#lsits

[glutaminase]

🔦 and 🎵 for like salt infusing the sea :)

🔦: Did you learn anything while writing it? About yourself? About writing?

so much about writing! i mentioned before this is the first finished thing i’ve written of this length so definitely i learned a lot about like, the very basic fundamentals of writing fiction. especially about pushing through the boring (to me) sections to get through to the parts i really was excited to write. also i tried actually outlining before i started so that was new hahah and definitely something that i know now that i Need to do going forward

🎵: Did you have a playlist/piece of music that went with this story? 

omg yes i have SEVERAL playlists lol one of them is all hindi music (im south asian so it’s like 50% of what i listen to), the other one is super long but a couple specific songs that i listened to a lot throughout are: winterbreak & stayaway - muna; 8 (circle) - bon iver; forever rain - RM; tonight (i wish i was your boy) - the 1975. also this should really go without saying but so much taylor swift lmao 

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[glutaminase]

hey ‘like salt infusing the sea’ has been open in my browser tab for God Knows How long & i’m finally making time to sit down n read it and i wanna send u a message to say it’s a really lovely fanfic!

i need time to finish reading & digesting (i am a extremely slow reader) so i can leave a more detailed nice comment (in ur tumblr inbox maybe bc my ao3 name is different) but what stuck out to me is like, the way you write character interactions feels very warm and grounded in these little details like ‘hannah looking at owens cards’ and ‘jamie flinches at dani swearing’, feels v human. i really enjoyed reading them. also there’s a really fun rhythm to ur prose (opening sentence of ch 2 is a gr8 line!!). like my gut feeling is to describe ur prose as elastic but i cant quite place what i mean by that yet :/

...but that’s what stands out to me immediately! hope this makes some kind of sense, & i hope ur having a nice day, night, whenever :)

Omg thank you so so much! this message rly just made my day lol. It was fun getting to imagine and add all those light little ensemble interactions, i love that those stood out to you - I’ve noticed that those types of details are what i really like in other writers’ work too tbh and definitely tried to make a point to figure out how to make all those relationships feel grounded like that. Also i love the word “elastic” to describe the writing haha. I hope u enjoy the rest of the fic!:)

[glutaminase]

ok, so:

I love reading works about lesbians by lesbians bc ‘Pining after ur best friend who is dating a dude she is clearly not into and also u don’t know what to do about this weirdly intense friendship you have and you kinda hate urself for it?’ that’s a lesbian experience if I ever read one!!

I’m gonna rehash my prev comment but I love how grounded and realistic it feels emotionally, the way everyone interacts w each other? I really like the dynamic of Jamie begrudgingly liking Eddie despite her best efforts, or that jamie does actually get frustrated with dani. “it sent an ugly thrill through her to imagine Dani seeing her with another girl” wormed its way into my brain bc i love reading about ugly feelings like that.

I said ur writing feels elastic and i have spent so long tryna figure how to explain it other than like, something adjacent to comedic timing? like pulling an elastic band and then it snaps back into shape. eg, ‘The message it would send: look, I don’t need you, either, not that that was remotely true’ or ‘it doesn’t feel like a confession, it feels like letting all the air out of a balloon.’ I feel like you really capture the push and pull of how jamie presents herself & builds these walls up vs like, she is v tender and emotional? loved the ‘she still feels like that hypersensitive, lonely little kid’ paragraph a lot.

This last bit is just lil details I really enjoyed for one reason or another:

- Describing ‘Saturn devouring his son’ as ‘fucked up in the kind of way jamie wants to keep looking at’

- ‘[dani] using her tongue to lick the cup clean. Jamie has to avert her eyes’

I feel like this is totally incoherent but I hope I SORTA explain my many feelings about LSITS

Omg this was such a delightful message to start my day with thank u so much. I do love how specific and yet somehow universal to gays this particular pining experience is hahaha like...i have absolutely had an lsits jamie experience myself obv and like u said it’s so.. specifically relatable LMAO why are we so prone to these weird intense romantic friendships

I’m so happy to hear u felt like all the various character dynamics felt grounded :D  that is like the #1 thing I notice and enjoy in other people’s writing, the way certain writers are able to capture all the small gritty ugly feelings that come with being a person hahah and i’m really glad i managed to somewhat do that myself in this story!! Also i think I said this already to you but i LOVE the description of my writing as “elastic”, that rly stuck with me after your first message and continues to!! ALSO also, this is probably way more than you intended to know about my own thoughts on my writing lmao, but I for some reason started really struggling with Jamie’s characterization the longer i wrote her - i was kind of starting to worry that she was becoming a featureless cypher lol - so it means a lot to hear that u felt like I captured her character well :) 

In conclusion thank u so much I love all of these thoughts!!!! I appreciate it more than i can possibly express

[glutaminase]

I saw that ask and LSITS, JAMIE KILLED ME. She was great but man I would’ve loved to have seen Dani’s POV for this whole fic.

Like Dani fighting with Eddie, then JAMIE showing up and making her feel better. Spending nights at Jamie’s like “hey how can I make this subtle that im def staying here” Jamie going on dates cause she cant handle it™️ and Dani just not understanding why it upsets her that Jamie is sleeping around it must be because then she can’t have sleepovers with her right??? And when Dani stops contacting Jamie so much after she leaves like MY HEART. OH. And when Jamie gets back from her run and Dani loses her shit in a lowkey but high key way??? The headcanon-ing i did of Dani’s head during all that man.

god anon I haven’t thought about lsits in so long but this ask is making me wanna go back and re examine it for an opportunity to write a quick Dani POV oneshot lmao

[glutaminase]

📈 for dani in like salt infusing the sea because i LOVED her character arc and i thought it was extremely nuanced. thus i want insider info

📈: was there a clear character arc you wanted ___ to go on?

putting this under a cut because it became obscenely long im so sorry

Well first of all thank you i’m glad you liked it! I actually wrote out the gist of what i wanted jamie and dani’s arcs to look like in my lil brainstorming doc before i started writing it and as i went along i was a little worried that it would be too heavy-handed lol it’s nice to hear that u thought it was nuanced!

tbh i can’t take the credit cuz i wanted her arc to be pretty similar to what it was on the show hahah. initially was unsure how i’d be able to translate it to a modern setting & have it seem realistic that she’d still be closeted and in a long-term relationship with a man in her late twenties - not that it’s now like super easy to be open with your sexuality or something, but like, it’s definitely less of an external barrier than it was in the show’s setting and to me I wanted it to be more about gaining agency/control for her and like.. allowing herself to be Known (? if that makes sense) than about her sexuality specifically. I feel like one of dani's primary motivations starting out both in bly and in this story is like, managing everyone's expectations of her and fitting into all these externally defined boxes and I wanted her to end the story more comfortable shaking off all of that

Also, part of what i wanted for her arc with the epilogue - it was fun exploring the space that dani would be in a few years after the story and after making all those big Reclaiming My Life moves. Obv being with Jamie doesn't fix everything, so i (completely self-indulgently) wanted her to also be able to go back to her past and reconcile with it & not have to look back on it and just think "well i just completely wasted and fucked up 27 years of my life". like I didn't want the main takeaway from her arc to be that she's all good at the end of the story, she has a life she's been able to build out of what she values, but that now she's left with this long awful past that she just has to try to ignore and move forward from without addressing it. I hope I was able to do that effectively with the epilogue!

Oh my god im sorry this is so long and rambling lol I didn't realize I had this many thoughts about this! Tysm for the question

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What do you do if you have had the worst ever stay at a bed and breakfast where the conditions were absolutely deplorable and you have a bad night sleep waking up with backache. I decided to find a monkey bar on the beach that had just been installed the week before. The downside was my limbs were full of so much fatigue. I could not work out at the Rach that I’m used to. However, a little is better than a lot sometimes especially when you are exhausted. So I did as much as I could have had to settle for that.. In the first video, I do some inverted crunches but I’m not wearing the correct shoes. I didn’t decide to fast walk along the sand back to my car which is parked half a mile away and return with my Vibram, five fingers. I sent to a number of more inverted crunches some l-sits and l-sit rotations. Nicely bought those still feeling very fatigued and do some half squats on top of the monkey bar even though the weather is quite stormy outside and has blown quite a wind. #monkeybarexercises #lsits #lsitrotations #halfsquats #beachworkout #invertedcrunch #calisthenicstraining (at The Beach, Eastcliff, Bournemouth) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1Sj_VDcTh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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