silentauror's Blog, page 81
December 10, 2020
macgyvershe:
timeslord:Danai Gurira as OKOYE in Black Panther...
Danai Gurira as OKOYE in Black Panther (2018)
Danai Gurira, a phenomenally beautiful woman with a celestial smile.
You left off that she’s also my wife.
December 9, 2020
STEPH! I am obsessed with the way Sherlock looks at John. I have to pause and rewind and watch 15 times every time he looks in his direction. Guess it's my aesthetic. <333
YOU AND ME BOTH NONNY. I MEAN:
… The whole series is just Sherlock giving John puppy dog eyes :D
(and I know you meant the promo photos, but I rarely see posts show actual episode proof, so here we are :D)
sociopathicromantic:John: The problems of your past… are your businessMary:John: The problems...
John: The problems of your past… are your business
Mary:
John: The problems of your future…
Mary:
John:
John: Aren’t my fuckin’ problem
John: *grabs sherlock*
John: Let’s go babe!
John: Watson out
Lol! If only. Now, that would have been in character for the man who punched a police chief for calling Sherlock a weirdo!
Hi! I don’t know if I’ve ever told you this, but you are really just one of my favorite Tumblr blogs and authors I’ve ever read. Your attention to detail and your character development makes me feel like I’m really part of the story, and I just really a
Oh wow, thank you so much for this!! This just made my day! I’m so pleased that my general style and take on things resonates with you! And thank you so much for what you said about being able to feel like you’re part of the story! My goal is always for someone reading to feel not just like they’re watching the story unfold, but feeling it along with the POV character (and possibly others), so that means a lot!
It’s been an interesting time for sure… I have an abusive boss at work who makes life difficult for sure, and I mean, it’s Covid times. My province is in code red, per their level system, with nothing but essential services open and essential items for sale, which means that all of my Christmas shopping is either happening online or at the grocery store (food for everyone!), and I live alone, so it’s pretty isolating. However, I still have a (very low-paying, but full-time) job despite my workplace being closed, so I’m definitely one of the luckier ones. I hope you’re doing all right! So weird that we end exchanges with “stay safe!” these days, but there it is - stay safe and healthy and I hope you’re managing to thrive in spite of everything that’s going on. Thanks again for your kind words! <333333333333333333
Author interview tag
I was tagged by @therealsaintscully! Thanks, you! :)
Name: SilentAuror
Fandoms: Just Sherlock, though I also follow some Old Guard blogs. :)
Where you post: AO3. Though I was almost knocked over the other day when I got a comment on an old HP fic over on skyehawke.com! It’s been literal YEARS since I got a review on anything over there! :P
Most popular multi-chapter fic: Against the Rest of the World for sure. :)
Favourite story you’ve written so far: With 87 posted fics and 2 more currently on the go, I can’t possibly answer that. That’s cruel. Lol.
Fic you were nervous to post: This, on the other hand, is easy, haha! Three stories, all for very different reasons:
1. The A.G.R.A Complex. This was my first Freebatch fic and I thought I might well be burnt at the stake for even writing any RPF. The notion for this story caught my muses’ attention, though, and they eventually forced me to write it against my will. I can’t be held responsible. Lol. It still amazes me that people continue to read it to this day. The notion: Martin and Benedict are friends. There’s a car accident and Martin suffers a fairly mild brain injury. While in his coma, dreams the entire first three seasons of Sherlock, which in this universe, haven’t happened. The nature of the brain injury is such that he keeps shifting mentally between the reality of who he and Benedict (and Amanda) are, and seeing himself and everyone else as their characters in the Sherlock universe. When I posted it, I intended it to be left up to the reader whether to see it as kind of an AU to actual reality, or else a prequel to the filming of Sherlock. When I finally decided to write a sequel, it meant that I had to be the one to make that clear, which made it a prequel. It became a three-part series, with the second part set during and just after the filming of series 3 (the dodgiest in the moral sense, since it dances around and into real life events), and then the third story takes place ten years later.
2. The Final Proof. Why? Easy. Major character death, and it’s Sherlock. That’s clear from about the first sentence, I think. I had written At the Heart of it All, which features Sherlock running an experiment using the hearts of people who lived lives where they had loved and been loved, and people who hadn’t in an effort to prove his own ability to love to John. He says something at the end of that story about wishing he could see his own heart at the end of their life to see which of the hearts his own resembled by then. And then my muses, my terrible, terrible muses said, “hey… you could write that: you know: Sherlock at the very end of his life, making John promise to look at his heart after he’s died, and complete his experiment.” I, like, teared up just at the thought, and honestly, I cried for most of the writing of that story. I’m assured that about 99% of the people who have read it have also cried throughout, so… sorry. Yeah.
3. Scars. Why? Easy, again: the entire story is riddled with gaslighting and other types of emotional abuse and mind-fuckery, and an actual rape scene. It was painful to the point of being interally corrosive to write, but I still felt it was a story I needed to tell. I did my homework on this one, consulted multiple therapists who work specifically in the field of men who have been absued (emotionally, physically, sexually) by female partners. I thought no one would read it. I thought I might lose half my followers on tumblr. But I still wrote it. It still amazes me that people read it, even more when they actually like it, and still like me after. Lol.
How you choose your titles: Hmm… each title genesis is different, I would say! Sometimes it’s a general theme of the story, sometimes it’s a specific concept or single word, occasionally (but not often) it’s a song title. Sometimes it’s another language, particularly Latin. In The A.G.R.A Complex, the title of the story is also the name that the neurologists given to the brain injury Martin experiences. Vena Cava is titled for the name of the vein that Mary’s bullet punctured in Sherlock’s heart, based on a medical analysis I had read. Scars takes its theme from both Sherlock’s external scars from what he went through during his time away, and John’s internal scars from Mary’s emotional abuse. I also have a whole series of (unrelated) flower-themed stories: The Green Carnations comes from ACD era coding for homosexuality. The Yellow Poppies is the story I wrote after the deleted scene about Magnussen’s hospital visit came out, which features both he and Mary as dual villains, and yellow poppies placed in Sherlock’s room as a threat from one or the other of them. The White Lotuses has a leitmotif of Hinduism and slow-blooming self-awareness and romance. The Red Roses is a Molly POV where she helps Sherlock and John get together in spite of her own feelings, and The Wisteria Tree is an amnesia story that has Sherlock forget the past six years of his life, including the five years that he’s been married to John, and how they find their way back together in spite of that. Rosa Felicia - bonus, both a flower name AND Latin, lol! - is a coming-of-age story about Rosie at the age of 19. Where My Demons Hide is a mid-series 4 story that I wrote after The Lying Detective aired, but before The Final Problem did, and is the title of an Imagine Dragons song. Pater Noster is Latin for the title of the Lord’s Prayer in Latin, but also quite literally just means “our father”, and is a story that centres around the events surrounding the death (murder) of John and Harry’s father. You get the gist.
Do you outline: I always say that one should know how a story begins, how it ends, and at least a few of the major points between those two events. So yes, but loosely. I think that over-plotting kills creativity. It’s not an essay. But even essays need space to grow.
Complete: 105 stories back in my skyehawke days, the vast majority of which are HP, totalling in about 1.5 million words. 87 stories in the Sherlock fandom (though those include my 4 Freebatch fics), totalling in over 2.3 million words now.
In progress: I have two stories currently pending: a Christmas story called The Secret of Hazel Grange, and a trauma-based, co-sleeping fic called Nocturne.
Coming soon/not yet started: I never comment about fics I haven’t yet started. Might curse the entire process, lol.
Do you accept prompts: No, alas. Neither prompts nor commissions. While I’m constantly desperately poor, it takes something out of the writing process for me once it becomes a job. I just feel like that’s not what fanfic is about for me. No judgement to anyone else who does write for commissions, whatsoever - we all have our own process! For me, I’m happy (make that incredibly grateful!) to have donations or supporters through my Patreon (eep: x), but writing to order just doesn’t quite jive for me. I also don’t take prompts, not because I don’t want them, but because I have such a huge backlog of my own ideas that I’ll never get to as it is. There will never be enough time to write all the fics I want to write! That said, don’t think that you can’t still suggest your ideas. My “official policy” (lol) is that I don’t take prompts (for the aforementioned backlog reason), but that doesn’t mean that if you do send me one, my muses won’t seize upon it and force me to write it. You never know. I certainly don’t, at least. :P
Upcoming story you are most excited to write: I’m super excited by the notion of actually getting my Christmas fic finished by Christmas. Lol. Here’s hoping!!
Tagging: Anyone who reads this and is a writer, or thinking about becoming one. You’ve been tagged!
December 7, 2020
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absolutely riveting storyline here folks
The one in the middle pulled an OG move and punked the shit out of the other two LOL
The one on the right is my favorite because it looks like it’s never had a thought in its life
I couldn’t help myself
i have 2 guinea pigs and i can confirm that, if you look into their eyes, there are no thoughts in those heads
It’s an absolute crime this had no sound, im calling the police
This is the kind of quality content we all need right now
Hey!
Ooo fun! Yay! Um, let’s see… this is really hard! My overall love for hot drinks is really very strong and it’s hard to pit any of them against each other! Okay, okay… I’ll give you favoured hot drinks, but you must understand that they’re all tied for #1, haha!
Glühwein (or mulled wine/vin chaud). Saying this one first because it’s the time of year for it! I make it myself, with cheap, dry red wine, some water, sugar, an orange studded with whole cloves, and cinnamon sticks. Cue 90 Germans weighing in to explain which bit I’ve left out and horrified generations of their families, haha. Sorry, but I prefer it without the star anise and rum, and Glühwein made with white wine is just wrong. I said it.
A really good latte.
Earl Grey tea.
Hot chocolate, but preferably a true chocolat chaud à l’ancien.
Hot apple cider. Again, because it’s the time of year for it!
A sixth, because I just remembered it. You’ll think it sounds weird, and that’s okay, but: hot milk with Bailey’s in it. Yup. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, kids!
And seventh, because again, holidays: hot eggnog, with or without rum.
That was fun, haha!
Hey!
Ooo fun! Yay! Um, let’s see… this is really hard! My overall love for hot drinks is really very strong and it’s hard to pit any of them against each other! Okay, okay… I’ll give you favoured hot drinks, but you must understand that they’re all tied for #1, haha!
Glühwein (or mulled wine/vin chaud). Saying this one first because it’s the time of year for it! I make it myself, with cheap, dry red wine, some water, sugar, an orange studded with whole cloves, and cinnamon sticks. Cue 90 Germans weighing in to explain which bit I’ve left out and horrified generations of their families, haha. Sorry, but I prefer it without the star anise and rum, and Glühwein made with white wine is just wrong. I said it.
A really good latte.
Earl Grey tea.
Hot chocolate, but preferably a true chocolat chaud à l’ancien.
Hot apple cider. Again, because it’s the time of year for it!
A sixth, because I just remembered it. You’ll think it sounds weird, and that’s okay, but: hot milk with Bailey’s in it. Yup. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, kids!
And seventh, because again, holidays: hot eggnog, with or without rum.
That was fun, haha!
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