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COUGH I am so (not) sorry this is also roleswapverse. We talked about having a plotline take place in a fancy event at some point (potentially: at Docfather's casino)(which probably is invite only, so Ariana and Pearl Moon as a reporter were invited ;3), and then I blacked out and this appeared on my screen,
Edit: AND Pearl and Ariana brought their partners to the event, I just realized there was missing context HELPEPWP. This is Scar in the drawing, and Pearl and Gem are in another wip!
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there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.
and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.
idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.
which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'
*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.
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how do you plan ZoS? like do you do a timeline of events you want to happen in between canon? asking as a reader and writer :3
I have a loose outline of the entire story in my head, and we're basically (slowly) working our way through it all right now haha.
There are certain scenes/events that I have clear images of, and definitely intend to include as I continue writing. Others are a little more vague. Some get changed or expanded upon as we stumble across it, but it doesn't change the overarching plotline.
... This probably isn't the most effective way to write, but I find that it works fairly well for me lol.
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Hi! 😊 Just wanted to ask, how many more requests are in line for the House of the Dragon fandom? Could we get any teasing crumbs for those? 🥺🥺🥺
I'm going to be honest... Half of the recent HOTD I've pulled out of thin air 😭
In honor of S2 I've decided to make a list of characters to write for but I've realized I don't care for half of the men in the show 💀 it feels a lil odd writing for Luke cause he's so smol
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#is so maddening cool seeing you up your game in each entry with the BACKGROUNDS
UwU thank you for the nice tags!
I read your joke not-so-joke post of you struggling with the background of that piece x'D OF COURSE YOU DESERVED THOSE WORDS!!! Was worth the extra mile, now you can laugh at your past self and pat their shoulder proudly x)
So, welcome!
PS HI5 TO YA, DIGITAL ART MOUSE USER!!! I used a mouse for almost 12 years lmaooo
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speaking of post-married to money fics (glances at mine) i had a false start on the next chapter (where i accidentally broke the fic's internal rule of sticking to one of 4 povs per chapter by accidentally writing in pearl's perspective instead of, like, any of the three viable perspectives) so that might eventually pop up as a oneshot as a companion piece when the actual chapter it was gonna be is done. however i am now looking at my outline and my drafts and considering switching two chapters and writing that instead of the one that was originally planned. lol.
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Beyond the initial keith/lance queerbaiting I think one of the worst lessons I had to un-learn from voltron a lot later is that there is no shiro, there are no space lions, there's no one coming to save you from any of it and if you choose to rot in the desert, for instance. Well you'll die.
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so wack to me that I have to write 10k of different ships before october 23 and my brain is pinging against my blank word doc like ‘this is not codywan??? why are we writing something that is not codywan???? bring back the codywan!!!’
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