#I haven't used that tag in several hundred years. Many moons you might say (bwomp bwomp)

[sunrisetune]

Writing about writing! It's a meme Mario:

Rules: List five things you never get tired of writing; it can be tropes, themes, characters, phrases, whatever brings you joy. (Optional: Then tag people!)

Tagged by @syrupwit, thank you! It was fun to think about what I like making vs. what I like reading.

In no particular order:

Theme: family! Especially large families and how everyone relates (ha, ha) to everyone else in them. Especially, part two, ‘adopted’ more than ‘found’, bc to me ‘found families’ implies ‘people approximately your age who you connect with’, where ‘adopted’ is like, ‘This is a person significantly younger than me. My child now’. I think this is part of why I like werewolves a lot, too though I haven’t written very many werewolves myself (working on it). How someone’s experience of their home and pack is like ‘Family II: The Reckoning’. (+, caveat due to where we are in the internet, re: werewolves or also anything else: Absolutely zero abo stories. Hate those so much.)

-Character(s): witches of any kind. Recently I tend towards like, the kind of Pratchett witches who serve a purpose in their communities that doesn’t always have to do with magic, and in a way is more like... the phrase I was thinking of was ‘public service’ but apparently I was looking for ‘public works’? Tending to births, forecasting weather, bringing food / medicine to people who live farther than others, taking care of the dead, putting out fires, occasionally driving away malevolent spirits without eyes who try to possess community members and spread hatred like a disease. That kind of thing.

Setting: In similar spirit of ‘a deer but it’s big’, a garden but it’s weird. This can apply to “kind of fucked up” weird, but mostly is like, “the mushrooms are giant and a couple of the plants grow and / or move laterally”. Or both! This setting unsurprisingly loops back into witch characters. p:

-Setting again? Food and its preparation as well \o/ It brings me joy. This also relates back to Family Theme, because you inevitably at some point have a lot of food with a lot of people.

Phrases kinda: Queer people in general and The Bi’s in specific, I like making it explicitly clear in text when people aren’t cis-het if I can. Especially in fanfic, when I have two very stringent (/that’s sarcasm) criteria which decide if I write someone as bi: 1, They’re not already canonically or implied as ace-aro / gay / lesbian; and 2, I like them. (Restrictions apply. For instance, I can’t say I like Trexel Geistman in that specific term but unfortunately he’s definitely bisexual, and I thought that even before the mop thing. Sometimes the vibes are simply there.)

Tagging if you want! @scruffyfrank , @daddygrandpaandthebeaver, and you Kat even though you’re not on tumblr rn Also, if anyone else sees this and wants to fill it out, you too~