imaginemnu

26/F introvert who likes to read

[aaronstveit]

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[imaginemnu]

'if i was orpheous i would-' no if i was me, and you were you, i wouldn't turn around. I would walk out of the underworld with a lie, a safe life. I would lead whatever hand i was holding out, whether that be you or another, for the slight chance that it would be you. I would doubt and panic and distrust and wish and hurt, all the while looking ahead, not a thought of confirmation in my head. I could never be orpheous, my love, for the chance that you would never be lost to me like eurydice.

[writingmaz]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[herstories]

omg this is so helpful

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[gazinatmcgrath]

Raise your hands if you can only see Kara and Lena in this gif. I have it saved but I have no idea where it's from so even I can only see the Supercorp version in my head.

[imaginemnu]

Ok but what was the thought process behind Nessarose defending Galinda, her sister's bully, from Elphaba, but somehow failing to do the same for her sister from her father and at the ozdust? Like Madam Morrible and Galinda actually defend Elphaba but she just turns her back on her cause she's 'embarassed'!?

[fxtion-fweax]

Nessa is only defending Galinda to one person who wont hurt her / who she's comfortable with: Elphaba

At the Ozdust, she was surrounded by so many people and she was literally reliving a childhood bad memory

Mind you, Nessa is usually talked over and infantilised by everyone else and not taken seriously.

She's not just embarrassed

She's uncomfortable

And she knows that Elphaba has been bullied since forever so she can probably handle herself.

[imaginemnu]

Ok i could understand not standing up to her at the ozdust, maybe even with her father becaise while we are shown his endless love for her, he also babies her alot so its safe to say he could ignore her pleas to treat Elphaba better, possibly, we never see iit happening so we dont actually know if it wouldn't work because her telling him the way he treats her sister hurts her too would definitely cause a ripple atleast. But i can let all that go.

My issue is more of her expeting her sister to suddenly be okay/like/thank her bully because said bully sent a boy to ask her to the dance. Its ok, be happy, she's never been on date, probably. But, like that has to be one of her most insensitive moments, and after seeing part two am more convinced its to do more with entitlement. She expects to get wjat she wants from every one around her and barely pays mind how it affects them. She wants boq to stay with jer so she basically imprisons him and his entire race, and then shows she's hurt when he ignores her. As the audience we know Boq's true feelings and motives behind being with her but she doesn't so its not even a revenge thing where you can say she was mad at him for that, its just a "you will love and stay with me no matter what or how you feel about it" thing. And dont get me started on the part where she's mad that her fugitive sister wasn't able to attend their father's funeral so she could console her like elphaba also didnt lose a father, as much as frexpar was but still. Like ask her if she's ok, maybe even what really happened witht the wizard but no, the whole thing is about her being miserable, even her father's death. I dont know if i was supposed to oike Nessa's character, i could say she was a bit naive in part one but part two just really doesn't help her much. At the end of the day i could call her a spoiled little sister who's used to gettimg her way. I realise now that i sound so harsh towards her but its actually more disappointment in her case because i liked her for some reason i cannot yet name, maybe it was the actress, or the cute baby in the flashback scene, her character's decisions hurt me because i expected more from her. Perhaps i shouldn't have gone in blind.

[imaginemnu]

What do you mean i haven't read an addybeth time travel fix it fic? What happened to Addy going back in time to fix all her mistakes and get to keep her girl? There's too much potential there. addybeth fic writer's, where are you?

[casebasket]

The fact that elphaba could not believe fiyero would find her beautiful but glinda gives her this look:

And her instant reaction is of course you would find me beautiful, and good, and great, you love me, you look at me with the pinkest, rosiest glasses, you are incredibly biased, dont look at me as you but THEM - she doesn't even question it. She knows in her bones glinda loves her and finds her beautiful. Everybody else she's unsure, but glinda? Glinda, who lives her life in lavish beauty, never a hair out of place, and stares at elphaba, in complete disarray? Elphaba knows. She will find elphie good and beautiful.

[imaginemnu]

Yes, this!!! Like there's absolutely no doubt, even with everything, she still believes that

[elletao]

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[alpacaroni-and-cheese]

just got stabbed in the heart with missing-fatin-jadmani-syndrome

[elletao]

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[alpacaroni-and-cheese]

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[elletao]

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[alpacaroni-and-cheese]

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[imaginemnu]

Fics are starting to feel like horror movies right now. What do you mean when you warn me about angst in your notes and then bombard me with fluff. Am reading the fluff like the silence before a jumpscare...

[thememedaddy]

[imaginemnu]

Agreed

[dittobtch]

The Three Stages of Getting Hit by a Car: A Brief Recollection by Leah Rilke

The first stage is, of course, actually getting hit. It's the only part anyone talks about. You feel it before you see it. No time to react. Nothing to do but let it happen.

(Like when you realize you're going to be trapped on an island for three days at some Oprah-wannabe-feminist-slash-mental-health retreat and the only person you know is someone who probably couldn't pick you out from a lineup. But the plane already took off. There's nothing to do about it now.)

The second stage is the longest. It drags out and maybe you pass out for some of it, but it happens. The impact is too strong to resist and suddenly, you're in the air.

(Suddenly, you're crashing.)

It's the slowest second of your life. You can do nothing but contemplate, but all of your thoughts are out of order:

Fuck, I just got hit by a car.

What was my last meal?

My dog is going to be so pissed about getting dinner late.

I just got hit by a car.

Maybe I can get out of my math test.

I just got hit by a car, why am I thinking about that?

Holy shit I just got hit by a car.

I don't think CPR can fix this.

I think that's the north star.

(Suddenly, you're bonding with someone who never spared a glance at you in the hallways at school. You're screaming at her and you don't know why. Her blood is on your face. You need her. Fuck you need her. No, actually, she can go fuck herself. Is that Ben Folds? Oh. Hugging her feels safe. Oh. I only smile when she's around. Oh. I want her. Fuck.)

Finally, there's the second hit. Your body makes contact with the ground and the sound it makes will haunt you for life. In some ways, it's worse; your body aches and it hurts to breathe. (Your life changes. Your mind changes. Everything revolves around her her her.) And in some fucked up way, it's better. (It's Fatin.) Because you hit the asphalt and everything hurts but adrenaline is pumping through your veins and holy shit you just survived a car crash (a broken heart, a deserted island, an encounter with your psychotic kidnapper). You can't move, but you're breathing.

You're alive.

[imaginemnu]

Never forget

[imaginemnu]

I think i figured out why morrible hates galinda.

Morrible is the wizard's secretary, so elphaba being her only student, even after galinda shows interest and is rejected, should give her some good popularity, but galimda chooses to hate her, so the whole school follows her lead. Same with when she starts to show that sje supports and gets along with elphaba.

Ultimately, that showed galinda has more influence over students at shiz than morrible. So really, morrible's just jealous and petty.

Otherwise, why didn't she help elphaba herself? Certainly would have helped gain her trust while showing her influence.

[imaginemnu]

I think i finally figured out why Morrible has beef with Galinda!

Morrible is the wizard's secretary so she should be, atleast, the second most famous person in Oz, but maybe Galinda has more sway over the students at shiz. Elphaba being morrible's only student should, at the very least, prevent other student's from making fun of her, and at most, have all of them try to get in her good graces to get to morrible. But galinda decides to hate her, and they follow her lead, and the same when she starts showing she and elphaba get along (at ozdust).

So by all accounts, galinda is more popular amd thus has more power than morrible, which she must hate.

Otherwise , why didn't she stop all the students from messing with elphaba to further gain her trust and show her influence?

[michellemeowdriguez]

@crashandfurious ty for tag like always crashie!

currently reading: postcards from the edge!

last song: chateau lobby #4 (in c for two virgins). i haven't listened to father john misty since high school but yesterday i remembered how jb liked real love baby (← normal way to engage with music)

last film: oh. room. it was all right. i only watched it 'cause i read the book in an effort to try to learn to write better kidfic

last series: pop star academy :)) ty for the reminder to cancel my netflix; i literally only got it for that

sweet/savory/salty: sweet i think <3

tea or coffee: shitty black coffee from the office keurig right now. but chocolate ibarra

working on: THE MAPHINZ DIVORCE FIC which is going to be over 10k i fear. have not forgotten about red sun either. also this lettymia (maybe it's gen, idk) lompoc years foster care a.u. i've been toying with for a while... ...and finally getting my stupid fucking license (crashie we are in the same boat 😭). and fixing my potassium levels and NOT DOING ANY MORE EXTENDED FASTING!! at least not after these next few months. and applying to postgrad fellowships. and a legal memo about a specific kind of chatbot for my job lol

TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW MORE tagging everybody even those of you who haven't been on here in a hot minute but hi @omegatual @billys-pilgrimage @jenluvr2001 @acequidwrites @imdreamingwiththestars @indignancies @siewmai @purrtyhatemachine @imaginemnu no pressure ever~

[imaginemnu]

Well @delilahprofitt, ask and you shall receive.

Currently reading: about a dozen fics, but, to be brief, reading (un) friendly rivalry right now

Last song: when the darkness comes by colbie caillat, this brought by my decision to binge the shadowhunters, which made me want to rewatch the movie.

Last film: bring her back, horror movie, gory, but i liked it, before that though i bawled my eyes out at Straw, so that was nice (ty tarajji)

Last series: Ginny and Georgia, finally decided to binge watch all the seasons at once and now i wish i'd waited for the last season, lobed it though, so there's that.

Sweet/savory/salty: i like all, but sweet might be my number one.

Tea/coffee: tea, i drink coffee once a year and let it go, thats an addiction i will not walk myself into

Working on: finishing something, anything, from my fics to my self tutoring I.T courses. Will get there someday, probably, hopefully.

TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW MORE

Let me try a few of my mutuals and see where it goes, no pressure

@bagmanunlucky @likeatattokiss @localgaysian @shipperofdoomedships @apologetequirit @lavupland @graspingembrace @wordsofmyreality @incorrectagathaallalongquotes

And anyone else interested that i couldn't tag

[imaginemnu]

If am subscribed to you, not just to a fic of yours, have you considered being into all my fandoms, shipping all my ships, and writing all those fanfics? I feel like you can just telepathically know.

[imaginemnu]

A time traavel fic set in the vampire diaries timeline, where all the Mikaelsons are still alive and visiting mystic falls, when all of the sudden, a gaggle of kids appear in the salvatore manor. The supersquad tell all the kids not to say anything at first as they don't want to change the future so they lie and say they are a coven that perfomed a transformation spell gone wrong. No one believes them but there is no other explanation so they let them stay there. Hope was in malivore, but was also pulled by the spell, (because Josie performed it to remember who they had forgotten but ended up sending them back in time instead, but thats a middle of the story reveal when they all learn she's been using dark magic.). Hope comes out but no one remembers her and this time malivore sends monsters to kill her parents so he can be unstoppable. His first target is Hayley but Hope saves her and tells her she can't die because she has a daughter in the future who can stop malivore, Hope doesn't tell Hayley she's that daughter though, just that they're friends. The supersquad see one of the students fade when their parents die, get scared and tell the vampire diaries gang and the originals(who stayed to help because of the malivore threat to destroy all supernaturals and humans alike) the truth about their identities. Some of their parents are attacked and they have to come clean to them. They enlist Hope to help because she knows more than they do, though she denies knowing them. Josie doesn't trust her because she feels she's hiding something. Hope finally gets hurt by a monster thats about to kill Klaus, causing her to get a fever and hallucinations. She projects her memories unknowingly that play out in holograms in the salvatore living room. The memories are shown bit by bit so each reveal happens as she's fighting to stop them but she's too sick to control her powers. The first one reveals her mother. The second one revealing that she was a student at salvatore, and friends with alaric, as well as the supersquad each in segments. The next one reveals that she and Josie were in a relationship, but had a fight about Hope not telling Josie she loved her too just before Hope jumped in malivore, it also shows her telling Josie she loves her in a heartwarming voicemail she never got to send. Then, finally, just as malivore has sent more monsters to finish the Job, and the mikaelsons and marcel and his people( they came to join after malivore's monsters made an impact in new orleans) are considering giving up as there is no chance for her survival,(they need both of her parents blood to cure her), a final hologram shows her life with each of the Mikaelson's(sweet moments where they are happy including Freya because Hope freed her from dahlia's spell but Dahlia got away and is lying in wait), revealing Klaus as her father. They finally save her life while the rest fight the monsters to stop them from killing her, now knowing why. The monsters are defeated and she is saved. They continue to fight them as they try to stop malivore, who has managed to possess landon, and now Hope has to decide between killing her bestfriend and dying, with everyone around her telling her to kill him. Josie's dark magic gets worse after she performs the spell to make everyone remember Hope. Some witches try to kill her but her coven protects her.

Notes: Josie and Hope reunite after the holigram fiasco.

Josie and Lizzie's identity is found out when they find out from Luke and Liv(their uncle and aunt) about the merge, Lizzie goes ballistic and blames their dad for keeping it from them.

some sweet family moments

Hope knew about the merge a day before she jumped in malivore, but Alaric made her promise not to tell the twins before he could. Josie gets mad at him for manipulating her girlfriend into lying to her.

some sweet friendship moments between the supersquad.

Hope is basically a beloved idol/celebrity at salvatore school.she's too cool not to be.

Freya teaches Hope how to control her powers, which gets every faction to start teaching the kids to control their powers.

Josie's dark magic puts everyone, except Hope who Josie asssures she's got it under control, on edge.

Josie convinces Hope to turn her, but initiates the merge between her and Kai before feeding, meaning she's still human, and feeds after she's won. This means that she's an eternal coven leader so no more twins have to merge as she'll always be the strongest witch in her coven. Josie makes this decision after Hope has decided to turn into a full tribrid to defeat malivore.