#but like how did hozier capture the vibes of feeling so close to someone and yet so unsure of if they feel the same way as you do so well?

[mitoconniedria]

Like Real People Do by Hozier has possessed me mind, body, and soul. Somebody help me please, I'm too much of a romantic for this shit

[euphoriecs]

11/11/11 tag !!!

thank u sm for tagging me @yikescomma​, @buckaroowrites​ nd @yikeskimi​ !!!

rules: answer 11 questions, write your own 11, tag 11 people !

under the cut bc its a Lotta questions KSKSKSHK

yikescomma’s questions!!

1. what’s your favourite place to write?

oh this is ?? kind of a tough one bc i feel like i never Branched out in my spaces when it comes 2 being productive,, like a lot of my work is done in my bedroom just bc my desk is there and it’s the most convenient,,,, honestly im jus gonna say my favorite place to write would be from . my desk . bc it faces the window :-)

2. which character(s) from your wip(s) is your favourite?

since i only have wtsf confidently worked out ,, i’ll use those ocs !! but i think , quite Honestlie ,,, that wendy is my favorite character !! im rly in love with how she progresses as a person nd also she’s jsut . she gets it u know .

3. what are some inspirations for your wip(s)?

I TALKED ABT THIS BEFORE but b/ts’ hyyh series, my neighborhood, spring day by b/ts are a few inspirations for wtsf !!! 

4. how did you start writing?

my dad got me hooked on reading when i was really really young !! and being able to read abt all these huge worlds nd being given an opportunity 2 fall in love w them rly inspired me to want to write worlds of my own . plus , i watch a lot of different shows nd animes that feed into my daydreams nd sometimes im like ‘yo,,, that was a good daydream,,,,, time 2 story it’ .

5. which of your ocs is most difficult to write?

uHGHHGHGS ARTHUR ...... trying to capture this like . enigmatic feeling while keeping close 2 his reasons for acting That way is actually ,, rly hard?? hes a tough cookie 2 crack but i will crack it .

6. what aesthetic do you associate with your wip(s)?

for wtsf ,,, quiet towns , lonely beaches , sunset nd sunrise ,,, running through the streets ?? 

7. do you like planning?

YEA !! i see it more as like . being able to explore ur wip and what directions it can take nd its also jsut rly helpful to have a solid foundation .

8. what is your favourite quote from your wip(s)?

i pulled this from my drabbles but: “Slow down.” Wendy grabbed Arthur’s wrist, pulling him down to sit on the sand. “This world can’t keep up with you.”

9. do you like to listen to music while you write?

yes and no ?? im very particular to the kind of music im listening to nd more often than not, i write in complete silence ,,, but sometimes i’ll find a song that i feel rly fits the vibe of what im writing nd i just put it on repeat HGSHJK

10. what do you like most about your own writing?

i think i like the descriptive aspects of it ?? like how i describe places nd feelings ,,,, :-) !

11. what are/were/would be your ocs favourite subjects in school?

everyone except piper in wtsf is graduated from high school but ,, wendy liked english class the best bc it was fun nd she got good grades !! rafael definitely loved psychology nd took it at an ap level ,, arthur liked math nd chemistry .. chemistry he liked More bc he got 2 blow stuff up SKKSKSEH and piper likes world history!! tho shes not good at it . but she likes it!!

buckaroowrites’ questions!!

what is your favorite subgenre to write? to read?

i lov urban fantasy and low fantasy JGHDSHGJKS like its my favorite to write nd read bc like .. o heck ?? ghosts nd ghouls nd just overall supernatural stuff irl ?? that’s the way 2 go

if you had to be trapped on a desert island with any of your ocs, who would it be and why?

if i had 2 be trapped on a desert island ...... i’d probably choose rafael . honestlie he just seems like he always knows what’s up nd my chances of survival would increase w him JHGJKSJKS

what is your favorite medium to write?

definitely novels !! its a format i’ve pretty much grown up w and im more comfortable w this medium than any others GHSHJKS but i’d love to explore like ,, screenplays nd see where that takes me

who was your first oc?

HYLLY SHITTTT THIS BRINGS ME BACK SJHJHJGJKS i used to draw a lot back when i was younger nd so i had this oc JHJS his name was ian and he was meant for the maximum ride universe but he was a dumb dude who was 2% cat . nd he had an adopted sister ,, i forgot her name but she was part bird .

what was your first wip about?

world end club is supposed 2 be abt a group of teens who work together 2 take down a corporation that wants 2 essentially control the artificial island they live on thru engineered soldiers . ITS A CONCEPT ,, nd it requires a little Too Much for my one brain cell to think abt

thoughts on shakespeare?

uhhh no thots bc i never read his work in high school i jus know macbeth is cursed .... wow i rly dont know anything abt shakespeare huh .

poetry or prose?

o this is TOUGH i rly adore both .......... im gonna . im gonna go w prose . i lvoe poetry so much sometimes there are lines that just rly fucken punch u in the face but im gonna go w prose bc its familiar !!

would you ever co-write a story?

nO ..... i wouldnt b able 2 compromise i’d jus b like oH ACTUALLY SKSKKS MY IDEA’S DUMB LETS JUST DO URS 

write what you want to write or write what you want to read/watch?

oh . fuc .... i feel like its important to have a good balance of both but . honestlie im very partial to what i want to read/watch ..

do you like to write violence?

i dont Like 2 write it but its In My Wips !

what is your favorite trope?

oH ,, probably ‘fire forged friends’ or like . mutual pining ... i have too many favorite tropes nd somehow im gonna incorporate them all .

yikeskimi’s questions!!

Tell us about the main character(s) in your current WIP!

oKAY SO im gonna try to not make this too long SJKHJGS !! wendy is a very like . prickly character . shes like a cactus . nd she’s not too fond of letting ppl get close, but the ppl who do manage to get close to her are happie 2 learn she would actually die for them . loyalty is a Huge Huge part of her character, and she cares very deeply abt the people she calls family . shes also v sarcastic nd like . ‘open ur eyes dummy’ .

arthur is a kind of person who lives heavily on false pretenses . like he projects this image bc its an image that he can control nd he jsut Rolls w it , but hes actually someone who likes 2 tease his friends nd be friendly to them ,, hes got Issuez nd is very much the type of person to be like ‘o lol im ok :-)...’ nd prioritize the needs of others 

rafael is , in all honesty , just babey . he studied a lot during high school nd rly pushed himself beyond his limits bc he wants to be able 2 go 2 a good college on scholarship nd get a job 2 support his family , nd hes just ?? very responsible nd sweet but that can also manifest into him taking on more than he should nd burning out . 

piper is a very ,, honestlie kinda sad character kjHGJSJ she spends a lot of time just trying 2 appeal to other ppl bc she knows her interest in the supernatural make her a ‘weird’ person nd she wants to be able 2 have real friends ,, but when she learns 2 let go of this she’s very silly nd always making jokes During The Right time ..

Do you have an all time favorite OC? Tell us about them!

hMMMM i dont think i do ??? my memory of my ocs is rly bad JHSJ so more often than not i just ,, rip i dont remember them </3

If you could be best friends with one of your OCs, who would it be and why?

ms piper chaiyathan !!!! shes a very open nd kind individual nd i feel like our humor nd joking style would match V v v well !!!

Last line you’ve written in your WIP?

Wendy, unlike her brothers Adam and Nate, had inherited her father’s rough touch, and that made them both unwanted in the high stakes setting of a diner kitchen.

If you have a chosen title for your WIP, were there any titles you considered before it? And if not, what are some titles you’re thinking of?

when the sun falls went through SO many titles nd i actually have them all here: where the sun goes / fever dreams / above the sun / where the sun follows / the drowned sun ... as u can see the sun was smth i Needed .

What is an important element in the world your WIP takes place in?

uHHHH the supernatural element is . Very important but i cant be too specific about it but i will tell u it involves a dead tree on the beach .

Tell us an out of context spoiler.

arthur gets a cool new set of eyes.

Any power couples/ships in your WIP?

wendy nd arthur babey ,,,,,, bat nd molotov cocktail duo ,,,, last name central until the important moment nd THEN they use each other’s first names ..

Any music you like listening to while you write?

uHHHH specifically for wtsf i listen 2 a lot of hozier, lorde, conan gray, khalid nd halsey :-)

What would your main character(s) favorite song be?

oH okay i got this in the BAG ... wendy’s favorite song would Absolutely be work place by hozier or more than sorrow by a-lin ,,, arthur would definitely b listening 2 like . free spirit by khalid .. piper, since she p much spent all of middle school nd 2 years of high school in thailand ,, i think she’

Which character in your WIP could you relate to the most?

honestly? all of them !!! a lot of the characters in wtsf have little bits nd pieces of me bc thats how all my ocs come into existence nd theres no One character thats like “oh,,, das me”

and here are my 11 questions !!

Which one of your OCs do you think could survive a zombie apocalypse? Why?

What’s something you’ve been itching to write about?

Share the last paragraph you wrote!

Do you prefer coming up with plots or characters? Why?

Do you have any abandoned WIPs? Tell us about them!

What are some favorite themes/tropes to write about?

How do you get into the zone for writing?

Tell us a random fact for any of your OCs !!!

Are you someone who needs a visual for your WIPs?

What are some influences to your writing style?

If you had to be a character in one of your WIPs, which WIP would it be and what role would you play?

i’m gonna tag @babyreeds @holotones @alejandroistyping @noloumna @faerisms @omniawrites @aslanwrites @ashesconstellation @thegrievingyoung @glittcrpeach @syposium !!! no pressure to do it if u dont want to tho <3

[francesderwent]

reputation - first impressions review

…ready for it? weirdly I’m super into it???? the pre-chorus is good, the chorus is outstandingly good, and it builds perfectly!  but mainly I love it because it’s like a dark version of Enchanted or Everything Has Changed, and I love Taylor’s “dark” songs (Haunted, I Know Places, etc), and her love-at-first-sight songs are my favorite of her “light” songs!!! so the fact that this is about that unshakeable certainty that something is going to materialize, but with the feeling added of standing on a precipice…or maybe you are the precipice, or he is??  or both? it’s perfect.  wait I’ve got it, it’s like Enchanted and I Knew You Were Trouble COMBINED, and as such it is brilliant.

End Game   the lyrics in Taylor’s verse are fun, and I love Ed, but the song is yawn. also it gets stuck in my head any time someone mentions the avengers movie, which is constantly, and that’s definitely making me resentful.

I Did Something Bad this song makes me wanna dance slutty, and I love it.  the production is exactly what it should be, the verses, the pre-chorus, and the chorus are all perfect, and her voice sounds amazing.  plus thelonelybrilliance said I was this song back in the day and so I am legally obligated to adore it. catch me singing this every time I pre-meditatedly break my school’s dress code.  go ahead and liGHT ME UP

Don’t Blame Me I don’t hate it, but the rhythm is kind of boring?  also it sounds like a Hozier song for some reason and that’s not an overlap I was expecting or which I know what to do with.

Delicate I love the content of the song – she’s really captured something about the beautiful gossamer-fragile early stages of a relationship – but I don’t love the production of it, I liked the acoustic performance at the Time 100 thing so much better.  and especially I think I’m biased against it because I hate the thumbnail on the video.  Taylor’s feet don’t point or turn out properly in the split, and it deeply bothers the former dancer in me.  I DO really like the bridge on this song, which I think may be the only song on the album whose bridge is absolutely transcendent in that classic Taylor way.

Look What You Made Me Do the most frustrating song ever, spiritual successor to “Bad Blood” which greatly surpasses it in every possible underwhelming way.  starts amazingly strong with the creepy fairytale instrumental, the verses are solid and Taylor’s voice sounds glorious in them, the pre-chorus GOES OFF, and then the chorus suuuuuucks.  I feel like she should have switched the bridge and the chorus somehow??  the sing-songy “I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me” has the same vibe as the weird chanty chorus, but without, y’know, being super annoying and dull.

So It Goes… the rhythm in the chorus is, again, unfortunately, kind of boring. it doesn’t really get good until the last thirty seconds when the different vocalizing all overlaps and she switches into her higher register, but it does get really good for those last thirty seconds, like, I get chills kind of good. it does make me wanna listen to the True Blood theme song, which is the same vibe but southern gothic.

Gorgeous I have never been more devastatingly called out by a line than I was by “you should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk”, except that I literally do that constantly, while sober. and also except for the fact of “you should take it as a compliment that I’m talking to everyone here but you”, which called me out Even Worse.

Getaway Car this is the most Taylor Swift song on this album in that it creates a whole story within a self-enclosed universe, which somehow, by virtue of being self-enclosed, becomes open to everyone’s identifying with it.  it’s a brilliant metaphor, and the bridge is killer.

King of My Heart if I don’t have this song play as I enter my wedding reception, it’ll be because my future husband asked me not to, very persuasively.  ALL AT ONCE THIS IS ENOUGH

Dancing with Our Hands Tied I really thought “I loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us” was just one of those things that tumblr says, probably from a fanfiction or riverdale or something, but it’s from this song. huh.  it really is the OTP song, I can think of like five couples off the top of my head that it applies to.

Dress I was listening to the album while making dinner and had to skip this song partway through because it was going to scandalize my roommates, and so I listened to it on the metro instead, and it’s shockingly incredibly sweet????  the whole thing is about how much she has let this man into her heart, how much she’s let him become a part of her identity, all the way down, so that even her dress – something that we all associate with Taylor being Taylor – is actually about him.  at the same time, I feel like this song retroactively validates my being uncomfortable with the breathy vocalizing in Wildest Dreams.

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things now this is Taylor Swift spite.  juuust harsh enough, capable of laughing at itself, and fun.  kudos to Taylor for rhyming “mama” and “drama”. masterful.

Call It What You Want this song sounds like Ed Sheeran??????? the syncopation?? is classic Ed Sheeran and I love how much he’s influenced her style!!!!! FRIENDSHIP *ahem* anyway, the bridge is real good.

New Year’s Day I listened to this song months ago, actually, and I am completely emotionally overwhelmed by this being the closing song on the album.  “Clean” and “Begin Again” are both about moving on, leaving behind the one thing that defined that phase of life for you.  “Long Live” is about something that she can trust to be with her through changing phases, but specifically something non-romantic.  Fearless literally ends with a song called “Change”.  but with New Year’s Day, it’s not about an ending, it’s about the determination that even if we don’t know where we’re going next, it’s going to be together, because I’m going to stay.  this era doesn’t end with “well, I made some memories, found some moments to hold onto, but something else is coming around the bend”.  it ends with I will hold onto you.  in the midst of everything, where you’d least expect it, the thing she gets to take away with her at the end of the day is a love she can count on.