this blog is not where i am mainly active, these days u can find me on ⤷@malevolentsugar where i post more fandom related content and will *at some point* start posting my own fics
Just finished reading graveyard shift and I know I’m constantly glazing u on ao3 (it is I, malevolentsugar) but I must continue my glazing on here as well because you deserve it for real. Whenever I’m reading ur stuff, the world around me lowkey ceases to exist bc I’m so ENAMORED with how intense ur writing is. And I know I shouldn’t be comparing my own writing with others, but GODDAMN is it daunting to know there are such amazing writers in the jjk community who know how to characterize Sukuna properly down to a T such as yourself.
You’ve heavily influenced me on what themes I would like to explore in my writing, and shown me how much depth one can get into when actually putting true intention and thought into their writing. I’ve been doing soo much research on specific topics for my own fanfic because I feel like if I put in any less effort, it would be an insult to all the fanfic authors who’ve rewired my brain with their own creations. With every fic I’ve read from you, everything feels so realistic and accurate and it’s to a point where I wonder to myself, does this person really just know ball like that or did they spend hours doing research on these topics just so they can put out some of the best literature I’ve ever read in a fanfic?
Anyways pls excuse my yammering, I hope ur having a wonderful day/evening!
OH YOU ARE YOU!
HELLO BELOVED IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE HI!!!!
and before I forget, I offer you two other big inspirations that got me eating my own hands when I read their Sukuna because of that same feeling you are describing to me.
shoves hands in my pockets and hands you @phyx-m and @nyokoko
and I remember grinding my gears so so so much when I started writing fanfiction in english (bc i hate myself) because I was so enthralled in their ways of writing that I constantly felt like I would never ever achieve that peak, as I saw and honestly brother I still see. They write such a delicious prose that has me in a chokehold and gets me so hyperfocused I can't do anything else until I'm done. It's like a warm blanket wrapped tightly around you, just right. You feel like drinking some wine and lounging all day while reading their Sukuna doing the absolute batshit insane things they do because, uh, Sukuna. But the feeling slowly ebbed away when I understood that everyone writes differently. Hell, I write SO different in portuguese, it makes no sense for us writers to beat ourselves up when something we admire ends up not being the same thing we produce. Like drawings, paintings, every other form of art.
We can admire people and take inspiration - cue me reading muse's works and going "thanks I didn't know those words and now I need to use them at least once to fixate let's get this bread" - and have our own style. And it doesn't mean one is better than the other. I learned to enjoy my own style after a while, took me some months though, and then I feel comfortable enough nowadays to say my style is more direct, I like to guide people through the scenes, I like to have them feeling uneasy all the time, I like them to not know who I'm killing and who I'm torturing. And I like to sometimes experiment in other ways, sure, it kicks my ass a fuckton but we are here for a bad time and a tortuous time, not a long time! or whatever the saying is-
And researching is... yeah it's what I love to do, it's so exhausting though, but it's so rewarding. It's like ok I need to know EVERYTHING about being a mortician because this one character will be exerting this function so let's fucking go. Recently my days have been spent researching (not so much as me asking my man) about gym and stuff while yapping with @twitone as they research like, 5 things at once and I enable them. This user is an enabler of fic parkour. Thus how I know a lot of random shit about so many 'useless' stuff. Not useless ok I know, knowledge is always funny and amazing and makes us not become idiots (thanks god) but once again I'm rambling where the fuck am I going with this.
Research! And put your love into words, and when you read it and feel like you really love what you created, it will be all worthy. Time and effort put behind our beloved stories are what make them so special. Even if no one else appreciates them, we do, and we write for ourselves when it comes to it.
but truth is I really am just sukuna and I have all these 4 stupid hands to type on the laptop at the same time i'm typing on the mobile that's how I'm always interacting and reblogging and writing 😔 sorry to disappoint
and I love yapping, you probably know it, i'm never shutting up, so never feel bad about yapping long yaps. I may take a while to reply (overwhelmed by words like the idiot i am) but I always do reply!!
That feeling you described as a warm blanket wrapped tightly around you feeling just right is EXACTLY the kinda feeling I get when reading amazing fic 🥹 you put it into words so well!! Will definitely be checking out these other authors you mentioned, I hella appreciate good prose and also anything that involves Sukuna being an absolute menace. 🔥
See I thought I was insane with how many tabs I have open for research purposes but now that you’ve confirmed it’s always a chaotic process, I feel a little less like I’m doing too much lol. My brain definitely starts melting after some time with what I’m researching rn but you are definitely right, the benefit of learning smth new is always so rewarding!
And thanks so much for your words of wisdom 🙂↕️🙂↕️ you’re so right about how we write for ourselves. It’s been weird for me to enjoy what I’ve written so far for my fanfic, but when I compare it to stuff I wrote like 4 years ago, or even some months ago, I can see improvement and it’s like lighting a fire under my ass bc all I wanna do is keep getting better.
It’s ok if u take a while to reply, and I’m so glad you are such a yapper! Seeing how you handle ppl on here is so refreshing. Especially when you get hateful asks, it’s like watching a scuba diver rotating a shark. You are indeed that bitch (I mean this in the least derogatory way), and ur confidence is radiant.