#hina kudo

[unhelpfulfemme]

@goofygooberton tagged me in a thing where I was supposed to list five of my comfort characters and then tag five other people like two months ago, but I was on vacation at the time and the post ended up unfinished and lost in my drafts.

So I am doing it now, here it goes, Tumblr user togrutahhh's five comfort characters (aka a collection of cunning bastards who seem composed on the surface but are secretly Fucked Up but are also kind to children and poor people):

Hina Kudo from Mr. Sunshine aka my pfp: Hina Kudo is actually Korean, but she has a Japanese name because she's the mysterious widow of a rich Japanese man twice her age. She used his inheritance to open up a fancy hotel in Seoul and uses the money and influence gained through that alongside her intelligence and cunning to get what she wants, and what she wants is Mysterious unless you've seen the show to the end. Does she work for the Japanese? For the Koreans? For the Americans? For herself? Nobody knows and everyone hates her for it. She is a Bad Bitch, always cool, poised, and playfully seductive, but she also has a back full of hideous scars and is a proficient swordswoman, hinting at a less genteel past. She seems haughty, but is also wonderfully compassionate towards lower class people and viciously defends her staff from unwanted sexual advances. The men she wants never pick her because they think she's fake and manipulative. (Fun fact: this actress and her mannerisms in this particular role is how I headcanon Alys Vorpatril to look like, with Henry Golding as Ivan)

Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars: I love the Chaotic Strategic Mastermind Who Inspires Loyalty In His Men archetype, but what I love about Thrawn is that, unlike the more overtly theatrical and extroverted specimens like Miles Vorkosigan or Eugenides or Inda Algara-Vayir, he is also very introverted and autistic and seems incapable of connecting to people outside of the structured military environment he's in, which adds an additional twist and makes him deliciously interpersonally vulnerable to me. In the right hands he's also an excellent treatise of when doing evil for the greater good is justified and when it's not, and a cool exploration of someone just abandoning his humanity and his personal needs in order to always do the Rational Thing. Reading Zahn's new canon books about him often feels like watching your kind, hypercompetent, slightly awkward boyfriend who's great with children make the worst possible choices and fail you again and again and again. I also like thinking about him in terms of... information processing? Like no matter how logical you are, your conclusions are only as good as your info and what info you take into consideration will be determined by your own prejudices and assumptions and social position. Honorable mention to his boyfriend aide Eli Vanto and also everyone in the Ascendancy Trilogy - I could make a top ten comfort characters list out of them alone.

Laurent of Vere from Captive Prince: NEW BLORBO!! <3 Another Strategic Mastermind Who Inspires Loyalty in His Men + Interpersonal Vulnerability combo, but this time extra bitchy and needlessly vicious and also in a piece of media that explores his interpersonal baggage with great nuance and respect. He is severely traumatized but the narrative never takes away his agency and always portrays his boundaries as really important and I wrote a whole ass essay about how lovely that is that you can look up on my blog if you want. He comes off as stone cold but seems to have an innate desire to be sweet and submissive that he's too scared to let out. He also has a delightfully intricate mind that manifests in a myriad of plot twists and schemes - those books are literally more filled with unexpected plot twists than the Queen's Thief books, and that's an accomplishment to say the least. Every time you think you've got him pegged down he reveals new layers to his thinking and personality and it's such a delight, but you also see how that same intricate mind stymies him and makes him awkward when he tries to open up to someone (and what's extra charming is that you can see that he's trying so damned hard in places).

Lisbeth Salander from The Millennium Trilogy: The ultimate Bad Bitch. She's punk. She's a genius with a photographic memory but is so distrustful and anti-social and scarred by her severely traumatic upbringing that she pretends to be mentally handicapped so that people would leave her alone. She kills her rapist. She sets her abusive father on fire as a preteen. He comes for her as an adult to get revenge and buries her alive and she digs herself out Kill Bill-style, and whenever I feel in an impossible situation I think of the description of how she feels her fingers being scraped to a pulp as she digs but refuses to give up and that inspires me. She falls in love with an upper middle class leftist journalist twice her age who is poly, which she isn't stable enough psychologically to deal with, so she ghosts him and then spends a lot of time dwelling on how isolated from Normal Society she feels and how it always feels like she's a shitty stray out in the cold and rain watching happy people sit together in warm houses through the window.

Joe Macmillan from Halt and Catch Fire: He's a Don Draper-esque slick salesman kind of charismatic guy, except you can immediately tell that it's a facade and his charismatic shtick often comes off as fake, plastic, over the top or even kinda pathetic. He does the Joker thing where he makes up a different story about how he got his scars based on what will best get him what he wants. He's the best bisexual rep I've ever seen and while his queerness is not a central plot point in the show, he gets an entire subplot about being a queer man during the 1980s AIDS crisis and how this impacts his career as an antivirus software "developer", and we also get hints about how having to perform manhood as a teen is what set the stage for his fake-ass melodramatic bargain bin Patrick Bateman personality. He eventually matures and learns that manipulating people can lead to some really nasty consequences and becomes a more genuine and grounded person. He still loses everything. He comes off as a heartbreaker but actually he just keeps getting dumped by everyone because nobody trusts him as far as they can throw him even when he genuinely cares and continues to suffer over the breakup for years afterwards. He's the ultimate boy who cried wolf. Truly the most pathetic meow meow of all time. He's played by Lee Pace, so he's really hot. Actually everyone on this list is really hot and can cut glass with their cheekbones.

Honorable mention to Eugenides from Queen's Thief, who sadly got replaced by Laurent at the last minute. Also honorable mention to a dozen Star Wars characters who got kicked out by Thrawn, including but not limited to my boy Luthen Rael, the entire Skywalker family, Darth Maul, Aleksandr Kallus, and Hera Syndulla.

Five people I'm tagging: @highladyluck @kokoshnjak @thesunlikehoney @capablecapybara @kissingdeadgirls at random from my notifs and anyone else who wants to participate :)) also you don't really have to write a paragraph for each one I'm just annoying and like overthinking things <3

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Black dresses Round 3- Group A: Kudo Hina, Mr. Sunshine (gifset) vs Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra (full dress in the 5th pic of this pics set)

[isobelleposts]

'Mr. Sunshine' and its Answer to the Question "What is Love?"

Lee Byun-hun and Kim Tae-ri as Choi Eugen and Go Ae-sin in 'Mr. Sunshine'

Recently, I’ve found myself loving media wherein romance is only considered a subplot but is also what keeps the watchers hooked for the next episode and the one that comes after that. ‘Mr. Sunshine’ would be one of those shows.

‘Mr. Sunshine’ is what I would consider the most well-produced Korean Drama I have watched so far. Based on both facts and fiction, the show tells a moving story of a romance that blooms between a noblewoman and an American Military officer as they plot to prevent a dark scheme on the country's colonization at night. 

Choi Eugene and Go Ae-sin, episode 6 of ‘Mr. Sunshine’

L-O-V-E

There is complete intimacy between Kim Tae-ri and Lee Byung-hun’s characters despite the lack of skinship found throughout the show. Being a noblewoman and an American, Lady Ae-sin and Eugene keep their progressive friendship a secret from the public eye, not only as lovers but as members of a militia called The Righteous Army.

Can I ask you a question since you’re American? What is "love"?

Go Ae-sin, episode 3 of 'Mr. Sunshine'

The transition between Ae-sin’s innocence to her full knowledge of what the English word “love” means and feels was like watching the process of an artist starting out with a clear image in their head, making a mistake, and then having a completely different story sold twice more than the original worth. Ae-sin asked a single question and received several answers.

Let’s do it. Love. With me. Let’s do it together.

Choi Eugene, episode 6 of 'Mr. Sunshine'

One boat ride between the noblewoman and “her wherryman” and the contrast between the world’s then-current tragedies and killings made you understand the experience of how quiet the world could be. The moment that peace was taken away, you suddenly find the desire to have stayed there forever, rowing on and on and never continued watching.

Yoo Yeon-seok as Gu Dong-mae in 'Mr. Sunshine'

HISTORY AND TV

Apart from being what I consider the most well-produced K-Drama, ‘Mr. Sunshine’ is also the most diverse I have encountered so far. Despite so many characters and stories to follow, screenwriter Kim Eun-sook was able to build it all together at a compact pace without letting you feel it was too heavy or difficult to keep up with.

If it’s my fate to survive everything only to die in your hands, then I should.

Gu Dong-mae, episode 7 of ‘Mr. Sunshine’

‘Mr. Sunshine’ was able to have you appreciate its second leads rather than feel completely angry or sorry, as most dramas intend to do. The application of history added to each character’s depth and complexity makes you ponder on life’s ways.

Do you know what the first thing I did after coming to Joseon was? I let everyone know that I was a runaway son of a butcher. Unlike my father, I was able to cut anyone down.

Gu Dong-mae

It was difficult to convince myself that I hated Gu Dong-mae because I didn’t. And it was not only because of his love and help towards the Lady Ae-sin, but for the way his character was structured and written.

The obvious display of different social classes and power led me to think of all the real lives and years lived by people and ancestors, and how so little society has come to change. Similar to ‘Pachinko’, both historical dramas depicted the realities of Korea’s turning point in history and lets you compare it to the present world.

Choi Eugene, episode 24 of 'Mr. Sunshine'

GLORY AND SAD ENDING

This show made me think of several could-have-beens yet somehow never made me choose an alternate ending over what was already provided, despite Eugen and Ae-sin’s absolute deservedness of a peaceful life full of loving each other.

Will our final destination be somewhere between glory and a sad ending?

Go Ae-sin, episode 9 of ‘Mr. Sunshine’

If I had to choose between those two words to describe this ending, I’d rather see it as a glorious one. An ending where two people's love for each other was able to help thousands of the Nation. An ending where Go Ae-sin was able to live and succeed as what she had always wanted to be — a flame that burnt brightly and wilted.

And one day, we can be walking on a street we’re familiar with and go all the way to New York, where you used to live.

Go Ae-sin, episode 16 of ‘Mr. Sunshine’

I like to think that among the several worlds in the universe, Eugene and Ae-sin walk hand in hand in one of them, far from the cries of their dying nation.

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by Isobelle Cruz, 31/05/2022

[cercasinomeworld]

30 Days Kdrama Challenge

Day 7 - Favourite female second lead

Yoon Myeong-Joo (Descendants of the Sun)

Choi Soo-yeon (Extraordinary Attorney Woo)

Song Hae-rin (Romance Is a Bonus Book)

Kudo Hina / Lee Yang-hwa (Mr. Sunshine)

[noctyphni]

Age late 20s

Kind Human

Work: hotel owner

Height 5'5"

Hair: black

Eyes: Brown

APPEARANCE

Once proclaimed to be the most beautiful, the most beloved. Black is her crown, falling to her hips in thick locks. Normally kept in delicate hairstyles with unique and expensive hairpins, clips and accessories. A picture of elegance normally seen in the lords and ladies of Joseon.

Her figure is healthy, curves with an underlining of muscle but not too pronounced. Her visage mirrors and completes her person. Delicate, fair without a blemish in sight her eyes are almond shape, hues a warm brown. Always dressed in fine clothing; western, kimonos, french influenced. Nothing that has been seen in Joseon, each article never worn twice.

PERSONALITY

Despite the charm and delicacy she is a viper with a good cause. Her name (Lee yang-hwa), her youth, and her mother were stolen from her by a power-hungry father. She was born in Joseon but was taken and oppressed by her husband in Japan. She forced herself to fight, armed herself with guns, swords, and language (learning to speak Japanese, English, and French). She murdered her husband, took all his riches and formed something large back in Joseon. A popular western style Hotel.

She's a lady who outwits everyone, the master of whispers, manipulative, and sharp. Her gaze alone would make anyone freeze. All this, what she's forced herself to become is to attain one thing, her mother. The reason she came back to Joseon was to reconcile with her mother, only to realize that she had gone missing. So she’s searching, waiting.

ABILITIES

Guns- Has shown skills in the use of handguns. Normally kept in her purse/clutch. She sleeps with one under her pillow paired with a knife.

Swordsmanship- Taught by a renowned fencer to the point where she had surpassed her master. However she does not isolate her swordsmanship to just a fencing sword.

She’s able to adapt quickly to any type of sword.

Other facts.

Will use a hat pin to attack if she has no other weapon. Loves the ocean and snow. When she loves she loves with all her heart. Loves to be called pretty by a certain swordsman.

[vanillsposts]

I’m not sure if this is something of interest to anyone, but a lot of my followers are fans of Spy Family - and I thought it would be fun to suggest some other anime like the series for those who are missing the anime or waiting on the next manga chapter! Here are some animes I would suggest!!!

The Yakuza’s Guide To Babysitting ( Crunchyroll - first three-four volumes of the manga on Amazon. ). - Toru Kirishima is a 28 year old Lieutenant for the Sakuragi Yakuza, known as Sakuragi's Demon for his brutality. After letting a business meeting descend into a fight, his employer, Kazuhiko Sakuragi, decides to teach him responsibility and makes Kirishima guardian for his 7-year-old daughter, Yaeka

Hinamatsuri ( All volumes available on Amazon of the manga / anime on Crunchyroll. ) - The story follows yakuza member Yoshifumi Nitta, who ends up taking care of a mysterious girl with telekinetic powers named Hina who inexplicably appeared in his apartment.

I know a lot of people suggest Buddy Daddies, but it just didn’t click with me - but I know a lot of other fans of Spy Family enjoy - so I’ll drop it here in case anyone is interested!

My final suggestion is the Detective Conan franchise! It’s a long running series - and one of the most iconic of the genre. ( most episodes on Crunchyroll / manga available on Amazon! ). - Japanese high school student Kudo Shinichi is a well-known detective, known as the savior of the Japanese police. Once, when Kudo went out to play with his girlfriend Mulilan, he saw an illegal transaction going on. Kudo took his girlfriend to observe the deal, and suddenly a man behind him knocked him to the ground. The man and his accomplices let Kudo take a medicine. The medicine that would have killed him turned Kudo's body into the body of a primary school student! When Kudo woke up, he was surprised to find himself a child. To investigate the man and his accomplices, Kudo goes by the pseudonym Edogawa Conan (taken from the Japanese writer Edogawa Maimu and the British writer Conan Doyle).

I hope these suggestions help someone in need of a Spy Family fix!

[makesomehistory]

@userdramas event 06: second time to shine: favorite secondary ship 

Gu Dong Mae & Kudo Hina - Mr. Sunshine (2018) dir. Lee Eung Bok

I was waiting for someone else. In the backyard of the hotel, on the streets, on the streetcar, and in his room.  I prayed for him to return alive. That he must come back in one piece. 

[spurious]

fic writer 20 questions

I was tagged by @alienfuckeronmain & @nimuetheseawitch to do this one!

How many works do you have on AO3? 108. I need to add some ficlets to my collection but I've been slacking a bit on that, so.

What’s your total AO3 word count? 274,716

What fandoms do you write for? Star! Gate! At! Lan! Tis! The hyperfixation is strong ok. It's the thing that shook loose my half-decade dormant desire and ability to write, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 1. Twenty Questions, 248 kudos 2. Ink and Wings, 221 kudos 3. Five Times Rodney (and John) Visit the Millers, 190 kudos 4. Solitary in a Wide Flat Space, 163 kudos 5. Abercrombie & Rodney, 151 kudos

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I really try to!!! One of the things that was not good about posting all my ficlets onto AO3 in quick succession was ending up with more comments than I could handle, so now I have a...backlog. Getting comments makes me feel so good though, and I just...want to honor the effort made with some of my own in return? Idk, I've talked about this a fair bit in a handful of posts but I'm just really not used to the amount of interaction I get in SGA fandom and I still feel.......very blessed lmao. Bleh sincerity on main how gross

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? We Are Standing On the Edge, a Jin/Kame fic about a road trip and the apocalypse which I wrote for @merionettes in a fic exchange in 2010.

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Most of my fics either have happy endings or implied happy endings? I like making good things happen to the characters I love so much. Sometimes after making bad things happen to them, but. At any rate, O I Think We Should Be Brethren is my personal happiest ending because of how long and hard a journey it is to get there.

Do you get hate on fics? I got a hate comment once, on the (in)famous Kanjani Cannibalism Fic.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Do I ever! I like to write kinky sex as a means of exploring and facilitating vulnerability. I also like to write blowjobs.

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I've never written a crossover! ..............I don't think, at least.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I am aware of.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes! A couple of my Johnny's fics have been translated into Russian and Chinese.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not to completion.

What’s your all time favorite ship? Yokohina, Sakura/Syaoran, McShep...don't make me choose between my children like this??? Sakura/Syaoran literally invented romance for my teenage self, like I am not kidding at how formative of a ship that was for me in my life. Also why I started learning Japanese, so. Yokohina will forever be beloved to me in the same way that Kanjani8 will forever be beloved to me, in a way that is (literally) tattooed into my flesh, in a way that influenced my life massively, in so many aspects. I will never not be thirsty for the two of them saying weirdly romantic things about each other in public forums, for them being the solid foundation upon which their group is built. For Yoko being a pigtail-pulling twelve year old boy towards Hina even as they're in their mid-forties. AND THEN THERE'S FUCKING MCSHEP. A ship that I knew about when it was popular and brushed off as an Any Two White Guys, Migratory Slash Fandom Thing. A ship that, when my wife and I started watching SGA, we said "haha wouldn't it be so funny if we ended up being all in on mcshep?" A ship that resonates in my heart in the most bizarrely intense way and shook loose the desire to write and create from its atrophied place in the back of my head. I love them. I hate them. They're perfect.

What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I have about 25k of a later-years yokohina friends to FWB to lovers fic that I wish I could finish but the McShep brainrot is.........so strong. On the other hand, never say never?

What are your writing strengths? haha so much harder to answer this than weaknesses!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I can write good funny dialogue, which is amazing to me because when I started writing my dialogue was horrendous, just absolutely awful and stilted and I hated writing it so much! like it was a running joke between me and my best friend at the time that I could not write anything that sounded even remotely natural or like real human speech. guess that shows that practice makes perfect or whatever? idk.

What are your writing weaknesses? endings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ensemble casts/scenes with more than two people in them. plots more complex than simple romantic contrivance.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? nah. It always feels a bit fanfiction.net anime fandom to me?

First fandom you wrote for? speaking of fanfiction.net anime fandom....I wrote Sakura/Syaoran angstfic into a notebook when I was 13. The first things that I actually shared with other people were either Harry Potter or the fics I wrote about the boys at my church who were just unnecessarily homoerotic with each other in the way that only teenage church boys can be (iykyk)

Favorite fic you’ve written? guess. 🙃

Tagging: @sga-owns-my-soul @stargayatlantis @hearteyesmcgarrett @texasdreamer01

[brujitaadinbo]

From this same Kdrama (I swear to God it is a true gem of a production)

I was inspired by the second leading couple; They were truly destined to be together, but those hearts were stubborn and blinded by circumstances and by stupid things that they could let pass.

Dong Mae and Kudo Hina. They have great parallels with Sabine and Ezra and I explain why.

Dong Mae is a wounded man, rejected by Korean society and who takes refuge in the wrong people to make a place for himself in this circle. Living a life on the edge, he begins to understand that he is on the wrong path and tries to do things as best as possible, in love with Ae Shin, but in a very harmful platonic way, he lets himself be carried away by his feelings, spoiling many things. The question is; what he feels for hina.

Dong mae has a very strong bond with Hina; They know each other for being in this harmful circle, her story is just as tragic; They see each other as "friends or as if they were brothers"

But the way they treat each other is not like a simple friendship. We know that there is a limit that makes us understand the difference between the treatment as "brother friends" and the treatment you would have with that special person.

Then you begin to see how Dong Mae, despite being platonically in love with another woman, sees Hina with eyes of love, he takes care of her, he protects her, he is around her, as if he couldn't get out of his orbit, he consoles her and if she were necessary he would give his life for her.

We then see Hina, a hard-hearted woman with a very painful past, separated from her mother, sold by her father to the highest bidder. She lives with a deplorable man and her only way to be free is to become a widow.

Meeting Dong Mae in this circle of dangerous people, she gains a reputation, and with him, they have a very balanced relationship, she sees him as her "friend" and tries to fall in love with Eugene, because that man is more than its type. But something happens, something can be noticed, she feels jealous of Ae Shin, not because Eugene is in love with her, but because she knows that Dong Mae loves Ae Shin in a platonic way and does not reciprocate.

She takes care of Dong Mae, saves his life several times, supports him and watches over him. When he disappears, she sinks into depression, loses interest in living and in a moment of madness, joins the cause of rebellion and sacrifices herself. In a very sad and emotional moment, she realizes that Dong Mae is alive, she manages to say goodbye to him and says something to him that reminds me a lot of Sabine searching for Ezra's memory and having that longing to find him.

Dong mae carries Hina, because she can't move anymore. They are walking towards the shore of the beach and in her last moments she tells him "That man is no longer in my heart, I let him go a long time ago…

I waited for someone else, in the hotel's backyard, in the streets, on the tram I waited for him in his room. "I prayed that he would return alive, that he would return in perfect condition but the only one he loves is Ae Shin and he is crazy in love, that love drove him crazy and I still waited for him."

She recognizes her feelings for him, the deepest and most cautious, he begins to understand everything and it hurts him, because his feelings for her are there but there is also that stubborn platonic love for Ae Shin.

Sabine reminds me a lot of Hina because she separates from her family, becomes a tough woman, and in the meantime meets Ezra. Ezra lost his way and joined the wrong people, then somehow straightens his path, meets Sabine and that "being something more" relationship that always passes for passing as if they were "friends and brothers."

Then Ezra disappears, leaves and Sabine sinks into a depression. She decides to give up everything and take care of Ezra, his things, wait for him, continue longing for his presence. So when things get tough Will they somehow tell each other what they feel? Will they actually show their deepest and most mutual feelings?

I hope so.

[anthropologicalhands]

twenty questions for fic writers

tagged by @redbelles !

1. how many works do you have on ao3? 112

2. what’s your total ao3 word count? 497,546

3. what fandoms do you write for? currently, I’m still eyeballs deep in black panther (mcu). I’ll write for whatever catches my interest, but previous fandoms include naruto, yuyu hakusho, thor (mcu), mass effect, and crazy ex girlfriend

4. top five fics by kudos

vigil of the loved tales of the storyteller bring back the baby shoes sleeping arrangements pft, tradition <- biggest shocker honestly

5. do you respond to comments? i’m making more of an effort these days! I might respond late, but i do try to respond because it’s a nice way to talk more about characters and stuff with people.

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? probably a frozen pond alight with torches. It’s a hina fic, by nature of canon it’s doomed. I tend not to write straight angst though. Or maybe i stay up all night in your memories, where priya has to let go both of ajay and, worse, of seema so they can all move on.

7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? by far don’t need no ammunition, aka the sif goes to midgard au. loki doesn’t fall into madness, thor and jane get to stay in contact, and sif gets a shiny sword that cuts through dimensions. everyone wins! it’s so self indulgent, but i do find it endearing.

8. do you get hate on fics?

almost never, but the only time i remember getting hate is on make me an offer i won’t refuse, where some commenter took issue with how i wrote kay and her and michael’s relationship. they clearly hated kay as a character but still read a whole fic about her, so i wasn’t even angry, i was just completely bemused by it. 

9. do you write smut?

…i do. i have a very limited comfort zone, but honestly i want to write more and get better at it!

10. craziest crossover:

I don’t really do crossovers, except for the ceg fic that ended up featuring jean ralphio from parks and recreation. that was super fun, but i think it’s too tonally consistent to count as crazy. I’m more likely to write fusion fic than crossovers

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as in someone else tried to take credit for it — i have had my fics uploaded onto other websites w/o my permission though

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! In the Naruto fandom, someone translated one of my fics into Vietnamese. that was pretty cool, but i think i lost the link.

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

just for fun! And there was one sasusaku/uchiha family round robin fic i was fortunate enough to participate in. 

14. all time favorite ship?

nah, can’t do it

15. what’s a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

rip telepathy au. I had so much written but i couldn’t figure out a couple key parts and then i lost steam for writing ceg fic. I’ll never say never, but i think that one is gone.

16. what are your writing strengths?

i think emotions, how characters relate to each other, moments of high intensity and catharsis

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

Setting! i hate it, because i loooooove a good vivid setting, but i have such a hard time visualizing places! Especially new places!

18. thoughts on dialogue in another language?

probably only a good idea if you are fluent. I have used honorifics in anime fics, but i worry that i apply it too inconsistently and not as thoughtfully as i should have, so these days i try to move away from it.

19. first fandom you wrote in?

unpublished, probably teen titans or sailor moon. published, naruto

20. favorite fic you’ve written?

I think understand the edge of this desire is one of my favorite things I’ve written, just because i think i got the voice and the mood right, and it took a long of agonizing over both.

tagging anyone who wants to do this meme!

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Black dresses Round 1- Group A: Kudo Hina, Mr. Sunshine (gifset) vs Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina (pics set)

[chaosverse-mainblog]

I am currently working on The Ice King and his Queen, and I am honestly super excited to share the story. There will be three parts (currently) of the AU

Bruce’s parents hold a party in hopes of getting him a wife (though the wife thing is mostly his mom,his dad gets Bruce not wanting to jump into marriage, and to celebrate his ascension to the throne (takes place the day before the coronation and then skips to the night of at the party)

The Shigaraki twins receive an invitation to the party. Hina convinces Yumi to go knowing that Kudo will be there (so far)

The last story I have planned is the coronation

[matcha-meow]

oh HEY, my first bajifuyu fic got 100 kudos on a03 so I've de-anon myself and posted it here as well~ enjoy!! TITLE: Your Latest Confession Is My Newest Obsession

PROMPT: Love Letter

SUMMARY: His friend doesn’t even spare him a glance as he keeps walking, “I’m his right hand man and his first line of defense. Nothing gets to Baji-san unless it goes through me first.”

OR

There’s something going on between Baji and Chifuyu - but Takemichi is just a simple bystander and he really doesn’t get it. Is this really how Captains and Vice-Captains are supposed to act?

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The most confusing day of Takemichi’s life starts out completely normal - really. 

He gets a text message from Chifuyu, saying he’s waiting at the school entrance like usual. The only difference so far is that he’s being kept behind because of an overdue assignment and then after a stern lecture, he’s forced to leave his class later than anticipated. 

It’s only been a few minutes, but now Takemichi has to sprint through the hallways to keep his friend from waiting. Dodging other students left and right, Takemichi picks up the pace when he sees the gates within running distance. He then absolutelyjolts to a stop, nearly hitting the ground face down, when Takemichi realizes that it’s notjust Chifuyu waiting for him there. 

Chifuyu is talking to a girl in front of their school. She’s blushing, she’s nervous, she’s looking at anywhere but Chifuyu - then suddenly she’s pushing an envelope into the blond’s hands. 

The girl says something, shyly making eye contact again beneath her lashes and they are just so long and distracting. She’s fixing her curly hair and then messing them up again by twirling the locks with a pink manicured nail. She isso pretty, thinks Takemichi.

He feels a bit like a voyeur, watching this cute little thing pout her lips at Chifuyu as she's waiting for his response. A moment later she gets one.

Chifuyu smiles, gives her a thumbs up, and then tucks the letter into his school blazer. 

The girl covers her face in embarrassment, running back to her giggling group of friends encouraging her from the side.  

Takemichi isn’t stupid, he knows what he just witnessed - and congratulations are in order! He jogs the rest of the way, clamps a heavy hand on Chifuyu’s shoulder, and says

“ Dude ! She was so hot! Nice going, man!” 

“Um,” says Chifuyu, “...What? Why are you fist-bumping me?”

“C’mon, I saw the whole thing,” says Takemichi with a proud grin, “That girl gave you a love letter, right? And you said yes, didn’t you? So when’s the first date, huh?”

They’ve been moving along the sidewalk, with Takemichi’s arm wrapped around Chifuyu’s shoulder like they’re both in on a conspiracy - but Takemichi’s voice would have given them away with how loud he’s being.

“I can give you some pointers you know, Hina and I have been dating for a while now an-”

Takemichi gets thrown off balance when Chifuyu starts flailing, “You’ve got it all wrong!”

His friend scratches the back of his head sheepishly, looking off to the side.

“That confession letter wasn’t for me,” he says with an amused grin, “That was for Baji-san. Obviously. She just asked me if I could deliver it to him ‘cause Baji-san’s been skipping school lately and she’s been carrying that letter around for a while now.” 

Takemichi definitely doesn’t get it, “What do you mean, ‘obviously?’ Does this happen a lot or something?” 

Chifuyu shrugs, “Well, not a lot.” He contemplates the matter for a few seconds, “Maybe just twice this week, and a couple times this month.” He waves a hand in the air, as if brushing the whole issue aside, “It’s no problem to me, I live in the same building as Baji-san. It’s just a couple extra steps to drop it off for him.”

Takemichireally doesn’t get it now.

“And uh, you’ve just been playing messenger boy for him all this time?”

Chifuyu looks at Takemichi in wild disbelief, like he’s just announced to everyone that he’s a time-traveler. He also looks a little exasperated and maybe even disappointed. 

“I’m his Vice-Captain,” he says, like the title is already self explanatory, “Taking care of things like this is my duty. I’m not some messenger or mail carrier - I’m way more important than that.”

He then promptly takes out notone envelope - BUTTHREE envelopes from his school blazer and then systematically opens each one up, skimming the pages, making various sounds of disapproval, and then putting them back into the envelopes.

Takemichi watches this with no small amount of confusion.

“What,” he swallows and tries again, “What are you doing? I thought you said these were for Baji-kun.”

His friend doesn’t even spare him a glance as he keeps walking, “I’m his right hand man and his first line of defense. Nothing gets to Baji-san unless it goes through me first.”  

As they pass by a trash can, Chifuyu dumps the first two letters into the bin.

“Those girls weren’t any good,” he says by way of explanation, “They wouldn’t add any value to Baji-san’s life.”

Takemichi has no choice but to keep up - both with the conversation and with the stride. He’s walking a little faster now so he can turn towards Chifuyu and see his expression as they’re talking. He needs some more context here.

“Ok, but how would you know that? And does Baji-kun know you’re doing that? Did he ask you to go through all his fan mail, too? Are you vetting all his future girlfriends for him - is that what Vice-Captains do now?”

Chifuyu laughs, “The future of Toman is directly affected by Baji-san’s happiness. He doesn’t need to ask me to do this.” 

Takemichi just says what’s on his mind, “I really don’t get it. You’ve completely lost me.”

They aren’t able to continue the conversation, which might be for better or for worse, because they've reached their headquarters and other members are joining them in the park. The two of them make their rounds together, high-fiving comrades and exchanging pleasantries. 

At one point, Baji Keisuke joins them.

“Ah, Baji-san!” Chifuyu brightens up immediately, “This is for you,” he offers the envelope with both hands and looks for a sign of approval. “There were some others this week, but I don’t think they were worth reading.”

Maybe it’s his imagination, but Takemichi thinks Baji’s expression is a little strained.

“Chifuyu, you need to stop letting these girls run you over.” He smirks, “Are you any different from a personal messenger now?”

“Haha, that’s what I said!” shouts Takemichi, with a fist pump in the air, at last finding his validation.

Baji still takes the letter, doesn’t read it, folds it up twice, and then deposits it somewhere in his clothes. They don’t talk about it for the rest of the meeting. Chifuyu might grumble a bit under his breath, “If I don’t do this, Baji-san wouldn’t have any free time. He just getsso much mail.” 

Takemichi definitely pretends he doesn’t hear the blond justify the rest of the chores he’s taken upon himself for the sake of Baji’s quality of life. He’s also not really paying attention to the meeting and then suddenly it’s over before he realizes.

The upper heads are done discussing the upcoming changes, warning everyone to not pick fights with other gangs right now while tensions are high and the police are cracking down on criminal activity. There’s nothing planned for after this, so Takemichi is content to just say bye to his friends and head out - putting his weird interactions with Chifuyu aside. 

He gets as far as the park exit before someone pulls him back, none too roughly, but the grip is firm and tells him that his companion is stronger than him. Takemichi definitely doesn’t let out a yelp when he’s turned faced-to-face with Baji suddenly. 

“Hey,” says the First Division Captain, staring down at him with a menacing smile. 

 “B-Baji-kun?” 

“What did that girl look like?”

“Um,” he’s not sure he’s following this conversation - but the intimidation radiating out of the other boy has his brain working on overdrive and he's thinking fast. “You mean, the girl…that gave Chifuyu that confession letter?”

“Yeah.”

“Well,” says Takemichi, “She was really pretty.” 

“Pretty?”

“Yeah like super pretty, don’t tell Hina, but like -” and then Takemichi launches into an explanation that is probably going into too much detail, but it’s been a really confusing day. That girl was so smokin’ hot and Chifuyu didn’t look twice at her. He didn’t even try to get her number for himself, he just handed her over to Baji like she was some errand, who does that?

And at first he thought Baji didn’t care too, but maybe he does. 

“...and like her skirt wassoooo short, I could totally see her-”

The hand on his shoulder pats him very roughly twice, almost awkwardly, signaling that it’s enough. The impact is so strong it almost sends him tumbling.

“Ah, I see,” says Baji with a quick glance over his shoulder and then, “And this is the girl that Chifuyu said was the best? This is the type of girl that Chifuyu likes?”

“Uhhhhhh,” Takemichi actually thinks about it all over again, “Actually he said it’s what you would like best?”  

There’s a moment of silence.

“Did he look interested in her or not?”

“...Yes?”

Baji looks at him in a similar way that Chifuyu had - like they were both very done and very disappointed in him. Perhaps Chifuyu had actually learned this look from Baji.

Takemichi isn’t sure what he’s done wrong, but he’s released from the grip with a tired sigh. 

“Don’t tell Chifuyu I asked about her, ok?”

Oh,

“Don’t worry, I won’t let him know you second guessed his opinion! She really was pretty - I didn’t get to see the other girls, but I think-”

“That’s not,” starts Baji, narrowing his eyes at something in the distance. “That’s not what I meant. Actually, nevermind.”

He watches as the other Toman member heads back to the group, most likely to finish up a Captains meeting. Baji throws him a quick wave over his shoulder to thank him for his time. As confusing as a time that it was. But at least Takemichi thinks he might get it now.

It starts to become a little more clear, the hesitancy in which Baji approaches his Vice-Captain, telling him to go home first. Takemichi is too far to hear their exact conversation, but he thinks he hears Chifuyu saying he doesn’t mind staying until the post-meeting is over. 

They’re walking further now, so he sees rather than hears Baji shake his head and invite Chifuyu to might as well come to the meeting then. If he’s just going to stick around, he can at least be useful or something.

As they pass by the park area trash receptacles, Baji dumps the contents of the last letter inside. It happens so quickly, so smoothly that it’s impossible for the boy beside him to have noticed the fate of Baji’s latest suitor’s confession. And maybe Chifuyu also hasn’t noticed what’s been developing between the two of them as well. 

Takemichi’s confusing day finally comes to an end, when he realizes

Baji hasn’t stopped looking at Chifuyu the entire meeting.

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6 n 8 for the fic ask game ‼️‼️

ty ty for the ask taku <3

6. Is there any fic that makes you super embarrassed to reread and remember you wrote that?

pfahahaha oml yeah. i’m over my cringy warrior cats fanfictions fron 5 years ago but i am NOT over my ayathoma smut fic from september 2021. seriously the only reason it’s still under my name is so i can flex with my 14k hits and 570 kudos adhkgsfjgd 😭 god i am begging all of you to ignore and forget that it exists. thanks 😭😭

8. What’s the oldest (longest since last update) fic you most want to continue (unfinished or no)?

ohh okay i actually have two answers for this bc i’m not entirely sure abt the older one. but that would be an entire warrior cats fan arc, even with some special adventures and a short adventure. i started working on it in 2019 and to date i’ve only written three chapters, plus i’d have to revamp it all, but something kinda tempts me about it... (this one is actually published lol but i am not gonna tell you where)

the other one is the first tokrev fic i ever started writing, that was back in december 2021. so old... okay. the fic is in hanma’s pov. basically kisaki survives getting hit by a truck but is in a coma for months (close to a year?), and when he finally wakes up he’s lost most of his memory, including everything he used to know about hanma. hanma is devasted but tries to befriend kisaki again, but kisaki doesn’t want to have anything to do with delinquents now because he can’t remember hina and thus doesn’t have any reason to. meanwhile hanma is still hopelessly in love with him, but kisaki doesn’t even know that... they try to become friends some more, until kisaki eventually tells hanma that this won’t ever work and hanma confesses in despair. kisaki tells him that he’s sorry, but that he doesn’t at all feel the same (perhaps anymore, since he doesn’t remember what he used to feel) and hanma finally accepts that kisaki simply doesn’t like him at all now. that’s it lol tho uhm. tbh i kinda wanna revamp it now... with a happy ending... and focus on kisaki still having all of his feelings/emotions from before but taking a while to figure out that the person he misses so much bc he’s in love with them is hanma because he can’t remember hanma, only his feelings for him? like. amnesia fics where they fall in love again are cool and all but like. what if neither of them ever fall out of love. what if the only problem is kisaki is so fucking dense he doesn’t know who he’s in love with even though he sees hanma every day. because kisaki can’t piece the longing ache in his heart together with the guy who visits him every day bc apparently they were best friends or smth before he lost his memory even tho he feels weirdly warm n comfy around him and gets those familiar comfy feelings when he’s with him and also hanma looks very nice and makes kisaki feel safe and happy and all giddy inside. but even then kisaki longs bc they’re friends and not boyfriends, and kisaki just can’t piece together that the longing is for hanma even if they’re close bc he longs for romantic love when they’re only platonic and he is fucking STUPID and oblivious when it comes to himself

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Second Lead Poll pt 1

Had to split up because of the 10 options limit. So, we're starting with the girls