millennialmiko

[millennialmiko]

When a reader catches an easter egg or teeny tiny self indulgent detail you thought no one would notice

[millennialmiko]

I just love this so much 😭

Well

Here it is, and I don’t hate it

There are certain things I would change artistically, inconsistencies and flubs, but I’m trying to be gentle with myself 💚

Thank you for coming on this journey with me 🫶

It’s been almost as long as his gradIjmhgvfd

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Feel this deep in mah bones 😂 I do not know anyone IRL who is into my fandom or fanfics in general. So this passion I have and consumes a decent chunk of my life is a complete secret.

NORMAL PERSON: Hey, whatchadoin? ME: Um… writing. NORMAL PERSON: What are you writing? ME: A story. NORMAL PERSON: A story about what? ME:

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"Wow, I can't believe I finally posted my first fanfic in my 30s. I love it and I'm so proud!"

*turns around nervously to all my other abandoned works*

the DBZ fic i started when i was 11 glaring menacingly

the Harry Potter thriller fic i started in my teens flipping the bird

the AU Twilight fic i started in my 20s cracking its knuckles in a fist

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Do you agree with this InuYasha take?

I’ve reached the point in my InuKag fic where I need to describe InuYasha’s place. I feel like he’s always written as having few belongings, no personalization given his minimalist/nomadic lifestyle.

BUT what if….

…over the last 500 years waiting for Kagome, he’s become somewhat of a hoarder?

…he’s happy to finally have a place of his own and he can actually collect things?

…he’s accumulated lots of random shit he’s been dying to share with Kagome?

…he can’t wait to see her reaction to the things he bought just because it made him think of her?

Idk. It’s a small thing but it makes me ridiculously happy just thinking about it and will definitely be written in!

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My high school had an outdoor courtyard smack dab in the middle of the building. So we were technically outside, but still surrounded by walls. Granted, it was rumored the person who designed our school also designed prisons, and given our layout I still 100% believe that.

i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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Being a parent and an Inuyasha fan is funny because I can’t wait to share the anime with my daughter one day, but like, I also don’t want her to develop the “IF I LOVE HIM HARD ENOUGH AND WAIT LONG ENOUGH I CAN FIX HIM” mentality towards relationships that I definitely picked up as a kid 💀

[millennialmiko]

🎉 Chapter 7 is up! 🎉

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66904942/chapters/180382201

The sinister voice in the back of his head, the demon on his shoulder, constantly reminded him that he could finish this quickly. And fighting that urge felt like another opponent altogether. 

Now…let me out.

His blood pulsed loudly in his ears again, nearly overwhelming him and drowning out all other sounds. His resistance to the call weakened as he hung his head in defeat. 

Not from his attackers, but from himself.  

He didn’t even bother to look at the yokai in front of him. Not to see how close they were, not to calculate his next move. 

It was pointless.

He didn’t need strategy or plans when he could feel the beast inside taking over, snarling viciously beneath the surface.

There would just be blood.

And then…

Kagome, please forgive me.

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Omg omg after hitting an extremely good flow, chapter 7 may actually be posted today or tomorrow!! I’m so excited 🤩 Creatively it’s been a challenge connecting two big plot points in the chapter in a way that felt cohesive (and met my word count goal) but it’s finally clicking!

I think you guys are gonna love it. Stay tuned!

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lmao

”stop being so self-righteous!!!” kikyou have you ever considered that maybe kagome is a good person and you’re not

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Wait so you’re telling me if I want more kudos and comments I need to actually update my fic?

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Me trying to catch my creativity during back to school season 😵‍💫

Still working on chapter 7 in spurts when I can as we settle into our new craziness. Hoping this week isn’t as hectic and I can actually post it!

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But that’s why there’s so many good fanfics 😂

I’m rewatching inuyasha! Who would’ve guessed!! It’s great and all but can Inuyasha and Kagome freak nasty already I can’t handle this.

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When one song launches your story from good to great

Gather round kids for story time from a fanfiction old!

Lemme tell you about the days when this millennial was just a wee tween, discovering anime forums and fanfiction for the first time. (animeturnpike, anyone?)

It was the early 2000s, and I swear to god every fic I read had a club scene in it. RIP to when clubs were actually fun. Always the same trope, tomboy girl gets dolled up and noticed for the first time by her unrequited crush. It was a cliche, so overdone, that I SWORE I would never use it if I ever wrote a fic myself.

Now 20 years later, I'm sitting here eating crow because I'm halfway through writing a club scene in my fic, and I'm not gonna lie, it might be my favorite writing I've done to date. And it's all because of this song here: When The Summer Dies. The first time I heard it, this scene wrote itself like a music video in my head. I didn't even have most the plot I have now, but I knew what was going to happen in this chapter. I tried to turn the overused trope on its head to make it something more compelling, and now the story absolutely wouldn't work without it.

I genuinely am so excited to hit publish on this one guys. Glad I allowed that random strike of inspiration to be a springboard for my story.

Keep this song in mind when you get to it.

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Y'all I got the ick on my fic after the last chapter I posted, and may have started freaking out about whether it was good enough. But before I totally spiraled out, I received the SWEETEST comment. Made my day. Made me stop doubting myself.

There will always be someone who resonates with your writing, and if you feel passionate about it, don't quit.

LEAVE THE COMMENT!! No matter how big or small, it makes an author's day. Seriously.

May still go back and clean up that chapter a bit 😅 but at least I'm done feeling like a total failure.

[millennialmiko]

🎉Chapter 6 is up! 🎉

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66904942/chapters/178103051

“I’d really like to kiss you, if that’s okay.” His voice was pleading, so unlike him, so low she almost missed it.

Kagome wanted to shout yes from the top of her lungs. Tell him she’d been waiting for this moment since their last kiss trapped in the void. But she was too stunned to do anything more than give a small, enthusiastic nod in his hands.

As he leaned in, she had to believe he felt it too. That they were both aware something big was about to shift with something so small. That this wasn’t just a first kiss, it was an admission of feelings that went unsaid for far too long. A recognition of two souls that were never meant to be apart. All the stolen glances, guarded touches, silent wishes from the past made real in this moment, right here, right now.

And then his lips were on hers.

Featherlight, tender, almost shy. It was so vulnerable, so much of everything she had ever wanted from him she thought she might cry. 

But as innocent as the kiss was, it ignited something inside her. 

Her yearning, hunger, need for him which she had kept suppressed for so many years bubbled right up to the surface, scratching at her skin. 

She shifted her weight on her toes to meet him more fully and pressed her lips firmly onto his. His hands responded by gently increasing their grip, holding her face like it anchored him in waves of emotion crashing over them both.

He brought his hands down from her face to rest on her hips, pulling her closer to him. His hands scorched her skin, separated only by the sheer lace of her shirt. If she were meant to burn by his hands, swept up in this moment, she wouldn’t complain.

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Fucking dying 😂 just rewatched episode 16 and Miroku has such a great intro, it’s too bad he always gets sidelined thanks to 🐝 🐝🐝

Nobody:

Naraku: BEES!!!