#carbonbased000

hi!!!

3. what's the best job you've ever had? - honestly i really enjoyed working part time at the university library when i was in undergrad! i was mostly just reshelving books and occasionally working the front desk but i think of it fondly (which is partially why i am getting my library science degree now!)

Hi Carbon!!

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

Deep into my middle school Naruto phase I somehow stumbled upon a site called Anime Spiral, which was a tiny tiny little fanfic site. I have no idea how, but at twelve I conned two older fic writers to write self-inserty ninja fic with me and I've been kicking around ever since.

(shout out to rae, whom has been swallowed by the internet but who took a tiny pyr under her wing)

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

Personal lore is such a funny phrase to me. Ummm. I am a lifelong vegetarian and have literally never eaten meat before because my mom was a hardcore hippie. Also, for similar reasons, I wasn't allowed to cut my hair until I was sixteen.

hey, thank you carbon!! <33

SOS - 1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

i'd just got into fob and was in the midst of consuming as much peterick content as i could. i knew very quickly that i was going to write a hiatus fic. can't say exactly why, it just came readily formed in my mind and it also seemed... realistic (if peterick were ever a thing obviously).

and writing it from pete's pov just... honestly, it seemed more devastating, somehow, in the context of the fic. and devastating was kind of what i was going for for most of it.

SR - 15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

i... wanna say i learned i can write a long fic under pressure (the pressure being it was part of the 2019 peterick summer challenge), but i since seemed to have forgotten how to do that lol, so idk if it counts. oh, i also think i got better at making my writing a bit funnier lol. or at least i got a chuckle out of more scenes than usual in that fic, heh.

(fic asks)

There’s a moment, only a few seconds but stretching out into eternity, where the four of them stand awkwardly in the middle of the room. It’s obvious what should happen next: they switch places, Joe to greet Andy and Pete to greet Patrick. But there’s something keeping the balance from shifting. It’s the way that Patrick’s eyes have caught on his shoulder but won’t venture any higher, how Andy keeps looking between them and Joe’s gaze is fixed on a spot across the room, how Pete plants his feet into the floor even as his body sways unbidden towards Patrick. It was easier with music between them, ducking behind melodies and words they pretended had nothing to do with either of them. Joe had the right idea; he should’ve brought a guitar too, or a notebook. At least then, there would be an excuse for the careful degrees of separation they won’t allow themselves to bridge.

send me a 👀 and i’ll post a snippet of art/writing that i never got around to finishing this year

Rules: share the latest line from your work in progress and then tag as many people as there are words in the line. 

I am really pleased I’ve made progress since the last time I got tagged for this!

I’ve just always really liked music. 

16 & 46 for the ask game?

hi carbon <33

16. Want any tattoos? What of?

maybe! i don't have any, and sometimes i consider it. it'd probably be something fob related ngl. maybe something from disloyal order, the best song in the world. or the lyric "i could write it better than you ever felt it." big fan of that line. beyond the quote though, idk. i'm very non committal when it comes to this sort of thing.

like patrick, i'm okay being a pale tattoo virgin for now lol.

46. What do you need when you’re sad?

not to be lame or whatever, but a hug from my mum when i'm very sad always helps. otherwise, alcohol and video games.

thank you!! <3