#;; Sounds Right... { musings }

[words-are-fireproof]

I haven't even made it to Jack Abbot's reappearance in The Pitt but I already love him and want to write for him. Help.

[racke7]

I'm not some kind of super-authority on fanfiction-writing. I've been doing it for sixteen years, so I've seen a lot of weird shit, but my words on the subject are inevitably subjective.

That said:

Don't add random AU-twists to your story.

If you want to write an AU? More power to you, have fun. But if you're writing a fic where "during X, Y happens"? If you start adding shit completely unrelated to Y (or the ripples that could be expected from such a thing)? Then you're just lying to your readers about what your story is actually about, and that's... not a good look.

Like, as an example:

A summary that says "Upon receiving OFA, Izuku discovers he's always had a quirk", and a story that starts out with how Izuku and Mei met as kids and they've been childhood-friends all along? Not cool.

Mei-Izuku as childhood-friends is delightful, don't get me wrong. But it's not even close to the story you promised with your summary.

"Mei and Izuku's childhood-plans of a quirkless gundam-pilot are put on hold when Izuku not only receives a quirk, but discovers that he's already had one inside of him all along"

Great. Would read it and be delighted by both the Mei-Izuku relationship (and possible extra-friends they might've picked up during their weird early-friendship) and the new quirk (what that quirk is, how All-Might reacts, etc).

But if you in that fic you start adding things that aren't related to those diverging moments? Then you're right back at effectively lying about what your story is about.

And part of the problem with that is that it can easily lead to your reader not trusting your ability to tell a story. After all, if you can't even keep consistent with what your story is about, how can we expect it to follow the internal consistency (plot, characters, etc) that any good story needs?

And once you lose the faith of your readers? They're just going to stop reading, because it'll stop being fun.

[marigoldbaker]

it is so goofy how excited i get about my birthday when i realize that no one is going to forcibly throw me a party against my will and then get really mad at me for not enjoying it. like oh my god i get to do whatever i want tomorrow! for real! not fake!

[killedbythegroove]

people died.

[mercysought]

❝ It's the world. You're made of it. Every day you're out there you make more of yourself from it. I'm afraid you can't be unmade now. ❞ for elgar’nan

DISCO ELYSIUM // accepting . @hoboblaidd

   "Exactly."

It was bound. It had made muscle and it held its shape, it was warm blood and the way that it pumped just underneath such a thin layer of flesh. The warmth upon one's skin.

Elgar'nan had attempted to climb atop the first mountain he had ever seen. He had done so right after feeling how steady his feet had been upon the world and how welcoming it had been to him. He had walked through the valley and felt the chill take his body, it had stunned him to feel it so, thinking of the small figures that had crawled from the earth to climb. He had waited for them, waiting in the shadow and in the cold as he saw the Sun paint the edges, shine brightly against the snow covering its face and top. The Children of Stone never came.

He had stayed in the shadow, waiting, growing impatient. He had moved towards the same caves he had watched them come; he had peeked his head in but only cold, deep darkness that welcomed him. He would one day delve deep into those caves himself, but he would not be young anymore.

Once the silence lingered and wrapped itself like darkness itself around his body and heart, he turned away. His hands had felt the jagged edges against the flesh, tore through it. The red that spilled from his body made his heart beat only faster, ears ringing. Hands shaking. He had discovered something, something important that day. Though he hadn't know or understood exactly what. It would be something that would forever define him, long after such a wound had healed.

He did not climb the mountain on that day.

Elgar'nan smiles openly, a hint of pride just on the curl of his lip, on the edge of his sharpened teeth. In the weight of his hand against Wisdom's shoulder as he walks away.

   "Perhaps you are finally getting it, little hound."

[enigmaticvariation]

does anyone else feel like they're gonna explode or is it just me and patrick stump...

[hatigave-a]

imma say something controversial ( brave of me at 6am ) but the rpc should embrace being unhinged more

[zantedeschia-praesul]

What does your soul look like?

an ancient tree with gnarled branches

You are the old soul. You are a being full of quiet wisdom, but it did not come without earning it. Experience has weathered you quickly, yet you remain strong through it all. You are a bastion to those who need the support of a calm and resolute mind. The histories of the world are etched beneath your thick skin, and you hold dearly to things that others would quickly forget. You collect things within your branches, you give home to those left without, and you bear the weight of it all. But through all you have been through, you have not yet learned how to let go. You refuse to relinquish what you cherish so dearly and weep for every precious thing that falls from your branches. You must be careful, or else the past you cling to might destroy a brighter future.

Tagged by: @captastrophe

Tagging: @theprincescourt @saniwakenji and all of u! :3c

[salvadorbonaparte]

lmao apparently the German dub of sympathy for mr vengeance doesn't include translations for Ryu's dialogue which is certainly a Choice

[dollofiacon]

What Kind of ‘I love you’ are you?

Mourningstar’s result

Yoinked from @viciousbite

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do this!

[setaflow]

A friend is trying very hard to convince me to start donating plasma (he gets a referral bonus if he signs someone up) and ngl the idea of using it to pay for less important things like books and art commissions is appealing if only for the fact that I get to say "Yeah I'm paying for this with blood money"

[mad-hunts]

this may be rather unexpected, yes, but i am currently living for a thought i just had this morning - and it is related to the energy that barton brings to his clinic whenever another character's partner is being a jerk and trying to minimize their pain + just starting an argument with them in general. because barton will hit him with this little number right here and it works every time 'hey... sir/ma'am/mix, this office CAN do a lot - but it can't fix your attitude so i'm gonna have to ask you to leave or i'll have you escorted out :D'

[werewolfbarista]

man i don't have any fucking energy lately . can hardly do anything i actually enjoy because everything just takes Too Much

[lokisasylum]

Play this at my funeral Pt. II

[pokimoko]

Listening to instrumentals from the silly doo-wee-ooo show is actually something that can be so painful.

[tanzoshi]

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