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I love unflinchingly good characters. Characters so resolute and unbending in their convictions. Who put the weight of the world on their shoulders and refuse to let it slip. Who wake up every morning and choose to be good, to do good. I love it when their morals get tested but refuse to compromise. I love characters who try to be good and keep trying no matter how many times they stumble. Who see their failings and grow from them. Who make mistakes and learn. I love characters who see the error of their ways and devote their life to fixing them. Who seek atonement knowing it may never come.
You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.
Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…
…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.
Describe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___ =___”
Hmmmm I think Ningningverse can be described as like: "Arranged Marriage Courtyard Drama + Intergenerational Trauma = Two Unwell Clowns in a Bi4Demi Disaster"
This is probably only funny to @yeliuxi 😔, Alternatively this = all wishes lead to monkey's paw fruit rollup.
I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts.
May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.
I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.
look, I want a Meng Shi Lives AU for many reasons, but at least partially because I think if NMJ met her it would... not necessarily solve things, but I just feel like he'd struggle to hate JGY with the same veracity once he sees firsthand how much he loves his mum. and if NMJ showed Meng Shi even the tiniest ounce of respect and or basic kindness, or if Meng Shi happens to think he's a Very Nice Young Man, then...... JGY can't very well kill someone his mum likes, can he???
LXC is just happy there soaking up all them wholesome mum vibes ✌
I have found writing for a general audience is useless cause you can't rely on vague notions of an "audience." And writing for myself is also useless because I can just vividly imagine it, why do the work. What I gotta do is pick one specific person to torment and that's who I'm writing for.