#zachfonse

happy pride, for you i have... this fic i don’t even particularly like

like don’t get me wrong i don’t hate it because if i did i wouldn’t post it but i genuinely do not believe this is my best work. i was just overcome w/ thoughts about bruno and alfonse’s first kiss and was like “... oh it’s definitely a thing where they kiss each other as teens and then never bring it up again because of who they are as people”. i really think i’m just like... trying to find my footing again when it comes to writing (i think this is the first fic i’ve posted this year that i’ve actually... written this year. pretty much everything else has been backlog)

this is... technically part of a series but i’m on the fence about posting the rest of the series or fixing it up or whatever. so it’s just this, i’ll go back and add a series onto it if i decide to post the other fics in the series (don’t get too excited because it’s basically just about alfonse’s first kisses with other people)

anyway yeah uhhhhh. gay people. it’s more about feelings than it is about kissing, this thing between alfonse and bruno that they don’t really act upon as teens for their own reasons (stuff i think i’ve covered before in my fics) but that they both know is there, and the moment they (or alfonse, at least) realize it’s reciprocated.

the no dialogue thing is intentional but because of it you don’t really get to know much about bruno’s thoughts which. is also intentional because. well yeah. despite being close friends alfonse also doesn’t have much insight into what’s going on in his head, particularly not at this point in time (bruno is keeping a lot of secrets). but it’s still something i don’t really like about this fic. i’d consider writing a companion piece from bruno’s perspective but i can’t imagine it being very fascinating because so much of it would be stuff i’ve said before. maybe i’ll post it directly on here if i do

i don’t think i single out lines much when i write these posts but

They were young at the time, and Alfonse, at least, still had much to learn about how the world worked. (He would learn these things in time, but none of that mattered much that night.)

this part gave me so much fucking trouble. the part in parentheses was, at one point, waaaaay more ominous-sounding and i had to tone it down. really it’s referring to alfonse joining the order of heroes to follow zacharias and the reactions he gets to it, which isn’t really fic-relevant but i felt the need to bring it up. it could also be about zacharias’s disappearance if you wanted to interpret it that way (which is like. way more relevant) but that wasn’t the intention

oh wow i cannot believe i have this much to say about this fic, this post is probably longer than the fic itself at this point. alright. wrapping it up with my favorite part since i am once more posting before work and so i need to get ready

q: do i need to sign up to participate?

a: nope! you just kind of. do it. and then you post it during brufonse week. no sign ups necessary

q: can i work on this ahead of time?

a: absolutely, that’s why i announce it so far ahead of time too, so people have the time to work on it... but also like even if i said no, i couldn’t really stop you since how would i know, lol

q: only five days?

a: that’s more manageable for most people than a full 7! i’ve seen ship weeks done both ways in the past so it’s not too weird or unusual

q: do i need to stick to the prompts?

a: it’d be nice, but i’m not gonna insist upon it or anything

q: what’s the purpose of the aus, why are they separate from the other prompts?

a: okay so i was envisioning it like you’d take one of the words and Maybe Also the au to come up with your piece. but like i said i’m not going to insist people stick to the prompt list, you can kind of do whatever. do the aus if you want or don’t, do them in addition to or instead of the paired word prompts if you want. i’m not gonna complain any way

q: do i have to do the full week?

a: nah, do what you want to do or can do, i’ll just be glad you participated

q: what kinds of things are we allowed to make for this?

a: whatever you want! art, fics, poetry, sprite edits, aesthetic moodboards, playlists, amvs... sky’s the limit. tho i will say if you DO make a moodboard, either take stuff you don’t have to source (like stuff from pixabay or w/e) or source it in your post

q: should we tag you in the posts?

a: yeah. like last year i’m gonna try to reblog everything to here. this year there’s also a twitter account that you can tag if you post to there too

q: is nsfw content allowed?

a: i’m not gonna stop anyone who wants to make nsfw content for brufonse week. however... i’m also not going to reblog any of that to here, sorry

q: this q and a part is basically the same as last year’s post