For the meme!
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So first of all how dare you make me compliment myself
✅ list one or two favorite lines you’ve written and explain why they’re your favorite
Okay so we’re going one line recently posted and one line upcoming, because otherwise I have to remember something I wrote over a month ago.
Upcoming, a line I enjoy from the childhood fic:
“And, um, wait until everyone’s got something first before you drink your blood. It’s polite.” “Why polite?” Orin mumbled, staring into her teacup. “Because it is! It’s good manners!” “But--” “Oh, look,” said Kallian, quickly raising Gutty’s teacup to the doll’s mouth. “Gutty drank her poison before everyone was ready, and now she’s dead, so you can’t play with her any more.” She flipped the doll over, laying her face down. “Oh dear! You’ll have to play with Meaty instead! She’s being good and not drinking her poison yet!”
I love the moments that are just, Oh these guys are Kids, doing Normal Kidlike Behaviour like having tea parties with their toys and parroting The Rules without any understanding. But also because of the fucked up edgetastic environment they’re raised in, they’re serving blood and poison in the tea parties and naming their dolls after Guts. (Also, Kallian hates Gutty because she’s the doll Sarevok gave Orin, and she plays with her more than Meaty, the one Kallian gave her, and I love the mixed up mess of Kallian’s jealousy over not always being her sister’s favourite and the genuine Bad Vibes she gets from Sarevok and Orin’s relationship.)
And from the last chapter of Not A Place of Honour:
“He trapped one of his own people in Avernus once!” “What are you talking about? When did I--” [Enver] stops, remembering the bodyguard, and rolls his eyes. “That must have been almost a decade ago. If you’re going to claim you’ve never cared about me, maybe don’t dig up every insignificant employee I’ve ever let go.”
Like, it’s not one of those lines that make me go “holy shit, that’s beautiful, what an emotional punch.” It’s just--it’s the fact that it’s not a big deal here. It’s the fact that no one even uses Karlach’s name. Kallian only brings her up to score a point against Gortash, and he barely even remembers her, and refers to his act of deeply traumatic, horrifying betrayal as letting her go. And then continues the conversation, and no one mentions Karlach again, because she was just some random bodyguard and they have more important things to argue about. Just… absolute lack of care. For Gortah, It Was Tuesday.
😊 say something nice about your writing
I have been told that I’m very good at Show Not Tell. I write a lot of bastards and unreliable narrators, and I’m good at making it clear that they’re in the wrong, or avoiding acknowledging something, without, yknow, having them look at the camera and go “remember, abusing people is Wrong!” or whatever.
