#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 😅

[qiinamii]

You gave Xiao your heart.

He thought it was a spar invite.

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[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.

[berlingotesque]

Sheep sheep sheep…

Today is 18th April so you know what that means : happy birthday Sammy !

[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 👇

[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 😭