Wow. Tumblr, Where Have I Been?

So, with midterms wrapping up and me getting adequate sleep and stuff, I’ll probably be back to post legit posts soon, rather than secretly favorite everything I’d like to reblog because I am not aware of an automatic reblog button.

Wow, summer’s really so close, isn’t it? Linguistics classes are still a go, though phonology is kicking my ass. OChem is that lumbering giant, hidden in the Forbidden Forest, waiting on my to let my guard down. But I am zen now after an all-nighter. I am so zen, that I don’t think anything can rightly touch me right now.

It’s pretty much sure that I’ll be taking summer classes this summer, so me and the internet will maintain our committed relationship for a while yet, rather than disappearing for weeks at a time, snug in the arms of Morpheus.

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He Ollied the Fuck Out

I just need a moment for Alpha Dave. JUST FEELINGS ALL OVER EVERYWHERE.
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Like, doesn’t Hussie have a good grasp of placing tragedy in this awesomely ridiculous story, but without overstating it? If you bother thinking about it, you have tear-worthy material, but if you’re just going along with the story for other things, it’s just enough info for the plot to move on.

ORIGINAL WRITING EXERCISE TIME

gyzym:

Okay, so, here’s the deal: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about layering characters, and about recurring themes within characters, and about the sheer volume of different things that fandom can do with a fully defined character. Think about how many different versions of your favorite characters there are, for real: SO MANY. Because every character is a little different in every new story they’re in, even if it’s just a couple of tweaks, even if it’s just the author’s specific headcanon, etc, etc. 

So! We’re going to do a thing now. I’m going to throw out the barest bones of a character, a couple details for everyone to go off of, and then we’re going to write! About that character! It doesn’t have to be a full story; it doesn’t have to be a story at all. It can be a character sketch or a list of ideas, it can be an out-of-context scene, it can be a snippet of something you never intend to flesh out, etc etc. It can be whatever you like! This is just about illustrating that the process of building a character doesn’t mean they have to come to you as fully formed people—that, in fact, for a lot of us that’s not how it works at all. 

So: meet Parker, whose name is gender neutral because that shit is up to you! Here are the things we know about Parker: Parker is stubborn to a fault, prone to inappropriate/nervous laughter, and possessed of an addictive personality. Parker is a good listener, but not always a fantastic talker. Parker is superstitious, and easily frightened, and very loathe to let on about being easily frightened.  And Parker has a secret…

THAT’S IT. REBLOG AND TRY IT OUT. My stab at it is under the cut; I don’t intend to do anything with it, so if you’d prefer to go off of a slightly more sketched out version of a character, feel free to knock yourself out expanding that instead :D 

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So the primary situation is never really explained, but, uh, here it goes.

She has the wrapper from her gum crinkled into a little ball in her hand. Rolling it around manically is sort-of helping, its movement this way and that in the stiff curl of her palm ground her quite a bit. There’s a ticking noise from her wristwatch, old-fashioned analog face, that her hearing has zoomed in on. Better than focusing on the frantic whispers that currently make up her world.

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So, I Can’t Brew Potions

(Wow, it’s finally open…I almost forgot about it.)

Am I the only one who had trouble finding my wand?

Like. I get all the way to the end, after disaster after disaster (because apparently I’m the Neville of potion-making), and I spend the entire countdown frantically clicking everything to no avail.

I figure it out by accident during my 5th try (read: 15th run), and promptly abandon ship, because as luck would have it, my copper cauldron blows up and melts.

So goodbye potions-brewing. Dueling here I come.

(by-the-by: Hello fellow Slytherins!)

NEW REPRESENTATIVE IN THE RAINBOW BATTLE?

Reborn is gathering more forces.

Is anyone thinking about our favorite and current MIA school disciplinary committee head?…

Who else is free? Lawnhead was eliminated right? And there is no rule against adopting a former enemy into the group…

Okay, I just read Batman #9/Detective Comics#9….

NIGHTWING.

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Leverrier…And in the latest chapter

So, as we probably expected, the whole 14th thing is finally coming to a head with Allen’s fevered dreams. We are finally going to get some more info on one of the most mysterious characters of the series…

But most importantly, I have come to realize something more about myself. Before now, I had considered Leverrier somewhat forgivable. A soldier of the Vatican who considers everything not clearly defined in his favor an enemy. He’s one of those typical establishment types. But now? Now?

Now I think he’s a guy who needs his head smashed in. Stat.

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