#I'm 90% sure this ain't going into any tags anyway this is for me more than anything

[redphienix]

tumblr hates links and I'm just being overly sentimental as I get sleepy at 7am on an all-nighter so I'mma say:

I still hold a lot of adoration for the last two pieces I wrote, so I'mma summarize em and link em and be happy about em before sleep.

Fog and the Flame (ao3) (fan) -

(mike wazowski energy on nat here, why did I choose this image?)

I was really, really into Doki Doki Literature Club, and I still adore it. I want the absolute best for the dokis because they are all wonderful people, love them, the children deserve a joyful life, yes, Monika, too. I've made extensive posts and even a fic explaining why I'd think that but honestly with a fandom this wide and varied I find a lot of people just accept a face value love or hate and don't bother digging deeper so I won't bore you, HELL, SHE AIN'T EVEN RELEVANT TO THIS FIC lol.

Fog and the Flame is still my favorite piece I've written so far. I like writing romance, I like exploring characters faults, worries, and offering them hope- and this had a lot of those things.

Is it perfect? Fuck no, I wrote it, ya dummy. But it's a fic that pushed me to research a LOT and rewrite a LOT and genuinely pour myself into the work because I wanted to do what I usually do in a piece (emphasize characterizations so that each character feels like who they are and not just one person talking to themselves- a weird basic mechanic of story telling to love but I love that so fuck man.) and I wanted to write my vision of a truly happy future for the dokis- primarily Natsuki and Yuri, in which their reality isn't shattered via our own.

As in it's one of those fics that doesn't include the game stuff, it's a "real world" all that jazz whatever.

But yeah, Fog and the Flame is a story that stands with me as my own personal happy ending to the story and it makes me feel good inside with the hope it offers :)

The other fic I wanted to ramble about is less intense, no worries.

The Author's Final Epilogue (ao3) (fan) -

TAFE is a post-true-ending tale for OneShot. A game with a modicum the size of an audience compared to DDLC, but a game deserving of plenty more :)

The gist is... well, that. Spoilers?

The true end has been acquired, Niko is home, and the world machine has decided to simply let the world keep running.

You follow Kip and George as they try to solve some lasting mysteries hidden around the world, namely, what was The Author's Final Epilogue- a series of notes and disjointed scribbles amidst various books he penned, and what does it have to do with the world, themselves, and the future?

Now I don't feel TAFE is my best work, I already said I enjoy Fog the most- but TAFE was a huge challenge in a different way.

I, quite simply, am a stickler for my favorite type of writing- and this one ain't a romance. I thought about writing a romance, but then I thought "No, you know what would be a happy ending-extension to OneShot? Another adventure."

So it's that! An adventure piece! And it has a couple nice highlights at that :P

When I think of Fog I think of a heartwarming care filled love story that I'm proud to have even tried to write. When I think of TAFE I think of all the excitement and challenge I found penning ideas a dozen times over and over and over again until I felt I had told the fun romp I wanted to and closed on a similar love letter to the game that inspired it :)

I'm sleepy. Read my old fics. Gimme comment. Empower the clown that I am >:o)