stealing a meme from an artist i follow bc i'm oc-brained rn
tagging @arealcrow, @kitterjitters, @pyrrhlc, @boltlightning, @humblegoat, and the girl (gender neutral) reading this 💕
u can do as many or as few ocs as u want, the original poster only did one but i'm doing a handful bc again i'm experiencing oc brainrot. i also added colors to make it more legible so feel free to use ur favorite colors on urs :3 go crazy go stupid the world is ur oyster!
bold any fears which apply to your muse.
italicize what makes them uncomfortable.
sparrow
the dark. fire. open water. deep water. being alone. crowded spaces. confined spaces. change. failure. war. loss of control. powerlessness. prison. blood. drowning. suffocation. public speaking. natural animals. the supernatural. heights. death. dying. intimacy. rejection. abandonment. loss. the unknown. the future. not being good enough. scary stories. speaking to new people. poverty. loud noises. being touched. sex.
kit
the dark. fire. open water. deep water. being alone. crowded spaces. confined spaces. change. failure. war. loss of control. powerlessness. prison. blood. drowning. suffocation. public speaking. natural animals. the supernatural. heights. death. dying. intimacy. rejection. abandonment. loss. the unknown. the future. not being good enough. scary stories. speaking to new people. poverty. loud noises. being touched. sex.
hikaru
the dark. fire. open water. deep water. being alone. crowded spaces. confined spaces. change. failure. war. loss of control. powerlessness. prison. blood. drowning. suffocation. public speaking. natural animals. the supernatural. heights. death. dying. intimacy. rejection. abandonment. loss. the unknown. the future. not being good enough. scary stories. speaking to new people. poverty. loud noises. being touched. sex.
cat
the dark. fire. open water. deep water. being alone. crowded spaces. confined spaces. change. failure. war. loss of control. powerlessness. prison. blood. drowning. suffocation. public speaking. natural animals. the supernatural. heights. death. dying. intimacy. rejection. abandonment. loss. the unknown. the future. not being good enough. scary stories. speaking to new people. poverty. loud noises. being touched. sex.
shucks
the dark. fire. open water. deep water. being alone. crowded spaces. confined spaces. change. failure. war. loss of control. powerlessness. prison. blood. drowning. suffocation. public speaking. natural animals. the supernatural. heights. death. dying. intimacy. rejection. abandonment. loss. the unknown. the future. not being good enough. scary stories. speaking to new people. poverty. loud noises. being touched. sex.
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The inevitable coffeeshop AU, featuring hijinks, angst, and one deeply cynical barista.
Rating(s): G-M / Quirks: Crows Friendship, Developing to Established Kanej, Kaz's AU backstory, coffee shop au, Kaz centric
ten thousand miles away
He can best this. He bests everything, one way or another. Ghezen knows he’s cheated death plenty of other times before—he didn’t break into the Ice Court and take down Rollins only to die in bed at twenty-seven. Who dies in bed? Not Kaz Brekker, certainly. Not Dirtyhands.
It’s six months to the day when Kaz first starts coughing up blood. The fever, as with all things, comes soon after.
Rating: M / Quirks: (Heavy) Angst, Established Kanej, Kaz Centric
hello! i was just wondering: if someone was to write a taz fic based on your (very very wonderful) art, would you be ok with it being posted to ao3? credit included and everything, but i just wanted to check if that would be cool?
THAT WOULD BE AMAZING and I would be honoured
my only request is to link me to it when it is posted !!!!!!!!!!!
and to have visible credit of course thank you ;0;
god i'll never forget the time i wrote a letter to the school about their bullshit bathrooms and when they asked how they could be more inclusive i told them to keep cishets out of lgbt spaces. apparently that was a controversial statement?? anyway cishets are Wild
they have to allow cishets or else it’s considered discrimination which is why theres gay straight alliances and it Sucks but its how it is
tagged by my great homie @boltlightning let's fucken do this thing
Rules: Go to your published works on AO3 and list the first fic you ever published there, the last fic you published, any fic that you wrote for a fandom/ship only once, your favorite fic you wrote in the fandom/ship that has the most works, the fic you wish more people read, the fic you agonized over the most, the fic that sprang fully formed from your mind without any effort, and a fic you are proud of—for whatever reason.
👵🏽 first fic: Oh Let's Smile (kingdom hearts | hayner/olette | general audiences | 6k words)
a fic that is 14 years old and honestly?? for something i wrote for an extremely rare pair when i was 18???? it kiiiinda holds up lmao
👶🏽 last fic: A Place for Us (jujutsu kaisen | suguru geto/satoru gojo | teen & up audiences | 3k words)
☝️only once: one-offs are unfortunately kind of my bread and butter lol (dupes removed)
📚 fav fic from fandom/ship with most works: Vigil (dick grayson & bruce wayne | batman (all media types) | general audiences | 235 words)
(interestingly whether this means fandom with the most works by me or the most works on ao3 the answer is the same and it's batman, lol.)
it's probably not the best one but i have a soft spot for Vigil. the prompt i was working from was "a fic i'd want to read right before bedtime," and i think i just like the muted kind of drifting-off tone it has, at least to me.
🙏 wish more people read: genfic idk my fic with the most kudos is Your hands are red from holding tight., and i'm not mad about that at all, but i think because of that i wish more people read all the other fics i've written about gojo & megumi (& tsumiki), bc i think most of them are probably at least almost as good.
😩 agonized over: now and then (jujutsu kaisen | suguru geto/satoru gojo | teen & up audiences | 5k words
this was for a reverse big bang and i was just so intimidated by the whole process, lol. i just really didn't want to let the artist i was partnered with down. also 5k is pretty long for me, i'm very much a bitch of ficlets. i think it came out pretty good?? i probably wouldn't have done as much weird stuff with the timeline if i was doing it today, but. all things considered i think it works. there are a lot of individual scenes in it that i like a lot.
💡 sprang fully formed: Three Unspoken Messages and Three Words Left Unsaid (bungo stray dogs | osamu dazai & sakunosuke oda, osamu dazai/nakahara chuuya | teen & up audiences | 2k words
i saw a tiktok that was like "there's a timeline where mori killed chuuya instead of oda" and immediately spent the rest of the evening banging out the first chapter of this in a fucking fugue state. (the second chapter was written several months later for a prompt event, so the second chapter doesn't count for this exercise lol but the first chapter was a one-shot wonder and was originally intended to stand alone, so.)
🏆 proud of: if i'm being totally honest, everything i've written over 2k words, lol. i'm really a flash fiction writer at heart so if a fic is longer than 2k i can guarantee you i worked pretty hard on it, and some of them have even come out pretty good - Oh Let's Smile and now and then, which i already talked about; Blood for Your Rude Brawls is another one that comes to mind (that's my romeo & juliet/the witcher crossover that i will never ever shut up about bc it's actually so fire).
gonna tag @arealcrow, @antique-romantic, @humble-wayside-flower, @pyrrhlc, and anyone else who would like to partake 💖
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saw some jjk posters in an alt shop I was browsing today and thought of you! was like, aw hell yeah it's julia's guys. hope you're doing well friend <3
Ah those is my guys!!! That's so sweet I'm so glad u thought of me :,)
I actually just started rereading and annotating the series to hopefully write a big love letter about it someday!!
🤡 what’s a line, scene or exchange you’ve written that made you laugh?
dialogue is my favorite thing on earth to write, especially little interactions like this:
“Damn, you got hot,” Satoru greeted him at the entrance to Jujutsu High’s administrative building, earning the long-suffering glare he’d missed so much.
“You look the same,” Nanami replied dryly. Satoru barked a laugh.
“I’ll send you the skincare routine,” he quipped breezily.
writing banter like this between good friends always makes me smile :)
🛒 what are some common things you incorporate in your fics? themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.
it was a joke with my les mis friends for a long time that i had to reference courfeyrac’s “buoyant curls” at least once in every fic i wrote, lol. i will not apologize i love that phrase and the imagery it invokes so fucking much.
but in terms of broader things… well, the biggest commonality in everything i write, fic and not-fic, is the focus on platonic relationships, usually between brothers, male friends or fathers/father figures and sons/son figures. i can’t help it, i love the way men love. maybe someday we’ll unpack why that is, but it is not this day.
i also write primarily angst and hurt/comfort, bc a bitch loves tragedy and catharsis, especially when that tragedy and catharsis involves men being vulnerable with each other in a way that masculinity usually doesn’t let them be.
men crying is what i’m trying to say. i write a lot of men hugging and leaning on each other and crying.
🛠 what tools/programs/apps do you use to write?
google docs baybee, and occasionally a timer if i’m trying to break a block with ten-minute fics. i also write from prompts a lot? especially since i write mostly short fic; i find it helpful a lot of times to have a jumping-off place.
also thesaurus.com, my beloved.
💖 what made you start writing?
god, i don’t even know. i have been writing stories ever since i learned how to write; when i was like six or seven i had a whole notebook dedicated to tales of three best friends and their horses, complete with illustrations. i won first place in the young author’s fair at my school around that same age for a story about two cats encountering a scary bulldog. i don’t think anything made me start writing, i think that’s just how i’m wired, lol.
now, i started writing fic when i was 13 or 14 years old, basically because i learned, from the internet, that it was allowed, lol. before then i thought surely it must be illegal for nebulous copyright reasons, so i would just write things that were Heavily Inspired by the stuff i liked, but then once i discovered that fanfic was a Thing on the internet i started writing more and more of that and less and less original stuff, until now when it’s basically all i write! 😬
🧐 do you spend much time researching your stories?
god, you have no idea.
i generally like to stay as canon compliant as possible; i generally write fic out of appreciation for (and obsession with) the canon as opposed to writing fic to “fix” the canon (though i am not immune to the occasional fix-it), and i have also always really enjoyed the exercise of writing “within constraints.” it feels like a game to me — a set of rules or requirements that i have to work around in order to create something moving. to do that i spend insane amounts of time on wikis and reddits looking up shit like “how many windows does the bebop have,” and sometimes i will find and rewatch/reread a scene in the original work if the internet isn’t giving me what i want.
in terms of research outside of the canon, recently since i’ve started writing a lot of anime fic i’ve been doing a fair amount of research into japanese culture, but i’m a biiiitttt more loosey-goosey with that, because 1.) i am aware of the limits of typing keywords into google and reading three or four blog posts on whatever it is i’m looking up, and i would rather be ambiguous than wrong, and 2.) i think as an american writing in english it’s really easy for that kind of research to, like, take over a fic, if that makes sense?? like, i’ve definitely read fics (especially anime fics) where all the cultural details and references start to feel kind of performative, which not only makes the writer seem pretentious but it also takes away from the story itself. so generally if it’s something that seems easy enough to look up, like popular fast food restaurants or what kind of animals they have at the tokyo zoo, i’ll look that up, but i give myself a bit more wiggle room with things that might be more nuanced than that.
wow anyway sorry for that insane digression, lmao. the short answer is yes. yes i do a lot of research when i write fic. 😂
1. what font do you write in? do you actually care or is that just the default setting?
i do care and i actually will change my default settings bc i care so much, it needs to be in arial. it’s the least distracting of the fonts.
4. what’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?
all variations of the word "break." i feel like it's underrated as onomatopoeias go, but i like that it sounds like what it is.
10. has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? has your own writing haunted you? what does that mean to you?
not to take this definition too literally but i read this short story when i was in elementary school and to this day memory loss in fiction makes me sick to my stomach. :) so if a thing can be haunting in its absence, you will notice i never, ever, EVER write memory loss fic, lol.
40. please share a poem with me, i need it.
oh sure! if you wanna get sad about the deep platonic bond between a pair of romantic poets who were besties you should read adonais, which percy bysshe shelley wrote as an elegy for john keats!
here, have an excerpt if you don’t have time to read the whole thing:
