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Hiiii Code <3 It’s been a while, it’s lovely to see you in my notifs. How are you doing?

Log!!!! Hi! I'm doing pretty well can't complain :D and how are you, my friend?

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omg how have i never seen this before

we can have a little dumbass!keith, as a treat

based on this post by @keogane~

#slapped by an unexpected klance #thank you shell

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i got 6! dang, this is hard. 

I got 4 and almost died

#shell #tagged for me

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o7

#an #code asks

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Ily Code!!!!

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 love you too, log. hope you're doing well!!!!

#log #code asks #sorry it took so long to reply to this lmao #haven't been on tumblr lately

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Code! I love you!!!!!!

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Okay bye! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

Writ, you won't believe it! I love you too!!!!!!!!

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Okay, bye :D 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

#thank you so much ahhhhhhhh #you are so cool and i am not worthy #love you dude jbhgvftyuiokjkhgf #code asks #writ

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A humble offering for my friend 💜💜💜

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#i love you 💚 #code asks #writ

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Reminder that I love you!!

Love you too, Log 🥰💚🥰💚🥰💚🥰

#two asks 🥺 i'm so lucky #<33333 #code asks #log

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*runs into your inbox* CODE MY BELOVED I HAVEN’T SPOKEN TO YOU IN SUCH A LONG TIME HOW ARE YOU ARE YOU DOING WELL I HOPE SO

LOG MY BELOVED IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU I'M DOING WELL AND I HOPE YOU ARE TOO AHHHHHHHH

#hiiiiiiiiiiiii #logggg my dude #code asks #log

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you do, in fact, have an imagination. i also do not know how to make or attach gifs 

*pats the an* (but without a gif as to not Alarm You)

i am being unvisually patted

#response #an #yes i am implying this

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Man, sure wish there was a way for me to let my friend Code know that they’re super awesome and wildly talented and I’m so glad that they’re my friend. *sigh* Oh well 💜💜💜💜💜💜

How will my friend Writ ever know I appreciate this so much and I would die for her given the chance *sigh* Oh well 💚💚💚💚����💚

#WRIT #code asks #💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hope you're doing well :D

Thank you so much Code! I am in fact doing well! I hope you are too <3

#Log #Response

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Hope my friend Writ is having the best day 💚💚💚💚💚💚

SBNFJKANJDA CODE!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 I jumped up and down when I saw this, you’re so sweet!!! My day has been good but I hope yours is better, my friend 💞

#Writ #Response

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Just saying hi

AN

what's up?

#An #Response

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Totally agree about there not being enough stories about other kinds of love than romantic. Those stories are just as important, and they’re relevant to everyone! Every person has relationships outside of romance. It’s also super important to highlight them for ace/aro folks and normalizing found family perspectives. And like you said, showing that not all romantic relationships have to result in a lifelong bond. Sometimes what is more comfortable for the characters isn’t a romantic relationship, and that shouldn’t be shown as a sad or disappointing thing. 

Passion is definitely a good trait to have in protagonists. A drive to change and a will to go out and do it not only moves a plot but creates an excellent role model, I think. Characters are vehicles of change in that people want to become like them, so that drive is definitely something I think makes excellent role model material. 

Standalones are fun imo because it’s all rounded out in one book. There’s limited time to present the themes and characters and plot, so every moment counts. Series have pros to them too, but I definitely understand the appeal of standalones, especially given that, personally, I haven’t been able to focus on a series for years lol. So agreed. 

I’d hoped they’d be interesting ones! They stuck out to me when I was looking through the question list. Thanks for answering :D 

1 & 14 & 23 for the unique writing asks gvdhbsjaklj

Hello, Code! Thank you so much for the asks!

1. What themes would you like to write about that you feel don’t get explored very often?

Oooh. I thought long and hard about this one. I don’t know if this is a theme or just a trope, or what have you, but I think there needs to be more stories where the character doesn’t get the object of their affections, and that’s okay. I think there needs to be more happy stories of unrequited love, and more stories where it’s obviously acceptable for one of the partners in the main relationship to not be ready for a committed relationship by the end of the story. And that’s difficult to pull off realistically, so I get why it’s not done often enough, but I would love to explore something like that (and I kinda have but not successfully). I also think there needs to be more stories where romance isn’t involved at all. As in, no forced romantic subplots, no flatter-than-roadkill and interesting-as-drying-paint characters inserted just for the main character to kiss at the end of the book.

Now, some may call me a hypocrite here because basically all I write is romance, but I don’t think that the two concepts of me liking to write romance and me wanting to see stories where it isn’t the main focus, or maybe it’s bittersweet and/or skewed more towards the self-improvement angle are mutually exclusive. And I would like to write a story like that one day, and more successfully than my last go of it, at least. Of course I would have to be writing super fluffy, romantic fanfiction on the side to cope, haha, but I do want to represent the parts of life that aren’t tied to romance in my work as well, because love in a romantic sense isn’t all there is, and yet it’s such a be-all and end-all in storytelling. Love is wonderful, but there are far too many kinds of love that aren’t celebrated nearly enough, especially platonic love—and, even more specifically, platonic love between single men and women. I would also like to see how I can romanticize not being in love, and how that’s perfectly alright for the personal journey the character’s on.

‘La La Land’ really blew my mind with this concept, where the story goes in a direction where the main couple is arguably happier and more fulfilled without each other. You can also make the argument that they aren’t as happy as they could’ve been, but there’s a lovely ambiguity there because life isn’t cut and dry. Maybe they would’ve been happier with each other, and maybe they wouldn’t have been. There are some solid facts here, though: they made each other better when they were together, and because they knew each other, they wound up achieving their dreams. That’s certainly the happiest break-up story I’ve ever seen, even if it isn’t well and truly happy and more on the bittersweet side of things.

Of course I have other ideas, but this is just a set of very general concepts that I’d like to see more of and write about one day.

14. If you’ve written more than one story, what traits do your protagonists tend to share?

I think they’ve all got a fire in them. They’ve all got this sort of “fuck it” mentality where they’re not content with their lives and are desperate to change it through whatever means necessary. And they all do it for different reasons, but some of them have commonalities. Drag! Virgil and Inexact! Sock do it to outrun their pasts, for example. Inexact! Jonathan and Drag! Virgil do it to rebel against themselves and their environments.

They’re also gay and struggle with mental health dnfacdnkjdsfs

23. Do you prefer reading series or standalone novels and does that reflect on how you write?

Standalones, standalones, standalones. I can’t with series, I never finish them. Unless it’s fic. Then we’ll talk. But like, PUBLISHED books? No. I can’t, I just can’t for some reason. I can’t practice series/book monogamy. I think I’ve finished a series maybe once outside of fic. And yeah, I think it does affect how I write because I write standalone novels. I guess if I wrote series it would be a different story, haha.

Thank you so much for these questions, Code! Very thought-provoking!

#response #writ #i honestly though tumblr had eaten this ask lmAO

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I am Looking 👀👀👀

AN WHAT IS 'LORD FORGIVE ME'

OH GOD CODE LOOK AWAY

#An #Response

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You: “space ship full of be gay do crime found family”

Me: *side-eyes the Penumbra Podcast* 

despite not knowing the podcast, this concept sounds awesome as hell. you go, funky lil writer 

what's The Jar about, if you wanna ( '.')/

It’s a Penumbra Podcast fic that I never finished because I couldn’t figure out whether to make it incredibly lighthearted or incredibly angsty 💔

The idea was that the crew of the Carte Blanche (space ship full of be gay do crime found family) were going to have a digital “jar” for Juno and Peter that they had to put credits in anytime they showed PDA. Obviously it was Vespa’s idea, but the whole crew agreed with it (not counting Juno and Peter, lol), and Rita made the “jar”. I just thought the idea of the crew yelling at Jupeter every time they were being grossly in-love was funny, but it spiraled into angst when I realized that Peter probably wouldn’t be able to put anything in the “jar” due to his debts.

Sorry, I know you haven’t listened to the podcast, so none of this really makes sense, lol. RIP to what was going to be my first and likely only Penumbra fic, I still don’t know where to go with you dhsjhdsjsh

#if anything i love hearing the rant! #thanks :D #log #response