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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN 💞

Thanks for the ask Robyn! You’re lucky and get a whole excerpt, this is my WIP that reminded me of your 5+1. ☺️

“Here,” his warm, callused fingers traveled down her arm, wrapping around her own. “I’ll show you.” JJ’s breath fanned the hair by her ear.

“First you find Jupiter, it’s the bright silver star in the southernmost sky.” He brought her arm up, hand in a fist toward the sky. “Then you measure three fists to the left of Jupiter.” He lined his fists next to hers.

“The brilliant starlike object is Saturn. To the lower right is the constellation Sagittarius.”

“It’s beautiful JJ.” She meant it but it wasn’t just the constellations and planets she found beautiful but the wistfulness and starlight in his eyes.

“If we had a small telescope or high powered binoculars we could see the rings.” In his fascination with the night sky he’d forgotten to let go of her hand and she was surprised to find she didn’t hate it.

“We’ll have to come back.” A small, fond smile formed as she thought of coming back to the same spot on the marsh to stargaze with JJ.

“We’re out here like all the time Kie.” JJ’s voice was incredulous, almost masked by the slap of waves against the bow of the HMS Pogue.

“No, I mean to find Saturn’s rings.” Kie couldn’t help the laugh that escaped, trust JJ to be deliberately obtuse. He loved trying to get a rise out of her.

“They’re even more visible in July.” Kiara was surprised, of course there was no denying JJ was smart, he had a very analytical mind. She was glad he was sharing something so close to his heart, something he shared with his mom.

Hi anon, thank you so much for your sweet message🥰

No, I don't plan on writing. I rather leave it to all the talented people in this fandom. I do love the creative part of it but I'm a bit limited when it comes to the englisch language lol. It's well enough to somewhat communicate but writing is a whole different thing. Gonna stay with my gifs :)

Oh god, I hate picking favorites anon this is so cruel. Gonna drop a few names but please have in mind that I only joined this fandom this year and I haven't had the time to read a lot of what was posted before!! 😭 These are some of my favorite Jiara writers:

MercuryWaters - @mercurywaters

bobs / @bobsfic

dangerwillrobinson / @icapturedthecastle

jojameswinter - @jojameswinter

ghostiewriter101 / @ghostiewriter

YellowLaboratory / @yellowlaboratory

Thank you for asking Robyn!! 💖

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

That is a loaded question. I’ve started so many fics this year and most of them are still in progress. 🤡 I love writing Jiara of course but I ventured into some other interesting pairings, Lynaeve from The Wheel of Time, Bobnix from Top Gun: Maverick and Rivusa from Fate: The Winx Saga among them.

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

Too many to count! 🙈 There are so many WIPs in my doc, that I’m waiting for the inspiration to come home from war.

19. What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Jisbon! I just finished binge watching all seven seasons of The Mentalist and they stole my heart. The partners to friends to lovers excellence. Plus it’s a procedural show something I’ve never written for before. So we’ll see if anything comes of it and sees the light of day!

⏰ What time of day do you prefer to write?

Mostly during the afternoon, I blame my work schedule. 😂 I get a lot of ideas at night but I make myself go to bed at a certain time for work so… SUCKS 😆

💡 What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been inspired by?

hmmm I wish I had like a clearly defined “this inspires me” because then maybe I’d be able to more easily break out of creator’s block 😭 I do think the emotional extremes (for lack of a better word) inspire me to get creating. mostly the painful, angsty ones, but on occasion a big crescendo of an emotional moment will inspire me! and music absolutely plays a huge part in all that. whether it’s a song or playlist on repeat, I absolutely have to tap into that to ride the inspiration wave and get into the right mindset. my playlist names are quite hilarious tbh 💀 “broke my own heart” & “a necklace of rope” & “dark gray, all alone” & “I wanted that pain” & and all time painful favorite bc it was inspired by the homicide of my og ship, ellick “rule 91: sob”

Thanks Robyn! 🫶🏻

11. what work took you longest to write?

Probably my roommates au for spideychelle: the conversations we’ve had ‘til 4AM 17.8K words! it took me about a month to write, beta and post it 😂 back when Nora @potatoholic was my very patient beta! 💕

3) What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

It's gotta be a dwindling, mercurial high! That was a passion project born out of both sheer love and sheer frustration at what Netflix robbed us of. I related to my beloved Grizz perhaps more than I cared to admit and because he's such a well-read character, I got to experiment with how I write? It's much more poetic than my other works I think, and it was fun to challenge myself with how many literary references I could insert. Also, writing for a completely dead fandom that got one (1) season of a show 3 years ago definitely teaches you the value of writing for intrinsic validation and it was so fulfilling to know I was literally only writing it because it's what I wanted to read.

15) What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

late nights at the old arcade!! I'm really hoping to take my year-end holiday time to revamp my outline and figure out a plan for getting the rest of the chapters done. I have so many exciting plans for that story and I know exactly how it's going to end.

27) What do you listen to while writing?

Okay I love making playlists!! Sometimes I make them for a specific character or fandom, sometimes I make them for a specific fic. Sometimes I can't actually write with them on, but they're a really great thing to listen to while editing or beforehand to get me in the mood.

29) Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Alright my memory is really bad and I sometimes completely forget whatever I've written as soon as I hit publish as;ldkfj but here are two I'm very fond of:

From a dwindling, mercurial high Ch 1

Because Grizz has spent his entire life trying to speak a different language than the one that’s truly in his heart. He learned how to talk to girls, about girls. Learned terms like blitz and snap and fumble while trying to forget ones like kick-ball-change. Learned to keep his words and phrases simple, lest they fly far over the heads of his less eloquent peers.

He’s thrown himself into literature, into poetry, into any medium where people can bravely and beautifully express what they feel. He’s been memorizing their words since before he can remember - an instinct borne from the gratitude that someone somewhere can speak about the things he cannot. 

From late nights at the old arcade Ch 6

She flinched, finally hearing verbal confirmation of all the fears and anxieties that had kept her in a chokehold during those lonely nights in Atlanta, the ones whispering that there was no point in reaching out because they didn’t need her anymore. That JJ was somehow better off without her.

Somewhere, at the bottom of her heart, under layers of scar tissue and insecurity, she knew he was lashing out. Knew better than anyone that JJ Maybank didn’t let people in easily. Could almost see the scene before her replaced by neon fluorescents - a pink hue on his face as he told her about his shitshow of a childhood, each new revelation unlocking with a different jukebox selection.

Time warped, expanding and contracting, as it all flickered through her mind, all the different ways this could play out. She was just drunk enough to let her own hurt take priority, just high enough not to care about being the better person.