this got buried in my notifs, I’m so sorry this is late !! but thank you so much, the pirate au is definitely one of my favorite things I’ve ever written. Unforch I’ve been feeling a little burnt out creatively so progress on it has slowed a bit, but I promise I’m still working on it :) hopefully I can get a snippet out for sss today
in the meantime, here’s some sketches of pirate au from my sketchbook :D
hiiiiii juno of course!! thanks for sending some in <333
20. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?
LOVE writing a friend that the main character vents to about their crush. and especially when that friend goes :) you’re stupid you like that person so much <3 it’s just too fun to write i keep doing it
27. What is your most and least favorite part of writing?
i love love love when you enter that writing flow state and everything’s just working and you’re writing so fast and when you read it back it’s so Good… but then i have such a hard time when i get stuck. when i’m discouraged. it’s like every word is ripped out of me and when i read it i’m dissatisfied and disappointed. it’s always tough, but i try to remember that it’s a balance and i also get the good times !!! and it’s good!!!!
Hi Sophie!! Not a request, and only if you feel like it, please tell us your top 5 runway looks for s17 so far 😊😊 also your fave untucked moment lmao! have a fabulous day ✨️
hey juno!!! i know i am very late replying to this but i knew id miss s17 a lot and wanted to save your ask for when i wanted to relive it! 😅
(i'm only gonna pick looks from upto ep11 because i think thats when you sent this! but this was still really hard - so many great looks this season!)
⭐ lydia's 'quilted for your pleasure' runway - at the time is was quite neutral towards this look but as the weeks went by i found myself coming back to it alllll the time and now its probably the one i think about most! super fond of it!!!
⭐ lexi's parasol look - the parasol being the hat and stick?? genius. and she looked so good in the white hair!
⭐ sam's parasol look - this was so gorgeous and i didn't care at all that trinity already wore it lol sam elevated it and looked amazing!
⭐ suzie's 'tickled pink' runway - instantly obsessed with this!! love a clown look on the runway!
⭐ arrietty's clownfish look - loved this runway prompt and this look was sooo good - how i want to look honestly!
untucked was also really good this season! first time ive finished it since s14 lol
a lot of great moments but my favourite is probably sam's whole monologue in ep 13 where she's all emotional and everyone's comforting her.. until she says she'd kick her blood sister out of the competition and then they all make fun of her fghjkl
Wow what a great opening to tell you all that I’ve been working on an Arrilana secret dating au 😉 anyways this little Drabble is from that same universe :)
read on ao3!
8. In secrecy
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“Suzie invited us out for drinks tonight, you in?”
Lana raised a brow, looking up from her laptop. “Neither of us are 21 yet, in case you forgot.”
“That’s literally never stopped us before.” Jewels bounced over, draping herself over the side of Lana’s bed and looking up at her with wide hopeful eyes. “Please? This is the first time Suzie asked me out for drinks — I need you there to be my wingwoman.”
Lana pursed her lips, closing her laptop and turning her attention fully towards her roommate. “Why don’t you ask Kori or Lydia?”
“Because there’s no way in hell a bouncer will buy that Lydia is 21, and Kori will spill the beans about my crush as soon as she gets half a drink in her. Plus you’re my best friend,” Jewels whined, lips set in an adorable pout.
“I’d love to—“ she started to say and Jewels perked up instantly. “But I can’t.”
She felt a bit like a monster as she watched Jewels’ face fall. “It’s Arri’s birthday, I promised I’d spend the night with her,” she jumped into an explanation quickly.
Jewels bit her lip, brow furrowing. “Well, she and Suzie get along fine, right? Why don’t we just invite her?”
“Invite who?” Came a smooth voice from the doorway.
Lana’s heart fluttered as she caught sight of her girlfriend, leaning against the doorframe, smiling at Lana as if there was nobody else in the world. If Jewels wasn’t there, Lana would already have Arrietty in her arms, those perfect lips captured in her own. But Jewels was there, so she just smiled back.
Jewels popped up immediately, a glint in her eyes. “Arrietty, you like Suzie, right?”
Arrietty tilted her head to the side, a few strands of dark hair falling out of her loose braid. “She’s fine. We don’t talk all that much.”
“Okay, great. perfect,” Jewels barreled forward, entirely ignoring Arrietty’s response. “She invited us out for drinks tonight. You should come! I’ll buy you a birthday drink. Pretty please with a cherry on top?”
“Lana and I have dinner plans,” she said smoothly, walking over to the bed. Lana’s heart raced and her hand twitched with the urge to touch, to pull her girlfriend onto the shitty twin mattress and kiss every inch of tanned skin she could reach.
Jewels, however, didn’t seem to notice anything. “After, then?”
Lana had to hand it to her, she was nothing if not persistent. She looked at her girlfriend, raising her brows in a silent question.
“My roommate isn’t home tonight,” Arri murmured, so soft that Lana wondered for a second if she had imagined it.
Shifting imperceptibly closer, Lana let her hand ‘accidentally’ brush against Arrietty’s. “Sorry, Jewels. I’ll make it up to you next time,” Lana breathed, letting herself drown in the depths of Arrietty’s heated gaze.
Jewels said something in response — Lana was pretty sure she did at least — but she didn’t hear a word of it. Not when Arrietty was staring at her like that, making her entire body prickle with anticipation.
Suddenly, there were soft lips against hers, a familiar tongue gently teasing her lips apart. Lana’s eyes fluttered shut, hand coming up to cup her cheek as she kissed back — until a sudden bolt of fear shot down her spine.
Scrambling away as quickly as she could, her head whipped around wildly to find Jewels, already trying to come up with some sort of excuse, some lie to save face.
“Wow. Even on my birthday, I don’t get to kiss my girlfriend? I’m wounded.” Arrietty sat on the edge of the bed, wrapping her arms around Lana’s waist to pull her onto her lap.
Lana tried to calm her racing heart. “What about Jewels? What if she saw us—“ she swallowed thickly.
Rolling her eyes, Arrietty tilted her head up to peck Lana’s lips once more. “She left, baby. She’s off to try and convince Sam to go to the bar with her. It’s just us now.”
Looking over to the door and then back to Arrietty, she let herself be shifted onto her lap properly, arms snaking around her neck. “She could come back any minute…”
It was a half-assed protest and Arrietty knew it, leaning in to place a warm kiss on the tender flesh where Lana’s throat met her jaw. “That still gives us a minute or two to do whatever we please,” she breathed out against the soft skin, an electric current running through her body at the sensation. If she wasn’t careful, she could lose herself in this, let herself spend the rest of the night getting taken apart by Arrietty’s devilish mouth, Jewels be damned.
Moving carefully, she tucked two fingers underneath Arrietty’s chin, tilting her head up. Staring down into her dark twinkling eyes, the love she was suddenly hit with felt overwhelming – a semi-truck ramming into her at full speed. It was moments like this where she thought maybe she could let the world know about them; she wanted to be able to shout from the rooftops that Arrietty was hers and nobody else's.
Leaning in, she connected their lips gently, warmth blooming like a flower in her chest as they kissed, bodies melting together to become one.
The familiar click of the door being unlocked filled Lana’s ears like a gunshot. Shoving Arrietty away, Lana scrambled for purchase, praying she didn’t look too disheveled.
Someday. Someday she would tell Jewels; she would tell everyone.
I know I'm the only person in the whole world who feels this way, but Minthara's voice is a huge turn-off for me. She sounds like an old lady who smokes way too much.
🍉 Do you prefer to write short fics or long fics? Multichaptered works or single ones? Why?
I think I prefer to write long fics, because I'm very into slowburns and worldbuilding, and that takes time. That being said, I do love when in a short-ish one shot I get to put in a looot of worldbuilding, it feels like a fun challenge. And I prefer single chapters because I never ever finish multichapters lol
🍓 What’s a fic you’ve written you feel is underrated?