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collectionoftulips · 2 years
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Right, I've done enough life admin (cleaning and what not) and had my coffee so will get around to answering comments and commentary from the last two chapters that you were so kind enough to leave me. I will also offer unsolicited thoughts that no one asked for because... well, I wanna share my thought process ;) All that good stuff under the cut
@angel-starbeam Anthony's heart broke and it's sad and I'm pretty sure he got the wrong idea about Kate and Dorset. 😭 Can't wait for the next chapter.
Reply: I know - it's so sad 😢 Won't say too much about Kate and Dorset's backstory and what happened there as I will address it in a bit (but if it still isn't clear I guess I'll clarify later). These poor self-suppressing fools (I mentioned in a comment on AO3 that I feel like this fic might be a PSA for the virtues of clear communication in relationships and I feel like that might be true 😂). Thank you so much for always being such a lovely supportive commenter - I've really enjoyed reading your comments
@kateschechterxthorwasmyfirstotp Ouch, Dorset’s role here is interesting and hopefully he will eventually be a catalyst for KA to talk to each other, since some of the story’s force points - bee scene and Edwina engagement are not happening with the new timeline, which could allow these two to continue being idiots not dealing with their issues a long time. It is lovely to think years of being torn down by the Sheffields and society will be fixed by assurance of her family’s love, but both of their issues are clearly present. This chapter and the next are sort of bookends showing how much farther they still have to go. And I do wonder historically if KA would be able to pull of the tricky mistress to wife conversion, and if Kate would even want to since she has experienced a taste of a life of independence and a very different world.
Reply: Obviously I will be an asshole and not say what I've got planned coming up, but thank you for such a lovely comment. That's really what I wanted to convey and it makes me really happy to see it seemingly succeeding 😄 I guess one major reason also why I have so clearly decided not to do the bee scene (for now? who knows?) and also kinda dipped out of the idea of Anthony-being-engaged-to-Edwina pretty early (aside from the fact that it wouldn't really make sense to me considering how Anthony behaved from just a touch or a kiss, if he was sleeping with her, his subconscious would definitely be like 'nope, no one else for you this is it') was that the issues that both Anthony and Kate deal with as characters are pretty deep-rooted. The TV show naturally had to have external events prompting the story forward but I guess through the process of writing this story, I'm learning that I'm really enjoying the psychological exploration and the knots we as people tie ourselves in. That's kind of what I like and, with the risk of sounding pretentious, I guess I sort of like a more calm and melodic pace that doesn't suit a bunch of plot points in one chapter. I also didn't want to create a scenario where I changed one thing (the Sheffields being like 10% more awful on top their already spectacular awfulness) and then gradually revert to the show format (no shade at all to people who do that though, I love stories like that!), but instead that changed thing kind of changes everything and ripples through the entire story. Sorry for the dissertation, but I guess I'm just saying I seem to have made things more difficult for myself, but I'm sort of enjoying the challenge - I just hope I pull it off properly. Hope the planting went well? 72 plants sound like a lot (and from google, they look very pretty!) so well done :D
I hope I didn't miss anyone's comment but I went back on the past two chapters to copy the responses I could see in (but I don't trust Tumblr anymore haha)
I also got a comment from AO3 saying that I was sort of replicating the Siena/Anthony dynamic and that Anthony is basically doing the same sort of projecting-daydream thing. I'm sort of including it here because I think it's a really important point and made me think (which I appreciated). I hope I have done enough to distinguish how K/A were different to S/A, even though they start off in pretty similar places because obviously in this story Kate and Siena basically share the same class position vis-a-vis the ton. Also, with the lack of external dynamics like engagement-to-Edwina, Anthony isn't forced (yet) to really process his issues quite just yet. Anyway, that's been kind of my logic around it, but I'd welcome more thoughts on it. Because, bare minimum, if I'm not making it clear enough, I might have to consider how to make it clearer going forward.
Anyways, thank you so much everyone for all your comments and support. I really deeply appreciate it. When I said before that I'm very self conscious about my writing style, I meant it, because the kind of phrasing I like writing I know can veer very near a bit too verbose and runs the risk of being pretentious, so I appreciate you all for helping me feel confident enough to post my scribbling. ❤️
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dufrau · 1 year
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COMMENT ON OLD FICS, I BEG YOU!
I swear to god after like a week people will still be reading but nobody leaves comments anymore and I just want to make it absolutely clear that I would be excited and elated to get a comment on these fics one hundred years after I post them.
A FIC IS NEVER TOO OLD TO LEAVE A NICE COMMENT ON. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
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feelingthedisaster · 2 months
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im really shitty at usernames (i usually just keyboard smash or write variations of "no username" when i have to creat an account) but right now im writing a story set in social media and i need usernames for extras, any ideas?
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silverskye13 · 3 months
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hi can i just say that while I haven't been there to read your HK fanfiction, seeing you update nailmaster's folly after so long makes me... hopeful? In the 'I also have wips I haven't touched in years but there might still be space for them one day if I get the gumption' sort of way? so, while I'm not really going to be reading it as I know nothing about HK: thanks for updating nailmaster's folly, so cool to see it.
Hey you're very welcome! I'm very stoked it's giving you hope for your future projects. That's a hope you deserve to have.
Honestly, one of the most important things about art that I wish everyone would, at some point, absorb into their creative process, is that everything is allowed to rest. Sometimes the only thing that will "fix" a problem piece is time and distance, and that time and distance is allowed to be long. You're allowed to drop something for 4 years and randomly decide it's worth your time again, and you should be able to have that process without guilt or judgement.
Not to get on the "internet culture is evil" soapbox, but, the idea of the "grind", that every project must be done at once, from start to finish, in a logical order that others can consume and follow from point A to point Z, is untenable for individual creators, especially creators that are doing it just for fun. You aren't a machine. You aren't a writing board churning out a podcast, movie, tv series, comic book set, etc. You're a person finding joy in making art about something you love. The process can be messy. It can make no sense. It can involve long breaks, or deciding you're done with something entirely. Without guilt or malice, you are allowed to wash your hands of something and then decide to get them dirty with it again when you can stand the texture.
I understand there's sadness in thinking you can't finish something, in not knowing how to fix it immediately, or not being able to conjure the motivation to put to physicality something that makes so much sense in your head. Be disappointed, and grieve it, if you must. But never think it was time wasted. No one has ever walked out of their house in the morning without, at some point or another, looking at the world to see what was there. You're allowed to start a project, walk down the road with it, and realize you'd rather look around.
You can always come back.
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arkhammaid · 28 days
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Just found the f!Charles fic you posted and straight up going feral over it. Can't wait to read the next chapter and see where it goes! Went also for a lil stroll on your AO3 profile and discovered you're also the author of the merc!Charles AU that d-e-s-t-r-o-y-e-d me and of the Oscar fic that made me become a fan of his? Your writing is super lovely and I love it so much! :D (Honestly tho, you know what I'd sell a kidney to read? A time travel fic where Charles goes back in time and still goes to Ferrari. I just jinxed myself and made it so that I have to write, haven't I?)
ahh tysm for your kind words, anon🤭🫶 i'm so glad so many people like my fics and my writing. i promise new chapters are coming soon but my exam phase is coming up, so it will take a bit.
and mercedes!charles has a special place in my heart... i left it a bit open, and the possibility of him going to ferrari the third round actually exists (it's an existing draft with like 500ish words) but before i would even work on that, i would finish my fem!charles and time travel!oscar fics. followed by logan and max time traveling because i planned a whole series 😭
(and if you actually end up writing that fic, please do let me know 👀 i'm a sucker for any fics with time travel, i can never have enough. and tbh, i would have to do some research for the charles to ferrari fic because well... ferrari was/is a proper mess and i want to do it justice! (and charles if he would have the knowledge of his life not only once but twice))
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stabbyfoxandrew · 4 months
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oh... gods i just realized i have ao3 comments that are two months old...
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ironhusband · 1 year
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Dear writers,
I know how important comments are - believe me, as a writer myself I absolutely do - but I would like to notify you that sometimes a simple kudos can be all a person can do to show their love. My brother loves fanfics, even saves passages of them onto his phone - but he has crippling social anxiety to the point where he’s afraid to even bookmark or mark for later a fic. It doesn’t matter how much I reassure him writers love comments of all kinds - he’s simply too anxious.
So everytime you - understandably - despair over the ratio of comments to kudos you get (or maybe you even don’t get comments at all), just remember there are people like my brother who love you from afar and are simply too nervous to tell you themselves.
You have more fans than you know. Keep writing. It’s a blessing for everyone.
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beauleifu · 1 year
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Hi, just going to come clean with you. I read your story and it really triggered me for some reason? You keep hinting at a reader 'backstory' and that trend is getting so old. Giving the reader a backstory literally takes away the whole essence of it being an X READER. I was not/never will be a nurse and I don't see why people like to put readers in someone else's shoes like god damn, just make it a Syntax x OC fanfic, its not that hard, we won't be upset or mad at you for making something self indulgent.
Literally. You wrote in the tags??? That it was self indulgent?? That self indulgent shit go woo?? Honey. Just come clean with US. It's really pissing me off.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
uwu
no <3
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cinary · 6 months
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ok, I have a questions, I need to know. Sometimes when I leave a comment on a fanfic, the author writes back. And sometimes it's not just a short thank you, but it's a long comment (possibly in an answer for my long comment). And sometimes I write back but sometimes it's not the right time/space of mind/anything and I don't. And I find it in my inbox months later, unanswered and forever feel horrible. so the questions is:
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regulusrules · 4 months
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So sorry you received that comment, you're one of the bests. Any advice on how to cope with them? Once I got something like this and stopped writing for that fandom.
My nonnie, you should ride its high exactly like I am doing about it!
Listen. No one's— and I genuinely mean no one's— beliefs about you, either positive or negative, should matter to you more than yours about yourself. Not trying to be a preachy life coach or anything, but really, what is feedback if not someone's thoughts and beliefs imposed upon yours?
Don't get me wrong; they are valid, and they are extremely valuable to be put into consideration, but they aren't more important than yours about yourself. Take any feedback and mould it to your comfort. If it's praise, then let it fill you with assurance of how good you are. If it's criticism, then let it drive you even further to write and develop. But in both cases, remember to value what you believe over what others believe, because it's your life in making.
And if you believe that your writing is worth sharing, then the whole entire world shouldn't convince you otherwise. Trust me, even when you say I'm "one of the best", if you ask me I'll tell you I'm not that talented. I'll undermine my writing even when I know it's relatively good. It's a struggle everyone undergoes. But that doesn't mean we should stop doing the things we love just because we aren't god-tier in them. No one really is.
So my advice for you would be to go back to writing in your fandom and leave all negative comments behind. Don't let someone take from you a source of happiness. Write and know that you'll never be the cherry on top of everyone's cake, and that that is completely fine. Every writing style is unique on its own, and that's what makes us undeniably human. What matters at the end of any day is what you do with the words of the world, and how to always make their impact a positive one on yourself ✯
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yellow-speedster · 1 year
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Obvious pick, I know, but ..... sontails for the ship ask? I would love to hear your thoughts on them!!
Hello!! :D But that's the perfect pick, I love the boys so much and I love getting to talk about them!
In case anyone following my blog missed the memo (and my fics xD): I ship it!!
1. What made you ship it?
Honestly this is such a hard question, because there's rarely a lightening strike Moment where I start shipping things. With sontails, well, it kind of just went hand in hand with falling into the Sonic series as a whole. I got into playing the games, watching the movies and shows, and reading a lot about Sonic and Tails and their dynamic and I just… fell in love with what they have with each other.
The friendship they have, the bond between them, it's just something that's really beautiful to me and they're one of those duos where I just, love them in any and every way they could be together. And I'm an absolutely hopeless romantic so of course it's impossible for me to look at how they are together and not see the love that's there. ;w;
So essentially: They're In Love, your honor.
What are your favorite things about the ship?
Where do I even start ahhhhh everything? Everything! I just, love how precious they are, together, how much they care for one another. It really just comes back to that bond Sonic and Tails have, that's my favorite thing. I love the way they fit together and how their differences compliment one another, they're like two parts of a matching set.
It's so hard to pick my favorite things, because it just comes back to them: Sonic and Tails. They're my favorite thing about the ship, because I just… love them so much. They give me so many emotions. ;o;
I know I've always been extremely weak for best friends slowly falling in love with each other, and I feel that so strongly when it comes to these two. They've already found so much in one another, best friends, partners, home. I just love to think about how that could keep going over time, how deeper it could get as they keep growing together, what else the amazing bond that Sonic and Tails share could bring about.
I'm sorry I'm rambling so much ahhh, they just give me SO many emotions.
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
I plead the fifth.
Honestly, I don't actually know what the popular opinions are, I don't really interact much with wider fandom in general so I haven't really had the chance to pick up on what's popular and what's unpopular.
There is, one thing though, so I suppose it's time to be Problematic(TM) on Main.
I really don't understand why some people seem to get all touchy about the age difference Sonic and Tails have. I suppose I have a skewed perspective, one of my partners and I have a decent age gap, and my parents had one bigger than Sonic and Tails, so to me there's nothing that weird or wrong about them not being the same age? I understand aging them up before they actually become romantic, if (general you)'re uncomfortable with their 'canon' ages. I do it too usually. I just don't think the existence of a difference in their ages is a big deal.
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Just read your rwby roadtrip fic and I'm on the floor, what a beautiful piece of writing. I hope you're doing well.
thank you so so much. i'm so glad you enjoyed it!
back when i first started writing it four years ago, i was at a very different place in my life. i was so fascinated with the idea of traveling to a new place, rediscovering the world through a new lens, and finding the people that were meant to shape and stay in your life forever.
(i was also very much more active on this blog then than i am now, but that point is less important.)
throughout the years, i've been rereading it occasionally every few months. every comment i've received about how the fic touched them and how they remember it still has a special place in my heart! it's the landmark of one of my first contributions to fandom spaces after so long just absorbing everyone's content. i'm still proud of it to this day.
thank you (again) for letting me ramble in the response to your ask, and i'm so very glad you enjoyed it. who knows, maybe i'll get around to writing a sequel! at the very least, i think i'll go back and touch up the fic a little bit. i still love the original feel of my old writing, done by a person that was so very in love with and excited by the world and the connections that tied us all together.
i'm still in a constant state of rediscovering that love in new ways. i'm glad that my younger self shared something like that with my fic, and i hope you (and everyone who has read it) are doing well, too. :)
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theflyingfeeling · 8 months
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Also regarding to the thing you wrote: I love it 🥺 Olli and Aleksi as fwb is making me feel things tho 😳😳
Oh? 🥺 I'm so happy to hear you liked it! 🥰 I came up with the idea for it the other day and I'm kinda happy with how it turned out. I myself find the whole friends-with-benefits trope soooooooooo hot and the idea of Olli/Allu having something like that is just......... 🫠
I also think fwb-to-lovers is such a delicious trope and I've been wanting to try it for any of my favourite ships for a while, I was so happy I finally had the inspiration to actually write it! And I would read this trope x Olli/Allu endlessly, just fyi @ my fellow fic writers 👀
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bluebeary-jay · 1 year
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SCREW IT, I'm gonna do this
If you see some random-ass blog (@/vesrin) replying to your comments just know it's me from my main because I can't go on any longer not letting you know how much I appreciate every one of you lovely people
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crescentfool · 1 year
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Seems up your alley: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45650125
ANON... thank you so much for alerting me to this fic, i know it's been a good three weeks since you've sent this ask but i've finally gotten a chance to read this and GOSH... this is, very very good ryomina fic that i need to tattoo inside my eyelids like, right now. i haven't read fic p3 in a good while but thank you so much for thinking of me!!! 💛💙
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musette22 · 2 years
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MINNIE! You have RUINED me! I was going to write you about how I have exhausted and LOVED all of your Stucky fics on AO3. And how as much as I want to read more of your work, I was anxious about reading RPF and so avoiding your Evanstan. THEN I find your Heat Wave fic. Fucking A! REALLY?! What bullshit is this?! I'm hooked and I don't know how to feel.
I'm so sorry if my ask came off harshly. I feel overwhelmed and desperate to read more. I may have gone too far. Please forgive me? (2/2)
Oh my goodness, my love, there is nothing to forgive!!! Your ask did not come off to harshly at all, I love it when people yell and curse at me because my writing made them feel things, its the best!!! ❤️❤️
I know a lot of people who are anxious about reading RPF or just prefer not to, and that's absolutely fine! But whenever someone tells me one of my fics was an exception, or what made them change their mind, that makes my heart really happy, because in my honest opinion, RPF is just like other types of fic and not scary at all and I love sharing the love for these boys together (though I completely get people having reservations, honestly. I just experience it differently I guess!)
So yes, long story short: this is AMAZING to hear, and it makes me so happy that you enjoyed this silly little fic and it's making you want to read more!! That's a lovely thing to hear, as an author 🥰 Thank you!!! Hope you're having a lovely Sunday! <3
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