The Rachel Wayne Universe

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[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet… continues  today with two chapters for Valentines day.

Chapter 36 - Ecce Homo

Chapter 37 - Nec Possum Tecum Vivere, Nec Sine Te

[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet… continues  today with a chapter detailing the team up of Batwoman, Robin and the Question as well as  an apology for going radio silent for so long and a promise at least one more rewritten chapter will be posted within the next few days.

Chapter 35 - Nemo Liber Est Qui Corpori Servit

[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet… continues today with 3 chapters. I meant to update sooner since two of those chapters have been finished for like a week, but it slipped my mind because the high school I’m teaching at went back to in-person instruction so I had a lot of prep work & worrying to do. -_-

Chapter 32 - Lux Ex Tenebris

Chapter 33 - Rara Avis

Chapter 34 - Felix Natalis Diem

[rachel-wayne]

One, I just wanted to say I totally understand if it took you longer for chapters to come out, 2020 is a pain in the ass. Two, I also wanted to ask how you improved with your writing?

2020 is indeed a pain in the ass. -_-  Here’s  list of what I think helped improve my writing:

Read a whole bunch of stuff. Fanfiction, fiction, non-fiction, comic books, etc. Good writing, bad writing, meh writing, weird writing. I think it kinda gives me this huge frame of reference for how words can be put together to set the mood, get emotions across and such, makes your writing more varied.

Watching narrative movies and TV-shows and listening to narrative podcasts/etc. Similar to the above bullet point.

Writing. Just keep writing. When I look back at my old work (like the really old stuff that you can technically find online but you gotta do some looking) I can tell that my writing got better after I did it for a while, especially if I was writing the same story for a while. My writing improved so much when I was writing my crappy Doctor Who fanfic which was super long, then it improved so much more as I was writing Scilicet... and it especially improved every time I did Nanowrimo. (I’ve done Nano several times, mostly for an original sci-fi novel which is still a work in progress)

Reread and editing my stuff. I first realized how helpful this was when I spent a Nano editing and rewriting my sci-fi novel and then went back to writing some fic. Now as I’m editing Scilicet... I’m realizing that just thinking about what I’m writing makes it better.

[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet…FINALLY continues today with two chapters and an announcement that I have a job! Literally the day after I moved in with my father & step-mother due to not having a job I found a local long-term substitute teaching job which has now become a full time job!

Chapter 30 - Quae Nocent Saepe Docent

Chapter 31 - Cogito Ergo Doleo

[rachel-wayne]

Did you see the Batman trailer?? If yes what do you think about it?

I hadn’t heard it had come out until this ask, so I went and watched it so I could answer this!

So to start off with I like the whole like aesthetic/look of what’s in the trailer, from the Batsuit to Catwoman having a sensible outfit, to the Joker thugs. Also I mean, it’s a trailer, but I liked that the camera seemed to be very “steady” - like it’s most notable in the Joker thug beatdown, In general I like more steady cameras rather then when they try to make scenes more action packed by whipping the camera all over the place.

Really visually wise, the only thing I saw that I went “meh” about was the shot of the church where Bruce just... is not looking good. Center part with that length of hair is not the way to go man, you look like my brother when he used to have bowl cuts.

In general I’m really interested! I’d been kinda casually intersted when I heard about the casting and saw the like costume test image, but I guess I’d thought it was gonna be a continuation film not a reboot? So now that I’m like “oh it’s a reboot” I’m very fascinated by how they’re going to play it, like are we gonna get Batman Begins where it’s a movie with time jumps/etc, or a movie like the original Batman film that just is straight up “Batman is here now”.

I’m thinking we get something set after Batman is established but with a LOT of flashbacks to his early days... also I’m thinking maybe it’s gonna make Joker either cannon or semi-cannon, given the Joker thugs that Bats beats up in the “I’m vengence” scene.

It looks like they are setting up Riddler as the “main” villain, or at least the villain driving the story and I’m interested in where they’re going with it... like I’m wondering if we’ll get something like Two-Face starting crimes when he’s still Dent, or some other corruption that Batman doesn’t see due to his “blind eye” Or maybe we’ll get a “you go after street crime but what about white collar crime” thing?

So my thoughts are pretty scattered but it looks really darn good! I was already like “ooo new Batman, new stories/etc for me to snatch and repurposed” and now I’m like “holy shit this looks cool.”

[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet…continues today with a single chapter due to TheRaven1845 leaving a comment on A03 which got me out of the funk caused by a lack of a job and general COVID / Summer malaise / getting invested in other stuff like trying out Twitch Streaming. Hopefully more chapters coming soon!

Chapter 29 - Dis Aliter Visum

[rachel-wayne]

Hello! Just wanted to ask if Jason is going to make an appearance If he will, is it going to be soon or when Dick is nightwing? I love your fic btw

Hello! I do plan on having Jason (and eventually Tim) come in. Plans are still very hazy and up in the air, as well as a bit of “I wanna keep this on the down low so I surprise people.” because I thrive on that.

Also just a general update: I’m alive, I’m still (trying) to work on stuff. It’s just been hard due to life being thrown into chaos by the entity known as 2020, most specifically the fact that I’m unemployed and it looks like that’s going to be true for the foreseable future. I’ve been in a funk recently, unable to really do much of anything productive. The most I’ve done recently is a History teacher stream over on Twitch which you can now watch on YouTube here.

[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet…continues today with a single chapter because summer is making the author loose all sense of time and motivation and she made the mistake of buying Okami for the Nintendo Switch and has been spending waaaaay too much time playing it.

Chapter 28 - In Flagrante Delicto

[rachel-wayne]

Hey, I just want to tell u I enjoy your fanfic. What's it like being a teacher

Being a teacher is... weird. Like part of me still feels odd when people look to me for answers/knowledge/etc because most days I feel like I’m two kids in a trench coat stumbling around and I’m pretty sure I’ve got imposter syndrome?

Also a huge part of being a teacher is the fact that you’re never NOT a teacher. Like i think if you work in an office or what have you, you go home and you’re just you, not office worker you. As a teacher you’re always a teacher even when you’re at home doing something non-teacher. Part of this is due to actual legal obligations (as a teacher I’m a mandated reporter, meaning that if I see/suspect child abuse I’m legally mandated to report it, so I tend to freak out in semi-questionable situations) and part of it is due to teachers being underpaid and overworked, even in a state with fairly decent unions like California. You pretty much have to bring work home, especially during your first few years and you NEVER have everything you want or even everything you need. So like Sundays are workdays for me-- that’s when I do lesson prep for the week ahead and grading and such. Also depending on how the day/week goes I may end up just working after school with only a quick break to make dinner.

But at the same time being a teacher is AMAZING. I honestly love what I do and get so attached to the students. I damn near CRIED when I told my students I wouldn’t be at the school next year (because they’re cutting positions due to $$, despite our district admins making bank and the school needing those cut positions to function).

[rachel-wayne]

Hi! I wanted to ask wether Damian will appear in the story later or not. If yes, how are you gonna fit him? Cause he’s Batman’s and Talia’s son. But since Batman is female, she and cant have children.

Damian will be appearing very far in the future since, as I’ve previously mentioned, I want to have all the Robins, or at least all the “main” Robins and we’ve only just got Dick in that role recently in the fic. I’ve currently undecided between a few differnet ways that Damian will appear and can’t say more as most of those ways involve surprising my readers.

So yes, Daiman will appear eventually.

[rachel-wayne]

Which was harder? Writing Etrigan or the Riddler?

Etrigan was definitely harder! For Riddler I could just google riddles and rewatch the various episodes of Batman: the Animated Series until I got something that worked and I was more content to go with something I didn’t love but that worked. For Etrigan she’s got some major hints at future/past events to drop, so it was harder for me to find something that worked and I had to do the damn rhyming on my own.

[rachel-wayne]

Will Tim and kon appear in this universe?

Yes I have very specific plans for them... but given we’ve just gotten Dick as Robin and I also plan to have Jason in this story, we’ve got a ways to go before that point.

[rachel-wayne]

Are the Teen Titans or the Young Justice going to appear in the near future?

I don’t know if we’ll get an actual team of either, but the characters will likely show up at least in passing and have already gotten a mention in chapters 30 & 31. To be honest I’ve only watched a little of both shows and know a little from my “general comic knowledge” as well as a friend who was more into them, so it’s somewhat unlikely they’ll show up as “main” characters. Rather they’d show up like the other members of the Justice League do -- largely in the context of “cases” the League is working.

[rachel-wayne]

Are we going to see Martha embarrass Clark about the corn costume?

Definitively... though Alfred has a few stories which will ensure the embarrassment goes both ways. : 3

[anneapocalypse]

put a fanfic trope in my inbox

and I will tell you:

how likely I am to write it

what character(s) or pairing I’d most likely write it for

[captain-rachel]

BONUS: I might write a little drabble featuring it.

[rachel-wayne]

Hey guys I’m doing this over on my main Tumbler @captain-rachel. No time limit on sending in asks. If I end up writing any dabbles that connect to Scilicet... I’ll reblog them over here.

[rachel-wayne]

The posting of the rewritten chapters of Scilicet…continues today with two chapters which bring the adorable Richard Grayson into the story!

Chapter 26 - Eram Quod Es, Eris Quod Sum

Chapter 27 - Perfer Et Obdura; Dolor Hic Tibi Proderit Olim