#these r all unfinished but i can’t seem to finish them idk :-/ so i’m just gonna put em up now

[iamanartichoke]

hmm how about M, N, R, and S?

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

Lots, always. Some of my fic ideas are more likely to be written than others, but right away, what came to mind is a reincarnation fic my brain’s been playing with for ... a couple of years, actually, I guess since after Endgame came out. 

So the premise is: it’s a few hundred years after EndGame; Thor has outlived all of his friends (humans and Guardians, assuming they all have shorter lifespans) and, while he occasionally keeps in touch with Brunnhilde, he’s largely removed from Asgard and doesn’t really have any friends left there, either. He traverses the universe solo (with Stormbreaker), occasionally having adventures, as you do, until on some planet somewhere he runs into Loki. 

Only it’s not Loki, it’s some completely different person, with Loki’s face and a lot of Loki’s mannerisms. It turns out that this person is a reincarnation of Loki, and he has faint memories of Asgard and of Thor that have always seemed like dreams, nothing real. 

It’d be angsty and feels-y, bc of who I am as a person, and it’ll probably be on the line of “Thorki if you squint,” as that seems to be where I’m most comfortable exploring their dynamic. One of the roadblocks is that I have no idea what the actual plot would be - like, beginning, middle, and end - except just Thor and Loki being reunited soulmates. (Is that enough? Idk). But, yeah, this one may be written one day. 

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

Anyone else is welcome to write aforementioned reincarnation fic, lmao. But in general, not really? I don’t think there’s anything in my brain that’s terribly original, so chances are if I’ve thought of it, someone’s already written it. As for finishing, there are a few unfinished WIPs out there that I would love to be finished just bc I, specifically, want them to be, but I’m sure that’s the case for everyone. 

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

This question should really be are there any writers I don’t consider an influence, bc I’m pretty sure that I’ve been influenced by everything I’ve ever read (that I enjoyed). 

But, let’s narrow it down. For real-life authors, the earliest and subsequently strongest influence for me is definitely S.E. Hinton - I read the Outsiders and the rest of her books when I was in about sixth grade and have loved writing angsty young men ever since. (If you like Thor and Loki’s tortured brothers dynamic, you must read That Was Then, This is Now, I’m pretty sure it changed my life at the ripe old age of twelve.) 

For a long time, I wanted to write YA fiction (I don’t know if I still do or not), and that was my playground, so I picked up a lot from authors like Sarah Dessen, Ann Brashares, Sara Zarr, and a bit of Elizabeth Scott. Maybe Deb Caletti too, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Margaret Atwood (entire passages of Alias Grace live rent-free in my head). 

That’s the short-list. 

For fanfic? There are a lot of authors whose works I love and feel influenced by. I don’t even know how to narrow it down, lmao. This fandom is chock full of talented writers. 

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Answered here. 

Thanks so much for the ask! 

Fanfic Asks 1.

Fanfic Asks 2.

#ask memes #charlotte replies #charlotte writes #thank you! #thelightofthingshopedfor

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album review

yes I'm on hiatus, yes I need to talk abt this album in depth bc I'm going fucking insane

Persona: this fucking song ok it pays homage to their old hip hop sound whilst still sounding like the ‘current bts’, namjoon’s flow is amazing and works really well with the beat of the song, which is also just... fun and bouncy.... the song just makes me wanna bounce in my chair. the beat is just rlly fun and good and the chorus is catchy and fun and just honestly one of my favourite songs on the album

Boy With Luv: I'm not gonna lie it’s better than what I expected but still.... manages to be the most Okay song on this album. like its not bad I can’t really pick out anything that I specifically don’t like it’s just that there’s also very little that I can pick out that I really like. but what I will say is... yoongi and namjoon’s raps!!! r so sexy!! the rap breaks up the rhythm of the song nicely and is a little unexpected (esp yoongi’s) also whilst I don't dislike halsey’s part she didn’t bring anything new/interesting to the song and I personally find her ad-libs rlly annoying esp her ‘I want it’ (and esp on the non-mv ver bc they’re on Every Chorus) but I do think her effort is commendable singing in a new language/learning a dance is hard and she did ok. the mv was also just generally cute and the dance seems like a lot of fun! 

Mikrokosmos: i like this song! it’s gets a tad too repetitive for me by the end but the beat is rlly funky esp when u listen w good quality headphones u can hear a lot of nice little quirks of the synth that it’s harder to pick up w normal quality headphones/out loud. it’s the kinda song that needs ur full attention to be able to appreciate it. I like the chorus even tho it’s quite simple it’s effective at getting the feeling of the song across and the melodies r all so prettyalso the vmin (?) harmonies are so pretty!! the raps are nothing special but they fit the vibe of the song rlly well and add the perfect little change. but my favourite bit is at around 2:40 when the beat drops out and there’s this dreamy synth under the vocals..... that’s the SHIT but the build up afterwards is kinda meh... if they’d finished the song there it would’ve rlly been something special the last bit just doesn’t bring anything new to the song. I just like..... idk I rlly want to like this song!! I really really want to like this song a lot but it’s just an amazing first half that fizzles out by the end...... I still like it tho I would definitely recommend listening to this song w nice headphones!!

Make It Right: ok this song fucking sounds like an ed sheeran song I could fucking tell this song was ed was soon as I heard it. personally this is my least favourite song on the album but there’s still a lot of good things about it. I like the synth initially and hoseok’s singing!!!! (maybe the hoseok stan just jumped out) but generally this is probably the most forgettable song..... dare I even say aggressively mediocre...... the synth motif gets rlly old quite fast like by the end I just don't wanna hear it anymore!! it gets old waaay too fast bc it’s so simple n repetitive and nothing new happens in the song after the first chorus...... it’s just the same.... idk again not bad just quite...... boring....... there’s just no development at all. the vocals during the pre-chorus r also just so breathy although it feels like a creative choice..... I just don’t particularly like it (again personal preference) I feel like this song will b popular w the gp bc again it sounds like an ed sheeran song skdjfh (maybe it gave me flashbacks to when I was 11 ok don't @ me)

HOME: oh yes..... as soon as namjoon starts the song u know it’s gonna b sexy. I like jimin’s voice!! in this song!! like they don’t force him to strain and it sounds good!!! however the autotune kinda makes vocal line all sound like jimin which is just a bit...... weird....... but in general jimin’s parts rlly shine in this song!! all of rap line’s verses are really good!!! it’s just groovy!! ngl the part of this song that gets me the most is the lyrics. but I feel like the song ends weirdly.... it finishes w the bridge and so sounds like it should lead to something else..... it feels unfinished and also bc it’s a bridge it doesn’t musically resolve so furthering the kinda unfinished feel (general pet peeve tho pop artists just fucking resolve ur songs its not that hard!! resolve it!! ur not cool for not resolving at the end of ur song!!)

Jamais Vu: ugh jin starting it off...... big sexy...... ngl hoseok’s first verse is sexy as well and the synth piano is nice the way it goes minor all of a sudden big fuckin sexy but then u know whats the real fucker in this song when jungkook fucking KEY CHANGE all of a fucking sudden like I practically had a heart attack when I heard it for the first time i feel like it’s a perfect musical representation of what jamais vu feels like. just this kinda musical experimentation is what I'm fucking here for!! u used to get a lot of crazy key changes in like early 2010′s kpop but recently ppl r being v safe and western but like BAM this I just love it ok ksdjhfksdj it manages to be jarring but also fit perfectly with the rest of the song like I just love it. I LOVE hoseok’s 2nd verse as well the deep synth brass(??) sounds it’s just sexy ok like this song is sad sexy and I'm fucking here for it. ugh and he layering of hoseok’s sing/rap over the vocals at the end just..... so good. it doesn’t feel messy it’s clean and effective and again matching w theme of jamais vu and kinda gives it a conversational feel. jin and jungkook both sound so good and the song actually builds on previous musical ideas and doesn’t just repeat them over and over again blindly, it feels nice and more experimental (they still didn’t resolve the song but this time I feel like it fits w the idea of jamais vu) the more I listen to this song the more I love it, it might actually be my favourite

Dionysus: holy fuck yes this was by far my favourite song in the album on the first listen like it perfectly manages to fuse the old school hiphop sound bts used to have with rock and I fucking LOVE it like it starts off as a hiphop song and the rock elements enter completely flawlessly. it’s one of the few times I really really like the super over auto-tuned voice like it feels purposeful and it fits so well with the song. also just all of hoseok’s high-pitched nasal rap/ad-libs just fits so well!! yoongi’s rap allows the best to quiet down a little and build up again w out having to have a ‘beat drop’ neccesarily. this song gets me so much more hype than a lot of their other ‘hype’ songs!! the high note/scream as well.... just wow!! it feels like there’s a lot happening but it manages to still sound rlly cohesive and just!! how the fuck did they even think of this idea I'm just in AWE. also hoseok wrote this song like I'm so fucking proud ksjdhf

overall: I was rlly surprised by this album! like genuinely rlly surprised! they managed to create an album that spans so many genres from hiphop to pop to edm to rock, some of the songs on here (mainly jamais vu and dionysus) work both conceptually and just as music. there r some songs that I felt like could’ve been executed better (coughmikrokosmoscough) and had the potential to be really amazing. bts has started being a lot more experimental w their music recently in terms of incorporating elements of other genres into their songs but this album especially feels like they’re pushing the boundaries a lot more. it’s interesting and doesn’t always work but it rlly worked here! I think esp as they’re becoming so much more popular they can kinda afford to experiment more w their music and I'm excited for more stuff like this in the future! generally the album is rlly good, some songs I like less but none that I actively dislike and a lot of interesting music!!

#this album...... no skips #also can I just say this is hoseok's album #his parts are almost always the best parts in the songs #he shows off such a wide range of his singing and rap #just...... good shit #sophia speaks #bts #map of the soul: persona #album review

[wwounu]

Knowing you were going to meet Joshua made you tense up — Just the thought of hanging out normally stressed you out, and now classing this as a ‘date’ was a bigger deal.

“Y/N?!” Joshua’s voice echoes from afar. He was a few distances away but he came into clear view as he ran straight to you, furrowing his eyebrows at your appearance. “Funny seeing you here,” He comments, a wider smile showing when you meet eyes, “Seungkwan was supposed to meet us here right?”

You confirm the question with a nod, turning left and right to ‘find’ Seungkwan, even though you the latter’s original plan (that was going according to how he wanted it).

Chuckling to neutralise the situation, you bleat, “I’ve been waiting here for a while, actually. I don’t think he’s coming any time sooner.” You shrug as the upset look appears on Joshua’s face.

“How dare he, he made you wait here for a while, didn’t he? When I see him I’ll-“

By the time you took hold of his clenched wrist, he comes to a realisation that maybe Seungkwan didn’t come because he would cancel a plan — It wasn’t like him to do that.

“Josh? Josh, you alright? Your cheeks look like you’ve come out of a sauna, or just watched something R-rated-“

“Nothing!” Joshua assures you, kindly smiling again. He looks down at his clothes and forms a frown. “Ah, sorry about how the way I’m dressing today. I thought with the three of us I could dress comfortably… Now I look embarrassing.”

“It’s okay, don’t be embarrassed. If anything, I think you look handsome.”

And with that said, you move your hand from Joshua’s wrist to his hand, walking off with him to nowhere in particular, yet happily exaggerating the thought being with him for the few hours.

“Today has been so nice today, don’t you think?” You huff in relief, shaking the numerous amounts of shopping bags in your hands.

“It was a lot better because I was with you.” The male mumbles to himself, humming shortly after to agree with you. “But I guess we both have random items from that one store because you thought it was nice to surprise me buying something.”

“Hey, I couldn’t let you win with buying more things for me again — But you’re too stubborn.” You look inside the bag with the small, random items and naturally smile at the sight. You pick a figure up and show it to the male. “My favourite on is the No Face figurine,” You state, “That’s definitely going to be on my desk — All of these are going to be on my desk, so don’t be surprised.”

Joshua laughs at your cute aura. “Ah, No Face…” You let out a quiet ‘huh?’ but Joshua shakes his head. “Nothing. I’m just remembered of an inside joke between friends. Anyway, the figurine is cute, that’s why I got it.”

The next few minutes, you spend talking about the scandal, and everything in between. The mood changed quickly — from cheerful to earnest — pouring all of your held back feelings to male, explaining the helplessness you felt for those few weeks, all the regret radiating from the hateful comments you got.

Joshua stayed mum for the most part, allowing you to release the stress from your back, but immediately reacted to you once your voice became weak and vision became blurred with tears.

Being bad at handling occurrences like this, Joshua thinks of the best thing to do and tries to distract your thoughts so it calms you down. “You need to get something to drink, your throat will feel tense the more you cry. We can get boba, okay?” He stares at you with a slight smile but with caring eyes, and you reply with a shy nod.

On a lighter note, you went back to being your chirpy self while the both of you ordered bubble tea. The highlight of the moment was when you and Joshua were arguing over who was paying and the worker got so annoyed that she said to just split the pay, and the two of you got flustered that you didn’t think that sooner.

“You and your boyfriend are cute. How long have you been together?” The worker asks while giving the drinks to you. You freeze and chuckle sheepishly, both turning to Joshua outside — he was busy talking to a mother and her young son, mainly intrigued on the lively puppy jumping around him.

“Us? Oh, we’re not going out-“

It comes to your attention how much of a lie that sounded: With your matching caps, the stubbornness between you when you fight over who’s paying, the simultaneous burst of laughter while paying together, Joshua offering to hold your bags as he waits outside, and especially asking for extra balls in Joshua’s drink when he leaves (You knew how much he loves those).

“Oh-“

“I see,” She winks, “So, what are you then? Friends with benefits?”

“Not really- Hm, maybe? It’s not that serious-“

“You two should go for it. You seem really close anyway.” The worker hands you your change and presents a little smile. “Have a nice day.”

“Yeah, you too…”

Like that you leave, surely blushing at the conversation that just occurred. When you approach Joshua, his tone is more cheerful, and you can’t help but fall for his anything and everything.

“Took you time, didn’t you?” Joshua earthily chuckles and pinches your cheek as the paper bags hang on his wrist. “Let’s go, shall we?” He says a final goodbye to the lady and walks off with you to the direction of your apartment.

Because he’s holding the bags, you do your share by holding the drinks, helping Joshua take a sip when he asks  and (Too frequently) asking if he wants a drink.

When you and Joshua finally get to a resting stop (Which was the bench) he laid both of your bags on the bench and sorted them into two piles either belonging to you or him. Once satisfied, the male dusts his hands together and turns to you who was minding your own business.

He holds in a breath.

“Hey can I have some of that?” Joshua points to your bubble tea that you were drinking, catching your attention.

You hold the straw in between your teeth before the words of the question sink in, resulting to you clumsily taking the drink out of your mouth and holding the two unfinished drinks in front of him.

“My drink? But the strawberry one isn’t finished yet—“

The question is completely avoided by Joshua as he moved past the drinks and landed onto your lips.

For those few seconds, they were totally blissful, raw with innocence and exhilaration between the two of you.

After months and months of this silly crush, you somehow found out Joshua had the same feeling too — Gosh, even thinking about it gave butterflies in your stomach.

Joshua had a wide vocabulary when it came to thinking how he would confess to you, whether it would be the classic ’I love you’, the cheesy ‘is it too late to say I like you?’, using his best friend’s words that had to do with attracting (But he couldn’t remember that one); It was a thought he thought too much of.

He needed to make it memorable. Yet, once the words flowed from his tongue, he thought it was somewhat in between cheesy and romantic.

“I think I like your lips more.”

OPPOSITES ATTRACT PART SIXTEEN — Idol!Joshua x Stylist!Reader

we’re so close to the end… i just realise this now + i like the first half of this but idk what i wrote towards the end i was busy watching unsolved lmao

one • two • three • four • five • six • seven • eight • nine • ten • eleven • twelve • thirteen • fourteen • fifteen • sixteen • seventeen

masterlist

#joshua #seventeen joshua #joshua hong #hong jisoo #joshua au #joshua texts #joshua imagines #seventeen #seventeen opposites attract au #seventeen texts #seventeen imagines #kpop #kpop texts #kpop imagines #idol!joshua

[paraclete0407]

Pretty sure I'm going to become Catholic if I don't die from Delta tonight - I've been thinking about it my whole life and I feel awful contemplating how much time and how many people I've lost.  Recently I concluded what might have been my last intimate love-relationship with someone - the last person I feel I ever wanted to marry, it's just  over now. I have a lot of flaws like sensualism, aestheticism, expectation of unending maternal unconditional love.  Ever since 18 I relied on the same few pieces of music to hold me, Franz Biebl's 'Ave Maria,' Praetorius' 'Es It Ein Rosentsprungen.'  Biebl only wrote a few pieces of music in his life. I don't know why in the past decade I went to war with the world when meekness had seen me through for a long time and kept me surprising everyone who said I wasn't doing enough or getting with the times.  I'm really dumb, blind.  I also accumulated various cupidities and preciosities.  It's pathetic.  Today there are race-wars, class-wars, gender-wars, identity-wars, age-wars.  Covid I still feel is just anti-Asian racism though - I can't see it any other way and I always, always lose my motivation for studying or reading about anything but the history of Western imperialism.  I don't want to speak ill of Protestants b/c I read Metaxas' Luther bioraphy at least in part and the cynicism of that priesthood... but 'Heil Hitler point 1' in Milwaukee is like 'Joshua and genocide' every day, showing no mercy.  I love John Piper, John MacArthur, RC Sproul I only wish I'd listened more like 35 years ago.  But.  Chest-beating.  However the fault is mine for I'd be more masculine if I simply abided with probity by the rules of Scripture and subjected myself to wholesome discipline.  I don't know why I'm so skittish of everything. Honestly I'm a Satanist - in the Baudelarean sense and otherwise.  There was a student I worked with in KR who reminded me of the poem 'Benediction' which is 'bad sauce' but poems like that and K-Pop stuff like Aespa or 'Lamborghini Angels' by Lupe fiasco is kind of 'advanced, ultramodern' religious contents.  I can't say more than that b/c those are real people and also part of my 'patrimony' or simply my experience as a man / human; specific responsibilities. One thing I really regret is in past I always tried to blow my family off with cheap gifts which was 'pozzed' b/c cheap gifts and fake gifts and twisted as opposed to linear gifts is part of what's wrong with all of Europe Germany Netherlands et cetera.  Like, 'I have a perfect idea- nah, let me f--- it up to personalize it or sth.'  Milwaukee's obsessed with ethnography like 'Wales has mining and its own language' but they never ethnographize German culture which is all about hiding your virtue and doing less than you can - 'be more than you seem.'  But why?  It's completely diametrically anti-biblical to hide your light.  Anyway criticizing the Church when 4 million people died and my own DNA (Dutch) just got an 800% spike in Delta infections might seem kind of idle / academic but lit-crit is sth I've been doing all my life.  Why wait? I keep thinking of 'Lincoln' lately which is not a great movie and Kushner says a lot of dumb stuff.  But the 'now now now' and 'millions unborn' is absolutely epic and it's what is going on right now all the time.  Today I got lost in Chicago while trying to report to the ROK Consul General literally to discuss matters fro mthe past as well as literally to tell them to evacuate Koreans from Milwaukee (most of the ones I knew in past are already gone).  Right now I wish I could make myself as little but perfect a box / chamber as possible in which to exist like a prison-cell just to I stop wrecking my own chances.  I also remembered a Sowon hyper-fanfic called 'My Brother's Type' about someone I knew who used to like these leggy lissome slightly remote types but decided to trash their own taste in women (nothing wrong with changing mind per se but) and deciding B-52's and gangster / clan / tribal conspiracy is better than being open and honest.  Ironically 'B-52' was a nickname given to Chairman Mao by I think [I forget]'s son since he had a huge stomach that dropped out all kinds of murderous ideas which again I can't see any other way but that's the origin of Covid.  I was thinking of all these snice things to say about my carpet-bombing-philc family but thta's pozzed too at this point I just need to get baptized and hopefully plenary indulgence(?) before  Iget flamethrowered in my containment-zone.  I remember this picture of a Vietnamese woman with a crashed B in the background; I read 'Fire Road' and 'Ru' with that boy named Pascal and I read 'Pensees' over and over and over again like, 'Finally my friend.'  if I live to be even 51 or 52 I really want to go back to Asia or even just K-Town LA; I miss all my friends; I hear them, Protestants don't need me, Milwaukee doesn't need me, I'm just a 'little flower' or something.   I remembered today the face of the person I most wanted ot marry and the day we went on this kind of 'communication session' with a chaperone(?); went home and started reading Proust feeling 'everlasting gratitude.'  Never finished Proust nearly.  I bought a Korean language version of 'The Remains of the Day' which was the other novel I read that year and remembered trying to interpret 'South of the Border West of the Sun' in terms of a geographic-anagogic sort of Dantean-Northrop-Fryian system that would turn the title in to 'Before the Beginning and After the End.'  Sitting in the meditation-garden of the Church of Peter and Paul and just thinking of sailed ships and corners turned but that too was years ago.  I don't even know how to work gas-station pumps anymore.  Remebering the last words of someone from a vanished era, the 1990s when we thought that every little people could have their own republic and now the passive resistance people in Myanmar etc. are all getting jailed by dictators.  Richard Holbrooke with his arterial dissection, 'I love so many people.'  Maybe I should just wait outside the local church gate all night; little kids from Syria in France and such are sleeping in parks.  IDK why I stopped letting myself be acted on b/c my typical 'seizure of agency, self-coup' modus operandi is to headbutt immoveable objects and feast the obese.  I should've been a Jesuit or Cistercian, love Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Honey and Salt.' I am only sad that HH.1 et al. talk so much about saints from like 500 years ago in this 'winter of peril' era.  Where is Francis Chan?   Llove Augustine who seems to be watching over the whole world right now, 'an intellectual giant,' hoping we will all remember Original Sin and the 'curse in hope' instead of thinking of C19 as somebody's technical error / lack of being a smart Democrat... I also liked 'Humana Vitae' to say the least; Koreans always talk about love of life and I realize death and evil and the Devil are things I should've taken more seriously in the past but... Anyway I also noticed how people are scrambling to conceptualize everything in terms of 'oxygenation' nowadays.  Concept of 'holiness' related to separateness but what can that mean if not integrity when we're all part of the metabolism of the Earth.  I'm saying too much now I always do too much or too little.  The future appears to be cereal-grains and the consciousness of chains. I ate some 'rice-salad' and remembered 'The Last of Hanako' just to hopefully teach myself once and for all that my mother's body is a graveyard of her best dreams b/c women in the end [cynical I-read-Nabokov] - 'Abolition of Woman' Gen-Alph; 'town bike.'   A few weeks ago I had the 'Stepfather' idea about reading the Episcopalian newspaper with Minju b/c Scripture says don't talk with daddy-daughter 'extend my love to the unfinished woman' ppl but I talked to them again and got R. Kelly'd.   I remember watching 'I Miss You' and almost breaking my hand (Minah looks like s1) but now I'm more trained.  

[sawamura-daichis-thighs]

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1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean? i wanted a Haikyuu!! themed username since i fell deep so here we are :3 in terms of my ao3 username, Miah_Kat, it’s a mashup of my nickname & a name for an old OC; i use some variation of it as a default whenever i make a new account somewhere bc i’m bad at thinking up usernames on the spot. ^^”

2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/subscriptions/hits/kudos). what if i told you...? is at the top with 734 hits & 133 kudos (!!!!! holy crow) on tumblr, Cafuné is the most popular with 46 notes :”D

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7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most? i don’t stray far from canon-compliant stuff but i find myself writing a lot of getting together, first kisses, or domestic fluff kind of stuff. If I’m going to go full-AU though I lean towards fantasy.

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9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!) mmm well i think every writer has some general fears of being judged, regardless of what’s written. for me, maybe smut since i just don’t write it often (& i’ve only ever posted one fic that has it)

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc. writing in general?? lol idk i’d like to be more...dedicated, i guess? i can’t seem to finish anything without it taking months. i also have a hard time with details, so i’d like to find a good middle-ground with that. oh, and world-building when writing fantasy (it’s just so much work aslkdjfk)

11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often? i write popular ships more often but i’m absolutely open to writing rarepairs! i know it can be disheartening to really love a ship but not be able to find much content for it, so i don’t mind getting rarepair requests. i like making people happy if i can :)

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15. Have you ever co-authored a story? kind of? back in high-school my best friend & i used to write stories together. it was all for fun though, nothing that ever made it to a site. i think it would be fun to do a collab with someone though! :D

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17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on AO3? HAH no way lmao  😂😂😂

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers? not really. i just think everyone who reads my stuff are wonderful, lovely people ^^

19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write? i’ve read basically my whole life and fanfiction led me to writing. there wasn’t a specific story or author though; just the realization that i could also put my own twist on characters/fandoms i enjoyed. i also have an amazing best friend who supported my passion when it first began, so she’s definitely a huge part of why i continued to write.

20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author? read. a lot. write, even when you don’t want to or think it sucks. as with any kind of art, experience and practice is the only way you’ll get better. be open to constructive-criticism but don’t let the “rules” overwhelm or suffocate your passion. most importantly: write what you like! what you want to read! have fun with it!

21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go? oh jeez, it’s a mixture of both? i usually start with a scene in my head that makes me go “i wanna write that” but then i have to find a way to get to the scene? so i either wing it, if the idea was clear enough, or i scribble down an outline to get my base ideas down but leave wiggle room for inspiration during the writing process.

22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do? i’m sure i have, back when i first started; i likely commented back that if it wasn’t their preference, there was no need to read the fic or leave a rude comment behind.

23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)  a c t i o n, definitely. i also get kind of stuck on kisses? idk how much detail to put into them lol

24. What story(s) are you working on now? even tho i’m slow af about it i’m currently working on 2 actively:

a makoharu gift exchange fic!

a klance fic with which i’m taking my first steps into writing for VLD (i’m jumping on the bandwagon where they’re somehow physically stuck together (via alien handcuffs in mine) for a time & grow closer as a result)

i’m always sorta-kinda working on my various iwaoi fics; the nipple-piercing fic is near completion & i’ve recently remembered my single dads au that i hope to work more on soon ^^

25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)? pffftt all the time. the ideas are definitely more forthcoming than the Muse & motivation like to be.

26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself? nope. i tried that for a while but it didn’t stick.

27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started? absolutely! although i sometimes have mixed feelings about it, concentrating in creative writing definitely helped me improve in many ways.

28. What is your favorite story that you’ve written? i don’t...really...have one? ^^” i guess i am particularly fond of with a hoarse voice, under the blankets just because i feel i managed to get the atmosphere & imagery i wanted

29. What is your least favorite story that you’ve written? anything from when i first began lol

30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years? hopefully still improving & enjoying what i write (as well as finishing what i start aslkdjfk). i’m not aiming for publication or anything; i just want to write for fun.

31. What is the easiest thing about writing? getting the ideas!

32. What is the hardest thing about writing? to quote En: “e v e r y t h i n g”

33. Why do you write? it’s fun! i enjoy making the ideas i have in my head come to fruition on paper. i like experimenting with styles and imagery & characters. i enjoy the happy dance my heart does when i know i’ve described a scene or a character just right. i’ve made a lot of amazing friends through writing & i love knowing something i’ve created might bring a smile to someone. ❤

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