as i do some cleanup putting the fics i've written/posted this year in one place, i'll also do some reflection on the piece and what i remember feeling during the time it was!
so! here are the works i've posted since the start of 2022! 😁
this casphardt fic i'd actually written a couple years back (at the end of 2019!) when i was at the height of my fe3h craze! i was part of the fe3h subreddit and wrote this longer piece based off a contest entry i did for writing S-support convos
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i posted that in march and i'd written crossed wires (rodydeku) in december of last year! that was also soon after i'd met my great friend @satyrsyd and we'd watched the bnha movie together - i might have had a dry spell writing but i had a great time ❤️
ahh this fic!! my latest krbk fic - i wrote it as part of the krbk flash bingo event! it was so fun to play and i got to collab with syb, who was amazing to discuss ideas with! i'd asked her to take part with me since we'd been paired up in the krbk ascent anthology before [1/]
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and had such a great time working together! her art's also fantastic for it too and captured the mood so well - i gotta link it here too her art for it is just beautiful [2/3]
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i think this marked a tonal shift for me in the sorta stuff i wanted to write, too. not a drastic one, since i still love writing romantic stories, but i think with a slightly more mature tone than previous stories i'd done for krbk and bnha and with more focus on my prose [3/3]
EYYY sabikui biscooo! i'd gotten so deep into the anime since s1 came out in the spring '22 season! bismilo had most of the hallmarks of what i tend to like in ships and akaboshi bisco just fits my 2D type of guy 🙃 [1/4]
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this was my first attempt at writing an AU with more serious undertones as well! i had never really worldbuilt like i did for this fic and committed it to paper - though at this point i was still doing a slow burn shortcut, i.e. cutting long set-ups and showing the story [2/4]
and the world through vignettes. even though it could've been fleshed out more, i'm still really glad i took the time to write this out. i was really proud when i first posted it and i'm still proud of it now :) [3/4]
ALSO i got fanart for it??? and that is just SO cool milo looks fire here 🔥🔥🔥 i never thought my writings for sabikui bisco would get fanart of all things BUT HERE IT IS [4/4]
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my next sbkb work, the kids are all right! slight spoilers to sabikui bisco incomig
this fic i wrote as a way to both better understand and express my understanding of the relationship dynamics in sabikui bisco and how bisco and milo's relationship and love endures [1/]
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even with bisco's marriage to pawoo, milo's sister. the summaries and translations i'd read of the light novels make the connection between milobisco startlingly obvious regardless like they actually have a lovechild called sugar i shit you not this is canon [2/]
i think it also really helped me grow beyond straightforward and more innocent stories into exploring the complexities of love, devotion, and unspoken yearning - as well as challenging a heteronormative expectation of a (or the) natural end result of love being marriage [3/]
not to mention the different kinds of love that exists (friendly, familial, nurturing, romantic, sexual, what have you) à la the ancient greek typology of love
i think this also helped me, in a 'meta' sense, grow out of seeking popularity with my works [4/]
back when i wrote krbk i was more popular - the gratification i would get when posting krbk for kudos + comments was immediate - but also more self-absorbed. i got jealous of other people's works - i would even resent works that i viewed weren't as nicely written [5/]
and did better than mine. it took me a while to shed this competitive, toxic, and ouroboros kind of mindset. i also didn't connect so much w others in fandom - i really didn't engage with fandom at all, which has its pros and cons, but helped to entrench my jealousies [6/]
phasing out of bnha and writing for a new thing altogether, focusing more on the messages i wanted to explore and tell, helped me rekindle a deeper fulfilment from my writing. i was also quite active in a milobisco discord and chatted to ppl who were super supportive! [7/]
retrospect isn't the most accurate thing, but i think this fic marked a departure away from my old, more self-serving mindsets regarding fic and how i related to others in fandom, too. and i'm very grateful for that hard-won product of time, effort, and self-reflection [8/8]
my 2021 miraculous ladybug big bang marichat fic! which i finished so belatedly after the fact [1/]
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i'm a casual fan of miraculous ladybug - this fic was more symptomatic of my usual tendencies of having grand ideas and lacklustre, incomplete execution. i didn't feel compelled to finish the fic out of a perfectionistic reasoning that i wanted to wait till i had the energy [2/]
to write out my full vision. but one thing i learned from my life more broadly than in fandom is that to reach completion is more worthwhile than to endlessly polish incompletion. this was the first thing i published in 2022 (jan) but i only wrapped it up finally in april [3/]
the work didn't even end up that long compared to what i usually write now (15k) but at the time it was a lot for me - i think, then, this fic helped me grow more used to the demands of longer works with more moving parts, alongside the importance of finishing something [4/4]
AAAAND on may the 1st, 2022, i entered sakuatsu hell! (always affectionate) [1/]
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more accurately, i entered it when i ended up catching wind of snippets with the latest haikyuubu chapter at the time and scanlated it more fully. i then really became enamored with the miya twins after rewatching season 4 of haikyuu!! and was quickly warming up to skts [2/]
skyward itself was more of an experimental fic for me - specifically for getting a grasp on the characters and how they might interact with one another. i was focused much more on finding a fun repartee between them than making the story a compelling one [3/]
in that sense, skyward bears the most resemblance to my older works for bnha (slice of life, comedy, romance, banter), and i think in part why it did so well - it's still my most-kudosed skts work now
it also introduced me to the hq!! + skts fandom proper! [4/]
i was quite ill at the time and didn't manage to see many people irl - i also happened to migrate a little more to twt since things were more active there for skts/hq!!. and lo and behold, for what felt like the first time ever, ppl were so effusive when i posted on twt! [5/]
this was the first time i'd ever really entered a new ship with a work and had such an openly positive response - my irl situation meant i was even more touched by what felt to me like such an outpouring where i had no expectation of such a response [6/]
this is also what helped me start involving myself more with socialising within fandom, as opposed to just stay in my corner exclusively just writing - the activity within the skts fandom + the level of interaction that happened between ppl was very new and exciting for me [7/7]
and the first skts thread fic i did haha [1/]
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honestly all of this was just a fic idea i spilled to my friend syd on messenger and, well, the format was kind of amenable to a thread fic format which i'd been seeing around on twt a lot. in terms of effort or time this really was just a burst of hyperfixation concentrate [2/]
meaning like ranging from half an hour to an hour and a half of me typing at syd asdkl;fdas
mmm... it's the story i care about the least and that got THE most response in sheer volume. i was kind of amazed that it broke 1000 likes in the span of a day [3/]
with the new year, i've been posting on ao3 for a decade, now! the thread fic had me reflect how drastically different things might have been if i started out writing via thread fics like this. for relatively very little effort, i received an explosion of notifs, praise, [4/]
and dopamine. on ao3, tho, feedback trickles in much more measuredly with a higher effort involved for the work, for me. obviously, not all thread fics take off the ground, so that's likely my skill for writing dialogue shining through, making the thread fic appealing [5/]
but i was grateful that i cultivated my writing on ao3 for so long before trying a thread fic - i can imagine ppl getting caught up in the dopamine rush and entangling that with the worth of their writing and themselves if future thread fics don't receive similar feedback [6/]
actually, i was pleased to learn that one of my dear friends, who doesn't usually enjoy thread fics, told me they later realised the only thread fic they really recall enjoying at the time was this one, by me! before we had ever properly talked! that was very gratifying [7/]
the thread fic *did* get me, like 100 new followers in a day - which is always a treat! [8/8]
PLUM RAIN MY BELOVEDDDDD [1/]
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oh, plum rain 🫶🏼 the longest fic i'd written at the time - written out in 6 days and edited in 1 with the help of syd
i was still sick during this time and fairly possessed while writing this. somehow i wrangled this whole gentle beast within the span of a single document [2/]
which is very crazy and sexy of me
this was another taste of how i wanted my writing to grow! i always wanted to write a shoujo-type love story but a queer one where the main character's gender identity figured centrally without being subjected to highly critical scrutiny [3/]
this also marked a entry into true slow burn for me—for the first time i felt i wasn't taking shortcuts with the eventuality of the narrative + characters' progression! and, wow, i just didn't hold back with the sheer Romance of it all either [4/]
i think the ending to plum rain is still some of the most unapologetically romantic sentiments i've ever written, to my great pride and joy <3
it doesn't have as much reception as my other fics, but i don't care—plum rain is my dear brainchild who i love so very much [5/]
not to mention it's @yoyointhegarden's favourite fic out of all my hq!! fics and that's worth more to me than a gold fucking medal, because hot damn, even if i was unsure of plum rain, that alone would mean i did something so, so right with it <3 [6/6]
now we have to clean up well! a threadfic/ao3 hybrid :)) [1/]
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this marked my first posted fic where i wanted to focus explicitly on improving my writing style bc i had discovered @yoyointhegarden's fics and my god i understood then why and how ppl have favourite authors and stories and works then [2/]
owdy opened my eyes to what writing could be and helped me really embrace my love for fic writing not just as a conduit for expressing my affection for characters but love for the craft and act and art of writing itself - among other WIPs that i still have kicking around [3/]
to clean up well is the first fic i posted where i wanted to write beautifully—i think it made for an important first step towards that goal! not quite what i was aiming for but instrumental nonetheless
it also taught me the unreliable nature of feedback on threadfics [4/]
i wrote this in my usual style + it wasn't nearly as well-received on twt than it was on ao3. i had one qrt about how poetically it read and much more feedback on ao3 about it—i understood better that there are implicit expectations on what does well on twt vs on ao3 [5/5]
ahhh my first bokuosaaka fic <3 <3
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so my third eye opened after a lot of thinking about bokuaka, one of my first OTPs for hq!!, and i couldn't quite square away some parts of their dynamic pre-ts and how that translates post-ts in a romantic context [2/]
i could (and might) write a whole fic about this but i concluded a poly relationship with osamu really added elements i thought were missing from bkak that really satisfied the itch in my brain [3/]
i wrote three bros chillin' in a gym as a break from all the WIPs and writing i was doing with the explicit and sustained intent of improving my craft—a return to lighthearted slice-of-life romantic banter. which was fantastic! exactly what i needed—resting is harvesting [4/]
i also LOVED the opportunity to write more of osamu and see how he played off of bokuto and akaashi! i find it important to write sm fun and lighthearted as a sandbox to get to grips w characters and this was no exception [5/5]
slight interlude to remark upon how, during this time, i got to know @yoyointhegarden better through not just us commenting on each other's works but chatting! she's my best new friend i made this year and i couldn't be happier that i got the fortune of getting to know her <3
no need for redoooooos !! aka the One Where I Went Ham [1/]
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i think i wrote this bc i was going through writerly exhaustion writing the first chapter of training arc, which i'll be commenting on later! i was still dogged in my pursuit and practice of elevating my writing style and experimenting and deliberating over it [2/]
so i wanted to let COMPLETELY loose with something that allowed me to simply write without regard for deliberation on style
hence my first real stream-of-consciousness fic! thanks to one miya atsumu <3 [3/]
this was not only good for me as an outlet for my will to write but exhaustion with focusing on the micro-elements of my writing but also in validating my raw writing ability/craft regardless of how loosely i thought i was writing this piece! [4/]
i had a lot of positive feedback on this piece with ppl complimenting my grasp of the english language (which, while extremely flattering, is funny to me too for some reason) as well as my characterisation! i really wrote just to go ham and have fun as well [5/]
so i think it's a testament to the years i've spent practising and refining my writing where now even when i don't put in as much conscious effort i still have enough of my cultivated habits that still shine through even in less serious pieces i put out [6/6]
now my atsukita fic—to wish for winter! <3 [1/]
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i wrote it for owdy who was sick at the time and i poured every ounce of energy i had into the craft and prose—this was for my dear friend who'd changed my view of writing entirely, after all! even though it's a short piece, it's chock full of my effort and love [2/]
i think with this piece i was able to attain that more elusive feeling of Atmosphere within a scene and story... not that i've not accomplished that before but this was the first time i felt like i was consciously and deliberately achieving it through my prose alone [3/]
i put more weight into metaphors and enduring imagery and themes in this short piece than i do for my other oneshots, especially the short ones—i remember that the song sakura canon by burnout syndromes goes very well with this piece, too <3 [4/]
i'm proud that my writing, even in such a condensed length and form, packs such a punch. i stretched myself with this story and allowed owdy to feel glad she was able to read it—accomplishments all across the board for me <3 [5/5]
and now TRAINING ARC !!! appropriately i happened to make two fic posts for it so i can comment on each individual chapter too x) [1/]
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it's funny bc in-between writing chs 1 and 2 i rediscovered a piece of writing advice that pushed how far you can take show not tell—i think that's also reflected in the difference in prose between 1 and 2 (to me, at least—don't think anyone else would notice haha) [2/]
for chapter 1 i wanted to write nsfw but also incorporate a sense of continuity throughout the chapter in terms of callbacks (thanking owdy for that bc she's the Queen of it imo)—i also wanted to experiment how i wanted to describe sensual acts more metaphorically as well [3/]
and it was also my first opportunity to write nsfw skts! which to me is just another aspect through which to explore a ship's dynamic—i always tend towards writing mutually reciprocated and passionate sex scenes, which didn't change here [4/]
i think i just took care to add some slight hiccups but emphasise the sheer enthusiasm underpinning it all, which is always very fun—but the parts building up to the sex scene and even the short bit afterwards were really enjoyable to write in terms of setups and payoffs [5/]
and now we got ch 2! which is what really made the whole piece shine as it does imo [6/]
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ch 1 i posted in june, ch 2 in july and the WRITER'S BLOCK i soldiered through to get ch 2 out, my goodness... it was a feat i managed to finish it! i think what contributed to the block was the concentrated amount of effort and deliberation i put into the prose, once again [7/]
for definitely the first half of ch 2 i focused on stepping away from my usual writing habits and using adjectives and even copula(!) that would straightforwardly just Show what was going on. the beginning interaction between motoya and atsumu notably demonstrates that [8/]
i also had a lot of fun experimenting with how i communicated descriptions and exposition—really fleshing out atsumu's character by showing it like a lawyer trying to make a case for it, as it were
also all the CUTTING and jumping! that non-linearity! [9/]
i'm no stranger to non-linearity and vignettes but this was the first time i incorporated it in what is *pretty* much a pwp and mAN it was so, so enjoyable. just inserting the ways skts show their affection in one another without ever saying it aloud, diegetic or otherwise [10/]
but just being able to write it all out, take-you-by-the-hand, see-and-feel-for-yourself style
also? you best believe i can write a Good sex scene even if i just have it as a snippet B) [11/]
all in all, training arc is one of my biggest and best skts works to my heart! it was really pivotal for me for my writing growth and realising the kind of skts that appeals to me <3 [12/12]
the rare threadfic, incoming! my one little bit of sunakita i've put into the world <3 [1/]
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i wrote this out to owdy within our dms i believe! i reread it the other day and i appreciate that even in a sketch of an idea i'm able to write a heartwarming story with a clear line of growth for the main character and perhaps even the secondary one [2/]
i was also able to put into words the sort of headcanons i have for suna's habits, like how he's always on his phone and his habit of tucking his hands into his waistband haha—as well as to expand on how his fixation with kita can blossom (eh?) into something more ❤️ [3/]
sidenote the number of nsfw ideas i have concerning sunakita is...not concerning but GOD i don't have enough time or brainpower to write everything i wanna write orz [4/4]
ahh my lovely bastard little child B) ESH: price and privilege!! [1/]
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i wanted to veer hard into comedy and, for once, WITHOUT romance mainlining it! as my end notes in the fic said: "honestly i just wanted to return to my roots and write shit happening" and BOY did i deliver what fun i had with this !! [2/]
i was able to write the miya twins so unabashedly being Big Gross Teenage Jerks and suna as their Big Teenage Jerk Barely-Friend and it was just a BALL of a time—i also loved showing how even with all the surface enmity how close suna is with the miyas! [3/]
esp since i take liberties with including HCs of the miyas and sunas hanging out a lot after the sunas move to amagasaki from the aichi prefecture! and how even after the timeskip the bet still holds and they're all in contact with one another <3 [4/]
i also really wanted to take all the romance out of first kisses (bc it's about Proving A Point Masculinely) and just write pure shenanigans and banter in its most unprocessed form B)
i also had fun cutting and splicing scenes! [5/]
thanks to @satyrsyd betaing for me in plum rain i took to heart when a time-jump would and wouldn't be obvious to a reader—it was fun, then, putting that to the test by the quick cuts between the timeskip as suna tells the story to omi and bokuaka very fluidly [6/]
i'm just happy that even when i wanna have a romp there are still parts to my stories where i still put what i learn into practice! ESH was so enjoyable for me to write and i think helps showcase how versatile i can be in the mood/tone of my writing <3 [7/7]
ahahah the fic i wrote in the span of 2 days among my sea of WIPs <3 [1/]
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an opportunity to write some disaster post-ts skts!! so welcome and enjoyable and hits that unique balance between kinda crack but kinda sweet at the same time that quite like to read, hence i like to write it as well! [2/]
at this point my prose is something i've polished to a version that i've been aiming for since discovering and meeting owdy and starting my writing improvement spree—something lyrical that doesn't compromise other elements like pacing, characterisation, and back-and-forths [3/]
what i most enjoyed about this piece was how a theme naturally emerged from it as i wrote it! my process is quite a strange one where the majority or at least skeleton of a fic idea arrives to me like athena did before springing forth from zeus's brain [4/]
but in characterising atsumu—well, every version of skts i write is slightly different depending on the circumstances and universe they're in, so at least for this one—the idea of lies and truth and love enduring through it all came out in a really enjoyable way for me [5/]
oh but this fic also reminds me i gotta write down my ideas when they come to me—there was a moment i wanted to expand on more that i kept forgetting to and only managed to half-deliver my intended idea with a comment of omi's on atsumu's character [6/6]
aww this lil cutie <3 flying and falling! [1/]
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this was really just a cute plot bunny bouncing around in my head, inspired by when i used to lie on the bed and my parents would fold warm sheets on top of me and there was a childlike sense of wonder and enjoyment to the whole thing that i'd forgotten until that moment [2/]
even in this small fic, it's a microcosm of all the little skills i had been honing over the year—sliding between different scenes, elevated prose, balancing between skimming over a moment to set the scene and really diving deep into the detail and emotion of a small moment [3/]
and while doing something i endlessly love—domestic, slice-of-life, moment-in-time love <3 AND while having little thematic throughlines to it, too! the satisfaction i get rereading this is a humble and heartwarming one <3 [4/4]
and a small, small (the smallest ever! okay not ever but, by me? ever!) piece for the MIYA TWINSSSSS !! for their birthday! <3 [1/]
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i love characterising the twins' love for each other as one they ever never admit to so clearly or openly—always gruff and indirect and utterly boyish![2/]
i think if i wrote a full-fledged miya twins fic i'd probably like make myself cry a couple of times, replete with childhood nostalgia and brotherly love and a lifelong devotion to caring for and one-upping the other in every way [3/]
also was super fun to remember what the superlative cis-straight-male console games are and have them play it asdfasdf [4/4]
alright, i'm gonna go a little out of order now and feature my last three works in reverse chronological order—starting with my first ushioi (thread)fic i posted a couple days ago, to think twice! [1/]
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this one was born out of those rare moments where i have an idea but i IMMEDIATELY write it out—usually i'm plagued with sudden ideas but rarely do i actually translate that into immediate writing
as a result i wrote 3k words in like? i wanna say something like 4-5 hours [2/]
my writing style for this one kind of marries my old writing style with some of my new ones—a bit of broader tell mixed in with metaphors and close descriptions and show! not to mention i went a little more freeform given my grasp of ushioi isn't as strong as other chars [3/]
and it's not gotten much attention so far, but such as things go w the holidays and new year, as well as ushioi and slightly kinkier pwp being outside of the wheelhouse of writing i'm likely known for and expected to write—i pride myself on being a versatile writer tho! [4/4]
aaaand my second last piece i finished for 2022—the cat fic! 💝
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right so i posted the 1st chapter in september, 2nd in october, then the 3rd on dec 30 (with the ushioi thread coming right after on dec 31 hh)—the huge gap is because of atwba, which is going to round off this thread! [2/]
with the cat fic i wanted to try mixing an elevated writing style AND crack shenanigans bc i'm a creative and unstoppable sort <3 this is also the first time i really de-emphasised following 'accurate'-seeming characterisation—just went with the jerk side of things, added [3/]
a helping of more human-like vulnerability, and then rolled with it for skts
it was more of skts and bkosak and even a helping of inarizaki banter, all of which i adore, too!
i think the thing that weighs with me with this fic is the gulf that cemented for me regarding twt [4/]
weirdly, this was the first fic where i experienced the fic post getting a pretty eye-opening number of likes (like 70-100 per chapter update post?) and even the occasional enthusiastic reply and then relatively getting crickets on the actual post [5/]
it made me remember the difference between niceness and kindness, token appreciation and a deeper one & popularity and meaningful engagement, and how valuable and rarer the latter of each dyad is
i appreciate there are so many diff facets to the situation [6/]
a lot of it to do with new expectations readers come into fic with, e.g. the tendency to avoid incomplete fics, the pressures around commenting well/engaging with people online, etc.
at the end of the day, tho, even in the absence of bad intentions, it still is discouraging [7/]
and that's sm i'm not unfeeling towards or unaware of, no matter how long i've been writing
i've enough experience and self-esteem to know that this isn't a personal failing of mine, tho, or a sign of my writing being lacking [8/]
and the cat fic is one of those babies of mine that really ballooned over time (20.2k words total sheesh) from a fun romp to a bigger but just as fun story! it started off as a focused sort of fun and then loosened into a freeform back-to-basics kind of fun <3 [9/9]
aaand last but certainly never least! and they were both alphas—my first shot at omegaverse and also a novel-length fic! [1/]
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signups for the 2022 sakuatsu exchange started in august and the creation period started in september! i didn't start properly ideating until maybe a month or so? into the creation period and i indicated i was open to writing a/b/o [2/]
my first giftee dropped out soon after the exchange started and i got reassigned my second one, who's a mutual of mine, and that's what got me started on the a/b/o route! and then one day as i was hemming and hawing on what to write, a long arc came to mind! [3/]
it would be a rivals to roommates to fwb to exes to lovers stories and They Would Both Be Alphas
even before that, tho, i wanted to do sm quite different regarding a/b/o—i'd read my fair share and found some expected tropes/worldbuilding features that i felt i could develop [4/]
with my own version of worldbuilding, both in the social and biological aspects of a/b/o. it was also an opportunity for me to explore a slightly more ooc but therefore original characterisation for skts—still based off their canon counterparts but necessarily inflected [5/]
by the expectations unique to the world i was building
and i also *intensely* dove into the deep end with the sheer scale of the story—the outline alone, which was due at the end of september, was 8000 words in itself 💀 and that wasn't even including all the detail [6/]
that i had to and did end up including in the final product
i also went through some pretty demanding times irl that meant i had to ask for an extension, where i was allowed to finish my work on the last allowable day past the creation period [7/]
the writing process was...something i'd not gone through before! the sticking point was that i HAD to just *write*. i couldn't stay long to deliberate on how i formulated certain scenes, let alone sentences—the deadline helped me to keep on writing and writing and *writing* [8/]
and my goodness the week before my extension deadline my gift fic by owdy came in AND THEN I MADE???? A PODFIC FOR THE FIRST TIME????? that took me like two nights and DEFINITELY ate into my writing time but i wouldn't have it any other way because GOD IT'S PERFECT [9/]
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the deadline helped me complete this but also it really poured gas and fire onto the whole process HAHA @satyrsyd *saved* my ass like i can't describe for the story and the lessons her editing have taught me are so invaluable, too [10/]
the main one being sometimes using tell is okay 🫶🏼
and wow the process of being part of the gift exchange!! the friends i've made during in my lil team/pod was unforgettable! i used voice chats in a server for the first time, we played frantic fanfic, it was so much fun [11/]
it was definitely the biggest most poppin and fulfilling fan event i've ever been in in terms of the connections i made and the end result! and my goodness the *end result*—among 100+ wonderful skts creations i wrote a fucking *novel* of a fic [12/]
and throughout it all i was driven like a formula fuckin 1 off of the sheer anticipation of my giftee's reaction—@yakojarvi has, i'm pretty sure, left a comment on every single one of my skts works and it feels so fitting i could gift them this <3 [13/13]