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falsemneme · 15 hours ago
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Feyre rubbed her face again. "I don't know what to do. How to help her." "Three days in and I'm already at my wit's end," he said. (ACOSF, Ch. 11)
"Change comes slowly for us. What humans accomplish in decades takes us centuries." (ACOSF, Ch. 11)
Elain stood by the rail, the breeze caressing her hair. "She's not getting any better. She's not even trying." She wrapped her arms around herself and stared toward the distant sea. (ACOSF, Ch. 17)
"Some of [the priestesses] have been here for hundreds of years and still haven't been able to come back from what they endured. So what hope do I have?" He rubbed at his shoulder, as if it were sore. "We've been working for barely two weeks, Nesta. Physically, you might be seeing changes, but what's happening in your mind, your heart, will take far longer than that. [...]" (ACOSF, Ch. 18)
He said with soft fury, "It took me ten years before I was able to face it. What I'd done to those people, and what I'd lost. Ten years. [...] You want to take twenty years, go ahead." (ACOSF, Ch. 18)
This book makes my head spin. It seems like the timeline for everyone else to heal and process trauma is... decades, at minimum. Centuries, possibly. So if Cassian knows this—(because he IS the man who said he was at his wits end only 3 days in just to turn around a week and a half later and tell Nesta she can take 20 years if she wants)—then I do NOT understand Rhysand's original plan. How long did the IC expect Nesta to be institutionalised in the Sentient Psychiatric Hospital & Gulag exactly? 4 weeks? 30 years?? 250??? With Cassian there the entire time????
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thedumbasscourier · 5 years ago
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Fallout companion meme! recently got tagged by @goblin-deity​ ! taggin @wanshotta​ @egopoiesis​ and @daggertongue​ and anyone else really who’d like to do it! 
putting this under a read more cause this is way longer than I thought it be oops
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name: Zac Dick
location: During the day he can be found outside of the Novac Motel with his dog Cooper. At night he can be found in his motel room.
hire: “It’s been a few since I last traveled with someone. It’ll be nice to get around again.” / (bad karma/Legion run) “Sorry, but I don’t run with the likes of you.”
use melee: “I’m a bit better with my rifle, but I’ll be sure to hold up.”
use ranged: “I’ll show ‘em just what it means to be a ranger.”
open inventory: “Just don’t start using me like a pack brahmin, okay?” / overburnded: “You started using me like a pack brahmin...”
stay close: “I’ve got your back as long as you have my blind side.”
keep distance: “They won’t even know there’s two of us.”
stealth: 
be passive: “I’ll wait on your cue.”
be aggressive: “No one will be left standing.”
use stimpack: “Thanks.. Really needed that.”
wait here: “I won’t be going far.”
follow me: “We’ve got a lot of klicks to cover, so let’s get to.”
combat starts: “Hope you’re ready cause this rodeo has started!”
death: 
send to lucky 38: “Ah, the Strip. Where many get drunk and gamble, and I’m stuck in a room.”
send home: “Well, you’ll know where to find me. I’ll be back in Novac.”
aggression: not aggressive / aggressive / very aggressive / frenzied
confidence: cowardly / cautious / average / brave / foolhardy
assistance: helps no one / helps allies / helps allies and friends
karma: very good
companion quest: Gunslingers Glory: With enough affinity Zac will express a desire to head to Boulder City. If the player takes him up on it, they can ask about why he wanted to go there. He’ll explain his role in the first battle of Hoover Dam and will express some doubts about himself, specifically about him and his relationship to the NCR. The player can either try and ease some doubts or belittle him for it. 
The next part for Zac’s quest involves Forlorn Hope, in which he’ll make comments after objectives are done, and the players choices help count which choice he’ll make at the end of his quest. Though repeatedly failing these quests will make him mad. 
The finally part of Zac’s quest happens after the player leaves the building after dealing with chief Hanlon. He’ll express his doubts again and his doubts on the upcoming battle. He’ll ask the player what they think; should he reenlist, or forget about it all together? The player can tell him to reenlist, to stay as he is, or that the choice is up to him (he’ll decide to stay as is). The player can also get mad at him for bringing it up again, in which he will just leave and not be recruit-able again. 
additionally: If Zac reenlists he’ll gain an upgraded version of his current armor, granting him a boost to his DT. If he doesn’t his armor will be changed to just the duster without the armor, granting him a boost to his melee weapon skill.
companion perk: Ranger Trained: While Zac is the active companion the player receives a buff towards both their guns skill and melee weapons skill. (+10 points towards both skills)
Under the cut here is extra stuff that I do have down for Zac’s actual companion mod, it’s not part of the meme! (if can be if you want tho). It’s some of his idle chatter and his specific location chatter.
Idle chat: “You'd think by now we would ride the brahmin, or even the big horners. Hell, the radscorpions are big enough to ride.” 
“It's a shame the geckos around here are aggressive. I quite like them.“
“There never seems to be a boring day out on the Mojave.“
“Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you.. Ha! I kid, I kid.”
“You ever wonder how it would be like to live a pre-war life? Without everything being a wasteland?“
Specific location chat: “Ah Novac... Home sweet motel.” (Novac ofc)
“While we’re here I hope you don’t mind if I do some catching up here and there.” (at Camp MacCarren)
“It’s quite the quaint little place here. It’s nice.” (at Goodsprings)
“Ah... I’d rather not spend too much time here, if you don’t mind. Bad memories.” (at Camp Forlorn Hope)
“Vice, vice, and more vice. Hope you got some sort of virtue to get you through here.” (at The Strip)
“What kinda suit is that?” (at Benny, The Tops)
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bookenders · 5 years ago
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11/11/11 Tag Game: Rounds 24, 25, 26, and 27
Tagged by the wonderful @corsairesque, the lovely @azawrites, the stellar @sunlight-and-starskies, and the incomparable @inexorableblob - thanks!
And @inexorableblob, thank you for letting me rewrite the end of The Great Gatsby. It was very cathartic.
Rules: Answer 11 questions, write 11 questions, tag 11 people!
Bilbo Taggins: @aurumni-writes @quilloftheclouds @aslanwrites @starlitesymphony @writingonesdreams @waterfallwritings @cataclysmic-writer @ren-c-leyn @timefirewrites @minusfractions @ink-flavored - and if you like the questions and aren’t tagged, feel free to answer them! And tag me so I can see! 
My Questions:
How many licks would it take for your OCs to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
What are your favorite smells?
What’s the book you’ve read most recently? What did you think of it? What impressed you? What would you have done differently?
What are your thoughts on mugs?
If your OCs had a comic book series/graphic novel about them, what would it be called? What would be on the cover? What would the art style be?
Can you draw a bear?
Do you do any other kinds of art? Are you ever influenced by other kinds of art? What about other areas like science or mathematics/other disciplines?
Have you read any craft books or writing advice books? If yes, how have the helped or hindered you? Which would you recommend? If no, would you ever consider reading them?
What are your favorite kinds of narratives? What narrative structures do you prefer to write and what do you prefer to read?
What’s your favorite recipe?
What are some signs that make you consider setting a project aside vs continuing with it?
As always, answers under the cut!
@corsairesque‘s Questions:
1. Do you create playlists for your stories or characters?
I do! 
Here’s a detailed post about how I make them.
This is Mel’s from H2H.
This is Gemma’s from H2H.
This is one for the story I recently posted.
And I have one for each WIP on my WIP page! (Mostly, I’m still working on Fish Food’s.)
I actually have folders in Spotify for my characters and stories. Each one gets a playlist.
2. What is your stance on endings that don’t end with some hope?
Sometimes a story needs to have a certain ending to have an emotionally satisfying conclusion. I don’t think hope is absolutely required for an ending. I’ve ended stories without hope because that’s how the story ends. If I wrote it to conclude with an upturn, it would’ve been disloyal to the narrative. Like life, not everything ends happily, or with a positive outlook.
If you want it from a more technical perspective, there are three sorts of endings: positive, negative, and neutral. They can mix and match, but these are the three base ones. I tend toward neutral or positive-neutral endings. The best story I’ve written so far has a negative-leaning neutral ending because it concludes with a loss that does not promise hope. Positive endings are not necessary for a narrative, or for a conclusion. 
Sometimes you need to write a hopeful ending. Sometimes you need to read a hopeful ending. And sometimes you need to read or write something that ends on a down-note. I know I have. 
So, TL;DR, there is no ending hierarchy. It all depends on the reader and the writer, what they need, and what the story demands.
3. What author would you love to hear feedback from on your WIP?
Of literally anyone? Dead or alive? I mean. I’d love to hear what Flannery O’Connor would have to say about my short stories. I try to do a remix-version of her moments of grace in each of them.
4. What is the genre of your WIP(s)?
I mention these on my WIP page!
Most of my short stories are literary and contemporary fiction. My longer projects tend toward low fantasy.
5. How do you come up with new ideas for your WIP(s)?
I don’t have a method or anything for idea generation. My brain works in the background while I’m doing other things, so I’ll be washing dishes, or brushing my teeth, or writing something else, and an idea goes HI HELLO WHAT ABOUT THIS HUH? and I scramble to write it down.
Most of the time, my story ideas come from cool sentences I think of while observing. That sounds super weird and nerdy, but it’s true! When I’m bored or need to occupy my brain or just sorta feel like creating something spontaneous, I’ll look around and figure out how I’d write about a certain thing in the vicinity. 
Some examples of this from my phone notes:
“Laughter echoing through a cave, bouncing off the walls, the gift of hearing it over and over until it fades like gentle waking”
“Cheeks baked pink from the flush of her modesty”
“The last remnants of home, the dirt hidden beneath their fingernails”
“Headlights flicker between the gaps in the barrier like a slipstream of stars”
Ya know, stuff like that.
Sometimes, if I’m stuck while writing and need a thought, I look at the plot and think up complications for my characters to face. That’s how I figured out how to make Lithium 100% more plot relevant. I thought, okay, so she has this role right now, what can I add to make her stand in the way of X plan while also being an asset to Y? And boom, idea generated and problem solved.
6. What do you use to keep all your writing on? (Scrivener, Google Docs, good old pen and paper…)
I use Scrivener for all my main writing. I have a ton of phone memo notes for ideas on the go. I have a notebook full of random stuff for when I’m blocked and need to hand write something.
I also answered this further down!
7. What gave you initial inspiration for your WIP(s)?
H2H: There was a publisher who had a call for shapeshifter stories, and then I missed the deadline so I decided to try for a zine instead, then I got rejected, so I made it into my own thing.
AOPC: I needed to flesh out a piece of my homebrew DnD world, so I started worldbuilding, then it was my turn to turn in a story to be workshopped in my writing class, so I wrote a thing set in the village about the tribe and it all spiraled out from there.
FF: I had an errant thought about the script that hero and villain stories follow and wrote a thing about what would happen if one of them decided to deviate from it and BOOM the plot hit me like a semi truck.
Almost all of my short stories start with a sentence I think sounds really cool, a tone I want to try to capture (ex. the feeling of standing inside an old cathedral), or the ending moment of a character arc (I tend to work backwards).
8. How long have you been working on your WIP(s)?
I’ve been working with Heart to Heart since November 2018. I started thinking about Fish Food like 3 months ago I think? And I got the idea for All Our Painted Colors 3ish years ago, but it started as a short story that I thought about expanding about 8 months ago.
My writing process starts with a long period of thought percolation before I write anything definitive down.
9. What was the first thing you came up with for your WIP(s)?
H2H: The fact that the main character is an apothecary who uses recipes from historical documents to brew things and lives in a small town, and that their love interest changes shapes in some way.
AOPC: That the tribe is a society based around body paint, art, preserving their personal history, and stories. But mostly paint. 
FF: The hero danging over a pit of hungry piranhas and asking the villain a question that throws off the whole “death threat” vibe.
10. Have you considered Hogwarts houses for your characters? If so, what are they?
Answered this for the H2H cast here.
As for the Fish Food cast:
Iron Will - Hufflepuff
Overseer - Ravenclaw
Nightmare - A Hufflepuff who asked to be in Slytherin and the hat said “yeah okay”
Lithium - Gryffindor
Babylon - Slytherin
Sparkplug - Gryffindor
11. What do you find easiest to write? (Description, dialogue, etc.)
Interiority! Free indirect discourse! Unvoiced character brain thoughts! Which I guess means description? 
Writing dialogue sucks old car tires!
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@azawrites‘ Questions:
what’s the best part about your writing style? I like how I build up to emotional punches. It’s like walking up a ramp, but in a literary way. And at the top of the ramp you either get a gut punch of feels or an ice cream cone.
do you write on the computer or on paper? I do most of my writing on my laptop because my hands can’t write fast enough to keep up with my brain. My typing is way faster. If I’m having trouble getting an idea down, or the tone of the writing lends itself to being handwritten (idk how to describe this, but sometimes words just gotta be scribbled, ya know?), I’ll hand write it in pen. I don’t use pencils anymore because I wasn’t allowed to in college and it kinda stuck.
what are your favourite books and why? Oh, no, there are too many. So I’ll just say my top book: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien because of how it deals with stories and grief and remembering, the fact that it’s a story cycle (which is very cool), and the way he writes - it’s beautiful and sad and messed up and poignant. I love it.
why did you start writing? I’ve answered this before, but there was never really starting point for me. It’s just something I’ve always done. 
why did you continue writing? Because I had too much fun to stop! I also get creatively constipated, I guess is how I would phrase it, and need to have some sort of narrative outlet or my brain gets really mad at me.
where do you usually write? Pretty much anywhere, but most often at my desk. I think I need a taller chair, though...
can you describe your favourite piece (written by you) in one sentence? Let’s get authory with this one: The teacher hands out the tests, multiple choice this time, but when the stapled packet slides across your desk, there’s something odd about it, something that brings the war to life inside your head, a long-forgotten voice that speaks the souls of the soldiers and tells their stories from the annals of history. Or: A multiple choice test about WWII that tells the story of 4 men from Company B from enlistment to the end of their campaign.
what’s one cliche/trope you overuse, but still like anyway? It’s a trope when it comes to my own writing, actually. Person Sits Alone in the Dark and Contemplates. I love it, I abuse the hell out of it, and I will never stop.
what music do you listen to when working on a WIP? Depends. I have a go-to Writing Flow State song, playlists to help me get in the right head space when writing certain characters, and playlists that help guide the tone of a story. I can never listen to movie or video game scores because the association of song and cinematic moment is too strong for me.
have you ever dreamed of a fictional character? Uh, I have the occasional nightmare about Kokopelli? Does that count? 
what’s one thing that makes you automatically dislike a book? Overly pretentious first person POV prose (and I don’t mean purple. I mean a character who - honestly and without a hint of satire - thinks like a writer from the 1920s who just discovered what “paid by the word” means and believes they’re the wisest human being in the universe and everyone who doesn’t agree with them is the basest of idiots - barf). Gratuitous female violence. The use of the word “loins” outside of an animal context. Everything about The Beginners by Rebecca Wolff. 
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@inexorableblob‘s Questions:
Which of your characters could you write as twice their current age? Oh, man, I think writing Iron Will in his forties or fifties would be really cool. It’d certainly give the story a new commentary twist.
Which of your characters could you write as half their current age? (I’m not gonna cheat and say Mel, I promise.) I think writing a 30yo Treena would be very cool. However, writing a 13 or 14yo Lithium who is just learning how to use her super powers would be WILD. 
What big city would your characters do best in?  London?  New York? Tokyo?  Mexico City?  Rio? The Fish Food characters would all do best in New York or London, since they’re very close to Conover. Lithium would prefer Rio, though, and Babylon would lobby for everyone to move to Tokyo.  The H2H characters would do best in Mexico City or London, depending on who decides to take charge and teach everyone the local customs. 
What would your characters do if they were in a small rural community that was attacked by underground worms? This is giving me too many ideas for H2H. Gemma would be a little bit furious, since she hates having to get rid of animals, especially when they’re invasive. If the worms just minded their own gosh dang business then everyone could live in peace.  If we’re talkin’ normal sized worms, like worm-sized worms, then Gemma would develop a pesticide that wouldn’t kill them, but force them to the surface where they would then be stunned by whatever weird solution Mel comes up with. Then the town would have a Worm-Off, where the person who collects the most worms wins free pie for a year, courtesy of Harry’s.  If we’re talkin’ DnD-style Purple Worms, like Beetlejuice worms, then Mel would take over. She’d help organize an evacuation and steal Oz’s gun, just in case. Then she’d do some spoilery things with Gemma assisting.
What is the worst place where you’ve ever wanted to write? Probably while I was taking the math section of the SATs. Kinda inconvenient, brain, thanks for that. Other terrible places: mid job interview, in the middle of an empty street at midnight, anywhere I’m sitting where I have terrible posture, watching a slam poetry event in a very crowded bar, etc.
What’s the most uncomfortable subject you’ve ever written about? I’ve written a little bit about hate crimes and loathed every second. I’ve written a character actively contemplating suicide (he was a WWII soldier) and that was not fun at all. I mean, I also wrote a paper about sexy (somewhat graphic) wlw poetry for my Sexuality class, which a lot of people would be uncomfortable with, but I thought it was a very good collection. Go read Marilyn Hacker’s stuff, it’s good.
If you had to change the ending of any famous novel, which would you pick? The Great Gatsby. We don’t end with the green light, screw the green light.  Gatsby wills all of his possessions and wealth to Nick and Nick becomes the next James Gatz. But this time around, he pines for the man who was killed in the pool just below his balcony while pretending to love Jordan, who finds out and amicably marries him because 1920s. She then uses Nick/Gatsby’s money to purchase an automobile manufacturing company and makes cars in every color but yellow. (Gotta maintain that color symbolism for F. Scott, I guess.) Nick discovers Gatz’ old bootlegging and illegal activities buddies and starts up a criminal empire. He and Jordan become the biggest, queerest, most spiteful and angsty crime bosses in New York. Nick makes it his life’s mission to take down false accusers, vigilante style. The car manufacturing company is what they use to launder money. Daisy divorces Tom because they’re both terrible people. Daisy takes her daughter and moves to California. Jordan sends Daisy’s daughter money secretly, about a hundred dollars a month. The last line is something about how Gatz was always reaching out and chasing green, but because of him, Nick is steeped in dark, bloody red. I would then write a sequel about Nick and Jordan and their crime empire that spans the East Coast. God, I hate this book.
If you had to change your life, what would you change without regret? Start therapy way earlier, 100%. That would have saved me a lot of nonsense.
If the end of the world where scheduled a week from tomorrow, what would you do?  Would you tell anybody? Everybody?  Keep it a secret? Assuming this was legit and the end of the world was actually happening, I’d probably try to tell some big-shot geologist or something, hoping they spread the word. Other than that, since debt won’t be a thing, I’d take the people I love on a killer trip around the world.
What would you do if a wizard offered to cast one spell for you, but your worst enemy got the same spell? Hmmm. I’d ask them to cast the Self-Realization spell, so they would instantly become aware of the effect their actions have on others and know exactly how terrible they’ve been to other people their whole life. Maybe then they can be a better person. My anxiety makes this spell ineffective on me, since it’s already there! Thanks, brain! 
Which would you choose, never eating in the same place, always eating the same meal, always eating with the same people, or never eating with the same people? I’d choose always eating with the same people. I like frequenting restaurants I like and eating different things. I don’t think I could deal with only eating the same thing/off the same menu forever. And I have bad social anxiety, so constantly eating with new people would probably short-circuit my brain eventually.  A good meal in good company is pretty great, though. 
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@sunlight-and-starskies‘ Questions:
What is your favorite genre of music? I’ll always be a rock fan at heart. Right now, I really like folk rock and any kind of music that sounds like it has history behind it.
What are your favorite words? Illustrious, shimmer, soliloquy, incarnate, bound, and many more. Also most Yiddish curses.
Describe your ideal vacation. Somewhere cozy where I can explore and chill at my leisure. A week of artsy events in the city. Exploring landscapes in the country.
If you could have any fictional creature for a pet, what would it be? Why? Pegasus! I can ride and they can fly. We’d make an excellent team, and where we’d go, we wouldn’t need roads.
Which fictional universe would you live in if you had to live there for the rest of your life? Logic dictates the Star Trek universe, since I’d probably be an average civilian. Post-scarcity society? Sign me the hell up. My heart, however, is screaming ROHAN.
Favorite childhood toy? Uh... I honestly can’t remember. 
What is your aesthetic? Good smelling old books with doodles and notes in the margins, a pile of unfolded clean clothes on a chair, a stack of handwritten papers perched on the corner of a desk, the smell of breakfast cooking when you wake up, the immediate “woops” shock the moment you trip over something you should’ve moved earlier.
Tell me a random fact about your current project or you. About me: I have a birthmark that kinda sorta looks like an elephant. About Fish Food: The Coalition knows what happened to Hydrophase. So does Sparkplug.
Are you an early bird or a night owl? Night owl, all the way. I like the idea of being a morning person, though. 
What is your favorite food? Pasta! Or any kind of Asian food. 
What is your happiest memory? Oh, geez. Ummm. When I was little, I would curl up in my grandpa’s armchair and eat Burger King breakfast sandwiches on Saturday mornings. 
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skygatecreations · 8 years ago
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what up i was tagged by @kaitenkenburokuren
RULES: Answer all the questions, add one of your own and tag as many people as there are questions
not tagging that many ppl either.
not taggin no one because I pmuch know all of em pretty well and they all busy being awesome at life. but thank for the tag, these fun despite how smartass I sound.
under cut lmao <- same bro
1. Coke or pepsi? coke <-same
2. Disney or dreamworks? Disney has a higher hit vs. miss ratio with me, but Dworks got some good ones.
3. Coffee or tea? Coffee bro.
4. Books or movies? prolly movies. usually animated sh** that I use as ‘inspiring background noise’ and don’t actually watch a lot of the time.
5. Windows or mac? Windows cause it’s what I know best. Also I don’t tend to  like Apple’s monopoly-ish-ness.
6. DC or marvel? Marvel pm strictly because I like the movies. No clue on comics...Also ol X-men cartoon Storm was my homegirl as a youngling. I honestly think she might have subliminally created the thing I have for white hair lol
7. Xbox or playstation? Playstation cause that’s what fell into my lap.
8. Dragon age or mass effect? no.
9. Night owl or early riser? night owl <- same
10. Cards or chess? cards...but preferably neither because I’m uncannily terrible at non-video games...k actually pretty bad at vid games too but the nons...Jesus Christ 8/
11. Chocolate or vanilla? Are we talking ice cream because that kinda important op. like get yer sh** together...anyway if yes, then Chocolate.
12. Vans or converse? probably neither. not usually my look...also I’m picky as Hell.
13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar? ...what you just call me bro?
14. Fluff or angst? angst in certain doses. Also I’m picky even with that.
15. Beach or forest? both.
16. Dogs or cats? both
17. Clear skies or rain? both kinda - no like...that patchy sort of cloud+sun after it rains that makes the light look all awesome and sh**
18. Cooking or eating out? eating out, but if I learn to cook more it’ll probably be a harder call.
19. Spicy food or mild food? mostly mild. There if like, 1 at times very spicy food that hurts me but tastes freaking amazing lol but been trying some slightly spicer that my normal jam foods lately.
20. Halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas? can’t decide. strangely apathetic at this...slightly concerned about myself now. thanks for the existential crisis, man. 
21. Would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? maybe a lil too hot tbh. just increase water intake and *thumbs up*. cause a lil too cold makes the migraines worse. like ‘difference between vom-ing or not’ worse.
22. If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Flight bro.
23. Animation or live action? Animation. like good 2D Disney-ish stuff, not this eyesore bullsh** on CN these days.
24. Paragon or renegade? Apache attack Helicopter. idk.
25. Baths or showers? shower <- same...I like baths but I don’t have a plug for the tub so they don’t happen much...
26. Team cap or team ironman? shut up I haven’t seen that movie yet.
27. Fantasy or sci-fi? depends on the mood.
28. Do you have three or four favorite quotes, if so, what are they?
‘Fall seven times, Stand up eight’, ‘Don’t be afraid of dying, be afraid of not living’, ‘Fly as far into the crash as you can’ (or ‘drive’ if we talkin cars) ‘You panic, you die.’ ...idk, a lot of stuff I heard from people that are generally a lot braver and cooler than I am lol.
29. Youtube or netflix? Youtube. Can’t afford netflix. check yo privilege damn.
30. Harry potter or percy jackson? HP. not even close.
31. When do you feel accomplished? *bitter, empty laughter*
32. Star wars or star trek? Not a space opera fan but if I have to choose, Star Wars all the way. because it’s a little LESS space opera.
33. Paperback or hardback books? hardback but can’t say no to all the free classic ebooks that I’ve been finding. Bro. Read the Jungle Book(s). the REAL ones. That mess is epic. All movies made of it so far are SH** and it will anger you once you learn how sh** they really are.
34. Horror or rom-com? Rom-com if must choose. because I have an overactive imagination and I will have f-ed up dreams. My sleep pattern is sh** enough as it is lol...and yet I listen to a lot of ‘true scary story�� narrations...
35. TV shows or movies? tv shows because easy background noise
36. Favourite animal? MANY. Dogs, cats, horses, sharks...
37. Favourite genre of music? MANY. like...only criteria is “do I like it?’. notables are classic rock, epic soundtrack-y sh**, and I’m super hooked on synthwave right now...which basically means I like 80′s synth music...
38. Least favourite book? idk, if I dislike something that much I stop reading/don’t read. I guess Hunger Games series qualifies tho compared to everything I’ve read. Not a bad story, but I really...don’t like first-person perspective...so cringe. sooo shamelessly made for self-insert fantasies.
39. Favourite season? fall I guess.
40. Song that’s currently stuck in your head? toss up between Neo-tokyo and Running in the Night (totally freaking different vibes? told you I like a lot of sh**)
41. What kind of pyjama’s do you wear? usually-loose camisoles and soft pants/shorts, preferably of Jersey material. I dislike fuzzy ‘warm’ sh**. let the blankets do their damn job lol
42. How many existential crises do you have on an average day? my whole life is one big existential crisis.<- SAME BRO
43. If you can only choose one song to be played at your funeral, what would it be? Bruh that dark.
44. Favourite theme song to a TV show? tbh AS a theme song? ...probably Yuichi ikusawa’s WARRIORS from one of the Yugioh openings. Pretty damn epic. only up to a certain point of the full song tho (opening cut is fine). eventually he starts doing this weird actually laughable thing with his voice and ruins it.
45. Harry potter movies or books? Books. movies are good for book movies though.
46. You can make your OTP become canon but you’ll forget that tumblr exists. will you do it? OTPs are great but I have friends on tumblr and some that I I’m having active interactions with and are expecting stuff from me. I sacrifice the OTP for my duties. *salutes*
47. Do you play an instrument and if so, what is it? *more bitter laughing*
48. What is the worst way to die? anything slow. Bonus bad points if you are alone and have time to think of your fam and friends and how your end will effect them...that got dark again. moving on :)
49. If you could be entirely invisible for a day, what would you do? idk man, maybe just go around looking for wild animals to hang out with without their knowledge...or the risk of being mauled. Or go places I’d never go by myself because ghetto-as-hell and just chill.
50. If you could have personally witnessed anything in history what would it be? The first hop of the Wright Flyer. Dawn of powered flight bitches. 
51. If you could understand animals but you could never understand humans again, would you? ...bruh. No. like I know a lot of people would think that would be cool and sh** but if you think ‘people just don’t get you’ now, imagine if you really were incapable of communication. like...sh** would suck. And you’d have to be a hermit somewhere with no money cause no/extremely limited livelihood options...is my adult showing? I feel like my adult is showing.
52. What is your most favourite album currently? I don’t really do albums. I pick and choose what I like.
53. What is your favourite TV show character? lots of them. usually the dudes with complex/’juicy’ backstories...which is pretty boring because a lot of people would probably say that. because those tend to be the most interesting.
54. What is something you were obsessed with as a child? doggies idk
55. Do you have any tattoos/piercings and if not would you like any? just single earlobe piercings.
56. Biggest pet peeves? hard to call. a lot of things annoy me lol. maybe people not taking responsibility for their own actions/bullsh**.
57. A place you’ve always wanted to visit? Close between Germany or Japan, I got family both places. Japan narrowly wins.
58. cheesecake or carrot cake? carrot cake if it good...and doesn’t have deer turds- I mean raisins. ...I think I got all of them? idk you see one I missed lemme know.
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11/11/11 Tag Game: Round 19!
Yeah, I lied when I said I wasn’t gonna keep numbering them.
Thanks to @maybeillwriteit for the tag!
Rules: Answer the 11 questions of the person who tagged you, make up 11 questions, then tag 11 people to answer them.
Bilbo Taggins: @sleepy-space-dragon, @katekyo-bitch-reborn, @candlelitwriting, @waterfallwritings, @aslanwrites, @writingonesdreams, @abalonetea, @brokenflashbackgypsy, @otters-holding-hands, @cataclysmic-writer, @ofinscriptions
My Questions:
How aware are you of sentence length/structure/variation while you’re writing? Or is it something you mainly focus on in editing?
What’s your favorite technical thing you do in your writing? 
Who’s your favorite poet? And/or what’s your favorite poem?
What’s your favorite thing about your least favorite story?
When you read books, what happens more often: You reading as a writer or as a reader? Or, do you find yourself doing close reads of books more often than not?
Do you focus on the acoustics of your writing as you write? 
What would turn your OC into a conspiracy theorist?
Does your voice change with each story you write, or does it mostly stay the same?
What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten?
Finish the sentence: The sun rose ____
What’s your favorite kind of sauce?
1. Least favourite oc to write?
Mel is so difficult to write. I have to go back through all her scenes to make sure her double-speak makes sense with and without new information. And she’s a very complicated person.
2. If you get published, who will you dedicate your work to?
My family and everyone who never told me I couldn’t do it. 😊
3. Which of your ocs would want a big white wedding?
Well, one of my stories has a big white wedding! Or as big and white as a fantasy wedding can be. 
Jill had a big white wedding and it was an absolute blast. Oz would, too, I think. And Nightmare.
4. Sort your ocs into hogwarts houses!!
Oh Lordy, alright, let’s do this.
Griffindor: Harry, Mary, Iron Will, Lithium (or Slytherin, either works for her)
Hufflepuff: Gemma, Oz, Fred, The Overseer
Ravenclaw: Treena, Nightmare, Sparkplug
Slytherin: Jill, Mel, Babylon
5. Favourite literary device?
Extended metaphor, bay-beeee. I use ‘em all the time.
6. Do any of your ocs resemble people you know in real life?
Yep! Mary and Harry are my not-aunt and my best friend-ish. And I guess Jill’s personality borrows from my mom’s a bit.
7. Which oc was the cutest baby?
Oh MAN. I mean, Gemma was pretty darn cute. And little baby Oz? He was a chubby baby, very round.
8. Favourite mythical creature?
Thunderbirds are pretty awesome.
9. Favourite line you’re written?
But there are so many!
Here’s one: “The models that followed blasted through the atmosphere, every trip a bruise set to tear the sky.”
Or the version of it that I actually posted:  “The models that followed, each curved in all the optimal places, balanced for the perfect flight, and painted with a rainbow of nations, blasted through the atmosphere, every trip a bruise set to tear the sky.”
10. Where did you get the idea for your current wip?
“Fish Food” came about when I was pondering old spy movies and superhero tropes. And then I had the image of a hero tied up and hanging above a piranha pit while the villain monologues. Then I thought: what if the hero didn’t follow the script? 
And away my brain went!
11. What are you reading right now?
I just started Hot Dog Girl and I am very excited about it.
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