constantly chasing a thought

Mac. She/her. Loudly bisexual and always a decade late to a good thing. You can find all my fics on AO3 Main blog @macontheweb.

[thestalwartheart]

This is really stupid but where do the spaces go in your username

'The stal war the art' is always how I read it but I am almost certain that it is wrong

It’s the stalwart heart :)

[44cowboycryptid44]

Are they lovers? Worse. Coworkers.

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[ultimate-007]

SPECTRE 2015

Daniel Craig

[batwing]

he cries before sex, he cries after sex, but never during sex. during sex he has a fucking job to do

[solmarillion]

i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.

[ultimate-007]

TOMORROW NEVER DIES 1997

[thestalwartheart]

multiple orgasms all the time is one of the biggest lies fanfiction ever told

[allpinkandgoldandglittering]

I love how Blanc went from tapping a single note on a piano to hurry the interviews along while remaining a silent and mysterious figure in the background to straight up blasting the phantom of the opera on a church organ to interrupt a murder confession

[clytemnestraaa]

“how do i write good sex scenes” the same way you learn to write anything else you read a lot of it and take a lot of notes. examine. break it apart. what’s being done? how is it being accomplished? what’s not being done? read something good. now read something bad. make a list of why the bad thing was bad. ok now go practice forever

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[dopedyk]

more so,

people don’t always speak in full sentences,

slang can change depending on age range, demographic, etc. &

don’t be scared of vocal pauses (uhm, uh, err)

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

[thestalwartheart]

thinking a lot this week about how when you practice a sparring sport, the worst thing you can do is spar with someone when you’re in a terrible headspace. you’ll end up hurting either them or yourself. that’s what heavy bags are for!

anyway: a fic idea where arthur and eames are getting practice rounds in every few nights during a job because. and one night, arthur gets out the gloves and eames says no because he’s absolutely boiling for some reason - maybe arthur’s been a prick to him or something’s gone wrong at work. but arthur keeps pressing, so he eventually says “fine! fine, glove up then.” and lo and behold he ends up breaking arthur’s nose or concusses him something.

cue eames feeling extremely guilty because he quite likes getting a few hits in at arthur every now and then, but he didn’t mean to do permanent damage. and also this really gets in the way of maintaining that fine balance he and arthur have between “i want to deck you but i’m also desperate to fuck you silly.”

[thestalwartheart]

OR maybe it’s arthur who does the damage. except he doesn’t bother trying to say no to the sparring first. It’s a tuesday and that’s one of the days he and eames practice. but he’s had a fucking terrible day and he’s not in the right headspace and he’s not paying attention and he takes a swing that ends in eames’ bloodied face.

eames of course holds this over his head forever and it’s only after joking about it three hundred times that arthur can let his guilt go.

[tomfuckinhardy-blog]

Inception, behind the scenes, 2010.

[tennant]

Timothy Dalton as James Bond/007 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987), dir. John Glen

[moviesframes]

Inception (2010)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Cinematography by Wally Pfister

[cheriboms]

very strange to be a fan of a "classic" thing bc like. its overrated. its underrated. everyone knows OF it but its a toss up if theyve actually ever engaged with it. you want to talk to everyone about how good it is but its so culturally ingrained that everyone waves off your glowing review as "well duh, its [classic thing]". its dismissed and overlooked BECAUSE it is so good. you cant find anyone to talk to about it except for deranged ppl on tumblr bc the masses havent actively thought about it in 30 years. its been referenced in every form of media since it released. no one gives it a second thought. youre going crazy.