Tumgik
#my prose 🔪
Text
Tumblr media
just found out about President John Kennedy... My Heart goes out to the victim's family ;_; 💔🙏🕊
14 notes · View notes
yanderelovlies · 2 years
Note
Dino here! Not on my account because too lazy to log in. XD But for a request... How about the boys' reaction to y/n wearing a halloween costume that hits all of those types of taste. And I don't mean just general like wise, but also hits all the right kinks wise. >3c
Aaaahh Dino! I missed you 💕💕 and of course I can do that! It is spooky season after all. Though when you says boys I'm assuming Jack, Shaun, Ian, and nick?? (I hope so...)
Tumblr media
Sunny Day Jack
🔪THIS FIC IS 18 + AGELESS AND BLANK BLOGS WILL BE BLOCKED 🔪
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
I see Jack as a switch personally. His purpose to please his sunshine. He NEEDS them to need him. So he is willing to play whatever role you need him to.
If Jack is Dom in the relationship as stated in my Halloween special I really think he would get a kick out a sexy revealing ringmaster costume.
Somewhere deep down (*cough* Joseph *cough*) he likes to the idea of taming you. Of REALLY making you his. So when you dress up and act like your in charge he is more then ready to pounce.
Without even knowing it he is also really into over stimulation. See you writh, moan, and squirm cause of him does something to him. Needless to say you be the one in the Ring master costume, but Jack is the true master.
That being said if he is Sub he is like puddy in your hands. Especially if you put on sexy law enforcement costume. Something about a flashing badge makes him more submissive (and breedable)
Wanna experiment put vibrating bullets on his dick as you pound into him? Do it Wanna pull his hair causing his head to go back with ever thrust? Please do it feels amazing. Wanna use hand cuff and cuff his hands together or to the bed? Get ready for a sweaty, moaning mess on your hands.
Look he may throw around the prises, but this man has a prose kink of his own. So please call him your pretty boy as you pound him. He NEEDS to hear you say it.
Jack likes being a sub more then cares to admit. It's nice to let someone take over for a little while, and take care of him. He might to do it more often. (Vut not all the time because there is still that nagging feeling in the back of his mind that if he isn't in charge things won't go like he needs them to.)
Shaun
Daddy? Sorry. Daddy? Sorry.....ANYWAY Look it's no lie Shaun is Dom it feels more natural to him then being a sub. (But if you bat your eyes nicely me MIGHT consider it.) He also kinda basic in the aspect that a sexy cat costume really gets him going.
Something about your long sleeved leotard, accompanied by your fuzzy cats ears and tail, and knee high boots get his hard and ready to breed you to the fullest.
Leash and collar play FOR SURE. He likes to tug you closer to where he wants you by the leash. He said himself this man has a daddy kink, but I wouldn't put it past him to have a master kink 👀. Also keep in mind d he has a brat taming kink.
He isn't huge on bondage, but he indulges on occasion. See after he is done thoroughly fucking you he likes to have cuddles and aftercare. Rope and cuffs just make that process longer.
Shaun is the true master in this relationship, and he WILL breed you till you remember it.
Ian
Sub 100%. This man's pleasure is your pleasure, and he doesn't mind. Having the family he does it's not a wonder why he fell into the sub role so easily. That being said the costume that really Ian going would either be a sexy priest/nun or a sexy devil. The shame of comminting such sin with a member of the church or a devil turns him on immensely.
Ian really like bondage and whips. Bondage because the feeling of the rope wrapped around his body as you hold his hips and he brunches off your dick/strap-on make each orgasim that much more delicious. As for the whip...sin that's all.
He also has a mommy/daddy kink, and praise kink. Please call him your good boy, or tell him how pretty he looks taking your dick. It sends him to cloud 9 every time.
Letting go of things, and letting people take the reigns is second nature for Ian. So he has no problem letting you be the Dom in this relationship.
Nick
I'm sorry this man is Dom for fun. You see his favorite thing to do is let his partner believe is submissive, until they are the ones face down ass up as he pull the leash attached to your collar with each thrust.
Very much into bondage. You look so pretty tied for him it feels like he is unwrapping a gift from God. Overestimating is another big thing for him. He really likes to see how far he push it before you are BEGGGING him stuff you full.
I do wanna say thought he isn't all rough all the time. He will only push you as far you want him to, and makes sure a safe word is in place. Like the others Doms your security and safety is top priority.
That all being said Nick is a professional Dom so he is careful, efficient, and above all else loving. You are his top priority.
487 notes · View notes
the-writing-mobster · 4 months
Note
Where I can read your fics? They seem pretty interesting!
Thank you for the ask, love! Fic links, anyone?
Tumblr media Tumblr media
You can find all of my fics on Ao3! I need to make an actual like... Official link post, don't I? I used to have one pinned but other things take priority.
So I guess I'll sprinkle the links to my fics here for your immediate viewing pleasure instead of sending you on a wild goose chase ;)
IMPORTANT NOTE — A lot of my fics are locked so only people with confirmed AO3 accounts can read them. This is because of AI scraping, obvs. TMDG is the only one that I think is unlocked since it's fairly new. But it'll eventually get locked as well.
Tumblr media
~
| The What Do You Want Duology | 🥀 💀 |
(YWIW, the sequel, still lies unfinished, unfortunately, but WDYW is completed and currently under revisions!)
Summary (for those still not in the know):
Frisk spent most of her life fighting to survive in a cruel world where her only upper hand was her soul's Determination and her feminine charms. After angering the most dangerous man in her life, she is thrown down into Hell to be ripped apart and destroyed by the demons said to inhabit it. With her soul refusing to give up, of course she survives.
However, when she is taken hostage by the infamous Gaster brothers, she finds herself trapped in the strange, abyssal gaze of Sans the Skeleton. With political and sexual tensions on the rise, can these two work through their differences? Or will they forever be asking each other, "What Do You Want?"
Tumblr media
| Baby Face - UF Highschool AU | 💖 🤘🏻 |
Technically an au based off of my characterizations of the UF characters in wdyw. This one is tooth rottingly sweet and set in a surface Ebbott City in the 90s. Inspo was movies like Clueless & the documentary Kid 90. I actually loved this story so much I completely reworked it and turned it into an original novel.
Important to note that this fic isn't really a romance. It's more about platonic love and friendships than it is about Frans romance.
Summary:
Seniors should not date freshmen. No matter what. Not even if the freshman is hot. Not even if the freshman says it's ok. Not even if the freshman makes moves. That’s the mantra Sans lives by, and even though Frisk, one of the cutest girls according to all of his friends, catches a crush of epic proportions on him, he makes it a point to keep his distance. She’ll thank him later.
Or
Sans is in a rock band and Frisk has a big ole unrequited crush on him.
Tumblr media
| The Most Dangerous Game | 💙 🔪 💔 |
The dreaded serial killer dead dove fic we've all been raving about recently!!!
It's important to note that this one isn't a romance. They are (albeit obsessive) enemies through and through.
Summary:
Frisk Starling should've been used to cases like these. After all, it was her duty to investigate. Give the victims their voice back, catch the sick freak who did it and give the broken families the justice she couldn’t have for herself.
That is until a string of murders throughout the tristate area begin to appear. Women used like toys, mutilated and disposed of for the cops and journalists to find with only the tiniest slivers of useless evidence and the glaring fact that all the women...
Every…
Single…
One…
Look almost exactly like her… Frisk begins to wonder if maybe… the monster she's hunting down has turned her into the hunted.
And God, does she make the most exhilarating, delicious prey yet…
Honorable mention One Shots:
Tumblr media
| The Witch, The Judge & the 3 Card Gamble | ♠️♥️♣️ |
Probably my best prose ever. Genuinely.
Summary:
After suffering a gruesome bullet to the ribs, the vengeful Witch hovers over a dying fire, praying her campsite isn’t spotted by vagabonds who’d surely make her pay for existing…
But as a shadow blots out the stars if not for the two red pricks of light glaring her down, she fears her true nightmares have come to claim her after all; The Grim Reaper, the judge of her fate.
And she doesn’t like her odds.
Tumblr media
| We'll See - Christmas Rom Com | 🎄 💕 |
I wrote this as a secret Santa present to @themsource. It is very cute and fucking funny if I do say so myself. It puts the comedy in Romantic Comedy.
Summary:
Sans has some inhibitions about Christmas, clouded with cynicism and bitterness. But if there's anyone to make him have a change of heart, it's Frisk; Ebbot City's own Little Miss Mother Teresa.
☣️ HONORABLE MENTION SMUT ONE SHOTS ☣️
Tumblr media
| French Kisses | Smut | 🫧💓 |
Summary: Sans has landed a well-paying position as a senior accountant and Frisk has a few ideas on how to reward him — one of those ideas involves a French Maid dress.
Tumblr media
| The Librarian's Assistant | Smut | 📚💓 |
This one was pretty steamy...
Summary: Frisk's days working as a librarian can get pretty quiet and repetitive... Until a new patron with an obvious infatuation with her starts becoming a regular visitor.
Eventually she can't help herself...
.
.
.
I hope you are satisfied with my thorough answer! If you do end up reading, I'd love to hear from you again on your thoughts! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
‼️ Also — join my discord for readily available updates and fun discussion! DM me for the invite since those invite links expire ‼️
33 notes · View notes
gravehags · 5 days
Note
truth or dare ask game:
🥐🔪🧃🍄🌻🥤🥑🛼(hehe)
yes Im nosey sshhh
🥐 this is an oldie for anyone who was a member of ONTD on livejournal but “i know bitch, i was watching” still makes me laugh and i still quote it to this day
🔪 weirdest topic researched for writing…probably for my undergrad thesis when i was originally planning to include baroque art, i did a deep dive into frederik ruysch’s tableaus of baby skeletons. somewhat related, his daughter rachel was one of the most popular dutch still life artists of the era yet most people don’t know her name.
🧃honestly idk if there is anything about me i haven’t posted lmao i am the queen of oversharing but um. don’t know if i’ve ever talked about how i was chosen as a freshman to present at the deyoung museum on the topic that three years later would become my thesis. it was typically an event only open to seniors but the head of the art history department was so impressed she made an exception :) also connected to that - my grad school capstone advisor was present and the first time i met with her she told me she remembered me and my presentation 12 years later. so keep researching that weird shit you like it will make an impression on at least one person lol
🍄 hmmm since it’s lesbian visibility week let’s go with cirrus/cumulus. i think they were aware of one another in the pit, even intrigued by one another but neither made a move. not until after they were summoned when one evening cirrus got into a scrap with dewdrop and cumulus jumped in to break it up. when dew accidentally swung on her, cirrus lost her whole shit. took aether and mountain holding her back and even then, they got scratched to shit and bit. cumulus, with her eye swollen, walked over to her and gently stroked her face murmuring reassuring words to her. dewdrop felt so guilty he apologized to not only cumulus but also cirrus. it was the last time they ever (physically) fought and every time dew saw cumulus with that black eye it made him sick to his stomach. and the girls? never slept without one another since.
🌻 someone i appreciate but don’t talk to on a regular basis wow this is a hard one. maybe not a specific person but to everyone who regularly likes or reblogs my fics, even if i don’t follow you trust me i see you 🩵
🥤there are so many people on here who are incredible writers but truly @anamelessfool and @the-lisechen blow me away every time. such beautiful prose that really gets you emotionally and they are both incredible at creating compelling OCs. cannot recommend them more.
🥑 if we lived on the same continent i’d absolutely say @forest-rot but other than them i’d say @bimbotheosis lmao she’s got a bigger car than me that can better hold a body and is close enough that it would be efficiently done
🛼 -> 🙊💦🍜🧎🏻‍♀️🪤
10 notes · View notes
tigerspite · 1 month
Note
Truth & Dare:
🍓
🍄
🔪
🦷
🏜️
🍦
🧩
...🪲
Thank you!!
🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 
It was pretty much a compulsion to show something to the world and show people what I could do, honestly. I grew up reading fic and was so impressed by a lot of it, eventually leading me to claw my way up to improving my own writing and publishing. It's to get ideas out of my head and on to paper so I can do something with them.
🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings
Already answered!
🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
Pass. I have literally no idea. I've researched so much over the years.
🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on
If something is too hard or you're hitting too many obstacles, you're doing the wrong thing. You need to turn around and try again. It might be that you're going about something the wrong way, or that specific something could be the thing that's wrong and isn't meant to be.
🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
I love when people have an insight or share their views on something a character has done. It leads to so many interesting avenues being opened up that I'd never considered before!
🍦 ⇢ name three good things about a character you hate
I forgot every character I ever hated, and also don't want to go into witness protection right now.
🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?
First person perspective UNLESS the prose is done well. Honestly prose construction is everything to me and I'm incredibly picky. If something doesn't read right to me then I can't get through it or I enjoy it a lot less. There's no hard or fast guidelines to this. Sometimes things just don't stick with me.
🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here
This sounds weird out of context but an enlightened few will get what I'm finally using here (also it's 102 words)
“This piece is from the ‘Rain-and-Sauce’ era of humanity’s development,” Ursaviks stops in front of a painting of two humans leaning over the bank of a deep blue river, with a three headed dog lying beneath the scene. The person closest to the riverside holds another, smaller human by its ankle, dangling them in the water. “One of Solkis’s humans was a historian. They spoke of this painting showing the mother of Akileuks, and how she blessed him with strength.” Wesraaks cannot even pretend to understand the picture and its significance to humanity, nor how Akileuks and the small human could be connected.
4 notes · View notes
emachinescat · 5 days
Text
A Year in (Book) Review: My 2024 Reading Journey 📚
Tumblr media
#11 - Silhouette by Justin Richards
Science fiction / Doctor Who #97 / 258 pages / published 2014 / Finished Jan. 18
One Sentence Review: A fun, in-character jaunt into my favorite two-hearted, time-traveling alien, with an interesting mystery, fun references to past incarnations, and a hilarious, homicidal potato-man - though it reads more like a TV script translated to prose than a book in its own right most of the time.
Quotes of Note
"'Trust is a good thing,' Clara told him. 'You get nowhere if you don't trust people.'"
*
"I'm a doctor of so many things I forget more than half of them."
*
"And for your information, my style - my incredibly stylish style - is uncrampable."
*
"The latest person to accost him was a young man in a tweed jacket and mismatched bowtie, with a flop of hair that looked as if it was about to detatch itself from his head and go solo."
*
DOCTOR: Try to fit in.
CLARA: Right ... I'll just go and splash in a few puddles, soak my clothes in gin, and knock out several of my front teeth, shall I?
DOCTOR: If you think it will help.
My rating: 3/5
A Few More Thoughts (Spoilers)
It wasn't bad, but it was definitely one of the weaker books I've read so far, and neither is it one of the stronger Doctor Who books as far as details, description, and introspection are concerned. The plot was interesting, the characters' voices - especially Twelve's - were on point, and Strax was one of the biggest highlights, but the narration is more distant than I like.
I was surprised and impressed with how perfectly I could hear Twelve's voice - Scottish accent and all, somehow - in my head as I read. His characterization was perfect. I found the human "weapons" to be very interesting. Affinity, Empath, and Silhouette were a great touch.
There’s not much I took away from it other than an interesting read and a few hours being entertained by a new Doctor Who adventure, to be honest, but there doesn't always have to be a deeper meaning. Entertainment in its own right is fine, too.
3 notes · View notes
keeperofthebox · 1 month
Note
🏜️, 🧩, 🔪, 🥑 !!
🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?
Any of them where my work helped someone or made them feel seen
🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?
illegibility is really the only thing or if the prose is structured in such a way that it's lacking any rhythm I read tags carefully and if I get into a fic and realize I dislike the themes or find them frustrating I often read it anyway just to be able to fully form my thoughts on what I didnt like about it :p
🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
bridges in Nova Scotia maybe? Also matchmaking fairs in Shanghai. Likely other things. I don't consider these things weird but perhaps random.
🥑 ⇢ you accidentally killed somebody, which mutual(s) do you text for help?
Listen if I committed manslaughter I would want to be punished for it so it would mostly just be me texting people letting them know I'm turning myself in to law enforcement LOL
2 notes · View notes
Note
🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?
❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?
Really weird/bizarre formats. The first paragraph is easily a whole page of text, no breaks, basic mischaracterizations, ships that aren't tagged showing up that I do not want, prose that is impossible to engage in etc.
❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
I guess at the moment, doing that PZH Lyle/Querl fic about him trying to break away from EarthGov and finding out that he really is in no position to leave - he has no autonomy and he never did really. I would write this I guess because I am not sure who would even do this. Other than this, give Bart a solo series and let Waid pick him back up, dust him off.
🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?
Most common apple breeds in Kansas. I honestly cannot remember what it was for or if it even got into my fic, but I remember researching this and thinking it was s t u p i d for one sentence. I very likely just closed the tab and just went with 'apple' in whatever fic I was looking for.
1 note · View note
Text
Tumblr media
This is Nemui the Rabbit my Sonic oc and sort of self insert
6 notes · View notes
sunflowersteves · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
🕯vic’s scream fest sleepover🕯
hello my spooky loves! happy autumn and halloween season! this is also a half celebration for seven k followers! i cannot thank you all enough for encouraging my fic writing and being my friends along the way!! hope you enjoy this little sleepover </3
🕯beware!🕯
━ you must be 18+!
━ currently, i’m mostly writing for stranger things characters but marvel & other fandoms like the witcher are welcome! 🎃
━ the scream fest will commence from friday oct 14 to tuesday oct 18
🕯trick or treat🕯
🖤 — rocky horror; tell me your favorite halloween activity and i'll ship you with a character
🩸— carrie; kink same or kink shame
👻 — the exorcist; send me your favorite horror movies!!
⚰️ — addams family; q&a session! ask me anything :)
🔮 — practical magic; headcanons [character + scenario]
🔪 — scream; fmk/would you rather/cym
moots <3: @ghostofskywalker @moonlight-prose @indouloureux @honeybee-reverie @fxllfaiiry @chaossmoonlights @honeystevie @munsonsmuse @munsonsmuse @runningmunson @sunflowergirl522 @mirclealignr @creelteeth @thirstyforstrange and i absolutely know i'm forgetting so many people so i'll add on more :)
26 notes · View notes
prpfs · 11 months
Note
🔪 30+ F Looking for 25+ writers interested in creating a queer, modern crime plot. I have an OC I'd like to use and vague plot/character ideas. 
My character is in his early 30s, gay, and a mercenary. Think Blackwater, Wagner Group, etc. Standoffish, self-destructive and extremely dangerous, he is also loyal, charming and far more sensitive than he lets on. 
I could see him working with all sorts of characters: another criminal, any law enforcement figure, a character in the healthcare industry, or a civilian who has nothing to do with the criminal world, but will inevitably get sucked into it. 
Some pointers:
Yes 
Quality > quantity, show > tell, concise and engaging writing 
Casual lit, 1-5 paragraph posts 
Third person, present tense 
Long-term plots and/or dedicated writers who can stick to one thing for a long time 
Drama, crime, realism, history, war/military, subversive subcultures, slice of life, romance, (some) fluff, hurt/comfort, angst/dark subject matter 
In-depth character development 
Fade-to-black (leadup/fade-to-black is welcome; discussing NSFW headcanons and scenarios OOC very much encouraged)
Posts 1-3 times a week 
Matched enthusiasm, engagement and effort 
No
writers under 25
Flakes 
Purple prose 
Pancake-stack dialog 
Novella, matching post lengths and/or writing fillers just for the sake of fluffing up a post 
For additional information (including writing samples and a character sheet) visit my full ad: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfysHHmzRGHhj6uy8QRWO_jmFqfXlMSSEN5JKKXJqjc/
For making contact, please either write to me on [email protected], or add me on disco: schmuck insurance#7874
contact them if interested!
3 notes · View notes
carnivorouslove · 1 year
Text
february f/o prompts!!!! 💕
Feb 1st: Will you be my Valentine? ❤️
gonna do these for dennis and dimitri 💝
🔪 - dennis - dennis probably asks under the guise of something else, or if he does ask directly, its DEFINITELY shy. i like to imagine since he cant D.E.N.N.I.S. system me, hes genuinely very nervous when being affectionate bc its new to him to not be masking and manipulating. he would probably write a note and leave it, lest he be a stuttering mess 💕💕💕💖💕💕💖
🦁- dimitri - a letter!!! a letter proclaiming his feelings, written in cursive and pretty prose. if he does ask in person, he does it formally, with a bow and a gentle kiss on my hand 💙💕💙💕💙💕💙💕🥺💕
2 notes · View notes
typewriter-worries · 1 year
Note
🔪🖋🏛
🔪- are you capable of getting very angry?
Hm, I'd say no, I tend to have a very relaxed disposition about me but I also wouldn't count it out. Idk, anger is a human emotion that we're all likely to feel very strongly at some point. It's all about how we act upon it, blah blah, all that good stuff.
🖋️- do you prefer poetry or prose?
Prose for the most part, but every now and then I'll read a poem that wants me to set my hair on fire.
🏛️- how close are you and your group of friends?
One of my friends from high school just got married earlier this year and our whole fifteen person friend group was invited and basically treated it light the MET gala so we're kind of close lmao
2 notes · View notes
sctir · 2 years
Note
hi :) 1, 4, & 5 <33 (also hi i read the webtoon of orv bc of you!! started the web novel too but i am v early on <3. have a good day 🔪)
YESSSS........ HITS YOU WITH BEAM OF ORV!!! but also, iam so so so so so sorry o(-( u are in for a hell of a ride!!!!
1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)
ahhh oh no.......... i would probably say to eat well (joongdok/high school orv oneshot) for its inclusion of domestic fluff, highschool au, food as love, and banter... but i'm also biased towards no signal, cause i do write a fair amount of bitesized au concept oneshots, and for its more serious content + prose style..?? also because it got some reallyreallyreally gorgeous fanart by @furekami!!!
4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?
im really pleased w how i incorporated kdj's canon lines into no signal :D "i know the future that you don't know... so make me your companion. i can fill in the parts you're missing" just fits the au so well?? like when it clicked for me i swear a lightbulb flashed over my head. i also just really like fitting little pieces from canon into my fics ehe
5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!
ive never?? thought abt this actually... i usually manage to get most details into my fics :DD buuuuut in to eat well's universe, yoo joonghyuk and kim dokja were paired together to work on a project, and it was all downhill from there for them
tysm for the ask!!!! ily always!!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
[send me a number from this ask game!!]
3 notes · View notes
🐬Cigarette 🐬murder 🐬dead poets society 🐬
Cigarette 🚬: What is your worst habit? Do you like drinking? Do you party a lot?
I don’t study till 1 day before the exam haha…
It’s ok ig
No not really my friends don’t do it a lot and I don’t like going to party’s alone so I don’t go very often
Murder 🔪: Are you capable of getting very angry? What are you most afraid of? What would be the worst way to die?
No I don’t get angry
Honestly idk
Drowning. I just really like swimming and I feel very safe in water so it would be awful to die in it
Dead poets society 🖋: Do you prefer poetry or prose? Do you get along with your parents? Do you resist authority or do you deal well with it?
If it’s a short text poetry, if it’s a long text prose <3
We get along okay
I don’t really make the first move when speaking for myself
2 notes · View notes
chocomd · 2 years
Note
for the ask game: 7, 14, 23, and 35!
Thanks for the ask, Northern 💖 Ideally I would have answered this on fanfic writer day (8/21 I think?)...oh well 😅 
7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
Ooof why did you ask me this?? These kinds of questions area always hard for me to answer 😅 But I think I did manage to find one passage that I like from Without Water, my fic about the ordeal Katara went through as she tried to heal an unconscious Aang between Book 2 and Book 3:
After that wave of grief faded away, she lifted her head. She was so close to Aang’s face that if he opened his eyes, she would have a hard time explaining to him what she was doing. But his eyes remained closed, the fringes of his eyelashes like dark lines that sealed them shut. He had grown pale over the weeks, and the shock of black hair that had grown in made him look…different. Like someone she didn’t know. The only part of him that was still Aang was the blue arrow that graced his forehead. For even his face no longer belonged to him—a motionless, unchanging blank. Katara was starting to forget what he looked like when he smiled.
This paragraph is near the end, where it’s starting to dawn on Katara what exactly Aang means to her, and also when she’s nearly stretched to the limit because she has done everything she can, and he still hasn’t woken up, and she isn’t sure if he ever will. I’m proud of this passage because it’s more than just a description of how Aang’s appearance has changed--it is also about the emotional impact of those changes, how those changes affect the way she thinks about him. To me, that’s the ultimate goal of writing description - to not only paint a picture but to also attach meaning to that picture that goes below the surface. It’s not easy to do and definitely takes effort, and I am always working to improve in that department!
14. What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?
Oh man. It's gotta be the advice to make writing more interesting by using synonyms. This isn't bad advice per se, but it's SO easy to overuse and abuse. Synonyms can definitely break up the monotony of using the same word over and over. But one doesn’t necessarily need to say, for example, “knuckleheaded fool” when something simpler like “idiot” would probably fit better. Also, words that are synonyms are not perfect substitutes for each other, so they often can’t be used interchangeably - this is where it pays to understand the nuances and implications that each word carries. It’s better to understand what a word means and where and when to use it, than to stuff a sentence full of synonyms when simpler words and phrasing would suffice.
23. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?
Probably Midnight Meditations. I'm happy with the story itself, but it was the first piece of creative writing I've done after a 10-year hiatus, and I've grown a lot as a writer in the past year since I've been writing ATLA fanfic. I would edit MM for style, like more concrete imagery, description, and metaphors.
35. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
Why am I not surprised you picked this one Hmmm, good question! For now, I would say that if I had to kill off a canon character, it would be a side character. If it was a major character, I would have to have a whole story around it, and I don't have any ideas like that right now. But if I have the right story idea, it could be any character, really--no one is safe 🔪😈 If I ever come up with a story idea like that, you'll be the first to know 😌
40 questions for fic writers ask game
1 note · View note