#wtnweek21

[khaotickae]

WE THE NORTH WEEK 2K21 - DAY 001

↬ happiness = judy ↫

first of all a disclaimer: manips are not my forte and idk why i decided that this year, i was going to tackle them. bc that is seven days, seven manips - send help. don't judge me too harshly on them. back to the main show. my main otp that is not written by me. the og otp if you will. i was going to do something a little different for this prompt, i was going to just encompass the site as a whoel because wtn is my happy place the place. a place that was very helpful during a pandemic and isolation and none of that fun stuff. but also during every other time since i've joined (six years ago) that didn't feel right though so i changed my theme. judy is my ship. i've been doing wtnweek since i joined and judy has featured in every single one of them so honestly this really shouldn't have surprised the majority of people here. i mean i'm not quiet about my love of judy. this is how much i love this ship. it has all the elements that i want from a ship. fabulous writers ( @ellectricmuse & @charlieweasleyy ) like seriously. they have one of my fav themes of light and dark and it is so refreshing to see it be the girl that is the one embodying the dark and not the boy. they balance one another, they're so authentic - both chars remain themselves when they're together (like this thread gave me anxiety bc i knew james would get in shit i also knew exactly where to find it and what the title was but that's besides the point). both characters are so well thought out, they're so beautifully written and they compliment one another so well. but what makes it such a great ship is that i read their individual threads when they're not in one together. james and prudy can stand alone without one another and i think both characters know they could manage it. personally i think their lives would lack so much if that were the case so don't you ever make it so i will hunt you both down. its just such a treat reading these threads, i instantly track when a new judy thread drops even without knowing what its about bc it doesn't matter. they're my otp ofc i'm going to read. i can't wait to see them go through the next year. remember, elle and haley, when you're planning things someone else is always reading and i'm fragile be kind to me 😉 i had a little tiny goal when i joined the site, outside of what i wanted with my own chars and ship. and that was to get connects with james and prudy. it might have taken some time, but i got them and it just makes me so happy. i track their threads, i like listening to elle and haley talk about them. and i could probably talk and talk and talk about this ship but this already got long enough. seriously though, ready james and prudy, you won't regret it. they deserve so much love and attention

✌️ from your #1 fan. pls continue to give me a steady stream of judy until i die.

[archived-muse]

WTNWEEK 2021 [prompt two] ↳ pain → brix + jadson

I’m smiling through the pain right now. We got the literal pain of pain (Pariza and Lincoln) where my stomach literally revolted against me tagging their last thread and it took a week to get the courage to tag. Playing Linc with some of my personal painful experiences adds to the trauma and therapy of writing him. We’ve got the Armstrongs, who’ve gone through a year of biological warfare mothers, understanding and getting the mental health needed, and a death of the one keeping them all together. Like their pain ain’t over... it’s probably just beginning??

And then? THEN? We have the shit show of joli or is it olison or is it brix or is it friggin jadson? WHO KNOWS ANYMORE?! It all brings me pain because they’re currently doomed from the start and always have been. It brings me pain that Oli tries so hard but he just can’t get this shit right. It pains me when Matt undervalues himself. It pains me when Jaz is unhappy and I just want to give her a hug. It pains me... but also makes me laugh when Hudson tries to mark his territory (go read their group comm), like FIGURE IT OUT HUDSON?!?! Most of all it pains me that they’re so close to getting it right but they just need to play fucking musical chairs and switch partners almost.

Spoilers: it brings me pain that this won’t even happen in the next year

[abrushwoodinurps]

Day 1: WTN WEEK - HAPPINESS It’s not just the characters and their stories that make me happy. I have put only a couple of my own and the ones that I stalk that really bring my joy to read or write with and there are so many more that I could have included but ..I don’t have the space. I could list them here but it would bore you by the end. I could go on and on and on for days on end about how great the writers are but to me, the thing that brings me happiness is what those writers mean to me. they not only write amazing characters for my characters but they also are amazing friends to me. talking to any one of you (listed in the centre) brings me joy. So before I ramble on and on and on, I will just conclude that you not only help to make me a better writer but also a better person. i love all of you individually but also collectively. 

[capybelarps]

⭐ i'm a simple girl. i see a group of hot people shamelessly flirting with each other and being dumb together with the promise of angst down the horizon, and i'm fucking sold. ⭐ sierra and sawyer are some of my favorite characters on the whole board, @emmatheshibarps and @charlieweasleyy truly deserve so much praise for how complex and lovable their characters are. i also love to see two dumb idiots giving a deity the praise they deserve, ngl. it brings me immense happiness to thread hyun with both of them - individually and as a group. (they're also hilarious without hyun, but his ego gets hurt if i say that, so i won't.) ⭐ i could go on for hours about the nuances of their relationships as a trio, but i'll just say a thread or headcanon with them never fails to make me and hyun happy - except, maybe, for when he realizes sawyer has a better chance with sierra than he has. welp.

[wethenorth-archive]

WTNWEEK 2021 [kat] 

[emcatrps]

#wtnweek Prompt 2- Pain

There could only be one option for me here. Is it cheating to highlight a UPC? I don't care I'm doing it anyway.

When I brought Sam to WTN and made the decision to play out the arc of her losing her twin to cancer, I did so with the expectation that I would npc him myself. What I didn't expect was for @chronicalsofash to step up to continually UPC Lucas through the last year, but I'm so glad they did. What they've brought to Lucas has been so important. They've given him depth and humanity. He's so much more than the "saintly, dying swan" trope that we see so often in the media. He's real, he's expressed anger, and fear, and somehow his presence makes what is being lost so much starker. And Ash is so talented at writing things that just absolutely punch you in the gut with emotion, that I've cried reading their posts.

We still have the final painful part to go (and I'm absolutely not emotionally ready for that lmao), but Ash, thank you for giving me the gift of Lucas. Thank you for being so invested in this story with me. Thank you for all the pain, satan.

[archived-muse]

WTNWEEK 2021 [prompt five] ↳ relevance → minpip

No gifs and screaming this time because this shit IMPORTANT. There aren’t a lot of people who do, or even know how to do, addiction stories properly. There is nothing more relevant to todays world than the way people deal with the pressures of society and the nature of addictions. Kat and I play the dynamic of a sponsor and sponsee and though the relationship is fairly new, both our threads have revolved around attending NA meetings, self reflection, and the everyday grind of staying  clean. It seems mundane, but it isn’t, and writing with a partner like Kat is a blessing. There isn’t a writer on this site who is as mindful of writing relevant and important stories while remaining respectful and doing her research than Haley. Just this year, Haley created a non-binary character by reaching out to those in the community to portray them correctly. She tackled heavy and important topics on police negligence with Mitchell without trying to insert herself into a narrative that was not hers - but still highlighting the problems with police force and saw her character suffer repercussions for their actions. She is constantly putting James into advocacy issues and she was mindful enough to include Ramadan into Hakim’s narrative. These are only a few, of many reasons why Haley is such a relevant writer and why it is so easy for people to find pieces of themselves, in her characters.  Natalie and I have been writing together for almost ten years at this point and it shows. We write so well together, our characters mesh seamlessly, but I do believe that some of our best work in ten years is being done by the loves of my life, Min-Ho and Piper. They are the most relevant characters that we have chosen to write, constantly taking on uncomfortable threads which help our characters grow.  They’re teenagers. They’re idiots being completely honest, but since we created them we have consistently been working to better them (I say them but I mostly mean Min-Ho because he is a Grade A idiot). We started off at a point where Min-Ho could not understand the intentions behind BLM or why Piper was so concerned over it when their own backyard was a mess. As teenagers, it’s hard to see the big picture and what’s outside your own yard and Min-Ho struggled to understand. We moved along to highlight the differences in their experiences and upbringing when Asians started being targeted, demonstrating how people don’t always see how one puzzle piece fits into a larger narrative. But somewhere along the way, Min-Ho did absorb some of what Piper was telling him, because most recently he chose to take the fall for her in order to help his best friend who was at a serious risk of being arrested for carrying drugs. Each of our threads has been intentional in showing how people, teenagers especially are capable of learning and growing. Everything was planned out to culminate in that moment and the thing is - we’re not even done.  Min-Ho and Piper are so incredibly relevant and so incredibly important because they are teenagers of this generation, they are the future. They have unbearable pressures weighing down on them, do the stupidest things because their brains aren’t fully formed yet, but they’re learning, growing, and helping each other be the best versions of their self they can be.

[archived-muse]

WTNWEEK 2021 [prompt one] ↳ happiness → james and prudence mcknight

I was going to be a ball of cheese and talk about my friends here, the ones that bring me happiness in my rp life and are the reason I log in each day. The ones who have my back and I’d protect to the ends of the earth. But then I remembered I’m not sentimental and I decided to cheat. It’s different this year right, you can’t have more than one favourite but you can have multiple things that bring out emotions?

All my ships bring me happiness in some way or another. But the things that make me laugh, the things that elevate my mood and truly give me that warm fuzzy feeling inside are when Josephine gets to roast her boys (all five of them tbh), when Min-Ho and Felicity are stupid cute teenagers falling in love, and when James and Prudence breathe if I’m being honest. There aren’t enough words in the english language to describe how happy getting a post from James makes me feel. Being able to write a wife, a mother, a partner, in a story with James that just keeps going. Writing in rp is supposed to get harder when a couple gets married but that has never been the case for them. Their story isn’t over and continues to grow and develop in ways that I imagined, and in ways that I did not. Happiness is this little ship named Judy. 🤷🏽