#hosseinis

[re: this post yesterday because i sent this ask to drafts like a FOOL]

dude you wanna talk mean, i keep seeing that one post that's like "i think a good writer can make mischaracterization good actually!" and all the replies being like "YEAH you just have to figure out what WOULD make him say that!" and i just sit here like uh

the problem there is.

that "a good writer" is not. most of the people on this website. and a lot of that is because people are SHIT at media analysis and don't understand that yeah, actually, you need a firm grasp on characterization to even BEGIN to determine what would make him say that, and then even more analysis and consideration to construct the circumstances themselves! You Need The Characterization To Make "Mischaracterization" Work.

send me a wip and I’ll give you a snippet of fic

despite the titles, these are both grishaverse fics. but you can see where the brainrot went “what if….. we take the prestige dramas……. and we rub them all over this other thing.” 

“gangster au I’m not writing” does actually have a good chance of being published one day, because I absolved myself of the need for a Plot and decided it’ll just be a genfic with some vignettes and a healthy garnish of historical details

“We enlisted together, you know. Thought it’d be a good idea, get out of—get away. A grand adventure.” He spread his hands wide to illustrate, a momentary showman’s smile. “It was so routine, you know? When it happened. Repairing wire. Talking about—I don’t even remember. One moment there, and the next…” He whistled the bullet’s trajectory, but there was no spectacle about it now. Just a sad stare out to sea. A recriminating scoff.  Wordlessly, Aleksander passed his cigarette through the darkness.  Nikolai looked at it a moment, one little light on the dark shore, and laughed at something private when he took it, took a drag. And then another, exhaling the world on a cloud of smoke.  “Used to be able to blow smoke rings. Neat party trick,” he said, gaze on the sea. “I’m out of practice.” 

meanwhile, “succession theme” is seven pages of actually written fic, followed by 20 full pages of bullet points where I have entire scenes blocked out in mostly dialogue with absolutely no line breaks, just massive walls of Giant Scene Paragraphs Per Bullet Point and I really don’t know why I did that to myself

“I believe their position,” Aleksander said through his teeth, “is that the historical significance of the building—” “Oh, fuck historical significance!”  His fingers flexed on the table. “Shall I relay that as our official company view?” Aleksander muttered, rubbing his temples with forefinger and thumb. His remark went unheard as Pyotr continued this afternoon’s tirade.   Behind him, on the leather settee in Pyotr’s office, Vasily sat with a hand over his eyes—no doubt hungover. Loitering about for no discernible purpose, other than no one could find him a coloring book.  There was not enough free coffee in the break room’s burnt-bean encrusted coffee machine in the world to make a meeting with Pyotr Lantsov bearable.  “It’s a prime location. View of the whole Os Alta,” continued the unstoppable force of today’s headache. “Is this the dream city, or is this just another shithole in the countryside with pig farmers fucking their mothers?”    Ivan, brave Ivan, took the next blow. “Be that as it may, they aren’t willing to sell.”

(i was also just. laughing. because i already know SO MANY of your answers to these just by virtue of us both being such Haters.)

LMAOOO TRULY I SAW THE EMAIL COME IN AND WENT “g. you know these.” XD

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

trying to get me in trouble!!! that’s okay, i’ll own it: reports of samira’s perfection are overexaggerated. yes she’s a good doctor, yes she makes her patients feel seen, yes robby is in the wrong for treating her the way he does, particularly in s2 but i’ll give the critics parts of s1 as well, yes there is a problem with underrepresented women of color in the medical field. none of that erases that: she is very selective about who she extends her sympathy/empathy to, and to what degree she extends it; she snaps at the pittlings any time they behave in a way she doesn’t like or approve of, and so is an AWFUL teacher, IN A TEACHING HOSPITAL; and she doesn’t know or acknowledge her own limits and doesn’t learn from the consequences of crossing them, including when people who ARE better at teaching and who have more experience than her suggest she reconsider whether she’s suited for emergency medicine. it sucks to have a dream and not be suited to/in a position to achieve it! i know! but if that’s the case you either change your approach or you change your standards, and i have a very hard time excusing that kind of hubris when the dream in question involves RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHETHER PEOPLE LIVE OR DIE. she didn’t deserve to be treated the way she was by her attendings, but can we stop pretending she’s any less flawed than the rest of the characters on the show? as if that’s not the point?

i’m also so sick of langdon but let’s not get into that lmao

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

it’s died down a bit but i don’t. fucking. care. about the cathedral. i don’t care! i don’t give a shit if german civilians in 1943 got splash damage from tactical bombing! THEY’RE FUCKING NAZIS. anyone left in germany proper by 1943 AT MINIMUM watched their jewish neighbors be stripped of their rights, their property, and their lives, FOR A FUCKING DECADE. the first laws restricting german jews’ involvement in german society were passed IN 1933. germany was declared judenrein BEFORE THE SHOW EVEN STARTS. so no, i don’t feel bad for the civilians who might’ve gotten got coming out of that cathedral.

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

can the entire fanbase shuuuuuuuuuuuut uuuuuuuuuup about richard dying. jesus christ. it was telegraphed SO clearly from the start of s4 MINIMUM, and arguably from jimmy dying in s2—which is another complaint that’s utter bullshit imho, jimmy was always going to die too—that there was only one way that character’s story was going to end. i know he’s the favorite but it was a well-thought-out arc for a secondary character.