#so please indulge me in my oversharing haha

[basilone]

The lovely @doc-bryan tagged me on this, thank you! I’m pretty much gonna tag anyone who hasn’t done this yet because I honestly have no idea how many of you already did it, lol? So take it if you want it! 

1. alias/name: Eva (I don’t have a nickname or anything but I will just say the pronunciation of my name is not Ee-va but more of an Ay-va to you English speakers? ;))  2. birthday: February 9 3. zodiac sign: Aquarius (and yeah if you’ve ever read a description of an Aquarius? you will know me 100% okay I am my star sign in the most ridiculous way even when all the earth in the rest of my birth chart makes me appear really fucking stable to anyone who hasn’t talked to 3am cryptid me) 4. height: 174cm, I refuse to do the inches-thing cos it has me confused  5. hobbies: writing, reading, painting, Photoshopping, and all other creative things really? oh and I talk way too much shit about football (soccer for you Americans lol) for someone who hates doing sports 6. favorite color: blue 7. favorite book: that’s like saying “hey let’s make you decide between hundreds/thousands of books you’ve read and loved” which is IMPOSSIBLE but also I cannot let this thing slide by without at least once mentioning Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Mary Gentle’s Ash: A Secret History and Chris Wooding’s The Braided Path trilogy and and and -- yeeeeah.  8. last song: Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (because I was writing a Bastogne-scene and this song screams it) 9. last film/show: I’m still working my way through The Umbrella Academy and the last film I saw is Far From The Madding Crowd (the one with Carey Mulligan? I love the visuals in that film ugh) 10. inspiration: I’m going to leave you with both my Pinterest boards here and here as well as with my regular blog’s writing inspo tag and I could probably drop half a dozen Spotify playlists here but the one I have on repeat right now is the one inspired by the show Yellowstone so that’s the one that’s getting linked up here.  11. story behind url: there is no story except my wild, wild rush of affection toward a man who is possibly THE most unappreciated character in the whole of The Pacific/HBO War fandom and I personally felt responsible for spreading that love to every corner of this space by adopting his name for my blog so there we go

[inyoursheets]

7, 17, and 27 for the fic asks!

7. Do you prefer to read short fics or long fics? 

oh wow, i don’t even know. really depends on the story i guess? and my attention span varies lololol some days im more patient than others. i like to sink into longer fics but i can also sincerely enjoy short fics a lot

in conclusion give me all the fics

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback 

oh this varies, too. depends on the story i think? or, no, it depends on the writing process of the story. in some ways ive gotten worse w this. while also understanding why i do it more than before. it’s a work in progress. im really trying to stop caring too much about reactions bc while i do hope that people enjoy my writing, the point is not that. i used to publish and then bounce and take a shower before checking anything. but now i sometimes do somewhat obsessively refresh the page, unfortunately. i need to chill with that. i think what helps is that i often post in the evening, so i just fall asleep and then check in the morning, but sometimes i uncharacteristically manage to finish the final edits early enough to not do that, in which case i do need a proper distraction in place to prevent myself from checking for comments or whatever. so. pretty obsessively? i cant wait to grow past this phase lol

27. Do you like to give your readers some warning of what might be coming or just slap them in the face with content at random?

hahaha, you tell me! i feel like with warm water i do occasionally rant about the writing process so im....somewhat transparent about what lies ahead? tho i do try to not spoil too much. the last line tag + that search word fic game sure made that hard haha. maybe i dont always give that much away about what’s gonna happen but i do think i give something of a head’s up that im about to publish a chapter? im pretty sure that’s easy to notice considering how much oversharing i do in the tags/complaining i do about editing

but then......i didn’t tell anyone that i was writing the grocery store manager!AU except @medievalraven so i guess that was me slapping you all in the face with content. i read this thing -- a tweet? an article? i dont remember -- about how with creative pursuits, it’s smart not to share the idea before you’ve actually created it, bc if you do, you will first get validation from people’s reactions to the idea but then get demotivated once that initial rush wears off bc you actually still have to do the work. whereas if you share once you’ve created it, there’s less of a chance you’ll lose your motivation??? i think that was the gist, idk for sure.

so that’s what i tried to do very deliberately with the grocery store manager!AU, to see how that works for me. also bc the idea was soooo self-indulgent and it was nice to just experiment with writing it just for me without anyone knowing about it so i wouldn’t on some level worry about expectations or about the reactions of other people. tho it was really nice to gush about it with lauren! bc it’s also fun to share excitement about what you’re writing! i very specifically intended that fic to be a palate cleanser for after i finished warm water, but then suddenly i wrote it very quickly and was too pleased with it not to share, haha. or, actually, i had a different pwp oneshot idea, but that one is growing beyond the low stakes thing i wanted to write first thing after finishing warm water.

to sum up, if i ever do slap you with content at random it is because i managed to have enough self-control to not already share the idea beforehand and to make the writing process a little bit easier for me! although i will say, i genuinely love hearing about other people’s fic ideas and unpublished WIPs and definitely see the appeal in that, too

thank you!!!!!!! fic writer ask game thingy!!!

[visionsofalife]

tag thing!

thank you to the always lovely @cyberspacedisgrace for indulging my need for constant validation and my tendency to overshare i think you’re neato and a wonderful pal ^-^

rules: answer the questions, ask ten of your own, then tag ten people!

katie’s questions for me:

1. What’s your current hyperfocus? brooklyn nine-nine - oh my god. oh my gooddddd. it has completely hydrated my crops and cleared my skin you guys have no idea how in love i am with this show and i would absolutely recommend it to anyone and everyone wow (shameless plug for my b99 sideblog @johnny-and-dora) (what)

2. Have you ever played any musical instruments? i used to play guitar when i was about 10 but my guitar teacher was a bit of a weirdo and my hands were too small so i scrapped that pretty quickly - nowdays i play piano and uke! (only amateurishly & pretty horrendously though seeing as i can’t read sheet music for shit)

3. Have you ever dyed your hair? nope, never been that adventurous haha - would like to sometime in the future though!

4. Do you prefer video games or reading? that’s tough but despite my love of undertale i have to go with reading seeing as books have been a defining part of my personality for sixteen years

5. What’s the weirdest nickname you’ve ever had?  ‘lemo’ - please don’t ask my ‘so random XD’ phase was w i l d  6. What’s the strangest school story you can remember? yikes that’s a tie between my y8 english teacher being a drunk who wore flip flops every day and used to smoke behind the drama mobile in school (wasn’t even a qualified teacher and just completely disappeared with no warning a month before the end of term?) and the time i got a black eye twenty minutes before my first mock exam

7. What was your first concert? And if you haven’t been to one, what would you like it to be? my first concert was technically JLS but ANYWAY i don’t like to count that one because cringe so fob were my first and they were amazing wow 8. If you were given a chance to go back and fix one mistake, what would it be? this is slightly soppy but i would get out of the library and go sit at that lunch table sooner so i’d have more time with the people i’d eventually come to call my wonderful amazing pals <3

9. What is your earliest memory? i just have snatches of my first day at school and that’s about it haha i absorbed absolutely nothing as a child until i was about 7

10. What’s your Hogwarts House? hufflepuff ^-^

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my ten questions: 1. what was the first thing you were ever obsessed with? 2. which three characters from the last show you watched would be on your zombie apocalypse team? 3. what do you do when you’re feeling sad? 4. which app and/or website do you use the most? 5. what is your favourite place in the world? 6. do you work better in groups or independently? 7. what’s your favourite film? 8. what are the first five songs that come up when you put your music on shuffle? 9. what is your favourite thing about yourself? 10. finally, what is the one thing you wish you could tell your past self?

i don’t have ten friends to tag so i’ll just do @stardustcheeks @euphoriclester @bear-isnotonfire and @a-erial-ace, as well as anyone who sees this & wants to do it! (obvs no pressure to the peeps i’ve tagged lol)

sorry this is so long but it’s super fun to do okay byeeeeeeee