DON'T CARE ABOUT DESTINY

What's the fic you would write if you had the energy for it? Ambitious, complex, novel-length—the fanfic you'd make if you could.

I want to be 19 again I would do everything right this time

i love Maggie. heroine of all time. instacart driver who gets transported into her favorite fantasy novel and goes, i’m gonna save all of you. appreciates toilet paper. loves pastries. refuses to kiss her favorite character bc she knows too much about him and doesn’t want to take advantage. so fucking smart. doesn’t let anybody run roughshod over her. bludgeons bad guys’ (PLURAL) heads in. doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice herself for what she believes in. still takes a second to notice the hotness of dudes while in an unbelievably traumatic amount of stress. so compassionate. always tries to do the right thing. will yell at the scariest motherfucker in the entire world for messing up her plans. just cares so much. i love her i love her i love her

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

ID: screenshots of three sets of tags: 1. i read this at a time where i am struggling to get a characters voice and perhaps that was a bad time to read it but youre right 2. its why dialogue being my achilles heel hits so much harder - because it becomes so quickly inescapable 3. ah my arch nemesis - dialogue. but this is an interesting read tho

There is a post I saw ages ago, and cannot find which is maddening, but it had some very useful advice about finding character voices by using various scales. I have tried to recreate some of the scales since they've helped me. All of these are going to change depending on the situation, who the character is speaking to etc. but it can help to get a baseline. Formal ----- Casual Does the character speak as though they're meeting the head of state, or like they're talking to their best friend? When they meet someone new, do they say 'Hi!' or 'Pleased to meet you.'? Verbose ----- Taciturn Do they ramble or are they a person or few words? Rude ----- Polite Do they demand to see a manager, or ask an assistant if it would be possible to get some help? Blunt/To the point ----- Meandering Do they say exactly what they mean, or do they hedge/soften their words? 'This will not work' vs 'I think we could also look at other options' Complex ----- Simple Think of this as a scale from scientists discussing black holes at an academic conference to explaining black holes to a five year old. Clean ----- Vulgar Do they swear a lot? Do they make dirty jokes? This one tends to be a bit hazy i fanfic because there are characters who definitely feel like they should swear a lot, but are restricted by being in a PG-13 rated show/game. So for my current Character, Osiris from Destiny... He tends to be fairly formal, especially with people he doesn't know well. He is verbose - the man goes off on rambling tangents frequently and loves talking about things he's interested in. He can be rude - he often ignores the niceties of social interactions, but it's not (usually) because he intends to be rude. He is very blunt and speaks his mind and appreciates others doing the same with him. He tends to fall on the complex side of the scale - he will casually throw high level scientific and philosophical terms into a conversation and just assume everyone understands him. His language also tends to be clean - he doesn't swear much in casual conversation (though he has been shown to in moments of frustration). If he does dirty talk with Saint in the bedroom is up to the writers' interpretation. One thing I also tend to take notice of is if a character uses a lot of contractions or not. Do they say 'It is' or 'it's'? 'We are' or 'we're'?