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Flower language prompt: Anemone for whatever character you like.

“Run,” Luke whispered to himself. Han couldn’t hear him. The blast doors had already slammed shut, the airlock disengaged, and the Falcon was off. But it kept him steady. It reminded him why he was still here, while they were gone. They hadn’t left him behind. They hadn’t forsaken him. Luke had told them to go. Somebody had to save Leia. Luke had to face the person he had forsaken, himself. The rapid, pounding footsteps slowed, replaced by a more cautious gait. He took a deep breath. His father knew he had stopped running, just as surely as he must know that the Falcon had already jumped to lightspeed and was out of his reach. For now. After a moment, those footsteps sped up again. Longer, more determined strides. Anger built like the tide behind a dam that was finally about to give way. Luke felt the ground of the Force tremble around him with the strength of those tides, felt narrow jets of fury spurt out with enough pressure to carve someone’s eye out, and he felt every inch of him cringe away from the feeling. He knew what was coming. Selfishly, he wished Leia was here.

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💐 once you receive this lovely bouquet of flowers you have to mention five things you love, publicly, and send it to 10 of your favorite followers if you want. SPREAD POSITIVITY! ⛅️

thank you dear 🥰 alright, here's some gratitude:

clouds are great, especially when they look like they've been painted!

moments in which there is nothing to do and you can truly just sit there and exist without the pressure of needing to be productive (wish such moments were a little more common in my life)

writing <3

other queer people because we speak the same language and it's good to finally have a home

being able to rest in a warm and dry place

[spirit-animal-sisters-official]

8, 10, 12 and 14?

8. What book genre is their favorite? Leslie's doesn't have a favorite book genre as she likes all genres.

10. What kind of music do they enjoy? Alicia enjoys listening to the works of Lumidee and Jennifer Lopez.

12. How well does your OC do in school? Leslie and Grizelda got straight As in grade school.

14. An embarrassing secret about your OC? Circe likes to eat moly and truffle salad, despite that it makes her magic go wacky.

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

Hi OC bingo friend, I have you on my card this year and I have some questions about your characters:

What's Julie's earliest memory? What does Becca do to relax? What is Alyssa's go to comfort food? Which of your OCs is the funniest? Which of your OCs is the bravest? Which of your OCs would trust most with a secret? When creating an OC do you usually have a face claim, name or backstory first?

I'm not sure that I've thought about Julie's first memory. But I think it definitely involved Johnny. Perhaps, he was reading to her.

Usually, Becca would turn to some form of exercise to relax (aerobics, jogging, dance). If she's too keyed up, she'll do yoga or listen to music.

A big bowl of ice cream topped with gobs of peanut butter, Cool Whip, and chocolate syrup. Or sour gummy candies of some sort.

Jimmy and Jenny's middle son, Jesse, thinks he's funny. He's definitely a jokester and a class clown. He definitely tries to emulate his Uncle Tommy. Alyssa has a snarky sense of humor.

I would probably say Becca. She is ready to defend any of her friends. She has no problem getting up in either Dutch (the most intimidating of her brother's friends) or Courtney's (a childhood enemy/alpha bitch classmate) faces.

Hmm. That is a tough one. Julie and Becca trust each other with most secrets, but both have withheld secrets from each other and have told the other's secrets to someone else for various reasons. I might have to say Alyssa, who kept her uncle's students' secrets.

Usually, I come up with a backstory, then a physical description or name, and finally, a face claim that I feel meets the character's needs and/or physical attributes.

Thank you for the questions! Sorry to make you wait, I had to think about them for a while.

[emilianadarling]

34 and 35 for the writer asks?

Thanks so much for asking!!! TWO MORE I THINK TWO MORE ASKS LEFT WITH QUESTIONS AHH

Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

STRONGLY POSITIVE STRONGLY POSITIVEEEE. The style guide for my place of work does NOT include the Oxford comma and it kills me lol, I'm constantly sneaking it into internal documents where I can for that sweet sweet clarity.

As a youth, I was perhaps-too-aggressively into grammar and punctuation to the point of snobbery. I'm over that by and large, but still do feel that punctuation are the road signs that help us navigate sentences and stories. The Oxford comma is wonderful for this.

A book I did enjoy a lot in my formative years that discusses this is Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I haven't re-read it in ages, so not sure how it holds up, but it was a favourite for a long time for sure.

'who knew being a grammar nerd could be so much fun' lmao lmao, the early 2000s were a different time.

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

I answered this one previously, but I'll give another one!!

Not smithereens, per se, but I do think there are nuances to the old "write what you know" adage. In some ways, yes, absolutely. Draw on what you know and find rhymes and echoes of your own emotions and experiences that you can channel into your creations.

But limiting yourself too strictly to "write what you know" can also be restrictive, in a sense -- and can in a way disincentivize the act of trying to imagine and depict other worlds that don't exist, or to attempt to put yourself in another person's shoes. Draw on what you know, but don't limit yourself to what you know. Being willing to explore, learn, and imagine new things into existence can be one of the truest joys of writing. It would be a shame to deprive yourself of it entirely. <3

[rt8815]

How was the brioche?

Delicious 😋

And it didn't fall apart 🥳

I made French toast with the chocolate chip loaf and I just...🤤

So good

[baddybaddyadardaddy]

👑 for sister golden hair please?

Say 3 things you like about one of your fics.

Ooooh thank you @ultrarebelheart for this one about "sister golden hair"

1. I LOVE exploring Mirdania as a character and giving her more depth and agency. I'll be honest, I really didn't think too much of her in the show. And it sucked that in the end all she was was a knockoff Galadriel who was used and then discarded.

Then I got prompted to riff on Adar and Mirdania (THANKS @clumsycopy ) and I started building her backstory and her history with Celebrimbor and getting inside her head a bit and that just provided me with endless possibilities.

2. Celebrimbor flashbacks. One of the things that came to me pretty early on was the idea that Mirdania would reflect back on many of the things that Celebrimbor taught her over the years, and that i could use those moments to both paint a fuller picture of their relationship and also color her interactions with Adar in the present. The whole idea that Celebrimbor taught her to "mend what is broken" provided some great depth to her motivation to try and save Adar.

3. I'm putting this under a spoiler cut

Having Adar's soul separate from his body. Thought I'd just make this relationship AS CHALLENGING AS POSSIBLE. But honestly I love it. I love that Zombie Adar runs much more on instinct and his responses are always rooted in truth, whereas Shadow/Unseen World Adar can hide/conceal more of his feelings! Poor Mirdania may find herself receiving some mixed messages. And she may at times find herself with different feelings toward each of them. I also love that she BEGAN her journey with him seeing his fair form. So it's kind of a subversion of the Beauty and the Beast trope in that way.

Anyway, I'm so excited to keep exploring these characters and the dynamic of this rare pair!

[thecharmedburrowspn-files]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better:

Thank you for the tag @darknightfrombeyond! Sorry it took me so long to respond (better late than never? it's still less than a month?)!

3 ships I like: mulder x scully (x-files), Brennan x booth (bones), and destial (spn)

First ship ever: Maybe a tie between Leo x Piper from charmed or Lana and Clark (pre-lois on the show) from Smallville. I think those could count as my first real shipping experiences.

Favorite childhood book: I was really into a bunch of series like the Laura Ingalls books, pony pals, animal ark, and dolphin diaries.

Currently reading: Between reads. I just finished Stephen King's You like it Darker, but I haven't picked up anything new yet.

Currently watching: Friends

Currently consuming: Nothing; ate dinner a while ago.

Currently craving: Sleep

Tagging (no pressure): @scarletnerd05 @wordspin-shares @karimac @anotherunreadblog @residentdormouse @ultrarebelheart @arrthurpendragon @literallylivinglife @cecexwrites

[greenleaf4stuff]

I saw you're up for asks!

I've just finished The Silmarillion and wondered what your favoruite part is?

How do you develop your story ideas?

What are you most looking forward to in RoP season 3?

Hi @ultrarebelheart and thank you so much for your questions! :D <3 Sorry that this took me a bit, I was busier than anticipated! Due to the (somewhat) lengthy answers, I will put two of them behind a cut to protect people's dashboards. ^_^'

What are you most looking forward to in RoP season 3?

Considering I am an Adar fan, I am both very interested in and apprehensive about whether or not they will give any more focus to the uruk under Sauron's leadership. And whether the "orcs" will end up being a faceless mass/simple "cannon fodder", or if the writers will let them retain some agency and personality at least.

I found s1 and s2's efforts to humanize the uruk incredibly compelling, and I see Adar especially as a welcome new addition to Tolkien's universe, so I hope that won't get completely left behind in s3.

(Additionally, I am still hoping we might get more insights into Adar and his life in whatever fashion. I don't care if it's a fool's hope, I would love to see him return, his character is so very interesting.)

I also cannot help but be curious about which humans Sauron will choose for the Nine, and whether or not we will get to see Númenor defeat him in battle/see him start his shenanigans in Númenor in S3 already. Another thing I'd love to see are Elrond and the beginnings of Rivendell.

How do you develop your story ideas?

Oh that is such a good question - there's two different ways that work for me. For the first one, I usually start with some kind of base idea. A prompt, a trope, a type of interaction, a scene, something that pops into my head or I find compelling. Inspiration can come from all manner of sources; the media I write for itself, prompt lists, tropes, stuff from other pieces of media.

I then write the idea down - a bit like a blurb, just a very basic outline so I won't accidentally forget it, and maybe I will also make some additional bullet points for specific scenes, interactions and the likes. (Sometimes that is already enough to get me writing.)

Strangely enough, I usually manage to include a somewhat-coherent plot into most of my bigger ideas even at that point.

If the idea stays with me and gets to marinade in my head (so to speak), I will usually go back and add more and more onto it, and eventually expand the blurb into a proper step-by-step outline about what I would like to see in the story, whether it is a one-shot or a multi-chapter work.

The other way is that I get completely blindsided with an idea and just start writing, without a plan or any preparation, as has happened with my last few fanfics. For the long one ("Of Convenience"), I eventually had enough time to come up with a basic idea for future scenes (after chapter 4 or 5 I believe) and where I wanted things to lead to, but the start was just completely improvised. This works best for single scenes, drabbles and one-shots I find.

I hope that answers the question? :D

I've just finished The Silmarillion and wondered what your favourite part is?

That is awesome, congrats, I hope you enjoyed the book? Full disclosure, most of the Silm-related information that I make use of is from wikis, articles, meta pieces, videos/video essays or excerpts. I have the book at home and supposedly read in full when I was a child, but - I cannot remember any of it, for some reason. I usually read up the parts that (hopefully) help me understand TROP better or that I might need for stories, or watch videos about interesting topics.

That being said, due to TROP, I am getting more and more interested in Celebrimbor's story and am also trying to learn more about the geography of Arda, specifically the places where Morgoth and/or Sauron resided (and Adar would have).

(Sorry if that is a really disappointing answer! ^_^')

[arrthurpendragon]

My heroes, who have helped me write once more deserve a HUGE THANK YOU!!!

(That's literally as big as Tumblr will let me write it. lol)

Seriously though, the people on this list deserve all the good things for taking time out of their days to send this struggling writer (trying to learn to love writing again and learn how to write again) asks. Y'all have my gratitude, and let me know if you need help like I did! It truly means so so so much to me - your time, patience, love, and support! (Hence this post lol)

But huge thanks to:

@nightingaleflow

@andromedalestrange

@oneirataxia-girl

@techs-stitches

@darth-caillic

@self-conscious-author

@darknightfrombeyond

@iron-parkr

@cecexwrites

@dancingsunflowers-ocs

@rey-of-luke

@carmens-garden

@thechaoticfanartist

@faerieroyal

@ladyniniane

@nemo-of-house-frye

@ultrarebelheart

@shrinkthisviolet

@asirensrage

@kbeebaybe

@happinessismagicc

@starcrossedjedis

@witchofinterest

@dream-beyond-the-fantasy

@getawaycardotmp3

@mabonetsamhain

@purpleyearning

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I'm very excited for the end of The Protege! I was wondering if there is a particular scene or moment (without spoilers of course) that you are particularly excited to share?

and/or

What has been your favourite moment from the story so far? Either plot/character-wise or writing process-wise.

Answer put below the cut for potential spoilers for the chapters already posted of The Protégé.

Thank you!!! I'm trying to think of a specific moment that's yet to come without spoilers and struggling a bit, mostly because all the Juicy Inspirational Moments when I'm brainstorming fics always fall in the middle - see, Luke and Leia's defection in the middle of Eclipse - and the ending is the wrap-up, which usually take more gruelling effort. Which isn't to say I'm not proud of it; I'm very, very excited for it, and the moment I would pick (which I can't go into without spoilers) is the one that the penultimate chapter is named after. Chapter 38 will be called "Crowned Backwards" and the moment that gave it that name is probably my favourite moment in Act V.

Overall, though, when I was thinking of fave moments from the story so far, I had to look towards Act II. All my my favourite chapters are in that part of the story, while they're on Naboo, but in particular I love love loved writing the family drama in Chapter 13, "Idolisation". For one, I love writing Ryoo, and the whole Naberrie family were a delight. But mostly because I loved writing the moment of the reveal that way, as something meaningless to anyone but Luke, folded into this larger family drama. It was a fun, new thing to do, and that whole chapter is probably my favourite just because of how everything afterwards spirals. It all hinged on this stupid little dinner! (Some American readers pointed out that I posted the chapter around Thanksgiving, when a lot of them were dealing with family dinners, which added more humour to it.)

I'm glad you're enjoying Protégé!!! I really hope the ending lives up to expectations :D :D :D

[foxesandmagic]

If your current muse had to introduce themselves to somebody in one of those awkward introduction meetings, what is one interesting fact about them that they’d share?

For the first of my revived weekly OC Questions, I’m going to tag the people who interacted with the original post about maybe bringing these back, I hope that’s OK.

@azariahmarina, @darknightfrombeyond, @andromedalestrange, @ultrarebelheart, @bi-ologistofthehills 

[spirit-animal-sisters-official]

Hi OC Bingo friend! I am really interested in how you came up with Spirit Animal Sisters. What came first when you were building the world and the characters? Do you have any fun facts or world building elements that haven't appeared in story that you want to share?

What Came First?

I believe the characters came first then the setting.

Any fun facts or world building elements that haven't appeared in story?

The city of Bluestone, Washington was founded because there was a cache of sapphires near where Seafood Sally's restaurant was founded.

[starryeyes2000]

Happy Day

To all my mutuals and anyone reading this post ...

Happy Day! You deserve it!

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and

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[dancingsunflowers-ocs]

'Tom Hiddleston would not f*ck you'?

OMG!! Gosh!! 😱 Well, I mean.. he’s cute and seems a really lovely guy.. I can definitely see why people find him attractive, but I’m sure I can spare him for other people to fuck him instead.. 😅

Thank you so much for the ask @ultrarebelheart!! 💕

[rt8815]

Avengers, Falcon and Daredevil?

Avengers: What superpower would you like to have?

I would choose the power to heal people and other living/organic things! But I'd also like to have the ability to reverse healing, because I'm feeling a smidgen dark at the moment.

Falcon: Which fictional character would you like to hang out with?

Oh...I think you know 😏😅

But also:

Daredevil: What is your favourite song?

I have so many! 😆 but "American Girl" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers is a reliable go-to for me.

As always, thanks for the asks!

...

Ask away