today has been a real trip

started with qQuackity wailing and crying about a happy couple as usual

mixed into qTubbo canonically dying, fully committing to the bit

an injection of massive movie night angst, resurfacing Tallulah's abandonment trauma while Sunny grieves Tubbo and Chay falls into depression about his perceived continued inability to protect his loved ones

and now the server is desperately tryna figure out how to obtain an impossible item in order to reanimate Tubbo

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Enjoy The Island!

22, 41, and 70!

22. describe your writing process from scratch to finish.

step one: putting on the right background music (usually a movie soundtrack or lindsey stirling, it needs to be mostly instrumental for me to focus).

step two: most of the time, i start with an "idea dump" in one of my journals, where i'll literally just record any ideas that come to mind re the fic i want to write. afterwards, i try to take those ideas and put them into an outline. for shorter fics, that's usually just the basic order of events. for longer oneshots or multichaps, i tend to write out what i expect to happen in each event/section of the fic.

step three version A: once i have an outline, i like to handwrite my fics in nice notebooks with colorful pens 🥰 if im able to do so, i eventually type up the fic, wait at least one day to do a read-through edit for major issues, and then wait at least one more day to use NaturalReaders to read my story aloud to me so i can catch smaller typos (a common one: and vs an).

step three version B: if i can't handwrite the fic for whatever reason, such as if im on a tighter deadline or the story is longer (or both), i'll type the fic straight into a google doc. if time allows it, i'll retype the entire fic after a few days in another google doc. if time does not allow that, i do the same read-through and NaturalReaders editing pattern that i do with handwritten fics (although sometimes with two read-throughs).

step four: after that, i'll post the fic!

41. what is the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

well, The Wrong Note is weird by virtue of the fact that it very well may be the only monk x medium crossover on the internet 😂 that said, the plot is a pretty straightforward murder mystery that's fitting for both shows, so i wouldn't necessarily consider it the weirdest story idea i've ever had. hmm...

Sigh No More, my maiko much ado au, is kind of weird ngl, since it's such a... unique au to apply to atla and maiko 😂 WAIT WAIT, i've got it: in Exposition, a fic i wrote for the kataang valentine's bash last year, one of the aus i explore involves aang as a kind-of-but-not-quite-ghost. i think that's the weirdest story idea i've had just because all the other aus in the fic are way more traditional (college au, superhero au, mermaid au), but not the ghost-ish concept lmao. i cannot for the life of me remember what inspired it or how i would have taken it further, but yeah. ghost-ish aang. maybe human, maybe once human, maybe never again human, perpetually toeing the line between life and death. definitely one of the weirder fic ideas i've had

(in terms of non-posted weird story ideas, i tend to forget anything my brain comes up with if i don't write it down, so regretfully im not sure 💀 atla heathers au?? kincoy sort-of-kind-of striptease?? ladybug dies fic?? are those weird?? i feel like i have no standard to measure against lmaooo)

70. are you very critical of your own writing? how much do you find yourself editing (either during the writing or after the fact)?

yes and no? fanfic is a hobby and i try to treat it as such, but i am also not immune to getting frustrated when a scene doesn't come out in words the way i see it in my head. i've already talked about my writing process in 22, including how i edit, but i'll add here that i have a pretty hard rule that i don't allow myself to go back and edit until i've finished the entire story. if i want to change something later, i'll make a note in the margins/leave a comment in my doc to remind myself about it, but i won't actually revise anything until the story is complete.

hi bestie!! i had the weirdest dream ever!! so like i was @ hogwarts and in the ravenclaw dorms when i come across jungwon and hoon brewing a potion (for fun ig) in the common room, so i ask if i can help and they send me to the potions room to get snake fangs,, so i head there but omw there i run into head girl gryffindor chae (slytherin yuna was also with her) receiving a love confession (like a whole bunch of chocolates too), but i accidentally bumped into the girl who was confessing and she turned into a voldemort and then chased me 🥲 idk why i had this dream but it was very weird and kind of unsettling 🤧

DLSLWKRALSKW oh (dark) lord... valentine's day quickly turned into voldemort's day 😳

voldy learning how to shapeshift just to confess to chae is kinda cute tho 👉🏻👈🏻 if you take away the fact that he's technically a grandpa and a psycho LMAOOO

i don't think I've ever actually had a hogwarts dream which is a bit weird considering that I've been consuming hp for as long as i can remember and dream a lot 🤔

chae as the head girl of gryffindor house sounds like a delicious concept tbh 😍

thank you for sharing your dream with me, bestie, i enjoyed it!!! ily 💖