#writers going rogue

[rowan-of-waterdeep]

Welp, that was an interesting day!

Morning: wandered into voice chat in Selena Price's Twitch stream. Did I make sense? Probably not. At least I have an Aussie accent.

Afternoon: tried to finish editing my latest chapter for Wyll's Gate. Traive barged in and stole my concentration, though, and I had an epiphany on how to fix his upcoming Tav/Wyll fic. Did that.

Now: Time for dinner, a glass of wine, and getting back to editing Wyll's Gate. The timeline keeps stretching on these chapters, sorry, but I'm so excited for these next couple - they'll be utter bangers once I've whipped them into shape.

[deliciouskeys]

I have a question for people who’ve watched Supernatural. Are there episodes where there’s size changing going on?

I ask because I already got a vibe from The Boys season 3 that someone on the writing staff was not indifferent to macro/micro shenanigans. I recognize it when I see it in the wild because I have some of this affliction (although none of the foot crushing genre that seems extremely popular with the majority male demo- whether hetero or gay). So between the dicksplosion and the HL crushing Termite underfoot, it was way too bloody for my tastes and I thought okay, maybe they’re just accidentally gifting that community some scenes.

But watching Gen V, it’s so much more blatant. Yes, I get it, The Boys S3 is a parody of the Antman-killing-Thanos ideas fans had for MCU, and Gen V S1 is a dig at beauty standards and bulimia, yada yada. But at the point the character also gets big from eating and smushes another character into the ground, I no longer think this is being written with both hands on the keyboard, iykwim.

So is this Kripke? Or some other writer in common between the two shows?

[fistfuloflightning]

…I am so sorry. I’ll have to get used to it. He’ll be my father-in-law, after all.

Jiuyuan bc you know that’s how I roll

[orchidbreezefc]

the reason i find phonetically writing out accents tacky at best and xenophobic at worst

it treats the author's accent as normal, the default. that's plain english with no need to indicate any way the words as spoken deviate from the words as written. everyone ELSE'S accents warrant being denoted by the spelling, but we don't need to change OUR text, we're just speaking Regular.

do you say "axe" instead of "ask"? do you combine the words 'would you' into 'wouldjoo'? do you swap whole-ass consonants to pronounce "comfortable" as "comfterble"?

chances are you do at least one of those things; i certainly do. none of those is 'correct' english; none of those is pronouncing the word as written. if you spell out accents other than your own, do you also spell out those pronunciations in yours? why is that?

i'm not saying not to drop a g for a rootin' tootin' US southern accent. i'm definitely not saying to misrepresent the actual words a person says when those differ because of their dialect. if someone says 'me' instead of 'my', write it that way! changing their words to conform to your version of english is just as bad, if not worse.

i am saying think about what you're doing. think about whether you really need to indicate someone shapes their vowels differently from you or whether you're just othering them while presenting yourself as neutral. if the reader is aware the speaker has an accent a light hand is probably sufficient.

at the very least please pump the brakes before you end up with hagrid from harry potter. ever notice that mcgonagall is also scottish but her accent isn't written out? it's almost like the less educated person is more heavily affiliated with their accent. that's the kind of thing that happens when you don't think about this stuff.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

just saw there's going to be a magneto x rogue thing in savage lands and i'm ready to kms with that because wtf this shipp or whatever this is, it's gross af 😐

another reason why i have to throw hands with 97 thems the reason why people even remember this pairing

[whatisthisnonsense]

"mutants are poc analogy" "mutants are queer analogy" Listen, X-Men and as such mutants as a whole should really be disability representation, and I mean representation and not analougous to it they just occassionally also get to blast ice while having furniture not built for them, struggles with keeping their mind in the present, and constantly having people casually discuss sterilizing or euthanizing them and being considered either dangerous or simply incapable of understanding when they get mad about this. But nobody is ready for this conversation.

[cain-e-brookman]

It's Wednesday, even if I almost forgot, so happy WBW! Where would you most like to live if you were transported into your own setting?

Honestly, no contest, i'd live in Uslaria, where my current WIP takes place! The climate and local flora/fauna are mostly based off of the PNW where I'm from so the weather would be my speed. The part of the country Uthyr lives in is pretty similar in climate to Southern Oregon, more specifically the Rogue Valley, so I think I'd rather go farther north in Uslaria and as close to the coast as possible. If I could pick exactly where, it'd be on the outskirts of Crescaeya in a small little house on a cliff facing the ocean. Besides the weather, the country is very peaceful, is home to many animals both magic and mundane, and for a human kingdom, life is slow and easy. The main downside is that outside of two large cities, there's just not a lot of civilization, and I'm too pretty for manual labor.

Failing that, I'd want to live in the Ixoryn Marshes, which are largely based on the Louisiana swamp lands. (Running joke in canon is that whoever named the Marshes didn't know the difference between a marsh and a swamp. The meta part is that I was that whoever. I came up with the name as a teen, but didn't realize the landscape I envisioned at the time was a swamp not a marsh, and at this point I like the name too much to change it, oops.) Can't take heat or humidity well, but the Marshes are famous for their food and--just like when I visited a friend in Thibodaux last year--I decided I would be willing to live on the sun for easy access to boudin, crawfish, and po boys. I think if you dropped a group of Cajuns into the Marshes they'd invent the best damn cuisine in the world with access to some of the weird magical critters running around in there. The main downside to the Marshes is worshiping Nybiegh, the God of the Silver Moon, is not really an option and there's no less than 15 things in any given square mile of the country that can kill you. I do stay up at night dreaming about the fantasy food that would come out of here though.....imagine.

[verawhisk]

i looove how girly astarion and gale are… like i fully believe they have catty arguments where one of them runs out of rebuttals and says WELL YOU’RE FAT and the other man just gasps and rips one of his expensive blouses. when they arent arguing they have a big chaise lounge called the fainting chair and they have to take turns with it

[ramyeonpng]

That wasn’t me saying those things, of course. It was the rat in my brain. I typically like to think of myself as a puppeteer in control of all my thoughts, even the crazy ones. I like to identify myself only with my superego, and that’s not to say that I have an oversized sense of self - which is also true. But the part of my brain that is judging everything as if it is a third-party observer.

Carlos Garbiras

[age-of-moonknight]

“Danse Macabre,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #25.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Pencilers and Inkers: Alessandro Cappuccio, Alessandro Vitti, and Partha Pratim; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[popiellart]

So much of my dash is on rogue trader. What’s your verdict? X

my verdict is i haven't played it yet bc it's the exams season, but my freak friends did and they liked it, and i trust them unconditionally on fucked-up matters ❤️

[lovecanbesostrange]

Artist Mark Brooks (who's currently giving us a masterpiece collection of Disneyfied X-Men, please look at his Insta) did the cover art for that homestretch of X-Men Legacy (aka X-Men 1991 with a rebrand name) from #260.1-275. And I just adore it.

It's still so funny to me that officially Rogue chose Wolverine's side in Schisms. But then made a call that had Logan so mad he wouldn't look at her. So the book explored a little X-dynamic on the side at the school without disturbing the Wolverine & the X-Men plots. And when the time came for the big AvX thing the team had to sit it out, but also get one big fight at least for the tie-in and then Rogue was shoved to another planet for a bit. Only to come back for some "oh no the Phoenix Five aren't the good guys, better help the Avengers now" and then to finally break up with Magneto (in a story with a gay man dying impaled in rubble, because those two have the best date scenery start to finish iykyk).

That story with Weapon Omega and Mimic is fantastic. Oh, the homoerotic subtext in those pages is peak X-Men content. And everything is always about empathy, second chances, redemption, finding your own way, breaking free of other people's expectations. Christos Gage was allowed to write a very quiet story. Despite then having to shove in AvX (of course the Avengers looked like extra dicks, but I blame editorial decisions; sorry the escalation was on She-Hulk, I love Jen, she did nothing wrong).

[atlantic-riona]

big fan of when producers for children's shows are like "ohhh you can't k-i-l-l people onscreen, that would scare the kids! do something else" so the writers are like "ok. *comes up with an alternative that is genuinely the most frightening/unsettling/horrifying thing you've ever seen and will be permanently burned into your psyche forever*" and the producers are like "sounds good! *greenlights it*"

[kitkat27]

Unfortunately the fic will not make it before my birthday as I had planned (oct 27th) but I’m gonna try to get it published before November

Ive mainly be swamped with uni work which takes precedence sadly 🥲🙃

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

I saw a post once that was someone trying to do the “OH BATMAN ONLY BEATS UP MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE? WELL HERES A LIST OF HIS VILLAINS:” thing but then they included Twoface and its like. Are you just not into Batman or like