davantage de nuit

i write fanfiction. asks welcome. More_night on AO3. also fountain pens.

[davantagedenuit]

exercises in style: superbat

Exercises in Style is a 1947 book by Raymond Queneau. It draws on rhetoric textbooks from Antiquity to the Renaissance. In Queneau's version, a two-paragraph story is told in 99 different styles. I am doing this exercise with a short piece of superbat fic. The original ("vanilla") short fic is here. Variations are indexed below. Variations 6, 7 and 8 follow prompts from Superbat Week 2024.

Wings

Touch

Short basic sentences

Body horror

Notes

Identity shenanigans

Exobio extravaganza

Doctor Clark and firefighter Bruce

Haiku

Smell

Joy

In media res

Second person

Future

Vampires

Non-finite surbordinate "-ing" clauses

Official batlog

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

preach!

[ohdorotheabrooke]

[headspace-hotel]

Gilgamesh fandom grab your ancient sumerian tablets

[iveseenitinmovies]

fitzjames during the melodrama scene:

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

preach!

[ohdorotheabrooke]

[headspace-hotel]

Gilgamesh fandom grab your ancient sumerian tablets

[papes-and-capes]

CHRISTIAN BALE as BRUCE WAYNE THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) dir. Christopher Nolan

[papes-and-capes]

CHRISTIAN BALE as BRUCE WAYNE THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan

[ponkothepenguin]

Made this no good very bad presentation for a powerpoint night one of my friends is hosting! The instructions were to pick literally anything, and, well…. You know.

Sincerely hoping this isn't too insane for the non-polarhead. ah well

[davantagedenuit]

Some people's friends host powerpoint nights.

Well.

The more you know.

[allsonargent]

Chelsea Peretti as Gina Linetti in Brooklyn Nine Nine (2013—2021)

[depsidase]

[franklins-leg]

Oh what’s that I spy, MOAR sneaky Bridgens-Peglar handholding? 

[franklins-leg]

Also, James in the background, staring right at them

[sappsorrow]

@frauncis

[fruitypieq]

Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

[rightintheghoulies]

Saint Silna

Holographic scraperfoil.

She's a saint cos of how the floof frames her like a holy glow! And also cos of all the shit she put up with...

[thereissomethinginthecorn]

[todaysbird]

Today’s bird is not one bird but TWO birds who are snuggling

[teaboot]

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

[seven-oh-four]

you didn't ONCE think to check the url?

[teaboot]

I WANTED TO FINISH READING IT FIRST

[seal-of-unknown]

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

[davantagedenuit]

The worst is that only English books troll you like that. Normal books for normal people like French books or German books actually tell you what the f is inside the book.

[tvandfilm]

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE 5.03 – "Kicks"