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shinwoo · 1 year

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR~ (and chocolates behind your backs)

if you were debating getting your special someone some special valentine's day chocolates, this is your sign that yes, you ARE going to get your special someone chocolates >:)

— but you still have a week to decide if you're still thinking...

ANYWAYS!

i have decided to be the middle man, the bridge if you will, this valentine's day between you and your 2D lover by delivering your chocolates to them and passing along their return gifts to you this march 14, 2023 (mark your calendars, it's also on a tuesday)

STATUS: CLOSED (as of 2/15/2023)

keep reading for details and logistics :)

but first, the chocolate - will you choose to make:

— milk chocolate? : drabble

what i need from you:

your preferred name/alias + pronouns

your character of choice (fandoms will be listed below)

au (unspecified will be unspecified)

a bit about you! (whatever you're comfortable with sharing)

your preferred dates - just to get some inspo and learn more about you

just anything and everything you think might be helpful for me

— dark chocolate? : dialogue drabble

what i need from you:

same as the stuff for milk (drabble) but with a dialogue that i will use [for redundancy's sake, please nothing like "i love you" or "be my valentine?" or anything like that — come on people, be creative!]

— white chocolate? : chibi self-ship art

what i need from you:

a picrew or picture of you (note, this will NOT be posted and immediately deleted after completion of your request - you can also request a screen recording of me deleting it if that will help you feel better) - please make any pictures/references pictures and not like a link or anything like that (i might delete your request if this isn't followed)

your character of choice (fandoms will be listed below)

max. of 3 (THREE) add-ons:

speech bubble(s) (your choice of dialogue - default is none)

pose (default will be some generic couple's pose)

au (default is "modern" au)

clothes (default is going to be casual/my choice)

background (default will be white - transparent is an option btw!)

other (any other special requests that you have that i didn't think of)

if you give more than 3, i will only do the first 3

what to expect on white day (march 14, 2023):

the drabble/dialogue drabble/chibi art + a little surprise from them!

BY THE WAY: the request itself that you send in my inbox won't be posted (the "return gifts" will be posted in a separate post with a tag to you), so don't worry about oversharing or doing "too much" because you won't be and no one else but me will see :) — with that being said, i will allow anon requests (however, please understand that you will not be able to be tagged... if you're okay with that though then by all means, have at it!)

STILL CONFUSED?: i'm holding a valentine's day event where you'll request the "chocolate" (details above) for your special someone - then on march 14, 2023 (or white day), they will send you a return gift - all requests to be sent to my ask box please! there are no slots but please be sure to send by the due date! and only one per person! the drabbles will be personalized for you (which is why the more information the better - about you, the self-ship, whatever is necessary for the best possible gift!)

WHEN TO SUBMIT BY: february 14, 2023

FANDOMS TO CHOOSE FROM (remember, only one!):

haikyuu

tears of themis

genshin impact

you are welcome to "suggest" a character who is not in one of the listed fandoms (but have a backup from the list in case i don't know them) - please no blue lock or csm, i have not watched any of the blue lock/csm eps yet (and yes still, i'm sorry alsfdkasdfj) :,)))

happy requesting :)

if you have any further questions/concerns, please ask! i'd be happy to help/answer

ps. i'm still deciding on a generic tag for this event so stay tuned if you want to filter it out - i'll post an update!

#koi's valentine's day event 2023

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chaos-monkeyy · 2 years

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I am also a smut writer but lately I've been really down. I have gotten some comments, just people saying I must constantly have a dirty mind or that they could never think like that or write like that, or they imply that some of the kinks I've written are gross. Others have said I've given myself a reputation now. I don't want a reputation, I just want to be me. I think they are meant to be jokes but it's hurtful. I was wondering if you ever experienced the same thing and how you handled it. Thanks

Hi Anon, sorry for taking a little while to answer 💙 I've been quietly mulling this over in the back of my mind since you sent it, trying to think of something actually useful to say.

First off, I'm sorry the shitheads have got you down. I've been pretty lucky avoiding that nonsense for the most part, but I do know how fucking awful it feels to deal with that sort of thing.

One way I've found to handle it is to be... well, a little arrogant about it all. Yeah, I can write stuff or think things that a lot of other people "never could" because that's.. like... literally what a good writer's job is. (and anyone who thinks we're only capable of writing fictional things we actually want to see or happen for real is a fucking dipshit. but I digress.) Anyway, just because someone meant something like that negatively, doesn't mean they're actually right about it being a bad thing.

I also know for a fact some people think some of my kinks are gross, and.. I mean, that in itself is fair. I think a lot of other people's kinks are gross. One person's kink, another's squick, etc. The difference between being an asshole or not is whether they feel the need to tell you, when they could instead have just... Not... Interacted..... And the assholes can fuck right off. I know it still sucks at the time, and it's hard not to feel down about it, but they're seriously just not worth your time and energy.

As far as the reputation and the unfunny "jokes" go, I don't really have any good way to deal. People like to shove other people in boxes and label them and ignore what the actual person wants, and it's frustrating as hell. Depending how well you know and trust the people making those jokes and comments, it might work to just tell them it hurts to be kind of.. reduced and two-dimensioned like that. You are allowed to be you, and who "you" are in fandom spaces and as a writer is allowed to change over time, too.

I did find that it made a difference when I stopped and took a look at the side of my reputation I'd built for myself. Because for a long time I was the first one to go "oh ha ha I only write filth I can't do *real* story", so that was.. how other people saw me too.

So I did my damnedest to stop doing that, because fuck that.

Fuck the self-deprecating bullshit we're expected to do, as fandom creators generally and as smut and kink writers specifically.

PWP and filth for its own sake IS still a story and it IS still creative and imaginative. You put work into that. Writing smut and kink is not easy to do well. Be proud of what you write, whatever it is. Yeah, it's not gonna be for everyone, and that's how it should be. The world would be a boring fucking place if we all liked the exact same things, and anyone who's a dick to you because the stuff you write isn't perfectly suited to them?

Fuck 'em, they don't deserve your fic.

#writing #chaos answers #anon #i hope this helps a little #💙💙💙

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schneereggen · 2 years

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I'm the anon who send about ons writing, thanks for answering i wasn't expecting since it's been so long. I agree with all your & slacky's points however I don't see it getting better as kagami don't seem to write to tell a story but to make money. I don't want to see rest of cast get butchered or become background cutouts anymore (that phsyicaphy hurts) si I decided to not continue here on. Btw to the point what X series you were talking about? I want to try it :D

Sorry again 🙏 It took me some time to get the strength and inspiration to reply to it. So welcome back.

I don't think that the reason for the current writing is solely making money. Though I also heard that a lot of times from within the fandom and there is some truth in it. But as a writer myself, I have experienced similar situations and can think of a lot of reasons why the writing is like that apart from solely making money.

I don't want to go into too much details as this would be really long, but in short, the problem is not knowing where to go and losing touch with the story and therefore the motivation to write.

In writing this can be described as a writer's block. It's a state where you can't be creative and don't know what to write. You lose the motivation and there are multiple reasons why you get it. The three main reasons for me are:

an irritation in the plot you haven't fixed yet and seem to not be able to fix

Losing touch with the story - because of the irrigation or because you haven't written in a longer time period

Mental health issues in general, like stress and depression

a combination of all of the above

The reasons can be even more complex but of your an author and suffering from it, it's essential to find out what is causing it because it's stopping you from writing. Or more precise; from writing good.

If you write in the state of a writer's block and this state was not cause only by not writing for a long time, the result just won't be good. Because you are forcing yourself to produce something without being creative. Without feeling it. And if you, the author, don't feel it, how should the reader?

I can imagine, a writer's block must be horrible for a professional writer that has to write in order to basically keep his job. The only way to get a stable income is to write frequently. And as Kagami quit writing all his light novel series (most probably because of writer's block), he might be dependent on the manga to continue at least.

Of course, I can only speculate, but I am sure that it's not to make money but because Kagami just isn't able to write any better at the moment. I don't know the reasons, I can only guess.

And my one of my guesses would be: Covid-19

Though the struggle started before Covid came and changed everyone's life, it seems to be a huge part of the problem.

He's writing a lot about it in his afterwords and I feel that it changed his way of life and how he responds to things. Maybe it's because he's getting less in touch with other people or lost sight of friends and colleagues. Or the whole situation affected him in a different way.

The way people deal with difficult situations is different around the world and in Japan. And by that I mean, that Japanese tend to avoid inconvenience and therefore rather don't want to remind people of current events in stories. We hear Kagami talking a lot about "in those times we have to stand together" and this sadly reflects on his story. In a situation where we readers want conflict, he's making the story all happy-go-lucky.

One other reason might of course be that now that the story is in need of tying the storylines together, it doesn't work out like planned and that can be frustrating. And the only way out is to talk to people. An author will never be able to find the best solution only by themselves. They can find a very good one, but the best plots and ideas will only be born if you talk to people. And this seems to have suffered a lot in case of this story. But again, we sadly don't know why.

So. Whatever caused the writer's block in the first place, the only way out is, to overcome it. And I see hints that Kagami is slowly reconnecting with the story. Mainly in him writing Twitter posts again. A writer that is excited about their own work is the first step in the right direction. And we see more plot points making some sense (my standards got really low by now).

But I can also understand if you say you will stop. I would like to stop as well sometimes and then I remember how much effort I already put into this and then I can't. I'm still curious if the story will be able to turn around and gain my interest again. And if all of this mess will make some sense in the end... Maybe there is an explanation though most probably I will have to find it myself.

And now for the commercial break...

Good that you ask 😁 I didn't think about explaining as I have been posting a bit about it. But as it's my favorite series of all times, I'm happy to explain it a bit.

You can find it easier if you are looking for X 1999 or X/1999. It's a dark fantasy manga by CLAMP and has two adaptations. And anime and a movie.

What I love about it, is that it has everything I look for in a story. It has a good mystery plot about the end of the world, a lot of characters which play their individual and important roles, a lot of cool and sometimes brutal and gory action and most importantly, in the end it's a story about the character's relationships with each other and human relationships in general.

I don't even know what made me fall in love with the series in the first place, but part of it might have been the sexual under overtones between the main leads. Though the tension is never resolved, it still gets me every time. Damn.

Though the manga is gorgeous and just love 💕, it might not be the best start into the series as it takes its time to build up the plot. Also the style at the beginning is still very rough. It gets more and more beautiful throughout the series but you will have to survive 5-6 volumes first. Nevertheless the artwork is still breathtaking also in the old style and is even more impactful if you are reading it as a physical copy. Also the manga was sadly never finished. But it's worth the ride. The way is so much more important than the goal.

Still, it might be easier to start with the anime. It mainly follows the manga just that they rearranged some of the plot points to fit the pacing of a TV series. Though it cut out a lot of the gore which in my opinion, is essential for the impact of the story. And it also cut a lot of the gayness and the bonding of the characters. Oh and the soundtrack is awesome! And it has an ending.

The movie was made really early. And you can watch it, but more as an addition to the manga and anime.

So please, read the manga. It's absolutely awesome. 🥹

And if you can't find your way into the manga, watch the anime first later find out what you missed in the way. Give it a try ☺️

#owari no seraph #seraph of the end #vampire reign #ons #some advertisement for X #because it's awesome #it's my teenage crush and it will never go away #some writing theory again #writer's block #X/1999 #X1999 #anon ask

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onewomancitadel · 1 year

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I’m the anon who’s planning to read your fic—I’d like to apologize, because I garbled the idea I was trying to express regarding your analysis; it’s not that I sometimes don’t agree, it’s that often you’re looking at the same things I do from a different perspective and that gets you to a reading that isn’t necessarily the exact same as mine but always rings true. Like seeing a sculpture from a new angle, and appreciating it more fully as a result. It’s an “ohhh, I didn’t think to look in that way but now that you’ve pointed it out, I can see it and it’s beautiful” kind of different. That’s what makes me excited to read Skimming Eye—I’m sorry it came across as more negging. I was thinking “people are being mean because her writing doesn’t pander to fanon expectations; the strength of her argumentation and engagement with canon is why I have her fic bookmarked; maybe I should say that.” I really should have considered how the sentiment would land in context.

I hope you have a better morning. Thank you for the well-wishes. If you don’t feel up to responding to this, please don’t stress about it, I’m not expecting any sort of answer, just wanted to apologize to you for the foot in my mouth.

Thank you for what you've said here, it's very kind. It probably wasn't a great of me to be having a tantrum at like 3am where I was reading the worst into everything, to be totally fair. I just didn't want you going into my fic with a false assumption if it were the case, because people make it my problem. I've also had people recently and in the past say they browse my blog despite disagreeing with a lot of what I have to say, which is pretty demoralising in general. I don't read many other RWBY blogs just out of simple and pure respect, so I'm not sure why that's not afforded to me lol.

(This isn't because I don't think different ideas aren't important, but more to do with the fact that I think if you have fundamentally different starting positions, you're not likely going to meet in the middle through kind debate. I don't want to talk to people who think Cinder isn't on a redemption arc. Do I want to talk to people who think that Cinder's redemption arc will end in death? Not by choice, but the topic comes up in asks nevertheless. I'm not against entertaining contrasting ideas, in case anybody thinks I've created an insulated hugbox for myself. In fact, I really enjoy it and often do it of my own accord).

It's totally fine, you haven't done anything wrong lol. Don't worry. Honestly, what's pretty galling about this whole thing is that I am otherwise pretty easygoing especially provided with enough context. I mean, I don't suffer idiocy, but even recently I've had a ton of spam asks from someone I've given five different chances to change his behaviour, I'm still not overly annoyed with him and given the opportunity I think he can probably reform his behaviour with enough incentive. Lol. I'm sensitive and my feelings get hurt sharing something creative and private, so really I'm the crybaby here. I've been told recently that apparently I'm very intimidating.

You haven't put your foot in your mouth so don't worry. Hope you're getting on alright, and again you're not under any obligation to read my fanfic lol. That's the last thing I'd want to pressure anybody into, which is why I even feel weird making reference to it in Tumblr asks etc. when someone asks me a question - because my fanfic does also sort of operate as a way to realise my thematic and narrative analysis, and sometimes - ironically enough - I think it does a better job of articulating it than what I've got to say here. But it's not for everyone. Then again, neither are my Tumblr posts themselves.

I guess there's also that issue with fandom where I'm here for Jaune/Cinder, but I'm also here because this is my blog where I talk about stuff I care about, and sometimes people are only expecting the former, but the reason I care about Jaune/Cinder is because of those personal, textual, thematic, emotional related reasons... it's hard to parse where one ends and one begins.

Anyway, thanks again for your asks. I'm sorry everyone for all that nasty whiny trouble last night, it's something I've bottled up for almost two years and every now and then I have a temper tantrum about it. Lol.

Take care. (:

#seraphina's asks #user: anonymouse #negative nancy hour #debating whether to dirty delete but people left some nice comments so thank you

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witchboyjimin · 1 year

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okay but not you making me go major uwu and then crack up right after with the answer to my last ask lmfaoooo

love and dedication my phone has for your story hahaha. It's brothers in arms with my Browser that goes 'oh she must mean ILHDYS when i type in anything CLOSE to the words i like how' roflmao. It's all off and go from there hahahaha

And the way i cackled over your first reply to my question. It's just quite something, writing smut, huh? I was genuinely gonna say i haven't done that before but then i remembered three separate fics i wrote in teen wolf where i decidedly and irrevocably DID write that lmfao. But not as on the kinky side as yours. I do wonder tho, if you don't mind further questions of course!! How do you go about writing and putting ideas into plot and paper? Like, when do you go oh that's totally gonna be a thing I'll write and what remains a daydream only kinda thing? Hard to answer probably, huh.

I do enjoy all the smut you wrote and write, even though some things are not as much my thing if I'd consider writing myself. But first and foremost, writing is supposed to be self-indulgent imo and i can usually appreciate it the extra bit if it's apparent the authors joy is in the fic and story hihi

- cabin anon ✨

kekeke i was like i can be honest here, can't i?

dkfnsjk clearly u and ur browser are the #1 ilhdys fans wow!!! incredible!!!! you're visiting it more than me kdjfn i had better step up my game

i feel like writing porn/smut is such a...you do have to be in a certain mood and it can be quite daunting. especially because i think people sometimes assume writing porn is easy when it is. really not. i'm super grateful that jimin inspires me so much because idk if i could have written as much porn as i have if not for him. that aside, incredibly exciting that you're writing for/wrote for teen wolf fandom!!! truly one of the best fandoms out there in terms of porn AND creativity. there's some really cool story-telling in teen wolf.

as for your questions: i think i ruminate on fic ideas quite a bit. i also think, for me, i need time for an idea to kinda stew so that i can write it down the way i envision it, too. i think the fic that ends up being written vs the stuff that stays a daydream is just based on what is a reoccurring daydream/how often am i thinking about a certain idea or scene because the more you think about the same thing, the more likely you are to write it down.

of course, there are ideas i think about relentlessly that don't get written but i think usually in those cases, it's because something's missing from the story i'm telling. likely, part of me thinks it's a dull story because the plot isn't giving what i think it needs to give. i find lately i get bored very easily if i daydream about a fic and the stakes are really low or it feels like there's not a lot of tension or points of conflict. one of my current wips has kind of been put on the backburner because the plot's too basic/fluffy for me so i need to ruminate some more and figure out what story i want to tell.

also, i think with writing now i am trying to veer away from some of the traps fic lands you in eg. i want to write more fully fleshed out characters who aren't 100% likeable. i feel like with fic and especially bts fic, there's like this expectation that you only write wholesome versions of bts who never do anything wrong but that is not how real life works so a lot of my wips are being revisited and will likely be rewritten so that i feel more engaged with what i'm writing. when the characters are perfect and the plot's super low stakes, i lose interest and i'm glad i've realised that.

god! so very sorry for how fucking long this is and kudos to you if you even read this far fjdnk thank you once again for such a fun ask cabin anon ✨ you are so delightful! hope you have a great weekend!

#anon #replies

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house-of-laminations · 2 years

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How do people get the courage to write about their MCs? I feel like what's the point, no one wants to read about my MC. Even if I generate something written well there's no reason for anyone to waste their time reading about them. So is worth investing in my MC? I see other people write about their MC and people seem to like it but I see this only working on very few select people.

I wish there was an easy, uplifting answer to this, anon, but I'm sorry to say there really isn't.

I absolutely think it's 'worth investing' in your MC if that's something you want to do! You're the only you to exist, and so what you bring to your MC is going to be unique because it's you. Your writing/drawing habits, your biases, your loves and your experiences. But that's also fucking terrifying. Because you're essentially opening up about something/someone you created and it's so easy to psyche yourself out before you even start because what if no one likes it?

But that's what makes original fiction/content/MC's even more special: you bring that unique perspective and if you can take that leap of faith and share them with others, then there are definitely people out there who are going to appreciate it! There are content creators, but there are also content consumers. The caveat here is you just can't let yourself get demoralized if your MC isn't getting 'enough attention' - Tumblr is honestly such an awful platform to be a content creator on because it's heavily reliant on people reblogging and of course they don't. And those numbers are even lower for things that aren't established canon/fanon. If you're feeling really unsure, then maybe that's when you share them first with a friend, or someone in the fandom you feel safe with. Personally, I know I'm definitely honored when people choose to share their MC hc's with me.

I think it's also important to acknowledge that writing is fun, yes, but it's also hard. They're not mutually exclusive. Anything creative requires a time investment, and a certain level of energy to dedicate to it. There's a sacrifice involved, time and energy, and it is a sacrifice because you cannot expect any compensation for it.

(And to speak into the ludology/narratology of it all really briefly- by creating an MC and investing in their backstory or lore, it's a way of having a bit more agency in a world/game that has quite low agency to begin with. It could end up improving your overall experience with the game purely because you're able to assign more meaning to the choices you end up making as you click through. Not guaranteed, but for some people it works!)

But yeah. The 'courage' is basically a leap of faith. I've found the Obey Me fandom to be super supportive and uplifting, especially of MC's. Please definitely give it some thought!! 💛

#i rambled a lot here im sorry #i just feel really passionately about encouraging people to pursue their creative ideas bc its so personal and interesting #and makes the world so much bigger #i shouldve written this AFTER i sleep but i wanted to get this out while youre possibly still online #its something i definitely struggle with too: after all i have a completely normal human mc whos basically just me but meaner.#and who would wnat to read about that??? but then i remember that voice is just my super critical low self esteem one #and i tell it to shut up #sometimes #i talk to a real human

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heybaetae · 2 years

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i'm anxiously waiting for my favourite gifmaker to upload their first gifset of 2022 (that is u)

i appreciate this sentiment and am very thankful that you look forward to my gifs! if i'm really your favorite, that means a lot to me.

however, i'm taking a breather for a minute. i posted eight gifsets in the last two weeks, three of which were massive compilations that each took several days for me to finish. my last four posts coincided with the new iOS tagging ban AND the several-days-long tumblr bug that prevented anyone's work from showing up in the tags at all, which i heavily depend on. so that put a huge damper on what i hoped would be an exciting end of a year of putting out content. because on top of what is already a huge issue (the like:reblog ratio), tumblr itself just wasn't showing any of it. i think i self reblogged more than i ever have just in the last week and it still didn't help much.

going into 2022, i'm reevaluating how much time (and sometimes sleep) i'm willing to sacrifice making gifs on here when very few people share it or when tumblr is constantly fucking around with the way we use tags to get our hard work seen. i made 376 gifsets in 2021. i don't even want to think about how many gifs that was individually. don't get me wrong here, i enjoyed making all those things and am so grateful for the support most of my work got last year. i'm the one deciding to make what i do and i am aware that literally nobody is asking me to go so many extra miles. i made more content last year than i ever have and i've been making gifs on this site for a decade. it's a wonderfully creative escape for me, but sometimes that comes with unnecessary pressure, which also stirs up unwanted anxiety when it becomes an expectation to others instead of just a fun hobby for me.

(anon, please do not think that last bit is aimed at you. i believe your message had good intentions, but the wording did trigger some not so great feelings.)

i am going to try to cut back a little this year. by that, i mean i'm going to pick and choose which new content i gif. i'm in the PST timezone, so a lot of new stuff that drops in KST is usually overnight for me. i've chosen giffing over sleep many times unfortunately (frankly, this fandom has a very short attention span on here and if you put out content hours late, it's old news by then and nobody cares anymore) and that isn't healthy. this is a bad habit of mine that i'm keen on reversing. i'll definitely still make stuff, but i am not motivated to do it lately with everything going on with the site.

sorry for this rambly and potentially dramatic answer to such a nice (ish?) message. i do not take for granted that people enjoy what i make. but please, please remember how time consuming it is for creators to be churning out gifsets as often as we do for such a small hair of validation that dies after a couple days. bear with me here. 💜

#ask #i feel like someone's gonna come at me for this #but i need a break toooo lol #it's only january 2nd :/

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