State of the Scribbler

[scribblemyname]

So a few thoughts that no one asked for.

I've been working on a story in the background of my life where I've dubbed the world riftspace and the working title of the story Canaf. I'm now posting it on a sideblog on tumblr called riftspacefic. I promise irregular updates and no pressure on myself. I just want to finish retraining the brain to write a full novel and know it can do it. There are three major elements to this story: hurt/comfort, technology-based mental bonds, and technobabble spaceship and worldbuilding porn. That's it.

I caught wind of a mass of spoilers re: Infinity War and almost cried myself to sleep. I like tragic stories in fanfic and in moderation in canon sometimes. But this exemplifies why I started drifting out of the MCU a while back. They make you care and every movie, they seem to raise the level of destroying everything I care about.

That's not what I'm here for. I hate that. I just can't deal with it and I'm officially very, very out of canonical MCU now.

Worklife is on the intense side right now and will be through mid-next week. I've got a poly trolley fic on the mind, a half a dozen top!Chuuya kink bingo fics, a late smutswap one, impending kyouka week, and the first couple fics I started writing for gecko in Bungou Stray Dogs fandom before I got derailed by exchanges.

Also time to look at the two I'll be running: Multifandom Tropefest and Multifandom Drabble to start sprucing up rules and FAQs. Wish me luck!

Comments

[tielan]

they seem to raise the level of destroying everything I care about.

Emotional stakes. They're a bitch to navigate.

[scribblemyname]

I love emotional stakes. I don't love every movie ending with more organizations, characters, and relationships dead. This isn't the kind of emotional stakes I prefer to subject myself to. You see, to me, stakes means there's opportunity for winning or losing and there isn't that in MCU. There is only opportunity to see what gets salvaged from the wreckage. Not what I signed up for.

ETA: in other words, to me there aren't any stakes if you actually can't win. it's just as predictable as if you can't lose.