Your porn has to have a really specific vibe to pull off using the word “pleasure” without it sounding cringe.
not being in any of the same fandoms as your mutuals but being excited for/with them when something happens within said fandoms
the upside-down sunglasses are what really sells it
incredible levels of whimsy
Does Eddie know he's like the Princess Diana of wrestling tumblr
I LOVE THESE OUTFITS
Win the big one, boys
I love everything about this but especially "this is NOT piss" "it might be piss" "it's not piss" "are you sure?"
For the parallelism: 34 and 43
From the ask game here
34. What was the hardest scene you ever had to write?
I’m going to say that’s not asking about all the many WIP scenes I’m currently stuck on 😂 My gut instinct was to say the first time I ever wrote a sex scene but honestly even that wasn’t super hard in the end, I was just anxious about it. I’d say the scene that emotionally wrecked me the most personally was the climax of the ghost Troy fic, that’s the first and only time I’ve made myself cry writing something. In terms of technical difficulty, I once wrote a werewolf AU of The Pacific and it very faithfully followed canon, to the point that I would run the DVD while writing and I’d keep playing and pausing it as I wrote out the action scenes and cross-referenced it to memoirs and online sources. That was a little exhausting and took a lot of organization and research to figure out.
43. What do you do if/when characters don’t follow the outline?
This happens in most of my fics, which is why I’m almost exclusively a linear writer. This week not withstanding, I almost never write scenes out of the order that you’d read them, because I know that the fic may have evolved a lot by the time I actually get to the later scenes, and I hate then not being able to use them, or having to do heavy editing to make it fit.
Honestly I don’t use very detailed outlines because of this. I often only have a vague idea of an ending, or I have the beginning and the ending and have to figure out the middle to connect the two, but I do it exactly because of this.
shelley really went "when you're under my roof you follow my rules and i say it's the shellshock. also learn to clean your room better young man"
stoppp you're embarassing him 😭
I said I was finishing my Bullet Club Gold Old West AU fic today and I did!...not! But I finished the first half and it's over 7k so that's something, right?
As discussed here, Billy Gunn is an outlaw-turned-sheriff who spurns his sons and hires some randos from Long Island as his new deputies. His sons are angry and hurt and heartbroken when Jay White swoops in and asks if anyone else was planning on raising these baby gunslingers (and then didn't wait for an answer).
Or, as I tagged it on AO3, found family, as in, Jay White found a family and said this is mine now.
Chapter 2 is now posted here. Of 3, because I can't count. Whoops.
Basics 10, specifics 15
From the ask game here
10. Do you set yourself deadlines?
No because I always fail. Even when I try to get something done for someone's birthday I almost always miss the date. To explain how bad I am at keeping writing deadlines: in 2014 I wrote a fic that I intended to be the first part of a trilogy. It wasn't until 2017 that I wrote the second part, and at the time I made what I thought was a joke that I'd see everyone in three years with the third part because haha SURELY it won't take me that long. 2020 hits. People actually ask me if I'm done the fic yet because RIP @ me and I'm like haha no sorry it will be another three years.
It has been four years since then. People still ask me if the three years is up yet. The third fic? It's half a page long.
So yes. I don't set up dates anymore, and I no longer talk about fics I think I'm going to write because it inevitably doesn't work out and people get disappointed. (I'm talking about you, Ovi's perspective of the divorce fic.)
15. How do you deal with writer’s block?
Poorly! I've barely written in the past few years. I have all these WIPs and I psych myself out of finishing them and then just start a new WIP I also do not finish. Honestly somehow I was more productive as a writer in college when I had MORE things to do than I am now as someone with a relatively open schedule. Until I got into wrestling I'd published like less than 15k in two years.
(The nice answer to this is: try to let yourself write it poorly and come back and edit it later. But I usually just reread what I wrote for the fiftieth time and close the doc.)
18, 21, 31 for the writing asks
From the ask game here
18. If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about?
I'd have to say my partner in crime @flufflybunnypants because we've shared a lot of Sharks AUs over the years - the previously mentioned Teddy Bear's Picnic AU, the Sharks OT4 AU, the Bruins Are Cursed To Turn Into Bears AU. And a lot of others that exist solely in our text messages. So it would be @flufflybunnypants, and something about the Sharks. Probably an AU. Probably something supernatural going on because that's our jam. And I'd be like a cat slowly knocking everyone's shit off the counter and leaving problems in my wake, and xe'd be the one to come after me having to fix it all, as per usual.
21. Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write?
Of all the characters I've ever written, I often say that James Neal is my comfort character. I've written him a lot and I like my characterization of him and feel comfortable doing it. In a general sense I like writing the Sharks. I like Jumbo and my anxious Kevin Labanc. Though recently I've been really proud of my Austin Gunn characterization in my old west AU, I feel like I may end up doing more of that because it's fun to explore. (Also I'm actually super proud of the evil Jay White scene I wrote last night so add him to the list.)
31. Least favourite part of writing
The part where I have to write what I want and can't just beam the movie in my head into everyone else's brains.
Longer answer, sometimes I really build up a story in my head in terms of what I want it to be and I psych myself out of writing it because I feel like I have to achieve some impossible standard and that I'm letting people down or not doing the story justice if I do it incorrectly. And the impostor syndrome takes over and I just don't write at all because it feels like if i can't do it right I just shouldn't. That happens with things like the rest of the Herb's fics and my Caps Cowboy AU which is why they've been on hold for years. I feel like I can never make them look as good as they look in my head.