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riddledeep · 5 years

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POOF, FOOP, AND HICCUP: IN SHORT

Brief bios about a teen celebrity, a prince, and a prince’s alternate personality

Bonus trivia: Their Refracted counterpart is named Poppy

POOF NEBULA FAIRYWINKLE-COSMA

Occupation: Student; celebrity since birth; saucerbee team captain; on-campus repairman

Birthday: Third Monday of February, Winter of the Frozen Planet (Soil Subyear)

Height: 3′10″ (Tall for a fae)

Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally young teen)

Alignment: Lawful Good

MBTI: ESFJ

Love Language: Quality time

Handedness: Right dominant

Hometown: Dimmsdale - A major city in California, USA, Earth

Core: Searchlight

Core Color: Yellow (No additional layers)

Crown Lift: Very high

Wand Type: Kitnut

Fagiggly Color: Lavender

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Cougar

Bio: While he may have been born in a Fairy World hospital, there’s no denying Poof was raised on Earth among the humans. As he grew up, Poof frequently compared himself to his parents’ godkids- whether they were humans, Delkians, or what have you. His first 1,000 years were divided between Spellementary dorms and visiting his parents; it was only after Dusty was born that Cosmo and Wanda pulled out of godparenting for awhile to raise their two young sons. Poof spent his formative years outside of Fairy World and has never identified as closely with Fairy culture as his peers- or even his brother Dusty. Furthermore, Wanda left the traditional Fairy beliefs she was raised with behind when she married Cosmo (who came from a family that never believed in them strongly). This combined with his celebrity status and the fact that he’s a gyne have made Poof feel like an oddball despite his celebrity status. And we haven’t even started on the legends of the Red Ninja...

Poof wasn’t there when Timmy parted ways with Cosmo and Wanda, and he’s never gotten over it. Following his separation with Timmy, he had a fight with his parents, flung himself full-force into his friend group, and has yet to pull back. He never attached to any of his other godsiblings, even the ones who lasted for years, and he doesn’t like using the term “godbrother” anymore. While he doesn’t have separation anxiety and he trusts his parents, he does have abandonment issues when it comes to his friends. Foop suspects the reason Poof taunts him is purely to encourage a reaction; neither of them likes to surrender and they both retaliate to pranks. Foop isn’t going anywhere fast.

Being raised by godparents on the job, surrounded by playful godkids, having a goofy father, and being popular at school has turned Poof into a fairly relaxed kid. He isn’t easily upset, and is more likely to get agitated than angered. That said, he gets along better with relaxed peers than those with highly energetic personalities (His dad’s level of excitement he can take, but Chloe pushes it). Although he loves hanging with his friend group at school (which consists mostly of popular kids through association with him), Poof is a friendly soul who is always keeping an eye out for someone to cheer up in some small way. He has his oblivious moments, but there’s no denying he’s a nice guy who sees just about everyone as his friend... while fretting internally that he’s an accident-prone dummy and people only hang out with him because he’s popular.

Notably, Poof is the narrator of the 130 Prompts “Second Chance,” “Tools of the Trade,” “Opinion”, “Unwelcome,” “All I Ever Wanted,” and “Happy Holidays,” as well as the focus of “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies.” He’s a major character in Hawthorn Haven and several other Prompts as well. He’s been pining after Goldie all his life despite the low opinion Fairy society has of will o’ the wisps, but as he’s entered his teen years, he’s reflected more on the customs of his kind- his subspecies are said to pair for life, after all, and teen Poof has found himself wondering if he really, truly is prepared to commit to her. This has placed strain on their relationship, especially as his social status - and Goldie’s - become increasingly important in their lives.

Full Character Profile || Family Tree || Dorm Layout || Fairy World Home Layout || Fairy Class Overview || Cosmo’s and Wanda’s Bios || Dusty’s Bio || Timmy’s and Chloe’s Bios || Goldie’s Bio

ANTI-POOF “FOOP” ANTI-COSMA-ANTI-FAIRYWINKLE

Occupation: Heir to the High Count seat; TA at Carl Poofypants High; scientist

Birthday: June 13th, Spring of the Frozen Planet (Breath Subyear)

Height: 3′6″ (Tall for an anti-fairy; average for a fae)

Age As of Devil’s Backbone: 163,254 (Mentally young teen)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil -> Chaotic Neutral

MBTI: INTP

Love Language: Words of affirmation

Handedness: Left dominant

Hometown: Luna’s Landing - Anti-Fairy World’s capital city, located in a crater and lit by glowing crystals

Core: Searchlight

Core Color: Yellow (No additional layers)

Crown Lift: Very high

Wand Type: Obsidian

Fagiggly Color: Blue

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Hound

Bio: Foop was born bearing the color-eye virus his people believe to mean the nature spirits favor him, and promptly threw Anti-Cosmo’s heir presumptive (Talon) to the back of the inheritance line. Although he himself could be displaced as High Count should he prove too unstable (especially since his younger brother Smoky would be an equally legitimate heir to the throne), Foop has coasted through life on a swollen ego with his plans laid out since birth. He knows what he wants, will go through enormous efforts to get it, and his mind isn’t easily changed once he gets set on something.

Foop had an extremely rocky childhood. He wreaked havoc across the cloudlands as a newborn and spent his early days in solitary confinement, visited only by Jorgen and his therapist from Wish Fixers. Shortly after escaping Abracatraz, he landed himself in an alternate universe (à la “Playdate of Doom”) and spent several years during the frozen timestream “raised” (tormented) by alternate versions of his parents and himself. He certainly wasn’t in a good place mentally when he got himself out of that situation and has been working with his therapist ever since. At last rehabilitated enough to attend Spellementary School, he struggled socially, academically, and mentally. The only reason he can function at all is because his alternate personality, Hiccup, withholds his traumatic memories. Even with Hiccup’s help, Foop faced many difficulties in his youth, including trying to care for his injured mother and Anti-Fairy World when his father disappeared for 77,000 years during the May Blossom War.

Foop is the protagonist of Identity Theft and appears in many 130 Prompts and other pieces. After a few early attempts to seize control of Anti-Fairy World (and Fairy World while he was at it), he eventually accepted the fact that his parents were going to give him the position when he was older anyway and he may as well take advantage of their hospitality and pursue his own hobbies before worrying over politics too much. He’s reluctantly settled into a routine of playing nice at fancy parties, interspersed with his studies of biology and horticulture. With the exception of the years he dropped out of school to support his mother, Foop grew up alongside his school roommates (Poof, Sammy Sweetsparkle, and the young pixie Finley). He's close friends with Goldie Goldenglow’s counterpart, Anti-Marigold. Anti-Fairy society looks down on Anti-Marigold for being an anti-will o’ the wisp (and having moth characteristics instead of bat ones), so in their older years he courts her as his secret mistress while publicly courting Anti-Coriander, the girl his parents picked out for him.

Never content to sit around drumming his claws, Foop is always keeping busy. He devours his textbooks the moment he gets his hands on them, takes attentive notes, and reviews them even after he’s memorized the material. Despite their similarities, he’s quite different from his father, who barely glanced at books in school since he figured he was smart enough to get by without working for it. Foop may share Anti-Cosmo’s passions for success and drama, but their ways of executing plans are drastically different; where Anti-Cosmo doesn’t fritter over details and throws plans into action too early, Foop works and reworks and combs over every tiny segment of his ideas until opportunity passes him by. Anti-Cosmo sees jail time as a stepping stone towards his long-term goals while Foop considers arrest to mean absolute failure. He also inherited several interests, his clumsiness, his appreciation for the little things in life, and part of his speech pattern from Anti-Wanda. No DNA test necessary!

Foop often uses he/him pronouns for himself, though uses we/us pronouns when referring to both himself and Hiccup. The older he gets, the more common his usage of we/us becomes.

ANTI-POOF “HICCUP” ANTI-FAIRYWINKLE-ANTI-COSMA

Occupation: Alternate personality; eloquent politician

Alignment: Lawful Evil

MBTI: ENFJ

Love Language: Physical touch

Handedness: Right dominant

Wand Type: Copper

Fagiggly Color: Blue

Preferred Shapeshifting Form: Hound

Bio: Sweet without ulterior motives, charming without a hint of irony, blunt to an extreme degree- that about covers it! Hiccup is Foop’s alternate personality and views himself as Foop’s older brother. He springs up when Foop’s emotions become unstable and handles situations as best he can. In Foop’s early years of working with his therapist, his goal was to integrate Hiccup’s aspects back into himself, but as time passed and it became clear Hiccup wasn’t going away any time soon, they began working together to survive their crazy life. Hiccup has full access to Foop’s traumatic memories and guards them closely no matter what mind-reading magic someone tries to use on them. Occasionally a bad memory slips through his careful defenses (and it’s certainly harder to resist such magic when Hiccup, not Foop, is the one it’s being used against), but Hiccup sees himself as Foop’s closest guardian and defends him like a mother bear.

Hiccup began to take form as early as Abracatraz, though it wasn’t until the alternate versions of Foop and his parents began tormenting the original Foop that Hiccup quickly asserted himself as his brother’s protector. He envisions himself with curly blue hair and a larger body type than Foop, and majorly struggles with body dysphoria. He’s a brave soul who isn’t afraid to stand up for himself or for Foop, but years of having his identity invalidated have left him plagued with feelings of self-doubt. He knows most people see him as “the second personality” and don’t treat him as a real person, and he’s tried to accept that for a long time. He has his own friends, hobbies, and opinions separate from Foop’s and sees himself as an individual who just happens to share a body with his brother. He cares deeply for Foop and doesn’t want to hurt him or steal away his inheritance- he just wants to be loved and allowed to live his own life to some degree.

Hiccup plays major roles in the 130 Prompts “Shadow,” “Live For the Moment,” “Not Like You,” and “Really, Really Can’t.” He appears in several other pieces and plays a major part in Identity Theft, though his biggest role comes in Hawthorn Haven when he leads many Fairy youth away from Fairy World and Anti-Fairy World to build their own united society. Hiccup may be less inclined towards chaos, but he does have his own ambitions of creating a utopia where everyone will love him... I mean, love each other. Though he has a truly kind personality, Hiccup does have a mercilessly savage streak running through his veins. His loyalties lie with Foop before anyone else, and to his family after that. You mess with the Anti-Fairywinkle family, you mess with Hiccup. After some of the tortures he put up with a child, he has few qualms about throwing you through them, too.

Foop has a lot of conflicting feelings about Hiccup. Often, he feels his alternate personality has seized control of his life and makes things unfairly harder for him than they are for any of his peers. He has a short temper and shoves blame on Hiccup constantly, often snapping at him when Hiccup makes an impulsive nice decision and ruins Foop’s plans or reputation. However, Foop sees Hiccup as an individual person separate for himself; the two keep each other up to date on things, try not to borrow each other’s stuff without asking, and don’t read mail, diaries, or mess with one another’s friendships. In their adult years (when they both identify as Anti-Poof and stop using their private names, as Anti-Fairy custom dictates), Foop becomes more and more uneasy with Hiccup using “his” body to flirt with, kiss, and sleep with people besides Anti-Marigold... but by that point the lines are getting blurrier and blurrier to the point he starts wondering if he’s even the dominant personality at all.

Their immediate family have accepted Hiccup’s existence and make an effort to show him affection, even if they don’t perfectly treat him as equal to Foop. Hiccup appreciates their efforts anyway. His family have a nickname for him - Puck, or sometimes Pucky - that he embraces. Most of his extended family refuse to acknowledge his existence, which is just his burden to bear in life.

Full Character Profiles (Foop || Hiccup) || Family Tree || Blue Castle Layout || Dorm Layout || Anti-Fairy Class Overview || Anti-Cosmo’s and Anti-Wanda’s Bios || Smoky’s Bio || Anti-Marigold’s Bio || Anti-Coriander’s Bio

#RD canon characters #RD short bios #RD Poof #RD Foop #RD Hiccup

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libertyreads · 2 years

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December TBR--

This photo includes just a few of the books I plan on reading this month. Of course, I’m going to read as many Christmassy books as I can get my hands on but I also have a handful of other things I’m going to try to get read this month.

1. Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson (new release)-- This is the third book in the Skyward series. Skyward follows Spensa. who wants to train to become a pilot for her planet’s defense force. But her father’s history of being a coward bars her way. And the story goes from there. I really don’t want to give the synopsis of a third book in a series.

2. Fool Me Twice at Christmas by Camilla Isley (Kindle and new release)-- This involves one of my favorite romance tropes--fake dating. Two recent exes pretend to still be together for the sake of their families at Christmas, but just-for-show kisses start to stir up forgotten feelings. *insert squealing here*

3. When the Snow Falls by Fern Michaels, Nancy Bush, Rosanna Chiofalo, and Lin Stepp-- I found this collection of Christmas romance stories at a library sale and what better time to read it than December? It seems like a similar theme running through most of the stories is second chance romances and grinch-y main characters who fall back in love with Christmas thanks to the other main character.

4. The Righteous by Renee Ahdieh (new release)-- This is book #3 in Ahdieh’s the Beautiful series about 19th century New Orleans which is a city filled with Vampires, Werewolves, and Fae hiding in plain sight.

5. How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan (NetGalley)-- Grace has it all figured out. She’s going to finish school, get her degree and her dream job, and fix up a little house on the beach. As a real estate developer, Noah knows how to make a deal. But he faces road blocks when the combative and beautiful woman living next door refuses to sell her fixer upper.

6. The Deathly Hallows.

7. 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston-- A YA holiday romance following Sophie as her family sets her up on blind dates after her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her. I’ve heard people say this is more about familial relationships than romance but that there is still a romance plot.

8. On Christmas Eve by Ann M. Martin-- This is a short children’s holiday novel that I found at a library sale and decided I had to read. It’s about 8 year old Tess who is convinced that this will be the year she finally meets Santa.

9. Across the Universe by Beth Revis-- I’ve heard of this one so much that I had to check it out. This follows 17 year old Amy who joins her parents on a spaceship to travel to a new planet. They are put in a frozen slumber and set to awaken in 300 years when they arrive. However, Amy wakes up 50 years too soon and realizes that it’s no computer malfunction. Someone tried to kill her. If she doesn’t figure out who soon, her parents may be next.

10. Evershore by Brandon Sanderson (new release)-- The third novella in the Skyward Flight novella series and book #3.1 in the Skyward series. This one seems to follow Jorgen and Alanik when they receive a message from the planet Evershore.

11. Giant Days Vol. 2 by John Allison-- The Giant Days comics follow a group of girls in their first year at University. They’re cute and dorky and silly and I just loved them in the first volume.

12. Lumberjanes Vol. 5: Band Together-- Another Lumberjanes. But I’m actually putting it on my TBR this time. In the Lumberjanes comics, we follow the girls of the Roanoke cabin at Miss Qiunzilla Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hard-core lady-types as they face more supernatural creatures.

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turbo-toast · 5 years

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Find the Word Tag Game

I was tagged by @methaemoglobinemia!

rules: find the four words in your writing, and then pick four more that other people need to find in theirs.

Your words to find: sudden, broken, beautiful, hidden

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sudden

I will go to Annecy with her. That realization just hit, and all of a sudden the trip became much more than just visiting Gérard's grave, getting closure. She wanted to show Lena more of herself, of her childhood home.

Hana slumped down in her chair and broke the brief silence. "Those were great, just what I needed this morning."

Hana’s voice ripped Amélie out of her brief daydream of locations to visit and sights to see. She slowly began to understand what Angela was talking about when she told her it was nice to be appreciated.

"De rien," Amélie said. "Lena... Ma chére..." She weighed the sound of the word, decided it fit. "We still need to see Morrison."

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broken

The guard flipped his visor up, revealing a blond beard and a nose that had been broken at least once before. He stepped out from under her gaze and gave Rolf an appraising look. “She tell the truth?”

Helreca gave Rolf a sharp glare. The last thing she needed was for him to fabricate a tale to get out of this situation and get her arrested somehow.

“Y-Yes, Sir, it is,” Rolf stammered nervously, shifting in his bonds.

The guard nodded. “Alright then. I suppose you gray-skins can be good for something.” He tugged at the rope. “Untie him.” He tensed up, freezing in place. “Shor’s bones, whose hand is this?”

“Oh, that? That’s Jorgen’s. The s’wit died trying to kill me,” Helreca said flippantly, untying the knots holding Rolf in place. “While I go stable my horse, can you get me a writ to give to Anuriel for the bounty? I would greatly appreciate that.” She put on her best disarming smile.

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beautiful

Amélie let out an amused huff. "The service is not the greatest, but I must say the personnel is delightful." She sat up straight and looked Lena deep in the eyes. "Oh and the view is beautiful, too. So, I suppose I feel— how do you say? — smashing?" The smirk on her face grew bigger, watching Lena's face turn red.

Some added perks of annoying Morrison were the many more opportunities she'd get to tease Lena. There were a lot of things she had yet to figure out about their relationship, but teasing Lena was not one of them.

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hidden

An empty bus pulled rolled past empty stop after empty stop in front of them, brightly lit from inside. The flags hanging off Pont du Mont-Blanc barely moved as they rolled past. Even the wind had hidden itself away from the tension in the air. Amélie directed Lena to turn right at the end of the bridge, and the bus was gone.

She fixated every parked car they went past, looked for movement, expecting that any second, one of them would start following them. One would soon turn into a pack of suspiciously inconspicuous sedans with tinted windows, and all of a sudden, they’d be surrounded and forced to stop.

The phone vibrated in her hand, and she almost threw it through the window. She answered the call. “Hello?”

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Some of those were the only occurrences of those words in any of my fics ever, so that was fun to track down!

I tag: @redcap3, @rinskiroo, @genderfluidintake

Your words to find: jump, cruel, underwear, quaint

#fanfic #fanfiction #My writing #game #Overwatch #The Elder Scrolls

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d-d-didnt-i · 5 years

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The Story Behind The Song: Kelly Clarkson, “Stronger”

Walk us through a typical Day in the life of Ali Tamposi.

Ali Tamposi: I wake up, I eat cereal to fuel the brain, then I try and go on a hike to Fryman Canyon. Sometimes I make it there in the car and turn around and go back and sometimes I make it up the hill [laughs]. Then I usually head straight to a session or a meeting. The sessions vary; it could be a writing session or an artist session, or writing camp, or meeting with different industry people. Nine times out of ten, at the end of the day, I will go meet Livvi Franc for sushi and we talk about our sessions. Then I go to Pinkberry and go home, have a glass of red wine for a nightcap and go to sleep.

When and where did you and your co-writers write “Stronger?” How long did it take to come together?

We wrote “Stronger” in September 2010. We wrote it in Long Beach at David Gamson’s studio. I was in the worst mood I’ve ever been in. My boyfriend at the time had not been answering any of my calls and one of my friends told me that they had seen him out with another girl. I was so freaking pissed off. My mom was in town staying with me at the time, and I had been up all night before hysterical. I did not want to do the session. I was driving to the session and telling my mom, ‘I’m turning around, I can’t do it, I can’t do it, I can’t do it! I need to go, I need to go!’ then, my Mom said, “Ali, what doesn’t kill you is going to make you stronger and its not going to kill you” As cliché and cheesy as that sounds, I swear—I have my mother as my witness– I typed it in my notes, the whole time thinking to myself “Ugh, this is cheesy, Jorgen is not gonna like it.”

And I go into the studio, and David Gamson comes out with some coconuts and some straws [laughs] like, he’s all free and happy go lucky. David sits down and starts playing some chords, Jorgen looks at me and says, ‘What’s your concept?’ We go through a bunch- no, no, no—then I say, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?” and Jorgen’s all, “THAT’S IT.” We wrote the song, I left the session Jorgen cut the demo, and I didn’t think anything more of it at the time. My head was in another place, the song is alright, nobody really says anything after the session, fine. Two or three months later I get this email saying, “what doesn’t kill you” is a freaking smash!

I couldn’t believe it. I have been sending out songs that I feel are smashes the last five months and nobody said anything and you think that song is a smash? But then I heard it—Jorgen had a demo singer come in and recut it and it sounded incredible. At that point, my manager Tom Maffei sent the song to Jeff Aldrich., who was Kelly Clarkson’s A&R at the time He flipped over it but said it needed edgier production. So Tom had Matty Trump, one of his other producers, reproduce the demo– which landed the placement. As time went on they decided that they wanted Greg Kurstin to produce; Kelly loved the song, but it wasn’t until the Superbowl last year that Kelly actually cut the record. I went in and helped with cutting her vocals with Greg and he was so great to work with. And Kelly absolutely killed the vocal. And now here we are, wow.

How much did you edit the song — were there any words or phrases that you remember were especially tough to make a decision on? Are there any alternate lines to that song?

Yes. The first lyric was originally “you know the bed feels warmer sleeping here alone/And my days are brighter not staring at the phone.” Kelly came in and wanted to change a few lyrics and stuff so that was the one particular line that she wrote : “you know I dream in color/and do the things I want.” Which I think is a better line, but we were going back and forth with the label, and the label wasn’t sure so they had me write another line. And I said, Friday nights are better than dancing on my own or whatever it is. Then Kelly cut both lines, and they finally decided that the ‘dreaming in color’ was a better line. So that was one particular thing.

But the one line that I think is among the better moments in the song, and means the most to me personally is, “doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone.” That was a line I really connected with when I wrote it.

Tell us about “Stronger’s” path from its completion, to Kelly hearing it, to its inclusion on her album, to the decision to make it a single.

It was baby steps. We had no idea where the song was going to go or it if it was even going to get to Kelly. Finally, her management approved the demo, then Jeff Aldrich approved it and they sent it to Kelly who immediately loved it. So from September when it was written it wasn’t until about January 2011 that we got word back Kelly loved the song. As far as when we knew it would become a single, we didn’t! Until after “Mr. Know It All” was already on the radio.

How has this experience of getting a major label cut affected you? Were you given the opportunity to hang around the studio while Kelly recorded the song?

This isn’t my first major label song cut but it is my first major single song cut. Before this I had Beyonce “Save The Hero,” that I wrote with Jim Jonsin and Rico Love which was a much different process. But this is my first major single, and I am still walking on cloud nine and waiting for someone to shake me and say “Okay, wake up, you’re back in South Florida trying to figure out what to do!” [laughs]

Greg Kurstin did invite me to go by and meet Kelly in the studio on Superbowl day—last year. It’s weird to think about that, almost exactly a year later. Anyway, when I walked in she was in the booth and asked Greg, “who’s that?” and Greg said, “Oh that’s Ali.” And Kelly runs out and gives me such a big hug. I was like, “Is this really happening right now!!” She was amazing, asking me about harmonies and melodies on certain things, it was incredible to work with her, such a fun experience.

Step outside the song for a moment. How would you describe “Stronger” as a music fan?

I would describe it as an empowering song. It’s the jam on the radio you can dance to, cry to and sing at the top of your lungs to. I feel that there are way too many “victimized” songs out there and this is a feel-good record.

Did the finished version meet your vision of the song?

Oh it went beyond it. It completely beat my expectations. Greg sped it up 5 bpm’s and gave it good energy, gave it life, made it a top forty record.

What do you enjoy most about the process of writing songs?

I enjoy the therapy in it. I enjoy going through a personal situation in my life and being able to express it in a song. And without, I would probably be a complete basket case. I have the best job in the world. I can’t not write songs, I’m in the car listening to music on the radio and I’m thinking what I would write and singing melodies on top of their melodies, it just comes natural. I love the creative part of it. I love the moment when you play back a song and the energy between the producers and the writers and all of us are in there and we’re excited about what we hear. And even if nothing happens from that particular session, at least we all knew that we enjoyed the process.

What are your long-term and short term goals as an artist and writer?

My long term goal is to have a writers/producers compound in Venice on the beach. One big studio and a few production rooms. My whole team would be working there and I’d never have to go to another studio again.We’d cruise around on beach cruisers for inspiration and we’d surf on our lunch breaks.

For the short term, I’m doing fun little projects. Milk N’ Cookie is my ‘artist’ thing with Livvi Franc, that’s gonna start taking off soon. We’re doing like a, tripped-out alter-ego group and working hard on that. And just continuing to write as much as I can without getting burnt out. I’ve found my group of producers that I love and I want to keep working with them, writing new records, building relationships, and pushing forward. I just…can’t believe I get paid to do this. I would be doing this if I had a 9 to 5 job in a bank as the receptionist giving out lollipops. I would leave the bank and go have writing sessions with people just for fun, just for the love of it.

Any words of wisdom for aspiring songwriters about the craft and the business?

Yeah. Just when you think things are not happening and you feel yourself turning back and throwing in the towel—I’m telling you—it can take just one day to the next that things completely do a 360. And I am saying this because it happened to me. I was living on my stepmom’s cousin’s couch in Brentwood. No friends, no record deal, no nothing. I moved out here to LA not knowing anybody, and pushed and pushed, and did whatever I had to do to figure it out. And I was a new writer, and unfamiliar with the process, but just learned, studied, kept on pushing myself thinking of concepts, new ways of doing things, and never stop.

The only way its not gonna happen is if you give up on yourself. And with the process, you’re going to have days where you have writers block and feel uninspired . There are definitely sessions where I leave and think, ‘how the hell am I a writer, I can’t think of anything, completely blew it, I screwed up! ’ and then there’s sessions where you’re on cloud nine and and you leave the session knowing exactly why you are where you are. You’ve gotta just keep pushing through. And always think of new interesting ways of saying things. How many different ways can you tell someone you love them, you miss them, you hate them, In quirky, fun ways that people get. Be creative. I find my inspiration comes from old music and from movies. Or sometimes the inspiration comes from a tagline someone says. You just never know.

The music business is very cutthroat and dog eat dog, but you find the people that you trust and you love and just know that if you’re doing the right thing and you are loyal to people and continue to build good relationships, you’ll be fine. But keep your head down, don’t look at what is gonna happen or what’s supposed to be happening, or what you wish will happen, look down and watch your feet move one foot in front of the other. That is the only way you are going to get there!

http://americansongwriter.com/2012/03/the-story-behind-the-song-kelly-clarkson-stronger-what-doesnt-kill-you/

#ali tamposi #song

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fountainpenguin · 7 years

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Since Danny and Vlad are halfas, is it okay for them to know about the existence of fairies?

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: There isn’t a chance of either Vlad or Danny having a godparent/godkid relationship with Fairies, but they could possibly have a political one were either of them to seize control of the Ghost Zone or otherwise implement and maintain some system of functioning government.

From a Fairy standpoint, it’s “not okay” for them to know about Fairies if they’re just random common Ghosts. But if one was Ghost King / Ghost President / if there’s a Ghost Council, then Fairies would consider interacting with them. However, because Fairies rarely take any interest in the Ghost Zone since it’s sort of another dimension and they can’t get in there easily, it’s more likely the Ghost figureheads would approach Fairies rather than Fairies approaching them.

Longest answer: Fairies aren’t actually picky about who leads a race. Vlad as Ghost King wouldn’t be much different to them than Danny being Ghost King (or any other title they might use). Fairies don’t determine a good leader based on their moral standards. They determine a good leader based on how organized their government system is and whether rules are obeyed by the people and breaking the rules is endorsed by the law. Think Yugopotamians and Boudacians. Both are war-loving races, but that’s their culture. Fairies don’t mind if they attack other planets and enslave other races. That’s just what they do. What’s important to them is if the Yugopotamian king and queen are good, strong rulers who endorse rules and punish deviations from them.

See, Fairies love Da Rules. They love rules in general. So they think everyone should obey the rules of their society and they love seeing rulebreakers punished- regardless of what rule was broken. This is one of their major problems with the Anti-Fairies. Anti-Fairies operate on the line of thinking that, “It’s okay to break rules for the greater good” whereas Fairies think, “The rules exist for a reason and they were put in place by someone who knew better than us; of course they still apply in this day and age and you’re insulting their memory and endangering the structure of society by breaking them”.

Once upon a time, Fairies were wild folk who tormented travelers. Rules brought structure to their society. It was chaos. What I’m trying to say here is, Fairies like rules because they like order. They don’t like to go places they aren’t safe, so they like seeing rules that say things like, "It’s illegal for someone of the _ race to kill a Fairy.” They have to be able to trust that members of the _ race will adhere to that rule. If members of the _ race are known for breaking rules, then why should Fairies believe that they’ll also follow the “Don’t kill Fairies” rule? It’s much safer to stay far away and not let any member of the _ race get too close. They might break the rule.

Fairies value honesty and trust. They’re generally a suspicious people until you win their trust. Once they see you as a trustworthy person, they lose all reason to doubt you and don’t really process the possibility that you were being nice to lead them into a trap. That’s basically how you catch Fairies. Be nice, make them trust you, and then betray them. They never see it coming.

Fairies like working with innocent children. They trust children. They’re more wary of adults. Adults tend to pull this trick on them a lot.

So, whether Vlad, Danny, or someone else were acting as political head of the Ghosts wouldn’t matter much to Fairies so long as the leader were overseeing the adherence of the Ghost Laws or whatever they’re called. Yes, Vlad has history, but a lot of leaders do. If he’s maintaining order in society, then he must be a good leader. Order, structure, and rules are crucial.

Let’s say that post-“Phantom Planet”, Danny hears rumors about the Fairies, as well as rumors about an approaching enemy. He’s not exactly Ghost King like Pariah was- my personal headcanon is that Danny isn’t interested in even looking into those kinds of politics and figuring out if he even qualifies to become king, so he continues acting more like a ghost catching superhero much the way he has been. Ghosts generally respect him (Sometimes out of admiration, sometimes out of fear), but there’s no political structure or solid government, and he’s not a king. Pariah fell centuries ago. Ghost society hasn’t rebuilt itself since. Why would it all of a sudden snap back into place just because Danny’s around? These things take time, and Danny is still a young teenager whose priorities lie elsewhere.

So, let’s say that shortly after “Phantom Planet”, Danny (who is not a king but is sort of high rank as far as Ghosts are concerned) were to hear rumors about some huge magical or alien enemy. Even if he approached Fairy World and requested they dip their hand into Ghostly business somehow (Alliances, war, etc.), he’d be fighting an uphill battle at that time since the Ghost Zone lacks structure. Fairies are usually private, suspicious critters and they’re not just going to open their gates to a race they consider wild. They don’t even see the Ghost Zone as “orderly yet evil” as they do with the Anti-Fairies. Just. Wild. Fairies like their rules and they can’t see themselves meeting wild Ghosts halfway.

I imagine a Danny-approach scene would go down with Jorgen and other big-shots like the Council Robes surrounding him and eyeing him up as he explains why he sought them out and what he’s requesting of them. Fairies aren’t purely altruistic; the reason they invest so much time and energy into godparenting is because of what they get out of it (Syncing with other creatures in a godparent/godkid relationship gives them boosted magic and therefore boosted immune systems, healing capabilities, and a slower aging process being the main one).

So, Danny would explain what he wants from Jorgen / the Fairy Council, who would demand favors and things in return. I like to think that these favors would be open-ended “to be claimed at a later date” in the way of old folklore, and kind of freak him out.

That’s how Fairies see Ghosts. Wild and chaotic. They don’t really trust them. That’s why even though both races have existed for millennia, they stay out of each other’s business.

Might also be worth pointing out my headcanon that Ghosts can’t get into Fairy World unless they are invited, and Fairies can’t get into the Ghost Zone without being invited either. It’s not like Fairies can just poof into the Ghost Zone and out again. I’m not sure their magic even works. And I’ll bet Ghosts in Fairy World would function like Ghosts in the Ghost Zone: They can’t pass through solid objects and stuff. Why bother going to Fairy World if it’s like the Ghost Zone? Ghosts would much rather stay on Earth where they can actually do ghostly things like not eat, not sleep, and walk through walls.

But to approach the Fairies, Danny would have to learn about them first. The head(s) of the Ghost government would almost certainly be aware of Fairies, but it’s not information Ghost commoners have access to.

So on the Ghost side of things, it’s not really an option for people to know. If Pariah was still reigning, then yes, there would be some Ghosts who communicated on a somewhat-regular basis with Fairies. But he’s not. The Ghostly government system is still picking itself back up after his fall, and since it’s so disorganized and turf wars are constantly being fought, the Fairies view the Ghosts as a chaotic society and normally try to stay out of their way.

TL;DR - The Fairies don’t want to get anywhere near the Ghosts until Ghosts have some sort of Ghost Laws book like Da Rules and there is someone of authority preventing or punishing rulebreaks. Danny and Vlad being half-human doesn’t mean anything to them. They’re still considered Ghosts, and Fairies don’t have any interest in random single Ghosts. Only figureheads speaking for the Ghost Zone as a whole.

But once the Ghosts create some laws and obtain a public figurehead who doesn’t seem to be a Fairy-killer and seems to have things under control, the Pixies would be the ones to approach and touch base. Figure out all the legalities there about alliances, trade rights, passports, and stuff like that. Try to help Ghosts get back on their feet and bring a little more structure to the Ghost Zone. Fairy tourists wouldn’t be allowed in at this time, but once the Pixies give the okay, then there’s a possibility for slightly more open travel.

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Technically the Pixies don’t get there first when the Ghosts are interested in allying with their cloudland brethren, but that’s a fanfic for another day.

#asks #Anon #ridwriting #Going Ghost!#Unfortunately there aren't many halfas so I can't strip them of political rights #That's what makes me mad I want halfa OCs for that specific reason but I caaan't #FAIRIES!#We're Pixies!#Main Phantom trio #The Vlad tag #Devil's Backbone

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