#nice things people say to me

[anghraine]

I do appreciate getting AO3 comments that encourage me to keep going! But I got a comment on an on-hiatus multi-chapter WIP that said absolutely nothing about it being unfinished and just listed things they liked, and it was really sweet.

#i don't feel bad about all my wips (obviously) but i do feel a bit of guilt about some including this fic #and then to get such a nice comment was... well. nice :) #anghraine babbles #ao3 #nice things people say to me #fic talk #fic talk: pemberley and such

[snickerdoodlles]

your trademark is writing very ridiculous premises with insane tone/rhythm that somehow feel perfectly in character. Your KimChay is unhinged, and they're my new canon <3

*cackles* I'm DELIGHTED by this, I'm really proud of how I characterize characters and I love that they carry thru even my more silly fic ideas <3

also the unhingedness

all characters should be more unhinged 😈

[ tell me my trademark ]

#nice things people say to me #thank youuuuu ❤️❤️

[chronically-ghosted]

Please don’t ever stop writing about dieter 🥺 I think you just write him the best. You always get his personality so perfect and I just love it so so much. That last one was so perfect, the little bit of angst but then at the end, we know they’re happy together every day and he loves her 😭

You’re the best dieter writer and please tell me you have more requests for him 🥺🥺

okay ngl this made me squeal in delight. i know dieter is not the fandom's favorite, but he is mine -- i don't know why i've imprinted on him like a duckling but i have and it's not going away 😭

in my humble ass opinion, i think for dieter there's a super fine line between idiot and childish. I've read a lot of fics where he's almost mean with his disregard for other people, and while he certainly has an ego, i think he does have a soft side that he doesn't really know how to nurture? i think on some level he is deeply unhappy and he doesn't like to be alone as result of it, but there is a part of him that really loves what he does and he does try to be happy. on a good day, dieter is funny, curious, a little silly/dramatic, and he draws his energy from other people. on a bad day, dieter is selfish, self-destructive, egotistical, and paranoid.

i know you didn't ask for a freakin' character analysis but i could literally write an essay on dieter bravo. but to actually refer to your ask: yes, i do! I have one more for the 100 followers event: “We should probably leave, before we start a scandal" -- I'm trying to do a foodie dieter with this one, so stay tuned!

i find it personally offensive that pedro had a say in how dieter dressed, with the rings, the bracelet, and earrings. if i ever meet the man, that's going to be my one question: "do you know what you did to me with that character?"

thank you so much and this ask genuinely means the world to me!

#taylor talks #its avoid doing real world work hours so who else wants to hear my thoughts on everyone's favorite bisexual manchild? #nice things people say #nice things people say to me #dieter bravo

[caelum-in-the-avatarverse]

Shout-out to the person who kudosed and thus read at least 32 of my fics last night, congrats dude, that’s, like, a lot of words.

And it’s always a nice feeling when you know someone’s been binge-reading. ^_^

Sometimes I’m blown away by the fact that I’ve written 56 ATLA fics. Like, I actually can be binge-read now. Teenage me would be in awe of myself.

#fanfiction #fandom #nice things people say to me

[herawell]

green!

green - creature in the forest, you mind your business if others mind theirs

#scary grace #answered #nice things people say to me

[rowenabean]

❤️❤️❤️

#nice things people say to me #'i use it every day' is literally the best possible compliment to a maker of things #rowena adventures

[awkwardpenguinproductions]

Yo you good? You haven't updated DotY in about a year. Is everything cool? Do you need like a care package or something?

Bro i am so good thanks so much for asking!

Basically life has been happening and i took on a side hustle a while ago that eats up a lot of free time, and also i had a lot of difficulty with the last couple of installments of DotY that i’ve been working on. i think i’ve got that aspect mostly ironed out, and knock on wood finishing the series should be smooth sailing from here, but i’m still working that side hustle as well as prepping for a new job that i am MASSIVELY unqualified for but got headhunted specifically for it. I have an end date for the current job (rip to the Beans but it’s getting to the point where i am not paid NEARLY enough to deal with their bullshit), a tentative start date for the new one, a meeting next weekend where details will hopefully be hammered out and an official job offer will be made and accepted, and (potentially, hopefully, if i can scrape enough out of my last several paychecks) an entire MONTH in between where i will do nothing but drive down to the fam, frolic at beaches and the pool, do silly tourist stuff, and WRITE WRITE WRITE. It will be GLORIOUS, and i REALLY REALLY hope i’ll be able to afford it because friends, your friendly neighborhood penguin needs a GODDAMN BREAK.

So that’s what’s happening right now, thanks for asking!

#ask me stuff #house-of-wander-lust #nice things people say to me #i wonder if i should start a kickstarter for my vacation fund #would people donate to that? #it’s silly and not specifically needed but it could possibly fill in the gaps #also maybe a poll to see if people still want to wait for a consistent upload schedule or not #things to think about #teviya in real life

[solrika]

I’m thrilled to see you posting art again! Your art is some of my favorite fanarts in the Kalluzeb fandom. I Hope you’re doing well <3

Thank you so much! That makes me so happy to hear. :) I’m doing okay—in the middle of a med change, but riding inspiration as far as it will take me.

#nice things people say to me #asks #happy tag

[kaelinaloveslomaris]

So I went back and forth on actually saying anything, but I have to let you know that I adore Allegiance AND it’s totally valid that you’re not updating. It’s still a definite reread and favorite of mine. I’m so pleased you wrote and posted what you did. I think your work has improved the fandom, finished or not. If you did update, I have no doubt it would be lovely. As it is now, it is still a masterpiece of a fic. Thank you for writing it.

May peace and willful chaos ooze from your pores 💜💜💜

Thank you very much! This is a lovely ask. ❤️

I’m never ruling out coming back and finishing it, which is why it’s on indefinite hiatus rather than abandoned, I just don’t know when that might be. I’m so very happy you find value in it anyways, incomplete though it is.

Also. That message close is phenomenal.

#asks #allegiance #nice things people say to me

[sassysnowperson]

Would you ever consider/have you ever considered writing and publishing an original novel? Some of your original works seem like they're just the beginning to a novel/novella that I'd read over and over again

Ahhh this warmed my heart so much!! Thank you - and yes, I have considered it! Been considering it quite a bit, lately - writing and posting original works to AO3 has been really fulfilling, and I've gotten so much amazing feedback.

I've been in a rest period with writing in general, but I'm feeling the desire to write again, and I've definitely been wondering what I can do with more story space. There's not a strong story idea pending yet, but I'm kicking a couple of things around. So this ask is incredibly happy-making and motivating, thank you!

#nice things people say to me #asks

[anghraine]

rubynye replied to this post:

Olaudah Equiano: enslaved as a child, bought his own freedom, campaigned eloquently for abolition, his memoir went through nine printings at least. An erudite Black man from before many people think Black people were invented. I can't adequately express how happy seeing him in your list made me.

Equiano is a truly fascinating, compelling figure. His memoir was assigned in a grad school seminar I took on 18th-century British literature focused on various forms of resistance and dialogue among/between/about the oppressed, and it was really intriguing to read abolitionist poetry and tracts mainly by white English people across the political spectrum of their era and then Equiano's Interesting Narrative. The contrast is incredible.

He's in my dissertation for basically one passage—the account of his capture and lifelong separation from his sister. But it's a hell of a passage.

(Now that I'm thinking about it, he was also in the curriculum I designed when I took over my advisor's upper-division 18th-century class for a semester, and my undergrad students loved the Interesting Narrative, way more than the grad students in my own seminar had. Most of my students had no idea he'd even existed and they just really got into it.)

#rubynye #respuestas #olaudah equiano #eighteenth century blogging #ivory tower blogging #cw slavery #the interesting narrative of the life of olaudah equiano #nice things people say to me

[snickerdoodlles]

I love all your kimchay stuff so so much. KP was like the second bl I ever watched (immediately after bad buddy LMAO) and it's not something I would spend too much time thinking about were it not for all your headcanons - not even just kimchay but the way you write all of them (but also very much kimchay). Just, I love your writing, thanks for sharing all the stuff that you do <3

😭😭 friend i am CRYING thank you??? half the time i feel like the world's most annoying and inconsistent chatterbox hjfdhjd, i'm so glad i can bring smiles to other people's faces with my shenanigans for silly fictional men ❤❤❤ esp kimchay, they're such a sweet spot of just enough presence in canon to hook me and but so much left uncovered i'm still finding new nuggets for what i love about them. i love that i'm still dragging everyone else along with me as i cry over them two years later XD

#tried to say something more elegant and instead i just fell on my face in feelings <33333333 #nice things people say to me

[chronically-ghosted]

Taylor, honestly your writing and world building is so immense and rich I feel like the stories you write are but glimpses into entire other universes.

Having read two of your works back to back today, I was struck with the way they unravel so beautifully, stringing the reader along and weaving plot and emotion so deftly, I had to re-read entire paragraphs just to marvel at how you do it!

Just felt like sending you a special message to tell you how amazing you are! 💕

Endless smooches for the day,

xoxo

skye 🥹 but like . . .

you are the queen of world building????

you inspire me every time i sit down to write???????

because the majority of fics here are oneshot smuts (which is totally fine) but there is often SO much more to dig into in these shows and movies and you see that -- you feel that.

I'm not sure if I ever told you but after watching Narcos for the first time, I didn't know there was a third season, so when I read Lie To Me, I was like THIS IS MORE THAN I COULD HAVE POSSIBLY HOPED FOR . . . and then upon actually watching the third season, I couldn't help but think, Skye did it better 👀 your javi is canon javi, sorry, i don't make the rules.

let's not even get into Compulsion or i will be here literally all day.

you were one of the first writers i followed in this fandom so i cannot express the JOY i feel with this message!

thankyouthankyouthankyou and i can't wait to see what you come up with next!

#taylor talks #nice things people say to me #im gonna start bawling fr

[brynnmclean]

I want you to know I just read some of your cassian/melshi ficlets this morning and when I saw it was you I thought "oh of course its you" like yeah that makes sense

I'm choosing to take this as a compliment!!!!! If I can be recognized by vibes, writing style, and/or Friendly Exes then that is cool!!!!

(ficlets are here for anyone wondering what on earth we're discussing)

#pumpkinpoes #replies #nice things people say to me #the rarepair raft #thank you! #cassian x melshi

[herawell]

shiny + fruit for the color asks!

shiny

friends?

I’ll give you cat/frog pics

We should steel a shopping cart

fruit

hey buddy are you okay

please take care of yourself

<3

#scary grace #answered #nice things people say to me #<3

[writingfics-passingtime]

I just spent all morning reading your Perfect Alibi story and the drabbles you have for it, and I am absolutely in love with it!!!! Andrew’s Peter Parker is my favorite and this little group of stories is everything I needed!!

Any idea on when the next drabble might come out?? If not I totally get it! I love your writing and can’t wait to read what’s next! 💕

What a compliment !!! Thank you, sweet anon 🥺 I’m thrilled you’ve enjoyed the fic and drabbles so far and I so appreciate your kind words 💜

I would love to give you an approximate date but I’m just not sure! It’s in progress but my focus is on Off the Record for the time being because it is very much looming over me and I’m very eager to finish it.

I hope the next drabble will be soon! The last one is written, and so is most of number seven, so it’ll be a smooth ride to the end once I can finish that sixth one 💜

#Answered #thanks anon! #nice things people say to me #New tag ??? #For those days I feel down and go back and read asks #They’re all lovely #alibi!peter