arinwritesstuff on ao3

Arin/AJ, He/They, 22 Tumblr for my fics and ao3 I also post random AU ideas sometimes Comms open (check my pinned post) Check the Eirene Haven tag for my OCs!!! Ask me anything about my fics here!!!

[arinwritesstuff]

Hi! I’m Arin/AJ. I’m using this blog to make updates on my ao3 WIPs and answer questions about my fics^^

You can find my ao3 here

Commission information

Twitter

Carrd

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[rimonoroni2]

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

[sirgnomethegiant]

The true AO3 experience is trying to remember a very specific fic you read some time between 2013 and 2019 but you can only remember two of the characters, a vague idea of the plot outside of one specific scene, and you have no clue what the tags could have been.

[arinwritesstuff]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/4 Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime), The Young Elites Series - Marie Lu Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Chinen Miya/Kyan Koyomi, Kyan Koyomi & Kyan Reki, Chinen Miya & Hasegawa Langa & Kyan Koyomi & Kyan Reki, Chinen Miya & Hasegawa Langa & Kyan Koyomi & Kyan Reki & Higa Hiromi | Shadow & Nanjo Kojiro | Joe & Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom Characters: Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Hasegawa Langa, Kyan Reki, Kyan Koyomi, Chinen Miya, Higa Hiromi | Shadow, Oka Shokichi, Raffaele Laurent Bessette, Enzo Valenciano, Adelina Amouteru Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Dystopia, The gang are robin hood thieves, be gay do crime, Plague, Malfettos (The Young Elites by Marie Lu), Magic, Established Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Established Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Pining Chinen Miya/Kyan Koyomi, Poverty, corrupt government, POV Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Past Sex Worker Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Murder, Blood, Trauma, Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom Needs A Hug, Soft Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Soft Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Protective Kyan Reki, Caring Hasegawa Langa, Good Sibling Kyan Koyomi, Everyone Needs A Hug, Chinen Miya Being a Little Shit, Good Friend Higa Hiromi | Shadow, Fictional Religion & Theology, Fantasy discrimination, eat the rich, Dead Hasegawa Nanako, Dead Kyan Masae, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse Summary:

Kaoru’s first reaction is to scoff. The whole idea is absolutely ludicrous. It’s just asking for trouble, stealing from wealthy people in power. No one in their right mind would be foolish enough to take the risk.

But then he remembers the streets. The hunger. How much he and Kojiro had to do to get stability. How much they have to hide to maintain it. How many other people have to live the same way? How many others are starving? Hurting? Angry?

It’s a tempting thought.

It’s a dangerous thought.

-or-

Tired of hiding, starving, and living in fear, seven with gifts given from the Gods themselves decide to leave the shadows with one goal. To make those in power pay up for all the pain and suffering they’ve caused.

(Based on/mildly crossed over with The Young Elites by Marie Lu. Reading the trilogy is not required for this AU to make sense)

[raining-stars-somewhere-else-de]

love writing. writing is awesome. it’s a shame that it involves writing though

[midnights-dragon]

[chimaerakitten]

idk if this is controversial or not, but I really like when non-professional writing like fic has hints of author bleedthrough when it comes to like, what different people assume is common knowledge. Like sometimes I’ll be reading a fic and it’ll just be obvious that the person writing it is either obsessed with medicine or has been to medical school, because they’ll use terms that are just a shade too technical without explaining them. It’s never the super specific stuff that they’d know other people are unaware of, it’s always the things that once you’ve known it for a while you forget it’s niche knowledge. It’s fun because as a fanfic reader it reminds me of how this is a fun hobby community, where everyone has their own thing going on outside of fandom. Everyone’s got their own specialties and they can’t help but write that into their work sometimes

[chimaerakitten]

…well this post sure took off

[bamsara]

new ask game; what do you think my hobby, skillset or knowledge or any other details of me based off my writing

[edgar-allan-possum]

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

Your comments mean something even when the author never replies.

Sometimes your comments mean something especially when the author never replies.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

exactly this

[singlecrow]

wow. yeah. look, it's been a while. I've been getting maybe a couple of AO3 comments a week for my entire adult life. Almost twenty years. I am not the best at replying to them now because it's been almost twenty years! But I love and cherish every one.

[gaywill-deactivated20260129]

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

[intoapuddle]

[luna-azzurra]

Tips on Writing Breakup Scenes

✦ People don’t always cry. shocking, I know. sometimes someone just sits there like a polite zombie, nodding and saying “okay” while their soul quietly packs a bag and moves out the back of their skull. They might want to cry, but also they might just go numb and stare at the salt shaker for ten minutes. Both are valid guys.

✦ Most breakups aren’t a single moment, they’re a slow unraveling that ends in a conversation, so even if your character feels blindsided, it should still carry that surreal “I should’ve seen this coming” haze. Because breakups rarely just drop out of the sky.

✦ The dumbest details stick, like seriously, no one remembers the whole speech, but they’ll remember the scratchy napkin, the weird buzz of a light, that their ex had mustard on their cheek and didn’t notice.

✦ You can always feel a breakup coming. no one says “we need to talk” out of nowhere, because people act different right before. overly nice. extra distant. weirdly cold or weirdly warm. characters should notice that, even if they can’t quite name what it is yet.

✦ Sometimes people still love each other. like, actually still love each other. it’s not always about the love being gone, no. It can be timing, fear, baggage, a hundred other things that get in the way. let your characters say “I love you” and still not stay. It hurts and it’s real.

✦ Closure? lol. most people don’t get it. a lot of breakups end with “wait, that’s it?” or a message that never gets sent or that one thing you almost said but didn’t. There’s rarely a satisfying ending.

✦ No one speaks in perfect sentences mid-breakup. people ramble. they say sorry three times and mean something different every time. Someone’s trying to keep it light. someone else is cracking. sentences trail off. someone forgets how to use words entirely.

✦ After it’s over, people don’t always sob into a pint of ice cream. Some people shut down, some go out and party, some clean their entire room, rewatch a comfort show, or post a spicy selfie with “new era” energy. Everyone breaks differently, so let your characters be weird about it.

✦ And if your character is the one doing the breaking up, let them feel complicated... just because they’re ending it doesn’t mean it’s easy. They might feel guilty and relieved, or they might cry after. Maybe they might mourn the version of the relationship that only existed in their head.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[arinwritesstuff]

Hey guys! Fic update coming in a day or two (maybe even before I go to bed if I can’t fall asleep), I promise. I’m going through it right now. I’ll give more details in the end note.

[kjscottwrites]

[consolecadet]

These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.

[smol-civet]

prev, i'm sure you mean my guy Leonid Pasternak

[xxxball-fondlerxxx]

why does he have the exact same vibe as Ben Affleck Smoking

[frodothefair]

[writingdose]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

can’t even joke about wishing my fics could write themselves without people mistaking it for ai usage anymore. what a lost whimsy

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]