#lies of omission

[stilesstilinskisposts]

[spiritsglade]

4 and 5 for lies of omission for the ask game!

[questions for fic writers]

4. What detail in lies of omission are you really proud of?

the things that are going on with damian :) he's a relatively minor character (for now. i am gesturing around ominously and vaguely) but i really do love writing him as someone who's prickly but genuinely cares and is trying to show it!

in the opening scene to ch9 damian goads tim into participating into the pi day pie competition. i do prefer letting readers interpret scenes and character motivations however they like (death of the author and all that) but to me. damian is absolutely doing this because tim is clearly distracted and frustrated. damian is forcing him to participate in a fun bonding activity instead of continuing to be distracted and frustrated on his phone.

also ch7 first and ch12 last scene... shutting up now. anyway.

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about lies of omission? Answer it now!

i really like talking about my fics in general. i don't think there's anything specific i want to talk about so uhh here's my favorite bits/details from each chapter. that's a question someone could ask i suppose.

ch 1 - tim's parasocial relationship with jason's memorial case that is only mentioned in passing. tim idolizes that thing. he does not idolize jason. (also bruce being the one to confront fake-red hood when we later learn that bruce and jason haven't talked face to face since the batarang incident... anyway)

ch 2 - lima being a massive asshole. it's not your fault mike i'm sorry. also barbara thinking about how pointless their offscreen fight was and then proceeding to argue with him immediately upon his return. love u babs.

ch 3 - ollie still being pissed off about seeing red

ch 4 - cass vowing to beat tim at super mario kart. yeah let's go, cass!! u got this

ch 5 - these lines:

"Dude, why are you treating this like a hostage negotiation?" Jason blinked. "If this is how Batman has been teaching you to handle hostage negotiations, then I have concerns." Signal shrugged, unrepentant. "Okay, fair. You're treating this like you're the hostage trying to negotiate. Like, you want to ask me a couple things. That's normal. You don't need to make it weird."

ch 6 - essence moving so jason can lean on her for support without needing to look at him, when jason throws a knife at damian and misses because he was aiming for a taller target

ch 7 - :) this one is just 3k+ beautiful words. what is there to add. oh also jason disarming himself because his first instinct is to fucking murder damian and he doesn't want to do that.

ch 8 - "hallucijason" shooting damian in the head. we're uhhh getting into spoilers territory a little bit here but. dick takes this as a natural extension of his nightmares re: tim getting shot, but since that jason is actually jason's actual real soul, or a piece of it, well... remember how last chapter, jason's first instinct was to fucking murder damian? "what are you, a cop?" is also peak.

ch 9 - charlie realizes he's being bribed with food to reveal red hood's secrets to spoiler, and his first instinct is to make sure the food he just got doesn't get confiscated.

ch 10 - jason's really awkward emotional vulnerability moment in front of duke. jason. come on.

ch 11 - duke & dick fight i like a lot. but also it's funny to me how frustrated jason is about the fact that babs is good at her job.

ch 12 - "hey dickiebird wanna see a magic trick"

ch 13 - cass is 100% bullying duke on purpose at the end of that first scene.

ch 14 - babs tactically deploying kyle's crush to avoid talking about touchy subjects. also issy <3

and obviously the rest of the chapters are not out yet, but have some quick not-super-spoilery details from the outline that i enjoy.

ch 15 swings that keep on loudly squeaking throughout the entire conversation, ch 16 the 'there's something wrong with the moon' that i... i don't know what that's about i have no idea what the fuck i meant but i haven't deleted it out of fondness. ch 17 an untitled being a dramatic asshole and jason being upset over this despite jason himself being a dramatic asshole all the damn time, ch 18 essence participating in the love language of gift giving and she's really thoughtful with this one good for her, ch 19 damian driving on the highway and miraculously not getting stopped by the cops despite being thirteen, ch 20 spicy hot cocoa.

[justanothermachine]

I love my family but I have to selectively narrate most aspects of my life towards them because they are both conservative and PG rated

[howifeltabouthim]

You should have told me the story . . . You should have told me directly rather than hinting at it.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold

[notnowricky]

“here and there” he said

“a couple of times” he said

Everyone making fun of Omar and Edvin’s acting skills in their last little TikTok when he demonstrated his prowess just recently in his live for Red Light.

Omar on the outside:

Omar on the inside:

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

smth i love about zevran, amongst many others, is i dont think he ever really Lies to u- if he does, its usually a lies he also telling himself (being in the crows isn't so bad, that he isnt interested in love, etc). like if he doesnt want to tell u smth he just... tells u he doesn't wanna tell you

the moment hes not under the crows thumb hes just like "oh sweet i dont have to do this all this shit anymore"

[princeescaluswords]

Lets be clear: Stiles had no rational reason to believe that Scott would turn his back on him. Stiles feared that would happen because of his deep-seated fear and insecurity, springing from both his mother's dementia-inspired paranoia, the aftermath of the nogitsune possession, and possibly even from his ADHD (I've been told about Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria). Coupled with several very specific recent events -- his upcoming graduation from high school, Theo's sinister manipulations, and Donovan's threats toward his father -- this was a perfect storm which led Stiles to make the terrible mistake of trying to hide something that wasn't his fault. And everyone should note: he hid it from everyone, not just Scott.

Scott understood this, which is why Scott didn't hold Donovan's death against him. All Scott told Stiles was to go talk to his father, who happens to be the sheriff and thus responsible for these legal issues, about Donovan's accidental death. Was Scott upset? Yes, but people dying tends to make Scott upset, as it should any good person. Scott didn't even hold Stiles's overreaction against Stiles. The only words Scott said against Stiles's behavior was "I know what self defense is." That's it. That's all.

The idea that this somehow makes Scott the worst friend in the world and a terrible alpha is nonsense.

People that think Scott would ever abandon Stiles because of what happened in season 5 or season 3b make me cackle. Scott??? Turn away from a possible murderer?????? Let me just give you his track record.

- Peter Hale: Tried to make Scott kill all of his friend by forcing him to shift against his will, wake up in the middle of the forest with no recollection all while Scott was trying to understand what werewolf even was. = Amicable relationship, never forced him to part from his nephew, only ever truly fought him when he wanted to hurt others.

-Jackson: All round asshole, killed people in his sleep, literally bullied Scott and threatened to ‘out’ him to a family of werewolf hunters. = More than amicable relationship, Scott defended Jackson more than once and was the one of the only people that fought to save him.

-Gerard: do I even need to say anything.= Found a way to subdue him without killing him (#chemist Scott), didn’t harbour any bad feelings towards Chris when he healed his father in season 6

-Chris Argent: Shot him in the fucking arm for no reason, threatened to blow his brains out for being together with his daughter= literal besties

-Victoria Argent: tried to suffocate him to death= didn’t say anything to ANYONE because he didn’t want to tarnish her memory

-Deucalion: calls himself “The Demon Wolf”= besties, Scott’s trust in his goodness turned him into a pacifist and an ally on multiple occasions.

-Theo: isolated him from his pack before killing him= Didn’t completely freak out on Liam for reviving him even though Theo killed him less than six months ago. One can argue that he would’ve totally housed Theo if he knew Theo was homeless

Y’all think he would kick Stiles out for supposedly bashing one dudes brains out with a wrench??? One pesky murder??????

Scott is the walking personification of “but mother I can fix him”, he was overwhelmed at the moment with a bunch of teenagers dying and Malia wanting to kill her mum and Kira wanting to fight everyone and now Stiles supposedly killed someone. His reaction was understandable and he handled it like a champ I’d say. But he would NEVER EVER abandon his brother, murder and miscommunication be damned.

[spiritsglade]

18 for rust red, bruised purple, Lazarus green, 19 for redux and 20 for lies of omission+ 50 if you want

[questions for fic writers]

hi nightshadow!! thank you for the ask.

18. If you wrote a sequel to rust red, bruised purple, lazarus green, what would it involve?

ideally i'd rewrite the fic in it's entirety lol. it's a concept i want to expand on someday but it feels very complete? if i were to write a sequel i think i'd do it from dick's perspective, and start it sort of concurrently with lazarus green--following him figuring out that jason is jason, and then catching up with the actual confrontation.

jason himself at this point is... not going to be very open to reconciliation. he just 'revived' his anger in a sense, and the anger itself is a funky little mixture of mostly self-loathing. but dick's the guy in front of him, so dick's the guy he's gonna lash out at.

dick's characterization is relatively fanony in this fic, so i think he'd probably keep trying to reach out, but jason's going to be very resistant about it. potential resolutions:

hurt no comfort, something that escalates to jason shooting dick and telling him to fuck off forever. things never resolve between them and it probably shatters jason's weird unspoken truce with bruce, too. misery all around.

dick manages to get through to him, somehow? forced teamup on an op gone south, something that jars jason into remembering that he actually cares about dick grayson the person (personally i think he does <3 jason views him as his cool infallible brother forever and ever)

something something another fic about the batarang scar. where dick finds out. 100% guaranteed to make things worse in this case, though

in general. lazarus green ends on a 'things are about to get worse/messier' note, so the sequel would reflect that, and i think it'd have to be fairly long to actually reach a more hopeful resolution.

19. If you wrote a spin-off of redux, what would it involve?

long multichapter fic focused on the batfam's grief for jason, their attempts to locate his body, navigating his second death, etc. crime alley's response to his disappearance. i think the penguin actually... did well enough hiding jason that the bats don't know who killed him.

redux is in a weird wfa-adjacent space in terms of what the batfam's relationships are like (as in, i painted them over with a happy everything is fine brush--at worst their disagreements last like, a week,) but i still think jason would operate fairly independently. and so there's guilt, they let him do that.

a couple of people have asked for a fluff comfort follow-up so that's also an option. a sequel of them navigating his apparent ability to spontaneously resurrect after multiple months also? and i think they'd be extremely overbearing/clingy in a way that grates on jason and that could be an interesting mess to explore as well.

many options. redux is one of those fics that make you Think.

(it's also the rare case where i think i'd go with the movie's ending for utrh instead of the comics. jason's overall... mindset is different from the usual. because we're in wfa-land.)

20. If you wrote a prequel to lies of omission, what would it involve?

that period of a year or so after robin #182 (where tim gives jason a jla override code to get out of prison). i think all of this worldbuilding is in the fic already but this is where we have:

jason, essence, isabel, & liam really developing that weird little friendship bond the four of them have going on. and associated untitled hunting.

kyle rayner in his stalking era. jason rebuilding bridges with donna post-'shooting her with bob's gun in a fakeout betrayal' just so they can laugh at him together

jason also returns to gotham intermittently here!! something of a reconciliation with dick. meeting damian. working together.

unfortunately i think it'd end with the suicide mentioned in ch 14 which is.... not a particularly cheery way to go out. alas.

for something shorter, i'd probably just focus on jason's initial return to gotham after the untitled hunting, and realizing dick is being crushed under the weight of the batman mantle and choosing to help out. the dick & jason reconciliation is important to me.

could be a fun little case fic while establishing what those character dynamics are like :] i do like lies of omission's au-verse a lot but i don't have any solid plans to write anything else for it at the moment... there's a half formed concept for a cass-centric sequel but i don't know where i'd actually want to go with that at the moment.

[sleevebuscemii]

everyone who meets boris as an adult is always like ‘ah! the famous boris! we’ve heard so much about you!’ but i am so so so curious as to what the hell theo was telling them without them being deeply concerned pray tell What did and he and boris do that wasn’t absolutely insane?? ‘boris and i liked to hang out in the playground and drop acid’ ‘boris and i liked to go to the supermarket to shoplift steaks’ ‘boris and i liked to watch movies but don’t ask what happens in any of them because i was too drunk to remember’ ‘boris and i liked to swim in the pool in the middle of night and then beat the shit out of each other’ theo liar who lies decker what did you tell these people

[kradogsrats]

S1E1 "Echoes of Thunder" / S3E1 "Sol Regem"

[princeescaluswords]

What always drives me absolutely nuts is that the only person hating on anyone in that scene was Stiles hating on Scott, per se:

SCOTT: You killed him? You killed Donovan? STILES: Well, he was going to kill my dad. Huh? Was I supposed to just let him? SCOTT: You weren't supposed to do this. None of us are. STILES: You think I had a choice? SCOTT: There's always a choice. STILES: Yeah, well, I can't do what you can, Scott. I know you wouldn't have done it. You probably would've just figured something out, right? SCOTT: I'd try. STILES: Yeah, because you're Scott McCall! You're the true Alpha! Guess what? All of us can't be true Alphas. Some of us have to make mistakes. Some of us have to get our hands a little bloody sometimes. Some of us are human!

There is only one person screaming insults and insinuating that someone is a terrible person, and it's not Scott. Just in case people missed it, I highlighted it in red.

Some other observations that I have made before a hundred times and I will make another hundred times until they stick:

Scott didn't 'side' with Theo over Stiles because Stiles never denied anything that Theo told Scott.

Scott might believe that Stiles killed someone to protect his father because he had witnessed Stiles suggesting death as a solution (Derek and Jackson), he had watched Stiles threaten and attack alpha werewolves and a Darach to protect his father, and he had been in the room with Stiles when Donovan threatened him.

If they had been 'together forever' as the commentator put it, why would Stiles think that Scott wouldn't understand? Why does Scott have to be the only one with perfect faith in Stiles and never the other way around?

What was Scott supposed to believe was the reason that Stiles couldn't tell him about Donovan before that night?

"It was an accident" is four words. That highlighted speech Stiles gave is 42 words. Can we stop suggesting that Scott didn't give Stiles enough time to defend himself?

Does no one else remember the fact that it had been clearly established that chimeras turned violent after being experimented on against their will? And that Scott might insist that people turned into monsters against their will deserve to live?

The only thing that Scott told Stiles after he came to conclusion that Stiles killed Donovan (which Stiles did, it just wasn't murder) and that Stiles concealed it from him (which Stiles did and on puropse!) is to go talk to his Dad. That's it. How the @#$#@ is that hate?

I can't believe that in a scene where Stiles uses Scott's heroism against him -- especially after Stiles was partially responsible for that heroism in the first place -- that we still have to remind people that a) Scott did have blood on his hands, b) Scott had made mistakes, c) Scott is human, and d) even if all of those things were not true, it still doesn't excuse Stiles deceiving everyone -- not just Scott!

Eight years. Eight Years and it's still going on.

was scott mccall actually selfish and a bad main character and a bad alpha and a messed up person or was he a sixteen year old boy? answer fast

[craftbreak]

My favorite loopchat is definitely "did you know your eyes are two different shades?" but tbh i haven't stopped thinking abt the one where siffrin asks if loop is a star and they say some shit like "I'm more like a mirror. It'd be boring to be the real thing" ever since i finished the game w twohats

Like loop's favorite activities are being vague as fuck and foreshadowing. So it's entirely possible that loop starts saying star to mean like. Actor (star of the show, the star of a play and stuff like that). And they just like. Answered that at least half honestly just bc siffrin would be like "? What are you blinding talking about" and the true meaning would fly over his head bc he's still thinking about stars (celestial bodies). + it would add to a lot of stuff loop says to you not really being lies like you might think on a first impression

[trash-begging]

If I have to read someone calling solas the god of lies one more time I’m going to fling myself into the sun!

[zeb-z]

Foolish outright lying when Tubbo presses him about the fed worker death message oh if anyone wasn’t certain he’s protecting Cellbit they can be damn sure of it now

[platoapproved]

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hey quick question: you ever read something so fucking sad it gives you a stomachache?