#falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand

[reedraws]

nari with an odd animal of your choice? :3

GLOONK! 🐸

[oc-culture]

oc culture is (struggling) making ref sheets for them 😭

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[sidhewrites]

17, 7, 5? :33

wip ask game ; accepting! ; For my unnamed fairy wip

5: Search for the word "knife" in your WIP. If you find it, paste the line and explain the context.

"We should get you back home," Jack continued. He wrapped an arm around her protectively, scanning the shadows for any movement. His free hand went to the knife in his belt. It wasn't much, and wouldn't do any good against something that could make an elk scream like that, but it was better than nothing. "Let's--"

We're way at the beginning of the story, where the inciting incident occurs. An elk screams in pain, which terrifies both Jack and Polly, since no elk are supposed to live in this part of the woods. Unfortunately for Jack, however, Polly wants to go help the injured animal, which means that they have to go towards the source of the trouble, rather than away from it.

7: What are you most proud of?

Answered here, but tbh I'm just really proud that I've had this same character and rough idea since I was 15 or 16. Polly has been one of my favorite OCs, with the same basic ideas from the start, but it's really neat to see how much I've improved as a writer just by seeing how the story around her has changed.

17: Does your WIP have any themes or motifs?

Answered here, so here's a playlist I listen to while writing instead

[arcane-nari]

fur, touching, pebble? :33

fanfic guessing game! :3

Fur: Nothing in any chapters I haven't already published, but it can be found in Chapter 3 of parenting 101 BC

"Let's give you something not so furry, eh? Here." Sedge went for the bowl of mash again -- ground wild grains and spice, tempered with water. It was a filling, fast meal, easy on the stomach for someone who wasn't able to eat heartily. "It's good. See?"

Touching: No touching, or touch, but Toby does say Touchdown in chapter 2 of the camping fic

Toby took the turn, and the bus rumbled along the gravel, finally coming to a stop at a clearing fenced in on all sides by the forest itself. "And we have touchdown!"

Pebble: Weirdly, nothing at all for pebble. But plenty of stones in the next chapter of the Camping fic (almost finished :3c)

"Look at this." Slowly, carefully, she sifts through the stones, crystalline claws glowing as she seeks out one specific rock, soft and round, fitting perfectly in her hand. "Skrael?"

[banchiedoingart]

there is no courage in flirting with fear

to prove you're alive

Reblog > likes!!!

[samglyph]

They were roommates in college

[spirited-splashes]

(Don’t tag ships.)

I saw someone say “No Children” by The Mountain Goats fit the Stan twins if you interpret the song as platonic and I realized that there was so much angst potential in the song

[sparkdoesart]

Isat siffrin and loop short animatic thing for my au~

Spoilers for the secret ending!

So much i wanna talk about with these two~

But alas, I'll keep it to myself for now,

[arimabari]

touching inquisition for the first time in ages and have decided I am going to romance Cullen. I will however be making him much much worse.

[sophiethewitch1]

as always i really dont seem to write 'i can fix him' and more so 'he can fix me' which says a lot about my fantasies

[fictionadventurer]

August: Day 25

Adventures

Spent way too long at the library

Checked out a book that was so old and hadn't been checked out for so long that it was no longer in the library's computer system

Enjoyed an hour of silence at home resting in the peace of the wind outside and the sunlight and shadows of trees flickering on the floor

Read poetry under a tree in the sunset

Writing

Read part of Ruta Sepetys' book on writing

Wrestled with the desire to write a personal, meaningful novel while having no idea what project could fill that need

[qismet]

the importance of both romantic and platonic love + soulmates in vnc was lowkey insane ... luna explaining to vanitas that they hoped he would one day find love and jeanne being right there, and then the adjacent section of that being that vanitas would find someone to share warmth with and out of the woods comes noe ... quite simply it shook me

[calechipconecrimes]

hey mutuals wanna go get ice cream and walk on the beach and stare at the sunset and do all the things romantic couples are """supposed""" to do but platonically

[raayllum]

wondering if i did the math right if i could spin “nine days passed from the time viren and harrow passed into xadia from katolis to the time they reached the storm spire” if only because it takes nine days to fall into tartarus and something about that seems very apt to me

[longagoitwastuesday]

Do you have favorite actors for the various roles in "Cyrano de Bergerac"? I would love to hear your thoughts!

I do! I actually rambled a lot about this while I was watching the different productions I could get my hands on (I tagged it "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "I talk too much").

My favorite productions are the one with José Ferrer and the one with Benoit Solès, and those actors make the best Cyranos in my opinion. Though that's probably something in part beyond the actors' choice, their dynamic with their respective Roxane and Christian are the best ones, I think, and I find how Cyrano moves around these two particular characters at the core of a good Cyrano characterisation.

José Ferrer's use of his voice, which is arguably Cyrano's true most characteristic feature, is unmatched imo (although McAvoy does a very good job with this too), and he manauvers very well several of the different aspects of the character, such as his playfulness, his shittiness and longing. By the end of the play you believe he is the most beautiful man on Earth. Cyrano, however, is a bit pathetic (not just in a "pathos" way), and I'd say Ferrer gives off an air full of dignity very fitting of many scenes, but that eats almost entirely this aspect of Cyrano; Benoit Solès manages this very well, while also playing well with some of the other ones, such as the playfulness, the longing, the pain and the despair. Both Ferrer and Solès are hilarious, tender, a bit shitty, vulnerable, playful and sad. Albeit neither of them portrays 100% what Cyrano is, I think both come pretty close in slightly different flavours, and by the end of the play one ends up being terribly fond of them.

My favourite Roxane is Clara Huet in the production with Benoit Solès, but Mala Powers in the 1950 film is a close second. I think they portray wonderfully Roxane's spunk, and her mix of honest playful cheerfulness and her haughtiness, her intelligence and wit, and how much like Cyrano she is.

I've not come to love for now any Christian as much as I've loved Ferrer, Solès, Huet and Powers, but again I think the Christians in the 1950 film and the Solès productions are very very good. I love the dynamic they have with their Cyranos, especially the one Christian and Cyrano have in the 1950 film, enhanced positively by the added scenes (they actually work so well in showing their developing as friends, their deep love and care for each other!). I don't want to expand too much on this to avoid spoilers (beyond the already known 'Christian dies' ones I mean), but some things they do with both these Christians are a thing of genius, and both feel vulnerable, kind, ready to fight and truly desperate at times; I like when they do that.

There's an Italian production which has a Cyrano I truly enjoy as well, despite how they dumbify him more than I usually like my Christians. His mix of anger and deep pain when he discovers Cyrano's feelings for Roxane were so well made, and his physical presence makes you identify who Christian is even before the play starts.

The Podalydès production has two different Christians. The one in the version on youtube isn't bad, but @ride-a-dromedary likes Éric Ruf a lot. I actually adore him based on the clips and gifs she's posted of him, but I haven't been able to find the version with him online, so I can't know. But he truly seems one of the best. Based on what little I've seen, I love his intense gazes and subtle gestures.

I'm not entirely sold on any Le Bret, De Guiche or Ragueneau yet.

I think the German musical has a decent Ragueneau in vibes, and the 1990 French film does as well. I found his poem made song for what I think is a Spanish production (I'm not sure if it's a fan creation based on the Spanish production), and while I've not been able to find that production online, the song works well in vibes too I think.

The German musical's Le Bret in vibes is very good. He encompasses well his deep love and worry for Cyrano while also being done with his shit. They truly feel like close friends. The 1950 film kind of combines Gaston de Castel-Jaloux and Le Bret into one character, which sadly changes Le Bret's dynamic with Cyrano a bit, but that's a very good Le Bret as well. The one in Solès' production is pretty good too. He has my favourite delivery of the scene in which Le Bret chastises Cyrano for risking his life sending letters.

De Guiche is complicated. I think productions often make him too pathetic and laughable or too bad, so bad it makes the last act kind of not make sense. The 1950 one, the 1990 French one, the Kevin Kline one and the Solès one are all good, but I am not passionate for any of them either.

And basically that's it!

[yumenosakiacademy]

SAW THE TAG "not sure if i ship it myself but it's such an interesting ship from a narrative standpoint" ON A SHIP POST N YEA! U! U GET IT!