#need-not

[hattersarts]

hey, ADORE your art. two questions: do you have a headcanon for the Maiden’s name and do you mind people writing fic from your art?

thought I'd answer this public since I've had both a few times, my maiden currently doesn't have a name, I've a few I'm running around in my head but I love lady d calling her darling/dear and other pet names 99% of the time and then only using her name in Very Serious Situations. the only name she isn't is Ingrid, since she's not the demo maiden.

Also yes fics of my art are totally fine! just put a link to my twitter/tumblr in the notes/summary if you were directly inspired by some of my art :)

[offarawaysnfuturedays-inmydreams]

Besuch, J & K!

J) Unpopular opinion I have

I don’t think any of these are actually unpopular because this fandom is so tiny so here’s a short list of My Opinions.

Liebe endet nie is the worst duet. If they had to keep it, it should’ve been a Claire and Mathilde duet à la I Know Him So Well but I digress.

Ethan Freeman and Bernhard Viktorin play Alfred the best.

Very random thought I’ve just had, but I think it would’ve been interesting to have young Mathilde at least appear in some of the flashbacks (like the trial scene).

There’s too many unnecessary songs and not enough reprises.

And, finally, the musical tries too hard to redeem Alfred after spending two hours telling us how he ruined Claire’s life.

K) Favourite plotline

It has to be the plotline about Claire’s and Alfred’s daughter. Though this is one of the things where I desperately wish the musical had kept closer to the play. That’s a ramble for another day though!

musical asks

[solarsunhae]

@need-not I swear I wanted to share my comments of your Rebecca fics, particularly ganz besonders, earlier but work has been kicking my butt lately and tiring me. But I finally got around to writing some of my thoughts down. :D

First of all, ganz besonders is highly addicting. I've read it multiple times and I've enjoyed it every single time. Mainly because of the high tension between Ich and Danny. To be honest, I hadn't thought about Danvich as a pairing until I discovered your fics. They’re two people who wouldn’t really be compatible together and yet this story manages to successfully justify how and why these repressed ladies get together lmaoooo.

I think the buildup and the context is what really makes the story great. (23k words? Very impressive!) The length allows the exploration of the “mistress x servant” and “enemies to lovers” dynamics and gosssshhhh I love those so much. There's a lot of tension between them and the power imbalance between them is clear. Ich is timid and doesn't exhibit much power as Danny who is much more controlling. However, it doesn't remove the fact that Danny is in a lesser position and is vulnerable to her employers’ actions, such as the scene where Maxim tries to make Ich pretend to fire Danny…fun fact: that part was so well written that I had the strong urge to knock Maxim out. 

Ich’s characterization is very fun to read because she’s so repressed that physical touches wreck her and I think that’s great lmao. In the first chapter, Danny has her hands on Ich’s shoulders and Ich describes it as “I was surprised at how cool her hands were, how almost pleasant the sensation was, and I shivered.” I gasped like some scandalized high society lady when I read that part because I KNEW Ich was gonna desire more of Danny’s touches. 

Her imagination also kills me. For example, after Danny says, “my Rebecca” in the first chapter, Ich imagines them together:

“An image came to me then, of Mrs. Danvers brushing Rebecca’s hair, of the gentle way she would have pulled it back from her neck, the way her fingers would have grazed Rebecca’s skin, and how then she would have bent down, and…”

ICH PLEASE FINISH THAT THOUGHT. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR MORE OF IT. OHHHHH MY GOSH I love it when Ich’s wild imagination is used because it’s sometimes dirty images that reveal her feelings. (In ganz unerwartet she imagines Danny with Beatrice and gets jealous and reading that made me die haha.) Also, the fact she has a praise kink is SOOOOOO GOOD! And the fact Danny teases her about it? CHEFS KISS!! The smut is literally the best thing ever. It’s soooo good. (I feel like I should send you flowers, food, or whatever just to thank you for it).

I also love the way Danny is written because she is usually stoic and yet there are hints throughout the story that reveal her emotions, such as the mention of her hands twitching by her sides. You capture her love obsession with Rebecca perfectly, such as the details of Danny becoming passionate when she talks about her former mistress.

I also love that Danny changes slowly throughout the story. In the beginning she doesn’t really like Ich and is aggressive with her.

“You think I don’t know that?” she hissed. Her grip was tight and she pulled me closer to her. “Do you think, Mrs. de Winter, that I am not excruciatingly aware that you are not Rebecca?”

And so when Danny acts tender I LOSE MY SHIT.

“No. Don’t be.” A smile ghosted across her face. “To tell you the truth, Mrs. de Winter, I don’t think I mind it so much now.” She kissed my jaw again, softly. “At the least, I’d prefer you call me that than Favell.”

THAT PART? I LOVED THAT PART! I LOVED IT A LOT. I love the hate-fucking but it’s great when Danny is a nice person for once lmao. When she has some fun with Ich and teases her? THAT’S SOME GOOD STUFF. When she has an actual genuine smile? 10/10!!! When she actually considers Ich’s feelings? NICEEEE. Those rare moments knock me out. (In ganz unerwartet she’s careful to not damage the wings on Ich’s costume and I loved that small detail sooooooooooo much).

Finally, I wanna say that sometimes I read this fic (and your other Rebecca fics) at 3am in the morning and so i lose sleep but that’s okay cuz I ALWAYS enjoy reading them. :D

(Also, I’m sure you worked really hard on this fic because it’s high quality!)

[langernameohnebedeutung]

need-not

replied to your post

“I’m like: *googles “very specific turn of phrase I’m using in my...”

ok now I want to know what the phrase is

@need-not​ The last one I remember I did was - “... She couldn’t afford to cast her doubts aside, regardless of how well she knew better.”

Basically, I wanted to be sure if ‘casting your doubts aside’ is a thing, because it sounded right in my head and whether ‘how well she knew better’ is a thing, because it seems the logical comparative to “she knew well”, but then I wasn’t sure I’ve ever read it put like that and then google told me that this turn of phrase is almost exclusively used by an elderly fanfiction writer writing for Codename: Uncle, which doesn’t tell me anything about whether it’s valid or not.

But it’s not really about a specific phrase, it’s more about how I’m constantly doing this every time I’m unsure of something even though it’s time consuming and how little it actually says about my level of authenticity. On the other hand, I thought it might be a useful piece of advice for other writers (especially people not writing in their native language) that you, when you’re not sure whether something is A Thing, you can just google “it like this” to search for these words in that exact order to see whether it is something that people use, use a lot, don’t use, specific people use and in what contexts it’s used. I love to mess around with language when I write, especially when I describe emotions and physical sensation in weird ways and sometimes, when I overthink a sentence and re-write it for the dozenth time, I lose track of the parts that are actual common expressions and which parts are not. Also I like to draw from idioms and metaphors from various languages and play around with them and mash them up and end up forgetting whether it’s something you can say in English or not. 

Maybe it’s subjective bias, because English is only my second language or because I’ve learnt it in school where your first impression is being often and constantly corrected (necessary of course) - but I always have this vague expectation that German is a bit more...tolerant and durable when it comes to playing around and experimenting with language. (Maybe it’s also just because the creative writing community is bigger in English, for obvious reasons, and I see more ‘haha look at this idiot writing like that/using a metaphor like that!’ posts, so I also like to keep track of how far I’ve gone off the main road.)

[baronessblixen]

friend it is 7 am where you are warum bist du wach

For work 😆 I try to start working between 6.30 and 7 am. 

[scullysexual]

@need-not replied to your post: yo where do americans...

artistic paint? Michael’s usually

Probably should have been specific on the paint lol. Wall paint is what I mean 

[cuckleberrywish]

@need-not replied to your photoset “Daily Will √2/∞ ⇒ Willemijn’s 1000th performance of Wicked (2012) ”

Is there video of this?

heck yeah there is! :)