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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 8h

“And Frie”

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 8h

Psycho killer, kissy face muah muah muah muah muahhhh muah muah muah muah muah muah

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 9h

Not even done with this yet but it’s messing my head up in all the right ways.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 9h

Not even that. It's how long they can get away with pushing a shit product no one wants - which will be as long as it saves them money on real professionals, right up until they realize that they're losing more without those professionals. And the gap will not line up - they'll lose plenty first.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 9h

I've maybe invoked his name a few times but I will never share his words, sounds or pictures.

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a thing

Instead of posting false Pres 45/47 tweets/posts, how about NOT POSTING ANY OF HIS SHIT AT ALL

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 9h

I still think Del Toro should've popped Penn with the cop car.

Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 11h

the problem is that the executives who never valued that ability to begin with are willing to settle for degrading their product.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 11h

He has such Clay Davis energy.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 12h

they know counterfeiting would devalue their product.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 12h

Rachel likes her tea with a side of very bad man.

He frowned, clearly trying to understand the emotional significance of this. “You stayed with me. You were so sad, more than usual, so I made you a cup of tea.”
“It surprised me, because I didn’t really think of you ever doing ordinary things. Much less traditional things. But you did it the Russian way. You even had lemon. Probably the last lemon in the world, I thought.”
“And that means something to you,” he said coldly. “So I made tea for you. So I did something ordinary.”
“I loved watching you do it,” she said honestly, now admitting the truth of it to herself. “You weren’t looking at me for once, so you didn’t see. But I was watching you and I remember thinking… ”
Sergei paused with her in that moment, now looking at her with an expression that was edged with sudden uncertainty. As though she was about to reveal something fearful to him—something that once spoken, could not be retracted. Unable to help himself, he moved closer to her. She could feel the heat coming off his densely muscled frame. Primed, tense, he waited on her. Wanting her to provide him with the key to her surrender just as much as she wanted the key to her restraints.
“What do you remember thinking?” he breathed, staring down at her.
She met his eyes. “That if I saw this every morning—this strange, beautiful man making tea for me while I waited in bed—maybe that would not be the end of the world.”
She felt deep satisfaction as he recognized the trap. Not one she’d sprung on him, but the one he’d built around himself. No matter how he fought it, he would never escape, nor force her to join him within it.
“Then take me back,” he said, a note of desperation in his voice, sweeter for the slight stutter. “Take me back and I’ll make you tea every morning. I will do anything for you, anything you want.”
“I can’t,” she said simply, with just a razor’s edge of remorse. “That man no longer exists. What little difference there was between him and you, he did not laugh as he murdered children in front o…

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 14h

Wendy's is actually pretty good, ngl.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 14h

I wish there was such a thing as a sleep surplus. I would be so sleep wealthy

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

it's known that ICE officers are highly ranidaphobic. Seeing this is incredibly traumatic for them. It's a psychological suicide attack.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

how was the sleep tho

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

(all of them) I don't know, she's such a mess. All that anger and frustration. She tries, though.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 16h

Q34: Why does your main character act like that?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

saturate, absorb, learn. Find mentorship, but don't believe anyone who says they're going to teach you to be successful. Learn different writing disciplines. Write original stuff. Write for yourself first. Live a curious life. Read nonfiction. Study history. Embrace risk. Go outside for long walks.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q23: What’s one tip you would give your younger self as a writer?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

A lot, not that I always spend that much time thinking about it. I do for Kat's because her presentation is important, and her opening scene is all about a disguise she's living in.

In the full light of day, Kat was unquestionably beautiful, but felt that beauty had long ceased to be useful to her. A keen observer might perceive the aristocratic cast of her fine cheekbones, her full mouth, and her wide eyes, but she was practiced at concealing these things by misdirecting the viewer with unflattering details. Her penny-coloured hair washed out her skin, counteracting much of her attractiveness. Her pale blue eyes were striking and memorable, so she hid them behind tinted gold-rimmed glasses.
Kat relied heavily on this accessory, even though they aged her by ten years. She didn’t like the way strangers looked at her eyes rather than into them. It created a sense of artificial intimacy, and made her feel like taxidermy. She preferred to cultivate her invisibility, something she had managed well for over a decade. Partly as a necessary expedient, but mostly because she found the attention and society of other people inconvenient.
She emerged from the low slung apartment block upright and tall, unornamented except for her tortoiseshell-handled cane. She’d chosen conservative brown slacks that were faded from too many washings, and an equally conservative starched white blouse to go under her shabby tweed coat. Her gait had a slight roll to it, but she made it graceful with practiced dignity. This flaw drew the eyes of her fellow citizens, but never for very long. It was her most effective camouflage.

Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

I overuse the word "greedy" a lot. I like greedy.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 16h

Q38: Do you have a favorite word you’ve been drawn to lately? Or a least favorite word you’ve dread having to type?

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 16h

Q38: Do you have a favorite word you’ve been drawn to lately? Or a least favorite word you’ve dread having to type?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 15h

This is all very cool of @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app to do.

My answer to this is that I love being able to amuse and entertain myself with my own brain, and to forget I'm the one doing it. I wouldn't have gotten any further without that.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 16h

Last question! Thank you all so much for participating! Can’t wait to do this next week with you all and see all of your amazing quotes! 🤗

Q40: What do you love about being a writer?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 16h

Not really. Kobalt I guess is an exception because it's a self-and-mutual-antagonistic situation. It's a romance but it's also a story about espionage and war, so those antagonistic activate in the two protagonists when they meet each other.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q18: Is your antagonist worth redeeming?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 16h

multi-location fast action. It's just a lot of work and planning. Speeches probably follows but mostly because I hate watching them. Ton of characters in a scene? I don't know, I sort of avoid those.

Really intense SA or death of characters I love. I put that off until last.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q14: What’s your least favorite thing to write? Character descriptions? Dialogue? Scenery descriptions? Other?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 16h

I bounce between Scrivener for novels/script dev. Fade In I use for screenwriting. I really love Scrivener's "split with selected text as title" function because it means I can dump a big prose treatment/narrative and then break it into little pieces I can label and move around, or make cards.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q13: What’s been your favorite tool as a writer?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 16h

Kat Bergmann totally did it, and it was the biggest mistake of her life.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 17h

Q11: Your MC wakes up from being passed out at a bar to unconscious/dead bodies all around them. How are they handling that? Did they do it?

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 16h

I'm writing a feature that takes place in Stanley Park, and an otherworld version of it. It's the first time I've written about a place I go to on a regular basis. It's probably going to be the most highly visual, artistically influenced script I've written.

beaver lake at stanley park, trees reflected in a pristine pool of lily pads

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