Have I ever written slow burn before? No. Do I like writing long fics? Also no. But do I want to write a knight!Kita x reader slow burn fic? Absolutely.

Edit: Here's the series

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[god] came down from her boat to tell me i'm a man

So I'm at the Impel Down arc and I wanna talk about a few things:

1) Ivankov is an icon and the queer community should be more like them, accepting of all those who are masc, femme, none, both. Just what we need to be

2) Crocodile is absolutely a trans man, that's just obvious.

3) Buggy and Mr 3 are quite clearly a couple and I wanna watch a rom com series about them. Or some sort of animation AU for them living in San Francisco.

Crocodile and dragon meeting because Ivankov introduces them is a cute au idea….you go to the queer pope for magic HRT and through whatever compulsive small talk they decide that you would be *perfect* for their less powerful token cis bestfriend

Describing Iva-chan as the Queer Pope is so fucking funny though oh my god

Part of me feels like it'd be funnier if Ivankov assumed both Croc and Dragon were straight, so they were introducing the two so they could literally be Just Friends (esp because you'd assume they aren't each other's type to begin with)

So when Iva-chan then accidentally walks in on the two smooching they just

I see more people expecting aogami to die but it was v-kun who was fading in that trailer that's why i'm personally more concerned for him

btw i need someone to send in a request in the sbs for oda to draw the potential hybrid form for dragon-iva if he'd eaten the fruit

i don't know if fishman island era sanji is genuine flanderization or im somehow giving him too much and too little credit at the same time. and maybe i was just frustrated that he regressed so bad after two years on Gender Island when i erroneously assumed (after watching iva + co at impel down express that queerness is as close to the ultimate ideal of freedom that one piece is about as you can get) that he would be better for the experience. and i know im going to turn around on him by the time i get to whole cake island but literally brother can we cut this shit out lmao

fandom: codys name isnt kote u jerks

me(a genius): yes codys name is kote and rexs name is resol'nare (res), bc the one means glory and the other is what the honor and justice for mandalorian (its balance)

The marines calling Roger the worst man of the world is something but considering ace renounced him and luffy kinda blindly admires him bc we don't really know much about what he has done past his travels....

Soul mate au with Kita but he's a Yakuza boss

Howdy Caroline, I saw a post about Talk shop Tuesday so I thought I'd be nosy on main. I wonder, how does research factor into your fic writing, and what was the most taxing research you had to do for a fic? 🐸

oooh hi, iva!!! thank you so much for shooting the ask--god knows i always love talking about fic!

to answer your question: i think most of my fic-related research is limited to "what episode did character x do this/say that", just so that i have the timeline of events down. i know it's not the end of the world if i don't perfectly remember how a certain scene went down, but i can't help it--i like being precise when it comes to at least recalling canon events.

outside of that specific brand of research (just making sure my timeline/recitation of quotes is all set), i'll sometimes do wilder research for like ... au projects that are set in a different time. that doesn't happen often (i think the reason why i tend not to write au's that are set other than present day is specifically because i get overwhelmed by the amount of research to be done), but when it does, i'm usually stuck researching for hours. that's probably why i just never got around to posting this one period jwds au i have. the plot keeps shifting, mostly to suit the research that i've done. deep sigh. one day i swear i'll finish writing that story and post it, but right now it's just gotten a little away from me. it's marinating.

outside of that story though, i think i've been lucky enough to not need to do too much research for fics . . . maybe that'll change one day (especially if i ever fall in love with a more period-drama-esque story), but ! ! ! as of now, i think my research time really only takes up 10 - 15% of my fic writing process.

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Okay, nevermind, just caught up with Mirepoix and I am white knuckling the desk. You! are a demon, making me suffer but not enough to turn away completely, it's as infuriating as it is entertaining. The only reason I can be this coherent about the ending of chapter 21 is because I left for lunch between catching up and writing this. And I'm gonna have to sit in my feelings about that fic for a while until I can properly put down a lengthy comment. And even then, it's gonna haunt me. You are too good of a writer and it's causing me emotional pain.

I FINISHED SMT IVA BITCHES!

Damm how it's possible that everytime Atlus makes duology it's literally a masterpiece? Like dammm this duology is definite my fav mainline SMT like how could this make game this good dammmn

I finshed the game with Bonds ending and I admit cried a little haha. Happy to see everyone get the peace they deserved

Controversial AF take but I think I liked Apocalypse the same as OG SMT IV, if not more in some aspects. Yeah, it kinda felt like Persona of SMT but actually? I personally liked it. Like this and DDS dulology are proofs you can make darker game with decent character development (loved, loved the character's development in this game, yeah there were some moments that was...questionable but I believe all Atlus games have them lol). I had so many thoughts about those characters and this game and even though killing god using power of friendship is more of Persona's domain, I liked that change of pace - like it was interesting for me.

Honestly, the fact Atlus seems to forget about IV duology is a crime to me, like if those two games got ported they would be such a huge success and now with citra being nuked, 3ds shop closed and only way to play is either have old version of emu from like your friends that had citra installed or bought 3ds and hack it (oh, btw I did exactly that recently but still finished the game on emu because I had so far in the game I didnt wanted to replay 80% of the game just on og hardware but I'll plan to do it in the future!) the both games are on the way to become lost media if Atlus won't port/remake them ASAP and honestly the thought of that makes me even sadder :( I only hope the fact they made Dagda model in 3D for SMT V:V is some hint they are working on Reload-like remaster of SMT IV and IVA...i mean girl can dream, right? 😭

Anyways coming back to the game... Final boss was traumatic experience lmaooo. It took me 3 days and like idk 8 trials AT LEAST to beat him lol but in last lucky run I managed to keep both team alive to the very end so that was pretty cool and also managed to beat him without having to lower difficulty (beat whole game on normal) so I'm quite proud of myself now hahaha

But I'm lowkey traumatized lol, I need a long deserved break from SMT but I'm gonna play Reload now and I'm super excited for that (I SO cannot wait to see the king Minato Arisato once again, I love him also Nyx will feel now like a walk in the park after yhvh hahaha) as I awaited this game for so long so yeah, coming back to my Persona phase now hahaha. But yeah that would mean I beat all mainline neoSMT games and only classic (and SMT V:V when it will come out) would left for me and I think I'll try the SMT I and II one day to complete the mainline series just like I did with Persona

Anyways, I need some rest now haha, but yeah 10/10 duology, the characters will live rent-free in my mind for very long time (i apologize of smt iv/iva content spam in advance hahaha), will definitely come back to it again one day

Manga haul from yesterday