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@panda-magic09-blog

Hi so basically this is going to be a whatever-post-fangirl-thingy, and it will include a lot of fangirling over things like Star Wars, Disney and The Hunger Games and stories of my stupidity and weirdness. Please enjoy.
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what on earth

please if you do anything useful in your life, don’t scroll past this

watch it

PLEASE

tchaikovsky is proud

In case anyone is baffled by this, there’s a Tchaikovsky piece in which there’s supposed to be a loud sound but he never specified what you should use to make that sound. People have done all kinds of weird shit depending on how they think the sound should, well, sound. Hitting a large piece of wood with a sledgehammer is a relatively conventional one.

this is beautiful.

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melodyoffire

just in case anyone wanted to listen to the difference on a loop like I have been for the past 15 minutes, here you go:

malicious vs triumphant

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Anonymous asked:

Hi!!! You’re one of my absolute favorite writers (although I have yet to touch Serendipity, but that’s just because I don’t like reading fics that aren’t done) but I’m working on my first ever fic and I was wondering how you’d go about planning out a fic??

Hey there, anon!! I’m one of your favorite…sdfkjhaskldfhka WHAT. 

ma duuude…I am so flattered! Thank you! Wow…I’m smiling so much. 

And no worries about not having read Serendipity yet. I totally understand! :) I hope you enjoy it when I eventually finish it.

This is such a great question! 

So, when I’m planning out a multi-chapter fic, I start by brainstorming different plot points and the main conflict. Once I have the main conflict set, I start connecting ways to eventually reach that and connect all the plot points together to reach a satisfying/happy ending (cause I am ALL about those). 

After this, I look at my characters and decide what kind of internal conflict I want them to go through as well and how I want them to overcome it. 

And because I’m cruel, I also think about what I want my characters to want and how I can take that away from them while still making it tie in with the conflict/plot. 

I am one of those writers who have REALLY extensive outlines so once I’ve set the main plot points in the beginning, middle, and the end then I create an outline. 

My outline has a ton of different things: 

  • Basic information like setting, time period, list of characters, and my main plot points summarized. 
  • Character bios for my main characters (so I have bios for Hiccup/Astrid that are really detailed and list everything from their name/age to their likes/dislikes). I also have short bios for the secondary characters. 
  • I have pages and pages of reference photos of different places that take place in the story along with outfit designs and such. 
  • Then I separate my plot points into the beginning/middle/end and get pretty detailed on that. 
  • And what follows that is a description of what happens in each chapter. This part ALWAYS changes around once I eventually start writing because sometimes the story takes me places I didn’t see coming and I have to rearrange things to make it work. 

So, this pretty much how I plan out a multi-chapter fic! 

When I’m writing one-shots, I usually just have a prompt/some burst of inspiration. But one thing I like to try and establish in each one is a theme that I can tie into the whole thing and then I go from there! 

Thank you so much for this ask. It was really fun writing out what my process is like since I usually just do it and not really…think about it. HAHA 

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saieras

How to Train Your... Parents??

Summary: Zephyr & Nuffink somehow travel back in time to the beginning of the first movie. Chaos ensues.

Note: Based on the prompt by @astridthevalkyrie (arrgh still can’t tag you sorry) and @aleteia-ff.

CH2: How to kidnap your father

Start from CH1. Next CH.

The dragon went off eastward. Hiccup is sure of it.

The afternoon breeze is refreshing, though the woods remain misty at this eykt of day. By the time he trudges past Raven Point, his fur vest is damp with dew, and absently he wrings at its fringes as he makes his way down the rocky landscape.

He doesn’t quite know what drove him to come back here. Surely by now the dragon’s long gone, flown back to its Nest. Maybe it’ll even meet his father, assuming the man has better luck finding the damned place this time round. Hiccup is doubtful, though, and perhaps that’s for the better. As much as they don’t get along… Hiccup would very much prefer Dad alive, and not burnt to crisp by dragonfire.

He sighs.

All morning his conscience gnaws at him. Summer is supposed to be the season of harvest, the season of plenty, but here, in the Archipelago, it’s the season of fire. The warm climate seems to spur on the beasts, and during a particularly bad spell, they may get up to two raids a week. Everyone has heard those tragic tales, of Tribes losing half their stores during summer… which meant losing half their people during winter.

And Sólmánuður, midsummer, is the most dangerous moon of them all.

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