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⌈ Secret Post #3260 ⌋

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[Garden of Time]

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[Fargo, Karl x Sonny]

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[Elementary]

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[Top Chef]

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[The Pacific/HBO War]

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[Penn Jillette]

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[Final Fantasy X]

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[Shadow of Mordor]

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[Judging Amy]

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[The Lion Guard]

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(Borderlands)

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[Anziz Ansari, Master of None]

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[Pokemon]

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[Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3/Pokémon Conquest/Japanese history]

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For an Old Wild West fic with gunslingers, what ghosts from the past could come back to haunt someone without that ghost being a specific person (they're kind of out in the middle of nowhere so no one new can show up)?

Or are there any interesting topics of discussion gunslingers can talk about while riding around? Any other ideas you've got for gunslingers that's not action-oriented?

Middle of nowhere makes me think of a place that was destroyed--either a settler town, or a place where a native tribe lived.

It's actually just traveling in the desert until they get to a tiny town. I just need to find something for them to talk about/do during this time.

Maybe they pass by a rattlesnake, and it brings to mind memories of seeing or getting a rattlesnake bite. You could probably pass that off as a metaphor for something.

Assuming we're talking about the United States, you could get some good mileage about which side they fought for and who they served under in the Civil War. Especially if one of them is acting tough but never saw any action, or is lying about having ridden with Watie or Quantrill or Forrest to sound like more of a badass. It's been a while since I read True Grit, but I think some baiting goes on between Rooster and LaBoeuf on this subject.

As for a ghost: maybe someone who was pursued into the desert and killed by vigilantes, like the Bender family?

You could easily model a victim (or victims) of vigilantes after them, and who better to walk after they were killed?

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-benders.html

Do you mean literal ghost or metaphorical ghost? Because in the 'wild west', they could have all kinds of metaphorical stuff, from things they were forced to do to survive on a long trail or something, to family members who died of fever or cholera or something.

If you mean real ghosts, well - if they're on any kind of trail where others have been, you could have sad pioneer ghosts, or American Indian ghosts.

And they could talk about the state of their horses, what they're gonna do when they get to whatever town they're headed for (drink? gamble? get a bath? sleep?), where they grew up, how they learned to shoot/why they're a gunslinger/jobs they had, their families...i mean, pretty much anything.

Not to mention the Only Right Way to cook ham hocks and greens (or black-eyed peas), the weather in that really bad winter and how much worse it was where they were than where the other man was, whether it's true that some people have survived being bitten by a rabid dog (not true before Pasteur's PEP, but some people believed otherwise), the women who Done Them Wrong...

Heeee! Yes indeed. And even recounting stories they read in the last newspaper they saw (could have been months ago) or potboiler they read, or that time they Really Actually Met Buffalo Bill/Jesse James/Geronimo/Calamity Jane.....

Civil War is an obvious but logical choice. There's plenty to haunt a person who lived through it, especially if they saw action. You wouldn't even have to focus on a specific person, just the overall horrors of war, prison camps, the harsh conditions, what it did to families and friends... If you can find Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War, I highly recommend it. Long, but worth every minute.

I have two ideas for HP-fusion "character turned into a child" fics that pretty much follow the same premise but have different emotional beats because they're very different fandoms, and I can't decide which I want to write:

Leverage: Eliot made pint-sized has to live as Nate's kid until they figure out how to make him big again, but it all works out because it helps with a con at a school (where Eliot also takes down a bully). Emotional arc: Nate filling the role of parent to young child again; Eliot has struggles with grownup emotions but only a kid's capacity to handle them. And Sophie is a pretty poor example of a witch ("If I were any good at it I wouldn't be a grifter and thief, would I?!")s

Sherlock: Things aren't so great with John and Sherlock, and when John wakes up a preteen, it ends up being a lesson in both of thrm learning to trust each other again and learning to have fun/slow down. And it helps them solve a case at a school. Also: Mrs. Hudson totally did it, much to Lestrade's chagrin.

Leverage. I vote Leverage.

That's probably the more developed idea, and certainly the canon I'm more familiar with. I've just had this mental image of Young John as the Love Actually kid being simultaneously amused and annoyed at how amused he is by watching Lestrade's blow bubbles in his milk (because Lestrade's would totally be the fun dad figure trying to hold Mrs. Hudson's plan together with minimal damage) for a long time.

I've been developing this idea for a webcomic for several years now with a friend, and I'm afraid she's going to end up flaking out. She's had artist's block for over a year now (which ok, I get it, I've had writer's block, but at least I'm still working on developing concepts and such!), and now she's engaged, and I don't want to turn it into a drama with her or anything and OF COURSE I'm so happy for her because she's happy but

...I'm still kind of afraid this idea is never going to come to fruition. And while I'm not too bad of an artist, I don't think I can do the scripting and art all on my own.

I just want to be done with exams so I can finish my NaNo novel and write some fanfic. I feel like I'm bursting with ideas right now, but there is no time to write.

I wrote a challenge fic. But I've been really unproductive on my regular fic. Three half-written chapters sit on my computer and I haven't worked on them in a couple of weeks. They may end up waiting until after Fandom Stockings is over.

I have awesome and amazing news with regards to a market I've been trying to crack since 2007.

And I can't share it publicly yet.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Be sure to do it here when you can! :D

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Just for gory fun: the Bloody Benders

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more of a Writing Woe, but

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