#thank u love u!

[astorytotellyourfriends]

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🕯: Do you have anything special to help you get into the Writing Mood?

i have a couple different playlists that i listen to, for starters. if i'm in my office then i'll usually light a candle and put music on my lil bluetooth speaker. if i'm on my typewriter then that means i'm in my dining room and i'll wear headphones bc for some reason that seems more official lol

💬: Do you reread comments?

yes all the time 🥰

🩻: Has writing a fic ever led to you discovering something about yourself?

i've certainly gone into fics with specific kinks or subject matter thinking oh i might not like this and then turned out to like it a whole lot 🙈 and on the other end of the spectrum, i just remembered that i discovered through fic that i have some real trauma surrounding a certain cult classic that everyone else loves a whole lot and uh. that was not fun.

fic writing asks

[horseshoecrabs]

1 & 14!!

1. do you carry around a bag when you're out and about? if so, what's usually in it?

indeed i do. lately i’ve been using a crossbody fanny pack and i have wallet, phone, keys (the usual suspects) along with lip balm, at least 2 lipstick shades, a scrunchie, headphones, tissues, and my inhaler + meds :-) pretty boring all things considered

14. which color of the sky is your favorite?

boy do i love the colors of the sky. i’m quite a fan of the deep deep blue it gets after sunset but before it’s gone fully dark

[chiisana-lion]

[minjimunji]

I drew Asian percabeth lol

Every time some racist loser complains about how my Percy and Annabeth “aren’t book accurate,” I will design a different version out of spite (and bc it’s fun 🥰)

So fuck it, Annabeth’s Indian and Percy is Korean

[ashrayus]

more of them lets goo!!!!

[fenneqy]

super late doodles but fionna and cake was very good

[disgustinggf]

this blog is brought to u by someone unmedicated

[mroddmod]

but i remember everything

[erabu-san]

Some sketcheeees

[oakaiarts]

marcille’s room

[astorytotellyourfriends]

🛒🎢💖✅ 🤯

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

i think i focus a lot on what characters are physically doing at any point in time. i fidget all day every day and i think it makes characters feel that much more real on the page to describe their little mannerisms and habits like that.

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

lmfao without a doubt the peterpatter onlyfans au. writing that took so much out of me, i still can't believe i actually finished it.

💖 What made you start writing?

i don't remember what pushed me to start writing my own stories but i do remember that my sister started writing before i did (she's 3 years my senior) and i remember being in awe of her and wishing i could do something so creative like that.

✅ What’s something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don’t mean to?

"darlin'" lmfao

🤯 What’s a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

i haven't really tried to do too much, like, horror or suspense. i sort of managed it with the criminal minds au but i really want to try writing like an apocalypse au or something. i've got a summer camp au in the works that's going to be modeled after the classic slasher movies i've seen, and i just HOPE i can pull it off 😅

[palarien]

the courtroom know-it-all...

[crowkip]

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[cowgirls-blues]

They're turning a new feather!

@quiddie ACOFAF 2 when???

[hyolks]

hey wait why are there only short people at this drive in

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.