Quick Doodle Of That One Part In The Fic That I Deliberately Just Implied So Heres Some More Food For

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hii hello hiii can you tell more about your writing process? :3c what are the stages? are there any writing principles for your process? what's the most enjoyable thing? :3c

hello eldritch!! omg im so sorry for the delay in answering... lol i didn't expect work to suddenly be so busy lol but anyway!!

so there are two main ways that a fic idea comes together for me: a) it's the theme/thesis statement that comes to me first. this comes to me in a lot of different ways... it could be a line from a song or an excerpt from a poem or a similar adjacent theme i take from a different piece of media that i feel i can apply to a certain ship/character that i am brainrotting about at the moment. ex. my favorite and most recent example of this would be scaramouche x from under the cork tree by fall out boy (lol) the theme i put together there was rly just... that desperation of so badly wanting something to be completely about yourself for once (and almost narcissistically/unhealthily so) because you've never had anything at all. i just thought it's a very specific... almost manic feeling that i can definitely picture scara experiencing.

b) it's one very specific scene that comes to me, and from there, i try to fill in the blanks/puzzle pieces in the plot (with other scenes) of how everything builds up to that one scene. when i have all of that down, it becomes a little easier for me to fill in the blanks of what exactly happens/how the fic ends after that one scene.

most of the time, it's a combination of these two ways of idea-gathering for me... mostly it's the theme that comes first, but there are other times that it's the specific scenes that come first and when it's the latter, they don't really come together /thematically/ until i'm already somewhere in the middle of writing. this ideation process is what i consider most important because honestly... i really only have two stages in writing (lol) which are: ideation and then the writing itself. bc basically, the ideation is what gets the fic plot points down... and the writing is really just... me connecting those points/weaving those ideas together...

to put things more concretely, my ideation process is really just... a lot of listing things down and it is admittedly chaotic... it could be scene ideas (or a sequence of them) as simple as 'scara spots aether in the crowd' but bc im a mess it usually becomes a long bullet that also includes the unsaid implications in that said scene like so:

scara spots aether in the crowd looking back at him and he fixates on it bc it feels like for the first time, someone actually /sees/ and wants to look at him

ideas i list down could also be specific lines that i imagine a specific character saying or even a few dialogues of script between characters. there's also just lots of random stuff related to how i want to describe dynamics and characters i list down like 'heiscara friendship with lots of annoying smart banter' or 'scara is a skater in this one' or 'aether listens to taylor swift but lumine doesn't' (lol)' or 'scara is like [insert fall out boy song here]'

~ as for writing principles... ig i only rly have this in mind at the moment: balance out poetry and prose - uhh i dont think i ever write anything that doesn't end up with a motif that ties in with the theme... i like metaphors a lot bc i feel they help describe feelings more accurately... but i also try to make sure that these metaphors are just simple but clever enough?? uhh... i kinda think of writing metaphors as cracking a joke... if it's too cerebral, the punchline might not /punch/ lol but if it's too straightforward... it might not work in capturing a certain idea or feeling... as for my personal preference in my own writing... i like to phrase things bluntly while still making metaphors in that tone so its not cerebrally intimidating... err im not sure how to explain that more elaborately here lol uhh but heres one of my favorite more recent examples from something i wrote abt scara talking about ei:

She has acknowledged me in a way that she believes it's her sister who should be alive instead of me, as if I had taken the life of someone else simply by being born into the world. (I'm not a killer— or at least I wasn't born one, and as far as I know, the blood on my hands is usually my own.)

~ as for the most enjoyable thing about it... well i would say it's definitely writing metaphors lol and then making sure how that ties coherently and cleverly with the theme and the vibe of the ship dynamic/character i'm centering the fic on... i dont think i ever write without an overarching theme or a metaphor for this reason... even when i just want the characters to kiss... its corny but i always need the kiss to feel like its situated in the grander scheme of things and feelings skksks

i dont think that people actually dislike 'fluff' in writing its just that not many people know how to write characters well when nothing high stakes is happening and therefore the scenes feel bland or wasted (tucks and rolls offstage) because they can only imagine people to be interesting during high action scenes and not during the slower moments in between (slides on a tomato) likely because they consider their own life and the people around them uninteresting and cannot imagine characters they want to like to be anything less than larger than life when in reality the quiet humanity between action is the core of all good character writing (gets shot)

Una flor para otra flor 🫧

An Albedo sketch I have yet to finalize! With notes on things I needed to refine as the sketch went on. This was very fun!!

(I'm doing the anon because it's a lil embarrassing)

So my friend is a huge fob fan and it was her birthday recently and as one does I stalked her blog for present ideas. Well she reblogged your kintsugi kid comic and the line "and it feels like I'm fighting for something I've long forgotten how to believe in" stuck out to me. So I sketched up a broken teacup, plopped the lyrics on it and turned it into a sticker. I had /assumed/ that the lyrics were in the song (I listen to fob but haven't gotten around to listening to the entirety of the new album yet) but since she's already received a sticker pack I decided to post the final drawing online but I thought I should actually listen to the song before I post it, and the lyrics aren't there?! Like if you came up with that yourself good on ya. It sounds like something Patrick would sing.

But yeah I spent the last 45 minutes stress searching online for those exact lyrics and came up with nothing

(also I haven't posted the picture yet, I don't want to take credit for lyrics/poetry that you wrote)

hello anon!

i think it's very thoughtful of you to customize an fob sticker for your friend as a gift!! it's also very cool! i would have loved to receive something like that !!

also yeah omg the comic i made is basically me just filling in the blanks of kintsugi kid with my own brainrot and feelings lmao i'm very much in love with fob's lyricism so i guess that kinda seeps into my writing a lot. although i do have a lot of other writing influences,, fall out boy along with a bunch of other emo lyricists is probably among my biggest artistic influences,, so i suppose what you said would make sense-- that the thing i wrote kinda sounded like a convincing fob lyric lmao thats very nice to hear actually lol it validates me so much as an emo kid sksksk

feel free to post the sticker pic btw! i would love to see what you made !! you can just mention my username in the hashtags or in the caption either way is fine :)

delusion

A rare, smiling General Mahamatra

bisan has just posted a video that israel has lit up the sky, signalling they will bomb tonight, and that she has nowhere to go. she is in khan yunis--the south, where she was told to go to.

you can hear planes overhead as she speaks.

she wants israel to finally admit the truth--they do not want palestinians to go to "safe" parts of gaza, they want people to leave entirely and recreate the 1948 nakba.

please spread the word, please keep bisan in your thoughts, and do not let this happen in silence.

what if they just adopted a new cat for their birthday (read: they picked up a stray abandoned in a cardboard box)