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My current worry is about treating my Jewish werewolves right. I know a lot of it can be fixed in later drafts, but it’s my first time *really* exploring a culture outside of my own. I’ve touched on things like this before: my Afro-Korean hyena family, my handful of aspec characters, my brief toe-dips into writing characters with disabilities. But for Aaron and his family, I’m trying to make him authentically, every day Jewish, rather than just making casual nods, and it’s really really scary. Being a displaced Hispanic kid, mostly out of touch with the culture of my father, I worry a lot about doing this justice and being authentic and just like, super duper struggling with impostor syndrome. It’s kinda been a constant struggle in my life. I’m not brown enough I’m not white enough I’m not gay enough I’m not trans enough on and on and on. So yeah, that doubt super translates when I try to write rep

hey, happy STS!

 This is such a delightful scenario and my first thought is now I want to write this but I’m tired so it’s not happening just now haha

 Assuming Asin is the one writing it and Merrok finds her blog, there is...

 Asin panics like there’s no tomorrow and actually stops uploading stuff for a while bc it’s personal and what if Merrok works it out, she thinks she’d actually die. But then Merrok’s comments are so kind and a little bit worried bc she’s never missed a day uploading yet and something must be going wrong and he’d like to help, if he can... and Asin spends a day straight up hiding as she goes through the backlog of her blog to make sure nothing there could give her away, and eventually decides if he hasn’t got it now, then he’s not gonna, but... she’s more careful about making sure that there’s no hint to her actual life ‘n’ goings on

hey!!! it’s been a while since i’ve last interacted with you!!! how are you doing??? omg i miss your writing and characters lasjldksa anyway! moving on to the ask:Sunset Orange: Your personal least favourite character in your wip

oh boyyyyyyy. maybe ren??? because seriously dude, you gotta grow a backbone! stop carrying everything on your own back!!! you think you’re being selfless by constantly giving your all to help others but you’re being selfish as heck by carrying their own weight on your shoulders, huh do you think yourself so powerful you can hold up their whole worlds? pffft. annoying.(jk i love him too but he needs to learn to think for himself and man, these character-types usually are the hardest to get out of their own heads.)Ocean Blue: Least favourite piece of dialogue from your wip

i’m sure there are a lot, but let’s take a look

Zinnia

Thanks for sending this in! You’re totally fine, I’m always open for asks, it’s my favorite thing to do on tumblr!

The OCs I’ve had on my mind lately are Aiden, Jess and Vanessa… So I’ll give all three of them a go if you don’t mind — it’s a really interesting question.

So for Aiden, I think he underestimates himself a lot? But also he’s at this really weird place where he’s confident-ish and arrogant-ish but also has a cripplingly low self-esteem that he hides from the world due to his emotionally abusive parents — the cool, confident thing is an act, essentially to cover that up. So he’s probably capable of doing a lot more things than he thinks he is, but because he underestimates himself, he’s extremely conservative in the paths and actions that he chooses, leading to a lot of pain and suffering that he wouldn’t have had to put himself and his friends through if he had just believed in his own capabilities.

Jess is my overly confident girl who thinks on her feet. She hates inaction, so being deliberate and cautious doesn’t suit her; if there is an immediate action available with not-so-great consequences, and a more cautious approach with better results, she will choose the former because she is extremely impatient. So she jumps in and does the thing no matter the consequences. A lot of the times she needs her friends to bail her out and rescue her. I do think however, that if she didn’t have her friends come to get her, given enough time she might be capable of figuring her own way out — it’s just that her friends are faster at it. There’s also definitely have been times in which Jess’ quick acting tendencies are helpful; slow and steady doesn’t always win the race, after all.

I wanted to get Vanessa in on this ask because she’s the one who has herself figured out: she knows exactly who she is, what she’s capable of, and how to achieve her goal. Part of it is that she’s an older character (~34 ish in a normal universe, 500+ years old if she’s in her vampire setting) so she’s had a lot of time to get to know herself. She is extremely true to herself, and being a manipulative person, she needs to know how to manipulate herself, if that makes sense? She’s a person who knows every little thing about herself, and knows how to weaponize it to her advantage.

Hi, thanks for your ask and so sorry for the delay 

12. who are your character faceclaims?

So I checked my “bibles”, and most of the time I don’t do faceclaims, at least this is true for Rising Queens. My main problem is that I have difficulties to find an actor that fit the image of my character, in period clothing that match with my fantasy setting, and weirdly this is very important for me.

 25. which character would you most like to be?

Thank you sooo much for this!!!!

From this ask:

http://desperatlytryingtowriteabook.tumblr.com/post/177405712354/drabbles-send-me-characters-and-a-prompt

Answered separately