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the way of kings prime (2002) -Ā brandon sanderson
āi donāt know much...ā
#DAMN!!!!!!!#this is a draft from like 2021#im in hell im working on an essay#hope everyone is doing well#sitting at the library rn#with mountain-deweys#hi king#drinking a gatorade propel#help#anyway#blackout poem#blackout poetry#author#book#poem
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looming
#i think i put this one in drafts by accident literal years ago whoops#my art#my ocs#lion#its DEFINITELY from pre ipad era#so like. 2021 maybe 22?#maybe older#repostober
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cpurpled
letters to kafka, salma deera // station eleven graphic novel (x), illustrated by Maria Nguyen // underbelly, nicole homer // the garden of good and evil, alfredo jaar // mrs. caliban, rachel ingalls // I HOPE YOU READ THIS, lev st. valentine // station eleven graphic novel, illustrated by Maria Nguyen // the last scene in the movie by eleanor hsieh (x) // the gods show up, michael kinnucan
#old old old draft from like 2021 that i figured iād post#the station eleven graphic novel just fits cpurp in so many ways itās cool#anyway whatever is left of cpurblr i hope you enjoy this LMAO#purpled#c!purpled#dsmp purpled#web weaving#ash.txt
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there shouldāve been an episode or fic where Ericās childhood friend, Jason, came back from some undisclosed location
And is staying around for a bit, maybe Eric offers him the couch in his apartment or smth.
It should start normal, just old pals catching up. Jason gets introduced to everybody. Everyoneās Having fun. Itās a great couple of days/weeks.
But when he goes to leave, heās like
āhey eric thanks for having me. and i just want u to know i think itās totally u cool u have a boyfriend now. unexpected but cool. i noticed u introduced him as ur roommate and i know thats a thing ppl do but u couldāve told me what was rlly up. weāve been friends since we were 3, man!ā (or something)
and then hes like alright nice seein ya man, bye!
I think thatād be a good plot
#jason seems like heād have been quite offended eric didnt tell him jacks his boyfriend (even tho heās not jason just assumes it)#(i mean what else would u assume LOL jack says shit like he picks out erics clothes)#itād be also just cool to visit jason again. maybe in some strange twist of events jasons just like#i had noo clue u rlly liked guys. i had a crush on u way back when but totally cool man#and then eric just has to rethink his little life#either way heās gotta rethink his little life#jeric#boy meets world#this is a draft from like 2021 but the concept is kinda cute still š
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unable to stop dwelling on the discworld trouser leg of time where, in the penultimate fight scene in Nightwatch, Carcer manages to kill teenage Sam Vimes.
Which means that the future that Duke Vimes came from can no longer exist, which means heĀ canātĀ go home. Meanwhile youāve got a bunch of history monks with stored up temporal energy, a prepared space outside of time, and the need to do some desperate damage control before the Auditors get involved. Death shows up, reality is unweaving, Sam is reading Carcer his discworld miranda rights because what else is he supposed to do.
and finally, with little other option, the monks de-age Sam so he fits the time period and send him back out into the fray.
(they didn't call it deageing of course. His memory is hazy, splintered during that terrible in between moment, They....took the time out of him? Sanded away the edges of his self for a terrible, workable fit? It...wasn't a good feeling.)
Justādamn. Sam Vimes having to live his whole crapsack life over again, but this time as his disillusioned-reillusioned, unwillingly-character-developed, noir-epic, Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes self.Ā
Younger (Older? He's never felt so Old, His steps so Childlike, reality twisting in his gut like one of Dibbler's pies) Sam Vimes walking around in a haze after the revolution. Desperate to go home, knowing he canāt. Wanting to drink. Knowing he canāt.
The whole precinct feels pity, he really took Keelās death hard, hardly speaks except to do his job. Eventually he has to grit his teeth and start being present, because what else is there to do?
Resists the urge to drink until Colon takes the whole watch out to celebrate because -heās going to be a father!
Come on Sammy, one drink wonāt kill youā and after the first drink heās cracking jokes and after the second hes smiling and after the third hes honestly the life of the party and sometime after that heās crying about how he was going to be a father and my wife would be ashamed if she saw me drinking like this andāĀ
Oh shit, Did anyone else know he had a wife?? A PREGNANT wife??? Whatāarenāt you like 12āno you're 17 now aren't you but when didā
You guys nāver met āerāoh gods none if you evān know āer, is jusā me...
Whatāwhen did you loseā
I lost her the same damn day I losā evārythin else, whadya think...bleeding Carcer...the fuckin revolution...
So! That! Sam only vaguely remembers the night, but rumors travel faster than light on the disc, so by the next day the whole damn city knows about poor Sam brung low by the loss of his poor, tragic, pregnant wife, so young to be a widower, and the Seamstresses nod because they already knew, donāt ask them how, somethings you just have to know in that trade.
And his motherāI donāt know, sue me, Iām a time travel fiend but thereās something deeply intriguing about a man meeting his dead parent, who is somewhat younger than him, and stepping into the old relationship like a badly fitting thing that's supposed to fit well. She would know, right? How would she deal with her sonās impossible grief? Maybe she wouldnāt knowāhe spent most of the time out of the house, running with different street gangs, maybe he avoids her until she dies and lives with the guilt twice over. God, we donāt even know her name. Thereās just so much narrative and emotional potential that I donāt even know where to start.
When heās onĀ duty, which is most time - itās agonizing because at first he remembers cases, saves lives that would have been lost. But the more time passes, the hazier his memory because in the original timeline he was becoming an alcoholic. Fuck! A kid dies and he could have saved her if he hadnāt been such a drunk, if he had just rememberedĀ where the asshole lived, but itās all a haze, and he wants to drown out his guilt, but thatās what caused this in the first place.
Good young Sammy, who spends his rare off-time in dusty libraries (and yes, the irony that heās apparently Carrot now is not lost on him) reading gods-only-know.
Itās not like he can ask the wizards for help, cutthroat and vicious as they are now in the not-so-distant-past.
Good young Sam, who...talks to the Broken Drumās pet Bouncer like heās a real person and not a dumb rock? Thatās a bit weird, but heās a bit of a funny guy.
Good old Sam, who believed the testimony of the dwarf who said the humans were trying to rob him and let the dwarf go??
the PROBLEMS this man would cause, good grief. Can you imagine a moderately progressive middle aged man with some degree of begrudging diversity and equity training that he did, for all his sins, pay attention to, suddenly going back to like, 1990, going back just 30 years, and going...oh damn this is kind of fucked up, no man you canāt sayĀ that, holy shit.
Except Samās lived through even moreĀ rapidly shifting social moroes! Thereās no seamstress guild, thereās no women allowed inside the university, thereās no black ribbonerās society.Ā People hunted trolls for their teeth! But Sam canāt just unlearn everything, and he canāt shut up, and he has no real luck and anyway he would absolutely get himself (temporarily) fired.
FUCK. Sam has noĀ idea what to do with that. None. Zero clue. Wanders around in a haze until that dwarf he saved from police brutality finds him and insists on repaying the debt. No, he insists, do you have any idea what debt means to a dwarf?
āSort-of?ā he replies hesitantly, and that honest admission of incomplete knowledge shows a hell of a lot more respect and understanding than any self proclaimed dwarf-expert ever did.
Gets a job as a surface man, hauling rocks into the city. Itās backbreaking work, but, in true Discworld fashion, itās also one hell of a workout (again the irony of being Carrot is not lost him. he freezes for a minute while hauling a rock cart, when he remembers he's technically Lost Nobility too, in a strict sense, but someone curses at him in the street and he's comfortingly grounded)
And here is where this au slides into a SPECTACULAR romantic comedy, BEAR WITH ME. Because in his time on the Watch heās already done noir, action adventure, war story, detective who dunnit, psychological horror, but guards guards only allowed him to be a romance protagonist in an extremely limited context.
Give me righteous, twenty-something-looking, canāt-say-he-doesnāt-have-style, young Sam Vimes, not an alcoholic, Ā being fed three square meals a day by his dwarven forced found family, hauling rocks. He is startled to find him bumping his head on a low hanging bar that he doesnāt think used to be there, eventually realizing that heās an inch or two taller than he remembers. Huh.Ā Guess all that bearhuggers really did stunt his growth.
Still doesnāt get what some of the looks from women heās getting are about, sure, heās dirtyĀ but so is everyone else. Fine, he took his shirt off, but itās hot out, thereās far wrinklier than him hauling heavy loads, get a life.Ā
Happens to glance in the Ankh one day when itās particularly slow and shiny and is startled to realize that he might be turning heads for a different reason. Oh. Right, not that he was ever a heartbreaker, but he did alright for himself... when he was a younger and his face hadnāt been broken so many times. Which...it isn't now.
Is mildly disturbed by the revelation.
Especially once things blow over at the precinct and what with high mortality rates, he ends up with getting hired again. The boys are delighted to have him back, nevermind that heās an odd one, noone is ever quite in your corner like Vimsey, absence makes the heart fonder, no one else works that hard, and heās not even competition for promotion. All around great guy, we should set him up with somebody and just, no.
It just keeps getting worse! Heās literate! Heās a feminist! He believes abuse victims! Heās got a tragic backstory! Heās unreasonably good in a fistfight! Heās kind to animals! Word gets around that thereās a good man on the watch and heās just waiting for a good woman to come snap him up. The widower excuse doesnāt hold people off completely, and for some itās its own sort-of appeal.Ā
Things REALLY become stressful after he rescuesĀ that carriage full of noblewoman.
Whatās he supposed to do? Let them get robbed? Or worse? Chasing down and beating up 10 goons is as easy as beating up one, when theyāre that stupid, getting separated like that, drunk and distracted, and he knows these streets better than anyone, really itās nothing. And oh lord heāsĀ Modest too.
I mean, they were genuinely greatful, as genuine as people like that are capable of being, the skill having grown rusty. And then there is something...magnetic about the man. An air of command.
So, soon enough you get Lady Marigold of Marigrave calling on Treckle Road for that gallantĀ young officer who rescued them, she really needs to thank him. And Viscountess Elanor Thitzferal specificallyĀ requesting that he guard her at her next soiree. And Baroness Julieta van Shoeholten insisting that he come to her home while her husbandās away, for... manly protection.
Aaaah just zeroĀ sympathy from the guys. None. 'Itās become a competition, theyāre just trying to see who can get me into bed first, itās like Iām a piece of meat, you canāt send me sir, the Marquess greeted me in a nighteeĀ last time you made me go toā' and 'small gods Vimes are you even listening to yourself, shut the hell up'.
Simultaneous to this, (again this is several years into the timeline) swamp dragon accessories come into style. Which means abandoned swamp dragons scrounging on the street. Vimes takes one back to his apartment, blows his paycheck on dragon medicine, and eventually, heart in his chest, brings it to the Ramkin estate. The sunshine orphanage doesnāt even exist yet and heās just standing outside the gates like an idiot,Ā what is he thinking. Turns around, but her carriage is pulling up andā
well. they meet. it's cute. he's never felt so young. he's never felt so old, too old for her, too poorā
and certainly her thoughts linger too long on the awkward, kindly, handsome young commoner, but is it any wonder she doesn't quite connect it to the stern, dangerous, sexy young guard the ladies seem to be in some quiet, cuthroat competition over?
i have this gorgeous, absurd scene in my head in which Vimes is strong armed into standing guard at some high society soiree and one of the pushiest ladies insists he dance with here, or, if he prefers, if he's not confident about his skills, he can dance with her in-privateĀ at her home and heās like [grinding teeth, looking for a way out, seeinf one] āI would be honored to dance with you.ā
Steps right into some ultra-complex dance with multiple partner swaps (she never thought he'd pick this one, devilishly intimidating to one not strictly trained, and you barely spend anytime with your first partner).
But he does alright. Better than alright, for a common man, sometimes misstepping but his hands and feet always end up where they need to be. Raises severalĀ eyebrows part way into the song becauseĀ he's throuwing in some slightly scandalous, no innovative, extra lifts and twirls that wouldn't become fashionable for another decade or two. Who even is that guy? Some out of towner? No, no he's in a guards uniform...how very strange.
Gets to Sybll and she's used to embarrassment during these dances, she tries to get out of them when she can... but can't always. Men awkwardly skipping the lifts, or worse, trying and failing. But him ā oh it's him, the one who helped little Erold, and looked at her likeālikeāwell like she was someone beautiful. And he's doing it again, and he's strong and there's a quiet moment where she's in the air, they lock eyes, and the rest of the room melts away.
And then the partners change again, the moment ended.
Just...living throught it all again. To the left, a dance he almost knows the steps to, throwing others off balance with erratic moves , honest mistakes, and delibrate stepping on toes. Improvising. Ruining. Improving. Getting far, far too much attention.
Hes almost excited when the first assassains start coming after him. It's like a hobby.
Everyone tells him he should get a hobby.
Interactions with young vetinari...I don't have the energy to write it all down, the slow circling in on each other, both burning with the need to fix the city, save it, their city.
needless to say he ends up fired again, life under real threat after offending some high lord.
Conveniently enough he has an employment opportunity- bodyguard to fucking Vetinari on his 'grand sneer.' The bastard knows vimes isn't what he seems, though sam is pretty sure that he doesnt know the exacts.
Vetinari hypothesis:(the ghost of keel? Keels son, with some hereditary curse? Or a larger spirit of justice possessing a string of unrelated souls? He knows things he shouldn't- mind reader? Fortune teller? Havelock once arranged for a wizard to bump into him on the street, the magical fool gave an odd double look and then muttered something about destiny looping in on itself giving him a headache. Destiny? Lost noble? And hes far too familiar with sybyl, one of the few bearable noblewomen in this city. And his thoughts on guilds, when havelock can trip him into speaking... Most of all, if hes reading him at all correctly (for all the mystery hes not that hard to read, unless thats a very clever cover) then it seems that behind those dark haunted eyes is Respect. Loyalty. For vetinari. What an interesting man. A puzzling asset. An intriguing threat. )
Did I mention the timeline is changing, healing slowly around the place where it was torn? Healing enough around scars to perhaps get some flexibility back, with some painful stretches and...massaging of said scar tissue?
And hes heading to unresting uberwald, a place where a werewolf pack still hunts humans and, truely unrelated but perhaps equally exhausting, an eldritch spirit of vengeance just might be looking to stretch its legs in a hapless vessel?
Opening drabble Vimes Vetinari Meta (Unwell) Scene from the Uberwald Grand Sneer
#discworld#sam vimes#discworld au#nightwatch au#i literally drafted this post in December 2021#and i know it was living in my head for years already at that point#i have more somewhere aging like cheese in the back of my mind#discworld fanfic#night watch#Let this be free from my mind#Perhaps someone else will write it#BE FREE ANCIENT AU OF MY SOUL#For all my obsession with discworld I have but this one (1) AU though it tears at me like the seam of a pair of pants#The songs I have permanently associated with this au are slightly bonkers by the way#My au#Seriously there's like two full novels worth of content up here. Sybyll running away from home and living as a commoner#To mirror Sam joining upper class in original timeline you see?#Some early discworld murder Wizard nonsense when they try to poke at the temporal anomaly and the universe goes brrrr#Eventually catching up with color of Magic city burning bs and vimes is mad as fuck#Weird year that never was protecting people during sourcery#And when we start catching up with where he left#Oh ho ho you can't to forward to something that doesn't exist but maybe you can go sideways to a place that's got a tear in it#A sam vimes shaped tear#And his pregnant wife from 30 years ago in the other trouser leg#AND that's not even mentioning how carcers trial got taken to a...higher court
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ya know, what made epic the musical such a joy for me personally is seeing it actually develop throughout its 4-5 year long history and I don't just mean like from the ground up and everything. I mean it in a way as someone who immediately clocked Jorge Rivera-Herrans as a fellow playwright heavily inspired by Lin Manuel Miranda's style - which fucking meant of course most of the early publicized drafts of epic were raps because of course they are (this is not meant to be a slight because like I totally get him)!
But like actually seeing Jorge apply the lessons in LMM's writing into his own original style that is befitting to the story he wants to tell - and not only that, he literally took his audience along with him on his journey with every tried-and-tested demo and audition and everything, and the actual pre-production and production process of writing an album is something we don't usually get at all, especially in something as extensive as a musical concept album!
Like what really had EPIC make it's mark on the internet and on musical theatre (especially INDIE MT) is that it was a literal Odyssey of sorts - the creation of this entire fucking thing was a journey from beginning to end and we were all invited to witness it from behind the scenes while also having many artists among fans be a part in its creation one way or another, while also observing how Jay had his own artistic development throughout - from someone whose epic was quite obviously heavily stylized after Hamilton, into an artist whose style he can call truly his own.
I have so much more to say on how and why epic became such an iconic piece of work and perhaps being the first MT work in 2020 to truly define the decade, but all in all let's just say I'm glad to have witnessed the growth of an artist - and I'm excited to see what art this will inspire in turn.
#like fjdjs i've seen a lot of people compare jay to lmm which i get it because like duh#but also ive grown to notice that epic like really took a turn for the better when it was less stylized after hamilton#and moreso made with lmm's techniques in mind - but as a foundation and not like a blueprint to follow#likelook at epic now and epic circa 2021 like there are a lot of parts from both that scream 'yep lmm inspired this' ESPECIALLY in motif use#but throughout the progression in between we see jorge come into his own and the songs having their own melody#while still retaining recognizable wordplay ala lmm#i dunno like im speaking personally as a writer whose earliest musical drafts were my attempts at emulating lmm#like i just loved watching the epic growth journey so much because like thats what i wanna become and everything#the journey of growing into a style they can truly call their own while also paying homage to those that inspired them through their lessons#i just find it neat#epic is great#okay thats enough praises now its time for the saga tier list#pfffft there will be more praises and analyses coming up should i like find the time#but yea check epic my dudes its a damn good piece of work#aLSO THE CHALLENGE IS THE BEST SONG IN THE ENTIRE DAMN MUSICAL SO FUCKING GOOD#epic#epic the musical#jorge rivera herrans#lin manuel miranda#hamilton#the odyssey
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spiral + @screenshotsofdespair V
#spiral from the book of saw#spiral 2021#spiralshipping#im sorry about map of pain city but the more i thought about it the more i liked it and thought it was so funny lmaoo im so sorry zeke#william schenk#zeke banks#william emmerson#spiral#sawposting#mine#this is the final one i had in my drafts so i'll stop clogging the tags with these.. but it was fun finding the right moment to screenshotš¤#spiral screenshotdespair edit#<- use that to find the others on my blog if you'd like :]
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code, kathy reichs (2013)
#oh my fucking god this was in my drafts and i don't remember making it. like this might be from 2021#i can't believe i never posted this
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[Image Description: A digital drawing of three Tasques from Deltarune: chapter 2 rendered in a flat, clean lineless style. Two of the tasques are in playful poses while the other is sitting. They are surrounded by sparkles.Ā The background is a photograph of a cloud in a diamond shape and the blue patches on the tasques are overlaid with cloud textures as well. End Image Description.]
cloud computing
#this is from october 2021!! very old!!! but I still like it#I should do more lineless art its fun#love these computer cats#owowowmememeowme owmemeowowmemeow owmeowmemeowmeow#deltarune chapter 2#tasque#tasques#this post has been in my drafts for 2 years BEGONE
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I will name this tragedy after you by Amber Ā© 2022
#poetry#poems#poetblr#poetscreed#poets on tumblr#from the drafts#this is from my first poetry collection and i wrote it in like 2021 but i wanted to post anyways!!#you can see how much better iāve gotten comparatively#poetry*
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Books of 2024: November Wrap-Up.
Hi, y'all! I'm actually shocked that I managed to get through four (4) books this month, because it was NANO and I also WROTE A WHOLE BOOK!! The (written) book in its two notebooks is pictured beneath the pen and NaNo Earrings :)
All of these reads were NaNo-adjacent, somehow (I like to stack my reading with my writing project so all the Vibes are Correct)--either Space, or Haunted, or Fucked Up Fungi (I wrote a weird book this month)(I had a great time).
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#books of 2024#books of 2024: november wrap-up#a half-built garden#ruthanna emrys#just like home#sarah gailey#graveyard shift#m.l. rio#the night guest#hildur knutsdottir#did i mention that i WROTE A WHOLE BOOK??#okay well like. a Compost Draft book lol. a Rotting Slough Of Good Ideas Book (affectionate)#i had a Revelation this year about my prep process and why my last four years have felt so rushed (spoiler: the root cause is LIVING HERE)#BUT! it's because i thrive on two (2) months of prep#it shakes out to like a month of brainstorming and then a month of carding/plotting/prewriting i think#but i've been speedrunning books since. 2021. which. was fine that year#because i set out to make a mess in a month (and it was a retelling)#fine in 2022 because that was self-indulgent crossover no plot or worldbuilding required#NOT fine in 2023 because i had an Actual Book i wanted to do and i rushed the prep and then i was grumpy#because i assumed i was writing a first draft but it was more like a compost draft#but not recognizing that made it not fun#THIS year i FINALLY understood what people mean when they say 'draft zero' (which does not work for me. because a draft on page exists/not0#and i realized i was basically doing that--halfway writing a book and halfway brainstorming on page#but KNOWING that fixed me because it Freed Me lol. so i think of this as compost draft#(appropriate for fungus book)#it's a full mess but it's MY mess and there's some good stuff in there#but for it (like for 2021 which i also knew). i will have to literally rewrite the book from the ground up#to make it a First Draft#i did not intentionally set out to do this with last year's so it wasn't fun :(#BUT I HAD FUN THIS YEAR THIS'LL BE A NEAT BOOK WHEN IT'S LEGIBLE
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āI have this scene in my head for my fic that I really love but i donāt feel like writing all of the other stuff to get to it.ā
I see this comment like 5 times a day in fic writing spaces lol
a scene that you donāt want to write is a scene you donāt want to read. donāt write stuff you donāt want to read.
me, personally: wait until the scenes that get you to that first initial scene you were excited about are just as interesting as that scene too. it wonāt be the first, second, or third thing you think of. if u have a scene you really want to write, write that, and keep writing only those exciting scenes that come to you. eventually you have a million interesting scenes for your fic and they become puzzle pieces for you to arrange and then eventually the strings come together and you realize you really do have an interesting way to get to that original scene, and youāre just as excited to write it, if you havenāt already written it when you were brainstorming other scenes earlier in the writing process that you didnāt even realize could carry your story like that.
#My process is 1) write the initial scene ā the first one I thought of that inspired the fic#2) daydream (preferably to a custom playlist) and write ONLY THE DIALOGUE that I like from my daydreams#3) discover common threads while daydreaming and thus discover a theme#4) now that I have my theme; my favorite dialogue lines; and my inspiration scene I begin drafting#Drafting includes writing around the dialogue and filling in the gaps with action#I find that dialogue drives my plot usually but Iām trying to get better at throwing chaotic events at my characters#and forcing them to respond to circumstances beyond their control/beyond the consequences of their choices#Drafting is also the point where I start writing only the exciting stuff and stringing it all together like a lunatic#5) once you have enough scenes to string together and youāve put the puzzle together: reread and revise#6) put it down and donāt touch it dont think about it donāt do anything to it for like at least 3 days to 1 week#7) reread with fresh eyes and revise again#8) repeat steps 6 and 7 until you have desired fic#Sometimes if I really donāt like the way a story is working though Iāll play around with scenes#like āwhat if I remove this scene? How does that affect things? Is this a loadbearing scene in the story or is it superfluous?ā#āWhat if I delete chapters 5-15 and just totally rewrite everything in that spaceā#that one is a rough one to go through and is the reason why I have some fics that have never seen the light of day š#this is all coming from pre-2021 ghostlycod#back when I was in the marvel fandom and writing 100k self insert OC fanfics#14-18 year old me wrote like an Ancient Greek poet#pure genius masterpieces with masterclass articulation#and idk what happened but itās like at 25 Iāve suddenly gone brain dead#I envy 14 year old me so much when Iām writing now#That girl was just humming along to Lorde on repeat creating multiple full length novels at the same time all written with English Premium
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What was I going to write???ā¦

WHAT WAS I GOING TO WRITE?????
#this draft was like from 2021 my lord#I need to know what I was cooking up#sukuna#sub sukuna#blackreader#domgirl#femreader#top!reader#dom!reader
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so hard being a soldier because this fic iām reading is like teaching a young girl to be kind to herself and other and she said thsi guy is really ugly and alberto was likeādonāt say that!!!! so rude to judge people on how they look!!ā no he would call someone ugly as shit on a heartbeat godblesss godblessš©µš©µš i wrote him ik this
#luca 2021#alberto scorfano#idk this is a draft from a while ago donāt think too much of it#he just doesnāt have that social awareness like that me either kingš#pin.txt
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you ever think about how they made marcus banks a police chief AND a landlord .. .
#double whammy#spiral 2021#spiral from the book of saw#maybe a lot of retired or ex cops become landlords idk it kind of makes sense if thats a thing#chief of police actually . are they not interchangeable? idk i think chief of police sounds like the dude that rounds up all the cops at#the end of the day so i guess maybe thats higher than being a police chief ??#idk i dont study cop hierarchy#mine#(this post was in my drafts from like january of last year ?? why dont i just post things when i make them)
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weird thing about the inhumans is that theyre obscure enough to not really have an audience and also havent really appeared *that* much throughout their entire 60 year existence. however they also well known enough that the mcu took a crack at it and permanently affected their comics and their old roles and sectors are gone to make room for the New MCU Versions. truly such a thing is practically unheard of.
#agatha harkness comic fans i cant begin to imagine how yall feel since 2021#my dad is usually a very big 'they shouldnt change TOO much from tbe comicsā guy. but he has absolutely 0 problems with mcu agatha#tnd it pisses me offffff. like thats not even the same person. literally nobody in thaf agatha show is tbe same person. its not even CLOSE.#i get upset about how they switched karnak and maximus for who has no powers#if they changed the entire fucking Everything i would be performing a version of the cell block tango rn#and then seeing mcu fans get MAD about agatha looking slightly older at the end bc shes like. Not Young and Pretty anymore. ohhh myyy goddd#i wouldnt be able to handle it. oh my god i dont even want to look at those spaces ever again and i am completely neutral on agatha#this got so far off topic. agatha fans i know theres gotta be some of you out tbere im so sorry the mcu did this to you </3#anyways. i miss them. crystal ill never be over how mcu only fans think of u as nothing else but annoying. ill fight for u queen#i dont even know what to tag this as. this might stay in the drafts ELL OH ELL
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