π΄ββ οΈ for any story,
π₯for schrodinger's cat,
πfor all your sex scenes/other objectively sexy scenes like the cannibalism in i can't help myself
π΄ββ οΈ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?
Oh God Harry wanted to hug the Doctor so mf bad in but if I know you, I know what you'll do and it took everything I had to get him away from that because the Doctor also wanted him to but if Harry had just given into temptation the Doctor would have burst into tears. Harry also wanted to kiss him stupid but that would not have been very good timing, no matter how much the Doctor bats his eyes at him, and Harry has internalized homophobia. Sad!
The Doctor stopped his ramblings and Harry felt him freeze up. His lips parted without even a hint of breath or voice. His hand flew upβscruffed the nape of his own neck like he was holding himself still. His eyes were fixed on that distant point and glittering again.
Harry, sensing something very bad coming, scrambled to speak. "βI suppose you'd rather be left alone?"
It was a few seconds before the Doctor seemed to remember he was there. "...Yes. Yes, I'd like to be alone for a while."
The Doctor totally has a handle on things in ch2 (citation needed)!
π₯ What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?
Weird telepathic sex is obviously the main course of schrodingers cat and i was desperate to get it right, but as you can probably tell I had WAY too much fun just making Omega and the Other talk and interact with each other. I loved writing this bit
"You don't know what I am, or what I am capable of."
Omega tilted his head to contemplate the black shape. That confession really should have scared him. He wondered what it meant if it burned him with lust rather than fear.
"I intend to learn," he said.
"Imagine you are a being of the hypothetical, safe in a box where no light can penetrate and no one can see or hear you. In such a position no one can tell what you are, whether you're hideous or beautiful, male or female, dead or alive." It wheeled its hand in a mad gesture. "And unobserved... why, you can be either, or, simultaneously, in equal probability. You can be anything. You can be nothing at all, inside that box, as long as no one opens the box. Faces⦠they come with such expectations."
And the "Raz lets you get away with quite a lot" part and and and just. The entire philosophical conversation Omega and the Other have while Omega is casually feeling it up. I enjoy making these two talk to each other! They have a lot to say!
π What scene do you think was the hottest? What scene do you think your readers thought was the hottest? Are they the same?
I've written a few sex scenes that are meant to be difficult and uncomfortable because that's my bread and butter, and I've written A sex scene that was meant to be fun and hot, and I've also written the cannibalism scene. But personally I think the hottest thing I've written so far is the face-grabbing from ch2 "Leda" of Leviticus 18: 23
The white-uniformed men were filing past, some distance away, but still too close for the Doctor to be at ease. He could feel Romana's jaw working under his hand, which spanned her face from ear to ear, and the slickness of something against his palm. My word, is sheβ oh, no. Her lips had been a dark, glistening violet color, he remembered (not that he had been looking too closely), which must be lipstick. The Doctor didn't quite get the appeal of lipstick. He had tried it before, obviously, and it almost made lovely old Borusa sweat, but it was easy to ruin and prone to stain. Invariably it would only leave a mark, whether he wanted to eat a huge sandwich, or lick an envelope, or down a glass of wine, or slam his lips on a ravishing young thing's mouth, or neck, orβ
Good heavens, what on earth am I thinking about? He jumped to check the barrier between his thoughts and Romana's and sighed when he found it was still tightly sealed.
It goes without saying though that what people think is my hottest scene is probably the cannibalism from Can't Help Myself. I'm unsure of the consensus on schrodingers cat.
There was nothing more relieving. Veins popped like candy between its teeth and rewarded it with the living, nutritious blood. It drank. With shearing canines it carved her apart, and it couldn't breathe with how fast and how deeply it was swallowing her down.
But her hearts were rapidly winding down and it growled as the flow lessened in pressure. The trachea was hard and without substance and the neck muscles were too tough. It snapped her vertebrae apart and twisted her head off with a demanding tug of her hair. Her hearts stopped entirely. The blood could not be allowed to run dry. Hands flailed and moved jerkily and it wrapped its arms around her to keep her still, but she was not moving anymore. It hacked gracelessly through her sternum with its dagger to shove itself between her breasts.
The reason this scene is so hot is because i vividly remember writing it on an empty stomach after a long day of reading Interview With The Vampire on a train.