this is not a night for tragedy

writeblr/booklr. I write and read and give commentary on both. A source of serious craft and silliness and some liveblogging.

[augerer]

ianthe: harrow massively fucking up her brain in order to possibly save gideon’s soul is so insane and romantic IMO that i have decided i’m going to marry her.

also ianthe:  gideon i just don’t think harrow loves you.  anyway, here’s my fanfic scenario for how in like five hundred years harrow and i are going to have the same mad horny energy that like mercymorn and augustine do

[vex-de-rolo]

Harrowhark Nonagesimus in Gideon the Ninth // Gideon Nav in Harrow the Ninth

[aziminil]

☠️  DEATH FIRST TO VULTURES AND SCAVENGERS  ☠️

[saintdri]

Somebody take gideon the ninth away from me It’s SO NOT OUT OF MY SYSTEM YET

[strangehunger]

Locked Tomb Trilogy house skull paintings, from Tor.com Publishing's official Twitter.

[minaluci]

[exmakina]

Hey, I finished drawing the rest of The Pool Scene ™!

Was inspired after reading a bunch of comics and manga to work more on this.

[mylordshesacactus]

Actual Genuine 100% Accurate Harrow Spoilers

For such a supportive mom it sure was homophobic of Abigail Pent to insult Harrow’s meticulously-constructed 250k hurt/comfort slowburn Griddlehark coffeeshop AU like that.

[briarwickart]

Harrowhark Nonagesimus

Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House. Gloom mistress, penumbral lady, night boss, bone empr–

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praise-the-lord-im-dead replied to your post:praise-the-lord-im-dead replied to your post:How...

Ooh I LOVE that name. I’d suggest going for it.

Isn’t it a good one! If anyone else had used it, ever, I wouldn’t hesitate to pinch it.

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thewarlordscontract replied to your post:thewarlordscontract replied to...

(I love the nickname Ren.) ^ It’s almost as if that comment in parenthesis was meant to go with something else but the something else has skipped my mind.

She’s very adamant that that much at least stays.

(pfft)

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thewarlordscontract replied to your post:praise-the-lord-im-dead replied to your post:How...

What if you just alter the spelling slightly?

I thought of that too the problem is I like that spelling. So I think if I go that route I might just change the first syllable into a different one, since the character would go by Ren anyway.

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praise-the-lord-im-dead replied to your post:How likely do you think it is that I would get...

I don’t think names are considered intellectual property, but if it’s a well-known name from something popular you may endure heavy side-eye from your readers…

It is not a well known name (it’s from a really minor npc in a video game), the problem is that that is the only instance I can find of that name so it would be like straight up stealing as opposed to if I like... called a character Faith (I think that’s the protagonist of Mirror’s Edge?) or something, which is absolutely untraceable and you would have no idea.

thewarlordscontract replied to your post:How likely do you think it is that I would get...

Which name is it?

Tiachren.

[rickbman]

Diversity is not pandering. Diversity is realistic. Having an all white cast? That’s pandering.

[inbecoming]

How likely do you think it is that I would get sued for stealing a character’s name from another work?

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@brynwrites

Before we hijack poor OP’s post anymore (and because I hate long posts): that’s pretty much exactly how those ff chats went like 

author: says something character: complains other character: disagrees, goes off on a tangent, etc 

And in my experience more often than not it falls flat because it’s of most interest to the author? It’s kind of like rping but with yourself - no one else is gonna give a shit about your RP logs, and similarly, I’m not sure people would be interested in that sort of extracanonical text, and again, I don’t think the tonal dissonance with the rest of the work would make it seem professional.

Maybe if you framed it as like… actual writing, rather than casual interaction, but then you’d run back into the problem of inconveniencing readers who just read the last book, thank you, and would love to plow ahead now?

It also maybe depends on what information you’re trying to get across and how fast. Like, as an author, do you assume your audience has forgotten literally everything and that you need to recap it all, or do you figure that they’ll remember as they get into the text and you can just kind of scatter reminders through the first chapter?

[brynprocrastinates]

Ew, that’s nasty. Why would anyone do that.

I would never write a summary unless it was in the form of an actual scene… but I would make it really short. Like only the exact information you need in order to plunge forward, without the terrible mess of “well we started way back here at the very beginning.” 

But I say that while having no intention of doing a recap for the next twlc book. Because as much as there are a lot of little things that tie into the second book from the first, you don’t really need to know anything but the worldbuilding to understand what’s going on, and there will be a glossary for anyone who needs to refresh their understanding of that.

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Because the entire goal of ff.net circa like… 2008? Was to be as unspeakably annoying as possible. I should see if I can find one they were real gems of obnoxiousness.

Yeah I mean it’s an interesting decision to have to make like… how much do you recap and how. But I think that’s a good call like if you’re going to recap do it as efficiently as possible and including only what absolutely needs to be said so your audience can follow along. 

(That seems like a good call.)

[brynprocrastinates]

I never read the recaps no matter how little I remember the book… I could remember literally nothing and just looking at a block of text makes my brain go NOPE, and I skip to the first instance of dialogue.

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I’m same like I said I’d rather read the previous book again than read a recap so... I will probably never write one. Sorry future readers.

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thewarlordscontract replied to your post:thewarlordscontract replied to...

In my book, dudefriend is a friend who characterizes the basic ‘dude’ qualities, like daring people to eat bugs, or entire cubes of butter, or slap each other’s bare chest, but I figured you meant lurve interest, because guys and girls clearly aren’t allowed to interact in books unless they fall in low.

Actually... neither of these characters were in any way dudely (I was just trying to take a step back from boyfriend) like the bug eating was very much born of practicality in one case and cultural dissonance in the other rather than posturing which is why I was in favor of going the bug eating route. And still am. This is still a thing I want to happen.