#qwillechatter

Not only has your writing been a huge inspiration for me, and encouraging me out of a years-long writer’s block—but it has also inspired me to actually engage in the DCA fandom, instead of watching from afar as I had been before. I got tumblr, made an ao3 account, and started commenting, posting, and interacting with people. It has been amazing! The internet was such a lonely place before, and my art didn’t get much recognition on other platforms. I’m very glad I ended up here, and on the GITM discord!

Question for you: How many chapters did you originally have planned/expect Act One to have? I know sometimes things end up needing more time and characters don’t always act as planned.. >_<

Ahhh thankyou very much!! I'm so happy that GITM inspired you to get more involved in the DCA fandom. I do think we are an abnormally friendly bunch all in all, and people are super welcoming to newcomers. The DCA community tends to lift eachother up a lot which is really really cool imo!

Ohhh how many chapters for act one originally... Originally I thought act one would be about 30 chapters, but that was a pipe dream. I didn't actually plan on writing Imbolc, it just appeared in chapter 11 during the dinnerparty scene and I was like, oh, wow, well, I guess this is a thing now! A lotttt of extra chapters got added after people expressed interest in the human characters/worldbuilding, to make space to tell a bit more of that part of the story! You can see when I began to get worried about chapter count because I started using less Tarot card names cause I was like, oh shit I'm going to run out of them really fast ahah. That being said, my earliest versions of act one had Ruin waking up at the end ! Ty for the ask <3 P.S Good luck and congrats on beating your writer's block!!

If you want to ask me a question or chat about GITM, please use misutamojis. I will always be happy to chat/interact publicly there!

Now I have a question for you lovely. What were your favorite moments in Act 1 or if there are too many, what were moments that were difficult to write? This is pretty much an opening for you to give any thoughts on the Act 1 scenes. (Also I have a quick sketch to go along with this ask so dm me if you want it <3)

Raaaaah Lynz thank you so much this is so so so sweet!!! This took me a little while to reply to as every time I open my ask box I look at it and pull this face:

So that's what I've been doing for the last half a year, not looking at stuff I dont want to and I thought that that would be fine. But, I'll be real, it's eating me the fuck up. I hate the idea that people I dont know are making this stuff en masse, even when I can't see it. Just knowing it exists feels bad. And I hate that I feel this way. I don't want to be the kind of person that tells people 'no you cant do XYZ', these feelings clash hugely with how I identify myself. I wanna be live and let live. As long as they aren't hurting anyone, its fine right?

But fuck. Lately its just been giving me this constant low level anxiety. I know I wont rescind the perms- I feel like that would be super shitty- especially after so many people have put so much effort into creating this content. And I don't know if I'm still gunna feel this way in a year or whatever. If I was fine with it before (when it was just a couple of people I knew personally) shouldn't I be fine with it now? What changed? Is it possible for my feelings to be valid and for them to be unfair at the same time? I'm trying so hard not to make my feelings other people's problem.