#literally only tpw fics

[mousmoula]

pov: you live in a society where r.f. kuang gave you some of your favourite characters ever (the cike) and then proceeded to forget about them as if you're not clinically insane and love them to an abnormal extent

#i'm not even joking i haven't written ANYTHING ELSE this entire year #literally only tpw fics #i think this is all of them but i started using docs for school this year and it's super messy now #anyway if rebecca doesn't want to give me cike content then i'll create the cike content i don't give a shit #they're MINE now #i'm holding them very gently #i'll go write another one now<3 #the poppy war #tpw #tdr #rf kuang

[am-cogitoergosum]

Sort of a rant about tpw fics, no hate intended to anyone. I love all the poppy war fics, this is just to talk about what I would like to see more of

Okay I said it before and I WILL say it again. I'm all for creating what you want, so pls don't take this as judgement, but I want to see more fanwork of tpw characters going crazy/overcome with anger. ESPECIALLY RIN AND KITAY.

Ppl tend to forget just how angry Kitay is in the series, and how he's not just "smart mouth big brain soft boy". Like, he nearly went insane in the series, ffs he killed Niang and burned Rin with a candle. He only has remorse for civilians, none for people he already has beef with.

AND AS FOR RIN, I'm a little disappointed with how many times her rage is played off as "eheh, cute lil tsundere bad at feelings". It's nice, especially in a modern au/no war au, I'm not saying I dislike that sort of thing, it can be very cute if done correctly. But there just isn't much about how genuinely angry she is, how she literally lost her mind. I want to see more of her just being full of actual rage and visceral hurt, and not in the "gentle sobbing" way, in the "screaming at the sun brutal murder tearing the room to shreds" way. I just feel like ppl write her as too calm and gentle sometimes.

IN CONCLUSION, these two are literally tortured to the point of insanity and there's not a lot written about that. THEY DESERVE TO BE MAD, because anger was the only thing keeping them going and it got them into terrible situations too.

#ik that this is lame of me #and that i should probably just write the stuff myself and stfu #but i have a huge writing block and so all i can do is bitch and moan rn #and also y'all don't HAVE to write stuff like that if ur bad at it/don't want to #but still i just like raw and visceral mental and physical pain and rage and i thought i'd see more of that in the tpw fandom #love all the fics that take a deep dive into altan and nezha's trauma #just wish i'd see more of that with like #jiang and venka and rin and kitay and all the others #once again #no hate intended #tpw #the poppy war #fang runin #chen kitay

[hyumjim]

fic writer asks: 💞 and 🎈 and 💫 !

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

I think.... maybe as both a writer and a reader, the most important thing is the use of language itself... on a technical and on a figurative level. as a reader, I will literally stop reading from the first sentence if the style is not for me lol! and as a writer, when I am able to express ideas in a particularly novel or exciting way, that's very satisfying for me :-)

of course, characters and plot are important too, especially for longer-form works. but language is the most important when it comes to keeping my interest, personally, especially at the start.

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

it definitely changes, even if only subtly! especially when I read novels, I often feel like I end up cribbing from the style of whoever I'm reading... as for how I'd describe my own style, I think that's a very difficult question, because it's really personal, right? It's like being asked to describe your own face... but something that's been reflected back to me is that my stories are very dialogue-heavy, and the dialogue itself is very naturalistic (like a lot of "um"s and "uh"s and so on). other than that, I am addicted to semicolons and em dashes and parentheses and I am a fan of the rhetorical device known as "humor"....

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

Since I already talked about TPW, Where There's Smoke / Exile series, for anyone who can stomach reading about teens going through conversion therapy, is kind of my favorite child out of my published works so far, and was recently updated :) <3 It is a big outlier because it's my foray into sort of "young adult series" type writing, which I did not realize until relatively recently that I really enjoy doing!! Maybe I could make a small amount of money someday as a young adult author and also get cancelled on Twitter... dream big, right?

EDIT lmao i read the last one as the wrong emoji somehow dbfjhjhfbs well u get me...

#thebestestbat #thank u jesse <3333 the real bestest bat