#chatterbean

[negasonix]

Ellie!! Your answers to the writing questions were so good I have to ask you more!

23. Dialogue or description? Why is the other one so hard?

36. How do you come up with fic titles? What's the one you're most proud of?

37. Do you research before writing or while you write? Is it fun or boring for you?

I remembered the numbers this time 😌

aah thank you my love 🥰

23. Dialogue or description? Why is the other one so hard?

I think I have to go for description but it’s not that I find dialogue hard! Sometimes I’m a little hesitant with dialogue or take a few instalments to build up to it but that’s just while I’m getting confidence with the character and their tone - I’m a stickler for ‘he would not fucking say that’ but especially in my own writing and even with my own OCs.

But I favour description generally (in my fic writing in the form of thoughts and feelings rather than scenery) bc I love to delve into a character’s mind and bring people along on that and use it to fuel action. It’s especially fun when that is then at odds with what the character does or says, or when there’s miscommunication involved as well - when we know two characters are thinking the same thing but don’t/cant verbalise it and it causes issues?? I personally love to yell at characters through the screen and I want my readers to as well.

36. How do you come up with fic titles? What’s the one you’re most proud of?

By agonising over them a lot! Our dearest @yoditorian got me on e.e.cummings’ poetry a few years ago and I have a few previous titles and current working titles taken from his poems, but I also scour quotes and such as well to see if I can find anything fitting. For instance one I’m always proud of is ‘a stubbornly persistent illusion’ which is part of an Einstein quote about the passage of time - perfect for a fic about timelines and the multiverse 😌

I’m also proud of Kair’ta’s title - that fic was a different ball game because I knew I wanted to use mando’a in the title like a lot of writers were doing when The Mandalorian first released, and luckily some very dedicated fans were cataloguing the language

37. Do you research before writing or while you write? Is it fun or boring for you?

Definitely during, because otherwise it feels like homework and I don’t want it to cause me to lose interest. I’ve always got a good framework because I have some prior knowledge whether it’s fanfic or some original work, but I’ll always undoubtedly hit a part where I think maybe this doesn’t sound quite right or it’s a gap in my knowledge and I have to do a dive - whether it’s into an extended canon history that I probably shouldn’t ignore or whether a certain plant could feasibly grow in my setting.

writing asks!

[annachibi]

I would like to welcome @chatterbean, who has been liking the HECK outta Rufus posts, to my blog lol <3 Seriously, I love it when people do this!

[negasonix]

Hi my love! I can’t remember the numbers from the ask game but -> Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing? And what are your top three favourite tropes?

hi my love 🥰 thank you for the ask!

10 - Top three favourite fic tropes

honestly i’m a sucker for some simple classics:

friends to lovers (annoyances to lovers especially within this category)

hurt/comfort to scratch both the angst and fluff itches

found family because i am still living in my 2012 avengers tower dream world

28 - Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing?

my main advice that it took me too long to realise and i started to have to remind myself of is that it really doesn’t have to be written in order

if the idea is one scene or a collection of moments in your mind to start with then write those! the connections can be made later.

when i try to write something beginning to end i lose motivation, trail off into bad writing, and sometimes lose interest altogether if i’m telling myself i can’t write that one scene i’ve been thinking about until i write what comes before it first. maybe things will need to be changed slightly or moved around for it all to make sense afterwards, but at least you’ll have the specific scenes you wanted when you set out to create

i’ve started taking this approach to whole fics, not just the individual instalments, which is why i’m moving into collections rather than series - then i can just write what i have the interest in/motivation for and slot them together on a masterlist later

writing asks!

[negasonix]

Hi my love! I’m so glad your writing motivation/inspiration has returned! 💜I am very interested in your Richie snippets if you’d like to share! Or the word hope for anyone else!

thank you my love, me too!! let’s just hope it sticks around for a while 🤞🏻

here’s the word hope, in g&g:

Laura nods, eyes trained on the horizon. She shouldn't ask, she knows - with a million Wolverines across a million universes, there's no point in holding any hope. She's not even curious, really. But she can't bring herself to leave Maeve with her thoughts, not while the shadow of the treeline ahead of them wavers unnaturally. So, she asks the question with the obvious answer: “Is he yours?” 

and here’s a little richie fic snippet!! it’s not much - i really need to finish s4 of the bear and do a little rewatch so i can write for richie proper:

“Badge seems close with…” Richie trails off, pointing generally across the room.

Syd follows his hand, eyebrows raised. “Luca?”

He seems unfazed suddenly, shrugging and crossing his arms over his chest, but can’t seem to pull his eyes away from Badge’s arm looped through Luca’s.

send me a character or a word and i'll try to post a snippet of a wip/abandoned fic that i have in my drafts for them containing/relating to that word 🫶🏻

[negasonix]

🌹🌹🌹

(I’ll never say no to a sneak peak of your writing my love!!)

a little kair'ta sneak peek for you my love!

You should put a hole in his side, leave him and his newfound information to bleed out here so that one word, that one mistake, never reaches anyone else. You should chastise Tali, drag her back to her commander and rip him a new one for this whole mess as well. You should take a week to lie low, disappear from the map and reemerge on the other side of the galaxy ready to start again.

send me a 🌹 for a line (probably more) from a wip!

[negasonix]

Hi my love! How about 1, 14, and 27 from the fic writer asks? 👀

hi my love!! thank you for the ask 🥰

1 - the last sentence you wrote

sorry to say it’s a line you’ve already read – today hasn’t been a productive writing day!

“For the Baratheons, perhaps. Though I understand that isn't the case for the Ashwyns at this tourney? People are so eager to curry favour with their gracious hosts instead."

14 - where do you get your inspiration?

very simply from watching the media i’m writing for! i’m always watching things and wondering how it would play out if there was a different character or dynamic present and then that’s how i write my fics.

if i need general inspiration to get back to writing i make sure i first get back into reading - it reminds me how much i love writing and writing being shared, and gets me back in a place to do both

27 - your favorite part of the writing process

when the words just start flowing and i can sit and write a few hundred words in one sitting! it doesn’t even have to be any good, just a base i can go back to and edit – but i know when i’ve got that flow going i’m in a sweet spot and if i’ve got something it’s better than nothing. you can’t write if you’re not writing! and then when i’m not in that place where i can write that much in one sitting it’s easier to edit in small pieces, and i can see what past-me was setting out and make it better, and bit by bit it all comes together

fic writer asks!

[negasonix]

Ellie!! Now that Maeve is British Confirmed™️ I must know how the Britishness manifests itself! I’ve got to assume Maeve and Charles feel connected on some level because of it. This also has me wondering how Maeve got to the school? What was she doing in the US?

Izzy my love! I was just going to write some meta on this but instead this came out and it got a little bit sad

It's 1988. June.

She's 12 years old.

In London, the walls of a Victorian townhouse are skewered by spears of tangible darkness. Her parents were arguing - about money, maybe, she doesn't remember. She remembers that it was loud, that it was angry. She remembers the sound of glass smashing in the kitchen. She remembers the scream of her father as he was pierced through his shoulder in a manner the doctors had never seen before.

In New York, the screams of a terrified girl reverberate through Cerebro at a pitch that makes Charles Xavier's ears ring. It's Hank that he sends out to London. It's Hank who brings her back.

She doesn’t wonder until much later why she clung onto the accent so stubbornly. Charles is the same, she supposes. He’d said something about identity once. She thinks maybe that’s it - a refusal to let go of the one thing still tying her to where she comes from; the clipped tone of her father at odds with the way her mother would drag out her vowels. 

The Professor starts a fortnightly ritual, just the two of them, where she can talk and he can listen and she can figure things out at her own speed. They have tea. She doesn’t like it, not really, but she doesn’t develop a taste for coffee until she’s nineteen. She puts up with the tea until then and beyond, because she likes to sit with him and remember the way her grandfather would sneak her brown sugar cubes when her grandma wasn’t looking - busy pouring tea. 

Charles knows she hates it - of course he does - but he sweetens the deal with scones. His are jam first, then cream, just as he was taught. Hers are cream first, then jam, and she watches him assemble the scone the wrong way round and tries not to feel affronted on behalf of her mother’s Devonshire roots. 

Three weeks after meeting him, Logan accuses her of being condescending. He calls her prissy, and isn’t nearly intimidated enough when she raises her voice because he can’t take her seriously. He makes a similar jab at Charles shortly after, but it isn’t as amusing for him that time around. 

She spends 33 years at the school. 

She picks up terminology from Hank, American expressions from Scott, German slang from Kurt. She gets her Green Card and jokes that Logan will get her her Maple Leaf. 

And despite rarely ever stepping foot in her birth country again, she’s never quite able to shake the accent she inherited from the two people who begged for her to be taken away.

[negasonix]

Oh Ellie! Laura is my baby!! Please can I have some Laura, Logan and Maeve content 🙏 maybe something including “paint” and “knock”?

i love her! logan loves her! maeve loves her! so here’s a little domestic fluff post-movie 😌

fem!mutant!oc (maeve) x logan howlett/wolverine | wade’s universe/earth 10005

in which laura finally gets a real shot at being a kid

“I’m just worried it’s going to dry darker than we thought-”

“Then we paint it again.”

“What, do you want her walls to end up an inch thick with paint? We’re already on thin ice with the landlord-”

“He’s an asshole anyway. You’re thinking about it too much.”

“I’m not sure you’re thinking about it enough-”

“What are you guys doing?”

Laura stands in the doorway, arms folded over her chest and a brow raised expectantly. She’s wearing the same amused expression that her not-quite-father had worn this morning when Maeve had started agonising over shades of purple. 

(It was less amusing when he got sent on three separate trips to Lowe’s with Wade in tow. As well as having gone through a frankly painful morning, he also has no idea what they’re going to do with the small tower of paint cans now balanced in the corner of their bedroom.) 

Maeve starts, and Logan is quick to rescue the paint roller that slips from her hand. “Jesus, Laura, didn’t anyone ever teach you to knock?”

“I’m your kid,” she reminds her with an accusatory tone. “And this is my room.”

“I don’t see you payin’ rent, kid,” Logan jokes, grinning when Maeve swats his chest. 

“Ignore him,” she tells Laura, shooting him a fond look despite herself and reaching up to wipe a speck of paint from his neck before turning her full attention to the girl. “How was your first day?” 

“Good,” she answers, slipping her backpack from her shoulder and slinging it onto the bed. It bounces once and then thunks against the headboard with the weight of the mutant biology book Colossus loaned her inside. “Weird, but good.” 

“Weird as in-?”

She shrugs. “Weird, like I’m older than everyone, I guess. But it was nice to have some company that’s not you guys,” she teases, “And to let off some steam.” 

Logan hums. “Kick some ass in training?”

She grins. “Loads.”

“Wait until you start learning physics,” Maeve jokes, reaching up to stroke Laura’s hair flat. “That’s where the real fun begins.” 

She laughs sarcastically - Ellie had told her the exact same thing - then gestures to the roller in Logan’s hand. “Why are you painting?” 

“Your mom said the landlord white needed to go.” 

She nods, and narrows her eyes at the still-drying wall. “It’s nice. Maybe kind of dark.” 

Logan shoots Maeve a look that dares her to say ‘I told you so.’ 

Wade’s voice sounds suddenly from the kitchen: “Do I smell another Lowe’s trip?”