#source: incorrect-wenclair

[ruins-of-tragedy]

Enid: Hey, it's your turn to wash the dishes.

Wednesday: I will wash the walls red with your blood.

Enid: 'Kay, but before that wash the dishes. And use soap this time.

[graveyardshiftcryptid]

Wednesday: "Enid, where is my sword?"

Enid, distantly: "I uh, I put it away!"

Wednesday: "Where?"

Enid: "Why do you need to know?"

Wednesday: "I need it!"

Enid, entering the room: "Oh no you don't, babycakes. We are GOING to this charity auction."

Wednesday: "Nevermore is in DANGER, Enid!"

Enid: "My EVENING is in danger, Wednesday! You are not fighting any evil reanimated puritans, crazed stalkers, or rabid werewolves today!"

Wednesday: "You tell me where my sword is wolf! We are talking about a genuine danger to outcasts!

Enid: "The only danger you need concern yourself with tonight is ME. Your mother is hosting this auction. We. Are. Going. You'll hug your mother for no less than 10 seconds, and you will buy me something pretty. Now, get your coat."

Wednesday, swordless and fuming: "...yes, dear."

[incorrect-multiverse]

Thing, signing: Ooh look, it’s a full moon tonight.

Wednesday: You know what that means. It’s a perfect night for a werewolf to come out.

Enid *in the distance*: I’M GAY!!!!

[chronic-hyperfixator]

Enid: Aw, Wen so romantic with all these candles.

Wednesday: These aren’t for you, I’m summoning a spirit.

[liv45no]

Enid and Wednesday writing letters to their families: for you see, my roommate is...

Enid: ...unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe.

Wednesday:

Wednesday: blonde.

[fate2716]

*Girls night in Wenclair room*

Divina: you are offered 50,000 dollars but the person/people you hate the most get 100,000 dollars..

Wednesday: no. I have enough money already.

Bianca: I hate no one so yeah.

Yoko: hell no! Imagine if Tayler got their hands in so much money!

Enid: ofc I would! Who would pass up 150,000 dollars!?

*Wednesday, Yoko, Divina and Bianca slowly turn to Enid*

Wednesday: Mon Loup we already talked about this

[the-oblivious-writer]

Enid: You're the most jealous woman I know Wednesday: You know other woman?

[writerswho]

Wednesday, staring at Enid's cut finger: Who hurt you?

Enid, jokingly: Do you want a list or what?

Wednesday, loading her gun: Actually, yes.

[lesbianpepsi]

Enid: I'm incredibly fast at math.

Wednesday: Alright, what's 38 x 76?

Enid: 24

Wednessday: That's not even close.

Enid: But it was fast.

[turtlele]

Wednesday: Evaporate tall person!

Enid: She called me tall ^^

[shipperofdoomedships]

Enid walks into their shared dorm and sees Xavier hanging upside down from the ceiling with Wednesday standing in front of him holding a knife.

Enid gives her a 'try to explain your way out of this one look'

Wednesday: ...um...this is exactly what it looks like

[penelopwgarcia]

Tyler: I'm CRYING. YOU MAKE ME CRY.

Wednesday: baby

Tyler: no this is no time for pet names

Wednesday: I'm not calling you baby, I'm calling you a baby.

Wednesday: I'm insulting you

[chriscdcase95]

Enid: (about to close off her vlog) “And, thank you LizziesHope96 for your recommendation for the week (holds up a book) I look forward to reading it, and next weeks request. Tata for now.”

(Enid closes her phone, lays back on her bed, opening the book)

(Six hours later)

(Wednesday enters the dorm, wet from the rain with blemishes of dirt on her face.)

(Quietly, Wednesday is humming a tune to herself, muttering the lyrics that she hopes no one would hear. Especially after Enid recorded her singing into a blow-dryer.)

Wednesday: (singing quietly to herself) “-and his cheating wife had never left town/That's one body that'll never be found/You see little sister don't miss when she aims-”

(She notices Enid on the bed. She doesn’t have her phone out, but is finishing a book.)

Wednesday: “I will be freshening up, so if you want-”

(She notices the book Enid is reading - “Blood Meridian” - and her eyes widen in terror and disbelief.)

Wednesday: (blurting out) “Ohfuckme!”

(Enid looks up, closing the book. She is wearing a lenin shirt, a wide brimmed hat, an oil slick trench coat, and a set of cowboy boots.)

Wednesday: (wincing a little, hating the nervous edge in her voice) “So...you read that book...How- how was-?”

(Enid takes a chained pocket watch from her breast pocket, glaring up at Wednesday.)

Enid: (speaking with a Texan/Kentucky accent) Does God hear our cries ?

Wednesday: “Oh no.”

Enid: Or is he like some migrant star-

Wednesday: (exhales with a mild “pfft”)

Enid: -blinking through the tendrils of the night's infinite dark ?

Wednesday: “Do you really think a book about the horrible violence, in the American southwest, in the 19th century, is really a great thing to base your personality aroun-?”

(As Wednesday is talking, Enid narrows her eyes, as she puts the pocket watch away. There is a pause, before Enid takes a deep breath.) Enid: (leans in dramatically) War. What is war if not some acolyte of firmament onto which-

Wednesday: (muttering under her breath) "Here we go."

Enid: (continues uninterrupted) -the ossuary of devil suture together some tendrils from the night's infinite dark ?

Wednesday: (non plussed) “Mmm-hmm.”

Enid: (getting up from her bed): Man and war. Wednesday: (undeterred): “Nice cowboy boots.”

Enid: (Continues uninterrupted, now standing dramatically before their window) Forever coupled by interminable waning at the commissary of false prophets, still extant. Some changeling born from the prophets-

(We cut to Wednesday is glaring into Enid’s phone. The angle shows she’s holding it upside down, as she addresses Enid’s audience.)

Wednesday: “Okay, she’s been ranting at the window for three hours now. So to this LizziesHope, I promise you; you will see my face at your doorstep before week is up!”

[incorrect-multiverse]

Enid: Hey, guess what this jumper is made out of?

Wednesday *sighs*: Girlfriend material?

Enid *scoffs*: No. It’s 100% wool.

Wednesday: ...

Enid: I’m a wolf in sheep’s clothing!

[achromatophoric]

https://www.tumblr.com/museaway/746766290005508096?source=share

2,3,4,7,8,9,10,14,16,17,19,22,24,25,26,28

-🤔

[Warning: This is stupid long. Yikes.]

2. Character’s POV being explored:

Oops. My Incorrect Quotes don’t really have a POV. 😅 I think at most, I’ve explicitly removed a character from the end of a couple, to emphasize the joke through only the remaining character’s dialogue.

3. Feelings about current WIP:

I’m not happy with the end, so it might just sit there for a few more days until I figure it out.

4. Unwritten story idea:

I have a very rough outline of an actual fic! Future Wenclair, post college. It’s… super dark. Just a torrid angst spiral from Enid’s POV, where she begins to unwittingly choose her work and social life over her wolf and Wednesday, with terrible consequences.

I put it together last year, before I actually started writing anything. It’s unlikely to see the light of day, because I honestly don’t have the energy, attention span, and sequential periods of uninterrupted free time to try writing anything in long format. 😢 Maybe someday!

7. Preferred writing font:

Something san serif. I’d prefer one with a bit more letter spacing, but I’m stuck with Tumblr’s default font, Favorit-Tumblr.

8. If I had to sequel one:

Probably this old one, about Wednesday and her pet blog. I have ideas about reblogs and blog reproductive cycles.

9. Elapsed time for the last one:

Today’s took maybe 10-15 minutes from start to posting. I needed something short since I wanted to do my daily post before answering this Ask. My notes only read “Hard to swallow” and it basically wrote itself. It took just as long to find the right animated gif as it did to write it out. 😅

10. Longest rest for a draft before completion:

Intentional rest? I guess this one at 5-ish days, where the gang takes turns answering the question: What’s the best thing about dead bodies? I just wasn’t feeling the gang’s banter, so put off fiddling with it until it felt interesting again.

There’s normally scant delay between writing and posting. If I’m lucky, I might have 1 or 2 completed IQs waiting to be posted. I try to post at least 2 per day and I’m terrible at not posting one the moment it’s completed, so… yup. 😒

14. Inspiration source:

Primarily the fandom! I wouldn’t be able to write these if I hadn’t first read so many Wenclair fics that parodying the characters became possible. I really do rely on the community-created tropes and personalities to act as the skeleton upon which meaty puns are anchored.

16. Favorite place to write:

In my home office during work hours, where I can go mostly undisturbed, have a super comfy Steelcase Leap to relax in, music, and a tablet at the ready.

Yes, work hours. I tend to do my job quickly and well, but nothing gets those creative juices going better than having something else you should be doing. 😅

17. Writing and editing process:

Idea? Jot it down. Keep a list. Time to write? Check ideas. Pick one that looks fun. Write it. Nothing interesting? Uh. Do one of the following:

Look through animated gifs of dogs doing derpy things for wolf Enid (tedious AF)

Search idioms based on words that Wednesday can take too literally

Wonder what would piss off Bianca > Yoko > Weems > other character (ordered by favorite)

Think up a bad joke for Enid to tell Wednesday so she gets mortifyingly aroused

Find slang for Wednesday to misinterpret

If all else fails, dive into that gutter humor 😬

Etc?

With an idea in hand, I just start writing it out straight in the Tumblr app. Totally rawwolfing it. When it’s done, I review and check for (and fail to find) errors. Sometimes I’ll run it by my SO, who isn’t a Wenclair fan, but can confirm if a joke makes sense.

After that, I tag and release the thing into the wild, so it may derp free of my fragile little skull.

19. Most interesting fic-related research topic:

The historical material composition of hanging nooses and the strength differences between traditional hemp and modern Manila hemp, which is actually made from a specific Filipino banana tree as opposed to Cannabis plants.

All that for a joke about thread count. 😗

22. Worries about public reaction and how to get past it:

It hasn’t really come up. Honestly, I’m just happy that people read my stuff and can enjoy a laugh. It helps that I haven’t received much criticism, but I’ve also worked for years in a graphic design-related field that forced me to be able to produce (often dumb) fruit even when in an inhospitable environment near barren of sincere appreciation and/or constructive criticism. 😬 Kinda like a creative extremophile.

For advice to get past it? Keep at it. Find your audience(s) if you care to and focus on them. Keep in mind what you enjoy about the hobby and nurture that sucker. Learning how to shrug off negativity takes experience, but when in doubt, take a break! It’s a hobby, and even if it may at times feel otherwise, remember that it does not define you.

24. Recharge method when not creative:

Reading Wenclair fics and listening to audiobooks. I always have a book queued up and jump between fantasy, urban fantasy, lit rpg, cozy fantasy, sci-fi, bio-terrorism thrillers, queer romance, queer horror, and queer coming-of-age. 😅

25. Hobbies other than writing:

Drawing and semi-regular D&D. There’s other stuff I haven’t had time to enjoy lately, like computer games, clay sculpting, mask making, dancing, juggling, fire spinning, etc.

26. Writing around others:

I am always around others outside of work, so I make do. It’s usually fine, unless said others are those who are prone to toddling. Trying to write around one of them is often a lost cause. 😭

28. Least favorite part of the writing process:

For me, it’s transcribing posts from Tumblr to AO3. Particularly posts with a lot of styling, like small text and Chat. Not everything copy/pastes 1-to-1 and some chapters have to be manually edited as html, which is stupendously tedious doing on the phone. And if it has an image? Uuughghghh. 😖

OMG I’m done! I’m free! FREE! FR—

[psychic-refugee]

Not only do I think the novel ISN’T canon Wenclair, I don’t think it’s canon Wednesday, to be honest.

It’s not enough that the book was approved and published. It should actually be accurate to the source material, the TV show.

If the Powers that Be approved the novel, then they approved errors and emphatically different narrative concepts that are in direct conflict with the TV show.

What exactly does that say about how much they cared about the content of the novel?

Overall, the TV show and the writers, Gough & Millar, are the controlling narrative. IMO. If the book is in conflict with the TV show and what the writers themselves have stated, then I can dismiss the novel.

Tehlor Kay Meija was hired to write the book, and it was approved for publishing. I cannot infer more than that on anyone’s motivations. Certainly not if they approve of ship.

I disagree with Meija’s interpretation of certain scenes, and I can point to obvious and glaring mistakes.

“In the baby-blue-wallpapered room, I open my bag.” p. 32

Here, we clearly see that not only is the bathroom not blue, she does not open her bag. Full scene:

It stays on her back. She taps the bag and orders Thing to give her a nail file. The bag flips open on its own and he gives her the file.

The book has a lot of these unnecessary and should have been easy to fix mistakes. I’ve seen some rude replies where they ask “Did you watch the show?��� Interpreting certain thoughts and actions as sapphic or not is a matter of opinion. This is just flat out wrong.  

There are provable errors not only in description but dialogue.

The tone and characterization of Enid and Wednesday’s interaction is different with the incorrect dialogue and descriptions.

The entire book is like this. It has wrong or dropped dialogue and deviates from the original narrative concepts of the TV show.

Every character has been done a disservice by this book.

It seems the people you should ask if they watched the show are Meija and whomever approved publishing the book, errors and all.  

The book with its lack of details I think misses a lot of nuances that we see from facial expressions and body language on the show. Details on the possibility of what others are thinking via facial expressions and body language are inconsistent throughout the book.

There is an annoying plethora of exclamation marks that makes it seem people are yelling or excited when I think they’re actually trying to portray emphasis. That’s just a pet peeve of mine and I fully admit it’s petty, but it does make some, like Kinbott, seem more manic than the show intended.

“Well Wednesday, I hope you don’t think of me as your adversary,” [Kinbott] says. “I hope we can forge a relationship built on trust! And mutual respect!” p 30

Kinbott does not have this kind of excited inflection when speaking to Wednesday, ever. She always remains calm and uses a soothing voice, like she’s trying to talk to an unwilling cat. lol

I think it was a mistake to hire Meija, who specializes in children’s books. The TV show is aimed at teens, but also has a strong nostalgia factor for those who grew up in the 90’s and the movies. I think Netflix is aiming for a wide audience of older teens and adults. With the violence and “edgy” aesthetic and leanings, I think a writer for an older audience would have been more appropriate.

This book was clearly made JUST for children. The bigger print, low word count, and very simplistic narration make it for an elementary grade reading level. It feels very dumbed down.

Wednesday the TV show is not meant to be for that young of an audience.

I think if Gough and Millar had written the novelization, it would be much different not only in style but accuracy.

At bottom, Meija is an outsider to this fandom and did not do a good job.