#pennyofthewild

fave trope to write?

oh man, I mean. I feel like I'm probably not very subtle about the tropes I like to write most? broadly speaking, hurt/comfort or whump is definitely up there. next to that I'd put, loosely, the category of "redemption arc" but what I actually mean by that is sort of...

"traumatized people with terrible coping mechanisms finding ways to make their own lives a little better, with support from other people who care about them, sometimes despite their own worst instincts."

(see how many of my fics you can summarize with that loose description.)

for this! thank you for indulging me 💖

april: have you ever written and/or posted a crackfic?

i think a lot of the more fun pieces i’ve done kind of skirt the line between crackfic and serious fic? :’D i really enjoy writing these short feel-good things where sometimes people act like fools and sometimes the plot is straight from a dumb movie or whatever else, especially as short tumblr ficlets.

so i don’t know, i’m not actually sure, i think it probably depends because what counts as crackfic is different for a lot of people :’D

may: a fic you have regretted posting?

i’d like to say none because i’d like to think that it’s good to see the process itself and everyone has to start from somewhere! and i am not actually ashamed of anything i’ve posted or written. but there is this one old old old fic in my very first fandom that i took down because it was a difficult subject matter and after reconsidering it a couple of years later i decided i hadn’t actually given it all the nuance and the consideration that i should have. i still don’t think it was downright offensive, per se, but it was... maybe a little too shallow, idk. it made me uncomfortable because it wasn’t delving deep enough into the matter so it had to go.

i feel like it feels wrong to say don’t ship it because I have strong enough feelings about it that I might as well but my favored dynamic doesn’t really fit the prototype definition enough to really call it that

Why don't you ship it?

Literally the only reason is because I prefer their dynamic as platonic rather than romantic or sexual. The reason I say “I might as well” is because basically I have all of the same other feelings of intense investment about an intensity of feeling that I would if it were a classic “ship” of the romantic or sexual variety. so it almost feels disingenuous to say that I don’t, but, like.

I guess I don’t.

I’m just obsessed with their relationship in other forms.

What would have made you like it?

see above! I do like it, I just don’t like it in this particular shape, and there’s honestly not really anything that could change that would make me like it more I don’t think, or that’d tip me in the direction of ~proper~ chengxian.

I’m just. look. you hand me a sibling-like relationship and I’m going to have sibling-like feelings about it, for the most part, because I’m constantly up in my feelings about siblings with messy relationships for Personal Reasons. It just is what it is.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

fuck but I love them so much and I just want them to figure out a way to rebuild some kind of relationship between the two of them because they love each other so much and it’s fucking them both up that it’s not working right now

the slow descent by pennyofthewild

Haikyuu!!

Length: 7,127 (complete)

Rating: General Audiences

Pairing: Oikawa/Ushijima

Author Summary:

On the first day of university volleyball practice, Oikawa Tooru walks into the gymnasium, sees Ushijima Wakatoshi standing in the middle of the court, immediately turns on his heel and walks back out.

1. Daiya no Ace- Miyuki Kazuya & Mei Naruymiya (I am a cheater from the get go and I really like trash) 2. Tokyo Ghoul- Tsukiyama Shu (One and only son. Plus I like beautiful trash.) 3. Bleach- Byakuya Kuchiki (no explanation necessary)  4. Kronus Chronicles- Philonecron (I am sure this doesn’t count as a fandom but. Phil is one of the most entertaining bad guys out there.) 5. Seirei no Moribito- Balsa (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 6. Pandora Hearts- Elliot (Not sure why tbh. His death was downright traumatizing, and he’s only a minor character.) 7. Terra E- Suena (So I adore everyone in Terra but Suena stands out as one of the more interesting characters? *in my opinion* Also plus points for relatability.) 8. Juuni Kokuki- Youko Nakajima(the very definition of epic)  9. Chronicles of Narnia- Edmund Pevensie (really tough but I like redemption stories.) 10. Star Wars- Obi Wan Kenobi (How could I not.)

top 5 ships you’ll go down with no matter what

I TAKE IT THAT HEART MEANS YOU WANT ME TO PARADE THIS AROUND FOR THE WORLD TO SEE also damn you didn’t miss a beat

ahem

I’d help install a hundred catetherschange the ending of Ocean Waves to souharuif that’s what it would taketo prove my undying love for you

hiiiii penny i am much pleased to hear from you and i hope your hiatus is not for very straining reasons?? anyway, good luck with whatever’s keeping you busy, drop by to chat anytime \o//

2:do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day?

i actually prefer a cool breeze on my cheeks at the end of a warm day :’D anything below -5 can happen to people other than me tbh XD

6:do you keep plants?

no, sadly, i have terrible luck with plants! “my fake plants died because i forgot to pretend to water them” is literally me. i do like trees though as grown outside

10:do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach?

on any person unfortunate enough to share my bedspace no i’m really the kind of sleeper who occupies ALL the space orz i apologize to friends who had stayed over, you are beautiful and do not deserve this

15:go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is!

apparently you can grow taller in space! the very first link that showed up in google informs me that “Another change to the human body in micro-gravity is that spine straightens out, as gravity is not pushing you down. In fact you can be up to as much as 5cm taller in the Space Station.”