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HAPPY FANFIC WRITER APPRECIATION DAY TO YOU AS WELL

I enjoy an ask that has no ask. We all could use more low pressure communications 😆

I forgot to add my questions on 😂😂😂😂 so HAPPY FANFIC WRITER APPRECIATION DAY AGAIN!!!!!

✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing

😐 What embarrasses you most about your own writing?

Oooooohhhhh 😆😆😆

✨ Lyrical, sexy, and well-researched (because what's sexier than research?)

😐 My complete inability to understand how commas work. I just toss them around like confetti and hope for the best.

Thank you for the asks!

For the WIP guessing game... kiss

After two months of want, of dark, naked longing, he finally–finally–kissed her. **This was more difficult than I thought it would be. There was plenty of kissing and kissed, but nothing interesting with the word kiss by itself.

"love" for the WIP ask game!

To him, it was between breaths, in silent gestures, where one measured love.

Thank you for the ask!

9 Favorite Movies Ask Game

9 of my favorite movies in gif form:

I'm awful at narrowing things down but let's give this a try. Thank you @wardingoffevil and @luckyqueenreign for tagging me! These are in no particular order. I could barely make the list, I'm not tryin' to organize it 😆

Jurassic Park

Collateral Brilliant film, but also the only movie I've ever found Tom Cruise hot in, which says so much fucked up shit about me 😂

Sense and Sensibility

Ever After

Galaxy Quest

Dan in Real Life

Real Genius

The Matrix

The Big Lebowski

Honorable mentions: Tangled, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Terminator 2, Bourne Supremacy, My Fair Lady, The Fifth Element, Office Space.

9 Favorite Shows as GIFS Ask Game

Thanks for tagging me @throughthejunobush 🥰

I literally could have listed at least twelve animated shows. I really love cartoons. I tried to balance it out with live action for ya'll. Again, this is a list that's gonna age the fuck outta me. Oh well 🤷 These are in no particular order.

Batman: The Animated Series: Visually stunning. Dark AF. The most heartbreaking portrayals of villains ever put on the screen. As a Batman fangirl, if you asked me which actor gave the best portrayal of Batman ever made, I would say Kevin Conroy in BTAS. It also had the best Joker. Don't @ me.

Supernatural: I'm not gonna explain it. It is what it is.

Daria: The character I've related to most in the entire world.

Forensic Files: Yeah. It's gross and horrific. I love it.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I'm aware that the creator is a fucking creep. But he formed so much of the way I write, I can't leave it off the list. Also, Zaddy Giles. That's it. That's the sentence.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Nothing to explain. It's brilliant. Although I'm gonna die mad about Zuko and Katara never getting together. They were literally fire and water. Clearly OTP. I. WILL. DIE. MAD. ABOUT. IT.

Futurama: Like most of this list, the show was a combination of vulgar humor and intense heart. It's a goofy cartoon about an idiot & a hedonistic robot. But it's also is about the nature of God. The pain of feeling utterly alone. The escapable heartache that hope can sometimes cause. And the power of love to survive when all else fails. Without an ounce of hyperbole, it also boasts the single saddest episode of any show ever created. Just the though of it is making me teary eyed while I type this.

Home Movies: I am still obsessed with this show. I also loved its precursor, Dr. Katz. It was hilarious but also did amazing work with its themes. The way it bookended episodes and the entire series. The juxtaposition of Brendan and Coach Mcguirk's journeys... It's just an extremely well-written show about a fucked up little boy and his even more fucked up father figure and how they navigate the world through self-delusion.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: My greatest love. Creator of my favorite Christmas song and my favorite Werewolf song. And it's also the reason why it's a bad idea to invite me over to watch ANYTHING. I will roast the fuck outta your favorite movie with unending snark. Also, no need to ask. The answer is Mike.

Please direct any complaints to my asks, where they will be promptly ignored 😆😘

Okay so I have NO idea what happened with your ask, @mrsbsmooth. I was in the middle of responding when it disappeared and auto posted? When I tried to pull it back and edit, it deleted. Luckily I screen capped it, so I added it as an image 😆 WTF Tumblr?

ANYWAY.

S: Fandom tropes I can't resist? Friends to Lovers (duh), Forced Proximity, Fake Relationship, Mutual Pining, Canon-Divergent or AU, Werewolves--is that a trope?

T: Fandom tropes I can't stand? Oooh, interesting. Pregnancy/Parenthood/Secret Baby/KidFics. Not my thing.

Thank you for the ask!

J: Write or describe an alternative ending to The Sun In My Eyes.

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting? (this is a call-out)

Thank you for the ask (I think) @longbobmckenzie!

J: Holy shit. Um.... hmmm. You really went for it huh? Okay, so... Bobby returns from CA and friend zones Lili just like in the game. Only Lili is pissed off. She finds out that he did what he did and she's like, well fuck this noise. She tells Noah not to choose her under any circumstances, knowing Bobby won't choose her. He doesn't. She gets eliminated. He's shocked. She's fine with it. She leaves without any fanfare or tears. Just silent, condemning acceptance that Bobby's an asshole. Then she goes home and licks her wounds and after a solid year of self-pity and hiding, Hope drags her to a show at the Liverpool Comedy Center where she meets a brand new, slightly terrible comedian named Bruno. When the NY Eve party occurs, Lili does indeed attend and she's about four months pregnant with a baby, that will have terrible taste in hairstyles, but will be delightfully snarky. Bobby is shocked and when he tries to talk to her, she has nothing to say because she's getting the D from someone who doesn't have a ton of baggage and she's happy. Bobby is sad and... I don't know. He fucks Priya in a broom closet and that's his low point to realizing he needs help. He doesn't get a happy, romantic ending. Just a hopeful, he'll be okay ending. Or maybe he'll bump into Emily and they'll fall in love. Yeah let's go with that 😆

K: Haha, oh mannnnnn. Honestly nothing is angstier than Lili's backstory. Jesus, I made myself cry with that one. Other than TSIME, I think it's the werewolf fic I've been noodling for ages, which would involve forced marriages and a TWENTY-FIVE YEAR SLOW BURN.

L: You are going for blood tonight 😂 I revise chapters at least four to five times. Let's see, first I write a ton of word vomit/nonsense. Then I go through and do a rough edit to make it make sense. Once it makes sense, I go back and fill in things. Then I pass it off to my beta Sam-- @throughthejunobush--hoping for validation that I'm not as bad of a writer as I believe I am. She gives me amazing notes. I agonize over every decision but eventually clean up the draft, stare at it for two weeks, while I eat candy and weep, obsessing over every detail and all the scene endings I hate. Then I sent it back to Sam and beg her to save me from myself and tell me it's ready to post. And she does. Then I still go back and edit it one more time, because of who I am inside.

It's not a PERFECT process, but it IS a sign of my mental instability 🤣

For the ask game: X, Y, and Z please!

Thank you for the ask @queen-of-boops! These ones are super fun!

X: A character you enjoy making suffer

Noah. His pain gives me such joy.

Y: A character you want to protect.

Hope. I adore her and I want only love and happiness for her. Seb and Arjun also. My sweet, snarky boys deserve all things that are good.

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

I will read it upon occasion. I like angst and pain. Hmm, I can't think of a character whose death I couldn't tolerate. I killed off Bobby AND Chelsea AND Seb in my spookyfic, so clearly I have no soul. Wait, maybe Thabi? There's something so gentle about her, I'd be crushed if I read a story where she died. Huh. I did not know that about myself.

For the fic ask game, S, T and Y please!

Hi @aislinnstanaka, thank you for the ask! I already answered these, so I screen capped them here.

Having done the character whose death I couldn't stand ask, I will add Thabi to the short list of characters I'd want to protect.

Thank you!

✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! 🏆 Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of 8 different people, who in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and out. ✨

I wasn't sure about Tumblr manners so these have been sitting in my inbox for a while. Thank you @richdesire, @aislinnstanaka, @luckyqueenreign, @brasister and the two lovely anons who sent this my way! 💖💖💖

Babe, for the ask game 13,21,26 please! ❤️

Thank you for the ask!

13. Are there any LIs whose route you haven’t tried but want to?

There are. I've never done a Jakub route but I've always been horribly curious. I hear he's a total sweetheart. And Angie. And Tom. Tom kind of grew on me.

21. Are there any popular characters you dislike? Why?

Noah: Ugh. I really hated the way he accused Hope of using her tears to manipulate him. I feel like he's cowardly and I find it shady that in order to show him you're serious, you had to steal the money. Every step of the way he made you prove yourself to him, including by hurting someone else, and meanwhile, he never took a single step to do the same for you.

Lottie: I think she's a shitty person. Just overall a complete bag of flaccid dicks. She's a brittle hypocrite who only likes you if you're not on Gary's route. If you are she's endlessly awful to MC. 0/10 would not be her friend.

Harry: I hate his personality. Something about him feels sketch. He gives me con artist vibes.

Suresh: I'm not actually sure of anyone's popularity in S5 but oh man, that's a character that triggers me. Like legit, I find him reprehensible. Hot, but reprehensible.

26. Which character do you relate to most?

Angie. I also have a wealth of sad/terrible/hilarious life stories, I'm snarky, and I've always struggled to let people in.

This was fun! Thank you!

11, 15, and 24 for the fandom asks! 😍

Thanks for the asks @longbobmckenzie! Whoo, prepare for my essays 😆

11. Which characters are your least favourite and why?

Ooh, okay, I'm go by season!

S1: is definitely Erikah. She's a spoiled baby who blames MC for her own self-made misery.

S2: It's a tie between Kassam and Jo. No matter how nice I was to Jo she was rude and entitled and mean. Kassam hurt my feelings by ignoring me and not falling in love with me and I'm still salty about it.

S3: Miki. She sucks. She's rude, in your business, self-righteous and she can see herself out. Also, her hair is stupid.

S4: This is a tough one. Cora annoyed me though I'm not sure why. She just rubbed me the wrong way. And Hazeem pissed me off because he didn't love me back. I went full Ani Difranco about that singing, "Fuck you and your untouchable face..." while scribbling little hearts with mustaches on them.

S5: Everyone except Lulu. They are all my least favorite. If I'm forced to pick someone in particular I'd go with Suresh because he legit upsets me. Not in an I'm annoyed way, but in a, I should probably call my therapist way.

15. If you had the power to make one character exist in real life, which character would it be?

Oh man, this one is difficult. I am stuck between Angie and Bobby. The sunshine or the starry night sky? I think I'd say Angie, just cuz we would have fun hanging out, drinking boxed wine, and being snarky.

24. Pick 3 end-game canon couples and tell us how long you think they lasted after the show.

Gary and Lottie: Okay so my head canon here is that it's gonna be an on-again off-again kind of relationship. So, initially I think they break up within a week. But then find themselves talking a lot and end up dating long distance and visiting frequently. But Lottie is both brittle and jealous and goes scorched earth, dumping him over and over. And Gary's sort of baffled and exhausted with the whole thing, but he keeps taking her back because the sex is good and he kind of likes the pain of someone bossing him around. Overall I think it's a solid three or four years of back and fourth before Gary is the one who finally has enough and dumps Lottie. But he meets someone new right away and that's the girl he marries and has many blonde haired, black-browed babies with.

Hope and Noah: If they lose, they don't even make it off the stage before they have another fight and break up. If they win, I think it would be rocky but they'd stick it out long enough for the reunion. At which point Noah sees MC, and is all swoony and sad and finally ends things with Hope. Then he pulls a Jake on MC to see if she'll leave her current partner for him IRL. And in my mind, because I'm mean, she's like… nah.

Jo and Rahim: I think they'd be in it for the long haul. Like I can see them getting married. But no kids. Jo ain't got time for that. But I think eventually Jo would get bored and I 100% see her cheating and getting busted because she's an awful liar. But I think they'd work through it and Rahim would eventually take her back. He's very jealous so it would take some time, but I think they'd make it through.

Man, I put way too much thought into these 😆

Lobster tale? 😅

LOL, I think I wrote a single chapter back in 2012 or something. Back when I was a newbie novelist. It was basically a rom-com about a woman who owns a seafood restaurant and it's close to closing. But there's rumors that a famous food critic, who goes undercover, might be coming to their restaurant and it could make or break her. Spoiler: It doesn't go well. A couple has a LOUD breakup that disrupts everyone's meals, there's yelling about ass-eating (don't ask), and things get worse.

"Take your fucking phone!" She threw that too. "And take your meal. I didn't even want this salty-assed, overpriced seafood!" The frothing woman grabbed the platter off the table and hurled the entire contents of it. Since the coward was behind her, the three-pound crustacean came hurtling at Danielle’s face. Mister Butter Guy jumped in front of her. It all happened so fast. The lobster nailed him in the nose. He fell backward onto Danielle, buckling her knees and sending them both to the ground, corn cobs, redskin potatoes, and spicy Cajun lemon butter raining down on them.

Thanks for the ask, Saga! 😘