I Just Had To

I just had to

Currently using Bear.app for the Markdown, auto-save, tagging, and wiki-style linking capabilities. I've got one note per chapter, with all of my planning docs indexed and cross-referenced. The tagging and search are coming in handy.

(I have 47 notes in the tag for my current fic, so far, only 10 of which are actual chapters. 👀 The rest are snippet files, outlines, observational notes, cuttings, etc.)

It auto-saves, I can back it all up in Markdown and bring back individual files, and I can select the whole tag to back up at once (which I do every couple of days).

(So, um... still slightly unhinged but in the opposite direction to writing in the AO3 text editor, I guess.)

plz reblog for science

everyone talks about how weird it is that Crystal managed to get through the airport without a passport, not enough people talk about what Charles and Edwin must have been doing on that plane. I need a season two where they fly somewhere else and there's a scene in the airport where you can see Charles and Edwin riding around the baggage carousel.

Seriously, though, as long as the cast and crew continue to have ideas and enthusiasm for the story, I'm in. (Though 10+ seasons at 8 episodes each does not seem too long to me at all…)

If anyone chooses “1 season” I’m sorry but you’re going straight to hell. 😤

I picked Yes because I like Monty as a character and wish we had seen a bit more with him; we get some hints, but I'm not sure that we know a whole lot about him as a person in canon, yet.

Definitely a designated woobie, but with enough quirks to make him interesting to me:

All we get from Esther is that he's supposed to gain "those Dead Boys' complete trust," so he seems to have a lot of leeway within that assignment

Therefore choosing to put everything into pursuing Edwin romantically is a brave and interesting choice. That Monty makes. (It's fascinating that this strategy almost works.)

His successes are despite the fact that Human!Monty has a paper-thin cover story and is not good at making things up; he compensates by telling the (filtered) truth when he can, possibly to the point where he develops actual romantic feelings for the ghost he's trying to date.

We get glimpses of his increasing dissatisfaction with Esther's schemes, and hints that he has more complex thoughts and feelings about this when in human form, but it also seems like those feelings might be carrying through when he's back to being a crow.

So yes, I like him quite a bit, and would enjoy seeing him in fics that dig more into:

his thoughts and feelings about all of this

what it's like to take on that assignment from Esther and how he develops his strategy

how well he'd fit in with the rest of the gang under different circumstances

That said, I am currently writing a fic where the point-of-view character does not like him at all, at the moment, and therefore highlights all his worst qualities. (So yeah, I get the urge to defend the woobie.)

guys im super curious

im curious because i see monty defenders and im like, defending from who?

Incredibly, incredibly happy because I finally got my POV character to call one of my faves an asshole.

(It's necessary, for plot reasons. It's justified, even.

But it hurt so much to write… and now I love it.)

Writing is weird.