āļø ā¢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
šæ ā¢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity
š„ ā¢ name one internet reference that will always make you laughĀ
āļø ā¢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?
i would give my left kidney for a long, brutal, slow burn fic from @littlelindentree for kastle. i am so serious. y'all think i'm joking but i'm not playing i'm an organ donor and i am ready. in unrelated news: still begging u to watch the punisher, linds!
šæ ā¢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity
writer's block fucking sucks, but it happens to everyone. go for a walk. read something new. don't try to force your way through it if you really can't make the words flow. let yourself rest and recharge. dormancy is part of a healthy creative cycle!
low creativity also sucks, but i feel like it's much easier to fix! switch up what you're reading/watching! dive into a genre you've never read. pick up some nonfiction. get your brain moving in a new direction and your creativity will follow!
š„ ā¢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh
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Iām sorry if Iām asking this to the incorrect tumblr for you, but something you said the other day really festered in my brain? It was about Stevie and Milo and the whole āI could have loved you longer but now maybe I can love you betterā sort of thing.
When I was reading whatās your vibe I found it delightful and very true to life that they knew all the same people, particularly in a smaller city and a smaller lgbtq+ community within it.
Something about them is that they felt very cozy to me, and I think a lot of that was from the fact that there was this built in safety net of knowing the people they both surrounded themselves with. How important was the mutual friends aspect to them and their love story, do you think? Does it inform any other aspect of their relationship in a way that is surprising or not obvious?
(my āofficialā author/book tumblr is @katmajik but honestly it doesnāt matter, iām always reblogging relevant posts back and forth between here and there anyway)
prepare for yet another one of majās patented long-winded responses as she talks in circles until she tuckers herself out and maybe somewhere in there she actually answers the question too (and fuck it, hereās a link to book stuff for anyone passing through whoās interested, the marketing never stops, babyyyy):
iād say the circle of mutual friends is pretty like, 99% integral to how their romance develops. in different ways, they both need to feel safe, and having those connections establishes an immediate comfort between them.
they meet in a nice neutral environment, milo as a sales rep and stevie as a customer, but their personal connection really clicks in their second meeting at the bar. and while milo has a trustworthy energy, the reason stevie feels safe enough to let him drive her home is because dottie gives the green light. like, just speaking as a single woman, iām not getting in a car with some dude and letting him see where i live unless i have some references.
milo needed to meet someone with those references too, more on an emotional level than pragmatic. heās been utterly crushed by past relationships, made to feel smaller and smaller because of his disinterest in sexāwhich soon became a discomfort because of all the pressure. if he was going to open up to someone new, it had to be someone he felt safe with, and stevie is a safe person by default. itās just a bonus that thereās a lot of overlap between her experiences as a bi girl and miloās as a demi guy (in terms of stereotypes and expectations), and the fact that stevieās also been on the heartbreak end of how sex can ruin relationships, so she Gets It.
milo and stevie both talk about how easy the other person makes them feel, how easy it is to be togetherāwhich is, in part, just their natural energy together, but itās also because they have that assurance from people they love and trust, namely dottie and tatum. if they hadnāt met by chance, dottie would have eventually set them up, as soon as milo dropped any sort of hint that he was ready to meet someone (tatum wouldnāt have connected the dots as quickly, since she knew milo more in passing than intimately, but as it stands she knew enough to give stevie a thumbs-up).
re: how these connections affect milo/stevie in maybe-surprising ways... well, i will say, since iām firmly in soulmates campāwhich is one of the big themes threaded into their relationshipāeven without the mutual friends, milo and stevie would have met and gotten together; the get-together just would have taken a bit extra.
same thing if theyād met earlier, via friends or otherwise: they would have made it work, but it would have been more of a shuffle into love than a jump.
as it is, though, stevieās anxiety is such that she struggles to have a smooth and easy time with just anyone, so having that mutual friends connection is pretty straightforward for her: itās like a comfort blanket. and milo has spent three years nursing an incredibly tender wound that stripped him of any pride in his identityāheās a romantic whoās been made to feel like all the love he has to offer isnāt enough unless he āproves it.ā but stevie makes milo feel secure because she straight-up tells him things like, āi like you just the way you are,ā and even though milo does have some trouble accepting that, he deep-down knows itās true because if it werenāt, dottie would have warned him off this whole situation. he knows itās safe to move forward with stevie; his issue is more that he needs to find peace with himself to move forward.
and that, i think, is the big way their friends play a partāitās in all the conversations milo and stevie have around each other, with dottie and tatum and penn and artemis, all of whom see this thing bright and clear. itās like... falling in love always feels like the Biggest Deal In The World, right, but for the people outside of it? itās just another thing thatās happening. milo/stevieās friends are very much āwell obviouslyā about them, but well obviously has never been milo or stevieās experience with love; itās never been that easy. they need to dig into themselves to believe that this time is The time, and itās their friends who talk about it in very sensible terms. that matter-of-factness kind of smooths out the dramatic edges of the thing.
for me, i guess i just think that falling in love isnāt a two-person activity? love is a community effort. we need to talk it through, examine it and assess it and figure ourselves out, especially when weāve been through the ringer with it before, and who better to help us with that than the people who already love us?
I know you don't share your name for your original work which is totally fair, but I'm so curious about it! Did you write fanfiction or original work first?
Hello, my dear!! Writing asks are my favorites š
Iāve always had stories in my head but never bothered picking up a pen (or opening a laptop) to write until Jonsa hit me like a wrecking ball in ā16. I spent over 5 years and wrote 3 million words of fanfic about those dummies (I loved it so much!) while slowly learning a bit about writing.
But last year, there were some real asshats coming into my inbox while a couple of friends pointed out thereās real money to be made in original romance. In February, I nudged the door closed on my fics and started writing my first novel.
A year ago, I never really thought I would do it but Iām going for it, having a great time and making some actual cash money at this side hustle while Iām at it š
Iām protective of my pen because, unfortunately, thereās bad apples in every fandom and thereās a bottom line involved now. But if asked privately by people I trustā¦ š
For the assumptions thing, I have two: 1) you love animals 2) you prefer tea to coffee
Correct, on both counts!
I love animals (and they love me lol).
I really drink neither, but I definitely prefer tea to coffee. I think I just need to find more tea flavors that I love. I know I like blackcurrant and hibiscus from my London trip!
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Iāll go with ASOIAF/GoT because I think thatās what you followed me for?
2.Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?
Iāll go with Jon/Dany here. Many people *coughbaecough* have told me that theyāll most likely end up hooking up in the books as they already did in the showĀ but I just donāt get why they have to? Idk, I prefer them as bros.
8. Have you received anon hate? What about?
Not that I can think of? Not anon hate as Iāve seen some people get, like, death threats and shit about my ship choices. I have gotten some less savory comments on fics but those are still pretty tame and not what I would call anon hate.
23.Unpopular character you love?
This is from my personal experience with the fandom since I joined it, but. Catelyn Stark.
