Sometimes writing is like having an enormous lake in your head, and you want to get it out of your head and into a proper place for a lake so other people can come and go swimming and ride jet skis and stuff, except all you have to move the lake is a teaspoon. So you’re just sitting there frantically flinging water out of the lake with your teaspoon and telling people, “Guys, this lake is going to be so cool when it’s done,” but it will never be done. There is so much lake.
I didn’t really expect this to be relatable, but if you wanna reblog, go wild.
This is it exactly. I worked out once that even if I wrote my theoretical best word count every single day it would take years for me to write all my ideas. It’s neverending which is sometimes cool but mostly torturous. Quite demoralising really because I want to be done and I never will be.
Writing is so weird! Yesterday when I had my writing time, I had no distractions and still barely wrote anything. Today, I decided to use my dancemat as it gets me moving at least even if I remain unsure whether it’s proper exercise. In between dances I wrote down a few sentences and I just hit recount, and I wrote 4x what I did yesterday, and I’m all sweaty. Like seriously?
Also I want to know why if I have a good writing day, the next day I write next to nothing therefore cancelling out the good day. How does that make sense? You know what I think somebody should do – write up the cosmic laws of the writer. Like the moment you have time to write, you want to do anything but write. Or when you have a deadline on Project A, all your brain wants to do is Project B. Or when you have no time to write that is when the brain comes up with a gazillion ideas. Stuff like that.
Ugh tumblr’s mobile app has always been pretty horrendous. However, it had one redeeming feature. It alphabetically sorted the blogs I follow so I could very easily manually scroll my favorite blogs. Which was helpful because for some reason putting certain blogs into the tumblr search bar on the PC doesn’t work, so I need to find their name to click on elsewhere. Just looking on my phone for those couple of blogs was actually easier.
Then … THEN tumblr decided this was clearly too good and so removed that feature in the recent update. Why? Just why? So this morning I’m looking on the app, I see a mutual pop up in my feed and decide to look at their whole blog. Big, big mistake. I have no idea if they will have been spammed with “still-searching47 is now following you” as I clicked and unfollowed (seriously why put that link there??? it’s right next to their name!) and then panic followed with frantic tapping.
I have to say stupid o’clock or not, it made me instantly get out of bed to boot the PC, so I could triple check I’m still following them because stupid mobile app! Honestly I just wanted to make sure I hadn’t missed any of their posts. Why tumblr, just why?
Random thought of the day. Granny was still alive in the Real or Not Real? Nobody Knows wish!world. I mean it’s not real but is somehow persisting which makes it look kinda real. Anyway, Marco/Geppetto was dead so clearly the writers were aware about the aging process but Granny looked the same.
Answer – werewolf!
I mean Granny never had a red cloak, we only have her word that she doesn’t change anymore. What if she’s like Colonel Ives and stays young and healthy because on full moons she feeds.
Either that or Granny is Storybrooke’s answer to Professor McGonagall and when death came for her, Granny looked down her glasses, grabbed her crossbow and death apologized and left. It’s a theory 🙂
I’ve linked this here before but I just noticed that you need to be signed into the NaNo site to view the messageboard now. So I’m going to post it directly. If you don’t know what a word crawl is, basically it’s just a way of making a word count goal feel more manageable by chopping it into smaller pieces.
I kept this very generic because I didn’t want to tailor it to any characters/ships because I posted it on the main NaNo board originally. So this is for everyone, no matter who your favorite character is 🙂 Hope someone finds it helpful!
This is a great time for this meme because I have more unposted stuff right now than I’ve ever had. So let’s see whether I have either of these words 🙂
The Auction – Order in the Court
That was why he was here tonight. The cities elite had got tired of benefit dinners, so the Police Foundation were trying something different to get them to put their hands in their pockets, they were trying an auction. ‘Win a date with Boston’s Finest’– and they had turned out in droves because of the novelty. His reputation demanded his attendance at events like this, but only one person could have made him attend this travesty of human decency – Detective Belle French.
Untitled Rushbelle Marriage of Convenience – Order in the Court
“This council is called to order,” the eldest man announced, which silenced the room. “For the benefit of our guests, from left to right we have Councilor Mary Margaret
Nolan, Ariel Mann, Maurice French, myself Alexander Midas, Thomas Glass, David
Nolan who you have already met and last but not least Regina Mills. Welcome to Misthaven.”
Untitled GoldenLace Bonnie and Clyde He scowled, feeling manipulated but while he was a monster, he wasn’t the type to
let a young lady freeze. Although he had been feeling the elements himself, really he had extended the invitation for his own benefit.
@of-princes-and-savages I just read your anti-Hook fic and I was making a comment on AO3 and this thought popped into my head “the second Hook left, they started thinking, so it’s like they are under a spell from being around him” and boom it came to me.
3.03 Irresistible was an episode of Stargate: Atlantis. SGA-1 gate to this world and they are mystified because this man has everyone singing his praises and they can’t work out why. However, after spending time with him the team start saying how amazing he is. This guy gets everything he wants, people do anything he asks them. The only one not affected is Shepherd because he has a cold. Turns out this guy made a drug, and put it in his aftershave.
When he leaves his world for Atlantis then the locals go through withdrawal. They are beside themselves without him. However, after another day without him the drug wears off and they regain their right minds. When they face him again it’s not pretty because he took serious advantage of them.
Now I don’t think for one second that Hook actually has this kind of racket going on but it makes for an excellent explanation in crack fics 🙂
Must be nice to have an OTP that has many fans and lots of material because I’m alone in my shipper corner.
Hey anon *waves* thanks for the message 🙂
I’m really curious now. What are your OTP’s? You know I was only kidding when I said that I picked OTP’s that hurt me. I don’t think anyone actually picks their OTP’s. We don’t choose what we see that grabs us. OTP’s pick us and make us love them whether we want to or not.
So yeah I guess I am fortunate that I’ve only fallen for OTP’s that are canon, so there is a lot of material to work with. I hope that you have, or can find, at least one person that shares your ship. It’s lonely when there’s nobody to talk with, and to bounce enthusiastically off, when it comes to favorite things. Wishing you all the best anon!
I only have a handful of actual OTP’s. I tend to casual ship a fair bit because I like characters to be happy, so if it’s canon then I usually root for them. Not always, there are some ships I don’t like. Anyway do my OTP’s have anything in common? Well what are they for a start?
I’m probably going to go on a bit. I know, I know you weren’t expecting an essay *rolls eyes at self* I’ll try to keep it brief but under the cut because gifs are fun.
Jack Malone and Samantha Spade (Without a Trace)
Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko (Alias)
Rumplestiltskin/Gold and Belle/Lacey (Once Upon a Time)
Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons (Agents of Shield)
These are the ships I would ride or die for. I’m wavering about whether to add Swanfire to the list because I really do ship them. However, I’m kinda thinking that if I have any doubt that it’s an OTP then it’s probably not quite there.
So what do they have in common?
Well aside from Fitzsimmons which is my most recent obsession I’ve written fanfic for all of them. That’s more to do with being an OTP though and not anything to do with them as a couple, or is it? I joked yesterday that I always picked OTP’s that hurt me.
My first ever OTP was Jack and Sam. I quit Without a Trace after season four because it changed in a way I didn’t like, and back then I had the ability to still walk away. I seem to have lost that ability but I digress. Anyway, I still kept up with the news about Jack/Sam and I was thrilled when they got back together! Then in the shows finale – the very final episode – they broke up. No happy ending for them. Jack and Irina were even worse, Irina went through some major character assassination to serve the plot and then in the shows finale – the very final episode – they both got killed and not even together, they were on separate continents even.
Rumbelle, well I don’t have to explain their rollercoaster of their relationship. Fitzsimmons get torn apart all the time! Brain damage, undercover assignments, being kidnapped, being sucked through a portal to an alien world, being sucked into another dimension, being replaced by robots etc. Fitz actually said that he thought the cosmos had it out for them.
So common point one – their relationship faces many challenges.
Fitzsimmons kinda breaks the mold because the other three have a common point of their relationship/love being forbidden/not approved of by others. However, they do all have “saving each others lives” as a common point.
– Jack/Sam had Jack walking into a hostage situation and trading himself for Sam who was shot.
– Jack/Irina had a couple of examples though I’m not sure if theirs is negated by the fact that they also tried to kill one another.
– Rumbelle, well you know that list 🙂
– Fitzsimmons had Fitz jumping through a hole in the universe to save Simmons on an alien world. Simmons would also do anything for Fitz. She stunned a superior officer back when she was all nervous in season one because Fitz was in danger and she had to save him.
There are other examples too but I’m trying not to go on for forever.
So common point two – they save each other from danger.
What else? I think the fact that they know each other better than anyone else. They always know what to say to give comfort/support and they don’t need many words to do it – they can speak without words. From Rumple saying “You made me stronger” to Simmons saying “I can’t think without Fitz” – they need one another. They aren’t just lovers, they are friends. They fit together, even if some of them perhaps shouldn’t have anything to do with one another e.g. Jack/Irina, the amount of betrayal in that relationship is unreal but they are still drawn back to one another like magnets.
I’m not explaining this one very well. I suppose it’s about true love which is doing what is best for the other person, not what is best for you. It’s not about what you want, it’s about what the person you love needs. When Jack/Sam broke up in the finale, Jack broke up with Sam first because he could tell she was there to break up with him and that it was cutting her up inside. He let her go with his blessing, to try and make a go of it with her son’s father, because that’s what she needed to do and he wanted her to be happy.
So common point three – they are all true love and care more about each others happiness than what they personally want.
Haven’t I go on enough? Last point I promise. The couples are all equals – both smart, both capable, both skilled. They both bring something to the party and it makes for a true partnership.
– Jack/Sam are both federal agents, with equal training and skills. Jack has more experience because he’s older but Sam has more training in other areas. They respect one another and defer to the others judgement when appropriate, but aren’t afraid to argue if they think they are wrong.
– Jack/Irina are both highly capable and skilled spies. Alone they are deadly but together they are a force to be reckoned with.
– Rumbelle on the surface looks like it’s not balanced because Rumple is so much older, has magic etc. but Belle is really smart in her own right and brilliant at research. I reckon the show have never let them work together because they’d take care of any problem within an episode. With Belle’s determination and knowledge, and Rumple’s shrewd mind for strategy and magical power, no bad guy of the week would stand a chance.
– Fitzsimmons are the scientists and the very definition of friends to lovers. Simmons is biochem and Fitz is engineering, they compliment one another. Honestly they can finish each others sentences and they know how each other works and it’s wonderful.
So common point four – they all respect one another/are equal partners.
They are started from such different places and they separated and came back together over and over. Sometimes by their own choice, sometimes because outside forces tore them apart:
– Jack/Sam was an affair. It should have been a cliche with an older, married boss but then love got involved. Jack has a guilt complex a mile wide and Sam has commitment issues. It was also against the regulations because they worked together but love doesn’t care about that kind of thing.
– Jack/Irina started on a lie because Irina was a Russian spy deep cover, and then Jack believed she was dead for twenty years. Even after all the lies, all that pain, there was still the love because that had been true even if everything else hadn’t been.
– Rumbelle started with a deal but Rumple wasn’t capable of mistreating Belle and she was through his defenses before he even worked out what was happening. Belle hadn’t expected love, she’d just wanted to save her people, and yet love happened anyway. This will always be my favorite BatB adaptation because there was no ulterior motive to them falling in love, quite the opposite in fact.
– Fitzsimmons like I said are the definition of friends to lovers. They were friends for years and it didn’t occur to either of them, and then it occurred to Fitz but he was too afraid to say anything. Simmons took some time to work out what she felt, and their constant separations didn’t help. Once they decided though that was it, it was like the last puzzle piece clicked into place. Their relationship didn’t change what they had, it just added passion and romance to the mix.
So common point five maybe – they are always getting torn apart.
Wow and this was me trying to be brief. I’m sorry for the essay /cringes I just really do love my OTP’s even if they do hurt me.
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