About the eighth or ninth time through it, I started liking Badlands. (I bought the album on word-of-mouth because istg my entire dash is in love with it? but tbh the first time I listened to it I just missed my money, haha…….) And by saying “I started liking Badlands” I mean “I really like these two tracks right here in the middle and the rest will be background noise for driving.
The good news: after listening to these two tracks on repeat for a while, I think I know how to fix Monochrome so I actually give a damn about the plot and the characters.
The bad news: it means gutting at least 85% of the original draft.
The best news: good time I don’t have to deal with this nonsense anytime soon, since I’m in another blissful no-writing phase.
I was complaining to aionwatha about how I stupidly love all my secondary characters more than my main ones. It’s frustrating having to wait 2~3 chapters before I can introduce the character I wanted to write about all along.** Told her I needed to get out of that habit and start making MCs I actually like.
She said “But then you’d want to hurt them, torture them emotionally and physically, then possibly murder them.”
I responded, “I do all that anyway. I just can’t enjoy it when I don’t like them very much.”
** ((Neil is the exception to this unwritten rule; after falling out of favor from drafts #3-#???, he came back into first place in the last two rounds of rewrites and outranks even Andrew.))
wasdplz : So I was scrolling through tumblr looking for updates and stumbled across your Ask. Skimmed it and I’m remembering why I don’t read your shit & why I haven’t read Foxhole Court
me: BUT THERE’S ONLY ONE TRAGEDY
wasdplz : child, you and I have v different ideas of what “tragedy” entails
me: ………………. This isn’t the story where one MC gets skinned alive and the other two die?
I veered pretty far off-topic so I thought I’d take it off the original poster’s Aliens gifset before I confused the heck out of the next person to go through the notes, haha….
indelicateink said: oh man, how could you not–Vasquez was so cool! (all the colonial marines <3 )
this movie is gold. “nuke the site from orbit. it’s the only way to
be sure” has become legend, but all the dialogue is fantastico.
We still say “Marines, we are leaving!!” when it’s time to leave.
Ugh the life of a colonial marine, I was born too soonhelp put me in cryo until it’s a thing please
SCHWARZ AS COLONIAL MARINES. I think that was a prompt in your last contest?! Farfarello as the Vasquez stand-in mowing down everything in sight with no fear and Schuldig as the Hudson character, why the fuck are we fighting something I can’t read wtf did you sign us up for just shoot our client and get us a dropship out of here.
Mannn I need to make time to watch this again real soon. This and Starship Troopers—my bamf bb and my trash bb.
We still say “Marines, we are leaving!!” when it’s time to leave. <33333
I know in my heart of hearts I am not made of stern enough stuff to be a colonial marine, but a girl can dream, right?? I’ll just watch them with heart-eyes.
hahaha, YES–I totally prompted Schwarz as colonial marines, I have such a thirst. XD XD And you’re a genius! See, I’d pictured Schuldig as Vasquez and Farfarello as Drake (because I think I remember from some interview somewhere someone was saying Drake and Vasquez were BFFs and grew up in the projects together and enlisted together), but my god, Hudson has all the BEST lines, how could one deny Schuldig all the best lines?? You have much better casting.
(haha, Starship Troopers is soooo much fun.)
The Vasquez-Drake setup is definitely interesting & viable, esp considering how .. reticent? Drake seemed to be in his scenes, whereas Vasquez was more colorful. Not to mention that connection between them that could play well into the Schuldig & Farfarello dynamic.
Though I guess condensing 12~13 roles down to 4 main people allows for a blending of characters… Imagining Crawford in the role of Apone trying to keep control of these assclowns while their greasy Burke-wannabe client leads them further into hell…
Maybe each colonial marines unit is given a psychic or two, like at a set ratio, to stack the decks in case the team really does find something? Not every unit, of course, but those in the special forces whatnot who have to answer intergalactic distress calls.
asdfkj I need to stop thinking about this now or I’ll actually try to plot something out.
((I still haven’t seen Starship Troopers 2 or 3, I’m afraid they’ll ruin the campy love I hold for 1. I’ve heard 3 is better than 2? IDK))
One of these days I’d like to know why my typos are such a mess. I’ve noticed they’re less likely to be spelling errors and more likely to be the wrong word entirely… like writing “mean” for “me” and “name” for “brain”, things like this.
Most of the time they’re things my brain reads as half-rhymes, so I kind of figured it was just misfiring like a jerk, but once in a while I’ll be looking over a story and find a spot where, instead of saying “They took the elevator down”
I can’t wait til ya’ll read the books where the MCs die
would you pls just start warning your readers ahead of time that you’re evil and should not be trusted with your own characters and save them the shock
My goal in life is for my name to one day be warning enough.
