#i just want to write karabita fanfics

[chlbita]

i love posting my thoughts on tumblr and nothing else n_n so cool anyways

i wish i could write good, like fanfics.. and stuff. i would write the most like..fighty banter shit that's in my head but i can form into words, i mean i can but i can't when it's like...FOR sometimes, gah idk how to explain what i'm thinking

[cookinguptales]

Just me re: osomatsu-san and writing for it. Under a cut bc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hmm. So. I went back and forth about making a post about this. Like should I make this big thing or just quietly tumblr savior Osomatsu-san stuff? I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade…

I guess I figure I owe people a bit of an explanation, though. I said last year that I was probably going to stop writing karabita once the new season came out. I knew that second seasons often have a different vibe from first ones, and the odds of it changing in a way that appealed to me were very, very slim. (There’s a reason I mostly like to write for closed canons.)

Like, look. I’ve never been in denial about the fact that I was watching the show for a few very specific things, and what I wanted and what the show wanted had never exactly been the same thing. But I’ll admit I was surprised just how much of a turnoff the new season was for me. It’s like they took every single thing I’d liked about the first season and cast it into the writing-hole abyss.

I do like crack anime occasionally, but I find that I really need to have some sort of cohesion to it. Character development that makes sense or relationships that aren’t erased between seasons. Like. Something. Season 2 of Osomatsu-san sort of felt like instead of creating a sequel to the first season, they’d created a reboot that was based again on the original series instead of what had been laid down in the first season. Like both seasons were fanfics of the same canon, but written by different fans with different priorities.

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I know some people really liked the second season! That’s fine. But for me, it was irritating at best, really emotionally troublesome at worst. (Yes, I know it was stupid to get emotionally invested in a show like this, my bad.) For me, it’s a matter of divergent tastes, but also, if I’m being honest, frustration at what feels like bad writing. There were a couple good episodes in there, but I couldn’t even really enjoy them because I disliked everything else so much.

I didn’t want to post anything until the season was over because I really wanted to give it a fair shake. But the season’s over now and it’s pretty much killed my desire to write anything more for the show. I’d hoped that maybe I could just ignore the second season’s existence. Like hell, it’s really basically a canon AU of the first season, so that should be easy, right? But it hasn’t been easy, and I guess I’ve learned that struggling to write around the new canon developments (such as…they are…) kind of took all the fun out of it.

I do really like some of the things I wrote. I’m sorry that I couldn’t finish everything I wanted to finish. I have a feeling that the nearly 20k words I have of karabita WIPs on my computer are gonna haunt me. But I don’t really want to write it anymore. I don’t want to talk about it anymore. I deleted all the apps. The show just leaves me with a vague sense of frustration now.

I can’t promise I’ll never come back to writing fic for the show, though I think I can probably promise that I’ll never write s2-compliant fic again. I do tend to get nostalgic for old fandoms sometimes, and I have found it surprisingly difficult to separate myself from karabita. I still end up writing fics for them all the time in my head and I still love a lot of my unwritten stories. Who knows? I might write them, I might not. I might just need some time away.

That said, if you follow me for my Osomatsu-san content, I don’t want to continue disappointing you. I feel that I should make it clear that I don’t really have plans to write any more karabita for the foreseeable future. I don’t really plan on fulfilling prompts for that, either, unless it’s one of those commissions-for-charity. (Look, I can bite the bullet for a lot of things I’m not into if it’s for charity.)

I’m kind of in the market for a new fandom to write, but I haven’t found one yet. That’s made me feel oddly empty. I’ve started writing a lot of origific, though I haven’t posted it all, and that feels kind of weird and new, but not bad. That’s probably where I’m going to go from here on in: origific and potentially a new fandom when I find it. (Any recs?)

If you want to unfollow me based on that, I understand. Thank you to all the people who’ve been friendly and supportive to me in the years that I’ve written for this fandom. ♥

[cookinguptales]

Charity Fic Request Guidelines

EDIT: Here is a link to my AO3! It’s not an exhaustive list of the fandoms I’m into and can write, but it’s a good start!

To start with, I reserve the right to refuse any request that makes me uncomfortable; I’d never dream of being able to predict everything the internet can come up with, so I think it’s probably smartest to just allow myself an out.

I will not write non-con, guro, adult/minor, or NSFW fic containing underage characters. I will write NSFW fic, hard angst (including hurt/comfort), dub-con (like sex pollen), and I guess I’ll even try death fic if you want me to. Full disclosure, though, I can’t guarantee I’ll be good at that.

I require at least a canon and a character and/or pairing for a charitable fanfic request. (i.e. “Osomatsu-san, karabita” or “Osomatsu-san, Karamatsu.) You can provide more details than that (i.e. “Osomatsu-san, karabita, snowed in”) but I really do need at least a canon and a subject to have something to go on. Also, please keep your chosen word count in mind if you have a specific prompt. I won’t charge extra if I go over our agreed-on word count, but I won’t take the commission if I think you’re angling for that. In other words, if you give me a three hundred word prompt for a two thousand word fic, that’s probably not gonna work out.

I will write for any character, but reserve the right to not write NOTPs. I will try out new pairings if you’d like me to, but if I have an existing squick, the resulting fic is just going to be unpleasant for both of us.

I will write crossovers, but I will not consume a new canon in order to write fanfic for it. If you don’t know if I’ve watched/read/played something, please ask.

In my general fic request guidelines, I go over my reasoning for not writing AUs in which characters are trans/disabled/asexual/racebent/etc. (As in, characters who do not have those qualities in canon.) However, I am willing to write more fantastic “magical” versions of these things, like magical sex swap (think Chibita and Iyami in the rental girlfriend episode), magical disabilities/illnesses with no real world correlation (like Hanahaki Disease, Chibita’s stunted wings in Feathers & Favors, etc.), things like that. If there is no real world correlation, I am much more willing to talk things through. I don’t feel comfortable using real life marginalized groups as a fanfic AU, though.

No fics about real world tragedies. In other words, zombie apocalypse is fine, but no Holocaust fic. No real life natural disasters (“an earthquake” is okay but “the 2011 Tōhoku quake” is not), wars, terrorist attacks, murders, etc. If any real people were injured or killed because of an event, that’s an event that I want to respect by not writing fanfic about it.