#non-dragons

[kingofthewilderwest]

I hate how much of the world feels and looks and acts fake

[kingofthewilderwest]

gosh

every time I look at Instagram for longer than three seconds I think it's repulsively fake.

every time I look at TikTok for longer than three seconds I think it's repulsive fake

bless you tumblr for keeping it real and weird, weird and real, chaotically gremlin, chaotically human

I love you tumblr

[kingofthewilderwest]

What was The Secret of the Golden Flower about? What did you think of it?

I haven't read it yet! It's a Chinese Taoist (plus Buddhist and Confucian thoughts) text involving meditation technique that became rather popularized in the West in the early Twentieth Century (interwoven in that, catching the eye of my archnemesis Carl Jung).

[kingofthewilderwest]

WIP #7, i choose you!! Asks #17, #20, and #7 with the ‘insert word’ of choice being “persnipity” (if thats not a real word, replacement word is “crinkled”) ✨

WIP fic ask meme

Ty for ask!!! WIP #7 is the... really, really, really bad life choice "what if I made a choose your own adventure" that could have a word count that'd make Branderson shudder (because see... there's going to be a mechanism wherein you're time-traveling to different locations and historic figures, but you can only time-travel a CERTAIN NUMBER of times, which means that each scene will be written differently depending on whether you reach X stage in your first hop or your fourth hop and......). (Don't...... don't question the scope of this project. Don't. AHHHHHH) And yet, hahahahahahahahaaaaaa, I have actively started work on it. (BECAUSE LIKE IT WOULD BE SO COOOOOOOL??)

17. If your WIP could be an outfit, what would that outfit look like?

This outfit is the equivalent of taking every item of your walk-in closet, your aunt's walk-in closet, your mom's walk-in closet, and your grandmother's walk-in closet, and then trying to wear every article simultaneously.

You'll suffocate from the 245 shirt collars restricting your neck, but BY GOLLY will you have made a fashion statement.

20. If your WIP was a scent, what would it be?

A terrifyingly over-fragrant hand lotion store wherein they decorate the store every 9 centimeters with sliced-open durians.

7. Does your WIP have the word persnipity/crinkled in it? If it does, what is the sentence it’s in, if you want to share what it is?

It does not! But at the planned scope of the fic, it probably will rotflh. I'll try to include those words at some point just for you. :P /hj

[kingofthewilderwest]

WIP ask, 4 and 11

🫶 love you so much, thanks for the ask ^.^

WIP fic ask meme

Gonna go with WIP #1, the main one I've been writing (and I know you've been reading! ^.^)

4. Your WIP is a room now. What does that room look like?

It's a torture chamber rotflh. It's a torture chamber with dangerous spikey contraptions of unknown nature and those medievel machines that over-stretch you. But on the wall are pastel rainbow posters of unicorns and mercats. There are clocks staggered every three feet on the wall and the floor is made of stopwatches.

Rotflh okay that's the room of my emotional feelings towards my WIP. ROTFLH. I enjoy writing it when I'm writing it, but I'm on edge whenever I'm not writing it. My silly brain is telling me I "have to finish it by a certain date" since I'm trying to write contemporaneous to the world. I've learned the hard way that that's a lot of pressure for me! I'm used to writing fics where I don't feel like things can change from under me. But it's all good. I am happy I'm writing the fic, I'm learning lots as I'm writing it, I'm proud every time I write a chapter, and I'm grateful for every comment! Makes my day to see an AO3 notification. ^.^

It was relieving talking to a Fandom Olde who's written lots of beloved fics, saying she's also had some wild relations with the clock.

Okay all jokes aside, I really am glad I'm writing the fic, and it does feel good every time I get my words out. :3

11. What’s the hardest thing for you working on your WIP?

OH WHOOPS I THINK I ALREADY ANSWERED IT HAHAHAHA.

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Hi! For the ask game, questions 8 and 14 for WIP #1

Ahhhh ty!!! HI! ^.^ Actually the one I've been working on and posting the most. Trying to stay ahead of contemporary events before they change while writing a lurv triangle.

8. Who is the easiest character to write for in your WIP?

None of them. AHHHH. [laughing] I try to pep-talk myself into "it's okay if you write OOC, because that's what most people do anyway, and most people don't notice or care. Just write your heart and enjoy it." Fics are about feeling and getting across our indulgences. Fic-readers love indulgences, too. So I've been trying to indulge my heart and just write, and if anyone ends up thinking it sounds halfway IC, then I'll treat that as a perk. My stupid brain gets rules-based, though, so in my magic perfect world, I'd be able to simulate them exactly. But that's easier to do with fictional beings than very complex people who've changed over time, and I would have to do close studies for hundreds of hours writing down observations to feel like I could "do okay". I've come to peace with the fact I'm not on the bullseye. :P Just so long as I'm slightly aiming at the target, right? haha.

I have noticed byang says "just" more than echen though, and I include that, for what it's worth. [laughs harder at myself]

Funny thing is, before I started writing fics for the fandom, I thought echen would be my only possible POV, because we think similarly. "Oh echen would be an EASY POV!" I said to myself. And then my feelings over times have changed, and I've related more to our Sweet Sheep Boi, despite the fact he thinks entirely differently than me. So that means that Sheep Boi has been easier to write. He's going to be less accurate to write. I'm constantly fighting the fact I'm writing a version that's more hyper-analytical and more emotionally-studied and more observation-based than I think he is. I'm sure he doesn't think like that. I'm trying to adjust by showing slow revelations over time, not getting everything right, being a slightly inaccurate POV, or making a few impulsive calls, but I haven't divorced myself from my analytical phraseology and that seeps heavily into this specific fic. But... given the premise of the fic... it would take 3x as long to try to write him "accurately." I'll portray him differently in other fics, I've told myself, dial things differently there. When I'm not on a timer. But screw it I am enjoying writing his POV rn and my heart is all over him and I am FEELING it which means I just hop into his POV by default and I'm enjoying it.

There are YET MORE THINGS I could say about the difficulties writing all three of the main chars for this specific fic, but I have already spoken a lot. Feel free to follow up if you want to chat more lol!

Congratulations for reading this long, contorted, ill-phrased, unedited ramble. 🤭 🤭 🤭 🤭 🤭 🤭 

14. What kind of ending to you envision for your WIP? Or is it undecided?

It's decided!!!! It'll end around Chapter 12. Although the ending changed from my first outline to my second outline. The new ending might be a less "conventional" ending compared to my first draft but I think I can sell it and I think it's a more natural and kind-spirited conclusion.

I am resolute that that's my ending. I know the exact resolution we'll have to the plot. I know the exact scene. I can seeee it allll in my heeaaaaad. I'm looking forward to writing the scene. Ohhhh I'm looking forward to writing the scene. It will be happy. It should be cute. :3 We're writing happy endings in this Arby's tonight.

After writing this much angst like I'm 15 again, it's gonna be great writing something kyoot.

[kingofthewilderwest]

As someone who once did a concurrent masters, three bachelors, a minor, and a certificate in college in four years as a Phi Beta Kappa honors student with three part-time research positions and multiple hobbies...........

I don't know how to survive 40 hour work weeks

I'm so burned out, so drained, and so unable to take care of myself

how the FUCK do you carve time and meaning out for yourself without burning into a crisp

[kingofthewilderwest]

You know what.

I've been shy and cryptic as hell (and I apologize) talking about my New Fanfiction Adventures. Hopefully this enthusiasm, despite my simultaneous timid covertness, has been at least a little okay/fun to see yabbering about????

BUT.

I think. I think. I think I think I think I think I might start to have Braveryfulityness.

I'm sitting on eight active WIPs that I'm buzzing over but needing to refind the brain energy to work on rnnnn

What if soft public launch to new projects? Anyone game to do some WIP ask game questions if I reblog the ask game post?