Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
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superhero_muses--What calms your most recent POV character?
Oh dear, that's Kevin Owens again, and there's no doubt that's eating. He's actually talked about how when he's stressed and unhappy he falls back on eating as a way to cope, and has definitely implied that he's struggled with some kind of eating disorder. One of my personal theories about his character is that his occasional binges of violence are based on the actor's experiences with dealing with binges of food--when he gets on a jag of attacking people he seems dazed and disoriented and just keeps doing the behavior that he clearly knows is a bad idea, as if he feels completely out of control of his own reactions. It feels very harrowing and real...
I've gotten very little fiction writing done, but a lot of nonfiction writing done! I'm very proud of the essay I wrote this week, it's one of my favorites, but now I have to deal with the letdown and the fact that it's unlikely the next one will have that kind of emotional "high" since I can't keep upping the emotional stakes indefinitely... (I also am unsure I can finish it in two weeks, this is a brutally busy time of year!)
How about you? What calms your character down--or you, because goodness knows we could all use some calm right now...
Oh dear, that's Kevin Owens again, and there's no doubt that's eating. He's actually talked about how when he's stressed and unhappy he falls back on eating as a way to cope, and has definitely implied that he's struggled with some kind of eating disorder. One of my personal theories about his character is that his occasional binges of violence are based on the actor's experiences with dealing with binges of food--when he gets on a jag of attacking people he seems dazed and disoriented and just keeps doing the behavior that he clearly knows is a bad idea, as if he feels completely out of control of his own reactions. It feels very harrowing and real...
I've gotten very little fiction writing done, but a lot of nonfiction writing done! I'm very proud of the essay I wrote this week, it's one of my favorites, but now I have to deal with the letdown and the fact that it's unlikely the next one will have that kind of emotional "high" since I can't keep upping the emotional stakes indefinitely... (I also am unsure I can finish it in two weeks, this is a brutally busy time of year!)
How about you? What calms your character down--or you, because goodness knows we could all use some calm right now...
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Date: 2017-12-04 01:23 pm (UTC)I'm for once not sitting on a started draft. (Last week I finished another BB story. It's been a good year in terms of wordcount for me, and I have no idea how I did it, when I look at my calendar and all the things I had to do this year.) But, yeah, right now I'm blissfully between stories. :) I do have exchange things to write, that I can't disclose, but one of the next things I'm planning is, of course, Steve/Tony as a small coda to the BB I posted. It's going to tie up some loose ends about their getting together.
In the story Steve has figured out that what - ehm - clams him down is not being alone, haha. And Tony seems like the solution to that problem, but Tony is really not that interested in having another complicated relationship after he and Pepper broke up before "The Avengers". So in this coda, Steve will maybe have to learn more about what helps Tony relax. And they'll bot discover that quiet, domestic moments help calm them down, even though they are not really made for those.
I claimed art for the superbat RBB and now I'm nervously waiting for the contact information. \o/
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Date: 2018-03-23 05:09 am (UTC)It's definitely one of those intellectual things that's very hard to process emotionally! But I did soldier on and--somewhat ironically--I've gotten better response to essays after that one, reminding me that sometimes your own image of quality isn't the most unbiased, either!
In the story Steve has figured out that what - ehm - clams him down is not being alone, haha. And Tony seems like the solution to that problem, but Tony is really not that interested in having another complicated relationship after he and Pepper broke up before "The Avengers". So in this coda, Steve will maybe have to learn more about what helps Tony relax. And they'll bot discover that quiet, domestic moments help calm them down, even though they are not really made for those.
Oh, that sounds lovely and sweet, and a really interesting psychological study in both of them! I hope it turned out well for you?