Note to self: in order to write, you have to actually do more than stare at a Word document rereading what you’ve already written. For example, maybe typing new words would be a good strategy.
bold of you to assume i’ve already written anything
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Do you ever hear someone say something about your field of interest that is wrong and you have to stop yourself from physically cringing but you gotta stay strong and cool cause you don’t wanna be ‘That NerdTM’?
there is no deep meaning to this, this is when I see people refering to Excalibur as “The Sword in The Stone”
Wait I though the sword in the stone is Excalibur. What is it then?
The Sword in the Stone is Caliburn, and was the way be became king. Excalibur was the sword given to him by the Lady of the Lake after he broke Caliburn fighting King Pellinore.
I have been educated today and I appreciate it
I did not expect everyone else to also like swords this much.
1) Thank you, Kap, for clearing up this misconception.
2) I am always down to be That Nerd™
Honestly I should have known this and I did not know this
Healer-verse is something that’s started but not actually posted yet. I’ve had a few conversations with other writers who are very curious about the WIP. This one’s slow going though, because I haven’t been devoting a lot of attention to it.
More fun facts about ancient Celtic marriage laws: There were no laws against interclass or interracial marriage, no laws against open homosexual relationships (although they weren’t considered ‘marriages’ since the definition of a marriage was ‘couple with child’), no requirement for women to take their husband’s names or give up their property, but comedians couldn’t get married
It’s Adam and Eve not Adam Sandler and Eve
I want to expound upon “comedians couldn’t get married” thing because it’s actually really interesting.
Satire was respected in Ancient Ireland. It was thought to have great power, enough to physically maim the subject one was making jokes about. Satirists could bring down kings with a witty enough insult. That was actually their original function. When the king didn’t do right by his people, a bard was supposed to compose a poem so scathing it would raise welts on the king’s skin to oust him (it was illegal for a “blemished” king to rule.) Unwarranted satire was considered a form of assault.
So what it boils down to is ancient Celts being like “These people are too dangerous to reproduce. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH CHILDREN. EVER.”
Rec-verse: The idea of it getting recognized that Madara needed help, and then actually getting therapy. Then it devolved into worldbuilding. xD
Healer-verse: There’s this one scene in the manga, where Hashirama is telling Tobirama to put his finger down. The first time I read it, when Hashirama raised his chakra like he did, it looked to me like Tobirama was actually flinching. Which raised some questions I wanted to answer.
9. Favorite line(s) of dialogue?
Rec-verse: This one came up last chapter.
“Say I indulge your curiosity,” Yoshihiko was saying. “What can you give me in return?” The question makes every project Tobirama has ever worked on flash before his eyes, and it was only seconds before he found his answer.
“Youth.”
Healer-verse: This one’s harder, but I’ve found a couple of lines I liked.
“It’s just a burn, Sensei. Slap some salve on it, and let me get back to my spar.”
And that would be why Hikaku was sent to him. Obnoxious and demanding, and assuming he knew more than the healer treating him. Tobirama gave him a sweet smile that left the man blinking. Then he did as instructed, much to Hikaku’s shock. And the pained yelp was satisfying. “Never let it be said that I don’t take instructions well.”
14. Were you listening to anything while writing the fic? If so, what?
For both, I can honestly say I wasn’t. I love music, I really do, but it doesn’t help me think the way it does for others.
so i’m riding the elevator up to my apartment when the emergency phone in the elevator starts ringing
and i just stand there for a second because this thing is like thirty years old and has never rung or even been used from what i know
but eventually i answer it thinking maybe something’s wrong with the elevator?? it’s an emergency phone it’s probably an emergency??? i dunno
except i shit you not it’s a telemarketer
a telemarketer that’s as confused as i am when i finally interrupt him mid-spiel to inform him he has the wrong number and then interrupt him again to explain further that “uh, no, seriously, this is an elevator phone. i’m standing in an elevator. talking to you. on the emergency phone. i really think you got the wrong number”
“oh,” says telemarketer guy.
“yeah,” i say.
there’s some mutually-confused silence.
“so, this is my stop,” i say. “i gotta go.”
“oh,” says telemarketer guy.
“good luck,” i add, because telemarketer guy seems like he’s having an existential crisis. and then i hang up on him, because he’s having an existential crisis and won’t actually end the call, and because again i’m talking on an elevator emergency phone and, you know, this is my stop, i gotta go.
i’m just a big fan of the tone in which the ending was told
So, this happened to me, except newer elevators like the one I was in don’t always have phone handsets. They have speakerphones. And unless you push the “emergency” button the speakerphones are only one way; they can talk to you but unless you push the emergency button you can’t talk to them. It’s to ensure that they can get announcements in to you if an emergency is happening outside that you’re not aware of.
There I am, standing in the elevator at the end of the day, when it starts to ring, and then it auto-picks-up and a telemarketer starts talking, and I literally can’t respond because they can’t hear me. And I’m not going to push the emergency button, which sets off a whole separate chain of events, just to talk to a telemarketer.
The result is that while they’re trying to pitch me some kind of magazine deal, the doors open, I walk out into the lobby, and I say to the startled security guard, “Someone’s on the phone with the elevator, you might want to hang up on them.”
One day, you lose your wallet, and it is found by a mob boss, who figures out that you aren’t in such a good place financially, and takes pity on you. So they start anonymously sending cash, clothes, and furniture to you in the mail, eventually, the mob boss sends you a letter to stating that they bought you a house, and it lists an adress. What do you do?
In this economy? Thank them politely, pledge your loyalty, and join the mob.
No prob! (I usually don’t see results to these kinds of posts. x3)
7. What’s a reference you made no one has picked up on yet?
That is… an excellent question. I’ve made quite a few. One in particular was a really, really obvious reference to The Sound of Silence, and I hope it was the kind of joke that just didn’t dignify a response. xD There’s also something that one reviewer made a really close guess at, but they missed it by a hair regarding Kagami. But Madara hasn’t realized it yet either.
15. What were you most worried about during the composition?
Being clear. I mean, some things are deliberately unclear, but I have a bad habit of putting things in a way that they don’t quite make sense to anyone but me. Which is… not good. x’D I had a lot of worries about first posting the bit with Yoshihiko, too. I’m still a bit worried about his next appearance. (And I want to say I’m just being silly, but… I haven’t even started that bit. >.<’)
17. Did anything surprise you during the writing?
Sometimes characters develop a life of their own. And sometimes, you have a character that you don’t really intend to keep coming back does just that. x’D There were also some background details that happened at the last minute, but I fell in love with. (Also, the love people have shown for the side characters surprised me in a really good way. 💕)
18. Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
Ehr… Technically, there is one. @donkoogrr and I have been working on a crossover between Rec-verse and the Sugar-verse, which is super fun.
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