#like ideas and plot etc is easy af

[iknowshocker]

Hooooookay I am reading Hits Different for the first time rn and 😩🤌 I'm literally gnawing at my fists because I'm loving the Parker sibling interactions so much. The twin connections between Jokai and between Luke!Kai and Liv are everything to me. I'm loving your descriptions, from Jokai's conversation at the brink of death, to the layout of their Portland home and Kai's dingy little attic room... Gobbling it all up like a turkey.

I'm dedicating my whole night to reading this. Making a cup of coffee as we speak, bless you for writing my boy Kai so well. Expect more of me screaming in your inbox.

Anyway, onto the ask game: 5, 9, 13, 28!

ahhhh thank you so so much!! <3

if there's one thing i love it's painful family dynamics and i fear we need to look no farther than that tragic af group. i could write a dissertation on the parkers alone. so it was really important to me to explore all of those relationships and give everybody the space to deal with what they went through so that it didn't feel OOC for them to move forward together in the end.

navigating kai's complicated disaster of a mind brings me so much joy, you don't even know. the fact that they cut off his growth in canon disappoints me to this day.

omgggg i can't wait to hear how you like the ending!! <3

ask answers under the cut:

5. What's something you learned while researching this fic? Without spoiling anything, Kai takes the heretics over to France and they go to a town called Lille. my lovely friend @nevereverthem suggested it and helped me figure out to utilize the location. I LOVE using real locations in my work so this was a lot of fun to do!

I'm also always trying to use my knowledge of craft when I can - so any use of magical herbs, holidays, etc. comes from my personal research

9. How did you get into writing fanfiction? I've been a writer my whole life, but the first fic i ever posted was back in 2014 for sasusaku. I had been out of the naruto fandom for a few years but then we were given a weak ass ending and i simply had to fix it lol

I've also written for zutara and dramione, although those works never manage to hold my attention for very long and i end up using them more as exercises in between my own stuff. (but i'm sure you can see i have a type in ship dynamic lmao)

i rewatch tvd s6 every october, and last year the bonkai fixation just came back with a vengeance. I wrote the first draft of my original work last spring and then got swept into writing Hits Different because I wasn't ready to let go of them yet - and now here we are <3

13. Do you have an 'official' creative writing background such as a degree or previous experience publishing? I do! I majored in theatre performance and minored in English and Creative Writing.

I'm currently working on querying my original bonkai work which will (hopefully) be an 8 book fantasy series inspired by bonkai and the parkers.

28. What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with? Oof, bestie, did you get to chapter 24 yet?

i don't want to spoil anything but i had a lot of fun taking canon events and going: now what if kai and bonnie were in that scene? It was great to prove how easy it would have been to center bonnie/the gemini's in the plots of s7-8 the way they so clearly should have been.

in general a lot of my work both fanon and original deals with grief, childhood trauma and mental health, which is one reason why kai means so much to me as a muse character. i end up working through my own stuff with him (or my kai coded mmc) more than i'd like to admit, lol

thank you so much for stopping by!! <333

[infernothechaosgod]

you know it truly amazes me how you can't do practicly anything on tiktok or search the thing you like without getting absolutley shat on

Like I'm feeling a little in the mood for rottmnt angst A lil bit of that kick in the gut, and I can't go 3 minutes without one of those made in 5 minutes max videos that's just background video and text over it Saying shit like "Yall need to stop with the rottmnt angst it's getting annoying" or "the rottmnt angst artist need to chill out" or even better "The rottmnt fandom needs to stop the angst it's just a show for kids"

First off, if angst isn't your thing, you can block it or just scroll pass it OR you know what if youre feeling like a little shit you can hate read it or whatever but keep the comments TO YOURSELF

Second off I checked what the content of most of these people is And it's always goddamn always those 10 second background videos with text over it

nothing more

I dare these people to even try to draw the shape of leo's head, or write out something more than 40 words I accualy dare them. do it.

Also the same goes for shipping over there

Let's say you see a legal completly normal ship you don't like Example let's say leo x usagi or raph x mona

What you wanna do is scroll or block it

NOT make up info to make others stop shipping it, I'm sick and tired of people non stop saying that usagi or mona are adults or that their entire characters are being love intrest in the fandom's eyes Because if you look at any of the fanfic's or fan content of those Yeah it's easy to find content where there love intrest's but it is hard to find content where there ONLY love intrest

People love mona so much for the fact that she's a badass warrior who loves her planet and people they often give her more backstory focused stories that explore how she would feel depending on where the writers story will go or already went, I have never seen anyone maker her just a typical love intrest (witch honestly suprised me)

Usagi? People have more free will with his interpretation's so he has many many diffrent faces backstories, personalities but often people make him focused on something in their stories, examples being, getting back home, protecting others, getting over something, fighting in battle nexus and exploring how it would be Etc. Etc. That mixed with being a love intrest

The only times when these two can be seen as just love intrest and nothing more is in

Edit's/tiktok content where everything is short af (and even then sometimes people give em backstories and their own lore it really amazes me sometimes lmao)

short (usualy) tagged as fluff without plot fics on ao3 (witch you can litellary tag out SO easily)

Little comics/some art pices That HAVE VERY STORT LIMITS

also this might suprise you it really might but DRAWING IS HARD AND TAKES ALOT OF TIME SAME GOES FOR MAKING THE IDEA UP

And when it comes to their ages we all know there not adults, littelary where did anyone mention mona being an aduly ever, and the only times when usagi and leo accualy interact is when there in similiar if not the same ages

(in 2003 usagi and leo are close friends and Both teens, in the early comics there both adults when they first meet, even in 1987 version there both shown to be close if not the same age, the ONLY TIME where leo and usagi have very diffrent ages is in 2012 and honestly i have a little theory on why specificly that version had them be you know that but that's for another post)

Seriously what the fuck is tiktok's problem with any form of fanon content? You want the fandom to die? It aint gonna happen, you either get used to some bad stuff existing there and there and ignoring it (reporting then ignoring it if it's really bad) OR you keep quiet OR you will get banned by alot of creators after crying in their comments, then cry when you can't find something they made anymore

Tiktok man, good for daydreaming to the sounds, looking at edits and for some art trends but litellary can't let anything else exist on there or else you'll explode

(Also I bet if some of the fanon angst made it to the accual show they would deepthroat that shit right up and call it writing of ceuntry)

[tlouconfidential]

I actually love to write and honestly have so many ideas for long af tropey entertaining angsty reads but I am so hesitant to post anything because it feels like in this fandom that everything is critiqued to hell and back from a very puritanical POV. i’m not talking about stuff that should def be frowned upon like gross fics that write reader like an actual child etc (although i feel like that’s beating a dead horse at this point like i’ve seen far more callouts than examples bc ppl know it’s an easy way to get likes). I’m talking about long af fics that feature the classic toxic bullshit eg the shit that launched twilight, but i feel like even if people loved it it’d get torn to shreds by the fucking fun police who seem to think that every single goddamn character and scenario needs to be morally pure and boring as fuck. like sorry but i love to read fics where one character is toxic AF the whole time and practically abusive bc guess what? it’s SAFE to explore that through fiction and it’s entertaining!! who the hell wants to read about happy boring relationships? how is that interesting if there is no other plot driving things forward? which lbr in fanfic there is a dearth of non romantic plots bc most of this shit is self serving self interest entertainment. and look at the source material! come ON. it’s beyond fucked up already. but everyone takes things way too seriously here and it’s killing creativity. an incredible author in another fandom im in deleted all her works that were just tropey yet well written fun bc of the hate comments she got - bc she was apparently ‘destroying the characters and making them toxic’ or some nonsense. it’s just sad and it feels like fandom as a whole is dying because people are so damn mean and critical. can we all just lighten up? and stop strangling this fandom to death?

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[depressedhatakekakashi]

Sometimes I just wanna yell at adults who were too attached on children character of Shounen manga like yes you guys know about childcare so much that's amazing I hope you have the opportunity to apply that to real life children they would be delighted, BUT the thing is your 2D baby is PROTAGONIST OF A FIGHTING FRANCHISE. Their role in the story is NOT TO BE CODDLED BY ADULTS. Yes the story will make them experienced crisis, yes they will encounter danger with minimal or no supervision because all children will want to defeat monster without parents' help. The kids are designed by plot to do that with whatever excuse and the adults are also part of the said plot. Adults especially mentor character in shounen manga has a very difficult job to be caring YET also not overbearing. They aren't allowed to control the children's life and conflict because no kids as the intended audience will be happy with that. Kids love adults on shounen not when they baby the MC but when they bring the MC (as kids' self-insert) to fun thrilling places, sometimes gave them easy explanation when they are confused yet allow them to do dangerous thing on their own, even got a chance to save the adults.

This is not restricted to just Naruto. I see many boomer protest on adult character on shounen like JJK, MHA, etc, they said "why the little kids are in danger, those adults are bad at their job". In OUR WORLD standard, yes, absolutely. In SHOUNEN WORLD standard tho they did their job perfectly to make the story interesting FOR KIDS

Jfjcjd i hate when people do that. I once had someone come onto a fic i wrote complaining that ‘Iruka would never let his students be bullies’ and their entire focus was on reality and how they personaly teach

Not a second of their attention went to actual canon and how all of Iruka’s students are lil bullies to each other and their teachers, and Iruka doesn’t do anything to stop any of that.

It’s not like shonen is special with the whole ‘kids are the focus of the story and the hero’s’ idea either. Lots of fiction has this idea, and that’s why we have kids and teen’s sections for books

Because teens and kids don’t always want to hear about heroic adults. They want to be able to see themselves as the hero. It’s an entire genre of book because it’s popular

So people who want to treat these kids like they’re fragile little porcelain dolls who needs protection all the time are completely forgetting the fictional aspect, and honestly sometimes even the ‘kids are their own beings who will not always need or want protection’ aspect of reality

These are stories. Stories where kids get to be the hero’s, and kids NEED those stories

So hating adults for not doing what they think they should in a show directed to kids is super dumb. I mean there’s some things you can def complain about

Like hiruzen promised to take care of naruto and then just… didn’t? Valid critisism

Kakashi takes his kids into a dangerous mission? Well there’s a lot of reason’s that ended up happening that were out of Kakashi’s control, but also naruto is the protaganist. As protaganist, he’s going to get into dangerous situations or not

So the adult characters cannot always protect the kids, but there’s def instances where what they do is over the top

Like jiraiya chucking naruto off a cliff to learn summoning

Or Kakashi genjutsuing sakura day one to see Sakura’s broken and mangled body

Those are valid things to point out as the adult being in the wrong cuz like… that shit was not neccessary

But it doesn’t matter how the adult is. None of them are going to be aboe to coddle the kids and protect them from the story, because the kids are the centre of the story

If they didn’t face scary battles and possible death, the kids who read those manga like teen taryn would get bored af real fast

[shiftingdiariesofophelia]

little update for you guys:

so i’ve had literally no time for shifting recently 💀 I haven’t even attempted in a month or so.

and i know everyone’s like “make time!” or “shifting is easy just do ___!” girl i’m telling you i’m up at 6 in the morning and my day isn’t over until 11, then i need to go to sleep and do it all again the next day. having responsibilities sucks ass.

BUT- in the meantime, I’ve been exploring potential DRs and making pinterest boards and cute little spotify playlists and basically it’s the main way i’m attached to shifting right now. My living situation has changed (positive) but that’s a whole other mess and basically Ophelia has NO time ❌

So updates might be slow until i move into my dorm in August, but anyway here’s a new list of some of my drs in case anyone is looking for a new place to shift:

So, I have my Hogwarts DR right? But honestly, it’s not really my main focus at the moment. i’m really just trying to get to my waiting room before i decide where the hell i’m going. this dr is cute and adorable and feels very homey to me. i’ve actually considered permashifting there tbh. it’s the world i’ve scripted the most for and what ignited my shifting journey.

Then, I have a Fame dr. kind of obligatory at first but the more i was getting into it, the more shit i’ve added and i actually love it now. it’s a mid-2010s and onward fame dr, so it’s like 2015 where i’m shifting. i’ve scripted to start out on broadway (OBC for katherine pulitzer in newsies), eventually working my way to the acting industry and then the music industry. i’ve got at least three albums planned and I even have an idea for a directorial debut limited series. I’ve also scripted myself into movies and shows that don’t exist in my cr so i’m excited to see how that goes!

I have some ideas for a marvel/Avengers dr. I’m a Greek demi-goddess with questionable parentage, but I insert myself into Tony’s life right around the first Iron Man. With weird time mechanics and whatever I just want to be besties with peter parker and train with strange and bucky tbh. extended found family is what i live for

I’m working on an Avatar: The Last Airbender dr lmao. i wanna be a fire bender so bad it’s unreal. I’m also adding separate countries under the same nation. like yes, there’s the earth kingdom and fire kingdom, but they have separate designations sort of like the southern and northern water tribes.

I’m thinking of a pjo/camp-half-blood dr because that would be cool as hell. going on quests with the gang and having powers?? i’d probably script some stuff in or out but the idea is really cool to me and i was always a percy jackson kid

lost in space dr !!! if you don’t know what i’m talking about there’s an original series from years ago or there’s a netflix reboot but basically this is a found family dr that takes place in space/alien planets and there’s a robot. maureen and john robinson are so mother and father coded it’s unreal.

hawkins, indiana dr but not “really” a stranger things dr because i don’t want to traumatize these kids or be traumatized myself lmao i’m basically just living in hawkins but all the friend groups are the same. also i’m dustin’s older sister because he’s adorable.

youtuber dr where i’m in weird/conspiracy core youtube and make those sorts of videos. i wanna make content with some of my more niche weird faves like wendigoon, nexpo, etc. this is really niche for a dr but i think it’s gonna be fun as hell.

bridgerton dr, y’all fr need to get in on this. new pretty dresses every day, men competing for my hand in marriage, elitist politics, orchestral music, flowers everywhere- it’s just going to be a good time i know it.

The 100 but specifically seasons 1-2 (MAYBE 3). Less death and more fun but with some scripting i think the idea of a society run by delinquent teenagers from space who are also fighting barbaric remnants of a destroyed civilization sounds cool as HELL bro. But i finished the show and the plot after the time jump isn’t what I want so i’m gonna script the hell out of the actual plot to make it fit what i want.

Trap House dr ! (another youtuber dr, shockingly) with the trap house circa the late 2010s. ghost hunting with sam and colby, talking shit with jake and corey, doing stupid shit and partying and just having a good time bro. i’m also scripting out Elton 🙈

narnia dr but specifically from LWW through the golden era of narnia. ruling over a mythological land with the pevensies, exploring the lands as far as they go, learning the lore with the other places in the world narnia exists in (where the telmarines come from and the other nations), i just think it’d be cool as hell.

and i want to figure out how to make like a zombie (potentially TWD or TLOU) dr without it being traumatizing 😭😭 stay tuned for how that works out lmaooo

[madamemachikonew]

54. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

I find it easy to immerse myself in your work, and wanted to know if you had a technique for consistency haha ( ´ ▽ ` ).｡ｏ♡

Aww, firstly thank you for the compliment! I'm so glad to hear you enjoy reading my work! And thank you also for the question.

Hmm, so I guess I should start with a broad overview of my process. My fics usually start with some kind of favourite scene that will then lead the concept and plot. Or there are certain dialogues that I want to happen and it's non-negotiable that they are cut. It's completely ass over backwards, I know. I will then often work backwards to plot the route of how we get there, sometimes by several chapters. Some of my fics are more episodic, so this doesn't really count because each chapter is almost like a stand alone one-shot but with continuity (e.g. my Enjou and Baizhu longfics). For the episodic fics, I usually keep a list of ideas or scenes for chapters that I want to include but the order is somewhat flexible because there's no real overarching plot as such.

But the Pants fic requires a lot more advanced planning (though I still keep a list of ideas for scenes). So with that one I plot a broad framework using the key scenes or dialogues as the markers and then flesh them out, not necessarily in the chapter order. For example, I have a chapter already written that is plot vital but won't occur maybe for another three or four chapters from now. It can't happen any earlier, but I needed to get it out of my system. And now I have a firm anchor to work towards. It also means I can make sure the intervening chapters are consistent and have subtle foreshadowing, etc. because I know for sure what is going to happen. I like to think that some of these details and foreshadowing also give the fic extra mileage on a reread, because now the reader can spot them (eg Pants's meeting with Signora and Zhongli with the gnosis hits different once you know his life story, which comes in a later chapter). So then I'll go back and forth fleshing out the interceding chapters little by little. I rarely sit down and write a whole chapter in one go or consecutively. The ending arc of my still ongoing Enjou fic was fully drafted around the chapter 10 mark - it's at chapter 39 now and over 100k, but I already know how it will end. But like any chapters I write in advance, I come back constantly and refine them before I hit post. 

As for my favourite part of all of this...I guess the descriptions (as if that wasn't clear enough lol)! Once upon a time I wanted to be a cinematographer and/or director (Narrator: she did not become either of these things, though she did do a lot of arty amateur photography over the years) and I think my writing is probably a subconscious reflection of this in terms of its 'staging' and 'close up shots' if that makes sense? This will sound pretentious af, but since I'm not very good at drawing, I want to convey a vivid picture in the reader's imagination that correlates as far as possible with how I've visually imagined the scene in my mind and the arty background shots that aren't necessarily of the characters' faces. Imagine stuff like a close up of Pants's hands as he throws some ice cubes into a tumbler or a lower profile shot showing how the trinket on his glasses dangles and sparkles off the stage lights in an otherwise dark theatre. That kind of thing. The only way I can do that is through the descriptions as I can't storyboard it like I would a film or animation. I think these subtle descriptive elements bring it more to life. I enjoy imagining the scene from a purely visual basis as much as the content, as I think it's important when you're storytelling.

Another favourite thing of mine is showing contrasting inner thoughts of characters in the same situation, for example the scene where Pants is 'grieving' for Signora. If I was working to a more orthodox 'xReader' format, I could only show you what Reader actually sees or hears from her own perspective (as I did when she sees Signora getting into the rickshaw with Pants). But I also like to show the actual fic readers (as opposed to the character) the full story.

My other favourite thing is integrating lore nerdery. So I love researching tiny details from NPC dialogue or quest lore or whatever and making them part of the plot, to give the whole fic more depth from a world-building perspective and show how they weave into the main characters' lives. Since I normally write for NPCs (Baizhu pre-playable era, Enjou, Pants...) I have to extrapolate a lot from the tiny crumbs we get. A lot of lore goes unintentionally ignored as well because we don't understand the significance of it in the early game, for example, Landa's quest is now more significant than it was when it was released. It's so interesting going back and seeing how it all comes together.

[storiesofsvu]

Reading is definitely one of easiest and hardest things to do. Easy to get into it but difficult to keep the momentum going on especially when the authors had yet to release the next volume or when they were on hiatus. I lost track of how many times I forgot the plot due to the long waiting time or reading different series, and ended up having to read it again.

Forever summer in the one of the countries of SE Asia~ the location of where I'm from will be too obvious if I were to say out other hints 🤣 though November tend to be the rainy season here.

As much as I love horror, violence and gore (hey, don't judge haha, I've been playing horror/killing games since I was a mid single digit age. RE3 = ❤️), one of my favorite thing to read or write is definitely the more causal time, a day off from cop/agent life, like hanging out in a cafe enjoying a cup of beverage before a phone call asking you to get on with a case etc, or a date night with the other half, a more simple and violence free moment.

I always bring my notebook out whenever possible so I can write down random ideas that popped out or do some writing when I'm bored from waiting on friends that had yet to reach.

....

I should probably get back to updating my stories as well since the aching are gone. My arm and shoulder.. and my formely injured knee has been killing me since returning to badminton after being sideline for a bit. Is this what it feels to be a 90s kid? Bones creaking already.

Saw it somewhere that you have hurt your ankle? Gosh, get better soon! Ain't fun at all when somewhere of your leg is injured. When I injured my knee years ago, I couldn't even bend it for a long while so thank the maker for the invention of lifts since my class is always on the upper floors.

I have been following your page for a while now but never really tbought about chatting through this so please don't mind me being an anon~

Oh and 🐯 would be nice 😆

oh my gosh, so freaking true!! when i was a kid i was *determined* to finish the Little House on the Praries series, but every time i lost momentum and stopped and couldn't finish one of the lengthier ones i'd tell myself i had to start from the beginning all over again lol.

hahah fair!!

honestly, those are the points that we don't get to see on the shows! i think that's why those moments and relationships are so important to fic readers/writers. we want to see/experience the little quiet moments and memories.

my notes doc on my phone was so full of notes for fics, or screen shots of conversations chatting with besties about stories. sometimes voice memos LOL. i've drifted off from it SO much now and i hate that about myself, but i do know that this is always the tougher time of year for me to be creative and shit. there's never enough recovery time between shifts, there's extra shifts and shit to deal with, the sun goes down at 4:30pm daily, it's cold af. lol. nothing positive going on but the romanticizing of the holidays (which is why i like to host bingos this time of year and read y'alls creations lol)

oof! oh no! and LOL, yes, yes it is. i've got a shitty shoulder. what did i do? sleep on it wrong LOL. it sucks. returning to stuff is definitely hard too, esp if your body isn't quite ready. (and it will let you know lol)

ugh. yeah. it's been a month now and its definitely not healed. i just happened to hit a crack in the sidewalk downtown (was totally sober and wearing runners) but went down hard. i didn't have any kind of brace or anything to compress it with so the swelling got out of hand until i got a friend to take me to urgent care. it's much better now, and i'm generally not limping anymore, but it still aches after a shift lol. hopefully it's not going to be a permanent thing.

oh of course not! chatting like this is totally acceptable and a way to get to know people too! <3

hope you have wonderful week! sorry it took so long to get back to you, it's been one hit after another since the ankle injury lol.

[messedupessy]

SAY HI TO MELLO YA ALL (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ❤

Ok so, this needs some explanation... so over on twitter there is a bit of an Underlöst craze going on atm, but now with doing them with different au’s and stuff, and I got very inspired and couldn’t help myself from trying to make my own take on a SwapLust au because I got absolutely no self control xD but then things like got weird as the au I came up with is nothing like Underlöst, or even my own take on it either, it morphed into its completely own thing, so may I present to ya all... EeaseSwap! :D

Will explain a bit more about it under a cut later and also go into a bit more details about this boy, just want to say some other things first!

For example how happy I am with his design, I am srsly so happy with how he looks, his outfit is so good I am so proud of it like seriously look at this boi! He is so flipping cute and he turned out so good, used the original sketch I made of him in my sketchbook as the base for this whole ref, and I actually messed up a bit as when I did the refs of my Underlöst bros I put the head onto the body proper before beginning to draw all properly, but I messed that up but solved it in the end xD So proud of this boy though he turned out so good bless

And now, onto the actual AU! Warning for VERY suggestive and some dark stuff ye, and also feel free to send asks and ask me stuff about this boi and the au because I am very willing to share! UwU ❤

So, firstly I got to admit that this is more like an uh, for example, coffee shop au than like an au au if you catch my drift. EaseSwap do not have much in common when it comes to either Underlöst or like Undertale overall in fact, only the characters but swapped, which usually isn’t the way I usually go with my au’s, as usually they have way more elements from the original game than this, but this time around I ended up doing it much more differently and I am sticking with it!

This au, or more like story, happens in a world/universe where there has never been a monster human war, the monsters have never gotten defeated and locked up behind a barrier under a mountain, instead, humans and monsters lives peacefully with one another on the surface. 

This a pretty like modern world like real life modern kind of deal, and in turn so will there be many things and subjects based on real life be appearing in this, especially sex, mental health and so on.

But in this story we will be following Mello, who lives in a small basement apartment where he runs a clinic of sorts, as he works as a so called sex worker therapist/massager person, I know that’s not a real thing but this be fiction and I do what I wanna. 

Anyway, Mello works as a sex therapist, where he uses his skills of being amazing at massages, being extremely good at reading people and psychology etc, to help his clients/patients to properly relax, get all that tense shit out of their bodies and make them feel way better both body and mind, which at times involves sex since having sex etc usually results in ppl be relaxed af afterward.

He does not have sex with all of his patients, it’s something he after properly talking with them and so on decides if it is something they need or not, sometimes it is sometimes it isn’t. It all vary to person to person and also what his clients/patients is okay with and so on.

Anyhow, this au follows Mello as he lives his life, helps his patients/clients etc, while things from his very rowdy past gets revealed and some trouble and drama and so on be happening.

I am not sure exactly just yet how this will be properly told, might become like a reader insert fic of some kind or maybe end up shipping Mello with someone, as that’s the kind of story this is and how it will work the best I believe, but now onto Mello himself, here’s some facts:

He is very similar to how my Stretch is, but yet not, but they got the whole wanting to help people, being hella chill, kind and very jokey in common, just that Mello knows when he is taking on too much of other people’s problems and is able to say no properly and so on.

Might not appear like it but he is very professional when it comes to his job, can appear as a bit of a slob at times but he is taking his job of helping his patients/clients very seriously.

He can see kinda okay without his glasses, but he is supposed to always wear them, but yet he constantly lose them even though he got those straps to help him keep an eye on them.

Is very cute, very friendly and befriends people, get them to open up with ease, he is just a very trustable guy. Is a tad bit messy, a bit all over the place and a tad bit chaotic, does some weird shit which I haven’t decided on fully yet, likes to read and play video games allot.

Feel guilty for things he have done in the past, but is doing his best to focus on the here and now and the future, but one thing he just can’t stop being guilty about is an incident involving his brother, which he desperately wish he could have changed, since then his brother might still have been around.  

And that is all ya get for now, feel free to send me asks about Mello and this au yes :>c

[yanderecrazysie]

Have you ever thought about making the reader a bit smarter? Maybe even make her as cunning enough to avoid her yandere admirer and it's just one big mind game, no winners and losers yet. If not I don't blame you, I ain't got the brains to make a plot like that too.

I always feel like it'd be easy to ignore warning signs because, unless you're famous, why would someone be after little old me? Surely no one would be so in love with me that they'd go to any length to have me! That'd be totally crazy and unlikely!

But if you are famous, in a relationship with the yandere, the yandere's obvious af, or you're naturally suspicious/paranoid, it would make sense to want to avoid the yandere ofc!

If it were me, I'd do my best to act like nothing's out of the ordinary, but make secret plans to leave. Or, have a recorder on me at all times, ready to catch them in the act.

There are also some good tips about being kidnapped I learned: If you're being dragged away, try to leave something behind to show the path. Slip off a piece of jewelry while you're being taken away, then a shoe, then the other, then a sock, etc.

I've always wanted to read a story where the reader isn't completely oblivious and I once had plans to make a non-fanfiction story where the reader is an ex-delinquent and is naturally good at picking up on red flags and super badass, so the yanderes have a very, very difficult time trying to obtain her LOL

I'll try to make a story where the reader is more cunning, because this is giving me some ideas eeee like I can picture a yandere Tanaka/Nishinoya/Hinata/Goshiki/Bokuto from Haikyuu or Izuku/Kaminari/Awase/Manual from BNHA/MHA and some others being really, really obvious about their crush and putting the reader on edge.

Maybe the reader catches them staring all the time or slipping gifts in their locker or sees them following her home. She just knows that something's wrong and she has no intention whatsoever of sticking around to figure out what. She's ready to catch them red-handed while making sure they can't go to desperate measures to take her down with them.

Even if she puts them behind bars though, they aren't going to just let go. The minute they are released/escape, the reader will be on edge again. A restraining order isn't exactly a fool-proof protection after all.

[justmemethings]

Salty AF Mun’s PSAs

A collection of pet peeves & behaviours we hate to see in the RPC

#1: Don’t neglect your other writing partners just because you have a favourite mutual

Let’s take a moment to be honest with ourselves. We all have (or have had at some point) a favourite mutual. It’s normal, because sometimes you just meet a person you click insanely well with and all you want to do is basking into the fun and the excitement that kind of connection brings to you.

All this is good and right...up until it sours the RPing experience for the people around you.

Everyone has the right to tailor their RP experience to their needs and preferences. This is a hobby, not a job, and you don’t owe anyone anything but the basic level of human decency and respect. So, having a favourite mutual is valid and a wonderful experience when the feeling is mutual, but this doesn’t give you the right to treat your other writing partners as mere distractions for when that particular person isn’t around.

What you’re more than entitled to do:

Enjoy your relationship with your favourite mutual in all the possible shapes and form

Prioritise your threads with them, because you obviously have more muse for your interactions

Offer them your most wanted plotlines before anyone else. You have the best chemistry, so it’s a natural choice

Make things for them (edits, moodboards, etc) whenever you feel like and tag them in all the sort of posts that reminds you of your interactions with them

What isn’t fair for you to do:

Put obviously less thought and effort in all the answers that are not for your favourite mutual. Your other partners are still dedicating their time and energies to your threads, they deserve to the same.

Related to the above. Even if you are more than allowed to prioritize the threads you have with your mutuals, don’t relegate answering to your other threads only to when your favourite isn’t available or when you are bored. Your other partners are still making efforts and putting their excitement in the threads you have with them, so it is just fair to keep offering them more or less regular replies, according to your IRL engagements.

Openly gush on dash about how amazing they are compared to everyone else. That’s just plainly rude.

Post wishlist ideas in the hope that your favourite mutual will notice them and dismiss or straight out ignore anyone else who might show interest in said plots. Again, rude.

Neglect to send memes or show any kind of interest in general to your other partners, while you constantly do it for your favourite. Favouring someone is understandable, ignoring everyone else for them is hurtful and unfair.

Probably more could be added to this list, but the bottom line to remember is: whatever you do, never forget to respect others’ efforts and feelings. How? It’s easy. Try to think about how you would feel in their shoes.

[lumilasi]

💘

💘Is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?

I've already done this kinda thing actually; I re-wrote Reanimate in large parts back in 2020, and just recently began to re-write and post an old bleach fic.

There are small parts in probably majority of my fics I'd probably want to rework a bit, but it tends to be quite a hassle to do so, hence I don't often do it. (Reanimate was pretty much an exception where I went through the effort because of a lot of reasons; wanting to flesh out my characters properly, not liking that L.o.v portayal, thinking at the time I'd never write the sequel, etc)

To give examples;

In AFS, the entire training camp arc felt unnecessary in hindsight. Removing it changes a lot of things however, so it feels like too big of a rewrite to do at this time.

Soul duality needs to be more coherent. It was essentially a hot mess of ideas where I kept changing my mind about the plot direction mid-story multiple times. It would need a complete rewrite in other words, not really interested in doing it rn

The neighbors ending needed to be foreshadowed more than it was. I kinda came up with it at the last minute. Now this is a relatively easy change in comparsion, but rn I'm not interested in doing it either lol

[gunsatthaphan]

BL ~ Drama Asks

Got tagged by the loveliest @wanderlust-in-my-soul thank you so much 🥰 I think I did a few of these already but these questions are different lol so here we go. 

1. If you had to watch one drama forever what would it be?

Forever? Like in a continuous loop? Probably Love Stage lol. it’s so funny and so cute and just very easy to watch. It’s one of my favorites 🥺💜 Also maybe TOL. 

2. If you could change the ending of a drama which one would it be?

I mean obviously MODC deserves a kick in the butt for that ending so I would change that, and also maybe Nitiman. I just thought it was so underwhelming. 

3. Name your favorite drama and tell who your favorite character was.

I can’t pick one all-time favorite but a character that still stands out to me is Yok from Not Me. I just loved everything about him, he was so well-shaped and realistic and lovable and First’s acting was so natural. Best Boi. A+

4. Name a drama you dropped within the first few episodes ~ we all have at least one!

I hate dropping stuff with all my heart lol but sometimes it’s just inevitable lmao. Top Secret Together was one that I watched the first episode and was immediately like Nope. Others were Waterboyy, Gameboys, Physical Therapy and So Much in Love. 

5. Name a popular drama you've never watched and why?

KP because the concept never appealed to me, also I wasn’t intrigued by any of the trailers. Another one is Triage which I only didn’t watch because it came at the wrong time lol. I’m tired of the doctor theme and also I was still attached to TaeSingto at the time lol. But it’s on my watchlist so I’ll probably pick it up when I’m in the mood. 

And then there’s Secret Crush on You, of which I actually saw the first episode but the cringe was just too much to handle lmao. However I am a huge fan of BillySeng’s chemistry, also since seeing them in bangkok, I just think they’re fantastic. So I think in a different environment and with a different script, I would’ve eaten that shit up lol. Super excited to see them in War of Y! 

6. Name a drama you regret watching.

That’s My Candy. Holy shit. I have no idea how I managed to pulled through that one but it was definitely the strangest piece of media I have ever consumed lmaoo. On the other hand it was so bad and weird that it was entertaining. Similar to Unforgotten Night. But still, the regrets are deep kdfjgkfd. Same with Gen Y which was so horrendously bad that I felt the deepest relief when it was over lmao. 

7. Name a drama you thought you’d never watch but did and did you end up liking it?

I can’t really think of one specific drama right now but generally, I tend to discard the japanese stuff lol. 99% of the bls I watch are Thai and the styles are just so different that I’m always like nah, even when someone recommends them to me. But the reason I end up forcing myself to watch them is because 90% of the time I end up liking them lol. It takes a few minutes to get into it but once I’m in, I love it lol. One example is My Beautiful Man. 

It’s similar with Korean bls. One example would be Ocean Likes Me, which, just based on the plot, I probably would not have watched if it weren’t for Holland lol. And I ended up loving it so much that it made my top 5 of korean bls lol. 

8. Name a pairing you want to see?

I know we’re getting this in Moonlight Chicken but First and Mix is a very interesting combination that I’m very excited to see - even though it’s probably gonna be toxic af lmao rip. 

9. Name a pairing you didn’t think had chemistry?

I’m generally not a fan of side couples. 99% of the time their story is rushed and underdeveloped due to compromised screen time etc. - danyok and ramking are the only exceptions. They’re just always a letdown for me. One that I’m not feeling whatsoever chemistry-wise is Tim and Mai from My Secret Love. I’m fast forwarding through all of their scenes because I don’t feel a spark at all. Also the side couples in Even Sun are not really clicking in my opinion. Out of the main pairings, I absolutely hated DunBas as ThanuWayu in Gen Y. They were so boring and stale that it hurt lol. Truly terrible. 

10. Name a pairing you have seen in another drama that you like?

Like a pairing that has appeared in multiple dramas? I guess EarthMix and OffGun then lol. I liked EM in ATOTS but I preferred them in Cupids Last Wish. They upped their acting game so much. OffGun are killing it in everything except for Puppy Honey because that show was a hate crime jdhgjdf. But it was their first gig so I forgive them lol. Also I’m still highkey a simp for OabGun, who were fantastic in The Blue Hour and also in Club Sapan Fine. I would love to see them in something new!!

thank you for tagging me, this was fun!! 💜 I’m tagging some of my usual suspects lol ofc you don’t have to 🙈 

@leonpob @khunvegas @my-wandering-rabbit @emisfritish @clairificusrex @demonicmusuko @pharawee @nonbinarybella @eaasysarcasm @mrsandypants and as always, everyone else who feels like it!! 😊 

xxx

[catgirl-catboy]

Since you are autistic too: I have this issue that I go way to deep into works, specifically my favorite characters. Seeing them criticized hurts, or sometimes even seeing plot developments that hurt them hurts so much that I can't rewatch the series and can't participate in the fandom anymore. (I don't harass people because of it, I just sit there and try to not show anything). It was worse in the past, and I already did a lot to distance myself from them, but its still too much to participate.

Any idea how to get lesser attached to them? I do some exercises in differentiation and boundaries I found at the internet, but its still not quite enough.

(Anon on because the antis stalking me surely would use this information against me)

I'm not a therapist, so please take this with a grain of salt. If it doesn't vibe, chuck the advice out.

That seems like a manifestation of RSD to me, but it could also be hyperempathy. Do these characters remind you of yourself, by chance? (You don't have to tell me, just food for thought.)

Also, good on you for distancing yourself from the fandom. From what you've told me, that seems like a good move for your mental health.

If its hyperempathy, I try thinking about it like a story within a story, if that makes any sort of sense? Like, the characters exist, but this isn't how it actually went down. My headcanon is the only canon that matters to me. Maybe the blorbos are just play-acting, that hurt character gets revived offscreen, etc. (Not to overshare, but this helps me a lot with when things don't align with my kin memories.)

If its RSD, thats a bit harder for me to give advice on. I'd practice trying to stay in the moment, or maybe take a break from reading a post. Positive affirmations always help! RSD is a legit bitch, so this is absolutely not easy. Practice makes perfect sounds fake AF, but it does ring true. (Unfortunately.)

Either way, I advise:

Finding a friend that gets it that you can bitch too

taking a two week break from the fandom if it gets too draining

getting into another fandom! I just watched Yuri on Ice for the first time- it was pretty good if you need recs.

[jiyeonws]

(  HELLO again! It’s ya girl, Ash, and I’m here to introduce my second muse — AHN JIYEON, Ladybug’s Main Vocal & Face. I’ve linked some helpful pages for those who want to get to know her a little bit, and below the cut are some key points about her life and such if you can’t be bothered to read all the big stuff (though the information below is not brief by any means asdfghjkl). I will also have some quick plot ideas below. Go ahead and smack that HEART button if you want me to send you a message, or alternatively send me one if you’d like to plot! I will probably respond more quickly to messages on Taejoon’s blog, but send to whichever you prefer!  )

BIO. / PROFILE. / CAREER. / PLOTS.

BACKGROUND.

— Jiyeon was born on August 1, 1992. She is currently old af 29 years old. — Her parents split when she was a toddler, but she had/has regular contact with her father. She was raised by her mother. — When she was five, she was scouted by an acting/modeling agent while out shopping with her mother. — After signing, she started with modeling gigs that turned into acting gigs. — Throughout her childhood, she was cast in multiple dramas, and later, movies. — She decided when she was a little older that she wanted to get better at singing (she already had natural talent) and she wanted to become an idol. — She was approached by an agent from Yuseong after someone at one of her shoots heard her singing in her dressing room. Homie went behind her back and basically did all the work to get her an audition. — She aced her audition in January 2009 and became a trainee with Yuseong. The start of her training was ✨rough✨ because sis couldn’t dance, but she’s a quick learner and was able to manage. — She debuted with Ladybug in September 2012 (age 20). — She participated in lots of variety shows after debut and worked her ass off to live up to the name of face of the group. One of her favorite shows to take part in was We Got Married. — When Ladybug was put on hiatus, Jiyeon was pissed, but continued her grind and picked up more acting/modeling opportunities to keep her and Ladybug’s names relevant (she even participated in her first musical, Mamma Mia!). — She’s relieved now that Ladybug is finally getting some attention from Yuseong but she fears that their time together is limited at this point.

PERSONALITY/FACTS.

— She is a Leo. Personality type ENFJ-T. — She speaks Korean and English fluently! Her mother was born and raised in California and raised Jiyeon to be bilingual. She is a beginner in Japanese. — She is very outgoing. It’s easy for her to make friends with people quickly, and she has a knack for making people feel welcomed and special. — She gets really uncomfortable during awkward silences. — She has a lot of friends and acquaintances. She just loves to surround herself with people. — She’s very critical of herself and picks apart literally everything she does. — She’s a big workaholic and it’s kind of known that she prefers it that way a lot of the time. As of late, though, she’s been needing a little more time to recharge. Probably because she’s getting old — She’s gained a lot of skills over the years, and she’s the type to become an expert at almost everything she puts her mind to. She takes a lot of pride in it as well.

PLOTS / CONNECTIONS.

— Best friends/close friends — Younger idols/trainees who look up to her — People who live in the same apartment building/nearby/neighbors, etc. — An ex-lover (any gender, ‘96+) — A present lover (any gender, ‘96+) — A crush/celebrity crush — A past acquaintance or friend she hasn’t seen in a long time — Someone who builds a very deep connection with her, whether it’s platonic or romantic — People who are fans of Ladybug. Bonus points if Jiyeon is their bias bc she would probably cry — A younger idol who has named her as their ideal type?? — Someone that is shipped with Jiyeon by fans?? That could be fun — Fellow Yuseong idols/trainees/staff to feature in vlive shenanigans

[djmarinizelablog]

hi! read your last ask and you said that you took up creative writing classes so you might have a wider knowledge about this but i was wondering when u mentioned different writing styles (like minimalistic, hightened imagery, linear vilennete and all of that) could you maybe explain the difference and what they really mean and maybe examples in our own levihan nation and writers? this might be asking for too much but i was pretty lost and i'd like to know more about all that. however you are def free to ignore this too!

Did you just ask me to write a comprehensive poetics essay, Anon? (I love writing about writing lmao)

Super long post ahead, and I’ll be citing certain fanfics that I’ve read so far and those that I think somehow exemplifies all the different writing styles I mentioned in the previous post. 

First off, the ones I listed beforehand (minimalistic prose, heightened imagery, poetic language, linear narrative, non-linear vignettes) aren’t the only types of writing styles. There are more if you consider the variations of tone (humor/comedy, sentimental, macabre, noir etc), narration/perspective (first person, second person, third person omniscient/limited), and language (dialogue-heavy or action/scene-driven). And the nice thing is that you can actually use of one or two of them in your work---or all of them, if you’re feeling bold. 

As Hange always loves to do: “Let’s experiment!”

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I’ll start with minimalistic prose. It is what it is: short, clear, and concise. Think less is more. You have an economy with words where you disregard most adverbs and focus more on the context to make way for meaning, thus allowing the readers to create their own interpretations of your writing. I think the method here is to write your intended draft first, and then cut the unnecessary words to flesh out the scene even more.

Notice how @stereobone wrote this paragraph of Black Dog (an Eruri fic):

Isabel's voice wakes him, brother, brother, has him sitting upright in bed and grabbing for the knife under his mattress. He braces himself for the attack before he realizes there isn't one. There is nothing in the darkness but him and his heavy, panicked breathing. Levi's heart feels like it's trying to beat its way out of his chest. He drops the knife on the mattress and shuts his eyes and tries not to think about Farlan's bloody resigned face before he was eaten. He tries not to think about how he left them. How it's his fault.

It’s very simplistic in language; the paragraph lets you focus on Levi’s innermost thoughts while he deals with an external action (ie, having nightmares). The author hasn’t unraveled the rest of the plot yet, but you already know where the tension is coming from.

Next is heightened imagery. If you’re familiar with the different figures of speech (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, etc), then this is where they all come into play. I think the challenge here is being able to balance it well with the text itself and make sure that the imagery actually clarifies the context of the paragraph instead of convoluting the intended meaning. 

Here’s an excerpt from A Dangerous Game by just_quintessentially_me:

Hanji watched Levi, standing there, head bent and bloodied handkerchief pressed against his arm, and was reminded, irrationally, of a night years ago. When her parents had taken her to the circus. [. . . .] Holding her parent’s hands, she’d gaped, head craned back as she watched the spectacle, a cacophonous mixture of sound and color. At the center of it all, she’d spied a boy. Among the twisting colors and tricks, he alone, was still. [. . . .] The boy was high above, balancing on a platform atop a long pole. In front of him, stretched an audaciously thin rope. Below, no net waited to catch him.

[. . . .]

When Levi looked up, his expression was set - like the boy before the tightrope. And she knew, with sinking certainty, he was going to take the step. Into thin air.

Gray eyes met her gaze and held it.

“Yeah. I’ll go.”

At the door, Kenny smiled.

See how the powerful imagery of the boy on the tightrope was able to fuel the tension in that moment among Levi, Hange, and Kenny? 

I think poetic language is akin to heightened imagery, except that the former is more focused on the actual language. It’s very lyrical, wherein you can actually hear the lulling song of the sentences in a rhythm. One of my favorite works that does this is Deep sea baby by @smallblip. Here she makes use of various setting and scenery to create this entire atmosphere of Levi and Hange’s relationship:

Hanji knows whatever life they've led, this is her favourite.

The one in which her and Levi see the sea for the first time together.

The one in which she’s the Commander, and him, her Captain. And between them, a river of words left unsaid threatening to break the banks.

One day they must cross the ocean, but today they visit the shores again, without the kids this time. And Levi learns why when he watches her peel at her clothes. Her harness comes off first, then her blouse, then everything else, like a little dance for an audience of one. Levi tries not to stare, but he’s already seen her by candlelight in the dead of the night. And yet she never fails to take his breath away.

She makes her way to where the white foams dredge the past up the shores of the present.

"Come on Levi! The water is warm!" she says, and he hears it like a call to come home- where the heavens collide with the sea.

He takes off his clothes and folds them in a neat pile beside Hanji's mess. He swims out to join her.

It’s hauntingly poetic, the way the author is able to connect the metaphor in “a river of words” to the actual body of water right in front of Levi and Hange. Good poetic language is able to tighten up the texts together while keeping the sentence structure flowing with apt figures of speech.

When it comes to narratives, it only comes down to linear or non-linear. See how @lostcauses-noregrets does her opening statement in Trains (also an Eruri fic):

Levi hates trains. To be fair, Levi hates all forms of public transport, but he reserves a particular loathing for trains. They’re dirty, noisy, smelly and worse, filled with people. People who, heaven forbid, might attempt to speak to Levi, engage him in conversation. Levi’s worst nightmare is being stuck on a train with some friendly fuck who wants to pass the time making small talk. Admittedly it’s not a problem he has to deal with too often, his general fuck off demeanour deters all but the most aggressively friendly and hopelessly inebriated. But that doesn’t stop Levi from hating trains.

It’s a short fic and it’s very dependent on the linearity of events happening. But with that banger of a first sentence, the beginning already gives you enough of an idea of Levi’s pet peeve in the story, which in this case, is trains.

Here’s another hot and steamy fic called keep him waiting by keobuns that shows a linear narrative: 

He’s sitting with them in the back of the lab, nursing a cup of tea — it’s still pretty full, and even cold now, for he was far too distracted listening to Hanji talk to properly drink — when he sees it. Hanji’s too preoccupied with overexplaining the same Titan experiment they’ve gone over a hundred times to notice his stare. They just continue on and on and on, gesturing with their hands, pointing with their fingers, flexing their wrists…

Ah. Levi has to bring his teacup to his lips to hide the way his lips tremble. Hanji has incredibly nice hands.

The entire story just revolves around Levi simping for Hange’s hands and how it all goes down from there. But you as a reader are kept wanting more with every paragraph and every sentence that the author constructs (and trust me, it’s not just the sexual tension between Levi and Hange that keeps us going).

Now, as much as I love the straightforwardness of linear prose, non-linear writing brings a different round of ideas onto the table. It can create recollections from flashbacks, heighten the perspective or interior turmoil of a character due to trauma or grief, or even just re-invent what-if scenes that the characters have imagined themselves. 

Gnossiene by @thatalmondgirl​ is one of my all-time favorite Rivetra fics. In this excerpt, you will see how she switches between the past and the present, and how it affects Petra’s POV as a conflicted character:

Contrary to popular belief (fuck Auruo) Petra actually didn’t cry easily.

Alright, she could admit that at some times, she was...emotional. It was far from a weakness, but even she could admit that they sometimes got in the way and walled off all rational thought. Anger, frustration, sadness, hell, even happiness. The only one she could easily compartmentalise away was fear, which probably stemmed from her military career. Even so. It was never easy to separate all the others from her actions, think from a clean slate like the Commander could do, like the captain. [. . . ] Petra groaned, splayed out across her bed. She drew her arm across her eyes, willing the tears to go away. She’d already blown through her tissue box.

“Petra, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Mama sat on the end of her bed, with Petra on the floor between her legs. Even though Petra argued firmly that she was old enough to brush her own hair, Mama had insisted. Unfortunately, Petra wasn’t old enough - and probably never would be - to disagree with her mother.

“I know, Mama.” Petra grumbled.

“I don’t think you do. Else you wouldn’t be crying, would you?”

[. . . .]

“But a man shouldn’t complete you when you complete yourself. Maybe he’s an extension to your house. So you’ll be sad if the extension is compromised or burns down. But you still have the main house. And if it’s strong, the main house can still be standing even after the worst storm.”

Aside from Mama’s crazy metaphors that sometimes didn’t make sense, her message hit home. Even if it hit home years later.

See how it switched in between the before and after? 

An off-shoot of non-linear writing are vignettes (a layering of scenes separated by section breaks) wherein this writing style allows writers to curate scenes in terms of fragments, creating some kind of mosaic for the readers once they finally see the big picture. Nakimochiku’s I’m leaving, are you coming with me? stacks up scenes of interactions between Levi and Hange, enough to depict the kind of relationship that they have as young lovers in a school setting. You can string these fragments together, rearrange them in a different order, but in the end, you will still get the author's clear goal of highlighting how Levi and Hange’s relationship develops over time.

Those are the styles that I mentioned in my previous posts, but as I’ve told you, there’s more to writing than those, so I’ll give a short run-through of other methods in writing. 

Whether it’s dialogue-heavy works such as from my window to yours, or action-driven scenes like Carnivores (a Levi x Reader fic by CaptainDegenerate) that propel the story forward, we as readers should be able to follow through the actual storyline that the authors intend to take us. 

A third-person limited (we listen to Hange’s thoughts in Clockwork by @tundrainafrica) vis-à-vis an all-knowing/omniscient narration (the moon is dark by @sayonarasanity alternates the perspective of Levi and Hange) should be able to make us understand why the author chose this particular kind of point-of-view in order to tell the story. 

And lastly, having a solid and consistent tone throughout the work (the macabre of Even Humanity’s Strongest could make mistakes by Rimeko versus the sweet sentimentality of Flowers for You by @fanmoose12) should be able to set the atmosphere that the authors want us to imbibe as we read through their works. 

So there’s your crash course on writing and reading. Enjoy? :) 

[thetaoofbetty]

I keep seeing way too many BA's saying that Cole and lili don't have chemistry & I have to scratch my head at that. There's no denying that KJ & Lili have chemistry but to me what they have is the chemistry of easy old friends. There's a clear familiarity to their chemistry which I think people keep misreading as being explicitly romantic. Now, betty and jug have a great foundation of friendship in their chemistry but what they have on top of that is romantic/sexual tension.

and i think kj and lili can pull it off, but that they’re not supposed to. i think ba is supposed to radiate a friendly/tender energy. sometimes to me it feels like they’re siblings. two moments i saw some strong physical chemistry between them was in their 4.17 kiss and the 5.06 scene before the car sex, when they’re making plans to hook up. But most of the time The chemistry between KJ & Lili is warm & friendly but it also gives the clue that a supposed B*rchie 'romance' wouldn't last long and it didn't also there's more chemistry on some bh scenes just talking that all the ba explicit scenes. 

oh hell, i think caring about what the b/as say is way past its prime. their arguments are almost always made in bad faith. they hated jughead until they found someone not betty to say he was amazing together with. because he was toxic in high school, right? but they love him as adult (who wrote a whole book about his high school sweetheart but i don’t think they like remembering that fact) or whatever it is they’re saying. 

listen, there’s no point in fighting with a wall. people can ship whatever they want. that they feel the need to justify it (rip one character down to prop up the other, make it performative, say some rude af shit about one woman to make themselves feel better, etc) is on them. we can explain why bughead personally appeals to us all day long and the only people who are going to ever care are the ones who already agree with us. 

and to honest, biased opinions are never going to be truly objective. no one is immune from that. listen, i don’t even know how long cole and lili dated (years? right?) but you don’t date people you don’t have personal chemistry with for years so the idea that they have none is silly. everyone on the show has some degree of chemistry with each other, some more than others. 

and it’s subjective. and depends on what you like. 

i personally think kj has better chemistry with someone when he’s got a scene partner that archie is platonic with vs his romantic scene partners. this is my personal opinion. people who are super invested in varchie see something i don’t. that’s okay! i just want veronica to have whatever she wants and she wants archie so go get your man, girl. 

and i think that the stark difference between the shower scene™/the car scene and the other hookups were on purpose. which is still just my opinion. because the difference between an impromptu hookup/the thrill of it and when you start making it about distracting yourself is pretty clear. the b/as can say they love all the hookup scenes and that’s fine, we lost our minds when bughead said hey to each other (superior interaction in my opinion), but i think the difference is visible by the end of 5x06, tbh. 

we’re all just petty in the end, yeah? they say they have no chemistry because they don’t like the ship. they say so and so has more chemistry because that ship gets jughead away from betty. half of their arguments are taken from out of context things (a popular thing in fandom—ask me how i know) and then used to prop up whatever their opinion of the day is. 

we’re talking about the people (and others) who immediately jumped on jughead after loooooving him before because he hallucinated betty from the last time they were together and friendzoned their convenience ship. then they attacked bugheads for liking that scene? the emotional significance of it was huge for the plot going forward and trying to shame people for understanding that was just a big neon sign of “uh oh, we’re fucked” and they know it. 

these arguments? we’ve already heard them. the one thing b/as never are? is original.