#me: i'll be short. also me: starts talking about bottero knowing i'm unable to stop once i'm launched. PAPA MAMAN LES GARS DESOLEEEE

[oloreandil]

Hi!! For the writers ask game:

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

bonjouuur j'ai vu ça ce matin avant de partir au boulot, donc je réponds ce soir ^^

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

i think Akaashi would leave Kenma little treats for his streams that become real show-stealers for his fans, and they start awaiting them eagerly. but the downside is they also reflect Akaashi's moods of the day. feeling happy ? he cooked Kenma's favourite food (he is a mid-tier cook but the effort is there). was work horrible ? he's left a book on how to fake your death. handwritten annotations on how to do it better

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

comments that point out something specific. an emotion, a line, where they were / what time it was... always makes me go "woah. someone is reading it. 30 people in my house rn"

🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

many such cases !!!! but i'll be good and only mention Les Mondes d'Ewilan (link in french bc this is Not available in other languages... Pierre Bottero has barely been translated at all !!!!! his english wiki page is very charming if a little empty)

this trilogy has it all: part of a wider universe, rich lore and worldbuilding, very creative (main girl's power is literally imagination. i cannot make this up), obviously written for children but with clear poetic intent... these are the first books that made me pause and read back sentences, see how they worked, why i loved them so much. piecing out the backstories, what happens with the secondary cast, where the plot is going, it was all so incredible and nurturing at a time where i was very lonely. to this day i'm very inspired by the universe of Gwendalavir and Bottero's writing in general !!

i've met him once, before he passed away in 2009, and he was incredible with kids. here and here are some interviews he did. the second one has his thoughts on being catalogued as writing "for kids", and if he minds that when he's also read by adults, and i really appreciate his take on it ("not at all. i write whatever i like, and i'm lucky my audience is only getting wider. i don't care about those kinds of labels")