#yourtinseltinkerbell

[grimweathers]

#3!

3. rina sawayama - catch me in the air

lmao the THIRD rina sawayama song!!!! (i listened to her album on repeat so many times that my top 5 songs of the year are all from that album 😭)

[fishfingersandscarves]

book cover commission for @yourtinseltinkerbell​ of our place in the family of things

[themagicianshea]

Title: My Verse Distills Your Truth

Author: @thelucindac [Twitter | AO3]

Artist: @yourtinseltinkerbell [Twitter | AO3]

Summary: It’s hard to be The Bard! Quentin Coldwater needs to write a comedy for The Whitespire Theater, but he’s got nothing! That is, until a new, unknown actor appears just in time during auditions, capturing Quentin’s heart. Eliot Waugh has turned to acting for one last adventure before he’s forced to marry. Together, they risk everything for the chance to show the world how a simple play can depict “the beauty of all life.”

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[freneticfloetry]

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You’re marvelous. <3

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

The recipe for an ideal fic from Courtney: a little backstory, a whole lot of banter, equal parts external motivation and internal conflict, a heaping spoonful of emotionally charged misunderstanding and a healthy helping of angst, all topped with a running metaphor masquerading as plot. Bake low and very slow (because good lord, I take forever to write).

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Right now, it's probably this chunk of What Baking Can Do:

He's technically seen El… since; there's a copy made of clay back at the cottage, lying silent and too still in Eliot's bed. But this is the form he knows — towering and full of grace, even bent over a workbench, brows drawn together, sifting flour into a big wooden bowl. Quentin's clearly caught him mid-setup, a telltale line of little clay vessels arranged across one side of the table, and it's sort of fascinating to watch the way he's adapted, the duality of the picture it paints — a faded apron slung over some sort of sheer, gauzy shirt that's tied at his side, sleeves rolled at each cuff to the elbow and hands stripped free of rings, the room's worn wood and stone an unadorned backdrop for the drama of the dark crown of gems that still circles his head. It's an image Quentin doesn't think he could forget, but there's the strangest urge to frame it, hang it, label it in bronze: High King Humbled, 2017. Flesh and bone.

This whole fic took me by surprise, but that was one of those passages, the last line in particular, that kind of springs fully-formed from your head onto the page, just from a split-second mental picture. Those times are rare, but it actually emerged as exactly what I was seeing, which is rarer still.

I wasn't sure if it counts as prose, but I'm also irrationally proud of the script snippet from scenes from an unfinished story. I struggled with how to make it meaningful and worth both the buildup to the script reveal and the reaction Eliot has to it, and revelation he has from it, to the point where it was literally the last thing I wrote. And in the end, it was the basest sentiment — you matter to me — that let me combine that canon scene from the Mosaic with things Quentin's expressed throughout the series to make the moment work.

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

There was a Tumblr post I reblogged ages ago that advised never ending a writing session between scenes — that starting the next one makes it easier to get back in the zone when you come back to write more — and that has been indispensable. I love ending things. Endings — the ends of scenes, the ends of chapters, the ends of stories — are my strong suit. But the law of opposites is very much in play, so I struggle hard with beginnings. Can't stand them. I used to wrap up writing sessions when I hit the end of a scene, because it gave me the sense of accomplishment that comes from ending on a strong note. Rolling the beginning of the next scene into a session, when I've already got the creative juices flowing, may not give me the same high, but it makes things a hell of a lot easier when I open that file again.

(I also really love Stephen King’s advice to laugh at your own jokes. That’s the key to writing humor, in my experience.)

[leguin]

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3. What's a book that's been on your to-read list for a long time?

There are literally hundreds of books that qualify, but one I'm particularly embarrassed about is Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. I liked Housekeeping so much that I've bought every book of hers I've seen since then, and then I have not read any of them.

6. What was your favorite series as a kid? Would you still read it now?

It's a tossup between LOTR and the Earthsea books, and I absolutely would (and do) read them now.

30. What character do you connect with the most?

The easy answer here is Quentin Coldwater....the accurate answer here is also Quentin Coldwater. Even in the books. Unfortunately.

[missgoalie75]

I was quasi tagged by @realchemistry.

Rules: spell out your url using song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.

Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie

I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder

Sahara, Pt. II - Bear's Den

Seek Bromance - Avicii

Ghostin - Ariana Grande

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles

A - Cartel

Littlething - Jimmy Eat World

I HATE EVERYBODY - Halsey

Easy - The Naked and Famous

7 Minutes in Heaven - Fall Out Boy

5 O'Clock - T-Pain, feat. Wiz Khalifa & Lily Allen

why does the tagging function not work this website sucks.

[fishfingersandscarves]

our place in the family of things by @yourtinseltinkerbell and greywash is seriously such an amazing fic and everyone should go read it right now

[grimweathers]

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1. what book are you currently reading? i am currently reading two! the starless sea by erin morgenstern, and the guest list by lucy foley. i cannot tell you how many times i have renewed my loans on these lmao. i am truly reading so slow lately

6. what was your favorite series as a kid? would you still read it now? this is a basic ass answer, but it was harry potter lol. i’m not opposed to rereading it, despite jkr’s terf-ness, but i genuinely haven’t been interested lately.

7. what’s your favorite series now? oh gosh... i’m not sure i have one now! i feel like i’ve become a one-and-done kind of person. there are a few series where i read the first book and enjoyed it, but haven’t really bothered to pick up the second.

24. how willing are you to lend your books to other people? depends on the person and the book tbh! i’m ok to lend any of my books out to close friends, mostly bc i know they will return them if i ask for them back lol. if it’s a book that i’m super attached to, i probably wouldn’t lend it out to anyone who was not already a close friend. i have rarely gotten a book returned back to me!

thanks!!