unabridged and overwhelmed

Fanfic Writeblr 30s; She/Her; Romanian; Worldbuilding Enthusiast; Occasionally Witty; English Literature Major

[azusawrites]

history

A little fanfiction writblr blog that came about due to my desire to have things more organized! I've been writing seriously for about a year now and realized that it would be much more fruitful to have a place for just that where I can post excerpts, meta, headcanons and all that!

introduction

Hello! I go by Azusa in fandom spaces such as this! I'm an adult (26 years old) and amateur writer from Romania who is very excited and passionate about literature and writing! I'm pretty reserved and do suffer from social anxiety, so my updates tend to be very sporadic in general but I'll try my best to be consistent!

English is my second language, thus I apologize in advance for any mistakes I might make!

I'd love to make more writing buddies to discuss writing and such things!

what you can expect from this blog

🌼 excerpts from my wips

🌼 updates on stuff I'm working on

🌼 aesthetics pertaining to wips or characters

🌼 meta and headcanons

🌼 writing references

🌼 writing encouragement

🌼 behind the scenes commentary

🌼 occasional writing raffles

warnings

🔞 This blog deals with both OC and canon content.

🔞 This blog deals with NSFW content and dark topics as well. If you are not comfortable or not of the appropriate age to engage with such topics, please refrain from doing so. Everything will be tagged so you can block or blacklist the content you are not interested in seeing.

fandoms

🍀 Disney: Twisted Wonderland (current main)

🍀 Obey Me! Shall We Date

🍀 Kemono Jihen

🍀 Genshin Impact

🍀 Bungou Stray Dogs

🍀 Senjuushi: The Thousand Noble Musketeers

🍀 Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

🍀 Ao no Exorcist

🍀 Tokyo Revengers

other links

🌸 Generally, most things that I post belongs to the little worldbuilding corner that I make for myself and thus is tightly connected with previous posts. If you're curious to check out my longest-running projects yet please go to @girl-in-the-tower and @walpurga-nacht-academy!

🌸 My AO3 is straybluebird. It's where I post my wips and finished projects!

🌸 I can also be found on Wattpad at Gamayunee, but I'm pretty behind on updates there.

taglist

If you'd like to be on the taglist for any of the fandoms above send me an ask!

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Ghost of the theater

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Nguyen, from “Nguyễn”, Not Here

[b5ffy]

Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert / Elektra by Sophocles (trans. by Anne Carlson) / Avatar: The Last Airbender / Closet Space by K-Ming Chang / Class of 2013 by Mitski / Evening Prayers by Dean Pitchford / Lady Bird dir. Greta Gerwig

[sweetcomrade]

black horror: gothic romance - “something terrible haunts this house.”

[war-pine]

clothing study ft azula

[filmnoirsbian]

I feel bad for being a hater sometimes like I'll read an interview and some actor or director will talk about all the care and love they put into their work and how much it meant to them and I'm always like oh king that's so lovely 🥺 the movie does still suck though like it is still bad

[the-writers-bookshelf]

“What you read is as important as what you write.”

— Margaret Atwood (via writingdotcoffee)

[fyblackwomenart]

Tschiskale  

[madcat-world]

Forgiveness - Tomislav Jagnjic

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re the town’s superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town’s supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn’t anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor.

[loserfreakweirdo]

finally, a realistic sibling relationship in the media

[nanshe-of-nina]

WOMEN’S HISTORY † MATHILDE DE FLANDRE (c. 1031 – 2 November 1083)

Mathilde de Flandre was the only daughter of Baudouin V, comte de Flandre and Adèle de France. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of Robert II de France and Constança d'Arle. Through her father, on the other hand, she was a descendant of Alfred the Great, the founder of the Wessex kings of England.

The most frequently told tale of her courtship with Williame de Normandie goes that he requested her hand in marriage, but she refused because he was a bastard. By one account, Williame traveled to Flandre and dragged Mathilde off her horse while she was on her way to church. In another, he went to her father’s home and slapped across the face and then left. Regardless of what version was told, they always ended with Mathilde agreeing to marry Williame despite a papal ban on the grounds of consanguinity.

Despite the inauspicious start, Williame proved himself to be an unusually devoted husband for the time: he apparently never took a mistress and had no illegitimate children. She was crowned queen at Westminster Abbey in 1068. Williame and Mathilde had nine or ten children: four sons and at least five daughters.

Two of her sons later became kings of England. Through her daughter, Adèle de Blois, she was the grandmother of Stephen I of England.

[detailedart]

The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders (now northern France)”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.

[qlala]

tolstoy saying in an 1873 letter that he’d be done with anna karenina “in fifteen days, if god grants me life” and then taking another four years to finish writing it is both hilarious and deeply relatable

[indigodreams]

Winter Beech Whisperer - David Wyatt

[sillychaotic]

ego of a god

[saccharinescorpion]

i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you

[silvormoon]

I started reading The Tale of Genji during the pandemic, figuring I might as well improve my mind during lockdown. It’s considered the oldest novel on record, possibly the first one ever written. Early in the book, there’s an incident where the main character has a crush on a girl, so he tries to sneak into her family’s property to get close to her, and along the way he runs into this ancient old grandma who can’t half see and who mistakes him for one of her grandkids. So she’s standing there going on and on about her digestive difficulties and whatever, and he can’t speak up because if she hears his voice she’ll know he’s not who she thinks he is, so he’s just having to stand there and nod and hope she’ll go away soon. And I’m reading all this and thinking that with a couple of adjustments this could be a modern day sitcom, and it made me happy to think that a thousand years ago someone was laughing at the same sort of stuff we laugh at today.

[roach-works]

i read dickens’ great expectations in little fifteen minute installments on my breaks at work, sitting there dirty and tired and sweaty in a hot factory, and it made me think about how a hundred and sixty years ago there were probably tired guys in hot factories reading the story the exact same way, bit by bit, at their stupid jobs they couldn’t afford to quit and were damn lucky even to have, and they too were glad to read the next chapter of mr dicken’s latest weird little story about weird little people

[kaen-ace-of-diamonds]

in reading War and Peace I’ve discovered that “doing math homework at the dining room table with your angry dad” has been a common terror since the 1800s

[fipindustries]

i remember reading tom sawyer, specially the part where he gets chastized erroneusly for dropping the sugar and he just spends minutes sitting in silence sulking and fantasizing about how sad everyone would be if he died and reveling in the self pity of how lonely and misunderstood he is and as a teenager who did exactly that with my 14 years of age i was shocked that an adult in the 1800’s had managed to capture that so well

[valarhalla]

Remember all those memes about “what if we just pretend 2016/2020/etc never happened and never mention it again”? In 2004 BC, a refugee from Ur looked back on the past year and wrote: "May this year not be placed in the reckoning of years! May its number be taken down from its peg in Enlil’s temple, and may its name be unspoken, to far off days, to other days, and to the end of time.“

There’s another heartbreaking one from the same period in which a woman mourning her son’s murder specifically grieves for “my son who will never bring wedding gifts to his father-in-law’s house, my son who will never bounce a child on his knees.”

And some time between 2200 and 1900 BCE, a refugee from the destroyed city of Isin (now in South-Central Iraq) wrote this:

“This is my house, where good food is not eaten (not anymore). This is my house, where good drink is not drunk (not anymore). My house, where good seats are not sat in (not anymore) My house, where good beds are not laid in (not anymore)… My house, where no happy husband dwells with me, My house, where no sweet child dwells with me. My house, through whose doors, I, though jts mistress, never grandly pass- Never grandly pass, the doors of this house, In which I dwell no more. I- let me go into my old house, let me go in, Let me lie down, let me lie down! Let me go into my storehouse, oh let me in Let me lie down, let me lie down there, I- Let me lie down to sleep in my own house, It was sweet sleep I had there. Let me lie down in my house, let me lie down there in my bed, It was a good bed. I- Let me sit down on my own chair- It was a good chair.”