#and there aren't like Plot Twists

[sarah-sandwich-writes]

HOLD ON WAIT UP HOLD THE PHONE

I KNOW I WAS GONE FOR A FEW MONTHS THERE BUT HAS BLUE LIKE DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF A SERIES OR IS THAT A NEW DEVELOPMENT???

I FEEL LIKE ITS CHRISTMAS ALL OVER AGAIN FUCK Y E A H

Okay so

I...

have been cooking

by which I mean illusions of grandeur and

schemes

And I have not been forthcoming lol Everyone kind of disappeared all at the same time so I kind of stopped talking about what I'm doing but I have been biding my time, quietly putting mechanisms into motion and plotting and occasionally cackling over my cauldron.

I finished the first draft of Blue like don't forget about me and didn't like it so I cut out all the sci-fi fantasy stuff (bye bye aliens farewell superpowers) and in November wrote a new first draft that's all contemporary romance babeee and I'm so in love with it I'm turning it into a little 3-part (possibly 4 if I can't control myself) series.

The original childhood years have been split off into a prequel novella called Red like my bleeding heart in your hand. Then Blue like don't forget about me will take place 20 years later. Nash works at Cherished Hope Nursing Home

“And what is it you do? At the nursing home, I mean.” I wipe shit off of old people. And Teddy’s a hockey player. What’s Luke, an underwear model? He shouldn’t have come.

Teddy comes back to town for a funeral and

Teddy looks at him for the first time in twenty years and every ounce of warmth leaves his expression. Message received. He should not have come.

OKAY SO AND THEN the next book will be Jo's POV and is called Violet like these delights. and MAYBE there will be a 4th from Luke's POV bc he gets to live this time by the grace of god (me) but it'll depend on how Violet goes (its current state is mostly vibes and a single overarching theme so, stand by).

Red needs a clean-up round of edits to snip out the few little threads that connected it to OG blue. And rewritten blue is basically done. I've done the major revisions and am about to start line edits and after those are done I'm sending it out to beta readers (lmk if you're interested).

There are concise actual summaries in my pinned post btw lol

WHICH REMINDS ME

The series title is Wildflowers of Deliverance. Which I'm extremely proud of. Did you notice did you notice how each title incorporates a wildflower did you did you? and the town they grew up in where Nash and Teddy first met is called Deliverance!!! It's okay I know I'm a genius.

And this brings us to the meal okay? because like I said I've been Cooking™ quietly but steadily for a few months now. ANd what have I been cooking? PLOTS and PLANS

I've decided on a pen name: Sarah B. Elisa

I've created a(nother) side blog for it that will be exclusively centered on my og writing and geared more toward readers rather than writers like this blog is: @sarahbe-writing

I'm going to create a website (as soon as I convince myself to spend money)

and a newsletter (as soon as I convince myself to spend money and do work)

I'm still waffling between trad publishing and DIY. I really like all my hats and it would be a shame to have to share them but oh my god I don't want to do all the marketing but trad pub seems hit or miss on how well they market you so I might get half of my hats taken away and still have to do the marketing bullshit UGH

anyway

OH YEAH and the OG draft I wrote for Blue? I'm going to spin it back to its OG OG roots [parkner, naturally--Return of The childhood friends to estranged almost lovers to super-powered rivals to reluctant allies to friends to lovers finally wip!!! AKA: We Were Gods (we were kids)] and that will fix all the things that went wrong and I didn't like 😌 so it's basically like double Christmas I think

#i have been #a tad reluctant to use the tag list #since because I scrapped the whole plot and genre and started over #feels like a teensie bit of a betrayal? #so idk i think i need to make a post (way fucking shorter than this one) and tag everyone and see who still wants to be tagged in stuff? #or maybe im close enough to the finish line i shouldn't do tag list stuff anymore? I'm kind of wary of oversharing bc #i totally did before #and the word count is smaller now #and there aren't like Plot Twists #it's a romance we all know how this is gonna end #so idk that's mostly why i've been quiet like haha what should i say and to who? #But anyway this weekend I'm going to get my shit together and put up some posts and get the ball rolling again #share some excerpts #get people excited #put out a call for beta and sensitivity readers #you know. work lol #also i missed you and i'm glad you're back <3333 #my notes were sooooo quiet lol #and i don't just mean on my writing stuff i love seeing all of your tags in my activity like Yay that's my friend!! And they're yellin!!! #we love to see it <3 #anyway #:)

[buggachat]

Do you ever have the problem of altering your story so that it doesn't match any of the predictions?

Nope, I don't do that. If people predict it accurately, then they predict it accurately haha

The comic's already planned out and have many parts already complete or sketched out beyond whatever I post on tumblr. I don't change any of it, but I certainly don't bother to re-draw or change the parts that I already have laid out.

#bakery enemies au #also there aren't exactly any uh.... plot twists in the story? like if you know adrien is chat noir then it just is what it is #so there's not really anything wrong w people accurately predicting that like... ''marinette will say x next part'' or whatever #nothing about the story has been changed based off of audience reactions #at least not consciously on my part

[secret-citrus]

Rotting brain alert: Betty wished for Simon to be kept safe, but Simon is actively trying to make himself the Ice King again to ensure the safety and magical status of Fionna and Cake's world, but Fionna and Cake's world was illegally created in his head, so by the rules Scarab is following Simon must be killed, but Golbetty will never sign off on that death warrant bc the express purpose of her existence right now is "keep Simon safe", but Scarab is doing all of this for selfish reasons (to take down Prismo over an old beef) so he's likely not going to take kindly to Golbetty saying he can't kill Simon to destroy the illegal universe, and ajfhdksahfkjlda LOOK AT ALL THIS SET-UP FOR A GREAT SEASON FINALE, OH MY G O D

#fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #scarab fionna and cake #Golbetty #simon petrikov #i really enjoy this show bc the writing is so smart and respects the audience #it never tries to fool you for a second on where the overarching plot is going #the twists are laid out in a way that's detectable but easily missed if you aren't paying attention #like the ice crown Fionna gave Simon! I thought she'd had that stashed away since Winter King totally missed it was Dead World's crown #Fionna's growth over the story has been so believable and really well-done!!!! #i love this series and i'm getting my hopes up really high for the finale to knock it out of the park #Scarab is going to continue being a bad guy n i can't wait to see his shit get wrecked

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

#it's bad if you want i have sex it's also bad if you DON'T want to have sex #god forbid if you're a woman in a heterosexual marriage and aren't in the mood #that's 'withholding sex' and you're clearly abusive scum who should be divorced and left without any of your shared assets. #but if you DO have sex now you're a degenerate freak plotting for the downfall of western society #i don't know what to say i'm just so tired #politics #culture #queerphobia #lgbtqia #misogyny #<it's not the exclusive source but let's be honest sooo much of this is integral to the patriarchy #patriarchy needs access to an underclass they can treat like sex objects but they also don't want them to have any human rights #so sexuality is both obligatory and stigmatized #purity culture #i'm really struggling with tagging this because most of the appropiate tags would- in a beautiful twist of irony- get me booted off tumblr

[thedreadvampy]

wish it was possible to Not Have Watched Something Yet on this website without getting the entire thing shown to you in GIFs before you even know it exists long enough to filter for it 💀

#red said #look man i know this is the Posting Entire Movies As Gifs website #but like. I'm on here to talk about media criticism and vent my feelings #not to have literally every plot point of a show i like but am not enthusiastic enough about to watch the moment it comes out spoiled #I'm not deeply spoiler sensitive but sometimes I'm a bit like. jesus imagine if i could find out major twists in a show by WATCHING THE SHOW #instead of Accidentally Opening Tumblr For 0.5 Seconds To Be Met By Someone Reblogging 20 Consecutive Gifsets Of The Twist #it's not like. something people are Doing Wrong. but it is annoying. #it was the same with everything everywhere all at once i almost didn't watch it bc i had seen like Every Scene on here #and that would have been a shame bc it is my very favourite film #but also i often end up watching stuff GRUMPILY SOON bc i an like 'gotta watch this before there's no new info in the show' #and i don't LIKE that actually! i want to watch things on my own terms not in a race with Tumblr gifs! #like these aren't even things I'm deeply passionate about bc those i think to avoid. just like. #sometimes there's stuff i LIKE but plan to GET AROUND TO

[its-chelisey-stuff]

Just saw the latest ep for dr slump and I was sure it was gonna end tomorrow for some reason. Then I checked and it's a 16 ep drama??? Why?

#look I really did enjoy the first 8 eps #then they solved male lead's problem and i was like?? ok sure #but of course they weren't done with that #and after el 13 they finally are so why is this a 16 ep drama?? #they're just gonna bring some random plot twist aren't they?? #it literally does not need any more drama #i thought it was supposed to be a healing vibe sort of show #now they're just making it draggy #doctor slump #kdrama

[poet-tree-lines]

40 minutes into this 7 hour audiobook, and I think I have the motive, means, and opportunity for a murder that hasn't happened yet. which... is either really sad because i'm never right about this stuff and like to guess, or really great because there's a plot twist coming and that'll be fun

unfortunately, i think the twist is the answer i have

#complaining about audiobooks again #woodland creatures murder mystery has been fun but the mystery has been getting uh #ok the first one was great and i didn't see the twist coming #the second gave you one suspect and then put the nails in the coffin one by one until like there was no way it was anyone else #the third one appears to be setting up a plot twist that might be very clever but i'm just nuts enough to see coming #idk #spoilers for the shady hollow series so stop reading if you're planning to read spoiler free #but the book is called mirror lake. mirror #the man is acting strange and his rich mother died and his wife says he's not really her husband and that her husband's dead #well. its his twin brother right? #it's got to be his twin brother and we're going to dance around that for 6 more hours aren't we? #if it's not his twin brother i'll eat my hat idk anymore

[mazekingdom]

everyfuckingtime I solve a problem in my GP outline I come up with 5 more

#gp txt #uguguguguguh #I think I am definitely making progress #and like. figuring out the problems is part of the process #but like. yeesh #so fucking many problems #it's just. the whole thing needs a fair amount of restructuring to give things the adequate amount of lead up suspense building etc #if my story and it's suspense and plot twists aren't perfectly satisfying I am going to walk into the river s2g

[quietwingsinthesky]

god the idea of a version of spn where uriel survives until the end is fascinating to me actually. i feel like part of the problem with castiel's character is that he's so disconnected, you'll get an angel a season there to work as castiel's parallel and then they're killed off and never brought up again. but uriel? the first one we see him with? who is so diametrically opposed to castiel in s4?

if he makes it to s5, does he team up with lucifer? he'd be the only angel that we know of who does. Abandon All Hope, but it's not castiel meeting a stranger, but Castiel also meeting with someone he considered a friend, who he would still consider a brother, and still having to tell him no. and Uriel throws his lot in with Lucifer, and that means he has to spend more time with demons? is there any part of him that looks at them and realizes that everyone on both sides is serving a god that doesn't want to look at them.

s6!! Lucifer lost!!! and that makes Uriel a traitor to Heaven so he can't go to Raphael, no matter how their goals may almost align (in the opening of the Cage, less so in who they're opening it for) and he can't go to Castiel! too much bad blood! too much betrayal! Where do you go during a civil war when both sides would prefer you dead?

Look, I don't know where this is going, but what I'm saying is, wouldn't it have been interesting to see Castiel and Uriel evolve as characters alongside each other. We know Castiel before Heaven gets blown to bits and falls, and that's why seeing the effects on him hurt so bad, the way he just loses more and more of what he tried to once save, uncovers more and more of how Heaven has been hurting angels. Just one other angel to react to that in a similar way but with a completely different viewpoint would have made it even more effective, and Uriel is perfect for that.

(I mean, in my mind, this ends as I always wish the whole heaven and angels arc in spn had, where those left over finally come together, look at the ruins that have been brought about, and take what they have been forced to learn to work together and build something better. rather than. you know. handing the reins to a three year old.)

#spn #supernatural #uriel spn #castiel spn #im not going to pretend uriel isnt an asshole. he is. have you considered this could be a good trait #spn but castiel has one 'friend' who looks at how he's being treated and goes. fuck this actually. #(they are not really friends. not anymore. but they are also two of the last angels. so who else do they have) #if we have to sit through multiple seasons of sam & dean going... yeah but. things that aren't human aren't worth protecting. #then it seems fitting to have a constant character to go 'actually everything that isn't human is fine. you all fucking suck.' #neither of them are right! big plot twist! spn but actually everyone deserves to live lmao #but actually have them fucking confront these things with each other. #with castiel at the center. just trying to mediate this. mostly failing. #NO WAIT IM THINKING ABOUT HUMAN!CAS ARC #BUT INSTEAD OF THAT RANDOM ANGEL GETTING CALLED BY CAS' SUICIDAL THOUGHTS #ITS URIEL. URIEL 'i'll kill her gentle' about anna being human SPN. LIKE. FUCK! THAT'S COMPELLING! #sorry im rambling about him he is so fun. he's a cunt. more characters should be and then not be punished by the writers.

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

holy shit????? straight A semester real??????????

#chattering #my gpa actually went UP I didn't think that was even POSSIBLE at this point it's been flat for like the last two years #<- what no more overloading does to a motherfucker #plot twist of the century: you do better in your classes when you have adequate time to devote to all of them lmao #but seriously how the hell did this happen this was such a chill semester #I actually had time for friends! and fun projects that aren't school-related! I was able to write fic how the shit?!?

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

I feel like Hermie's birth was some Steven Universe shit where Scam and Hermie couldn't both exist at the same time and also Scam only did it to avoid being held accountable for genocide and violating the Geneva Convention

#at some point Hermies gonna turn around and it was Scam the whole time #plot twist #also Taylor and Hermie aren't related because Jodie isn't Nick's real dad #Hermie is his step uncle #Hermie is a stepping up stampler now #hermie the unworthy #dungeons and daddies #dungeons and daddies s2 #scam likely #scam actually

[parameddic]

*long-suffering sigh* i might need to make him a fourth wing verse

#i might need to start writing violet i cANNOT write a character named violet that is my sister's name and i FLATLY REFUSE #or mira??????????? #or oooooooooooooooooh. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i could write brennan. #oh MAN i could write brennan. #i am not picking up new muses i am not doing it i am just #much further into this fandom than i expected to be actually it's not even. the books aren't. but i love them though #does brennan's existence count as a spoiler if i read his name the first time in 'brennan is dead' and thought 'he's definitely alive' #is that really a spoiler. these books don't really do plot twists they just do easy fun existing #IF I COULD WRITE TAIRN I WOULD WRITE TAIRN #'not xaden?' i think xaden could be fun but i also think he is a little uuuuuuum #i don't think i could hit the right notes on his ruthlessness i am not 10000% on exactly when and where that comes from #and i think it's definitely fun like. i would Like to write it. but i don't think i'd get him right and also #it's not ............. that........... #hmmm #i don't think i'd have him right and i would want him to be right if i wrote him

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I'm kind of sad that we didn't get the Buffy the Vampire Slayer leprechaun episode that the writers almost accidentally wrote. (Like, I guess Joss Whedon one time joked about wanting a leprechaun episode and the writers legit thought he was serious about it. And they were working on it, researching leprechaun myths and everything, and then he had to tell them that he'd been kidding.)

The closest thing we get to leprechaun in the Buffyverse is probably in the tie-in book (that's actually a "choose your own adventure book") "Colony." Where there seems to be something similar to a leprechaun, that Buffy keeps calling a leprechaun/comparing to a leprechaun. But it's not a leprechaun, because I guess leprechauns don't exist in the Buffyverse (part of me wonders if that was an inside joke about that aforementioned thing, but I have no idea. Probably not?) At least according to this tie-in novel.

#buffy the vampire slayer #part of me kind of wonders why NOT a leprechaun episode? we have other weird things. it could have potentially worked #and we could have tied in stuff with angel's home and past perhaps. idk. -shrugs- #side note: i love in the tie-in book buffy just seeing the leprechaun looking thing and getting all excited and going 'leprechaun!' #and angel in particular (i mean. the others kind of are too. like giles) just kind of shaking his head and going 'it's not a leprechaun' #and he knows because he fought the thing before. but i also wonder if it's because if leprechauns were real (which they aren't in this #story). they would have been in ireland according to legend. and angel grew up in ireland so he's like 'no buffy. no.' #anyway. now i'm reminded of how my sister and i. back in the day. always wanted a supernatural episode about dreamcatchers that never happe #*happened #i even started writing a fic about it more than a decade ago. i'd say i should have finished it--and i probably should have--but my writing #back then was so bad that even if i would have liked the story back #then by now i would hate said fic #and be wanting to rewrite it if nothing else #ANYWAY a dreamcatcher episode of supernatural in the early seasons would have been cool #you know... it would have been pretty great if the non-leprechaun thing in colony had somehow ended up being a leprechaun though. #thus proving buffy right #like maybe the other one angel had fought like it (or that he thought was like it) wasn't. but this one was. and thus everyone was wrong #that would have been a good twist and kind of funny. because it WAS leprechaun-y and i get why buffy was saying what she did i mean. lol #Oh. I should probably mention that the non-leprechaun thing in colony is a side thing. Not the main plot

[bunnymajo]

I started watching Ever After High over the weekend because of a glowing recommendation

And dang. The doll fans were right about this one. It's really good

#i watched 'thronecoming' yesterday and i audibly gasped at some of the plot twists #if i was 7 when EAH came out I guarantee you that I would eat all this drama up #majobun chatter #also it's a good thing the dolls aren't -exactly- like the designs in the show because i don't need any more collecting hobbies lol #apple white so far is my favorite because we love a confused lesbian in this house

[spring-lxcked]

loving hearing matp.at talking abt intentional misdirects in the trailer because i've thought from the moment i saw it that the mike-william phone call looks potentially spliced together from two separate scenes kfdhsajsdl

#—— ✧ ooc » #.tbd. #the moment he only said 'yes' (while on screen) i was like 'oh that's bullshit isn't it' fkhdsakfh #it felt like a weird cut on the william shot from the first time i saw it tbh #but also the discussion of stuff being edited out/in (with proof with that one drawing) #and how film trailers sometimes add lines or scenes that aren't even present in the movie!! i love theorizing!! #but also every time someone takes van.essa saying 'they want to make her like them' at face value i die a little inside kfjdad #i don't think they're changing it. i think vane.ssa is either lying (most likely) or just wrong #i think there's a ton ton ton of misdirects in the trailer. some we likely haven't even realized. #i'm still firmly on the side of they wouldn't cut the af.ton family connection because it makes too good of a story #and it's a big plot twist for ppl not familiar with the franchise #the discussion of the alias being edited in was interesting. not sure i agree given the whole da.ve mill.er stuff in the books #but it's always possible #fn.af hyperfixation taking over my life

[tvrningout-a]

#bc i've gone back and forth over this a lot i need a lil help deciding #i've said it before but i do feel a lil bad with the amount of spiderverse stuff i got on my blog when the majority of my mutuals #aren't here for spiderverse -- especially bc my muse has been high for it lately #and i also kinda feel like it's harder to get into that particular rpc bc i'm a manga multi #like i'm worried people see i'm a manga multi and don't realize i have an au for spiderverse #aaaand i just really wanna build and expand on the ideas i have for chiyo’s au #to the point where i almost feel like i could make it her main verse #what a plot twist for her btw asdfg #but yeah feedback is appreciated bc this is partially why i’ve felt a lil weird on here lately #i’m still enjoying myself offline but i’ll be back later to keep messaging folks #get ready to ramble | ooc