I am obsessed with all of your stories. one of the best things about your writing is that you are a master at pacing and structure
anon i am kissing you tenderly on the forehead. this means so much to me - i've been thinking a lot about pacing and structure lately, studying what works in the authors (fic and lit and genre) i find most effective. it's hard to nail; i can feel where the story beats should be but that doesn't always equate to sticking the landing, as it were. it's really encouraging to know that it's resonated with you!
Send “Have you lost your mind!?” for a drabble where my muse decides to sacrifice themselves in order to protect your muse. Alternatively, add + reverse for a drabble where it’s your muse sacrificing themselves for my.
Everything's growing in our garden
You don't have to know that it's haunted
The doctor put her hands over my liver
She told me my resentment's getting smaller
#66 - Ribs by Lorde
We can talk it so good
We can make it so divine
We can talk it good
How you wish it would be all the time
send me a number between 1-100 (spotify wrapped 2020) and i'll tell you my favourite line(s) from that song!
I absolutely love ur 3 year old reactions of Atla. And while I dont want you to push her into more serious/scary story lines (book2/3). I love them plz do more!! (But with regard to what she can handle) thank you!!!!
Thank you, Anon! I do plan to continue writing my 3 year old reactions. She’s only allowed to watch one episode of TV a day, and only on weekends or holidays, so it will be some time before we get to Books 2 & 3. It may be a 4 year old reaction by then. But I’ll have to see whether she stays interested and whether the later seasons of the show are too intense for her.
Today has been meeting after meeting...so much for catching up from Kansas.
Anonymous said to gotgifsandmusings:
It's good to hear that you don't specifically ignore certain asks. I think I've sent 2 or 3 since season 5 and none were answered (to my knowledge) and I had no idea why since they were't rude or antagonistic.
Oh god no. The only things I outright ignore are you know...obvious trolls and hate speech kind of asks. My biggest problem is probably that I spend the time thinking how I’d answer it instead of just answering it, and then it sits there, and I get guilty, and then the cycle repeats.
I’m sorry yours were ignored :(
Anonymous said to gotgifsandmusings:
In the fandomentalist podcast, you and Julia often compare Star Wars and GOT, while I do agree the sw prequels and got are a worthy comparison, do you think Stark Wars movies as a whole can be compared/are as bad as Game of Thrones?
No, not at all? I mean the OT has flaws, sure, and yeah VIII needs to be something new or else TFA is going to fall from favor (I’m ignoring RO), but overall they’re pretty fine fun space adventures for the family. People sound like people in it, you know? And characters have arcs that make sense, and actions that are born out of the situation. ROTJ is the weakest, no question there, but no nothing is anywhere near as bad as GoT except for the prequels. Which is why we talk about it :P
Anonymous said to gotgifsandmusings:
Charlieeeeee said if i am guilty then u're stephen amell
You have failed this city. But more importantly, why you no put in “Charlie said hell” so it rhymed?
Anonymous said to gotgifsandmusings:
I agree that Cersei isn't a sexist charicature but I wasn't sure at first because it felt like her intelligence plummeted in Book 4 which made it seem like GRRM may have been cheating with characterization just to make her evil and not-so-bright, but I don't think that opinion really stands up to a reread!
Yeah you know I think because she was so opaque, there’s a lot you can project onto her in the first three books. And AFFC comes and that’s torn down. But I totally agree that when you reread and see how she acts (her scene with Ned is particularly telling), it’s like...yeah. That’s Cersei. He had a design on her from the get-go, even if not fully formed.
Anonymous said to gotgifsandmusings:
Do you think the plot of the books is doomed by premise? You've got this supernatural threat looming over, but most people love the series for the medieval themes, captivating characters and political intrigue. When the books inevitably move away from those and more into the supernatural threat, like the show did, and they become a standard Good v Evil battle for the sake of humanity, do you think this will turn people off?
I really don’t.
I’m not trying to be dismissive, it’s just that I think the whole “oh the series is only good because of expectation subversion” point is an overblown excuse for why GoT was so so shitty this year. Martin has likened the White Walkers to climate change, and I have faith that he can approach it with nuance, with things that will still surprise us, and with a situation born from the context. That’s what makes ASOIAF good. It’s the character struggles, really. I don’t see that changing.
On GoT, all we get is a struggle to understand who anyone even is anymore.
Anonymous said to gotgifsandmusings:
Regarding your last musing about toxic masculinity and whether people read your stuff: Trust me, they don't. And even when they do, they just read it... differently. I once linked some of your essays to an MRA activist who kept using the blog of his fanfic platform to spew his rants about man-hating feminists and his reaction, rather than admit the harmful implications of toxic masculinity, was to accuse you of 'not being a true feminist' because this clearly was not a manhating position to take
Yeah I mean it’s just like...of course feminism is maligned as man-hating. It’s so damn transparent, isn’t it? Because at the end of the day, it is asking men to give up privilege. I have no doubt there’s people who have read what I write in full and still come away with that impression, but it’s pretty clear when there’s a lens coming into it.
Ok so I saw your tags on my post about Lucienne and raven instincts (you are a genius!) and that bit about Dream giving her the Corinthian’s skull made me grin because it suggests some very amusing things:
1) Lucienne ‘borrows’ from him enough that Dream knows exactly what sort of things she likes to steal, and ‘cool little skull’ is exactly within her tastes
2) Dream is still so pissed off at the Corinthian that he doesn’t want him in his draw of Special Secret Things, knows Lucienne will probably steal him anyway, and decides it’s gift giving time
3) Maybe there's mutual stealing, like Dream sneaks things back out of Lucienne’s draw every now and then. Or the gift giving gets really subtle, where new things just appear in their stashes one day
OH i love this. Dream and Lucienne doing a mutual "i'll sneak things back from you, you steal them back from me" thing over the centuries is adorable. very much in the vein of like. stealing your partner's softest hoodie. sometimes the other person's item is more comfortable! sometimes you need the special thing! but also it's so fun to sneak gifts to someone you care about - a delightful surprise, a tennis match of "who can find the most obscure thing the other will like."
'cool little skull' is DEFINITELY in Lucienne's tastes. i imagine she has a bit of a morbid sense of humor that a lot of people don't necessarily grok (former raven! - this also gives me thoughts about her relationship to the Nightmares). her office area in the Library and her style aesthetics are clearly gothic. i could see her putting the Corinthian's skull on her desk as a ward against unwelcome inquiries when she's working on an interesting project. maybe the recreated Corinthian has inadvertent knowledge of the Library's archival systems.
