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mazegays · 1 year

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I posted 445 times in 2022

That's 42 more posts than 2021!

21 posts created (5%)

424 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@its-tea-time-darling

@thominho-incorrectquotes

@highgaydrama

@un-ah

@thomallyweek

I tagged 422 of my posts in 2022

Only 5% of my posts had no tags

#remember that i love queue - 135 posts

#thominho - 78 posts

#thomas - 49 posts

#tea - 37 posts

#minho - 36 posts

#thomally - 29 posts

#thomallyweek2022 - 18 posts

#nalby - 18 posts

#newt - 17 posts

#gifs - 16 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#while it's evolved over the years the basis of the theory still comes from 14yo me there is definitely room for improvement discussion etc

My Top Posts in 2022:

BTW if anyone has questions about my wips (the whumpy slowburn Thominally fic and the empath Thomas fic... that's what's actually typed up. for now) or questions about like. most other things too feel free to send them! I love getting asks and talking about fics lol

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@its-tea-time-darling

List five things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity ✨💛🌻

okay like I have way more than five things so I'm going fandom-specific here lol

--writing collective headcanons/bouncing around ideas with my moots

--adding onto @thominho-incorrectquotes posts either in the tags or on the post itself

--literally anything that portrays Thomas as the 'gifted kid' he is: smart as all get-out with no social skills (also. adhd Thomas. bc I am adhd and so are all my fav characters. minho? gally? sonya? harriet? you bet!)

--the people on ao3 who pop up every once in a while as having kudos all of my tmr fics (even if they don't leave comments it's appreciated)

--when people come yell at me about my fics, whether here or ao3 idc just!! yell ur appreciation at me it is appreciated

10 notes - Posted May 15, 2022

@its-tea-time-darling

because this 40k fic isn't getting any shorter and it's looking less and less like slowburn with each section

wtf you have a thominally wip what the fuckwhatthefuckwhathesjxbhshdsjxbdbbsdbbd

yep! it started as a way to hit as many thomally week prompts as I could in one fic, and has expanded greatly since, leading into thominally. no idea when it'll be anywhere near done, because it's not now!

11 notes - Posted May 17, 2022

@its-tea-time-darling

i may or may not have started on thominho week writing

yes!!! this is great news!!! i have not started on this year's yet but i literally just finished 2020's like 10 minutes ago so that counts for something right?

13 notes - Posted May 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

@monkey-d-momo

I wanted to know what you liked so much about my empath Thomas headcanon and if you're gonna publish your fic soon (no pressure or course, but like you, I really like this headcanon and I need more of it haha) Love you!

-thominho-incorrectquotes

okay, so you know when you read a prompt or smth and immediately have Ideas™️? That's what happened. I read your headcanons and was like: I need 500 fics about this immediately, and I have Ideas for one so I will write it myself.

Also, it's a different take on Thomas’s character, especially because we all see him as oblivious to, well, everything. Empath Thomas can be oblivious, but it has to be done differently, because he knows what people are feeling--he feels it himself. So maybe he doesn't trust his own emotions now, because while sometimes it's easy to tell that it's not his, he can’t always do that. Especially when they're very similar to what he's feeling. Hence Thomas sticking with logic and objectivity when he can, when he has time to think things through. He ignores everything he feels because he doesn't know what's his.

(This is not a good idea, Thomas.) He also doesn't talk to anyone about this in true Thomas fashion of questioning everything that's not personal, so as far as he knows, it's normal.

Minho eventually figures out that Thomas never seems to respond emotionally to anything, and they're a bunch of teenage boys stuck in a Maze. Like, emotional outbursts aren't super common but he’s never met someone who just... doesn't respond to anything. Ben's attack? Yeah, Thomas was scared, but then Ben was probably scared too (Thomas knows the anger didn't come from him.) So he hides his reactions as best he can and pretends they don't exist.

Minho figures out that Thomas can feel everything, and has no defense against it, when something happens to Thomas and Thomas, mostly out of it, tells Minho to stop worrying because it hurts.

(Thomas does not remember this, but part of the reason he sticks to the Deadheads to sleep here is because some of the Gladers have nightmares, which equals strong emotion, which overwhelms him and causes him physical pain.)

And so Minho starts trying to figure out how Thomas can block or mute others' emotions and help him trust his own again, but it’s a slow process, and then the Scorch happens and Denver happens and they don’t have time, and it turns out that Thomas has just been shoving everything behind mental shields and it's too much one day and well... that's definitely not a good thing.

This got a little long! I kind of focused on the whumpier side here but there is fluff that goes with it (and a definite happy ending).

As for the fic, the above is kind of where I'm planning on taking the longer version. The shorter verison, which will only be Fever Code Era, involves Minho figuring it out on his own and working to help Thomas. Then he gets sent to the Maze, and of course later Thomas does as well, which means all progress is reset re: managing empathic abilities. That will hopefully be done sometime next week, but my work schedule is still up in the air so no promises.

Thanks so much for the ask, Momo! 💜 Really hope I do this justice.

19 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

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scaredysap · 2 years

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okay so as you all know, the editing in UN has been bothering me. so i combed through episode 8 and separated all the various cuts between sequences and made a few notes on what each sequence portrayed.

obviously, spoilers for up till UN ep8

open for full size, the writing is small.

okay so. as we can see here, most of the scenes are usually around 2 minutes, with a few exceptions. the most remarkable ones being a ridiculously fast heihua action scene of the two of them escaping a room that’s exploding, which lasts for only 40 second, and a fight+chase with a big snake that lasts 9.36 minutes.

the latter is definitely the best sequence in the episode: it builds tension and then delivers as the chase begins; we think Xiaoge defeated the snake only for him to lose his sword and get running again; after a brief lapse in tension to reminisce about that poor sword, we run again and culminate in a narrow escape. great action, cool music, tension rising within the party and then coming together at the end. great stuff!

....then for some reason we cut back to heihua arriving in the rainforest, then wu xie group relaxing and then heihua standing around again.

so close and yet so far, the ending could have been great.

I think the main issue here is that a lot of these scenes clearly belong together, like that almost 10 minute long sequence, but for some reason they were split up into a hiccupping rythm that steals away all the tension and emotion.

let’s take the heihua scenes. their entire journey throughout 40 minutes of episode is climbing some stairs, taking a nap, finding some camaraderie and then jumping off a cliff to avoid exploding, ending up in a rainforest as the next step of their exploration. pretty coherent stuff, huh?

however we see that this simple sequence is split up beyond belief. in one instance (number 7 on the grid) HXZ almost dies but is pulled up from a cliff at the last second and the scene cuts away before he’s even landed on safe ground; we don’t even get a moment to breathe a sigh of relief before we cut to a comedic scene playing off of pangxie getting undressed.

I figure this was done to try and make you wonder: oh! is HXZ safe? did they make it? but... they obviously did. you saw them when they were pulled to safety. there is no reason to delay the relief of seeing heihua safe and recuperating for another two whole minutes.

The pacing in Ultimate Note ends up feeling like a skipping record: it breaks up tense scenes without payoff until you’ve gone through some more circular dialogue and then it goes back to the action again. This way the viewer’s experience feels like you’re being handed several different foods at the same time, eating all sorts of contrasting flavours at once and it becomes very muddy. I didn’t know how I was supposed to feel through most of these scenes because they just kept taking them away before I could get to the emotional payoff.

An easy fix is to just. Unify the sequences.

Start with the tick ‘arc’ ending in the comedy of the pangxie semi-walk of shame. Pretty low stakes but we get some cute character moments, introduce the rainforest critters as a threat.

Have all the heihua scenes from day 1 (climbing the stairs, jumping onto the platform, XYC saving HXZ and the two of them deciding to take a break). Emotional moment; they start by apparently competing but are actually finally ready to work together, at least on an instinctual level. Have a peak of tension with the jump and a quiet moment of ‘oh snap.... we almost died there’

Back to Wu group and analysing the snake carcass Xiaoge found. Let the audience breathe before the next action sequence; add some exposition while they’re still paying attention from the big heihua moment just now. introduce the next big threat (snek of doom)

Heihua bonding moment and exploding room, jump off the cliff and the subsequent flirting as they reach the bottom of the canyon. Emotional core of the episode; HXZ turns out to care for XYC more than we thought, XYC is finally willingly lending a hand for HXZ to touch so that they overcome the issue together. they flirt and act cute at the end, still trying to hold their previous witty banter but now with the added sweetness of ‘aaaw they do care’. Moment of relief before...

Wu group and the snek of doom, build the tension of the episode to an even greater height and then finish their section up with A-Ning’s animal facts corner. We get an example of teamwork almost not working out with the triangle fighting but finally also coming together despite their situation. They find a moment of respite to chill out together and talk about how there are even doomier sneks in the rainforest.

End the episode on Heihua going deeper into the rainforest, finding all the snake statues to confirm that yes, the next big problem is gonna be snakes.

End the episode.

This way the tension rises consistently throughout the episode while also introducing threats in a way that doesn’t require the scenes to catch us up on what the latest problem is. the reason that 40 second scene was so silly is that they run like, 2 steps. stop and turn back to show us that the room is indeed catching on fire. run 2 more steps and come face to face with a drop into the void.

we wouldn’t have needed that stilted run if the sequence had been unified to begin with.

#dmbj #ultimate note #ultimate note spoilers #dmbj ultimate note #handling an ensemble cast is hard #but this ain't it chief #so much could be improved if they just fixed the pacing #i guess i'm mostly mad because this series has been hyped up so much #ESPECIALLY for the pacing #but there is a difference between 'consistent' and 'fractured'#and UN is definitely the latter #pacing is not supposed to be an average flat line because you're swinging wildly between two extremes #it should rise and fall according to an emotional thoroughline #and it should so so episode by episode #you can't just hope your viewers will all have seen all the previous installments and be absolutely caught up #especially when said previous installments have different crews and actors working on them #okay that's it this is my hot take this evening #i'm going to bed now #if you wanna talk more about how UN is structured/written then feel free to ask #but i know UN is the fandom darling so i don't think many people will be open to that XD

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crestfallercanyon · 2 years

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hii

fanfic asks for when you've settled down again for the holidays - no rush <3

favorite fic you wrote this year

(my fav of yours was the thomally safe haven 'genfic' (these heavy hands aren't sure) and the thomally safe haven smut (he goes down easy for me, read it if you want to make yourself happy), just saying <3)

longest completed fic you wrote this year

(bc ohmygod your word count in general is :0(impressed) )

fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year

(say maze runner or else prepare for stabbing (bisexual))

most memorable comment/review

favorite fanfic author of the year (*sits here ready with my notepad to write down recs*)

and one last one that i think is fun:

shortest fic you read this year

right. as always tea is incapable of keeping it short. happy holidays crest, ly <33

tea you should do these too because I want to ask you questionss (and pay you compliments because I have loved reading your writing this year too)

So, these were questions from the fanfic end of the year asks, and it looks like I'm being asked about 1, 7, 11, 21, 27, and 29.

Okay, so for 1. favorite fanfic I wrote this year.

This is hard, because I already struggled narrowing it down to five, and now I've got to narrow it down to one.

Think I'm going to go with distract me from my last disaster.

This is a coldflash fic where I finally felt like the dynamic I wanted between the two of them played out. I think this one was the tipping point where I finally hit a stride and stopped doubting my portrayal of the characters. I genuinely think my coldflash post-this fic is much better than pre.

When I Say You Are Killing Me was a close second.

7. Longest COMPLETED fic I wrote this year.

Shuffle at 25,898 words. I was hoping it'd be Conflicts of Interest, but that got delayed the past month. But Shuffle it is!

11. Fandom I enjoyed writing most this year.

NOT DUE TO YOUR COERCION TEA but I would have to agree it is The Maze Runner.

The Maze Runner is my childhood playground that I know all the nooks and crannies in, and it's very easy for me to make up new worlds in the tunnels or dream big at the top of the slide. I read the books as a child, have watched the movies growing up, and I know most if not all the characters very well.

The Flash is a brand new city where I greatly enjoy one or two neighborhoods and the rest kind of intimidates me. Not that I don't want to explore, but it's just not easy. I do love writing Coldflash. However, I have fallen out of interest with the CW's DC shows. There's so many spin-offs, it's just kind of hard to keep up.

21. Most memorable comment or review.

(brief aside: sorry to everyone who I haven't responded to recently. I love you all. I'm just a little backlogged. I'll get to you I swear).

Most memorable? Y'know, there are so many people who kept coming back and talking to me. Not all of you have usernames that I know of, but I've had so many wonderful comments and encouragements, I really can't thank everyone enough. I was actually pretty new to fanfiction, and still feel very new to the fandoms I write in, but everyone's been super supportive. You hear these horror stories, but everyone is so nice! So thanks everyone, especially @sophiainspace, @its-tea-time-darling @sproutwings, @graeae, @un-ah, @qlala (special note to you because the first one I thought of was when you told me you read What's Mine is Yours on the floor), @onceuponabluemoon, @coldflasher, @mylittleangelxxx, @hoesaekyoongi, @dunne-ias, and anyone else who I did not tag -- you're all lovely people who have made my year.

27. Favorite Fanfic Author of the Year

So... terribly, I don't pay that much attention to authors when I read. Here's the three that come to mind and their fics I most frequented:

blacktreecle/towine -- Adagio (Fire Emblem: Awakening)

@un-ah -- a woman wert thou first created (The Maze Runner)

moondown -- get well (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

29. shortest fic I read this year

I don't read a whole lot of fics under 1000 words. So this was hard for me to think of. I looked at this little tumblr post that @un-ah wrote and it clocks in at 115 words. I like this one, and all the discussions that proceeded.

Happy Holidays to you! Thank you so much for the asks! These were hard questions but I thoroughly enjoyed answering them -- and gosh knows there are probably responses I'll think of later and be like "darn" but rn, this is the vibe.

fanfic end of the year asks,

#memes and games #ficwriting fun #fanfic end of the year asks #tea being amazing #the maze runner #coldflash #the struggle to make decisions #Fire Emblem??#That's right guys I'm a nerd #Also these fics are amazing #And so many more are amazing too but if I listed all the ones that caught my heart I'd take over the internet

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