Hi, I’m Mira!
I’ve been a part of the whump community for about two years now, mostly on Discord. Sometimes I write or draw or make other stuff, and I’ve role played quite a bit.
I love talking to people, so don’t be afraid to say hi! I can be a bit awkward, though, so I apologize in advance for anything I say.
I’ve made a couple of ask games, and sometimes I send asks to people who reblog them:
Character ask game: Relationships
You can find my OCs and writing under the cut.
I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.
adverbs??? are controversial?????????? What dark corner of the internet must one dwell in to hate on a whole-ass part of speech?
No dark corners, you just have to go back a few years, to before the pushback against “never use adverbs” advice became mainstream. (I don’t see them much anymore, but there’s still plenty of “actually adverbs can be good sometimes!” posts floating around.)
Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.
Wonder how this queen is doing today
Edit: For those wondering, this is from a 70s nsfw sci-fi zine called "alien brothers" (more specifically, page 83). This little paragraph was right above a k/s smut fanfic written by this lady.
i care so much about fictional morality and ethics but not in a lame ass "is this character/ship problematic" way. i'm cringe for other reasons.
i want to know what the court proceedings for a trial where the defendant claims mind control or possession look like. what's the worst crime you can commit in a world where people can cast spell of curse your entire bloodline over a careless insult at the farmer's market. how are magical prisoners treated. what kind of values would a society whose honour code is built on glory through battle and warmongering uphold. what's public opinion on the death penalty.
ALTgrabs your hand. come worldbuild with me.
there's a scene in teen titans where deathstroke is on trial for murder and someone brings up that wondergirl is allowed to testify because of a previous case called "joker vs batman" that established that superheroes are allowed to testify in their masks which implies that the joker sued batman to try to get him to take off his mask or get his convictions overturned on the ground that they were witnessed by a superhero who can't legally testify and this is a throwaway panel and it's all i think about
superheroes continue to fascinate me as a genre, something about being given power beyond what the average person is capable of and choosing to use that power in service to others
but i'm running into what i'll call the "guy with laser eyes" problem in this disorganized rant
imagine you're a guy with the ability to shoot lasers out of your eyes. how do you use that power?
genre conventions say fight street-level crime, which is fucked up! vigilante crimefighting is just being a cop without the oversized paycheck or the extremely limited accountability, and your laser eyes aren't good for nonviolent intervention anyway
or you fight supervillains, that way you're at least punching in your weight class. sure, sounds good on paper but that's some real "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" thinking and also you're still not a cop
so you'd say "okay, what if i use my power to address structural problems and deal with societal ills at their source?" well what the hell is a guy with laser eyes going to do to fight income inequality?
disaster relief is maybe your best bet but i don't know that you want to be saving orphans and kittens from burning buildings by blasting a big hole in them with your laser eyes
so what's a guy to do with his laser eyes?
precision soft tissue laser surgery
get good at crossing and uncrossing your eyes really fast and do concert lighting
I want one of those sidekicks-fighting-to-free-their-brainwashed-mentors stories to be resolved when they team up with someone who’s usually a henchperson and
“But why are you helping us??”
“–this is bad for us too. It’s kinda tricky to get people on board with a strike when your boss can just bring in brainwashed superheroes as strikebreakers.”
#’…a strike.’#‘yes. we unionized pretty recently we’re very proud’#’…what are you striking for?’#‘better hours and benefits mostly - you know - paid maternity and paternity…not getting experimented on when we take sick days…#…dental’ ‘dental??’#‘with the amount of teeth you kick in every time you show up? we NEED decent dental’
My favourite trope has to be:
I sacrificed myself to save you. I didn't plan to survive. I burnt all the bridges. I intended to break your heart with my death, but that would be all right, because I wouldn't be around to see you. I pretended that you'll mourn me for a while and move on. I convinced myself I was going down in the blaze of glory. That my deed was appreciated. That everything was going to be all right afterwards, and I didn't need to be there to see it.
But I survived. And now I have to look you in the eye. I have to pick up the pieces of the life I shattered and figure out how to put it back together. If it can be done at all.
IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it
I NEED TO READ I NEED TO WRITE I NEED TO CREATE I NEED TO DRAW I NEED TO CLEAN I NEED TO WORK OUT I NEED TO LEARN *watches YouTube for 6 hours*
