#(bows)

hi lupin :3 hope im not too late

screenshot bc tumblr is messing with me again

[to the tune of "luck runs out"]

HOW am i getting likes and reblogs?

HOW? all i do is shitpost dumb thoughts

HOW? i love you guys but what the fuck

i'm not complaining, though, this lifts my day, and so

for velvet atop white linen: is there a particular story or work that helped inspire and get you in the environment to write it? the gatsby influence really shines through, but i was curious if anything else played a part!

fun fact: i release fics to my friends first before posting them, and since "velvet atop white linen" is honestly a pain to type out every single time we wanted to talk about it, we just codenamed it "gatsby." phrases such as "i think about gatsby" and "i miss gatsby" made it sound like the 1925 novel was resurging in pop culture HAHAHA

but for inspiration...? recently, i've reread pride & prejudice as well as got my hands on some japanese literature, so those helped me to get an idea of what my dialogue should sound like. i like to think my prose style is naturally flowery/old-sounding when i will it, so there's not as much traceable inspiration there ^^ although there's one skz fic i read which, although not inspiring the actual content of velvet, made me realize i could mix kpop muses with the historical fiction genre lol. i'll link it, both to credit as well as to recommend! it's truly a masterpiece (and it's written in the prose style of classical literature which is literally amazing)

i never mentioned this, so this'll be my first time saying it—the title "velvet atop white linen" is pure symbolism! not sure if what i'm going to say counts as spoilers, so i'll put below the line here

Kinda grew a little distant

Didn’t talk as much to me

So later when I grew up,

I had issues

Like seeing fictional fathers

And thinking “that’s the man for me”

That’s right I

Am attracted

To grizzled middle aged chaps who

Would have no interest in dating a sweaty teenage gremlin