#but it'd be such a good verse to write and plot in where she.. . actually takes the role of seymour's wife.

[braskide]

you know it's kinda funny when i gotta make myself remember at least once a day yuna is theoretically married? to a maester? she killed? he commited patricide? and forced her into marrying him? wanted to become sin on purpose? used his mother's aeon?

[theinsanecrayonbox]

FOP: A New wish ep 5-8

and we're back at it again. another week, more episodes

spoilers: i think i found my favorite episode of this series. you'll understand why when you get to it XD

Episode 5: Fearless

for some reason my OnDemand doesn't have this available on it's own. however, it seems to be paired with ep4 (as it should be) so we can still see it. it's just weird that every other episode is on there single and together...weird

anywhos, onto the episode proper. the title card is giving me big reff vibes; i can't quite recall which previous title card it's evoking, but i feel like we've done this one before.

did Wanda's "squirt' sound like a mangled "twerp" or was that just me?

"Gregory" huh? i can get behind that. and Hazel is a horror buff?? i love you child. and Jasmine's seen IT?

did they censor Jasmine saying "fraidy cat"??

haha you can use TMNT because Paramount owns them too. they're Disney self reffing XD

ok, wishing your friend was fearless, good plot...think we've semi-done this before...and it didn't work this way last time in Emotion Commotion. but holy wow this is some imagery; we are so into the creepy. i love it

oh oh new geography! Annapolis...can't figure out where it is on that map though (Michigan maybe? Italy if it's not USA??)...also yes muppet stand-in is funny

sweet friendly pep talk, and fear fighting montage. good story telling

child possession??? by an eldritch entity of fear??? dang...this is getting deep and epic. A+ writers

"Don't want another of those going rogue" with an ominous stare at the camera...uh, guys what did you do? what did you do??? O.o!!

overall, very good episode! mundane problem that was complicated by magic but in the end was solved without it and allows our MC to grow naturally as a person. A++

Episode 6: The Wellsington Hotellsington

this one was a Spongebob episode plot right? this title card though evokes Hail to the Chief to me but obviously no connection

Winn Harper's our new Trixie? (a popular potential romantic intertest...and are they nb?) and Dev is certainly Remy/Tad and Chad

oh this plot is actually A Wish Too Far; Hazel's making big rich claims and gonna magic to make it seem that way until it goes wrong. eh, stock, but reasonable. actually makes even more sense since she is the new kid so not everyone knows about her, verses Timmy who'd known his classmates for longer so you'd think they'd've known his family's financial standing.

and why's Jasmine buying this, didn't she go to Hazel's apartment last episode? wasn't on screen, didn't happen i guess)

oh she does remember, but she's an easily convinced ditz. it's ok

mega points for emu

oh and now her wish is backfiring on her, as it usually does

evil doppelganger Hazel speaking backwards???? what the...we are not shying from the weird and creepy are we?? (Shinning reference?) i love this writing team

dawww see Hazel you impressed them all on your own, don't need the frilly fancy stuff.

though you have earned yourself a sworn mortal enemy in Dev. delicious

and we end on creepy doppelganger?? what are you guys doing...and will you do more

overall, another pretty good episode. not anything spectacular sure, but we're still developing our supporting cast and the story status quo. so it's good

Episode 7: 1500 Minutes of Fame

the title almost sounds like it'd fit the previous episode too...but nice city skyline cutout *saves that for later refferance*

awww they're a friend trio now, yay

oh it's Most Wanted's plot...well base plot. Hazel wants to be popular. you'd think Cosmo and Wanda would remember how poorly that can go...

why is Father Time here? he had nothing to do with this type of wish last time. also he looks completely different from his prior appearance but then again that was in Timmy's Secret Wish and that wasn't good so we can let that slide. but being popular falls under "15 minutes of fame" huh? uhhu. well...to be fair i could see a rules restructuring after Tim's deal in Most Wanted and all his tampering with the Time Scooter (and in Timmy's Secret Wish too i guess) could've made it so Father Time has final approval of time-based wishes...maybe if that'd been the ruling from the start we wouldn't have 5 different timelines caused by Timmy in the first place

he's far too gleeful about how monkey's paw this gonna screw her over. he's gotta be djinn

that's squirrel!Timmy!!! as the school mascot??!! what??? also that's Big Problem adult!Timmy again...huh...

i wonder if Bev is a Ubetcha...

and yes being most wanted includes being wanted for not positive reasons

why would you send her to a Hollywood school? because she's famous maybe? i mean that makes sense...because Dimmadelphia isn't in California like Dimmsdale, where one could argue that the Hollywood school was just a district over this they'd share students. i just answered my own question...carry on show

who's higher than Father Time on the magical hierarchy when it comes to time magic? who would you get in trouble with my dude?

pffffft ok Nick of Time. 1) love the pun on the name. 2) love the meta puns in the dialog (ranks up there with Zim experimenting on a child also named Nic).

act New Yorky to make New York minutes? uh...ok...i mean, that is a logical idea a kid would come up with to problem solve, so for that reason it makes sense. also, it again highlights that she's a West coast/Midwestern kid and not an East coast/New Englander (yes there's a difference between NE and NY, just like i know there's a difference between West and Midwest). so...montage of stereotypes i guess

"I am a child and recognize all these references" pfffft i am laughing

and musical number with 2d animations...FLAPPY BOB???? and more TMNT references

and the wish just runs out, the day is saved. this was a fun magical shenanigans story, so good job team.

Episode 8: 28 Puddings Later

are...are we getting a zombie outbreak? i know we had some body horror in another episode, and then all the other creepy stuff in this week's episodes, but...really? O.o why are children's media doing zombie plagues a bunch lately...and why am i complaining about that??? even the title card is a zombie pudding apocalypse!! i am SO down for this episode!

it's picture day...and pudding...oh boy, stock plot of trying to stay clean in coming

Dev steals all the pudding?? oh heckie no! go stop him Hazel!! ah it's through bribery...boo on Dale

Timmy is the janitor i guess?

ah making pudding that available will ruin the market value, and devalue it. economics 101. but also people doing nuts and addicted and thus zombies i guess

and we are spooky. heeheehee

why isn't Wanda more chocolate crazy?

zomr there are children zombies swarming another student. what even is this; i love it

broccoli pudding?? but no Yugopotamians? boo

but anywhos, i think this might've been my favorite episode (and oh look it's episode 8 even, heehee). it was just so silly and fully magically induced and fixed, but it was fun. children being pudding zombies, that's just...yeah XDDD

[feardrummed]

ok damn yall wanna hear the family

again, obviously when writing with other members of the family i am 100% cool with going for something else this is just. my general default thoughts on ollie's relationship with her mom. also i'm just calling her clara because thats my default name for her but obvs that is flexible

So, before Clara leaves/is out of the picture, it is kind of the same deal as it is with William. Ollie was a pretty alright kid to raise and anything that was a challenge Ollies first symptoms of ADHD were easy to dismiss as, well, she's a kid and that's parenting. Again, this part kind of goes in line with what I've said about William or just Ollie in general, but the first sort of shift from that is Ollie's near drowning when she's eight. This incident caused trauma and anxiety to build for her, which at first did just seem like her just being shaken up or scared. However, this is also when more of the behavioral issues start, and as she hits ten is when it gets to start being a more consistent problem, only ramping up even more in her teen years (and of course as more trauma got added on).

Again, like with William, Ollie does hold this resentment and anger on "why didn't my parents help me" with Clara. This plus the behavioral issues would still likely lead to arguments and such.

And then...whatever happens to Clara happens. Okay so this is a bit of an aside and less a 100% fact in OIlie's backstory and more a thought I've been kicking around that I'm not entirely sure if I want to do anything with it but. I did have the thought of, regardless of what actually happened to Clara, William perhaps telling his kids that Clara was dead. Mostly as a control and manipulation tactic, especially in the "you can't run away to mom if you think mom is dead" vein. Again idk if I'm going to do anything with that and even if it'd definitely depend on plot/verse, but it has been in my brain as a concept.

Something that I do include in Ollie's story in the vein of "William's manipulation post Clara leaving" is the idea that William, in some way, did attempt to make himself seem like the better parent by dragging Clara down and minimizing what she did. Which considering Ollie's resentment and her preference for him as a child was something Ollie bought into. Even if it wasn't the "I was the good parent I gave you everything and I'm all you have" that William was going for, it did drastically alter the way Ollie considers her mother, to the point where even as an adult Ollie can't really sort out what William said with how her mother actually was.

[paimonial-rage]

Water, Earth, Fire, Air! HAHAA and if you see fit: shadows and clouds :) — @milkstore

Thank yoooouuuu for the ask! I had too much fun rambling aughhhh!!!

Water: How did you start writing?

I started right after I discovered fanfiction in sixth grade. I was so enamored that I immediately started on a Bleach fanfiction with a Mary Sue OC. SO EMBARRASSING. Even more embarrassing is that a few weeks ago, someone actually FAVORITED that story on FF.net. LIKE???? It wasn't even a good story. How did someone find it from more than a decade ago!!!

Earth: What do you think is the foundation of your WIP?

Idk if I'm answering this question correctly, but whenever I start a story, it's always centered around a specific something I want to achieve. It could be a vibe, emotion, specific scene, specific message, goal, etc. Like with Sharing a Drink They Call Loneliness, my goal was introducing to Zhongli the thought that a life forgotten is not necessarily a life wasted. In What Destiny Has Brought, it takes place after the Summertime Odyssey event where she accepted who she was as Fischl. What I wanted was for her to also accept herself as Amy. Once I figure out what I want to achieve, I then plot the events that will get me to that point.

Fire: What’s a scene that you are dying to write?

I've been sitting on this idea for months, but in the bookkeeping!verse, I want the subject of Morax's Statue of Seven to be addressed between reader and Zhongli. I have it half-written, but I've hyped it up so much in my mind that I just can't accept what I've written so far! It's not funny enough! It's not punch-in-your-face enough!!!! I want to humiliate that man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The sad thing is that it's shorter than an actual fic, but the execution is still killing meeee… Here's a snippet tho if u wanna read….. >//3//>

Air: What’s the easiest part of writing for you?

I want to say that there's no easy part of writing for me. When I'm in the mode to write, everything flows like water. It's so easy. Everything works out well. But the moment I hit a roadblock, suddenly my pipes get clogged and then nothing flows for a few months. Nothing sounds good. Nothing works. But… If I had to say one thing, it'd probably be dialogue. There are certain characters I absolutely cannot write for (e.g. Kaeya), but for most characters, it's easy for me to hear them saying lines in my head. I just have to tweak what they say for everything to sound in character.

Shadows: What’s the darkest theme you’ve ever written about?

I will be completely honest. While I love reading dark themes, I'm terrible at writing them. The closest I come to is my interest in writing toxic complex relationships. Contrary to what my rules imply, I love writing about mentally ill people. Not the "uwuwuwu i'm so depressed :'((((( i hate myself" sadboy mentally ill. But the mentally ill that makes you yell, makes you distrustful, makes you unheathily possessive, makes you emotionally abusive, etc. The mentally ill that makes you absolutely reject the idea that you're deserving of love. I enjoy writing people in that state and the effects it has on the people around them.

Of course, I don't enjoy writing those things because I find them amusing or condone such behaviors. It's easy to put toxic and abusive people in a certain category as unreedemable. Scum of the earth. Deserving of eternal hellfire. But when you're close to that toxic abusive person, you realize it's not as clean cut as outsiders make it out to be. You can't just villify them and be done with it. Maybe writing about those things helps me come to terms with my own childhood, idk. It's just a field I enjoy exploring.

Clouds: How clearly do you picture a scene before you start writing it down?

NOT VERY MUCH AT ALL HAHA. Like I mentioned before, I usually have a goal. Then I make a very fuzzy mental list on how to get there, then I'll just start writing. But that's the rub, isn't it? Because I don't fully picture and plan things out in advance, sometimes unforeseen things pop up which cause roadblocks. Like for a Yae story I'm writing, I had one goal in mind and somehow that multiplied into four goals? Which are far too many. So now I'm at a loss on how to continue aughhh…

But thank you so much for sending this ask! I had fun answering!!! :D