I’m still waiting for the amnesia Newmann fic which starts out like a normal joke-y “Newt bumped his head” story and then we slowly learn that this is post-Uprising and Newt doesn’t remember anything since the first time he Drifted with a Kaiju brain, and everyone has to decide how to break it to him
For the latest chapter of Effort I commissioned some art from @lydkyd-art and I am SO delighted with how it turned out!
23 year old Newt inadvertently becomes a meme and a laughingstock after a disastrous CNN appearance. My directions to Lyd were, I want this, but with the energy of this. They suggested the early 2010′s pinwheel background and I thought it was brilliant.
Here’s the excerpt from the fic describing that moment.
At the end of the year, there was this special on CNN about the attack. They called in all sorts of people: survivors, family, regular joes and politicians. Even a few experts. Geiszler was part of the MIT team that got to study the first big batch of Kaiju samples. He was sent to be on this special to represent them – even though he was basically a fetus compared to the rest of the team. And this interview… I mean if you remember Brian Bately for anything, it’s for this.
Apparently the MIT people asked Geiszler not to mention the alien thing on air – even though it was all there in the stuffy paper they published. But tiny baby 23 year old Newton Geiszler was made of equal parts scruffy idealism and anti-authority, so it was like the second thing he mentioned.
Like all of you, I live in several worlds at once–different communities of people who seldom if ever interlink. It’s weird, and one thing I love to do is connect folks from different communities together.
I’m here on Tumblr right now to be a writer and a reader, specifically of Legends of Tomorrow fanfic. I am also part of the world of writing centers–college and sometimes high school and sometimes community-based places where writers go to get help from tutors (we also call them writing consultants in my writing center). There’s a whole bunch of amazing people throughout the world talking about the best ways to do this work, in journals, at conferences, on blogs, and in person. So, the blog I attach above is a reflection on writing and pain from that community that I offer to my small community of writer-friends here on Tumblr.
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