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Hey doll! Hope you are doing well, 3. And 4. Pretty please ❤️

3. Did the idea change at all by the time the fic was complete?

Well - again, for Passerine, it was only going to be a one-shot so continuing on was a major change. No huge changes in Devil’s Backbone (yet).

4. If the fic required it, what did you research in order to write it?

I was actually a history major in college so I nerd out in trying not to have anachronisms!

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the election is terrifying ,, i'm dreading it ,, enjoy time with your family :'3 💔💌

anyhow ,, 25 , 26 , and 30 !!?

Let’s think about cowboys, then eh? I’m going to answer these for my writing over all than for a single fic.

25. Share your favorite line

He wonders, as he watches the swish of your skirts with that laundry basket on your hip; do you still feel him? Can you feel where he’d been?

Do you carry the ache of him with each step?

Oh, how he wonders. Oh, how he wishes.

~Voluptatem, Ache

26. Share your favorite detail

“It’s the camhanaich.”

“ ‘scuse me?”

“It’s a word to describe the half-light of the dawn,” you point out at the east, where colors are changing as the sun’s rise becomes imminent, “The hope one gets at the birth of a new day. It’s an old Gaelic word.”

Arthur remains quiet, his hands falling to rest on his gun belt, slung low on his hips. His cigarette remains between his lips.

“Been seeing it a lot recently,” Your voice gets low, “I keep thinking I’ll get that hope… but reality isn’t much different than the nightmares that keep me awake anyway.”

~Devil’s Backbone, Diablo Ridge IV: Camhanaich

30. Would you ever return to the story’s universe and write more?

As for this: Passerine was supposed to be a one shot and look where we are now. Though I think when I finish it out after chapter 6, I am actually going to have that fic end.

The ending for Devil’s Backbone is so very very far away that I can’t comprehend it. So many chapters to write!

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Hit me up! Trying not to doomscroll for the election… 🫠

✍️ even more fic writer asks!

This one is a behind-the-scenes dive into a specific fic. Followers can send an ask with a number & the fic they’d like you to talk about ✨OR✨ you can decide what fic you’re focusing on and just ask for numbers. (Or reblog and answer everything like a Q&A)

Start to finish, how long did it take to plan and write? Did you take breaks during the process?

How did you come up with the idea?

Did the idea change at all by the time the fic was complete?

If the fic required it, what did you research in order to write it?

Did you outline the fic?

How did you decide what tense and POV(s) to use?

How did you decide what character(s) would narrate the fic?

Did you cut something out of the outline or an early draft? What was it and why did you decide to cut it?

Did you get stuck at any point? How did you get past that?

How did you approach writing the fic? (e.g. wrote it start to finish in order, started with the ending, starting with the twist)

What was the most challenging aspect of writing it?

What program(s) did you use to write and edit?

Did you write any of the fic by hand? If yes, which parts? Do you find you write differently by hand vs typing?

Talk about the fic’s opening scene & how you approached it

Talk about the characters’ struggles & how you decided on those

Talk about the fic’s biggest moment & how you came up with it

Talk about the fic’s ending. Why did you end it where you did?

Talk about your editing and revision process

While editing, did you kill any darlings? What were they?

Did you work with a beta? How did that affect the finished fic?

Did the fic end up shorter or longer than you had planned?

What is something you learned about yourself as a writer from the experience?

How did you come up with the title?

How did you celebrate finishing?

Share your favorite line

Share your favorite detail

Share a piece of lore you made up for the story

Write a new summary for the fic, but badly

If you made a playlist, talk about the songs on it and share a link

Would you ever return to the story’s universe and write more?

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more modern arthur morgan headcanons, queen? 👀

Oh no have I started sketching out a modern AU drive-across-the-country fic?

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A purpose

In an interview back in June, Rob explained that John struggled a lot with finding a purpose in life in rdr2, he had no real end goal, nothing to strive towards, making him far more reckless and careless than rdr1, but then he found a purpose, someone gave it to him. Jack and Abigail.

From 1899 and 1907, John is jumping between jobs while dragging his wife and child with him from town to town, there is no connection between anything and he doesn't realise how bad it is until she leaves, until it clicks. Up until then he has taken her for granted, she has just always been there and he has expected her to, but now she is gone and he realises what a massive piece of himself he lost with her.

With this realisation also comes a purpose, he has to gain her back, he has to make her happy and keep her safe. So he works, and he works, he builts her her dream home, he goes against everthing he ever has before and goes legal, he works his ass off, and it works, she returns. He has gotten a knock on the head and it finally set him straight so now he can find joy in being a husband and a father.

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Ahem

this john I just drew. awooga

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I’d love to know if you’re interested in writing any type of bdsm?

I would definitely need to do some research but I definitely would write it!

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IM HAVING FUN

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that one joe bowler painting but with abi and john because they're literally my everythings

your daily click

my twitter

ref below the cut

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BOY DINNER

here's an undead nightmare wip i'll never finish (a zombie bit his nipple off)

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Now that you’ve played both rdr and rdr2 which story do you like better?

Okay so loaded question. I think that RDR2 has a lot more story, and is probably a richer one, BUT, I fully appreciate RDR's story through the lens of RDR2.

I think its poetic as shit that John Marston, pissant that he was in the beginning of 2, grows to go on this epic journey, hunting down brothers-in-arms, for his wife and son, who he couldn't be bothered with at the beginning of 2. Its a supreme, beautiful, fucking poetic tragedy that John grows into that after Arthur's sacrifice. That John, in his own demise, knows that he and his family will be hunted to the ends of the earth by the government, and that Abigail and Jack will be left alone if John is killed.

The fact that that is the same John Marston who left for a year because he was too immature to be a father is a masterpiece in storytelling.

Now to answer your question, I prefer 2 - but that's because my ride or die is always going to be Arthur and the epic tragedy of his story. But in my opinion, through the scope of both games, Red Dead Redemption (1&2) is John Marston's story.

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mohn jarston

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That slutty waist of his has me in a chokehold

marston ⭐️

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Your pfp is so cute! Where is it from?

Its actually AI (I know, boo hiss). But is how I picture Ruth from Devil’s Backbone!

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YOUR JOHNIGAIL FIC WHEN? 🙌

(no pressure just very excited to see you reblogging john stuff!!)

It is going to be a series of vignettes ~

A New Jerusalem

Four times John and Abigail were reunited, and one time they weren't.

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john and abigail >>>