bella i have a confession to make. i would love to read your ongoing jalex fic. it seems very lovely. i’ve seen nothing but positive reviews. HOWEVER i am still traumatized from the years i spent on wattpad prior to making the switch to ao3 and therefore i do not read WIPs to spare myself the suffering of being left with cliffhangers and having to wait. in conclusion i am waiting to read your fic until it is done. so i can sit and read the entire thing in one sitting. like the insane person i am. see you with my review in approximately 5 weeks! i have high expectations and am highly anticipating it! much love to you. hope your weekend has gotten better <333 - bella
fjhgdghgfdlkj i mean i'm not gonna lie i do the same thing i also just don't have the working memory or attention span to read an ongoing chaptered fic, that's also why i prefer to binge tv shows rather than wait for episodes to come out weekly, bc by the time the next one is out ive forgotten what happened in the last one. so i have no leg to stand on here, i support your decision. i almost never read incomplete chaptered fics ESPECIALLY if there's no promise that they'll be completed (notable exception being helen calumcest softirwin that cunt (affectionate)) and while i can promise you that nothing short of literal death could stop me from finishing to post this fic you would still have to wait so if you're not into the waiting game then yeah man. you do you. wait for it to all be out. i don't think it's insane. in fact as miss queen luna lovegood would say, you're just as sane as i am :)
hello bella i am here for the fanfic ask game and i am going to use the letters of my name to pick questions. B E L A R. actually wait not A because pretty much all your fic titles are song lyrics which is pretty self explanatory. for E hmm… where would you take t-shirt ‘verse jalex next. that series was some of the first fics of yours i read and immediately fell in love. anyways hi! - bella
would you believe my first thought was "oh she's spelling belarus" hope it's okay that i just assume your full name is belarus from now on
this is once again So So Long so here's a read more
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B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience? oh boy. well the short answer is a capital-Y Yes. we were just speaking about emo lashton! the third one, aka i know that you're so afraid, was written after i had a really really awful day and pretty much embodies how i was feeling that day (the screaming/crying/destruction of property bit), though i did not do any of those things. also acappella 'verse (excluding the merrikat fic unfortunately) is HEAVILY influenced by personal experience in fact probably moreso than most of my other fics - the second one where they drop a single was written literally the night that my acappella group released our first single so it is like. Extremely Real Life. obviously jewish cake aka ha'ahava hazot shelanu is Very Very inspired by my personal experience, some chapters more than others, by which i mean the ones with the families lmao. brazil fic is inspired by personal experience though that one is a lot more "inspired by" than "taken directly from" because i lived there i wasn't just a visitor and also i never went to maracanã or like. did most of this stuff. but the location of the hotel is on a road i have actually been on many times and the pizza place they go to was one of my favorite places to eat so there's that. and the lashton sequel of brazil fic (you should have seen that sunrise) is based on a time when i actually went to pedra do arpoador and watched the sunrise, though for me it was with my family and it was on rosh hashanah hdflkgjdlksj.
i wrote this fic you should know i'll be there for you for jess where ashton misses his siblings and more specifically laments not being there for his sister when her gerbils die which was like a canon divergent version of me actually being present for when my sister's gerbils died. that's one. also wrote a cashton prompt fic where, again, ashton misses his siblings, are you detecting a theme here? i project basically all of my homesickness onto ashton because he's the only one with younger siblings. but those feelings are very personal and authentic. AND LASTLY: this jalex prompt fic where jack drives the wrong way on clara barton parkway is directly inspired by a time when i drove the wrong way on clara barton parkway and it was, in fact, one of the most terrifying moments of my life. okay i have to stop now because i've basically written you a novel answering this question and i could probably keep going. in short (lmao): yes. many.
E: If you wrote a sequel to t-shirt jalex, what would it be about? i actually know the answer to this!! the plan for the next t-shirt jalex fic, god willing lmao, is to write one where jack meets some of alex's students. i just really wanna see it happen. also, one day maybe i'll write their wedding, but like...that's a big Maybe since i have never been to a wedding that i remember well enough to write and i don't know shit about them especially non-jewish ones lol
L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting? i saw taylor answer this and i agreed very strongly with what they said. for shorter fics, especially when they're written on a whim (which i haven't done in a long time, excluding halloween fic event for which that was not supposed to happen), i'll read over it once or twice when it's done and do final edits and then just post it. for longer fics, like for example so damn familiar, i reread it almost every time i opened the doc, and whenever i'd finish a scene i'd go back and reread it and then probably reread it again. this serves a dual purpose though, because while it is good for editing, i also just...really enjoy my own writing lmao. and i will also add that i have not finished editing so damn familiar like before i post every chapter i go back and reread it and make small final changes so i can be sure that when i'm rereading it after it's posted there's nothing that makes me think "damn it i wish i had changed that before i posted it." so for short fics, very few, and for long fics, Very Many. i remember when i was writing hello hello i reached a point where i wanted to be done writing it so bad but i had to reread the entire thing every time i wanted to continue writing it, to get the vibe, and i was soooo sick of reading it. which is a difficult point for me to reach considering how much i like my own writing so do with that information what you will.
A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]? okay i know you said not to answer this one and it's not like i need reason to say MORE but i just wanna put it out there that i do in fact have a google doc entitled "good lyrics for titles" and if i hear a good lyric i throw it in the doc and when i need a title, especially for something short and spontaneous like a prompt fic, that's the first place i look. also on occasion i do listen to music when i write so i can get a title from a song i've heard while writing but a lot of the time i do not just because it's harder for me to concentrate or maintain a vibe while listening to music and in those cases it's convenient to have a doc full of potential titles so i don't have to go hunt down an appropriate song and scour the lyrics. ok that's all.
R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence? whew i did answer this one here also will add miss sam @tirednotflirting to the list because i've said it before and i'll say it again she is exceptionally good at writing description and that is Not My Forte! i make an active effort to include any bits and pieces of environmental description/imagery in my fics most of the time and she just. Does That. which i really admire and try to emulate with ~word pictures~ as much as i can.
listen. in light of your last rb. i miss brunette alex. i’ve only been into atl for about a year and a half so i was never even around for brunette alex but still. i miss it regardless. - bella
NO ME FUCKING TOO PLEASE HIS HAIR IN THAT ERA............
hello bella!! here i am. mostly because i just submitted an exam and am very relieved. yes i had 3 days to do it. yes i didn’t start it until 3 hours before it was due. yes i turned it in with 2 minutes to spare. And What About It. all irrelevant info to me!! because i did it anyways!! anyways there’s just something relieving about turning in a like sizable assignment that feels nice. ok that’s all. mostly here to breathe a sigh of relief and wish you a lovely week!!! i hope you get the absolute most inspiration for your WIPs and get to eat the most delicious soup :D and if you are mad about something then i am angry for you >:( shooters4myfellowbella. i am covering all the bases here depending on the day/week you’re having. okay bye bye!! (side note tde released their album and i still haven’t listened to it oops. i’m literally supposed to be seeing them live in less than a month. i’m a fake r5 fan. where did my 12 year old self’s energy go. she memorized the entirety of their album within a week in 2015) - bella
HELLO BELLA!!! ugh the feeling of turning in a big assignment is UNPARALLELED you really got it down to the wire though.........incredible. but i'm glad you got it done and now you get to breathe
omg wait because i have been doing some damage to one or two WIPs actually AND i have had several good soups and i have been mad about things but they're generally resolved i can't believe u literally successfully covered all bases thank you love. i don't know what shooters4myfellowbella means but it sounds flirty so i accept <3
NHFKLHJGDFLGHKJGDFMLJ no i haven't listened to it either. neither that nor the new finneas album which i know you don't care about but i do i just haven't listened to it. all this music came out the weekend i saw state champs and i was on state champs lockdown and have been for basically the entire week so i'm like. decidedly behind on music. i'm planning on getting to it eventually it'll just be a minute before i can wash the state champs out of my system
oops i didn’t sign that last ask but i mean who else is out here sending baseball asks. anyways. it’s like trucks and painter’s tape and life insurance and erectile dysfunction pills lmfao. truly Am Not the target audience here. - bella
DHKFGHFLHJGFJ yeah i don't know why i assumed i'd be getting an ask about watching baseball from anyone other than you, also i agree they really said no rights for young women who like baseball smh
today was the last day of the regular season :( i’m kinda angry with your nationals. they couldn’t beat the red sox today to make the al wild card more interesting. instead of a more interesting tie between boston and toronto for the second al wild card spot, boston won it for themselves and now it’s just a boring sox vs. yankees wild card game. no more cubs or nats baseball until march :( BUT playoffs are exciting!! and your team not being in them makes them 1000x less stressful to watch!! starting wednesday when the playoffs officially begin i am a giants fan. i have always liked their team and now i have more of a reason to root for them since kris bryant plays there. they won 107 games this year!! that is so many holy shit. anyways!! you might not even really follow the playoffs if your team isn’t in them for all i know. i just like baseball in general and the playoffs are fun. despite making the choice to root for the giants, i would like to see the rays win the world series. their team has been quietly getting good over the past few years and i just think it would be well deserved if they were to win it. ok that is all. baseball rambling over. playoffs start wednesday i am excited for both wild card games. hope you are well. have a lovely week!! bye bye love you mwah - bella !
omg somehow i finally have the energy to answer this but it's from a few days ago and long so i'll be brief. i am also angry with the nats i was really really rooting for them to beat the sox bc cam told me that if that happened then the jays would have a chance to be in the playoffs and i want that for her. (idk if you know cam @haikucal but she is my star-crossed lover and fellow nats fan so)
i do not watch the playoffs unless my team is in them because i just can't muster up the strength to root for some other team but i'm excited for YOU and since i don't really care anymore i am willing to back to giants in your support. love you!!
just rewatched the clip and he even blew him a lil kiss at the end 🥺. i did not notice it the first time i saw it live. that makes the moment even sweeter. perhaps i love Them - bella
i hope things get better bella :( sending love and positive vibes your way. sorry to hear you’re going through it. i hope whatever it is improves. love you and hope your week gets better <333 - other bella
thank you babe :(( i also hope they do. i'm hoping at least it's over soon and whatever happens happens. i love you lots <3
