almost time to start posting the fake fiancé fic (based on @asticou‘s art). planning for chapter 1 to go up on saturday. so far it’s 5k - which you’d think would be (more than) enough for chapter 1, but i really want to write another one and a half scenes.
i’ve hit a good stopping point, but … it’s not the one i want. idk, we’ll see how it goes with the rest of the week.
here’s how it starts:
BAZ
Friendship is magic. I know this because I have eight years of magickal education, and also because I have four younger siblings, all of whom have been obsessed with that fucking TV show at some point or another.
Of course, what the ponies don’t tell you is that friendship can also be torture – if you happen to be uselessly, horribly in love with one of your “friends”. Who used to be your enemy, but through some strange turn of events is now one of the people you go to brunch with at the weekend, and tell most (but definitely not all) of your most painful secrets to.
“You could do better than that wanker anyway,” Snow said tonight in response to one such secret. “Any bloke in his right mind would want to be with you.”
I know he didn’t mean himself. (Although he isn’tin his right mind, he’s seeing a therapist about it. So maybe he’s telling me to wait.) (Unlikely.) I’m fairly sure he was just being nice – but I appreciated it anyway.
still don’t know the title, but will have to lock it down soon. thinking about:
What Are Friends For?
(Not) Intended For Each Other
This is How Not To Get Married
For Better and/or Worse
A Convenient Engagement
the first is probably closest for me, but really - any suggestions also welcome. ideally it would include at least one or ideally two of these themes: friends, pretend, engagement/proposal, binding, magic. i tend to like short phrases from the books or relevant spells.
I’m looking at the bts photos of David filming DW for the Doctor Who 60th anniversary, and it means that the next year we will have both Good Omens and David as Ten and I’m…
well to be fair this was initially about Arnold Moss as Fouché specifically so
set aside the fact that he has the best role in The Black Book, his Fouché draws from real Fouché’s own personality in terms of sense of humor and talkativeness. i think Fouché has this image of a sinister and cunning statesman, which he was in a way, but he was more known to be a chatterbox and a jokester. talking a lot made it easier to lie, as per his own admission
one thing i can criticize in his characterization (and in the script) is his penchant for violence. the Lyon massacres cling to his reputation (as they should) but as hard to believe as it may be, Fouché wasn’t inherently violent and always preferred to avoid bloodshed if possible
but his character is perfect as it is in this movie!
If I may jump into the conversation: one of the reasons I love “The Black Book” Fouché (apart from being an amazingly fun and enjoyable character) is that his lines are obviously modernized for the 1949 time, but they somehow work? As in, they work to portray a charismatic schemer. It’s a weirdly good (?) way to make us see how someone like that could navigate all the political changes and survive so many dangerous moments.
