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CHANGBIN — ULTRA

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BINSUNG feat. 🐰 SKZ-TALKER GO! S05E02

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CARRIE PRESTON as ELSBETH TASCIONI ELSBETH (2024–) S01E02 · “A Classic New York Character”

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&TEAM 五月雨 (Samidare) Concept Photos

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☆ Ghost CBS Text Memes {Part 1}

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Elsbeth Tascioni | Elsbeth 1x01

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ROCHELLE & GUSTAV

BRAINDEAD | 1.06 ↳ Notes Toward a Post-Reagan Theory of Party Alliance, Tribalism, and Loyalty: Past as Prologue

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1, 5, 12, 18, 39, 76, 77 for the fic asks! (I warned ya! 😉😁)

Thank you Kate!! These questions come from here and I'd be happy if other people asked more!

1) Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?

For the last decade, nearly all of my fics have existed solely within my mind. To say I daydream a lot is an understatement. I've had some sort of maladaptive daydreaming disorder since I was quite young. On the upside, it generates a lot of ideas and scenes. On the downside, it's called "maladaptive" for a reason. Everything I write was initially drafted by my nightly pacings. I've only just now gotten into writing these ideas out again.

5) How many wips do you have? What fandoms/pairings are they for?

Okay so, counting only the written WIPs, I have one. It's a canon-compliant m/m Lost fic centred on an OC who was on Oceanic Flight 815 and his relationship with Ben Linus. It's still in its infancy but coming along nicely.

I have a few more things hovering around in my head.

Two for Person of Interest:

- Harold Finch x Trans Man OC. Harold's first real love re-enters his life (*side-eyes Machine*) and he can't find it in him to walk away, no matter how much he wants to in order to keep OC safe. Harold still loves Grace, it's just a case of this being the person he was supposed to be with.

- Canon-compliant Gen fic. Harold suddenly has custody of his now-teenage kid who is as much of a menace as Harold was in his youth. In the battle of nature vs nurture, nature won in a big way.

Two for Evil:

- Leland Townsend x Trans Man OC. Once long-time friend (and quiet admirer) of "Jacob Perry" remeets him, both having taken on new forms of themselves. There's redemption arc elements for Leland, based off the shreds of good that got revealed in S4. His usual corrupting tactics don't work on OC so he performs some of his former self's traits in order to draw OC in. This ends up emotionally wrecking him as he realises that OC loves the man he used to be, not his current self.

- Leland Townsend x Male OC. In juxtaposition to the above concept, this one is two morally dubious gays being morally dubious and gay. They manage to bring out both the worst and the best in each other; perfectly balanced as all things should be.

12) Do you outline your fics? If yes, how detailed are your outlines? How far do you stray from them?

I most definitely do outline my fics! Structure is an important part of my life as someone who struggles with executive dysfunction. Checklists, alarms, itemised lists, and itineraries are my lifeline. When I don't plan ahead and set realistic goals and timelines, I tend to lose focus, waste my time, and stress myself out so much that I accomplish less or nothing at all.

How detailed my fic outlines are depend on if I'm following a canon timeline of events or creating my own direction. When I go canon, I tend to go ham for the authenticity. For my Lost fic, for instance, I made a day-by-day timeline of the events of the show as a reference. It mainly focuses on what the MC is witnessing but sometimes mentions "off-screen" big events that I as the writer need to remember happen on that day. Some days have much shorter entries than others. It helps me orient the MC within the world; I want him to be able to refer to and be impacted by past events in a realistic way.

Something I've recently discovered doing that I think I'm gonna stick with from now on is little chapter notes. Each chapter has a Plot note with a few sentences covering the general events of the chapter and how many "page break" sections it'll have, a POV note to denote what character we're following in each section, a Relationship note to track the current emotions of the main couple (especially towards each other), and a Characters note to track the relationships the MC has with other characters. It might sound too rigid to some people but it helps me get the pacing of each chapter right and make sure I'm shifting character emotions in a way that makes sense.

18) Do you enjoy research? Which fic of yours required the most research?

I'm one of those people who will find out the rules of the world the story is set in an strictly adhere to them. Sure there can be a magical Island, a corporate organisation of 60 demonic houses, or a sentient A.I. that was built by one man...but these things also exist in an otherwise present day reality so you can bet your ass I'm gonna look up how long it takes to obtain a specific degree or job certification, what schools exist in this area, which train goes to what stations, and other extremely trivial yet grounding real world details.

The most research I ever did for a fic was for a character profile I made of a BBC Musketeers OC. I went full historically accurate and spent 14 hours straight writing what ended up being something like 10 pages on a character I never ended up doing anything with. She must've possessed me.

39) What’s your most self-indulgent wip?

All of my writing is self-indulgent. I have always written to express my own emotions, escape from my own life, and bring myself joy and catharsis. I only ever published things online because I figured one or two people might derive a bit of joy out of it. As I said earlier, every fic idea I have stems from daydreams, which means that all my OCs are, to some degree, self-inserts. I'm at peace with that, though, as so much of my lived experience includes things I want to see represented: gay men, trans men, neurodivergency, speech issues, physical disabilities, chronic pain, mental health issues, volatile family relationships.

My most self-indulgent is probably the one where Harold has a kid. All my OCs resemble different parts of me but this one is my catharsis fic, the one where I heal my inner child. This kid is gay, trans, autistic, hearing impaired, walks with a cane due to a hip and lower back injury, and had an abusive mother. He is respected, loved, protected, and prioritised by Harold. Despite his physical and mental conditions, the rest of Team Machine don't underestimate his capabilities; Harold does though because it's basically his job to think his child is made of glass. He's a tech whiz like his dad, a practiced liar, is pretty good at using his cane as a melee weapon, and gets to hear the Machine's God Mode communication through his hearing aids. Making the Machine conversing with hearing impaired people a theme was too good to pass up.

76) How do you deal with writing pressure, whether internal or external?

I don't receive any external pressure, thank goodness, but I guess the closest thing to internal pressure I feel is the deeply seeded doubts I have about my ability to write linear stories. My 9th grade English teacher really tore the soul out of every writer in our class and restricted our creative writing so much that I basically stopped writing. It's a whole long, upsetting story that I won't get into but the gist is that I'm still unpacking that damage and fighting against the urge to give up.

77) Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?

I pretty much covered this above in the self-indulgent question. To reiterate, it's an outlet for my imagination, my emotions, and my need for escape.

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i think evil getting cancelled show the importance of fandom. the show is well received, it has good reviews, it has good ratings but it got cancelled. why? literally the only thing it doesn't have is large engagement with fans. sucks.

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binsung — 241214 dominate bangkok (© hanhanji)

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JANE KRAKOWSKI as JOANN LENOX ELSBETH (2024–) S01E02 · “A Classic New York Character”

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Setting: Crested Butte, 2038

Sidney: Diego! What happened?

Diego: ?

Sidney: You didn’t have those scars before…

Diego: Oh. I got in a wreck a few years ago. Broke this leg, this arm, a couple of ribs… it was pretty bad. I was in the hospital for a week.

Sidney: You hit a deer or something?

Diego: Nah. My cousin was pissed at her parents and took her dad’s car for a joyride. I went along to try and talk her down. She’d never driven a car before.

Sidney: Is she okay? D:

Diego: Yeah, she’s fine. Doing a lot better these days. But now I get cranky in the afternoons when the storms roll in because everything hurts.

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&TEAM 青嵐 (Aoarashi) Concept Photos

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Someone had to do it (murder)

Bts of Vanessa Williams and Jenn Lyon with Carrie Preston on Elsbeth Season 2

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NCIS 22x10 Baker's Man - Sneak Peek 1

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