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[laufire]

when the character bouncing in your mind is particularly literature-inclined it can give you such a terminal case of blorboitis. I know read and watch shit and if I'm not careful the thought "and what would jason todd think about this" will attack me out of nowhere.

#it happened a bit with bela talbot and with her we only get hints about her interest in gothic horror #hints that certainly paint a picture and actually add to the character if you pay attention! #but she had limited screentime; as impactful as it was #jason has hundreds of comics so the effect of this is compounded lol #talking to the void #fandom nonsense #jason todd #who would have SO many complex feelings about heathcliff. btw. if you care

[laufire]

robin (1993) #131

and as a bonus #51:

#killinghimkillinghimkillinghim #talking to the void #dc #dc comics #robin (1993) #war games #stephanie brown #tim drake #spoiler #robin #bat clan #id in alt text #captioned

[laufire]

‘Who is to separate us, pray? They’ll meet the fate of Milo! Not as long as I live, Ellen: for no mortal creature. Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I could consent to forsake Heathcliff. Oh, that’s not what I intend—that’s not what I mean! I shouldn’t be Mrs. Linton were such a price demanded! He’ll be as much to me as he has been all his lifetime. Edgar must shake off his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least. He will, when he learns my true feelings towards him. Nelly, I see now you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars? whereas, if I marry Linton I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and place him out of my brother’s power.’ ‘With your husband’s money, Miss Catherine?’ I asked. ‘You’ll find him not so pliable as you calculate upon: and, though I’m hardly a judge, I think that’s the worst motive you’ve given yet for being the wife of young Linton.’ ‘It is not,’ retorted she; ‘it is the best! The others were the satisfaction of my whims: and for Edgar’s sake, too, to satisfy him. This is for the sake of one who comprehends in his person my feelings to Edgar and myself. I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. So don’t talk of our separation again: it is impracticable; and——’

–"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, IX.

‘If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.’ ‘Because you are not fit to go there,’ I answered. ‘All sinners would be miserable in heaven.’ ‘But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there.’ ‘I tell you I won’t hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine! I’ll go to bed,’ I interrupted again. She laughed, and held me down; for I made a motion to leave my chair. ‘This is nothing,’ cried she: ‘I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’

–"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, IX.

#self reblog #quotes #books #bookblr #wuthering heights #emily brontë #catherine earnshaw #heathcliff #nelly dean

[laufire]

‘If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.’ ‘Because you are not fit to go there,’ I answered. ‘All sinners would be miserable in heaven.’ ‘But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there.’ ‘I tell you I won’t hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine! I’ll go to bed,’ I interrupted again. She laughed, and held me down; for I made a motion to leave my chair. ‘This is nothing,’ cried she: ‘I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’

–"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, IX.

#talking to the void #quotes #books #bookblr #wuthering heights #emily brontë #catherine earnshaw #heathcliff #nelly dean

[laufire]

[Heathcliff] had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood’s sense of superiority, instilled into him by the favours of old Mr. Earnshaw, was faded away. He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.

–"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, VIII.

#talking to the void #quotes #books #bookblr #wuthering heights #emily brontë #heathcliff #nelly dean

[laufire]

[Heathcliff] went down: I set him a stool by the fire, and offered him a quantity of good things: but he was sick and could eat little, and my attempts to entertain him were thrown away. He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands, and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely—‘I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!’ ‘For shame, Heathcliff!’ said I. ‘It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.’ ‘No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,’ he returned. ‘I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I’ll plan it out: while I’m thinking of that I don’t feel pain.’

–"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, VII.

#i'm finally rereading this after... ~15 years? :D #talking to the void #quotes #books #bookblr #wuthering heights #emily brontë #heathcliff #nelly dean

[laufire]

how to go from daydream to draft:

begin by daydreaming as you normally do, or just after you've finished doing so. write down every thought you have. one after another. do not reread. do not stop for spelling mistakes. just dump out every thought. this is called stream of consciousness writing. you can do this for every scene you need a first draft for.

struggling to draft the scene? try to daydream about it. start thinking about how it would look, feel, what the characters would say, act it out in your head and then write out the stream of your thoughts as they arrive.

by now you have a few scene dumps. you may be tempted to go back and edit. do not do this expect for obvious spelling mistakes. do not read closely and start thinking "i need to rework this sentence." that is for later. now you're in the zone. draft more scenes. or work out what the next scene needs to be, scaffold it with a few comments. this will be the inspiration for your next deliberate thought stream that you will write out. repeat this process until you have the whole draft.

now that you have a draft or part of a draft you get to do this very fun thing called revise until you're happy. sweep through your draft with specific goals each time. one sweep to fix spelling/grammar. another for character voice. another for plot. repeat until you're happy with it.

leave it alone. just leave it for a bit. at least a few hours or days or even weeks. forget it exists. this will allow you come back with fresh eyes. then you can do your revisions with an eagle eye. now you may realize you need to add/remove scenes. you know how to get the first version down. close your eyes and daydream at your desk if that's what takes!

remember that fiction writing is persuasive writing. you are trying to persuade the reader to care about what happens next, the character's, the world, the feelings. as you're revising, consider whether you are persuaded. is the feeling/thoughts you wanted to provoke being felt by you when you read it? when working with beta readers, be sure to communicate what you're trying to convey so they can tell you if you've been successful or not.

this got a bit beyond getting the first draft done. hope you found it helpful.

bonus tip: check the spellings of names and places and other nouns that are not typically used, like the name of a magic tool!

#reblog #the writing tm #advice #red queue theory

[laufire]

CHARACTER ASK GAME!!! 💫

Send a character + one or more of these question!

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

11. Would you date this character?

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to ths character? Something you don't like?

23. Favorite picture of this character?

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

26. FREEBIE QUESTION!!

#ask meme #reblog

[laufire]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

#always #(i have a few in my inbox i promise I'll reply tomorrow xD) #reblog #tumblrisms

[laufire]

I've had an influx of new followers so let me tell you more about what this page is all about!

My name is Cammie and I am a Black British author pursuing the dream of publishing the series of my heart—The Essence of the Equinox 🌒

TEOTE is a dark fantasy full of sprawling, lush imagery, steeped in romantic symbolism, and penned in florid prose. It has all of the aesthetics of a fantasy epic with an intimate focus on the politicking and court intrigue of two powerful, immortal races.

An omniscient narrator details a clash between the enigmatic chaos demons predicted to destroy the world and beguiling star maidens created to thwart them, but the beating heart of this tale lies with the doomed love story between the princess of the stars and the future bastard king of demons.

Can they find a way to be together in spite of it all or will the destiny of their conflict prove to be their ruin?

Begin at the beginning with WHEN THE STARS ALIGHT and find out...

#reblog #the essence of the equinox #boost #books #camilla andrew

[laufire]

also remember how often they used anything echo did that they could interpret as "violent" or ruthless they took it as a "sign" that bellarke would be endgame... as if clarke hadn't done something worse IN THE SAME EPISODE nine out of ten times (and for the tenth, she would simply outdo echo in the next).

remember when the becho relationship reveal/confirmation had everyone in the tags FURIOUS because the writers had promised NO LOVE TRIANGLES. remembering how fucking funny it was that they really thought bellarke would happen after the writers had told them again and again that it wasn't a thing. it's even funnier now.

#stacked100 #self reblog #the 100 #the 100 5x01 #becho #echo kom azgeda #lol clarke #bitter lau tag #fandom nonsense #clarke griffin

[laufire]

there's nothing like getting a lengthy comment from @laufire on my we will devour the night / and the age of summer will rise chapters. i know i'm about to chew on the juicy meat of her brain for days to come

#🥰🥰🥰 #flatterer #reblog #the essence of the equinox

[laufire]

HOW do judges in this country demand to be taken seriously instead of as the corrupt, incompetent breed they truly are when they pull shit like this...

#tl;dr they admitted a s #lawsuit with no true evidence by a known fascist‚ ultra religious group against the prime minister's wife #who's openly designed to try to force his resignation because they're still so fucking bitter they lost last summer #and also there's that thing with the escaped mobster threatening dutch's princess #like. was that unbelievable incompetence or bribery/extortion... #talking to the void #patriotic tag

[laufire]

"mad love" episode of all time... and with it + "obsession" in superman: the animated series it seems at the time they were really going for "chilling portrayals of domestic violence disguised with silly cartoonmen". of course, I've never seen anyone talk about "obsession".

#of course you never here about ''obsession''. nobody cares about toyman lol #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc thoughts #dcau #the new batman adventures #superman: the animated series #mad love #harley quinn

[laufire]

STACKED100 | april 24th | “eden” Echo + her sword.

#stacked100 #the100edit #the100daily #cwladiesdaily #cwladsdaily #echo positivity #becho #echo kom azgeda #the 100 #userthing #the 100 5x01 #spacekru #my stuff #my edits #my gifs #favourites: a straight line #id in alt text #captioned

[laufire]

in the “don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade but also unable to keep my mouth shut” series that is my entire blog:

I get that seeing your OTP broken up and on the outs can be disheartening*, but I don’t get the people that are saying that they could’ve preferred an “amicable” breakup and seeing them be friends etc.? That would’ve been the WORST POSSIBLE OUTCOME, IMO. I love how Luisa puts it in this quote from her latest interview. That’s what you want with if your OTP breaks up, or what you should want at least. If your OTP can break up amicably (and specially amicably and off screen), if it isn’t messy and heartbreaking and fucking HARD for both of them, and if they aren’t clearly still hurting from it afterwards, that’s when I’d consider my OTP to be death.

This type of hurt means that there are still incredibly intense feelings between them, that they’re still just as deeply in love, and that we’re in for more good content from them. And I frankly don’t doubt they’ll find their way back to each other during the season, so I know the reunion is going to wreck me. 

*(I mean I theoretically get it because I love that shit, as long as I can be confident in the writers respecting it, which I think they do in this case. But this attitude paired with the “why are marper together and not them!?!” are just weird for me, because if anything I’m getting the feeling marper won’t make it past the season)

#me looking at that last paragraph 🧐 #i was on some prophecy shit back then #self reblog #stacked100 #the 100 #the 100 5x01 #marper #memori

[laufire]

bellamy: octavia will be the least of our problems!

*cut to that scene in the bunker*

me:

[Caption: Amber Heard in The Danish Girl, erupting in laughter with a cigarette on her hand.]

#lol #stacked100 #self reblog #the 100 #the 100 5x01 #octavia blake #favourites: god save us from the queen