#it's got a special place in my heart

[novaneondream]

it’s our turn to make you smile

[naminethewriter]

Some writing asks!

Can you talk about a work you're really proud of? What about it do you like? Was it a challenge to write?

How about a work you're not particularly proud of, but posted anyway? What about it do you not like? Are there parts you wish you could go back and change? Are you happy you went ahead and posted it even if you're not 100% happy with it?

Thank you for the questions, Kye 🥰

There are two fics I'm very proud of and it's both of my entries for the Sanders Sides Big Bang, Vacation and Hurt No One Knew About.

Vacation was my longest fic since I stopped writing in German. When I first started writing fanfiction (ironically because I was bored in Physics class 😅) I had a lot of fun with it. I immediately got comments on how good I was writing, I made online friends, I was motivated. But that quickly fell apart and from the three fics I stared writing in that first week (all Kingdom Hearts and multiple chapters), I only ended up finishing one and that took me three years with basically no readers anymore. Which was fine, at that point I just wanted to have one done.

That experience led to me taking a long pause from writing until I got into South Park and then I didn't feel up for another big project. I had ideas for some, and I still have those Wips and kinda hope I'll get back to them one day, but I didn't feel comfortable starting to publish a story I wasn't sure I would finish.

So taking on Vacation was a challenge. I had the idea a while before the event and saw it as a good opportunity to try it out, especially with a team that should keep my motivated (they didn't really, but that's a different subject). I had the basic idea, I needed to get over 6k and so I started writing. And the story ended up becoming much longer than I anticipated.

I was so proud of myself after finishing it, I still am super proud of it 🥰 I love the imagery of the library, especially since I usually struggle a lot with visualization.

Vacation was them the inspiration for Hurt No One Knew About. The structure was nice, I really enjoyed the character dynamics and I wanted to do it again but bigger. So I did.

It was a lot of fun. Again the imagery still makes me proud of myself, I like my characterization, I loved how I managed to power through it and publish all the chapters on time with the schedule I set myself. The story took a lot out of me but I am so happy I trusted myself and wrote it till the end and working with the team was a lot of fun, with much less hiccups this time around 💙

As for a work I'm not proud of... I can't say I'm not proud of it at all or that I regret writing it, but my last entry for Intrulogical Week 2021, the second chapter of Always is probably the one I feel worst about. Mainly because it's so underwhelming compared to the first chapter. I wanted to write it as a connection to the Intrulogical Week the year before and give a conclusion to the story but I didn't prepare it very well and it feels very flat since it's basically just a summary and not an actual story. The first chapter was received so well and I don't think I got much feedback at all for the second.

It's a bad habit of mine to write the entries to ship weeks last minute and while that often works out rather well, this is an example where it definitely was the wrong decision...

Still, I'm glad I gave the story an ending, even if in hindsight, I should've approached it differently 😅

[arimiadev]

phoenix wright: ace attorney trilogy is on sale for less than $10 this week. that's 3 games for basically $3.30 each. each of those games are 20+ hours long.

become a visual novel player. do it.

[sabellart]

give it up for all the single dads out there

[1driedpersimmon]

I finally got around to playing the ffxiv collab quest and the second Noctis stepped in I was like 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 (was my first ff game I ever finished, I didn’t like it. But I still loved Noct a lot)

[localgardenweed]

One last kiss before he plummets to earth to die or whatever

[honeyfractals]

scary girls

[shortcakelils]

Commissions are open 👇

[gojosbf]

gege is never beating megumi mistreatment allegations like not to be a greedy person but we atleast got a glimpse into nobara and yuuji's life then why not megumi? they're the og trio so it'd so much make sense for him to get one too.

[echosong971]

Stormcaller

[mizzyislost]

so i heard it was a certain silly slug game's birthday

[naturesass]

Nomai and modern speak, ft. Cassava

[scourgeblooms]

invader zim jumpscare!!!!!

couple of sketches of elite-era Red and Purple based off of @patchworkpoltergeist 's god-tier fanfic “Harder, Better, Faster, Taller.” literally think about this fic at least twice a week. ty so much for sharing your writing it's made me insane for years and I finally had to do art about it.

[kingmaxstatic]

[Holding back autism] Yeah man I dunno the squid sisters are pretty cool.

[Do not tag as ship!]

[swedenis-h]

Trying to figure out how to draw these guys again 😭

[kacchanrawr]

mha final volume spoilers

For the past few months I've kinda just come to accept MHA's ending to be whatever. Not the best, but not the worst I've seen it's fine whatever. But seeing the final volume extra content honestly just has me genuinely hating the ending. I'm trying to keep an open mind cuz it's not officially out yet and leaks can be kinda dubious, but I'm genuinely so upset.

Ig the main feeling I have is: genuinely what's the point??? I mean there's a lot of things going on in mha and depending on what you care about ig you could feel like everything's fine and resolved, but personally? Just no. My main problem a few months ago was with Toga's death, but now I'm just even more pissed.

As so many people have probably already discussed: killing the villains off after all this stuff about saving them is a fucking problem right?? With Toga's case specifically (cuz she's my fave and I care the most about her), it's her just dying after she finally found the love and acceptance she's always wanted from Ochako. Like why? Even if you can technically make sense of it with her explanation of "I want to live life as I please", it's just stupid and distasteful. It would be one thing if she said that cuz she was just running away to be free, but to kill her? Of bloodloss of all things? Idc abt people going oh thats sooo poetic, no i think it's stupid. So many other characters have lived after going through worse like for fuck's sake, Edgeshot's still around.

What's the point of that emotional resolution if you don't show the aftermath, of her being able to live happily, or at least how she'll go on with life from then on? She didn't have to die, she could've just escaped or whatever (I was hoping that was the case when there was no mention of Toga's body). But by killing her, the only message I got from mha's whole saving the villains thing is: "sooo maybe having empathy for the deviances of society is important actually, but it's kinda inconvenient to deal with them." And even if that wasn't Hori's exact intention, that's what his story seems to be saying by killing off the villains.

And then the fucking nail in the coffin is the fact that Hori used Toga's death to drive Izuocha. It was one thing when he did it with the cliff talk when Ochako was mourning Toga (I always found it distasteful okay), but it's so much worse to write Toga literally pushing Ochako to Deku. So not only did Hori kill off the queer character who finally had her resolution and romance so he won't have to deal with her, but he's really following through with the Bury the Gays trope by using her o push the girl she loves to a man? Ew.

The worst part is that even if Izuocha got together and they're canon or whatever cuz of that last part, the way Hori did it is so fucking mid. Like seriously, if you were gonna do my girl dirty like that for that het romance, at least make it good?? But noooo. I mean they don't have to be like kissing and getting married and having babies or whatever (that'd just be shit), but at least have them properly get together. What is that "implied romance" ass handshake?? There's no fucking reason to make it implied, they're not queer or forbidden or complicated or anything. Bro just didn't wanna commit to actually fleshing out their romance. And you used Toga and her death for that, for absolutely fucking nothing?? The funniest part is that everything Togachako did is infinitely more romantic than that handshake, so how am I supposed to be convinced by this "implied romance"? (anyone who says implications enough for izuocha I'd say the bar's just on the floor for you cuz they're het)

And then there's Bakugo. I mean I was fine and whatever with the original epilogue, but what the fuck? So you're telling me bro lead Project Deku Hero Suit or whatever for 8 years, only for Deku to reject him when asked to be a part of his agency? It may or may not have been explicitly stated that they'd be in a hero agency together whatever, but I feel like it was a natural conclusion that they'd end up working together/closely as a hero duo? Win to save and save to win, wonder duo defeating ShigAFO together, that hospital talk about competing together for the rest of their lives, him being the one to reach out to Deku at the epilogue chapter, hello? DEKU REJECTED THAT AND FOR WHAT. Also ok fine this may sound stupid to be upset over, but why the fuck is Bakugo rank 15. Like we do just be writing whatever I guess

I'm still holding on to some hope that the leaks were ass and inaccurate. Or maybe even completely fake cuz the chapter's been getting a lot of AI art allegations? Though it's also probable that's just the leaker who used AI to get high res pictures of the leaks. IDK MAN JUST PLEASE DON'T LET THIS BE COMPLETELY ACCURATE PLEASE LET ME STAND CORRECTED