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[ileolai]

zabbers replied to your post: I could sense Missy’s indignation as soon as 13...

One day I hope she needs someone to cut her out of something.

Missy shows up with her stiletto knife and an air of vindication, makes a point of how sharp and useful it is for cutting things, then just walks away

[grassangel]

1, 5, 15

1) is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?

Mostly, I'll write down a sentence or two, or maybe a summary and then just lose interest, either almost immediately or over the next few months. That's usually the reason why things don't get finished.

But there are two ideas that I'm hesistant to start/go further because they're big AUs and represent a huge commitment. One's a Lokane AU, where Jane gets imprisoned on Asgard for her own safety and becomes close with Loki because he's the only intelligent conversation she's able to have for a month. The other is the lengthier version of a WEaT/TDF fix-it/AU where Missy's backseat driving means the TARDIS doesn't land on the colony ship, saving Nardole and Bill from their fates, but she and the Doctor still find their way down there and find the Simm!Master. And at least one of them dies down there, but there's a lot of feelings and tension, and the action is split between the colony ship and the TARDIS, where Nardole and Bill are trying their best to save them as well.

Both are complex and plotty and will definitely be lengthy, with lots of PoVs shifts. So yeah, commitment.

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

I don't think I get surprised necessarily. Frustrated that my starting character wasn't the right one and having to start over. Soometimes I'm surprised that I want to approach a story from a particular character's perspective, but never 'wait, where did they come from?'

I didn't think I'd end up caring quite as much about Natasha's friendship and familiarity with Tony (in a 3/4 finished MCU fic), so tempted to push Holmes' relationship with Morstan further than intended (a 5+1 casefic ACD Sherlock fake married thing that's a behemoth), or doing River/Thirteen breast worship, which is surprising because I didn't ever see myself writing that pairing as much as I think it's a cute dynamic. (Though that's pretty much why I decided on doing it.)

15) why did you start writing?

This is the easiest to answer. I was homeschooled until I was six, and I was taught how to write by being asked to tell stories. So it's something I've always done. Why I've continued? Partially spite - wanting more of the stories I want to see in the world. Partly I just love words and finding the right one, the right order, to desrcribe what I'm seeing and feeling in my head. Again when I was little there was a segment on radio on the weekends with an etymologist; where words come from and how they're used. And I love that, I love word play like puns and spoonerisms, and how 'chewing someone out' and 'eating someone out' are two very different things.

[stackcats]

Omg I'm so excited about those OTP questions: 1, 3, 5 for Malcolm and Jamie!!

omg yes! okay!

1) Who rocks the Ferris Wheel seat and who flips out and begs them to stop?Jamie definitely rocks the ferris wheel seat. Malcolm could barely be persuaded to get on the ferris wheel in the first place, not because he’s scared (he repeats, several times) but because they’re for children and he’s not a child and has better things to do with his time, and he most definitely does not beg Jamie to stop but he does call him some very creative names and threatens to push him out if he doesn’t sit still and be normal for five fucking minutes. 

3) Who is more into taking showers/baths together? Who tries to make it relaxing and who tries to make it sexy time?When they were younger they were both skinny and pretty flexible and shower sex was a thing that happened. Now they’re older it’s a bit more of a logistics nightmare, but there’s some shower groping that leads to sex on the bed where no one’s knees or hips are put to an endurance test. Malcolm doesn’t do baths. Jamie does, but that’s Jamie Time. His mum still sends him Matey bubble bath for Christmas and Malcolm carefully ignores its presence in his house. 

5) Who sleeps on the couch when they get into a fight?Fights being one of their more familiar forms of communication, neither of them, usually. Sometimes Jamie will sleep there if Malcolm’s in a real proper shit with him, but they’re used to being in each other’s space whatever the mood and neither would kick the other out of bed. 

[uozlulu]

Got tagged by @zabbers

The rules are as follows: go to page 7 of your WIP, go to the 7th line, share 7 sentences, and tag 7 more writer-bloggers to continue the challenge.

I’m not sure who’s writing at the moment so if you feel like sharing, please share with us. 

My current fic is a Banana Fish manga AU ending fic. It’s currenly 28,096 words and 44 pages long. It just kind of took on a life of its own on me. 

Eiji rolled out of bed. He moved as quietly as possible and set out the biggest shirt he owned and some adjustable track pants that would maybe fit Ash if they were lucky. Eiji knew he had to think about how to make this easier. This was his home turf so he was the expert at where to go and what to do. Eiji grabbed some other clothes for himself and left to take a bath. He could be more open with himself there and not worry everyone else.

When Ash woke, it was still dark.

[track-three]

@zabbers replied to your post “for the second time in this boxset, there I am, enjoying a wholesome...”

They do enjoy the fact that they're audioplays, and more power to them?

live your best life big finish and all that but it’s 2018 please tag your kinks

[buildarocketboys]

Describe your queer Berlin characters' favorite place to go and least favorite place to go.

oooooh okay so Michael’s favourite place to go is this proper little dive in one of the rough neighbourhoods - it’s dirty and filthy and filled to the brim with the dregs of humanity, but that’s why he loves it. Everyone goes there, from criminals to queers to the dirt poor so it’s a place where he can see everyone, all of life, all the outcasts of society, and he loves that.

His least favourite place is his parents’ house. He’s disowned his parents and is living on his own. He comes from an upper middle class background (went to university, or at least did for a while before he disowned his parents and had to drop out because no money) but he maintains he’d rather be in that dirty little dive than anywhere near his shitty, distant, conservative capitalist parents.

Thomas’s least favourite place is probably his shitty little flat in Berlin. It’s all he can afford (and that just barely) but it’s depressing and makes him miss home (even though they only had one room to sleep in for the whole family). His favourite place is probably anywhere his friends are in Berlin (except for that damn dive that Michael loves but makes Thomas feel ill every time he goes there).

[laurelhach]

zabbers replied to your post “Walmart may be one of the largest companies in the world but nobody at...”

What do they say?

they all, they all, say gon-DOLE-a. it drives me up the wall

[whifferdills]

What's Namor?

this melodramatic asshole

aka Sea Jerk aka the Sub-Mariner. a character in the Marvel comics canon who’s an antihero, a kind-of-ally, a villain, or straight-up monster (The Depths, man, hoo boy)depending on the writer. the King of Atlantis, the Emperor of the Deep, and an obnoxious lil shit, he’s not evil so much as he's just got his own moral code and interests, which may or may not align with the interests of the Good Guys. the most begrudging friend, will probably betray you, might fall in love with you, will definitely fuck off back home once the fighting is done, but is ultimately trying to do what he believes is the right thing.