#rubyvroom

1. When was the last time you went to a concert ? Which one was it?

The last online concert I watched was The Decemberists 20th Anniversary series, the third one in the series. 

I think I typoed that, I meant Genna

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“You’ve always had the strangest taste,” his aunt murmured to him with a raised brow that was somehow both amused and annoyed, holding out her emptied chalice in his face without giving him a single glance.

Jaime glared at her through burning ears, eyes darting to the wench across the table for half a breath, before he poured.

“Hideous and unsuitable as the girl is, she has her qualities... and the sense to not be a Dornishman, at the very least,” she observed smoothly, sipping slow, sharp green eyes remarking him, “or leonine.”

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20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

uhhhh…. Okay. I already feel obnoxious but I’m low-key obsessed with the shape of my fics, both in terms of the shape of the paragraphs/lines/single words and also as a whole. I’m happiest when all the micro shapey stuff is working in tandem with the emotional state of the POV character, and the shape of the overall fic is deceptively simple but I’m working it for all I’ve got.

I often catch myself DEEP in thought over whether a fic folds in half (bodyswap, the sinking man) or in thirds (someday), or if the loops it makes are a circle or a figure eight, and what lines are on the folds, and how I can play with that, and what it would look like if I were to mold the shape of a fic out of something more tangible than words.

I’m not sure if that even makes sense, and I often remind myself that literally no one cares but me where the fic folds. (But I care and it’s fun so.)

Some word shape stuff that gets me every time:

The walls of “Lovely day for it.” in always find me here make my eyes glaze over and they all blur together because I can’t read each one and hang onto the horror of what that means each and every time and yessss exactly because Jaime’s sense of time is a blurry exhausting mess and so are those walls of text.

And every time I get to land one of these:

Brienne charges the queen with him. Arrows first, then fire. And they die. Together. Again.

SHIT LIKE THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY. Look at that triangle. Look at how the shape of the words is bringing me to a full stop! The closer I can get the shape of the words to the feeling(s) the more I feel it and HO BOY do I feel it. Like even out of context I STOP and have to remind myself to breathe after that last word because of the shape?

Also my brain hates reading scrolling text and usually I just have to take a deep breath and let it go that the Experience of reading my fics will be scrolling for most people (and that’s okay! but something like always find me here was designed to be broken onto pages, so that there are times all you can see is walls of “lovely day for it” or just the singular moment Jaime is trapped in). So! Usually that part of the shape of my fics, as others see and experience them, is just something I have to Accept as being less than ideal.

Except with the sinking man, where it delights me to this fucking day, that that fic is primarily experienced as sinking slowly down a single page.

women like that find someone like Brienne confusing and threatening because she suggests that conforming to a certain physical standard isn't necessarily all there is to attractiveness and if/when their looks should be stripped away they really wouldn't have much to offer. They never bothered to develop a personality other than Pretty, so it plays on their own weird insecurities.

replied to your photoset

“juxtapose”

I don't know what this is but I just watched that first gif recur about a hundred times, who is this fine ass man

Oh Zhao Yunlan?

He’s from the Chinese drama Guardian (镇魂) and yes really does spend most of his time looking suggestively at his totally-canon-except-for-censorship boyfriend. 

And he’s played by the ridiculously talented Bai Yu 白宇...

they WHAT

darkpuck replied to your post “So Thing 1′s been… conflicted about staying in band this year, but we...”

FUCKING TRUMPETERS /sister of a trumpet player

I married one. But he’s an exception to the rule (as is Thing 1, obviously). The Husband also played tuba so. I feel that illustrates my conclusions properly somehow?

servantofclio replied to your post “So Thing 1′s been… conflicted about staying in band this year, but we...”

Seconding low brass -- there often aren't enough of them! But I hope Thing 1 finds a good fit whatever instrument he chooses.

Same! He’s just gotta survive 8th grade, everything (including band) is likely to be better in high school

floralegia replied to your post “So Thing 1′s been… conflicted about staying in band this year, but we...”

I fully support french horn as a solution to any band-related problem :D

Hopefully my french horn enthusiasm did not turn him off that particular solution. It’s hard to tell with 13yo’s, what enthusiasm they’ll like and what will be horrifying.

rubyvroom replied to your post “So Thing 1′s been… conflicted about staying in band this year, but we...”

lol - my brother played trumpet in marching band and I, uh, agree. One of him is enough, six of him would be nightmarish. Trombones are cool though? And always in demand

The trumpet section is a no one’s favorite land, clearly. ;) AND strangely enough, they do NOT actually need more trombones. (I think people like the slidey part?)

atomicpen replied to your post “So Thing 1′s been… conflicted about staying in band this year, but we...”

Eeeeyyy low brass is where it's at. Trombone and Baritone ftw!

this is the best spoiler I have ever seen!!! I'm not even mad :D