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This is my wife now. @anythingforselenaaas is the dopest bitch in the bar besides me. 🖤Judas Priest night at Cha Cha in #Silverlake. #luzia #metalgirls #metal #bm #blackmetal #judaspriest #heavymetal #la #losangeles #getdrunk #getfuckt

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Oops I just saw that you did 19 twice already I am so sorry 🙃😵‍💫. 24, then please :)

24. favorite fic you read this year

fml this is so hard. i have so many favorites. but the one that really touched me the most to the point where i haven’t even been able to read the final chapter yet because i love it sooo much that my heart can’t take saying goodbye…. is you've got more troubles than minutes in the year by ichabodcranemills.

i don’t read pregnancy or parenthood fics but THIS FIC, this is my only exception. it’s just so beautiful and affirming to read about these two wanting to terminate their pregnancy and never wavering from that decision. it’s not a viewpoint i see floated around in any other fics and it’s just explored so fully and deeply here. as well as it being a gorgeous character study of each of them as individuals.

sometimes it can feel lonely being against the pregnancy theory and rooting for markhellyna to live a child free life but this fic has my back!!!!!

it’s about severance and a budding relationship and accepting all parts of yourself but it’s also so much more. i’m getting emotional because i truly think abortion is so beautiful and freeing and here it just allows helena to finally be in complete control of her body and 😭😭😭 she hasn’t had that before!!! it’s her own decision that she gets to make and mark is so supportive. i love it so much.

honestly i think i will probably go reread it now!! and maybe i’ll even read the end for the first time…. soon 😅

thank you @ichabodcranemills for writing my favorite fic ❤️

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Do you mind if I do more than 1 or two of these? If you don't min, I am gonna do 12 (personally I am going to guess Helena) 14, 17, and 19.

12. favorite character to write about this year

yes you’re right ❤️❤️ it’s helena. but i loved writing mark scout as well. i just resonate more with the outies and find their guilt and distress and all their negative emotions easier to write. imark is fun. but helly…. i’m actually so scared to write for her! i don’t feel like i have a good grasp on her at all. despite loving her endlessly. i have an innie fic in my drafts that hasn’t seen the light of day yet because idk how to write helly. but helena!!! helena i get!

i also really enjoy irving. he has such a fun, distinct way of speaking that’s really fun to imitate. mrs selvig too. i’m writing her rn in my sickfic and she’s just so funny.

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

literally all of them. i never expected to get into writing fanfic and its all been a delightful whirlwind of a surprise. but the fic i really didn’t expect to write was lifeboats. i got the idea, executed it, and published all within like 48hrs. there was no planning and i fully expected it to have an audience of like ten. i wrote it purely for myself. i didn’t think sev fans who haven’t watched succession would read it but so many did! it’s the fic i get the most compliments on/the one other authors seem to know me for! ididn’t expect to write it and then REALLY didn’t expect the warm response it got!

17. fics you’ll continue next year

first and forest i have to finish the sideshow. it’s looking like that’ll probably be an early january publication. and i honestly keep forgetting that i promised a second chapter of in the end it always does. why did i pick such a confusing name for that one 😭 it’s so hard to remember. and my long haul project continues to be journeys end. i’d love to get that sorted and finished though it will take a while.

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Just joining in on the very long discussion if that's alright :)

Looking at your answers about how innies view their outies, you mentioned how in the beginning innies view themselves as their outies and are basically the same. iDylan likes to speculate about body building or assuming there are plagues if his literal brain is severed. Idk abt Iriving but when iDylan mentions his son, Irving said it's his outie's son. So iriving clearly sees them as separate.

But do you think Helly and Helena also played a role in gradually changing that viewpoint?

Helena's "I am a person, you are not" seemed eye opening for the innies and made them realize outies might view their innies as different and less than them. Whereas Mark S views himself as his outie. Helly's outie is Helena Eagan, daughter of the literal CEO, so obviously not exactly a good look if her innie cuts her fingers get cut off. So maybe that combo was why they gave her the camera, too. I dont assume there are many innies threatening to cut their fingers off just to talk to their outie.

Also: you mentioned Mark's "what if we're all assholes out there?" That recording of Helena might have been their first proper exposure to an outie.

Like who knows if Mark's resignation request was actually given to his outie? You've mentioned that to Cobel, Mark S is her little guy, her little experiment with the severance barrier. She wants to mess around with his brain. And he is essential when refining Gemma's tempers. So I highly doubt it.

i just rewatched that scene from 1x07 where irving tells dylan that it’s his outie’s kid and i would argue that his viewpoint is a little more conflicted than just strictly meaning the words he’s saying. irving’s belief in kier and the philosophy the innies have been fed was the strongest. and thus he’s had the hardest time letting go of it. so at this point in the story i don’t think irving has been fully able to accept that everything he knows is a lie… but he is STARTING to believe it. so when he says that to dylan i think he’s trying to convince himself as well. he’s saying the words that he would have always said. but he really isn’t able to follow through and offer any more kier philosophy to follow through with that. the thought of going outside scares him. he’s says they’re innies and they’re supposed to stay inside to follow the rules. but then he immediately breaks the rules to go and see burt. and burt’s dismissal is the final straw that breaks the camel’s back.

i think dylan’s idea of a plague demonstrates his fairly sympathetic and charitable view of his outie. he thinks that only someone left with no other options would do this to themselves. it’s naive but very kind. dylan also says all this in a more fun scene when he’s in a good mood. i think ghats important to note because under this kind viewpoint i think every innie harbors a great deal of fear for the outies, for someone who would do this to themselves. helena’s speech is slap a in the face but i also don’t think it’s anything knew. it probably just confirms the fears they already have.

and on helena’s speech being harsh. i think it matches helly’s harsh threat of cutting her fingers. it honestly just shows how similar they are. how easy it is for them both to be cruel and go to drastic measures.

yes, i agree that helena’s speech was their experience with an outie other than the standard welcome videos all their outies submitted before surgery.

and yeah i doubt anyone was given their resignation requests. and i think helly doubts that too, that’s why she demands to make the video. my guess is that helena was only alerted of helly’s previous resignation that was denied right before she shot the video.

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Regarding the ask on Britt's wig and the filming blocks. That now explains Mark's hair, too... like, i would wonder why his tail (thank you for that) was somehow longer or shorter within an episode or two, but i also get that filming logistics play a role.

yes! the tail wasn’t around for a long time… but what a wonderful time it was

and all the credit goes to loversrun for coining the term that we all love ❤️

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fangs..

send me a number 1-945 for a sev screenshot :p

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hi

feel free to disregard, but I saw the q about editing into oblivion... do you write and based on the chapter with set scenes and a clear end for the chapter? Or do you just go to two and figure out chaptering later?

I find myself with an end goal in mind for a chapter, but then I just end up going to town, and before I know it, I am almost 20k in with a few k in sight before my end scene/goal. so then im stuck figuring out how to split it up

alright so for the circus fic i’m working on rn i have the whole thing outlined, simply because i originally drafted it as a oneshot. this is not something i have done for other multi chap fic…. i have no idea what i’m doing over there 😭

so when i outlined the circus fic, it consisted of eight main scenes. and i pushed some of those together to create five chapters. so the first chapter is one scene, it just details the audition. and the second chapter is two scenes pushed together, the car ride and the pool. since these take place on the same day i felt it was appropriate they go together.

i LOOSELY follow the idea that each chapter should have us learning something new about the characters. whether that’s backstory or we’re leaning about new feeling we’re discovering along with them. since the car scene isn’t that informative and just kind of fluffy, it goes well with the pool which is an info dump:

like the point of the pool scene was to get mark’s backstory out there. and after that big information drop, i felt it was time to give the audience a break and end the chapter.

my naive advice: open a separate page and write down all your main scenes. write down the word count for each scene. then think about different ways to combine them into equal(ish) parts.

think about where your biggest scenes are, the meatiest ones with the most information being spewed out, and then think about having a chapter break there to give your audience a moment to digest.

i would also go ahead and write your final scene even before you get there. it might help you get a better idea on HOW to get there. but that might just be a me thing. idk.

and my advice that is actually good: read within your genre. familiarize yourself with it and you’ll start picking up on that structure naturally!

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Matt flyzik = 5th member of all time low