#mums shoes

[sapphoismymuse]

i want to be a cozy hobbit living in a hobbit hole and gossiping with the neighbours and tending to gardens and baking and dancing barefoot under the party tree

but alas

i can't stand dirt

[enbysiriusblack]

peter pettigrew shoes

[shawolsos]

Babe being, "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye, and I got that red lip classic thing that you like, and when we go crashing down, we come back every time, cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style."

And Charlie being, "If you like causing trouble up in hotel rooms and if you like having secret little rendezvous. If you like to do the things you know that we shouldn't do, then baby, I'm perfect, baby, I'm perfect for you."

[stellewriites]

having my brother move back in has solidified my stance that i don’t think i could ever willingly choose to live with a man

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[1mlostnow]

Got bored 😛😛😛

ALSO I DROPPED THE POETRY BLOGGGGGG @1mfoundnow it’s still under construction but I’m kinda busy rn so I’ll get to it soon 🤞

[in-tua-deep]

Finding real community actually is about knowing people with ur shoe size and having them be like “let’s find you a pair of shoes to borrow for your interview” ♥️

[not-poignant]

salut pia!

ive been wondering? how do you handle/change modes when you’re writing across AUs/fics? i mean not only the personality/attribute changes (like role reversal with ef and gwyn) but also change in…oh how do i say this..when a character is a MC in one but side/minor in another? bc they are different devices to different stories, how do you keep an overview of how much you reveal, go into so as to not side track from the main story or change the “flow”. example: whenever theres mentions of gender identity and betas somethin somethin feeling like omegas somethin somethin comes up “casually” sirens go off in my head and then i realise wait faber is NOT the MC in this story this is not about him him but its a little bit about him him. and then i feel like im standing behind a glass wall looking from Utb/Utg to Utr screaming at faber but he is a NPC here so we dont know whats going on in his head. that scene with ef and him eating carrots?…. i would give my right foot and skin tone copic markers to be a fly on the wall in fabers POV (the timelines probably wont align for it to happen but would you ever consider sth like this?? a scene overlapp across stories i mean?)

i’ve mostly read within that universe but ive also read spoils where your characters have completely different..positions? roles? weight? than in rainbow. so yeah how do you keep it all “appropriate” or “fitting” for their roles in different stories. like a puppet master

cheers xx

Hi anon,

So this is going to be not very helpful, but I don't write this stuff down for the most part.

This is the stuff I find so easy that this is why this is my job, in a way. I don't have a list of 'different Efnisiens' to keep track of, or 'different Gwyns.' They become themselves within the story. If I read a chapter of the story I get back into it (actually often I just need to listen to a song or put on the right playlist). Every version of a character is kind of there right now. I know how each would respond to something, and how those things would be the same or vary based on life experiences and the question etc.

I don't do really much at all to change modes. I just...do. There is no overview. It's all in my head. I'd say some of this goes down to how long / how many years I've spent studying character and dialogue overall. But even when I was younger I found this pretty easy, and transplanting characters into different situations to see how they'd react similarly / differently was one of my favourite kinds of exercises even when I was a teenager.

Some of it is knowing focus. Faber's side story is interesting, for those who like Faber and/or Underline the Red, hints about his gender struggles are fascinating, but they can only ever be hints, because I'm mindful that many readers aren't interested in Faber except as a minor character, and haven't read Underline the Red.

The focus is always Efnisien and Gary. Other characters can have their own lives and motivations, but it won't be more than that in the main story. Though I can go into a bit more detail because of the length of the story which is really nice for building out side characters / ensemble cast.

As to crossover perspectives, I don't know! I know we'll see some of Faber's perspective of Efnisien arriving at Hillview in Underline the Red, but obviously things impact characters differently at different times, I don't know what will be most important by the time we get to Faber's side of things. I used to write alternative perspectives as side chapters for Fae Tales though, and that could be a lot of fun.

so yeah how do you keep it all “appropriate” or “fitting” for their roles in different stories.

I saw a video by Hank Green I think once where he said the reason sportspeople are so good at their sports is in part because they're physically often the best at that sport anyway. Like, ballerinas have a certain build, swimmers have a certain build, and any training they do works to support that and make them better, but they were 'built' out for those sports in the first place. Some people have yoga bodies. I have a swimming body and swimming shoulders.

And I feel like this is true sometimes with writing. I don't try to keep it appropriate or fitting, I just know that the ensemble characters can't matter as much as the main characters in the course of the story. That's what a story is. That's what a main character and an ensemble character is. I would say years of experience has made this part of writing mostly easy and fun for me, so I don't have to think or overthink about this stuff anymore. At worst I might think 'was that too much Faber? Eh, it's helping Efnisien, it's still important to the plot and his character arc.'

I'm 'built' for writing big worlds with big ensemble casts where all the characters are important but where the focus is only on a couple of main characters per story. I'm built for character-focused stories and seem to be very built for transplanting characters I love into different worlds (and different roles) to see how that changes things. I started wanting to write these kinds of worlds and characters when I was 10 years old, and had my first sprawling ensemble fantasy series started by the age of 11. By the age of 15 I had a 3 novel fantasy trilogy built out with about 20 significant characters, and it was ridiculous and silly but that was what I wanted to write.

And I guess you could say I haven't really changed, I've just gotten better at it. I hope to keep getting better at it! The challenge now is to figure out how to break down some of these skills so I can share them with others. But...I do think there's an element of 'this is just what I love, it's a special interest, I don't know how to convey that I have 30 years of special interest in reading, writing, and studying this thing across television, manga, manhwa, fanfiction, AUs, and fictional series.' There will be teachable skills in that, but I don't know how much osmosis / absorption / and being obsessed with entangled tapestries of stories makes up what I do.

In some ways it would be 'better' if I was built for more conventional storytelling. My bank account might like that more! BUT, I'm doing okay where I'm at, because I love it, and I try to share that with other people and see if I can tell stories that resonate with them too.

(There are aspects of what I do that are very hard for me - timelines, aspects of worldbuilding, pacing in the first arc, and so on, but the actual characterisation part, and creating multiple versions of the same character is as easy as breathing. I could give you four more different versions of Faber in an hour. Maybe even twenty minutes. It's not hyperbole, it's just...how I daydream, what I think about. And it's fun!)

I'm very very very lucky that other folks are willing to read the same characters across different narratives, because it's a very strange thing to do in writing outside of fanfiction, case in point being that we almost never see any other professional authors doing it with their original works. x.x

[jessica-read]

I know this may not be my sexiest outfit, but it means a lot to me, because it's an entire outfit that my Mum wore on a special night out we went to together and I adore looking like my Mum 💕

[ma-lark-ey]

what about a simon snow fic where everything is the same except simon giving the humdrum his magic turns it into a real boy and not a shadow of who used to be and so now simon and baz are just. an older brother and his vampire boyfriend of this feral gremlin eleven year old. is this anything?

[mackmp3]

kind of evil i cant wear the same pants & shirt to graduation that i wore to formal. also kind of evil i only have one pair pf nice black pants & they make me want to crawl out of my skin a little bit

[beatriceportinari]

another day looking at silly fashion items....

[cannibalistic-vampirefag]

my mother is officially reaching unprecedented levels of "so tired it's everybody else's (aka her child's) problem". didn't even know she could do that

it's like every time I'm away for a little while she gets an update or unlocks a new videogame level—only each level makes her more tired and the new skills that come with it are the new ways to fuck her relationship with her child

[jainkoa]

Just found out I have the same sized feet as 10 year old children

[bluebellhairpin]

Worst thing about being the eldest child, by far, is that I can't say no to my sister anymore. Especially since she lives 4 hours away.

[orchidyoonkook]

Question,

Anyone on here also a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan?

I always ask irl and everyone says the fad of it missed them, yet here I am restarting the show for the millionth time.