Anonymous asked: anyway i love diana a lot, screech in an unholy manner if you too love diana a lot,
LET ME SING YOU THE SONG OF MY FEELINGS ABOUT DIANA
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
Anonymous asked: P for the fanfic meme!
Another ask for the fic meme!
P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
H A definitely a gardener. I’ll sometimes sketch out the VERY general outline of a universe, but almost never outside my own head–like, I currently have all three acts of my Alleirat novel planned out and I’m starting Act Two, as it were, but nothing is written down. I don’t think I’ve ever actually done a story outline in my life and I doubt that’s going to change anytime soon.
Anonymous asked: The thing about SPN is that all of its characters have such good potential, y'know? Like the Sam's Boy King of Hell thing you mentioned. And the Antichrist. And all the other characters whose potential was wasted so the show could revert back to it's lazy formula. I'm just really bothered about this. Idk man it pisses me off.
ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE WASTED POTENTIAL. AMARA. THE DARKNESS. PRE-BIBLICAL. GOD"S SISTER. THE BE ALL END ALL OF VILLIANS. Her plotline was so crap????? Season 13 confirmed and that was the best they could give us? I truly believe if they had played their cards right they could have created an amazing story arc that would’ve kept people engaged and saved the show from itself.
I’m just so much enjoying that people actually agree with me. Because you’re right! The characters by and large have a lot of potential! The dynamics have the potential to be really interesting! AND YET.
Fuckin’ Supernatural, seriously.
Anonymous asked: Idea for a Buzzfeed quiz: We Can Tell How Old You Are Based On What Season You Stopped Watching Supernatural. Stopped watching in season 5? You got: 20 years old *that gif of Adam still in Hell*
I’m fucking wheezing this is so funny, someone with a friend in Buzzfeed do it and link me.
Also I have no idea if this is the gif you meant but it was the first one that came up under ‘adam supernatural’ and I’m cackling.
Anonymous asked: Fanfic meme R :)
Another ask for the fic meme
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
Hell fucking yeah there are.
FANFIC
Honestly I love @determamfidd and @caffeinewitchcraft‘s writing styles more than words can say. Obligate hat-tip to @notbecauseofvictories, who is glorious. I’m sure there’s a laundry list of other people who I’m not remembering because I’ve been cleaning all day.
NON-FANFIC
Insert ode to Robin McKinley here. I love her writing literally more than words can address. I talk about her a lot.
Also PC Hodgell for armies and cities and people, lately Jay Kristoff who wrote Stormdancer, I should probably include KA Applegate who taught me how to torture my characters at a young age, and IDK Eric Flint who wrote 1632. I could definitely go on for A While with this list, but I’ll stop here.
Anonymous asked: Things we lost in the fire C, X and Z if you don't mind? :)
*manic laughter* YEAH OKAY AVATAR AU IT IS
For this ask meme
C: Which member do you identify with the most?
…Grantaire. Like, just generally. It’s why the whole thing is from his perspective.
X: A character you enjoy making suffer.
GRANTAIRE. No smart comments please. But really, this whole fic could have the tagline “Grantaire has the power to move mountains and he suffers anyway.”
Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?
This is Les Mis, darling, character death is what we do. I generally prefer canon if you’re going to do character death, and I don’t think I’ve ever written it except sort of in the reincarnation AU? Anyway, Avatar is a happy story, please rest assured that I have no current plans to murder anyone in this fic.
Anonymous asked: so much good content here and not enough time for me to catch up h e l p why do u run such a good blog
I’m sorry? Thank you?
In all seriousness though, the answer to your question is “lack of focus and inability to master the impulse to reblog anything I even slightly enjoy.”
Anonymous asked: I hope you don't mind if I rant a bit, but I'm just re reading the SPN rant and I'm remebering how mad I am about this show??? Because I used to really like it, and up to Season 5 I had issues but I dealt with it because y'know it was good overall. But then like as the seasons kept on going I was left in a permanent state of "wtf" I actually made it 5 episodes 1/?
of Season 8 before I was like… what am I doing so I bingewatched a bunch of crime shows. But then Season 11 started airing and I still had “kept up” with SPN because of “nostalgia” or wtfever and I heard they were introducing “The Darkness” the “biggest bad ever, pre-creation, sister of GOD” and I’m like eh, but then the fandom was coming up with all these theories and 2/?
I’ll give it a try and then I heard they had Season 13 confirmed so I was like hey, it’s going to be 3 season arc! Hey, maybe it’ll turn out alright! I started mid way through the season so when I started watching it was pretty obvous they’d already set Amara/the Darkness as Dean’s love interest but I was like… well if it was Sam she’s be dead but since it’s with Dean 3/?
hey might create a heartrenching arc about sibling? (How naive I was..) And as the season went on I kept cringing but Season 13 confirmed! EVEN BIGGER BAD THAN ALL THE OTHER BAD! GOD REAPPEARENCE! It’s going to turn out all right! And then they literally had the most STUPIDEST ENDING EVER 4/?
SPOILER: IT WAS LITERALLY I’M SORRY I WAS OS MEAN TO YOU BRO< IT’S COLL SIS, YOU WANT TO GO HAVE A SPACE VACATION EVEN THOUGH YOU NEARLY KILLED ME AN EPISODE AGO AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE A DEEPLY COMPLEX VILLIAN??? AND ALL THIS BECAUSE YOU TALKED TO AN OLD LADY WHO FED DUCKS?!?!?!?! 5/?
THEN MOTHER OF ALL PLOT TWISTS (SPOILER) THEY BRING BACK MARY! SO GET READY FOR SEASON 12 WINCHESTER ANGST + MUM AND MOST PROBABLY AN EVEN BIGGERER BADDAERER BAD!!!! *inhales* It was at this point I switched off the t.v and screamed into my pillow 6/?
I’m just very frustrated about SPN and all the wasted potential with Amara/ the Darkness. THEY HAD SEASON 13 CONFIRMED. Idk why I sent you all of this, your rant just awoke the beast in me I guess. I’m just going to leave with all of this *gestures toward previous asks* and run away. Sorry 7/7
HONEY never ever apologize for bitching about Supernatural with me, I am here for you to get it the FUCK off your chest. I am the most sympathetic ear. Amazingly, my epic rant was a mere fragment of my complaints. SO ANY TIME YOU NEED TO BITCH, I AM HERE FOR IT.
That being said, damn, anon, you stuck it out way longer than I did. And wow, I have done some googling and I just. I just give up. I don’t understand the plot. I am confused. I tried to fucking figure out the Amara thing, I Wiki’d, I IMDB’d, but it’s incomprehensible. And then fucking Mary gets resurrected? Goddamn, I’m just glad I got out when I did tbh.
@SPN producers, let it end.
Anonymous asked: I'm ace and your post meant a lot to me so thank you
Oh, honey, you shouldn’t have to thank me, but I’m glad it meant something to you.
Like I said, y’all put up with a lot of nonsense, and you put up a hell of a fight, and I’m proud of you. Good job, honey. You’re doing a really good job.
Anonymous asked: So your rant on Supernatural? Also I fell in love with the story you're talking about and basically want to know more. Sorry.
My buddy, you have made An Error, but let’s do this shit. To any SPN fans who have wound up here through Ye Olde Search Function, I encourage you to stop reading now.
I watched up to about halfway through Season Five before I decided that I could Do It Better (I think this is the novel you’re talking about, anon, unless it’s Earth is where the trouble comes from), and dragged myself up to about halfway through Season Seven before I packed it in and gave up, resigned that the parts of the show I loved were about four to five seasons dead. So like that’s the information I’m working on here.
So, obviously, lots of people have lots of legitimate complaints about Supernatural, including treatment of queer characters, characters of color, and women, as well as their fairly rampant history of queerbaiting. And lots of people have covered this in more competent detail than I could ever manage, so like google “sexism in Supernatural” or something and you can do your own reading there. Hell, if you want to do it the lazy way, you can knock out two of the above with this one article in friendly, easy-to-read Buzzfeed format. To the nominal credit of the people involved, I will add that the cast seems acutely aware of these problems and finds it distasteful, HOWEVER the problems persist and therefore that credit is minimal. Anyway. These things are covered much more thoroughly by many other people who are far more cogent than I could hope to be, so I’m going to leave those alone.
Instead, my rant is mostly summed up as “YOU CALL THIS SHIT STORYTELLING.”
So there are four basic parts to this rant, or rather four basic flaws that form the fundamentally weak foundation of Supernatural as a narrative.
- Failure to commit to a single cohesive narrative
arc, also known as “SOME OF THAT AND SOME OF THAT AND SOME OF THAT AND SOME OF
THOSE” syndrome
- The persistent and erroneous belief that
character death = character development and narrative progression
- Inability to commit to a major change of
paradigm, also known as out and out narrative cowardice, which I personally
call “flinching during Plot Roulette”
- Total incapacity to put their characterization
where their script is regarding the Winchester brothers and the other major players
*cracks knuckles*
