#i dont necessarily have... a plot... for them. just the general outline of who they are and how it would go. sadly not really sure

[yuribait]

hi!! tell me more abt dahlia cooper and elliot?

omg the sillies

so the basics of their story is theyre in a post-apocalypse zombie setting... its been 5-10 years ish things havent really gotten under control all that much society at large is still very much broken down etc. etc.

cooper dahlia and elliot are three people sharing a large plot of what used to be farmland- dahlia lives in the main house, elliot lives in an old barn reconstructed to be a viable living space before the outbreak and cooper is... also nearby somewhere. its a little out of the way but close enough to a frequently used main route that people will come across them every now and then

cooper is a freak of a man whos sense of morality + justice has been twisted due to a relatively isolated upbringing + violence witnessed during the outbreak + subsequent downfall of society and he now believes he is the only one capable of rational morality. he sees himself as judge jury and executioner and anyone who he deems a bad enough person he kills and- i cant stress enough- feeds to the zombies, as he sees them as no longer being bound to human morality + therefore above it. he has a weird sexual relationship with elliot* + an... obsession with dahlia where he sees her as the only one able to pardon him for his actions

dahlia was a nun sometime before the outbreak and spent the first few years taking in and looking after lost and orphaned children. unfortunately being just one woman she was unable to really protect them and after some unfortunate events they were killed and as a result she has become bitter and hateful towards most other people. she views herself as weak while also believing shes the only one that knows what needs to be done and how to do it and as a result has taken refuge with the others, despite resenting + distrusting them, seeing them as a means to an end. she knows cooper is deeply unwell and knows the way he sees her should not be encouraged but tells herself it has to be done to protect everyone. i dont really have a solid dynamic for elliot and dahlia yet sorryyyy ive never been able to work it out >_< also she has a small vegetable garden + the vegges are used to trade with the others and w other travelers passing through for other things they might need

elliot is a social recluse who had agoraphobic tendencies pre-outbreak and the isolation + constant danger during the outbreak ahs made them extremely paranoid to the point of near delusion. they spent a lot of time traveling with other people for protection, having little to no allegiance with anyone + caring less + less about the actual people they were with as time went on, prioritising only their own life + safety. they eventually took refuge with cooper, but over time has grown to fear + resent him more than the people he kills, and in an attempt to keep themself safe is manipulating cooper to be more rash and less careful about the fights he gets into. cooper is aware he is being pushed into more fights but is unaware its in an attempt to get him killed so elliot can find someone stronger to travel with. they have weird + manipulative sex also. elliot is very handy + helps out with upkeep of the buildings + technology (filtering water etc.) in exchange for the food + protection offered by the others

[starlightkun]

genuine question, how do you write so fast? 😭 i feel like you’re so quick with your works, both writing and putting them out!!

also i found your tumblr on ao3 and i have to say that you are carrying nct fics on ao3. i hope you never stop writing cause i could be 40 and i would still read your stuff 🫶

i think a big thing has been getting out of my head abt writing! like i only write when i want to, i don't stick to word counts (minimums or maximums), and i dont compare myself to other writers (not that i read a whole lot of fic anymore, but there's a few that i still keep up with and one of them churns out fics way faster than i do, and another who posts like maybe two or three times a year but i still love them!) like i've def said this before, but for me, writing fic is fun, it's something i do bc i want to and if i open a word doc and i'm genuinely dreading it, i'm not gonna do it (my adhd brain simply will not make me lol--tho that is a double edged sword bc i do have to chase myself into doing something i like sometimes, but the ritalin has helped a lot xx)

i also dont go into my fics completely clueless anymore. like, i for sure don't know everything, i learn a lot along the way, and tend to change stuff (and get surprised by my own fics, which is always fun!), but i definitely have more of an outline and general sort of sketch of the fic in my brain and in my word doc before i start actually writing real scenes of any sort, which has definitely helped. like, starting with one little idea isn't bad at all (strawberry sunday literally just started w the fact that i liked the title of a song that i hadn't even heard yet and it turned into like 10 fics??), but i dont just start writing head empty anymore (i used to get a tiny spark of inspiration and try to write everything start to finish immediately because i thought i'd lose it if i didn't, and it'd burn really short. now i sort of just sit with it and slowly tend to it like fire instead and it lasts a lot longer and gets a lot bigger). i ruminate a lot before anything that looks remotely like a story leaves my ideas doc and gets its own doc

idk if this necessarily makes me write faster, but i also edit as i write? like, sometimes i open a fic and i don't have anything in me to write, but i'll reread what's in the draft so far and edit, make little changes, fix continuity errors, etc. not only does it keep the whole plot so far fresh in my mind as i continue writing, but then i have a lot less to proof myself when i finally finish the whole thing because i've already caught a lot of spelling, grammatical, and plot errors! i used to find editing a slog to do bc when i finished my first draft i would be so excited and wanted to just post it! and didn't want to reread all this stuff i just wrote several times to try to find typos, and now it's usually a breeze bc my first draft isn't really my first draft, it's been continually revised as it was drafted. and sometimes i open a doc, won't feel like writing, tinker around with some editing, then suddenly have a lightbulb moment while i'm editing and jump into writing

[bunnyinthestars]

Adrien is definitely gonna take Emilie’s place in a coma (A Theory)

Yeah so I mean the title of this is exactly what I’m pretty sure is gonna happen. This is because there has been a huge load of foreshadowing and some other subtler reasons I will be going over in this post. Of course, there’s always a chance it won’t happen, but if it didn’t I think I’d be pretty surprised considering just the amount of evidence thats going into this.

(Also sorry ahead of time for the structure of this, I tried to structure this based on my specific reasons for this theory but I kind of went off on tangents in some places and in others I use ideas that I assume come with the theory and don’t necessarily fit into any specific reason (like Emilie coming back to life and what would happen there, why Adrien and not Nathalie, and loosely how theyd get Adrien out of the coma), although I mosty stick to the structure I still want to add this disclaimer just so you’re aware that I wrote this in one go at midnight (also wait right now its 12:10am it is now ten minutes into my birthday??? ok ignoring that))

I dont know man. Just consider what I have to say. Or dont. I will be listing my reasons starting now.

1. Imagery of Adrien being in comatose state/ in a coffin-like thing.

This is surprisingly common??? Off the top of my head I can think of Style Queen and Riposte (I believe) which involve this. In Style Queen, Audrey in the form of her akumatized self had essentially kidnapped Adrien and put him in this gold/glass coffin thing that disintegrated the longer it remained untouched. The other one is Riposte, where Ladybug hides Adrien in that big sarcophogus in the Louvre (he didn’t stay in it but still the imagery is there.)

I also just remembered in Chameleon when Lila took Adrien’s form he was asleep/in a comatose state in that locker and Plagg was like “aw man am I gonna have to kiss him.....” but then Adrien wakes up because Lila stole someone else’s form

EDIT: another instance of Adrien/Chat Noir being shoved into a sarcophagus (besides Riposte) is in Pharaoh in season 1

So yes there is definitely a good number of foreshadowing for this. I might take this further and say if Adrien were to go comatose and be in the coffin Emilie was in then Felix might replace him for some amount of time?? Like impersonate him amd stuff?? Just because there’s lots of stuff in the show with impersonation I feel like it could work aNYWAY BACK TO THE EVIDENCE I KNOW ITS A TANGENT

2. Possible evidence foreshadowing Emilie *inadvertantly* killing (not killing but making comatose you get it) Adrien

This one is not as strong as the first but its worth considering. I was googling the word “mayura” just out of curiosity a while back and basically its a peacock in Hindu stories (like peacocks are a kinda revered animal) and I just initially found a couple websites that said that the mayura has been depicted eating a snake as a symbol of the cycle of time (you dont have to read this part in parenthesis, its just kind of a tangent: the cycle of time as known in Hinduism is another aspect of Hinduism directly referenced in the show: the horse/space miraculous kwami Kaalki’s name is a reference to the prophecied tenth avatar/reincarnation of the god Vishnu, and he is referenced in the Kalachakra tantra which is basically a Hindu book about the cycle of time. Keep in mind I got all this from wikipedia and other internet websites, I do not practice Hinduism and I dont directly know anybody who does, so if any of this is wrong pls lmk because there is surprisingly not a lot of information on the internet about it from what I could tell)

So anyways yes peacock (mayura) eating snake representing the cycle of time. Both Luka and Adrien are represented in the show as the snake, but ultimately I think the snake here represents Adrien just because it makes more sense (Snake Noir, future Alix’s tattoo depicts a snake to be Adrien and is meant to represent Adrinette, Adrien just has some shifty stuff going on with the snake in general etc) and thus, if Gabriel manages to actually get the ladybug and black cat miraculouses and make the wish to bring Emilie to life, then this “mayura” analogy (assuming Emilie as the mayura in this scenario) would make sense if her life brought upon Adrien losing his.

The reason I dont think it would refer to Nathalie even though her official name is Mayura is for pretty much two sub-reasons. The first is that I think she is going to die before this wish happens. I know, its a kids show, whatever, but consider it. The Agreste/Graham de Vanily family has a trend of having opposite names [I am so sorry I literally first heard this from a tumblr user but I cannot remember who I just remember they had made a string of theories on why Emilie Agreste will not be who she seems to be so credit to them I did not discover that] for example the name Gabriel means hero/angel, Felix means happy/fortunate, Adrien means dark, etc, and Nathalie Sancoeur means “birthday (of Christ)” and “heartless” respectively. We already know she is not heartless but rather full of heart because she has fallen in love with Gabriel. So then,,,,,,,,,, the opposite of birth is death. She’s already shown to be pretty sick too despite the peacock miraculous having been “fixed” (as of the New York special being the most recent piece of content). I’m sorry guys I do not make the rules

stop why his face look like that though

The second part of why I think this is a little stupid but. The original art released by Jeremy Zag for Mayura does not look like Nathalie. Plus this art was only released under the name of “the Peacock” (originally Le Paon in French) so it might not actually be the Mayura we know as of now. Now, theoretically, it could be that they had made this art before they knew they wanted Nathalie to be Mayura or just as art depicting what Emilie would have been like as the peacock miraculous holder, and it could literally just be Nathalie. When you compare the images, though, the original Mayura art looks far more like Emilie and a lot less like Nathalie. Yes I am aware this is stupid just know this is only a minor point

I dont know man those faces do not look the same to me and the original Mayura definitely had Emilie’s eye shape and face shape in mind. They might’ve changed it after making the concept art but my point still stands

Ok next reasoning

Again not a very strong point but sometimes dialogue just implies things in Miraculous and I can think of a very specific quote that would fit this happening, and there are probably more that I just dont know to look for since I dont have this whole show memorized

So the quote is from Startrain after Gabriel loses control of the akuma then learns about the Startrain having been akumatized with Adrien on board, and he says “hoping that my enemies will save my son..... how ironic.” When I first heard this quote I really, really felt like it was foreshadowing something just based on his tone and the way this new idea was being introduced of him having to be on the same side as Ladynug and Chat Noir for once, even if it was just temporary. This quote absolutely is indicative to me of a future event in which he’ll have to work with his “enemies” to save his son. A situation in which Adrien is in comatose would perfectly align with this. At least for how I would predict the show would make it, Gabriel would have to turn away from Emilie (who represents the past for him, and this action would therefore represent moving on) and join forces with Ladybug/Marinette, his “enemy”, to save Adrien.

Onto the last reason!

Emilie is probably definitely coming back. Which means someone’s going into a coma in her place.

I mean come on it would be so anticlimactic if they just caught Gabe before he fulfilled his wish. Plus with the way they are outlining Emilie to be this perfect golden being is definitely because its going to far contrast with how she will actually turn out. This doesnt really support the Adrien thing in particular but honestly it would also be anticlimactic of the coma was for anyone else. If it was Nathalie, then yeah itd suck for Adrien I guess but like???? Doesn’t really connect the plots as much. Whereas if its Adrien, that brings Marinette into it, that gives her a powerful as heck conflict. Im guessing they would also somehow resolve his coma with “the power of love” mentioned in the theme song, just because of the foreshadowing with like waking someone up with a true love’s kiss (think Plagg in Chameleon, I guess the rose in Style Queen, maybe Alya’s story to Manom in Stormy Weather if we’re strecthing it....)

TL;DR: Adrien is probably gonna go comatose (like Emilie did) at some point because its been pretty foreshadowed (think Style Queen, Riposte, and even Chameleon), because of the legend surrounding the Hindu “mayura” peacock eating a snake representing time (wow that was not a sentence ok then), because Gabriel has previously foreshadowed having to work with his enemies to save his son, and also just because it would be super awesome and allow each character involved to have a pretty fulfilling conflict and arc.

(all images from the miraculous ladybug wiki excluding the piece of art depicting the mayura which is from murugan.org)

I hope however took the time to read this post enjoyed this theory, sometimes I have really random yet detailed theories regarding this show and I wanted to share this one because if I’m right then this will be proof I had predicted it, also you guys could possibly elaborate on it. I’m all for friendly discussions folks fr

If this doesn’t end up happening the theory is still awesome and they should have done it, and if it does my ego will probably expand and hopefully they will make it as awesome as it seems like it would be. Sorry if the structure of this post is not great, but thank you for reading. I appreciate you, have a wonderful week :)

[stagcharmed-a]

james  +  bisexuality,   some thoughts: so  since  the  start  of  this  blog  I’ve  written  james  as  bi,  but  I’ve  recently  been  Thinking  more  about  how  complexities  around  his  sexuality  would  manifest  in  threads  /  writing  /  ships  especially  as  I’ve  been  fleshing  my  verses  out  more  so ,  below  the  cut  is  some  musings /  meta  about  james  being  bi  +   relationships  with  men  and  expressing  his  feelings,  here  we  go  !

what  I  mostly  want  to  talk  about  is  that james  is  the  kind  of  person  who  would  struggle  to  recognise  their  sexuality,  not  our  of  shame  or  like  suppression  but  purely  because  he  doesn’t  always  understand  what  he  is  feeling  /  consider  the  possibility  of  being  non-straight  .

it  would  depend  on  the  thread  /  muses  ect  but   in general,   james  isn’t great at recognising his attraction to men as romantic / non-platonic because he can’t  always  recognise  what  he’s  feeling  /   understand  the  cause  of  it .  

across  my  blog  in  my  characterisation  one  (mostly)  consistent  factor  is  just  difficulty  untangling  his  emotions  and  recognising  exactly  what  he  is  feeling  and  why  in  each  moment .  james  is a  very  feeling   person  who  experiences  emotions  intensely  but  he  is  also  someone  who  often  doesn’t  think  about  the  root  causes  of  those  emotions .   not  that  he  can’t  or won’t,   he  isn’t  lacking  in  self-awareness,  it’s  just  that  often  his  emotions  are  situational  and  therefore  later  he  has  trouble  identifying  exactly  why  he  felt  and  acted  like  he  did  .   he  also  doesn’t  overthink  the  reasons  behind  his  feelings,  how  he  feels  often  just   ...   is  .      

even  in  my  main  verse,  writing  james  relationship  with  lily,  he  struggles  to  untangle  his  feelings  about  lily,  specifically  in  splitting  if  how  he  his  feeling  for  her  are  growing  in a  way  that  is  platonic  or  not .  and  that  is  with  someone  he  knows  he’s  already  had  feelings  for .   with  men,  it’s  much  more  complicated  to  recognise  what  exactly  his  feelings  for  them  are,  because  there’s  less  of  a  traditional  blueprint.   dismissing  feelings  as  ‘we’re  just  friends’,  or  not  recognising  the  root  of  emotions  like  jealousy  or  desire  for  what  they  actually  are .  

to  complicate  things,    james  platonic  relationships  with  other  men  /  the  boys  in  the  main  verses  are  all  very  openly  loving  and  close .   this  is  partially  because james  is  also  a  very  physically  affectionate  person  and  so  anyone  whose  friends  with  him  (  especially  good,  good  friends  )   have  to  be  as  well  at  least  to  some  degree  because  that  is  the  major  way  he  both  gives  &  receives  affection  /  love .   in  general,   james  is  a  very  open  and  loving  person  who  doesn’t  shy  from  telling  others  how  he  feels  about  them.   he  wouldn’t  hesitate  to  tell  his  friends  he  loves  them,   to  sleep  or  be  close  to  them,  and  to  openly  express  how  much  he  likes  them .   because  of  it,  he  doesn’t  realise  not  everyone  acts  this  way  &  also  that  many  actions  he  considers  platonic  can  also  be  considered  romantic .  he  doesn’t  always  recognise  his  actions  and  behaviour  as  expressing  anything  other  than  friendship,  I  can  even  see  him  subconsciously  Knowing  he  feels  strongly  for  someone  but  still  not  tackling  that  emotion  fully .  

there  is  also  the  fact  james  is  not  a  very  casual  person  and  he  feels  deeply  for  most  people  he  likes,  so  it’s  not  like  there  is  such  a  large  gap  between  how  he  feels  for  his  friends  versus  partners.  which  can  distort  his  feelings  toward  people  (  or  give  him  room  to  do  so  wilfully  or  subconsciously  )     anyway,  I  think  it  would  get  better  with  time  +  more  dating  experience  also  it  would  depend  on  his  age  /  verse  but  in  general  ...  james  is  (probably, like it would all depend blah blah)  but probably  not  going  to  be  the  person  who  makes  the  first  move  or  initiates  anything  because  he  ...  would  be  missing  /  not  seeing  every  single  cue . 

so james DO be loving men in an unmistakably bisexual way,  it’s just that absolutely everyone except himself recognises this. He really is the epitome of the ‘wdym you don’t kiss your bro’s on the lips to say goodnight, they’re your bro’s’ meme.  that said, once it clicks for him it CLICKS, and james loves being in love .  that  ‘oh’  moment  where suddenly everything makes sense and now he understands what he’s been feeling.  so yeah,  james  would  happily  date / be in love with another man, it would be just the actually recognising this part that would be tricky. 

some  verse  notes ;

main  verse:   due  to  the  condensed  timeline  &  the  fact  my  mans  literally  is  dating  /  married  for  most  his  life  before  he  dies  there  isn’t  much  time  for  shipping  but  I  do  have  a  headcanon  about  james  +  dating  before  lily  though  here . 

modern verse:  probably  the  easiest  verse  to  ship  in  because  of  the  looser  timeline  +  generally  more  happy  vibes .  m/m  ships  probably  working  best  in  this  verse  though  much  of  what  was  said  above  still  applies  !    but  it’s  just  a  character  arc  to  work  through  so  *shrug*

james lives au:  I  have  sooooo  many  versions  of  this  AU  /  it’s  really  only  plot  based  but  the  problem  with  james  +  shipping  in  this  verse  is  more  to-do  with  his  immense  trauma  +  complicated  feelings  toward  his  past  than  necessarily  the  shipping  itself .  James  is  resistant  to  romance  in  this  verse  because  of  his  guilt  over  lily’s  death  +  feelings  of  responsibility  toward  harry  +  not  wanting  to  feel  misunderstood  /  a  burden.  that  said,    open to shipping it just needs plotting / build-up idk. 

final note ;  I know a lot of people take a “”colourblind”” (idk a better word? sorry ajdjs)  approach to writing sexuality in rp.  (aka, the sexuality of the character rarely impacts their thought process) I respect if people wanna do that I’ve just.. never been able to? I know some people are like ‘do we have to think about it I do it enough irl’ which I get but for me it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to not consider these things when I’m writing (probably bc I do irl constantly lol) so *shrug*.  i dont know, it is what it is.  that said, a lot of what I’ve outlined applies across all ships, it just manifests more in m/m ships . 

tldr ;    james is someone who struggles to separate out his emotions, he feels deeply for people and experiences emotions intensely but cannot always determine why he feels such a way or determine the root cause. in relationships with men, it is unlikely he will recognise his feelings as non-platonic, especially when he has such deep and intense platonic friendships that warp exactly what ‘friendship’ is for him.   he would probably not therefore initiate relationships first.  however,  he once he figures out his feelings and why he’s been feeling that way he feels better for the clarity and would definitely love/date other men. 

[scripttorture]

so my mc kidnaps this girl, and my protag steals her identity to get into this elite program for superheroes. during the captivity, my protag has to beat this girl when she tries to escape (maybe more than once) but is generally dont-fuck-with-me-wont-fuck-with-you, you know? im not looking for any stockholm syndrome but will it be an issue due to her only hurting this girl when she “steps out of line”?

Also, i plan on ruining this girls life/reputation and letting her go so SHE has to take the fall for my protag’s actions using her name, do you think that will tie into it?

Scriptshrink is the best person to consult on Stockholm Syndrome. As I understand it it’s not very common but I think you’d be better off consulting Shrink’s posts for how likely it would be in this situation.

 I don’t think it would be necessary for the plot you’ve outlined.

 I’m- a little dubious about this idea. I think it’s mostly the idea that the main character ‘has’ to beat anyone. No one ever has to. Violence and brutality are always a choice.

 There’s nothing wrong with writing characters making terrible choices. I also don’t think there’s anything wrong with stories focusing on ‘bad’ people.

 But I don’t think we should be making excuses for them. I don’t think we should allow our fiction to be another platform for unchallenged apologia.

 We’re all here because we write about horrible things and unfortunately we live in a world where those things happen.

 Shorn of the superhero trappings a girl is kidnapped, imprisoned, beaten and mistreated. When she’s released she finds her reputation in tatters and she can’t participate in society any more. This is not a million miles away from what Boko Haram has done to thousands of school children.

 The scenario feels a little like punishment. It’s very targetted to the individual character. And while I’m not entirely confident I’ve understood the question it feels like a lot of this is centred around whether the victim is likely to defend, cover for or feel affection for the abuser.

 The answer to that is almost certainly not.

 Some survivors will comply with instructions not to report abusers. Especially if the survivor feels that reporting will put them (or a loved one) in danger, will not be taken seriously or result in a negative consequence such as deportation, arrest etc. But it’s worth stressing that a lot of people don’t report abuse no matter what an abuser says/threatens and a lot of people do report abuse even if they’re subjected to credible threats.

 A decision not to report abuse shouldn’t be taken as a sign of affection for an abuser.

 If you want your survivor character not to report on the abuser think about why she might make that decision. You might have already laid the groundwork for that if most of the people around the survivor are rejecting her and think she’s lying. An accusatory environment is not going to encourage anyone to report abuse. It’s going to lead most victims to assume they’ll be blamed for what their abuser did.

 Which is what’s happening here.

 And none of this shows the survivor’s feelings for the abuser. It shows the survivor’s assessment of their surroundings, culture and the people in their immediate environment. It’s an assessment of safety, of the consequences of telling the truth.

 I’m not entirely sure I understood the second question either, I’m taking it to be about the effects on the survivor if everyone around her believes she’s guilty of the crimes her abuser committed.

 This would be really devastating for recovery. In fact in that environment I don’t think recovery would be possible at all.

 Which doesn’t mean the character could never recover, but it does mean she’d need to move to a different environment or see huge changes in the place she is in order to improve.

 People don’t get better in a vacuum. They need support and understand as well as time.

 If the people around her think she’s guilty of horrible things, if they treat her badly or even if they ‘just’ avoid her and distrust her that will have an impact. It will make her much much worse.

 It’s not that her symptoms wouldn’t improve, they’d get worse.

 Depending on what you’ve picked out for her that might actually make people less likely to believe her. It’s- incredibly common for young survivors who’ve been labelled as ‘bad kids’ to have their problems misinterpreted as further evidence they’re ‘bad’. They’re ‘disruptive’, ‘inattentive’, ‘aggressive’, ‘attention seeking’. And no amount of diagnostic criteria will shift that interpretation if the people around her are determined she’s the one in the wrong.

 Society is incredibly good at dismissing ‘bad’ victims, people who don’t look or act like victims ‘should’. And people who are judged as having less social worth, sometimes especially if that’s tied up with ideas of ‘those people’ being tough or resilient.

 But again- none of this says anything about the abuse or the abuser.

 Rebuilding a life, rebuilding a support network, is a big ask for someone who has already gone through trauma and only just come out the other side.

 I know that some people use ‘school’ in a broad sense to apply to any educational environment but to me it implies ‘children’. If this character is under eighteen and doesn’t have financial independence then her ability to change her environment is essentially non-existent.

 Which means she’d be stuck in a situation that’s making her worse.

 This is not necessarily lethal. It is hugely damaging though. It would put her recovery back years.

 She might except blame for things she didn’t do in an attempt to keep or rebuild the social interaction available to her.

 I’m not sure what else to add. Consider what the character’s prison conditions are like and whether they amount to torture. This includes solitary confinement (depending on who you ask this is either less then 1 hour or less then 2 hours of social contact daily). It also includes lack of food, water, appropriate clothing/bedding, space and hygiene facilities.

 It’s your choice if you want to have a survivor character ‘defend’ their abuser in some way but I suggest you think carefully about the reasons why the survivor might do that. Also consider whether she might come to reject those reasons. And consider whether any of this actually serves the story?

 There is a lot of potential for unfortunate implications and condoning/excusing abuse in that sort of scenario. Do you feel up to navigating that? Does it add anything to the story? Could the story be more interesting and more unusual if you have the survivor responding differently?

 I hope that helps. :)

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how about N Y O (o) M for the writing meme? :3c you can pick whatever fandom you want but you know i'm here for the jojo

Well hey, a good chunk of my year was jojo, so i dont blame ya ;)

N. Anything you were planning to write that never got written?

Oh GOD do I- I was actually glancing through my WIPs earlier and jesus christ, there’s so much that hasn’t been touched on or even put out into the world. The Forgotten Monarchs series for one, which is already gunning for technically 12 oneshots interconnected within vague plot related quartets, not even including the intermissions. Even among all that, there’s one chapter in particular I want to get to, all the way in Fic 3, Chapter 1… That’s the biggest one.

If there is something I do wanna try and write out by the end of the year, it’s this lil oneshot idea I have kicking around as part of Emerald is Unbreakable- namely, Rohan being able to relive the memory of Reimi’s murder and all the memories he had with Reimi through the use of a Special Guest Stand User who’s actually an antagonist later down the line in FM! 

If you remember Slow Dance with Me, then you might recall the passing mention of a certain case in Brazil, involving a stand user by the name of Asha…

Y. Why did you write? For fun, for a friend, for acclaim?

It’s a bit of a mix of the first two! I write mainly what I myself find fun to write, which ends up including a fair bit of spite fueled ideas that I push out for the sole purpose of my own personal fun, but I also really love writing things for close friends and to see the reactions I can get from a reader when I try out something more experimental with my writing style!

O. Do you believe in outlines? Show us one! (or two in this case,)

Listen, I try to outline for my big, convoluted projects, but it just. Never works. For the most part, I either forget any big long documents I make or I start going so off model from the original plan that I just toss out the entire thing! I have two outlining states- Pre-Realization and Fuck It Let The Story Flow Mode, 

Like the original document for the Forgotten Monarch’s series is really cluttered with possible symbolisms and plans and things I’d like to happen in the fic, like so:

which i haven’t actually edited or looked at in months vfufukg

the second state is more lax and loose, with less structured plot points and more general goals that i kinda wanna reach but dont necessarily need to be. More focus is actually set on little worldbuilding bits, like what does this and this spell mean, or what do i want the background to be. like have a look at this possible plan for a p5 inclusion of my myth au, Stella:

See? Much more balanced and to the point, with a lot of wiggle room when I get around to it!! I just gotta…….. watch p5………………….

M. Meta! Have any meta about a story you’re dying to throw out there?

I’ve done nothing but listen to Hadestown for hours on end to get my ass in gear for some articles, but I can say this- some of the songs have some real Myth AU feel to them! I’m actually planning to listen to Doubt Comes In (from the original album, not the musical one) for a particularly tense scene at the end of the Death’s Heart arc, as Kakyoin smuggles Jotaro’s still warm gem of a heart past his father, finding a darkness not even his own fire can penetrate….. left alone, claustrophobic, with nothing to hold onto except…

[thelegendofclarke]

Just venting I need to get this out:I firmly believe that there are Key 6, not 5, players in ASOIAF. And Sansa is one of them. GRRM has himself named Sansa as one of his key protagonists (there were 6 in total inc Sansa) and also that Sansa,Arya and Bran's journeys were paramount for him. I know this subject has been done to death &I'm really sorry for imposing on you but yeah to me,based on all this,Sansa is one of the Key 6. (you dont have to post it. Just venting. Thanks for reading)

Hi! Sorry to bother you again. I’m the Key 6 players anon. You don’t have to post my initial ask. I know the whole thing has been done to death. I was just venting and getting it out of my system. I hope I didn;t offend. Thanks for understanding.

Hi Anonny!

Oh gosh please DON’T apologize, you didn’t offend me at all in the slightest! I am just slow af and take forever to answer things and am generally The Worst… But my Ask is always open for venting! Especially venting about people who don’t ~recognize, respect, and appreciate~ the Noble and Poetic Land Mermaid that is Sansa Stark.

Yeah, the Key Players debate does continue to be a kind of ~weird bone of contention~ in the fandom for some reason. I think (and like to hope) that a lot of the time when people talk about or make fanart for the Five Key Players, that they aren’t excluding Sansa or leaving her out maliciously. I think they might just be going off of, or wanting to acknowledge, the five main characters GRRM listed in his original outline for the series in 1993.

But you’re right, I have definitely seen people who insist that Sansa is not a main character or key player in the story, which simply isn’t true. GRRM even identified her as a main character himself in 2016:

I’d thought the whole story could be told in three books, and that it would take me three years to write them, a year per book. That picture was taken just a few weeks after I blew my first (bot not my last, oh no) deadline on the series. Ah, how innocent I was… little did that guy in the picture imagine that he would be spending most of the next two decades in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros with Tyrion, Daenerys, Arya, Sansa, Jon Snow, Bran, and all the rest. (x)

And even if GRRM’s word alone weren’t enough, Sansa’s character is vastly different from how she was originally planned. In the original outline GRRM basically had the Arya character involved in plot lines that now belong to Arya, Sansa, and Meera Reed (homegirl would have been BUSY AF); and the original Sansa character was basically who we would now identify as Margaery Tyrell if you are looking for a comparison. The original Sansa character ended up marrying Joffrey and bearing him a son and then choosing him over her family and ultimately paying the price. It was always ~super obvious~ to me that GRRM figured out that it just wasn’t going to be logistically possible to have the Arya character do everything she needed to do. I mean she was basically going to have to be in a minimum of two places at once: fleeing North beyond the wall with Bran AND in KL/WF getting entangled in a love triangle with Jon and Tyrion. So he ended up splitting and then modifying Arya’s storylines for the characters we now know as Arya, Sansa, and Meera.

The Sansy Pants as we now know (and love) her does start out a lot like the original Sansa, with dreams of marrying the prince and having his babies ect. She also does play a big part in what some people see as the betrayal and downfall of her family. But unlike the Sansa in the original outline, our Sansa learns. Her observations and inner dialogue become more and more keen and shrewd and move further and further away from the romantic fantasies and naivety that characterized her original POV. The romantic and fanciful AGoT!Sansa does make appearances throughout the series as Sansa wistfully, and sometimes resentfully, recalls the girl she used to be. But AGoT!Sansa’s memory is consistently suppressed and rejected in favor of a sharper, smarter, more cunning, and more guarded perspective (She hasn’t left her romanticism behind completely though as we know, just like she hasn’t forgotten her true identity. She is still Sansa Stark; “Lord Eddard’s daughter and Lady Catelyn’s, the blood of Winterfell”). 

If anything, this proves to me she’s going to be a Key Player and central to the story’s endgame. Like her siblings Sansa has lived through extreme atrocities and incredible adversity and come out the other side stronger and smarter, but still kind an noble. And like Bran has been honing his supernatural abilities and Arya has been honing her physical abilities, Sansa has been honing her own intellectual abilities. Her growing political savvy and transition from Pawn to Player is incredibly similar to Bran’s growing confidence in his magical abilities. Just like Bran is gradually becoming one of the central characters for the magical endgame of the series, Sansa is transitioning into her role as a key player in the pragmatic and political endgame of the series.

And going along with that, I think another reason people have a hard time believing that Sansa is going to be a Key Player is because she isn’t magical. All the other five Key Players (Bran, Arya, Jon, Dany, and Tyrion) have some sort of magical ability that’s central to their arc. Whether it’s dragon riding or blood magic or warging or being brought back from the dead, they all have some sort of magical skill and/or experience. There is, of course, the fact that Sansa could have been a warg or a skin changer, but her ability to do so essentially died with Lady. But honestly I think that’s kind of beside the point…

In the end I don’t think it matters that Sansa doesn’t have any significant magical abilities, because I don’t think GRRM is trying to write a story solely about magic where the magical storylines and characters are the only important ones. I think he is more writing a story that is set in a world where magic exists. ASoIaF isn’t divided into magical storylines vs. political storylines, the two co-exist and are of equal importance. Whether you want to view ASoIaF as a political world where there’s magic or a magical world where there’s politics, it still stands to reason that the lives of the characters are going to be affected by both. Just like the magically inclined Dany is driven by royal aspirations and entangled in political endeavors, the politically savvy Sansa does interact with and has been affected by magic. 

Both these things occur simply based on the fact that both exist and are pervasive over arching themes in the universe GRRM has created. Even though Sansa doesn’t have any obvious magical skills like Arya and Jon, she has interacted with magic and it has been a prevalent theme in her arc. Here are just a few examples:

The name Sansa actually means “invocation and charm” in Sanskrit. And while yes, this could just be a play on words with Sansa’s power to charm others, it gets brought up again in he advices Petyr gives her to seduce Harry the Heir: “Charm him. Entrance him. Bewitch him.” Seduction is described here like a spell. 

The Ghost of High Heart Prophecy- “I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief. I dreamt such a clangor I thought my head might burst, drums and horns and pipes and screams, but the saddest sound was the little bells. I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.” The bolded part is pretty clearly speaking of Sansa at Joffrey’s wedding. The purple serpents in her hair with blood dripping from their veins is referring to the silver hair net with purple amethysts given to Sansa by the Tyrells which they used to smuggle poison into the wedding feast. The “serpents in her hair” also really strongly parallels the myth of Medusa, who could turn men to stone with just one look.   

The smallfolk also talk about Sansa and the Purple Wedding in terms of magic and legend when telling the story to Arya and The Hound: “The northern girl. Winterfell’s daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leather wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window.” (Arya XII, ASoS) Not only do they say Sansa preforms a spell, but also that she skin-changes into a bat-wolf, all references to the dark arts. 

The remaining direwolves often think of think of “the sister they had lost”, which is obviously Lady. And it’s significant that because Sansa lost Lady, her brothers can’t track her the way they do their other siblings. This indicates that there is in fact a magical bond/connection between each Stark and their wolf allowing them to connect with and track each other as a pack, and that with Lady’s death Sansa’s magical connection was severed. 

GRRM has also explicitly stated that all the Stark children have warging abilities: “[On whether the trait of being a warg ran in the Stark family] I don’t know if I want to get into genetics - this is fantasy, not scifi… I don’t think this is necessarily a ‘Stark’ ability, though all the children have it to one extent or another. They also realize it to one extent or another.’

Her presence in Bran’s dream in AGoT (Bran III) where she is surrounded by shadows, each representing characters she has and possibly will interact with (The Hound, Jaime Lannister, and possibly Robert Strong)- “One shadow was dark as ash, with the terrible face of a hound. Another was armored like the sun, golden and beautiful. Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood.”

Maggy’s Prophecy- Sansa is also potentially the “younger and more beautiful” queen in Maggy the Frog’s prophecy about Cersei. And while she might not ~actually~ end up being the younger and more beautiful queen, Cersei believes she could. This is significant because it shapes Sansa and Cersei relationship and fuels Cersei’s hatred of Sansa from the first time they meet. It’s the same reason Cersei hates Margaery, they are a threat not only to “all she holds dear” but also to her power. 

SO tl;dr Sansa Stark is ~important af~ and DEFINITELY a Key Player in ASoIaF. I know you already knew this haha, but just take comfort in the fact that there is a gd mountain of evidence against anyone who claims differently. So they can just sit there in their Wrongness and be Wrong :)

[hwngjh-blog]

hello i’m tae and this is my annoying son jaehyun who i literally birthed ?? pls love him and don’t be too mean to him even though he can be pretty mean himself. i’m in gmt+1 timezone and i love suffering & angst? i especially love it when my muse is suffering more than i am so pls hmu with those angsty plots. i haven’t been on tumblr rp for the majority of this year so pls be patient with me while i get back into the swing of things, i’m also not so good at talking about myself ooc so i’m gonna go ahead and jump into info about jae!! under the cut is just some basic outline info of his personality... full stats and some plots/potential connections will be added up shortly too. thnx for listening 

hwang jaehyun, 23, concept artist and ugly fucking aquarius 

(he doesn’t really have a hugely tragic background besides his parents being majorly ugly)

pls dont try to talk to him about your feelings just yet unless you want him to run away. 

he struggles w/ his own emotions and can’t really handle listening to other peoples feelings bc who signed up for that? probably not jaehyun

pretty untrusting and unwilling about allowing people too close to him, i’d imagine he has some close friends but it might be difficult for new ones to get super close to him without a lot of effort on their part and proving to him that they won’t just abandon him and his friendship?? #trustissues

once you get him talking, he’ll never stop, especially if it’s about a topic he’s really interested in or feels passionately about. 

works as a concept artist so most of his work is digital art atm but does a lot of freelance & commission work on the side. Knows he’s a good artist and doesn’t fuck w/ pretending to be modest about his work. dabbles in sculpting and legit painting, too but that’s mostly for freelance and commission work

pretty judgemental and finds it hard to accept that he could be wrong about something, kinda dogmatic if i’m being honest but if he likes you then he’s more willing to let it go and admit he was wrong. tho if you disagree with him about something he really thinks he’s right about or is passionate about then you can expect to see steam coming from his ears within 0.01 seconds since he gets mad pretty quickly.

generally quick to annoy but he does his best at hiding it? which brings me to the point that he usually wears his heart on his sleeve w/ people he’s comfortable with. 

i guess if he likes you, not romantically but just in general, then he’s just soft as fuck

his family is wealthy upper class, living and working in seoul. they own a big chain pharmaceutical company and they wanted him to take over once his father retired, which he was originally going to do, he studied business in college for about a year before realising it made him fucking miserable and stressed and dropped out without consulting his parents.

lied about still being enrolled while actually enrolling in an arts program. originally found his passion for art during high school, where he joined an after class art club and excelled straight away. he told his parents about it but they never really took it seriously?? he even invited them to one of the schools art exhibitions but they never turned up.

this all caused them to essentially cut him off and refused to talk to him for a few years. they tried to reconnect w/ him and attempt contact with him but he rejects their calls, dodges them if they tried to visit and doesn’t visit them during the holidays or special occasions. 

he has three younger sisters who he’s still in contact with though, it’s mainly his parents he wants to avoid. his fathers health is rapidly deteriorating and he’s starting to feel badly about not being in contact w/ them but *shrug* he hates them so it’s not really his issue anymore, right? 

there’s a lot more angsty shit to his background but i’m not going to detail it here because it’s not info that jaehyun would just tell anyone, he’s pretty secretive about his past (for literally no damn reason) and only talks about it if he really needs to. you’ll have to get to know him to find out or wait for his full length history :3 

moved to jeju to get some peace and quiet so he could work without too many stresses in his life tho *idk if thats going well for him or not* (give me a roommate plot??) 

literally stays up all night long watching vine compilations and furiously playing uno on his phone instead of working (this is legit information pls take it seriously) 

obviously a night owl and lives on 50 cups of coffee a day. also constantly has a bad back from being hunched over his desk 24/7

loves having a muse and someone who inspires him?? he might not be painting portraits of them all over his apartment but he def would incorporate parts of them into his character designs or just create art in general that reminds him of them

also literally tries his hardest to convince people he just doesn’t care about anything or anyone??? and u know what, sometimes he actually doesn’t care but he says it so often that it’s hard to tell when he’s being truthful about it, even he can struggle to tell at this point.

he’s very spontaneous?? moving to jeju was just a sudden decision on his part and he doesn’t really consult other people before doing stuff? he just does it and then if it goes wrong or he has to suffer consequences then ig he’ll suffer

kinda apathetic and uncaring, honestly. he doesn’t have much patience for people being idiotic and doesn’t necessarily always feel bad about doing or saying something that might hurt other people. 

tho if he likes you (yes this again) he’ll probably feel bad straight away but that doesn’t mean you can expect an apology from him

if you really hurt him, he’ll probably give you another chance because he just really can’t stand the idea of being alone??? tho he won’t ever forget what you did to hurt him

i’m tired now so i’m going back to sleep but jaehyun is just a hard shell w/ a semi soft inside (i say semi soft because there’s still some push and pull even if he opens up) who needs to be loved so pls.... 

anyway that’s it i’m going back to bed now. my plots will be up soon but pls feel free to msg/im me for plotting/connections!!! 

[unicyclehippo]

hi!! so um apart from writing exceptionally well u write a lot and its wow! cause it seems to me that ur able to write things just as u want them to come out and thats so admirable, and also i feel like u can just write whenever u feel like it and i was wondering do u have any advice to fight writers block and just write cause personally it takes A LOT for me to be able to start something let alone finish it and i have to be super excited about it but i normally lose all excitement soon

thank u!!! 

it is very hard to write things & for them to come out as u intend!! bc while u have certain lived experiences & views of things, other ppl dont necessarily compute things in the same way that u do! so thats an awesome compliment if u think it sounds true to my vision of stuff as well as being understandable & idk, relatable? thank u pal

as for writing whenever i feel like it,,,, i get writers block All the time. some things i do to combat it is to: 

1) move on from where i am stuck. it’ll be there waiting when i have the right words but staring at the page or the screen without writing anything literally isnt moving me forward at all. 

2) i change the medium im using. if im stuck on smth & im on my computer, i’ll change to writing w pen & paper or i’ll go bang smth out on my typewriter (dont laugh at me its rly fun to use & very loud i love it)

3) sometimes movement helps. if u cant drive around or get on a bus, which is what works for me, sometimes just go for a walk around the house or change ur position like if ur sitting at a desk, maybe sit at the kitchen table or in a different chair or smth. the environment u work in can change what u think abt & how u think abt things

4) if ur stuck in a scene but rly want to tough it out & keep going, one of the things that rly works for me is to rmbr the senses: what are they seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching? 

5) a piece of advice i was given in my writing course but doesnt rly work for me is to throw in a curveball. i mean it MIGHT work for me but i havent used it yet. basically ur scene is going nowhere, it feels flat & bland, so u go to a random event generator or word generator or smth & u take a prompt from that & work with it. it might not fit into ur story at all, but it has got u thinking abt ur characters outside of what u have planned for them & sometimes thats all it takes. u might write one good line from that & use it to move ur actual scene on

as for losing motivation, that’s an entirely different beast from writers block. motivation, for me, is abt,,,,,,,, 2% of why i write. abt once every two or three weeks i get an idea that feels liek !!!!!!!!! in my head but that only lasts for about half an hour. outside of those times, i write bc the overarching story is smth i love. but to get from point to point is smth that everyone i have talked to struggle with in different ways. essentially this is where the planning stage comes in handy & ppl are in different minds abt the kinds of writers there are & the kinds of planning & what works best but honestly its an individual thing tailored to each person. essentially, however, u have two categories: 1. pantsers & 2. plotters. (i have also heard its on a x & y axis w one side of the x axis being pantser & one side plotter & the y axis being quilters & knitters. 

basically, pantsers are ppl who write by the seat of their pants. they get an idea & they run with it, with minimal planning. they have their pen & their pants & thats all they need to write the story. 

plotters on the other hand they plot the story, to varying degrees of detail before they start writing (this has also been called things like “the architect” who needs to know where all the pipes & electrical lines will go & room outlines before actually constructing the building  etc)

im a lazy plotter. i like to make a skeleton outline for my story & then i like to pants it

pls feel free to ask me more abt this stuff if u want to!