#Novelle Vague

[maggiethecatchatterley]

🥹❤️

[zhouxiangs]

Joe, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Please come back to me. I'm sorry.

MY STAND-IN (2024) | Episode 7

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Astolfo is Bisexual, Androgynous, Nonbinary, and/or Genderqueer and uses he/him and they/them pronouns!

[lacertae-dreamscape]

Yoo Joonghyuk is now planning to cook the wedding reception meal.

So this stemmed from me realising that most of the time, Kim Dokja in fanfics (or fanart) doesn't quite confess and keeps all of his feelings buried.

I also thought, though, that he would choose the opposite way too -confess his feelings, pretend it to be not as important, not as big, as a way to distance himself from those emotions, ready to take some embarrassment and shame due to the confession in order to feel less pained when inevitably (in his mind) those feelings are rejected.

Takes control of something horrible and shameful for him so it will feel less raw and visceral, less 'i'm being perceived'.

Except he absolutely does not count on Yoo Joonghyuk having feelings back so of course he's blown away by YJH accepting and coveting that confession that he's been waiting forever to hear.

extra: the background from panel 2 since i handwrote that, and a rejected panel.

[cardentist]

"I think you guys don't like good writing you just like Fanfic Tropes"

yeah well I think you guys use fanfic as a stand in for shallow low stakes writing and immature/inexperienced writers because it's an easy short hand to make fun of people, even though it ultimately hurts the point you're making.

blindly using the idea of Tropes as a stand in for not being able to write dark or interesting or complex characters and stories is just so baseline ridiculous. not every fanfic trope is a coffee shop au and not every published novel is from stephen king.

the entire point of fanfic "tropes" is to make it Easier to find the kind of story you're looking for, if you can't find dark or high stakes fanfic that is literally a skill issue

[suntails]

loyalty

[echoed-salvation]

welp. I made a kim dokja kinnie bingo I apologise if it's not completely accurate some parts had to be a bit simplified - such as "loves others but harsh on self" mostly applying to those he cares about - and I wanted to make sure it wasn't all just mental illness symptoms (also I feel a lot of this is late novel / epilogue kdj)

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Hello Newsies fandom, for your casual viewing pleasure (and because apparently some people think headcanoning the Jacobs family as Jewish is antisemitic), here is the exact passage from the official Newsies novel that states Davey is Jewish and Jack is Irish :D

It's not a headcanon, it's literally written in the source material and, even if it wasn't, this fandom has been headcanoning characters' ethnicities based on their names since 1992. They're street kids living in New York City in 1899, they're going to be a diverse group and the best thing we have to go on is their names. I know my group of mutuals headcanon at least two other characters as Jewish, somewhat if not entirely based on their names.

Like, I don't know how else to explain that headcanoning a character with a traditionally Jewish name isn't "stereotyping" it's literally just being like "oh hey, this whole family has really common Jewish names, it would be fun if they're Jewish" and then we all move on with our lives because it's also literally canon. Like, it would be bad if we were headcanoning a character as Jewish purely because they exhibit behaviors that are also associated with negative Jewish stereotypes but that's literally not what's happening here. Also I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the non-dialogue parts of the script somewhere but I don't have access to that.

In conclusion, don't be weird about people headcanoning characters as minorities, it's not stereotyping it's literally just people existing.

(Also, I am not Jewish, so I do not at all claim to be any kind of authority on representation. If any Jewish bloggers want to weigh in I will happily read and be open to learning!)

[ferncloud]

wc meetup was a success

[idontwantrobyntodie]

Sequel to Fox’s Tongue and Kirrin’s Bone by @muffinlance has just arrived! Yes I did already read the online version (like a week before it went down lol) but alas… it seems I will have to read it again… whatever shall we do…

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Everyone cross your fingers someone publishes my second novel so I can finally publish my first novel so I can finish this third one in peace

[maggiethecatchatterley]

[ravi-617]

She's demonic and bloody, but she holds me tight

[kris-mage-fics]

I was super lucky to win a commission from @nerdferatum and can't thank Sara enough for this absolutely gorgeous art of Kyrahlise and Shery! I'm in love with it have literally cried over it three times now! I really hope folks can see some of the romance novel cover art inspiration going on here, I thought it was what Shery deserves! Also, please zoom in on the full piece, because you can't see Kyrah's adorable freckles here with how much tumblr compresses the image, and that's a damn shame. Now please excuse me while I go stare at it some more!

Edit: In my excitement, I forget to tag @shepherds-of-haven because without the game there couldn't be this beautiful drawing!

[ahb-writes]

Person: Oh, you're a writer! What do you write?

Me:

[minionsuncle]

my take on Edward and Lydia. The graphic novels pulling me back a little wont lie …