#tricky speaks

I am still gutted we didn't eat that. I'm weak for a good pastry. Granted, I would have probably demolished the whole thing by myself.

I reckon Nik has a thing for Gimmick Food, but not the kind where you go to a random diner in the arse-end of a Red State to complete some kind of Jumbo Pizza challenge and get a t-shirt. It has to be Top Notch and worth the money.

Business femme paintjob

Post war I imagine Sterling goes back to what her original job essentially was: personal assistant/secretary. Professional job, professional paintjob. 

like. it's already hard to get myself to write anything. now it feels like there's just a whole crowd of people heckling something that brings me even the littlest bit of temporary comfort and that kinda fuckin sucks.

Your oc may be wonderful and intriguing, they might be the best thing ever, they may be exactly what someone else wants to read - but they are not a reader insert when they have a fully defined personality and past, as well as complete physical features. That is not a reader insert. Stop tagging it as a reader insert.

"But then no one will read it" People are avoiding it anyway. Even if they open your fic and discover it is an oc and not a reader insert as advertised, they are immediately abandoning that fic I'd say about 8 out of 10 times.