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11 prompts | wc: 6,918 |  Reflections & favorites of my peers under the cut!

#01 Foster

#02 Aberrant ✨

#04 Baleful 

#06 Avatar

#08 Adroit

#10 Heady ✨

#11 Preaching to the Choir

#15 Thunderous ✨

#21 Feckless

#23 Illustrious

#25 Silver Lining

#01 Foster

i like jos. he has alot of history, and when ur son has protagonist syndrome (and is a protag after all), it's easy to be further effaced from a person to a role

#02 Aberrant

I ended up rly liking this one. i always like writing parents tho sdkjfhsdf. the snapshot format helped me think of exactly what i needed n no more, and i love love love writing soldiers being impatient and entitled around luciane

#04 Baleful

i started off somewhere on this one and then it got away from me n became something else. i rly enjoy nol and jos' stand-offish comfort w each other and how they can act like different men around each other. jos is more blunt and rude while nol is more honest and expressive.  

#06 Avatar

i like how cobbled together nol, eli, their dads, and elena are. their image of a coherent family--if they ever had one--comes apart at the seams the minute they run their mouths. unfortunately the dialogue is the weakness here, but i got the message i wanted across abt them

#08 Adroit

im not gonna pretend the pacing isn't insanely bad, but i still like the language and overall concept of this one a lot. the dialogue is good too and im in love w little zero

#10 Heady

this one felt so so good to write. i love writing nol like this. its incomprehensible to others but that's part of the point, n i rly like the overlap of his senses from the present into his memories.

#11 Preaching to the Choir

is it really religion if ur not one word away from committing blasphemy at all times, esp when ur bff is a mad scientist that likes to dabble in splitting her own soul so she can let the darkness inside of her go autopilot and talk in other ppls minds. no?

#15 Thunderous

why did this become my fav thing i wrote this month. tbh usually my fav writings are built out of poetry, and this one was too--which was convenient bc the only way ive written sex is in poetry bc of the strength of suggestion. sex repels me in any shape or form except in writing, but even then most of the time it’s repetitive and unengaging bc the writing is focused on the act n not the Feelings. i guess i wrote it by skipping around, but idc i'm just happy i got this far jmhgjhg

#21 Feckless

wrote this 10000% bc i wanted the img of elliot doing that awful thing where ur already in the car and someone bodily climbs over u to get into the seat next to u, and also bc elliot is 10000% the one who hugs nol in uniform .0003 seconds after being told not to

#23 Illustrious

i feel strangely detatched from this clo piece even tho its well written. id like to expand on him contemplating why he always runs into creepy shit like a british detective series protag (bc hes a detective series protag)

#25 Silver Lining

i feel like nol is a p predictable person. he says weird shit but he's dumb and burdened by expectation, so he doesn't stray too far in public from The Ideal Norm. xan prides herself on knowing how ppl work so her getting nol to do what she wants is a natural but rly interesting scenario

@aethernoise​​ #10 Heady

YEAH!! YEAH!!!!! magic and #battlewounds and inopportune kissing, we got it all!!!!! i like this v much. ur ability to describe touch is also mega insp, and every time i think of healing magic now im gonna think abt the peculiar warmth that was more than warmth

@autochthonousone​​ #11 Preaching to the Choir

hi i like petty drama in my fiction. i also really really love how jules and barry interact. their dialogue is so tight that its easy to imagine their little cozy gossip corner and feel urself in it with them. barry adjusting to dumb ishgardian-isms is also one of my fav genres 

@blackestnight​​ #25 Silver Lining

i didnt think there was much better than flabbergasting the unwitting with limsa lominsa nonsense, but doubling that nonsense with hanami zombie-ing her way along while aymeric is stranded watching is definitely much much better

@brave-horizon​​ #2 Aberrant

hgghgrrrh brave starting off strong w the IR angst. love me some IR angst. love to hate seeing ms boss lady get sucked into The Bad Crew. i love how gradual it feels--from disarming to spite to curiosity. it makes me think abt the monetarists :eyes:

@endangered-liaison​​ #25 Silver Lining

shoot gun battle staccato. im rly bad at short sharp sentences because i crawled out of a victorian grave + its comes across as too melodramatic when i attempt it. guns are also shoot gun when i attempt them. i rly admire how u manage to avoid both those things and make a rly contained piece

@high-and-away​​ #13 Oneirophrenia

vicky back at it writing like the next remarque. ur imagery is so exact and impactful and i want to steal it. spotted w burning ceruleum, work-broken horse, armored knee. it's cinematic.it really stretches and fleshes out what could have been a sentence's story into smth that sticks w u.

@karoiseka​​ #13 Oneirophrenia

 mmmmmmmmmmm i love calamity content!!! i love!!! calamity content!!!!!! i rly like how something as physical as the moon exploding is so internal for karo. the echo takes her home n family before the fire gets the chance, and that's such a cool contrast.

@kukurubean​ #8 Adroit

i had the words pleasantly buzzed, slightly stunned stuck in my head for the entire day. the snapshot-ness of this works so well with the timing of all the sentences. its like theyre counting down too

@nuclearanomaly​​ #15 Thunderous

i want to live in this au i love it sm. all the little references, the exact details about sharing the booth, the absolute awkwardness of nini and esti. so many characters and all of them feel like they belong in the room. ty for my life

@norhimorovine​​ #10 Heady

seeing baby norhi is so cute, and seeing baby norhi start to recognize her separation from the core of gridania is so chefs kiss. i also lay on the floor abt her attempts to be gridanian nonetheless.

@onwesterlywinds​​ #24 Illustrious

THE BONES OF TRAITORS WERE IDENTICAL TO THE BONES OF THE BELOVED THE BONES OF TRAITORS WERE IDENTICAL TO THE BONES OF THE BELOVED THE BO--heaves. i loved the rabid snapshots of the body fragile yields and now i get MORE

@steak-n-popotoes​​ #28 Bow

i liked getting to know ur charas!! i esp rly loved this piece and the directness of its style. this fool. it was insulting. it gives him such a presence, all brazen intrusion and intimidation.(and unrelated to this piece, ur skill at writing npcs is extraordinary, esp getting their dialogue styles on point)

@tea-and-conspiracy​​ #2 Aberrant

oh shit. ohhhh shit. we been knew im always :eyes: over war shit and medic shit, and im not here to be unpredictable. the precious secret delivery at the end rly nailed it for me. after all his hemming abt logic he’s got a tempered at his door. sign me up

@tonberryslantern​​​ #21 Feckless

xan's capacity for one liners is unmatched but so is her ability to turn anything into Xan's Opinion Hour. i love Xan's Opinion Hour. i like to think that everything out of xan's mouth is memorable, too, but here she doesn't even talk n im still left thinking abt it an hour later.

@yunkinko​​​ #1 Foster

yun writing is always a treat for me n i was hooked right off the bat w this one. i love this awkward family and their giant little girl. the specificity in ur stories, like the vacationing nurse and more alchemists than rats bit, is always so perfect to combine description w humor

#FFXIVWrite2021 #bri writes #overall im p happy w my word count! #esp after such a long time not writing #this year has been v unproductive creatively #so i hope i can keep writing!!! #im so happy for more friend writing too sdkjhfsd THANK U ALL!!!!!!!