#rintalk

[suzukiblu]

I know I'm not, like, normal about Think Pink, but any time someone starts a sentence with "Except..." and trails off for a second, all I hear in my head is:

Except... pets are loved, of course. And Tim didn't just say, 'somebody else's weapon,' now did he.

None of us are normal about "think pink", friend. That fic does not exist for ANYONE to be normal about. If people are normal about it, I wrote it wrong, hahaha!

Funny story, though: Kon having that "pet vs. weapon" thought process is actually one of the parts of the story that I always felt I'd written really awkwardly and honestly might be the part I feel like I wrote MOST awkwardly, it still tends to jar me when I reread it. So it's nice to hear it worked enough for you that it made a lasting impression, haha! 😆

( god, I need to write SO much more of this damn chapter either way, though. like so, SO much more. )

[suzukiblu]

. . . anyway yeah about to be a queue where I am answering Many Asks about where the heck I've been, so fyi that's gonna be a thing, hah. seemed rude not to respond to everyone, just it's been almost two months sooooo it's gonna take a min to get through the list.

[suzukiblu]

I was just rereading draft stud and Jason insisting he has hench/people/ not hench/men/ is so in character. Like yes darling your gang is gender inclusive, we are feminists here <3

Jason Todd hires his henches based on merit, professionalism, and varied life experience, because god dammit he is NOT gonna be the crime lord with no one in the room to be like "hey boss, we need to talk about health care and civil rights, no Josie will not be good to come to the gang war a month after giving birth, and why are we trying to solve ALL our problems with applied violence and drug money?" He REFUSES to be that crime lord.

[suzukiblu]

One Piece????? 👀

listen. l i s t e n . I am not immune to the siren call of great actors, nor the siren call of an adaptation that knows exactly how anime to get with it without getting TOO anime with it.

I am not gonna image description all sixteen of the following gifs because all you really need to know is "a bunch of animated gifs from the One Piece live action adaptation that all illustrate the points of 'great actors' and 'exactly how anime to get with it without getting TOO anime with it'." Meaning like, mostly it's just a bunch of headshots of the different actors really just OWNING their roles.

Also, oregano IS for savages, and while there IS a heterosexual explanation for the way Zoro and Sanji interact with each other, their actors are CLEARLY determined to undermine it at every given opportunity.

[suzukiblu]

Saw the Jason/Kom pic you reposted. Poor Kon is communist Superboy whoever doesn’t have one. You can share Tim’s. Stephanie should have seduced him to prove she was a real Robin.

while I love the tragedy/missed opportunity implied by the fact that if Jason hadn't died he ABSOLUTELY would've been Kon's Robin, I really feel like CANONICALLY, Jason's designated Super should've been Match. Like, sorry, Bizarro, but Match was here first AND has been in desperate need of both a social circle and an actual narrative for literal decades at this point. I partially feel this way because of how their stories have a lot of semi-parallel/semi-opposite points, partially feel this way because I want to ship them about it, and ESPECIALLY feel this way because of how Match got written on Suicide Squad.

so idk, I guess this just means Steph gets him now?? or Cass, I guess. Cass also could get him. hmmmmm.

welp now I wanna figure THAT one out, whoops, hahaha.

( listen, Kon can only be shared so effectively, he's already gotta cover ALL of Young Justice as it is. time is finite, babes, even at superspeed!! )

[suzukiblu]

In case any of you ever wondered exactly how much I am the "write what you sincerely wish you didn't know" type of person, yesterday two of my favorite coworkers ganged up on me at the same time to very sincerely tell me multiple things that they and other people we work with appreciate about me and also very excitedly offer me a promotion that I didn't even apply for that involves working with them both more and comes with benefits, full-time, and very literally quadruple my yearly salary about it, and anyway that's why I've been an emotional wreck for the past twenty-four hours ahahahahahahaSOB.

[suzukiblu]

daily word count: June 1st

mirrorverse!Clark and Kon's daddy issues both get some - 150w

Match and Kon and the time magic made them do it - 100w

Clark panic-adopts his teenage clones - 150w

matchbox pockets - 300w

WC total for June 1st: 700w

So I think I'm gonna try to post a tracker of my daily word count/word count breakdowns for the month, see if that helps motivate my brain a little and also give people an idea of what specifically I'm working on. Still kinda burnt out, honestly, but we're just doin' our best to actually give ourselves time to chill out again here, hah. So we'll see how that goes, pretty much!

listen I just need to write SO bad, okay, I have been denied SO MUCH WRITING TIME the past few months-- 😭😭

[suzukiblu]

my dearest, suzukiblu (with a comma after dearest)

I'd noticed that I hadn't gotten a post notif for a while, but only today realized it's been a month or so since your last activity on tumblr.

Tumblr isn't real life, but it is made of real people, and I want to make sure the real person who goes by the username suzukiblu is alive and well, and knows that their absence is noted. Not because their creative work is unfinished, but because their presence is valued.

I hope that things are as well as can be, and that your world hasn't tilted too far off its axis of late. If they aren't or if it has, only know that you are in my thoughts and heart.

PS - Sorry to add to Mount Inbox!

listen, man, Mount Inbox is just a mountain RANGE at this point, hah, it can't be tamed, but I appreciate the check-in either way, ty. 🩷 it's just been very busy over here and I haven't had much real downtime, alas.

( also I might need a meds adjustment, I'm realizing, but that's its own thing cough cough. )

I did at least get some writing done while I was gone, so I've got that?