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jihnari · 9 months

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for that ask game! 13, 20, 24, 36 :D, 40, 65, 74!

oh god okay lol

13. What’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

if you find yourself bored with what you're writing, your audience will likely also be bored reading it. write the interesting bits, cut the un-interesting bits, and everything in between should move through from interesting scene to interesting scene as quickly as possible.

20. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

haha. hahaha. for themes, "no one will ever love you and you have to learn to live with that". also avoidant attachment issues.

for settings, japan! but that's i write canon universe BNHA fics.

24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

"you don't have to try so hard." (i do actually)

36. How do you write kissing scenes?

karma strikes again…

i largely,, don't. sex? ok. murder? great! kissing? 😬

sometimes i just say "their lips touched"/"and then they were kissing" and move on very quickly. i do have a real kiss scene i cant skip past coming up tho and as much as i want it to happen it's going to embarrass me to write.

40. If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

something from "the rot in your sympathy" lol jk, unless 👀

i feel like this has already been fulfilled by my friend who drew me a himiko/denki scene 🥰 i think more people should draw them <3

65. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project.

the overarching plot in my genshin fic only exists because i thought of a really funny joke that i needed ~50k words to tell. i am so, so excited to write that punchline. (the joke might not even land and it might take me a year or more to tell it, but every time i think about it i giggle.)

74. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?

you wouldn't.

one of my anon fics was written as a prompt fill--on behalf of a friend who had signed up for an exchange and then gotten too busy to fill the prompt themselves. i don't know what the exchange was called, i don't know who submitted the prompt, i just filled it. it's not for a fandom ive ever written for before or ever will write for again. i didn't even POST IT, my friend did, so not even my IP address would do you any good. i am the ghost in the machine.

well actually you'd ask @voiider and voiider would say "yeah that was jihn"

#writing #my writing #answered asks #while it was still a wip i almost submitted “the rot in your sympathy” for a big bang just so i could get fan art of it #and then i decided that might make people too uncomfortable so i did a different project instead #i like seeing hawks having a bad time #i have more asks to answer but i might not get to them right away sorry about that #i only have enough spoons for one ask at a time

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guiltycorp · 2 years

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@crimsongrimoire here: #okay honestly the last name part bugs me too#doesnt it STILL say on the wiki that a former alias was their last name#like what is your proof! cite your fucking sources!#literally somehow one of the worst wikis ive been interested in#so many sources of made up ass info are just like trust me bro#and the gross oversimplification of their dynakic#*dynamic jesus.#like idk you can prefer them platonically idgaf. just dont make shit up wholesale to sell a narrative that doesnt exist.#(...not to say klk enjoyers dont as well But. brother insisters are so much worse about it)#(so few genshin fans have reading comprehension at all fr)#its just such a mess. you can just Say you dont see them romantically. you wont die. i promise#no need to have 10 banners and 20 tags with posturing about how you want klk shippers to choke and die#when theres like Literally nothing Inherently Wrong with it#though people who say shit like 'yeah well it WOULD be hot if they WERE brothers so!'#you are not helping the cause#the 'making people mad on purpose for fun to make them look dumb' works so rarely and almost never over fandom nonsense#either way big agree op#fave#funnily this is the same kinda people who are all like AWWWW HIDDEN STRIFE WAS SWEET IT WASNT SAD AT ALL#and like completely misreading the tone of like All the letters esp those between kaeya and diluc#which is funny cause like Every post ive seen on the subject has been about Them and That part and how AWWW THEY KEPT I CONTACT?!?!#when.... the letters on both sides carry very palpable senses of tension from the wording and esp the brevity of dilucs#some very minor but painful details#and just in general all the letters in question like.. while it was nice diluc was getting support#it was in the WORST circumstance. its incredibly melancholy and bittersweet. like yes its nice to know everyone cares.#but also it was so avoidable. but also at the same time nobodys fault. even though both of them kick themselves for it#remembered my other point DILUC ONLY REPLIED TWICE. TO KAEYAS 9 LETTERS. THAT IS NOT KEEPING CONTACT!#there is no reason kaeya wouldnt have put any other letters from him with the others tbh unless theyre recent in which case#kinda irrelevant. thats not 'keeping contact' theyre in the same place now like Often.#ngl we have no indication if kaeya got those letters to him somehow or just left them for his return.

Literally like!! Genshin fandom has actually been one of the worse fandom experiences for me, and I think we can blame a lot of it on the game and its translation, but also it’s just so goddamn frustrating at times. That klc post was written before hidden strife but if anything the event further confirmed that their dynamic wasn’t ‘adopted siblings’ (despite eng translation as usual messing up everything including Kaeya’s opinion of their fight) and that Kaeya doesn’t view himself as a Ragnvindr.

An AU where Kaeya would have been fully adopted could be potentially interesting, actually! Ragbros AU if you will. But for some reason people never really go for all the implications of that - how strongly it would influence Kaeya’s internal conflict and his abandonment issues, how Diluc would change his treatment of Kaeya, how differently another Ragnvindr progeny would be viewed in Mondstadt, would he succeed the Dawn Winery’s business, so many possibilities... But no, they simply take canon klc dynamic and twist it, ignoring all the discrepancies which point to a non-familial relationship. That tag is just one more annoying attempt at censure within fandom spaces, familiar to anyone who ever interpreted fictional relationships as homoerotic before (how dare you tarnish this beautiful brotherly or sisterly bond by your sinful delusions etc etc yawn). And big agree about Hidden Strife letters, they still represent the usual dynamic as is the norm for all those temporary events. But fandom sadly tends to go for extreme interpretations, either the characters totally hate each other or they are secretly totally fine and getting along splendidly... I guess maybe people are getting tired of this kind of one-sided relationship, so they want some kind of resolution one way or another, but I kind of like the place Kaeya and Diluc are in right now. It would be nice to get some more Diluc POV just to confirm whether he cares in a detached way or in a barely suppressed passionate & deep way, and/or if perhaps he does carry some hateful feelings towards Kaeya, but otherwise it’s just a really good starting off point for creating fan content. Speaking only for myself, but it’s all the more bittersweet that there is a possibility that they won’t reconcile after all, that their paths might diverge, that their ideologies might already be irreconcilable without us knowing, that Diluc maybe doesn’t really care that much after all. With this in mind, positive outcomes such as reconciliation, a romantic relationship or a rekindling of friendship, are so much more impactful.

#especially since i dont trust genshin with writing khaenriah vs celestia in a compelling way #when they finally get to it #kaeluc #kaeya #diluc #genshin #is it weird to answer tags in this way?#probably #but that was an already long post #@crimsongrimoire #text

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