#but i HAVE spoken at great length about yssdf today

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For the question meme you posted uh 4 and 7. If you haven't answered these two before. If you have I do apologise. And hi Bella.- glitter ✨

hey what's up glitter!!!!! it's been a hot sec!!!!!!!!!!! how goes it?

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of? well since you didn't specify a fic i will choose one myself, i hope that's okay. it would probably be most appropriate to go with sdf but ive talked a LOT about that one today so i'm going with you are my glitter and my gloom (i am so numb without you), this jalex tour friendship fic...thing. technically a prompt actually! but there is a detail that i wanted to point out because i'm proud of it and it is this: jack does not immediately say the right thing. yknow? he finds alex on the roof and his instinct is to make a joke, to try and lighten the mood a little bit, and it doesn't land. and then he does it again and it doesn't land, again. and i was really glad that i included that, because (and ofc im guilty of this as well) often in fic it happens that we portray people, close friends or people in relationships, as just automatically knowing what the perfect thing to say is, right out the gate. now jack gets there eventually but he gets it wrong first, because that's...actually reality. my jack's strategy for coping with people suffering, his friends especially, is to try and make them laugh. and it doesn't always work, and it's not always right for the situation. alex obviously doesn't want to laugh in this moment. it has probably worked on him before so jack tries it this time and it falls flat. it's not a poor reflection on jack or alex, it just represents what i think is a very real everyday occurrence, where jack's best effort isn't what would be most helpful for alex, no one's fault, just things that don't immediately line up.

BUT. more IMPORTANTLY. jack adjusts. and then alex opens up a little bit and loosens up and the next time jack makes a joke, alex does laugh at it. they're trying!! they're making the effort. they're putting in the work. jack dials back his instinct to crack wise and instead just listens, and then when he does make a joke, alex indulges him, because he knows that jack is doing his best and he appreciates that in and of itself. listen. listen. love isn't easy. sometimes you have to work for it. but the fact that you even bother working for it is itself a declaration of love!!! and in the case of this fic i mean platonic love, but it's all the same, yknow? friendship is romance. anyway i clearly got so very carried away here. the point is. im proud of the way i wrote this dynamic.

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of? answered this here and said acappella 'verse. i'll add, even though you're the wrong person to be mentioning this to, but the college/coffee shop AU in i know i don't know you (but i'd like to skip the small talk and romance), the cashton fic i wrote for ainslee's halloween fic event last year, i like the worldbuilding in that one. i like cake as roommates and the coffee shop having rian and alex working there and then also this side story of luke having a crush on michael in his astronomy class. it's all just. it feels very alive. like i said: like things are happening with the other characters even when i'm not looking. and for your benefit i'll pick a jalex fic as well, though really a jalex 'verse, because i'm pretty happy with the worldbuilding in t-shirt 'verse. i keep adding things onto it and i just love it so much. they are one of my favorite jalex-es. middle school teacher alex...i love you. i guess it's not GREAT worldbuilding considering i have yet to decide or specify what jack's job is but that's okay. everything else is good. i like them.

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