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I can't believe you made me miss Blackbeard. Also, it's a really nice story.

how sweet you are, just like this roasted sweet potato -> 🍠

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Halt, doomscroller! Your spirit is weary. It's time to log-off and consume a cardamom-spiced drink, preferably whilst reading obscene literature.

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this latest chapter was an absolute DELIGHTTT to read oh my god.... kissing your brilliant mind and sending you flowers of all kinds!!!! thank you for all your hard work & for your beautiful writing as always 🙂‍↕️💫💐🌻

<3 , ＜コ:彡

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me, having not yet read the latest chapter of cba but seeing the posts already: blushing. fanning face. kicking legs and giggling.

me, post ch-15: 🤯 😳 🥵 💀 🧘

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aki irie’s ran and the grey world || 入江亜季の『乱と灰色の世界』

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yet another reminder that it is impossible to please everyone, so just write whatever!!!!!

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just pals goofing around

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i mean despite luffys not respecting personal bounfaries etc

i didnt think of him being the first of ASL to get into their bed- protagonist privilege smh

obvious bubbly personality wins over flirting ig (tho sabo also uses the enemies to lovers tactic but sadly law intercepted before he could succeed rip 😞✊)

also love the way you expanded the world with the newspaper cast!! how they manipulate the truth out of monetary gain!! sophie having to be confronted with her twisted image every chapter!! uhhehehsbs

love it ꒰⁠⑅⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠꒱⁠˖⁠♡

"protagonist privilege" omg, ugh trueeee 🙄🙄🙄 <- the writer who wrote it

i've gotten quite a few sabo mentions and. well. i must confess it was originally going to be sabo in the very, very early drafts. but that's not how the story panned out. ah, well, maybe in the future ♡ thanks for enjoying!

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moodboard

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エースまとめ

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大好きな三兄弟

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I love all your Ocs SOOOOOOOOO MUCH. I always have wondered. How does Favrille feel about the new Admirals?

omg a favrile mention. thanks for enjoying the short chapters i wrote of her 🩷

hmmm, she'd have a good relationship with issho until he started to pick fights with sakazuki/the top brass, which would get very frustrating for her. aramaki would be an HR menace. i imagine favrile would've spotted the report on issho during the first waves of the world military draft, therefore being responsible for his recruitment, so she'd take it personally when issho disobeys orders. she also would've seen the report on aramaki, and tried to stop the marines from recruiting him. unfortunately sakazuki got to him first. current and former admirals are always a source of headaches for her 🙂‍↕️

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hello dear irini (˶‾᷄ ⁻̫ ‾᷅˵)

it's been awhile since i was able to stop by but of course coming back and seeing the updates you've done for cherry bomb alchemy was the sweetest welcoming. i've said it before but i'll say it again! truly, Truly! you have such a gift with capturing such human emotion of joy and whimsy, despair and resolution - it has me on the edge of my seat, shedding tears, cracking a smile. it's something so, so, SO special to me to be able to read sophie's story and see how far she's come. it's even more special because i can feel just how much care and love you pour into your storytelling.

thank you for all that you do and for being a part of the joy that i (and i'm sure others) get to experience in this chaotic, beautiful world through your writing. it's a feeling i hope more people get to experience in their lives- there's something so beautiful and healing in sharing a story together. especially when it's such an amazing one like this :'-)

i hope the seasons have been kind to you and that spring (almost summer!!) is nothing but warm sparks of joy and peace. sending all my best wishes <3 <コ:彡

awww thank you for such a heartfelt message ^_^ 🍵🌱🌷🌷🌱🍵 <- let's enjoy a cup of tea in the spring sunshine together...

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omg my anime influencer just posted himself wearing this jacket... i must say i'm a bit influenced and intrigued...

if i had to choose, i'd probably get the nami jacket... i like her jolly roger the most on the reversed side... but also the law merch is kinda cute???

have a little clip for your carabiner on your jorts 🙂‍↕️

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Your post about fanfiction being a rather largely homogeneous group was so on point. When AO3 surveys or case group articles/studies came out showing that majority of the people in ao3 are White Bisexual Women, I wasn’t really surprised! However, I think you can catch culturally and racially where authors may be from, and I think it’s incredibly apparent in Non-Western works specifically in anime and manga that is often set in Japan. I can’t recall the amount of times I’ve read a fanfic that takes a lot of liberties on how culture and behavior operates in Japan, when trying to fill the holes of whatever mundanity lies between the plot and characterization of the story! I think it’s most egregious in original character or reader stories, where even Japanese-like names they may give their lead doesn’t save them from channeling a very western perspective to the story? A lot of anime characters tend to be quiet eccentric anyway that’s not accurate to reality but I often think the understanding as to why is lost on these writers.

It isn’t to say, that it’s bad to write for these stories! In fact I think it’s more to say that anime isn’t enough to grasp your whole understanding of a country and its customs and to write it as naturally as possible. When I read your stories, I don’t think this is an issue at all! What would be your advice to the proper research people should do in order to capture it? Reading books, surfing sites, watching shows? Or is it more? I’d love to know! Thank you!

be curious! read books by japanese authors, watch jdramas, etc. if you need to do quick research on what life is like from the perspective of [high school student, city yuppie, konbini worker, etc], youtube works fine. try to get small details right, like removing your shoes at the front door and wearing house slippers. you can probably find a reddit post about cultural inaccuracies in stories set in japan.

on the other hand, if you want to write a little more deeply, you should develop a solid worldview with beliefs that you can stand behind. i'll never have the perspective of a japanese person. that's fine. the only thing i can work with is my perspective as a chinese diaspora yank with a worldview shaped by living in the heart of empire. even though i'm writing characters who are very different from me, i can still touch on little kernels of truth because i'm familiar with history, particularly what the west has done to the rest of the world and how it affects them today. for example, much like south korea, japan is an american vassal state. we nuked them, wrote their constitution, and built our own military bases all over their country. putting aside the many valid historical grievances involving japan, american interference to keep itself the dominating superpower on the global stage is the biggest reason why lasting peace isn't yet a reality in east asia. an easy way to make your non-western characters feel real is to just have them make fun of america, a beloved worldwide pasttime 😋 (you could also have them exoticize things like american gas stations or american breakfast cereal, which is funny and true to life)

anyway my point is, research is only a part of it. people don't read stories because they want to read about every cultural custom in agonizingly accurate detail, they're drawn to the story. and story is perspective, ideas, images. if an author can develop a strong worldview (formed by 1. lived experiences/understanding of your own place in the world, 2. research, and 3. private obsessions and interests), that will naturally translate to interesting characters who might not be 100% stereotypically [insert ethnicity here] but are recognizably human and behave in human ways.

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