#aureumtheory

[avengersandco]

Please talk about your au. :)

there’s so much to talk about tho?!!! what are you curious about? the dynanic as teenagers? relationships with their parents? when they’re older? when they’re younger?? something fluffly? something angst? avenger involvement? conflicts? happy stuff? THERE’S SO MUCH

[cassammydean]

aureumtheory replied to your post “random thought. can we please get a deanxcas soulmate au where you...”

Please if anyone managed to write this tag me. I shall worship the fic

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[bonearenaofmyskull]

aureumtheory replied to your post “Hi! I keep watching the S3 finale and slinging between the theory that...”

@bonearenaofmyskull yeah, according to his morals, Hannibal's POV is bad and he shouldn't become like him. And one way of not becoming like him is "escaping" Hannibal's set of influence over him.

Does the wendigo only appears on the red dragon book? Isn't it part of the license? I'm confused on that part (note rather)

Sorry, you had me confused because there was so much discussion on that post about whether Will was literally trying to escape with Hannibal, that the use of the word “escape” in context with trying to kill himself made it so I wasn’t sure where you were going with that. 

I think the point of the ending is that Will has decided that there is no escape from Hannibal because of their feelings for each other, and even more because Will is already like Hannibal, in his own view. He killed with Hannibal, and it was so beautiful it was the apex of his life’s experience. So if the world needs to be rid of Hannibal, then it should be rid of him too. You could see this decision foreshadowed back when he complained to Bedelia that the two of them just kept getting away with it (murder). (And hence his satisfaction in seeing her in fear for her life.) There is no escape from what he has already become. There is only judgment.

As for the wendigo, it doesn’t appear in any of the books. There’s considerable deer imagery in Hannibal and some in Hannibal Rising, but no wendigo. 

This is entirely speculative (but I’m doing well with my speculations about the nature of licensing and negotiations about the show, so might as well throw it out there), but I figure that one of the main things that needs to get negotiated in order for the show to proceed is the license for things like the wendigo. 

Bryan says negotiations are between two studios: this probably has to be between MGM and Gaumont (which is where the rights to Clarice got lost last time, when these two couldn’t agree). So it means that MGM is willing to play ball this time. Martha has been pretty clear that they aren’t going back to Gaumont, so the situation seems to be the reverse of the one they had back in 2012: DLC has the rights to Red Dragon and all that comes with it, MGM is negotiating to bring SOTL and all that comes with that. This should marry up the main players for the entire franchise (given that Thomas Harris still seems to own Hannibal and Hannibal Rising, but he always rents his licenses out, and he’s a friend of Martha’s, so no real concern there.) Except...Gaumont.

And what does Gaumont have? Well, I think it has the entire previous show. XD

I don’t think this is a dealbreaker to getting a new show produced, should Gaumont suddenly take it into their heads to stop negotiating (which I don’t think they’ll do anyway, given their current state of projects). Gaumont has nothing the show absolutely needs, but it would definitely be better if the new show had access to previous footage and the characters that were original to the series. 

These characters include the wendigo, Abigail Hobbs, and Bedelia du Maurier. So...you can see why it’d be just plain better and easier to have unlimited access to these things. 

Abigail, being dead, could probably be a part of the new series without having her name mentioned, under the logic that you can’t copyright an actor’s performance. She doesn’t need to show up a lot, and the fact that Will and her ghost parted ways in “Primavera” means that Bryan would have to be judicious about where he would use her again. And being only present in imagination and memory means her name being missing might not be that big of an issue overall. (Given how much Hannibal uses anyone’s name, it’d be a delicate issue to write around. But possible.)

Bedelia...is hard to say. It’s hard to imagine Bryan not finding ANY WAY AT ALL to bring Gillian back, but her being alive and actively involved in the stinger at the end of S3 makes it a little more difficult to see how they could proceed without full rights to her character. I used to think that Bryan would be determined to have her survive the leg-eating scene because he loves her so much and he sounded committed to bringing her back as a  prosthetic-sporting, one-legged, badass bitch. Now, I’m starting to think that it’s going to be dependent on the rights. If they get to use her fully, maybe she’ll live. If they don’t, she’ll probably die. XD

And I’ve no idea with something like the wendigo, which arguably is an art piece itself. I don’t know whether art design is copyrightable. Obviously the thing doesn’t have a name, but calling it an actor’s performance seems really inaccurate too. So your guess is as good as mine.

I hope this clears up the lingering questions that you had!

[arukou-arukou]

aureumtheory replied to your post “Literally actually almost started crying over this stupid book I have...”

I love your tag "arukou attempts academia"

aureumtheory replied to your post “Literally actually almost started crying over this stupid book I have...”

Like a title of one comedic show

aureumtheory replied to your post “Literally actually almost started crying over this stupid book I have...”

Also, *googles what you just suggested*

I’m glad you’re enjoying it. I kind of want to lift the veil on higher degrees, because I think a lot of people don’t really know what a PhD is or what is required to get it or what PhD students (especially humanities PhD students) even do beyond TA-ing, so I’m trying to share bits and pieces of the process, both the good and the bad. How’d the googling go?

[the-winnowing-wind]

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@the-winnowing-wind I've finished the series and it's not good pain

WHY DO YOU SAY THIS!!!! THEY ARE CANON!!!! THEY ARE IN EACH OTHER’S ARMS!!!! <3

They’re a little wet, murder magic protects them!!!

[diminuel]

aureumtheory replied to your post: I was hanging out on twitter and saw some of the...

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An example: Misha meet and greet 2500$ per ticket. I love Misha, but I would never spend 2500$ just to have a couple of minutes with him.

[askanonbinary]

Hello! I'm inserting a non-binary character in my story and I want to write them as accurately and as respectful as possible. Thus, I would like to ask if there are things that you find repulsive or inappropriate when other writers try to write a non-binary character. Huge thanks! <3

Right from our ask page: “We do not give writing advice. Please do not ask.”

Here’s an old post of use: http://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/post/70809204561/do-you-have-any-advice-for-writing-a-character-who

You can look through diversitycrosscheck, which is meant for writing advice and see what they ever said on writing nonbinary characters: http://diversitycrosscheck.com/

But it comes down to this... I know you think you’re being respectful when you come ask us such a broad question, but it’s just kind of exhausting? Like I don’t want to offend you or scare you off. I think it’s important to have nonbinary characters in stories, of course! And I certainly think that cis people - or even non-nb trans folk - shouldn’t shy away from having nonbinary characters. But if you want to write a book and you want to have a nonbinary character, then you need to be willing to put in the research. Don’t just write us in to hit some checkbox. Do some basic research for yourself.

Your question is just really broad. Like, yeah, of course there are ways you could portray a nonbinary character that would offend me, but can I sit here and easily just list off all the ways? No. A lot of it just has to do with how you handle it, how respectful you are, how knowledgable you are, how much research you did, how understanding you are, how accepting you are, etc.

Tbh, if you had a specific question, I’d be happy to answer! But it sounds like you’re at the stage where you just need to go do some research first. With a little knowledge and some common sense, what would be offensive to write about us should be pretty obvious. And, since you’re asking, go ahead and ask yourself: “what am I worried about, specifically? What did I have in mind that made me ask this question?” and go research about that first.

~ Mod Sock

[knightedwriter]

Hello. Can you do me a prompt? Or a story idea? I'm stuck. I have this apathetic character who had the ability to manipulate time. But I don't have any plot. :'( I have a dialogue though, "am I to save the world? I don't know. I don't care". But nothing else. I'm also having a hard time creating a "limit" for him. Like was he able to control time at will? But what of it? What would come out of it? I don't freaking know. Please help me. I need some ideas. T-T thanks! :D

Hi there lovely! I can absolutely try to help you out. It sucks to get stuck without a plot, so I’ll give you a few prompts and a bit of advice after, yeah? Hopefully some of it helps.

1. “Am I to save the world? I don’t know. I don’t care.”

“Well you better start caring! That’s my family out there! My friends! You may not have anyone to care about, but I do.”

2.  “You could do anything, you could save anyone, but all you do is sit there, stopping and starting time as if it’s some sort of game. Well I’ve got news for you. People’s lives aren’t a game.”

3. “Why should I care about any of that? I’m dying. I won’t be here much longer.”

“Look. I’m sorry, it sucks. But right now, you’re the only person in the world I can turn to. And for once, I need you to get up and do something.”

Character But No Plot

There are multiple ways to create plot. Characters are often key to how a plot develops, so you’ve already done a good amount of work toward arriving at a plot.

Ask yourself: What does this character want? Who does he care about? Who is he, in general? He may be apathetic, but even the most apathetic people in the world have desires and/or people or things they care about. If you can figure out what/who he does care about, you can use that to incite action on his part, to make him want to save the world. 

For example, what’s your character’s worse fear? Now make it ten thousand times worse and put him through it. Make it so that everything that can go wrong with his power does go wrong. Force him into a situation where he has to do something.

If that’s not enough, bring another character in. All of the prompts up there involve another character asking or demanding help. Your character won’t exist in a void. If you’re stuck with what to do with him, try thinking of another character whose goals/ideas incite plot, or who forces your character to do something he normally wouldn’t do.

Limiting Powers

You absolutely need to give him weaknesses, but it can be a little tricky to figure out how. Limits can be physical, psychological, emotional or conditional (based on the power).

Physical: Say every time he messes with time, he’s frozen in place for a minute. Or he gets really, really tired. Or he ages from the amount of time he messes with (so if he stops time for a minute, he ages an hour).

Treat his power like a physical activity. If I run for twenty minutes, I’m going to be tired and out of breath. Maybe the same happens if he messes with time. This also may mean that if he practices then he can endure more and more, just like if I run every day then it tires me out less and less.

Psychological: This can be something like seeing “time ghosts”. Maybe the more he messes with time, the more he sees the different choices people can make and thus the “ghosts” of how those choices play out. This can be super unnerving, and may make him not want to mess with time very much. Whatever the case, if you go with this route, you have to consider carefully how this impacts his mental health and how it affects when and why he decides to use his powers.

Emotional: Maybe every time he messes with time, he hurts or even kills someone. Not necessarily because that’s how his power goes, but because he makes a decision that ends up making a situation worse. Time is tricky to write about, but it’s highly likely that someone traipsing about messing with it is gonna hurt someone somewhere. Show us how he deals with that, how it holds him back. This might be another way to make him care about others and incite plot. Or it might show why he’s apathetic in the first place.

Conditional: Conditional limits would be something like he can’t stop time for more than a minute, or that every time he changes something with his powers, someone gets hurt from it. This can, of course, blur with the options above, and you should definitely show how he is physically, psychologically, or emotionally affected by the conditions of his power.

I would pick at least two of the categories I listed above, if not more, to limit his power. This adds layers of complexity to his ability and gives you a lot to work with.

Once you find limits and outline more of your character, I think a plot idea might come to you. If you’d like me to expand on one of the prompts or list some plot masterposts, let me know! I know there are a few blogs I follow that have written more on the subject.