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Let the world be done with me.

@a-lost-illusion / a-lost-illusion.tumblr.com

Fandom and fanfic blog for Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991).
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All my fanfics in one place!

To all my followers looking to kill time during the coronavirus outbreak, here are some links to my best multi-chapter BatB fanfics for you to read over at your convenience. Please remember to leave a review/comment if you enjoyed any of these stories. Reblogging isn’t necessary, but appreciated :)

Après L'Enchantement - A mostly fluffy fanfic that explores Belle and the Prince’s relationship after the enchantment. As my first multi-chapter entry to this fandom, it’s definitely not my best work, but it still gets a lot of traffic to this day. 

Chanson Éternelle - A collection of unrelated one-shots, mostly about Belle and the Beast's lives before, during and after the 1991 film. 

The Master of My Fate - A loophole in the Beast's magic book allows him to travel back in time to prevent his curse from happening. But what starts as a simple journey to correct the past ends up becoming far more than what he bargained for. Experimental 2017 AU. Also available on FFN.

Nature Points the Way - After five years of separation, Belle and her prince must learn to open their hearts to each other once again. Novella length sequel to The Master of My Fate.

A Prince in Disguise - The Beast gets a reprieve on his curse, but will he find out if Belle truly loved him? Meanwhile, Gaston will do anything to make Belle his wife. Alternate ending to the 1991 movie. Also see Afterglow for an alternate take on Chapter 21. 

Sleep Well, My Angel - The Beast's wounds don't magically heal after he transforms, leaving a distraught Belle to watch over him while he recovers. Alternate ending to the 1991 film.

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littlebirdofprey

those posts criticizing common writing patterns in fanfiction are so fucking harmful and they ruined me

so like yknow what??? People tell you to avoid “smirk” and “chuckle” as descriptors because no one does those things (???) but then when I need to use those words I have a ten minute crisis about how I’m a shitty writer. So heres my unwarranted writing advice: If you want your characters to smirk and chuckle fucking let them and don’t let anyone tell you that no one smirks or chuckles because I do both on a daily basis whenever I tell a shitty pun, bye 

Edgy fanfiction critics can eat my entire ass.

Like y’all have never had a chuckle? For shame

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crystaltoa

” nobody does that”, Well sure, maybe nobody does that when YOU’RE in the room, buddy…

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ihni

I smirk and I chuckle and I toe off my shoes and I card my fingers through my own hair (don’t have anyone else to do it to, but if I had, I would) and when I’m angry I growl (or wish I could, at least) and I pop the P when I say Yep. And even if I DIDN’T do all those things, the characters I write do, because fuck the language police, it’s my fic.

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findingfeather

I honestly hated those BS things when they started coming out of not just fanfic but pro writing advice back in the 90s and 00s.

That’s how long I’ve been holding a grudge against Blanket General Absolutist Writing Advice, by the way. Thirty years now. People would post it on writing lists, or on message boards and I would be the only one going “okay except how the fuck else do you describe that”. Certain Fucking People’s much-vaunted “lists” of how a whole bunch of shit was stupid. Endless complaints about “emerald eyes” with “lololol so sharp edged and glass-looking?” and oh my god how about you fuck off.

And yes, before you go there: I do know the stuff they were reacting to, and the overwhelming trends, and the so forth and so on, and this was still the stupid, wrong way to approach the issue.

  1. Half the time the “purple” prose they were complaining about was literally a deliberate genre feature. You don’t have to LIKE it, but at some point complaining about metaphorical or evocative or otherwise lush language is like complaining about Cats in the Cat Cafe: just stop going to the fucking Cat Cafe, it’s a cafe for cats, what the fuck did you expect to find here, why did you think you’d be able to avoid cats. If you do not like chocolate maybe don’t go to the chocolate festival!
  2. There are almost always examples of the metaphor or whatever that were given a pass and people would bend over BACKWARDS to find a reason but the reason, when it came down to it, is “it was to my taste here/I thought it worked here, I didn’t think it worked over here.” There might be other reasons that it worked or didn’t. (“This character’s narrative voice has been absolutely pragmatic and blunt prose until now and suddenly his love interest has cerulean orbs, what the fuck”.) It might just be a word you personally hate, or a construction you dislike. That’s fine! But an Absolute Truth does not arise from a question of taste.
  3. Again: this is a taste issue. I used to get into huge fights about it being a taste issue at the time, and I will still fight you about it now. Certain tastes can and will become dominant in a cultural zeitgeist (ie more people will have a taste for X or Y or Z kind of prose or even X or Y or Z kind of food in a particular cultural context) and so you will have a better chance of appealing to more people if you follow the current tastes but it’s all fluid, it’s all flexible, and it’s all subjective.

Potentially useful advice on the subject is going to a) come from someone whose taste you care about (ie this is the kind of person you’re writing for), and b) is going to be specific - “I think this piece of yours is using this kind of thing too often and it’s getting distracting” or “I feel like using ‘chuckle’ here gives the wrong vibe/imagery” or whatever. And note I said POTENTIALLY. And that’s for EDITING.

For writing use whatever word is gonna get you to the next word, you can fix it later.

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It's taken me over a month just to churn out 3,000 words. But progress is progress?

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no-context wip tag game

Rules: If you’re tagged, make a new post and share one or two sentences (or lines for artists) from your most recent unposted WIP with zero context.

(This is more than two sentences, but it felt necessary to keep the first paragraph so the dialogue could be understood better).

I tag: Anyone else who has a WIP and wants to do this!

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Rewatching the "come to dinner" scene from the 1991 film, and it's occurred to me that the Beast, on top of being very stressed about hosting this young woman and potential spell breaker under short notice, was probably super hangry the whole time he was waiting for Belle to come downstairs. I mean, if I'd had to wait an extra hour to eat so my guest could get ready, only to learn that she’d decided not to show up, I'd probably lose my temper too, lol.

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enchantcdrose

y’all think belle ever comes home from the village to adam doing shit like this

he still has Beast Posture™️ and has to consciously walk up stairs on two legs instead of all fours

(art by me)

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ad-wills

writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.

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ineffectualdemon

I got in a passionate defense for the beast the other day and I'm now going to inflict it on Tumblr

People love to say that the Beast was abusive to Belle and say the relationship is Stockholm syndrome

But in the actual movie* he is absolutely not abusive

So when Maurice shows up he is technically trespassing and the Beast does have the authority as a member of the aristocracy to detain him (I'm not saying he should have that authority I'm just saying he does)

He then allows Belle to take his place and yeah he's rude about it but with the fact she volunteered + the curse he gives her a nice room.

He even gives her permission to explore except for one wing of the palace which he asks her not to

He then invites her to dinner badly because he is not good at socialising and throws a fit but he then leaves. He shouts and roars but leaves and doesn't keep bothering her. Is he a dick here? Absolutely but this is spoiled young lord stuff

Then when she explores she immediately invades his privacy by going into the ONE place he asked her not to go where she messes with the thing that's controlling his curse

Of course he fucking yells at her!

If someone came into my house and started rooting through my bedroom and touching all my most important shit I would yell at them too! He is perfectly justified to yell at her to get the hell out! She's the one being a dick here!

And he didn't hit her! He threw shit sure which is over the top but as soon as she runs out he's like "ah fuck. I took it to far"

Then after he saves her from the wolves and she gets him back she tells him off for scaring her and tells him to cut that shit out and hes like "ok. Fair point." AND HE DOESNT KEEP YELLING AT HER

HE SHOWS HER THE LIBRARY

HE PLAYS IN THE SNOW

HE GENTLY FEEDS THE BIRDS

When she sees that her dad is sick he immediately tells her she should go to him and does not expect her to ever come back

This is not an abusive person!

He's someone with really bad emotional deregulation who really fucking works on that!

But the whole fucking difference between him and Gaston is The Beast listens to Belle and actively learns and grows whereas Gaston doesn't

*note: I do not consider the direct to video movies canon. I have not watched them and I will not watch them. So ignore them please as we are only analysing the original Disney movie

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