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@literary-mafioso
Pseudonymous side blog or fic writing stuff, meta, inspo, headcanon shitposting, etc. Omertà! I primarily follow from my main account but if I follow you from here it’s because I dig your posts and want to see them on both dashboards.
ICON CREDIT: the legendary @sanhunpo
let's all watch crime story 1986
What are your fav books/books that inspired you the most?
Insofar as they inform my fic writing:
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (as well as his collected short stories)
No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Chicago by David Mamet
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by Delmore Schwartz
That's just off the top of my head!
I am the honored recipient of a Tumblr Typewriter 🥲 🥲 🥲
I'm presently working on more like... practical WIPs lmao but the force with which the Heat 1995/Inception 2010 crossover AU has invaded my brain and is taking on a more definitive shape is difficult to ignore. Perhaps I shall Make an Outline About It
More the Pitt au…need to get back to drawing canon because this crack au is getting out of hand
4, 7, 18 !!
TY ATLAS!!! ILY
Is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?
It's the Great Depression: Neil McCauley is a New York City Police Detective grieving his failed marriage, Vincent Hanna is a former petty criminal who's "cleaned up" (to the extent he can muster) as a Times Square burlesque producer. I've always wanted to do an AU with the roles of Lawman/Deviant reversed, or an AU that involves the nightclub industry, so this is a two birds/one stone situation. AND one that does not require me to cheat on my hometown with Chicago or LA for once! Not that I don't enjoy doing that tremendously.
Is there a fic you wish you received feedback on, but didn't get any/much? This ask game is asking someone else to then give feedback on said fic, pretty pretty please!!!
Firstly no one should interpret this as a request for feedback LOL, I understand we all lead busy, hectic lives and I treat any and all inbox notifications as a lovely surprise bonus to the fruits of my personal compulsion. With that preamble aside, I jump for joy whenever anybody comments on my Lowell/Jeffrey fic for The Insider. Rarepair to end all rarepairs!
How do you want your writing to feel to your readers?
Transportive, I hope! I write a very, very intimate or what I like to call “over-the-shoulder” third person limited, after one of Mann's favorite camera angles, as close as you can get without seeing through lens/inhabiting the gaze itself:
I want to orient the reader as fully as I can to the subjective headspace, the sensory experience of the perspective character, inclusive of all those fun constraints and distortions.
I am also big on grounding the story in its particular time, place, and culture, to the fullest extent my research and experience allow. I grew up in an American city and have traveled throughout them all my life, so I have a lot of love for the vibrancy of that environment, the intensity of it. Living and working in those cosmopolitan centers involves an entire skillset unto itself, not least of which is navigating a constant barrage of stimulation and information. So whatever the opposite of White Room Syndrome is — I'm going for, uh, Neon Metropolitis.
3 and 9!
Aw, thank you anon :)
What's something you like about your writing?
It is really, really hard to reconcile certain aims of the fic-writing enterprise, ahem, with the actual psychology of the characters in question. With this source material, anyone who suggests otherwise is kidding themselves. But I'd like to think I get from point A to point B with a relative minimum of canon rule-bending, that I'm pretty decent at getting the average reader to suspend disbelief.
Tell us about a WIP/idea that you're excited about!
I'm working on a prequel to “Catch Me When I Fall” that is scorching but logistically a nuisance! Like, the pieces on that one are just coming together very slowly. My hope is that when there's less demand for brain real estate the nuts and bolts of the story will reveal themselves to me. But even though I'm banging my head against the wall, I have a good feeling about it.
There's also an immediate sequel to “Double Trouble” brewing that covers Frank and Vincent's first real, non-abortive foray into intimacy.
✶ . ၄၃ . FIC WRITER ASK GAME !
any [insert __] is for the sender to fill in :)
1 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose? tell us about it if you want!
2 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any completely new fic without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), what would you write? tell us about it if you want!
3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?
4 ⧽. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?
5 ⧽. is there a certain kind of fic that feels the most satisfying to finish? any reason why?
6 ⧽. if you were to write a part two/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?
7 ⧽. is there a fic you wish you received feedback on, but didn't get any/much? this ask game is asking someone else to then give feedback on said fic, pretty pretty please!!!
8 ⧽. what part of [insert fic] is your favorite?
9 ⧽. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about!
10 ⧽. what genre is generally the easiest or most enjoyable for you to write? which is the hardest?
11 ⧽. if you were to rewrite [insert fic] with [insert different character/ship] how do you think it might change?
12 ⧽. what's a song or two you associate with [insert fic]?
13 ⧽. do you have any writing projects/goals/plans you're working on/want to work on?
14 ⧽. is there anything outside of your normal content that you want to write?
15 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] with [insert character/ship] what do you think it might be about?
16 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] what character/ship would you want to write it for?
17 ⧽. are there any songs you want to write a songfic for?
18 ⧽. how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?
19 ⧽. give a hint/teaser about something you're writing without any context or explanation! tease us haha
20 ⧽. answer any one of the other questions that you want to!
Sorry for spamming your likes but also i watched heat all the way throufh two days in a row so im definitely having a normal one
LMAO you are totally good and also BEEN THERE! Been having a normal one over Heat 1995 for like five years now!!!
The Pitt au…in which they are both working for LA general emergency department’s night shift and are roommates and every single person in the hospital can smell their sexual tension
The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.
Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?
Read this part with a hand clasped over my mouth lmao
WHEEZE
Read this part with a hand clasped over my mouth lmao
I lose my mind at this exact moment of the scene every time I watch it. Neil's judgmental, long-suffering Glance of Concern is pure poetry. TFW your most cherished homie just CANNOT get his shit together
This footnote made my heart ache a little bit.
