#need to rebecome a writer

[dorasoracle]

give me a classic music composer Regulus, give me him as a journalist in the mid time, give me him with an apartament where he live with Pandora and Evan ( plus barty and dorcas but the ones who pay the rent are the first three ) , give me him as who is stoic normally but the center of attention if drunk, give me him one night out with his friends and in the local where playing a live band, give me Regulus who cannot not recognize his brother but he is actually looking at the drummist, James Fleamont Potter.

[gaiuswrites]

Your Hall of Mirrors

Pairing: (none)

Summary: If you could go back, would you?

Word count: 353~

Warnings/tags: something like the memory of dread, or regret maybe, or maybe not at all

Notes: I’m not kidding this time, this is pure nonsense. Thank you @autumnleaves1991-blog and @clydesducktape! Please enjoy this belated Writer Wednesday. My brain is mush. Who are we any more.

Masterlist

Through my hallway of mirrors we tip toe— all of her, all of me, fractured and blinking back at us. I recognize them, every lock of hair, each neighbored beast, and you’re horrified— eyes splintered vein-red, orbed as you stare into my unwoken pit.

I swallow you in mercury. In glass. I absorb your terror.

I feed.

/

If you could go back, would you?

If you could unspin the weave of your fabric, unthread that fated threadcount, what would you make? What would you rebecome again?

Would you call your mother more? Would you dial the number your fingers remember better than your brain just to say hello? That you didn’t get it then but you get it now? That she’s a girl too, somewhere, and if you look real close you can still see the summer she first fell in love with the boy at the boathouse, there in the honey crisp apples of her cheeks.

Would you take the other turn, the other path— veer right in that forked prong? Would you cast away the life you know for an unknown— for an outlier, an anomaly— not because you hate it here, but on a whimsy light what if.

Would you lay upon your bed, your childhood seeping into the cotton of your pillowcase and coloring it rose tinted, your long-dead pet sleeping quiet at your feet? Would you read by the window under the lamp glow from your nightstand, immortalized in the pages and words you once considered kin— the spine of the book you bent to match the sloping curve of your own as you devoured worlds and worlds and worlds and—

Would you kiss them again— for one more time, for the last time? Would you mold your lips against theirs and confess your need— scribe it with the muscle of your tongue, notch it like teenaged initials grooved against tree bark, into the pink of their gums? Would you ask them to love you? Would you beg them to beg you to stay?

Or would it simply be to say don’t. Don’t open the door. Please— for me.

Don’t go down that hall.

[mk-wizard]

Chibi-Usa Deserved a Better Backstory

Hello, friends. I wanted to elaborate on this subject more after bringing it up in my last post.

I’m a big fan of Chibi-Usa from Sailor Moon and I think she adds that little something that was missing from the story. Plus, she brings out an array of emotions in Usagi that adds that another dimension to her. I also love her character development in the story and how she is similar to Usagi yet at the same time very different especially when it came to her attitude towards being Sailor (Chibi) Moon. Chibi-Usa is eager to learn the ways of the Sailor Guardian, she is very brave, she doesn’t back down from a fight and to her credit, she is very responsible especially for her age. And her design is also pretty genius because at least in my opinion, she embodies what the tale of Sailor Moon embodies: love, feminism and being feminine positive. She looks like a Valentine and that is also relevant because she is also living proof that Usagi and Mamoru do live happily ever after.

However, there is just one glaring problem with her and it is not even her fault; her backstory is not good. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is great that she comes from the 30th century, is a descendent of Usagi and Mamoru, and is fated to be the next Sailor Moon as well as the wielder of the Legendary Silver Crystal, but... Making her the daughter of Usagi and Mamoru, 900 years old yet forever a child and a princess who has the civilian lifestyle... I don’t like it and it doesn’t make sense. And I am afraid there is not gentle way to say this, her having a crush on her own dad is disgusting.

I had mentioned in my last article that I did not like that Usagi became queen, but at least that was the only thing wrong with her story. With Chibi-Usa, it’s everything because it also affects how we see her actions and her design. Her actions seem less endearing and her beautiful design doesn’t make any sense now because she looks nothing like either of her parents. Now, I understand that this is a cartoon, but for all of the other characters, they did look related to their family members. I can even say Usagi and Minako look like their parents even though they’re brunettes because the shape of the faces and eyes are there. Usagi has her dad’s eyes and the texture of her hair is that of her mother. Heck, Usagi even looks a bit like her little brother. Plus, it is genetically possible for two brunette parents to have blonde children. However, Usagi is a slightly wavy haired blonde with blue eyes, Mamoru is a straight haired brunette (black) with blue eyes and Chibi-Usa is a very wavy bordering on curly haired redhead (pink) with red eyes... I love Naoko Takuechi’s character designs, but she made an amateur mistake here.

Another reason I don’t like Chibi-Usa’s backstory is because it makes her into a Mary Sue and an Anti-Sue at the same time. Chibi-Usa doesn’t need to be a princess or be Usagi’s daughter to be important. She is already that by her own merit. It would have been better if she was just a very distant descendent who was not royalty instead. I do like the idea of her idolizing her mother yet at the same time envying her (who we will call Mother) because this gives her a unique struggle to overcome and I also like the idea that Usagi and Mamoru’s descendants would continue to make the world a better place even if only as normal people. However, Mother doesn’t need to be a queen. She can be something amazing yet realistic like an ambassador, a professor or something like that. There is no reason she couldn’t be something like that and STILL be ladylike, beautiful, smart and kind. I don’t even see a reason as to why she couldn’t not be a queen and still make Prince Diamond of the Black Moon Clan become smitten by her. Or just have Prince Diamond have a crush on Sailor Moon only. And I have to be blunt once more; it makes no sense whatsoever that Chibi-Usa was picked on by her subjects and dressed like a civilian if she was a princess this whole time. Wouldn’t she have dressed in better clothing? And wouldn’t those kids be afraid of picking on royalty because they could get in big trouble for it? It is clear that despite the princess status, Naoko Takuechi wanted Chibi-Usa to be relatable so it would have been to her benefit to just be a normal person who was the daughter of someone who was also normal, but did important things.

The most problematic thing of all about her backstory is that she grew up knowing everything there is to know about Sailor Guardians and Sailor Moon, there are Sailor Guardians in her own timeline with time to spare to teach her everything and yet, she needs to go into the past to learn how to be a Sailor Guardian. That doesn’t make any sense. Moreover, it now makes her presence with the current day Sailor Guardians like that of the token little kid than as a character who adds something which is sad because she DOES add something. Not to mention what I keep mentioning, this is why I think it is to story of Sailor Moon’s benefit to do a rewrite someday where Usagi never becomes queen and she along with everyone lives out normal lives, with normal lifespans and in the future, there is no need for Sailor Guardians so there aren’t any until Chibi-Usa’s time comes. If one rewrites her backstory this way, now it makes sense for her to stay in the past in a little longer to be trained.

Now, I know that if Chibi-Usa’s backstory was changed in such a way that she and Mother were very distant descendants of Usagi and Mamoru from the future, were absolutely not royalty, there are no Sailor Guardians around and Mother is just a descendant with no powers, how would Chibi-Usa have the Silver Crystal and the Time Key? Well, my explanation is simple and answers everything; they are simply family heirlooms passed on from mother to child from generation to generation. After all, Sailor Moon has a plethora of items and even a hideout where she would keep everything she has collected over the years. Even after not needing these items and retiring, she would not throw them away. In the case of the relics that still possessed magic and the Silver Crystal, Usagi would have kept those in secret in her own home and pass them onto her own child with the understanding of their meaning, importance and why they must remain a secret from the world. Suppose the route of Usagi never becoming queen was taken, I think it is most likely that she would never tell anyone in her family that she was Sailor Moon with the exception of her child when the time is right and they must also swear not to tell anyone. With that in mind, it would now make sense for Chibi-Usa to not know that Usagi and Sailor Moon were one of the same because Mother didn’t tell her yet. She only knows about her in fairy tales. Either Mother only told her about the Silver Crystal and the Time Key, or Chibi-Usa figured out what those things are on her own through research as the treasures would be mentioned in encyclopedias and such, but never understood why Mother would have them in her possession.

Now, for the next issue, how would Chibi-Usa then have a friendship with Sailor Pluto if she was just a normal girl and there were no Sailor Guardians around? Well, this could be addressed in one of two ways. The first way would be to just write it out completely because as the first anime demonstrated, it doesn’t have to be Pluto who brings Chibi-Usa back into the light. The second way is that Sailor Pluto as Setsuna Meioh was just an ordinary young woman who Chibi-Usa got to know in Usagi’s timeline and became friends with her like that. Considering that the Outer Guardians were most needed during the Death Busters saga as active warriors rather than far off lone guardians, it would make more sense for Sailor Pluto to have only awakened with this new role during Usagi’s lifetime. Now... as for what happens to Sailor Pluto after, if the future were Usagi becomes queen no longer happens and everyone’s future is to themselves, Pluto is not destined to rebecome a lonely lone guardian of the time door. If she is fated to some kind of heroic sacrifice or eventually, live to retire and live out a peaceful private life, that is a theory to be discussed all on its own.

Anyway, back to the main point, by freeing Usagi from the fate of becoming queen, it opens a window of opportunity to give Chibi-Usa the better written backstory she deserves. It also eye opening to how making a character less “frilly” is to their benefit. It also makes the sisterly relationship she has with Usagi better because as the Flash series have shown us, a kid will see their parent as their parent no matter what. Also, this cleans up the crush she develops on Mamory because he is an extremely distant ancestor of hers now. So distant that their relation is an absolute minimum now.

When Sailor Moon gets rebooted again (I won’t say “if” because I think it is safe to say that it is so big a franchise that it will be rebooted one day again), I have no idea if they will rewrite Chibi-Usa’s backstory. I doubt will look at my idea and run with it, but I do hope they will at least address the bugs in it. I think writers will be open to doing that and Naoko Takuechi will not be opposed because live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon took its own route entirely, and it was pretty good. Even the first anime did not stay true to the way the manga told Sailor Moon. And that’s ok for reboots and retellings to exist. How many times have the DC heroes been retold with different backstories? Sometimes, a reboot can be the saving grace for a great character who needs work.

And in my opinion, a character as memorable and loveable as Chibi-Usa is worth it.

This is all of course my opinion and just my suggestion. Tell me what you think of it and also, if you have an idea of how to rewrite Chibi-Usa’s backstory so that it is better and makes sense, I’d love to hear it.

Thanks for reading and stay safe and have a great day.

[ragnarssons]

I genuinely have nothing against Echo (character development ain't helping others but w/ever) and she has had a big role this season which maybe puts her on the list or characters to die with Raven and Miller and maybe Octavia still?

Eh I really don’t see Raven dying tho. I mean, she’s too essential to the plot and the “heheh MECHANIC” device the writers always use to solve some stuff on the show. I also don’t think O will die now, even tho idk what will become of her at this point, I don’t think she can “rebecome” who she was before all this, and “re-integrate” the Delinquents or Adventure Squad. What I’m wondering about E tho, is that scene that Tsya talked about- ya know, the “there is a scene in the snow where E lost everything” blablabla. We haven’t seen it yet… (or it was cut which is *shrugs* another thing Tsya would be wrong about) and right now I’m wondering if it’s not like, the ship has to take off and E is unvoluntary left behind… like she didn’t CHOOSE to stay behind but had to do something and whatever. Idk… it’s just speculations here on what Tsya said, and nothing else (and ya kno since she said A LOT of false things until that point… what is the point of trusting her anymore?). Some people also say she already confirmed that she would be on s6 but I never saw anything official, like a tweet reporting it or whatever- and I’m really curious about it because it would be such a big spoiler of her to drop like that… I don’t know who will die, I don’t even know if Kane is really dead I mean? He was on my death-list because of the blatant non-existant plot around him this season, showing us that the writers were like “whoops where should we put him?” and that’s it. I also, sadly, think they have the same “problem” with Monty (and Harper even tho they keep forgetting about her smh). I also can see Miller being left behind if we go to the cryo sleep + timejump theory- because again, he’s mostly a plot device and they need to stop with these kinds of characters. For the rest, idk, I can’t really speculate on the deaths rn because I don’t even think some of the deaths will be like… “bad”? It’ll be more “and they lived happily ever after but we jump over that”… we’ll see if this theory is proven right.

[definegodliness]

Hey Mark! This may be a question you've been asked before, but I'm curious to know how you came into your love for writing. What/when was the moment that sparked for you as a writer today? Congrats on your follower milestone! Cheers! >Kevin

Words have always flowed from me, for as long as I remember. And when I was younger, in elementary school, I saw language and communication as key parts of existence. I was obsessed with vocabulary to the point that I read the dictionary as if it was a novel. My fondness for archaic words, proverbs, and idioms, often caused me to not fit in. Ironically, what I used to better express myself caused confusion, and therefore isolation. I think that is how one becomes a writer, firstly. Simply to have an outlet to what stirs within and cannot be shared through verbal communication. Not without a negative reaction.

Then came a long period without writing, about fifteen years I reckon. Socially a good time. I did fit in when I let go of my obsession with the proper usage of language. It's a bit stiff, I must admit, and as but a facet of my personality it had too much of a negative impact. When I was in high school I just wanted to have a good time and let go of my strict nature. I let go of writing too, it didn't fit the image I had of myself back then. It was all part of a great toughening up, which in hindsight I regret. It was unnecessary and destructive. As any continuous incongruence to the core personality is.

I was about twenty-five when I fell deeply in love for the first time, which sparked the need to express the depths of everything that was stirring inside me. Every emotion, self-shunned, now flowing freely. There were the words again. In love letters and poetry. So it was love that rekindled the flame of my writing self, now seen and accepted; loved as a whole. This is also why I tend to write a lot about love, as I am forever in awe of it and grateful for having experienced it so deeply when I most needed it.

Nowadays I mostly write to keep the depression at bay. It works wonders to keep me sane. Having spent years to alter myself into a stoic; eliminating every sense of emotion, when I am in fact a very emotional lad, I am stuck with a very conflicting, contrasting personality. Every coping mechanism is tuned into intellect, where more often I should listen to my heart instead. This is me, except for when I write, then I can just 'feel'. So writing to me is a key process in rebecoming myself.

[dorasoracle]

i started to think about writing this really badly. I have a list of like fourty ideas for that.

Need someone to talk and have feedback about it

give me a classic music composer Regulus, give me him as a journalist in the mid time, give me him with an apartament where he live with Pandora and Evan ( plus barty and dorcas but the ones who pay the rent are the first three ) , give me him as who is stoic normally but the center of attention if drunk, give me him one night out with his friends and in the local where playing a live band, give me Regulus who cannot not recognize his brother but he is actually looking at the drummist, James Fleamont Potter.