Nov 4, 2019
It’s so weird to be working on Bystander Effect again tbh. Like, good weird, but still weird. I’m out of practice of it.
but whatever MC and Undyne have officially crossed the lines into actual friends and it’s cute.
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It’s so weird to be working on Bystander Effect again tbh. Like, good weird, but still weird. I’m out of practice of it.
but whatever MC and Undyne have officially crossed the lines into actual friends and it’s cute.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter 5 of puppy (love) problems is UP! Come see what Toby’s stolen this time.
The new chapter of puppy love was so good i hope u know that!!
Thank you! I had a bit of ghost writing help from a friend who doesn't really want to take credit for it, since I've been in a bit of a writing funk recently. I'm glad it was enjoyed!
god, 11 PM and my muse is giving me the RAWEST fucking lines to work with.
How much do you love your writing? Especially your fanfics like Bystander Effect? What do you think of writing as a hobby? What do you think of Undertale (and by extension, Deltarune)? ((Sorry for all of the questions! I saw the blatantly lie thing and thought, might as well go for it! Sounds fun!))
[Blatant Lie Answer]
- How much do you love your writing?
Honestly, I feel like there’s nothing that I can really do to get better at writing at this point? It’s so easy and actually kind of boring by now, I sit down and the words just flow!
- Thoughts on Bystander Effect?
Kind of over it by now. It’s been a fun two years but I want to move on and write other things. The main character falls kind of flat nowadays and most of the things I had planned for it don’t really spark much joy anymore.
Undertale/Deltarune opinion?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Eh. They’re nothing special.
[Actual Honesty answer because I went to bed like right after posting the Anti-Honesty Hour post and I’m also actually really emotional about all of these questions]
- How much do you love your writing?
I have… so many emotions about my writing in general. It’s a form of anxiety release when it works, and I’m always trying to figure out new ways to get better and to incorporate more things that I’m learning into my writing. I wish I could say it’s easy – I’ve actually been going through a pretty severe case of seasonal apathy, where even though I know what I want to write next, I just can’t seem to make myself sit down and actually write it. I’ve been trying to combat this by doing more planning-oriented things, but it’s a slow going process. =n=
- Thoughts on Bystander Effect?
I am so frustrated that I can’t get myself to just sit down and work on this monstrosity lately. I’ve poured so much of myself into this gosh darned fic that not finishing it is just not an option anymore, to the point where most of the overall themes are pinned down and the big major events for the climax are figured out almost to a T. I know exactly how I want to tackle Hotland, the Core, New Home, side missions and relationship building moments I want to pin down, special events and character building, especially for Ellie’s character arc – but I’m just. I dunno, man, I open the doc and sit there for like five minutes just feeling absolutely no desire to actually work on it? While conversely yelling at myself how much I want to work on it. It’s frustrating!
- Undertale/Deltarune opinion?
[Insert long happy screaming into a pillow here]
Undertale was the game that became my obsession three and a half years ago – it got me through the first several months of my current job, back when I was still fighting down the work-related anxiety of “what if I fail as badly as I did at the last one”, and I wouldn’t be myself today if it didn’t exist. I owe a lot of emotions and comfort to the characters.
Deltarune gave me possibly even more emotions – that sort of emotional surge you get from finding a really good AU fanfic and get to dive in with all of your favorite characters all over again, and get to see all the ways that the environment around them changes their character while it stays the same. I love Kris, Ralsei, and Susie as the main protagonists, Lancer makes an adorable enemy-to-friend, and I really look forward to where Toby goes with it in the future.
The only thing I wish was different about Deltarune would be if I could have seen Papyrus. I was really looking forward to meeting him for the first time all over again, so I could fall in love with his character again. Oh well – something to look forward to in Chapter 2!
>one off thought in the shower
>”eh I’ll make it a drabble, something quick”
>2.2k words in a single day later--
the things a teacher sees, an assassination classroom one-shot.
BCD chapter 5: a summary.
I only have two more chapters left and five fairy tales to write and then BOOM I'm done with the most ambitious PH fanfiction project I've ever done. I didn't keep track of my word count, because I'm using GoogleDocs on an iPad mini and that's not a feature, but I easy wrote 150+ pages, so I'm guessing at least 75,000 words. And what had I spent the last four months on? Writing Levi Baskerville's entire backstory, from growing up through the current Retrace. Yup, this will end on the events of Retrace 101, because there has to be some sort of time for an ending, right? But yeah, I'm actually excited to see the finish line in sight. I'm more than excited to be able to post this gem online in about three weeks. Except to hear more hints of what's in store the next coming weeks.