#gabe replies

Tumblr is being fucky about this. I couldn't click on the notification directly and it says that the reply is from myself in a trenchcoat 😂 it's not

THIS IS QUESTION OF ALL TIME TO ME IF I'M HONEST!!!!

In order to answer this, we first have to understand that I am a stickler for accuracy where I can get it because I KNOW that someone out there knows more than me on any given topic, but I would like at least to not be glaringly wrong when I write. With that in mind, know that I have looked into the making of linen during medieval times so I could be accurate for quite literally a two sentence dialogue between a nameless NPC and a main character before.

I really enjoyed researching the (british) peerage system and that's probably the knowledge bank I draw on the most often now. I love an AU and knights are one of my favourite topics of all time, so peerage and nobility + their respective social standing was fascinating. So was looking into the policies around the rehabilitation of Scottish heritage buildings, especially when coupled with the geological work I had to do to figure out what kind of slate my character would have needed. But neither of those probably take the cake as the most interesting. The honour would have to go to Scots (the language).

I did probably a full month of nothing but looking into Scots, consulting various dictionaries, literary works, and people of interest surrounding the language. It's one of the national languages of Scotland, and yet so many people around the world just straight up don't know it exists. I knew I wanted to have a character speak it, but the more I learned, the more I felt it would be disingenuous since I'm not a fluent Scots speaker myself. Like the majority of languages, anyone can learn it and the more speakers of it the better, but it felt cheap of me to use it without further study. As I was writing to a deadline, that was time I didn't have and I wasn't about to guess at spelling and the intricacies of grammar. A hallmark of Scots is unique spelling but I didn't want this linguistic feature to be mistaken for a cop-out of 'writing an accent' in the way that English writers have been known to do. Think of that old trope of monolingual writers badly writing a bilingual character and then apply that to accents. Scots is genuinely a fascinating language and is distinct from the Scottish English-speaking accent, so I didn't want the two to get conflated and confused. I guess this also counts as the thing I learned that made me change my mind! In the end, I opted for the character to use certain Scots words and turns of phrase, but not to write her dialogue lines in Scots spelling itself.

ㅤ ㅤ He couldn’t figure it out; why Saemus cared for him so much. Out of everyone that deserved it, Gabe didn’t consider himself to be on that list of people. Yet, there he was. Doing his best to convince him that he didn’t care if he didn’t believe him or not, regardless, he still cared for him. Deeply too, at that. It made Gabriel's’ heart race within his chest. So much so that he couldn’t even find the words to tell him how much his own meant to him. Instead, he swept him up in a tight hug, muttering ‘thank you’ over and over, holding onto him as if he’d float away if he let go anytime soon.

YIPPEEE I LOVE SONG ASKS!!!!!!

In Bloom - Lilas Ikuta

Tank! - Seatbelts

Unskinny Bop - Poison

I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

you fool. I never left!!!

🎀 I think I can write wonderful smut xd and I really love writing dialogue and I feel like people like that about my writing too, so, I like that as well!

🍭 I started writing because I wanted to see my favorite characters in situations that shows just didn't deliver, be it spicy scenes or emotional development