#the things i would do for u all etc etc 😔✊

[ash-and-starlight]

Sokka splashed a line of water through his path. The fire fizzled. Zuko’s eyebrow raised, then he forged on. The path zigzagged out of the constellation, hopped eastwards through the galaxy’s north. Hiss. Hiss. Sokka met him each time with a streak of water. Zuko pressed on, building rhythm with each star he joined up.

The Mercy of Magpies Chapter 4 out now!!

as always written by thee @ranilla-bean and betaed by @faux-fires

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[girlygguk]

Hi!! its me.... again.... back with the characters asks..... I AM SO SORRY i just keep getting ideas my goshh i wish i could stopp😭 (but i couldnt and i wont. heh). remember that you can answer them ANYTIME you want, my love! (or not. am not blaming you</3) no rush! i could wait forever. ily ily💖💖💖💖 -🦋

for the couples :

1. who farted first?🥱 (THIS IS IMPORTANT OKAY!!!)

2. if theres spider/bugs, who would kill it?

3. who said the L word first?

4. which couple gossip together a LOT

5. which couple wear/use couple things the most🥺

for the jks :

1. how many kids do they want? boy first or girl first? (i know its up to oc, but maybe they have preferences?)

2. does any of the jks own a motorbike? (i was re-watching are you sure and thought of biker! kook AGAIN)

3. holding oc's hand vs oc's thigh while they're driving heheheh

for the ocs :

1. best to worst driver? who dont even drive?

2. lipstick girl vs lipgloss girl

3. if they eat : who finish their food vs who dont and give the rest to jk

4. gym girly vs pilates girly (i only knew fc oc is a 100000% pilates girly)

ohh ure just sooo cute baby my goddd 🥹 im so sorry for the long waittttfddgfs 😔 i'm whipping this one up quick and chose 4 of my couples — first class, crazy, needy & not in that way 🩷

"who farted first?🥱 (THIS IS IMPORTANT OKAY!!!)" no because it’s VERY important baby thank u for asking the essential questions

first class!jk when they were kids - he giggled after doing it and six yr old oc whacked his arm and whined

crazy!jk, and why did it kind of turn oc on—

needy!oc, and why was jungkook the one to blush when she did it

okay but nitw!oc when they were younger as well n it happened while they were watching a random movie. it was an accident and she was sooo embarrassed, but he just grinned and held her hand tighter while they watched the film

"if theres spider/bugs, who would kill it?"

all of the jks hands down, but needy!jk wouldn’t kill it because he loves bugs. he would let it crawl onto his hand and take it outside to release back onto the plants 😭

“who said the L word first?”

platonically: fc!jk, neither of crazy!couple bc they don’t do platonic 😭, needy!oc, nitw!jk

romantically: fc!oc 😜, crazy! oc said it first but jk had been thinking it since the events of crazy2 let’s be real, needy!oc 🤍, nitw!jk 😌

“which couple gossip together a LOT”

first class!COUPLEEEE followed closely by nitw!couple. the childhood besties line has tea for dayysss

“which couple wear/use couple things the most🥺”

mmm fc!couple has their jewelry, crazy!couple has their tattoos, needy!oc wears jk’s sweaters over her cheer uniform to school & nitw!oc is literally always in jk’s hoodies at home

but in terms of couple things in public it’s fc! couple — ever since becoming official, they coordinate their outfits when they go to gatherings or galas. jk will wear a shirt or cap to match her dress or skirt at frat parties, match his tie with her gown, etc xx

for the jks: “how many kids do they want? boy first or girl first? (i know its up to oc, but maybe they have preferences?)”

all jk's want however many oc wants xx

fc!jk wants a boy to make him a lacrosse prodigy

crazy!jk doesn’t care; he just wants to see her full n pregnant /gen

needy!jk doesn’t have a preference, but he knows she wants a girl, so he wants a girl too

nitw!jk is so girl dad coded don’t evennnn

“does any of the jks own a motorbike? (i was re-watching are you sure and thought of biker! kook AGAIN)”

omfg they don’t, but if any of them did, it would be nitw!jk hands deownnnn

“holding oc's hand vs oc's thigh while they're driving heheheh”

thigh — fc!jk 🤝 crazy!jk 🤝 nitw!jk

hand — needy! jk ✊

for the ocs: “best to worst driver? who dont even drive?”

fc!oc and nitw!oc have literally not touched a steering wheel besides during their driving tests and practice with their bffs/bfs beforehand 😭 they are the og passenger princesses

crazy!oc is the best driver of the girlies, but when she’s with jk, he drives

needy!oc doesn’t have her license, but she doesn’t need it bc jk just got his license and drives her everywhere, or they walk <3

“lipstick girl vs lipgloss girl”

lipstick — crazy!oc 🖤

lipgloss — fc!oc, needy!oc, nitw!oc

“if they eat: who finish their food vs who dont and give the rest to jk”

nitw!oc & needy !oc rarely finish their food, and their hungry bfs will both frown even when they say they can’t eat anymore before gobbling it up

crazy!oc & fc!oc clear those plates and have the asses to prove it 🤞

“gym girly vs pilates girly (i only knew fc oc is a 100000% pilates girly)”

pilates — fc!oc (and easy!oc hehe)

gym — crazy!oc 🤝 nitw!oc

other — needy!oc gets her exercise from cheer xx

[writeiolite]

i’m trying to pick up writing again. i used to write when i was younger but it was the cringe type. i wouldn’t use paragraph breaks and my grammar was off. now i’m older and don’t know how to actually write something good T-T. do you have any tips? specifically on characterization. i really respect and love you because yours always turns out good.

the cringe type.... we have all been there✊😔 i am... still there sometimes KSNDNSJ

i’m rly rly flattered ur asking me tho omg bc i’m definitely still learning and my technique isn’t the best so 🥺 thank you so much for this (and reading my stuff!!!) wow. i love u too pls this makes me so honored and happy and flattered and wowowo i frl don’t deserve thIS AAAAKAKENSNSBDNS

so lemme say that in no way do i think my methods are superior to someone else’s!! i don’t want to come off as some arrogant writer that believes they know all the ins and outs to writing bc honestly... unless ur a professionally paid writer with a career for writing then we’re all just some tumblr bloggers on the same path and probably going to end up doing smth other than writing later on LOL. so pls take this all with a grain of salt and pls lmk if i come up arrogant or smth bc i don’t want to and i’ll work on wording myself differently!!

for characterization, i sometimes do tiny analyses. so if a character has done action A and action B, i put them in a mental venn diagram to figure out what the reason behind them was. is it a response to an external or internal factor? is there a consistent trait underlying one or both actions? how have the characs changed since these actions? what are the changes?

i’m big on asking myself questions bc then i get a deeper understanding of who i’m writing for — like solving a mystery case or something. i do that for hq characters and my reader/oc characters ^^ it rly helps get away from the stereotypical tropes (like shittykawa) that people use bc u can make the character yours with diverse responses and stay true to the canon. it also helps get away from writing characters as foils to one another, although there are cases where that’s unavoidable

u guys already know that i use astrology in my writing so.. that’s a thing AHAH. i try to figure out which planet, house, transit, aspects, asp patterns, etc would be most influential during certain scenarios and fics so thats always helped me have some originality with characterization.

and another thing is childhood!! not just <10 y/o but even teenage years. i think abt that stuff and how my own influences me. like there are things in my childhood that occurred that ik made me who i am today (ex: hardass narcissistic phase -> being a lot more appreciative + humble for what i have + my efforts). so characters are the same too! if there’s even a small mention of smth that happened in their past, u can use it to map out its impacts.

even no impact is impact. did they not learn from it? are they ignoring it on purpose? are they stagnant?

another thing i can think of that i do is maybe mbti? not too much tho, only with characters i’m rly familiar with.

and last thing is events! whether it’s taking place in a real world setting or a made up one, there are events that go around and shape characters. kamino ward for bnha or new technology being released in the 2010s for hq. things like that seem so small and are never considered when you can rly take advantage of them. ik i’ve experienced a diff life than some of my older friends bc of the events that went on when i was growing up vs their events (same for ppl much younger than me). so with every character being different, u can take their responses to these events, find their foundation, and use them!

i hope some of this helps and if not i can try to explain it better ^^” again, there are so many ways to characterize and there is NO RIGHT WAY!! and this is just the right way for me ♡ if you guys have any tips u wanna share to help me or this anon out then pls do!! i’d love to improve my writing and lately i’ve been feeling my progress slow so ㅠㅠ ♡ anything and everything is appreciated~~