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WOW... okay.

thank you for the over 200+ messages that are tl;dr, just different ways of saying "are you alive" and "you are dead"... which is sweet, and i really appreciate it, genuinely! i am still very much alive and i'm a graduating student in university now. let's hope i graduate on time.

it's really nice to think that i've been writing since i was a nine-year-old in wattpad whose first fanfiction was a death the kid x oc. that was really shitty by the way. then one of my fanfics first blew up around 2014: a haikyū oc fic and a haikyū x reader one-shot collection. i was eleven... basically, writing fanfictions or just writing in general has always been my hobby and my passion. i used to dream about becoming a writer and being a published author. i enjoyed my very few classes that had us write stories and i always stood out then.

my writing style was a really sluggish process to perfect in a way that i was satisfied with it back then, so i'm really happy that a lot of people still find satisfaction and joy in reading my works. even though, looking back to it now, it was still very flawed. though, there were times i went like, "wow, i wrote that?"

anyway, in answering the question that i received a whole lot: where were you?

i was in university. what little spare time i had, i spent scrolling through tiktok and trying to catch up with my irl friends. it's really an understatement to say that university sucked the life out of me (is sucking the life out of me). but i'm about to go to my final year soon, so here's to hoping things will get better.

then i'm going to have to worry about grad studies, or maybe law school, or maybe working. i'm still not entirely sure. i'm stuck in that part of life where i have no idea where i'm going to go. been really having some financial worries because i'm graduating next school year, and getting the Grown-up Crisis.

i also went through two relationships back in 2025: the first one was great and just sad, because it really was a case of bad timing. the second one was ABSURD and the devil in disguise, i swear. i was so baffled with everything that i just laugh in disbelief whenever i think about it. but all is well. i'm safe and good.

are you finishing froggie?

i only have no urge to finish froggie. i enjoyed writing it for a while but then completely lost all inspiration and desire to continue writing it. i never liked bnha—i think i was frank with that. and jjk, honestly, it was a pretty mid series for me, and it was just a good universe to play around with because of what little and poor worldbuilding it had, and the potential it had to be something more.

i'm really honored that froggie is still one of the most popular crossovers in jjk, and i'm happy to know that people are still reading it, and still enjoying it. the most i could do right now is probably post a one last chapter of the summary of my original plans, but that's it, unfortunately.

thank you for understanding.

are you finishing any of your other fics?

i'm keen to finish sunday without god, only because it only has, like, i think one chapter left or two? and i've had the copy of the next chapter written up since 2 years ago and just didn't post it because i found it very long.

wataru wataru was initially my passion project and i'd love to finish it, but something about being "unolvrs" doesn't sit well with me. i will probably find the time to continue writing wataru wataru.

rain on my parade and kill the goose—well. i don't mind? but it wouldn't be my priority right now. i had a lot of plans for romp but again, i wrote romp near university or during university so i lost the urge. kill the goose has always been a short fic, so i might be able to finish it. i have no idea what to do with today, i, too right now.

are you going to come back?

again, i haven't been writing at all. the most i've been writing were back to back academic and research papers and articles, which made me a different writer now. the issue with AI use in ao3 is also troubling, and i don't want my fanfics to engage with that. i was also severely burnt out from writing and i don't even know what kind of fics i want to write anymore.

my current hobbies just consist of boring stuff right now; i haven't been engaging much with fandoms. but last year, i had plans for a superman fanfic and dc-centered fics but that fizzled out because of time and stress.

i want to continue writing, definitely. i honestly went back to this account because my uni friend and i talked about it, and it was a weird thing to share that "oh, i used to be a good ao3 author" and then we went back through my tumblr and account, and i got really sad. because before i dreamed about having a stable 9-5 job in a corporate machine, i wanted to be an author and i wanted to be someone who made art. now i'm just a college student trying to graduate well and sells pokémon cards on the side.

so to answer this question, i want to continue writing. i want to be someone who writes things people enjoy again. i might revamp this account and delete some works (just probably rain on my parade and kill the goose—of which i will provide original copies of in a google drive when i do).

i'll most likely change my username but keep using this account. think of it as a new version of uno who's just more of a grown-up right now. look forward to more realistic works, unfortunately. i like to think i've improved as a writer to an extent, as someone who has experiences in the real world now.

thank you for being patient with me and reading my works. if you have any more questions or things to say, please feel free to send a DM or anonymous message through tumblr. i'll do my best to reply to them.

from writing advice, to fanfic updates, and to whatever. feel free to ask them—or drop a DM on my discord: giratina.ex, or heck, contact me through my email: [email protected].

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have faith in me... i updated sunday after 3 years. there is hope.

i have a q regarding your writing style tho!! (bc i look through it a lot) but it's so interesting how different your writing style is in frog in a well to abalone on the shore. and then when you compare it to the mountains of kirishima (my favorite work of yours EASILY and i think it's also one of your most underrated works), everything's so different but so similar???

i LOVE LVOE frog in a well and how it deals with character studies but i would've never guessed (if i didnt know already) that the frog in a well writer wrote mountains of krisihima and abalone on the shore if that makes sense THIS IS A COMPLIMENT BTW!

and now, reading your new dex fic, i'm BLOWN AWAY by how different it also is. it's the same but DIFFERENT sorry idk if i'm making sense. it's so interesting how different your writing style here and oop this is getting way too long already !!

i love ur writing i hope i can just put u in front of me and ask all the writing advices ive always wanted to ask

AWWW THANK YOU! as much as i love to be the one whose writing you can recognize over multiple works, it's still SO much more satisfying when it's not that obvious tbh because they're vastly different genres! i also LOVE mountains of kirishima though i feel bad because i didn't get to put the glossary for that... because it has lots of layers but i think it's okay like this too even though it can be a bit overwhelming.

anyway, yes! thank you for noticing the writing styles. abalone and among dawn flowers have very similar writing styles but in different degrees to show the perspective and cultural background of the characters involved. i don't think you included your question in the ask but i'll assume it's about the writing style itself?

for example, tengai-san of among dawn flowers (the face of god) grew up in a traditional household and is a demure woman. what she notices are the little things: the hanakotoba, the architecture, the domesticity. here, i was heavily drawing on more traditional japanese classics, and relying on the atmosphere her room put her in. metaphors leaned to classical japanese fairy tales and it would go in depth, because that's what tengai-san knew and that's the way she would see the world: the difference between her and gojō (shinto v. buddhism, among the likes).

himawari of abalone on the shore, meanwhile, has a more dreamy and excited air to her, in my opinion. it's still melancholic but it leans more to modern classic japanese literature, in comparison to dawn flower's heavy traditional undertones. himawari's writing is a more self-centered style, i think. it's about how himawari gradually opens her world because all she's been thinking about is herself: the men in terms of herself, the children in terms of herself, etc. tengai-san's writing starts outside, if that makes sense? her narration starts from outside to inside because she's spent so much of life dreaming to be someone who belongs with the outside that she has lost what truly matters in the inside.

froggie, meanwhile, is a whole different story. it has a lot of characters and it's plot-driven instead of character-driven. the writing style is meant to be simpler and more engaging because it revolves around how the characters develop along the plot, and not how the plot develops along the character. it's supposed to be straightforward and honest in order to balance both sides of the fandom.

the new dex one (see better, lear) has a very, very self-centered narration. it's meant to be delirious and it spirals often, and much, much modern in comparison to the other two, so the writing style is truly VASTLY different.

i don't know how you do it but the way you describe emotions is so visceral and painful. it makes me feel like i'm actually living those experiences!!! i'd love to know how you take reactions to your fics like how you react to interpretations because as a follower of froggie, i know you said a lot of times that you get a lot of comments about the characterization (when it's really just a slowbuild character development)!

are there other works of yours you think are misunderstood too? hope you can share what you think of them!!! because as a beginner writer, i see myself getting angry when my characters are misunderstood and i end up overexplaining what's going on so that they can be understood in a way that i know them!! hope that makes sense

i love this question! (sorry guys, i'm still going through some dms and deciding which comments to reply to on ao3...)

but yes, especially in the first few chapters of froggie, i get some comments every now and then about how nobara and megumi are very arrogant and it's almost always like bashing on bnha side. and i totally get that! it's one of the cons of trying to write something slow-build with character development. i'm happy some of you notice the progression because writing that at first made me worried i'm pushing away the other half of my readers because of how i write the two's reaction to bnha.

in terms of how i take it, i just ignore it honestly... a written work is only a written work when there's someone who's going to read it! so i'll take the interpretation of people because it's still a huge part on my end that my work has a significant reaction to some people, whether positive or negative. though if i'm asked directly why x is like this or something, i'd love to answer!

i think some "misunderstood" work as well is among dawn flowers (the face of god). i love reading the comments and the reactions, and i'm glad it's receiving so much love but people's reaction to gojō really surprised me kind of. i know that's how i wrote him but i didn't think people would see him as really downright evil in it because i didn't mean to do something like that.

i wrote him a bit negatively, sure, but i didn't intend him to be read as downright cruel because everything was written in the reader's perspective, and the small glimpse of gojō's perspective was barely anything at all. it worried me so much i intended to write a chapter that was nearer to jjk storyline (megumi, etc.) but i didn't get to continue it. it's still rotting in my gdocs, but now, looking back at the other comments, i'm more inspired to post that one last chapter to show the gojō that i intended to write v. how the reader and readers saw him. which is valid though because he WAS cruel.

but i didn't want him to be read as JUST cruel and doing this just because.

thank you for the compliment :-D i've answered this question here and here, kind of. but those are outdated, i think.

for world building, i think the best anyone can do is read as much material of whatever series or fandom you're writing for. for example, i tend to prefer manga over anime because it's easier to sift through the specific chapters and pages. it's good to watch the anime too so you'll be able to see how the line is delivered and portrayed, which helps in writing the scene itself. for tv shows or movies, or books, same way.

reading the wikias help a lot too because it's easier to access information through there. that's really the best i can advice in terms of canonical worldbuilding. and i think the biggest advice i can give for worldbuilding is knowing when to stop and restricting yourself. a lot of writers have a lot of things they want to add, and that's understandable, but it can easily tread "being too much" really quickly. always ask yourself if it's realistic for you to add something.

for example, writing in the setting of an anime set in japan, you have to write in accordance to japanese culture. lots of writers tend to forget that or to ignore that, which makes the story feel less immersive and less real. like, i understand if the piece is supposed to be relatable but i think, what makes a world immersive is not showing things that people already know but writing foreign things in a way that would the readers understand. does that make sense?

anyway, re: characterization. like i always say, treat your characters as humans. there's no such thing as a perfect person. people are inherently hypocritical and contradicting—and there's nothing wrong about that. people aren't linear. and you also have to consider their background/history and their established personality. in terms of a flow chart, it could go this way:

background ↔ personality = your plan

in short, they have to make sense. background includes a lot of things: history, culture, and environment. people are inherently influenced by those things no matter what they do and no matter how they try not to be. the background influences the personality and the personality influences how a person deals with the background (i.e., surroundings, peers, etc.).

it sounds complicated when you put it this way and it'll probably make you think, "no way, you consider all this while you're writing."

at a certain point, it becomes instinctual. you stop yourself from writing whatever it is because "it's not realistic" or "it doesn't make sense." the fact that you know something is humane or something is ooc already helps, because then, you can correct yourself and consider what's the optimal thing to do.

basically, a lot about writing is about restriction and control. sure, writing lets you express yourself creatively but creativity without restriction is just a mess, in my opinion.

i don't know if this helps or make much sense but to add a last bit to this, i used to like making mock-wikia pages for character profiles so i can easily access the information i already have. i very much abuse google docs and the tabs so i can plan things out in a more organized way. of course, it's a bit of an overrated advice but everyone should keep reading books. KEEP READING!

thank you so much! and yeah, that's basically kind of what i felt while writing froggie. froggie was never really a passion project but something i wrote because i felt like it, and because it seemed fun to write then. but with its popularity, i felt like it was less something i wanted to write and more of something i had to write.

it was really fun at first and that's just one of the factors that affected my not continuing and my being burnt out. the fandom for both is also very, in lack of better terms, toxic. i'm kind of more happy and comfortable now going back to just writing what i want to write :-D

idk if you guys are into mcu or daredevil, but i've been into daredevil since i was in 5th grade, and come 8th grade (2018), i was absolutely in love with benjamin poindexter but i don't think i was a very good writer then. but seeing his new popularity, i was honestly inspired to write something for the first time in years.

so i hope you guys, if you're interested, check out this new fic i'm working on: see better, lear. my main inspiration for this, like the title says, is king lear by shakespeare.

in the middle of trying to get back on ao3 right now :-D and going through comments and inboxes. unfortunately won't respond anymore to questions if i'm alive hahaha because i am.

inbox is open for writing questions again because i'd be more than happy to answer them, especially how writing went back when i was doing my previous works. but now, honestly, i think i can give more advice on academic papers than prose...

I'm here from ao3 and was wondering if you've dropped any of your works? Cause I'm reading all of them lol. Your writing style keeps me up till 5 a.m. to finish reading. I love whenever you reference a topic especially the way you do it in your jjk works.

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that's so sweet!

i think i have dropped most of them but i think if i get into the mood, i might be able to continue some of them. wataru was supposed to be my grand project and i'm still very much eager to continue that. the other stories like sunday, romp, and kill the goose, were all meant to be short stories so those are more likely to get continued if i find the time and the energy.

LMAO

mhmm, tatara was something i wrote on wattpad and to be honest, the stories i posted on wattpad v. the stories i posted on ao3 felt like there was a significant difference in quality. so basically, i didn't think tatara was good enough and i didn't have the energy to make it good enough for ao3. i really had a lot of plans and expectations for tatara. to this day, her story is still one of my favorites.

big thanks for the compliment :'-) that's really sweet

i personally haven't been reading much fanfics since post-pandemic or just around the time i stopped writing, but what little fics i kind of still read are from the ones i found back in pandemic period.

thank you for the compliments!

so, i'm alive, and this is honestly long overdue. here, i'll be answering some frequently asked questions (just five because i barely have time for this) along with some rundown of what had happened to me recently, and why exactly i was inactive. and some of the expectations/things i want to change when it comes to this account and my ao3 account because guysss, i'm 20 years old! that's crazy.

as always, this will be obnoxiously organized. if you know me and you've been following me for a while, i hate messily-organized things. (which is hypocritical of me because my tumblr is a mess. tbf, when i started this, i had no idea what was going on.) some trigger warnings to take note of: there will be mentions of SA, p/dophilia, harassment, ED, and so. you can use this as a warning for whatever college experience you'll have.