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I've been enjoying Breaking Bad lately

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Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

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“i loved her. i loved her more than anything."

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his handwriting is so special. baby i love you but what does that say

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it's important to have a group of ppl that you can just sit and think about The Character with

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Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 3 //Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 14

art by Matteo Moni

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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of and ecalating series of actions and circumstances that, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

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"i think we should check his arms for needle marks" being a throwaway line in S1 to indicate mr and mrs pinkman being clueless and overbearing in relation to early brba goofball burnout jesse, and then. and thenn

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jfc

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Big Boss really saw his son about to kill himself and went “How can I make this about meeeee?” and died instead

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season 1 walter white they could never make me hate you (okay i hate him a little)

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Okay so like obviously the "my name is skyler white, yo" scene is comedy gold. But like- I feel like "You will be one sorry individual" and "You can dig it. Wonderful." specifically are just S tier lines...

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Galen Mercer - ‘Early Spring, Beaverkill’, Oil on Canvas, 32" x 42", 2000

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AU where as soon as Walter gives Jesse to the Nazis he starts having nightmares of the things that are actually being done to Jesse. Ofc he thinks this is just his subconscious tormenting him- as though he has anything to feel guilty about! The nightmare that finally makes him break down on waking is the one where Jesse desperately screams Mr. White! as he’s being tortured, begging for Walter to come save him. Walter develops insomnia to try and stave off the visions. It doesn’t work; the lack of sleep + the cancer result in vivid hallucinations. He spends hours just lying in bed, staring at the watch on his wrist. He drives back to Albuquerque to end it all. He still reacts with anger when Skinny Pete and Badger comment that the blue meth is still in production, trying to convince himself through his mounting dread that Jesse has voluntarily partnered with the Nazis all while Walter has been working himself into fits over the thought of the fate he sent him to. He feels sick to his stomach when he first lays eyes on the compound. It’s exactly as he remembered it. He’s made speechless with horror when he sees Jesse- he can remember how he got every scar. He slides the gun to Jesse and says “you want this” because how could he not, after what Walter put him through? But it’s Walter who wants this. He isn’t strong enough to live with his own guilt. He hears Jesse’s howls of agony and jubilation as he slips away into nothing.

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snavid husky pyjamas

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I watched this series a long time ago, remember not liking it much, but NOW...

Damn this series is a total bomb 💣

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Guess who JUST started mgs 4