#i'm really proud of how the first chapter is shaping up though... ehehehe ....

[ddarker-dreams]

well,, in good news, i’ve begun to write chapter one of deep sea! i can’t say for certain when it’ll be published yet, but i think i’ll pause on writing full length fanfics so i can focus entirely on fleshing out this story. maybe in the meantime tumblr (or apple) can slightly get their stuff together, but that’s probably asking for too much, so i’ll try not to count on it. 

i’m currently trying to figure out the best way to share this story ... since reader is a maiko (basically the step before becoming a geisha), there’s a lot of geisha related terminology in the story. not an overwhelming amount but enough to be noticeable. in my google doc, i included footnotes to explain things, but tumblr/ao3 doesn’t have a built in footnote feature. so i’m considering a few options: 

a. doing direct translation (for example, maiko reader has an iemoto in the fanfic, but that can also be translated to headmaster). i’d like to avoid doing this since well, the story is set in inazuma, a region based off of japan. it’d make sense for japanese terminology to be used (at least in my mind). i swear it isn’t like reader saying “All according to keikaku (keikaku means plan)”, i wouldn’t do that to you guys.

b. including a link to the google doc version which includes a cleaner version of the footnotes that look like this: 

c. doing that thing where you write (2) or whatever number next to the word and including the list of footnotes at the end of the fic. 

or, finally, 

d. not including footnotes and letting you guys go wild with googling everything you don’t know (probably not this one). 

ANYWAY if you guys have any preference feel free to shoot me an ask, i will read everything and come to a decision eventually. i’m currently leaning towards c, but that’s because i don’t mind footnotes when i’m reading, i just don’t know how popular of an opinion that is thjnekmr the last thing i’d want to do is ruin the reader’s experience by making it choppy...