Whatever it takes

Reminder that top =/= dom

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Charlie.exe has stopped working

yeah! the line is 生きたこと…褒めてほしい/ikita koto... homete hoshii!

生きたこと/ikita koto is a conjugation of the verb 'to live' (生きる/ikiru) that puts it in the past tense and turns it into a noun phrase- so like 'my survival' or 'the fact that i lived.'

褒める/homeru does mean 'to praise,' and 〜てほしい/~te hoshii is a way to say you want someone else to do something (since, like i've mentioned before, the ~tai form is only for saying what you want to do). so 褒めてほしい/homete hoshii (which is also the part of the phrase that's the chapter title) is 'i want you to praise me', and the whole sentence comes out like 'i want you to praise me for the fact that i lived'!

LIVE STRAW HATS AND FANS REACTION:

if we post too fast, we get accused of using ai (no, you don't know how fast someone can write. you don't even know if the "too-frequent-to-be-human updates" you see are something that have long been finished and sitting in an author's drafts for god knows how long. just because it's recently posted, doesn't necessarily always mean it's recently written too. a lot of writers finish the whole thing first before they start posting it chapter by chapter).

if we take "too long to update", we get people pressuring us to "update faster" even though fanfics are our hobbies and we write for ourselves first and foremost.

if our works are grammatically correct, we get accused of using ai (some of us just love correct grammars).

if our works are not grammatically correct, we get insulted/criticized (mind you, not everybody writes in their native language. kudos to writers who write in their second, or third, or fourth language — I'm willing to bet a lot of people who criticize fanfics because of poor grammar can't even speak other languages besides english).

if our paragraphs are "too long and too detailed", we get accused of using ai.

if our paragraphs are "too short", we also get accused of using ai.

if we are autistic and we write in ways some deem "too robotic", we get accused of using ai.

Neither of them may know each other as well as they used to, but they know themselves better than they did before. They know who they are, and they know what they want. When Vaggi moves her lips against Charlie's, she understands what she feels and she's happy to accept it. Happiness, desire, fondness, and content. It's so much better when you've grown into who you were always supposed to be.

Charlie's just a very supportive friend, that's all

Chaggie Week Day 6: Tail/Wings