bro-stoevsky

acaramelmacchiato on ao3. I deleted my blog but it was an accident. Currently in a frozen Victorian hell.

[robynow]

not my house but i'd know my way around

[thecommunityoftrustworthysinks]

was going through some old lotr snapchats my cousin and i made like probably a decade ago and i needed this one to be shared

[bro-stoevsky]

ok new year’s resolution is to finish principles. i will have to find a new emotional support WIP. this will be OK.

i’m posting this because if you have any, you know, ideas, i’m all ears. i can really just write the one scene and now all my characters are trapped in boats.

[bro-stoevsky]

Just read your accidentally married fic, it was absolutely hilarious!

Why thank you! ☺️

[laissezferre]

ffrmc day 28: tragically abandoned wip

Principles of Magnetism (a Comedy of Manners) by acaramelmacchiato

g | fitzier, rossier (unrequited) | 25k | accidental marriage, victorian attitudes, farce

The one where they're married but it's still Victorian times and also it's an accident.

*rolls in the ground while wailing* @bro-stoevsky come back my dear, we need youu :D jk jk no pressure, but yes pls read this masterpiece in the making, no one does victorian humor like bro

[bro-stoevsky]

i’m trying! i just don’t have any ideas!!

[sourdough-seal]

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I wish there were medieval fantasy written by people who actually found the medieval period interesting

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I don’t mean grittiness I mean like anthropologically. The medieval period was fucking weird and the people who lived through it had fundamentally different perspectives on how the world works than even very religious modern people, reading a medieval fantasy shouldn’t feel like I’m just reading a contemporary person running around with a sword.

[dragon--ashes]

You need to be aware you are asking me to write a novel about radical religious groups in the 1600s that defended cows put on trial, about frost resistant turnips, about Charles I getting stuck in a window whilst trying to escape, about people putting their heads in sewers to overcome illness they believed caused by bad smells, and about the Bigod Rising which was so unpopular they only got like 300 rebels and ended up being killed.

You are aware of this, yes?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I would not ask anyone who thinks the 17th century counts as medieval to write a book even loosely inspired by the Middle Ages, no.

[neolithicsheep]

Hey y'all want to see a murder

[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[sainteverge]

my little romantic playlist for when i write stuff set in the 1830s

[greelin]

sorry for not answering messages for three thousand years i have. Stew. in place of a brain. you know how it is

[voxofthevoid]

Some of you would not survive waiting months to years for a WIP to update.

Look at me, listen to me: A couple of months is way too early to think a fic is abandoned or dead. A year is often too early. Internalize this.

[riceonrye]

@bro-stoevsky’s Principles Of Magnetism (accidental Victorian fake marriage enemies to lovers slow burn) is quickly becoming one of my favourite fics and I just had to sketch this scene real quick just because that’s SO something he would say

[bro-stoevsky]

this is so amazing! he’s so intense about his delivering his extremely crucial blancmange review, and what a great hand gesture!

[bro-stoevsky]

hello!! was very excited to see your update of principles of magnetism, i reread the whole fic as i hadn’t read it since chapter five was uploaded. in the time since then i’ve completed the first two years of my history degree and also written my own historical fanfic and i’ve had a renewed appreciation for the level of research and attention to detail in your work. obviously the central concept is ahistorical but the dialogue in particular feels like a lot of time and thought and knowledge has gone into it. you don’t have your characters using modern turns of phrase. they’re talking in their unapologetically batshit victorian way and i love it. thank you so much for the random bits of information in the notes, it truly is impressive. it’s late at night here so i think i’ve worded this terribly but just had to tell you that it struck me, now that i fully comprehend what a long and painstaking task research is, especially when you’ve got two arctic explorers with the surname ross!

thank you so much for this, and congratulations on your degree progress and on writing 🥂historical fanfiction🍾

i don’t know what made me Like This but i love dialogue so much! so whenever someone mentions it my heart grows three sizes. this is definitely why in my fanfiction people hardly get up to anything other than sitting around or sometimes standing around and exchanging dialogue with each other.

research………is indeed hard. and i’m pretty terrible at it so it can get very overwhelming and dispiriting. which is to say thank you for appreciating my effort!

thank you again and i wish you the very best with your own research and studies and many historical fanfictions to come 🥹

[lucife56]

For @bro-stoevsky inspired by "Principles of Magnetism (a Comedy of Manners)"

[bro-stoevsky]

i’m…in awe

[bro-stoevsky]

Hey! This is my very inactive Tumblr lol but I thought you might get a kick out of knowing that I met someone at an archiving summer school in Edinburgh who recommended your fic, the principles of magnetism. Honestly I can't believe you're updating a fic five years in the making! I love it when that happens. Love your characterisation and notes. Please do keep going <3

honestly thrilled that my humble farcical fanfiction made its way to archiving summer school in edinburgh?! it’s going in my mental buck-up sticky note.

yeah idk what to say about updating such an old fanfiction…the absence is the easy part, nothing simpler than NOT doing something, especially when that something can be quite a lot like work and not very much like leisure. but i also feel a bit like principles is my emotional support fanfiction and i’m not positive i’ll be able to bring myself to conclude it. it’s been nice knowing it’s there and when i find myself overwhelmed with feelings about doomed victorian arctic exploration i can do some writing without coming up with a whole new idea.

this is surely more information than you wanted! THANK YOU for letting me know 💕

[lucife56]

For @bro-stoevsky inspired by "Principles of Magnetism (a Comedy of Manners)"

[bro-stoevsky]

NEPTUNE look at his perfect little face and dainty little paws i’m losing my mind