#time for actual tags instead of post script ramblings

[hifi-walkman]

@thydungeongal having lots of discourse about dungeon games and queerness in rules may or may not have inspired me to try and explore queer shit through dungeon crawling mechanics. (also the "is D&D queer discourse" has resulted in some of the most insightful posts on RPG design and rules as story I've seen in a while on this site, even if you have to cut through a lot of gleeblor-ing first)

[ominous-faechild]

STORY INTRO:

“DEMONIC” MAGIC

a short story prior to Rising From The Ashes (interact with this post to join the taglist)

Before the creation of Genesis, there was a young boy born to nobility. He was born ill and, in the eyes of society at the time, that meant he was born wrong. So they did not help him.

The creator of Genesis stumbled upon runic magic while trying to help himself, and grew a respect and love for the science—no, the art. He learned what he could of it—both for his health and interest—and thought he should share its wonders with the world.

Little did he know of how taboo runic was.

After years of abuse and ostracization, Genesis's creator decided to put an end to it all. Whether society liked it or not, runic was in the world, and it was there to stay.

Humanity needed it to counter the endless threats around them.

So. “Genesis” was going to help them see the truth.

And his "family" wasn't going to stop him.

THEME SONG:

No one calls you honey When you're sitting on a throne One of these days a-comin' I'm gonna take that boy's crown There's a serpent in these still waters Lying deep down To that king I will bow At least for now One of these days a-comin' I'm gonna take that boy's crown 'Cause I am, I am A little wicked I am, yes, I am Hands red, hands red Just like you said I am, a little wicked

NAVIGATION:

♝ first chapter ♝ table of contents ♝ #demonic magic

CHARACTERS:

♝ “Genesis” ♜ Kestrel Lévêque ♙ Duke (“Father”) ♙ Duchess (“Mother”) ♙ Lady ♙ Steward

(considering the redacted identities, i figured it'd be best and poetic/fun to refer to the characters by their nobility roles. the one exception, of course, is kestrel: he'd be impossible to truly conceal, and i see little reason to do so lol.)

(far after my fd hiatus, i may later add more to the story. there will be the addition of "delilah" as well as a couple more if/when that comes to be)

(UNOFFICIAL) PLAYLIST:

TAGS:

#rfta out of context #rfta spoilers #original story

#high fantasy #fantasy #urban fantasy #political fantasy #fantasy world #worldbuilding #fantasy worldbuilding #magic world #fantasy story #sword and sorcery #dark magic #demons #nobility

#morally grey characters #asshole characters #morally gray #villain #villain oc #diverse characters #political maneuvering #political manipulation

#tw ableism #tw ableist language #cw: child abuse #cw implied abuse #cw implied violence #cw: religious trauma #cw: religious themes #tw murder #tw violence #tw death #tw death mention

TAGLIST:

@honeybewrites @the-golden-comet @illarian-rambling @ashirisu @urnumber1star

@the-letterbox-archives @48lexr @aalinaaaaaa @thecomfywriter @an-indecisive-nerd

@seastarblue @rae-butter @leahnardo-da-veggie @world-of-iridensia

@darkandstormydolls @ieppiq @missnaomijean-writes @michaelmavis

(interact with this post to join the “demonic” magic taglist)

(and check out rising from the ashes, the main story!)

(this is overall a much more basic intro from my usual ones since it's a short story lol)

(if anyone wants to throw money at me, i can totally make this into an actual novel instead of just a script lol /lh)

dividers by @thyming and @saradika

[psychicthepsychic-daily]

random but how do you make a character daily blog or just character centric blog? how do you run it?

cuz i’m thinking about making a whitty one. maybe whitty weekly or smth so i have a looser schedule

to be very honest, I wouldn’t say there’s a certain script or template you have to follow in order to make a character-centric gimmick blog. all that matters imo is that you stick to the character and have fun with it. a lot of these kinds of blogs are art based, which is great for those who have time and enjoy making art! but ofc it’s not a hard and fast rule — have you seen how many memes and shortfics I’ve posted instead of art lol

a weekly Whitty themed blog sounds like a lot of fun! definitely less stressful than a daily blog, at least in my experience ^^; not gonna lie it can be difficult to get myself to post every day. it’s good to know your limits and be able to figure out a schedule that meets your needs while letting you have fun and dedicate yourself to a project like this.

with running the blog itself, I actually came up with my url, title, and most of my tags beforehand so it was easy for me to categorize my posts from the beginning. #tea for thought is my general/ramble tag, plus I have separate tags for Psychic’s different interpersonal relationships and all that fun stuff.

Of course none of that is required, but I personally enjoy developing Psychic’s dynamics with other characters so for me organizing my posts about them is important. Depending on what parts of Whitty’s character you like to focus on the most, you can organize your tagging system to feature those alongside having regular tags for different kinds of media: art, fics, edits, etc. or don’t! it’s completely up to you.

generally, I’d take a pretty relaxed approach to running any sort of character fanblog ^^ just pick a cool palette you think matches the character, set up an intro post with a link to the source material, rules for interaction, and a small navigation guide. you don’t really need anything else!

just remember that the point of these blogs is to have fun and talk about your favorite character! if anyone gives you a tough time for how you’re running your blog don’t hesitate to block them. if you do decide to start a Whitty-centric blog please tag me so I can follow! :D wish you the best of luck in this endeavor <3

[fortune-maiden]

Hi again! THANK YOU SO MUCH for answering my ask! While I'd absolutely love if it could be a whole fic, I know that's probably too much to ask for. So, if you don't mind, can I ask for an interaction between swd and lw. Or maybe something about jing wen like you mentioned in the tags of the original post, since that sounded so interesting? Again, TYSM!!!

Anon, you have no idea what you've unlocked! xD

(I was trying to avoid Jing Wen in the last post because I thought no one would want to hear my ramblings on him. I love-to-hate him and think he’s a very fun villain for Ling Wen and the others to interact with. And also murder.)

I really don't have the energy (or writing ability) for a whole fic but I tried to write out a couple more snippets (which ended up fueling some more lingshui headcanons so thank you for that!!)

I'm largely doing this without an outline so these scenes are really more like character interaction exercises than something that would be in the fic if it existed (if that makes sense) but I really hope you enjoy! I think this was also my first time actually writing Jing Wen outside of rambles :D

But also... slight CW for Jing Wen?

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The bookshop in the capital was smaller than what Shi Wudu would have imagined. It occupied a single room, half of which was taken up by tables where customers and scribes sat, reading and copying out the shop’s wares. The other half contained the books on sale, lining a pair of tall bookcases. A balding shopkeeper sat at the counter. He had straightened up when they entered, and eyed the two of them as they walked past him to the shelves, well aware that these were the sort of customers who could afford to spend.

“What would you recommend?” Shi Wudu asked his companion. His chest swelled with pride when he saw the look on her face, the way her eyes hungrily scanned the many titles before her.

“You’re better off asking the bookseller. He would know what’s considered good,” Nangong Jie replied quietly.

“I don’t want his recommendations, I want yours.”

“Then I’m at even more of a loss. These titles are unfamiliar to me.”

“Take your time getting familiar with them, then.”

Nangong Jie obliged, breaking away from him to study the books more closely. Her fingers caressed the bindings of each one she touched, tracing the letting on the covers. The books at the very top were largely classics and treatises aimed at cultivating the mind and preparing one for exams. They were the sorts of books a literature god would be well acquainted with, but to Shi Wudu’s surprise, Nangong Jie didn’t linger on them long, nor did she pay much attention to the poetry anthologies just below. Instead, she crouched down to inspect the various popular novels at the bottom. Those, she would take out for longer periods and read through the first couple of pages. She made faces as she did, her lips quirking upwards or downwards depending on the contents. Shi Wudu stepped to the side to have a better view.

It was a very different experience to meet with Nangong Jie without Pei Ming whispering in his ear. Already Shi Wudu was starting to miss his nagging tone and the effortless compliments that flowed from his lips. Without him to provide the script, Shi Wudu found it difficult to say the sorts of things that could draw a laugh or even a smirk from her.

So he would do it with his actions instead. It was for that reason he chose to bring her to a place he thought she would like. Perhaps it was counterintuitive for that place to be a bookstore where she would inevitably be more enthralled by the books than by him, and conversations would be limited as a result, but Shi Wudu didn’t care. He wanted to see what kind of books caught her interest, when she finally had a chance for some leisurely reading.

So far he was enjoying himself, and he’d have liked to think she was too.

(this scene would go on to have them chatting about books and SWD buying LW a romance novel she picks out. I have not decided if LW genuinely likes romance novels or because she was trying to make SWD less interested in her by having "trashy" tastes)

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(and now the Jing Wen scene)

“You’re still here?”

Nangong Jie was at her desk. Writing endlessly inside a circle of lanterns, it should have been a typical nighttime sight. She didn’t look up as Jing Wen approached, didn’t acknowledge her superior’s presence at all until he was right to her, hand on shoulder, leaning over to inspect her work. Neat columns of characters filled barely a quarter of a page. There were more blank scrolls on one side of the desk.

“You’ve let your work pile up again. This isn’t good, Nangong. The other gods are waiting for these reports. What will they say about our palace if there’s a delay?”

“My apologies,” Nangong’s voice was low and flat, as though none of this concerned her. “I will deliver them before dawn.”

“So busy, always so busy,” Jing Wen remarked. “But of course, never so much that you can’t find time to cozy up to another man. Again.” His nails dug into her shoulder, making her drop the brush. A splatter of ink left trails on the page as it rolled to aside. It would have to be rewritten.

“That hurts,” Nangong Jie said sharply, not a hint of guilt in her voice.

“The hearts you trample upon hurt even more. I know where you were today,” he replied and rifled through the various documents until he found what he was looking for. Hidden beneath a stack of proper books was a trashy fictional novel that had no place on a literature god’s desk. Jing Wen picked it up and flipped through it. “So he’s buying you books now?”

“I bought it.”

“Please. You have better taste than this.” Jing Wen sneered, tossing the book back onto the desk. A romance novel. How laughable. Was that how she got her claws into Shi Wudu? By letting him think she was some meek little girl with a love of reading and fanciful dreams?

Only Jing Wen knew what kind of woman she really was. A cruel thankless bitch, who let her small talent for writing cultivate a great arrogance.

“Do you really think the Water Master is interested in you?” He asked her. “He’s just an arrogant tyrant stirring up trouble. Today he’s interested in antagonizing me, so it’s only expected that you would get swept up in his current. Don’t get conceited. His little provocations don’t bother me, so it won’t be long before he gets bored and moves on.”

Shi Wudu was a nobody. No one had even heard of him in the mortal realm before his sudden ascension shook the heavens. He had no background or achievements, yet spat out arrogant words like he was an authority on good conduct. If he saw something in Nangong Jie, it was only because she batted her eyes at him and used her talent for words to dole out a few compliments.

She was probably whispering in his ear from the beginning, he realized. How else could Shi Wudu be able to understand a literature god’s writing?

“Forget about him,” Jing Wen warned her, whispering quietly into her ear. “You work for me.”

[foxgloveinspace]

Please always ramble in the tags 😭🫶🏼✨ reading tags are some of my favorite things, esp yours tbh

I hope your weekend was good dude! And I hope your migraine fucks off quicklyyy!

I’m trying to get some studying done today, it’s not working yet, but I’m trying!

PS link for your 14K FIC?!?! FUCKIN DUDE THATS AWESOME IM SO PROUD AND SO HAPPY FOR YOUUU!!!

@a-little-lynx

Good Luck Studying!! I hope you find your groove, and it goes really well!! This is my favorite rain noise video on youtube if you like those, I put it on when I need to drown out the rest of the world for reading, haha.

My migraine is already going away a bit, I turned off my headphones, even tho I was listening to The Summoning as a little, 'its been one year since i heard you' celebration, but I can do that later too.

I would link it, but its not posted yet🙇, I'm waiting till it's done before I post it, cause I have discovered through trial and error that that is best for me (*looks sadly at my now mostly abandoned Dune fic that I will finish one of these days but I don't know when it'll be.*)

I don't even know if I'm half way done with it even, I don't even know if I'm gonna post it as chapters? or post it as a really long one shot (but from what I hear, it's best to do it as chapters cause if you get passed 50k you can't edit it after posting, oof. I always forget tags). I think if i do, do chapters, I just finished the first one, haha. It's like, a dream come true though? cause SamTron/SamRinzler is one of my longest running ships (I'd go as far to call it my rare pair otp, haha) and Tron: Legacy is my favorite movie of all time, and I've wanted to write a long as fuck fic for them for years and years and years, so now that I'm finally doing it!!! Ugh. I'm just. so giddy about it, and I hope I am getting their characters right (even tho I've watched the movie about 50 times at this point and have the freaking.... script memorized at this point.) And!!! Yeah.... I'm so happy about it... I'm also being so so self indulgent with it (for me this means adding in little details that don't really matter, like the fact that Sam keeps body armor drinks in his fridge instead of like Gatorade, or that Quorra is a picky eater now that she can, ya know, actually taste things besides Energy on the Grid...... I am uhh, assuming you've watched Tron/Tron: Legacy Cass, if not its a-ok, I just realized some of this makes no since haha.) I am just.... really getting into it?

I'm also trying to keep the main plot under covers until I post it, cause I feel like the anticipation of keeping it sceret will motivate me to beign able to finish it!

[movemnt]

so, this is me rambling through a rundown of most of what they cut from the final version of r.esident evil r.evelations 2. This is all summary of what was gathered from the horrid mess in the data files that a friend datamined and we sorted through about a year after the game released. It's a goddamn nightmare in there.

To make a very lengthy story short, they had the full game set to go until about 2 weeks to the first episode being released, and then basically halved it after delaying it for about another week with no explanation??? Nobody knows why they decided to go this route and we probably won't ever know. they left the game data in a bit of a cobbled mess with those data files still in it (and when I say it's a mess i mean it's a M E S S. it took three weeks to get just some of the dialogue that was missing and then much more to make some semblance of sense of the whole thing and piece it all together. like why not just delete all of it???? unless it was a case of 'if i remove this tomato the entire game will cease to function so it stays in this spot outside of the stage'-) and some dialogue tags and actions have zero context to them in the game in its current state.

i'm also not putting in the dialogue tags and am instead summarizing them because this post will be 10x longer than it is.

I also want to note that as much shit as I'm about to give it I fucking adore this goddamn game, it got me through some very dark times in my life, I even have Moira as my alias for most websites- it's amazing, but the fact that they left this much is kinda bizarre and makes me wonder what could have been. also it's v weird to do this summary again. i've done it once before but some details are missing from what i had in a draft of the deleted post i wrote and the post that a friend wrote so some of this is from memory.

alas.

The first episode is basically the same in terms of story. Claire and Moira get kidnapped, they wake up and Moira is freed after Claire does the first puzzle in the cells. It's much more hyper in pace and intense then smoothed into the more liminal space horror that we get in the prison currently. It was lengthy on both sides with a bit more of a reflection on things from barry's side in reference to Moira and LOTS. OF. PUZZLES. ON CLAIRE'S SIDE. kind of a blessing i'm not going to lie. alex went fucking hard (she literally set all these traps herself with a bit of help from neil) and her dialogue tags are ruthless. the xbox 360 demo they sent to cons and press reflect this.

The second episode... jesus fucking christ my guys.

For Claire's side: So instead of the ending being based solely on the choice you make in the third episode, there were a couple of different choices you can make in the second alluding to different endings where some characters die, some don't, ALL CHARACTERS DIE, all but one live, etc (I'll explain this in the fourth episode). Basically, you can help guide Moira's conquered fear a bit more instead of making it based around this one pivotal moment. It's a nice, slow blend into the root cause of her fear. She even talks more about what happened and Claire encourages her to try to protect herself more, even knowing what happened. Moira seems a bit more sympathetic, though is still angry at Barry for being over"bear"ing (ba dum tiss). It's not a constant slew of 'I HATE BARRY'' 'DOES HE ALWAYS TELL THAT AWFUL JOKE' and teenage-ish angst, there's actually much more of a blended mix of her trying to process what's going on and what happened between her and polly years ago. ( also there's a lot of what I like to call "Burton Joke Moments" lmao )

Also. I must state that the N.eil x C.laire dialogue was not present and actually isn't present in the original script of the game still, either in the old version and in the script in the japanese version. C-usa is notorious for implying things in their translation of R.esident E.vil stories (they got some fucking fire up their ass from Capcom and the development team after this one though, it was BAD.). The basis in the japanese script is that they were coworkers, he's the boss, without him terra save might crumble, and the script went more in the route of Claire being concerned about Neil as the leader of Terra Save as a whole.

Also, CLAIRE ACTUALLY ACTS LIKE CLAIRE. While the moment of Moira and Natalia bonding over the bracelets is still present and connected with the other pieces of dialogue, in the pieces of dialogue we found she is much more presently concerned with the actual fucking child they have tagging along with them. "Natalia, are you okay?" "You can come down" "Can you jump that high?" "Do the monsters scare you?" "You've got this, we'll get you out of here, don't worry." "Wow you're strong!" "do you need to catch your breath?" etc. While some of what was found can also be implied to be towards Moira, all of it sounds much more uplifting towards the kid than what we get in the present version.

Pedro's death is marginally the same, though the dialogue is that much more heartbreaking. That man was so fucking scared and Alex taunting him seemingly pushed him even more and made him an example of what those bracelets can do. Claire is also much more reassuring to him and trying to take charge of the situation before it eventually goes to the hell it turns into.

that's what i remember of claire's side, barry's side-

It was so much more creepy because Alex actually follows and watches you throughout the chapter (tbh a bit of an inside joke between me and a friend is that Alex walked so MR. X could run). There's animations and coding that imply she was supposed to be loaded into each scene in the city. Once you load it with the monster Alex model that's covered, she is permanently Watching you it's really fucking weird and was honestly funny to watch my friend test out (after it took hours to get it to Function). This also goes along with the present implications of her watching through cameras and through the revenants. She is literally Always watching you.

Speaking of! Fun Fact that I love just bc of its creepy factor- Alex is literally watching you through the revenants, but even this mechanic seems a bit faulty, or it's faulty on purpose? They don't seem to see Natalia, but heaven forbid they touch Barry if he's hiding it's an immediate grab (npc controlled or not). Oddly enough this is kinda the same for Moira in Moira's dlc chapter. They see her but also kinda dont? i'll explore that in my own hc for her later. Makes me wonder if they have this whole system of snuffing out who's infected and who's not it's really fucking cool. Or if it's glitchy. I'm gonna go for the former option bc it's cool.

anyway- that is most of what i recall from his side of ep 2, i think there was more with the pedro fight but it was mostly repeats of his scared rant in claire's side, if i remember more i'll add on to this.

episode 3-

i dont remember much about anything before the big neil fight, so im not sure if much of it changed aside from the aforementioned script stuff with claire and neil. there was a bit more talk about barry from moira following the encounter with evgeny and it's much more defeated than the high strung nature we get from her in the first chapter. "i didnt have to be told i did something bad" or smth turned into something like "i just wished we could have talked more without being stubborn". like honestly it seems less that they always fought, but were more complacent and silently tense until one of them poked the bear. kinda like a "not causing a fight for the family" sorta deal???

the fight though- i think it would have been so much stronger with the dialogue that was taken out. like i am not saying i dont like 'WE WERE SUPPOSED TO SAVE PEOPLE IT'S IN THE GODDAMN NAME!' but, claire is really going in on what neil has been doing, she's much more reactive after she has gotten some more clarity on what neil has been doing.

there's also like this document found in the chamber where you can find the dead butler, and it talks about albert and his visits and how ppl would just look really weirdly at this dude dressed all in black leather and telling them not to mind him lmao

barry's side didn't change much. barry's discovery of evgeny and then of moira's phone hit me like a goddamn brick wall and i dont think it changed much aside from the little different bits of dialogue you can hear from moira in episode four (i'll explain this in episode 4's piece)

now. episode 4.

holy shit on a shitstick-

some of this will be a mish mash of what i remember, what is missing, what is in concept art pieces, and what we had to gather from all of the above.

Starting with Claire's episode. So, there's a massive reason why claire episode 4 is only 10 minutes long as opposed to the other chapters, in short, there was a LOT cut out of it and connected to other pieces that were cut out, etc. I'll start with smaller bits of info and go up into the rather massive thing that we could only piece together and theorize about because, quite frankly and as much as this might make no sense, what we found makes no goddamn sense unless we connect it to scene stuff.

so, little weird things first- moira was supposed to get a katana from the tower at one point. for some reason alex kept one around, highly suspected to be albert's but i don't know. there's also a silenced pistol that implies that claire was supposed to silently shoot at the glasps that are released once the tower starts to go into self destruct mode. There's supposed to be more puzzles strewn about the lab, and more sight seeing around it too. Like you were supposed to see around it a lot more and not just from the confines of a glass box.

and then you get to moira's death.

you were supposed to hear her voice recording to barry as claire is walking away. that's fucking heart wrenching. like there's a reason why she has her phone in hand but not doing anything with it- she was about to record her final words to her dad, thinking she was about to die.

Now the big thing.

When you take the camera away from the insulated box they have you in with claire and moira and go beyond alex, you can find some bits and trinkets: two hospital beds (of which you can already see) some tricell equipment and purple tubes with rocks. Close inspection shows that they look a hell of a lot like lava rocks. Now hold on you may say, would that imply alex was trying to clone a certain brother of hers- i don't believe so. However, it implies that she had his dna. It's also implied that she was testing out what she was doing with natalia to see if she could do the same with albert's dna. which. makes a lot of other things make sense. Honest to god the one thing i hate about the way they did this is all the disconnected plot lines, like the one that "you were right albert it's not enough to live i want to transcend" alludes to. Like they left that in there and just didn't bother to explain why and let you assume he just rambled on about it to her one time and he continued that ramble into 5- yeah just. ugh.

another thing to ramble about before going into the brief discussion about barry's episode 4- the ending of barry's episode 3 (among other things) is just so. so unclear without the piece that is missing from claire's episode 4. alex grabs natalia and there's a brief moment where alex shows genuine fear, that's because her experiment worked, but only half way. See, half of her escaped and transferred into natalia and now lays dormant, the other half, however, is cursed to stay into the mutated form she is in. The only problem is this half in natalia is the worst half. this is where the "true or false, you, natalia, are false, i alone am true" thing and her raging hatred for natalia comes into play. only thing is they didnt show this or explain it.

and then barry's episode 4.

so, the multi-endings bit kinda comes into play here. Right now we have only two endings, a good ending and a bad ending. However, there's parts that make it look like the ending was supposed to be split up. Barry and Moira were supposed to work together for a bit (like when they escaped the area the first boss fight with alex happened in, it just cuts to them somehow running outside even though this cave was DEEP into the ground), there's some lines for evgeny (even though he dies which is honestly really curious).

that's honestly all i can recall at the current moment and as i dive into old files i might find more. hope yall enjoyed my ramblings.

[mentalisttraceur-software]

An aimless rambly post about in-browser Pythons, with the approximate theme of:

I think I'd recommend PyScript at least as much as Brython for quick practical Python-in-the-browser web development if you don't really need to optimize performance.

PyScript is much more "heavy" since the underlying Pyodide is a full compile of CPython to WebAssembly, plus libraries, one of which gives it a built-in ability to download modules from PyPI from within the Python running in your browser. The heaviness and slow load time used to annoy me, but it buys you much more compatibility and certainty of compatibility with CPython.

The killer feature for me is being able to just import most packages that you might want to use without any of the hassle of "how do I get this into the browser?". Just `await micropip.install(foo)` in your browser-side Python code before `import foo` and you're good to go. Python has always been the language you reach for, first and foremost, when you strongly prefer to optimize for developer time+work instead of computer time+work, or when you want a great ability to tinker or modify code in situ. And doing something resembling "pip install" in the browser is very much a good example of that.

Right now, if you wanted to use one of my Python modules on Brython and you didn't know where to start, I'd have to write several sentences - grab the source, put it over there, maybe run the right brython-cli command to bundle it. If you want to use one of my Python modules on PyScript, you just grab it from PyPI with micropip and it just works (barring some edge cases which I recently helped them fix, which is in micropip v0.2.0 already and should be coming to Pyodide in v0.22).

One thing I liked about Brython is that it ships with some quality-of-life improvements for manipulating the DOM through its `browser` module, which tries to provide some ergonomics that you can't get in JavaScript for lack of operator overloads and the like. But PyScript has a good enough FFI to JavaScript that we can just start with the DOM manipulation that we would do in JavaScript, and then code whatever Python ergonomics we want around it (which could then just be uploaded to PyPI).

I also have mixed feelings about how PyScript gets all over the HTML namespaces - tags like `<py-script>` and `<py-config>`, attributes on HTML elements like `py-onclick` or whatever, that kind of thing. It's adding complication/coupling/non-orthogonality to buy a little developer experience friendliness. It feels fine now but I expect it'll prove clunky and annoying over time in various little ways - although to be fair, that's a problem that in part requires browsers and web standards to solve, and once that's standardized it shouldn't be too hard to migrate.

PyScript load times and download size can be pretty bad, but they're working on it. Admittedly an inherently hard problem, but I still think in the long term that gets solved out-of-band. Anecdotally, comparing the Brython website's demo REPL and the Pyodide (which PyScript uses) website's demo REPL, Brython loads perceptibly faster. But I haven't done any hard thorough measurements for real-world websites. For example, Brython lets you build a .js file with just the modules you're using, while the REPL on their website includes the whole standard library just in case. I'm not sure what PyScript's story is for that, but the out-of-band solutions are obvious and similar - bundlers and so forth.

Thing is, if you're really angling for performant Python-in-browser, you either transpile Python to JavaScript (something like Transcrypt, trading some semantic/feature consistency for speed), or you compile your Python to WebAssembly (conceptually something like Cython+Emscripten, but I haven't tried it or looked into how to actually do it) - and if you do that last thing, well incidentally you can upload that as yet another pre-compiled WASM wheel to PyPI which can then be used with PyScript too. And that looks a lot like the modern Python world where CPython speed is fine and if it isn't you compile the hot path Python code into native code.

Just like the Python of old, it will be one of the slower languages on the block for a while. Longer start up or page load times, more memory usage, more overheads all over the place just in case you're using the dynamic flexibility at execution time. That's fine. Humanity used Python twenty years ago, and it was fast enough for many uses. Today I think PyScript is in a similar boat. It will be slow, at first. That's fine. People will use it when they need to go fast, when the productivity or expressiveness or flexibility benefits of Python matter more than the fact that the page took a little while longer to load. Especially since you might be writing a web page that gets opened once and then stays open for hours or days on the user's computer.

Slowly but surely the automatic optimizations will catch up, and in the meantime, PyScript seems like the best contender for the cases where you want Python, not almost-Python but really Python, in the browser.

[sxcret-garden-archive]

P1Harmony ✧ If they were on Tumblr

✧ P1Harmony all members ✧ genre: humor

Author’s note: This is kind of a shitpost but once I got the idea for it I couldn’t just not make it skjflkas

Keeho:

is a twitter boi and always will be

might get a tumblr exclusively to spy on fans tho

you know, one of those empty tumblrs where you’re not sure if it’s a bot or not and that has zero posts so you can’t even tag it in anything

he’ll just ghost around like that and go through our posts every few days, more often during comebacks

stays away from fanfic entirely because he knows and doesn’t want to risk being traumatized in that way

sometimes shows the others a funny post by a P1ece, but never likes or reblogs anything

Theo:

has a blog entirely about himself

changes his theme according to his hair color (white for Siren era, pink for Scared, etc.)

is kinda mad he didn’t get his canon url

always praises how handsome he is when he reblogs a picture of himself

applauds gifmakers for their coloring and choice of scenes to gif because he came out so nicely here

(he always thinks he came out nicely though)

answers asks with smileys only

blocks you if you try to interact with him otherwise hdhdhdjd

organizes everything with tags like #cutietaengie, #cooltheo, #hotasthesun, #sexytaeng

you will regret following him

Jiung:

nature aesthetic

partakes in niche-interest tumblr discourse

actually adds something to those posts instead of just reblogging and maybe rambling in the tags

very active on the science side of tumblr

throws everything together on one blog because he realizes too late that side-blogs are a thing

almost has a breakdown over whether to reorganize his blog or not once he discovers side-blogs

leaves it as it is in the end because he doesn’t have the time to manage multiple blogs anyway

Intak:

has a TBZ blog, but it’s mostly Juyeon

reblogged every single Juyeon gifset in existence, and then some more

always praises him in the tags, has to keep reminding himself not to call him hyung or sunbae in his rambles

overuses the 🥺-emoji

also sometimes reblogs SF9 posts to promote their comeback, or posts about P1H (mostly gifs of himself tbh), which he leaves uncommented though

lowkey panics if someone tries to talk to him per pn because he thinks someone found out who he really is

low effort blog theme, he just chose a few colors he felt like using when he made it and never changes them

his icon is obviously a picture of Juyeon

Soul:

a blog with a hiphop-feel

probably has a super cool self customized theme

reblogs music he dances to and dark aesthetics

like depressing quotes but also hopeful ones?

is he okay???

sometimes you find a Japanese cat meme on his blog

he too does not use the side-blog function, but not because he doesn’t know it’s there

he just doesn’t care

actually he likes the mixture of so many different things on his blog

the type to sometimes scroll back to the bottom of his own blog to relive the Experience™️ of when he first reblogged everything

Jongseob:

has a B.A.P blog

his pinned post is the audio of Zelo’s Howler

fanboys HARD under every single old gifset or picture he reblogs

sometimes posts entire essays about why B.A.P’s discography is superior and why their messages are so important, etc.

his blog colors are probably a black background and green script and the header is a picture of B.A.P at one of their concerts with a few of their lightsticks visible

his icon is a matoki (if you don’t know them, google them, they’re cute af)

isn’t very active and doesn’t interact with people either

sometimes makes posts like “🙏BYG writing a song for P1H🙏” and laughs because nobody figures out that this blog is run by a P1H member

[makkoskafanfic]

I really like how you write smut. I'm new to trying to write NC-17 stories but I'm trying! Can you share any ideas with a newby how to do sex scenes good?

This took me a few days to answer – and the reason for that is how this kept trying to turn into a bloody essay and I kept trying to cut it back to something sensible. I want to say I’m really happy with this ask, as I might be unsure about my plot, my ability to keep a story interesting, my grasp of the English language, but I do take pride in my smut.

Here are some advices in no particular order. Please keep in mind these are very subjective and reflect my own personal preferences when it comes to writing Explicit fiction.

Some non-worksafe ideas are ramblings are under the cut folks, don't like, don't click!

1. Start easy. Don’t write what you are not comfortable with. If you enjoy creating the scene, it will be smoother and better. This is not The Golden Rule, as you might want to challenge or push yourself or write on-purpose uncomfortable scenes, but if you are new to writing smut, starting with something easy and pleasant is a good idea.

2. Don’t make the mistake of sticking with a description of the physical act only. Written sex scenes are not a porn movie. There’s only so much you can say about who sticks what where and how long they move it around. Write what the characters are feeling. Is it good, is it bad? Do they experience pleasure, maybe discomfort or pain? What are their emotions? Are the comfortable, are they feeling safe? Compare it to their previous experiences. If they have non to compare it to, write about that.

3. Don’t give exact measurements. Before you say someone has a 13 inch dick, just think about how big that actually is. Don’t say something went on for 10 minutes, except if for some reason one of the characters are counting the time.

To combine point nr 2 & 3, a bad example would be: “Mike took out his 13 inch dick, lubed it up and thrust it into Jack’s hole. Jack moaned. Mike thrusted into him for 8 minutes after which Jack orgasmed.” This is very dry. You are not writing a script, you don’t want to simply describe the act, but make it enjoyable. You’d rather say Mike was larger than any men Jack took before, talk about how this makes him feel. Was the sex rough, was it gentle? Was it passionate? Did Jack love Mike or just had a fling with him? That’s all so much more interesting than inches and minutes!

4. Think it through – is it possible? Don’t forget the basic rules of anatomy and physics.

5. That being said, don’t be limited by reality, and I don’t only mean that for monster sex and the like. But you are writing fiction and not a guide. You want to ignore refractory periods? Go for it. Skipping lube? (or maybe replacing it with something handy as a lubrication spell?) Sure thing. I don’t remember ever reading someone giving themselves an enema before anal sex in a FF and I can’t say I mind this.

6. Speaking about lubrication spells. Respect the rules of your fandom (or the rules of your own universe). Magic of some kind will make things easier, but if you are writing an otherwise realistic story, you probably don’t want a too far fetched sex scene in there.

7. Respect your characters too. If you are writing someone who’s very reserved, you will want to write a process how they open up (or not) during sex. People don’t miraculously become a different personality just because they took their clothes off. I saw tags so many times saying characters are OOC but it doesn’t matter as it’s all porn. That’s a bad approach. If I look up Mike/Jack fics, I want to read about Mike and Jack having sex and not about two men who wears their name and looks but act nothing like them.

8. Writing goals. If you are writing a PWP you likely don’t want to overcomplicate this, you just want your characters to get on with it. Writing goal in this case can simply be making a pose/kink/scenario come true. If the sex scene is part of the story, try to tie it in. Instead of having a random sex scene somewhere (typically at the end) have it fit in with the plot, with character development. If you are writing about a relationship, and go for multiply sex scenes, have a curve.

9. Build it up, especially if you write a longer winded slow burn. Learning Mike has the hots for Jack 50K words in the story is kind of random. Light that spark and blow it to a fire as you go on.

10. Last but not least: don’t be embarrassed. Fiction is fiction – nobody should judge you for what you write. If you wrote something that doesn’t fit your usual writer profile, you still have the option to post it to Ao3 as Anonymous. I have one or two floating there as Anon too 😉

[stiles-o-dylan24]

Hiii, sorry to bother you, I hope you doing well and are safe

, I wanna do a rewrite of an series, do you have any tips you can share, please?

If you don't wanna then it is fine.🤗

Hey friend💛 thank you, I’m doing well and doing my best to stay safe and I hope you are as well! You’re never a bother and I don’t mind at all to offer my writing tips! 

I wrote down things below the cut that helped me the most and I tried to be as organized with them as I could, so I hope these help and I’m always happy to answer any other questions or help in any way!

Character & Relationships

First thing I would say is to map out your character that you’re adding in to the show. 

Who they are, if you’re going with an OC or a reader insert, and if they’re going to be related to a canon character or if your character is going to have their own family that you’re also going to be creating

What kind of relationships, romantic or otherwise, they will have with canon characters.

Romantic relationships- map out how the ultimate endgame relationship will go: slow burn/enemies to lovers/friends to lovers. 

Have distinguished scenes that will set the pace for whichever of these tropes you go with to be believable. 

Figure out what you absolutely love when reading those tropes and how you can give that same pace to your characters, making sure to include the angst/longing/frustration/soft pure adorableness/body language light touches that makes those tropes so freaking amazing 

Knowing all of this beforehand will ideally help figure out how involved in the scenes you want your character to be. Which I personally think it’s important to brainstorm and actually put thought into reshaping the scenes with your character first, as it will really make it believable to imagine that your character was always in canon and not just put in a scene because you, as the author, say so.

I’ve read one rewrite in particular where the author obviously didn’t think about that with their reader insert character and it really showed. That caused it to feel annoyingly forced and after three seasons not enjoyable to read for me because it never felt like the reader was supposed to be there and I stopped reading it.

I know I view rewrites differently than most people but, to me, if you’re going to take on a rewrite that means you’re altering canon, at least a little bit, for the story to make sense for a new character to be added in like they were there all along. So why not change relationships and morph the story to include someone who in my opinion, and yours since you’re wanting to rewrite it, was definitely missing from the show?

Transcripts/Scene layout

So once you have a good idea of your character and the relationships you want them to have it’ll make how you alter the script easier.

Try to find transcripts of the episodes as this is incredibly easier than watching the episode with subtitles and pausing every few seconds to copy down how says what in a scene.

Every website with transcripts are usually fan made so as you copy them be warned and keep in mind that 

Sometimes who they have saying the line could not always be correct.

Sometimes the line itself is not quite correct to what was actually said

In my case, sometimes the website went away and there’s no data on the page

So for that last bullet point I do suggest, as soon as you find a website with the entire series of transcripts, copying every episode into a separate google doc(or your preferred writing doc). 

Yes it takes some time, depending on how many episodes your show has, however it’s so worth it to not have to go back and worry about the webpage being down when you’re starting season 4 (Yes that happened to me and when the page came back up I copied the rest of the series into docs)

Writing POV

More than likely the webpage you’re copying from will copy the entire episode script into one big paragraph. You will have to go through and space it out properly, however, I used that opportunity to watch the episode at the same time that I was spacing the dialogue. 

which helped in checking that what the transcripts had was correctly copied

the right person was saying what the transcripts had and if not I could quickly change the character

if you’re writing in 1st person you should also use this opportunity to take out scenes that obviously your character wouldn’t/couldn’t logically be in

though I also suggest trying to keep scenes that you feel are necessary to keep the overall story together to be read in a cohesive way. 

You can alternate to 3rd person or you could have your character do a story time to the readers in an inner monologue type of way or have them/another character explain what happened in a little recap. 

I mean your audience, for the majority, has probably watched the whole series and knows what’s happening, but you’re writing a story– why not have it flow as smoothly as if someone was actually watching the series?

To me with writing my series, keeping the overall main story well described was really important. 

I made sure to include story times and little summaries of major events my main character wasn’t apart of whenever I could and it paid off because some people had either stopped watching the show or had forgotten what had happened in later seasons and really enjoyed the fact they could still follow along with the main story.

At the same time do not feel overwhelmed with making sure you include every single event or detail.

 do whatever you feel is necessary to tell your story with your character as you would like it to be read.

And if you’re writing from 2nd or 3rd person, well you’ll more than likely be rewriting everything anyways so my hat goes off to you my friend.

Dialogue

So once you have the layout of the original episode script go through it and write the scenes with your new character(s) as best as you can from memory, since you just watched the episode while you were spacing out the script lines. 

Make the scenes believable and truly feel like your character is supposed to be there by slowing down the need to just cram your character in and instead

Have your character(s) say some of their own lines in between when the canon dialogue lines are spoken

Morph the actual canon dialogue line by either cutting it halfway and having your character(s) finish the line 

or have your character(s) say the canon dialogue line and give one of the other characters a new line/a morphed line from another character’s canon line.

Final Writing of the Episode

Once you’ve altered the episode with your character(s) watch the episode again and read through what you have written.

adding in more actions from the characters/facial expressions that may be missing to really make the scene flow more realistically.

This is the process that really worked for me to edit the episodes one by one and I felt like was the most time efficient to getting through an episode.

I think that writing through the episode without watching it and only reading the script helps in not being distracted or feeling rushed to get through a scene.

Last Notes From Me

Personally I would suggest having the first one or two seasons(depending how long they are) already written out in the ways I mentioned above, if possible the final edits done as well, before you publish the first episode.

This will drastically help you as you continue to finish writing the rest of the episodes and keep to the schedule you wish to keep to. 

It could also help you in making sure that you have added in everything you possibly wanted to add in to later episodes. 

Also help you see that the timeline of a relationship is going exactly as you would like it to.

There’s nothing worse than getting overwhelmed with a posting schedule and it causing you to rush through an episode and you leave out a key plot point that needed to happen for something you wanted to happen later on be exactly as you originally envisioned it happening.

Remember to have fun with this whole process and don’t forget that you’re telling your story for you more than anyone. You feel like something is missing and this is your opportunity to write something you will want to read.

Yes the interaction is fun and helps you get through the moments of ‘is this worth it’, however you also need to write for you. Create something you will want to read to fill that space in your mind of what’s missing when you’re watching the show/reading other people’s rewrites.

Again this is all just my advice and is to be taken with a grain of salt. You need to do things in a way that works for you! What I did was really beneficial to me and my work schedule plus my mindset for what I wanted to bring to my rewrite. It may not work for you so if it doesn’t just be patient with yourself and you’ll find your way.

Hopefully through my long ramble of a message I answered your questions or gave you some form of insight. If I did not or you still have more questions please don’t hesitate to send me another message!

I am here if you need anything– to vent, run ideas by, a beta reader, literally anything- and I absolutely love rewrites, so please tag me in yours🤗 

Good luck and I hope you have so much fun taking on a series rewrite! 

[paintedrecs]

Twitter has the Worst Timing, so I will have to ramble here instead.

I’ve finally finished editing my new 36k Trevorcard fic; it’s fully tagged, summarized, and drafted on AO3, but (a) the Post To AO3 script always messes some things up, so I need to check the formatting on each chapter (b) I’m kinda obsessive about that One Last Editing Round before I make things public, so I don’t know that I’ll actually post the whole thing today.

I’m debating whether to do a chapter at a time, like I did with PDIW, even though this is MUCH less of a beast of a fic. Is that obnoxious? Will everyone who’s subscribed to me unfollow when they get 19 Castlevania fandom notifications? Will it make Trevor/Alucard enthusiasts more or less likely to read along?

Sigh. I should just dive back into editing. Chapter One. Here we go.

[purgatoryandme]

Hey! I can't seem to find the post you made with all the books references in Illuminate Me and the reason behind it? Is it deleted?

I know that there is an incomplete one floating around in my reply tag, and it should be in the Illuminate Me tag, but tumblr’s search features are so bad that I went back to the original word doc of the complete list, so prepare for that particular storm lol.  Quoted/Referenced Reading List (In Order of Appearance) Shakespeare: Macbeth I opened on a Macbeth quote (‘When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lighting, or in rain’) because I wanted to start with something immediately relatable. Most readers were introduced to more ‘dramatic’ plays through Macbeth. Beyond that, they were introduced to the concept of pathetic fallacy, which I think plays nicely with Tony as a character (a man who is CONSTANTLY imparting emotion onto inanimate objects…and then actually giving them their own emotions) and with one of the core problems in IM, which is deciding the emotions of others for them. I was hoping to get the ‘feel’ of that without having to lean too far into the actual concept. 

Bonus: I picked this quote in particular because of the importance of threes in Tony’s life (his core group of friends, iterations of the reactor, number of times reborn, his bot children VS his AI children, the number of lovers or almost lovers he has in the fic, etc). Milton: Paradise Lost ‘What is dark within me, illuminate!’ is a modernization of the original Milton quote ‘what is dark within me, illumine’ for readability. I actually feel a bit bad about changing this considering how many people think this is the original quote now. This wound up being a central (and title) quote somewhat by accident. I’m fond of it because of how much I liked a different one that I had originally wanted for Tony’s thoughts of the reactor: ‘yet from those flames, no light, but rather darkness visible’. I had originally wanted to start off on a sadder note, one that showed how much Tony hated losing his humanity, and so the flames of Hell and their physics-bending concept seemed thematically appropriate. I had always intended to eventually invert the imagery – instead of Extremis being (to Tony) flames capable of extinguishing light, the reactor would become a water-like blue light that couldn’t be choked or recreated by any of the shadows that pursued Tony in his life. I picked Milton SPECIFICALLY for the imagery of light and shadows. 

But, man, listen. Darkness visible is a great concept, but it’s also tired. It has, as you’ve noted, been discussed to death. So as I was reading ‘Milton’s darkness visible and Aeneid 7’ to refamiliarize myself with some of the broader themes attached to that particular piece of imagery, I wound up thinking about how to invert the darkness itself instead of the overall concept. The flames of Hell extinguish light instead of having to exist away from it. It is a bad that cannot be penetrated by good. 

Instead of chasing away shadows, which would be implied by shining a light ON them, the request Tony makes here is to actually invert the darkness - to have it illuminate in and of itself. It’s becoming something better instead of being removed or forgotten. On the flip side of that, the darkness within isn’t growing as light weakens, but rather under its own force. Two forces equal in nature and origin in a person. It’s a different take on lighting than the one most critics hammer home. Long ramble is long, but this was the basis for using that quote. It grew from there to have many different meanings, however the core has always remained. All in all I’m pleased with it.

EM Forster: A Room with a View Very forgiving even in its satirical takes on human nature. A lot of passages are very therapy-quotable in their urging to accept the inevitability of causing some harm in life. It plays on a lot of the same concepts with light being obvious metaphor for good and evil that Paradise Lost does, but softens them into more realistic shades of human existence. Isaac Asimov: Foundation Continuing on with themes of rigid morality vs the flexibility and romanticism of humanity, we have Asimov, master of machines and the three rules of robotics! There are lots of quotable epigrams in this beast. The quote pulled from this has two readings depending on what you assume of the man who has said it. If you see him as manipulative, there’s an insidious underpinning of killing off your own morals. If you see him as a kind man, then you could read it as foregoing morals in place of empathy. Tony’s therapist loves a very specific brand of double speak that lets Tony work through the conversation purely through interpretation. Tolstoy: Anna Karenina Tolstoy’s prose is lengthy...so so lengthy, but Anna Karenina is worth the read as long as you relate to at least one of its major characters. Frankly, I think you can choose to read a single character’s plot arc and leave it at that. It’s mostly a novel that is interesting, not because of its plot, but because of its study of relationship dynamics. Tolstoy was really invested in picking apart the idea of what makes a ‘family’ and, beyond that, what makes a class. It’s refreshing to see so much of the critique occurring within the lived experience of the characters instead of through a narrator or outside punishing moral forces. Baudelaire: Windows and Benediction I cannot recommend enough reading multiple translations of Baudelaire poems (fleursdumal.org has a wonderful array available). Benediction is a personal favourite. I love me some malevolence wrapped up in religion. Dante: The Divine Comedy There’s a lot of bleak humor in Dante if you look for it. Several interpretations insist of making each piece excessively grim dark, but faithful translations tend to have a hint of humor in them. It works well for engraving War Machine’s spine - a benediction and a mockery of human limitations. I try to pick quotes that not only fit the scene, but would still fit into the context of the grander themes from whence they came...unless I hate the author. Tennyson: The Lady of Shallot “I am sick of shadows” vs “I am half-sick of shadows”. Tony’s expressing more frustration here with being alone and his passive involvement in that loneliness. Another quote I feel vaguely bad about changing, haha. The Lady of Shallot is a very nice classical piece that I’m sad isn’t taught in schools alongside Hamlet. There are some nice Ophelia parallels here. I wanted a feminine influence on Tony’s loneliness and one that is somewhat youthful despite his age. Yeats: Vacillation I fucking hate Yeats as a person. That said, the man can write. The man can REALLY write. His pieces are almost always layered to the point of absurdity and he’s perfect to swiping quotes with multiple meanings. Definitely Tony’s kind of author. Goethe: Faust Speaks for itself and in the author’s notes on its reference.  Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamasov IMO a book that deserves all the acclaim of Anna Karenina and then some. Very VERY Russian in its ethical debates of, as always, religious morality vs free will. Also dips into familial struggles and patricide, because it wouldn’t be a Russian classic if it didn’t contain some deeply buried bitter resentment towards paternalism. I’m going off-script here, but this is a fucking excellent book. I don’t really have words for how much I enjoy how Dostoyevsky explores the concepts that he does. Shakespeare: Julius Ceasar Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Twelfth Night deserves more credit for its development and maintenance of an enigma. Twelfth Night has charisma in spades both because of and in spite of the exceedingly petty actions of some of its characters. It is also a refreshingly simple take on love for the sake of it. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Stephen King: Lisey’s Story I consider Lisey’s Story to be the best of King’s work. The man has his obvious writing ticks and his even more obvious issues as an author. Lisey’s Story contains many of them, but navigates them far better than any of his other work. The monster here is all in the mind and is too vast to truly see or understand. It’s perfectly representative of a creeping sense of inescapable horror. It was fun to flip it on its head with a reference here – Tony isn’t terrified of dying, but he is terrified of his inescapable enjoyment of Bucky’s company. Maria’s family saying is inspired by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Armitage: The Death of King Arthur A genuinely fantastic classic tale of heroism, filled with all the drama, tragedy, and sacrifice that you’d expect with strongly feminine undertones. I’m a sucker for this kind of thing. TS Eliot: The Wasteland Excellent piece of poetry with many layered meanings and dual interpretations. I can’t really articulate my thoughts on The Wasteland, but I reference an essay at the end of this list that does that for me. Oedipus Rex Rupert Brooke: Safety Not directly quoted but obscurely referenced through Bucky and Tony’s war conversations + Bucky’s conversation about, you got it, being ‘safe’ with his therapist. His poetry is about WWI and is, largely, idealistic. Safety is…not quite an exception to that. His other poetry contains a certain sense of honour and duty, whereas safety, maintaining a seemingly light tone, has nothing of the sort. It is safety in the soul – something untouchable by the horrors of war or death. It treats that as a ‘house’, which leant itself to the article Tony send Bucky. Armine Wodehouse: Before Ginchy Not directly quoted but obscurely referenced through Bucky and Tony’s war conversations + Bucky’s conversations with his therapist. This is also WWI poetry, though far darker than Brooke’s work. It discusses the parts of the heart and soul soldiers lose. It is an extremely good piece AND references Dante’s Inferno. I had to work it in somewhere even if I didn’t want to directly quote it. Meyer and Brysac: Tournament of Shadows Referenced several times over in discussion of war, the great game, and British military history. Beautifully self-aware account of Britain’s insistence on rewriting history after the fact and the tiny hilariously embarrassing moving pieces that shaped what is often considered the heyday of espionage. Murakami: Kafka on the Shore I love Murakami’s response to questions about understanding the novel as a whole. There are no solutions, only riddles presented, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes place. It’s a great lens through which to view the book and individual passages taken out of it. Reminds me of The Wasteland having to be read in totality before you can begin picking it apart, after which each individual piece can be read of its own. Kafka on the Shore, with its musings on the uncertainty of fate and redemption, was the perfect book to outline Tony’s horrifying realization, which he is desperately suppressing, that he might be coming to accept Bucky’s feelings. This quote in particular, while I would’ve used it anyway, is also a great callback to the first chapter and its storms. Chapter 29 is a turning point. Beyond it there are some intentional quote contrasts that are probably more easter eggs than they are anything else. Yeats: A Dialogue of Self and Soul Great contrast with Vacillation. Some parts of self and soul are used in that poem and thematically they are connected and contrasted - self and heart vs self and soul. The symbolism and imagery in Vacillation is really on point and layered, but Self and Soul is peak Yeats for its reversal of the typical ‘the soul is pure and bluntly honest and the body is tainted and bad’ in Christian works. Also Self and Soul’s broader context is scrumptious considering the debate poems history of relying on divine forgiveness and lack thereof instead of on forgiveness of the self. 

It was fun to give this poem a double meaning in IM as both hugely ominous and ultimately pointing to the later forgiveness Tony receives from himself through the divine (if the soul stone can be called that) in the heavens (space!). There’s also another fun twist to ‘who can distinguish darkness from the soul’ in its contrast with ‘what is dark within me, illuminate’. To take that a step further, Vacillation was the beginning of the path of forgiveness for Bucky (understanding Tony’s heart…somewhat literally as he slowly gets closer and closer to the reactor itself), while Self and Soul is a final step (re: Bucky being presented the final hurdle of Tony deciding to move forward alone). Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha Hesse is wonderfully blunt at times. I gotta admit I love German takes on spiritual self-discovery because they always seem to tend towards much more straightforward answers than other countries. Hesse’s relationship with Buddhism in literature vs his lived experience is also really intriguing. Anyway, Siddhartha, in its humanizing of Gods, is wonderful contrast to the consistent imagery of the untouchable and unknowable forces of good and evil in previously quoted works. It has stopped bringing humanity to the divine and has started placing the divine within humanity. Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey One of the ultimate poetic epics. Now that we are nearing the end, I’m going overtime with making the grander themes of this whole piece hit home. A lot of IM was built on a foundation of poetic epics, of heroism, and a bit of Greek tragedy. The Odyssey embodies all of those things beautifully. It also suited Thor too well to pass up. Yeats: An Irish Airman Forsees His Death Ah, Yeats. Very blatant foreshadowing here that is keeping with the foreshadowing from Self and Soul. Fate has, up till this point, been a bit of a question. It has been ‘when will it come to me’ and ‘how will I avoid or overcome it’. Now fate is a set point. It is knowable and present. ‘I know I shall meet my fate, somewhere among the clouds above’. This goes for the true onset of Infinity War and for Tony’s feelings towards Bucky – when he had no one, he allowed Bucky in after essentially promising himself he wouldn’t. If that’s not an accidental admittance of love, nothing is. Henley: Invictus Absolutely fantastic poem. Continuing with the heavy fate themes coming into this climax. Now that Tony knows his fate, truly knows it, he is choosing to take it on directly. Agamemnon (Anne Carson’s Traslation if you prefer a more modern language approach, Lattimore is you prefer a classic) Agamemnon is forgotten all too often in the world of poetic epics and it’s a damn shame. I cannot say enough good things about it. I always wanted to use lines from Agamemnon in a Tony fic because the Cassandra parallels were too perfect to resist. The chorus in this play was also a perfect narrative device for interacting with something of a hive mind. Yeats: The Wanderings of Oisin Another poetic epic. Nice contrast with The Odyssey, The Death of King Arthur, and Agamemnon. Here the dialogue is between an aged hero and a saint looking into the hero’s past. It has the kind of reflective and aged mood necessary for this stage of the story, but is actually a poem I sortof hate. The line ‘And a softness came from the starlight, and filled me full to the bone’ is absolutely gorgeous, though. Some final inspiration pieces:

The Penelopiad 

The Iliad 

House of Leaves (for surrealism in the final chapters) 

Dante at Verona (used in an author’s note as an intentional jab at the dull uninspired nature of the this particular take on Dante. Repurposed quote, essentially) 

a broke machine just blowin’ steam by themikeymonster (great character study of Bucky) 

Frank Kermode’s essay “Eliot and the Shudder” (inspiration behind Tony’s entire interaction with literature)

[selfcareparker]

LMAO YOU ACTUALLY PUT THE TW VIOLENCE HAHAGDSHS

so the better university is in germany.. you already live in germany.. but germans aren't good as good at english lol and lemme get this straight- UNIVERSITY IN GERMANY IS- wait shit Imaooo i read that wrong, I THOUGHT IT WAS 75¢ HDJSHS like 3 quarters😭 but that's still less expensive compared to the US, 75€ is about 90$ here... i just googled it and (apparently) college is typically around $27,000 in my state (22,588€ i think lol) but wowee gee whiz. i think waiting till you’re physically there is the best decision though, just really seeing how it is, how you like it and stuff. BUT WAIT Imao i'm rereading what you said as i'm responding, but the university sounds good!! hopefully your professor isn't the one writing the english on the website Imaoo. your english is fine hdhsjsh & why are you up at 3am😭

i'm literally jumping around udhsj but no that did absolutely make sense hahah i just really enjoy talking to you & wanted to tell you what's up lol but yay we're around the same age hdhagajs

+ yes i have !!! thank you LMAO I BET YOURE NOT THAT BAD JHDJS that whole paragraph actually made me laugh. dude i could neverrr write a script where people have to act it out? lmao it would not be pretty (though i need to work on that) well if you’re not good at acting, you’re hella good at writing (I FINISHED THE ENTIRETY OF UR PETER MASTERLIST AND I AM EMPTY & I AM SCREAMING- i’ll send in another ask on my favorites and all my replies bc WAH they had such an affect on me.......... it’s not ok. like affectttt)

HAHHAA “trash garbage” yea... she was helpful in helping me get my first lead on stage but yea that school as a whole was pretty 💩 but honestly thank youuu <3 my new favorite thing? “thump them in the eye with a sharp metal rod” i think i have one in the basement LMAO

that was a joke...... i think this will also need a tw..... but all my asks are messy lmaoo- not me missing the heritage thing in the tags: that’s so cool!! i’m guessing you’ve been the england since your mom is british? knowing two languages sounds so cool😔 and you speak really good english btw (is that rude-) OOHH so you’re german bc you were born in germany but none of your blood family is german & ur mom is british? bRO that’s so cool like literally 😎 i wanna travel so bad and the UK is first on the list (probably in two years.. i do really wanna study abroad or be a foreign exchange student or something) then Jamaica (bc that’s where my mom is from and i’ve never been) and then all the pretty countries lol

have a good day/night idk lol it took me really long to write this + idk why jdhsjshsj

- lovely anon 🥰

OKAY HI OMG (I was about to say giiirrrl but i never asked for your pronouns or anything so let me know if it’s okay if i say giiiiirl in the future lol)

I saw this at 3 am and got so excited lol but my sleeping schedule has been so awful lately that I forced myself to sleep instead of replying to this 😔

Okay so... if you put it like THAT then yes, the university in germany sounds a lot better lol. But yeah like you said I won’t fully decide until I’ve actually been to university (well, it’s online but ykwim) and that starts in april and honestly i can’t wait sksjshh but yeah i’m like 90% sure that i’ll be staying here already. And yes let’s pray that it’s not one of my professors who writes the shit on the website sishshg😭

also what you said about wanting to be a foreign exchange student or studying abroad... i felt that. but even if i end up studying in germany, with my degree, you have to either do an 8week programme (program? idk) where you go to an english speaking country,,, or you do a whole semester studying abroad so i’ll probably go to england one way or another lol and i can always do my masters in the uk (if i do a masters degree i haven’t even figured out what i’m doing this year let alone in three years loll)

Also I really have to stop saying lol so often lol

Also I have to stop saying also at the beginning of every sentence lol

Also (😔) i enjoy talking to you too 👉🏼👈🏼 you don’t know how happy i get whenever i see that you sent me an askd sjsjhshshs

And yupp i used to go to england like three times a year but because of cov*d i haven’t seen any of my english relatives since 2019🥺🥲 BUT the uk is so so so nice i love London but I also love the country side and esp the north of england 🥰🥰🥰 (that’s where most of my relatives are) and yes you deffffff need to visit one day!!!!!!!

Also (also is such a good word tho sksjsh) likeee i definitely don’t think it’s rude when people say my english is good dkdhsg so thank you 😌 but if you heard me speak english irl, i don’t have a german accent or anything and i’m 100% fluent but writing like this is different because it’s like... it’s not an essay so obviously not every sentence has to be 100% grammatically correct but i always worry that, because people know english isn’t my first language (only because i’ve told them), people think my english is bad and that i’m making mistakes when really it’s normal to just.. not use 100% grammatically correct word constructions all the time if that makes sense...? (I don’t think it does 👁👄👁 this was the worst paragraph i’ve written in my life i’m SORRY ksjshs, usually i’d delete this but i feel comfortable talking to you so even if it doesn’t make sense i’m not deleting my rantssjshsh)

And yup, speaking multiple languages is (in my opinion) one of the coolest things ever, i’m fluent in english and german, i had latin from year 7-12 so even though it’s not a language that people speak anymore, learning latin was one of the coolest experiences of my life (which sounds so lame dkshshs) because obviously in all the roman languages soo many words come from latin, so sometimes when i hear/read words in languages that i don’t even speak i can tell what it means thanks to latin. I can also kindaaaaaaaa speak/understand italian (where like 90% of words are the same as in latin or even some english and german words so i never had to study the vocabulary in school skshsh) and a liiiiiiittle tiny bit of french and serbian. I know quite a few people who speak 3+ languages because a lot of my friends are the same as me and have parents who aren’t german so they speak their dad’s language, their mum’s language AND german and it’s like the most fascinating thing in the world for me

I HAVE TO STOP TALKING NOW I’M SO SORRY WHATDKSKSJSNSMHDS

And ooohhhh my mum’s best friend is from Jamaica and my mum has allllll these beautiful pictures from when they went to jamaica together when they were younger (goals)🥺🥺🥺 so i really hope you can visit one day✨✨✨ (i wanna go to jamaica too one day sksjs but i think it’s even cooler if you’re like actually jamaican obviously and it’s linked to your heritage)

OKAY THIS IS LONGER THAN SOME OF MY FICS I AM SO SO SO SORRY SKSHSBAKSKSHSJAHAHABA but i enjoy talking to you so i shouldn’t really apologise but still like what was the point of all my rambling? Nothing basically dksjsh also I feel like i keep talking about myself but idk what to say and likeee i don’t even know, so how has your life been since covid? (That’s My attempt to ask about YOU lmao tell me whatever you want about yourself sksjsh)

Okay byeee 💖💖💖💖💖

Edit: i realised i haven’t said anything about you finishing/reading everything on my peter masterlist AHSJSKKSBSBSSBSB thank you thank you thank you, sooo i can’t promise anything but i will most likely post a new fic this weekend... but idk if it’s going to be good? I randomly started writing it last night and i definitely like the plot but i’m always so insecure about my actual writing and wording but yeah... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[albatris]

Hi! If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the new outlining method you figured out?

HAHAHA ok well I mean the reason I didn’t specify in my original post is just ‘cause it’s like................. barely an “outlining method” and it’s barely an outline. it’s messy and very specific to my own methods and it’s absolutely not, like, an All-Round Always Applicable Brand New Secret Shiny Outlining Method

I don’t have the secrets, I’m sorry

I saw people asking about it and was just like “oh fuck now I’ve gone and given them expectations”

n my original tags on that post were “when does an outline stop being an outline and start being a first draft” and I think the answer is, hm, yeah, probably right here!! ‘cause what I’m doing is basically just?? writing down from start to finish every single thing that happens in this story in the form of just like

X does this. Y says this. this happens. then this happens. which makes X feel this particular way. then this happens. which makes this happen. so on and so forth

like, what I’m doing is essentially an incredibly shitty extremely bare bones first draft. it’s a Draft but I cannot call it as such because I will frighten myself off and never get any work done

it’s basically just me tricking myself into writing something that’s akin to a first draft because it’s ~technically still an outline if you’re being really loose with your definitions~ and it’s in a way that alleviates so much of the pressure of Actually Writing A Story, and then at the end of it I have a finished product that I can look at and be like

“aw hell yeah, the scary part is done, now I get to build on these shitty words that already exists and spin them into something cool as fuck AND I GET TO EDIT” and these are the parts of the writing process I adore

anyway, here are my thoughts and explanations on the matter, and me talking about why this approach is fuckin awesome if you, specifically, are me, or if you’re a person who is freakishly similar to me, or you are perhaps my clone

these thoughts are under the cut because they’re a little rambly and muddled and I really should have edited them but I refuse to

so

pantsing doesn’t work for me anymore ‘cause I freeze up and find it super daunting and stressful, I can’t just throw myself into a scene with no direction and no clear idea of how it’s supposed to progress, even if in my brain I Know What Needs To Happen, and I hit blocks or get distracted or end up somewhere entirely different

but mostly I struggle with it because the act of writing itself is quite anxious for me and full of perfectionism, so blank pages are frightening, and when I’m writing I’m so stressed about Oh God I’m Writing What If I’m Doing It All Wrong that my brain just. stops

so I thought, hm, that doesn’t work, I probably need an outline!

but traditional outlines don’t work real great for me EITHER ‘cause I struggle to condense things and figure out what the Important Key Points are that I should be putting in my dot points and like............. it feels restrictive, it doesn’t express what I need it to, and it doesn’t help me at all when it comes to actually knowing what I need to do where when I’m writing

I’ll make an outline and then look at it and be like, wow, this is meaningless! this makes no sense to me! this tells me nothing! and when it comes to write I still hit a block

‘cause it’s like. ok. well this scene in the outline is just a brief description of what’s happening in this scene, but there’s so much OTHER stuff I have to keep track of, like..... how does this scene PROGRESS, what are the feelings, what other elements are at play, where am I at with symbolism, characterisation, dialogue, blah blah blah, what actions are performed in this scene

a lot can happen in a scene!

y’know?

so then I was like

hm

what if instead of trying desperately to fit the jumble of garbage in my brain into a Nice Neat Outline and trying to find a way to make said outline resemble a story in a way that actually helps me know what to write............. what if I just included literally as much detail as possible. what if I just included All Of It

what if I just write out exactly what happens in each of these scenes almost like a script. in as much stupid hyperspecific detail as I want. like I’m just describing every section of this story to myself. no fancy descriptions, no Actual Writing, just. me describing what’s happening. flat out and boring....ly

so I started to do that and found that it was just super helpful and freeing, I was typing out my descriptions of what takes place in the scenes line by line and I was already coming up with ideas and realisations, I was already finding ways to join scenes that were previously just floating disconnected from each other, and there was none of the stress of “oh fuck I’m actually crafting a story"

which then led me to a really exciting realisation

I can type out my story like this! and then I’ll have a whole fuckload of words that’s basically just me telling myself exactly what happens in the story! and I’ve done this all without considering the fact that this is technically a shitty first draft!

and my two favourite parts of the writing process, the two parts of the writing process I am constantly yearning for, these are, like............ taking shitty words that already exist and transforming them and building onto them to make them something better, and, like.......... Editing

building and editing, these are my jams

so I can trick myself into writing a first draft because Oh It’s Basically Just A Really Highly Specific Outline and then I can be like “oh wow the scary part is done, now I get to do what I’m good at!” and the actual writing process will consist of me transforming these words into an actual story with some drama and finesse, and editing and revising and rewriting as needed

“but logan doesn’t that take away the mystery and fun of writing??? if you’re so specific with your outline, isn’t that boring??”

I’m still getting the fun stuff!!! while I’m typing out my descriptions of these scenes! I’m still puzzling things together and coming up with new ideas! it’s still an adventure! but I can’t do these things at the same time as I’m also trying to, like............... write a story, with style and description and drama and Good Words

and like......... honestly

like I said, my favourite part of the writing process is editing

I fuckin ADORE taking something that’s essentially glorified garbage and making it Not Fucking Garbage. I love building on scenes and tweaking things and finding better ways to describe things and swapping things around until something clicks

that’s what I’m GOOD at and it’s my favourite part of the proces

so yeah, like I said! I basically just trick myself into creating a first draft because “X does this and then this happens and then this happens” is ~technically still an outline if you’re not being too picky with your definitions~ and it’s a first draft that almost completely abolishes the stress and pressure of Writing A First Draft

and then at the end of it I have a product that I can look at and immediately be like “aw hell yeah Now I can skip straight to the fun stuff”

just an elaborate trap I can lure my anxious writer brain into where I unwittingly spin together a coherent draft without realising

[akpaleyreblogs]

Welcome to the Allison Just Blogs Here hour.

So I have. Started watching some of these again I used to watch them a lot, it’s what resulted in me running the game the first time as a young adult instead of doing something else to stay in touch with folks, was having Opinions about shit Matt Coleville said. Nowadays I get anxious half the time when I engage with how-to D&D content, I get in my head and overly critical about my own work, but I’ve been watching some of these again and I feel like this is maybe. Really Important?

Like not “you should have fun when you write and run the game,” clearly I figured that one out, but in the middle it talks about tension. If you want to write something and you’re not feeling it it’s usually about lack of tension. And that one is. Crazy important, I think, for me personally.

I’ve been sitting here trying to script a video where I’m relaying information and it’s not going anywhere because 1) I don’t have anything unique to say and 2) I’m not arguing a point. And I think this is maybe the reason to write critical content I’ve been on the fence about writing, or write something that’s a huge fucking meme but entertains me, or write some older stuff that I have specific points to make about even though it’s not in the weird place I’ve for some reason decided to pigeonhole myself into. Which maybe means I’m about to throw away a couple weeks of work (though as long as I hang onto it it’s not REALLY thrown away, and if a way to make it something I care about comes to me I will) and that’s not my favorite thing, but.

I don’t want to be writing essays that don’t contribute anything to the conversation or mean anything to anyone?

I wrote and researched The Cosmere Basics because Spencer found all the similar resources for learning about that kind of stuff inadequate, he wasn’t learning, and he wanted the information. That MEANS something. I wrote the radiant honor video because I couldn’t stop rambling around that point at all my fandom friends who would let me, that wanted to be made. The couple things I’ve been trying to script currently are just information. Who needs this information? Who does this serve? Who will care if they’re not already invested enough in the minutia of this fandom to know most of it anyway? At least The Cosmere Basics is substantial work to track down comprehensively even as a long time fan and required use of a lot of extratextual resources to do. 

I don’t want to just. Make shit to make shit, I guess. It won’t be good? So I need to consume more and read more and go have more things to have thoughts or feelings or opinions about or else doing YouTube is stupid and I should just be burning through video tutorials like crazy. I can develop a brand and put funny character drawings in things without talking only about one or two topics. If I’m any good people will care anyway as long as I’m smart about tagging things and posting stuff when it’s topical, and if I’m not this was never going to be anything anyway. 

I’m gonna go pull out some ideas I actually care about and find some books to read on narrative construction and film theory now, bye. 

[inimitable-muse]

meeting robin for the first time

[robin buckley x reader]

request: kinda. this is sort of a prelude to the other robin x reader headcanon requests i’ve received. all of them combined would be too long of a post, so i decided to instead split them apart. i’ll be finishing off and posting the other headcanons real soon, so stay tuned for that !

warning: none.

author’s note: um so i’m crazy and just went loose with this one. i wrote like a complete script unintentionally lmaooo, hope you guys like it though :) taglist is at the bottom of the post.

you guys first met each other in the middle of october

this was around the time that robin was adjusting to her new job at family video

you were a frequent customer there, swinging by every friday night to pick out some films for your own movie marathons

while at the same time trying to avoid the nuisance that was keith the sales clerk

"i will let you take out six tapes at a time if you can land me a date with nancy wheeler!"

"no keith"

robin was already familiar with your face and vice versa

she would often see you lurking between the isles from time to time, taking ages to find the perfect film

but you both never really interacted fully

until now

as soon as you entered the doors of family video on a typical friday night, it felt different

more calm and peaceful

probably because keith’s shift wasn’t on today and that made you sigh in relief

however, it was robin’s one instead

ohohohoho

from her own observations, robin seen you as the type of person who wasn’t adventurous when it came to your selection of films to rent out

for instance, there would be times where you would pick the most pedestrian choices like the breakfast club and teen wolf

but today was different

you would end up going left field and surprise her when you turned up to the front counter with the awful dr. orlof in hand

an interesting choice to say to least

robin stares at the VHS box for a brief moment

the dark and strange illustrations of the cover contrasted with your... normal-ness?

it was the perfect time to finally strike up a proper conversation with you

or so she thought

it turns out sometimes her witty comments and deadpan humour doesn't translate well with some people

and by some people meaning you

“hm, i couldn’t really see you as being a macabre fan”

you got caught off guard by her remark. “uh sorry but, what did you say?”

“well, judging by your previous purchases on the system you seem to go more for the john hughes-y type of direction, y’know, movies with rose tinted glass endings and whatever”

you were a relatively nice person, but at the same time not afraid to get feisty when you felt like someone was trying to take a personal jab at you taking risks

“right, well frankly i’m not here to be psycho-analysed through my taste in film, so just tell me how much it costs and-“

“oh god no, that’s not what i was intending at all!”

both of you go quiet

it’s almost 10:00 pm and you’re the only customer here

the clock is ticking

“look... er”

“[y/n]” you give robin your name

“okay, [y/n], it’s just that i noticed that every time you come in here you would always rent these teeny bopper films and now...”

“now...?”

“now you’re getting something completely out of your usual range”

“usual range?” you scoff, “i guess it’s a crime to get something else out of the ordinary then”

robin pinches her nose and exhales

“i'll let you on a little secret, that’s not even a good film”

you glance back at the VHS box, feeling annoyed when suddenly

“at least check out eyes without a face. firstly, it’s in the same vein as the awful dr. orlof but way less shittier. the plot is easy to understand and the characters are actually complex and well written”

as robin stops her rambling, you take a second to gather your thoughts

“do you have it in store?”

“not currently, no... but it’s gonna be returned hopefully by next week”

you ponder for a bit, “i can wait, but i’m still getting this one anyway”

you slide the VHS towards robin with two fingers

“suit yourself, that will be five dollars for three nights”

you pay, yadda yadda and then you finally apologise

“hey... i’m sorry for the hostility, it was totally unlike me”

robin simmers down, “i should be the one saying sorry, i made this whole big misunderstanding all because i was being nosy about what you were gonna watch”

you laugh to ease the tension

“you clearly know your stuff, robin, you're like a movie aficionado”

“wait a seco- how do you know my name again?

“look down at your shirt,” you laugh even harder

ffs robin your name tag

she's feeling delirious and it has been a long day

and now robin is all flustered and doesn't know what to say back aw

it wasn't really love at first sight that occurred that night per se, but for her it was more along the lines of there's something about [y/n] that makes me wanna find out more about them

so a few days later and the heated, yet oddly passionate exchange with robin stirred something inside of you

it basically compelled you to come by to family video two times a week

which soon changed to three

then four

and subsequently five

at one point keith noticed your oddly periodic visits to the store

"didn't you already rent that movie out for the second time this week?" he questions, eyebrows furrowed as he focuses on opening a bag of doritos

"nope! this one is the sequel"

robin would laugh quietly to herself as she scans the barcode

you didn't really care how some people were catching on the fact that you would come in the store nearly everyday

you just wanted an excuse to chat to robin

everyday

even if that meant that you would be wasting tons of money on renting obscure foreign films that you would never pay attention to half the time

clearly robin didn’t mind it at all

she was perhaps a little bit more excited to see you than you anticipated

"tell me how that one goes [y/n], give a review or something next time you drop by"

"well i can finish it by tonight and give it back first thing in the morning?"

"yeah, that sounds good." robin presses her lips together to suppress a giddy smile as she watches you head straight towards the front door

"b-but i wouldn't want you to rush that film though, it's almost three hours long!" she shouts from the counter

you exclaim back, "i'll manage!" as you face towards robin, starting to walk backwards

but dammit [y/n]

you accidentally stumble and bump into that blimin phoebe cates cardboard cutout

oh how the tables have turned between you both

robin tries her best to contain her amused expression in such a professional work environment

whereas you just wanted to shrink inside your sweater and die right there and then

but at that moment, she found you too cute and endearing to resist

now it was a saturday afternoon and business was slow

robin was sorting out all the tapes in the return box

but one film caught her eye in particular

eyes without a face

before you left the store, you managed to write a little message on a piece of paper and carefully slip it inside its VHS box

robin is able to get a hold of it

"you were right, this is way better” - [y/n]

she was full on beaming

robin unconsciously flips to the other side not expecting anything

but !

to her delight she sees your phone number written all prim and proper

:))))

"heya steve, can i borrow the phone for a sec? i need to make a quick order"

taglist: @ronnie-loves-bees