AAA! woah hi!

💚 does your system have introjects of any kind?

yes, we have a subsys made entirely of 3 madoka kaname introjects (lol), 1 other definitely fictive, 1 maybe fictive, and 1 tentative factive.

🤍 does the taste in music vary a lot between different alters?

not reaaaally. we all do like the same things, but favorites/main genres will change. we all like punk, but elijah is the punk guy

🔴 does your system have any type of in system relationships? (familial, romantic, platonic etc.)

miriam & maya are sisters, abe (hello) is a fatherly figure.

❤️‍🩹 how good is your communication with the rest of the system? does it vary much between different alters?

I'm writing a fic bout Jiang Yanli/Wen Qing from The Untamed, so let's go with them!

12. What is their ship name and why?

Usually Western fandoms do the name mash thing, right? For these gals, it'd be YanQing. Unfortunately, that combo in hanzi means "dislike affection" which isn't great ^^; I've seen Chinese fans also lament that it's hard to come up with a ship name because Jiang Yanli's given name is two characters and relates to a Buddhist concept, while Wen Qing's given name is only one character.

You also unlocked what I've been buried in recently! For those unfamiliar with the xianxia genre, typically young men will get a courtesy name at age 20. This is what others should call him, because only your parents or your teacher can use your birth name. Women typically didn't get them. The author of MDZS gave her characters courtesy names at 15 instead. Since my main characters are women, they wouldn't normally have courtesy names. But because I'm putting them in charge of their respective sects, they do!

I'M BASICALLY DOING MORE RESEARCH THAN THE AUTHOR AND I DON'T READ OR SPEAK CHINESE BUT I'M ABOUT TO LEARN FOR THE LESBIANS!

40. What symbols do you associate with your OTP and why?

As you can see from my custom dividers, the author & show already did that for me! Each clan has their own motif. Wen Qing is from the Qishan Wen Clan, and their symbol is the red sun in the divider above. In the drama, they changed it to a two-headed phoenix surrounded by fire for some reason.

Jiang Yanli is from the Yunmeng Jiang Clan, which has a nine-petal lotus for their symbol. The lotus from the animation is in the divider at the top of this post, but I find the version in the drama to be prettier:

hey thanks for doing these

#3 what is my fave genre?

definitely lgbt fantasy, specifically m/m(which is also what i write)

#19: what are my most disliked popular books?

OH I have some things to say on this. first of all the simon snow series by rainbow rowell-i tried reading this TWICE and DNF after the first 100pgs both times.

also could never get into grishaverse. i tried with six of crows but dnf-ed that too. then i watched the show, found out there was sexual abuse and decided yeah no never reading that.

i don't really like a lot of popular books tbh.

Sword guard (tsuba). 18th century. Japanese. Iron and copper.

A tsuba is a traditional Japanese sword guard, placed between the sword’s hilt and blade and was designed to give the user a place to rest their hands and prevent the weapon from slipping. Originally meant for practical purposes, tsubas became highly ornate over the centuries.

You seem like someone who’d appreciate a nice sword! This one is embellished with a spider pattern.

This piece can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud? eeeeehhhhhh~ I write online mostly. When I write by hand, I prefer to work in notebooks so the papers don't get scattered to the four winds, and i take pictures of my (numbered!!!) pages when I've filled them so I can transcribe them into my documents. I love a nesting folder, and my folder organization is very clear. I've switched over to ellipsus recently and am enjoying it very much. But writing by hand is still the best for cracking through overthinking things.

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens? I don't think I have one? First, because I see very few things as solid rules rather than suggestions, and second because I can't think of any I reject wholesale. Like, I'm not afraid of adverbs, but I prefer to have strong verbs and get why people advise against using too many of them. I cannot think of a rule without any use.