Let's talk meme

[petronia]

From fahye:

Pick a character I write, and I will give you the top five ideas/concepts/other I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to depicting them accurately. This includes both original characters and characters about whom I write fanfic.

Actually, you can extend that to any character I've read a lot of fic about... not that you'd know necessarily, of course. XD My voracious and not-particular-picky fic consumption is (among other things) a way of honing my own ideas of characterization against Fandom, like window shopping or a card-sorting exercise. Right, right, wrong, right, hmm, wrong, poor taste, right. Reading is what creates the model. Writing only introduces quirks.

Or, pick up the meme so I can ask you.

Or-or, I was taking Ask Me Anything questions on my Tumblr the other day - click link, ask me a question?

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Re: correcting typos, I was nearly asleep writing this

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Rolling, I'm not sure I considered #4 per se before I wrote it down here. Not in as many words - I'm pretty sure that when I was writing TBD I didn't know the term "learned helplessness", and also not mature enough to have an adult perspective on how your childhood/adolescence can subtly warp your mentality. But I knew Schuldig was a product of his environment, yanno? And that a lot of the conflict between him and Crawford stems from authority and power issues.

Alas, I wouldn't know what had happened to Jaida's fic. >_> It's been a really long time since I'd reread!