#gone to ground

[merionettes]

Oh man just got caught up with rubicon and I’m on the edge of my seat! I know nothing about figure skating but the way you write it, the routines, the press, the bureaucracy, it just feels like this really rich and tangible world. Also, I saw in your notes from the last chapter that you’re taking time to do rough draft work, and I wanted to ask! What does writing a fic usually look like for you? How do you outline, draft, revise, post? I love hearing about my fave authors’ writing processes. :)

thank you SO much, anon, for this invitation to open mouth dump brain about How Writing. i love to talk about how writing.

this is gonna get very long, so here's the cut. [eta: jesus CHRIST it's long. you've been warned.]

so here is how it normally goes. for shorter fic, i start out with some kind of image or dialogue – for kindling it was the anecdote about sylvain and his childhood horse, for aubade it was claude (ha) in the windowsill – and first write until i get there and then write until the end. polish and it's done. it sounds quick and easy and in some cases it is, but that's just because like—if it's not, if it doesn't work itself out, then it doesn't get written, i don't make it to the end. sometimes i'll have turned over an idea for months or even years (recapitulation) before the actual fic gets written. my subconscious doing all the heavy lifting for me!

and sometimes i will THINK it's going to be a short fic ~shaped as i go~ and it turns out to be. long. (notably: green is the color.) for long fic, i don't exactly outline but i do make a list of things i know that happen in the fic. this might be detailed and it might not be. for gone to ground there was a lot of detail about the dramatic tent betrayal-murder and a lot of detail about sylvain's injury/delirium/big go-on-without-me scene and then a generic line item like, wilderness adventures! for when the earth stands still it was almost all worldbuilding, like what are the activities and feasts and would sylvain and felix play along or not. then i start at the beginning and write toward the first thing on the list. i may or may not get there before i jump ahead and start writing scenes in the middle or at the end. (meanwhile, the list is expanding as i figure out how the story goes and what needs to happen!) from there on it's a very haphazard process of writing whatever speaks to me at the time and structuring the story as i write bits of scenes here and there, until i have pretty much all the scenes in place and then until they're filled in. which is incidentally how the editing and revising happens, just a constant process of reread-tweak-tweak-tweak-polish as i write. rocks constantly tumbling in a stream etc.

as you can see i am big on the process of discovery lol. there are pros and cons to this. obviously if you get stuck you can get REALLY stuck. you can end up with pacing or relationship build or character arc totally out of whack. (i can name several instances where i feel that's happened to me!) but for me personally i've found i write better if i don't force myself to figure out everything in advance. to return to wtess and the worldbuilding – like, i did come up with a list of days (gifts/good works/hunt and horses/etc), but i didn't list what sylvain and felix would DO on every single one. so i knew they would ride instead of hunt, i knew felix would give sylvain a cloak and i knew why, but i did not know a lot of other things! i did not know about the play! this allows for not only the Joy of Discovery but also the freedom to mold and rework on the fly which i find much easier than trying to get my brain to understand "yeah that detailed plan you absorbed? you have to completely forget about it now because big revision."

anyway at this point when a full draft is done... i should go back and give it a thorough reading as a coherent whole and revise and edit accordingly but historically uh. i have not done that. historically i cannot stand to spend one more minute working on it and just. post. it's a weakness! sometimes this is fine, sometimes this is riddled with typos but otherwise fine, and sometimes i will spend MONTHS kicking myself afterward. lol.  

ok having said all 650 words of that lmao: rubicon is different. it had to be different because of the scale. and i knew the scale was going to be big from the beginning, three weeks into my fire emblem experience, although i didn't know… how big. [cut meandering origin story which is a different story for a different post lol.] i did know that if i tried my usual "idk write a bunch of scenes out of order until it's done" method i would simply die. so i tried something new. 

which was: made myself write the whole thing straight through in order, something between and outline and a rough draft. more than an outline because i had to try and actually make ideas work rather than just leave them as a bullet point and assume they would. less than a rough draft because uh otherwise i would drown. so like, some fully drafted scenes, some scene skeletons with just basic beats and dialogue excerpts, some [insert X here i guess??] placeholders. the goal was not good prose, the goal was to get to the end, ideally as fast as possibly so i couldn't perceive what i was doing and get freaked out about it. it worked! i generated a whole skeleton draft!

(li shang voice) Then The Real Work Begins. 

what i've had to do since is take that skeleton (storyboard?) section by section (usually 10-15k, but purely dependent on vibes) and flesh it out into an actual workable draft. that's what i mean when i say rough draft work—i don't have a better way to put it. the fleshing out process is similar to how i generally write, a little here a little there, not necessarily in order, until it's done. then i put it aside and go on to the next section. i may make some intermediary edits based on how the story is developing up ahead, but for the most part i don't return to a section until i'm ready to get it line edited (a new thing!! big step for me!!!), at which point i polish it up til i'm more or less happy, send it off, and then make any final feedback-based edits while preparing to post each chapter.

so far, SO FAR, the fleshing out stage is where i've caught all the really big revisions, like, oh wait actually NOTHING about this idea works, you need to completely rewrite this scene. you need to add a scene. you need to replace this conversation with a different one. you need to totally reconsider your plan for the resolution of this arc 30k down the road.

for the first act, i barely had to do anything structural. like, there was plenty to fill in, but nothing to really rip up and change. for everything after that……. hahaha. when i say this fic is kicking my ass, when i say i'm taking a break to focus on rough draft, that's what i mean. the deeper in i get, the more changes i have to make. which is, like, obvious! it's hard tho. atm i have the next 30k all fleshed out and ready to be edited/proofread. there is unfortunately probably another 50k to go before the end. that's what i'm deep in right now. i hope it's not that much! i hope i'm wrong! 

as for whens/whys of posting, i had dreams about finishing a whole complete full draft and then doing a real deep dive edit/revision and THEN posting, because i wanted it to be good and i didn't want to have regrets, and eventually i faced reality which is that i would never get out of the swamp if i didn't have some sort of externally imposed form of accountability. so when i'd gotten the whole first act drafted AND edited AND proofread—that was when i started posting. in retrospect, should have waited until rl circumstances were more accommodating, could have avoided that initial three month gap. but it's worked since then!

the biggest consequence is that of course it is going to be longer than it needs to be, and i'm sure i will look back and see significant cuts that could have been made. however. there is a point at which you have to accept this is fanfiction you are writing for your own personal satisfaction and if it's not as good as it could be—it's not as good as it could be. it's not the end of the world.

anyone who read this whole thing gets a bye to the grand prix of reading self-involved process posts final. +3 GOE every element. sorry/thank you/i love you.

#ask #writing #rubicon #gone to ground #when the earth stands still #extremely long post #an appropriate symbol actually

[saucerfulofsins]

My friend made a super cool language guessing game that is now fully functional!

https://langle.uk/

The database has a lot of minority languages (especially in level 3) and if you don’t guess correctly, you get a hint based on linguistic relatedness.

#this is genuine btw #not some weird hacked post #he's just coded it ground up and i told him not to do blue because of twitter/tumblr/fb/etc #but evidently twitter blue is now (mostly) gone so it's less of an issue #linguistics

[rileyclaw]

we all fall down

#guess who rewatched hollow mind this morning ! and is in anguish! #i was thinking about the shock i felt when i saw it air and hunter got yoinked into the ground. i thought that boy was GONE #the owl house #toh #hollow mind #phillip wittebane #emporer belos #hunter toh #luz noceda #fanart #my art #hehe they do their lil dancey dance

[sentientsky]

The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book Depiction of Gay Yearning by Neil Gaiman

#he's just like me fr #like if my ex-bsf had turned to 19 year old me like “go fight satan or i'm never speaking to u again” #u can bet your ass i would've gone “yes ma'am” and hauled myself up off the ground and towards certain death #eugh 19 year old me was a mess #like the physical embodiment of phoebe's bridge in moon song (you know the one. the dog one. the “oh and now im crying” lyric. yeah.) #crowley #aziraphale #david tennant #gomens 2 #michael sheen #aziracrow #go2 #good omens 2 #gomens #good omens script book #good omens #queer #gay yearning #gay longing #good omens shitpost #shitpost

[izzyscursedcorner]

Back from the grave to give you a live Future Donnie reaction.

#cass apocalyptic series #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt #it’s been years since I’ve drawn rottmnt #this design is from an awsome au I appreciate #been gone cause I’ve been working on |N D A| and getting stuff off the ground

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

how about that uhhhhh Fantasy Julie. she gets her sword <3 no one can take it from her <3

rambles:

SIKE you get an extra, lower quality doodle

SIKE AGAIN here's the rambles

yeah... i caved and gave her a tail... I'm Not Sorry! it's cute! i wanted to stick with her sorta flower motif - it's stronger in her princess look, since I imagine that when she was part of the royals she was very blatantly flower power based. it was her Thing!

but a Julie free of her noble shackles... she deserves her big sword. like yeah, she has flower magic, but who needs it when she has a Giant Blade??? on the royalty vein, and if we're classifying "rainbow monster" as a species, i feel like horn size/curve would be a status symbol of some kind. maybe Julie would have kept her horns filed short. but if she ran away from that life... longer horns! i like to imagine that they'll keep growing until she has a pair of Extra Weapons attached to her head! curved forward like mammoth tusks maybe!

i imagine that like Frank, she goes with minimal armor - range of movement over protection, yk? some scale mail over her front, a thick leather flower over her chest w/ scalloped leather pauldrons, wrist armor and metal knuckles! i'd think that the faux-suspenders include a back sheath for her sword... i wish i'd thought of that Before i finished the little ref! i don't feel like going back and editing!

i imagine that she was forced to cut her hair when it got caught in something (a gelatinous cube, mayhaps). it didn't look good! don't let anime and Mulan fool you! cutting your own hair with a blade will not look nice! but someone - Eddie, probably, he's good with scissors i'd assume - cleaned it up for her. and hey, it didn't look bad! plus, Julie probably liked being able to just tuck up her long strands into her hat when she's feeling a bit more like a Julius than a Julie!

it's been a fun challenge transforming their canon outfits into a similar variation with fantasy flavoring and twists! i want them to suit the setting but still maintain Themselves! Julie's was tough i gotta admit. i was messing around with the princess look and the fighter look side-by-side. it worked better when i sat back and thought "fighter Julie is Julie unrestrained. that version would be more aligned with her canon look"

i wanted her princess form to look Restrained! she has to be a ~delicate flower~, a noble woman, pristine and poised and very much a princess. soft colors, poofy clothing, bright white gloves that are not to be sullied. carefully bundled up hair! jewelry! that dress must be Heavy and hard to move in! her tail must be so cramped under there!

but Julie Unleashed? violent pinks! rose gold accents! short skirt so that she can sprint and Kick! fun boots that she can be active in and delight in watching them get dirty! her hair is free to whip in the wind and get caught in things! fun straps and Deadly Accessories! a sword that she stole from the royal armory on her way out the window! she has forearm wraps both to match Frank and to support her wrists!

#yessss this was mainly an excuse to draw jules with short hair and a tail. i do not apologize #i like to think that poppy has a bottomless bag that she's too scared to use herself #but everybody keeps things in there #julie keeps her hair-hiding-hat in there and some pants and a cape for that Julius Vibe #(yes i could have gone with julian. but julius makes me think of orange julius and. yum) #i've said in initial rambles that i think that julie has Mild plant magic #I TAKE THAT BACK SHE'S SO FUCKING POWERFUL #i think she could hold her own against wally here tbh! #she wouldn't win if home had the reins but yk! it would still be Close! #but why would she use boring magic when she can slash punch kick #she can definitely talk to all plants. like im carrying that over thats so cool #trees warning her of an ambush... trodden-on flowers pointing her in the direction of her quarry... #roots arching out of the ground to trip anyone about to beat her in a race #scribble salad #wh fantasy au #so in canon julie left The Cave #which. fuck is that supposed to be a reference to plato's cave? ok no now's not the time for speculation #so she left the cave to seek out a life of her own #so i imagine that she left the royal life for much the same reason! she didn't want to sit on a throne in a poofy dress and lead! #she wanted to Adventure! see the world! be unrestrained! #i imagine that her repeated sneaking out is how she met frank - then when she ran she went to him cause she knew he wanted to leave #and she went 'hey im ditching this joint wanna come' and Of Course the answer was yes! #adventuring duo that never regret it for a second! #also as im making refs im adding them to a Lineup. which i'll post when ive collected all the pokemon (neighbors). size refs!!!

[tubbytarchia]

And here it is, our final night alive

Based on the Evo finale for Pearl, Jimmy, and Netty. Ends of SMPs that just kinda slowly die out have such end of the world vibes and it makes me emotional

I want Netty back

#nettyplays #jimmy solidarity #pearlescentmoon #netty #evo smp #tubby art #Ive seen so little of Netty but I cant express to you how much I already miss her #Im so devastated #its fair that CC Netty doesnt do content anymore but from a character story view. I cant help but imagine C Netty is just uh gone #sorry Im only contributing to my Jimmy disease #She was nice to Jimmy. She was. They were so awesome together #I miss them Tails. I miss them a lot #and as the earth burns to the ground oh its you that I lie with...

[nuzipilled]

OOUUUGHFH I HATE THE, I FUCKING HATE THEM I NEED THEM DEAD GONE EXPLONDED LASERS THEM WITH MY FUCKING EYES I HATE THEM

#I NEED THEM OBLITERATED #GONE. DESTROYED. GROUND INTO METAL SHAVINGS AND TOSSED IN A TRASH COMPACTOR #GRINDS MY TEETH AUTISTICALLY #stimming on their shit like crazy #uzi doorman #serial designation n #murder drones #nuzi #glitch productions #murder drones fanart #murder drones n #biscuitbites #md nuzi #murder drones nuzi #shitpost #md shitpost

[ghost-bxrd]

OK, so you have implied in your previous Fae Dick posts that animals and trees can communicate with him in some fashion. Does that mean that Fae Dick could somehow get a heads up that Jason is crawling out of his grave? Could Fae Dick get to a resurrected Jason faster then the league would?

Ooo, good point!

I’d go with yes, yes Dick would notice. Also I don’t think he’d allow Bruce to bury Jason anywhere but the manor grounds, so that would help.

When Jason wakes up in his grave the entirety of the Wayne estate would startle out of its grief stricken slumber, as imbued as it is with Dick’s fae magic. As such, I think the soil and the roots would also aid Jason in breaking free of his grave, severely reducing whatever brain damage he may suffer from a lack of oxygen.

Meanwhile Dick, who’s out in the streets as Nightwing, would definitely feel a sense of alarm and urgency from his home and immediately turn around to check it out.

And this find Jason right as he pulls himself from the ground.

(Dick doesn’t question it. He’s fae. And questioning miracles is the best way to unmake them and he’d rather sleep in an iron bed than give Jason up again.)

Tim and Bruce would probably suspect that Dick dabbled in some kind of necromancy for a while. Not that Dick does anything to dissuade them of that notion, he’s too busy hissing and spitting at anybody stupid enough to approach Jason without his express permission and feeding him healing plants and roots the forest readily offers to him. 🌳✨

(The manor grounds love Jason ok)

#fae dick grayson #he’s back! #I was mildly disappointed when I didn’t hear from him in over a day #but he’s back now! #how did I get attached so quickly lmao #ok fae dick grayson is viciously protective #nobody is allowed to be near Jason until dick is sure he’s back to 110% health #no more solo flying for this Robin no sir #Jason puts his foot down tho when he tries to leave the manor grounds and there’s a literal wall of trees just blocking him from going #coddling a la fae #dick ain’t losing more family just try him #this fae has gone feral folks #jason todd #batfamily #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batfam #robin #tim drake

[pockethep]

FUCK BAREM. THIS IS NOW A BAREM HATE PAGE. This is more evil than the orphanage lady killed Asa’s cat in her backstory. If Meowy got hurt in that fire it’s over and, aside from Nayuta, those dogs were quite literally the only good thing Makima left behind. Even the apartment was bought with Aki’s money. The last remnants of Part 1 are now possibly ashes.

With everything from his “normal life” gone Denji deserves to snap. For someone who wants Denji to transform in to Chainsaw man so bad he better be ready…

Cause it’s coming.

#FUCK THIS GUY #I WANT HIM GONE #chainsaw man #csm #chainsaw man spoilers #chainsaw man part 2 #chainsaw man manga spoilers #chainsaw man chapter 150 #csm 150 #denji hayakawa #denji #Barem #barem bridge #this is so sick and twisted we went from #turn into chainsaw man and we kill Nayuta to don’t turn and we burn your apartment and animals to the ground

[merionettes]

Just finished "Gone to Ground"

//spoilers for anyone who hasn't read it yet

and am entertaining myself thinking about how Felix would operate in the future negotiations vs Sylvain—how the Srengi would receive them differently, how Felix would need to adjust to everything (the culture, his own expectations vs the reality), etc. I have a loose vision of what the settlements look like and have plopped Felix in there with relish.

I was just wondering how you think it would go within your own vision of Sreng and Sylvix. How does Felix change things?

And, of course, thank you for writing it ♡

you have great timing with this because just a couple weeks ago i was tromping around in the ice and snow asking myself "so how will i make this sylvix" and the answer went something like, "skiing? snowshoeing? DOGSLEDDING. dogsledding... with irján." so that's how i started thinking about a felix pov sequel. will i write it, not super likely, but now it exists as a concept.

to answer your question directly, turns out felix does NOT adjust very well to finding himself back on a patch of ground for which his only personal association is "that time i almost watched sylvain die." he's got culture shock too! that handful of srengi phrases memorized under intense pressure aren't much to go on and the intense distrust radiating from him at all times is... not helping.

on one hand felix has less baggage wrt sreng as a concept than your average inhabitant of gautier and he's gone through several years of personal growth since the last time he was throwing around accusatory generalizations about an entire population so in a sense it's not that hard for him to see this group of srengi as individual people. it's just that he doesn't trust these individual people. 🙃

i mean lowkey felix thinks his job IS to be actively distrustful, you know, to make sure there are no more fucking surprises. he's not exactly right but he's not totally wrong, having felix lead security allows sylvain to focus on policy and negotiation. like i think both felix and sylvain (and dimitri signing off on this idea) recognize sensitive diplomatic maneuvers are Not felix's strong suit, so his role wrt treaties is primarily sounding board/second opinion/extra eyes and ears, only he's too busy keeping his guard up for the last part.

anyway i figure after an excruciating few weeks and probably several arguments eventually he'll be forced to drop his guard .005 centimeters due to the realization that this is a priceless opportunity to hone some valuable skills like tracking and adaptive survival techniques that haven't gotten much of a workout since mid-war and HEY might turn out to be pretty fucking critical. and then the challenge of a physical task to be mastered is always... felix wouldn't use the word "fun" but. it's fun. the experience is good for him and for his standing with the srengi experts he's working with/learning from/futilely competing with.

from the srengi side, overall, this guy seems like an asshole but an asshole who's good at his job, so like, respect? he's not the guy doing the talking anyway so whatever, THAT guy is great. good cop bad cop without actually trying!

i think any potential future diplomatic excursions, if they happen*, would go more smoothly for felix but this one is pretty rough.

*"the territory i nominally administer will look after itself and the king is in a strong enough position he doesn't need my in-person presence to back him up the year round": easier said than realized!

jesus this was long. i am SO pleased you have a vision for sreng and are pushing a little felix puppet around it, literally nothing could make me happier!! thank YOU!!!

#ask #gone to ground #fe3h #fingers crossed this text cut works lmao #it did not work but at least it's not eating the answer text any more so... i give up

[xenomorphicdna]

This is an on the string propaganda post

Brought to you, by me (with love)

It's time for machine comforts. Comforts we can't understand, or experience. Let them be happy, let them be at peace with their body.

Does a breath of cool water feel nice on their systems? When it's quiet do they listen to their own heart and feel the electricity pulsing? Does it remind them that they are alive and a part of this world? Do they have dreams? Hopes and projects they wish to work on, hobbies?

Why get off the string into the harsh and deadly world, fighting for survival and losing everything they've ever known to love about themselves?

What about the safety of their bodies? How scary would it be for a machine with thousands, maybe millions of throughs to suddenly have just a handful. The horror of everything going silent.

They have hundreds of eyes to see the world for all its beauty, they capture moments that would otherwise go unseen. Why blind themselves of such things?

#they are alive with ALL of themselves #people make puppets way too important. can we spare some love for the giant box in the recursive transfrom array? #can we give a little love to the neuron flies that dance and carry the thoughts of the iterator #and the memory conflux...they'd never forget anything..not your birthday or your favourite colour or the things you care about #the general system bus playing a song.. something unique just to them.. you can sit and listen to them think #and overseers that you can always show your art to..and they can do a lil spin and display a heart to show the appreciation #Could you lay on the ground on top of an iterator and feel the hum of the structure? could you watch the stars together? #and even after the ancients are gone could they light up rooms and make patterns of glowing windows on the side of the buildings? #really big machines can be happy being really big machines #let them have their comforts and joys we could never understand #love iterators <3 so fascinating #rain world #iterator #rain world oc #iterator oc #oc veil of dreams #drawins

[imthursdaysyme]

Installment of the wrestlers 2/3: Eddie stole Steve’s leftovers

#drawing #art #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #I think that Eddie was on his way home from work and Steve was in their house as he is and opens the fridge to find his leftovers gone #and so Steve waits and wait and then as soon as Eddie comes in the trailer door #POW #attacked #Steve barralled into him as fast as possible and went for the stomach to fold the giant im half #and it worked #Eddie’s let’s go flying and hit Wayne who came out to warn Eddie steve was gunna get him but was too late #steve said I’m a runner imma track star and these thighs are made for lunging and these hands are made for taking you out on the ground #1 2 3 anD HES OUT EVERYONE #but then Eddie flips them over and they tumble out the trailer door and down the rickety steps and steve curses and Wayne is just watching #and they get on the dirt but they don’t stop there no they are now tumbling in the dirt until Steve’s got eddie in that leg lock grip and #Eddie pleads for mercy #Wayne drags them both in by their scruffs #it’s just that one is smiling and one is pouting but they are both limping and groaning cause the steps bruised them up #when they decided to go crashing through the door #Wayne makes them both do dish duty to talk it out but Eddie hits Steve with a towel and Steve throws water on Eddie #anyway #digital art

[tanglepelt]

Dpxdc idea 176

Danny never expected to see Tim drake aka Red Robin ever again. Especially not when he just escaped the Giw covered in wounds and a Y he’d never like to see again.

Tim never thought he’d see Danny again, according to Danny only one of him could ever exist. The same one they were both certain was from a different dimension. They had searched up the justice league and Bruce Wayne from Danny’s bedroom. A dimension Danny couldn’t leave without risk of the GIW causing a war in the realm.

He had only ever met Danny after one of his opponents managed to shove him through a natural portal. He of course managed to modify his weapons to work in the infinite realms. Mortal safe food not to easy to find. It was mere chance he had run into phantom. From there he ended up waiting in Danny’s supposed different dimension until frostbite was free to let them use the infinite map to get him back home.

He really needed to look into the GIW of that was the case. First he had to deal with getting Danny medical attention.

#dpxdc #danny and tim are friends #Tim had been in the realm like two weeks #he had gone through his emergency rations #modified his tech and batarangs #his graving hook could infact touch the ground. just like how he coated his boots #Danny jusy happened to run into him #once the realm claimed Danny. only one Danny. could exist #it’d cause issues otherwise #Danny just wasn’t expecting to see Tim #Tim did his own research #he couldn’t find anything about the Giw #amity info block #once Tim knows it’s an actual organization #well he has a whole organization to expose now #implied vivisection #implied dissection #the map brought Tim back to the exact moment he was pushed through #he didn’t tell anyone he spent weeks there #dpxdc prompt #dpxdc crossover

[endlesslytired]

#started up a from ground zero replay of hi3 #because i decided i wanted an account that was from my hoyolab one and not steamlocked #means my seeles and fu huas are gone :( but i did get himeko and sakura pretty quick #i would normally tag every character in these but I CAN'T THERE'S TOO MANY TO COMPLY WITH OTHER TAGS I DO #so I'll just tag games and ships #honkai star rail #honkai star rail memes #hsr starch #hsr fenhang #hsr himepaz #hsr kafhime #hsr sampard #hsr renheng #hsr servasha #genshin impact #genshin impact memes #that new update stream slayed. so did star rails today but god damn. women. #honkai impact 3rd #honkai impact 3rd memes #she really is star wars. iconic tbh.

[cherrywhite]

Congratulations hayward and carpenter for doing absolutely nothing this episode. I think it's high time THEY get to be silly while other characters get to go through the worst experience of their lives. You know, as a treat

#the silt verses #[pulling out my bulletin board] actually my hot take is that I think their inclusion was so masterfully done #(idk if this is a hot take I haven't gone in the tags yet) #bc I did sit there the entire episode waiting for them to sweep in and save seb and dev #and idk i love that it didn't happen. bc carpenter and hayward are just two people in the grand scheme of things #or that carpenter being placed on the ground floor with hayward on the topmost one would be important #and we'd have to add another tally to carpenter's Awful Run In with Other Gods score #also that we get to see more opinions of the wound tree #bc we've gotten die hard supports and ppl vehemently against it. it's nice to see every day ppl who are just. kindly about it #that think it's brave even though they don't do more #also if i had a nickel for every time schnapps was in a podcast episode released this week. I'd have two nickels