#sunmoonandspoon

my NOTP too | I don’t ship it | it’s okay | I ship it hard | OTP 

12) your weaknesses as an author

Completing projects, fscking pacing, having characters who move and act rather than staring around thinking about things. Also, I'm still figuring out how character arcs work.

13) your strengths as an author

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they? GOD. ok. of course you’d ask this one. alright i hate to admit it but chuck palahniuk probably influenced me whether i like it or not because i had bad taste as a teenager but those were also my formative years, so... but also the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, i think because it taught me to not be afraid of a more conversational narrative, to write more authentically to my own experiences, even filtered through characters who don’t look or act like me. it still feels like that’s not fully the answer... but it’s what i have for now. 

21) what do you think when you read over your older work? sometimes, affection. even work from as recently as three years ago still has problems, things i wouldn’t do today, but there’s plenty of brilliance, of writing that squeezes my heart. i look at some of what i wrote seven years ago, and there’s so much worth saving. i know you know what’s in my 2009 nano, and while there are plenty of parts i regret, there are still passages that make me feel exactly what i know my past self intended to evoke, feelings of tenderness or quiet dread or outright terror. i’m proud of how far i’ve come but the quality of my current work didn’t spring out of nothingness. 

I really want to take a minute to appreciate teachers and teachers’ assistants and anyone who cares for and manages a lot of kids every day. I spent an hour and a half playing with two very energetic kids yesterday and, even though it was fun, it wore me out. You guys are in a classroom with anywhere from 20-35 kids (or more, depending on grade, school, learning levels, etc.) for several hours a day whether you feel like being there or not. I’ve never had any teaching experience or much experience with kids at all, but I know it is incredibly difficult work that deserves more recognition than it gets.

I’m not applying this to just children either, I mean high school kids, middle school, any age group. You’re not just there to watch them, you’re trying so hard to TEACH them something, to engage them, to motivate them. You care for them, whether it’s on a personal level or not, even if you don’t like every single kid.

I can only speak as someone who was a student, and the appreciation unfortunately does sometimes come later than it is warranted, but I can tell you that you never know whose life you’re changing. I can say I’ve had several teachers whose names I remember fondly because they cared, because they knew how to make the material interesting, because despite maybe having over 100 names total to learn and remember, they DID remember all our names and often remembered them long after I was in their class. 

i don’t think it is–when i hear about this stuff from you it just makes me happy that you’re having some success. money is really important, and the idea that it’s a forbidden subject has always struck me as super classist and weird.

Wally!

their blog url

travelingwithmyguardian.tumblr.com.

the kind of posts they reblog

art of pokemon, disability resources, medication resources, the use of pokemon as support animals. also, when May becomes more prominent, he reblogs official announcements and news about her

the first person they followed

May, and then Norman. (Well, the official gym tumblr, at least.)

what kind of theme they’d have

something calming in greens and blues, and easy to read.

what kind of text posts they make at 2am

self-depreciation, though half laughing. also “you know i feel like my pokemon REALLY UNDERSTAND ME i’m not just saying that” types. he’s rarely awake then, though.

Mikami!

their blog url

forthepurposesofjustice.tumblr.com

the kind of posts they reblog

commentary on current cases, arguments on legal procedure, and lectures on the nature of justice. rarely pro-kira posts.

the first person they followed

Interpol, the official tumblr of all his local police forces, kiraofficial. (in that order)

what kind of theme they’d have

black, white, red accents. straight lines and elegance. resembles a notebook.

what kind of text posts they make at 2am

tofukitten answered: omg D:

*hides in turtle shell and also under a pillow* thank youz but yeah. gaaaah.

cateringisalie answered: It certainly sounds like it should have been!

sunmoonandspoon answered: what the actual fuck??? yeah, you should definitely have been told about that!! i hope you didn’t take it?