#distant-rose

[welllpthisishappening]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

hey, hi, yeah, i love you

[wistfulcynic]

happy birthday darling

Thank you my love! 

[ohmightydevviepuu]

I will take concept and world building for 500, Alex

oh i am loving this question!  thank you!!  😘

so i tend to go all-in on concept and *then* build the world around it.  for example, in from the edge of the deep green sea i knew i wanted a mermaid.  i knew i wanted captain cobra and tinkerhook and hookfire.  so then i had to answer the questions:  why is the world like this, then?  where is everyone else, why are they not here? how do i backfill it so that i have a world that supports this as a story?  just a lot of why, why, why over and over and over again.

for our little life (rounded with a sleep), same thing. i had an idea, a concept. i knew i wanted PI emma.  i knew i wanted suspect killian and i wanted season 1.  so then it was just draft after draft of honing why, why, why is it like this, over and over.  for the sword and the heart --which is a very Specific Premise within an existing world--it’s a different process but i think that @thisonesatellite, who is truly wonderful at worldbuilding, can attest that a good 75-90% of our Discourse is me just asking ‘why why why why’.

a lot.

i think this is because i always write my characters from a place of having certain emotions or ideas i want to explore and then trying to create a situation where those ideas/emotions can be organically expressed.  i never start from a plotline and then use the plotline to push the characters toward their emotions--this is part of what’s been really hard about the daily prompts i have been working on, actually!  i’m a story person.  plot is secondary, it’s just the vehicle.  i get that my answers to those questions are never perfect, but i need to get to a place where the characters and situations i want are in a place that makes sense, and that’s typically how i try to get there.

it’s fanfic friday, AMA!

[thesschesthair]

Happy Birthday, my sweet panda

Eyyy!!!

Thank you my foxy lil tiger cub!

Me rn! 

[spartanguard]

21,31, 40

ahh thank you, Ro!

21. What was the first fanfic you ever wrote?

I think I started a Sabrina story in a notebook when I was 9 but never finished it. My first published story was Drunk Dial, 5.5 years ago (holy shit).

31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

@optomisticgirl constantly praises my worldbuilding, which is a pretty intense compliment coming from someone whose own worldbuilding has me in awe

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

Lately, I’ve noticed that I tend to get a little too lost in mundane actions—like getting things from the fridge and walking. I have to remind myself that if I’m getting bored writing it, then people will get bored reading it. I also tend to linger on backstory/expository and i need to work on incorporating that better with the flow. (And I really love parentheticals, if you couldn’t tell.)

Fanfiction Questions

[justanotherwannabeclassic]

How I would summon you: 1) a legal guarantee that Staron will be happy healthy and always canon, 2) Dick Grayson, 3) a greyhound puppy, 4) Lacroix and 5) a deal from marvel to publish Earth 6828

Yeah, yeah, these would get me. 

But, fun fact: I was reading a question me, and one of the questions was “Which fictional character would you marry?” My response: “THIS IS SO HA-- Dick Grayson.” HE IS CLEARLY A SUPERIOR CHOICE. 

And I would die for a greyhound puppy, but SOMEONE WHO IS MY ACTUAL HUSBAND, isn’t into greyhounds. And I am surviving on off-brand sparkling water, because everyone in DC raided the grocery storys.

And if Marvel published 6828, we would be so happy. GIVE US OUR VERSE, MARVEL. WE HAVE GOOD CHARACTERS AND OVER 10 YEARS OF PLOT. Ten. Years. Actually more, but the first ten years are heavily plotted. 

TELL ME 5 THINGS YOU’D PUT IN A PENTAGRAM TO SUMMON ME AND I’LL TELL YOU IF IT WOULD WORK OR NOT

[wholockgal]

random stuff

i am The Worst(tm) at doing these things, i know. but i was tagged by @blessed-but-distressed and am actually doing the thing!

Top three ships? these days, based on fic habits, i’d say Feysand (Feyre Archeron x Rhysand), Captain Swan, and the ot3 you never knew you needed Emma x Killian x Azriel (CS and Azriel from acotar) I SAID WHAT I SAID.

Lipstick or chapstick? chapstick. preferably burt’s bees.

Last song you listened to? "I’ve Grow Accustomed to Her Face” (I just saw a matinee of My Fair Lady, and that’s the last musical number)

Last movie you watched? in the theatre: Frozen II. at home: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 

Currently reading? I just finished An Enchantment of Ravens last night, and am currently working on Julie Andrew’s Home Work (audiobook, and yes i realize the timing given My Fair Lady although we’re currently past that part of her life in the book) and am starting The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.

I’ll tag @fleurdeneuf, @welllpthisishappening, @asthewheelwills, and @distant-rose even though she tagged me in a thing that i haven’t done yet.

[bleekay]

“Good or Nice Asks” What if I want to send a Fair or Mediocre ask? What about neutral ones? I’m mildly sleep deprived but I love you. Here’s to hoping people won’t be complete muppets this year.

i’ll grant My Personal Good Friend Rose leniency and allow any and all fair slash mediocre asks, but you get a warning if they dip to below average. three warnings means you get a red flag, ten red flags and you get a stern look, twenty stern looks and you get a very firmly worded letter, at least 2000 words, where i only say “i love you” once, so it’s absolutely devastating for you

[ineffablecolors]

came for you, stayed for you, boo. miss ya face. you need to come to ny so we can do another bar crawl!

woman, that’s the most tempting thing I’ve heard in a looong time 

[shireness-says]

came for the talent, stayed for the personality, you're amazing darling and deserve all the cocoa in the world.

Thanks, dearest heart. You’re my fave.

[welllpthisishappening]

hello my love

Hello, darling! Sending all the best exam vibes your way and just good things in general because you deserve lots of good things. 

[wistfulcynic]

6, 16, 34

6: Do you cut out coupons but then never use them?

No, but I get vouchers from the supermarket that I always forget to use. It’s normally something like £4 off when you spend £40, and it’s a rare supermarket trip that sees me organised enough to spend £40 in one go. Instead I’ll go twice and spend £20 each time, thus wasting my money. 

16: How many people have you slept with this week?

Just the one, and he’s pissing me off a bit because we got a new mattress last week and now that he’s not falling into the divot he made in the old one he’s decided to sprawl out across the whole damn thing and I keep having to kick him back to his side. 

SORRY BUT AT MY AGE SLEEPING WITH PEOPLE IS NO LONGER SEXY. 

34: Favorite kind of sandwich?

Reuben. I would kill for a good reuben right now. Can you teleport me one from NYC?

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send me ‘unique’ asks!!

[ohmightydevviepuu]

36, 39, 41

36 - What’s your favourite genre to write?

ooh, romance.  definitely romance.  i think everything i’ve written is, at a minimum, romance-adjacent.  i need the emotions and the HEA.  if they are not angsting and pining and trying to FEEL all of their FEELINGS then WHAT AM I EVEN DOING.  

a thing i want to try, though?  more romantic suspense.  just--i’m not great with action?  like, forget ‘cut to the chase’--skip the chase, i just want the emotions.

39 - What is your greatest strength as a writer?

oh, i don’t even know how to explain this, except to say:  i know how to think through writing and make the words do the thing.  i may not always know the plot and what happens next, but when i put something down on a page, i know WHY it happens and why i feel strongly that it happens for that character in that way and where it needs to sit in the arc of things that are happening.  (related:  i am a plotter, not a pantser)

41 - List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

to the ends of the world by @optomisticgirl i’m trying to keep up with the amazing @captainswanbigbang content if you live by the sword, you die by the pen by @thisonesatellite i am re-reading their way by moonlight from @profdanglaisstuff they’ll be flowers growing on the other side of the garden wall by philthestone

hey, send me fic asks!  i have already driven to connecticut and back today and i am le tired.

[thesschesthair]

10, 35 and 21

10: What is your biggest pet peeve?

So so many! Biggest one is probably the. behaviour of others.

Busy people. When they purposely get themselves involved in other people’s business or play one off the other just to get drama started. Can’t stand people that do that...and Entitlement... that always brings rudeness/lack of manners which pisses me off. When people act better than others or feel they’re above someone. No need for it. Or making fun of people they don’t know. I love a good roasting session among friends but I can’t abide when someone makes fun of another they don’t know. That’s cruel and bullying in my eyes and I don’t like it. 

35: Best thing to eat for breakfast?

Toast. I don’t mind cereal or porridge, pancakes, waffles or a full english- whatever people like, breakfast food is great, but for me it always comes down to toast being the best breakfast food, hands down. 

21: Whats your least favorite movie?

Woah.... as a former film student, film worker and movie junkie.... i’ve seen some doozies but I honestly can’t pick one I absolutely hated off the top of my head. Oh! Actually.... Rise of the foot soldier/bonded by blood- any of those shitty budged ‘british gangster’ movies... they’re fucking awful and just fantasy trips for cockney male pricks who fantasise about “shagging slags, punching cunts and robbing bastards!” ugh. No thank you. 

[justanotherwannabeclassic]

2 and 22

2. least favorite fic you wrote this year

Hrm. Probably Running from Grenades, which was my first foray into MCU fic and I was still finding my sea legs for the characters. I could probably do it much better now. 

22. events you participated in this year

I honestly think the only event I participated in this year is the @captainswanbigbang Rewrite-a-thon as a beta for @youre-not-a-cat-youre-a-rat. Her fic is going to be AMAZING, so CS shippers, get ready. You have a lot of good content coming up next year. 

play the fanfic year in review game

[searchingwardrobes]

CS Fic Rec Monday: Seal of Fate by distant-rose

I know I have been MIA for fic rec Monday for awhile now, but it wasn’t by choice. It just seemed like every Monday something came up. It ended up working out, however, because my dear friend @distant-rose was just interviewed by @the-citrus-scale (formerly The Lemon Mag). My fic rec for this week is her story from last year’s Captain Swan Supernatural Summer:

Seal of Fate - Emma Swan is so well written in this selkie fic! I always say that no one “gets” Emma Swan better than Ro, and in this story, she gets her personality spot on. There is a mystery to be solved as well and there were twists I didn’t see coming. The CS romance is wonderfully, realistically done, but it doesn’t take away from Emma’s personal mission. I knew next to nothing about selkies before reading this, and it had me drawn in from the very beginning!

I would actually recommend reading ALL of Ro’s fics, and I’m sure this won’t be the last time I rec one!