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rie // she/her // adult // follows from @rieweyrs

main two creative mediums/tags: my web weaves & my writing

writing wips below the cut

THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966)

Would it surprise absolutely ANYONE to hear that I read @blood-mocha-latte’s Luztoye 1960s AU and immediately went feral? No. It would not. This is on-brand. Ever since she mentioned it I have been thinking “wow, I’ve gotta make a playlist for this” and let me tell you.

Reading that fic was like watching a FILM. I’m a film fan. I saw every masterful moment in it like a scene in a motion picture, and I needed to share this imagery with a playlist, which really, at its core, is the soundtrack in my mind. Here’s the CD cover to go with it

So thank you Rie for writing such a lovely fic! The fandom thanks you!! And of course for organising luztoye week and all of your other contributions, can’t wait for the rest of the days :)

anticipatory grief

the pacific by hbo // emily wilson's introduction to the iliad // red river valley written by unknown // ophélie by constantin meunier // judas-redeemed // point defiance steps by cecilia blomberg // there's something inside the water by victor clemete

For Week 9 of HBOWW2Rewatch: Death

With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge pg 166

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in honor of @luztoyeweek coming up, i've been in the mood to make some joe toye flower crown pfps!! stay tuned for a luz set next ✨

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I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.