#idk sad and happy at the same time and the lyrics are really SO them..augh

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i'm so late to this hslkhalkjs but sugarspun + 3 or 13 for the fic ask game?

What is your favourite line of narration?

oh god theres so many words in this fic ummmm ok its not one line but i really adore zoros internal narration of how his feelings for sanji crept up on him. im self-obsessed so ill put a small excerpt from it, and the last line is probably my fave

The ones with him were always in the dark. Vague spaces engulfed in urgency. Dreams that were more taste than sight. Sweat and smoke. Salt and skin. They frustrated him to no end. Then, the dreams changed.  Without Zoro’s permission, the light leaked in. 

but theres also definitely some other lines that are gems TO ME probably smth sappy from the lipstick section and the bit in the galley where sanji squeezes zoros hand augh. is any of this even technically 'narration'? idk and i dont want to know<3

What music did you listen to while writing or what would you recommend to accompany the fic?

i dont listen to music while i write BUT after thinking about it right now i would rec one of my fave albums of 2024, 'i love you so f***ing much' by glass animals. im really more into the Vibes of music than the lyrics, and this album inspires a certain contradictory, confused, ache-in-the-ribs raw memory of love which is very harmonic with the mess of sugarspun. lyrically too it covers a lot of complex, strained threads about love and moves through different phases and levels of acceptance of it, which mirrors a lot of moments across the fic. TO ME.

particularly, id say creatures in heaven (taking love for granted and missing the small moments and how much YOU were loved once its gone) + whatthehellishappening? (to a lesser extent, but the overall vibe of being caught in a situation where youre helpless but you like it) for sanji pov a tear in space (trying to figure out what someone wants and give it to them but its just not enough to break through) + how i learned to love the bomb (being with someone volatile and always being on edge, trying to predict which version of them youre going to get) for zoro AND lost in the ocean as a finale and a conversation between the two of them (sanji as the verse and zoro as the chorus)

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