🍿🧈🥞 for the writeblr positivity week ask
Thank you so much for the ask 💕!! This was a lot of fun. I apologize for the delay it was in my drafts and I forgot about it 😅. (I have the memory of a goldfish.)
🍿- Tell us something I really love about my writing
Hmm... I guess I love that I can create complex, realistic characters... it’s probably the one thing that I am most complimented about...
🥞 - Talk about how much I love an OC of mine
I guess I would have to pick WDH Sebastian. He’s really become one of my favorite characters. He has such a complex past and psyche and while he’s obviously flawed and has a long way to go, being able to take that journey with him is part of what makes writing Where Demons Hide so much fun. There aren’t too many characters that I’ve written where I get to show them at diff stages of their life to illustrate where they’ve been and where they’re going and how they’ve progressed (or not) over the years. (Kai of In/Exhale, my original serial story, is one other example.)
Over the course of the story the reader will have an opportunity (through flashbacks) to see Seb over the course of his childhood, starting at around 5-6 through to the present, so that’s almost 25 years of his history. It allows the reader to fully understand how he’s come to be who he is, and why he behaves the way he does. The challenge of having to think differently/write him differently depending on where we are on the timeline is really an interesting experience for me as a writer, and doing so has helped @luci-on-the-moon and I get futher insight into why he behaves and thinks as he does in the present.
? - This emoji doesn’t show up for me so I’m not sure which question you meant, so I’ll do “tell you about a WIP I’m really excited to see more of”
I’m assuming that this means tell you about someone else’s WIP I’m excited about. There are quite a few, so I’ll pick 3 that I’m eagerly anticipating updates for the most right now. (All are Black Butler fan fics.):
Those Gentle Slopes... by @k-s-morgan . Hands down my favorite canon Kuro fic and one of my fave Kuro fics of all time. I’m always ranting about how much I love the interpretation of all the motivations and actions of Sebastian and Ciel. It’s almost a bit like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, where we get to see a lot of the “in between” and “behind the scenes” stuff you don’t see in the anime.
Revamp by @cielpansyhive . Tumblr is bloated with people trying to force LGBTQ+ identities on characters, but this fic really tries to do things right, and can be very relatable for all sorts of queer folks (and ofc cishet too). Aspects of it can be a really nice thing for those who may not have accepting partners, friends, family, etc, and I am very excited for the next update.
Blood Moon by @secretly-a-wuss. Surprisingly, Kuro doesn’t have a lot of vampire stories. This one takes the mystery/Sherlock Holmes elements that pervade the manga and blends it with vampires and werewolves in a very intriguing story. It’s only two chapters so far, but I’m hooked and pumped for more.
