#it's fucking weird mate

[angels-heap]

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Oops. Totally forgot to answer this a couple weeks ago! (Prompts from this post.)

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

Hm. Besides my overuse of certain transition words and favorite adjectives (I'm working on this, I swear), I know I write a lot of stationary characters having deep, halting conversations in very sparsely described locations. Action scenes and vivid scenery? I do not know them. I am here for that angst and hurt/comfort, and in my head, most of it's happening in that white room with the floating squares from the "future" episode of Spongebob.

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

I don't usually enjoy media where characters work themselves up into a frenzy over a huge, mutual misunderstanding that could easily be averted if they just fucking talked to each other, but I love writing (and reading) stories where an innocuous conversation ends up being super profound because it resolved a previously unrecognized misunderstanding or provided unexpected (and possibly heartbreaking) context for some prior interaction. (See also: The entirety of The Ghost in You, most of my other HL fics, and the third chapter of Keep the Light On that I swear I will finish one day.)

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

Oh god. As previously discussed, I do listen to music when I write. Some of my choices make obvious logical sense, and some of them are really fucking weird, but they work. I remember writing most of Whispers and Moans to the Jesus and Mary Chain album "Darklands," which also provided the vibes and title for Deep One Perfect Morning. In recent history, I wrote most of Presque Vu to A Quiet Life (Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld) (a thematically appropriate soundtrack, sort of, and you get a gold star if you know where I found this song), and then played The Curse (Agnes Obel) on a loop while I finished The Darkness Has Eyes (I don't know, man, but it worked). Also, I did actually listen to Barney's Frank Sinatra album while I polished up the end of The Ghost in You. Don't look at me.

[eterniravioli]

“maybe if we crash into max before he can set a lap, we can stop him from getting pole”- oscar and carlos probably

[steelthroat]

First time staying at the hotel of a theme park (against my will, but that's a long story) and... it's so weird??????

Like I feel like I am not supposed to be here, how do I put it... it screams luxury but I a... childlike/childish way????

And I feel restless, like something is wrong. Uncanny.

[punmster]

being ace means i don't get giggly or horny about omegaverse aka abo but instead become painfully obsessed with details in anatomy and world building

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Medical log, stardate 18935.15. Once more have I seen the tailor go out in his lizard fashion—

[skitskatdacat63]

I don't know how I'd ever convey this in art but. Thinking very deeply about how in boy king au, a very crucial part of characterization is that Seb is a wolf in sheep(or lamb more specifically)'s clothing and Fernando is a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Seb is very unassuming, very delicate, seemingly very vulnerable and malleable. But, deep down, he can be very ruthless. It's in the the way he hesitantly declares war, with a spark in his eye and a suppressed smirk. In the way he challenges someone to a card game or a horse race, proclaiming that he's not great, but winning every round and prancing around the room and mentioning it ad infinitum. The way he's able to instantly turn the tide in a debate in one fell swoop. By showing all his cards constantly and letting himself be vulnerable, he's making himself invulnerable. No one would ever consider him to be able to make big moves, so he wins every single time, because no one even thinks to expect it from him.

Fernando on the other hand, is constantly committed to having a looming presence and harsh reputation, but deep down, he's soft. He knows what happens to people when they're vulnerable, and he's not going to let himself be taken advantage of. The way he keeps a brave face when being informed of the marriage proposal, but goes back to his room and cries. The way he proclaims that he was always going to be the rightful ruler of Spain, but confides to Flavio that he never thought there was any real chance of it ever happening. The way he takes himself so seriously in public, but inside feels so giddy whenever he can make someone laugh. Everything to him always feels unstable and ready to crumble at any moment, and he's not willing to contribute to that by letting himself relax.

I think thats why it's very difficult for them to get along at first, because they have completely different approaches to how they carry themselves and make their way through life. Seb is confused at Fernando because he feels that he's very bland and overly serious at first, but truthfully he's not really seeing the actual Fernando. And Fernando finds Seb to be naive and easily taken advantage of, but that's because he's never seen Seb at his most cruel. Seb really loves when he eventually gets to see Fernando being vulnerable, and Fernando really admires and respects Seb when he sees him being serious. I think it just takes a while for them to show the other their full and complete selves, even the parts they can sometimes be ashamed of. There's this very compelling dichotomy in Seb laying out all his cards, but still being very difficult to read, and Fernando keeping his cards to his chest, but his intentions often being easily seen through.

[baalzebufo]

THE WEIRD AL-CANA - 17. THE STAR- MIDNIGHT STAR

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another pick that is more of a name pun than thematically appropriate, but im sure if I read into it more I could wrangle a meaning that fits with Midnight Star. but im too lazy for that and the meaning was mostly 'i wanted to draw it', so nevermind! enjoy todays card, instead!

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[majimassqueaktoy]

[starrysharks]

writing 5 page encyclopedias on my ocs and their stupid backstories is so fun but writing the story itself oooooh i can't stand the writing the story itself

[binchickencrafts]

I have no fucking idea how I made a curve in the weft, but also, I'm not fixing it, this is just going to be ~proof it's handmade~ if it doesn't vanish in the finishing

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[doctorwhoisadhd]

who in the torchwood team would hate nardole the most.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[drawnecromancy]

Sometimes a silly bird disguised as a human sits on a dragon's hoard of gold and tries to seduce him.

Community label for it being vaguely suggestive I guess.

Art taglist : @jezifster @isabellebissonrouthier (feel free to ask to be added to the list!)

[valsansretovr]

unhinged thought that u do not have to post

livia starts pms-ing one month and coriolanus starts being Himself™️ and so she just kills him

I think I too could bring down an empire if I just happened to be having a really bad day.

[bottlesandbarricades]

Jacob Rees-Mogg crying about the government emergency alert thing is fucking hilarious because I honestly didn't think he had discovered mobile telephones yet. I always assume he sent his tweets via a typewriter or telegraph.

[edibleorb]

this is not fun :(