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heyitsrcoor · 3 years

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Put Your Head on my Shoulder (2021) aka the Thai version (rant/review)

First off, I have watched the original Chinese drama but I remember dropping it on the early episodes. I don't even recall the exact reason why but most likely I just lost interest. Hence, this rant/review will be based solely on the drama itself and will not have a comparison bias (not sure if it's an actual thing but you get what I mean).

(not-so-crappy) Synopsis:

Prapai (FL as in female lead) is an accounting graduate but has a knack for creative arts so she'd rather work in an advertising agency. She has a crush on her male best friend--Ta, who treats her like trash. Pupaa (ML as in male lead) is a physics student who is also friends with Ta. Our ML and FL somehow end up becoming roommates. Oh, and FL mistakes our ML as gay.

Also, may or may not contain minor spoilers.

Cringe-level 3 out of 5 Stars

Some scenes of the drama are cliche and cheezy as the fanfic I wrote in the 8th grade.

How the FL and ML met was basically the typical "While I was walking in the park, I bumped into this guy" jk, it's not their exact first meeting but the second one. Their first meeting actually was our ML jogging on the running track minding his own freakin business and here comes our FL casually walking straight on his way (WHY?????). DID THEY COLLIDE? Naaaah, coz the guy calculated his way on how to avoid the worst situation in which he decides to realistically jump over our FL. Okay, drama. Maybe they were trying to pull off a comic relief.

You see, our ML is some sort of a genius, physics nerd. I get that. Thanks to his inner monologues of him calculating every single action. It does get better in the next episodes (thank God)

I couldn't care less about the other characters

Yep, aside from the ML and FL, I mostly skip the scenes of other characters LOL

It's as if the writers deliberately wrote those secondary characters badly. With that I'ma put out my top 5 most unlikeable characters:

1) TIME!!!!!! (He tests my patience every second I see him on my screen. Can't he take a hint? What a sleazy narcissist)

2) Kwang

3) Meena

4) FL's female colleague/superior

5) Ta

6) Wa

7) FL's 2 female friends

Oh did I just say top 5?

Cute none-the-less

You see, I'm a sucker for boy falls first so I'm still holding on strong at episode 15. (*Edit: finished it today)

I like how the ML is caring and kind. I found it really entertaining when he was slowly falling for our FL. I also love how this drama did not drag on the "You made me jelly so I'ma make you jelly as well" trope. I hate those kind of misunderstandings.

FL is quite sensible as well. I loved how she supported ML's opportunity to go abroad. Because honestly, I really didn't like how ML was so quick to throw his career/profession opportunities under the bus just for the sake of romance.

I mostly just enjoyed ML and FL's interactions. They're just cute together. No doubt about that.

So yeah, if you're looking for a light fluffy drama with a puppy-looking male lead, you may want to check it out. That is if you don't mind annoying secondary characters and cliche tropes.

#i dont even wanna rate this one #it's a guilty pleasure I guess #put your head on my shoulder #lakorn #thai version #2021

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littleredroseonthevalley · 6 years

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20 Questions - Writer Tag Game

Thanks @kennaxval and @boneandfur for tagging me!

Respond to the following writing questions and tag me in your response! I look forward to hearing your answers as I’ve always been curious about these!

1) When/what age did start writing?

Well, I suppose my first time trying to write something without someone telling me to was when I was nine. It was an autobiography. I was one vain nine-year-old.

2) What inspired you to start?

Writing in general, I suppose it was a bit of vanity, I want to create something bigger than myself someday, and I have no talent for plastic arts. Also because I’m a bit of a creative (and dramatic) person, writing serves as an outlet.

Now, writing Choices fanfics was mostly frustration. I’m a post-graduated Political Philosopher. All those slips on TRR grinded my nerves, so I wrote my first fanfiction to prove a point, that you can have an exciting plot while mantaining vraisemblance.

3) Where and when does inspiration usually strike you?

On the shower. It’s the only time of day I’m not thinking about anything.

4) Where and when do you usually write? Morning? Late at night? On the bus? In bed?

Just before I go to sleep. I don’t know why, it just happens. I write before bed, and then I queue whatever I wrote in the morning.

5) Do you listen to music while writing? If so, what genre/playlist?

Yeah. I have A LOT of CDs, 540 according to my latest count, so I just pick one at random and let it play.

6) Which category do you like best? Angst? Fluff? NSFW? Other?

I am the Queen of Angst, baby. If no-one cries, it was a bust.

7) Which category do you find most challenging to write?

Smut, which is funny, ‘cause I’m kind of a slut. I just have difficulty on transcribing the sexual feelings into words, to comunicate it properly. Oh, well...

8) If you had to pick your favorite Choices book, which one would it be and why?

D&D. I have my criticisms about it, but I am enjoying it the most. In fact, it has been a while since I liked a Choices book that much.

9) If your Choices LIs were real, which one (and only one) would you personally want to be with?

Liam. I would make him eat from the palm of my hand and then I’d be the ruthless ruler of a Balkan kingdom.

Judge me at will.

10) Do you share any physical characteristics with your Choices MCs? Pics/Selfies optional 😊

Well, I usually play them White, so I guess there’s that. I suppose I could make them look a little like me, I have pretty unremarkable facial traits, but I often make them to be the prettiest, not to look the most like me.

11) Which MC do you share the most personality traits with?

When they make a deadpan, bitter and snarky MC, that’ll be her. Though, it isn’t that conductive to romance novels.

12) Which Choices character do you feel you have the best grasp of in terms of personality?

Well, I am tempted to say none. When I started writing fanfiction, I made the conscious decision to write wretched characters, to show the worse in their personalities (read Queen of Angst above). PB does the exact opposite, they sugar-coat every flaw.

Besides, I admit some difficulty of mine to make my characters’ personalities consistent across my work.

That being said, I suppose one character I used often and that has kept some ressonance both within my universe and PB’s is Ernest.

13) What’s your favorite Choices pairing to write for?

I write stuff for all my favourite pairings, but my all-stars are Ernest and Susan, as Susan is an interesting character to play with and because D&D is hot right now and I get lots of notes, and Nathan and Emily, because, as I may have mentioned before, he reminds me of an ex-boyfriend of mine and that’s fun to twist.

14) What is a pairing(s) you hope to start writing for?

I’ve been considering to enter more vigorously in HSS. I think it has creative potential, but I’m waiting to see how Class Act will play out. I’ve also been considering doing something with PM, but I don’t really care for the universe set by PB, yet it would be too complex to dismiss it altogether.

15) What do you hope to improve in your writing?

I want to find the self-respect to review my own writing. I always find a ton of mistakes every time I read my own work, and yet I never find the energy to do it before I post.

16) Any pet peeves related to writing?

PARAGRAPHS!!!!!!!

For the love of Jesus Christ Our Saviour, for the Enlightment of Buddha, for the eternal conscience of the absence of a deity or whatever have you, paragraphs have freakin’ rules!

The most basic of them, five lines or less. Long paragraphs are exceptions, not the rule!

Also, why people jumble three plot points in one paragraph and then cut the fourth in the middle? Like, two characters have a heated discussion without a single line break in sight, and then, on a seemingly arbitrary moment, bam, line break. IT MAKES NO SENSE!

It’s just... ugh.

17) Are you inspired by any IRL experiences when you write? Care to share?

Usually, yeah. Like, every fanfiction has something, for Red Rose was my college life, for Confrontation series was mostly my own anedoctes, while Just Be Good To Me was heavily inspired on a friend of mine.

On the other hand, we have my D&D fics that are mostly make-believe.

18) Is there any particular piece of work you consider to be your ultimate writing goal? Something so amazing you hope one day you’ll be up to that standard?

I have horrible experiences with the Pantheon of Choices writers, so I refuse to grace them with my praise, due it may be.

That being said, I wish I could be a published writer someday. One can only dream.

19) Did/do you write for any other fandoms? If so which ones?

Only Choices and original. No other fandoms.

20) In your spare time (when you’re not writing) what other hobbies do you pursue?

Well, considering spare time as time I’m not writing, not on Tumblr and not working on something or another, I’m mostly sleeping...

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rmnitb · 6 years

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2017 Fic in Review

I was tagged by @roseandradio and @soulsborne123 - thank you so much!!

To people who still don’t know, I’m Meepyonnee on ffnet! I also made an ao3 account that I honestly only use for kudos and keeping track of my fave yoi and hq fics

Total number of stories (completed/WIPs):

4 oneshots (SPR’s self-proclaimed daddy; Implore the Dawn, Dance in the Dark; Yearly Mark; and don’t fall to ur death)

17 WIPs (not even gonna say any of the titles yet bc they’re all trash) (……..okay, here’s one: Clockwork Re-destruction)

4 updates for my ongoing stories (Phantasmagoria, Distractions, the piano au and the rotc au i abandoned lmao)

3 original stories (Tears of Joy, Manang, and [K]) ((hit me up if you want to read them! they’re all speculative fiction ;) ;) ))

grand total: 28

Total word count (not counting WIPs): 22,942

Fandoms written in: Ghost Hunt and Yuri on Ice Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected? Uhhhh,,,, yes it'vs more than I expected???? I was so surprised to see that I’ve written a lot considering I’ve taken up more subjects this semester + I joined the writers club in my uni so I wrote more originals than fics. And for someone who writes vignettes, 22k is seriously amazing What’s your own favorite story of the year? [K]. It’s the first original story I took seriously and so many people from writers club helped with my revision! I really think I’ve improved a lot because of this one story.

Did you take any writing risks this year? I applied for my uni’s writers club lol. That was a risk I didn’t think about at first… If I hadn’t gotten in, I think it would have take a huge chunk out of my self-esteem –> I wouldn’t have written for a long time Do you have any fanfic or profit goals for the new year? I gotta freakin finish my ongoing stories before starting others dammit. I also need write more and work on my shitty narrative style and description Best story of the year? Um. None. They’re all terrible. Most popular story of the year? I think it would be count, cadence, count lololol. If I had continued that, it would have blown up into a bigger thing! Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Implore the Dawn, Dance in the Dark ;-; I guess fire emblem doesn’t mix well with the gh fandom? Ahh, but I still plan to continue it though Most fun story to write: yas yas yasu lololol (i disappointed someone with that tho) (im still so very sorry for this) Story with the single sexiest moment: I haven’t written it!! huehuehuehehe that scene will be in Distractions soon! Most sweet story: I, as a writer, am incapable of comprehending what “sweet” is, so let’s go with bittersweet: Tears of Joy ”Holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you!” story: The piano au. Because goddamit it should’ve been a violin au so I wouldn’t be in this gigantic writer’s block since i hAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PLAY A PIANO Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters & most unintentionally telling story: Phantasmagoria. Y'all will know why someday, but uuugh Naru’s so hard to write in this story Hardest story to write: [K], because before my revision, I was hit with so many criticisms from my fellow WC members and I pressured myself into really improving the piece since I didn’t want to disappoint them—– the one comment I will never forget: “I mean, the story isn’t spectacular, nor is it horrible. It was just k” (tanginaaaaaaa) Biggest disappointment: myself Biggest surprise: I’m writing chapter 6 of Phantasmagoria rn lolol Tagging: Coriana!! @roseandradio

#thank you for the tag!!#rmnrambles

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kataracy · 6 years

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14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

A fic I didn’t expect ummm… uh, oh! I guess, if I go outside this fandom, I didn’t expect to be planning a fic for the Sess/Kag fans, as I am now one of us them… it’s called ‘Shinto Maiden’ and it was kind of inspired by the DemonAU I wrote for kainora, which itself was inspired by me falling down the well of remembering how much I liked Inuyasha. Jesus, writing is such a wild ride.

15. something you learned this year

I learned writing is literally everywhere, I can’t escape it, and that is a good thing; I think I was all over the place, lol I made so many new blogs just to find different places to write about things, I tried a lot of different endeavors. I felt like I lost my passion when really, I think, even though I was barely writing anything, my passion sort of reignited? I started reading books again, I found out about booktube (a neat little island on youtube where people review books its a great side truly honestly), I remembered that writing is one of the things my depression hasn’t taken from me no matter how hard it has tried… idk, I feel like there’s so many things that get published everyday and, most of it honestly sucks like not to take pride in other peoples pain but, there are authors that get published every day that literally just, they are terrible. And I look at the stuff I write and I feel the things that I feel and I put them onto paper and I admit to myself I have a talent for this. This is something I’m good at. I learned that I need to get better mentally because my stories deserve to be written and read. (omg I’m sorry was that too much yall know I like to ramble!)

21. most memorable comment/review

Every freakin comment I get in the tags and on stuff like a03(which I will be posting more frequently on) are such a blessing that shit literally be soothin mah soul. MAH. SOUL. So if I pick one it’s not to say I’m placing it on a pedestal at all… that being said ok I’m cheat and say every reaction (here are some of the reactions because I love it more with each passing day) I got on that beautiful “You liar, you said you’d rather kiss me than die” was like, like idk being fed pizza while getting d'ed down I pfft-

[fanfic end of the year asks]

#end of the year asks babyyyyy #ask thing #heynon

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itslulu42 · 7 years

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Epilogue

A Marriage Inconvenienced is now complete

Epilogue

I feel like I owe an explanation since I was so close to finishing and then disappeared.

Chapter 19 “Closure” was posted in December 2010. One month later I started a new job. It was my first real “adult” job and I got money and bonuses and it was pretty awesome financially.

It was also high stress, drained my creativity, and sent me into a depression.

I had no idea. I drafted several versions of the Epilogue that first year and I struggled. The best thing about A Marriage Inconvenienced was how easy it was to write. I used to crank out the chapters in two days and sit on them for a while before going back and smoothing it over. The Epilogue fought me with every word and I wasn’t satisfied.

Eventually, I stopped trying to write it. I swore I would never be one of those writers that left a story unfinished but something felt so terribly off. I just couldn’t get the nerve to post what I had written. So I tucked the file away in a folder. I stopped reading fanfiction; I bailed in the middle of House Calls! That should have been a huge indicator that all was not right in Lulu Land.

After a while, I realized that everyone I worked with was miserable. That eventually clued me in that I felt the same way. So I made a run for it, got a new job and slowly, I felt better. My health went way up and I felt like a human being again. Looking back, it is easy to see how out of it I was, but at time I didn’t know. I did a good job faking it in public, but home I was too lethargic to scroll through Netflix.

Last summer, I found out the Naruto anime was ending and checked it out. And there was my OTP holding freakin’ hands! And face caressing! And catching each other when they fell!

THEY LOOKED GOOD TOGETHER, DAMMIT!

When I started drafting AMI the only thing I really had was scene of Kakashi saving Sakura during the chunin exams and a couple of moments in the movies. I would have never imagined in a million years that the anime would have given me 1000% more moments to work with.

So I went charging into ff.net and AO3 and fell for Kakasaku all over again. Then I read AMI because I didn’t really remember the plot. (I legit forgot that Naruto was the prostitute in chapter 9.) I was mad at myself when I reached the last chapter because everyone was right! What happened next? I found that Epilogue file in my computer and read it.

It was a physical proof of my depression smacking me in the face. I had always planned for Kakashi to be vulnerable in the last chapter, but I couldn’t write it when I wasn’t in a great spot myself. So, I had tried to do a time skip rather than follow my outline to show how they got together.

HOLY CRAP, YOU GUYS, IT WAS SO BAD!

There weren’t any jokes. My beautiful OTP was snobby and they had a kid I wanted to punch in the face. I wasted two thousand words on a conversation with Norio. Seriously?

Be glad that atrocity was never posted. AMI was a romantic comedy and neither one of those things were present in the draft that sat five years on my computer.

Whenever I had a particularly rough day during that that awful four year period, I would load AMI’s review page and I would read them over. Yes, most of the reviews later on were, “Hey, what happened to the Epilogue?” but to me it was, “I was important to someone today.”

I don’t think I can truly express how much it meant to me when I had days where everything I did was wrong.

I logged in to FF.net properly for the first time in about five years wondering if anybody still cared about the ending. I assumed would only be like five people and checked out the stats. And you guys... you wonderful, wonderful people. It turns out you did care. Tremendously.

I knew Kakasaku was never going to have a huge number of followers when I started writing AMI. I pegged the amount of active members way back whence as a thousand or so and I pretty much wrote the story for that many people. Y’all were rereading my story an awful lot. It was rather humbling

Poking around on tumblr showed me that it was pretty much the same. I only recognized a couple of names, but the sentiment is the same. The love of smut. And moodiful819 is still ripping out hearts like she is paid for each one.

The Epilogue was a lot easier to write this time around.

So anyway bit of an explanation. But it is mostly a Thank You.

Thank you for being kind and sweet. And believing in me and supporting me even though we might only have one thing in common. Thank you for waiting so long or maybe coming back for just a brief moment. A lot of fanfic writers disappear to the abyss and I probably would have been one of them if not for your support.

And here’s a something fun to end it out.

The jutsu that Kakashi used to trap Naruto during to conflict with Sasuke was stolen from Dragon Ball Z. The main character, Goku, trained in chamber that was able to raise the gravity level. He struggled with his training because of the increased pressure, but when Goku finished, his power level had increased significantly!

Yes. I was inspired by a meme.

Life is weird.

~LU

#epilogue #ami

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