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this isn't fic-related but i want to know about your wips! tell me about them! what are they about?

+_+*insert shing! sound effect anime eyes do when locked on target*FanfictionLeading the BlindElder Scrolls fanfic where I take a very minor npc from Skyrim, make her a lesbian, and have her take the hero’s journey. oh, and she goes off to find her hero who is an alcoholic with ptsd. deals with themes of abuse and trauma we don’t see our heroes suffer through (among many other esoterica because I’m a nerd). Fantasy, adventure, and I’m not afraid to write explicit sex scenes RelentlessThat hero I mentioned? This is her prequel. This is a story about pushing people away, feeling abandoned, feeling like only the hero can solve the problems of the world so everyone dumps their crap on her. It’s about watching a hero fail to do the right things because what’s the fucking point? Fantasy, adventure drama Raven’s SongThe brother of the hero who has always felt less than adequate compared to her. Runs concurrently with Relentless. my blood on your lips, my lips on your mouth (currently unpublished)Klonnie TVD au feat. Little Red Riding Hood, gratuitous real-history used for fictional purposes, fantasy Romania, and lots of made-up moon myth. And, at some point, menstrual cunnilingus because I don’t know what being subtle is like Toxic Love (currently unpublished)Hey, one day I wondered what a Poison Ivy x Captain Planet ship would look like and now I’m working on a fic where these two are gonna bring out the very best and worst in one another (humanity is fukd, spoilers)Original FictionWickStraight up romance where Cinderella is a witch and the royal guard is investigating her for putting out a possible hit out on the crown prince. Gaelic and Slavic language/culture (especially Ukrainian) are the influences here. No explicit sex scenes--only ooey, gooey schmoopy crap. Omens, Threads of Magic Book 1Eliska Bitterhalf lives in a world with magic long-gone but that doesn’t stop her country from warring with a neighboring nation. Since her dad died, her mom’s been absent and she barely functions keeping house. But, one day she has a dream that predicts the future and, what the heck, that’s some high level stuff she shouldn’t be able to do. After she saves a bonafide Chosen One--prophesied to end the war--she joins him and two others on a quest to end the war.Spoilers: It’s a story that takes used and tired tropes, puts them into the garbage, and says, “We’ve heard this one before.” Things get wild. Bitterly accidentally saves a demon lord! Her best friend is kidnapped! And why the hell is she suddenly able to control fire? Magic doesn’t exist anymore!ShardwalkerStill very much in its nascency, this is a story about the hero after she’s saved the world. Ellery wanted to live out the rest of her life in peace but it seems like she was born to carry burden. Heavily inspired by Rook of Skyrim and its themes. It Starts with Fire, Adept Book 1Another day, another dead dad. Greer Novak lives in a world where abilities exist that we would describe as “superpowers” but they’ve always been a part of her world and its history. But she’s not one of them. She’s listless. She can’t keep a job down and she desperately needs to help her mom with the house finances. Her sister is obsessed with the Adepts (the ability-users of the world). After breaking up with her girlfriend, the closest she’s come to a stable relationship is masturbating to fantasies of a powerful Adept named Altitude who is a Flier and is the face of one of the leading crime prevention groups in the city.That’s the state of things until a local terrorist organization attacks an area Greer happens to be in one day. She’s saved by Altitude and takes the opportunity to kiss him. Next thing she knows, she’s in a gas station bathroom, holding onto the sink because why the fuck are her feet not connected to the floor anymore? Wait, no. This doesn’t feel right. Shit shit shit, she’s hovering in the air and doesn’t know why. Early adulthood sucks.Untitled Project, Marchen Book 1Uh, well, the idea was that I’d take Little Red Riding Hood, make the wolf into the protag and, for good measure, pretend the magical equivalent of a nuclear bomb hit so everyone’s fighting for resources and survival. Basically, I had an idea for a plot but could never make ends meet. So, the plot is going over into a fanfic (see above) and I’m trying to think about what to do with this one now.

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lizacstuff · 7 years ago

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7x04 Anons

I have a ton of asks so I’ll answer a few under the cut. A lot of them deal with negativity over the ep and season so be warned and don’t click if you don’t want to read that.

Anonymous said:Liza, have you watched tonight's episode? What did you think of the Rumbelle send off? And of Alice being Roger's daughter?

I had zero emotional reaction to Rumbelle’s story in this episode. None. It’s been too toxic and gross and I have never really cared about it so it didn’t make me feel anything at all. I was curious what they were going to do. Now I know.

As far as Alice being WishHook’s daughter. Eh. So they take the only interesting character and now she’s a fake Wish person too? I just can’t with this nonsense. I’m having a lot of problems with WishHook, so I’m not thrilled she’s tied to his story.

Colin is still hot and an awesome human being and a terrific actor, but the plot... it’s a no for me.

Anonymous said:Sometimes I think Adam and Eddy believe they are the most clever people to ever write, and that everyone else are simple minded peasants. Like that one post-7x04 interview where the interviewer asked if Alice is wish Hook's daughter. "You're very perceptive." Uh, no, Adam and Eddy. You just have all the subtlety of a freight train. You had Alice and Rogers play chess. Wish Hook and his daughter played chess. It's obvious. Don't talk to people like they're stupid for figuring the obvious out.

This show has always been pretty obvious about some things, but they used to pull off some twists. I remember a time when fan speculation was way more wrong than it is right.

However, season 7 is just really obvious in terms of some of the “big twists.” Take Alice being the LGBT character, the entire fandom speculated that from the first second she appeared in shooting spoilers based on stereotypes. I have been hoping it’s not her because of those stereotypes, but nope! They had no surprises up their sleeve with it. Then most people immediately assumed she was Roger’s daughter the second we found out he had one... and apparently no twist there either.

I guess the days of the entire fandom being shocked by finding out Hook is the Dark One and Dark Swan did everything for Hook... are over.

Of course we should have known this reboot lost all subtlety in the second episode when everyone and their mother kept asking Henry if he was in love with the random woman he just met.

Anonymous said:I know the promo pics didn't spell anything good for Belle, but I'm still surprised that they actually had her die. I kept thinking that there would be some twist to it.

As I was just saying... no twists, no turns. It’s exactly as everyone predicted.

Anonymous said:I didn't watch the ep, but shit Henry and ivy have so much more chemistry than the other girl. Cinderella I think lol damn talk about epic romance also I saw comments that also agree with the Henry and ivy

If you haven’t watched how do you know they have more chemistry? Seriously, that’s kind of ridiculous. What are you basing that on?

Anonymous said:ouat is a weird show, it requires you to pay really pay attention but not to close of attention or you will notice all the plot holes

100% accurate. This reboot is creating so many more plot holes with all the magic mcguffins that are suddenly in play. I guess you either have to accept it and go along for the ride, or recognize it for what it is.

Anonymous said:hey liza, who are your favourite characters from the new cast? some of them don’t really impress me but i quite like ivy and tilly.

Both of those characters have some interesting aspects to them. It may have a lot to do with the performers. I haven’t been impressed with Gabriel, Dania or Mekia’s choices so far, but Adelaide and Rose have interesting screen presence.

Anonymous said:Drizella really is a Mean Girls version of Regina. I'm between finding her general attitude annoying and finding her somewhat sympathetic considering she has to deal with Tremaine all day.

You mean Regina when she was a girl and under Cora’s thumb? I could see that comparison. Lets hope Drizella doesn’t follow in Regina’s footsteps and become the mass murdering rapist in town.

Anonymous said:Did Rumbelle build the house in Storybrooke?

Um... I’m not sure I understand this question. In the show I believe that Up-inspired cabin where they were living isolated from everything and everyone else (do people really find that a happy ending?) was in the edge of realms.

Anonymous said:I'm almost mad that we got to see more of Belle and Rumple's story than we did of Captain Swan. We all know they are living their happy ending but it would still be wonderful to see a little clip of Emma sitting on the beach with their daughter waiting for Killian to show up and join their picnic. Just some good ole domestic Captain Swan on scene would make me so happy. *sigh*

I have a number of anons like this, and just NOPE.

First, we did not see more of Rumbelle than CS on this show. Rumbelle was a backburner story that was most often characterized as a cautionary tale of abuse and manipulation and the pair were mostly apart and had very little focus through the run of the series.

The showrunners decided that going forward they needed viewers to feel good about Belle and RB so after making them a gross, toxic mess for seasons now (it was just last year that Rumple was fucking the Evil Queen while Belle ran and hid for her life as he stalked and threatened her) they gave fans a bunch of twee scenes of her growing old (a life she lived isolated from everyone but two people) and dying in order to get rid of her and give Rumple motivation for this idiotic S7.

You’re jealous of that? Seriously? Fuck no.

Also you need to understand that 7.02 and 7.04 were very different episodes. 7.02 was still really Henry's story and a moment in time where he called for help and got to see his parents for a few minutes and we all found out that Emma and Hook are doing great and gonna have a baby and living a blissfully happy life together. It was just a check in where it was confirmed for us that Operation Happy Beginning has been a success and things are amazing. Also it spun off WishHook and completely separated the plot of S7 away from CS. 7.04 was 100% Rumple plot and his story. It explained why he's there and what is motivating him in Hyperion Heights. Very different. For 7.02, CS were not the focus because they didn’t need to be. Nothing in S7 requires knowing exactly what is going to happen to them minute by minute. I'll take less screen time and my OTP being completely disentangled from this mess any day of the week.

Anonymous said:Lol my jealousy of Rumbelle having more focus than CS has dropped to 0%, that episode was eh. CS is expecting a baby, and Belle is dead after spending her life trying to fix rumple's. Nice.

Yep. Look, I’m happy for any fans of Rumple or Belle that are happy about this episode and found peace in Belle’s life, but the writers did too much damage to this pairing over the years for me to care about it at all.

Anonymous said:While I can't stand rumbelle I feel for the shippers. They did get some happy scenes but their ship is going to spend the rest of the season apart and in pain until the half alive dies.

Yeah... I would not like that, I don’t think. It’s just kind of creepy and icky and ew-ey. However, to each her own.

Anonymous said:Agreed with that anon, there some good moments, but this was definitely not even close to one of the best episodes of the series. I have to respectfully disagree with Colin on this one. (Actually season 7 in its entirety lol)

Oh dear sweet Colin. Just trying to do his job. So many cast and crew and media have shot their hyperbolic wad with this episode. Calling it the best EVER!!!!! What will they say for the rest of the season? “This is the second best episode EVER!!!!!” Or will they keep one upping every time they have to promote an ep?

No one with an economic interest in S7 can be trusted when talking about the quality of this season (and I include Mitovich and NA in that.)

Anonymous said:I didn't watch the episode but I'm curious: are we supposed to believe that when Belle dies Emma and Killian are old too or was there some timeline glitch and Emma and Killian are still young in Storybrooke at the time of HH events?

Who knows. Belle and Rumple were off living at the Edge of Realms for the last years of her life. Rumple said something about time standing still there except for Belle??? I think. (my mind kept wandering duiring those scenes becuse they were so boring) Then after she died he opened a portal thingy to go to the time and place where the Guardian (the deux ex machina that is going to cure him of the Dark One curse) lives and Rumple was then transported to the newEF (that looks exactly like the old, I mean couldn’t they have given this new storybook’s fairy tale land some stylistic differences???) on the night of Cinderella’s Ball and we see Henry drive by on his motorcycle.

So yes, I think some of the flashforwards could have been from far in the future, and some could have been not all that distant because they were in a weird realm with weird time mechanics.

However, I think Rumple and Belle left Storybrooke well before Henry did (they talk about it at Gideon’s first birthday and Henry still would have been about 14 at that time) so by the time this Hyperion Heights stuff is happening they would have been off in Fairy Tale land “traveling?” (ie living their lives in dusty libraries searching books for a way to cure Rumple.)

It hurts ones head to try to sort it all out.

Anonymous said:After watching this episode, all I think is how sad it is how far this show gone from greatness. Going back 3 years, I would’ve never imagined ouat would be like this now. Sorry for being dramatic, it’s all just so jarring.

I think one of the most unfortunate things about this is that I really think OUAT could have been a valuable and viable franchise for years to come. However, they tried to reboot it too soon. As I’ve said since last spring, I think it would have been much better to let it rest a year or two and then come back with 10-13 episode event series for ABC.

However, this experiment will probably negate any opportunity for that.

Anonymous said:I think it's a little sad that in real time, Belle died like 5-10 years after the s6 finale. I know it was longer for her but to everyone else that knew her, it'd be like she died young.

Yep. I’m not sure if in Hyperion Heights or Storybrooke in 2017 if Belle is dead, dead, or still living out her life at the edge of realms or wherever and Rumple traveled back in time???

I don’t know.

Anonymous said:Do you think killing Belle off is going to decrease the ratings more?

Nope. If ratings do decrease, I don’t think that will have been a factor.

Anonymous said:They lost viewers even with the episode they promoted the most wow

They did and yes, other than the premiere, this has been the most promoted episode. As I’ve said since the premiere, ep 5 ratings should be the most telling. I’m guessing that will be the baseline for the rest of the half season. At that point anyone in the audience who was just curious if they would preserve our favorites happy endings from the first 6 season will know and there won’t be a bump from that. We’ll see.

#ouat negativity #asklizac #ouat 7x04 #ouat 7.04 #ouat s7 #anonymous

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cover2covermom · 5 years ago

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*Books included in this batch of mini book reviews: Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sarah Clarkson, Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) by R.F. Kuang, and The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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» Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sarah Clarkson

Book Girl is what I like to refer to as a “reading memoir.” I love reading books by people who are passionate about reading & share their experiences with reading and the books that have shaped their lives.

I loved learning about Sarah’s journey & her connection to books. We learn how Sarah & her siblings were encouraged by their parents to read, and how reading was a big part of their family dynamics growing up. I think Sarah has excellent reading tastes, and will probably borrow the physical copy from the library to copy down all the reading recommendation lists. *Spoiler alert: Sarah is a BIG fan of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein.*

Sarah is a beautiful writer and you can tell that she is a very educated woman. Some reviewers found her a bit pretentious, but I did not get that feeling while reading Book Girl…. I’m wondering if this is due to the fact that I listened to this book via audiobook that was narrated by the author herself… Her tone in the audiobook did not come across as pretentious.

I gave it 3.5 stars because it was too heavily focused on religion & faith for my tastes. Now, this rating should definitely be taken with a grain of salt. Had I known this book was classified as “christian fiction,” I probably would have passed on reading it. I am not one for books that are overly religious or faith centered as they tend to feel pushy & preachy to me. Another criticism is that her book recommendation lists are lacking in diversity in regards to authors & content. If you are looking for classic books by white men & women, you’ll find a plethora of them here.

> Recommended to: fans of christian fiction & bookworms

> Book Recommendations if you enjoyed Book Girl: I’d Rather Be Reading the Delights and Dilemmas of a Reading Life by Anne Bogel

» Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Gods of Jade and Shadow was one of my most anticipated books of 2019. When I heard that it was a Mexican folklore inspired fantasy set in Mexico during the 1920s, I could not wait to get my hands on it. Historical fiction & fantasy mash ups are some of my favorite types of reads! Did it live up to expectations? Unfortunately it ended up being a bit of a disappointment for me…

Set in the 1920s, Gods of Jade and Shadow is about Casiopeia, a young girl that aspires to more than her current station in life. Casiopeia is treated as a servant by her Grandfather & other male family members, but years for more. After a series of events, Casiopeia must set off on a journey to help the former Lord of Mayan underworld, Hun-Kamé, reclaim various belongings in order to be restored to his former glory and defeat his traitorous brother.

With the fantastical elements & quest style plot, Gods of Jade and Shadow reads very much like a fairy tale. As a reader I felt like I was listening to a story that had been passed down from generation to generation. My favorite aspect of this book was that it was brimming with Mexican culture & folklore.

Casiopeia was a stereotypical Cinderella-type of character. She waits on her Grandfather & cousin hand & foot while enduring their emotional abuse. On one hand, Casiopeia was spunky & brave, but on the other hand she was impulsive & proud… I had a hard time connecting with Casiopeia, thus having a hard time feeling invested in her plight.

Despite Hun-Kamé being one of the main characters in the story, I do not feel like he was well fleshed out. It was hard to feel the urgency of his dilemma when I knew little about him or his back story.

I did not feel the romance in the story was believable or necessary. I actually think the story would have worked much better without the romance sub-plot.

While I did enjoy the concept for the story, this book was lacking substance & development. Gods of Jade and Shadow is a very plot driven story, but the focus was almost too plot heavy, which did not allow for enough character development. The story line felt very jarring as we watch the characters bounce around from place to place. I typically adore stories that include a journey/quest, but only if I get a strong sense of the setting, the characters, and the actions of the characters. That did not happen for me in Gods of Jade and Shadow. If I am being honest, this book felt very surface level.

> Recommended to: fans of fairy tale style novels; those interested in Mexican folklore

> Trigger/content warning: psychological abuse

» The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) by R.F. Kuang

After reading The Poppy War earlier this year, The Dragon Republic was another one of my most anticipated releases of 2019. The Poppy War set the tone of the series with excellent world building, a unique magic system, an awesome school setting, and a gruesome war. The Dragon Republic follows Rin post Third Poppy War as she must deal with the consequences of her decisions. Not only is Rin racked with guilt, but she is also battling an addiction & struggling to control her powers.

I’m happy to report that there was no second book syndrome for this epic series! The Dragon Republic was an excellent follow up to The Poppy War.

If I had to classify this series, I’d consider it fantasy with a heavy military fiction feel to it. While the bulk of The Poppy War is a military school setting & revolves around Rin’s education, the bulk of The Dragon Republic centers around Rin joining up with the Dragon Warlord with the intent of overthrowing the Empress & establishing a republic. The Dragon Republic is full of military strategy, gruesome battles, political intrigue, brutality, and back stabbing. While TPW was a dark novel, TDR is even darker. Kuang really explores the effects of war on her characters. You may find that many characters from the first book are not the same in this book.

This series is just so damn good. Highly recommend.

> Recommend to: fans of military fiction

> Trigger/content warnings: drug addiction, suicidal thoughts, & graphic violence

> Book recommendations if you enjoy The Poppy War series: Book of the Ancestor series; A Song of Fire and Ice series

» The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

*4.5 Stars*

The Great Alone is about a a family’s journey to escape a father’s torment by relocating to Alaska.

Set in the harsh wild of Alaska in the 70s, The Great Alone was an excellent frontier/survival type of story. I’ve always been fascinated by frontier style novels in which the characters must endure great hardship & show resilience in order to survive the land where they live. I was engrossed watching Leni & her family grow and adapt. The Alaskan setting of this book was my favorite aspect about this story. Hannah paints a vivid picture of the Alaskan landscape in all its beauty and treachery. Winter time would be the perfect time to pick this book up.

Themes included in The Great Alone include survival, coming of age, PTSD, domestic violence, family, & resilience. This book was a roller coaster of emotion & heavy topics. While reading I thought Hannah was going to go the cliche route a few times, but she kept on surprising me. My only criticism of this book would be one particular portion of the ending. It just didn’t feel believable, and felt too convenient.

> Recommended to: fans of survival/frontier stories; fans of dark family dramas; book clubs

> Trigger/content warnings: PTSD, domestic violence, & alcoholism

Book recommendations if you enjoyed The Great Alone: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think?

Comment below & let me know 🙂

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