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[winterinhimring]

1, 5, and 6 for the latest ask game

Thanks for sending this!

1: Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

The current project that's most consistently under construction is The Right Question, a fix-it for The Amazing Spider-man 2 (NOT something I ever expected to write fic for) which could very well be subtitled "Gwen Stacy and Aunt May Fix Everything (Harry Helps A Bit)". It's making pretty good progress and most of the main conflict has already been solved, so really what's left now is cleaning up loose ends and revelling in the fix-it a bit before I wrap things up. I think what I love most about it is the dynamic that's developing between Harry, Peter, and Gwen. Harry and Peter have spent most of the fic trying to express friendship for each other by mutually going 'I will sacrifice myself for you. Let me sacrifice myself for you PLEASE. I AM GOING TO JUMP IN FRONT OF THIS BOLT OF LIGHTNING FOR YOU DON'T YOU DARE TACKLE ME OUT OF THE WAY WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE SAVING ME I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING YOU'. Gwen, meanwhile, has the brain cell, and has spent most of the fic trying to get them to actually TALK about all the things they sorely need to talk about, but crises keep happening and the boys keep running off into the blue before she can sit them down and sort them out properly. It honestly cracks me up laughing.

I'm also planning to add another arc to A Lot Can Happen In Twenty Years, a collection of short stories set after my rewrite of Spider-man: No Way Home in A Far, Far Better Thing (a series that started life as 'let's fix the post-Endgame MCU' and ended up spanning the entire live-action Spider-man multiverse). So far, entries to that have included lots of Osborn family bonding and a Raimi-verse edition of Electro; the next arc, if I ever actually write it, will be about the Raimi-verse Vulture, whose existence I've teased in previous fics, but who has never actually shown up on screen. So far, it's just in the planning stage, because I'm trying to get The Right Question written before I start it. However, I can already tell that it's going to be chock full of father-son feels and bonding between Norman and Harry, which is one of my favourite things, so I'm really looking forward to when it's written. (I don't want to have to WRITE it but alas, such is life.)

Finally, there is my oldest and least consistently worked-on project, aka That Pesky Original Novel, aka The Finding. It's about a pair of college students who stumble across what I can probably most easily describe as a magical artifact (though magic is really a bit of a misnomer for the way I've set up this world, and in-universe everyone would insist, correctly, that it's NOT magic), find themselves in the sights of quite a lot of interested parties, and have to figure out who to trust and what to do. It has been nominally in the process of being rewritten ever since I first drafted it in high school, but it has actually made some progress lately. It might get finished this year or it might take me another decade; who knows?

5: What character that you're writing do you most identify with?

This is a tough one! I tend to write characters that are similar to me in some crucial ways (I don't think I've ever written someone who's naturally open with their emotions, because that is simply baffling to me on a fundamental psychological level), but very different in others. It's not quite a case of opposites attract, but it's pretty rare for me to look at a character I write and strongly identify with him or her. I can find bits or pieces of myself in most of the characters I write (my sense of morality in Peter, my determination in Gwen, my dislike of emotional vulnerability in Norman, my snark in just about everyone, etc.), but I don't see my whole self in any of them.

6: What character do you have the most fun writing?

It depends on a lot of things! Right now, though, probably Harry Osborn, because he's (a) ridiculously dramatic and can always be relied upon to take a plot in new and interesting (by which I mean supremely angsty) directions, and (b) SUCH a snarky little dude who WILL unleash it on anyone he considers deserving at the slightest provocation. He considers quite a lot of people deserving and I love writing snark, so it's a writer and character partnership made in heaven.

Thank you for sending this question! I had lots of fun answering it.

Ask game is here.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

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[skylarynns-silverado]

Okay so

I originally had the Silverado hyperfixation in April of 2023, and phased out of it later that month for a different special interest, but in January someone pointed out that Silverado was on Netflix and then the whole project just...spiralled out of control.

[Anyone who sees this can go to my main blog [skylarynn-grey] and see the absolute deluge of various western media]

Anyways, the original Silverado project was going to encompass the plot of Silverado, and then a sequel with story elements from Once Upon a Time in the West and characters from The Quick and the Dead, with a sprinkling of characters from other westerns I like for flavor, but it is so much bigger than that now.

I will probably be making a master post for links to the various rants and such I will be writing. [There's so many characters]

[skylarynn-ninjago]

Salutations

Welcome to my blog.

Info about me: You can call me Skylarynn or just Sky She/They Legally an adult 

What I’m doing here: The plan is to make a rewrite of Ninjago that mostly follows canon, but there's a lot of additional lore, reworked characterizations, original characters, and fan seasons.  You can find the rewrite-in-progress on my AO3 account: Skylarynn Grey.  The tumblr will mostly be used for expressing notes and ideas [and jokes] that won’t be so easily conveyed in the work itself.

[captain-ed-tucker]

@jam-the-hologram @randomhistoryandmemes @skylarynn-grey @sapphyre-blogs @strideofpride

I'm bored, so I'm making a tag game! Make yourself in this picrew!

Here's mine

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[winterinhimring]

So I've recently inherited my grandfather's Horatio Hornblower books. My mom really enjoys them and also has the whole movie/show[?] on DVDs. I haven't started reading them yet, but I've noticed that you are in that fandom and I was wondering if you could tell me what you specifically like about them?

Ooh, a question after my own heart! Brace yourself for a long answer.

Also, congratulations on coming from a family with excellent taste.

The Hornblower books contain the absolute best naval action writing I've ever encountered. I would rank them above Patrick O'Brien by a long shot -- you get the exact right amount of information you need to follow what's going on, but the plot is rarely, if ever, bogged down by exposition, something which O'Brien struggles with on occasion. The crowning glory of the books is the climactic battle of Beat to Quarters, which lasts three chapters without a single break in the suspense, and kept me glued to the page the entire time.

Hornblower himself is both an amusing and an exasperating character. I want to bonk him on the head with a newspaper. I want to give him a hug. I want to drag him to therapy by his collar. He reminds me of a naval Sherlock Holmes in some ways. Brilliant but self-doubting, longing for the sea and agonizing over the responsibility of captaincy in equal measure, he is a man of many contradictions, both a memorable and a very human character.

His second-in-command, William Bush, serves as the Watson to his Holmes, and makes up the other half of one of my favourite brOTPs of all time. Faithful, loyal, and patient beyond reason, Bush really ought to be the saint of longsuffering sidekicks, and he provides a much-needed balance of steady calm to his higher-strung friend. If you ever tire of Hornblower's perspective, Lieutenant Hornblower, told from Bush's perspective, makes a welcome respite. A man of no mean ability in his own right, he nevertheless recognises that Hornblower is the kind of genius one encounters once in a lifetime, but also a man in need of a good friend, and without the faintest hint of jealousy or ambition attaches himself to Hornblower to be that friend.

The series is not without flaws, and Hornblower himself is not always consistently written -- I recommend reading the books in order of publication, rather than of internal chronology, because the way he's characterised across the series makes more sense that way -- but all in all, I found them an enjoyable read and I hope that you will too.

Thank you for sending this question! I enjoyed answering it.

[winterinhimring]

Have you ever gotten into Temeraire? Seems like it might be up your alley.

I did try it once, and I enjoyed the first book or two! But the author has a tendency to project modern attitudes back into history in a way that I find a touch grating (historical womens' clothing is NOT impossible to walk in, for goodness' sake!), so I eventually set it aside. Thanks for the recommendation, though!

[winterinhimring]

The saga of me unearthing ancient tag games from my likes continues! @lady-merian sent this to me actual months ago. Have a line from the upcoming installment of A Far, Far Better Thing:

Bucky ought to know; he'd spent enough time hauling Steve out of trouble (or knocking the trouble down).

That's eighteen people and I've been relentlessly tagging people in these anyway, but the point of Tumblr is to pester one's mutuals, followers, etc. so I shall toss this at @musewrangler, @skylarynn-grey, @ladysongmaster, @sailforvalinor, @mochamai, @flashthescalesian-art, @lunasariel, @pathfinderswiftpen, @too-many-books-too-little-time, @kaelidae, @roennq, @kraytwriter, @thisistheendtimes, @saxifrage-wreath, @lady-merian, and anyone else who want's to play!