emi / kii | 31 | she/her | bi ace ♥ loves pokemon more than most things ★ dio/luna ship captain ♥ simp extraordinaire★ proud to forever have the best dog, Jake (miss you always 💕)
I've always been super creative and into fandoms. As a kid, I would write Pokemon stories (one of my friends even did a "book report" on one of them hehehe). I had so much lore about Purtail, my made-up Pokemon OC. She had a backstory, canon interactions, friends, family, etc... idk, lots of story there. When I got into junior high, I was making stories about anime characters/more Pokemon (this time a swearing Sneasel). But those weren't technically "fanfiction" - I mean I guess they were, but they weren't published online. So when I was 13, I was searching Kiyoshi Mitarai (my Yu Yu Hakusho blorbo) and found... Fanfiction.Net? What's that?? Oh my god, stories? About my blorbo?? That other people wrote!? Whoa, I should write one too! I should write more, like some from Death Note and FMA and Pokemon and--!! And the rest is history.
🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love
You mean besides you~? Okay, here's a few.
Addicted by DancingDog (Hazbin Hotel)
Stingers Under Skin by Sapless_Tree (The Beekeeper movie - seriously, check out this fic if you've seen the movie)
Demons of Manhattan by bictionality (Daredevil)
Strange Things Like Mercy by @foxtophat (Far Cry 5)
The Devil You Know by 94BottlesofSnapple (Zero Escape)
...oops, I guess you did get on that list, after all! ;)
🐇 ⇢ do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts, or a mix of both?
...none of the above? Haha, I actually detest reader inserts, and OCs are on thin fucking ice. More power to you if you like those things, I just don't.
🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it
For my fics? Well I've commissioned quite a few. Here are some!
by @lelelicious for CLIPPED - I also plan on uploading this as its own post tomorrow actually :)
by @raposabranca for Electric Sheep (always always a fave <3)
I... actually don't know who the OP of this is I'm sorry ;; (please let me know if you drew it because it is actual fanart that I did not purchase and I am like forever forever grateful and love it so much)
Dark Urge: Surely your Steel Watch can handle Orin. Why do you need me?
Gortash: Orin is… elusive, shall we say. The grip of the Steel Watch may be tight, but sand still slips through its fingers. You carry the stone plucked from Myrkul's Chosen, besides.
"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."
"This artist must be white."
"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."
"No woman would ever write women like this."
"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"
Nope.
People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.
Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.
If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.