#since you cant just scroll through the general tag and go back literal years

[thegeneticopera]

hey for the record its uncool as hell to make your own repo archive blog and then come mass rb from this one to pad yours with our curated posts lol

[theboykingofhell]

9, 15, 16, 18, 26, 31, 32, 34, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 51 for TSG, 54 :*

ricky found fucking dead in miami after looking at these PROMPTS,

9. Least favorite trope to write.

what a weirdly phrased question because if i hate it, i ain’t gonna write it... UHH. i really don’t like bringing dead characters back to life???? i don’t like writing scenes for shock horror... well, that’s a lie, i DO like to horrify the reader through my writing, but i don’t want to cheapen the emotional ~journey~ they go through by being like ‘JUST KIDDING! everything actually DOES work out in the end!!’

i have a story where narratively its kind of leading to a place where i have to make a ‘dead’ character come back (chaos actually, since i use her in red’s actual story) and it’s making me so mad like wtf thought we had a deal

15. Where does your inspiration come from?

SONGS... and just insp in general but i get a lot through music and nnnh... there’s just so many good aesthetics and quotes on my dash tbh i’m like constantly and consistently inspired, it’s great

16. Where do you take your motivation from?

imma be honest, the thing that motivates me most sometimes is either reading a rly shitty novel or seeing a shitty show and just getting livid and writing out of spite because THAT DRIVEL WAS PUBLISHED????? MY SHIT IS SO MUCH BETTER WTF... or i think to myself ‘what the fuck, what if i die tomorrow????? with my damn novel unfinished?!?!! HELL NO’... pretty much anything that reminds me that my stuff is Great but no one knows how great it is because it’s not DONE and OUT THERE yet makes me get off my ass

18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like?

depends! for books it mostly just consists of rereading after a long period of ignoring my story and just tweaking lines that seem out of place or that ruin the flow i’m imagining. if i’m rewriting, then i have two word documents out (which the program scrivener makes SO easy god BLESS that program) and just... rewrite it word for word while STARING at the old version. that always makes the prose come out slightly different, it smooths out stuff or lets me cut away or add things i really like and, most importantly, it adds length, which i tend to struggle with a lot because i like just being TO THE POINT

with playwriting though it’s mostly about the format.. i write all plays like i write everything online... in lowercase with little regard to actual grammar. so i gotta actually pretend i give a damn about the english language and format it all properly and add stage directions cuz in a first draft for plays, i always just focus on dialogue and that’s it

26. Standalone or series, and why?

standalones are far more fun and way more satisfying and, quite honestly, require way less fluff. i keep FORGETTING how much fluff is needed in a goddamn novel. MULTIPLE BOOKS OF FLUFF no FUCKING THANKS

31. Hardest character to write.

in the rp: tyler (because he dissociates in a way that literally cuts me off from? any parts of his character? which is like the ESSENCE of his character but it’s VERY unenjoyable to write tbh) and nicki (because i put too much pressure on myself to make her seem a certain way instead of letting it happen naturally)... tbh canon characters and/or characters that are based on people are generally just rly hard sometimes cuz there’s SO MUCH IMAGINED PRESSURE TO MAKE THEM GOOD!!!

in original shit: honestly i’m really tempted to say aaron and that’s just because he’s so... unlikeable to me???? but also i think it’s just because i’ve really only written one scene for him (i always write in order unless a scene is just KICKING MY ASS to write, like this particular scene) and... he seems like a Lot... of annoying bullshit to have to write out lmfao that bitch

32. Easiest character to write.

red because i’ve been writing him for like 7-9 years now, i would hope he’d be easy by now... honestly, really explosive and dramatic characters too like bert or nora come SUPER easy for me, they’re so fun to write (especially dialogue-wise) because they’re very emotional and i can get PARAGRAPHS based on one reaction. characters who try and hide shit from everyone, INCLUDING ME, are so annoying,

34. Handwritten notes or typed notes?

typed because they’re legible,,,,, but then again, my handwritten notes make more sense because they’re kind of fully crafted ideas like ‘***make nisha and aaron meet at 42nd street for transformation chap???’ while a typed note will be like... ‘42nd street+aaron’... what did that mean, ricky-at-5am... why did you do this to us

41. How many stories do you work on at one time?

two... kind of as a minimum, sort of as a maximum... like there’s usually the MAIN story and then there’s something i’m kind of doodling in the side, something that’s just sort of cooking in the backburner that i’m not too serious into the process of it, but it’s goin... i’ve never tried to do 3 stories at a time but i feel like my attention would be too divided and it wouldn’t work

42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc.

UHH........................................... i’m very fond of faceclaims cuz idk i just kind of... feel how they look... i don’t ever really envision a full person though, i get like traits... i’ll be like... oh she has long black hair and she’s not white and her eyebrows look like this... and then i’ll see a pic of pooja mor and be like THAT’S HER THAT’S EXACTLY IT. idk what it is about eyebrows and why that’s literally always the deciding factor of how a character looks, but there it is

personality just kind of... man, characters just poop out of me, i don’t decide any of this shit wtf jhsfjg

45. Worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten.

once someone told me to stop making the boys kiss in the first chapter of my story so i made the boys fuck instead

46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie?

scrolls WAY up... sees you didn’t add a story as a prompt WELL i’m still riding the tsg train here so

a tsg movie better look like the 90′s, goddamnit.. not like... found footage really, but i want something in the quality to be a little fuzzy and sort of tinted that one kind of grayish brown color i always associate with the 90′s for some reason... like, i can’t stop thinking about all these amber lighting and how dull everything looks, and how higher in quality things look the further and further it goes, like, it’s something i would concentrate a lot on visual cues with because i focus so much of the storytelling of tsg on nisha’s narration. sometimes you don’t know how many days have passed because nisha doesn’t know how many days have passed, if she dissociates, i’d want that shown on camera, if she keeps repeating the same number over and over again, i’d want to watch one little piece of a scene getting repeated again and again. it’d be VERY disorienting as a movie tbh but it’d be fun...

47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story?

characters!!!! plot is such a backburner thing for me, if you have rly great characters, you already have a great plot right there. the plot is just set so i can see how characters react to things, man... 

49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end?

THE MIDDLE, FUCK THE MIDDLE.... endings are literally the easiest thing for me, beginnings similarly so, it’s just getting from that BEAUTIFUL starting scene to that GORGEOUS ending that fucking kills my poor undeserving asshole

51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words.

low-res pictures of old cemetaries... that’s five words right there, i’m sorry but the END IS IN SIGHT, I’M ALMOST FREE AND CANT BE BOTHERED

54. Any writing advice you want to share?

can’t stress how useful having an insp blog is... creating a story through the unconscious collection of pictures and quotes that just feel relavant is just SO useful not just when it comes to really constructing a character an an atmosphere to your story, but making a fucking plot????? my tsg blog is like my most perfect insp blog because i got the idea to seperate it by chapters, and i’ve found that i can literally just... go into the chapter tags... and make connections and build on plotlines that i had NO IDEA ABOUT when i made or filled those tags, IT’S REALLY FUN and it keeps me inspired to write

[musicprincess655]

tagged by the lovely @harvestmoonpeoples let’s do this shit

3 things your followers don’t know about you [1] I’m a biology student with just a semester between me and my big girl degree. I graduate a semester early and then I’m heading off to grad school to study diseases

[2] I work in an office on campus where I write and manage social media, despite the fact that I don’t know how to use twitter

[3] I play a lot of instruments (violin, percussion, saxophone, flute, a bit of piano and a bit of baritone) but I can’t sing worth shit

Answer 10 questions and tag 10 amazing people!

[1] What’s the last movie you watched?

I think it was actually Moana. In theaters. I don’t watch movies a lot because I don’t usually have the patience to sit still and do the same thing for 2 hours.

[2] What was the last song you listened to?

Fallen Angel by Three Days Grace (fucking thanks Marie)

[3] What was the last show you watched?

Caught up on Boku no Hero Academia

[4] What was the last book you read?

Just finished Carry On by Rainbow Rowell and I really liked it!

[5] What was the last thing you ate?

Oh god I haven’t had food yet today thanks for reminding me but I got sushi last night. 

[6] If you could be anywhere else, where would you be?

Literally I just want to get out of the south, but I kind of want to go visit the Rocky Mountains. I might be up for a program in Boulder CO and I really want to go. 

[7] If you could pick a decade to travel back to, what would it be?

The 1920s. Sure I’ll enjoy the jazz and the general tomfoolery but what I actually want to do is punch Thomas Edison in his little bitch ass face. I have so much salt for this punk and he deserves to be curb stomped.

[8] If you win the lotto and millions of cash, what would be the first thing you’d do?

I could be free of student loan debt? But I’d probably travel more and donate to gofundmes more and like. Quietly send anonymous gifts to my friends. 

[9] Which fictional character would you like to hang out with for the day?

Uhhh. Uhhh. You know what the Potterhead in me has never really died and I would still like to hang out with Hermione Granger

[10] What was the last fandom you joined?

I guess Bungou Stray Dogs was the last one I got into enough to maybe produce content? Stay tuned for that I guess I have plans

Favourites Tag:

[Place] The library [Person] Can’t pick one but members of the Collective [Colour] Tie between Cobalt Blue and Scarlet [Food] Cheese [Smell] That smell you get at the beginning of fall when everything is starting to cool down? That [Book] Still Harry Potter. I am loyal and nothing will ever top my experience of reading this [Movie] I don’t really have a consistent favorite. I guess the best movie I can think of right now is Atlantis? I should watch that again [Music artist] I don’t have favorite artists (I have favorite songs) but I guess right now I really like Pat Benetar [Genre of Music] *shrug emoji* [Genre of literature] I really like high fantasy [Day of the week] Friday [Social Media] tumblr [Thing to do when bored] Scroll through the internet whining about how bored I am until I stumble upon something to do [Celebrity] Ryan Reynolds [Website other than Tumblr] AO3 when the fandom is putting out the good shit (amen to this) [Drink] Sweet tea with lemonade [Animals] UHHHHHHHH (dogs) [Flower] Daylily WHICH I CANT EVEN HAVE BECAUSE I HAVE A CAT [TV show] Brooklyn 99 right now if we’re not counting anime, Haikyuu!! if we are [Fruit] Grape [Vegetable] Carrot [Store] Thrift shops? [Quote] “Some part of a mistake is always correct” - Savielly Tartakover [Boy’s name] Daniel [Girl’s name] Katerina [Ice cream flavour] Mint chocolate chip [Popcorn flavour] I just like it plain? With a little bit of butter and salt but mostly plain.  [Season] Fall [Month of the year] October [Disney Princess] Belle [Insult] You vanilla fuck [YouTube channel] Daniel Howell (since he’s not danisnotonfire anymore) [Eye colour] Dark green  [Language] Fuck man I hate all the languages. I speak both English and Spanish and I have been personally victimized by both.  [Thing about yourself] I’m getting better at doing things I’m scared of like talking on the phone or going to places I’ve never been been before without someone to guide me and I’m proud of myself

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