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[meggie-stardust]

8. if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

and/or

30. share a fic you’re especially proud of

I feel the writing woes ❤️

Thank you thank you! <3

8. if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

Shifty eyes. I have had two sequels in progress for a while:

The first is a sequel to Know How a Man Becomes a Beast that deals with whatever Stiles has become (working title: Run Howling Through the Carnage),

The second is a sequel for Give Me Pure Energy, that asks what would have happened in S3 given my S2 rewrite of Peter haunting Stiles instead, and would be equally dark.

30. share a fic you’re especially proud of

I'm really proud of most of the stuff I've written and posted, but I think I continue to be proud of Acts of Man becoming somewhat of a holiday classic in the Merlin fandom. I had a lot of fun writing it, and I love that people are not just still discovering it every year, but are going back and re-reading it eleven (!!) years later!

[lazuliquetzal]

I keep on telling people you're the only one who knows how to plot. Can you teach all of us how to plot, please? I love you.

I AM SUMMONED? PLOT BRAIN SUMMONED?

I love plotting. It's my favorite part of the writing process. Plot is "things that happen" and the best part of writing is imagining things that happen. I'm going to assume that whoever may be reading this knows how to imagine The Happenings, so I'm gonna be talking more about structure, but in like, a kinda abstract sense.

A good plot is a little bit more than a string of events. Plot is like music: there's variation in rhythm and sound and melody, but ultimately there's cohesion, because it's all one song. You can have a bunch of wild things happening, but no matter how strange, there should be something that links them all together, because you're telling one story.

Plot structures are patterns in stories. I'm pretty sure most of them were developed as analysis tools (as in, story already exists > look! it follows this pattern) rather than as writing tools, but people use them as writing tools because it's a neat little way to organize the chaos that is "shit happens." Stories follow patterns for the same reasons music follows patterns: we enjoy the certainty of hitting certain beats. But we also like being surprised. A good pop song doesn't sound like a random collection of sounds, but it also doesn't sound like the middle slider of other songs.

There is this shared concept in both music and writing: the idea of tension and release. Basically, you're playing with reader expectation: there's an imbalance in the experience (tension), and we want to see that imbalance resolved (release). All the common plot structures deal with this basic pattern:

You set an expectation

There are complications to the expectation

You meet the expectation

And this rhythm is happening on multiple levels in writing. Scenes follow this structure (we're gonna get past that door, we're gonna find the murder weapon, we're gonna collaborate and come up with a plan) and all those scenes feed into the overarching expectation (we're gonna solve this murder!). I usually think of chapters as their own mini-story, part of the larger whole. And I think of scenes as their own mini-story, part of the larger chapter. I have engineer brain. I see the gears spinning in the clock. That's why all my chapters have at least One Important Thing happening, because that's that particular chapter's Step #3.

And One Last Important Thing:

In music, a delayed resolution is almost always more interesting than the standard resolution. In writing, that means you wanna drag out Step #2 for as long as you can. That's where the bulk of the story is happening, that's how you build tension, that's how you get people to turn the page.

So when you write a fake dating fic, those bitches better not get together until the very end. I came here for fake dating, not for real dating, damn it. If you resolve that expectation early on, you better replace it with a different expectation that's just as engaging.

But also don't drag it out for too long. Sorry. The hard part of writing is learning the difference between too short and too long. Writing is unfortunately a nuanced skill which is why my advice is like "do this but not too much teehee." But tension and resolution is just rhythm, you can build a sense for it if you engage with enough stories.

[ardentpoop]

common problem i have w/ a lot of fanon is that people tend to heavily overestimate how attentive dean is to sam's issues/needs. dean is often fucking clueless abt what sam is going thru lol. outside of the immediate strain it places on their relationship and their ability to do their Job.

[mamawasatesttube]

Need an au where Lois found out Tana was dating a teenager and went into feral overprotective mama bear mode

YOU AND ME BOTH MAN. @loisinherlane and i once spitballed one au in this vein where lois, who already has jon (a baby, like 4 or 5 years old, doesn't understand why his dad isn't coming home) looks at kon and can't let him walk away. this is a kid with her dead beloved's face. she's already a mom. she can't do it.

so she absolutely eats tana alive (kon doesn't see why she's so mad, but he's like okie dokie i still think that was overkill but sure?) (kon is wrapped around baby jon's lil pinky fingers. where that baby goes, he goes.) and takes kon in.

the comedy of this au is when clark comes back, and lois is so frazzled and overwhelmed she just collapses into his arms and cries and she's exhausted and she honestly just. she forgets he doesn't already know what's going on. she forgets she hasn't told him. so poor clark walks into the kitchen, sees this teenager who clearly looks like him staring at him with a spoonful of cheerios halfway to his mouth, and thinks, oh my god. i've somehow lost all my memories of our firstborn.

[essektheylyss]

literally laughed out loud at Matt's face when he admitted that Lester was trying to hide something, truly the scrungliest detective in Newfaire

[palms-upturned]

PSA

Hello friends, I’m sorry for being mostly offline for a little while, I’ve been struggling a bit. Please rest assured that I’m going to try to get everything running again ASAP, but here’s a short version of what’s going on.

At the moment, I’m unemployed due to my disability and trying to get a lot of things sorted out in the bursts of time when I feel well enough. I am fairly certain that my pain and fatigue is being caused by sciatic endometriosis that was made worse by a covid infection, but it’s going to take me a while to get diagnosed and (hopefully) treated. In the meantime, my pain flareups are unfortunately getting worse and more frequent. What this means is that unfortunately I have stretches of time where I have a hard time talking to people or even thinking straight. Some of the medicines I take for my pain also make me drowsy which makes things even harder on top of it all.

I’m going to continue promoting fundraisers, but I feel very bad that these periods of time are becoming longer and more frequent because every day of fundraising is critically important. So what I’d like to ask is whether any of my friends/mutuals here would be interested in helping me run @vetted-gaza-funds so that even when I’m not well, at least that blog can stay up to date. There are currently over 100 fundraisers posted there, and as more get added, the more time it takes me to update the master list, update urls for users who were forced to remake their blogs, and work through the inbox for new campaigns. Trying to push through on days when I don’t feel well has already resulted in some really stupid mistakes like accidentally deleting the original master list post, and I really don’t want to do something like that again.

One friend of mine has already volunteered to help, which I’m very thankful for, but if I could find maybe five more people, then that would mean one mod for every day of the week, which would hopefully mean that it wouldn’t be too large a commitment for anyone. The more the merrier, basically.

So to break things down, here’s what I would be doing:

Creating a discord server for the blog mods

Looking through the inbox each day for new campaigns to add

Cross referencing those campaigns on master lists/spreadsheets to see which ones are already verified and can be shared

Adding the campaign links, usernames, and other relevant information to a cryptpad document for people to plug into a post/add to the master list

Here’s what I would need help doing:

Making the actual posts on the blog (there is a template in the drafts that I use to make them)

Updating the fund amounts/progress in the master list, ideally every day

If comfortable, briefly answering direct messages to let people know when their campaigns have been added to the blog

Also, so far the blog has just been full of fundraisers for people who have contacted me directly, but if anyone helping with the blog has verified fundraisers that they themselves would like to add, of course that would be great as well!

If you’re interested in helping me out, please dm me or reply to this post! (I’d prefer not to talk via asks because when I answer asks privately I don’t have any record of our conversation and I can be forgetful 😅)

Thank you all 🙏 today I’m unfortunately still not feeling well so I may be slow to respond but I will try to answer messages and get everything set up asap!

[artiststarme]

For the 3rd part of The Party Forgets Steve's Birthday, how does Eddie one up himself with the words on the cake? Have you thought about what other sayings he might use every year?

Also, great job on the fic! I loved how this series started with Steve being all sad then went to Eddie saving the day and being mad at the kids to the kids feeling really guilty. It felt like I was on a rollercoaster! Thank you, keep up the great work please!

First of all, thank you. I'm glad that you liked it.

Second of all, yes I have! Eddie always uses the same drippy red frosting that turns the cake into a blood spattered, albeit delicious, crime scene and he always uses the same rainbow sprinkles to add a little bit of razzle-dazzle.

The first cake said "BIRTH STEVE" because Eddie ran out of room on the small cake to decorate. Steve was a little appalled at the time but found humor in it afterwards.

The second cake said "BIRTH STEVE, Another Year Gone". The entire Party was shocked into silence but Steve loved it. He gave him the biggest hug and bragged about it to anyone who would listen.

Next year, Eddie writes "Goodbye to Steve's Youth" and things just devolve from there. For the next thirty five years or so (and counting), Eddie makes it his mission to be as creepy and heartfelt as he can.

"Dying to tell you Happy Birthday, Stevie!"

"RIP Age 30, Goodbye Friend"

"Life Vould Suck Vithout You!" (Also had an illegible cartoon vampire)

"Death is closer than ever"

"'If you write my age on that, I'll kill you.' -Steve"

"Congrats! You lived another year!"

Some years he also just doodles random pictures that he has to explain to everyone. Like the time he tried to make a tombstone but it was really just a lump of black frosting that stained everyone's teeth for days.

The year they get married, he also decorates a cake with the outline of a body and writes "It's always the husband...". Steve didn't know if it was a threat or an insinuation.

[istherewifiinhell]

#[...]perfect to think about sopping wet g1 megs chillin in lava

scientist are still debating if joelle can just perfectly predict things that happen in tf or if i just love finding tf scenes for every concept

[ID: G1 Transformers screencaps (s3). 1. Scourge, standing on a rocky planet, pulling Galvatron, who is submerged in a pool of lava, up by the hands. 2. Galvatron rising from it, as the lava drips down his frame. END]

[frodo-with-glasses]

I've seen your lovely LOTR readthrough art, and I'm curious - do you draw in a sketchbook, or in the actual novel?? (If you do it in the novel, to be honest that's actually really cool since it adds a personal touch to the books!)

Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I draw in a sketchbook, haha; there’s not enough room in the margins of my copy of LotR to make any proper drawings, and even if there were, I wouldn’t dare draw in the book anyway. My art is gonna have to be waaaay better before I even think about doing that 🤣

With that being said, though, I did personalize my book a little bit, once…

[meggie-stardust]

15 and 27 for your writer asks please <3 ✍🏻

ooh thank you! <3

15. favorite weather for writing

It's gotta be rainy/cold weather where I just want to curl up with some tea and stay warm. In that weather I don't want to go for a run or run errands, or even leave my house, so it's the perfect excuse to lose myself writing (now, as I write this, I have to admit that today was a wonderfully cold, rainy, foggy day, and yet I did no writing so, maybe I'm just full of shit).

27. your favorite part of the writing process

Ooh, hmm. I think I like when an idea appears to me fully formed in some way. Usually nothing huge like the full plot of something, but like a specific scene or line of dialogue, or passage. I usually jot it down in a note, or your dictate on my phone to take a note. And then crafting that into something that actually fits is the first part of the fun, and the second is going back to see where that idea came from.

[no1ryomafan]

With more older anime I watch that’s specifically about androids the more I noticed all the influence mega man pulled from it despite it not being a anime nor the robot timeline ever getting a proper anime but I think what gets me more then “the basis of mega man is like astro boy, casshern and POSSIBLY kikaider all in a blender with mega man x making the second two inspos more apparent” is realizing how many villain characters inspired proto man.

You have the obvious one, char from Gundam, you have rock holmes from Astro boy who’s not a confirmed one but seems to track given classic takes a lot of Astro boy influence and then you have Saburo from Android kikaider, the most likely inspo for proto in EVERY category- and then you remember how while these characters are evil for a complex reason, proto man really shines to be different as he changed his ways. He’s still a rival to his “brother” in a sense but bass takes more of the role of the evil mega man, while proto just watches from afar and comes in to help when he thinks he’s needed.

I’m going to rotate this red robot fuck for awhile again FUCK

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

15 (For the ZOMBIES ask game) :D

YAY ANOTHER QUESTION AH thank you bb <33 ask game here

15. unpopular opinion you have about anything related to zombies?

i'm gonna do a few cause i have a lot of thoughts heheh

firstly, addison isn't as annoying or unlikable as y'all keep saying she is. i get it, she's overly optimistic, very cheerful, and can do annoying things sometimes. news flash, all of these characters have at least one of those traits too (and some have even worse ones)

secondly, the only reason some of you guys refer to zombies as a white savior franchise is because meg is white. i know that sounds redundant but like, i know that at least half of you would stop calling it a white savior franchise if carla or kylee (or any other non-white actress) was cast as addison instead

and lastly, just because a lot of the original trilogy cast won't be in z4 does not necessarily mean that it will be bad, if it is then whatever, but we won't know till it comes out (and i'm saying this as someone whose favorite character is bonzo (along with zeddison but ya know, they're in the movie) so if i can chill, so can you guys)

[mcltiples]

@evilmcg sent; “I may be Meg’s friend but I’m on your side. If my boyfriend said that in front of me I’d be upset too.” Evilmcg for morty

{ @countlessrealities --- mentioned }

This was surprising. Evil Meg was the last person he thought he would hear from. They never really talked, but apparently she heard what happened. His Meg probably told her. Though, it was nice to see that she was on his side. For a minute, he really thought that she would be on his girlfriend's side.

"Uh, th-thanks, I-I really appreciate it," These days, he opted to wearing a yellow hoodie. Better to hide his headphones and his face. He was going through bad emotions, the least he could do was hide in something cozy. "I-It's.... I-I don't want to say anything mean, but, I-I don't think she realizes the kind of things she says sometimes,"

He frowned, playing with the drawstrings of the hood. "Meg thinks that everything is fine a-and that i-it's all sunshine and rainbows, but I-I don't like her using my nickname that I gave to my boyfriend a-and I-I'm sorry that I'm such a terrible boyfriend wh-who doesn't listen! I-I've done so much for her a-and done all of these nice things for her, but sh-she's never---" He closed his eyes really tight, brows furrowed. "I-I don't think she realizes how much I-I go out of my way to make her happy, sh-she thinks it comes so easy, but it's not, I-I try really hard and yet, sh-she's never once appreciated me for it."

Somewhere deep down, Morty knew that wasn't true. There were plenty of things that Meg has done for him in return. However, all he could see were the things she's done for his counterpart instead. The way she's been favoring him lately. It made him feel inferior, like he was the old Morty and she was going after the newest, more improved model.

And thinking of it like that made his stomach churn. How could he think of those things about his boyfriend? He couldn't compete with him, not because of insecurity, but because that's not what boyfriends do. They don't out do the other. They were supposed to be equals.

A tear ran down his face. "Wh-Why does it hurt? A-All I want is for the three of us to be happy, but why--- h-how come I-I'm not happy? I-Is there something wrong with me?"

[jackinalex]

https://www.tumblr.com/jackinalex/759472751919710208?source=share

Lisa is going to sing on a song that Alex wrote about an ex. This is just a new level of cringe.

Honestly, Meg is a freaking saint because she has never breathed a word about it lmao. I wish she’d do a tell-all!!!

[artiststarme]

With the sneaky like a ninja post, I think it would be even funnier if knowing the ending that Hop knew every time Steve snuck out of the house that he called Eddie up to let him know Steve is coming. And that if he didn't show up in a specific amount of time, Eddie had to call Hop back and they would go looking. So when Steve was bragging to Eddie about being like a ninja he knew that Hop knew just wanted to let Steve believe. While Steve felt suffocated, they were just looking out for his well being.

Such a cute story. LOVE LOVE LOVED it.

Yes, yes, yes! I love this idea and thanks for the ask!

~*~*~*~

Hopper waited until he heard the window latch closed before he got out of bed with a sigh. This kid was going to be the death of him. He ambled to the phone on the hallway wall and called the number that he knew he would be getting unsettlingly familiar with while Steve was staying there. As soon as he heard the line pick up, he started giving orders. “Look Munson, you’re a young man and I know what young men think about. You better keep it PG-13 or I will find you and I’ll make it wish you were convicted by the cops for those murders, you hear me? Steve is headed over there right now and I need you to call me in 30 minutes or I’m going to think that bastard gave himself another concussion. Got it?”

“What-” Eddie asked over the phone with a crack in his voice. 

“I said, ‘got it’?”

“Yessir, Chief. I got it, loud and clear. No getting handsy tonight and I will return him unscathed,” Eddie stammered.

“And call me back in 29 minutes.”

“Yes, and-and do that… I’m going to hang up now if that’s okay-”

Hopper hung up the phone with a sigh of exasperation. As promised, Eddie gave him a subtle call 28 minutes later with promises to drop Steve off in the morning and Hopper went to bed. He had to be up bright and early to ruin a brat’s day for getting Steve hurt in the first place. 

~*~*~*~

The next morning, Hopper woke up bright and early to go wreck some havoc. He knew it wasn’t a great thing to be so excited over tormenting children but this one had it coming. He gave a smug-looking Steve a fatherly pat on the shoulder, grabbed some coffee, and headed to the Wheeler’s.

“What were you thinking?! If Steve says no to giving you brats a ride, you don’t insult his character or push him into doing it! What were you thinking, Wheeler?” He yelled at him.

Mike just glared up at him in defiance. “I was thinking that my friends and I needed a ride and I got one!”

“At the expense of Steve! Now you won’t be getting any rides from anyone because you pissed us all off! How does that feel? Are you happy now, Wheeler?” Hopper mocked him. 

It was true, the adults and the older teens were on strike from giving the kids any rides until Mike apologized to Steve for contributing to him crashing his car and getting another concussion. His stubbornness hadn’t allowed him to yet but he was on thin ice. 

“Are you happy, Hopper? You’re ridiculing a teenager. Congratulations, you’re pathetic,” Mike sneered at him. 

Oh, that was the final line to cross. “Oh, you think I’m pathetic? See how pathetic you are without your girlfriend and best friend. You’re banned! You won’t be seeing El or Will until you apologize to Steve. And me too! I’ve been dealing with your ungrateful ass for years, I deserve a goddamn award.”

Mike opened his mouth, no doubt to complain about the hypocrisy and unfairness of it all. Hopper just lit up a cigarette and walked to his cruiser. “Deal with it, Wheeler.”

Then he took off in a puff of smoke and laughed all the while. It was about damn time that Mike Wheeler was shocked speechless. 

~*~*~*~

Any time he heard the bedroom window opening, the back door creaking, or even the one memorable time the kitchen window above the sink opening, Hopper pulled himself out of bed to call one Eddie Munson. 

He would give the kid a head’s up that Steve had left and asked him to give him a call after thirty minutes to ensure that he reached the trailer safely. In return, Hopper didn’t mention Steve’s smug expressions or his murmurings to Jonathan at the breakfast table that he ‘was exactly like a ninja, see’.

And when he told Steve that he knew about the many times he snuck out, he did Munson a solid and didn’t mention that he called him every single time. Lord only knew the shitstorm that would arise if he figured that out.

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[xxgotthedevilinsidexx]

for supernatural: bobby singer!!!, eve, meg masters, lisa braeden, mary winchester, arthur ketch, jody mills.

for twd: rostia espinosa, merle dixon

random: heather miller (texas chainsaw massacre) eddie (tex) sawyer (texas chainsaw iii) doom-head and sex-head (rob zombie's 31!)

Based on the character(s) you see me play || @bloodsalted || Accepting

OMG DIXON !! Hehe how did I know you'd toss me a list ? But of course you know I value your opinion tremendously. You know my weaknesses all to well. So with that being said and looking over your suggestions I'm going start the following as test muses for now ....

SPN: Eve , Meg , Lisa, Mary & Bobby

TWD: Merle

I'm going to give 31 and TCM a rewatch tonight or tomorrow and I'll get back to you on those <3