#i got like 3 more chapters to write then edit then WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAAM its off to agents!!!

[raineandsky]

#45

tw: amnesia

The hero is met with a much more enthusiastic hug than she expected, the superhero throwing his arms around her to give her a suffocating squeeze.

“Thank god you’re home, [Hero],” he mumbles into her shoulder, and in that moment it feels like she’s meant to be comforting him. “Thank god you’re safe. We were so– so scared.”

She nods stiffly, the motion bumping her chin into his arm. “It’s nice to be back. Sorry for… disappearing?”

The superhero leans back, his hands gripping her shoulders painfully tight. “It’s not your fault. Those villains downtown, it’s their fault. We’ll get you fixed up in no time, alright?”

She nods again, and he actually sees it this time. He doesn’t miss how her eyes scan the room uncertainly. “Hey, [Hero], it’s okay now.” He smiles softly, almost reassuring. “It’s over.”

“I– I think I just want to sleep for now.” She laughs shortly, but it sounds too forced. The superhero nods with non-judgemental understanding.

“Of course. Let me walk you back, at least.”

The hero’s house means nothing to her. The superhero says goodnight with a pat on the arm and another pitying half-smile before turning on his heel and leaving her to her own devices for the evening.

He said she should come in at 11 tomorrow morning—early enough to get on with finding her attackers, late enough for her to have a lie in.That leaves her with about 16 hours to figure out what the hell is going on.

She practically turns her house upside down in a vain attempt to figure out who the hell she is. Why is the superhero calling her a hero? Which hero is she? What happened to her to make her forget her own name? Why couldn’t she be more vain and cover the walls with news stories about herself? All she’s learning is that she owns a lot of dying plants and has a favourite spot cemented in the sofa cushions.

“Hey, [Villain].”

The familiarity of the name is more of a shock than the voice inside her home, and she whirs around to meet the intruder. “We’ve been so worried about you,” the supervillain says, his voice laced with sympathy. “I knew the agency would get their hands on you as soon as they could. Don’t worry though, we’ll keep you safe from them.”

The maths on this equation is becoming more and more complicated by the minute. “Wait, what do you mean?”

The supervillain snorts a laugh, sort of. “They already told you how evil we are and how they saved you from us, right? Figured as much. Pathetic.”

He sighs when she takes a hesitant step back, like he was expecting it. “I understand this is confusing,” he continues, his voice lowering to a hush, “but we are on your side. Ransack your house a little more. You’ll figure it out eventually, and we’ll be waiting for you when you do.”

He gives her one final smile, just as soft and genuine as the superhero’s, before hopping back out from her window and into the city beyond.

Her brain is running a mile a minute trying to figure out what the hell is happening. It’s starting to feel like 16 hours isn’t going to be enough.

[doublegoblin]

Author Ask Tag Game

Well this is a biggin! Thanks for the TAG @gummybugg

I send an invite to @asterhaze (Lol I know gummy tagged ya but nyeh) @angie-j-kay @tailoroffates @tisiphonewolfe @lola-theshowgrl @conkers-theficwriter (that's right I got you and your alt, talk about that fanfic!) @stanrendipity @randomstupidchaos @catchingbigfish

I'll be centering my attention on Rituals and Red Tape because I am nothing if not self-indulgent of my baby.

(1) What is the main lesson of your story (e.g. kindness, diversity, anti-war), and why did you choose it?

Your adversities are with you but do not have to define you Bodies are meant to be used as an expression of ones self Corporations are eldritch entities who no matter how much love they shove up your ass will replace you in a heart beat There are no true transitory spaces with which your actions can be left behind, what you may see as a place to visit is someone else's home. Angry Nihilism is the easiest and most childest response to discovering you are not the main character of a story. and Let others be content in their life, not everyone wants to be out there making a name for themselves.

Why did I choose these? To be completely honest I didn't set out with them in mind. These are what has sprung up as I delved into writing more and more and was finding some elements that were hidden from me while I fiddled with the keys. These are as much lessons for an audience as they are for myself.

(2) What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding (like real-life cultures, animals, famous media, websites, etc.)?

So I know the stigma that was (maybe still is) attached to this statement but it comes from my dreams. Wait wait wait let me explain! So for a while I have had (although I haven't for a little bit) an ongoing sort of continuous dream. Not like the same dream over and over but more these dreams take place in the same location and I am always in this same role. I would give my partner "lore updates" every so often because it was something fun. Well on a long car ride (3hr) we spent the time chit chatting and I realized I wanted to make a story out of this. So during the same car ride the basic skeleton of the story started to emerge. Then wham bam thank ya mam fast forward and here we are. A lot of the world building also just kinda spring from my own imagination. Like I'm sure I maybe got the pieces from soooomewhere but can't tell ya, unless they are an obvious reference to something like the Giants on The Farm being "as tall as windmill" being a reference to Don Quixote, just small little nuggets here and there.

(3) What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, help readers grow as a person?

Alex is honestly just trying to get through each assignment with all their limbs still on their body and as little paperwork to do as possible. They just want to have a nice easy life that is comfortably mundane. What I want to do is entertain first and foremost. Like sure my stuff can have lessons and morals and whattheshit but if it isn't entertaining to at least one person I feel I have failed. And also, maybe help someone who needs to work through some stuff do so through Alex or anyone else in the book. I can't say for certain that can or will happen but there is always a chance.

(4) How many chapters is your story going to have?

No idea, as many as it needs to be told in full. I'll know when we get there lol.

(5) Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

Teehee time to self promote! This is original content. And I post the first draft chapters on here but I post the more edited and more concrete chapters on my WattPad MaxwellAlabaster I try and have the stuff on here accessible through their own dedicated pages on my blog and up to date.

(6) When and why did you start writing?

I started to write this story about a year ago. It started as a writing only for me kind of thing as I was dealing with some life stuff. But, once I started to write and post my stuff on here I really fell in love with the hobby and putting my things out there for people to hopefully enjoy!

(7) Do you have any words of engagement for fellow writers of Writeblr? What other writers of Tumblr do you follow?

Despite my verboseness I can be quite shy and anxious. So i tend to follow people who follow me first lol. It's not out of a self inflated ego but an uneasy feeling. So far it's worked out well and I've really enjoyed the people I have interacted with! Even if it's just getting little hearts here and there.

Something I adopted early and fully: Write for yourself (but we've all heard that before!) Fine! Write slop. Like just absolute pig pleasing slop. Not everything needs to be the next big seller, the most enjoyable, or "good" piece of literature. Write what makes you happy and what you have fun writing. Go outside your comfort zone and make an absolute mess of it all. You don't have to post everything after all. This is advice for even those of you that rely on writing for an income. When you can, just write the hottest and most fun garbage that you want. It's really refreshing to just go hog wild and look at the word doc or whatever and go "Wow...this is horrible, I love it".

Also don't let people tell you there is only one way to write. Like yeah grammar and stuff is good for being comprehensible, but there is power in each punctuation you use;or leave out~ Get flowery with your language too sometime Steve doesn't cheer; sometimes his voice carries so high the birds grow jealous.

Lastly: you don't need an english degree or whatever to be a writer, look at me, I have a freakin science degree. Did you put words on a page to convey a meaning of feeling? You are a writer. Don't let others take that away from you. You are a writer because you write dam it.