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Summary

Kim, Chay, and a world of difference between them, but also no space at all.

[a Shape of Water AU, no knowledge of the movie required]

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aka a million years ago, @crescentlyautumn asked for a reverse wuju bakery AU, I naturally went "of course, shape of water AU," and then this slowly manifested.

so! 5k of monsterfucker kimchay where they're insufferably adorable :D

(also: trans!Kim 🥰)

#kinnporsche #kimchay #kim theerapanyakul #porchay kittisawasd #fic: your presence surrounds #cookie's writing #december posting #i feel like there's a tag im forgetting oh well

❄️Welcome December❄️

#godzilla reads #December #December posting #December books #December reading #books #bookworm #the country diary of an edwardian lady #Edith Holden #reading #book blog #bookish

sneak peak of the holiday shrunkyclunks fic I’m writing:

Nudging the tray with the last slice over to Steve, Bucky gets up and starts putting dishes in the sink.

“No,” Steve says. “Hey, no. Let me do that,”

“Ha!” Bucky snorts. “No guest of mine does dishes. Geez, my mom’d skin me.”

“Yeah?” Steve counters. “Well my Ma’d skin me if I let my host do the cleaning.”

“Sounds like we should get the two of them together,” Bucky says, and Steve’s bright smile fades, sadness pulling at the edges.

“Shit,” Bucky says. “I’m sorry.”

Shrugging, Steve takes his plate and sets it in the sink, hip-checking Bucky aside.

“I..fogot,” Bucky says. “I forgot you’re Captain America.”

Steve turns, his eyes piercing as he stares at Bucky. Slowly, the expression on his face melts from grief and sadness into something warm and brilliant; something real. Bucky’s stomach swoops with warmth to have all that sunshine directed at him.

“That might be the nicest thing anyone’s said to me this century,” Steve says. It leaves Bucky feeling caught out.

“Yeah, yeah,” he says. Don’t let it go to your head.”

#no title yet #baker!bucky #shrunkyclunks #december posting #chaptered fic #chicklette writes things

some thoughts on writing humor for anyone interested;

if you want to incorporate more humor into your writing, what you really want to practice is timing. writing humor is rarely about writing an individual funny line-- you don't remember the punchline because of the line itself, you remember the punchline because of everything else that came before it. a punchline without a proper build up or proper timing is just a non-sequitur.

so, when writing a humor fic, a good thing to remember is that the punchline comes last. you can't have your funniest line at the start of your story. think of it like action-- if your first fight is the boss fight, any fight of lower stakes or difficulty that follows is going to feel lackluster in comparison. you want your story and your jokes to build to the final line, or else you'll step on the joke and lose its impact.

and this does take practice! putting the joke at the end doesn't always feel 'natural' at first, learning how to structure and build a humor story is a skill the same as learning how to do it for any other genre. personally, i'd also say humor is something that really comes out in the editing stage more than the initial drafts-- humor is very reliant on timing and rhythm, and it's hard to find and stick to a story's pacing when you're still working on the overall story structure. i mean, this sort of thing tends to go for any sort of writing, but nothing makes humor fall flat faster than wonky pacing and so (for me at least) editing is the stage where the story goes from "oh, haha" to actually funny.

(i also bring this up because fandom has a lot of jokes about not editing a finished draft before posting-- and like, totally feel you, i'm not huge on editing after i reach the end of the draft. however, i have noticed in fic circles where people will get caught up on and sometimes even discouraged by trying to be funny in the fic larva stages when the framework to be funny just isn't there yet. personally, i highlight the humor lines i'm unsure about and move on. then, when the fic's closer to 90% done or so, it's much easier to skim the overall story and cut/format/refine/etc any jokes because they're already highlighted for easy finding.)

another thing to keep in mind is that humor as a writing device is often used to release tension. i would say this is a large part of why humor often falls very naturally into scene transitions; that natural release of tension is very useful as an 'end bracket' to a scene while also setting up the audience to be freshly wound up again. this feature is useful for stories aiming for a more light-hearted tone overall, but in general stories often incorporate humor as a way of controlling a story's pacing so that the tension doesn't get too tight too fast. even if a punchline isn't your end goal, you're still building up to something and it's really helpful to edit your humorous lines by asking "does this fit with my scene/story's pacing, or is it disruptive to my buildup?"

it doesn't really matter how funny an individual line might be on its own-- if its disruptive to the story's overall flow, the joke's effect is going to come off as strained and forced. because humor is really an exercise in structure and story rhythm, the most ineffective way to study humor is to fixate on the individual jokes you remember in your favorite stories-- instead look for the threads that came before the joke that made it memorable, and then practice doing that in your own writing. usually when humor falls flat in a story, it's because either the specific joke pops out of nowhere (missing the build-up) or the joke is in the wrong spot in the story (disruptive, breaks reader immersion). sometimes the fix is as easy as reshuffling a few lines, other times it's a matter of adding more to the build up, or even cutting it altogether so that something else packs a bigger punch.

tl;dr-- i'm repeating the old adage "in comedy, timing is everything." if you want to get better at writing or incorporating humor into your stories, it's honestly more important to practice when to drop a joke than the specific wording of the joke itself.

#writing #december posting #like. ages ago some people were interested in my thoughts on humor writing and ive finally overcome my shyness to post this ajfjh #speaking of: usual disclaimer this is just stuff i've observed myself and thoughts ive found relevant to the topic.#take what u agree with and discard the rest none of this is like. official.#im worried some of this is a little vague because i figured out a lot by looking at stuff that *didn't* work for me and asking why #but no way am i going into depth over any of that here #the other thing that happened tho is that i clarified a lot of these thoughts by picking apart my own fics #and breaking down my thought processes behind the ones that really work for me.#the clearest of which is 'gone fishing' so uhh. gimme a shout if youre interested in how that fic went from a handful of tags to dms to fic #idk if anyone else is interested in that sort of thing

one of my goals this coming week is to dust out my older writing folders, rip to this absolute gem of an idea:

The Dating Scheme

Wen Kexing decides Zhou Zishu is going to be his sugar daddy. Zhou Zishu has no desire for him to pay him back with anything other than his wallet, but he’s working on that.

#word of honor #december posting #fics im not writing

I've been trying to get back into painting this year, watercolors in particular. I feel extremely rusty on them, so most of my painting has been stuff like stain glass windows or other very geometric sectioning of the paper as I remember how to mix colors and smush them around, but I'm really pleased with how this lil guy came out, I love that he looks like a friend coming to say hello.

used a technique called 'accidental watercolor', which is where you first soak the paper and blob 3-4 colors on it, then decide what you want to paint over it. for example, this is my sketch over the first stage of painting;

I just really love doing this sort of painting. it always has a really cool color and texture effect for any nature paintings, especially if it includes water. plus it's really nice to have a step in the process that's just turning off my brain and letting the colors go wherever, it's very therapeutic.

#december posting #note for anyone who wants to try something like this: it works best if you're using ink or reallyyyyy good watercolors #unfortunately cheap watercolors tend to lift and muddy your top coats :(#i use ink watercolor pencils instead of my actual inks for my bottom layer because those are a lot cheaper but.. yeah!#creative endeavors

one of my favorite photos I took when I visited Spain back in May this year 🥰 this is a photo from inside Sagrada Família, which is an extraordinarily gorgeous church in Barcelona. I could gush for hours about how much thought and care and ART went into building this church, it's amazing. but to keep this post short-- the east windows are the cool toned blues, greens, and purples reminiscent of the cool light Barcelona gets in the morning, and the west side windows are the brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows of its sunsets. plus, Gaudi was deeply inspired by nature, so the interior columns and ceiling are very reminiscent of trees and light coming through the canopies;

just. a ridiculously gorgeous church with so much thought and love poured into it and the artistry, I love it so much.

#december posting #i need to go find my photos from eight years ago to compare to my new ones #its just. it's so cool as a piece of art friends 😭#every little piece is packed with symbolism or nods to Barcelona there's always something new to learn about it

an enamel keychain I made back in August! it's one of my favorite things I made this year. I was inspired by the effect of the shadows from tree leaves on concrete and wanted to make something that reminded me of that feeling. I had actually made a mistake on the blue layer-- I had accidentally put it in the furnace when it was too hot, and blue goes a little thin/transparent when fired too hot (even burned through some of my black layer too!). luckily, that only helped towards my intended effect, so it was a very happy accident in the end 🥰

#december posting #idek how i plan to tag art these days hbfjdjd hmmm #something else i just realized is that my concrete color is very much a product of timing too 😂#i wouldve picked something a lot more grey had i done it in the winter #but it was august #wonderfully bloody hot august where the sidewalk feels baked and everything feels gold #how funny to only realize that now #creative endeavors