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Cos I know you like both series, pls consider this Natsume Yuujinchou au I've been thinkin abt w Keith as Natsume. Krolia is the original owner of the book of friends, and spirits keep harassing Keith over getting their names back. Kolivan was a friend of his mother so he takes him under his wing after hearing abt Keith getting passed around between families so much. Red is Nyanko-sensei of course cos she's a talking magic cat and she can turn into a bigger magic cat to protect Keith.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH, don’t do this to me! The number of to-be-written fics on WIP mountain is already too great! You can’t tempt me with this delicious food!

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happy candlenights @lionswaps! here is some sibling bonding for you!

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tagged by @lionswaps, thank <3

Rules: Name your top 10 favourite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people!

it’s been a long time since i’ve thought about 10 whole different pieces of media in the same time period lol, but here’s what i’ve got, in no particular order. (most of these were extremely hard choices. seriously. i tend to love everyone much more than i have favorites.)

accompanied with illustrative gifs:

1. lotor from voltron: legendary defender

2. talenel from the stormlight archive

(when cosmere isn’t big enough for good gifs lol)

3. riza hawkeye from fullmetal alchemist

4. loki from the marvel cinematic universe

5. glimmer from she ra and the princesses of power

6. hoid from the cosmere

(cosmere, again, too small for any specifically-hoid gifs. this is fitting tho!)

7. zuko from avatar: the last airbender

8. ava from kingdom hearts

9. zack fair from final fantasy vii

10. sans the skeleton from undertale

if y’all feel like indulging, i’m tagging @princess-of-arcana, @asiryn, @luanna801, @megatraven, @transvaxildan, @stellunaria, @221bdisneystreet, @timeywobblyshit, @justsomekidsfrombrooklyn, and @rainpath5466!!

[justheretobreakthings]

Writing trademark hmm. I can't really explain it, but there's something about the way you write dialogue that's always very recognisable to me? Like, it's always very believable in-character, but at the same time more than once I've gone into a fic without actually checking who the author was, and I read a part with a dialogue exchange and thought "huh this is giving me Naomi vibes", and then I checked and saw it was you like, ah. that'd be why.

😍 Aaah, thank you! I feel like dialogue is the area where I’ve made the most progress since the beginning of my fanfic-writing days of yore (which were... very not so good). It was a difficult trek, but I’m glad to see apparently it has paid off! <3

What’s my writing trademark?

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aah your secret santa fic was so good!! The mental image of Keith in his room lovingly crafting the trash Pidge out of bits n bobs and being excited to give it to her... so good, had me smiling for ages :'))

Thank you! :D It was fun to write, and honestly Keith and Pidge would have such an adorable friendship if it just had time to blossom. The fandom can never have enough platonic Kidge-y goodness!

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I'm curious about the Death of Diplomacy one, what's that about? :0

Another one that I only have saved on my personal laptop so I can’t share a snippet right now - I’ll try and remember to do that at some point later, I guess.

Anyway, concept for this one is that Voltron needs to attend to a diplomatic mission in order to work on an alliance with a planet that’s got tons of great potential resources for them, and because of the timing of this mission and people already being out on their own assignments, the only paladins available to do this diplomacy-heavy mission are Keith and Pidge.

So they are now tasked with arranging this alliance and proving that they are perfectly capable of behaving themselves and being as friendly and diplomatic as need be.

Of course, that all goes out the window when the planet decides they’ll be happy to ally with Voltron, but only on the condition that they get rid of their Galra team member.

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lionswaps replied to your post “It seems like over half of the content of all the fic I’ve written on...”

I mean, those conversations are very therapeutic and always a joy to read, but if you had someone get accidentally sucked out an airlock mid teary-eyed apology I wouldn't be opposed to it and definitely wouldn’t see it coming lol

Lance: So I guess what I’m trying to say, Keith, is that I’m sorry for the way - 

Keith: Hold that thought, man, I seem to be getting pulled into the void.

Lance: What the - ?! Oh no! Why, oh, why did we choose to have this conversation right next to the airlock door after Coran mentioned in a throw-away line that it might still have some bugs in the locking mechanism?!

Keith: Guess we can’t undo it now, here I goooooooooo......

[justheretobreakthings]

Like, legit all your multi chap fics are so great but Remember Me is my fav. I'm so intrigued!!! I just wanna know all the answers already it has me hooked, and I admire your characterisation of everyone in that fic so much. I also love your desert keith week fic too, the tone of your writing perfectly captured the isolation Keith was dealing with and for someone who doesn't generally read pre-canon fics I found it super engaging!!

Thank youuuu! Trust me, I wish I could get all the answers to you immediately. I can’t wait for someone to finally invent that thought-to-text software we’ve been waiting on so I can get updates out faster. Desert Keith Week was a huge challenge so it felt amazing to have the finished product - still can’t believe I managed it. Guess classic rock fueled me.

Let me know your favorite fic!