#lemony snippets

[lemony-snickers]

"you are the only one who's ever broken me open."

"do not scream god's name, scream mine."

"please don't make me say it if you aren't going to say it back."

"your heart is beating so fast." "because i'm happy."

"i want to draw a map of your scars so i can always find my way back to your heart."

"i don't believe in such nonsense." "i'm not asking you to. i'm simply asking that you believe in me."

"is that good? that's all i want, to make you feel good."

"it reminded me of you. but then, sometimes i think everything reminds me of you."

"what a fragile thing, that love can so easily turn to violence."

"why are you doing this?" "because i love you."

"it didn’t feel right when I was always thinking of you."

"i would have felt like the luckiest person on the planet."

"are you gonna take that off or should i keep guessing?"

"i wanted this to be special."

"i can't believe... after all this time... i should have known it would be you."

"i want to be wildly, deliriously happy.  wildly, deliriously loved."

"i try always to be too much for you."

"the sooner i leave, the sooner i will return and we can begin again."

"i didn't die." "you were dead to me."

"i don't care if other people see us together, you do."

"and you say i'm the one who should be resting."

"i'm sorry." "for what?" "that you got stuck with me."

"what makes you happy?" "lots of things." "and what makes you unhappy?" "lots of other things and some of the same ones."

"i wish i could give you the world." "the world is not enough. but you are."

"i have never needed anything so much as i need you. and i hate you for it."

[lemony-snickers]

woof. seeing someone admit (anonymously, of course) that they've pasted "hundreds of fics" into chatgpt to continue unfinished stories or see a different plot with similar elements is... fucking ouch.

it doesn't matter if you don't publish it or whatever. you're taking someone's hard work and giving it to a blah sort of robot because you want something different or more?

then write a fanfic of the fic, man. daydream a gloriously self-indulgent au in your head and smile to yourself about it. get fucking creative. it's just such a soulless act to hand someone else's blood, sweat, and tears to a chatbot and be like, "spit me out something," damn.

[lemony-snickers]

interactions matter.

hi hello it is i here to shout into the void again.

i just wanted to give everyone who has ever said, “i don’t rb because i don’t think it matters or my blog is small or whatever else,” an example of what a rb can do for someone.

i wrote a piece in february that has not had any interaction lately for obvious reasons.

one person reblogged it today--one person--and that single rb led to 30+ new likes, four additional rbs, and even a couple new followers.

like, y’all.  i promise.  it really does make a difference and it picked me up on a day when i really needed it.

[lemony-snickers]

[lemony-snickers]

whats your favorite slow burn _____ to lovers trope?

mine is platonic cuddling. 💖

[lemony-snickers]

✨WIP Tag Ask Game✨

ahhhh… well, i cheated a very tiny bit and [redacted] one title. i’m sorry i’m a wuss, but it’s the only active wip from my other (non-smut) account, i hope you’ll forgive me. not all of these are for naruto, so i guess we’ll see if any of the titles pique anyone’s interest, lol. thanks for the tag, @myaekingheart ! 💖

(also, I cannot tag that many people, i’m so sorry. 😂)

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!  And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Tagging: @mrs-hatake @kakashi-tsukuyomi @kakashiswilloffire @goddess-of-green @depressedhatakekakashi @whatshernameis @gmoonlight01 if y’all wanna, no pressure. 💖

My WIPs:

nicetomeetyou

[long-running naruto fic]

As Walls Keep Shifting

Kakashi Week 2021 Ideas

500

Stray

Sit Still For Me

fucking REQUESTS because wut

Scent of a Camelia

Lost Amongst the Catchflies

KU AU

Escape Velocity

[lemony-snickers]

just wanna write beautiful things and have people read them and love them and cry about them and live in the woods and drink too much coffee and enjoy watching the mists descend on the valley from the open window of my log cabin.

is that so much to ask?

[lemony-snickers]

20 [Fanfic Writer] Questions Game

i one thousand percent stole this from @depressedhatakekakashi when i saw it and sat down to answer them all now.  i’ll put the whole thing under the cut because it’s l o n g, lol, but i’ll also tag a few folks if they’d like to play along.  i’m only going with folks i know have relatively active ao3 accounts off the top of my head.  if you wanna play, feel free to steal this shit same as i did. 😂

@myaekingheart @whatshernameis @chemmerson @kakashiswilloffire @kakashi-tsukuyomi

no pressure, obvs, but this was kind of fun!  <3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

34 + 17 = 51 (plus there’s a few on here i haven’t copied over yet; should probs get on that, lol)

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

141,984 + 379,165 = 521,149, most of it from this year.

3. How many fandoms have you written for, and what are they?

4 – naruto, cowboy bebop, boku no hero academia, justified

4. What are your Top Five fics by kudos?

long fic (just reached 500 – WHAT EXCUSE ME WUT – yesterday) ours (206) nice to meet you (204) when love blooms (159) first (156)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

almost every one.  i started in a pretty small fandom and really appreciated the two consistent readers i had who commented on nearly every chapter, so i got in the habit and sort of stuck with it.

6. What fic have you written with the angstiest ending?

idk, i am honestly such a wuss and i think i almost always end with Happiness, lol. maybe what cannot be forgiven?  i also have a one-shot that’s sort of sad under my other pseud, but honestly it’s just people growing old, so that’s different.

7. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

i am gonna go with clan, i think.

8. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

nope.  never even wrote an au until january.  before that, i wouldn’t even read a fic if it wasn’t strictly adherent to canon.  i've grown this year, ya’ll!  XD

9. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

no, i don’t think so.  i've def been pretty lucky in that i've only ever received VERY FEW slightly rude comments, mostly just nitpicky stuff. definitely no actual hate.

10. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

lol, nope, never even heard of it…

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i don’t think so.  my stuff isn’t popular enough for such sordidness, lol.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i have not.  yet.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

izuocha, probs.  never been a super shipper or anything, but they’re very adorable and wholesome and i love them very much.

15. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

honestly?  the college au that began my entire smut journey, lol.  i basically rewrote a scene from a kakashi/reader fic that made me BIG MAD and thought about how i would write my own college au, but… it hasn’t coalesced yet and i think it’s very clear that one-shots are much more my wheelhouse than multi-chapter fics, unfortunately.

16. What are your writing strengths?

i am gonna go with what i've heard from others because i cannot evaluate myself, lol.  i've had people compliment my character development and portrayal of relationships, and i hope that’s true.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

P A C I N G.  i will gladly spend 14 pages on a single cup of coffee and then .02 on an action scene.  partially because i don’t think i'm very good at describing action and partially because i just have no idea what i'm doing, lolol.

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i haven’t done it much.  i have written characters who speak another language, but the story is always told from the perspective of someone who doesn’t understand it.  i think i threw in 1 or 2 russian words once, but it was all very obvious from context what they meant, so i didn’t have to provide a translation or anything.

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

technically, i posted exactly one chapter of my naruto longfic before anything else.  but then it sat untouched for over a year while i wrote 100k+ about u.s. marshalls, lol.

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

oof.  that's a toughie.  probably a fantasy au izuocha one-shot.  but of the lemony variety, i think i'll go with the wait is over because i wrote that shit fully for myself, lol.

[lemony-snickers]

y'all. i am literally begging you. i am on my knees asking you to pretty pretty please reblog shit you enjoy. you like art someone made you like fic someone wrote you like some dumb ass random thing someone said?

REBLOG IT.

you have no idea how discouraging a bunch of spam likes and zero reblogs can be. you are literally on the reblogging stuff website. the no algorithm trial by fire our search function is a garbage disposal website. for the love of all that is good in this world and the fandom(s) you love, disseminate the content you enjoy to the masses.

you are tumblr's only hope.

[lemony-snickers]

i was curious

so i did a little math.

and.

i’ve officially written and published 246,800 words of fanfiction thus far in 2021.

that includes smut and non-smut, but only that which is published on ao3 (for ease of data collection because i’m lazy).

goddamn, lemony.

imagine what else you could have accomplished with all of that time, lmao.

[lemony-snickers]

me:  today, i’m gonna finish up the 12 days’ fanfics and start editing my secret santa piece!

also me:  ooooorrrrrrrr you could get sudden inspiration for the next mix and match au and just get totally and utterly carried away with that instead!

me:  .......................

also me:  it’s settled, then!

[lemony-snickers]

plot twist: all the words of love you’ve written for a fictional character were actually for yourself.

[lemony-snickers]

I just need y’all to know that I planned to write this October:

1 - ghost!kakashi who feels so lonely watching people live in his old apartment until you move in & he loves watching you masturbate.

2. vampire!kakashi going down on you and drinking blood from the soft flesh of your inner thighs as you climax.

3. werewolf!kakashi breeding the fuck out of you.

i’m sure others have taken these concepts & done much better with them than i ever could but I hope you know I did want to write some spooky, kinky shit for y’all this year. and I’m sorry I didn’t.

[lemony-snickers]

do you ever think that maybe zabuza just defected from the mist because they wouldn't let him wear those cow-print pants as part of his uniform?

maybe becoming a missing nin was the only way for him to be free to express himself through fashion.