#god i just want some good rice (made with the rice cooker but idk how to use it and the instructions are worthless)

[pain-somnia]

(1)so, i've been re-reading AOY for like, the third time, and i just wanted to tell u how much i appreciate the way you write all of the characters. i feel like you approach them with empathy, or at least an understanding of some sort. like, you don't ignore their flaws or their virtues, you don't get viciously against or in favor of any of them. and even if your fic is focused on Hyde&Jackie and their relationship, u give depth to almost all of the characters,

(2) none of them could be replaced with a cardboard cutout, u know? and the dynamics in the group are fantastic, everyone matters to everyone in one way or another (although there are different degrees of closeness, of course). a long time ago i had started reading the eric/buddy fic u mentioned, and while it was well written and intriguing, i couldn't get past the first few chapters bc i can't handle fics that are too biased (not to say that it was bad, it just wasn't my thing).

(3) plenty of other t7s fanfics are biased too (to a certain extent), which is fine and completely normal, but idk, i just love that u seem to care for everyone at least a little bit. it's one of the things that makes AOY so compelling to me. i'm looking forward to what's next, especially bc i wanna know how Hyde&Jackie are gonna deal with their new-but-not-really relationship,

(4)and i NEED more Buddy&Fez, and Jackie&Donna. i also i have a good guess as to the ship you're gonna introduce, so i'm excited to see how you're gonna tackle them 👀. anyway, i didn't mean for this message to get so long lmao. hope you're doing well 💕.

First, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING MY WORK I’m in awe that you re-read it that much (I’m always in awe when ppl re-read my work)

I’m blushing so hard from your compliments. When I first came up with the idea to do this time travel fic I did mostly focus on Jackie and Hyde but then I started to think about the other characters and how Jackie isn’t entirely selfish and she is a compassionate person, so why shouldn’t relationships with other characters be mentioned or highlighted in some way?

(gonna try and put everything under the cut so I don’t clog up the dash but if it doesn’t work I’m so sorry)

Besides the fact that the show was about the group of friends, a huge bit of inspiration for giving more attention to the other characters especially having them do activities with each other especially outside of the basement actually came from my own years as a teen and into my early 20s. The zenmasters fandom is still really new to me unlike the sasusaku fandom so many don’t know about how I got really sick and lost the closeness I used to have with my irl friends due to my illnesses and inability to do all of the things I used to do with them. This is my way of capturing my love for my old friends in a way.

My home used to have the same feeling as Eric’s basement (every time my family moved my house was still THE house) and I was one of like three friends that were licensed (even up to our mid 20s) and I was the only one everyone fully trusted to drive. So in a way I was the Eric of our friend group especially when you add in my mom’s train of thought when it came to my friends and I which was that she would rather us eat everything in her fridge in kitchen and have her go broke feeding us than for us to be out doing stupid shit. It didn’t stop us from doing stupid shit but that was our life lol

we used to trespass into places (abandoned houses, abandoned asylum, parks and fields and lakes when they were closed at night), I had an ex that stole a golf cart from a security guard cuz it was there and the keys were in the ignition and we all fucking scattered when the guy showed up, we would fuck around at my house or another friend’s house and drinking and weed (and acid and shrooms) were usually involved (I was the mom friend so I always took care of everyone and was designated driver), we went to concerts even if we had to drive to other states and also went to Warped Tour almost every year until I got sick af. We would find the perfect places to watch meteor showers and hold bonfires at a friend’s house (although we did start a bonfire in a soccer field we had no business being in at that time at night).

And we would drive around for hours with no destination. We typically told our parents we were going bowling when we did and we never fucking went bowling lol

There’s so much that we did

This is all the energy of my personal experience being a teenager with access to a minivan and then my own car that really made me think about the T7S gang and even though I want to focus so much on Jackie and Hyde and their romance, I feel like I would be doing such a disservice to the friendships in the show by not having them be actual friends in the story.

I’ve had a friend abandoned by her mother and she moved in with a bf and we all helped her (I had to teach her how to cook rice in a pot cuz her bf didn’t have a rice cooker and my mom made sure she knew she could come live with us if she got fed up with her bf’s family) and my family has opened their home to my friend and her family when they were in between homes. I’ve had to help friends through bad trips. We’ve all had our hearts broken. Some of us have dealt with being queer and learning about our own identities and the struggle with finding out who we really are. I found out my father wasn’t my biological father when I was 20 lol

And we all had each other during those moments. Just like how the T7S gang had each other. So I felt personally invested in making sure to elaborate on moments where they were hanging out and being friends to each other.

And I know. God that fic. Whenever I re-ead that fic I actually skip a lot and my last re-read of it made me feel like I couldn’t read it again just because it is way too biased. Like it completely absolves a certain character of everything and I kind of lost it when Brooke had to apologize to him in the fic....I feel like, you should definitely be able to criticize things that you love and that it doesn’t take away any love to recognize the bad with the good.

Like right now I have to show some bias against Kelso for the part of the story but I keep editing it so it’s not complete hate against him. It’s just for this part of the story he is well just being him which is unfortunately ugly and it has to be ugly until he can grow. But I feel guilty about it lol don’t hate me too much for what he has to go through first

Jackie and Donna. I have such a weak spot for them in my fic mostly because for the longest time I didn’t really have many girl friends. I was always too much of a boy, too weird, too ugly for the other girls so I didn’t have someone I was truly super close with until I was in like 8th grade. And there’s this sisterhood with Jackie and Donna that I wish they did better. Like ignoring s8 completely, there just could have been more. But the sweet moments we got were amazing. I just feel like the writers knew fuck all how to make the girls proper friends without feeling like they were losing the characters and how they were.

i will probably be introducing that ship in chapter 8. I’m just struggling wrapping up the last bit of chapter 7 aka the January 31st part. I’ve just been staring at page 56 and wondering if I’m doing it right.

#asks #zenmasters #t7s #that 70s show

[one-winged-dreams]

ALL OF THE WEDDING QUESTIONS FOR YOU N GRIMMJOW, GO

REESE ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS

JESUS CHRIST

Already did 1

What theme are they going for? Outdoorsy? Tropical vacation? Maybe a club theme?

It’s not even an actual wedding, it’s more like a ‘these two idiots are bonded now’ ceremony dressed up like a wedding. So it’s not really formal at all and probably super casual. We’ll probably do it in the park or something idk.

Who spends the most time picking out their dress/suit? Do they want something simple, or do they want something custom and extravagant?

Both of us are probably just gonna wear button-ups and slacks tbh. I probably debate whether or not I want to wear a tie or not, he absolutely REFUSES.

What dessert do they choose? Cannolis? Ice cream sundaes? A classic cake? What flavour do they pick? Is there more than one dessert?

I probably just make a shit ton of cupcakes. I’m all proud of myself until it’s time to ice them and then I start crying because why the fuck did I make so many cupcakes?

How many people do they both invite? Immediate family and a few close friends, or cousins, second cousins, and A’s aunt’s best friend’s sister?

ONCE AGAIN, THE CALL FOR BLEACH SHIPPERS IS OPEN SO

I probably invite Nel too because I fucking love her. I invite Halibel out of politeness even though I know she’d have to decline. 

I might invite Ichigo too, just to be a rustle Grimm’s jimmies.

AND I’D HAVE TO INVITE MY FUCKING PARENTS AND MY SISTER, OH GOD. It’d be so awkward because they like… Know nothing about him?? Because I always made sure that they interact with each other as little as humanly possible? It’d be a huge awkward mess honestly.

Already answered 6

Who is the best man and/or maid of honour?

Probably Sakura ( @acloudyheart ) and Nel.

Who’s walking down the isle? Who’s walking them? Does either of them start to get emotional as they see their future spouse for the first time in a day?

NONE OF THAT BULLSHIT. We show up at the same time like men.I’m probably super flustered but playing it off by pretend-mocking how gay this all is. Like, top tier homo. Grimm still doesn’t see how it’s a big deal but if it is to me he’s not gonna like… object.

Does anyone object or not approve of the marriage? If so, are they shunned and kicked out for speaking out against their love? 

My parents are probably super confused and like ‘WHY???’ but will save their complaining until the reception when they know for a fact I should be enjoying myself (oops spilled a little salt in there).

Do they stumble or get nervous saying their vows? Does the other get emotional hearing the other say such sweet words to them?

We’re both really shitty with words and DEFINITELY waited until the last minute to think of what we were gonna say so we both just wing it on the spot. 

I’m probably the one that gets all emotional, if not just because of Grimm mustering all the eloquence in his body to even ATTEMPT something like that.

Best man’s / maid of honour speech. Is it all sappy and serious, or does it have some humour and sweetness to it? Are they nervous? Are they proud?

Nel probably rambles on and on (to the point where people start to get irritated) and goes out of her way to emphasize that Grimmjow went soft for a HUMAN of all things and how she never even CONCEIVED that he’d be doing some weird little human ceremony over the HUMAN that he WENT SOFT FOR. Grimm’s probably gritting his teeth the whole time and I’m laughing my ass off.

How do they do on their first dance? Is it all quiet and romantic or do they just try to have a good time, laughing and dancing through the room?

It’s a little tense because we’re both embarrassed. We didn’t even WANT to do it but we got peer-pressured into it so we’re both all red-faced and tsundere. Eventually we kind of relax enough to laugh about it and how ‘dumb’ it is.we had a lot of fun tho

Do they immediately leave for their honeymoon the day after, or do they push it to perhaps the week after to prepare and just live their life as a newly wed couple? Where is the honeymoon taking place? How long do they stay?

We’re both pretty much just like ‘We’re going home and not leaving the house for a week straight, don’t come by because we’re not answering the door’.

A good amount of it is spent doingthings that I have another blog for talking about that kind of stuff

And eating leftover wedding food

Do they enjoy opening their gifts or do they just ask for money to buy their own things?

We had a registry that just had a couple things we were too tight on money to get (like a new rice cooker and stuff like that). 

How do they wake up every morning after, knowing they’re married to the person they love the most?

It’s probably not TOO different but both of us (even him, not really understanding the whole wedding thing) definitely feel like SOMETHING changed, even if it was just a little bit. It’s definitely more overwhelming for me and I’m embarrassed about it for a long time (enough that I probably can’t say the word ‘husband’ for months).

When they grow old together, will they reminisce about their wedding day? Perhaps they dig up some old photos to look at. Will they try and see if they still fit into their suits/dresses?

It’s probably the occasional “Remember when we did that super gay little wedding thing? Don’t bother answering, I’m already breaking out the pictures”

#answers #wild heart