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eyesocketinchworm · 2 years ago

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writing stuff set in present day is so dangerous because there's nothing that's happened in this world that hasn't also happened in the characters' and therefore none of my obsessions i can't make my main character (whos three quarters me on his mothers side) be annoying about. so re reading my writing is just like why is he talking about ziggy stardust why is he talking about donna tartt why is he talking about the odyssey why does he know the nine ranks of biblical angels

#that man. has nO BUSINESS knowing that the european powdered white hair and wigs look didnt exist until exaclty the 1740s #ive limited myself to three pop culture references bc i hate when books reference stuff like that a lot #BUT i can talk about david bowie as much as i want #thus the whole scene where laszlo spends like a million years waxing poetic about the fucking. themes of the rise and fall of ziggy stardus #t and the spiders from mars. like why does he know intimate details of david bowie's life #writing #oc tag #also ive said it before that i make sure all my characters have a canon opinion on donna tartt even if i dont include it in the story. so #ill excuse that #greek mythology i think is okayyyy just because of the metaphors and the themes and the motifs #because hes so into icarus and everything #but girl. stop talking about bellerophon and menelaus and eurydice and the fates and leave ur fucking analyses of homer's work out of this #it's very in character for him to be annoying about that stuff though...because he is me...#just like. shut up.#stop knowing the same niche information as me. im gatekeeping it from the guy i invented

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