#you're not really in this chapter but you're namedropped so

[datheetjoella]

You Make Everything Okay

Author: DatHeetJoella Fandom: Free! Pairing: MakoHaru Rating: M Summary: Unlike most people, Haruka wasn’t very eager to meet his soulmate. Half of the reason was his inexplicable infatuation with a stranger he saw on the train every morning, the other half was the words that were imprinted on his skin; the first words his soulmate would say to him. They were… ominous.

When Haruka’s absent-mindedness got him into trouble, he had to deal with the unforeseen - but not at all unpleasant - consequences. Or, how getting involved in a car accident became the best thing that ever happened to Haruka.

Word count: 6,871 (total: 112,302) Chapter: 17/32 Chapter summary: During the time they spend together, Haruka and Makoto grow closer and closer.

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Chapter 17: Snapshots

With every day that passed, Haruka got more and more used to living with Makoto. Walking to what used to be his parents’ room, waking Makoto up and having breakfast together was an easy, natural routine. After all the cups of tea and shared baths and conversations over the dinner table, the unfathomable concept that the mysterious boy on the train was his soulmate didn’t seem so unfathomable anymore.

Soon, Haruka could barely remember the time before they met; it was like he’d known Makoto all his life. Like he had always moaned his compliments about Haruka’s cooking and offered bites of his food to him as they wandered through the city. Always sat beside him on the couch for TV shows Haruka didn’t care about but watched nonetheless. Always washed Haruka’s back and dried his hair because Makoto knew he couldn’t be bothered to do it himself. Like he’d always been by his side, his very best friend.

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#i'm sorry i'm stupid #makoharu #makoharu fic #my fic #you make everything okay #happy birthday rin #you're not really in this chapter but you're namedropped so

[alicole-sideblog]

show!Criston is 70% Arys Oakheart by volume

Criston Cole's references in the series proper are:

AFFC, chapter 13, "The Soiled Knight" (Arys Oakheart)

AFFC, chapter 16, "Jaime II" (Jaime Lannister)

For ages I was just looking at the quotes in isolation on asearchoficeandfire.com. If you look at just the lines where they namedrop Criston, what stands out is that Arys judges Criston harshly, while Jaime has a more nuanced read on him.

However, I finally took the time to re-read the fuller context. What's glaringly obvious that the Arys chapter was undoubtedly the biggest inspiration for the direction the show took with the Criston and Rhaenyra thing.

Arys chapter summary: He meets with Princess Arianne, who he's having an affair with. He feels really guilty about the affair and tells her so, trying to end it. Arianne brushes that off. She tries to recruit him for her plot to make Myrcella queen; he says no; she's like, "You're being very Criston Cole right now." She talks about how her (actually quite indulgent) dad is being shitty and wants to disinherit her, and everyone's plotting against her, so she needs Arys on her side. He relents and agrees to the Myrcella plot.

Does this sound familiar, by chance?

I mean look at this — more than half this dialogue could be given to show!Rhaenyra and show!Criston verbatim!

Arys: It had been ten years since . . . I never touched a woman until you, not since I took the white. I never knew what love could be, yet now . . . I am afraid. Arianne: What would frighten my white knight? Arys: I fear for my honor, and for yours. Arianne: I can tend to my own honor. [...] You are not your white cloak, ser. Arys: I am. I am my cloak. And this must end, for your sake as well as mine. If we should be discovered . . . Arianne: Men will think you fortunate. Arys: Men will think me an oathbreaker. What if someone were to go to your father and tell him how I'd dishonored you? [...] Arianne: My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking. Tell me true, ser, is it my dishonor that concerns you, or your own? Arys: Both. That is why this must be our last time. [...] I swore a vow . . . Arianne: . . . not to wed or father children. Well, I have drunk my moon tea, and you know I cannot marry you. Though I might be persuaded to keep you for my paramour. Arys: Now you mock me.

They're doing a little irony: The one who kinda identifies with Criston (Jaime) is less like him, while the one who reviles him (Arys) is more like him.

#Criston Cole #Arys Oakheart

[prismanga]

buckle in kids, it's time for prismaeya reads one piece

much like jojo, i guess to read it online in full you have to go with the color version, so that's what i'll be doing.

let's go!

he didn't fucking say "one piece." i'm so fucking out

you know, for years i said i couldnt get into one piece because the art style made me batty, but this artwork is too cute. i can't tell if i was just being ignorant or i've grown endeared to it or what. it's hard to explain what i'm thinking here, but i have an admiration for art that feels very "to the point" and focuses on BIG details... I dunno. I dunno. More on that later probably.

me after any minor inconvenience tbh

you're already drinking in front of the tiny child so like, you know, fuck it

how old is luffy here, anyway?

this would happen to me.

learn how to swim, stupid!

hey man, i swore to be open minded to the art style so you gotta do it too.

i should probably have something better to say about the sequence of events following that, but all i wanna say is i like the guy in the black t-shirt, he looks like he accidentally turned up in the wrong manga.

so this is how they reveal it... lol

(today i learned スタスタ is onomatopoeia 'brisk walking'... i didn't know that)

first they didn't title namedrop, now i'm being forced to read the phrase "rubber rubber fruit"? come the fuck on

ok, i'm really derailing now, but why not translate the onomatopoeia if you clearly have room... "gamigamigami" is "nag nag nag"...

don't you hate when this happens?

i can't unsee tiny hand

oh man, we really in a shonen manga now!

i guess it's true what they say about redheads and pain tolerance.

LOOK, HE DID THE THING

the shonen manga is shonen manga-ing.........

one piece is fucking mickey mouse in japan so i'm inclined to agree

scrabble shirt

i wish i was that confident in my friend making ability that i was like "well, i'll find some friends soon"

good first chapter! :D i'm looking forward to more...

#prisma_piece #hopefully this tag is good enough #i dont want my blog to pop up and annoy people in the tags for this series LOL

[bonesandthebees]

I see you need nice messages about Glass so here are some of my favorite parts of the fic: Your writing of Rocketduo is so good, they are often ignored in sbi/crimeduo-fics so I love how you incorporate them in most of your stories. They’re done so well too, they have real personalities and aren’t just there for the sake of namedropping or random background characters. I especially like how they defend Wilbur in the most recent chapter, they’ve spent so much time with him and despite him being an asshole to them earlier they really could be considered his friends at this point.

The way you’re writing Charlie makes me laugh. You’ve given him the perfect amount of weird and unsettling mixed with competence. Yes, he will ask to see your teeth and ask if you’ll get him bones. No, he will not be bribed. Quackity is great as well. He’s only appeared once but he has this gravitas about him that I can’t describe. We don’t know much about his character, but he is willing to work with the terrorist group under his casino, and that says a lot about a man. I love TNTduo interactions, and you really nailed it. The Pythia’s Prophecy was so funny, and then it was so clever to have them get Wilbur’s fingerprints from it. No way I could have guessed that was the reason Tommy brought him up there.

And the hypocrisy from Wilbur and slow realization from the group of his trauma is so wonderfully written. The flashback’s from the recent chapter did so much for his character, they were such great additions. I can’t wait to see how this all plays out, especially with how the group seems split in two. Don’t listen to the people who don’t understand your story, you’re doing a great job and there are so many people who love your work. I hope you have a better rest of the day 😊

god this ask just made me smile so much I even told my mom about it because I'm sitting with her rn so tysm!!

I'm so glad you like how I write rocketduo. I LOVE c!rocketduo so much and their dynamic was part of what compelled me to even make an mcyt blog in the first place. i love niki and jack so much (cc's and c's both) and their c! dynamic is so underrated. I love including them whenever I can, especially because it gives a unique switch up from the usual sbi + beeduo mix you usually get in sbi fics. also I just adore both of them as individual characters, so I try to keep them as accurate to their characterization as possible (while of course altering them for the specific au) bc again, they're so underrated. I'm having a great time with them in glass and I have plans to highlight them more as the story goes on!

charlie!! I have so much fun writing him. sometimes I worry I'm writing him too weirdly, but then I think about it and i'm like no... charlie slimecicle would want me to write him like this dsklfjdk. but I'm trying not to fall into the stereotype of infantilizing him either bc it definitely bugs me when people do that in fics. he's a really interesting and wacky character and I love just seeing what wild shit I can make him say. he's a great breath of comedic relief in glass for sure.

quackity my beloved. I love writing quackity so much you have no idea, especially his interactions with wilbur. c!tntduo is one of the best character dynamics on the server (besides c!crime of course) so I have a great time spotlighting them whenever I can, and I love how I've written him in glass so far. I'm really excited to show more of him as the fic goes on :D he's definitely an interesting character to show glimpses of

the pythia's prophecy was something i came up with off the top of my head and i was so proud of it lmao

the flashbacks in the most recent chapter were actually eli birdfeet's suggestions so shoutout to them for that! they gave me the idea in our dms and i was like holy shit you're a genius and i'm thrilled with how it turned out. the way things develop from here is definitely going to be very interesting :)

tysm for this again I'm already having a better day thanks to all of you guys pouring in with your kind words <33

#ask #weatheredwaxwings #through a glass divine

[ihassheepquake]

DC's Stargirl 3.05 "Chapter Five: The Theif" has aired on the CW and I'm here to talk about it.

I'm really not a fan of these random one or two week skips that the CW likes to throw into their shows. I refuse to believe there's a reason for it.

Flashback to the night of the Gambler murder!! We know he was killed by a stab wound, yeah? Rick & Yolanda think it was Cindy because stabbing bitches is kind of her thing. However, I want to draw your attention to the fact that her blade is clean. Completely spotless. It's literally shining. If she had just killed Gambler with it, then it'd have blood and shit on it. I think it's another reference to her being framed. I am confused as to why she picked up his gun though. That's an odd choice. This does also show us that the story she told the others was actually a lie, just not in the way they think it was.

Will this fandom let me joke about not wanting to see Camney kisses because ew, straight people, or not? Because, ew, straight people.

Good for Courtney finding a work/life balance?

I'm conflicted on whether or not Courtney should tell Pat that Cameron has started developing his powers. On the one hand, it's a) a huge breach of Cameron's trust/invasion of his privacy (and he hasn't done anything wrong or been dangerous enough to possibly forego having a secret ID yet), b) it would almost certainly expose Courtney's secret to him (and thus her involvement in his dad's death) and c) with Sylvester around, dude might try to kill Cameron. On the other hand, a) Pat has no inherent ill will toward the kids of former villains (or their families in general based on the good [if brief] relationship he had with Denise Zarick) the way Sylvester does, and b) Pat would likely be a valuable resource in terms of actually being able to teach Cameron how to use his powers. It's a tricky situation.

Cindy using the Gambler's own tech to hack his laptop? Iconic.

Sylvester really has some shit he needs to work through. This shit is not acceptable behaviour for someone who's supposed to be a hero. At least he can admit it. But seriously dude, go to therapy.

Dr. Fate and Wotan namedrop, aye. And the Crimson Avenger. Now that one I feel is a bit more of a deep cut.

Mike and Jakeem's subplot is fun. And fuck yeah Cindy, fuck these bullies up!

I'm sorry, did the Staff just use wind powers??

Paula looking so pleased with herself after "we tangled them off of tall buildings to get answers" only to immediately take it back when Barbara gives her a "girl wtf" look is genuinely so fucking cute.

"He's basically a nice guy" ajkshadkhas.

It really sounds like Mike and Jakeem are really awkwardly and badly trying to flirt with Cindy and it's amazing.

Rick's a little mean. And it's kind of attractive.

Cindy struck a nerve with the whole "all our dads suck" thing. But like, she's right. And Courtney's right about how it's now fair to judge Cameron because of his dad. And it is kinda true about Cindy too, but also Cindy was actively a villain so like, eh.

Was Beth's scene with her parents super emotional? Yes. And I could talk about it, but what I actually wanna talk about is why the fuck do all these kids have such massive bedrooms?? You're in high school, your bedroom doesn't need to be the size of a New York apartment.

Rick having his super strength 24/7? So hot.

Okay, I'll admit. It is really sweet that Courtney is trying to help Cameron find something other than this whole hero/villain thing to do with his powers. I said it last time and I'll say it again, I think it'd be a really interesting and unique choice to have forego either and become an artist with his powers or something.

And Yolanda has found the laptop. Excited to see that fight.

Looks like next week is going to have a showdown between Courtney and the rest of the JSA. And I think I'm gonna have to be with Courtney on this one. The episode title is concerning though. We'll just have to see what happens next week on DC's Stargirl 3.06 "Chapter Six: The Betrayal".

#stargirl cw #stargirl (dctv) #courtney whitmore #yolanda montez #rick tyler #beth chapel #cindy burman #pat dugan #barbara whitmore #mike dugan #jakeem williams #sylvester pemberton #lawrence crock #paula brooks #stargirl #wildcat #hourman #dr midnite #shiv #s.t.r.i.p.e. #jakeem thunder #starman #sportsmaster #tigress #sheep talks superheroes

[silenthillmutual]

What's the fic 👀

ugh. i'm not going to namedrop the fic on anon. but i can tell you some gripes i had with it that lead to me not liking it:

the characters mention the central twist of the game in conversation, which i think is a fascinating angle to take a fic in. unfortunately they just bring it up the once and it is literally never addressed again despite this fic including character death as a major aspect of it. and i would think that knowing that none of this is real and you're dolls in a sandbox would change how you view things like death.

the characters have anal sex without lube. okay, not all that strange for a fanfic, except that immediately after the sex scene one of them mentions having lube with them. so what was the fucking point of them having sex without lube? either don't bring up the lube or edit your sex scene so they use it. that's just fucking asinine.

not sure if this kickstarted the herb bride!daniil thing or not, but considering its age it probably contributed to its popularity and there are, you know, issues with taking a sacred indigenous role and plopping it onto the (racist) white dude love interest. not to mention that's not how the role of herb bride works in canon and several people just outright get this wrong in their fics.

speaking of things breaking canon: it breaks the extremely well-established and explicitly stated canon that the polyhedron does not work on adults. which, even if i'd liked the fic, would have completely ruined it for me. i don't expect everyone to have every detail of the game memorized and there are going to be times when people forget bits and pieces of canon or ignore them because they don't like them, but the happy ending hinged on something that is, like, central to daniil's route.

there's a recap chapter.

i didn't think the characterization was all that good. it was another one of those fics where artemy just seems to kind of exist to be daniil's love interest, despite the story predominantly being (from what i can remember, and granted it has been about a year since i read it) from his perspective. this is a problem with a lot of fic, people are just sort of fascinated with daniil and seem to decide to use artemy as a lens through which to view him. but i've read fic more recently which is a, much more up front about doing this and b, still gives artemy his own characterization through which he interacts with daniil (and others). but there's a point in this fic where artemy is getting ready to destroy the entire town just to keep daniil alive. which is just such a disservice to his character, imo, especially if you're not even going to bring up the fact that artemy's ending was about saving the town. and i didn't really feel a connection or relationship between the two that the author clearly wanted us to feel.

there's also a weird thing toward the end of the fic where artemy hatemarries a character for no apparent reason and has a kid with her and he hates this kid but also this kid reminds him of daniil? it's just. bizarre.

my problem overall with this fic isn't necessarily that it's not good. i wasn't nearly as impressed with it as everyone else seems to be. some of the prose here and there was nice, but overall it was just kind of mediocre. my problem is that people treat this fic like the notre dame of the fanbase, giving it a level of reverence it doesn't deserve. and then this adoration of this fic bleeds into how people treat both source material and fanon. which is why i am just begging people to read better fanfic. like we have obt and alaiw and more recently this fic are all much better than what i just described. like i'm not going to say i 100% agree with everything every author of every fic i rec writes, but they're just. much more enjoyable imo.

anyway rant over lol. this message will self-destruct in the morning<3

#harker.txt

[danwhobrowses]

One Piece Chapter 1045 - Initial Thoughts

It's time to get crazy, because we've hit a new gear

Luffy is back in the fight so now silliness can ensue

As I said, it's time to get crazy

Spoilers for the Chapter, Please also Support the Official Release

A colorspread this time for the cover, it was nice but not a coloration of Gear Fifth like I expected, just the crew riding on a bus that exists in real life for the 25th anniversary

So we start off the chapter with verifying that both Luffy and Kaido expected Luffy to be dead, but also that Luffy has awakened his fruit

Also noticing that the Skull Dome has an eye scar like Zoro's...

Kaido though being a zoan himself does notice how Luffy's awakening is outside the norm

Luffy don't care though he bouncing

So Kaido ups and eats him again! Bad move though, now Luffy's beating him from the inside

And he went into a balloon in Kaido's belly, but also his Awakening is letting his balloon float

Yamato and Momo - having abandoned their post and checking on the fight - are dumbfounded about what's happening

As is Kaido, he can't understand why his body is now playing by Luffy's rules

GOD NO. Luffy punched Kaido from behind his eyes! And even grabbed his snout on the other side! Wrong kind of chills that Luffy, that shit was creepy

But it did force Kaido to spit him out, and then he shoots up in the clouds

AND COMES BACK AS A FULL GIANT

It's all baffling to see guys I know, but Momo you're meant to be keeping this island from hovering over the Flower Capital!

Kaido bites the neck, so Luffy decides to use Kaido, the World's Strongest Creature, as a Jump Rope

Before he can slam Kaido on the floor though, he unleashes a Point-Blank Blast Breath

Blackened by Ash and his hair frizzed by the attack, Luffy starts looking mad, and proceeds to Scooby Doo run back towards Onigashima!

Kaido's back in hybrid form though, scouting Luffy's charge and smacking him with a Ragnaraku, the impact sends Luffy's face through the floor, eye popping and all

The sight of a giant Luffy head is making everyone's eyes pop out too; Nami, Tama, Chopper, even Kid and Law!

Even Kaido can see this is getting really Looney

Returned to normal size, Kaido continues to note that Luffy's hit his limit, just as Luffy refutes though the drums fade and Luffy returns to normal, and then droops

Kaido's dropped to his knees too though, his bravado is mostly what's keeping him up

As expected, Awakening still has its limits, and Luffy feels like he's on death's door (lucky we got 3 Doctors below huh?)

Kaido tries to commend Luffy into accepting defeat, but Luffy don't care about that

That's a Brook level joke that is Luffy

Yamato and Momo continue to confirm that Luffy is indeed present, but his voice is fading again. Also they say his hair and clothes went white so that's our colour scheme it seems, I imagine it's white like sunlight

Luffy ain't quitting though, calling on the names of Momo, Tama and Kin'emon

A single panel to invoke Pedro as well though! Did not expect a Pedro namedrop but happy to see it, Luffy still seeks to make his sacrifice worthwhile

Kaido tries to note that he'll fight himself to death, but Luffy has the killer clap back "After all of this, do you really think something like death can scare me?"

Luffy seems to be able to trigger Gear Fifth again, probably thinking it's a Heart Balloon kind of method

But he eats a strike on the back of the head that turns him into Junkrat from Overwatch XD

With his face still imprinted Luffy runs, only to be squished by another attack

Compressed into an Accordion shape, Luffy uses the surroundings to rebound the impact for some distance, then after a countdown rockets back in his normal shape

Attacking like a twister, Kaido continues to wonder about Luffy's power, how he uses Armament and Conqueror's Coating but fights with versatility, all while he voices that he can't be beaten; head and voice seem to have contrasting confidence

What the...Luffy just punched THROUGH KAIDO'S HEAD

THROUGH HIS HEAD

THROUGH

HIS

HEAD

And Kaido's still alive, because rubberhose, his face is caved in mind you and he's pulling the Wano Derp Face but like...he punched through his head! Sometime after punching through his eyes!

Knocked down, Luffy looks like he's still ready to kick more ass

Oh yeah we can definitely stretch this till 1050 I think.

This chapter was full blown fighting to see how Luffy adjusts to his newfound power, basically being the Mask from the Jim Carrey film (which has Looney Tunes aesthetic too). Oda really wants to sell the versatility, but he's also lowkey selling that Kaido still has the physical advantage, he's tanked a lot of Luffy's attacks after all and he's only in his sober hybrid form.

One must expect Kaido to get drunk and/or Awaken his fruit as well, so I could easily see this fight lasting 5 more chapters.

I do of course worry that Momo is abandoning his post, this may play into Luffy doing something to stop Onigashima from falling though, or some other characters. We may end up getting some stuff regarding all the side characters again in between the fight now that morale is back up but puzzled, since it's clear Luffy is still alive.

We do have to worry about Luffy though in the aftermath, we saw a hint of it with him losing his rhythm, he would literally fight till he drops, might need the King of Hell to put in a good word for him.

But no break means we can keep the hype train going, it's not 'That's all Folks' yet.

#one piece #one piece spoilers #op spoilers #wano arc #one piece wano #wano #wano country arc #onigashima raid #straw hat pirates #animal kingdom pirates #beasts pirates #onigashima #monkey d. luffy #gear fifth #kaido one piece #hundred beast kaido #straw hat luffy #kozuki momonosuke #yamato one piece

[tessabennet]

Congratulations on 400K!!! Wow! I am greatly enjoying p2 of TCW! For the fic ask: 💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work? Or, in case you can't answer that because it would spoil things:💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

Oh thank you so much, that's very kind of you! I'm glad you're enjoying the story, and I'm so excited I get to share it 🥰🥰

💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

So this shouldn't be too spoiler-y, and it's still a while before it comes up in the story anyway, so here we go: I totally think that once Steve adapts a little more to the 21st century, he really likes punk rock. Why? Because it's angry and political and basically his pre-serum self in music. So yeah, that's maybe a little dumb, but there you go 😅

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

Yes, definitely. I spend a lot of time on google maps and street view to research the settings (I think I've got most of Brooklyn memorized), and I do thorough research for all the references I bring in to make sure it's as historically accurate as it can be. I really like learning stuff, so it's less trouble than it sounds. For example, I read up quite a bit on WW2 operations for the chapters I'm posting atm.

The deepest I've gone is either learning Russian for this (it's not just because of the fic, I wanted to learn a new language anyway; it just kinda tipped the scales I guess) or the time I used my institutional acceess to get a jstor article on cryostasis research, just to namedrop two scientist 🤦‍♀️

Thanks again for asking!! Please ask me more questions 💜

[rhinozilla]

Hey so, one thing I really love about your work is that you seem to have an excellent grasp on pacing. And I've been wondering, like... when you're planning out a long story like Camaraderie, and you have a vision of where certain character relationships or story arcs are going to ultimately end up, how do you decide when and where to drop each new event that brings us closer to that conclusion, and how MUCH closer it should get?

Hey, thanks so much! Slightly convoluted answer below.

I confess I don’t really have a refined method for pacing; I’m just a slut for slow burns. When I was first starting to write Camaraderie (and Detroit 07 series in general), I had several loose ideas on where certain character developments or relationships could go. I only had a few concrete things that I was for sure going to do (Hank “adopting” Connor, Penny being Hank’s ex-wife and Connor’s creator, Person and Connor being BFFs). Since the nature of Camaraderie is that it is a prompt-based work, I let the prompts sort of guide where the story went and which of those loose ideas made the cut for about the first half, before the plot grew teeth of its own.

My general approach to pacing is to write Something Big about every ten or so chapters, something that changes the paradigm of the story, a milestone of some kind. In more compact, more structured fics, I usually go with every three or five chapters. 

Like Camaraderie, chapter 10, Ogden and her operation are first referenced. Chapter 21 deals with Hank and Connor adjusting to their relationship dynamic and the baggage that each of them has about what ‘family’ means, while also namedropping Ogden. Chapters 28-29 handles Connor facing his trauma from Cyberlife, finding solace and, ahem, camaraderie, among the human squad and android squad. Chapter 43 introduces Coda and formally brings Ogden into the fic as an acting character. Chapters 50-51, Hank asks Connor to be part of his family as an Anderson. Chapter 60 introduces Grace, also introducing the idea of Connor having a love interest. Chapter 70, Connor meets Penny for the first time. Chapters 81-82, Connor rescues Julia from the 03 and realizes her feelings for him and discovering his feelings for her have been growing along the way. Chapter 91, Ogden’s true identity is revealed, kicking off a series of events leading up to the finale.

This fic in particular has a lot of independently moving subplots, so I try to rotate which subplot gets the Something Big each time. That way they all get their share of big steps forward, hopefully leading to a cohesive and coherent conclusion that’s satisfying to read. Because I, and I think readers too, want to hurry up and get to the good stuff, I force myself to slow down and let the Big Things earn their moment. So…more tangential subplots. Person and Clary’s will-they-won’t-they, Gavin and Hannah, Polly and Ember, the android reassignment program in the DPD, Bonny chapters: I use them shamelessly and liberally to flesh out the universe, hopefully without feeling like filler, and try to add one element each chapter (even just a small piece) that advances the general direction of the fic.

Like, with Connor and Julia’s relationship. I knew from the get-go that she was going to have a big ol’ crush on him, one that was obvious to everybody but Connor, but I honestly didn’t know if they were going to end up together or not. I planted seeds, not quite knowing what they were going to grow into. I just knew that they were going to be close, and either Julia’s feelings would be unrequited, and they would move past it and grow into a strong friendship, or Connor was going to also catch feelings and fall for her in turn. For the pacing of it, I tried to add one thing in each of their scenes together that would contribute to that growth. A line of dialogue or a small gesture, just to reinforce the casualness of them being around each other all day. Since these were just seeds, I used reader feedback to gauge what it would grow into…then I caught feelings for the ship myself, and then it was over. 

I’m sorry if this is completely unhelpful. My style of writing is very much in the spirit of constantly throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks XD