the target because unity and of the power of the Russian state. But do not be fooled. These folks are old fashioned western racists, they’re just more careful about whom they publicly insult these days.

3. THE BORING, WILFULLY IGNORANT LIBERAL

‘Putin isn’t a liberal therefor he MUST be bad’: so goes the mantra of those who speak about Russia in a negative light and blame them for everything from the local health food store running from inedible garbage to the fact that their loser kids failed a recent maths examination.

For them, Russia has a DUTY to be a state, because that’s the way the world should be. There’s a racist element to this thinking. Because they see Russia as a state of ‘white folks,’ they expect Russia to do as European nations do and adopt the post-identity liberal way where to quote the song Lola by The Kinks ‘Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world’.

They're incensed not by Russia’s alleged lack of democracy but because Russia is democratic and actively decide to do things the Russian way instead of the liberal European way. Of course this doesn’t match the story Putin is currently forcing Russians to have what they need in a way that is totally undemocratic.

In the event you’re looking for don, logic’t attempt a conversation with one of these liberals. These people know nothing about Russia, they cannot think anyone who looks vaguely wouldn’t want to be like liberals that are good. It must be a result of ‘oppression’.

The insincerity of the pseudo-compassion is exposed. Most of these people reckon they are pros that are Putin and can tell you composed stories concerning all you will need to know about Putin from his childhood to & lsquo; rig the election & rsquo;.

Less familiar to such people will be the titles, Alexander Yakovlev, Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais. These folks are often wilfully ignorant that western bandits such as George Soros acted in collusion with Russian traitors from the 1990s to stave the Russian folks. When they hear that in the liberal 1990s, young men were committing suicide left and right, the elderly were starving and homeless, young women who would have been scientists, teachers, athletes or musicians were forced into prostitution; they just tend to cover their ears. To them, the precious story is more suitable than the fact of what Russia’s experimentation did to the lives of Russians.

So go on, ignore reality, and don’t choke on your gluten free smoothie. Keep calm and remember lsquo, & the problem;Putin did it’.

4. THE ‘CAN’T HAPPEN HERE’ TRUE BELIEVER

Unlike the groups, I pity these people. These are the people who were brought up to think ‘the west is the best’. In the west the truth is told by the newspapers and in other areas they're full of lies. Western politicians are honourable men and women who go to improve the lives of their countrymen. There is t and everywhere else there isn & rsquo; free speech. In the west, everybody is honest.

WRONG!

These folks are confounded to lean that powers are as bad or worse than the faraway places they’ve are vastly underdeveloped and backward vis-à-vis the west. These people still believe the myth even though the age of Wikileaks, new media such as The Duran and RT, social media and an inter-connected world, has made such beliefs increasingly difficult to maintain.

For them, the clichés about ‘truth justice and the American (or French, or British, or Swedish or Dutch) way’ must be clung onto because it makes them feel safe in the world and absolves them of any guilt for voting for war criminals and con-artists.

5. HILLARY CLINTON

She does deserve her own category. Seneca said, “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”. This quote goes a long way in describing the modus-operandi of Hillary Clinton. She'll say anything to anyone so as to gain some type of advantage that is electoral, economic or general.

I truly think that Hillary Clinton understands that Putin did NOT do it. But she has found a way to simultaneously exploit wicked racists stupid liberals , old Cold Warriors and believers. It was outside her, those of the world and just after Putin and Trump said some vaguely things about one another that Hillary Clinton started blaming Putin for every one of her own ills.

This demonstrates that the ‘Putin did it’ line is a child of opportunism rather than ideology. Had Trump and China's leaders said vaguely things about each other ‘China did it’ might have easily been her mantra.

However, Donald Trump was underestimated by Hillary Clinton. To quote George W. Bush, perhaps she even ‘misunderestimated’ Trump. Where many less independent minded leaders would have buckled under pressure and eventually said, ‘yes Putin is bad, sorry Mrs. Hillary you can spank me now’, Trump stuck to his principles and he should be lauded for it.

Trump has consistently said that although he doesn’t have a relationship with Putin he would like a good one because, collaboration between superpowers is far better than conflict, because a common policy on ISIS is much far better than a hypocritical and confused one and because Putin is a man who inherently controls respect, something which Donald Trump finds rightly admirable.

The moral of the story is, Hillary Clinton can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time but she cannot fool everybody all of the time. Donald Trump’s has made this especially so.

So there you have it. Your ‘Putin Did It’ survival manual. I have a feeling that over the next week it will be useful.

The original source of this article is The Duran

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