send more writing ask questions if you’d like! i’m still accepting them~
* u * you are the best for asking me, i am sO PUMPED TO ANSWER, okay let’s seeeeee–
A) If you could rec a piece of music to accompany one of your fics, what would you pick? Why?
So for my story “clutched my life (and wished it kept)” (a sad, angsty Climbing Class fic I wrote way, way back), I listened to “In the Woods Somewhere” by Hozier on repeat for it! Which I mentioned in the author’s note. But also, you should totally listen to “You” by Keaton Henson as well, because it also goes really well with it, I think. (Please do not read this story if major character death upsets you! Because there is major, major, major character death in this one, folks!)
H) How do you write? Paper, pen, computer? Music, no music?
I write my outlines or plot ideas in Google Keep on my phone if I can’t make it to a computer! I also have a notebook I jot down ideas in if I feel in a mood to use a paper and pen. Otherwise, I write actual content on my computer, and I have to listen to music when I write. No exceptions. If there’s no music, I just can’t get the creative juices flowing!
J) What are the best jokes you told this year? Any jokes you thought were funny that people didn’t catch? Vice-versa?
Oh god, I tell so many bad jokes, I can’t even remember them all. Just today my best friend was telling her dog, “Hold on!” and I looked at her and yelled, “Hodor!” and watched her face crumble as she remembered. That was great. She didn’t appreciate that enough, I feel. I say a lot of puns. No one appreciates my puns. :(
M) Meta! Have any meta about a story you’re dying to throw out there?
I. HAVE. SO. MUCH. META. Tbh, people could ask me this question a bunch more times and I would never run out of meta to share. If you want, you can always send me more of this one and put a ship with it! But for now, currently, I have a story I want to write for Iwaoi that’s a Chihayafuru AU. The meta is that Oikawa is pretty much Arata, and Iwaizumi is Chihaya. The Aoba Johsai team is also on the karuta team. Pretty much, Oikawa gets Iwaizumi into karuta before he has to move away, and they don’t keep in touch as well as they should. I’m thinking they exchange a lot of emails at first, and it peters off. But Iwaizumi keeps playing karuta, because he honestly belives it’ll reconnect them someday, because Oikawa wants to be like his grandfather and become a professional player and someday be the “King” of it. So Iwaizumi single handedly gets a team together to play it in high school, and eventually he meets Oikawa again, and it’s a lot of pining oh my god so much long distance pining. It’ll follow the manga/anime, but there will be lots of differences in their own personal plot, cause I have way more plans for them that don’t follow what the anime/manga tells, so. :3c
P) What are your pet peeves in other people’s work?
Okay. I want to preface this that this is just grammar peeves. Honestly, I don’t hate on anyone for their own personal twists on writing, even if I don’t personally like it. Grammar wise, however, I really do not like when someone uses when someone doesn’t use a comma with speaking sentences, etc. Those sorts of things.
For the speaking sentences thing, it’s like this:
I hate when it’s like this —-> “Hello.” She said.
It should be like this —-> “How are you,” she asked, “and what are you doing here?”
Does that make sense? Anyway, all my pet peeves are with grammar tbh. Also when you don’t space your paragraphs, or if you space them too much. I like simple spacing. One line between each paragraph to break it up so it doesn’t strain my eyes, etc. LOL
R) If you had to rewrite one of your stories from scratch, which one would it be? What would you do to it?
Oh God. I mostly write PWP nowadays. I used to write a lot of reader-inserts, and I’d probably rewrite those. Actually, I have recently rewritten quite a few of those. If I had to choose one from what I’ve written so far for canon characters I’ve shipped, it would probably be “clutched my life (and wished it kept),” the story I mentioned earlier. I think I could do it a lot more justice now than I did back in 2015. However, not a lot of people like it that much to begin with, so like. What’s the point, you get what I’m sayin’? lmfao
Also I could probably improve on the brojobs fic. I kind of want to add more mutual pining and give it plot, but also. I’m kind of shitty with writing longer fics. Look at my soulmate fic. I’m still slowly chipping away at that.
BTW that just reached 5k recently. So, you know, it’s still comin’ along. At a glacial pace. I’ll be done with it by the time literally no one ships Climbing Class anymore.
T) Themes, motherfucker, do you have them? What are they?
Themes, like, for my stories? Ah. Not so much, I don’t think. Kind of hard to have them when you mostly write PWP right now. (I’m going to be honest. I very nearly put “write now” and keyboard smashed, I was so mad at myself for it.) The only thing that really has a theme would be the soulmates AU. It’s supposed to be about how, sometimes, you might meet your soulmate, but you might not be ready for them. You’re young, you’re dumb, you’re a shitty person who hasn’t grown up and matured yet, and maybe it’s just not meant to be until you’re ready to be a more level headed, better person. That sort of thing. That’s the only theme I currently have with a story.
hello, i just came from rereading your SP fanfic, Under Duress, after years of reading it for the first time, and its like everytime i come back, i love it even more ❣️ if you ever think of updating it again, please let us know, its honestly a gem, along with your other SP fanfics that were in AO3 💞 much love, thank you for existing ❤️
thanks!! i appreciate all the wonderful comments i’ve gotten. i actually abandoned that story on AO3. it’s still up, but it’ll never be updated. i’m sorry for the loss of any future updates, but i’m glad people are still getting enjoyment out of it. i didn’t want to delete it and take it completely away from people. ❤︎ even if i wanted to update it, i don’t think there’s a way for me to take it back and update it. :(
Hii I recently felt the urge to read The Belief in Happy Endings again. I know it's a lot to ask but would it be possible to read the whole thing soon?
Unfortunately not at the moment. I’m trying to completely rewrite it and inspiration is just not around for me right not, for my reader-inserts, sorry!! Someday, I do plan on rewriting it all. It’s already pretty much finished in its worse version from years ago, lol. I’ll try to write some more for it soon! I’d say it’s my new year’s resolution to at least update one reader-insert story. That sounds like a good resolution!
soooooo... under duress.... that was a thing.. (i'm sorry if you hear this a lot) it's pretty clear no updates are arriving but i wanted to let you know that it's an amazing fic and i wish i could find more like it
Under Duress is still on AO3, but it’s been orphaned! So if you still want to read it, you can. :) Just gotta go onto AO3 and search it up! I’m glad you enjoyed it, but alas, the SP fandom was not very loving toward content creators and I got barely any recognition for it at the time. So I abandoned it. :( But I still wanted it to be left up for those who want to read it and enjoy what’s left of it in the future!
Edit: I’m dumb. You wrote “I wish I could find more like it” not “You wish you could find it.” LMAO But anyway, I’m seriously glad you liked it. Sometimes I miss writing for it. It was a lot of fun at the time and I got a kick out of posting each new chapter. Coding was a bitch tho.
u somehow manage to like all the same niche, sadly small fandoms that im in and i didn't think there was a god but i might need to reconsider tbh
(✯◡✯) what fandoms are we talking about here, anon? is it oofuri? is it until dawn? listen, i’m in way too many niche fandoms tbh and it just makes me, like. suffer. if there’s other people out there in the same niche fandoms… we should be friends. or at least talk more about our suffering in these small niche fandoms. (╥_╥)
new year's ask: aspire, connect, venture, and positive vibes :D
1) aspire: what are 3 things you want to achieve next year?
okay, what is really hilarious is i already posted my resolutions! so... that’s answered there. and i wrote that legit two seconds before i looked at what you asked me, lmfao. WHAT A COINCIDENCE.
2) connect: who is someone new you met this year that you wouldn't be the same without?
fuck. i’m... really bad at meeting new people??? i’ve talked to a ton of new people in some fandom discords and here on tumblr. uhm. i’m really glad @lesbiangravity and i are mutuals and they let me know about their horrible naruto memes tag, cause that was something i definitely needed in my life, thank you rain.
3) venture: name 3 new things you tried this year.
curry. i tried curry for the first time ever, and it was pretty good! i’m going to make some for my meal prep this week on my own. the one i had was takeout, and i liked it enough that i wanna try my own and make it milder. zombies run. it pretty much made me enjoy going on long walks and stuff. that was great. meal prepping. it changes lives, my guys. i stopped doing it for the last month or so, but like. i’m gonna get back into it. when you come home and you’re tired and depressed, it’s nice to already have good food ready to eat so you don’t have to do anything else and still be eating better than junk food or microwave dinners.
4) positive vibes: you've made it through another year! i'm so proud of you and my year wouldn't have been the same without you <3
1) memorize: describe in detail the happiest day you’ve had this year.
i honestly… can’t? because nothing is really standing out. that could also be because i’m blah and it’s really hard to think or remember super happy things!!! not to be depressing lmfao. but like. i really can’t. possibly any time i got a comment on a fic, or when someone complimented me on something. oh!!! i was super happy about this new dress, and i literally got nothing but compliments from literally every girl at work for it and how good it looked on me, so i guess that?? that’s the only thing that’s sticking out to me. lmfao THANK YOU FOR ASKING LISA I LOVE YOU <3
15) “No Matter What (Basic Tape vs. Frances)” by Basic TapeI just relistened to this. It’s so good. I forgot. This remix is good. I don’t even remember where I found this. I think it was because of 8tracks. I’m pretty sure it was because of 8tracks.
50) “Flashes” by Tove LoWhy am I not surprised. There is actually a lot of Tove Lo on this list. I’m not even shocked.
