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sin’s two year anniversary; top ten female characters as voted by followers

fourth place ✷ haruhi fujioka

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hikaru with a watermelon addiction

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sketch of Kyoya in Tom Ford 2022 cause the 2022 and 2023 collections have me going crazy

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📝📝📝!!

📝"what stages are you currently in your WIPs?"

Officially 10/12 chapters done! Chapter 11 is maybe 20% written, and Chapter 12 is maybe 10% written. Both have extensive documents of notes that are preprepared though. The last three chapters (and my gift exchange fic) were massive undertakings so I'm taking a teeny tiny break but I am hopeful that I will be finished by the summer if not before it.

Unofficially, there's several little spin-off fics of various lengths I'm working on, including missing chapters and a prequel one-shot. And super unofficially, I have one-shots down the line that are technically in-universe, if you squint. I'll finish when I'm dead <3

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❤️😭 for the ask game?

❤️ answered!

😭"what are the biggest challenges writing your WIPs?"

Procrastination, my attention span, my ever increasing word count and my ultimate nemesis: setting descriptions

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I have never been on the same page as fandom’s clear communication fetishists and I never will be. I love miscommunication, concealment, pigheadedness, and lies. I think characters should talk around what they have to say and ignore each other and impute needs and beliefs onto others that have nothing to do with those other people and everything to do with maintenance of the ego. A little clear communication is fine but it should come at the end and be earned by repeated instances of snobbery, tomfoolery, self righteousness, or blockheadedness. If you decide you hate a character just because that character isn’t communicating in the way a therapist might coach them to, well consider that people don’t actually talk like that at all and that most of us get things wrong many times before we inch our way out of the labyrinthine darkness of our own heads.

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I’m interested in hearing your answers to 📖 and🖋️ from the WIP ask meme!

📖"what has surprised you about your WIPs?"

LENGTH.

Okay, Cupid! was supposed to be 80k in its entirety. It looks like it might actually be double that before I'm finished now. Terminal yapper syndrome.

I'm also always surprised that people are enjoying what I'm writing. I'm so happy there's still an audience out there for KyoKao <3

🖋️"what inspired you to write your WIPs?"

I actually kind of answered that with the last question! But I'm also inspired by all the other excellent KyoKao writers out there AND my own ego about wanting to write a longfic lmao.

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📜 and ❤️ for your WIP ask!

Thank you! I'm going to treat "WIP" as "WIP that is actually partly published" eg. Okay, Cupid! just so we're not raking through my however many Google Docs lmao

📜"how did you get started on your WIPs?"

Saw the (alleged) interview with Hatori Bisco about the Kyoya and Kaoru spin-off. I decided to think about what that would look like. I determined that it would be most likely Kyoya's POV for starters and that it would probably take place when he's 22~ and deal with the changes that would naturally occur to his friendships and his plans for succession.

After that, I tried to figure out what would be, as she put it, in the same spirit of Ouran. Ouran is a shoujo, a romantic school comedy, a reverse harem-- none of which are really...viable for a Kyoya spin-off about him trying to be named his father's successor.

BUT. Ouran is also a "girl of the week" (woobie of the week I think TV Tropes calls it) kind of deal. Early on especially, before the plot becomes sequential, chapters/episodes are often self-contained episodics where the Host Club band together to solve the misfortunes of some girl usually, boy occasionally. SO. If the spin-off was about matchmaking- something that, as homosexual side character wingmen, Kyoya and Kaoru both dabble in- then theoretically you could end up with a girl of the week situation that is true to the original spirit of Ouran without them needing to be teenagers in a Host Club.

So I envisioned the spin-off as some kind of pilot situation where Kaoru ropes Kyoya into matchmaking some girl Hikaru has a failed date with into a relationship with the real love of her life, who probably just so happens to be some guy Kyoya's trying to do business with so it all works out in the end...and then girls keep showing up like drowned cats and Kaoru is boooooored and Kyoya is perhaps slightly down for hijinks if it's of some benefit to him. And from there on, it develops into a love story, develops into Kaoru having to matchmake Kyoya or matchmake girls away from Kyoya, and eventually into a plotline with Kyoya's father with regards to his plans for succession.

And then I said "Jesus Christ, I'm not writing an entire manga. That's insane." And wrote Okay, Cupid! instead.

But I started with Chapter 9 <3

❤️"what are your favorite scenes from your WIPs?"

It's kind of hard to say, because I'm always so so so psyched for a scene right up until the moment I publish it and then it's like it just goes from my brain. So I probably answer something different every time for this!

But from scenes I've already published, I think my current favourite is a toss up between Kyoya and Kaoru's fight in Ch.9 and their talk on the balcony in C. 5 (which I refer to fondly as their you wear fine things well scene lmao)

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wait wrong person i think

Yep, wrong person!

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some guy i found in the parking lot

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i dont post on tumblr but have a haruhi cause ive had ouran brainrot for like a month

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More ourannn ☺️

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Im new here in tumblr, but here is an art piece that i did a few months ago :D enjoy it

I post on instagram as well, im trying to make moots :) my @pawiloop

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Screencap redraw

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baby / toddler hitachiin twins ☆

episode 20

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sister kaoru & sister hikaru ☆

ep 9