#Out of Nowhere

[juniemunie]

"Well, when two people love each other very much-" "STOP RIGHT THERE"

//Okay but for real, Puss lived a good life.

...Every story ends at some point, right?

If you dont know, these poses are based off @/sihanjir from twitter

[nikkipettt]

The new PV has me by the throat

[xjippirambles]

🪙 Hmmm. How oddly specific you are, MC.

[jula483]

same energy 🥰

[acediaedeus]

uncharacteristic shit-post moment for a second, but ‘bury me in your manly bosom, Zoro, please and thank you’

[a-meh]

[boos-gh0st]

The weapon

The victim

[cantalwaysgetwhatyouwantbut]

Based on RSL's silver streak on his temple.

And then. Something happens.

Edit: this happens (part 2).

[krash-8]

dont you love it when theyre just "btw here is your blorbo" on a random thursday and youre supposed to be normal about it

[meraarts]

Fan art of @tommybowefuneralattendee’s incredible fic bc that scene did not have to go that hard

[yuzuyoon]

a generally sure way of telling if someone has a good singing voice is by listening to them talk. sometimes when people talk, you can just hear melodious undertones. certain phrases and tones make them sound like they could be singing if you put music behind it. they're just really enchanting to listen to, in the way that it's impossible to stop listening to them talk

i think jimin is actually the perfect example of this. tons of people that have met bts and jimin always mention that jimin's voice is captivating to hear just when he's talking. you can especially hear it in the muse dance practice behind and it's especially prevalent when he's asking questions, even as he's dancing

[vampwan]

ah, freedom

previous / next

[temis-de-leon]

I saw a post recently talking about p*rn addiction on Tumblr and ykw, kinda true.

No matter what tag you use (fluff, angst, hurt/comfort), you're going to find smut; you don't even need to use its tag to find it.

Obviously, a fanfic (or whatever) can be both smutty and fluffy or angsty or everything at once and of course you have to tag properly so people know what they're reading, but the problem comes when people use tags unrelated to what they're writing.

And I found that happens a lot (not every time) with yandere AUs or proshipper fics. For example, they use the fluff tag to reach more people, but then you read it and it's borderline criminal behavior. Please be a good writer and use the proper TWs and tags.

Not only is that really shitty, but also kind of dangerous. There are minors here, there's no need to unnecessarily expose them to the smut, especially the weird one. Like, these people's brains are still evolving, let them choose when to read the smut ☠️

Reading so much smut can negatively affect the idealization of relationships and sex and the consequential behaviour used to search for something similar. Younger people (remember, there are even preteens here) that ignore the +18, minors beware in posts are consuming the product of a stranger's imagination based on a fictional character and later comparing it to people they meet in real life.

I could go further with this, but I'm not in the mood (too tired).

Summarizing: let children be children and let adult content be consumed by adults.

Signed, an adult who consumed adult content way too soon.

[antikittysocial]

hugging twisted goob

[suzy-queued]

DVD Commentary: Out of Nowhere

I got a request from @doshiart for behind-the-scenes commentary from Out of Nowhere. @shamelessdvdcommentary

Give us some stats - (when you wrote it, word count, how long it took to finish, is it a one-shot/multi-chapter, etc) 86,511 words, 15-chapters. I wrote it between November 2022 - January 2024.

What was the initial inspiration for your story? I love murder ballads. I love graphic novels. So when I saw the book In the Pines at my local library, I snatched it up. This book takes old murder ballads and turns them into short stories, told in graphic format. My favorite one was "Where the Wild Roses Grow," based on the Nick Cave song.

I took some very loose elements from this story: A secluded property, a guy escaping from prison, a person protecting their family's gold. The prisoner wooing the gold protector in order to get close enough to rob them. Doesn't that scream Gallavich?

In the murder ballad there's, well, murder. The prisoner dies by the end. Boy, was I tempted to do that in my story.

What was your favorite scene to write? In each story, there's a scene that pops in my head early on that I base the whole setup around. It's the one that I'm gleefully waiting to write. For this story, it was the "cleaning guns" scene in chapter 7, when the sexual tension is high and Ian tantalizes Mickey as he works.

How did you come up with the title? My favorite murder ballad of all time is "El Paso" by Marty Robbins. There's a line in that song, "From out of nowhere, Felina has found me."

The placeholder title was "Gallagher Gold."

Are there any little moments or references you hope readers will notice? I made this note early on: "Ian has a high PHYSICAL IQ. Mickey has a high VISUAL IQ." I used that to make character decisions throughout. Ian was good with his body and his posture. He was good at carrying things and balancing things, climbing and shooting. Mickey was obsessive about patterns and puzzles and solving challenges.

Was there anything you struggled to write? If so, how did you overcome this? Chapter 13, oh my god. That's the hardest thing I've ever written. I was dreading it for months. It's a tense culmination of everything the story has been building to: love, betrayal, physical and emotional pain. The land gets torn up, and so does their relationship. I overcame it by taking lots of deep breaths and writing small chunks every day. I made sure that every sentence was exactly what I wanted to convey, without letting the prose take its own (lazier) path.

Favorite line in the story? “I’m not a fucking Viper.”

Did the storyline change in any way as you wrote the story? When I started this story, I was sure that I didn't want to do another long multi-chap fic. I outlined it as a 5-chapter short, maybe 30,000 words. Then the "what if" whispers started happening, and it grew to a full 15-chapter outline. Most of the chapters had very short descriptions. One was just "fun and games on the land." One was just "This wasn’t supposed to happen, Gallagher."

Other possible settings included: an abandoned church with a small cemetery, and old hospital, a forgotten amusement park. I wrote "somewhere old-timey that would have land."

What are you most proud about in the story? (plot, characterization, dialogue, twist/cliffhanger, etc) The art! I had so much fun with it. I based the style off the old Penguin classics, like the Grapes of Wrath cover below. (Where they had the little penguin, I put the double-triangle Viper tattoo). I'm also showing my concept sketch for chapter 1 art.

Are there any ‘behind the scenes’ info you’d like to share? I hand-wrote the story first, and it filled two notebooks:

Here are some research shots on the land and the equipment:

I took this photo while I was working. Welcome to the inside of my brain:

Reading back the story now, is there anything you’d change or add? I was itching to dramatize more of Ian and Mickey's lives while they were apart. It would have been fun to have 5-6 chapters of them learning to be whole humans again. But ultimately, that wouldn't serve the story. I did a time jump instead.

Are there any ‘easter eggs’ in your story - e.g. references to other stories you’ve written, a trope you often use etc? The story is set in Fox River Grove. This entirely happened because @lalazeewrites introduced me to the town in their comments on Estate of Blood and Trust. So the events of EOBAT and OON are taking place in neighboring towns!

Did you have a beta or a friend who helped you as you wrote? @mzshko helped me figure out the best way to structure chapters 2 & 3. She was patient enough to read an alternate fully-written version of both chapters and tell me which option worked best.

Anything else you’d like the readers to know about the story? Three months into writing this story, I stopped and did a self-analysis because it wasn't igniting. I wrote, "Could it be that I haven't put enough of myself into it?" So I re-evaluated and dug deeper and made it as personal as I could.

I can't emphasize enough how interwoven details of my own life were in this story. I helped my dad install that big aluminum gate in the woods. I used 5-gallon jugs of water to brush my teeth and sponges to bathe. I washed clothes by hand and cooked on a propane stove. I hauled and stacked logs from fallen trees. I had a love/hate relationship with my family's land and ached to be back in civilization, like Ian. My dad used to tell me bedtime stories about escaped prisoners (Mickey?!) roaming the woods and killing small children.

This story is a love letter to my dad, who was dying the entire time I was writing. He passed away in May of 2024.

This is open to all writers! Pick your favorite story you’ve written or your most popular or the one you think deserves some more love! Or ask your followers to suggest their favorite fic of yours!