#spinning starlight

[razreads]

Hope is better than nothing.

R.C. Lewis, Spinning Starlight

[fictionadventurer]

2, 4, 12, and 15 for fairytale asks?

2. First fairy tale retelling you ever read

First was Ella Enchanted. Second one, I can't remember (unless it was that half-read of The Goose Girl), but the second one I finished was probably a retelling on fanfiction.net.

4. Fairy tale retelling you've read with the earliest publishing date

Already answered.

12. Fairy tale retelling you wish more people would read

The Seventh Raven by David Elliot is a very interesting retelling of "The Seven Ravens" in different poetical forms. As a story, I have my issues with it, but the structure is so fun that I wish more people had read it.

15. A retelling that changes the genre/setting of the fairy tale

Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis is a science fiction retelling of "The Six Swans" that does some interesting things with the fairy tale, even if the story only gets to the level of "solidly all right".

[tabooi]

what is his problem

[stimming-puppet]

Fly Me To The Star ✨

[shoesplease]

Mission: Impossible is like if you took James Bond, gave him Tom Cruise's face and an American accent, and then put him in the dryer for two hours on high spin.

He's a bit warmer, spends half his time concussed, and has an adrenaline addiction.

Oh, and also give him a found family that enjoys dunking on him whenever possible. Almost missed that. Important, that bit.

[cherriesmoke]

Pearl spinning gifs

[skybristle]

could you perchance talk a bit about The Seamstress? theyre the BH slugcat I think ive seen you talk about the least

thats because i still don't fucking know what to do with them </3

in general the post maw-collapse storyline [besides chiems and ochre] are where i've struggled the most. what next, after all of that shit, you know? especially because starlight especially needs a LOT of characterization work the brainworms just havent aligned for....

adaptation wise the idea is both a callback to starlights architect [whos named silk! yes i named them After but its a fun connection] but also recently i figured out why its like that.... i think starlights surrounding area is sooo miserable to traverse. super super marshy from all the backwater from sparks Super high production, full of fireflies [like stars], very dark with lots of shit lurking. you know that one room in gutter with the super muddy water thats almost impossibel to swim thru? Yeah imagine that for a whole region. so seamstress was designed to bypass all of that and well. use webs and etc to get over it, as well as to carry things through satchels and etc it made with its silk.

story wise... it has Something to do with aurora and starlight. I think aurora's 'oh god the consequences of my actions' finally getting through his head [he's kind of the reason whispers exists + more importantly gave starlight the information that led her down the path she took] and trying to like. reconcile all the Shit that happened especially as starlight begins to freak out and realize how badly maw got into her head [especially as maw ditches it to worry about sparks]. its all very messy in my head... it probably serves as some kind of messenger for them???? perhaps originally designed for starlight to try and get maws attention but then maw went [metal pipe sfx] and. idk im just ranting . SHAKES STARLIGHT why are you so hard to WRITEEEE

[the1trueanon]

some doodles of Sage in both designs, just to give her some life -w- hehehehe calling Sage and Sally ship Sunflower hehehehehe >:3

the poll is still open! help me decide what Sage should be :D

[dameronswife]

sometimes i just think about poe and it's like. i can't believe you mean this much to me? literally ahead of tfa i just kept scoffing at the descriptions of him, completely expected to be benevolently annoyed with him or meh at best and didn't understand why everyone went off abt how oscar was attractive (like i could tell objectively, but it's rare that i find someone subjectively attractive on a deep level), and then i just. saw poe for the first time on screen in theaters and that was it. instant attraction, and then a few minutes later realizing that oh, no i'm genuinely in love with this man. instant ride or die, we just clicked. i got him on a deeply intimate level just from those few minutes of screentime he has in the movie, that nothing about him following that ever surprised me? just. yeah that's him this makes sense.

and i remember writing what was absolutely self-insert masquerading as canon where r.ey was his best friend and i genuinely meant for it to be platonic but i kept accidentally writing a little bit something more and i genuinely think looking back on it that i probably had a crush and a squish on poe? and he may have started queerplatonic, leaning on alterous (if i'm understanding the term right). like it wasn't straight platonic because i genuinely had/have such a crush on him but it definitely wasn't straight romantic at the time either (and i still have moments where i'm like. yeah i'm definitely feeling qp feelings for him and not romantic ones). and then sometime in 2017, something I guess shifted and I wrote in an oc into that same fic who had a history with him and they both still had feelings for each other and they kissed at the end of the story but didn't wind up with each other, and then i started reading reader fic for him that same year and was like. oh I actually don't mind the idea of kissing him....i kinda wanna. and i also don't mind the idea of a relationship if it's with him, i even want it?

and like ofc things went sideways from there. i stopped reading fic bc my friend made fun of me for reading it and i felt like i was doing smth "wrong" and then the gaslighting of everyone hating him in t.lj when i didn't also severely impacted my ability to be able to enjoy him properly without trying to fold up my actual opinions to 'fit in' more and feeling anxious and not getting to enjoy it, but he was still such a cornerstone of comfort for me at the time. i even wrote my first reader fic in late 2018 to get some comfort from how awful things were in my personal life and it was of him. and then t.ros happened and the fandom got so toxic along w some friend stuff that my spin in poe almost broke (or so i thought), but like?? i spent the whole next year constantly drawn to things that reminded me of poe....read a book that was compared to the st and him a lot....bought a lot of orange things without thinking about it, developed a crush on a character that's like. basically poe with the serial numbers scratched off. all until i found my way back to him at the end of 2020 🥰 and after that i started embracing reader fic again and my romantic feelings for him and then lmao the physical/sexual attraction came in like a wrecking ball shortly thereafter which was New To Say The Least, but.

eeee i don't know i ended up gushing a lot about him but i just. sometimes i really think about the journey i've had with him, and how much good he's genuinely brought into my life. i get to feel all these emotions i never thought i would!! because of him!!! i get to explore new avenues that i wouldn't be interested in or comfortable in pursuing even mentally bc of him!!! he's helped me work through various triggers for my trauma bc they feel safe with him involved? and most importantly - i wouldn't know any of my lovely friends or partners if it wasn't for him? i stuck around in the fandom bc of poe, and that lead me right to my queerplatonic partners and family. i genuinely would not!! be the same person today if i had not fallen in love with that silly flyboy december 20th 2015!!! and isn't that just love in a nutshell?

[foxfirestarlight]

Zhyoom

[lunarscaled]

do dragons taste like chicken asking for a friend

it's gonna taste like garlic cause that's all I'm gonna eat if you try taking a bite out of me

[razreads]

One mistake. One accident. One is such a deceptively small number.

R.C. Lewis, Spinning Starlight

[eighthdoctor]

Hi! I just saw your review for Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and how it feels like reading Wikipedia when even with the magic added everything in the Napoleonic wars happen exactly the same as it did in history anyways, and I vaguely remember you having read the Temeraire series at some point? Anyways, since I just got through Black Powder War, I was curious about what you thought on how Novik handled The-Napoleonic-Wars-but-with-dragons, and whether it has a similar feel, or if it's handled better.

oh no it's not that it felt like reading wikipedia--I was actually reading Wikipedia and constructing explanations for why Wellington had fucked up such and such to need Strange to do whatever when historically he had, perhaps obviously, not had any magicians.

at any rate: Novik drives me nuts.

it DOES end up derailing fairly dramatically from history (yay!) but then sharply pivots into "in this book we shall examine one Foreign Culture TM and how they interact with dragons and also uncritically praise Britain/condemn Napoleon". which makes me want to eat glass.

[lesbianapplejack]

Still annoys me that that one episode had to take the route of “force a character to enjoy Christmas Hearts warming even tho they didn’t really want to.” Like. They made starlight the villain of the Christmas carol parody as if she was trying to stop the others from enjoying the holiday when all she was doing was saying she didn’t wanna participate.

[1eos]

you know what I find kinda funny, we don’t follow each other but we visit each others blogs often, give likes and reblogs and then leave…lolll

btw could I ask for some parting gothwoons? 🖤

it's really like we visit each other often and leave mail in the mailbox 💖 i got out of the habit of following the vixx blogs i like bc i kept getting blocked 😭😭😭😭 nd then on twitter someone got hate for following me i felt so bad even tho it was so dumb it was just funny lglalglag but ofc you can!!!!!!!!! for you! 🗣️💖

[tyforthevnm]

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