#ictoan doesn't write

[artlessictoan]

futch scale requests

okokokokokokokokok i'm desperately in need of writing practice bc words…….. Elude Me. sooo request time!

and since i missed out on femslash feb and i've been missing my girls how about we do nardo wlw ships? specifically bc i had the idea last night and now it won’t leave my head playing around with the futch scale, send me two (or more i ain’t gonna complain about more poly in my life) girls and what you want to read them as, with a prompt or theme if you have one, if not then i'm sure i’ll figure something out.

e.g. butch tenten/sporty femme sakura, modern au gym meet-cute

dw bout being faithful to canon, i live for femme tema and butch ino, so just say whatever you wanna see (and doesn’t have to be exclusively f/b, f/f and b/b are all good shit), only rules are obviously no gross stuff or anything, and i'm not really feeling dark so keep things more to the fluff/sap/comedy/spicy side, maaaybe hurt/comfort if the prompt catches me.

i don’t have a cut-off in mind so expect me to be doing this for couple of weeks, we’ll see i guess. (if you wanna send multiple requests please send them in separate asks so i can answer them one at a time)

[artlessictoan]

ok ok so, Breaking The Cycle with 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15! OwO

What’s your favorite line of narration?

oh fuck i dunno, i can’t really remember half of what i’ve written but based on a quick skim i’d have to say it’s..... Andafter those fateful chunin exams – so very, very long ago – the silence hadchanged again, this time to one filled with tension and uncertainty, as Gaaranavigated the arduous path back to humanity and she and her brother nervouslywalked beside him, too scared to hold his hand, but too hopeful to let him walkit alone.

What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

asdfjkdfkjsk ok so i should really go for one of the more deep emotional lines but in all honestly it’s “Getup losers, we’re going to Suna!”

What part was hardest to write?

hmmm probably the Shikadai interlude? mostly just because i know bugger all about kids and have no idea how to write them

What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

it’s much more about family bonds than my other fics, i mean most anything i write that has the sand fam in it will have a lot of that, but this is the one where i’m really delving into their whole dynamic and exploring each member much more deeply.. idk this fic is just very special to me, it’s my comfort zone writing-wise

What do you like best about this fic?

i rEALLY love the relationships in btc! whether it be the sand sibs Classic Flavour, sand sibs 2.0, the kids and gaa, yodo and kank.. i just love thinking about them all So Much

What do you like least about this fic?

hmm, i guess i’m still trying to figure out this whole ‘Child’ thing, i’m getting there, but i regularly have to go looking up childhood development shit because i don’t have any idea what 6 yr olds are supposed to talk/act like

What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

oh i ALWAYS listen to music while writing, mostly movie/game soundtracks because for some reason songs with actual singing and lyrics really throw me off when writing? for btc in particular i really love the ost’s of: Journey, Abzu, Thomas Was Alone and Ori and the Blind Forest (and the extened Ori ost), i also quite like Zoe Keating and Break of Reality, they’re instrumental artists and make some really beautiful calming but also haunting music that fits the tone of the fic!

What did you learn from writing this fic?

mostly i’ve just been learning more about these characters, their thoughts, feelings and how they relate to one another, it’s been a really lovely experience discovering all these new things about my fave fam

in the more technical sense, i’ve been learning a lot about writing more introspectively and using metaphor a little more

[artlessictoan]

Hi how is the writing going? :D

ello nonny! it.... goes........... very veeeeeeeery slowly.

in all honesty i’ve hit a bit of a block. my big ongoing fics all seem to have reached the point where i know where they’re heading, but can’t quite get the connective tissue to work in a way that i’m happy with, but i really don’t want to start a new fic before i’ve finished at least one of the older ones (even though i have the first 3 chaps of that chogaa fic basically ready to go sitting on my hard drive gathering dust).

trying to do oneshots and reqs can help briefly but they’re a double-edged sword where they also take up all my writing energy so i have nothing left for longer fics?? i should really try and get through some of those f/f reqs i’ve still got in my inbox (I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU POOR FOLK I SWEAR).. also got that half-finished hinatema smut that took over my life a couple weeks ago......

basically a lot i should be working on, but i can’t quite motivate myself (doesn’t help that i’m out of a job rn so there’s all that job hunting nonsense to worry about), not sure if there’s a way back into it, but i have been getting interested in my original writing projects recently so maybe my mojo will find its way back to me soon??

so... that’s how the writing goes i guess!

[artlessictoan]

ok so i’m not overly worried about my blog disappearing right now, buuuut frankly i’m sick to death of a new tumblrpocalypse every month, so while i’m gonna be here for a while yet, i am looking into other options.

pillowfort sounds good, but i suspect they’re gonna have a very rough patch as people flock away from tumblr en masse so i won’t be setting anything up over there for a month or two at least. i’ve got accounts with gonevis and blogger now but they’ve got literally nothing on them rn and i’m still trying to figure those places out, so there’s not much point in following me over there even if you’re already on them.

the naruto fic group isn’t going anywhere, though i might try and make a backup blog for it somewhere else (somewhere you can set up with multiple admins/contributors would be cool if anyone’s got recs?) and while we’re all making the best of a bad situation i’ll probably sort out a blog focused on my original work maybe that’ll convince me to actually start actually writing it and maybe a dedicated fic blog too if that’s something people wanna see.

it’s incredibly unlikely that i’ll join twitter and i haven’t touched facebook in years, but if you want a place to chat then pm me and i’ll point you to my discord, i’ll be around as usual for a while, but i’d rather have to deal with moving to a new platform than stick around waiting for tumblr to sort its shit out, as funny as watching the entire site go into meltdown is.

[artlessictoan]

BTC_10, please. Thank you very much

haven’t actually done more than list the scenes happening for the chap yet (wanna focus on getting the fics that’ve been waiting longer for updates done before jumping back to btc) buuuut i can tell you there will be Grandpa Baki shenanigans and yodo might be starting to warm up to this weird new family. just a little.

(ask me about my WIPs)

[artlessictoan]

Oooh whats Good Night Little Brother about??

ahhhh yes, that’s one of my old ones (2016) and there isn’t really anything written for it, but i like the idea so i might try and revive it sometime! basically just a sand-sib oneshot set right after gaara.. y’know. Died. mostly an excuse to explore sib feels and work in some of my headcanons about the three really, but even if i don’t write it as a oneshot i’ll probably work in into that sand sib focused fic i wanted to write anyways

(ask me about my WIPs)

[artlessictoan]

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you, or interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

well i got tagged by @ad0rkable so here’s a thing. sorry all my file names are so boring kdfgh can you tell i studied game dev at uni

SITS_08

ATFC_13

LBAU_01

BtC_10

TFU_06

Heliotropism_04

False Starts_03

Observations

Good Night Little Brother

A Matter of Pride

NGHM Scene

AceNaruGaa Scene

Will of a Nation

Bound for All Eternity

What’s in a Name

..................woooooooow i’d forgotten about so many of these.......................................................i’m gonna go have a little meltdown over how far behind i am with writing.

[artlessictoan]

I just wanna tell you that Breaking the Cycle is one of the best things I've ever read and you portrayed the characters the correct way and it should be canon.

aHWWW NONNY!! tysm i’m just gonna go have a lil happy cry now