#i like the concepts i had going tho so i wanna try reworking those characters n that world at some point

[blockofhoney]

hmmmmmmmmmmm. i should revisit vivify

[unbearablylight]

11/11/11

ok i got tagged in two of these, one from @shit-she-wrote and another from @carrotgirl-1 (thanks to you both!) so time to answer some questions

1. What’s the first story you remember writing?

i was kinda late to the writing game, and the first big venture into creative writing i remember was running a hunger games roleplay blog, so i had to write the updates on those lol there was also a book i started writing in a similar genre around that time, but i don’t remember much about it

2. How has your taste in books changed since childhood?

umm i mean it’s matured somewhat i suppose, but i’ve always enjoyed a good fantasy or mystery

3. Do you see any similarities to your favorite books in your work? If yes, what are they?

i love a found family, so i like to write about those when i can

4. What sort of music inspires you?

to inspire ideas/creativity, i like music that sounds like it could be used in a movie or trailer, kinda big and epic or with emotional shifts. for actually writing, i need music i don’t know or without lyrics, otherwise i’ll start singing along and get distracted

5. Favorite book?

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

6. Favorite mythology (Greek, Norse, etc.)?

greek is the one i know best, so i’d have to say that. but anything with mythological/religious basis interests me

actually if we’re including “religions” (whatever the distinction between religion/mythology may be), christianity/catholicism is what i was raised on, so i know and like to play off of a lot of that usually

7. Dream vacation?

one someone else is paying for lol

um if i’m going with something new, i’ve always wanted to visit japan

i will also always accept a trip to Disney World

8. Favorite writing snack?

i can’t eat, i need both hands on the keyboard lol (something not super messy i suppose, like blueberries)

9. What tea do you drink the most while writing?

i don’t drink tea whoops

10. Do you have a special writing cup, that you drink tea out of specifically when writing to fill you up with inspiration?

i have this very large mickey mouse mug that i would probably use if i was drinking something hot like that, but again, not a tea (or coffee!) drinker

11. Write your favorite quote from your recent wip!!

*~~warnings for sexual language not great for work or minors probably lol~~*

RYVER: Don’t you pretend to be their boyfriend? MAX: Not like this! Usually I just tell them how special they are to me while pounding their brains out. RYVER: Huh. I would’ve pegged you as a bottom. KAT: You would’ve pegged him as a bottom? RYVER: I stand by my word choice.

and on that note, on to round two!

1. How do you pick character names?

through a long struggle. i hate naming things. honestly it depends on what i’m working on, so sometimes it’s just what sounds good, sometimes it’s to fit a personality, sometimes it’s just keysmashing until something vaguely pronounceable appears

2. Which OC would you like to meet irl?

probably Toph from where things may lie unseen for ~secret~ (spoiler) reasons

3. Sunset or sunrise?

sunset for the colors, but i do enjoy a good sunrise (tho i detest waking up that early)

4. Would you rather explore the deep space or the deep seas?

*chanting* deep space! deep space!

5. What inspired your latest WIP?

so i’m actually currently revamping an old script of mine, and for the life of me i cannot remember what sparked the initial concept for it. but what made me want to go back and rework it was watching Fleabag (which is amazing btw)

6. Happy endings or sad endings?

a mix? i guess. i’m good with either as long as whatever it is is done well

in my own writing i tend to mix them a bit, just because i think life and stories are never quite that simple (at least the stories i tell) so there’s usually some satisfaction amidst devastation

7. Do you believe in ghosts?

i grew up watching Ghost Whisperer (it was like the first Adult™ show i watched) and now i can’t not believe in ghosts

8. What’s the first line from your favorite WIP?

you’re asking me to choose a favorite child?!

for scripts, it’s probably Small Ponds which starts:

EXT. LAKE KINGFISHER - DAY - 2010

The lake is relatively still in the summer afternoon. A bird arcs out of the sky to skirt over its surface.

currently The Vestige of an Unwonted Wind is my favorite novel wip, since it’s the one i’m working on lol. it starts:

The beginning of the end was gentle, a dipping of the toe into a spring of boiling water.

Which, should you come across a pool of bubbling liquid, do proceed with caution, for it is either very hot water or not water at all, and neither offer a pleasant swim.

9. If you could shapeshift into any animal, which would it be?

ohhh this is so tough. probably into some type of bird so i could fly

10. So if you’re heading to a lovely garden buffet, with every cuisine imaginable, and you had free-flowing drinks and a chocolate fountain and desserts galore, and you’re wearing a nice dress or suit, right, and there’s a line in front of the roasted meats area, but you’re drooling and you just can’t wait to bite into that juicy steak so you go–you go to the seafood section, and then you see this person, this person who’s hogging all the lobster, just smiling at you as they keep piling on lobster after lobster, they can’t hold it anymore, they don’t have enough hands or plates, so you help them out, and after you help them out they smile sweetly and ask if you’d care for some lobster.

Who is this person?

first of all i’m obsessed with this question

second of all, i have absolutely no idea lmao i don’t know if i know anyone this into lobster. is anyone this into lobster? are they okay? do they like need to bring 99 lobster to a troll guarding a bridge in order to pass? are they on a quest? can i join them?

11. What’s your favorite line from your favorite OC?

you’re really testing me here, aren’t you?

hmm Ben and Monique from Small Ponds are the children i never stop thinking about so i’ll do a line from each of them

Monique’s:

Any actress worth her salt makes her presence felt long after she’s gone.

Ben’s (with context, but the last line specifically):

DYLAN: If I’m lurking, what do they think you’re doing? BEN: Trying to seduce you. DYLAN: At a funeral? BEN: There’s worse they think I’ve done.

ok from what i’ve heard, this cycle has gone on for too long so i’m not gonna make questions or tag anyone because i think the people i would tag have done this at least once

however! if you haven’t been tagged and are like aw man i wanna answer some of these cool questions, feel free to pick 11 of them and just say i tagged you. i’ll take the fall, that’s a sacrifice i’m willing to make

[dennysverse]

IVE GOT A LOT OF 83RD CURVE BULLSHIT IN MY BRAIN AND I MUST FREE UP SPACE TO THINK ABOUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN MY LIFE, LIKE MORE 83RD CURVE BULLSHIT

AND FIRST OF ALL WHY IS IT THAT EVERY CONCEPT I WANNA EXPLORE HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE BY RICK AND MORTY. IM GONNA DO IT STILL AND IM GONNA DO IT BETTER BECAUSE I CAN, BUT SERIOUSLY. IT’S STARTING TO GET RIDICULOUS.

i have,, so many.,. fuckin half finished thoughts about infinite uncertainty tho whihc is my current main plotline but it got really complicated really fast and it’s definitely not going to resolve nicely... i really wish i had a better format for it than rp but that’s the only thing that’ll work because its just such ... a big.. world. i’m not even referring to all of the 83rd curve when i say that but the parts of it that i’m actually working on making into things. but its so much Bigger and uhhhhhhhhhhh i just feel like i mightve bit off more than i could chew with this whole infinite realities infinite possibilities thing my brain is like actively overheating trying to process all the storylines simultaneously AND FHHTHE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES OF TINY ACTIONS IN ONE PART SPURRING HUGE CHANGES ACROSS THE CURVE GHG.. hHOW DO I NARROW IT DOWN MORE

if i were to ENTIRELY rework everything ive done and put it in a not-rp format i could easily cut out c3 and colorado entirely?? but, fuck u mmiss out on so much of the intricacies of riot’s character and it,. gogd i feel like maybe i haven’t involved enough of them maybe, maybe if i expand the cast a little- after all, sect is the only riot directly involved in the investigation who had personal stake in it (had a lizard), mm... c3 and 48 is a good combo but then you’re only getting the pro-curve perspective. maybe c3 48 and sect, cutting out colorado, who is basically irrelevant anyway aside from a quick glance at “what about the riots who never made contact with their alternate selves” that or i give colorado a lizard-not-quite-lizard fuck i dont know man, i can’t do any of those things anyway cause it relies on the other people im rping with. this is mostly if i were to ever put it in a format that’d make sense for anyone else. 

the more i think about it, c3/48/sect might be the perfect combo, because 48 is essentially a curve-aligned colorado who’s a little nicer and a little less “i kill people for money because it’s the only thing i’ve ever been good at and i think it’s too late to change” and then you also have a neat comparison of c3 and 48 being Baby Riots compared to sect and the “who are you” “im you but i’ve realized the inevitable futility of our lives and given up” exchange.

c3 is def the heart of it all, without c3 nothing would work because he’s the moral compass to sect’s amoral despair, and because they’re the same person, there’s kind of this... reawakening? of sect’s ability to ...consider possibilities beyond the most efficient/easiest for him solution, which tends to be ignoring it most of the time. there’s sort of a “is this really what i used to be like.. ur so..baby... ur so- [tears up] sensitive and- and kind and- what the fuck, how has this world not crushed the life out of you yet” 

and then 48 not being a halfway point but actually being the other side of the coin- which would make c3 into the middle ground with his building doubts for the integrity of the curve?? because 48 is sort of like sect but leaning the other way. “yeah, they do some things that might be iffy but i don’t really... care enough to fix them because they don’t affect me” 

i guess i could just bring 48 in and then also have colorado and c3 and sect but god writing 3 characters in one rp is hard, writing 4 would be worse. i almost want to quit doing it as an rp entirely and go off on my own but then i wouldn’t have any walls to lob spaghetti at

i dont know, none of this is particularly cohesive or indicative of any kind of final statements about anything, i’m mostly just typing out my thoughts for the hell of it. i think im gona have to take a little break from it and then come back to it, or just do what i was doing before and keep Winging It. i definitely want to keep the rp going so.. as long as the others r having fun that’s what counts,. but it gives me a headache, and not being able to retcon as my brain processing catches up with the actual shit i want to explore is also giving me a headache

maybe i should ,,,,,,,,,, make another curve parallel to the 83rd so i can write it out without the fear of .......any kind of continuity conflicts..........god........please save me from the infinite dennys world hell. the worst part is that nobody can help me with it because it’s so reliant on.. my own understandings of my own characters and there’s so much prior knowledge it would effectively impossible unless you were me and had also been in all of the prior rp i’ve been in. so what i’m really getting at here is that i should go find the leafcurve and convince THEM to help me write about my fictional riot-based curves. but that’s just wishful thinking.