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Discord Diamonds ep21

The super talented @ariabauer aka RunWithWolves joined us in The Library for this week’s #WisdomWednesday and cooked up this delightful prompt response in just ten minutes!

Prompt was to write something from Carmilla’s perspective:

“Cupcake,” Carmilla rubbed the bridge of her nose, “please. Just walk away. Everyone knows these games are a scam.”

“Absolutely not! I’m winning this thing!” Laura said.

“You’re really not.”

“Well,” Laura huffed, “Now I’ve got to prove you wrong. So feel free to ditch if you need to but I’m staying right here.”

Carmilla fingers twitched to simply haul her roommate away. Distract her that this was Laura’s idea of a recon mission. That this whole thing was worthless and pointless and going to get them all killed.

Except.

Laura’s nose was scrunched tight, a baseball gripped tightly in her fingers as the dollar she’d slapped onto the old wooden counter vanished into the vendor’s pockets. Determination written in every line of her body as she rubbed the worn ball between her palms.

It was adorable and Carmilla hated it.

And Carmilla loved it.

She turned her gaze to the carny instead. His smile was swarmy and Carmilla fought the urge to hiss at him when a glare would do just fine. He stepped back, smile dropping just a little, “Whenever you’re ready lil miss.”

“I was born ready.”

Carmilla couldn’t help but look at her again. Moth to a flame.

Flames of brilliant colour. The colourful midway lights bounced off Laura’s face, casting her in ethereal hues, but not even the rides had been enough to entice Laura away from her sixth consecutive try at the carnival game. Take the baseball. Knock over all the bottles. Win a prize.

Easy enough.

Carmilla knew better.

Her mother had been fond of scams of every sort and while being in a carnival may have been beneath her mother, owning one certainly wasn’t. Carmilla had seen the books of the very carnival they walked through.

There was no way Laura was making that shot.

No way for Carmilla to tell her that without revealing too much. Without shattering the fragile trust they’d created. Without losing Laura’s smile.

Laura squinted, her tongue just poking from between her teeth as she took her shot.

[ariabauer]

I don't if you'll understan who I'm talking about but do you remember an artist who made really dope pencil drawings? I remember they'd made a fanart of your work in a Calvin and Hobbes style with little Laura and panther Carmilla. I've lost them and would really like to see their work again. Any idea who I'm talking about?

Fun fact: every single fanart that has ever been done of my fanfic is in a folder on my computer because they make me so happy.

In this case, I believe you are referring to the following drawing by @takemetolurch which was actually the inspiration to writing Wishing on Imaginary Stars which was then turned into fanart by a couple of people (did you mean one of those? i think stylistically lurch’s is the one you meant?)

https://ariabauer.tumblr.com/post/137967902219/takemetolurch-hollstein-calvin-hobbes-au

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oh wait you said no to 31 in your tags lmao never mind

Sorry about that! You can definitely submit a different prompt if you want, or make up one of your own!

If you did want to read a hollstein au along those lines, could I point you to Find You In The Dark by @ariabauer? It’s much longer than my minific ever would have been!

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ariabauer replied to your post “When you’re at a wedding and your assigned seat for dinner is at a...”

HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THIS?!?! also. this sounds like a fanfic and i approve.

I get very confident and flirty when I’m a certain level of drunk. It just happened to work out in my favor.  Also yes, now that you’ve pointed it out I realize it does sound like a fanfic.  I should have gotten that bridesmaid’s phone number.  Shit.

Well I probably have to write this at some point now.  Or someone else could.  Ooh here, I’ll turn it into a prompt:

Person A is at a wedding listening to a couple dudebros go on about sleeping with the bridesmaids, one of which is Person B. Person A gets drunk and ends up making out with Person B.

Person A then forgets to get Person B’s phone number and has a really awful hangover the next day and her sister keeps laughing at her.

That last part is optional.

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ariabauer replied to your post “ugh goddammit @carmillaseries is gonna make me read gilgamesh isn’t it”

i read it so you don't have to. honestly, it's quite possibly my least favourite myth

Dude, coming from you that’s a seriously damning review.

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3, 11, 23 writer questions thingy :D

Thanks Aria! :D 

3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

So this answer is two fold: when I am on the computer (I mainly write on Google Docs) I have to do it in chronological order. However, I also will use notebooks, mostly during the school year when I’m bored in class. When I write in notebooks, I’ll skip around to future scenes I have in my head. 

(Fun fact: When I was writing my fic Those Magic Changes, I kept re-writing the chapter where hollstein got together in a notebook as I updated the fic to make sure it was perfect. You wait 28 chapters for a kiss, I’m gonna make sure it’s a good one.)

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

Maybe length? I used to aim for at least 1000 words--younger me (haha younger, I am barely an adult legally) thought that was a ton. :P Now I aim for at least 10. 

In terms of technical stuff, maybe description? Still not great, but now I actually use it. 

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

Obscure, I dunno, but my first major fic was inspired by 4 years of high school theatre and a few of the stuff that happened in the fic were inspired by actual things I did with my cast. 

Ask me writing questions! :D

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「wip」 ...playing around with snapseed filters.

also, @ariabauer, does this even look anything like your Bagheera?