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[catsbythegreat]

23 for the salty ask meme!

Unpopular character you love? (BSD) 

This is hard because I don’t really know who’s unpopular. Gin I guess is the character with the smallest part that I like more than other characters with small parts. I have a soft spot for her and I want to know more. GIVE ME MORE 

fandom salt asks

[micronecro]

ikenew replied to your post “Reminder for new followers”

the only person i trust to write abuse/rape recovery fics besides myself is you

thanks I hope to eventually branch out from sawada “only god and google may judge me” tsunayoshi and Uncle Gaslight. Your endless fresh perspectives an inspiration to me

[tyelkormo]

heres a prompt. i want chuuya figuring out (either bc someone told him or on his own) that akutagawa has the sweetest baby crush on him, and being flustered and confused but super nice about it. whether its requited or not is up to you. id be willing to pay for this. im p much begging. thank you

i forgot i was supposed to post the link with the ask BUT here u go!! 

warm blood (aka 13,2k of chuuya being confused about akutagawa) 

He tries to forget about it, to respect the fact that it’s none of his business, but that doesn’t work either. Chuuya was always a mixture of overly stubborn and equally curious—the minute he feels the need to act, to know, to explore, it becomes impossible to ignore or to let go, no matter how hard he tries.

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!!! ive wanted to draw chuuya for ages....... He

› palette challenge

[sibilantly]

for the ask game (because i forgot to ask actual questions like a fool): A for in the family of things, B, K, R!

(The ask game in question is this one!)

A: How did you come up with the title to in the family of things?

‘in the family of things’ is the final line from the wonderful poem Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. (You can read/listen to it here.)

Shortly before I began posting IFT, I was casting about madly for a title that I hoped would encapsulate the themes I was building into the story. “It has to evoke found families!” I hissed to myself. “People seeking atonement! People with vastly different experiences nevertheless finding a point of connection, and the joys and complications that brings!”

It was a lot to expect of one poor title, lol. (And probably shows you how stupidly ambitious/impatient I was, even back then.)

In the end, the main theme I focused on was that of found families, and Oliver’s poem swam up out of my memory. On its own/out of context, I found that line to be a fitting description of John, the orphan kids, Barsad, and Bane. They’re considered outsiders - less than human, things - by most of society, but they’ve nevertheless managed to form a quasi-found family.

That being said, the whole of Wild Geese encapsulates a lot of IFT’s themes, particularly the first six lines:

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?

Hmm, no, I don’t think so. At least, not in a direct manner. The topics/themes I try to explore (mostly in my longer works) are ones that are of intense interest to me, but they aren’t based on my personal experience. I think the closest I get is that a lot of the ‘mundane’ criminal and street life details I sprinkle through my Inception and TDKR fics come from my experience working with young and adult offenders.

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

Other than Persistence?

I once came up with this Mad Max crossover (fusion?), and I guess it could be viewed as a weird remix of Persistence. In fic, I’ve found that most people transplant the Inception characters into the Mad Max universe as Max’s contemporaries, but I was struck by this thought: what if Inception takes place before Fury Road?

What if you have an Arthur who is older, wiser, and - after many years together - still very in love with Eames. What if this Arthur - still in the illegal dreamshare game, like some founding father figure - is in Australia on a job (MAYBE EVEN SYDNEY, AY?) when the nuclear apocalypse goes down? What if he tries– God, he TRIES, he pulls every string, calls in every favour at his disposal, but the airports are closed, the ports impassable, and there’s no way out, no way for him to get to LA, or Mombasa, or any of the places Eames might be waiting for him?

What if Arthur has to come to terms with this? What if he has to learn to live with this unliveable truth, the bone-deep grief that comes from knowing that even if Eames managed to survive the bombs (he must have, Arthur tells himself, he did; Eames is, above all else, a survivor), Arthur will never see him again; he will have to go on, scrape together a new life in this barren world, because Arthur, too, is a survivor.

(And no, when they finally cross paths, Max is not Eames. He’s several years younger than Arthur, much younger than Eames would be (much younger than Eames is, Arthur corrects himself). It just fucks with Arthur’s grieving process more.)

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

Terry Pratchett is a huge influence on my work. I’m working doggedly to develop and hone my own voice - learning when to rein in the humour and let the emotional scenes stand on their own - but Pratchett’s potent blend of humour, humanity, and pathos is basically what I aspire to. LIFE GOALS, MAN. YOU GOTTA HAVE THEM.

Kai Ashante Wilson and Alyssa Wong are two thought-provoking speculative fiction writers (fantasy/dark fantasy/horror, mostly) whose works are interwoven with sharp, sometimes disturbing social commentary. When I finally get around to writing my OTHER canon-divergent TDKR novel, it’ll be Wilson’s and Wong’s fiction that I look to as atmospheric and thematic inspiration.

Yahtzee is the fic author I look up to when it comes to plotting world-changing AUs and/or stories with epic scope and depth. *deep sigh* IFT could only hope to hold a candle to her novels.

bauble, dialogue master par excellence, is the fic Yoda to my Luke. By which I mean she sits on my back, laughs while I struggle and bitch mightily about running through the swamp how my writing ambitions outstrip my current skill level. She pushes me to do better, refuses to let me get away with being lazy, and I learn something new from her every day. Again, I can only hope my works will one day hold a candle to hers.

(Thank you so much for the questions, and I hope I didn’t bore you to tears with my lengthy answers!)

[curapicas]

you remind me of mikado...

Oh god why- um. I did move by myself into another city to study, but the most excitment I’ve ever faced here was like

That one time I’ve faced seven robbers at once

[mininecro]

(barges in 15 hours late with starbucks) 💛

i gush about how much i love you too ro. you guys have no object permanence i tell you that you’re literal perfection and like 3 days later, again, i’m positive you are physically incapable of doing wrong and to not pander to your interests is to violate some universal law.. honestly tragic?

[soutenkyuu]

ikenew replied to your post:

So I realised I still needed to watch the last...

i love akutagawa on the premise that he’s just a fucked up young adult who doesn’t know any better until he meets atsushi who’s making it his life goal to pound morality into his dumbass head

Yeah, I really started to understand that from watching the last couple of episodes. I've really warmed up to him and I think he and Atsushi sort of balance each other out. I also really laughed at their reaction to being compared to one another, too. I have to agree, though, they really are alike.