#reswan

[viva-la-weirdos]

Somewhat annual Song Without A Name Nny.

[noneadarkwolf]

A rare none reblog post from me:

After getting back from a BBQ without cell service went to the store to pick up something for dinner and didn't think of what I was wearing until someone commented on my vest.. The vest I wear pretty much everyday I go anywhere... What vest? My Homicides vest XD

The guy asked who they were and what they sounded like said he thought they'd sound a bit like some classic 70s-80s American rock as he left to his truck

Gave me a bit of a chuckle and a stupid grin

[xelbleedsglitter]

Hey, I’ve been rereading SWAN for like… the 10th or more time and I’m still struck by how much I love it, even after all the times I’ve come back to it. It inspired me to try writing my own JtHM au and I was wondering how you learned to write the way you do. You got me so invested in the characters and story I love them so much!

Wow, thank you! I love hearing that people go back to it. I am extremely curious as to whether you're reading the original or the very superior please read it rewrite.

Either way, I'm happy you like spending time with my glitter garbage children; they are precious to me.

I am going to say I don't know how I learned to write in whatever way I do and then write a huge number of words about it, okay? You've read some version of SWAN, you know I am great at not shutting up.

I think one of the things that actually influenced this was that my grandmother is a professional storyteller. That was just her job title. She and my grandfather had a large hand in taking care of me when I was under ten years old, and she practiced her programs on me, and told me her tips and tricks. These were mostly geared toward public speaking, but a lot of it carried over to telling stories in social situations and making people listen to you in written form. I think this is why most of my stories start as just dialog exchanges.

Another influence was desperately wanting to be cool to my dad's friends who laughed at everything he said. I studied what they said and how they said it in order to dissect How To Be Funny like a Very Normal Child.

I told myself stories to fall asleep every single night for my whole entire life.

I liked musicals a lot, and how they constructed stories by calling back to other moments musically.

I internalized all the advice we got for writing essays around 7th grade. I had more than one teacher tell the whole class I was the only one allowed to turn in a first draft as a final because I was 'Wonder Woman'. In college I was asked why I was going into illustration because I was 'a natural wordsmith'. I was a little surprised by both of these things!

Assuming that you are interested more for 'Teach Me Your Ways' reasons, though, here is some stuff I am conscious of doing:

I never start with a boring sentence. I learned this from essay writing and my grandmother, who had to convince people to listen to her talk for an hour straight. ''The wind blew the curtains and the sun shined through the windows."? Oh my god, who cares, I'm not sticking around for that. "When he bothered to look, he saw three people in the mirror."?? Um, hello? What does the next sentence say about this? I will indulge you in a few more sentences, author. And then you just trick them into reading every next sentence.

A Cool Phrase you can use like a leitmotif in a musical. In reSWAN, it ended up being 'Trust Me', but I am guilty of something like it in everything, haha. Something I can invoke in tense moments after it's been used casually and cutely over and over or something that can be a surprise inversion later. Grandmother also used this technique frequently.

Ending on the Big Word. If I need to do a reveal, or I need something to stick like a gymnast landing, I save that word for last in the sentence or paragraph. Learned this from grandmother and the how to be funny research. Use some natural sounding twists around the topic or a synonym until you reach the dismount at the end. Takes a bit of practice and wrangling to get it to sound like natural speech and not deliberate avoidance, but worth it as payoff to have the last word that slams into the story recipient be the Emotional, Funny, Tragic, whatever word.

reSWAN in particular was written to be honest. I wanted to put ugly feelings in there. The way I feel about 'they wouldn't want you to be sad' and grieving and identity and relating to people and the stuff Hallmark wants you to stop feeling immediately because happy and generic is always better. I have to believe honesty is critical. All my asexual or demiromantic characters get reactions from that one other person going, 'oh god, thank you, my reality is like this too'. It means I get comments that hurt and make me feel like a monster, but the trick there is to decide to be the monster, I guess. I did not learn this from my grandmother.

I hope this is useful or entertaining, friend! I hope that you even see it, given that you are Anon! Thanks so much for reading and contacting me about it, and if you haven't read the rewrite, please do that~~~~ I'm so proud of it, it is so much more me and so much more Good. 💚

[alynoxenfree]

Okay it’s been years since my first JTHM obsession and I recently re-read RESWAN by @ladyyatexel . Holy. Crap. Literally I’ve never seen anyone else write Johnny the way Ladyyatexel does. He’s written so deeply and with such care, and there’s so much personalization to him other than “I’m a murderer”. It’s a good read, please devote your time to reading it!!

[leafy--bab]

UH FUCKIN SCREAMS

I love him so muuchhhhhhhh!!!! Thank you so so so much @ladyyatexel !!! He is worth every doller even more!!! Such happy this makes me!!!!! I cant wait to put him on the vest @noneadarkwolf is working on ahhhhhh!!!!! Gsgzhzhsh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[noodle-is-gudle]

It’s nice to take a break and go back to the classics.

Johnny telling a fucked up and wild story, while Edgar’s not buying any of his bullshit. I miss them.

[vexture]

@ladyyatexel : I did Tenna!

I had gotten a color palette specifically for Homicides reasons and I tried it on Tenna first. I really like doing her, because I have a few other clothing combos I think she would wear and I like looking like a mess of color.

I tried getting a candid picture, since you seem to like those! I also got two pictures of the makeup without much adjusting. I found the rose hoop earrings at the park a few weeks ago, and I got the top from a friend, so this look is a mix and match ^^'

I hope you like this one, I had lots of fun!

Also went up to the store, thought it'd be comical to take a picture for the band's social being like, "Had to stop to get Edgar some snacks, be back on the road soon! (☆▽☆) - Tenna"

[silkoodles]

post it while everyone's asleep. god two-years-ago me never posted this and boy do i see why. these aren’t very good lmao