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art n stuff. some opinions

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Hii!! Ik you might be busy with your other fics, but do you have an estimated timeframe for when the next s&s chapter will come out? I love your works btw !! Big fann :DD

Hey, thank you, you're very sweet, I'm glad you've enjoyed my work!! I lived and breathed that AU for like two years straight so I just needed to take a break 😭😭 hopefully I'll return to it this summer after school is over because I have lots of plans and similarly love that AU!! (:

although fic writing is my stress relief so tbh imma just be writing whatever I enjoy at the moment. I have so many asks to answer too 😭 sorry for being inactive y'all, much love to everyone patiently waiting ❤️

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Hi I adored the angst in the recent chapter of “Take Me To Your River” the way your wrote the dynamic of Nanako and Megumi vs Megumi and Tsumiki was chefs kiss. Wanted to ask does Nanako care or at least liked Yuuji and hated the way Megumi broke up with him or is at least bitter he didn’t tell her and she had to find from and outside source? Also I LOVED that Yuuji was mad a Megumi for telling him he missed him even though from his perspective he was a side piece and they he told him to stop texting him like wow didn’t expect that like it broke my heart for the angst but it was awesome to see Yuuji make boundaries. Was completely surprised that Satoru got sealed in a random mission considering it was a big event in shibuya so I’m excited to see how it plays out but I gotta ask how’s Suguru taking it cus he seemed to be hiding a lot? Thank you for writing this work and I can’t wait for the next chapter 💞🎀

I'd imagine Nanako hears everything from Mimiko who heard about it this time from Tsumiki. Nanako is definitely bitter about being left out of the loop, but I don't think she cares much about Yuji. They only briefly met once and she doesn't exactly know him. I guess she would care about him for the fact that he makes Megumi happy because Nanako loves Megumi at the end of the day like any sibling.

Yeah Megumi is down bad and it makes him dumb as hell which is lowkey the basis of the entire fic 😭😭😭

Oh, trust me, we'll see just how well Suguru is taking Satoru's vacation next chapter 💀 He for sure for sure is a character who keeps all his emotions hidden inside, though. It's because he's one of the strongest! Everyone else is far too weak and breakable to possibly understand besides Satoru, right? 😅 Lol

Thank you for the kind words!! I'm glad you're enjoying the angst lol even though the fic lowkey catfished as a fluff fic in the first half haha. See you next week!

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Day 1 of drawing 'The Empire of the Darkest Night Au' until CassandraCainBB undates her fic.

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Heyyy! I absolutely adore your writing! I’ve been reading your Itafushi fic because my friend told me abt you from your Ninjago fanfics (in the end and sword & shield I believe) recently I’ve also been rewatching ninjago for the first time since I was like ten so I was wondering how much of Ninjago I would have to have seen for the fanfic to make sense? Again I love your writing sm and I’ve also been working on some Itafushi fanart based off your tmtyr.

Again I love your writing sm thank you for sharing it!!!!💕💗💖

My mind is boggled when I find out people actually recommend my fics to other real people 😭😭 thank you so much!!

Tbh. I watched it when I was ten, then rewatched on a whim a few years ago. I don't think I made it past the March of the Oni. I'm a fake fan ✌️🙂‍↕️ I don't think there are ever any requirements for writing fanfic, it's completely harmless and for fun, don't let anyone police you. That being said maybe at least watch one season lol.

Aw that's so so sweet tag me if you end up posting 😭😭

[katsmtmsdoodles]

How did the officials that overheard Kai’s interrogation of Maike and Indi react to the knowledge that their boss is a POW from their enemies side? I feel like it would give them a crisis LOL

It probably did, but they don't want to get flicked out of existence by the Shogun so they knew to keep their mouths shut ✌️😭

Also a lot of Garmadon's people have been tortured/punished in heinous ways, so the idea of high ranking officials having been "convinced" to their side is not all that strange in Garmadon's empire.

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Who is your favourite ninja?

Lmao you funny

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Your new chapter of take me to your river...you are so so good at making those characters suffer. Every chapter I think 'surely it can't get worse' and then it really does. Giggling and kicking my feet misery for everyone!!!!! You're so good at creating tension. I love pov outsider stuff and you're absolutely utilizing the trope to it's full potential. Also the line about Choso turning four made me laugh out loud. Awesome sauce all around!!!

Thank you!! I think this was from Chapter 18, right? Very depressing era 😭😭 Like three people commented that their grandparents were also dying/recently passed away and I uhhh?? Damn I'm so sorry. I really hope it didn't make anyone feel worse

Anyway thank you that's very kind!! I ADORE outsider pov so that we get to be reminded how insane our protagonist are no matter the fandom haha. Glad I could get a laugh in there too considering 😭

Also it's going to get worse (: sorry or yw ✌️

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Ite ask? Power-scaling?

Y'know in Dragon Rising s4 that Lloyd gets the power to boost his teammates, would theoretically be also to reach the same capability?

Probably not tbh, I've thrown out a lot of canon abilities when I was trying to figure out the logistics of different types of magic in the series. Lloyd is just an amalgamation of everything in canon 😭😭 I like some more stakes haha

[katsmtmsdoodles]

OMG I FOUND YOU HEHEHE

(That sounded really ominous i'm so sorry)

(I promise i'm not a creep or a stalker I just have the emotional integrity of a child)

I've loved your Empire of The Darkest Night AU since it first started coming out. I had never read such a detailed, well written, complex fic until I found ITE and it had me hooked from the first sentence. The way you write your characters gives them such a real, painfully human, vibe, which I haven't seen in many books, much less fanfiction. If you were a real life author I would not be surprised bc the way you write is captivating.

I didn't really have a question I just wanted you to know that I think you're amazing and talented and I hope you're having a good year:)

Aw thank you so much!! I'm so glad you've been enjoying, very sweet of you

[katsmtmsdoodles]

can i just rant to you about misako for a sec because WOW - hate her or love her shes such a complex character. when i first read about her in ite i didn’t think much of her but after her chapter in s&s my opinion of her completely changed. yyyeah, shes done some really bad things and shes a hypocrite with messed up morals but that’s exactly what makes her compelling. everything she did as lord commander feels like a desperate attempt to hold onto the person she loved. then reality caught up with her, and now shes trying to fix things while making these brutal decisions in the name of taking down garmadon. and her relationship with garmadon?? actually heartbreaking. the way you described the love they shared just hurts like auugh they were doomed from the start. and then there’s lloyd :(…which just feels like salt in the wound. he was only a baby and somehow supposed to fix garmadon and restore his humanity. but instead hes destined to be the only one who can kill him, its like destiny gave misako what she hoped for in the most twisted way. like how is that not 10x worse?!

this goddamn doomed family makes me sick. actually dreading the next step in this tragedy your cooking up for them, keep up the good work. sorry if this was long though <3

SAAAAME!! I love complex characters 🫵 Sorry for the emotional damage but happy it came across well haha

Give me tragedy. I want all the pain in the world to be a result of enduring love.

Glad you're enjoying the character and the Montgomery-Garmadon family drama!

[katsmtmsdoodles]

just read the latest chapter. you are so evil /j but ive been obsessed with this story since it got published it haunts meee

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Heyy I recently stumbled upon your itafushi fic and Im loving the fluff . However , you mentioned in the first chapter notes that it gets quite angsty afterwards . Please tell me that its a happy ending and no character deaths , I beg .

Oh and since im kinda new here , whats ur updating schedule for the fic ?

Glad you're enjoying! It's been fun to write. Check the tags for them details my guy 🙂‍↕️✌️ and Saturdays/Sundays depending on your time zone

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Was Kai upset to be promoted to Lord Commander, or was he happy?

Damn the answer to that is probably complicated 😭 I think he was satisfied because it meant he would be in control, but it also meant he would be taken away from Lloyd and have to do a bunch of horrible things in the name of the "security" that Garmadon wanted. I don't know if Kai has ever been happy tbh

[katsmtmsdoodles]

Hiiii! I have a pretty controversial take(or i think it is) but i love Harumi and especially in your au. She’s just so charming, manipulative and a straight up psycho. She starts off as this calm governor’s daughter with an underlying craziness to her and it feels like shes just getting crazier and crazier(she killed her adoptive parents, killed the civilians at the parade and kidnapped Lloyd like you can never guess what she’ll do next). I feel so worried for Lloyd and Brad who are stuck with her and the Sons of Garmadon, that really can’t be fun.

In the s&s relationship tags it doesn’t mention Lloyd & Harumi but will they get more scenes together? Her hatred for Lloyd is at the moment is pretty surface level but might it evolve into something more intense like in the show? She was such big threat to the ninja and she left a really big impact on Lloyd(plus their dynamic was so interesting) and i hope your edn Harumi can be just as much of a menace, can’t wait to see what you do with her!

Yeah Harumi's the worst kind of villain lowkey 😭😭 At least Garmadon has the excuse of not being human lol, and uh yeah there's about to be plentyyyyyy of Lloyd and Harumi hating each other's guts in this next chapter and probably the rest of them 🙂‍↕️✌️ I simply ran out of tags haha there's a lot going on between everyone. Glad you're enjoying her as an antagonist! Lmao

[katsmtmsdoodles]

HI… i rly rly like ur jjk fic take me to your river… it fills me with so much joy u write so well and i anticipate new chapter uploads all week thank u for writing. 🥹🥹🥹

i was wondering… how do u plan out ur fics… cuz i wanna get into writing more but ive never rly been able to get past 2,000 words or one chapter. do u have any tips…

lovelovelove ur work ok thank u

Thank you!!! Aww you're so sweet, I'm glad you're enjoying (: I'm having a lot of fun writing it, although I'm on like chapter 20 now and it is not fun and whimsy anymore and I did in fact make myself cry while writing another chapter lol -,_-,

Anyway, to be completely honest, I have about 12 drafts of other jjk fics that never made it past 2k either. Unfortunately there's not an art to keeping motivation for a fic, however if you're just looking to make your word count higher, I have two pieces of advice that do not always apply but have helped me in the past!

1. For dialogue, pretend that your characters cannot, under any circumstances, directly say what they want to say. For example, if a character just wants to say, "I love you but I can't tell you that because I'm afraid of becoming dependent on you and being unable to handle it when you inevitably leave me," you can't let them. You have to force them to talk around it, for whatever reason. Sometimes I use this when the dialogue I'm writing feels uninteresting or flat.

2. For description, remember all five of the senses!! This is such a big one. They can help set the tone really well and pull your reader into your scenes. My favorites to include are smell and texture. Although I am definitely guilty of doing way too much description haha so idk how much you can trust me there.

As for planning—unless it's something like a map for reference's sake or something heavy political, I honestly try to avoid planning. It really kills my motivation when my only motivation is the burning need to put something down onto paper. Not planning forces me to write the scenes I'm less interested in so that I can get to the ones I'm excited for.

But obviously planning does work for some people, and I have written bullet points for things I want to happen in certain chapters for my previous fics.

Anyway haha hope this helps somehow! Idk lol

[katsmtmsdoodles]

ITE ask

Lloyd almost died from his fathers powers so how would you describe Kai’s thoughts when he saw Lloyds almost fatal condition? Lloyd described Kai as looking ”partially terrified” when they had left the vail but while in Shadowspire he didn’t seem to have truly understood the danger of Lloyds sickness, was it like a bit of a wake up call for Kai?

Kai was dealing with a lot at the time, he was still reeling from learning his family was alive, handling all of the entire coronation affairs, was awaiting punishment from Garmadon, and was generally in a poor emotional state to be arguing with Lloyd, when Lloyd said the thing that would hurt him the most.

Lloyd also had been getting sick every time he came home from the city, but he always got better within a few hours, so Kai didn't clock that it was worse than usual until it became obvious how bad it was. By that point, Kai was like, "Fuck, Lloyd is about to die because I was so distracted by other shit I didn't notice how bad it was right in front of me."

I would say it would be fun to write Kai's POV of that scene, but he had SO much going on that I genuinely don't know if it would be possible to properly do it. Thanks for the ask! I love delving into characters haha

[katsmtmsdoodles]

(ite related question)

Low-key rereading ite, and I'm wondering would Garmadon accept the relationship\potential relationship between Brad and Lloyd or would he be like 'you're already engaged!'

Cuz I can see either way

He would not gaf who Lloyd gets with tbh, he'd probably think that Lloyd was allowed to do whatever he wants with mortals, except for like the week after Lloyd's party where he would be like "wait a min 🧐 is that the bad influence? DEATH RAY!"

Garmadon's attention span for mortals is so limited he literally cannot hold grudges simply because they're so unimportant and unimpressive to him lol. That also applies to Harumi tho. The marriage was obviously for political reasons, so outside of Lloyd's public appearance of being married to her, Garmadon does not care one bit lol.