Background: Last night I was rewatching 4x03, and I wondered to @ariaadagio how the soup kitchen not-date might have gone if Lucifer hadn’t been paranoid about Chloe, you know, trying to send him back to Hell. She said, “Please write that.” I said, “You gotta throw it in my ask box if you want me to remember.” 

So. Without trying to rework too much of the context, let’s say Father Kinley didn’t go to Lucifer’s place to sow his insidious seeds of doubt. Everything else is pretty much the same. Chloe’s still poking a little too hard at Lucifer ‘changing for good,’ without the added angst of Lucifer thinking she’s trying to get rid of him permanently.

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Soup Kitchen

Lucifer’s not certain why the Detective’s so fixated on what others think of him but, for the time being at least, he’s willing to humor her. She has, after all, had something of a trying several months. Her current fixation on his behavior is a small enough price to pay to have her accept him—

Or, if not precisely accept, at least allow him to remain at her side. The … flinching has ceased. He supposes he’s the affair with the axe to thank for that. 

Still, when they exit the car into a neighborhood that reminds him uncomfortably of Hell—the stench, for one thing, and the distant sound of voices raised in argument and screaming—he begins to question the Detective’s sanity once again. Humans, dazed and drug-addled, shamble along the streets like zombies. None raises their eyes; they are too far gone, too lost in their misery even to sense him. They don’t need him. As in Hell, these humans are quite adept at punishing themselves.

An uncomfortable certainty begins to uncoil in his abdomen, fueled by the tenor of the day’s conversation—Have you ever considered donating any of your vast fortune to charity? He’s met more than his fair share of proselytizers. Currently, the Detective bears a striking resemblance. It sets his teeth on edge. It feels like a fist closing around his heart. Or, perhaps, like an axe pushed deeper instead of removed. 

“Detective?” he asks sharply. “Where are you taking me?”

30. Hardest part of writing - the hardest part of writing for me is the beginning. The sitting down moment, the transition from the mind to the page, the fear that it won’t translate well outside the confines of my brain :) Once you get over that hurdle, the rest should flow (hopefully). 

46. Share a scene of a story that you haven’t published yet -  from ‘Want’, a 5+1 Lucifer fic I’m working on:

The marketplace opens before him like a cheap, welcoming whore; the countless tents and stands steaming in the blazing heat. The scent of sweat and olive oil, of fruit and myrrh and livestock lodges into his nostrils and he takes a deep, greedy breath, chasing the rot of brimstone away with the earthy smells of the Holy City.

A stand of yellow-red apples catches his attention, and he turns towards the sweet smell of nostalgia like a forsaken, grieving lover, ready to fall back into the arms of his beloved; he reaches out for one perfectly round specimen, brings it to his nose, inhaling appreciatively, and turns to regard the marketplace with delight. He likes this busy place, loves the haggling shouts, the yelling matches – the merchants trying to outcry one another, tempting the odd passersby with their low prices – likes the spices in the air, and the heat on his skin. No Ash here, no sulfur; the colours so vivid and vibrant, he almost needs to close his eyes against the brilliance and the variety. He squints experimentally and looks away, towards the other end of the marketplace - and sees her.

@spirantization in my experience people avoid pluperfect because they don’t know how to use it — when I beta read for people, pluperfect sections are reliably the sections that are a complete mess

To be fair, past perfect is on its way out — it’s all but vanished from spoken language and it’s becoming less and less common in written language as well. A few of its uses have become obsolete and past simple does the job just as well in those cases. I’m not shaming people for not understanding how to use it.

But! It does still have its place as a narrative tense/framing device, and I think it adds some nice variation and texture to a story. The actions don’t have to be a plod plod plod of sequential past simple events! 

Synopsis: A trailer for @ariaadagio's "Castaway" Lucifer fanfiction (post Season 3 and eventually canon divergent for Season 4.) This is the BEST Lucifer story I've ever read, so I had to do something about it. If you haven't read this gem yet, take my word for it...you will not be disappointed. Be sure to watch in HD! ❤️ 

 READ: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15942401/chapters/37175798

I have a feeling that WB had more to do with this cancellation than Netflix, unfortunately. But it’s just a guess.

That’s interesting - do you have an idea why they might want to do that? With the Sandman deal the WB seems to be on good terms with Netflix... and they’re probably shuttering their own DC streaming service in preference of partnering with Netflix, according to the stuff I’ve been reading.

lol wait what is this in reference to?

@ariaadagio - so much like people say DB said Sarah’s name during IWRY (I totally can’t hear it... sadly) fans say that in Heartthrob during the scene when Angel is upstairs with Fred and hears Cordy scream and fall to the floor. When he runs over to support her while she is having the vision, they say that he says:

“Easy, baby.  What is it? What do you see?”