#totally doesn’t evolve into enemies to lovers tho

[andresacidtab]

okay. hate sex w/ andre would hit a certain way. like listen.

u two hate each other’s guts. ur always giving each other dirty looks and glares. every conversation turns into an argument or sometimes even a fist fight. then later one night, he’s grasping and biting u like he can’t get enough of u, fucking u into his mattress and moaning ur name followed by a ton of insults. next morning it’s back to wanting each other dead. u swear every time u fuck that it would be the last time, but it never lasts since ur always going back to each other for a quick hateful fuck.

OOOH THAT’S MY SHIT RIGHT THERE-

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an interview with @ravenreyes-0g (she/hers)

what are you working on right now? I'm working on both my Bellarke fic for BLM and a personal fantasy story that I've written and rewritten from the beginning to about 5000000 times because my ideas keep changing. My Bellarke fic is a modern day COVID AU that is also the longest I've ever done so it's been taking a minute to finish! :) 

what’s something you’d like to write one day? A YA either historical fiction or realistic fiction LGBTQ+ romance. I have  a ton of ideas for plots, but I haven’t quite gotten the chance to sit down and try to plot them out. For historical fiction, I’m very interested in the 1900-1950s era, especially the Roaring 20s and WWI/II so I’d most likely set it there! I’m all in for the angsty romance, but I'd definitely want to end it on a happy note (unlike my current fantasy work) and I’m really looking forward to getting the chance to write a character driven story that doesn’t focus so much on heavy plot elements - something I can’t do as much in a fantasy setting!

what is the fanwork you’re most proud of? This one is actually pretty hard considering how my writing style has developed since I started writing fanfics. But if I had to choose, I’d probably say my FirstPrince (Alex/Henry from Red, White, and Royal Blue) fic on Ao3 called To Love Another Is to Cherish Life Itself. The title is a bit dramatic but basically it is an angsty/fluffy one-shot that I wrote really late one night and did minimal edits to before posting. It definitely feels like the most in character and honest fic I’ve ever done, and it broke my heart to write about some of the darker stuff, but in the end I’m pretty proud of it! 

why did you first start writing fic? Well, I’ve been writing fanfics since I was probably 10 or 11 years old (I had PJO phase that spanned close to a decade and I’m still not totally over it 😂) but I started publishing work on Wattpad literally the night I turned 13. That was actually my first Bellarke/the 100 fic! It started out as my predictions for season 5 and then evolved into a fix-it fic for everything I didn’t like about the season. I’ve abandoned it for almost two years, but I’m slowly coming back to it so...slow updates y’all :)

what frustrates you most about fic writing? Everything! Just kidding - I love fic writing! But if I had to choose, probably two main things tho. 1) Creating a plot for a long term fic - I’m sooooo bad at it because I always feel like I’m writing too much in line with the actual show/book/movie and it feels like copying. 2) Making sure that I stay honest to the character I’m writing about. I have a huge tendency to write my fics (ESPECIALLY my one-shots) from the POV of the character who was not the main character in the original thing (like my POV for my RWRB fic is Henry, the love interest of Alex/other main character). This means that the only look inside their head that we’ve gotten has been through the eyes of the main character - which can obviously be biased. I try to stay as honest as I can to my interpretation of the character drawn directly from the text - but sometimes that means that I can’t include scenes that I want to because it feels off/out of character and that’s always disappointing. (also dialogue is just...something I really need to work on)

what are your top five songs right now? Ahhh see it changes on my day/mood but right now it’s probably

1. The Last Great American Dynasty - Taylor Swift 2. The Garden - Dua Lipa 3. Mirrorball - Taylor Swift 4. Icarus - Emma Blackery 5. Betty - Taylor Swift 

(taylor really blessed us with folklore...I’m in love)

what are your inspirations? Ahhh - there are many. First and foremost, The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. It’s my favorite book for so many reasons, but it teaches me so much about writing and character development. Also Liesel and Rudy melt my heart every time. I also love all the songs listed above for inspiration, and I listen to I Get To Love You by Ruelle (it’s the Malec wedding song for any Shadowhuners fans out there!) whenever I write a really emotionally intense romantic scene. If you’re looking for amazing fic recs, I highly recommend all of HMS-Chill’s works (multi fandoms), clarkesbell, and DracoWillHearAboutThis on Ao3. Though not all of them write Bellarke/the 100, if you are in any of their fic fandoms, I highly recommend checking them out because they are fantastic writers!

what first attracted you to Bellarke? what attracts you now? Honestly? #1 - their development. I love enemies to lovers with my whole heart, but I honestly didn’t see Bellarke as romantic until the 2x05 hug where I was just hit with a wave of OMG THEY BELONG TOGETHER!!! Seriously, though, the fact that they go from enemies, to grudging allies, to co-leaders, to partners, to friends, to best friends, to soulmates just makes my heart go !!!! - Also they have insane chemistry, and that certainly doesn’t hurt. What attracts me to them now is much the same, but also how much they care about each other. They’d go to the ends of the earth to save one another, and it just blows me away how powerful their screen time is, even when their scenes together have become so rare. I also don’t thinkI’m ever getting over 6x10. I swear my heart actually stopped beating when I watched it live the first time. 

BESIDES Bellarke, what character or pairing do you like best on t100? Ha! Umm, I actually really like Murven, both platonically and romantically. Their journey might not be as well developed as Bellarke’s but it is still a powerful one hinging on love and forgiveness. I love how Lindsey/Richard play off of each other on screen - it’s such a joy to watch! I’ve also loved the Octavia/Indra dynamic, but it’s kinda been tabled in recent seasons which is sad :(

why did you decide to start writing for bellarkefic-for-blm? Two reasons - 1) I wanted to do everything I could for BLM and it was so amazing that I could do that, and write works for my favorite show! 2) I was super curious about the prompts people would send in. My work right now is a modern day AU COVID fic where Bellamy and Clarke have to share a room together in an overcrowded hospital until one day Clarke disappears. It’s so different than what I usually write - bc I almost always write canon compliant/in universe fics - so it’s a nice challenge!

what’s your writing process like? Honestly it depends. For long/multi-chapter fics I try to plan out as much of it as I can, characters, plot, important moments, etc - even though I am not very good at planning. But for one-shots I tend to go off of emotion or feelings. Usually when I write one-shots, it’s because a particular line or moment in a book/movie/show really spoke out to me, and spurred this idea in my head. I always start with the line I want to get to at the heart of the fic and then write around it from there. I am definitely much more of a panster than a planner- which is why one-shots work much better for me!

what are some things you’d like to recommend? 1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Also, All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. 2. Musicals! They can be amazing inspiration - my favorites are Les Mis, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Six, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Hadestown, Anastasia, Island Song, Newsies, & Tuck Everlasting! 3. TV Shows besides The 100 - Anne with an E, Shadowhunters (just pretend you haven’t read the books), French SKAM, Love Victor, HSMTMTS, Merlin, Lucifer, I think I’m just listing fandoms at this point 😂

Also, almost any Taylor Swift, Troye Sivan, Conan Gray, Dua Lipa, Emma Blackery or Harry Styles songs are amazing!

My handle is the same for everything - Twitter, Tumblr, Ao3, Wattpad (if anyone still uses that anymore), etc (RavenReyes0G). I also run a book review blog on Instagram which is @betweenthepagesandtea, so feel free to check that out too! Request a fic written by her via @bellarkefic-for-blm!

[leahclearwaterdefensesquad]

valentine’s ask #6

 #6. What is your most angsty ship?

Ok so I wasn’t ignoring this, I’ve just been mulling over my answer. Because in all honesty, my angst ship is Leah x my OC sooooo. Trying to think up of one with only canon characters is a tad more difficult for me.

I think, in the end, after considering which ship would hold the most Angst TM, Aching TM, and - ultimately - Tenderness TM, I would pick Leah x Rosalie. My reasons, which I shall now list:

I’ve certainly seen posts floating around detailing how Rose and Leah would’ve been initially drawn to each other - my favorite one is that, due to repeated exposure to one another what with the Black Pack’s proximity to the Cullens - or, actually, even the whole hunting Victoria thing could work - Leah and Rose have to hang around each other from time to time. They both have shared experiences and attitudes - jilted by men, unimpressed with Bella, and treated (and disrespected) as The Bitchy Chick within their respective groups. (Btw if I had this post at the ready, I would totally hyperlink it, but unfortunately it’s not showing up in my tags.) They would have to talk to each other out of necessity; over time, it evolves into actual personal conversations, where they open up to one another and start to become friends. Sometimes escaping the boys and/or the Bella-obsessed fam to just chat with each other is a special, cherished reprieve for the both of them. I would want to imagine that it’s through these conversations with each other that what has now evolved into a friendship grows into something more. Something with - oh, I don’t know... little smiles at each other over shoulders before ducking to grin behind a curtain of hair, or gee, you know, maybe she doesn’t smell that bad, or maybe the moment feeling so right, just talking with someone who gets you and you realize you don’t have to put up a show for. This is where the realization and that angst, I would imagine, would rear its head babe. 

Acting on their attraction for each other, I feel, would initially be difficult. I personally don’t have a specific scenario set up in my head, but what’s a good story if there isn’t any tenderness when they first show physical expression of their feelings for each other? Hesitant touches, uncertain but emotionally loaded eye contact, and a slight disbelief at what they’re even doing. I mean, for fuck’s sake, they’re supposed to be enemies! What are they even thinking doing this??? But then again, the idea of this even stopping, of them going back to the way it used to be between the two of them, seems almost unfathomable. And honestly? This would be worth it. Even if it seemed embarrassing or if they had to meet in secret, Leah and Rose can’t seem to imagine pretending that this - this special connection that took them both with surprise - never existed.

Leah and Rose are both temperamental, and considering how different their life experiences are, I’m sure they’d have disagreements and fights from time to time. They’d be angry for a little while, but they would cool off and talk it out - or fuck it out, whichever tbh. Boom, angst.

Leah and Rosalie would technically be a kind of star-crossed lovers story, I feel like. Vampires and shapeshifters are enemies of each other. Even with them working together to help protect Bella (if we’re running with canon here), there’s still obviously a deeply ingrained historical animosity between the two - we all know this. So I feel like if Rose and Leah got together - or frankly, any vamp x shapeshifter (trying to hint that this could apply to benjamin x jacob too) did, tho in this case I am speaking specifically about them - there would be a lot of backlash from both sides of the equation. The whole wolf pack (I’d fucking love to read Sam’s mind if I were Leah in this scenario) would be repulsed (initially, they would fucking better come around lol), and though I think Esme and Carlisle would be supportive and sweet about it, the rest of the Cullens would be horrified but this is Rose we’re talking about here - she’d whip their asses into shape. 

Anywayysss this turned out way longer than I initially intended - ty for sending in the ask! You’re a sweetheart 🖤