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🎨 | (kee • rye) | she | 20 | writer | 🇵🇭

[cheshirekatseye]

caved and made a tumblr account !!! (and by that i mean someone once, though very kindly, asked me to). but i don’t really know how to use or navigate this app, so you can hop on the struggle bus with me 🫩🫠

i write all things katseye & you can find me here on ao3 <3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[cheshirekatseye]

MORE FIC SNIPPETS PLEASE i’m starving these are tewww good 🙏🙏

ty anon !!! i got you. here are some bits and pieces from another art school au one-shot i was writing (and desperately need to finish) with a sophia pov (in which she tries to save the drama department by producing the show of a lifetime). featuring eldest daughter/fixer-upper syndrome, domestic sodani, & yoonara coffee kiosk chaos (try saying that five times fast)

Dani stumbles from the bedroom into the kitchen, hair-tie between her lips, trying to toss her thick curls into a bun while putting on her boots. “Shit. We’re late, aren’t we? Sorry. I—”

“—Nope. Exactly on time, actually,” Sophia says simply, pointing at the whiteboard calendar on their fridge. “I tweaked your alarm. It’s only eight. Your first class isn’t until ten, and mine is half an hour after.”

“Then why did you—”

“—Last night, you told me you wanted to get in an early stretch session before the studio got too crowded.”

“Oh. Yeah. Right, right. Sorry. I swear to God I woke up with my head on sideways. I’ll—”

“—Dani. Stop apologizing. It’s okay, I get it.” Sophia smiles, placing a paper towel-wrapped bagel in Dani’s hands. “We’ll pick up some coffee at the kiosk. My treat.”

“Ugh, angel. You’ve got wings, baby.”

“Are you seriously quoting Gilmore Girls at me right now?”

“Hey, you’re the one who leaves the reruns on.”

Sophia smiles again, eyes flickering toward the sunlight filtering through the empty champagne bottles on the windowsill. “It’s such a beautiful day, isn’t it?”

She’s half-expecting Dani to snort and mutter, “Yeah, whatever, weirdo.” But Dani just swipes her keys off the counter, hooks a free arm through Sophia’s, and says, “Sos más hermosa que el día, mi amor.”

———

Behind the coffee kiosk, rag over her shoulder, Lara is saying, “Remind me again why we decided to start doing morning shifts.”

“You wanted to make extra cash,” Yoonchae replies, tying her apron, “but you didn’t want to make it alone.”

“Okay, so, like—basically, I fucking sowed this shit and now I got to fucking reap it.” Lara sighs, rubbing her eyes. “Got it. Thanks for volunteering, tribute.”

“I did not volunteer. You told me—”

Sophia interjects by doing the Hunger Games whistle and salute, stopping Yoonchae from defending herself, and offers a sing-songy morning greeting.

“Well, someone woke up on the right side of the bed,” Lara says.

“That makes one of us,” Dani grumbles.

Lara smiles, amused. “How can you possibly have this much pep in your step at this hour?”

“It’s a new day,” Sophia declares. “Last week sucked, but it’s time to turn it around.”

“Amen, sister-friend. What can we get you two?”

“Iced coffee,” Dani says. “Black as Sophia’s soul.”

“So, with milk and lots of sugar.”

“Precisely.”

“Great. And you, sunshine?”

“Same,” Sophia says. “But hot.”

“Hot,” Yoonchae echoes, neck craning slightly to the left, brows knitting with what appears to be genuine concern. Or confusion. Or both, maybe. “Are you sick?”

“What? No. Why?”

“You never order hot drinks.”

“Only because it’s a big commitment to finish before it gets cold,” Sophia says. “I’m feeling rather committed today.”

“Okay…” Lara says, mumbling something about the positive and negative connotations of the word committed, and Yoonchae covers Sophia’s paper cup with Sharpie smiley faces.

———

She swings by the kiosk again while she’s waiting for Dani’s evening class to finish. It’s too late for coffee, so she orders a hot chocolate, feeling committed again. It’s just Swiss Miss, but she honestly just wanted new doodles that weren’t smudged with condensation. Instead of smiley faces, Yoonchae draws the Mockingjay symbol this time; Sophia raises an eyebrow.

Yoonchae shrugs. “Lara’s idea.”

“This plan of yours,” Lara says, “it’s kind of like a rebellion, don’t you think? Resistance and hope packaged in polka dot wrapping paper, all tied together with a shiny pink bow. And smothered in lip gloss.”

“I guess,” Sophia considers with a humble kind of grace and pride. “But when you say it like that…it feels bigger all of a sudden. More to carry. I mean, it’s just a play.”

“No, Soph. Own it. It feels big because it is big. But it doesn’t have to be scary, remember? We’re all here to help. It’s not just a play, it’s your legacy.”

Yoonchae nods. “You’re doing good. You are good. You have to…”

She exits the kiosk, then, carefully, hesitantly, reaches toward Sophia and places a steady palm on the left side of her chest, just beneath her collarbone. “Protect your art.”

Sophia takes her wrist, squeezes gently, smiling softly. “Okay, yeah. You’re both right. Thank you.”

“Of course,” Lara says just as Dani comes bounding down the hallway, sweaty and frazzled and perfect.

“Ready to go home?”

Sophia nods, taking Dani’s hand, and as they head for the parking lot, Lara calls out, “May the odds forever be in your favor!”

———

She’s at the dinner table, hunched over open binders, covered in sticky note adhesive and pen ink. It’s not that late, but she’s up later than she knows she should be, considering she has an eight o’clock class tomorrow. Her stomach is grumbling, and she kind of has to pee, but her brain tells her to sit here and not move until it’s complete. Or, at the very least, until she has a crumb of an idea about what to do, where to start.

Dani ambles into the kitchen, wrapped in a blanket, the hem dragging on the floor. She hugs Sophia from behind, squeezing tightly, and places a gentle kiss on the top of her head.

“Goodnight” she says, instead of it’s late, come to bed, like Sophia knows she wants to say. Because Dani is understanding like that, forgiving.

Sophia squeezes back. “Sweet dreams.”

Dani drapes the blanket over Sophia’s shoulders, muttering, “You don’t have to have it all figured out now, you know?”

“I don’t have forever,” Sophia says.

“Well, what is forever, if not infinite nows?”

“Socrates?”

“No. Just me. And, like, Emily Dickinson.”

Sophia snorts softly, capping her highlighter.

“I’m serious, though, Soph. I don’t want to wake up and see you asleep on the table. I want to wake up beside you.”

“I’ll be done soon,” Sophia says, can’t quite promise it though.

Dani offers a pointed look, but doesn’t argue, doesn’t call her out on the obvious lie. Just says, “Goodnight,” again, and, “I love you,” then shuffles back into the bedroom before Sophia can say it back—Dani doesn’t need her to, Sophia knows, but she does it anyway.

I love you too is easier than promising she won’t stay up all night. Easier, and true.

———

“You know, Soph,” Dani whispers in the dark, “Sometimes, I think you were born with the sun inside of you. And you give so much light to the rest of us, you don’t realize when you’re burning up—and out.”

[cheshirekatseye]

trying to lock in on vagrants 🫪🙏 starting with a manon pov because i miss her </3

[cheshirekatseye]

snippet of a 5+1 art school au meichae wip 😛

[cheshirekatseye]

katseye dead poet’s society au where megan is neil and yoonchae is todd or maybe it’s the other way around send tweet

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Have a friendship rose!

why thank you very much 🙏 sending a friendship rose right back your way:

[cheshirekatseye]

oh i just know the journalism media company fic is yours. i will pull out my own whiteboard and red yarn and write my own report about why my theory isn’t just theoretical if you don’t fess up☝️☝️

(threatened with my utmost kindness and respect ☺️)

help anon why are we choosing violence 😭

i shan’t fess up 🤺🤺 but i do actually want to see that whiteboard and red yarn and theory report 🫣

[cheshirekatseye]

so…uh…*awkwardly scratches back of head* when’s the next vagrants update coming diva 🤩🙏

(absolutely zero pressure…but your nation is starving btw)

uhm so funny story i actually opened the doc yesterday, stared blankly at the mere 300 words i had written for the next chapter for like an hour, then i closed the tab 😇

sorry for causing a three+ month-long famine 😭 i have an insanely detailed outline for that fic so idk why the words aren’t wording. maybe it being so structured is the problem but who knows

i am!!! however!!! very much inspired to write art school au meichae beef angst…so time travel will unfortunately have to stay on the back burner until further notice (and by that i mean until my friend inevitably ties me up, drags me into a room, and locks me inside with my laptop)

[cheshirekatseye]

what’s your zodiac sign? i’m a leo

i’m a scorpio 🙂‍↕️

[gromqueer]

sometimes writing fanfiction is like building a fire because you're cold but then you find out more people are also cold so they gather around the fire and you all warm up together and then someone else builds a fire and you visit their fire and so no matter where you go, which fandom it is, what concept someone may be looking for, someone out there has a fire for you

[cheshirekatseye]

sometimes it’s cute and cozy and wholesome and you can all make s’mores and sit on a log and play an old out-of-tune guitar and sing about trees and ladybugs and fireflies and try to find the constellations that match your zodiac signs

and sometimes it all just ends in arson or third degree burns or both 💕

[cheshirekatseye]

i loveee the way you describe all of yoonchae’s paintings/painting processes in your art school au!! like the elements and principles of art and the projects in her portfolio. it’s all so detailed and the concepts are so creative without being too complicated or flowery if that makes sense??? and i was wondering if you paint too!? like the way you describe art just makes me think you’d know exactly what it’s like to create art 

this is so very sweet thank you 3000 anon <3

i actually do cuss paint a little, though not as much as i’d like to or as much as i’d think yoonchae should in that au lol. i just love a good obsessed artist trope and the concept of a messy studio and angry crying/painting at 3 a.m. 🤤

but i do love to draw (graphite portraits especially)!!! and even if i didnt, i’d probably still write about it because what is this earth without art? just a rock! art rocks. everybody get more art pilled. the human-made kind obviously

ironically i’ve only done one katseye fanart piece (see below) and now i must change that

my desk is textured so everything i draw on it comes out with weird horizontal lines 😩😭

anyway the symbols in the top right-hand corner is an ancient filipino script called baybayin. the word i wrote is “tala” which means star. because duh

[cheshirekatseye]

sooooo like you can ignore me if i’m embarrassingly incorrect…but did you perchance write this…??? 👀👀 idk it just looks and feels like your writing style 🕵️

i cannot confirm nor deny.

[cheshirekatseye]

Idk if you have preference for oneshots or multi chaps or length wise or anything like that but here are a couple

my go to rec is always lucky by emotional_motionsickness. Goated sodani fic fr but it’s over 200k words atp and still ongoing so a bit unapproachable (but so so so worth it)

Multi chap but much shorter (and complete!) is Gabriela on guitar by angstydisaster. I need to reread this one honestly. Meizini my loves

Anything by knotgrass_08 (happy birthday to me, the livestream, and the two prodigies of baby Megan are my favs)

I’m trying to find you some shorter ones too but it’s only you I want around and it’s sequel by gentlehillracer (but also pretty much anything by them) is one of my shorter favs

Ok sorry that was a lot lol you also might hate them and that’s a ok. I hope you have fun reading :D

i don’t have a preference! i love a good one-shot as much as the next person, but i also like how longer form fiction has, well, more

these all look super interesting, thank you!!! will be sure to get back to you with my thoughts once i get around to reading them 😌

[cheshirekatseye]

Being able to write more than you read is honestly so admirable. I need to get back to writing but I read too much lollll

Lmk if you want any recs!! There’s so many good ones out there!!

i think my thing is that if i don’t write i’ll explode…but then reading sometimes makes me want to explode even though i love it 😭

recs would be much appreciated ty!!!

[cheshirekatseye]

miraculously i am able to write more fanfiction than i do read it (mainly because i’m hella slow at reading 😭) but there’s so much content and i’m very excited to jump in and consume it all. so don’t be surprised when you new moots get a billion ao3 notifications over the next few months 😇😛

[cheshirekatseye]

Welcome!! I seriously love your works so much and I can’t wait to see what you create next 🖤🖤

thank you so so much !!! you’re the best 💗💗