#omg i didn't expect this to be a thing

[emmavakarian-theirin]

garrus is the answer

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

"BLOODY HELL, WHAT A MESS!"

congrats on 400+ followers @its-paperd!!! >:Dc you deserve that and so much more muah muah<333

[13eyond13]

actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew

[ihamtmus]

I SAW MY NEPHEW FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY 😍😍🥹🥹😭🥹😭😍😍💗💗🥹💖🥹🥰😍💖🥰💕

[francy-sketches]

I'm gonna have to work on my final project non stop for like a month straight bc I procrastinated on it too much fuck my stupid baka life

[llondonfog]

more creepy vampire dad for the fic meme please!

[✐meme] three sentence fic meme

Silver attempts to peek with morbid interest underneath the brightly colored bandage applied to his skinned knee, only for his father to gently flick his forehead with a sharp nail, a warning that's all bark and no bite.

"Let it be, child, it won't heal if you keep poking at it— run along and fetch us a snack, yes?"

With a chirpy "Of course, Papa," he scampers off from the shade towards the sprawling patch of garden behind their tiny home. The scrapes on his hands are already the pink of new skin, matching the gleam of the strawberries that sit plump and fat in his palm. They've been growing so well lately, and his father's new compost suggestion must be the cause— the dark soil fresh and clean as a rich, mossy scent fills the air.

He's quite proud of his little cultivation, and Papa is quite proud of him too when he hears that Silver intends to share the newest batch of strawberries with the other children of the village, an apology of sorts.

"I do still want to be friends and I'm sorry for getting into a fight, but I couldn't let them say such awful things about you, Papa! Perhaps after we're all friends again, they can come over and pick the strawberries with us and see that I was telling the truth?"

But the scrapes and bruises are worth the scolding when his father chuckles as if Silver's told the funniest joke in the world ("Who could have raised such a kind and forgiving child? It certainly wasn't me!") and ruffles his hair with that enigmatic smile, murmuring his gratitude for such a brilliant knight in shining armor. Popping a strawberry in his mouth with uncharacteristic relish, stem and all, his father reclines back in the shade, lidded gaze wandering lazily over to the compost pile.

"Perhaps they will, child. Perhaps they will."

[maddy-ferguson]

i saw someone say they were hoping noah would apologize and it's just kinda fascinating to me...if he thought zionism was sexy on monday (or i guess on sunday probably and for many days and weeks before that) why would he suddenly think it's an awful ideology on friday?

[chocosvt]

hi choco! i'm so excited to see you back on my tl; i've missed you and your god-tier fics & i'm super duper excited to read your wonwoo fic as well (140k words? we will all be well fed fr 🤲)

i had a little rant? not exactly rant but something that's been itching my mind a bit haha, i hope you don't mind me sharing it with you! i genuinely want some advice over this.

as a long fic writer, how do you consistently come back to writing your fic without getting bored? i looooove writing long fics too (big lover of slowburn and angst lol) but i always get so impatient and bored of writing the story so quickly :(

i'd posted a teaser for a fic a while back and it got a good amount of traction (something i will always be grateful for) and someone asked me when i would release the full fic, to which i gave them a tentative date. fast forward to the day before the day i said i would post the fic and you have me typing out paragraphs upon paragraphs of stuff that i absolutely loathe in my writing. i ended up posting the fic anyway, but it's been only a day and i already want to take it down—not bc it's not getting any attention, because it is, but more so bc i hate that fic and would do anything to rewrite it.

iirc your joshua fic, 'best friend's brother' was a rewrite of a fic you'd written earlier, right? was your thought process similar to this? where did you start your rewriting process from? did you have any second thoughts when you took it down the first time?

i'm really sorry if this is too many questions 😅 please take your time if you do choose to answer this! much love and have a great day, choco!!! thank you so much :)

(is it alright if i use an emoji to sign off so i can find this ask later?)

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first of all, THANK U SO MUCH <3

and i don't mind at all! these are rly insightful questions :o though i'll just chunk my answers a bit so i'm not all over the place.

not getting bored to be honest, i'm not sure if i ever "get bored" of writing out the plot. but i definitely get burnt out, and sometimes i get downright sick of reviewing my own writing, to the point where i just have to close my laptop and walk away. i think the most important & overarching piece of advice i can give--not just in terms of long fics but any fic for that matter--is to never force anything & take breaks!

when i'm busy at uni, there are like 5 month breaks where i don't bother writing at all. i always think that the second i have free time, i should theoretically want to write, but sometimes i just don't. and i make peace with it bc i know the second i force anything i will end up hating it (also takes the fun & enjoyment out of the process).

i think if you're getting bored, it's probably a sign that your body & mind just isn't interested in writing at the moment. so i would step away & take a break and attempt to get your mind off the plot. i think that taking a break also invigorates your mind a bit and gives you newer, better ideas (at least from my experience).

bfb rewrite the reason i rewrote best friend's brother was bc the og fic was from 2016, when my writing style was completely different. i still liked the concept but naturally, as my writing grew, i just detested the way the old ver was written, which spurred me to create the rewrite.

i wanted to give the characters a lot more depth & beef up the plot, so the new fic is actually a lot different in comparison to the old one. i wasn't attempting to do a scene-for-scene rewrite--it was simply just my approach to an old concept that i felt i could now execute better.

as to how i went abt rewriting it, i just picked out moments from the old fic that i liked and built around them. for instance, i rly liked the "skipping stones" scene that shows some intimacy & tenderness between joshua and reader. but it can't just happen out the gate. so i had to figure out the typical "why, when, and how is this moment happening right now?" from scratch.

the thing with long fics for me, it honestly is a test of patience & dedication!! bc it can truly be so frustrating :( a lot of times, you want to jump right into the good parts bc those are like the shiny glimmers that make the fic attractive. but depending on how impactful you want those moments to be, build-up is sooooo key! the thing is, build-up is just so critical in my opinion, but it can also be such a pain to write :p

i find when i review my writing, these are scenes i criticize or change the most--more than the big, hard-hitting scenes. bc to me, it's such a specific thing that you have to nail down justttt right. it's a lot of thinking and finagling and i think this process is what i dread the most? especially when it refuses to turn out how you want it--ugh, so discouraging!! but once you get it's like a silky flowy river!!

the big takeaways (i guess?) 1. taking breaks is so important! 2. don't force anything xxxx 3. take the big moments & build around them i totallyyyyy understand your frustration!! there have been so many moments where i'm like I NEED TO WRITE AHHHHH and then i promptly open the document only to sit there, blankly read a few sentences, and then get this rly big sinking feeling in my gut that is essentially telling me "never mind" and honestly i just listen to it bc if i'm gonna close & open the document 10 times in a row i obviously don't want to write. i'm just searching for something fulfilling and clearly not finding it in the task at hand so i should do smth else.

THIS IS EXTREMELY LENGTHY AND I''M BEYOND SORRY, but i hope somewhere amongst this mumbo jumbo there was something that stood out & may give you a bit of closure!

[cherubchoirs]

I am no music composer but for Mike's witch form, what could I do for his theme of it?

(see this!)

OH i know very little about music as well, despite so many people in my family being musicians lol if i were to think about it, i would imagine it to be what you might expect, melancholy and sounding of a church choir. i mentioned it before in passing, but i think of angel's voices as being naturally melodic, almost musical in their speech, with michael's voice now taking on the tones of a funeral dirge - that's likely the direction i would go in, as his flames also smell like the incense burned at funerals. it is something slow, oppressive, and haunting, almost suffocating, a lamentation his cherubim sing to him because he is trapped in his own grief

[niallandtommo]

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[mosaic-marquise]

I was cleaning out some of my older files and I'm finding so many WIPS of things I worked on and just never finished or never shared. Here's Xochitl coming back after a tiny grocery run, but how could you expect to "jUsT bUy A fEw ThInGs" at the store? 🤨 You live with Beel. The kitchen is gone. Time to go back. 😔🚶‍♀️

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

thanks for the compliments on the anatomy :D i struggled a little w it on the kross post LOL

you're super welcome op!!! your style has such a nice soft vibe and anatomy is only one of my many favorite parts about it<333

[seekingthestars]

MORE depths exploration!! decided i was going to do as josha requested and Follow The Statues to see where i ended up which was 1) terrifying bc most of my path was pitch black, i used so many brightbloom seeds and 2) much farther than i intended to go lolll but it lead me to a mine and!!!!

AUTOBUILD!!! 🤩

also master kohga is back and he continues to be just very goofy and also that battle was silly fun 😆

i collected lots of zonaite and swapped them in and finally had enough crystallized charges to upgrade my batteries a little and can i just say that i love the steward constructs, all of the constructs that aren't trying to kill you are SO sweet, like this lil buddy goes "i'd enjoy further visits from you 🥺" and i just wanna give him a hug

[meaercies]

azriel tucking away the moments he surprises people by what he says or his actions bc of the thrill

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

an important thing i've learned over the years from listening to bands entire discographies is to never judge a whole band on one song or one album and assume that's what all of it will sound like because chances are you will be wrong

[advnterccs-archive]

send ‘❤’ + a url & i’ll write positivity / what i think abt them. || accepting

@countlessrealities sent; ❤ + advnterccs [[ curse me if you want, but self praises are important too ;P ]]

{ ooc } for that you get this icon of Rick xD kidding aside tho, damn I don't even know what to say. But i'll try to say something positive about myself 'cause like you said, self praise is important !

Alright, well, what can I say? I think I'm at a point in my life where I can feel confident about my writing. I'm constantly growing and learning and I've come so far since back when I was a teen writing fanficions. I also like the fact that I have a good grasp and understanding of my characters. I feel like I know them inside and out now. And because of that, my muse for them is really strong. Stronger than my previous muses or other muses I have xD

I think that's all I've got for myself but lemme say something nice / positive about you because I think it's also only fair. Since I don't want to take all of the spotlight here. So.

I think you're a very good and talented writer. You also have a good understanding of all of your characters and the way you write introspection is just so good ! You're also a very good friend and I enjoy talking with you and roleplaying with you. I'm always looking forward to plotting with you because it's just really easy since you come up with the best ideas !! And going back and forth with ideas is super fun because of that. I can tell you put in a lot of work in your writing and you characterizations. And it shows !!

and not to get sappy here, but you always make my day that much brighter because talking with you / getting to interact with you in any way is just so great and fun !! i'm so glad i got a chance to meet you and i consider you one of my closest friends !

Anyways, I could go on but i don't want to make this too long and I've already said a lot of this to you as well whenever it comes up. So yeah !!