2023 is proving to be a startlingly good year for reading (i've been averaging about a book every couple of days, somehow), so i went shopping and got a tiny bit carried away, which i should feel bad about but don't because look at all the exciting new books (titles/authors are listed in the image desc. for anyone who can't make them out)
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i’m not posting about dracula daily because unlike some people if i want to read a book i don’t need weird gimmicks to get me into it
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Sorry About The Spider-Man Acronyms: A Guide for the anon @hawkogurl got, or anyone else who needs it. This is only a small selection of Spidey media, but it's the ones that are commonly referred to in shorthand like this.
Movies:
SM1, SM2, SM3: Spider-Man movies directed by Sam Raimi, starring Tobey Maguire.
TASM, TASM2: The Amazing Spider Man movies directed by Marc Webb, starring Andrew Garfield.
MCU: The Marvel Cinematic Universe.
ITSV, ATSV, BTSV: Into, Across, and Beyond The Spider-Verse animated movies.
TV shows:
TNAS: Spider-Man The New Animated Series (2003). People mostly forget this one exists.
TSSM: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008). Sometimes written as SSM.
USM: Ultimate Spider-Man (2012).
MSM or MSM 2017: Marvel's Spider Man (2017).
Comic series titles:
ASM: The Amazing Spider-Man. Sometimes written as TASM.
SSM: The Spectacular Spider-Man. Sometimes written as TSSM.
WSM or WOSM: Web of Spider-Man.
SM/DP: Spider-Man/Deadpool.
USM: Ultimate Spider-Man.
SM2099: Spider-Man 2099. (Miguel's origin series.)
Frequently used comics universe numbers:
616: The main Marvel comics universe, including ASM, SSM, WSM, and virtually every mainline comic since the sixties.
1610: The "Ultimate" universe, including USM, launched in 2000 and closed in 2015. Miles Morales' home universe.
65 or Earth-65: Spider-Gwen's home universe.
MC2: An alt future universe where Peter's daughter is Spider-Girl.
6160: The... new alt future "Ultimate" universe just opened in 2024. I still don't know what's going on there.
Other random acronyms you'll see:
SM PS4/MSM, MSM2: the Marvel's Spider-Man games from Insomniac.
OMD: One More Day, the name for the 2007 story arc which broke up Peter & MJ's marriage, among other changes.
BND: Brand New Day, the comic arc immediately after OMD. OMD/BND are really two halves of the same whole, so you'll see people use them interchangeably.
KLH: The Kraven's Last Hunt storyline.
TCW: The Child Within storyline.
JMD: J. M. DeMatteis, a comic writer who did both Kraven's Last Hunt and The Child Within.
I hope this helps and, uh, good luck.
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Thank you for sharing your amazing stories, I love your fic...you are such a phenomenal writer! Can you talk about your writing process? What is your favorite/least favorite things to write (e.g. dialogue/plot/atmosphere, etc.)?
hi! this is so nice of you to say, thank you! ❤️
my fic process broadly looks like:
say i’m not going to write a fic yet
then have an idea (usually by accident, “haha wouldn’t it be fun if—”)
talk about the idea until it begins to take an actual shape and i go oh man. this is a whole fic isn’t it. oh no
“this will be a fun, short idea” [is not that]
(for shorter fics i can actually keep the plot tight, depending on how strict the parameters are, but every time it’s “just a fun concept” that i can run free with i get way plottier than i intended and i’ve accepted that by now. it’s why i can’t just go write every idea i have even if i wanted to.)
broad messy outline in a gdoc, including any dialogue snippets i think of as i go.
i’m a fast plotter but a slow writer, so from there i start drafting, roughly in chronological order because that works best for my brain, though sometimes i jump around to rough draft later parts.
first draft goes out to friends who read, comment, catch some errors, and delete many of the abundant first draft commas and em dashes. (this is functionally beta-ing but by people who know every thought i've ever had.)
post! and on to the next chapter/story.
a very important part of my creative process is having friends who are just as enthusiastic about the concept/characters as i am, so shoutout to those people for being the main reason i get any actual writing done. what is fandom if not wanting to feed your friends to the point of creation!
my favorite thing to write varies depending on what world/characters i’m working with, but usually dialogue comes easiest/is most fun to plan out! i often have whole convos planned out dialogue-only and then i fill in the actual action once i get there. and my least favorite thing is probably…very specific, but describing characters’ outfits? unless it’s immediately action-relevant i always have to go back and remember to work that in as part of general scene description, if i remember at all. the outfits are in my head, i just usually feel clunky describing them on the page!
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thoughts on the current "snug as a bug in a rug" economy?
Far too many people being cozy in bed. They should be doing something productive with their time, like donating to Joe Biden's presidential campaign or sending hatemail to the creators of indie cartoons. Or anything, other than sitting on their asses. I mean, you really only need five or six hours a night-- beds are for sleeping, and that's where your blankets should stay.
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