#scioscribe

[saltyteethbooks]

I made a smol book in a couple of hours in total at a leisurely pace, featuring scioscribe's Dramatic Arts

[rotzaprachim]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A tense anticlimax full of poorly-executed good intentions, punctuated by threats, with a questionable and ambiguous achievement: so the wedding had turned out to be like all the other work he had done for the Rebellion after all.

i’m working on a longer list of andor show-specific recs, but in the meantime, if you want something that in my opinion manages to absolutely sink it’s fucking teeth into the complicated brutality, humanity, and complicated,  uneven human relationships of the show, as well as matter-of-face slice-of-life side of the sw universe it’s... somehow this rebelcaptain arranged marriage au from 2017. trust. this thing is 10k of people having sex and having repressed emotions and it feels fully contiguous with the andor writing style and flavour of the universe 

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“If this is what we fight for,” K-2 said mournfully, “we fight for the triumph of madness.”

Cassian adjusted his jacket, which had been tailored for another man. The Alliance’s funding ran to fighters, bribes, and base installations, not to salaries, and so when someone fell, their possessions went into an informal commissary, to be bought, begged, bartered for, or stolen at will or convenience. Never entirely without sentiment, though. They all had sewing skills rudimentary enough at least to stitch the necessary black X, the acknowledgement of whoever had come before them. Maybe it was bad luck, getting married in a dead man’s clothes.

[mosylufanfic]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso Characters: Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, K-2SO (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Arranged Marriage, Bittersweet Summary:

A tense anticlimax full of poorly-executed good intentions, punctuated by threats, with a questionable and ambiguous achievement: so the wedding had turned out to be like all the other work he had done for the Rebellion after all.

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3 and 6?

3: Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.

When I first started writing fanfiction, my stories were really, really short. Really short. If you think my current fic is on the shorter side... 2018 me doesn’t have shit on 2003 me. Everything was hand-written on the pages of a tiny locking diary with kittens on every page (thanks, Scholastic book sale!) or a thematically appropriate Harry Potter diary (thanks, Scholastic book sale!) and it was very one-shot-oriented. Dream logic prevailed and canon review did not. 

6: Name three stories you found easy to write.

gimme your hand, gimme your sound - Mindhunter Debbie/Holden PWP with pegging. I basically never write pegging because I don’t find capital-P Pegging as a construct really interesting or hot but I love writing Debbie, and I love writing Holden’s neurotic creepy-crawly brain, and this basically wrote itself.

Three Ways Of Playing A Chorus - The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999, murderous polyamorous Christmas in the Italian Alps. This wouldn’t have gotten written outside of Yuletide, because I would never have thought to write it outside of Yuletide, but it was very very fun. (It’s saddled right now with a kind of cumbersome set of content notes that hey, maybe I can now feel confident to move to the end and not the start -- people kept saying they missed the tags and were surprised by the murder -- but even the murder came easily.)

Cheating -- a ruby in the vine and The Naked And The Nude, two Great Gatsby fics written for Chocolate Box. Again, not a fandom I would think to write or pairings I would get to write outside of exchanges, and they’re two really different fics (one of them’s a first-person halfassed first-person Fitzgerald pastiche -- I hate Fitzgerald, he’s my hometown’s most famous former resident and the tourists who come to see the places he briefly lived and vociferously hated for snobby snobby reasons are really obnoxious -- and one of them’s typical-for-me third person present tense bs) without even consistent capitalization styles in common but they both showed up like lightning strikes.

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Because I just reread it earlier today, And Her Hair in Golden Fire: 3 and 4?

And Her Hair In Golden Fire (The Dark Tower, Susan Delgado/The Man in Black) 

3: What's your favorite line of narration?

He shuffles his deck and Susan leans forward despite herself. In the passing of the cards — the flicker of images barely glimpsed, the flashing of gilt edges becomes like the passing of a juggler's ball, flickering like firelight. Susan looks, and sees.

I would be lying if I said this description wasn’t influenced just the tiniest bit by the contact juggling in the movie Labyrinth, but hell, if Randall Flagg can wankily reference The Wizard Of Oz... 

4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?

"The seventh card is the Tower, reversed. The world turned upside-down. Nothing less than the end of an age, a last crusade, a final outrage."

Do you know how often I want to quote Blue Öyster Cult lyrics in fic? Only all the time. I feel like I’m selling Susan short by picking these two passages but I really loved writing a more hardened Susan since she doesn’t have Roland’s same quasi-martial background. 

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scioscribe replied to your link: Dark Family: V. C. Andrews And The Secret Life Of...

To the surprise of precisely no one, I adore Megan Abbott.

I can’t believe it took me this long to get into her writing -- I backread her old blog in one massive plunge because there was a review I remembered of the absolutely bonkers 70s YA sex work classic Steffie Can’t Come Out To Play hosted there and it was a totally worthwhile plunge. Do you have any particular faves of hers? (I’m waiting on an interlibrary loan of her book on white masculinity in noir and I really need to start Queenpin.) 

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For the cool asks meme: 6 and 15?

6: First fic/pairing you wrote for? (If no pairing, describe the plot)

Like... of all time, it was semi-shamefully a Draco/Hermione star-crossed-lovers pining fic. I’m pretty sure they were both looking up at the moon thinking about how much they wanted to be together but it could never be. It was pretty grim, and I definitely didn’t get what made shipfic particularly romantic because they didn’t really interact or give any indication they’d ever done anything other than very secretly love each other from afar. (Which could be weapons-grade pining in the hands of the right person, but that person was not middle-school-aged me.) My first fic on AO3 was an absolutely dire Discworld fic and I wouldn’t rec it to anyone. I was new to the idea of fic exchanges and dove in really prematurely, with absolutely disastrous results. 

15: Your guilty writing pleasure?

PWP (usually ridiculous in-media-res BS with consent issues and thinly sketched drama elements) is a biggie but the really guilty guilty pleasure has got to be major character death, y’all. I love killing off characters, I love having characters meditate on their loved ones’ corpses, and I love having my OTPs try and kill each other. (Which is making writing fic exchange letters around some of my ships progressively harder every year. “No, really! Have them kill each other! Or at least, like, try.”) 

Honestly I do not know how nobody died in the LA Confidential fic I wrote for Yuletide. Like, nobody extra. I really love character death, you guys. 

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scioscribe replied to your post “After my earlier tirade: what if I wrote Daniel Plainview/Eli Sunday...”

YES DO IT, I just rewatched that yesterday

[cackling]

Somehow, God only knows how, TWBB ended up a frequent rewatch around here and I just love seeing my OTP be terrible to one another, both in and out of bowling alleys. I have no idea what I’d even write, since other authors have monopolized the market on very fine filth. (A while ago I wanted to write an AU where Eli actually does preposterously well for himself but they still butt heads over the Bandy tract but I have no idea how to fill in that kind of canon divergence because I know fuck-all about early 20th century American religious shenanigans. Or business. Or oil. I still know nothing about oil.)