I tend to agree, I think she would be conspicuously uninvolved. To be fair, I don’t see Nat spending a lot of time with the team in the off-season and not after graduation, though I’m easily persuadable

writing? yes. successfully writing? ehh. I am in one of my seasonal jams that I am still finding my way through. I hope to be able to rekindle my spark, particularly my yj-related spark, sooner rather than later though

absolutely send asks! I think the negative space inherent to andor’s structure leaves a lot of room for viewers to fill the gaps but necessarily removes a lot of opportunities to sit with consequence, which has pros and cons. the fic opportunities seem robust!

HOLY SMOKES

somewhere in between! I like to have a basic idea where I’m starting, where I’m going, and what the point is—themes, or waypoints of events along the way. I try not to overplan so that I can discover things along the way

summer 2022, on my second watch-through of the series—the kegger scene grabbed hold of me and didn’t let go

okay but shaunalee actually has a very special place in my heart in both a “Laura Lee gets really cool in college” sense and a wilderness consort way

SHAT SHAT SHAT

I do have a job, much as my midday hannibal rewatches might suggest otherwise

saving them for cannonball!

I always jump on a porcelain update and drive my car just finished! also ex nihlio chapters always get my attention. but I’ve also just restocked my kindle with complete and ongoing fics so I’m excited to dig into those!

no apologies necessary! I never mind getting them, I just found the trend curious because I don’t really consider myself to be particularly insightful about Lottie

I don’t know, I think this is how you get doomcoming Lottie

I don’t think it’s intrinsic necessarily but I do think that it would require a lot of work on her part to address the emotional motivations for her infidelities to avoid it

Shauna could probably form a more honest if not exactly healthy relationship with any survivor I think, which is probably why she doesn’t do it. she doesn’t feel as though she deserves that

thank you so much! this means the world to me, because learning to write Jackie was something that took a lot of conscious effort on my part and I was never sure I pulled it off

don’t worry, I’ve been really confusing about it! yes, teenage wildlife 1 was natural habitats, teenage wildlife 2 is a direct sequel—the very first snippet is linked in the author’s note at the end of NH13!

this is giving me the same feelings as when Shauna is in a story and Jackie is paired with someone else and I don’t like it!!!!!

it’s such a cliche but write and read, read and write. it can be helpful to try to think about what you like specifically another the structure, or what you wish would happen or what you would do differently!

i am always always thrilled to see shaunanat content in the wild it makes me so happy

I’m sold on the ambiguity alone but also this is the ex nihlo author? in! (but Shauna should be the Tashi)

I’m getting a sudden deluge of Pitt anons and I basically agree with all of them but this one especially is just like YEP. though I still think “come on, pound that shit” is perhaps the biggest piece of crashtos evidence, this is a huge one

I am trying out a bunch of methods, I feel like structure is absolutely my weakest point. honestly only NH attempts a conventional act structure, the rest are more vignette-ish and whatever structure exists is intuitive versus constructed. I’d say I do something closest to—

I haven’t, but I’ll need to check it out! thank you so much!!

happy birthday @melanielynskey.bsky.social ♥️ i hope you have the best day and year ever made you a little something (thank youuu to everyone who submitted)

If Andor’s use of a hospital scrubs vending machine doesn’t have you wishing for a Star Wars version of The Pitt, we are not the same

good news and bad news: pitt s2 is confirmed to take place the following July, so about a 10-month timeskip

I’m not sure I could name a concrete technique, I try to think about the physical experience of emotion and connect those to motifs that I’ve associated with the characters, either internally or in the text

shaunalee when Laura Lee offers Leonard to Shauna after a hard day

save a horse

at the risk of sounding cryptic and pretentious at the same time, what matters is what you think was different. in theory, the story is canon compliant except as I plan to continue it in increasingly diverging ways (which I do, but what I intend doesn’t matter really)

so no, because I think she’s very much a 1996 type of fan where she’s seen the movies but doesn’t know the lore, much of which doesn’t exist at that point. I think it was easier to be a casual fan back in those days.

SHOWSTOPPING

I think Mohan being nice to her and affirming her skill as a doctor put Santos on guard against making eyes at Mohan, but the impulse was there!

I would have LOVED to get the five season plan but I do not think the economics and politics of the Disney+ Star Wars project would have sustained this quality, this team, and these stories for as long as it would take to execute it. I think neither Gilroy nor Luna wanted to do—

I don’t have any strict rules, though there are ships and tags I generally steer clear of. a lot of the time I read stuff that people recommend to me, but I typically look for a confidence in presentation, I like when a fic doesn’t apologize for itself

I’ll check it out, I’ve been in such a reading rut lately!

that’s CANON, in case you needed a reminder that the show writers are far more fucked up and devious than any fic writer

in principle yes, in practice I’m often very bad about checking so if I don’t get back to you quickly please don’t hold it against me!

funnily enough this is also how trinity santos feels working at ptmc

OH MY GOD

I think it’s open to interpretation, since we don’t really see Jackie’s POV! but should Jackie become a POV character in later installments, that seems like something that will be answered sooner rather than later

melanie’s ‘long as my bitches love me’ necklace, you’ll always be famous

it definitely isn’t! I don’t get too many, so never hold back, but if I don’t answer one it’s probably because I lost track of where I was in answering and I’ll get to it eventually—strawpage lacks curiouscat’s clean interface to repost

thank you!!!!! I hope to have more work ready for you to read sooner rather than later!

playing around in scrivener come ask me stuff woodenpicador.straw.page

jenna DONE now i need sophie, melanie and hilary to say shaunahat out loud

god I have been so FINICKY about fic lately, I can’t seem to get in the mood to read anything. I think it’s just a function of where I am in writing—everything nascent and still forming. I’m typically more picky about formatting than pairings, which is probably hypocritical

so I will say that I don’t think Shauna becomes a surgeon without the wilderness, but I love surgeon Shauna and charge nurse Nat (I think Nat would make an amazing nurse truthfully)

to the extent that it’s actually last, it’s only because it’s the most ambitious and I know that once I lock into it I will not write anything else