#dimplesflint

gif meme ↬ @dimplesflint asked

I got mine only three months ago and it’s my concern as well XD Idk, it would also depend on how much you draw? I did about 15 pics in the last three months and the nib looks like it can last for a while. I’m pretty sure you can buy more nibs easily, anyway. 

Didn’t have time for more today because I work at such a slow pace it’s embarrassing, tbc tomorrow!

@dimplesflint

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aahhh bless you for this, i’ve been meaning to ask you about your process for the longest time lmao ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (i only read the beginning just now but i’m going to devour it later ��)

Thank you! <3

Shocking Pink: Is there a trait that you have that others don’t expect from you?

Cynicism perhaps? Or just flat out anger about a lot of things. There’s been more than a few occasions where people have seemed surprised that I’m not just wide-eyed and adorably positive about things. I don’t know if I give off vaguely Luna Lovegood vibes or what, but people seem to get weird ideas about the type of person I am sometimes and then they’re shocked when I don’t act like a helpless, opinionless child in response to things.

Cosmic Cobalt: What’s your zodiac sign, and do you think it’s accurate?

Virgo. I don’t really go in for astrology, tbh, but it’s definitely not a bad fit based on the stereotypes I know of. I’m quite picky and a perfectionist (to a point). That’s about all I know though really.

Fuzzy Duckling Yellow: Is there something from childhood that you haven’t outgrown?

Pft, anxiety. But also being excited about snow. It’s rare enough here that I still lose my mind when it first starts snowing and I have to go out in it.

Periwinkle: What’s something ordinary that has personal meaning to you?

Most of my mugs? I get given mugs as presents a lot, so some of them are quite special to me.

Purple Mountains Majesty: How does someone earn your respect?

By being kind to people when they don’t have to be. Random strangers, shop assistants, waiters, cats on garden walls, whoever. Someone who’s kind and friendly without even seeming to think about it will always be someone I respect pretty quickly.

am i gonna have to find out your location and come claw at your door to get these modern au fics out of you (yes i mean all of them)

thank you mer! <3 already answered 10, so here’s the rest.

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

a character reflects on their feelings. they have so many feelings. they interact with another character who is the focus of most of these feelings, and the two characters sit around and talk to each other about their feelings. they fuck, preferably while also still talking about their feelings. they just don’t know when to shut up!!! the ending is incredibly sappy or at least sweetly hopeful. there is not even the slightest hint of a plot anywhere in sight.

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

i’ve yet to write an afterlife fic despite the fact that i love afterlife fics. one day!! i started one about miranda once when i thought thomas was also dead, but unfortunately that’s been jossed. 

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“I didn’t really have any idea just how scary you were,” Silver said, his fingers tugging at strands of hair on James’ nape.

“You must have heard the stories,” James said.

“Stories are just stories, aren’t they?” Silver said. “They say all sorts of things that aren’t true.”

“And then you discovered they were true,” James said. “That I was as terrifying as they say.”

“More terrifying,” Silver said. “None of the stories could have prepared me for the way I felt around you. The way I feel. If you really were a dragon, I would let you devour me. That’s the most terrifying thing. How I looked at you and I didn’t want to run. I said I wanted freedom from you. But all the unending horrors in the world that I have encountered, they all have pleasant facades. They lure you in with promises of sanctuary and refuge and love, and then they blow out the candles and their claws come out. But you. You were the first thing in my life that announced itself as a horror, promised nothing but darkness, and then revealed itself to be so much more. So filled with light that I saw myself as the only shadow in contrast. I didn’t want freedom from you.” He swept back the locks of hair that hung in James’ face. “I wanted freedom from myself. You were right. There is freedom in the dark, and I need you—I need you to illuminate me so that I don’t feel like a shadow of a person anymore.”

He untied the knot of James’ cravat and kissed James’ jaw.

“You are not a shadow,” James asserted, grasping the front of Silver’s shirt. “You were the brightest thing to come into my life in a decade. My whole world was white with grief, and you were the prism that made it full of colour again. Every hue of light I saw, I saw it through you.” He kissed Silver’s mouth hard, his tongue slipping into Silver’s mouth, his hand under Silver’s shirt. He ground down into Silver’s lap, and they bit their gasps from each other’s lips. “You are as necessary to me as that page was to the log. You have always been necessary to me. I couldn’t have done any of it without you.”

from inhale, exhale, and reset

oh GOD i was just randomly searching through my fics for something to help me answer this question because i don’t think of myself as good at writing dialogue and it’s not something that stays in my mind after i write it. and then i stumbled upon this and i started making noises of agony. i love how fucking intense silver is in this, and how i stumbled upon a grain of insight as i was writing it, which is that in a life of unending horrors, flint really is the only thing silver’s ever experienced that walks around openly flaunting and advertising its own monstrosity, and then reveals so much hidden wonder and softness and devotion, rather than the other way round.

and then ughhhhhhh flint just being super fucking cheesy and romantic. anyway this passage gives me a lot of emotions and i’m v glad i wrote it.

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

it’s just you and the moon on my skin

WEREWOLF FLINT!!!!!!!!!! VAMPIRE SILVER!!!!! how could it be any other fic tbh

29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

i can’t really come up with a good answer to this one. i’ve always wanted to write something that would be sorta kinda like a sequel to never let me go by kalimero, but not exactly a sequel to that fic (which is so beautiful). more just a maxanne story where jack is dead and max and anne have to move forward with their lives without him. but it’s too painful for me to even consider!