#this got longggg

[blysse-and-blunder]

in lieu of a commonplace book: a new term

saturday, sept 2 — sunday, oct 1, 2023

been running around and then lolling around and then running some more, and the last time i really understood what day it was i think it was aug 28?? though i have gotten a new wall calendar for my room so hopefully that...makes a difference?

anyway. lots of things viewed, read, played etc., but this is the ilcb where i talk about michael sheen's sex show. y'all have been warned.

reading finished this month:

light from uncommon stars, ryka aoki — there was a lot about this one to like, and lots of things that i think...could have worked better? the dialogue stood out to me as weirdly stilted. the author got so much good, fluid, lyrical writing into the descriptions of the violin maker, all the meaningful resonances of the violin, and everything else kind of paled to that. a lot of vision in this one, and hopefully readers who are less picky than i am will be able to chill out and enjoy the representation, the demons and space and music and donuts.

the empress of salt and fortune, nghi vo (audio) — stunning. short, but suggests/captures an entire world. adored the emphasis on little artifacts and material details, the flashes of actual history and the absolutely elegant touches of fantasy.

clouds of witness, dorothy l. sayers (audio) — a lord peter wimsey mystery is always a wonderful excuse to listen to a voice actor just go nuts with posh RP accents, but i do miss my girl harriet even as i know that i'm reading all the prequels on purpose :(

one last stop, casey mcquiston —i didn't think i liked casey mcquiston before, but this book was genuinely a delight. is this how everyone felt about rwrb? the romance tropes worked for me this time, the dialogue here felt natural and fun (especially the secondary characters), and the little turns of phrase and comparisons and twists hit just like you'd hope. the history! the queer community! the roommates! and you know what, fuck it. a little tooth-rotting fluff can be good for the soul.

listening bounced off of the new olivia rodrigo (sorry 😥) and the new chappell roan (sorry sorry 😥) and won't be trying to articulate why for now, haven't spent enough time with the new mitski (liked it on the first listen though) so this section of the post is going to go to noah kahan's stick season, which i have listened to on repeat for the last few weeks. i think i've got a favorite song chosen, only to notice something new about another one—it's not just 'northern attitude' and 'homesick,' though obviously the lines 'i'm mean because i grew up in new england' and 'i was raised out in the cold' / 'i was raised on little light' do fucking resonate. but so does. most of it.

at some point i have added both 'halloween' and 'the view between villages' to my liked songs, and for some reason i get a real kick out of the line in 'new perspective' about calling an intersection downtown just because it's gotten a target. but anyway here's 'stick season', simply for the line 'and i'll dream each night / of some version of you / that i might not have / but i did not lose.'

watching masters of sex (2013). if i'm honest, this is a little bit of a dodge—i watched the entire first season of this show back at the beginning of the month, it fully took over my staycation cat-sitting gig time, and then i haven't been able to get back to it now that i'm home. i think i'm scared to dip back in, honestly? because i can't let myself get sucked back in that strongly.

this show is maddening. it's fascinating. don't ask me if it's good. it's based on this book by thomas maier, which i may have to actually read, because i keep getting distracted wondering about how much the script is changing, adapting, etc. i've taken my intro psych class (and then some), i had to read about masters and johnson, and i feel like the show must be taking liberties— but also, is it?

this show isn't mad men, but it does have that period midcentury / postwar aesthetic, and they do a very good job mentioning bits of history/current events that tie it to the actual history. and there is actual history here, and i love that. but also, i have never been this aware of a show making choices for baldly strategic reasons— you can so tell that this show was written for weekly release, plot threads come and happen for an episode or two at most, only then to be either dropped (for future use if necessary?) or solved.

then again, there's some very competent and tightly-constructed stories, e.g. the episode about the nuclear attack drill and how everyone behaved, how it did and did not matter to them, how their worlds were and weren't also symbolically ending in the intertwined subplots. also a big fan of the one where they're hearing about the new research on the female orgasm! and freud! it's so interesting to have this all framed as ~the frontiers of science!~ and then see how in some ways it's more progressive than you'd expect (than we are today still, on primetime).

the other lead, lizzy caplan, is new to me, but she kills it, kills it, as ginny johnson. allison janney is in this?! caitlin fitzgerald aka tabitha from succession is in this? see what i mean, like half the cast is people who either were in big prestige tv enterprises or who would go on to be, which to me says something about the way this show was viewed as a good move for your acting career in 2013. (link to a piece of historical journalism discussing this show and nbc hannibal as not-to-be-missed viewing for 2013. wild.)

i've never thought this much about how television has changed from the early 2010s to now. this feels like a bridge, connecting pre-peak TV to where we've ended up, where it's not as 'prestige-y' as it would be now, but is still going for the sophistication and intensity. michael sheen wears a funny little bow tie and got a golden globe nom for this, but he could not be further from aziraphale here—it's like watching a totally different person (acting_patrickstewart.gif), he smiles so little and is routinely so awful to various women in his life, including those he purports to love. i distract myself watching him make acting choices in response to some of the (frankly wild) things that they've given masters to say and do, and that's. all i'll say about that.

okay that was mortifying. let's move on.

playing have now completed (for the second time) the first act investigations in pentiment, with new scenes unlocked (the spinning bee! storytime with brother sebhat! midnight in the library!) and still not a solid answer to the mystery. methinks there is a message there, but we won't know for sure until i can next find a time for me to continue with either of my play-through companions. when i play with A, we make choices based on 'i would never pick that if i was playing on my own, but since you're here, you'll be the voice of chaos egging me on,' which if nothing else has led to a lot of cackling.

things this game also excels at, besides narrating women's stories and moral ambiguity: animating children and animals. we shook hands with this dog and it was perfect.

making hungry for a handicraft. sewed a bra back together (unpictured), glued a handle back onto this little ceramic pitcher, glued a hairclip back to its backing and a slipper sole back to its upper slipper (all hail having appropriate adhesives for a job!) watched as squirrels made a meal of the valiant, late-blooming tomatoes.

working on the court romances chapter has a new direction, but it does feel a little like an albatross around my neck at this point. i sent my committee the body and soul debates chapter, but at my most recent meeting it was clear most of them hadn't finished reading it so the discussion was largely 'where's chapter 2? why isn't that here also?' they still gave me the equivalent of a little pat on the head and said 'keep going', so. i'm taking drastic steps (enlisting other on campus resources, my therapist, etc.) to try and fucking make some fucking progress.

#ilcb #in lieu of a commonplace book #monthly roundup #this got longggg

[queerxqueen]

Not Noah being straight up racist, islamophobic and hateful by liking a video making fun of victims in Gaze who have died and liking Amy Schumer's islamaphobic post. As a middle eastern fan, I defended him time and time again about this issue, and for what?? This is just really sad. 10,000 Palestinians have died, and he's actually making fun of it and being Islamophobic?? Horrible.

Noah's behavior has been disgusting and grossly uneducated and---I'd say it's disappointing, or heartbreaking, if it weren't completely expected for him.

I totally get why some folks are taking an ST break and I respect that decision. Because it's not just Noah sharing disinformation but Brett Gelman as well, and Ross Duffer signing an open letter that, at best, could be called misguided, and at worst, ignorant and dangerous.

I don't condone people harassing or threatening Noah and I hate that people are using his stupidity as an excuse to be antisemitic and hateful. But I can guarantee that whatever hate Noah is experiencing is nothing compared to the horrific reality of what's happening to Palestinians every day in front of our eyes while world powers do nothing to stop it.

I love Will Byers so much. I love Stranger Things in general so much. And I like to think at this point that these characters and this show are not just their actors or their creators anymore, they're ours. But fuck Noah and his privileged, uninformed, hate-filled perspective. I won't be supporting him or the others outside of Stranger Things and I hope they educate themselves and listen to Palestinian voices before even more harm is caused. (I don't have that much faith in them, though. They've shown their colors.)

Just to add some resources so this isn't just me talking shit:

Educate yourself. Listen to Palestinian voices.

There are a slew of free ebooks to learn about Palestine from Haymarket Books and Verso Books.

Here's a list of organizations you can donate to.

If you're in the US, call your representatives and demand a ceasefire and demand that the government stops funding Israel.

#noah schnapp #free palestine #israel palestine #politics #current events #brett gelman #ross duffer #anon #answered #jamie being serious for a moment #sorry this got longggg

[hypewinter]

So Barbara right?: Obviously much like Steph, much of Barbara's story happens independent of the batfam so there's nothing really to change. I'd say the only key difference is that she's moreso Jason's friend than anyone else's (you know cause it'd be fun).

It's finally Dick's time to shine: To celebrate Jason's official adoption, the Wayne's go to the new circus in town. The happy atmosphere of the night is quickly cut short by screams of terror as the flying Grayson couple falls to their deaths. Cass is the first to react, rushing over to the Grayson child and shielding him before he can see (or hear) them hit the ground. The other Wayne children are quick to follow, expertly dealing with the frightened crowd and leading them out of the tent in an orderly fashion. Bruce is the last one to take action, meeting up with Commission Gordon to detail what transpired. When all the dust has settled, the audience has left, the bodies have been taken away, and Dick Grayson is an orphan.

Naturally Bruce defaults on his trusty dusty tactic of simply becoming the boy's guardian but there's a snag this time, the state won't let him. They go on and on about how Dick is an emotional child and he needs a lot of one on one attention and he wouldn't get the proper support he needs in the manor and bla bla bla. Which would all be valid points, if the state didn't just turn around and put the poor kid in a boys home. Bruce is obviously pissed. Beyond pissed in fact. But until the courts rule in his favor, his hands are tied. You know whose hands aren't tied though? Damian's. Damian is a full scale legal adult who lives on his own and has the backing of his father (who just so happens to be one of the richest men on Earth). The state has no choice but to meekly hand the boy over.

Dick is a feral little monster. Constantly angry, constantly lashing out. He far surpasses early days Jason in sheer ferocity alone. But Damian is undeterred. He knows feral. He's seen feral. He WAS feral. This brat will not break him. Damian starts employing the methods his father used to help him deal with his emotions back in his "I just found out I'm the son of assassins and I'm so angsty" phase. Mainly the method of punching your feelings away. He gets Dick a punching bag and also trains him in every martial art/self defense method under the sun. When that proves to still not be enough, he does the next best thing, he takes Dick with him out on patrols. Dick finally starts working through all of his emotions surrounding his parents death, especially when he starts getting leads on who killed them. Eventually, he finally figures out who killed his parents and where they are and he's out for blood. He tries to sneak out but Damian is already waiting for him by the window. Dick prepares to get into a fight, only for his gear to be tossed at him with Damian already climbing out the window. He's stunned for a moment but he's also not about to look a gift horse in the mouth. So the two go to catch Tony Zucco together and the rest is history (Bruce nearly has a heart attack when he finds out Dick is Damian's sidekick. Why does no one in his family want to be normal!?).

Part 1 Part 2

#dc #batman #batfam #barbara gordon #dick grayson #reverse robins au #the final entry to the set #this was originally all supposed to be one post #but it quickly got LONGGGG #especially dick's entry #as you can see #anywho hope you enjoyed my take on this amazing au

[switchytransboy]

had some fun with halo’s feet tonight with plenty of toe ties 😏😍 their feet were so well restrained these could have passed as makeshift stocks hehehe

@ticklishprey

#it me #my content #baby #i got him so good #😏😏😏🥰 #it was so fun #i disappeared from sight while tickling them too #for a longggg time #and said nothing #it was so fun i got so into my ler mood 🥵 #i switch so often it’s crazy hehe #tickles #feet #feet tickles

[bug-farm]

#i got bored and aged her up early #they're teens for way too longggg #ts4 #bucket legacy #scout bucket #bucket gen 7

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

"french novel" by richie hofmann / "move-in day" by @coffeeandcalligraphy

Stay right there | Lost Gods

"...of course his brother wouldn’t forget him, he couldn’t, no one could forget Jeremiah, especially not Harrison who thought he’d be okay if this was his life now, the quiet Saturday mornings rating the persuasiveness of infomercials, laughing at the laundromat as they shared a quick kiss by the dryers, evenings where they held each other and knew they would be held, Harrison thought it might be nice to remain here forever..."

An excerpt all about love for Valentine's Day! <3 The full version is under the cut!!!

He’d overheard their conversation once, Jeremiah in the middle of an assignment as he walked his brother through long division on the phone. Harrison was stooped against Jeremiah’s bathroom sink, shaving clean ledges of stubble off his face. The apartment still smelled like orange and vanilla which Jeremiah had been boiling all afternoon—a trick his mother taught him years before to mask unsavory scents, though nothing smelled off that day, he’d just wanted to do something nice. As Harrison thwacked shaving cream off his razor and into the sink, he listened to Jeremiah talk on the phone. He’d heard his voice in so many forms—at a bare whisper in the mornings when he offered to put on coffee, at a sarcastic mutter as he complained during Psycho about men with mommy issues, at a giggle when at the bar, they teamed up on 80s trivia night and beat everyone bad, the plastic trophy still on Jeremiah’s bookcase. But Harrison hadn’t heard his voice like this. Deliberate almost, every consonant rounded and warm, like he was reciting poetry.

Harrison watched him from the mirror. Jeremiah was slumped over the desktop he and Rory shared, only half of his face visible because he covered the other with his hand. He looked stressed. The first assignment of the school year due so early, and Harrison realizes now that he hadn’t even asked what it was, is still unsure what Jeremiah had even been studying. He held the home phone to his ear with his shoulder, sharpening a pencil over and over until it broke and he inevitably started again. Three mugs teetered on the desk, all different drinks just for him—green tea, a decaf latte, hot water and lemon, all gone cold. Harrison would heat them all up again as soon as he finished like he’d done for the last two hours and like he’d do for the next. But for now he watched Jeremiah, a man who jotted down class notes at the same time he helped his brother through homework. They hadn’t seen each other in years—on an evening when neither Jeremiah or Harrison could sleep and they took turns naming hits of iconic pop divas every time a car honked past their building, Jeremiah confessed he worried his brother would forget him. Then, Harrison ran a finger up his wrist and said that wouldn’t happen, a brother’s love could last centuries, but he didn’t know that. He was an only child and not really a figurative brother to anyone at all, at least not anymore. But as he waved his razor in the sink, watching Jeremiah nod although his brother couldn’t see him, listening to Jeremiah say, yeah, you got it, you got it, his voice suspended in gentleness somehow, he knew he was right.

Right then, Jeremiah turned so his face pointed directly into the bathroom, and in the second before he realized he was being watched, Harrison thought of how lucky he was to be here, to know this man who was more like an angel, to be in his bathroom borrowing his shaving cream, to spend the night again and maybe even forever, with him, something playful in their time together like a childhood sleepover where they’d drape cucumbers over each other’s eyelids during a re-watch of Rumble Fish and share a bowl of Cheetos on the couch, and Harrison thought it was kind that Jeremiah spent the previous hour answering his brother’s questions and rephrasing a confusing math problem until they both seemed to get it, that even though they were separated by a country, it was like they were in the same room and that that was a conscious effort on Jeremiah’s part—of course his brother wouldn’t forget him, he couldn’t, no one could forget Jeremiah, especially not Harrison who thought he’d be okay if this was his life now, the quiet Saturday mornings rating the persuasiveness of infomercials, laughing at the laundromat as they shared a quick kiss by the dryers, evenings where they held each other and knew they would be held, Harrison thought it might be nice to remain here forever.

Sorry, Jeremiah mouthed as soon as he noticed, his face bronzed in light, the focal point of the room, this man, the material of abundance an artist sees a masterpiece in, and he held up his hand as if saying I’ll just be a minute, please wait for me, but Harrison wanted to tell him it was unnecessary to apologize or to rush. As Jeremiah started to rise, telling Mika he had to run soon, that he’d call tomorrow as usual, Harrison wanted to say take your time, the sun setting, the evening almost touching them. Stay right there.

#lost gods #wrote this a longggg time ago & it's floating around somewhere on my sideblog lol #but this is what got me writing lost gods <3 ty jeremiah literally doing everything for me once again #also the move in day poem is a poem I wrote fully by hand omgggg #going into the love poems chapbook <3

[angelhummel]

Welcome to the Every Rachel Berry Outfit season 3 round up! It's been a long time coming but it's finally here. And this is also the longest style summary yet, so buckle up! Brought to you as always by the me, AngelHummel

Season 3 gives Rachel 192 new looks. She has the most outfit changes in Michael and Goodbye with 14 outfits each. While Pot O Gold and Nationals are tied for the least amount of outfits, with a mere 3 each. This is also the fewest outfits featured in any episode overall

While Rachel's style matures this season, it also gets a lot more samey. Gone are her animal sweaters, and gone is the variety in her silhouette. These days, dresses are her best friend.

Though she's never been a big fan of pants, that article of clothing is all but eliminated from her wardrobe this season. She's gone from 23 in season one, to 16 in season two, to 11 in season three. And the majority of those are either workout clothes, or pajamas. She also wears a pair for a coordinated group number (something else that is lacking in s3), and a pair as part of her Saturday Night Fever suit. Her only real pants outfit features a pair of shorts - soon to be a staple of Rachel's wardrobe - seen at the very end of the season

Pants weren't the only thing Rachel decided were restricting her legs too much this year. Knee high socks and tights' stocks plummeted this year thanks to Rachel leaving her legs bare more often than not. But of course these signature accessories haven't vanished completely. This season, Rachel sported...

25 pairs of knee socks. Okay, still a lot, but we've cut back from s1's 38 pairs

18 pairs of tights. Again, sounds like a lot, but compared to last season's 45 count...

13 pairs of ankle socks. She was trying something new but must've decided they weren't for her, as they don't appear after the halfway point of the season

As for accessories that have all but been wiped out, the headband fans were starving this season

We see Rachel sporting headband a pitiful 6 times - and one of them was Tina as Rachel! She wears two stretchy headbands to hold her hair back, once during dodgeball and once while in the shower. Then all the girls wear headbands in 3x14's competition. The only real headbands we see her wear are both in 3x22. An homage to her fashion roots, before she can branch out and find new styles

The 2011-2012 school year was a real "Say Something" Hat Year for McKinley, and Rachel was no exception. In addition to her headbands, she also wore 9 hats, along with flowers, bows, blue streaks, a welder's mask, and several other fun accessories for a total of 25 head based accessories

Most memorable of all? A wedding veil, a prom queen tiara, and a graduation cap. Landmark accessories, all of them.

And the final lost staple of Rachel's old wardrobe? Plaid skirts. She only wore two this season. But plaid made an appearance a total of 9 times, popping up in her outerwear and dresses more often. She also featured hearts a handful of times, and even a few florals this season

But the patterns that featured most in her wardrobe this season?

Stripes, which appeared 21 times, and...

Polka dots! Which appeared 24 times.

Rachel's wardrobe also featured 26 costumes this season, including matching group number outfits, themed looks, and all her potential Maria outfits

And of course it wouldn't be an outfit review if we didn't quantify the colors of her wonderful wardrobe. Have to appreciate them now because New York definitely bleaches out her rainbow a little. But for now...

Rachel rocked every color under the sun this season, but some much more than others. While some people, like myself, might associate her strongly with the color pink, that didn't even crack the top 5 this season

Honorable mentions this season are grey and pink, featured heavily in 16 and 17 outfits, respectively

Fifth place with 20 looks is Navy

Fourth place with 23 looks is Blue

Third place with 30 looks is Red

Second place with 41 looks is White

And in First place with a total of 52 looks is classic Black

And finally, to close out this extra long review, we will conclude with a visual list of my Top 10 Favorite Rachel Outfits of the season

#glee #rachel berry #every rbb outfit #rachelberryedit #mine #my edits #season 3 #this took soooo longggg #also i just horribly miscounted some things and did a recount and got vastly different numbers??? #it was a lot #but i did my best #and i sincerely doubt anyone would go back and check my work so im not too worried lol #also like for the first two seasons i was having to edit my faves down bc there were so many #but this time i was like struggling to decide what to put on there kajsflksfkd #im a sexy schoolgirl librarian chic fan first and foremost #now on to san/tana! #at least there will be less to count

[nbmudkip]

RRRAAAAAHHHHHHHHH FINALLYYYYYY

#me.txt #isat #IT TOOK SO LONGGGG GAHHHHH #and also the one about the coin refused to trigger for me until ACT 4???? HELLO????? #i was so scared bc i thought id missed it somehow despite never using the coin and would have to replay the entire game AGAIN #but i just crossed my fingers and prayed that id already gotten it and just forgot. bc tbf that was pretty probable considering my memory #and then i went to do the last two act 4 exclusives and instead of either of them i immediately got THE MYSTERIOUS MISSING COIN CONVO. LIKE? #im not complaining though thank GOD i dont have to do it all over again #every time i have to beat act 3 i have to take off my headphones and close my eyes or else it gets stuck in my eyelids #the last panel #and the sfx #so im very glad i dont have to do it again.

[thegingergal]

me: i have made my peace with hbo rome’s historical inaccuracies and come to appreciate (some of) them

also me: VORENUS GETS ANTONY’S ICONIC IDES MOMENT?

#like…..i get it!! really i do!!! #the OC has GOT to pay off. #but lmaooooo that the conspirators have a longggg chat about what to do with LUCIUS VORENUS. #plz. these men don’t even know what a “lucius vorenus” is. #and not ONE word (that i caught) about what they’re going to do about antony!!!! #like the show is like. antony is caesar’s right hand man!!! #BUT not in this ep so we’re NOT going to worry about him. #it’s fine. some debt collector will come collect him or something on the ides. the lion tamers need their money. #but that secret that niobe has been keeping?? WOO BOY. #about to pay off narratively baby!!! #i say this entirely with affection. i fucking love this show. #it just REALLY jumped out at me on this watch. how like. obvious vorenus is as antony stand-in and an echo of him at certain points. #sometimes the writing is just….heavy handedly inserting their original characters into the plot #sometimes it pays off and sometimes it’s truly….something else entirely. #so i just throw my hands up and go ok!!!!!

[definitelynotshouting]

hi tem!! 72, 77, 78!!

Ask me fanfic writer questions!

Omg hello!!! Eidnwjdjdj i shouldve guessed i'd get 77 immediately 😂😂😂😂

72.) what do you do if a scene gets too serious?

Generally im almost always aiming for serious on some level, tbh-- thats my favorite thing to write about!! Even while writing comedy, i tend to go for more serious undertones; in the case that im going intentionally for pure humor, though, and the scene comes out a little more serious than intended, i try to dial it back by focusing on banter, adding a bit of humor to the narration itself, and essentially laying the scene out in a way that's intentionally meant to draw your attention to whats supposed to be funny.

On the whole, though, serious scenes are my JAM and i adore writing them, so its not often i run into this problem!!

77.) how do you write kissing scenes?

OH BOY. OKAY. this is the point, i suppose, where i mention the Kissing Seminar.

The Kissing Seminar is a very informal discussion i held in one of my discord servers and later transcribed to a google doc when the topic of how to write kisses came up. Full disclosure: i kiss a lot. I love kissing. Ive kissed a ton of people in my life and i kiss my partner constantly. So when im writing kisses, i am pulling DIRECTLY from my own experiences on how it feels and how i do it (and sometimes i do need refreshers; last time i wrote a kiss i had to pause, kiss my partner for a minute, and then go back to writing. Partner reported being INCREDIBLY confused by the abruptness but was pleased to receive smooches until the next day when i informed them of why, and then they hit me with a pillow SJDNEJDJEJJS 😂😂😂😂)

Anyway, the Kissing Seminar is something ive been meaning to pretty up and post for public consumption time and time again, but havent yet because its just so currently low on the priority list. But it details HOW to kiss, and what to expect, and some options for how to write it if you want to go for something more detailed rather than just saying "they smooched". As a tl;dr, its generally all about body placement, rhythm, and emotions-- and the intermingling between them. If you want to write good kisses, focus on all three of these things, and it'll help you out a lot

78.) how do you choose where to end a chapter?

I go off of instinct, mostly!!! Usually i try to keep my chapters all to a similar length (so for hunger au, im aiming for 4-5k each time), and because i know how long most of my scenes take (about 1-2k depending) im able to round off where things should stop after a certain amount of scenes have been written. Sometimes its not precise, though-- last chapter of litd was meant to have the Pearl conversation fully in it, but Tango ended up being the primary focus, and i couldnt really edit that out without sacrificing a lot. So as soon as i found a good stopping place, i went ahead and finished the chapter.

Good stopping places for me are where a scene naturally ends and begins to transition into a new one-- think like movie clips, or scenes in a play. To continue using hunger au chap 4 as an example, the final "clip" so to speak started with Tango and Grian on the couch, and ended with Tango leaving the set while Pearl took his place. I found this to be a really good natural stopping point for the chapter, because Pearl and Grian's convo is very different from the way Tango and Grian's went, so it requires a different tone and new atmosphere to fully delve into that. I find that when the tone of a scene changes, or something new is happening, or time is shown to have passed in some way, these are naturally good places to stop a chapter.

I think this is often why people will choose to end their chapters with their characters falling asleep-- its a natural transition that people instinctively recognize as moving things forward, so it acts as a way to separate one scene from the next. The problem with relying on that alone though is that it can become very repetitive, so its important to be able to start pinpointing all your transition sentences or paragraphs so you can find other places and ways to end chapters and add in some variety

As with all things, though, this isnt a hard and fast rule; i can think of several ways one might want to lean on that for thematic purposes, or using it as a motif, or just a particular expression of style. Really what it comes down to is what you want from your story, and the best ways to achieve that; a good editor in particular will help you find a way to do that. Wkdnwke sorry this became sort of a very extended ramble, but as a professional editor and a longtime writer i find the subject fascinating and feel like mechanics like this arent really talked about often enough. Anyway thank you for listening to my little soapbox if you read all the way through, and thank you so much for the questions!!!!! :DD

#shouting speaks #asks #ask game #THISS GOT SO LONGGGG IM SO SORRY #long post #writing #hunger au #figured i'd tag that since im discussing parts of it in depth here #anyway uhhhh if anyone ever wants to ask me questions on writing mechanics i will be so happy to ramble #i have saur many thoughts and i love analyzing how these things work #<- autism special interest is winning today fr fr #txt

[niconebula]

Going into Season 3, one dynamic I need to see is Amity and Camila becoming a really close 'mother and "daughter-in-law"' duo.

Camila would just adore the everloving crap out of Amity; anyone who makes her daughter happy makes Camila happy, but also their personalities would mesh extremely well together in my opinion. Lots of people view Hunter as 'would-be Mom #2' because he's the oldest and has been in a position of authority, but he now has the rest of the kids to mess around with and the show'll probably give him a break to let his hair down and rest. Wheras Amity can take up her bossy mantle again, but not in a mean or agressive way. Keeping things in check and organized is just Amity's way of coping with a stressful situation. And it would also allow her to get closer to Luz's family.

Amity's actively learning Spanish, and I can vividly see her helping out with meals and learning Dominican cooking from Camila, who's more than happy to share with such an enthusiastic student. In a meta sense I think they'll be using this return to the human world as a vehicle to showcase more of Luz's Dominican background so it checks out. I'd love to see Camila begin to have more interest in witches and the Boiling Isles through the kids as well.

We also just have the more sentimental notion of Amity never really having a guiding mother figure. Of Luz being implied to never have had many friends, and Camila likely seldom having the chance to interact or bond with any of them, let alone a romantic interest of her daughter's. With Luz's depression seemingly getting worse, both of them understand intimately what her struggles have been, and Amity in particular is aware of Luz's fear of dissapointing her mother. They represent what she loves both about the demon realm and the human world.

For ameliorating their relationship, Camila will see especially through Amity that Luz is loved and cared for by people strong enough to protect her - yet share a vested interest in not wanting to separate her from her roots. Amity can communicate to Camila things that Luz may be too afraid to bring up herself when she's caught up in her own clouded judgement.

I believe they're setting this up already - Amity is the only one (with them right now) who knows about Luz' dad, who was explicitly invited to visit the human realm, who's learning Spanish, etc. It would just be so adorable. And I think the two of them would form the backbone of the team which eventually pulls a drowning Luz out of the water, so to speak.

#the owl house #camila noceda #amity blight #luz noceda #this got longggg but its so..... cute! ive thought about it a lot and i will melt #i can imagine camila showing amity luz's baby pictures & amity is like #omg adorable give me now #the third daughter atp

[waspgrave]

Making a shifter girl but I can’t decide a color scheme so look at this

#she has LONGGGG hair #either a sorcerer or warlock 🤔 #playing dnd #prawn posts #probably going to have a sidecut too #the person who got mad at me for saying they're an 'eh' hairstyle will be so happy

[iobartach]

have a quick(?) rambling / shallow(?) dive on the verses i got for this blog, bc boi i got some thinkings ;

soo i've got three 'core' canon..ish... verses so to say, which are;

comhrá an bhaile mhóir seo

pre-atsv miguel, covering young!miguel, alchemax!miguel, vigilante!miguel, etc. all earth-928 based. basically covers everything before he goes messing with multi-verse tech. probs will be slightly more quippy & approachable here? i just can't write quips to save my life. 🥴bourbon's human!lyla also plays a big role in this, they're quite close!! as for the inclusions of dana.... hah :') xina though, yes. he still despises both george & tyler with a passion, and relations with... conchata... and also even gabriel are, for this verse... rockyyy... to say the least.

trasnaigh an rubaicón

the main boi. and the default verse for crossovers especially. atsv based, with miguel being a leader and an absolutely changed and grieving man. i'm really enjoying putting him all over the place, especially in the present. take heed around him. main objective is stopping anomalies, and making sure more dimensions don't, uh,,, get destroyed,,, also gabriel's still alive... r-right, movie? you wouldn't kill him off too,,, would you, movie? :')))

fear as am

kind of one aimed mostly at 616 / comics things. might occasionally use this at random, but it's more for interactions with chars who are 616 based and not mcu / movie affiliated. my spin on this is it follows the premise of necessary evil , where stone basically fucks him over and strands him in the past, but with atsv!mig instead of comics!mig. still ironing out the details how this happened. (maybe the portal functionality of his dimensional gizmo got blocked or something?) idk, still needs work!

now for the au's!!!

an chéad chéim eile

prototype au. absolutely hit the ground running with this! tysm, sen! premise is miguel becomes an evolved -- replete with all the body horror such a transformation could possibly entail ( read - he gets spidery limbs 👀 ) i gotta yell at u, sen & abraxas (heyo 👋) more about this, but if more folks are also interested... hmu 👀

is fearr a fhios ag athair

a venture crafted w/ gabriella-trn1042's spider!gabri. alt take on atsv verse, whilst also amping up the 'miguel goes fucking around with genetics again' vibes. as close to villain!miguel as i might dare get, with the core premise of miguel turning a variant gabriella into a spider creature , with mig himself doing a good ol' heel-monster turn himself. loaded with angst and body horror. heavy on 'the fly' vibes, if you've seen that movie. been thinking of opening this up to other plots, if i can keep the core of this au intact... any takers? 🤔 gonna add a caveat tho that anything for this verse will likely need to be plotted.

laoch imithe dul ar strae

overwatch au. i... had a kernel of an idea for this verse... but i forgot to write it down. 🥴 may need to work shop this -- think i had the vague idea of saying it's scientist!miguel w/ gene implanting work existing in this au, but makes him a target of talon and the like?

lúb bheag i slabhra mór

kinddd of a corpo!miguel / cyberpunk 2077 au? might just split this out into separate verses eventually, but this is one that i'm currently trying to cook up ( inspiration is... mmm :') ) basic premise for this , if leaning into cyberpunk 2077 side, is miguel's an arasaka stooge, with links to the relic biochip. ik, ik.. i... need to work on it. 🥴

ocras buile

bleach au. basically zombie!miguel, turned by contact with sternritter gigi's / giselle's blood, when alive. that's... about the extent of what i have for now,,,, needa plot / use it more!

ag troid ar nós an

kengan ashura au. made simply bc i could and i just,,, loved the thought of having miguel brawl for alchemax ,,, sue me ,,, 👀 i could also go the whole nine yards and say that, pssst, maybe miguel's a corporate raider in this au, enhanced by his one gene imprinting tech ... trust me, give me an inch, i'll take a damn mile 😂so if anyone's interested...? 👀

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anddd that's it for now!!! will there be more au's in future? probably! i just can't think of anything extra, aside from a wrestler au?

i'm always open to ideas and suggestions for aus tho? 👀 even if i don't know the fandom, i might still give it a try! you never know!!

#ramblings #important #christ this got longggg #but yh *waves hand @ this* #my name's nix and i'm out here thriving from exploring these various verses! #ty to everyone putting up with my random ideas lol

[babydxhl]

❛ don’t worry, i’m staying right here. ❜

soft sentence starters | still accepting.

There's a tiny stained glass window set into the space above the front door, and from where they sit in the living room Mary can see the little panes of colour stretching out over the floorboards, lit not by the sun but by a street lamp outside. A mosaic of white roses. White roses for silence. That had struck Mary as funny the first time she'd seen it — like a metaphor for omerta, embedded into the very foundation of her surrogate, west coast home.

Watching the light now she says: "I know."

Quiet, easy confidence. Entitlement to others' time elevated to the point of love. She turns her head to look at Star, thinks here-til-sun-up, and settles her chin in her palm, resting an elbow on the arm of the couch.

She says: "They're not going to kick the door down and throw me on a plane tonight."

Or throw her in the back of a car and drive all the way back across the country. Or throw her in a bag and toss her off the end of the pier like some unwanted small animal. Or just shoot her dead in the hall, leave her and the little white rose panes to crumble into nothing. Mary has considered these options — she is a snitch now, and though her friends expect nothing less of each other, there is still the matter of keeping up appearances.

"It's just a formality," she says after a beat, not for the first time, as if she is the diplomatic lawyer, and Star is the stubborn client, unwilling to take the plea deal. "They make their threats, I go away for a while, and when I come back it all gets settled, reasonably."

#;;ask. #this got longggg I'm sorry #pierprincess

[saelique]

cinna how many piercings do you have 👀👀

I HAVE 2 !!! > < one on both ears <33 wbu lar :0

#‧₊˚ ♡ ⋅ : darling lar #⋆ ˚｡ ﹆⋆˚ ɞ ：a new letter ? #I got them a long longggg time ago :3

[epiclamer]

Now that I’m finally back from being sick and my exams (i still have two 🤪). What would you guys like to see?

#up to yall #sorry for taking so longggg #i know lame #i got the flu #no writing