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25歳のハーフ 🇯🇵/🇲🇦

[lilkikayart]

Y'all asked for it in the comments and I delivered hahah. It only took 3 months, but I think it was worth the wait ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) For those who are not familiar, this is my take on LWJ in his mid-thigh robes in @riikaa-chan's a/b/o universe fic "Come Down, O' Child Of War" on ao3. I highly recommend giving it a read if you're interested in that, because Riikaa-chan really integrates it seamlessly into their universe.

His robes are described in chapter 3, but I also took some artistic liberties while doing up these mid-thigh robes. I took inspo from the CQL costumes with the cloud embroidery (?) Anyway I love how it looks especially since I did a sketch at first and didn't plan on going full out with lining.

[lilkikayart]

Long time no Wangjue post (or at least it sure feels like it T^T). I saw the apple trend floating around on the bird app and felt like doing it with Wangjue! These versions of them/ the art itself was done with Awakened Hearts by @riikaa-chan in mind. If you haven't read it yet, I implore you to! Especially since these lyrics make me think of them during the current arc (can be associated with earlier chapters too tbh).

[lilkikayart]

Long time no Wangjue post (or at least it sure feels like it T^T). I saw the apple trend floating around on the bird app and felt like doing it with Wangjue! These versions of them/ the art itself was done with Awakened Hearts by @riikaa-chan in mind. If you haven't read it yet, I implore you to! Especially since these lyrics make me think of them during the current arc (can be associated with earlier chapters too tbh).

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

don’t know who needs to hear this but AO3 comments section is not Letterboxd. giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer does not make you a “fanfic critic” because there’s no. such. thing.

giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer just makes you a spoiled, rude, entitled asshole at best, makes the author stop posting their works altogether at worst.

a reminder that it’s always okay to just stop reading and quietly click away from a fic if at any point you feel like you don’t like it for whatever reasons. unless specifically asked, there’s no need to tell the author, whose work you read for free, how you dislike something they wrote for themself for fun.

[obsidianpegasus-deactivated2025]

Reading my own fanfiction is basically just a rollercoaster of emotional whiplash.

20% of the time: “Hold on. I wrote this? This is fire. This is emotionally devastating in the best way. This scene is dripping with tension. I’m a literary perfectionist. Someone give me a book deal.”

80% of the time: “Straight to jail. Immediate prison. Why is everyone’s breath hitching?. I used the word ‘gaze’ three times in one paragraph like I was possessed. Did I think 'his eyes darkened' was profound? Why is everyone clenching their jaws? Why is someone whispering 'their name like a prayer' again?? No one talks like this. What is this dialogue. Why are there so many weird metaphors and em-dashes…”

[ibajo256]

[nondelphic]

every time i use an em dash i get 3% stronger

[lilkikayart]

So this is what happens when I get carried away while doing studies and am tired of my own self inflicted Wangjue art drought LOL Please go to ao3 to see this in all it's glory

So basically, I read chapter 6 of "Come Down, O’ Child Of War" by @riikaa-chan and got super fired up! It's like she added more wood to my fire that was slowly dying out (due to art block/an art slump).

Anyway this was a study turned fanart inspired by content in chapter 6. Thus, I recommend reading the fic first because I feel like this has spoilers (?) even though it's not necessarily a 1:1 copy of what happens.

I look forward to making proper fanart in the future!

[ao3commentoftheday]

you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

[ao3commentoftheday]

you're not taking your love of something and using it as a tool to hurt yourself are you? loving it so hard that you forget to take care of yourself? telling yourself that people only care about you because of what you make and that they'll stop if you take a break? pushing yourself to work instead of rest so that the thing that used to give you joy and energy is now also burning you out, like everything else?

[byoldervine]

Going back to old writing is either just like:

1. “Who wrote this masterpiece?! It was ME?!”

2. “Who wrote this absolute shit? Oh fuck my life, that was me, wasn’t it?”

[lost-the-narrative]

"IT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE A ONESHOT!!!" i scream, desperately clawing at the floor, as the fic drags me back into The Depths to continue writing against my will for the rest of eternity

[magictophatcat]

Writing a fanfic sometimes feels like having a plan...only for that plan to magically transform into a slice of cake. Now you have to bake the rest of the cake because you can't just serve a single slice whilst random cake slices of unidentified origin rain down from the sky tempting you like some kind of cake demon.

[ryns-ramblings]

[bebx]

[glassfrogforest]

[the-dragon-hearted]

For real like; No, Inspiration. Stop. LEAVE ME ALONE -

[writtenbymarlo]

being a writer is 85% caffeine, 10% impostor syndrome, and 5% “maybe this is actually good?”

[starryslyii]

I know exactly what happens next. But unfortunately, I must now explain it… with words.