#Manuel talking

[loveyoohyeon]

I am thinking about Luthen and wondering how he would've looked at the destruction of Alderaan. We've seen him wanting Ghorman to fight back, to go down. For people to get more angry.

But still the ghorman massacre and an entire planet being destroyed are two different things. What would he think seeing that? what would he think seeing the death star destroyed?

[loveyoohyeon]

that first writer is literally me

Fanfiction is great because you can see so clearly how people learn to write.

Some people, it's clear, learned almost entirely through absorbing the world around them. Grammar and punctuation will be all over the place, spellings are approximate, but the voice of the narration will come through so clearly. You can hear the dialect of the people around them as of they're telling the story. It's not a written story, it's a transcription of how they talk in their day to day life.

Some people learned through reading a gazillion books as a kid. Grammer and spelling will be rock solid, formatting occasionally based on the single tab of physical books rather than the double tab of online scrolling, but dialogue is often stilted and overly formal. You might notice a lack of contractions and very rigid rules they made for consistency that actually have a lot more flexibility than they think. They tend to have a fantastic grasp of sentence flow, though.

And other people formally learned how to write. This could be anywhere from taking school classes seriously because they enjoyed writing stories as a kid to literal certifications and jobs in the field. Grammer is flawless. Punctuation is triple checked. Foreign words are in italics. Characters have distinct voices. But their self indulgence is tempered by perfectionism. They know precisely what they want from a fic. Authors notes often feature mutterings about their happiness with the chapter. Kaomojis often appear! They seek a style to their writing, and it makes for some wonderfully clever plots! These are the ones most likely to get fun with formatting!

And some people.... Some people examined it all. They dissect dialogue, people watch, cross reference behaviours and compare characters to people irl. You can tell almost immediately who had formative experiences with Terry pratchett and/or ghibli, because it's these people. While others see writing as fun, expression, craft, they see it as art. Plain and simple. Sure, the grammar is occasionally sacrificed on the altar of creative freedom, and the occasional sentence might miss a full stop, but these people seem to self reflect on themselves as part of the art making process. On occasion, these people have the most masterful grasp of dialogue and invocation and hand sewn characterisations. Formatting is pretty standard because all the focus is on the actual words. These fics can be edited to the moon and back!

All of these can vary wildly in forethought and quality, and betas can often catch individual problems before they hit post, but just. Isn't it so cool? What's that one Oscar Wilde quote about every mask just being another fragment of yourself?

Did you recognise yourself?

[loveyoohyeon]

rewatched episode 5 with my friend, and wdym I forgot like half of the movie, wdym luke slept in a tauntaun, wdym luke and han look at each other very lovingly. Wdym People think Yoda is just a puppet, wdym

[levithestripper]

i too would turn evil if my father was lin-manuel miranda

[savvysquid]

The Hamilton cast sure loves Sesame Street

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

this is your daily reminder that Eisa Davis also wrote Warriors

even in the professional interviews i'm finding, everyone just wants to talk to LMM and talk about LMM, and he's pretty cool but we're not gonna forget a Black woman wrote half of this, yeah? we good? good

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

So there I was, howling outside her door, right? ...

so there i was, wiggling,

tonee you cannot comprehend how hard i laughed when i saw your ask. thank you so so much

[a-girl-in-neverland]

you know what, i dont want a whole book about finnick, or mags, or johanna

i want suzanne to write "excerps of katniss and peeta's memoir book"

short stories, a couple of chapters in each story, multiples pov's

we could get to know mags and finnick through annie, we could learn more about johanna, clerk clermine could tell us more about the covey, effie could describe how's the capitol after the war ended

i would even read something from the pov of snow's grandaughter (i dont think shes ever mentioned in the books) but i feel she could be an interesting character to read about

And most importantly, we could get a PEETA POV!!!!!!!!!!!

(Also: if any fanfic writers comes across this, feel free to use it and please send me the link because i would love to read it)

[loveyoohyeon]

that is literally who I am

you need to develop obsessions with strange niche content

[nixon-official]

BLAZING A FAT ONE AND LISTENING TO HAMILTON FOR YOU @lifedoesntdiscriminate YOU MAGIC!!!!!

[nikisdaughter]

Juan Manuel Fangio and Ayrton Senna

🇦🇷 🇧🇷

[eratos-girlfriend]

Tagged by @sopheadraws 👑👑👑

(I love music games so much!!!)

I would like to inform you all that my playlist is 66 hours long and I have a diverse palette so I am not responsible if The Cast Of My Little Pony Equestrian Girls 2 covers a Frank Ocean song or something

1. Johnnie Taylor’s cover of Vienna (by Billy Joel)

Okey this is insane this would be so good it would be different but still preserve the original feeling (I need this actually)

2.Hadestown Broadway Original Cast’s cover of Rehab (by Amy Winehouse)

ANOTHER MASTERPIECE like the fates would kill those ‘no, no, no’ s. Like this would be a fates heavy song with others chiming in and I would be obsessed thank you very much 🙏🙏

3. Rachel Zegler’s cover of Alejandro (by Lady Gaga)

I have never heard her sing a song badly but this song won’t go well with her voice. I think an acoustic version with harmonies would be good tho. (The more I imagine a soft acoustic version more I want it)

4. Billie Eilish’s cover of Hound Dog (by Big Mama Thornton)

no

5.Robert Cray, The Robert Cray Band’s cover of No More Rain (In This Cloud) (by Angie Stone)

I think it would be good but I feel like he would make small changes to the instrumentals don’t know what else to say about it

6. Lana Del Rey’s cover of Dance With You Tonight (by Laufey)

I think it would be different definitely darker/moodier but I love the original too much so I kinda think she wouldn’t do it justice especially if it was live cause I feel like the way she sings and the playfulness in her voice is very integral to the songs whole identity

7. Beyoncé’s cover of Forgiveness (by Rina Sawayama)

weirdly a huge YES from me I think she would lower the sound of the instrumentals and focus on her vocals which she would destroy (of course)“Sometimes I blame you sometimes I don’t” especially could be very lemonade

8. Hozier’s cover of Diamonds and Rust (by Joan Baez)

amazing. no notes. perfection. hozier covers are my mental health treatment

9. (again!!) Hozier’s cover of WAP (by Cardi B, Megan Thee Stalion)

I am conflicted…. slay?

10. (again!!?!!) Hozier’s cover of Nothing You Can Take Away From Me (Boot-Stomping version) (by Rachel Zegler, The Covey Band)

I interpret this as Hozier’s formal apology after the WAP incident (Handsome Squidwardian event for sure) He would do justice to this song, (very him) I would go insane if this was real

+11. (doing another one because hozier took 3 spots jdkdkdkdjsj😤✊) The Cast Of Hamilton’s cover of Dumb & Poetic (by Sabrina Carpenter)

I regret my choice to do another one and I don’t listen to Hamilton often so only thing I can think of is Lin Mal Miranda impressions on tik tok that are then used to make unserious gay ship edits so obviously.. 10/10 this is what the industry is lacking thank you for coming to my conference 🙏🙏📈📈👆👆😘😘

@simplysummers @angelhummel @freddieslater @bansheeheart @inlovewith-icecream

Also @ anyone who sees this and wants to ✨

[loveyoohyeon]

also about syril my god

all he wants in life is to be useful to the empire, to be useful to his mom, being useful to dedra, doesn't matter how she treats him as long as she pays attention to him

Shout out to characters who want to be used. Shout out to characters who are so desperate to be worth something that they'll endure anything. Shout out to characters who build their entire self worth around being useful, being a tool. Shout out to characters who don't care how they are treated, as long as someone pays them any attention at all

[imaginemyhappyplace]

They can't be serious... Manu and Thomas always wanted to stop together. This feels like the most painful angst hurt fanfic except that it's real. they can't separate them. he can't stop wtf. I DONT WANNA BELIEVE THIS

[loveyoohyeon]

Am I the only one who likes 21 pilots only for the music, like I never really got into the lore. Anyway The Contract is another amazing song that feels just as messy as heavydirtysoul or overcompensate

[jt1674]