#hamtyler

[drjackrabbit]

hi maddie :) was listening to joshua idehen's fantastic new album after watching the pitt and the song 'brother' seemed very robby coded to me in that moment. i've listened to your abbot playlist before, do you have any other character tracklists lined up?

okay first off hadn't heard of joshua idehen before and this entire album is spectacular; that song is absolutely a robby track 4 sure; i don't have any other character playlists lined up yet but this is a good excuse to get back in that mindset + i will definitely post any i make here 🫡

[titleleaf]

🎈or 💌 for the fix ask!

🎈: describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

Please imagine me doing a little dance and chanting PURPLE PROSE, PURPLE PROSE, PURPLE PROSE, because that's the immediate reaction I had here. The biggest changes in my writing style happen when I'm shifting POVs or exploring a structural element of another work -- writing fanfic for The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace I switched to first person and past tense since those seemed so much like integral parts of how to recognize the POV characters and how to convey their experiences of desire. And sometimes I'll switch to past tense to try and kickstart the writing process when I'm struggling or to achieve a different effect,

Most often I guess I write present-tense, third-person, with a single viewpoint narrator -- the thought of writing from the vantage point of an omniscient narrator or alternating character POVs is daunting to me, and since I write a lot about characters whose perceptions of the situations they're in don't necessarily match the reality; I'm intrigued by what I'm seeing people describe as "deep POV" but I don't know if I necessarily leverage that all that effectively. There are a couple Strunk & White-type rules of prose writing that I break enthusiastically and often in the interest of character voice, and there are others that I break because I think they're nonsense, like the prohibition on split infinitives. I use a lot of em-dashes and a lot of clauses set off by commas -- I'm trying to be more ruthless about chopping off some of my em-dash use and varying my sentence structures a little more.

[titleleaf]

📓!

- Francis Crozier is a stubbornly committed 1930s psychical researcher who gets mistreated both coming and going by the general public who see him as a fussy little joke of a man and by his fellow psychical research enthusiasts who see him as an overly pessimistic and tactless debunker. He also has legit second sight. Thomas Jopson is his indefatigable research assistant. Cornelius Hickey is the flagrant fraudster scamming the bereaved and the hopeful but who also causes genuine poltergeist phenomena. Something ensues?

[titleleaf]

Jumping off that last dashboard osmosis: From!

- Harold Perrineau is in it!!!!!

- I’ve seen exactly one episode of this show but it scared me too much to continue, it seems like a fun innovation on JJ Abrams-style mystery box tropes and building up character interactions and relationships in an extreme scenario? I’m not sure if it becomes clearer over the episodes/seasons or if it stays bewildering and Twilight Zone-esque but both those options seem cool

- lots of hot people under stress… I’d say I hope they’re all fucking and sucking but it might be a bad idea under the circumstances

- I want to say Aurora Perrineau is also in it? And she’s absurdly pretty

- did anyone else ever play in those LJ/DW “spooky jamjar” roleplaying games where your characters are all tossed together into an eerie dangerous setting where there are strange arbitrary rules and risks and you have to Make It Work… that was the impression I got of From from my one single episode and the general osmosis and I’d be kind of sad if it’s not like that at all

[theresebelivett]

9, 20, 25 for the ask game!

ahhhhh thank you!!! i clearly fell asleep before i got this lol but it's always fun to wake up toooo

9. A book that was better than you expected it to be: i don't know if i was super shocked, but given that i was pretty meh on the last book of hers i'd read, i was very pleasantly surprised with how much i loved an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon, that was pretty incredible

20. Best fiction you read this year: i will scream this book to the heavens for the entire future, as our share of night by mariana enriquez was easily the best book i read this year and i had a REALLY GOOD reading year

25. Did you discover any new authors? oh a bunch, but the one i'm most excited to read more of is probably s.a. chakraborty, can't believe i hadn't come across them before

[titleleaf]

just found out they're making a second Black Phone with the original cast including Ethan Hawke? do you think there's still time for them to hire tumblr user titleleaf as screenwriter and if so what would your pitch be? there's potential and yet i can't shake the Bad Sequel Fear...

I'd heard vague murmurings about a sequel but I'm so confounded about what it'll even involve - the OG film is so effective for me as a one-and-done, I guess Finney and Gwen can have more fucked-up Ghost Experiences??? And I wouldn't be inherently opposed to that, but I feel like what I'd be interested in there isn't necessarily a good match for the franchise-friendly parts of the film. (Definitely the mask but also the titular black phone -- I really enjoyed that being a fully unexplained thing whose role in the Grabber's earlier life is suggested but not unambiguously hammered out.) And on a petty level I really love the ghost kids getting their revenge, and I don't want that to get overwritten with them still being stuck in that basement forever. If I had free rein, I'd love a slightly-later period piece setting with Finney and Gwen older and wiser having to deal with revisiting both the ghost stuff AND the abduction stuff -- my gold standard for "former child medium" stuff is always Ben Fischer in Hell House -- with that mix of adult perspective and the way horrible childhood shit can make you feel thirteen years old all over again.

It's definitely something I'm apprehensive about on the sequel front, but I hope it ends up being decent, I hope Ethan Hawke gets to do some creepy ghost shit, and I also hope the soundtrack bangs as much as the original film's does. (Really mad the Brian Jonestown Massacre track that plays over the end credits isn't on Spotify to stream, alas.)

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[faulsimon]

♫! hi hazel :)

hi cat!!

four days of rain - the flying burrito brothers

road safety - the horne section lmaoo

when you awake - the band

the dark of the matinee - franz ferdinand

carlisle wheeling - the monkees :-)

send me a ♫ and i'll shuffle my music to make you a five song playlist!