monthly seaofolives original review february edition: kahit konting pagtingin for mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury
Late one afternoon, like a few days before the Lunar New Year, I heard the drum beats of a distant lion dance and fondly remembered about my au and headcanon of the jeturk bros being lion dancers. for a vision that captured me for like months, I think I felt a bit bad that I could only do one thing for it. but then I realized: just bc I'd already written it so like... I'd already used that card or engaged with it, doesn't mean I can't read the fic I wrote for it—a fic that I wrote for myself!
the realization that I can read it for my monthly fic review came a bit later XD but so this is why we're here now! 🙌🏼
tho this is kind of late again bc I was v busy finishing a promised fic but yesterday, I decided that I had to finish that fic already so I could rest and read this fic today and ahhhhh it was such a good idea 😭 this kind of like became my reward for working hard and I was really looking forward to it the whole day
and I was so shocked that it was so fun??? I remember having the time of my life while I was writing this, like getting giddy for every headcanon that I put into words, sort of like making them official, into existence. but reading it was such a different experience and I was smiling the whole way through! it's the very definition of self-indulgence, but it's so self-indulgent that it feels like the word "self-indulgent" isn't even enough for it anymore??? and everything made sense to me, I was just nodding my head 100% of the time 😂 it felt very good to do that
I loved my suletta omg, she's so silly and chaotic and I swear, Filipino humor is such a good look on her. it's self-deprecating, it's funny and light, and the opportunity to make a social commentary is always present 😂 which is perfect for suletta here bc she came from the province and it was just so fun reading all her insights about city living and the wealthy class which like I'm preaching to the choir but that doesn't make me enjoy it any less you know 😂😂😂
and omg was such a bi that was such a fun decision by me ahahahaha 😂 it was so fun seeing her crush on both miorine and guel at the same time and I loved that I actually found the room to incorporate some common Filipino movie and drama tropes bc it's such a part of a modern Filipino's daily life you know??? also I knew I made miorine conyo (or: a Filipino who speaks and knows more English than she does Filipino) but omg, I didn't realize I made her so conyo and omg i love it, I love imagining her voice as she talked. also the part where I projected the stereotypes of wealthy Chinese and mestizo families on guel and shaddiq... I really felt like a genius there 😂😂😂
but also—so bc of my heresy fic which took me like MONTHS just to finish in both Filipino and english language, I have to admit that I burned myself out of writing in Filipino for a while. but reading this fic reignited my love for it? which made me realize that, while I will always call Filipino a romantic language, bc there are ways in which we speak of love and devotion that I haven't seen the English language compare to yet, the thing that I love about writing in Filipino is our colloquialism and wit, and how we just transform any word borrowed from like English into a word that we own. like even English words can take on a different meaning that is deeply connected to our daily lives, but probably it's bc we were colonized by the Americans in the past. but also like, even english words aren't safe from our word plays, or the new and double meanings we give them
this wasn't smth I got to experience much in the heresy fic but this fic, it's so so rich with it and it's a lot of what I love about the Filipino language 🥰🥰🥰 and I feel like bc of this, I think I can write in Filipino again bc it was literally rediscovering smth that I loved 🥰
which actually, works for the language, the characters, and this au that I wrote on the fly and just kept expanding and expanding on itself you know? if I ever get new ideas for g witch fics again, I definitely have to revisit this au too
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finally managed to post something for @fandomtrumpshate 2025! that leaves me with like three more fics, but progress is progress! 😂 this is the first one:
“feeling good”
g, ~12k words, guesulemio (but not yet a closed triad)
