#halfway home

[rawliverandcigarettes]

One year ago, day for day, Halfway Home, my Mass Effect fanfiction that took me seven years to complete from start to finish, began to be released on Archive of Our Own. I have dusted off a drawing of Shlee I had never managed to finish for the occasion, and finally completed it to celebrate!!

It's my little space frog and he's having Problems!!!

Truth be told, I wanted to do approximately eight billion things in regards to Halfway Home, and I have finished barely three in that very long list (one of them being: I made printing tests for the cover of the book and it looks way better than I feared!!! so when I do eventually move forward and make a physical copy, it will look good at least.)

To be quite honest, I think I needed a break from Mass Effect and this story in particular, and so I allowed myself to step away for a while. But! I have been (tentatively, and wayy less efficiently than I had hoped) making slow progress on the sequel, The Empire of Preys! It hasn't reached first draft stage yet, as it is an incredibly long and stupidly complex story --but we're getting there eventually. It may just take a little longer than I first anticipated.

Anyway: happy birthday Halfway Home!!!!! Happy birthday longest project of my life that taught me how to write and did so many good things for me in general in spite of being a story about wallowing in the Horrors!!!! Happy birthday!!! Happy N7 Day ten days too late!!! Woooo!!!!

#salarians #salarian oc #mass effect #halfway home #writing #salarian #my art #fanfiction #shlee #shlee t'selvi #my little guy ;; #I like him a lot I had forgotten how much I like him and then I drew him again and was like oh.................. baby #if you are interested in the fic I HIGHLY suggest you look for the content warning list #as it is a rough ride #drawing him again got me excited about the arc he goes through in the sequels #as we have left him in an extremely unhinged and destructive place honestly #but first!!! #the empire of preys #the problem is that one cannot work on teop casually #I need to refamiliarize myself with several political systems an entire timeline a financial crisis and aaaa #it's a lot #love this story but it's a lot #I know I have never made the post about how I feel about the story #I think I will eventually #but I needed time to digest it all

[womanexile]

This could mean one of the two

Or the Las Vegas Sphere

#halfway home

[zourried]

You’re telling me we went through this for nothing

#lt2 #halfway home

[rawliverandgoronspice]

for the ask game: 5, 25, 26

Heyy thank you so much!!!

5. What's a tag you never want to use for your works even when it applies?

So I have never... not applied a tag, I think? I mean, if we're going to be completely transparent: I have once written a story that involves a lot of really icky themes and situations, but that are not in any way meant to be titilating. So I guess in these kind of contexts, I don't tag all of the sexual content the way other fics tend to do, because I don't want to attract the "wrong" kind of audience (aka people who expected a... certain type of experience and who would end up with a very depressing one instead). The tagging system in Ao3 can be really great and helpful in some cases, and kind of a headscratcher in others. RIght now I'm also facing the complicated case of: one of the biggest tags of one of my upcoming fic is a MASSIVE spoiler, but it would attract a lot more people if I did put it in from the get-go!! And I don't know what to do about it.

25. Is writing the whole thing beforehand better or worse than writing it as you go?

Hmmm. I have done both. I think both have advantages and inconveniences.

If you write as you go, you have the ongoing momentum. You can use the comments to fuel your motivation to continue, and you stay in the flow of things in a far more effective way. It's also better when you want to get stuff out without long-term commitment to the idea, which is a fine thing to do honestly. But, on the other hand, you lack full control over the experience, and you have to let go of the quality threshold you can reasonably aspire to reach. And if, like me, you just *do not* write linearly, you can end up with a very patchy draft where you have chapter 3 ready to go, but chapter 4 isn't. Chapter 5 to 7 is tho!! but then you have nothing, except for a couple of scenes and then the last one. And now you have to trudge through Chapter 4 to release the rest of it even though you'd much rather write something else, which could affect the quality of Chapter 4, which could have been much better if only I had waited for the "natural time" for me to come back to it. I think Descant suffered from this a couple of times, for example (but that's honestly an extremely Me problem)

On the other hand!! Writing everything at once allows you for a degree of control you just cannot have otherwise. I have done this several times, the most notable being the actual seven years I took writing Halfway Home, my Mass Effect fanfiction. When I reread it today (when I manage to push myself to do it, we'll come back to that), I just cannot deny how polished it is on a line level, and how I would have hurt the story if I had, as I originally planned to, released it one chapter at a time. Doing this allowed me to refine my craft and understand my story in a way I would have never ever accessed otherwise, and I have become a much better writer for it. But the cost of that was also quite great. I think there is such a thing as overworking your project, and I did cross over that limit while working on Halfway Home; some chapters have lost the flow and the easiness and spark of their first draft counterparts and became instead construction projects, where the goal was sturdiness rather than emotion, and I'm pretty sure you can feel that burnout in the finished product in places. Another thing is also: when you have worked on a project for that long and when that project ate such a huge part of your life, you can tell yourself that you don't care about reception, but there's a degree of that sentiment that has to become a lie. It's impossible not to feel a sense of grief once you see seven years of your life packaged and released and getting lost in the natural release flow of Ao3. Not to mention the risk (turned into a reality in my case) that the fandom will straight up die and interest will completely wane by the time you actually do put that project out.

Of course, this is a very extreme case, but I think my current stance on things is: trying to aim for a mixture of both? I feel confident enough in my writing toolbox that I know I can afford to lose some of that final quality and polish if it means not hurting myself creatively in the long run, only to gain an additional 5-10% of quality most people would not have noticed. So I'm kind of a 60% writing ahead of time / 40% writing as I go kind of person. My next project will not be fully completed when I begin to release it, but I will only do that when I'm confident its bones are sturdy enough to support its own weight to survive on its own out there, in the Big Wild Ao3.

26. What would you describe as OOC?

Oooo the big bad question. Hmm. I think my opinion is kind of weird a little less scientific than I would like, but I believe that every character has an internal emotion and/or yearning that makes them tick and gives them energy in whichever original canon context we find them in. I don't have to agree with every author about what that original energy/yearning is, but if the case made is compelling enough and this energy is carried over in other contexts, I am willing to accept most behaviors if the internal argumentation makes sense to this sort of original point from which every canon and fanon branch spread out. I think people lose me when their take become disconnected of that original appearance and begins to ride the wave of Popular Fanon, by which I mean: fanon archetypes that are not specific to the media we are talking about, but just general idea such as "brooding guy who secretely cares a lot", "very jealous love interest", "huge protective teddy bear"... I realize a lot of this has to do with allowing characters to have interiority, honestly. A lot of what I believe to be OoC trends have to do with a complete disinterest in some characters' internal lives to serve a fantasy crammed into a mold that doesn't necesserily fit, and without the work being done to make it fit or to make the necessary adjustments to make it specific to the characters involved. I think it's also why I'm not super big on general tropes or AUs in most fandoms --not because all of them are bad or even do this at all, some play with conventions and specificity very very well, or that the practice is worthless, who am I to decide that honestly (and it's not), but because the very appeal of them tends to be flattening characters in very indistinct shapes that can be easily swapped and replaced with each other, and this is not why I, personally, tend to be interested in fanfiction as a medium.

#asks #thoughts #writing #fanfiction #descant of greatness #halfway home #thanks for the asks!! #and sorry for the ridiculous lengths of my answer I wasn't expecting that haha #and again: it's not a jab at a lot of popular AUs I have read some I really enjoyed #and I think there's something good and important about having easy templates to play with it can be really funny and creative and surprisin #there's a certain application of these templates that to me tend to sand off all of the edges of what made these characters #compelling in the first place

[nerdykitten]

i was just a game to you and you knew how to play me.

#personal #lyrics #halfway home #zipper

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

Sea, I think I missed it. But did Louis gave Half way home song? Did it got leaked? I forgot about all that, only now just remembered. He registered the song right? Then copy cat tweeted it for his album promo, now where is the song? Please link it, if you found the song.

Halfway Home was registered April 1.

The You Are Home Twitter account associated with Harry’s House tweeted this on April 13.

Louis did not include the song in Faith in the Future. It was never leaked. We did not get any snippets. After the tweet, the song was never mentioned again.

#halfway home #louis tomlinson

[shadoedseptmbr]

#halfway home #on the road again

[ao3feed-larry]

Halfway Home

by Itsmotivatingcara

Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson were improbable childhood friends, much to Harry's dismay. They were thrown together each summer when Harry was forced to visit Louis' grandfathers' ranch in Black Hills, South Dakota. With each passing year their friendship blossomed into something more. When trail rides turned to stolen kisses, and tragedies turned to confessions, until they could no longer deny the inevitable draw they felt for one another.

Though life and their future plans soon set them on different paths.

Ten years later, Louis is the proud owner of Halfway Home Wildlife Refuge. Harry returns to the ranch to escape the perils of his past in London, and though their memories still haunt Louis, he won't let that deter him from his goals. However, someone has been keeping a close eye on the refuge, and possibly Louis specifically, and Harry's return may have unleashed more that just old passions. There's a hunter lurking in the Hills, someone who's decided they've bided their time long enough.

Words: 17731, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne

Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Additional Tags: South Dakota, Doctor Louis Tomlinson, Doctor Zayn Malik, Doctor Niall Horan, Ex-Cop Harry Styles, Sheriff Liam Payne, Detective Harry Styles, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Refuge, Exes to Lovers, Time Skips, Crime Scenes, Crimes & Criminals, Serial Killers, Blood and Gore, Violence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Angst, Investigations, Animal Death, Smart Louis Tomlinson, Nerdy Niall Horan, Wildlife preservation and generalisation, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, POV Multiple, First Time, Rimming, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Bottom Louis Tomlinson, Top Harry Styles

via AO3 works tagged 'Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson' https://ift.tt/a6v2jNx

#author #larry stylinson #larry fic #ao3 feed larry #Halfway Home #<p>by <a rel= href="/users/Itsmotiva

[redcanvas4]

Halfway Home

#harry’s house #louis tomlinson #harry styles #halfway home #louis and harry #larry stylinson #hs3

[rawliverandcigarettes]

So. I think I have my cover for Halfway Home? 🥺

(I wanted it to be less saturated originally, but the tests I made made me understand I needed the colors to pop a little more and the dark to be less dark, so. okay I guess)

I am not comfortable drawing landscapes or anything precise in general, so I allowed myself to get a little messy as long as I did the thing. But I think the main point is conveyed, and I'm really happy to have landed on this idea, which both conveys a lot of things about this specific story in my opinion, but also sets up a nice theme for the future iterations in the series..... (I already know what the TEoP one will be like, I think it will be cool!!!)

It was a journey, and I'll probably need to make adjustments when I actually send stuff to print, but! Cool! Happy!

#mass effect #halfway home #fanfiction #citadel #omega #my drawing #my art #shlee #shlee t'selvi #II think tumblr is eating the quality but #oh well!!!

[womanexile]

This is a poem by William Wordsworth.

It’s meaning

https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-wordsworth/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20Wandered%20Lonely%20as%20a%20Cloud%E2%80%9D%20argues%20for%20a%20strong,concentrated%20power%20of%20the%20imagination.

#halfway home

[artemis-de-la-lune]

two ghosts, sweet creature, ever since new york, from the dining table and SOTT are the kind of songs that hold the mysterious power to still have me in the same feelings while listening to them just like the way they made me feel when i first listened to them (and then started listening to them on loop), five years ago.

#adore you and falling and cherry (2019) fall under the same category #harry styles #as it was #harry's house #fine line #hs3 #hs2 #hs #fine line era #harry's house era #you are home #halfway home #lt2 #hazza #harold #harries #larries #larry #music #one direction #1d #love on tour #as it was bridge #sign of the times #adore you #two ghosts #from the dining table #ever since new york #sweet creature #cherry harry styles

[rawliverandgoronspice]

For the fic asks, 3, 17, 34 👀

Heyy thanks for the asks!!

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

So I replied to this here already, but I had a thought since and. I actually. Made a bingo. Once.

Here is is.

it is still extremely and shamefully relevant. u_u

(I would just replace/appendum "Imperialism" to the "probably Capitalism's fault", but HEY both are often interconnected so vOv)

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

Hmmmm.... I don't know what counts? I'm generally not sure what is an AU and what is "you twisted canon's neck to fit the Vision". I also don't think my tastes are so esoteric that nobody else would appreciate them? I guess the things I'd love to see is, TLOZ-wise, is an AU where Impa and Ganondorf team up, one where Ganondorf and Tetra team up... I am also very open to modern era AUs if they have a bite to them, and exemplify canon dynamics in a different way? I generally won't go looking for AUs on my own, so I'm not super knowledgeable in what actually exists haha

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

So... That's a good question, because how do you even compartimentalize what counts as real life inspiration and what doesn't? I'd say everything I write is inspired by reality, and there are some fics (*erm* halfway home) which are basically me splattering my insides on the sidewalk in a way that can get pretty personal, but I suppose everything is influenced by everything? There are uhhh motifs that can be found in my stories that might be a bit revelatory and/or obsessive, but while I'm not always great at branching out of the Strong Core of Usual Bullshit, I try to approach the characters with empathy, figuring stuff out about myself/my own understanding of the world the closer I reach for them.

Thanks again for the asks!! hope it was somewhat answered appropriately

#asks #tloz #thoughts #my writing #ganondorf #impa #tetra #unhallowed vespers #litany of betrayal #descant of greatness #antiphon #halfway home #(it's my big mass effect fanfiction that took me 7 years to complete) #(it's basically a “what if I vivisected my troubled 20-something years old mind but In Space” and it's A Lot) #also one funny thing is #the characters that I will gravitate towards are often very Adjacent to the Strong Core of Usual Bullshit #in their own special way #so does that count as “inspired by real life”?

[jacaranda-bloom]

2022 Writing Goals: Halfway Home Check In

The always wonderful @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed tagged me to check on how I’m going with my 2022 writing goals. Thank you lovely and thank you for all the amazing writing sprints we’ve done together this year xx

You can find the post with my original goals here!

Do something writing-related every day, no matter how small - write, edit, outline, brainstorm, engage with my lovely readers, create  moodboards/trailers, participate in tag games, chat with writing friends. I’m really happy to say that I have achieved this goal so far. I haven’t written every day, but I’ve made to sure to do something writing related even if it’s just replying to messages/comments.

Complete my planned fics for the Momrry Fest, Trope Mashup, 1D Song Fest, Big Bang, and ABO Fest. This is ongoing, of course, but my fics for the Momrry Fest, Trope Mashup, 1D Song Fest, Big Bang and all posted as planned. Thank you to everyone who read them and for all the lovely messages and comments. I’m due to post my ABO Fest fic later this month, I’ve signed up for the Harry’s House Fic Fest, and I’ll be writing for WordPlay this year too! 

Branch out with a new independent fic to post as a WIP. I actually decided not to do this because I’m doing the fic I had planned for the Harry’s House fest instead!

Write another Advent Fic. This is still the plan! I’m hoping to get it started in September.

Work on my writing style and extend and challenge myself. This is one of those goals that is just something I’m working on every day. I’ve been really happy with what I’ve published this year, but I still have this yearning for something that feels radically different. Guess I’ll just see where inspiration takes me.

These were the writers I tagged in January when I posted my original goals, so please feel free to do a mid-year update if you’d like to share (no pressure!) - @allwaswell16 @kingsofeverything @evilovesyou @larrydoinglaundry @larrysballetslippers @hershelsue @dryourtearsawaywrites @princelyharry @falsegoodnight @zanniscaramouche @absoloutenonsense @larryyouknow @lululawrence @disgruntledkittenface @crinkle-eyed-boo @parmahamlarrie @fallinglikethis and @neondiamond xx

#July 8 2022 #writing goals #halfway home #tag games

[rastronomicals]

2:48 AM EST February 7, 2024:

TV on the Radio - "Halfway Home" From the album Dear Science (September 22, 2008)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Millennial New York Prog

#TV on the Radio #Dear Science #Halfway Home

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

Halfway home not being on the album is again an indication to me that he may not be in the mood to play anymore. He let the other guy have it.

Halfway Home was registered on 1 April 2022. Louis was listed as performer. From the song title, I’m guessing it might have been planned as the single to premiere at the Away From Home Festival this year, but it got scrapped from FITF.

This was tweeted 13 April 2022.

It’s hard to know whether there’s causation, but anyway… another song written, produced, recorded, and scrapped.

For what it’s worth, Pretender is not on the album either.

#halfway home #I wonder what it sounded like #louis tomlinson