#i'm glad to be back but also... too many drafts i got 13

[lilolilyr]

from the "more fic writer asks" list: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 20, 23, 29, 30 :))

Omg thank you! In future pretty pls send several asks if you have so many qs, the Hemmschwelle to do so many in one go is too much for me xD do you like getting so many questions in one go? (genuine question - I'll try to remember to send you more than the customary three in the future if that's something you enjoy!)

Here's the ask meme

1.The last sentence you wrote:

'Blushing, Myka averts her gaze.' from the Epilogue of my Bering and Wells fake married story I just posted! It's not the last sentence in the fic, I had already written that yesterday, but I was So Close to exactly 10k words, I just had to add a couple more words here and there xD

3. how you feel about your current WIP:

Now that I'm done with the Warehouse 13 fic, I still have my Leverage Parker POV thing, I haven't really written more than a couple lines since the last update o.o so the feeling is Slightly Stressed because I want to upload something tomorrow for the last day of May Trope Mayhem xD

4. a story idea you haven’t written yet:

Check This Out. You might in particular be interested in the one to Hacks HBO

5. first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP:

You know, said Leverage WIP hasn't got a fifth paragraph yet, and my other Berena draft is still trapped in telegram messenger app (I tend to write in chats with just myself in them while I'm on the move), so you're getting a line from a truly filthy 00q ficlet that might eventually get posted on anon.

"James, he says, glad his voice doesn't yet tremble by much, "I need you to retrace the scars on my back."

7. your preferred writing fonts:

Default *shrugs*

I like having different fonts in different places (telegram/Ellipsus/Ao3) so I'm more likely to catch typos on a second read through

13. a fandom you’re thinking about writing for:

Nothing new in the works that I haven't written for before!

20. in what year did you publish your first fic:

2014!

23. pick three keywords that describe your writing:

No idea sorry

(well, that was also three words lol)

29. how easy is it for you to come up with titles:

Really depends, sometimes a fic has a clear theme that also works as a title, sometimes I get frustrated and end up using song lyrics of whatever

30. share a fic you’re especially proud of:

Not a fic but a podfic! And absolutely nobody has listened to it yet xD I still needed something for the 'Second Chance With A Former Love' May Trope Mayhem prompt and I wanted to do Stucky because it just fits so well and I've been reading some Stucky lately, but I couldn't think of any actual plot, so I thought I'd just do a quick podfic to fulfill the prompt, any fic I found, first thing that looked like it worked, cold read recording here I come, low effort, found this artsy journal entry/poetry style thing and was like okay I can do this, at least I don't have to do any voices means I don't have to look up how they talk first (sth I for example did for the Leverage mini podfic - and got compliments for my Parker voice!), I'll just be quick and it doesn't matter if it's shit probably no-one will ever listen to it...

Y'all. The fic is truly good. I liked it so much. I got so emotional reading it and it shows in the recording, and because I liked it so much I actually went and edited the recording properly in audacity to get out any little stumbles and background noise stuff... Spent way too much time making a little cover image for it... But of course, in the end it's still a 20min podfic of a little artsy poetry fic and Absolutely Nobody listens to it. Which I knew when I made it. But still xD

Anyway here it is! 22 minutes, T, Steve/Bucky, MCU canon compliant up to Winter Soldier.

[lastweeksshirttonight]

We're back with Strike Force Five episode two, which seems to have randomly dropped at some point after I went to bed on Saturday. I enjoy when podcasts just randomly drop episodes, honestly, makes the whole thing feel more authentically chaotic.

I started listening to this while trying to figure out how to draft for fantasy football. I am not a football fan. I don't follow football. I don't know how to do fantasy. I very much procrastinated on that by doing these notes. My team is graded C- by Yahoo btw, which is two full grades higher than I expected.

Notes under the cut y'all.

This episode opens with Fallon talking about how he forgot his show's shirts glow in the dark. Apparently Billy Crystal tried to sleep in one recently and discovered this; John also noted a time when he was trying to get his infant son to sleep while wearing one of Fallon's shirts and saying it glowed "too well".

The audience for this podcast is obviously 30-something office drones like me. I say this because Atlassian is now running ads during the podcast. They must sense that everyone listening to this has it open in tab one while having their task-overrun Jira boards open in tabs two through five. John also completely "ruins" this ad - which was very on the rails for a decent amount of time! - by suggesting that Atlassian sounds like "one of those plans G. Gordon Liddy had to relect Nixon". Fallon also claims Atlassian is the name of his Fortnite character. (I wonder how my boss feels about both of those lol)

Everyone opens by briefly talking about how many staff they have. Stephen has 210, Kimmel has about 180 + 13 writers + a bunch of crew, Fallon thinks he has 305, and John jokingly says he has 500 people before admitting he misses his legal and research staff. He's ready to say things he thinks are true, instead of "things that are legally defensible".

Stephen: "Would you guys be okay if I had a little Casamigos, I got a bottle right here...?" John: "It's 7:30 in the morning, why not?" Seth: "That's like a 24 ounce 7-11 cup..." I'm so glad this is all in an auditory medium.

John is going to continue shitting on whatever alcohol company he shat on last week, and called it "pond water". I am guessing it's somehow related to Bud Light but that doesn't really track with tequila advertising, so who knows. I have in a past life had Bud Light Margarita in a Bag once, maybe John also suffered that unique hell.

If it IS Bud Light John is talking about, I have no idea how Stephen talking about Budweiser wanting him to be the voice for a Budweiser energy drink/caffeinated beer called B to the E/B 2 the E didn't get cut. This was in about 2001-2002, so well before Four Loko, and the ad copy contained things like "your friends are heading home AND YOU'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!" (John is quietly dying in the background the entire fucking time before Googling if it ever came out. It did! Fallon is flatly like "that's illegal" in a completely baffled tone early on.)

We are 8 minutes into an hour-long podcast. Just informing you, in case you were wondering. Why yes I am obsessed/bad at football why do you ask

Kimmel insists that his early seasons - "for the first eight to eleven years" - were the worst of anyone's on the podcast. He said this after talking about, on his show, Mr. T and Jim Belushi hating each other and almost about to fight each other, his cousin doing pillow-fights early on and causing a catastrophe one episode by fighting Lennox Lewis culminating with Anna Nicole Smith falling into a cake, and another pillow fight with Tom Arnold ruining his suede jacket. I forget that Kimmel is partially of the Jerry Springer era, if not on his late-night show then from his other work, and this just really reminded me of that.

Mariah Carey wanted to be interviewed by Seth Meyers during Christmas in a functional sleigh. John tells a story about watching Watch What Happens Live where Andy Cohen, on live TV by himself, said that Mariah Carey was in the building but would not sit on the side where guests usually sit on his show and was desperately trying to fill time. Mariah seems fun.

If I had to imagine Hell for Stephen Colbert, it would be "having to fill in for a guest on The Daily Show and turning down an advanced screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". That scenario seems tailor-made to completely destroy him.

I'm glad I remember that Ben and Jerry bit Stephen and Fallon are talking about. I would love to know what this whole explanation sounds like to someone who does not remember the whole "best friends" late night "wars" of the time. Here's the bit btw. (Your daily reminder that the CC website sucks ass.)

I forgot Fallon started his show two weeks before Seth. I must have completely blanked out how quickly all of those hosts changed in 2014 (and then John starting the same year).

I'm with John on this one, "Allen key" makes waaaaaay more sense than "Allen wrench". It's a fucking key! The amount of shit I've had to put together with those goddamn things, it's not a wrench at ALL.

One thing I learned today: chairs are very serious business for most of the hosts. Fallon keeps a chair backstage to see how someone will look in chairs on the set, and to confirm that's okay with the guests. Seth, meanwhile, had chairs that John feel like he was being interviewed to be on Seth's show. And Stephen has all different sizes of chairs, to make everyone feel comfortable when they're on the show. (This is where things go predictably off the rails, as Seth then claims he has chairs that get smaller and smaller to keep guests on their toes.)

John's guest are was the most expensive part of his set, and they never used it. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. I was shocked they have a guest booker, though. (Stephen: "Wow what a cushy gig!")

Kimmel's live show ceased being live when Thomas Jane said "fuck" nineteen times on air and affiliates/censors were mad. Apparently on network you CAN technically say anything past ten p.m., according to Kimmel, but that's not the reality of the situation.

Seth: "People forget about the early 2000s. If you were a sports fan, you would often say, 'I wonder who won the big game... let's watch the Kimmel monologue.'" This is exactly what the 2000s were like, kids.

Seth and Fallon both were told by SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels that it would take them 18 months to get comfortable with their shows and figure out how to use them. Seth definitely felt that was wrong and he'd only take 6 months... but the first time he started the show from behind his desk was almost 18 months to the day from his first episode.

Stephen has an unaired 3-minute opening credits sequence that he wants to show on his last episode if possible. John also had a longer title sequence that he loved, but that his producer said he'd be constantly going over for time and he'd need to cut it down, lest he get continually furious over not having enough time for his actual show.

Fallon talks about how his first interview was with notoriously reticent and quiet Robert DeNiro, who gave Fallon one-word answers for literally everything. John asks if anyone told him he was starting from a high difficulty degree, but is interrupted by Stephen remembering a Space Train sketch in the middle of Fallon's interview featuring DeNiro.

Stephen remembers more about Fallon's show than Fallon does, which is wild. Stephen probably remembers more about everyone's show than they do, based on the first two episodes.

Stephen calling The Colbert Report "a totally different beast and maybe doesn't even fit in this conversation" made me sad. Tell me all the Report gossip!!!

Stephen telling the story of how he made the Public Access Show for Monroe, Michigan prior to doing late night is incredible. I remember watching him and Eminem do that show the day the internet became aware of it, and it is just a fascinating bit of transitional Colbert work. Also, had no idea they took over a real show... or that they got almost 0 viewers for it, lol. Here's the link to the bit, for your viewing pleasure:

Fallon must realize that John has said literally nothing for a while, because he asks how the first episode of Last Week Tonight went. John actually talks about hosting The Daily Show for three months. He says he'd never interviewed anyone before then (I'm guessing he means that as in "I've never interviewed someone seriously and with the eye of not taking the piss out of them", because he'd done MANY filmed interviews for correspondent pieces before then) and talks about the episode where the power was cut. They taped the episode on a camcorder and had to feed it to Comedy Central through Stephen's office.

Stephen then talks about how his first episode almost doesn't make it to air because it couldn't be exported from Avid. Everyone in the editing bay insists this is fine, and it did end up being fine, but the contrast between how CBS editing works and John having to go to another office to feed a show to Comedy Central is so interesting.

Stephen also kicked down a door after this. Please enjoy this mental image, you freaks.

John and Stephen sharing a bitter laugh over John's joke about Les Moonves in the background is fantastic.

John is the first person to bring up that Ryan Reynolds turned around Wrexham the team AND the city. I really should watch that show.

We now return to Last Week Tonight, which lawyers refused to allow to be live. (Knowing John's comedic sensibilities, I completely understand Legal's stance.) He acknowledges that they had too many ideas going together in the first episodes, including a pre-taped guest. The big thing they learned was that they were doing one show a week, which lead to research coming in throughout the week that undermined their segments, rewriting whole shows on Thursday, and the realization that doing the show that way was completely unsustainable. Having watched those early episodes recently (and I promise I'm still doing that in the background), this context totally explains the franticness and weird pacing early on. Of course things feel more didactic and surface level - they were writing full episodes in two days! The show completely restaffed and changed after year one, and John's "bones were as hollow as a sparrow". He also knew that anyone who didn't like episode one was going to hate episode two, because it was about the death penalty.

Seth's first guests were Amy Poehler and Joe Biden, because they'd been on Parks and Rec together and Biden gladly accepted being after Amy.

Seth's misplaced confidence in his pink eye sketch is very relatable.

Fallon texting everyone that he is basically dying of heat stroke in his room and is trying to leave to save himself is hilarious. Poor Jimmy, he's suffering and getting clowned so hard for it. AND THEN Stephen talks about the opening of Fallon's first episode and all the change he dumped on his desk and him. And Fallon had to run up to the roof with change falling out of his clothes. Again, all this while Fallon is having a heat episode. As John says, "we should rename this 'Asphyxiating Jimmy Fallon'."

Fallon is also vaguely losing his mind and forgets he can talk on a podcast, because he keeps texting the others his thoughts.

They actually address the hosting schedule! Next episode, Stephen is hosting. After that, it's John (I'm excited for the inevitable LMFAO retrospective and/or extensive discussion of penii on rooves), then "James Theodore Fallon".

Thank you for reading this ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE BLOCK OF TEXT I'm so sorry that this is apparently my niche right now, thousands of words on a 45 min to 1 hr podcast featuring five white guys. One day the John pictures will again outnumber my blatherings, I promise.

[akaeijis]

HI OMG I LOVE YOUR EAST COAST FIC

if you ever want dumb lil tidbits to shove in feel free to hmu because i know way too much about this area (stuck living here)

hihi!!! tysmmm, i'm so glad you are enjoying it (i hope i'm repping th east coast properly LOL), i really hope i'll finish it since i don't really write multichaps. but, i've been really loving falling back in love with hetalia over the last few years... honestly, i have no idea where i got the courage to write aph (i see that ppl don't use this acronym anymore...) hws, since i was always so fulfilled by the fandom back in the day + i was like 13 so my writing skills were meh.

but now hetalia fandom is small and even smaller if ur a spamano/usuk/whatever fan that ppl don't like anymore so I'm here to contribute to our little fandom of people who actually like antonio & lovino! there was an influx of spamano fics in the last year that also inspired me, and i reread My Heart is Drenched in Wine by ChampagneSly, which has also got to be one of my favorite spamano fics ever... i love rich kid romano i love ceo romano i love bitchy romano i love (explodes) and the recent small, but strong & passionate love for hetalia and spamano by fans has inspired me so much to open documents and write!

sorry for ranting very tangentially... as you can see i don't have that many friends who like/care abt hetalia so I'm always down to explode and rant to ppl who actually know what I'm talking abt...

ANYWAY, yes i'm so glad you're having fun with it! I'm also having a lot of fun (but a bit worried I'm putting really random details about rhode island Italian American beach culture LOL). and yes, pls message me w any details (or pls just talk to me in general i haven't had a friend to engage w me over hetalia in..... years.....) . here's a sneak peek to prove that i do have something drafted.

i've never seen the sopranos

[lilpunkrock]

Lou, you magical, lyrical genius, I've just re-read WYGIWG and I'm tearing up. The hints were there- I screamed when I realized Dream had entered her unconscious and took away her nightmare before painting a dreamscape- and rereading the development between Love and Dream? Godsssss my heart! Suffice to say that this week has been rough is an understatement, but my god this fic sustained me and I just keep going back to the last couple of chapters because they're so beautifully written. From the whiplash of Love closing herself off to her balancing the scales and the Interlude (😭😭😭👏) to the final part. All of it had been a joy to read and re-read so thank you for being a bright spot 😊 I can't wait for the epilogue, but I also hope you are doing ok with work and school!

As for bonus content, 👀👀👀! What were some scenes that you may have envisioned that didn't make it into the series? Will these be one shots or potential different POV parts? And I gotta know, how did you get into the groove of writing for Love? Was it music or different elements combining? Was it hard to keep her anonymous to fit for any reader's perception?

Ahhh, Ice!! Friend!! 🤍 You’re gonna make me cry! I am so sorry to hear that you had a difficult week. I’m glad that WYGIWG was a bright spot, and I hope that the weekend and upcoming week bring you much brighter days. ☀️

I’m so thrilled to hear that you re-read!! And caught some of my hints!! I was wondering if anyone was catching them! Maybe outlining all of my hints/Easter eggs should be one of my bonus content posts? 👀

As for your question about scenes that didn’t make it into the story, I don’t think there were too many of those… I did have LOTS of scene ideas when I was first outlining the story. I basically wrote down all my thoughts, put them all out in front of me, and asked, “What’s the best way to make this a coherent story? What’s going to propel the story forward?” In the end, some stuff got scrapped because it didn’t fit the narrative, or was too filler-y. On the flip side, many scenes got added along the way! For example, when I first started WYGIWG, I didn’t know if I would incorporate Hob into the story. I didn’t even decide to incorporate Destiny in until around the time I was writing chapters 10-13 (I totally re-wrote the ending of the story around that time, lol).

In the end, there were only two scenes that didn’t get included in the story. I considered writing a scene where Love learned of Dream’s past imprisonment and lamented that she wasn’t able to help him. Very, “I would have come to help you if I’d known.” The other scene scrap, I’ll copy and paste below…

. . .

As you step into the grove, the lush fauna of Fiddler’s Green seems to stretch toward you. The grass whispers sweet welcomes beneath your feet. Dandelions crane to brush your ankles in glee.

I missed you, too, you long to say. But before you can, you find their creator standing before you, a different type of beauty amongst the flora and fauna. As your eyes settle on his face, the words jump to leave your lips. You swallow them quickly.

. . .

As for writing for Love/Reader, the hardest thing was giving her a personality while keeping her anonymous. I tried to make her someone anyone could see a piece of themselves in. When I drafted her character, I outlined various motivations, influences, and personality traits, and I would often re-read these or re-read old parts of the story to remind myself of her characterization prior to writing. I’d also listen to certain songs/artists to get in the headspace for her depending on the chapter (music will be a piece of bonus content coming out very soon!) It was probably hardest to keep her anonymous when writing from Dream’s third-person-esque POV, but his POV ended up being one of my favorite things to write in this story. I like how his sections sound different than any other part of WYGIWG.

On the topic of extra scenes, are there any scenes from WYGIWG that anyone would like to see written from another character’s POV? 👀 Dream’s? Someone else’s? I’m dying to know. 👀

[brick-a-doodle-do]

Still not quite ready to be back back but you know I’m always gonna send you asks ❤️

Would love an update for what’s next to come in terms of writing for Tiny workers. That last short one shot has been playing on repeat in my head for a while and I’d love some snippets or plans :3

And what au/aus are you currently working on?

(Sorry my question thinking brain is a lil dead atm lol)

BECKY THIS IS SO SWEET YOU DID NOT HAVE TO DO THIS!! I KNOW YOU'RE STILL FIXING THINGS :(((( but you're awesome ily <333 /p

i have half of a mini-fic in my drafts, it'll be tw!ranboo and tw!quackity + one of my favorite tiny workers headcannons :D

but after that i think i might write dream and george meeting? ooorrr idk anything really

and MMMMMM i am glad you asked! i am rewriting curiosity/something's brewing au to have 13-15 chapters instead of 6! it'll go down a route i WANTED to take it in but never got around to. and it'll be a chance to fix up it's legacy too lmao i hated the first chapter sdjjvscx

i am also slowly adding to wc3 and some benchtrio noms :3 i've gotten so many benchtrio & beeduo nom prompts in the past two weeks xcnbsdn

have a snippet from curiosity :D so far i'm at 2k and he hasn't even gotten into the house yet >:)

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HI I’m back and ready to Die!