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[sleepyams]

I'm really sorry you're not doing well right now. I just wanted to reach out and say that I've noticed you weren't posting and been wondering how you were. I hope things improve for you soon, and I'm sending well wishes your way.

Thank you for such a sweet message. Life’s hard sometimes, but I hope you’re doing well ♡

[gilrael]

@tottwriter replied to your post: I just realised smth. For the people who voted for...

Urgh. Good job tumblr, once again.

All they are doing is making me jump through unnecessary hoops, but like hell will I let them stop me from sharing my work lmao

[gilrael]

For the end of the year fanfic asks: 3 and 14!

3. favourite line/scene you wrote this year

My favourite scene I wrote this year is definitely this one from my AkiSae modern fantasy AU fic:

“Great. Because... I think I'm in love with you.”

Her words hit him like lightning – paralysing, shocking and electrifying. The most amazing woman he had ever met was in love with him. She reciprocated his feelings. Tanaka Saeko was in love with him.

“Akiteru-san?” Concern was colouring her voice as he continued to stare up at her, and then concern morphed into outright panic. “Holy shit! Why are you crying?!”

Akiteru hadn't even noticed the tears running down his cheeks until Saeko-san pointed them out to him. He'd always been easily moved to tears, especially when he was happy. He'd cried when his kid brother had been accepted at his middle school of choice, he'd cried when he himself had received the acceptance letter from Kyoto University, and now he was crying as the woman he loved accepted his feelings for her. It was stupid and embarrassing, but as Saeko-san knelt down in front of him, dabbing at his cheeks with a bunch of tissues, Akiteru was the happiest man on earth.

“Oh my god, please stop crying, you're freaking me out here!”

I just couldn’t help myself with that one lmao I just had to go and make that scene as indulgently sappy as I could.

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

I did not expect to write Fade out. The idea of a slow burn drabble is ridiculous. But here we are, 38 drabbles later, and I wrote an actual slow burn drabble series lmao

(Fanfic end of the year asks)

[copperstarlight]

For the trope mashup meme: Semishira 25 & 56!

25. Fairy Tale AU & 56. Awful First Meeting 

*checks writing meme description* Okay, this says I just have to describe how I’d write it, not actually write it. *pumps fist*

You can convince me to write this later, maybe ;D

This wouldn’t be hard to combine, actually. Think cliche modern fairy tale AU, with fairy tale creatures going to clubs where people often use hallucinogenic drugs, so they’re not fazed by what they see. Imagine fairy tale creatures coming out to this club, letting loose and showing their true forms - and humans just thinking they are seeing things, so they brush it off. 

Imagine SemiShira meeting in one of these clubs - Shirabu is a djinn, Semi is a siren. They know nothing of the other, except that they meet in passing, brushing past on the edge of the dance floor. 

Except this brushing past is so much more, because Shirabu was already in a bad mood, and is intent on causing a bit of destruction.

He brushes past Semi but uses magic to flick his glass out of his hand, shattering it in mid-air and making the glass shards stab him as they fall. Semi is shocked enough that he doesn’t hold back his voice, demanding his assailant to stop. It’s a strong enough command that Shirabu does stop for a moment - realising that the person he had bumped into is definitely not human, and can fight back.

(This only makes him moodier.)

Shirabu fights free of the command, pulling the shattered glass out and reforming it, even pulling all the fallen alcohol from where it had landed and putting it back in the glass. He offers the glass to Semi with a saccharine smile, but the siren can see the dust and dirt still floating in the glass, and bids Shirabu to drink it himself.

(No one said Semi was calm enough not to fight back. After all, this rude person didn’t even apologise for attacking him first without reason.)

(An eye for an eye, right?)

The glass makes it all the way to Shirabu’s lips before he can snap out of it, before he smashes the glass again, throwing the shards back at Semi. Semi drops, but this leads to the glass hitting other dancers behind him, sparking a chain reaction of pained cries from humans and enraged shock from non-humans. 

In the chaos, Shirabu smirks and slips away, dissolving into his non-corporeal form. Semi yells for him to stop, to come back, but his command isn’t directed enough, and instead freezes everyone else in the club, turning them towards him. 

Shirabu manages to escape while Semi flounders and tries to rectify the hundred or so people suddenly trained on him, all held in place by his words and moving towards him.

it is, quite frankly, a disastrous first meeting.

[ahiddenpath]

For the fanfic asks, 2 and 14!

2. What’s next on your ‘to-read’ list? (Fan fiction or otherwise)

I just finished The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, and I want to read the sequel, The Girl in the Tower, next (despite the fact that it has the exact same name as an original novel I’m working on, oops).

The Bear and the Nightingale features gorgeous prose and a rich setting.  I found the plot sort of... a mix of a few stories/ideas that I’ve encountered a zillion times, and the ending was underwhelming and a touch contrived after all of the buildup.  Still, if someone asked me for a recommendation for “girl who does not want to be constrained by the limited roles available to women in her society” story mixed with “folklore” and “coming of age,” this is the one I’d recommend.

14. (For authors) Post a line of dialogue from one of your WIPs without context.

“I’m composed!” she nearly shrieked.  

Haha, thanks for the ask <3

[dgalerab]

tottwriter replied to your post: that feeling when your brain is out of juice and...

Don’t forget *boil kettle* *get so caught up doing things that the water gets too cold* * boil kettle again* *repeat steps 2 and 3 at least four times*

somehow i avoided that today but yeah that’s fun

[dgalerab]

tottwriter replied to your post: sou//koku: is composed of two mass murders who...

Never has a solitary textpost so motivated me to join a new fandom purely so I can write appropriately murderous fanfiction

i’m not sure i know what kind of fanfic i want to write for this fandom but i gotta, it’s killing me

[dgalerab]

Eeep! I've loved your updates this week but I've also been stressed out of my mind (thanks a lot, Real Life), so I am way behind on comments or kudos or interaction of any sort. Your fics have helped keep me going tho; I adore them so much! I actually just spent about half an hour screaming with someone because About Us is ruining us both in the best possible way.

aaaa, don’t worry about it. thanks for taking the time to tell me. quiet weeks get really discouraging (and i think the fact that a lot of people answered my question about the future of mc without, like, giving a single word of feedback kinda... blew out any patience i had left) but i absolutely know the feeling where even leaving “good chapter” is utterly exhausting. take your time, i’m fine, just need to vent sometimes :)

but i’m glad my fics have helped you in any way and it’s very kind of you to say so!!