4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?
ahhh there’s few that i can think of who are my writing gurus LOL (which are those whose writing specifically i aspire to. there’s others whom i think they’re GREAT writers but they don’t have the kind of style i necessarily want to be good at). IT’S HARD THO TO EXPLAIN WHY I LOVE THEM without referring to specific stories bc i usually just classify authors and fics by colors and images in my mind hah hha h
off the top of my head tho, there’s always the everpresent highboys LOL. i’ve read her fics so long ago but they still linger in my mind, she had a writing that gave me pure undiluted pain and her imagery was beautiful and to the point.Just as to the point, except with more happy feelings and uncanny precision in dissecting certain couple dynamics, is veto_power_over_clocks. she doesn’t really write for my ships and she’s more gen but i love her stories so much... they give me all the right feelings of friendship and young idiocy.
another person whom i’ve always looked up to albeit more distantly was deplore (distantly bc i’ve actually read like two fics only from them LOL since they didn’t write for my ships aND idk why i’m often paying attention to their writing more than to the whole fic i guESS ITS BC ITS JUST VERY GOOD. same with readerofasaph).
then there’s a special mention to kiteflower and siderum, whom i associate to certain ships more than to general writing but their writing IS beautiful and one to which i relate strongly, and has inspired me plenty. whenever i feel like my writing is getting too terrible, i usually go and open one fic from them and skim it to get the right feel of words again, and then quickly go over smth from half_sleeping to remember how to dialogue or humor a bit LOL. If i want to instead get closer to a more literary feel, which is a pretty rare thing to find in fics imo, i go to proliferated, whose writing is different from mine, but it always gives me that boost to talk about deeper stuff).
[then there’s a person from whom i’ve only read the crack fics but they’re so great i just... ITS SO HARD TO WRITE CRACK IDK HOW PEOPLE DO IT i’ve always been kinda bad at humor so when a fic of mine gotta have heavy humor in it (which is actually smth pretty recent), i always motivate myself with “channel that fic from mamakashi... yes that one u read like 298347928 years ago... but the crack was so smooth...”]
20. 4 sentences from your work that you’re proud of
hhh there’s this akashi fic for which i wrote like 13k words and more, that i never finished/published and... ITS WEIRD BC whenever i read it im like “did i rlly write this” bc i tried to channel as much as possible akashi and writing akashi’s pov is very difficult for me and i feel like that fic was the first fic i wrote on him and yet the best, kind of, lol. IT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE CHAPTER 266 AND I JUST... REALLY MISS WRITING THIS AKASHI SOMETIMES TBH
His gloved fingers brushfallen snowflakes off the freezing skin of his cheek. “Pretty naive to thinkpeople would go back to where you exclusively wanted them, and as easily asthat.”
Kuroko’s lips tighteninto a firm line, eyes downcast. ‘I know’, he seems to be biting back. But whathe says next instead catches Seijuurou off-guard once again—or maybe only theway Kuroko says it, uncertain and conflicted. “Was it because you lost?”
With all his deep-rootedideals and sets of priorities, that Seijuurou used to look at as a quick guideto the don’ts of life, Kuroko always made himself complicated in a way.Downright tiring, in the past, when his weak resolve could have been carriedoff by an blow of air. Nowadays he is more something to behold in Seijuurou’seyes; but it can get bothersome to keep up with his pointless streaks of guilt.
“Do you regret it?” Seijuuroudemands.
Kuroko stiffens underhis cold gaze, but doesn’t relent—he rarely does, after all. “I just want toknow.”
A stretched silencefollows, during which Seijuurou debates what degree of sincerity Kurokodeserves. “No. I would have quit soon anyway.” He adds, faintly sardonic, “Doyou feel better now?”
