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if someone's trying to really beef up a character's voice, what advice would you have for them (in general or in TLT in particular)? what are some major voice missteps you've seen esp given your extremely thorough reading of the series👀

jeej u always ask the most interesting questions!! i feel like in general, for me, i'm pretty good with remembering and recognizing voices (like, how they actually sound) and good at remembering iconic lines. so when i'm trying to write a specific pov, i'll sometimes revisit examples of the tone i'm going for by watching bits if it's a show, or listening to bits of the audiobooks for TLT, and then as i'm writing and editing i'll kind of read everything back to myself in that character's voice.

but that's a particular skill i have that may not be more broadly useful, so...in general, some of the things that stand out to me are vocabulary, register (like how formal or informal), and demeanor.

so for example, gideon has a really large vocabulary, and she uses big and/or obscure words for specific effect, usually to needle harrow, but not as much in everyday speech. she's also often crude, and she'll use slang, and she uses humor to defuse and disguise rather than speaking seriously very often, so when she's being honest and frank it has a big effect. her internal monologue isn't very formal, and neither is her speech most of the time, but the formality might increase when she's kiriona, for instance!

whereas harrow speaks very formally and precisely, might not use as many contractions (almost everybody uses contractions in normal speech and it sticks out when someone doesn't, this is a bugaboo of mine, but harrow does genuinely sometimes go super formal), and uses her own big vocabulary in her regular dialogue a lot more often. she's used to oratory, she's the leader of a religious order, she's pretty good at stringing together a speech whether it's intended to inspire or to tear somebody down.

then you've got somebody like camilla, who doesn't speak much but has a very dry humor when she does, and is more likely to truncate or leave off unnecessary words, making her come off kind of brusque. she waits to talk until she has something necessary or important to say, but she knows how to tease. she's fairly informal, but she can slide into an academic register very easily, and she almost always calls everyone, even palamedes, by their title instead of their name.

sentence structure can come into this too, for narration from a particular pov! gideon is observant but also sometimes misses things or doesn't have all the information, her narration might include more questions or commentary to herself. harrow is intellectual and scheming and sometimes super unsure, so she might have longer and more convoluted sentence structure in her narration. cam is super straightforward, so her narration might be full of observations and thoughts and feelings that she keeps to herself, but with more short sentences, a more clipped rhythm that matches her speaking style.

other things that can sometimes rub me wrong or stick out are endearments and nicknames! there are some characters who will make up names for people and keep using them (gideon) and some who will almost always use a respectful title or name (cam) and some people who throw endearments at everyone willy nilly (cytherea and augustine come to mind). if a character has a canon endearment or set of endearments that they default to, or specific ones for specific people, it really helps keep the voice in character to keep using those. harrow uses beloved for alecto, and it means something when that transfers to gideon in fic in place of griddle, or just her name. pyrrha uses kiddie, and six million other things, but only with nona and later a bit with kiriona. ianthe and coronabeth both flirt with nicknames that the objects of their attention either despise or don't seem to allow from anyone else (harry, jody, millie). gideon uses all her wild thesaurus superlatives for harrow, but when it's a crisis moment and she's showing her heart, she uses honey.

this is just my personal pet peeve i think, but love/baby/babe are SO overused as defaults, when there are so many good opportunities to either use something that the character does say in canon, or find something unique that fits the character and the relationship in the fic. and imo, these should always be used sparingly and for specific emotional effect, unless you've got a character like pyrrha who i think always uses nicknames for nona. (frankly, griddle is very cute but harrow doesn't actually use it as much as fic wants her to)

so i guess, tl;dr advice is to relisten/rewatch/reread the voice of the character you're trying to get into, and think about the way they say things and the way they present themself, and take note of any quirks they have that can be put to good use later!

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[godrichtitan]

I'm the Bro fictive that said I'd make you pancakes awhile back. You're cute as hell and we're gonna ironically watch shitty movies together - 🪡🧢

(P.S: I have a shit ton of piercings we should match)

first of all i want more pancakes second off im not watching shitty movies unless i get to pick the shitty movie

(obviously dont know what you look like so i jus drew my own bro design)

[jeejyboard]

i already forget what i asked but do the secret one too!!!!!!!!

This NEVER leaves this roo.m//

[le01zk00l]

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gonna be tagging pineapple cuz her asks aren’t open..

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[mayday-01]

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[mythicalmagical-monkeyman]

Ok bro correct me if I'm wrong but if I remember you talked abt cooper n wouldnt you like so is it Izzie awakening her dream awareness thingy and cooper showing her the dream world n dream chaser power and like molly would be an hourglass

uhhhh

tbh

I’ve been thinking of it as a canon thing cuz he’s the “smart guy” so it’s like “hey don’t worry guys I got a plan 😎” & like him and Mateo figuring out how to fix the doom dome-age 😅

[foolish-edworm]

sorgy if i lowkey spammed ur notifications from ur arcane tag, i tend to watch the blogs who rambles in tags of my art bc i love it and ur a fellow silco liker so that's cool :] Also u get me about the co-dependency thing (im the guy who did the "i depend on you" art with jinx and silco, i just can't send ask with my art account lmaooo)

AGH UR SO GOOD DW!! i get spam all the time and i spam other people an embarrassing amount :D — actually spamming people is why i started using the queue lmao, if it weren't for that id reblog like fifty arcane posts a day — ANYWAY i LOVEDDD ur piece omg its one of my favs!! those two mean so much to me :')

[theluigianapurchase]

what's up

watching skam atmmm on S3 E4

Hruuu??

[bl00dn0t3-x3]

what are your thoughts on jerboas. I doubt you've ever heard of them, but they're absolute cuties, they're literally me

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OMG I FORGOT TO RESPOND IM SO SORRYYY SIFKDUEJ

i've heard of them before and i just looked them up again! THEYRE SO CUTE

look at them big ol ears

[starfiresky]

Guys. I just went to prom all by myself without a date (cuz nobody asked me) and friends (even tho I’ve been living here for 3 years). I was going to just mope and be sad, but I decided to just have an epic time and be really happy. I even went out on a limb and asked this dude to dance with me, and he was genuinely happy and ACTUALLY had rizz, and turned out to be an elite smash bros player who actually likes and plays kingdom hearts. WHAT!? WHO IS THIS MAN?

I SHOULD NOT HAVE LET HIM LEAAAVEEE

[leafuxxtea]

*Materializes*

black hole.

HELP??? WHAT AM I EVEN SUPPOSED TO REPLY TO THIS-

(gets consumed by The Void)

i see n othi ng. ih ear no t hing. i f eel not hin g.

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yo my bad i fell asleep there for a sec (genuinely how i feel falling asleep in class)

HELLO ATLAS!!! not only do you cause me pain by roblox-fying characters, but you also send an entire BLACK HOLE after me???? why have enemies when you have friends like these 😔😔 but ig it was fun to be devoid of Everything for a second (I actually have no idea how black hole works, so like. whoops)

Reluctantly sending you my love,,,😒 but gn and sweet dreams!! (we're in the same timezone right?? maybe ur sleep schedule isn't as fucked up as mine, hopefully,,,)

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BRO I LOVE UR STAR WARS FIC SO MUCH!!!! it has such good characterizations and a really neat concept I’m obsessed!!!! it’s genuinely one of the best Star Wars fics I have ever read and I just wanted to let you know that it was so good I finally made an ao3 account just to get updates haha

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YM

dude water isn't that bad 🥺

[smallturtlebomb]

4.) When did you become a fan of TMNT?

26.) What is one of your favorite pieces of TMNT fan art?

4.) I became a fan of tmnt in 2014 or 2015 when tmnt!12 was rlly popular

26.) and my favorite pieces of fan art have to be crossover fanart or when the turtles r being siblings and annoying each other

[a-big-apple]

oh shit for the ask meme!!! 4, 5, 12, 23!

omg i forgot about that already jdskjldfkjdfs <3

4. a story idea you haven’t written yet

hmmm, one i never started but i want to go back to eventually is an amethyst pov su fic about her and greg finally unearthing the deed to his uncle's mansion that greg mentioned in maximum capacity, and helping steven move into this mansion when he's done driving around finding himself. in my head it's not really a mansion, it just seemed that way to greg when he was a suburban kid, but it's big enough that connie could move in if she wanted, and gems could come and go for visits, and amethyst is sort of facilitating this next step in steven being on his own and having his own life while greg and the gems stay in beach city and have their lives.

5. first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

this is from a tlt wip i've been stuck on for quite a while, about how cam got harrow in handcuffs:

If Camilla had been in a locked room where a child was brutally—and invisibly—skewered to death less than twenty-four hours ago, the Warden would be scrutinizing that room within an inch of its life the instant he got the chance.

12. a trope you’re really into right now

omg i don't even know...i've been craving more takes on harrow and kiriona/gideon after whatever happens in atn, if that counts as a trope! somehow i can never read too many fics about these damaged girls trying to recover on a thalergy planet and learning how to farm or cook or just live a country life while pyrrha and paul and maybe ianthe poke their noses in. i guess this is what i'm into reading more than what i'm into writing, but i've been too busy to write so T^T

23. pick three keywords that describe your writing

this is HARD!! i think i want the three keywords to be musical, mundane, and interpersonal