#The muse wants what the muse wants

[navybrat817]

Kind of in the mood to write something a little angsty. 😭

[poppy5991]

I said, “I’m gonna work on some short fanfics now that Auster is complete and only focus on the original fiction that we are seeing progress on.”

Guys, I wrote so much over the past week on a bunch of different projects but not enough on any singular one to be ready for posting.

Damn.

[owlbelly]

so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them

but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!

this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist

anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both

[ylangelegy]

mingyu is absentmindedly scrolling through instagram reels when he finds a video of a content creator in his kitchen. his caption is simple enough: meals i made for my girlfriend this week.

mingyu watches, slightly bored, as the influencer shows off everything from at-home matcha lattes to vegetable omelettes. he's just about to scroll away when the influencer shows off the last meal: a bento box.

mingyu rewatches that part once. thrice, even. he's had dosirak countless of times before, but this one is different. it's— cute.

mingyu looks up a hashtag of #bentoboxlunch and is absolutely floored. there's rice shaped like sanrio characters, and boiled eggs with nori eyes, and hotdogs cut up to look like octopi!

mingyu, who has always taken pride in cooking for you, in making your favorites of bibim-guksu and jajangmyeon, finds an entirely new purpose.

mingyu blows an inordinate amount of money on supplies. character picks, rice shapers, vegetable cutters. in between schedules, he watches how-to videos. when you're asleep at night or he wakes up earlier than you in the morning, he quietly pads around the kitchen to practice.

mingyu spends a good three or so months stealing away this new hobby, hiding it from you, until he decides his skills are up to par. with the intensity of which he's going about this, you'd think he's competing on master chef.

mingyu who, one morning, nonchalantly informs you, "i packed you lunch. let me know how you like it, okay?" you try to tell him that it isn't necessary, that you're a grown adult, thank you very much, but he pouts and whines until you take the lunch box anyway.

mingyu, whose leg bounces up and down all the hours leading up to noon.

mingyu, who has gotten a lot of praise across his life for many things. his skills as an idol. his physical appearance. but this? the text he gets of you gushing over the puppy-shaped mashed potatoes, over the boiled egg that's been cut to look like cherry blossoms? this is definitely a top five compliment.

mingyu enjoys this way too much. he learns more and more over time. heart-shaped tamagoyaki, doraemon constructed out of seaweed, rice that looks like snoopy. you tell him he's going overboard, doing too much, but how can anything be 'too much' when it's you?

mingyu doesn't even understand why he loves doing all this until, one day, you present to him sandwiches that have been cut in to stars and melon slices that are molded like diamonds. the sandwich is a bit dry, and the melon is out of season, but mingyu doesn't care. it's the best damn meal he's ever eaten.

mingyu, who has to hold himself back from proposing on the spot when you tease him, i love you, i want us both to eat well.

mingyu, who thinks to himself that he would cook for you for the rest of his life, if you'd let him.

[hinamie]

恵 ; "blessing"

12/22: consider this piece my love letter to a character who has become so near and dear to me and who has inspired so much of my artistic growth this past year <3 happy birthday megumi, your name becomes you ⊹ ࣪ ˖

[shallowcloudz]

Kind of ironic how one of Xie Lian's titles is "The god-pleasing crown prince" when the one thing he does consistently without fail is piss off the Heavenly Emperor.

[ajthecrocodile]

IT’S A RAINBOW OF BILLS! A BILLBOW! RGBILL!!!

The clip of Bill saying YELLOW was all over my FYP and it inspired me…

[keicordelle]

i will not write star rail fic i will not write star rail fic i will not write star rail fic

[lucabyte]

Different standards

[shroomerr]

portrait study but its kenny

[navybrat817]

Apologies for writing a 2.3k filler for Hottie and Sugar. 😂 They will actually go on their date. I swear.

[orchidsinthespr1ng]

i was not born to have a full time employment, i'm angelic, and tortured, and was brought onto earth to be a muse

[protect-namine]

qiao ling obviously loves and trusts lu guang too but it is kinda funny to think about the context of her seeing cheng xiaoshi go to bridon with him.

like, that's her baby brother! her baby brother who has been lonely all his life and had no friends and has deep-seated abandonment issues that he has lived with for nearly a decade, who got into fights as a kid and whose kindness is exploitable and who lives alone in the photo studio.

and then suddenly, within the span of two months, he gains a friend he trusts soooo much that he wants to be "partners for life" with him. said friend helps out with his work and moves in together with him. and now cheng xiaoshi is literally sharing his clothes with him and they're going on an overseas trip together? she's just going to let her lonely brother go on a trip abroad with a man who miraculously showed up in his life to solve all his problems?

like, again, qiao ling loves and trusts lu guang for sure, but the optics of the situation is kinda funny. especially if she actually argues with cheng xiaoshi about not going to bridon, like the YE2 preview implies.

like, if you didn't know lu guang was a decent guy and if you take their bridon trip completely out of context, you'd think cheng xiaoshi was being scammed and lovebombed into speedrunning a dangerous relationship, and ran away to elope after a family argument 😭

[sullengirl-888]

me when i go out for once and guys ruin the good mood i’m in by staring at me like i’m a piece of meat

[anininas]

Screenshot redraws because I'm being nice to myself today

[hinamie]

binding vow