Shiny_n_new's Writing

Have a naked blonde man, everyone

Whatever whatever I don't even care about nerdy teenaged Lex Luthor with his emo haircut and his intense awkward attitude I do not. I never think about that ginger ever. I don't careeeee about him. No.

Changing the relationship status to "Stalemate"

Changing the relationship status to "Uneasy truce"

Changing the relationship status to "Mutually assured destruction"

The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it

It’s about rage, it’s about obsession, it’s about making that two-person war your entire raison d’être. It’s about loving and mistaking it for hatred and loving and loving and loving to the point of destruction. His or yours, it doesn’t matter. And you think seeing him dead at your feet will make you feel better, but all you feel is a whole lot of nothing.

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

Been thinking about how Clark dresses exactly like Lex in Red and the implications of that. Because like I understand that the writers were probably trying to go for: here’s a visual representation of what Lex acted like during his teen years, but it just comes off as: Clark thinks Lex is really cool and attractive and so he’s trying to emulate that

It's so delightfully teenaged, too. Clark, newly concerned about Being Cool, asks himself, "Who is the coolest person I know? Lex!"

Lex being a juggernaut in his warsuit and Clark just hitching a ride on his shoulder at will = this would heal me. This would cure it all.