#quin rambles

[cavecry]

guys. guys what if moonpaw’s warrior/med cat name ends up being moonflower. how fucking funny would that be

[protolopequin]

My rainbow lair! I love this trend!!

[spilledcrabs]

I PROMISE I'M NOT DEAD I FORGOT TUMBLR EXISTED AGAIN

[shining-vulpine]

Wild how cleaning your space can make your mental state so much better... I vacuumed and I'm like this is it this is amazing the sun is so cool

[lilghostiequinni]

Alrighty,

So I am in a F1 kick, mood, whatever you want to call it and don't really want to write for any other fandom at the moment, but the Neteyam one-shot that should have been up yesterday, but I felt sick and fell asleep before I was able to finish it to post it.

Anyway, the Neteyam one-shot will be up in a few hours when I finish it after a few errands/chores I need to do around my house.

There is a poll out that will help determine the F1 driver from Friday's poll and that finishes next Saturday and be posted on next Sunday.

Second thing, I am taking a break and going on hiatus on Wattpad, only.

I have zero motivation to write any of the stories I have on Wattpad, I do have one I am ready to finish and will finish tomorrow.

Also this break will help me get ahead in writing for here on Tumblr.

This is also going to give me a break between weeks.

Lastly,

For the other pols from today, I will get a Lestappen & Max one-shot done. Then, over this coming week, I will also do the second and third-voted ones.

So, Second place is Landoscar for ships & Lando and Oscar were tied for a single driver.

Third is Carlando for ships & Charles for a single driver.

The Landoscar, Charlando, & Norstappen one-shot from last week/this past Sunday will also be worked over this next week and posted next Sunday.

Quin

[neolxzr]

ITS AIRA SATURDAY EVERYONE CHEER ❤️🎉

[kcrabb88]

I've been thinking a lot lately about fandom's penchant to take male characters who are funny and/or chaotic, or perhaps might be known for throwing a good punch, and then create fanon in which said character is stupid/constantly does stupid stuff. I'm particularly thinking currently about Quinlan Vos, but this is by no means unique to Star Wars fandom. There was a period there in Les Mis fandom during which the Broification of Bahorel was a thing. It happened to Caleb Brewster in TURN fandom. Sometimes Zeb in Rebels fandom (which, Star Wars again, but different part of the fandom). It happens A LOT. And like, just because a character is funny, chaotic, or has a penchant for a brawl, it doesn't mean that they're stupid?? I don't understand why this is such a trend.

Back to Quinlan, specifically. I follow the Quinlan tag. I follow the QuinObi tag and the things I have to see where Quinlan is just?? Dumb?? All the time??? Extremely not sure what about his sarcastic sense of humor and chaotic plans (that work! He has a plan in the new comic that is objectively hilarious and also EFFECTIVE) gave anyone the impression that he was stupid, but I see?? So much of it?? He's?? A spy?? A Jedi Master?? He's a really GOOD spy, as a matter of fact. He goes undercover a lot. He IS funny and he IS chaotic but that doesn't mean he isn't smart! Sometimes characters like this also might use humor as a shield, which can be a super intriguing thing! Quinlan in the comics definitely (in my opinion at least) does this, and he does it in Dark Disciple too. His psychometry can be a traumatic kind of power, and he has to get closer to temptations around the dark side a lot more than other Jedi, and that is something he struggles with while being such a good person even when he falls and has to get back up again.

Anyway, Quinlan is a really compelling character with a lot of facets to his personality. He IS funny (I am often writing him being funny!) but he's not JUST there to be comic relief. He has his own things and his own arcs. There is some truly great Quin fanwork out there! Maybe it's the incorrect quotes getting to me, but I hope the trend of making him stupid will end, because he deserves better.

[quinloki]

What's your writing process like? Do you draft everything at once and then release chapter by chapter as you edit or something similar?

How to you keep your notes organized? I think you've said before in an ask you use Scrivener (me too!), how do you organize that? I love seeing peoples writing processes in general, if your comfortable explaining!!

Okay you're awesome thank you 💛

Process. Ah. Ahem. Organization... /sweats/

Okay, so organization I have something like that. Thanks almost entirely to Scrivener if I'mma be honest. My projects are organized by blorbo - so like all the Kid x Readers are in one project, and then broken down in files by book.

Except for A Light Touch - cause that's in the Grandline AU collection project, and all associated stories are in there with it.

Notes, though, and er... drafts... Ah.

So I would like to note I mean this in the stereotypical pop culture way, and not in the legitimate way, but I'm insane.

I have never known how long a story was going to be until I wrote it, and while I've had a few slapdash outlines for stories, I never manage to stick to them, so I barely even bother writing them out anymore.

Usually the process is something like:

Inspiration -> Idea -> details for Idea -> some notes -> decide certain parameters -> and time allowing either set aside or start writing chapter 1.

Quicksand, for instance, was inspired by a piece of fan art. It was going to be a one-shot. I started world-building and deciding functional parameters and uh... it's 20 chapters if you don't count the alternative story line. The inspired scene doesn't even happen until like chapter 18.

And even within that, I'd meant for Crocodile to be way more terrifyingly yandere to the point that Doflamingo was going to be the GOOD GUY.

That was the plan. That did not happen.

Inversely, I had the first 5 chapters of A Dragon's Clause outlined, and got so into it those 5 chapters were 8 chapters when I ran out of outline. There are, however, THREE different pages of notes for world building, characters and orgs, and important details, that I reference while I write, and I very much expect the story will be near to 50 chapters, if not longer.

Hey Doll has no outline. It's got a page of notes.

The Host Club AU as nothing set in stone except the Club itself and the owners. Yeah I did some headcanoning and world building via asks, but I still don't know what I'm going to keep and what I'm going to cut, and I'm going to start writing chapter one in June XD There is no outline.

Hell, the ending of a Heart of Gold was decided by a scene in A Light Touch, so one of the reasons I'm going to a little slower than usual is because I have to make sure Heart stays on track. (And yes, A Light Touch, Quicksand, Heart of Gold, and Thrice Prophesized all happen in the same AU at the same time - it's not just a backdrop AU for those stories like it is for Some Direction and Hey Doll.)

But yeah, that's uh... that's it. I don't really have much of a process beyond "This is what I want to work on" and then I turn on a appropriately themed playlist, pick some art to have on one monitor and write on the other. And honestly, thank fuck for like @swampstew, @mamaalpha, @standfucker, @lyndsyh24, @writing-yarn-goblin, @kazieai, @anon-germany, @theaceofflamesposts, @zorostittiesz, @leakyweep, @icy-spicy and @thus-spoke-lo and @mewiyev for all being awesome fucking friends.

Between writing sprints, and beta-reading and inspiring with head canons and thots and art and support and the list goes on and on - I just. (and gods that's not even including @friedbluechicken and @cyborg-franky and can you understand how long this list is gonna get?)

I just kind of stumbled into this whole fandom thing. I didn't know wtf I was doing or what, and I swear I tripped into being friends with Lyn and Raven and it's all kind of a blur and from those two to everyone else on that list to many more beyond that and these alarmingly talented people talk to me of all the random ass bastards out there, and folks are sending me asks thinking I'm cool and wanting to know my process and like -

I'm just a stoat in a trench coat man, I don't even know what I'm doing here.

/ahem/ Okay, I got a little off the topic, but I guess I can't really say I have a process, and I don't plan out my stories much at all. But I will have highlights like I want x, y, and q to happen, so how do I do that? And the real relief is being okay when the story goes a different way and I just let it. I wrote Some Direction inside of a month just doing that. The only thing I knew about that story was who the antagonist was going to be ^^;

[defunct-ampersand]

being a system also just means i use whatever queer labels i want to because we have so many. like yeah we’re also just collectively a bunch of contradictory labels, but also it’s fun to just throw out all the ones we have between us and confuse people. “you can’t be [x] if you’re [y]” jokes on you buddy, those identities are had by two different people in my brain

[presumenothing]

random thought: the novel-drama changes in fdb's whole personality aside from making much more adorable television almost become a necessary corollary/consequence(?) considered in light of the differences in llh himself. in the novel it's never shown how they first met – the story already starts with them having known each other for six years (literally as long as llh has been out in the jianghu) and being comfortable around each other. and while llh does in fact just vanish with his whole damn house whenever he likes (fdb is described to be 破口大骂ing at this tortoise tendency for fifteen minutes at least once) it's never shown to be an active evasion like in the drama – the guy just can only be found when he wants to let you find him, as fdb himself notes after said episode of Old Man Yells At Cloud Empty Real Estate

which is fine! they have separate lives and everything! which is also to say that novel!llh specifically has an actual life and existence of his own that is not Revenge Quest 2.0™ since that doesn't exist here to start with, and also also to say that this fdb, with his notably non-loyal-wideeyed-puppy stickier-than-glutinous-rice tendencies, would likely never have become friends or even familiar acquaintances with drama!llh's avoidant ass

[cavecry]

would anyone b interested in a fantasy/far future setting featuring loosely warriors-inspired groups of cat-descended animals that have each evolved to fit a specific niche (coastal, arboreal, and subterranean jump to mind) ?

[protolopequin]

Found a G1 thread and spent a long time going through fodder to find this baby who's going to be a perfect Ice Rep!

Overcast/Ice/Strawberry

I am so excited, I've already got a bit of lore too

[quatregats]

He fet un intent de traduir-lo al català :')

Wittgenstein va girar la barqueta i va poder dirigir-la cap enrere fins que xoqués contra el moll. L’Esteve s’aixecà, dubtà un segon, es llençà a un amarrador amb un sergent dret al costat, i no va poder agafar-lo. Va caure entre el moll i la barqueta, i en tornar a sorgir, va cridar en catala: —Traieu-me d’aquí. Cagoendena. —Ets català? —va exclamar el sergent, sorprès. —Marededeu, i tant que ho soc —reblà l’Esteve—. Treu-me. —Quina sorpresa —va dir el sergent, i es quedava allà parat; però dos caporals del costat van llençar el fusells a terra, es van ajupir, i van agafar l’Esteve de la mà per treure’l de l’aigua. —Gràcies, companys —va dir quan ja tocava a terra, i al seu voltant hi va haver una gran clamor de veus que li demanava que d’on venia, que què feia aquí, que si algunes noves de Barcelona, de Lleida, de Palamós, de Ripoll, que si el vaixell portava res, que si portava vi—. Ara digueu-me, on és el Coronel d’Ullastret?

[shining-vulpine]

I would love to digitally journal. Being able to put any picture I want into a journal would be incredible! However the vibe and ease of a paper notebook will never compare.

Unless they make a device specifically for Journaling or something...

[lilghostiequinni]

Okay, I have changed some things, getting rid of 5 things for Avatar. I didn't know how to word them, and it wasn't going how I wanted it to.

There are 2 F1 one-shots left, but I want them to be good, so they come out tomorrow.

Quin

[neolxzr]

normal day in es