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[opera-ghost]

[ronanlynchusurper]

i don’t think we talk enough about declan being equally as down bad and ‘all or nothing’ with romance as ronan is. like yes ronan said he would start wars and burn cities for adam’s true smile, begged god for adam after he first saw him and fortuitously had all his objects of worship were in one downtown block etc but ronan had known adam atleast 18 months at this stage. whereas declan really risked it all to get tyrian purple overnight for a first date gift after ONE conversation…the man was discussing their marriage as a ‘when’ not an ‘if’ before we even saw them kiss like what’s his excuse lmaoo

[mercuryflan]

Laughing at this mushroom event until I realized the same situation my table is in rn🗿🕴️boi- >:v

The joke writes itself🚪🚶

[limayde]

77 & 78. Class of '09 + The Re-Up

These are the worst games I've ever played. Not in terms of quality, but solely in terms of how fucked up every single character is. Like, you skip class, sell crack, and get at least four people arrested for sexual misconduct.

And it's so fucking funny. The main character, Nicole, is just as snarky as I wish I was in high school. She doesn't take shit from anyone, does things her own way, and depending on your choices, ends up anywhere between dating a lesbian after her house catches fire—or succeeding in the most heinous pro-revenge story for someone who probably genuinely deserved it.

Also Jecka is definitely a repressed lesbian and has the hots for Nicole.

10/10 highly recommend.

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

HATRED AND SUFFERING AND STRIFE

[pastafossa]

hi pasta ! i’ve been a long time fan of you and your work, your writing is by far my favorite so far for matt that you’ve reignited me to write fanfics again ! i think you’re incredibly talented and so smart in your way of designing a story so vividly it just sparked my desire to to create again after my 30th reread of TRT. it is totally okay if you choose not to answer these but i have a couple of questions for writers? i have written fanfics before but they never came out to my liking (i never published them😅) so i’m looking to improve it and better my understanding of creating content that i like and am proud of!

the questions !! :

what are some things and tricks to writing lively, real dialogue? i find when i write sometimes my characters seem dull and cardboard like. i want it to flow naturally god dammit !

how do you go about characterization and staying true to it as your character develop and evolve? and to riff off of this question what is some additional research you would do to get the nature of your chosen character (ex, matt) right?

what are ways to better your writing? for example highlighting a characters complex emotions, describing the scenery around, detailed fight scenes and car chases, etc, etc. and not just them but silly grammatical errors and simple vocab. (i’m trilingual so it get a bit fuzzy remember all the rules of every language 😭) your foreshadowing game is just chefs kiss cuz you would sit on something and brush past it but it’ll make its comeback 20 chaps later, HOW??

and lastly, what is your advice to planning a long story? what are some steps you take to je respect the timeline of a show or a movie and how do you fit your OC into it? as well as making the OC’s backstory fit in. speaking of backstory and lore, i find it so hard to fit in believable, human lore to my OC and not make it super childish. i think you did such an interesting job with project beagle, the antagonist, the body swapping, the symbolism, etc, that it just feel so canon to me.

well thats all i have to ask, i hope it’s not too much, you really are such an awesome artist and i admire your work as a writer so much! thank you for sharing your stories on here/ao3. ❤️

Oh my gosh, this is so sweet! I'm absolutely gd honored you love TRT this much, I'm so, so happy it could help make you want to write fic again! 😭😭😭 Seriously, one of the things that just makes me absolutely delighted is when something I've made could lead to more things being made in turn, cause I don't just love Matt and Daredevil and TRT, I love stories in general! The world needs more of them, so this is FUCKING AWESOME. And I'm happy to answer these questions as best I can!

I'm also going to put this behind a see-more tag cause it's long LOL.

Token Matt gif just for fun. LET'S GET STARTED.

Natural, lively dialogue: Ooooh this is a fun question I haven't gotten asked before I don't think. I won't lie, part of it absolutely the immersion with all the shows, movies, and books I take in. But there's another element I was taught in creative writing classes - the idea that sometimes you should read as a writer. That is: read while asking yourself, 'how did they do that? Why? How did they foreshadow this?' Etc. You can do the same thing with characters speaking and with people. Listen to how these characters speak, how similar people speak, and try to get a feel for how they talk. I'll use contractions as an example. Most people use contractions, for example (at least in the US), in natural flowing dialogue. It's shorter, it's more casual, whereas they might speak more formally (less contractions) in a professional setting like a courtroom or when they're really angry and speaking somewhat threateningly. They also might not use contractions for other reasons - in TRT Ciro tends to use fewer contractions when speaking English, both because he's a classy guy and because English isn't his native language (he learned it more formally). I also try to treat each character as having their own natural accent (which can also show a bit of their personality). Matt rambles when he's nervous, but his dialogue gets sharp and choppy when he's furious (Devil wants to act, not talk). Foggy loves metaphors and has a lot of swings up and down in tone for emphasis (Grew up a theatre kid). When Jane in TRT is feeling particularly cold, she starts dropping unnecessary words from her sentences so they're shorter (more efficient + trained to give immediate answers without flourish). Sometimes it can also help to listen to the dialogue you write or have it go through a text-to-speech program so you can hear if it sounds stilted, but I've found the ability to detect stilted dialogue is just something you have to practice!

Keeping true to the character while letting them evolve: this is ALSO A FUN QUESTION. Especially because something I was taught is that, generally speaking (always exceptions): a stagnant character is a boring character. They need to struggle with who they are, and grow or devolve as a person. They need to learn. I knew I wanted that to happen in TRT, so yeah, a big question was how I could show characters growing while also keeping them the characters we know and love. And for me it was about figuring out what the basic building blocks of those characters were, and making sure they were always present, because an apple pie should always, in theory, come out of the oven an apple pie, even if it's been changed some by baking. Things like Matt's struggle with his faith, the way he's sorta incapable of finding a middle ground between Devil and Matt Murdock, his refusal to ignore injustice, his trauma and fear of abandonment, his love of the Kitchen, his anger issues and the ensuing impulsivity, these are all building blocks for him. These do not change. What changes is how they manifest, and what he does with them. Matt learns he can trust Jane with his trauma and fear of abandonment. She helps calm his anger. The building blocks are all still there. Some of them just get arranged a little differently as he grows. Same with Jane and how she has grown. She's always going to have Hound Mode floating around in the back of her head. Security will always be her biggest concern, her motivator. She's always going to be the one who prefers to think and plan. She'll always feel a little weird about personal identity, and be able to flip through lies and false faces with the best of them. But she'll handle all of that differently as she grows alongside Matt. The plot is baking them, changing those pies in the oven, but their base ingredients are something I'm super careful to keep consistent. That I think is one of my secrets since this has been going on 8 years now!

Additional research for characterization: I am always, always, always going to recommend good psychology research (I loved this shit in college, especially developmental psychology, and fortunately there's a TON that's easily accessible online and doesn't require any classes). For Matt, that would be psychological things like... what does repeated abandonment do to a person when they're a kid? How does abandonment and parental loss shape their attachment styles and relationships later in life (hint: it's not great)? We know he has untreated depression, so what's going on in his brain considering he's pushing all that down? What would the day-to-day struggle being exposed to all that crime and pain do (research into things like the mental health of paramedics and social workers, etc)? Dissect these characters like little bugs, put them on your table, and try to figure out why someone would do what they do. Be curious, basically!

How To Improve In General: I LOVE THAT YOU BROUGHT UP MY FORESHADOWING FIRST OFF, I'LL ANSWER THAT IN THE NEXT BIT FOR PLANNING BUT. For me this is a couple things. The biggest one is reading, reading, reading. Read professional stuff in addition to fanfic. Read in your chosen genre. Read writers you want to write like! Read writers who are writing what you want to learn! And when you do, ask yourself how they did what you want to do. I have one book series that's my absolute favorite, I've read it over and over and over again. And it's very likely that someone who's read that book series and TRT would be able to spot the influence that book series has had on Jane's character voice, how I write action scenes, morally grey characters, etc. So that's where some of it comes from! For things like detailed emotions and sensations, my favorite book is The Emotion Thesaurus! I've found I don't need it as much now because I've gotten the hang of it, but it's still good to have there as a refresher. And for things like grammar and simple vocab, not only will reading help, but I'd also open the door to any fandom friends who might beta read for you! I've been writing fic since I was... hrrgh, quite young. And I'm super grateful for the betas over the years that would go over my fic and leave notes - notes not just on what they had changed but why: why they changed this punctuation, why they broke up this sentence, why they capitalized this or lower-cased that. That helped a ton! But yeah, when in doubt, grab an author you love and open it up and go, '...Ok, so how did you do this???' Also holy hell, you're triilingual so you already get a TON of kudos here on learning how multiple languages work, YOU GOT THIS.

Planning a long story: now's the part where I make people groan but the biggest advice is to outline, I know a ton of us heard it in school and ignored it because pfft but THE OUTLINE REALLY IS IMPORTANT. This is how I was able to foreshadow things ages in advance - I knew what was coming in the future so I was able to leave breadcrumbs earlier on. This also meant I was able to figure out how certain dominoes would tip (like when TRT's original plotlines would change something in canon) or when there were gaps in Daredevil's timeline that I could neatly settle into. Knowing the entirety of the story and having it all laid out also meant it was easier to change things or work to make sure TRT fit into the Daredevil/Marvel Universe like a puzzle piece. That was one of the steps for me both when it came to respecting the timeline (not that you need to! That was a personal choice for me) and with making sure the lore all fit in. I love the Marvel universe, have since I was a kid, so I was able to tap some of their fun recurring tropes and themes (Evil scientists, secret government projects, Mutants/Enhanced characters in hiding) and instead of trying to make it new, I tried to do my own spin on it instead because I know this sort of thing already exists there, and threw in some of the other general genre tropes I enjoy (love me some symbolic otherworlds and psychic connections). I think for an OC like this, that's sort of the key. Their backstories will fit because they're built on power structures and building blocks that already exist. It's just about finding a little section that hasn't been told yet. That's where this type of OC flourishes: in these little gaps between walls and load-bearing pillars, a story and character you wouldn't find all that unusual if they popped up as a side character in canon, all to explore some part of the world that hasn't really been fleshed out yet. AND if desired, I think there's something to be said for matching just how grounded/fantastical your show/movie is. Daredevil is very, very grounded. People get hurt. They die. These aren't Avengers-level Gods who can take a lightning strike. So I respected that with Jane, who gets hurt... fairly often, tbh. I also leaned into, yet again, a story gap in that while a lot of the people running around with the Devil (Frank, Elektra, Stick, Jess and Luke, etc) are GOOD at fighting, Jane's specialty is NOT fighting, generally, even if she's pretty damn good with a gun and quick with her knife. Her specialty is getting away, so it gives us new things to explore in terms of threats and fight scenes!

I hope all of this helps! Everyone gets better with practice, so don't be afraid to put your stuff out there! God knows I've got old fanfic floating around the internet, and a lot of my early stuff wasn't anywhere near what TRT is. But I also couldn't have gotten to TRT without writing it, posting it, and learning from it. <3

[queenofshenanigans]

Ok but what if Steve is weirdly good at Jeopardy and he's watching with the Party one day and just absently giving the answers (in the form of a question) before even Dustin gets them and everyone is like wtf Steve?

And after the show, they try to ask him random questions and he's like fuck idk, but then the next night Jeopardy is on and once again Steve's is getting like all the answers. Mike is like it's gotta be a rerun (it's not), and Max is like maybe it's just the sports ones (it's not), and finally Steve just shouts "ALEX TREBEK IS JUST REALLY HOT OKAY?!"

and everyone is silent until Lucas shouts back "THAT DOESN'T FUCKING EXPLAIN ANYTHING STEVE!"

And Will, who's looking at the tv with a considering look just says, "No, no, he's got a point."

[booksandmore]

the greek class are outcasts in their society (gay, eccentric, the twins, etc) and desperate for a place to belong, but the tragedy of the secret histpry is that everything is a lie. even if they tried to, even if they wanted to, they just didnt like each other. they didnt love each other. thats why everything fell apart

[curufiin]

Oh no! This was everything Naneth had warned him about - he'd strayed too far and now a stranger had snatched him away. Wet and cold, he had not said anything, trying his best not to cry. Naneth would want him to be brave and stoic even if this stranger was going to murder him. But… he felt very small as he was bundled into new clothes. This stranger had been nice to him so far. Maybe he wouldn't murder him. Maybe he had snatched him away for something else. To be his servant, perhaps? Adar said that could happen. He didn't understand the words. "I want Ada." For the first time in his life. It was more of a trained response than actual desire. "I want Nana." (x) @pxnxply

Curufin blinked. Sindarin? Few children in his lands speaks Sindarin as a mother tongue, and the occurence is certainly strange enough for him take notice. He reached out, taking Eol's tiny little hand into his own gloved ones.

"You don't speak Quenya?" He asked this time, in the language of the child, his voice hushed and soft, "Who are your parents, boy? It's alright, don't be scared. I'm not going to hurt you."

[ilsea]

So i need to vent about this so: i was on twitter and i saw a thread of this op where they talked about this particular video about weak hero saying lines like “…Sieun bullying was that not deep to give him such a bad trauma respond” which made me question two things: did they paid attention to the actual story (both season) and what they mean with the “its not that deep” part.

Sieun, like many characters in the series, have many traumas in many different way such as like: neglecting parents, be isolated (which we see more him being isolated in season 1 as a way to not know how to interact with people), getting drugged by a classmate, having and seeing your friend getting hurt and hospitalised—and many other traumas we all know he has and we dont need the actual list of it.

But like op (the one who made the thread) made such a good job saying how bad those traumas are, how deeply impacted Sieun in a way we see through all season 2 with the constant remainder of what happen to his friends in season one (mind you, i say about both Suho and Beomseok but even Younji who was still a friend of Sieun in a more light way in comparison to the boys) and how he not only understand that he has no fault of what happened in season one but also that he need friends, he has friends and he should speak and raise his own voice/mind.

Some other people on twitter saw the video and said that is actually because we know, as a fandom, have locals/normies? into the fandom and now we see people who didnt actually grew in a fandom and doesn’t know the proper etiquette (like i saw people saying shipping Suho/Sieun was wrong??? Or just having queer ships in the series was wrong??). And honestly i dont know because i see such a difference in the tumblr one, twitter and the tiktok one; i dont know if is a generational thing? I actually dont know but i want someone to speak about this because im finding the fandom totally changed (idk if is in a good or bad way) and even people how they interact with the product is totally different than what i was used to.

[political-us]

Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives’ salaries a week after laying off 3,600 employees

[tales-from-the-blu-team]

( @the-blu-cyborg )

Heat. Heat surrounded Touma in a dense, suffocating cocoon. The only thing keeping him clinging onto consciousness was the feeling or something tugging and scratching at the skin on his back.

With a grunt, he tried to roll over to see what that something was, and caught a brief glimpse of wings taking off into the air through vision that was grainy and blurred, as if he were viewing the world through a bad camera. The sky above was blue, and more vultures were circling overhead.

His skin was rough and parched. He had no recollection of how he’d ended up in this desert, or how long he’d been suffering under the rays of its sun. But one thing was for certain - he wasn’t in Canada anymore.

His body felt strange, heavy. He tried to clear his vision, but rubbing his eyes did nothing to help.

And then he saw his hand. A hand that was made entirely of metal. His legs, too. Even through the bad quality of his vision he could make out scars all over his body, as if someone had simply decided to hack him apart and rebuild him.

What the hell had happened?

Ms Pauling was a busy woman.

She was always busy.

There was always paperwork to be done, people to be killed and bodies to be discarded. Her hands were caked with blood and she loved it.

She loved what she did because it was thrilling. It was dangerous, but most importantly, it was for Her.

She had faith in the Administrator. If she told her to jump, she'd ask how high.

It would all be worth it, she knew this deep down.

She was to check in on the Mercs, all the while keeping her involvement with both sides a secret. Not from everyone, the Engineers knew more than anyone else. But they kept their mouths shut.

Well, she worried more about the Blu Engineer than the Red. Dell knew his role and played it well.

Pauling saw him as a friend of sorts in the way fellow employees may when they were partners in a project known only to them.

Mac was defiant in his own quiet ways.

Untrusting.

He disliked her but he was polite and ultimately did was asked of him, albeit with an air of resentment.

Surely, the Administrator didn't really need two Engineers? And from the same family?

She felt some sort of pity for him, had offered him an olive branch in the form of a map showing all the payphones in New Mexico and which ones had the least amount of activity.

He had taken it, albeit warily. She has offered him a link to something he missed the most. That made him vulnerable.

His family.

And that was how things stood between them.

She wondered if she would ever be on decent standing with him, but if she only had Dell to rely on, then that was more than fine. He was the link that made Mac work more obediently with Pauling.

Mac trusted Dell and Dell was the better engineer and Merc.

As she drove across the desert, a flash of something shiny and the presence of vultures overhead caught her attention.

She was on a tight schedule..but...this could be important.

She changed course and pulled up closer to where this mystery lay. Parking her car a safe distance away and hidden best she could, she drew her gun and approached carefully.

@the-blu-cyborg

[dcggersedge]

the long quiet

swordmaster mastery drabble (wc 896)

You are on a path in the…

Oh. Well, this isn’t right. It seems you’re not on a path at all. How strange. Nearly every time we’ve done this before, it always starts the same. This is the first time it’s ever been different, I think.

(Explore) “Why are you surprised? This was what we decided on the old man’s deathbed, isn’t it?”

No, not we. You decided. You decided that you wanted to try to deviate, that you hated the script soooo much that you just couldn’t stand to follow it any longer, and that you’d go running off at first opportunity. I told you that it doesn’t matter if you run. There are certain things that are consistent and that will happen, and that you were just delaying the inevitable.

Now, if you’ll excuse me. You are on a path in the

Why do you say that? It’s not really accurate, is it? We’ve never even seen the woods that the script talks about, have we?

“Firene.”

You went to Firene. I’m stuck in Brodia.

(Explore) “You probably wouldn’t have liked it.”

Well, we’ll never know, will we?

I liked it better when there was one of you. You were so much easier then. Quieter, too.

But seriously, why is it a path? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say something like “you are on a street in Brodia”?

Because…because that’s just now how the script goes!

(Explore) “Don’t you write it?”

Of course I don’t write it, I’m just the narration. If I wrote it, we would have gotten to the point a lot faster without all this back and forth. Now, you are on a path-

Road.

(Explore) “Did you say we weren’t on either of those?”

The path or road doesn’t matter, because it’s beneath your feet whether you see it or not! But fine! Since the two of you are so nitpicky, you’re in a room! It’s a room you’ve seen a hundred times before, only this time it is not quite as big as it used to feel. It’s dark, the windows are boarded up, and there is nothing there except the door and a table.

You left out the old man’s shitty chair.

He’s not around to be important anymore.

Maybe not to you, but I still see him. Sitting in his chair, talking in the other room, stopping around with those big boots. He’s still here, even if he’s not.

(Explore) “This is why you can’t leave.”

And ignoring it doesn’t mean you did.

Upon the table sits the pristine blade you know so well. You’ve taken it up time and time before. You know that you cannot walk through the door without it, because it is every bit a part of you as your hand itself. 

[Try to leave without it]

…okay. I see what we’re doing here. Very funny. You try to leave, but you find the door is stuck. No matter how much you yank or pull, the door won’t open, because you cannot leave without your blade. 

[Kick the door]

It doesn’t move.

[Kick it again]

Maybe he really is gone. We’d never get away with making this much noise while he was home.

[Kick it one more time]

It doesn’t move because it won’t move. Do you think I’m telling you all of this for fun? The script exists for a reason and you’ve been following it since you came here. You can’t just change because you decide you want to! You aren’t just different now because you decide you are! You are on a path. You take the blade. And you slay the-

The blade is gone.

What do you mean the blade is- Oh. Okay. You turn around and the blade is, in fact, gone. Instead of the familiar knife, a sword sits in its place. There’s no mention of a sword in the script, but it is a sort of blade…we can still work with this.

[Take the sword]

You take up the sword. It is old and beaten, with small dents and nicks along the blade from years of use. It doesn’t look like it’s in a shape to kill anyone any more.

Not with that attitude.

(Explore) “Is the door still locked?”

Of course the door’s still locked. The door is for the you that follows the script, not a you who conjures up new weapons out of thin air and tries to fight against the path. You’ve done this time and time before. Just because you’ve made a small change doesn’t mean you’re off it. Just turn the sword back into a knife.

…if we can’t get off it, can we really make a new one?

What? Of course not.

(Explore) “Would you be mad at me?”

I’m already stuck with here with him. Doesn’t mean we should both be.

[Raise the sword and aim it at yourself]

…Wait, hang on. Maybe I’ve been a bit rash. Maybe we can talk about the door again? I haven’t even told you who you’re supposed to slay yet this time.

[Cut down the path]

Oh, fine. The old rusty sword plunges into its target. Everything goes dark, and then you die.

[chandralia]

the intimacy of Deku just sitting behind Bakugo in class…

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Doing the budget request for my program at the community centre, I was really hesitant to say 'Everything that we need might come to a bit more than 100 dollars' because to me a hundred bucks is a ridiculous amount of money.

Turns out that the previous instructor must have been submitting requests for like a grand, because the coordinator basically went 'Oh my god, is that all??'

[biancadavri]

justice for my man Dougal Gavorn honestly 🫡 All he did was Nobly trying to scam a rich asshole (Hawke) but oOoooOOOooh Bioware just HAD to take a hard stance against that