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swifty-fox · 22 days

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Writing ask! 5, 14, and 21!

5. a description I'm proud of

from a book WIP of mine. Dom is why i fell so hard for Gale they're very similar lol

Dom hesitates a moment, then scoffs to himself, shrugging his jacket off and tugging his shirt off over his head. Instantly his skin goosepimples and he rests an uneasy hand on his bicep. Marks of a hard life were on his body. Not the excessive violence of movies and books; not the sort of thing that would garner stares, but Dom knew what the scars were from. Which were innocent human fuck-ups and which were inflicted by an angry parent with too much to drink and too little regard for kindness. His hurts didn’t have to leave marks on his skin to linger; a cigarette burn here, the stinging edge of a belt there, it was all headed by dark scriptwork, shocking against the pale skin and freckles of his shoulders.

Hands Off. No more than the length between the tip of his thumb and the base of his pinky, black ink turned blue and fuzzy with age and lack of care.

15. that was out of my comfort zone

I don't like casual dialogue very much so

“Why unicorns?”

The question is sudden and random enough that it startles Bucky, he can tell by the way the other man blinks rapidly.

“Huh?”

“Why are unicorns your favorite extinct animal?”

John laughs, his face creasing in a sunny smile, the type of grin he was known for. All encompassing and enough to light up any room. Enough to light up the entire night sky. If they ever figured out how to capture and bottle a John Egan smile they would make millions.

“What’s not to like about ‘em? They’re horses which are already a noble animal as is, add a giant stabbing horn on top and you’ve got one badass beast. ‘Sides they represent all things good and pure. That’s pretty neat.”

“What on earth do you know about purity John Clarence Egan?”

21. that i liked but had to cut

I don't really work on drafts so I dont tend to cut but uhhh i've got this?? It probably wont make it into Dom's story

“I think I’m fucking my life up.” Dom hugs his knee closer to his chest.

Arnie glances over his shoulder at him, hand poised in the dirt where he was subtly tracing Dom’s profile in the dirt. Dom pretended not to notice, Arnie pretended he wasn’t aware of Dom noticing. The arrangement suited them both.

“You’re twenty-six.” Arnie snorts. The scratching in the dirt resumes, a mechanical inhale as he takes a hit of his vape, releasing a cloud of peach-scented vapor into the oncoming sunset. The sacred heart on his right shoulder flexes with his drawing, bared by the sleeveless Fine Ink t-shirt he wore.

Dom makes a disdainful face “You’re twenty-seven.”

“Yeah,” Arnie loftily waves his twig for emphasis, “And in my whole extra year of experience qualifies me to tell you that you’re in no way fucking your life up this young.”

A heavy breeze lifts the hair from Dom’s forehead, catches around the neck of his hoodie and tickles the exposed skin on his ankles. He scowls into it “You’re so full of shit.”

“And you’re a grouch.” Arnie leans back, the knobs of his spine pressing warmly into Dom’s ribs. The tumble of rocks they were sat on reversed their heights, the top of Arnie’s blue curls only reaching to Dom’s shoulder. “Tell me what you think you’re doing so wrong that the next sixty years are a total wash.”

“Sixty years is generous,” Dom presses his lips against a smile as the other man elbows his thigh. He sighs and shrugs, ashing his cigarette on the rock and tucking the half-used butt into his pocket for later. “I don’t know. I’m spending my life working in a shithole bar, chasing after a brother who doesn’t want me in his life and dodging phone calls from a father who thinks I’m as unstable as the chick from Sharp Objects.”

“I saw that show.” Arnie says idly.

“I read the book.” Dom shrugs again, heavier this time. “I dunno, fuck, I have no aspirations, no goals, no trajectory, I’m just clinging to the idea that I can be this fucking savior to the most stubborn sixteen-year-old to grace this good green earth.”

“You know,” Arnie says casually, “sometimes I can really tell your mom was from the bible belt.” Dom elbows the back of his head gently. He laughs, tongue between his teeth and loudly enough to echo around the copse of trees they were taking their refuge under.

“You have friends, a partner, a job, some pretty fun hobbies and you’ve got a goal, even if it is a tough one. Don’t you think that’s enough?” Arnie asks after a beat of silence.

#dom ashby #whewww thats an old tag thats not even his story anymore #clegan #postwar longfic

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artsy-hobbitses · 10 months

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1. I love Sideswipe and strong-arm twins, girls there, so cute 😍

2. Was there ever a time like in the Bumblebee movie where Charlie and Memo tried to teach bee how to prank people, but it ended up in like property damage I know he didn't have the best parents and would try to stay on his dad good side but did memo and Charlie ever like take him out and show him what fun is

ALSO I love your work it amazing 👏 ❤️ 💖 💕 😍 💗 👏 round of applaud to you

1. Truly the MOST PERFECT LITTLE GIRLS as their Papa likes to proclaim :’3

2. ABSOLUTELY though most of their juvenile hoodlum-ism entailed giving Bee all spray cans and watching him change from the meek little thing to Absolutely Feral THE CITY IS HIS CANVAS NOW BITCH. The absolute adrenaline rush of crafting the most elaborate, artistic FUCK THE COPS murals shh SHH he’s gotta get this scriptwork just right he knows it’s crass but it must be crass he puts his HEART AND SOUL INTO and BUSTING OUTTA THERE when they hear the sirens closing in.

#inbox

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starfallpod · 1 year

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Questions! Your world is incredibly engaging.

Okay, first up it took me way too long to realise Sage is probably a shortened Sagittarius. My brain has also been spinning as to if other characters might represent other non-zodiac constellations but I might be off on that one (Btw have you heard Xan Griffin's zodiac album? Leo and Sagittarius are especially good).

Second, magic in the arts is just, so delightful, as are the fancy schools for learning scriptwork. I'm really curious as to the influence of magic on the culinary arts, and the practical sciences, being sibling fields to the practical arts.

Third, do people ever get rune-work tattoos, or if that's too like, legally nebulous or magically hazardous?

And lastly, very importantly. Are wereworms real?

Questions! Your world is incredibly engaging.

Aww, thank you!

Okay, first up it took me way too long to realise Sage is probably a shortened Sagittarius.

Haha, I was hoping people would pick up on that eventually!

My brain has also been spinning as to if other characters might represent other non-zodiac constellations but I might be off on that one

You’ll eventually see all the zodiac constellations represented (and you’ve already seen/heard of a few of them), but none of the other characters were intentionally written to be tied to the other constellations. But, if you were already coming up with ties from characters to constellations, I’d love to hear about them!

(Btw have you heard Xan Griffin's zodiac album? Leo and Sagittarius are especially good).

I’m checking it out rn! I do love albums with a theme like this

From the human side of things, magic in food itself is a bit of a non-starter? The shape of the rune itself is very important to its effectiveness, so there may be some things you’d be able to achieve (like making the food sparkle or sing before serving) but it’d be easier and more sustainable to just use scripted serving platters. To get any sort of magical effects from consuming items (like with the idea of potion brewing) would also probably depend more on the scripted vessel it was consumed from rather than the food itself, and even then, the more abstract the intended effect, the more difficult it is to script.

Scripts are probably much more commonly used it day-to-day functions of people - they can take the place of pretty much any basic machine if you’ve got them configured together properly, and quite frankly, this world could be capable of moving into a mechanized industrial revolution powered by scripts of massive scale (but there are Reasons it has not).

Third, do people ever get rune-work tattoos, or if that's too like, legally nebulous or magically hazardous?

Definitely illegal. Use of all scripts requires some form of license, so a tattoo, which lets you use your body as an ever-accessible script, would go against all of that. Of course there are some people who have them, but these are people who live so deeply under the government’s control that they’re impeachable, or they just live off thr grid altogether.

Definitely hazardous as well, but that’s at the tattoed’s discretion.

And lastly, very importantly. Are wereworms real?

Yes 💙

#answered

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namethefallen · 2 years

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Oh man Papyrus’ situation does totally mess up the dating chain doesn’t it

YES IT DOES. I HAVE TO CREATE WHOLE DATE-SCRIPTS FROM THE BAREST SCRAPS.

Ranting aside, I do have a general idea of how the date chain is gonna go and have since 2018. The real problem is that I need a more solid idea of the dialogue and character voices... and since it's been a long time i have to replay/reread to get the character voices + what actually happens, and [descent into muttering about scriptwork and character voices and executive functions]

#aprofessionallurker #aj answers

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joan-deactivated20230204 · 1 year

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the horrors have been in full swing since i got back from sc so im gonna churn out some really uncomfortable scriptwork i guess

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maverickflare · 11 months

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Spoilers for the OT2 endgame, but you know, I think Kaldena should've had the chance to kill Arcanette actually. She literally ruined her entire life and manipulated her to serve *the* moonshade order who killed her people, and I just think Kaldena should get to kill legally. as a treat. She deserves it

i am in fact in the process of outlining + scriptwork for a rework of temenos story in which kaldena isnt 'evil' and becomes the companion npc following cricks death (she is instead framed for his murder but he does still get murdered so tem can be weird abt it.) and she gets to be the one to kill arcanette in the end. so i have to say i agree w the sentiment. lol.

#theres uh. more to it than tht i just started having to make shit up after making the decision to discard some aspects entirely.#ihad a rant in the tags here abt the concept but actually ill just save tht for later when i finish my outlines. thumbs up.

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prewriteapp · 4 years

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praamaadya · 3 years

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Time To Hooray...! Script Work finished for @praamaadya_Film will be back in short time...! Until then Guess the Story line of #Praamaadya. Stay tuned for More updates...!

#film #scriptwork #Blurredforreason #praamaadya

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niiiiiiiick15 · 3 years

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matching tattoos anyone

#art #my art #traditional art #typography #word art #tattoo design #grunge #scriptwork

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leahsbooksscriptsuniverse · 4 years

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The Fall Continued Script (Short Film Shown on BBCiplayer)

so during my summer homework for university, i was told to watch the short film ‘THE FALL’ it is a short film with no dialogue. it is about a cult about to kill one of their members with anonymous meaning and he ends up tied on a rope and eventually falls down this really deep hole/well. it ends with a cliffhanger of the man either climbing up or down the well and my task was to continue of what happened next and i decided to add in dialogue. i do reccomend watching this, it was strangely really good and making my own script to make my own ending was even more fun. if you guys are interested watch the short film and tag me in your own scripts and ending of ‘The fall’ here is my script of my own ending >

THE FALL

CONTIUED AND WRITTEN BY LEAH RICHARDS

02/06/2020

Scene 1. INT. CAVE. NIGHT

The VICTIM used every single inch of his strength to keep himself held up in the closed space. As he looked up he could see he was getting closer to the light even though he knew he was far away. His sweat from his hands and feet made it harder for him to keep going further up. Each inch he made it up, the more he was getting weaker.

SFX: abnormal drum beat

The closer the VICTIM got the light got brighter. His arm reached over the top of the well. His head peaked over the top and could see the cult celebrating his death until one masked female with raggy brown hair drooping over the angry mask turned around making the VICTIM fall and he lost his balance as he slid down to the cave.

Quick cuts:

High angle shot zoom to close up on VICTIM mask Birds eye view falling in the dark

SCENE 2. INT. CAVE. NIGHT

SFX: fast abnormal drum beat

With a sharp scream the VICTIM hits the floor now covered in grazes and cuts and burns all on his skin. Shivering with fear and cold he cries knowing freedom is not going to be tasted. He looks up crying and breathing heavy at the small square of the well as light rains down on him.

SFX: distorted murmuring in the darkness. Heartbeat increases.

SCENE 3. INT. DEEPER IN CAVE. NIGHT

The VICTIMS hear rate increases as he crawls in a small cramped space until he can feel it getting wider. Whispers were echoing through the darkness the closer he got away from the raining light until he could see torches light up the darkness. Three other victims sitting crouched and afraid. The VICTIM raises both hands of surrender to let them know he is a good person. WELL-MAN 1 crawled towards him. His face bruised and exhausted, covered in dirt and blood crawls closer until they are face to face.

WELL-MAN 1

Re-re-remove th-th-the mask

Victim takes of his mask

Good. Wh-what is you-your name?

(Beat)

Your name!

VICTIM

I don’t remember.

(Beat)

Who are you people?

WELL-MAN 1

We-we are yo-you.

VICTIM looks around and sees another man (WELL0MAN 2) and a woman (WELL-WOMAN) who are weak and frail with ripped clothes and bruised skin under their dirty flesh. Shivering with cold and weakness. VICTIM cries.

VICTIM

We need to find a way out of here, we could all die! Why do they do this?

WELL-MAN 2

It’s their religion. They take us in, treat us like family, give us food to eat, give us beds to sleep in they give us a new life but in silence. All I did was hum a tune my mother sung me. Their number one law was silence.

WELL-WOMAN

All I did was shush my baby to sleep. They took her away from me and I ended up here.

WELL MAN 1

I had a nightmare and screamed once. All I knew then was them hunting me down.

WELL-WOMAN

What did you do?

VICTIM looks around and back at the ex-cult members

What did you do?

VICTIM

I prayed out loud. I thought I was alone. I didn’t know they lurk around the forest. I thought I was deep enough. I thought I was able to speak. Next minute I hear their running footsteps and in a heartbeat I was clinging on a tree for my life. But now look where I am. Stuck here.

(Beat)

WELL-WOMAN

I don’t know where she is? I think they killed her. They didn’t know I was pregnant my baby was so small due to the rations. Babies cry, she’s probably somewhere where she doesn’t cry anymore

WELL-WOMAN walks off scene crying with WELL-MAN 1 leaving VICTIM and WELL-MAN 2 sitting crouched in the small cave of the well.

SCENE 4. INT. CAVE. MORNING

VICTIM is searching around the cave scratching the walls with his openly cut fingers and chipped fingernails. WELL-MAN 2 is sitting there staring scratching his dirty beard as he watched VICTIM try and claw his way out.

WELL-MAN 2

There is no hope. We have been clawing our way out for years. We’ve been down here for so long that if we escape and taste the air we’d choke, if we ever saw the sun rise we’d go blind. This is our home now. We are rotting. We can’t even walk anymore, we crawl, and we crawl like rats. Rats in a cage.

VICTIM

There is always a way out-

SFX: ABNORMAL DRUM BEAT

Do you hear that?

WELL-MAN 2

No, what is it?

VICTIM

Follow me.

SCENE 5. INT. CAVE TO THE WELL – MORNING

VICTIM and WELL-MAN 2 are crawling back through the darkness of the cave heading towards where the bottom on the well is. They crouch notice that the light from the hole is glowing bright which signifies to VICTIM it is morning. One of the cult members are being lowered down slowly by a crate and all is silent.

SFX: WATER DRIPPING

VICTIM AND WELL-MAN 2 are hiding in the darkness and watches the masked CULT MEMBER scavenging around the empty space looking for VICTIM. He scratches his raggy brown hair and tilts sideways his head as he notices VICTIM and WELL-MAN 2 crouched like dogs in the tight tunnel space. With a growl of anger from both, they pounce to the man and beat him until he cannot breathe anymore.

WELL-MAN 2

We did it, maybe we can lure them all down here and kill them all!

VICTIM

No, that’s too easy, and harder for us to escape. For all they know is that he searching for me. They know I didn’t die and they want to make sure I’m dead and if you are all dead. I know exactly what to do.

VICTIM and WELL-MAN 2 drag the dead body to the cave and leaves WELL-MAN 1 and WELL-WOMAN confused.

WELL-MAN 2

Look what we found, they are sending search parties for us. He has a plan on how we can get out.

WELL-MAN 1

Tell us Th-this plan.

VICTIM

They are sending search parties. I don’t think they believe I am dead and if they found out you are all still alive the whole cult will be after us. I was thinking I disguise myself as this man and get lifted back up. I will have my revenge and make an end of this cult once and for all and you will all be out and free.

WELL-WOMAN

How do we know what you say is the truth. As soon as you’ll taste the air again you would want it for yourself. You’ll run far away and leave us here to rot.

WELL-MAN 2

I trust him, I think we should let him go up. He knows what they are like, he knows how they evolved. He will save us.

WELL MAN 1

He is full of good, I sense it. I will keep my hopes up for him. We will only know if he doesn’t come back and that’s if the world goes silent.

WELL-WOMAN

How are you going to disguise as this man?

VICTIM

We scalp his head, I wear his clothes and I put on his mask. It should work. Since they all wear masks it’s hard to see anyway. It should work.

VICTIM, WELL-MAN 1 and WELL-MAN 2 are using sharp rocks to scalp the CULT MEMBERS head so that VICTIM can become him. WELL-WOMAN crawls deeper in the cave.

SFX: WELL-WOMAN CRYING.

TRAVEL SHOT BACK TO CULT MAN GETTING SCALPT

SCENE 6. INT. WELL. AFTERNOON

VICTIM is now dressed as the CULT MAN and realises the large crate is still sitting on the bottom of the well. He climbs in and waves the tied rope around giving the CULT a sign that the crate is ready to be lifted. As VICTIM looks up he sees a head poke though the gap and starts to pull the crate up.

SFX: ABNORMAL DRUM BEAT GRADUALLY GETTING FASTER.

VICTIM gets closer up the top and looks and stares at the male CULT MEMBER pulling him up.

SCENE 7. EXT. CULT GROUNDS. AFTERNOON

SFX: BIRDS CHIRPING, ROPE PULLING.

CULT MEMBER helps him up. VICTIM watches him walk away and quietly runs up to him as the grounds is empty and silent. He wraps his arms around CULT MEMBERS neck and drags back to the well and throws him through the tiny hole.

SFX: ECHOED SCREAM. FAST ABNORMAL DRUM BEAT

BIRDS EYE VIEW OF CULT MEMBER FALLING

VICTIM

Serves you right you son of a bitch

VICTIM goes inside a small wooden shack which appears to be empty and searches around for something to defend himself with. He finds a sharp knife which was sharpened teeth tied on a small thick stick and sees a CULT WOMAN walking around. Victim creeps up behind her and slices her neck making her body flop on the floor.

VICTIM

Come out where I can see your ugly faces!

SFX: TREES RUSTLING, BUSHES SHAKING, BRANCHES AND TWIGS SNAPPING. FAST ABNORMAL DRUM BEAT

The entire CULT appears out from the trees, bushes. They notice the dead CULT WOMAN on the floor bleeding out and surround VICTIM. They all leap in an animalistic way and starts to attack VICTIM but he uses his tooth knife and stabs and jabs the knife in those who are attacking making them all fall to their death. The LEADER who is a woman is large holding her hands on her hips waiting for him to attack.

VICTIM

Why did you do this?

(Beat)

Why did you do this!

(Beat)

LEADER takes of her angry looking mask and hold her hands up to surrender. VICTIM keeps his distance and waits for her response. He too takes the scalped head off him and drops the mask on the floor.

LEADER

A family, we are. The family of silence. A family of peace. Only the demon makes up speak. When the demon speaks, the souls have to leave so the demon doesn’t spread. We are the family of silence. God keeps us quiet from saying bad things, from saying evil things. There are families like us. Hear no evil where you join you no longer hear but god, see no evil where you will no longer see but god and us, speak no evil, where we don’t speak but to god, not out loud but in mind. We follow the rules of god.

VICTIM

That’s not gods doing. Forcing people to be deaf, to be blind, to not be able to speak and if they do those things you kill them. As I remember god doesn’t want death, murder is against god, and you murdered people who did well when you were doing badly.

LEADER

You killed my people. My family. You think god will save you now.

VICTIM

I did wrong. But I will work my way from the evil that possessed me today to be better. But you, if I spare you, you could just start again and do the same things. What makes you think I shouldn’t kill you right here and now.

(Beat)

VICTIM leaves her standing there as she gives him an evil smirk putting her mask back on and remains to be silent. VICTIM runs to the well and lowers the crate to free the others but as he is about to pull the WELL-WOMAN up he is dragged back by LEADER and he screams as she stabs him with her own tooth knife.

LEADER

You need to be cleansed by god. You failed him. You need to pray in silence so he can forgive you!

VICTIM

Get off me you stupid bitch!

VICTIM elbows the LEADER on the side of her body making her gasp of air. VICTIM staggers back to the well with the knife stuck in his back and looks down as the sunlight rained down on WELL-WOMAN sitting, looking up. He pulls her up as the LEADER is limping towards VICTIM

SFX: abnormal drum beat.

LEADER runs faster to VICTIM as he pulls WELL-WOMAN up from the well. He helps her by linking her arms around him until LEADER stabs the knife deeper in his back but he is still able to save WELL-WOMAN. He stretches his arm and yanks the knife out of his back and as LEADER runs up to him he stabs her right in the heart.

SFX: muffled silence.

VICTIM goes back to the well and pulls up WELL-MAN 1 each pull he gets weaker but is able to save him. He then throws the crate at the bottom of the well again and his vision is all blurred as more blood leaked onto his dirty shirt. As he nearly drops WELL-MAN 2 he almost falls through the well again and is saved by WELL-MAN 1 and WELL-WOMAN. They both help VICTIM pull WELL-MAN 2 and he is able to crawl out the crate to celebrate with everyone.

WELL-MAN 1

The air I missed the air. The heat of the sun warming my soul. God bless you young man-

(Beat)

SFX: SLOW ABNORMAL DRUM BEAT.

WELL-MAN 1, WELL-MAN 2 and WELL-WOMAN turn around and see that VICTIM is weak and fallen on the green grass. As the blood from his back dyes it red. The trio runs towards VICTIM and look down on him as he looks up at them.

WELL-WOMAN

You’re safe now. You saved us. Thank you

WELL-MAN 2

Thank you for letting us go free. Our saviour.

WELL-MAN 1

Sleep in peace. God knows you are a good man. You made a promise and you kept it. You did not lie. You killed for protection but you did nothing wrong. Sleep in peace and know what good deeds you have done. You are free. Thank you young man. Thank you.

VICTIM’S visions blurs and stares up at the blue sky watching the birds fly past. And the sun raining down on him.

VICTIM (V.O)

God forgive my sins. I did it to save. I tried to escape but they caught me. I tried to pray but they stopped me. They were the demons. They neglected you. You were not their god. I apologise. I don’t care where I go just make sure these three people have lives to live in happiness, and freedom.

VICTIM takes his last breath and his eyes roll back so he sleeps in peace. WELL-MAN 1 covers his eyes and they sit and watch him sleeping. In silence and in tears.

FADE TO BLACK

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