#annanswers

[ann-writes-universes]

Hey!! I just wanted to check in and make sure you’re doing ok. Is everything alright? Is there anything I can do to help?

This was the sweetest <3

Little Update for all:

I started a new job, moved, and life got really hectic really quickly. I promise these are all good changes and I am feeling MUCH better than I have in a long time. However, its caused me to be less active online.

I hope to return to you all soon and continue writing for you guys. Until then, know I have not forgotten you, and I am still creeping around.

Love you all eternally, and thank you @4-when-the-darkness-comes for checking in, you are a doll <3333

[fangirlmedstudentblog]

Hold up-

You've read orv??? Ma'am the chances??? Most of our fave pieces of entertainment media are almost same??? Pls, your taste>>>

Yes!! I read ORV way back in 2020 and loved it so much that I finished all 500+ chapters of it in a week flat, I think by the time i reached the epilogue it felt like a fever dream or something 😂😂😂 I think i re-read the epilogue after like a few days of processing to make sense of what the fuck had happened lmaooo

I was so happy when the webtoon adaptation was announced and have kept up with the released chapters! The day we're getting an official eng translation of ORV with a physical book is the day i give in to ordering the books all the way from wherever they get released!

I was so surprised to see ORV turn up on my dash here as well and it was a pleasant surprise to have another mutual into ORV! And it's such a nice surprise to have mutuals with multiple common interests!!! More things to yell over in common!

And thanks for complementing my tastes in entertainment media 💕 Yours are splendid as well!

[annhasthoughts]

Hi, I don't want to start anything, but i think that you have been fetishizing (male) gay characters. You only ever repost about gay characters and are only present in fandoms that have either canon gay characters/ships or strongly suggest them. I scrolled through your blog and it just caught my attention that is all. Maybe you should consider this and see what you have been doing wrong.

Hello Anon,

I hope that what I'll tell you makes you understand the how and why of what you seem so concerned about.

But first things first:

I do not and never will think of any gay male character/ship that you can see on my dash as someone I think of sexually and would never, ever force another sexuality on them

I am not only ace, but I have great respect for these characters. I sympathize with them. I can understand their problems. Homophobia, the fear of coming out, toxic families that cannot be seen being less than perfect.

I understand that. I assume you are most concerned about my recent re-fascination of the Dragon Age character Dorian. Whom I will use as an example for the next part.

Dorian is canonically gay. He comes from a difficult family situation. He finds confidence in his appearance and humor. He is strikingly brilliant and goddamn intelligent. He managed to get not only a canon relationship if you romance him, but also a canon relationship if you don't. He's growing throughout the game. He shows that sometimes distance is needed to heal from a toxic situation. He wants to bring his corrupted homeland on the right path.

This is what makes me like him so much. And not in a fucked up sexual version, but in the "I want to drink good wine and talk shit about other people with him" version. I understand him and his problems. His humor makes me laugh, which is what makes a character, really any character, likeable. I think of him as someone who would be a great friend and close confidant. I admire his ambition and his intelligence.

As you can see, when I listed what I thought about him, I did not once refer to the fact that he looks good. What I do not deny. He's a very handsome character. However, that is not why I like him. Hell, he could be a bald egg and I would still think of him in the same way. Not at all in any sexual sense.

This is the same with most characters that I repost stuff about. And if they do not fit that particular category, I simply admire their relationship. I am in a great and loving relationship myself and I am happy, when I see a character that I simply adore in a relationship that makes them happy. Simple as that. I do not much care for the sexual aspects of any relationship, real life, canon, headcanon or whatever. If they are happy, I am happy. It's the same for you is it not? When you read a book and you get all those fuzzy warm feelings when the characters that danced around each other finally get together. Nothing sexual here, there or anywhere.

But why do you not feel the same for lesbian or heterosexual female characters, you may ask yourself.

The answer is simple: I do not know of any lesbian or even heterosexual female characters that I understand as much or like. I can hardly name a lesbian character that I actually know or a heterosexual female character that gives me the feeling of "hey, those are my struggles". I find many woman aesthetically pleasing and I can tell when someone is fucking hot, but I still do not want to see them have sex or have sex with them.

Example 1:

I adore Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel). I think she is badass and, as shallow as it sounds, looks great. Yet, I cannot sympathize with her. My own most prominent struggles are not hers. She is not prominent enough in my watching/re-watching nerd list for me to have a solid opinion on her character. I saw her in like two movies and a few one-liners in the marvel comics I've read. Which does not make her, aside from what I've mentioned, a character I care more about than many other characters I come across.

Example 2:

Bill Potts from Doctor Who. Probably the only lesbian character I know enough about to say, hey, she's pretty neat. She's likeable, because she makes me laugh. But I don't really know much of her background and ambitions or better, I cannot name them, because I've watched her season exactly once and never got into her "lore" so to speak. I like her, tho. She's a cutie that can put up with the Doctor's shit. But as you can see, I don't really have a solid opinion on her character.

Example 3 (more detailed):

Isabelle Lightwood and Clary Fray. Both are great and important characters in the TMI universe (I'll go with the TV show here, because that's most prominent in my mind at the moment). I, and god save me that I'm saying that out loud, do not particularly like Clary. She's too stubborn and reckless for me to say, yes, that's a character I like. I do not share her mindset. I do not share her humor. I do not sympathize with her at all. I never lost my mom, I never found out my dad's a genocidal maniac or that my brother is a demon. In short, I do not vibe with her. Many do and I can see that if you yourself are more the heads on approach personality, you would understand her reasons and characteristics. I do not.

Izzy is a strong woman. I admire her for her empathy towards Alec, but her struggles are once again not mine. Needless to say, I can see people shipping them (Clizzy), but I admit that I do not care for them as a ship. I don't love it, but it's also not a NOTP for me. I am just not interested in them as a ship. You can put it in a fic and I will not care. They are good for each other in the fic, well, good for them. They should be. Clary is with Jace and Izzy is with whomever? I don't care. Because I do not particularly care for their characters.

I think what you have raised as a concern, is the worst anyone could ever think of me. As I have mentioned in the beginning, I respect these characters. A whole fucking lot. I see my troubles and problems solved in their plotlines and it makes me happy to see that they can be happy. I think of them as characters that would be great friends. I honestly would like to know how you came to the conclusion that I fetishize them. As far as I know, I have never given any indication that I see them in a sexual maner. I repost art and writing, but mostly because I admire the work the artist/author has put into it. I repost text posts because they make me laugh. And because most people are not asexual there might be one or two posts that have some sexual aspects in them. But non of these should be in a fetishizing manner, I am sure of that. And not and never would I repost anything, because I get off on it (which for me, is just not my cup of tea at all. While it may be for others, to whom you should turn your attention to then, if this is concerning for you).

That you "raised this concern" is, as much as you might not want it, starting something. You think because of that phrase, I might not feel awful. You think it does not make me feel horrible for sharing that I like a character for the sake of sympathizing with them. As I stated, what you, and let's name it as it is, accused me off is the worst thing I you can make me think about myself. I have not once seen these characters as something sexual. I do not care for sex at all. Yes, a fetish must not be sexual, but what else could you have meant? I don't think it is wrong to admire a character who is intelligent and shares my humor.

I hope you see and understand my point now, because I really don't know how to explain it more clearly or state it more vehemently than:

I do not think of them in any sexual manner, in any fetishized way or similar.

[welcometowaltacademy]

Anna, what would be the best gift you could receive?

“Friendship. Yep.” 

[ann-writes-universes]

I THINK IM THE ONE WHO REQUESTED THE ERIS AZRIEL LOVE TRIANGLE AND WOWOWOWOWOW it was perfect!!!

thank you so much you are so talented and capture their dynamic so perfectly

thank youuu 🖤🧡💙❤️

Hey hi! I’m so glad it made its way to you!!!! I was worried it never would 😭

And oh it warms my heart that you enjoyed it You are so kind :) <333 much love to you Anon!!!🤍🤍

[ann-writes-universes]

The absolute chokehold that archangel has on me is unreal. I reread it CONSTANTLY. It’s so amazingly well written, thank you so much for writing it and sharing it with us

Y’all are seriously making my heart smile. Thank you so much, anon. Your support means the world to me 🤍 much love.

[ann-writes-universes]

Hello :) this is very random but I feel like I need to get this off of my chest so we will see where this goes. I just wanted to say thank you for not making elain just an absolute monster in you fics. (I mean you definitely can if you want but from what I have seen you don’t) I don’t even know why it means so much to me. I think it might because I feel like I relate to her a little (or quite a bit) and for good or bad.

But I think we all can relate to her a little bit, from situations and the things life throws at us, to personality traits or beliefs, I think there is something we can all relate to elain at least a little.

So why do others make her this monster? Because she is boring? Because she wasn’t in a book as much as other characters? Because of her trauma response? Because she didn’t help feyre growing up? (I feel like this reason only works if said person does not like neesta as well, but every one l o v e s neesta now)

These may be reasons she is not your favorite character, but not reasons to make her the absolute monster a lot of people and fic writers make her out to be. She may not be a real live person, or fae if you will, but she and the other characters live in our hearts, our stories, the books, and how we talk about them and tell others about the stories/characters. Maybe it is because I relate to her, or maybe I see that there is more to her story then what we have been given, but my heart hurts when she is turned into a horrible character in fics. Could Sarah J Maas turn her into a character that is mean and nasty, sure, but she hasn’t. So I don’t see why people make her this big monster that they absolutely hate.

To make a very long story short, thank you for not making elain into the big scary monster that some people have made her, because for some reason it means a lot to me :) (also sorry this is all over the place and probably confusing)

Okay, THIS.

Let me preface this by saying I LOVE a good Elain/Reader angst/brawl (I also live for drama). But to me, Elain is not a malevolent character.

I think we (including myself) tend to forget that the Archeron sisters were children when a lot of their trauma occurred. Feyre was small when their mom died which puts Elain being not much older. I think its easy to separate them as characters and attribute characteristics to them while forgetting that she ALSO had extreme trauma occur.

To me, Elain is often seen in the fanfic world as too in love with Azriel to be kind to other characters. In reality, Elain just seems terrified to me. She doesn't want to be with Lucien because she wants choice. She doesn't want to be a fae, she doesn't want to give up the life she had JUST gotten back. Who else do we know that didn't want to do things because it was forced? Feyre. So why demonize Elain?

Elain is described as having enjoyed the life they lived prior to losing their money. She is by all means the "maiden" archetype for a large amount of the series.

I like writing Elain as a softer and more approachable character because in my head she is. Let's not forget that she was also hardly a late teen when she was kidnapped, and hardly a preteen when their life fell to shit initially. She had never been taught to do things on her own and never been forced to do them. Did she help Feyre? no. But lets keep in mind that Elain was so far into being groomed into a courtier that she didn't even know how to help herself.

I ramble on all of this to say: You arent alone in how you feel. Everything I just said is not to discredit people who write Elain in this way (hell I have some drafts that are anti-elain) but I also think, like anon said, we should keep the field and even playing ground. I (for a long time) was anti-Elain AND anti-nesta (i still have some thoughts on her). But at the end of the day all three sisters are incredibly different characters who responded to their trauma in the best way they knew how.

Thank you for enjoying my writing and sharing your thoughts <3 I love discussing different views/opinions of my work and the ACOTAR series in general!

Please feel free to message me anytime about anything! I loveeeee to talk (this goes for everyone!!!<3333)

[ann-writes-universes]

I have to ask… what kinda magic do you put into your writings. It is truly amazing that all of your works are so beautifully put together and have me wanting more every single time

:,) Made my year already <3

Truthfully, I dont know. Every time I put out a piece theres a lot of self doubt behind it. A lot of "What if its repetitive?", "Does this even make sense?", "What if they dont like it?".

At the end of the day I re-read my stuff a million times and Im not scared to take them down or edit if I see discrepancies or just dont vibe with it anymore. Thats why it takes me so long to put stuff out (that and I suffer from chronic brain rot). And a lot of the time theres a reflection of myself in my stuff which I would like to think makes it relatable? I dunno :,)

ANYHOW, It really means the world to me that so many people enjoy my work and find some joy or meaning in it. Thank you Anon and thank you to everyone who has supported my little fledgling ACOTAR shit post account. I love you all <3333

[ann-writes-universes]

Heyy

I can't find Archangel part 3

Can you please help?

<3

[ann-writes-universes]

Dude I just read chapter one of athaza and it’s soooooooo freaking good like omg I’m already in love with it

This brought a smile to my face after a tough day <3 you are too kind 🥺 I hope y’all love the next chapter just as much!!!!!

[ann-writes-universes]

hiiii can u write eris x mate reader. he keeps her hiden so she is safe from his enemies and somehow someone finds out and kidnappsles her for leverage maybe the ic since they want to keep eris loyal or som. and she is really scared but eris stop at nothing to save her?

ooooohhhh. Yes yes yes, coming later this week Spicy Eris!!!

Side note: The idea of any of these men going absolutely FERAL over the people they love? YES a million times.

[annhasthoughts]

💌 when u get this u have to answer with 5 things u like about yourself, publicly. then, send this ask to 10 of ur fav followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 💌

1.) My imagination. It’s what keeps me sane ^°^

2.) I can eat as much candy as I want, without gaining weight :P

3.) I work better under presure, which is great during exams.

4.) My ability to keep my relationship afloat (don’t ask me how)

5.) My ability to remember the most obscure fandom-facts.

[annhasthoughts]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Learn to know your mutuals and followers. 💛

Ui, how nice @ghostshadow1312

1) Books. It's literally escaping into a different world

2) Music. I can't live without it. It usually depends on my moods what genre I like.

3) Writing. Both fanfiction and original works. Just drabbling or building an entire world. It doesn't matter. Both make me happy.

4) Seeing my friends/partner happy. Brightens my day every time.

5) My pet. My bearded dragon specifically. We share one brain cell

[welcometowaltacademy]

Hey Anna guess what? YOUR AMAZING. I love how your so quirky and peppy. Its addicting!!!! What is your favorite movie?!

"Oh goodness, you are way too nice. But optimism is the best medicine.

And I really couldn't say. I have so many that people have told me multiple times that I should just not say anything...

Buuuut, there's nothing wrong with Titanic and Swiss Family Robinson and Steel Magnolias and...others."

[welcometowaltacademy]

Anna, where do you think is your sister?

"...I have no idea. I have no trace of her at this point. To be honest, I'd rather not talk about it too much. It's just, um, you know...it's complicated."