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I love the way you wrote and expressed your thoughts on Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai. It's refreshing to hear.. well read someone else's thoughts and perspective on it! I also started reading it back in 2013. It is going to be a lifelong obsession lol.. anyway! I got carried away~ I just wanted to let you know that please continue on writing. I truly enjoy reading your thoughts~
A FELLOW READER for the past 10 years! Ahhhhhh HELLO!!
This is so sweet of you to say, thank you so much :D Haha I wrote the post in part because I’ve been such a silent reader for a decade, and in part because it’s been A DECADE and I’m still following it — I think Saezuru is the only series that I’ve followed for this long. So hearing this is so heartwarming, thank you for being so kind 🩵 I’ll definitely have to write more once work isn’t killing me; there’s so much appreciation for Saezuru in me that I haven’t said enough!
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Favourite 5 Saezuru Scenes
I recently reread Saezuru for the umpteenth time and just needed to gush about it like a crazed person who constantly hallucinates about Yashiro being happy and soOooOOooo.................
1. Why now? (Chapter 25)
These scenes show the talent of Yoneda sensei. Yashiro and Doumeki emote through their facial expressions, and those details add to the reader's experience.
I like your words and the scenes that you chose. Scene number 3 is so painful and intense. It hurts every single time. This must have been quite the journey for you. You started reading Saezuru early on!
Awww thank you!! (Sorry I’m a bit new to using Tumblr so I’m not sure if responding like this is okay.) But yes! Scene #3 is so brutal every time. There are so many incredible scenes in Saezuru that it was difficult to pick just five. It’s definitely been a huge journey — I remember when I first found Saezuru, the cliffhanger was right after Yashiro got shot and I had to wait to see if he’d live. That was somehow less agonizing than the cliffhanger of Doumeki saying “I will do it” after offering Yashiro a handjob for the first time though 😆 I was ON MY TOES
It’s been such a long journey following Saezuru silently that I’m so grateful I can now talk to people who love it too. So thank you for saying this!!
Favourite 5 Saezuru Scenes
I recently reread Saezuru for the umpteenth time and just needed to gush about it like a crazed person who constantly hallucinates about Yashiro being happy and soOooOOooo.................
1. Why now? (Chapter 25)
"He's like a baby bird. They always follow the first thing they see. That's all there is to it."
Appreciation post for my comfort characters these past 10+ years! Every time I hit a rough spot reading them always calms me down, I LOVE THEM SO SO SO MUCH
heyy i know you already answered the question abt updates on volta but i just wanted to ask if you have a rough outline on how long that fic is going to be or how many chapters and all (hope this doesnt sound too rude or pressure-y)
HUFF HUFF HELLO ANNYXIA!! My delay in responding is nothing to do with you and how most-definitely-not-rude-or-pressurey this was (you’re so sweet to say that but DON’T WORRY) and it has everything to do with my real-life work WHY DID I CHOOSE THIS LIFE
I do have a rough outline of Volta! I think in my mind it’s about 20-25 chapters, probably reaching 100k+ — I estimated at the start that the fic would have between 100-150k words — but I’ve been having some issues with Volta that I will have to talk about in the author’s note in the next chapter… :( I’m genuinely not sure if I can finish it at the rate everything is going, and I’m really sorry to disappoint because I’m sure this isn’t really what anyone wants to hear… but chapter 6 will definitely be posted! Hopefully I’ll have time during the holidays to finish it and post by January! Thank you for asking and for reading these stories, it really means a lot to me :) 🩵
Anonymous asked:
hi hi!!!!! i just wanted to personally send love to you for your stsg works, even if some of them are in progress i don’t care i’ve been reading and rereading endlessly since i found them. caesura completely changed me, ive been looking for a fic like that for genuinely years and i can’t believe i found it. you are a wonder. i hope your phd program is going well!
This is so exceedingly kind of you to say, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! It’s always such a wonder to hear that something you’ve written has made a difference, that someone would want to reread it, and I can’t tell you how grateful and happy I am to hear that it affected you in some way (“completely change”! that’s so generous of you, I feel completely undeserving of such praise but that’s the way generosity goes, isn’t it! HONESTLY THOUGH, the fact that you took some time out of your precious day to drop by with such a thoughtful message makes me want to affectionately SHAKE you, thank YOuUUUUUuuuu…) You are a wonder. I hope life has been treating you as gently as you deserve — please take good care of yourself for me, WONDERFUL ANON
Anonymous asked:
hiii are you still in stsg fandom or will you still write for stsg? are you writing anything these days? i'd love to read more of your stories. i love your works so much, i can’t get enough of your writing!!
YET ANOTHER VICTIM TO MY UNTIMELY ANSWER! You are very sweet. The short answers to these are: Yes, I’m still somewhat in stsg. Yes, I’ll still write for stsg. And yes, I’ve been writing a bit these days!
The long, unsolicited, COMPLETELY UNASKED FOR BUT YOU HAVE UNFORTUNATELY BEEN SUBJECTED TO MY RAMBLING answers are:
are you still in stsg fandom?
I’m still in stsg in the sense that I still love them, and I still have two very close friends in this fandom whom I talk to. Maybe I’m not really in stsg in the sense that I’ll be able to produce much for them or interact much with everyone else, but I do still want to publish a few more chapters for them and I still have ao3 replies that I would like to get to! I’ve only been active in one other fandom (Haikyuu) so far, and while I’ve technically moved away from that fandom, I’ve never completely left it because of the fondness I have for Haikyuu itself and the people I’ve met through it — there is still a possibility (albeit small) that I could write more for them. I expect JJK will be the same way!
will you still write for stsg?
I definitely will still write for stsg, although at this point I’ll regrettably admit that I won’t get very far with the current ongoing fics :( I’M SORRY. Currently I have:
- 80% of Volta chapter 5 done
- 50% of Cartography by Touch chapter 3 done
- 90% of a 5k big bang fic (Fermata) done
- a finished 2.5k zine fic (Filigree) that I have to wait for leftover sales to start before posting on ao3
The good thing about my writing habits is that I dislike leaving works unfinished (which is why I'll finish up these chapters and post!) but the bad thing about my writing habits is that I'm not too frustrated with myself if I can't accomplish that... Finishing these current chapters is doable so I'll wrap them up for sure, but I'll have to see how things go with future chapters. THIS IS SUCH A HALF-ASSED REPLY THAT YOU DON'T DESERVE, LOVELY ANON, BUT SUCH IS THE INDISCIPLINE OF WHO I AM
are you writing anything these days?
I haven't had much free time to write unfortunately :'( But during the times when I can sit down to write, I embarrassedly admit........ that besides these ongoing stsg works I am writing a One Piece fic...... One Piece has consumed my entire being and I am irressistant to its ways
Thank you for sending in this ask, anon! These are such fun questions. It's really very sweet of you to say this, you human hearth, I hope everything has been going smoothly and peacefully for you!!!!!
HELLO CAMI! You sent this ask…………… so long ago……………. and yet I have failed you by replying so late. Also THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF RUDE, what are you saying, THANK YOU for dropping in such a kind and generous ask — the series and I are always so grateful for readers like you.
There should be an update soon… I can’t make any promises because I’ve definitely told some readers in ao3 comments that I would update within a month and I definitely haven’t upkept those promises… sorry guys… All I can tell you is that I’m 80% done with the next chapter of Volta, so I figured in my head it should be easy to finish the rest in a timely manner, but I CAN NEVER TELL because the toil of grad school is always an unpredictable and tumultuous ordeal! The wind sails backwards! I’m very sorry, all I can promise is that the next chapter will be updated, but with the way things are going in my PhD program and how little I’m in fandom these days, I’m not completely sure about the rest. THIS IS SUCH A FOLLY ON MY PART IN RESPONSE TO YOUR VERY SWEET MESSAGE, BUT I HOPE YOU’RE HAVING A WONDERFUL DAY REGARDLESS! Thank you for being so nice to me!!
Anonymous asked:
who is your favorite character in jjk?
It used to be Yuuji, but I think at this point it’s probably Yuuta! Him, Gojo, Maki, and Yuuji are all my favourites in JJK — they’re all wonderful, but I would say Yuuta takes the top spot just because my Thing for characters is seeing how much they’ve changed throughout different stages of their lives, and Yuuta’s change tickles such an itch for me :) Plus he’s been hella cool in all his fights!
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• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony
- Jill Thomas Doyle
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Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)
Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.
Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!
Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks
Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!
Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row
#not a criticism whatsoever about modern writing advice#but i do think and want this to alleviate the pressure of writing a ‘perfect story’ a little!!!#bc it’s true#stories are always personalized to some extent so WE CAN WRITE ANYTHING WE WANT AND THAT IS WONDERFUL#tho this is hilarious#someone said it’s been more ‘good for writing as a saleable product’ instead of as ‘art’ and that’s super interesting#writing
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Absolutely a sucker for the “ARE YOU HURT” once over. The wandering hands, frantically checking for blood or pain just SOMETHING. ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of what they might find while searching. The panicked look on the face of the person doing the checking, the glossy, confused “I’m fine” from the person being checked. HOO BOY just inject that shit right into my veins
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The fourth little pig built his house out of wolf skulls. It wasn’t very sturdy, but it sent a message.
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It felt like realizing you had forgotten to pay rent at the beginning of the month
Every time a sex scene in a fic I’m reading uses the phrase “felt like coming home” to describe the act of insertion, I start thinking about how I feel when I come home
- “Being enveloped in the sweet clutch of his muscles felt like stepping into the living room and remembering through the pulling sensation in your nostrils that you had forgot to turn on the humidifier before you left and that the central heat had dried out the whole house to the point where the hygrometer was probably in the single digits now”
- “Slowly pushing into him felt like knowing, without even opening the refrigerator, that the container of peeled garlic you had bought had been sitting in there for long enough to start to sweat grossly a little bit”
- “Finally being sheathed in the pulsing, thrumming heat of his blood felt like the wi-fi connecting automatically”
Actually that last one is… pretty romantic