#where people can send in suggestions/ask for stuff but they don't force themselves to write for it

[glimmeringtwilight]

Hi I was wondering is there any character's you don't write for in your fandoms? ( also glad to see your back , hope your doing ok !💜)

Good question!

So, nothing comes to mind for the general broad list of fandoms except for MHA (I won't write for Eri nor Mineta... I think most people can understand why).

I'm honestly kinda impassive on most of the characters that aren't teachers/pro heros/villains anyway, but I can't think of any others I wouldn't write atm. I'm also incredibly behind on the plot and learn most of it through word of mouth, and given that most of the blogs I follow now are Genshin oriented... I don't get much of that anymore either lol.

And as for Genshin, I won't write for any of the children (Diona, Klee, Qiqi, etc). They might appear in fics as like... background characters but they'll never be the focus and there won't be anything more than platonic/familial relationships for them.

There's a few characters like Xiangling, Xingqiu, Chongyun, Bennett, Razor, Fischl, Barbara, and Collei that I won't write for either. Personally, I don't have a problem with aging up these characters, and the ages of almost all the characters are purposefully vague in Genshin so I don't see any point in condemning people if they write for these characters. I just won't write for them because I just can't see them in any non-platonic light.

This doesn't mean I dislike any of the characters listed btw! Fischl is actually one of my favorite characters and my main on my EU account. I just wouldn't feel comfortable writing for her as anything more than like... a background character.

And tyvm! I'm glad to be back <3 I was honestly surprised I still had so many followers after like two years of nothingness JHFHJFHJG Hopefully the ones that stuck around like genshin, but I never hold it against anyone if they don't like my current content and move on. Better they go in peace than not ^^

[clumsyclifford]

wish you would write a fic about some kind of forced proximity, thoughts on what shape that could take?

I SAW SOMEONE SEND AN ASK ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HAZEL AND I WAS LIKE GOD I WANNA WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THIS SO BAD NOW

there are LOTS and lots of options. classic example being the elevator that malfunctions, which incidentally would also fit with the elevator fic prompt/challenge megs and i co-issued a few weeks (couple months??? time is fake) ago that i have yet to actually write. but there are other ways this could go. i mean, seven minutes in heaven is another classic, though i don't know how much that counts as "forced" proximity because it's still technically a choice. helen's quar fic was a fun (topical !) take on it, the whole "we were forced to quarantine together because we happened to be in the same place when lockdown set in" thing? lots of fun sexy potential there. also snowed in, similar idea.

i think forced proximity works best in two situations. (A) the two people in question have feelings for each other and there's a lot of pining going on but neither one has admitted their feelings to the other, so the proximity forces them to address it and realizes they like each other. or (B) they're strangers who come to know each other by virtue of having literally no one else to talk to. i'm sort of inclined towards the second one to be honest! feels like there's a lot more room for making it ~fun~ and ~lighthearted~ which is what im all about. snowed in also has the "huddle for warmth" option tacked on, which is EXTRA fun when it's strangers. i think when the characters are strangers it's more fun to put them in sort of "neutral ground" like a store or a restaurant or something like that, so that each person can kind of try and go off and do their own thing by themselves and then realize they're super bored and want to talk to someone and their only option is each other. cue: bonding.

all that said: this could also take a very angsty direction. my first thought was castaways on a desert island, hatchet by gary paulsen-style. i don't think i could ever write that because i don't know shit about survivalism but i LOVE the idea of a castaways fic. obviously it would be HELLA angsty but a plane crash where everyone dies except our two protags? forced together because they're the only other living person in the world to each other and the only person who can watch their back? and they have to figure out how to survive on an island with only each other and their varying knowledge and understanding of its wildlife and stuff? ughhhh so tasty. i LOVE stories like that.

anyway, TLDR: lots and LOTS of ways this could go, all of them tasty. i, too, wish i would write a forced proximity fic. feel free to submit more specific suggestions of forced proximity. i feel like i probably missed some obvious ones.