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me, fully nauseous: yeah, i feel normal about The Characters

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the recipe says to work the dough with my hands until it stops being as crumbly-slash-dry

*stares at the "dough"*

this is the wettest thing i've seen in my life

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please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

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Mob psycho piece!!

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desperately want an animatic to my fic with the song wrecked by imagine dragons. unfortunately i would have to do it myself. and that's far too much work

also i have to finish writing the fic first

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Forgot i had tumblr, srry! Here is art

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“murderous intent”

doodly:

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i envy ppl who can provide deep analysis about their favorite media and/or characters b/c whenever i like something a lot it looks like:

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The amount of people who can casually drink soda baffles me as someone who absolutely cannot handle it. Everyone just drinks these for fun????????????? It's not the most miserable sensation on earth for the average person??? I really like spice so you'd think it'd go hand in hand, but no

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what do u think would happen if wdyg ritsu met bad future ritsu

holy fucik. jds *puts head in hands for a full 10 seconds* AT WHAT STAGE????? holuy shit

cause like. okay. actaullyy no, maybe it doesn't matter. bad future ritsu is Doing Badly whether he's freshly from the bad future or if he's been in the past he's fixing for awhile. So for his part, he's just going to try and fix things in this universe too, whether that's helping find mob (pre- or during wdyg), getting rid of claw (wdyg sequel territory), or trying to fix everybody's emotional issues (and yes, i think he's self-aware enough to know he's a giant hypocrite in this matter, but.. shh. don't look at him. don't- don't worry about it)

now if it's a wdyg ritsu who's still looking for mob, he's going to interrogate his future self So Hard until he finds out they're from different timelines. And then he will cease to care. Get outta here, you're not even useful. For anywhere from a few minutes to a few days before he realizes "wait, that's an Adult Esper who could help me!!!" also he will be Ignoring all of the Concerning Signs because that's definitely not really him, they've established they're not even from the same timeline, there's no way Ritsu is ending up Like That

post-finding mob, wdyg ritsu would actually be Really Concerned when bad future ritsu is acting like there's still things to fix. What else is there to fix???? And depending on his current mood/how well he's been re-socialized so far, bad future ritsu will either walk away and try not to react badly/visibly, or start yelling. possibly go get drunk. idk. since i haven't actually been writing this story despite it marinating in my head for a year, i haven't fully figured out which direction i wanna take him

Anyway, I do think they would make each other worse, at least at first

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I am on my knees begging you to learn how to interpret metaphors and symbolism

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*thinks about the Long Goodbye Job again* sombbody kill me wiht hammers

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Moments in Leverage (2008) that I definitely feel Very Normal about:

In the Mile High Job when Hardison realizes he's about to hear his entire team die over comms his team's lives depend very immediately on him

In the 12-Step Job when Eliot and Hardison have to defuse the car bomb and Eliot's hand shakes

In the Beantown Bailout Job when Eliot tells Nate "I hope you know what you're doing" when he KNOWS he's about to fake his death. WHy would you do him like that lmao

Speaking of, the 5 seconds where Nate fully believes he just got Eliot killed. This may have been a formative moment for me, holy shit

The almost-kiss at the end of the Two Live Crew Job. Mostly because it's the only almost-kiss I've ever seen that doesn't give me second hand embarrassment. It's respectful of both parties and just... sad.

In the Lost Heir Job when Eliot spots the shooter and screams Nate's name.

Eliot's pretty much constant fear for Hardison's life in the Gone Fishin' Job which Hardison Does Not appear to pick up on at all

Also the rest of the team's faces when the bad guy is like "oh yeah, i had those guys 'taken care of' if you know what i mean". The way Parker's voice shakes when she confirms she hasn't heard from them

No seriously, Eliot's thought process very clearly being "Get on the train. Please just get on the train. Screw everything else, I need to get you out of danger first" when Hardison starts figuring things out and chooses doing the right thing over personal safety. And Eliot's face, even as he accepts and respects that choice.

Eliot spends another entire episode in basically constant fear in the Big Bang Job, except instead of loud and angry, he's quiet and still, and WHY don't they carry this more thoroughly into the San Lorenzo Job???? Nate puts on a very good "look at me, not him" show but not THAT good!!!

The Long Way Down Job. Parker wanting to do the right thing. Her conversation with Eliot. I'm not insane about this one so much as I'm just crying really hard.

The Van Gogh Job! Also crying very hard! Holy fuck

The round of hugs at the end of the Grave Danger Job

Literally all of Eliot's behavior after getting drugged in the Queen's Gambit Job lol. Hugging Hardison. Immediately pushing him away. "I bet you wanna punch some bad guys." "...You know where some are?"

The Rundown Job. Just. All of it.

Listen. I know it's just a story Nate's telling to push all of Sterling's buttons. But the very concept of Parker living just long enough to watch Hardison and Eliot die before she bleeds out too is AAAAAAAAAAA *blows up*

Also. Sterling's FURY at Nate for getting them killed. And he's not even angry he got played, once he figures it out. He's just. Exhausted and relieved and maybe kinda numb

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Group hug!

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another writing pet peeve that I'm noticing more and more is, voice.

So... the words you pick, express more than just their meaning? I've noticed more and more in books published a kind of wooden? overly formal tone, a lot of words to impress your SAT tutor.

Particularly in first person the words you pick the way your character speaks and thinks and the words in which they do that, tell us the readers things about them. Are they smart are they good at school, bad at school, not articulate, etc you can tell me a character likes poetry without ever mentioning that they read it by how they express themselves.

and oh btw if you have two characters in dueling narrative, I should get a distinct difference between them, two different people shouldn't be written just the same way, how they talk and think should be different.

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character duos that are the bullet and the gun. the attack dog and the master. the sword and the hand. the fire and the match. the axe and the executioner.