#omgtwp

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🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.

🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

You flatter me almost as much as Long Feng flatters himself.

🖊— “Insolent child,” She murmured, her gaze flickering to him for a moment. He forced himself to nod calmly at her when their gazes met then continue to look forward. Guards were meant to hear nothing, to see what could be a threat and nothing else. Her eyes (pale, pale gold—somewhat like the royals but without the warmth) lingered on him for a few moments longer before they slipped away, seemingly content with his presence. “He thinks he can demand to learn from me.”

He watched as she ran her fingers over the petals of a rose before, seemingly careless of the thorns that ran up the stem, snapping it from the bush. He opened his mouth to speak—after all, this was the palace. Not just anyone could take a rose from the bushes as they so pleased—but something forced his mouth closed.

Something about the woman made his mouth taste of ozone and his blood still in his veins.

🧠—Hmm, probably everything about Lian. She’s my OC that I know the least about. I intend to get to her eventually, but so far all I have are the bare bones of her appearance and her “role”, so to speak. I don’t have much on her personality or how she goes about fulfilling her role— until I have that I can’t really consider her story a WIP.

💻—I do... some? research. There are definitely people that do far more research than me, that’s for sure, but also people that do less. Most of my research involves asking people to do sensitivity readings on certain passages to make sure I’m not unknowingly perpetuating stereotypes. That or researching names. I like to have the names I give characters give insight into some aspect about them—I sometimes use Japanese names for Fire Nation characters and so I spend a lot of time looking at the kanji. Mana’s name for example is written with the characters for “superiority” and “calm” when she is Fire Lady, but with “dance” and “south”before that. I also spend a lot more time on Water Tribe names if I don’t take them from canon to make sure that they are actual (mostly Inuit or Yupik) names and not just something someone made up.

The most research I did was definitely for my fic solntse moye / luna moya. It involved me naming all of Ilah’s family for one, which was a trial in and of itself. Azulon’s family was easier since he only has two siblings. It also had me researching more than I expected about yin and yang (and getting annoyed over the fact that they made the moon the white fish when it’s traditionally associated with yang). All in all it took me a while to write but I’m extremely proud of it.

how does it feel tirelessly mothering a rascal pirate and the greatest labor of love i’ve ever seen a writer i know take on? i look up to yOU MA’AM!! (literally.. 5’8 oh gosh 😨)

and what wonders await, if I read those tags correctly? OC art on the lottery-won sister’s tablet? drabbles for other ships, in your writing style? another wip in the meantime? 😍😍 whatever you want to do, and if so, I’m ready to see you and Crooked singlehandedly make rarepairs mainstream, or OCs so lively that they trip into ATLA canon and are embraced by the fandom. bon voyage, friend, and take it easy breezy!

Me, basking in your contagious sunshine energy. ☀️💛 Your existence is simply a gift and Tumblr does not deserve you, but we sure are lucky to know you. THANK YOU for the love and kind words, I'm going to carry them with me for weeks to come like my own little cheerleading shoulder angel.