[berkgessthorne]

My favorite Uðr sketch I’ve done

If I can even get close to replicating this, I will be very proud of myself

[berkgessthorne]

You might be looking at this and thinking “James, what the fuck is this?” And that is valid. This looks like everything and nothing all at once.

Really my only explanation is this: the best way to improve at art is to get incredibly, absurdly, and abnormally obsessed with something.

…Anyway do you guys like the gay little tapestry drawing I did for shits and gigs right at the end there? I kinda wanna make it a bookmark! It’s cute!

[frailgun]

an unsung favorite of mine

[jjackfrost]

So I recently finished otnwas (my treat after finishing finals), and because I’m a crazy person I’m now listening to SANTAtheGREY’s podfic of it—and I’m just so curious, when did you start constructing the overall plot of the fic? Because I know it started as a sick fic, but even a few chapters in there are so many threads being weaved in together. Even the very first chapter has SO MUCH setup for the conclusion (I must commend you for the cyclical storytelling because it is s a t i s f y i n g).

Did you sit down one day and begin to create an overall outline during those first few chapters or did it just keep progressing more organically as you went from chapter to chapter? And AHHH, the title ties directly into the conclusion too, so how did that come into play despite it starting out as a sick fic? Was the ending inspired by the title or was the title still somehow inspired by the ending?

Thank you so much for this piece of work, by the way! It’s been a crazy distraction, but I’ve also been thoroughly enjoying having something to obsess over this last month. Never in my life did I think I’d get into Hijack, but damnit, you’ve converted me. Your writing is gorgeous, and especially chapter 28 meant a lot to me; it’s absolutely beautiful.

i had a vague outline but mostly i planned it chapter by chapter. they way it came together by the end was a result of the two, i think—some was a happy coincidence, some was planned. the ending was inspired by the title, which i think came together around like halfway through writing it, when i had a sort of ‘ive connected the dots’ moments. like. i dont remember exactly how i got the idea, but i imagine it must have been like, im rereading the first chapter and i suddenly look up and go, oh my god. the wind is a friend of his.

idk if its like disappointing(??) to hear that the twist wasnt planned from the start agwjdkfksj but yeah it was planned from like midway ish. for the longest time i was stressing out because i couldnt imagine how to give them a happy ending so i thought sad ending was the only way lol. close call

[jjackfrost]

what's up xxiiyu!

so, OTNWAS. masterclass in modern literature. sure it goes without saying but I'm still gonna

anyways, if you don't mind me asking, are there any pivotal scenes or lines that looked totally different at first or ended up being cut? always been super curious as to what those original drafts looked like!

HI sorry for taking so long to respond

honestly i have really bad memory and theres so much of the fic as it is that i can barely remember lol. the one thing that comes to mind is that when jack tells jamie about how he died, he explained it in a sort of flat way originally—like he didnt really get into it and there wasnt such a bonding moment between the two of them. one of my friends who beta read that chapter told me she wished the scene was more emotional so i changed it, and i think she was right!

also a maybe big thing is that originally while i was planning the fic it was going to be rotbfd but then i settled on just hijack at some point lol. and the biggest thing is probably that it was supposed to be a sic-fic one shot, it just went off the rails a little

if i find my old computer theres probably some planning notes and old drafts to be found lol but im extrememy disorganized so they might be lost (i write a lot in notebooks too and theres just no system lol It’s Bad) but itd be fun to look back on and collect some of it if i do find them. make a sort of behind the scenes kinda thing for those who are interested haha

also if i reread (which is in my plans but. long fic) i might recall some things but yeah

[jjackfrost]

Are you still writing? :0

in theory!!

i have many projects and i write a lot of casual stuff (rn im adapting dnd campaign stuff to a novel lol) but not anything that feels like I Am Writing Seriously you know? so my gut instinct is to say, no ive fallen off, but Technically i am using the skill of writing so. im gonna say yes, be kind to yourself

[charl0ttan]

does anyone have the foggiest

[amygdalae]

haven't. fresh out of the faintest as well

[marsbotz]

at the insane stage of character obsession where i start getting the urge to post pngs of them every five seconds like im showing ppl a picture of my stupid ass boyfriend that nobody likes but me

[cliffsecord]

[connemor]

idk if i can ever top this piece tbh. i need this on a tshirt.

[thememedaddy]

[lavenderpanic]

all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved

[djbodyhorror]

your mom jokes don't work when you know someone too well. I would never be in bed with such a wicked woman. That's not even what I had your mom saying last night. I wouldn't speak to her.

[ceruleana]

eva stratt makes me so fucking unwell because. imagine months of making hard call after hard call because you gotta, because someone's gotta, and this time it has to be you. and she keeps strong despite it, she keeps going. then the fucking pit in her stomach she must have felt, when she realized that Grace was her only option left. the horror of that realization. having to steel herself for the task. only to have him beg and plead and cry. her friend. how did she not throw up. how did she manage it. eva stratt the woman ever, how many people out there would have the sheer force of will, to be able to pull the trigger on their friend to save all humanity. and she didn't even know if it would work. she didn't know. for years. she didn't know if murdering her friend was worth the gamble. she just had to believe in him. fucking hell.

[shadowbrightshine]

I will never hate her. She went in knowing she was the scapegoat. She went in knowing this would all be blame on her. She would never been seen as a hero.

And she did it anyways. Honestly I bet she did throw up. Alone, away from everyone who could see her.

[eggueggueggueggu]

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

cave divers when they are happily married with kids and beloved by their community but theres a crack in the bottom of a lake called The Devil’s Rotting Esophagus where 57 people have died

[unclefather]

[psych-is-the-name]

[shinekocreator]

Okay, this is actually funny

[gutsandeverythingg]

i wish there was some kind of picture featuring a wolf and a lamb/bunny and it would be some sort of metaphore. like i just think it would be badass but i,m probably alone in this niche. nobody likes this

[gutsandeverythingg]

im probably fucked in the head