#I remember bawling my eyes at several ut fics I can’t believe I’m putting ppl through that

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I have read quite a few emotional fics on ao3, but your "a cigarette at a time" is one of the few fics that hit me right in the feels--one of the most emotional undertale fics i have read. The way you write made me tear up, especially when writing MC's grief after duncan's death and red's guilt about breaking her trust. Crying while reading is not something i do often, but I did while reading your fic. I just wanted to let you know that you are a very skilled author!!

I’ve read this ask a couple of times before answering and it got me thinking about how I ended up writing something so sad. At first I thought about writing this fic as a one shot. I mostly wanted to write smut and maybe a bit of angst, but I started fantasizing about reader having a pet dog since I happened to lose mine just a couple of months before finally writing down what I thought was going to be a one shot. I didn’t want to write too much of my own experiences as reader’s, but I ended up writing about my dog in the end. I omitted the most crude and heartbreaking parts, avoiding dialogues and avoiding giving the dog too much of a personality, so readers don’t have to see how his personality slowly faded away, yet a lot of people seemed to find it very sad. That’s the most unexpected feedback I’ve gotten from this fic so far. I didn’t want people to get sad but I’m ‘glad’ I delivered the message?? If that makes sense?

Also, I absolutely get what you say about reading and crying. I never cry when I write but I had to put my phone down several times while writing that scene. It took me hours to get through that part.

I still have a long way to go as a writer (specially in English since it’s not my first language) but I’ll keep writing to get better!