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well it all gets worse really

the nose being unnecessarily big and the earlobes? then again this is the same person who called flame privileged for a black man and made an au where he’s muzzled branded n practically enslaved so 💀💀

5) only recently! my lovely friend zee looks over my things more often than not which helps a lot. 9) usually in order because it's easier for me to know how i'm going to write a later scene. but that's more a work-to-work thing.

strawpage answers that i didn't already reply to in comments: 17) definitely literary fiction. i love focusing on character more than plot, which you can tell by seeing how many of my works are just two people having conversations. 4) not super long. maybe half an hour or so

i know it's been like years and years but... maybe send a number my way :3 beforetime.straw.page

@SkittingCat the fic) and looked through travel blogs and reddit accounts to see what regular people thought of the cities / communities they ended up crashing in. + one scene where ekko talks about a painting by van gogh, which i had to look thru a lot of his works to settle on

@SkittingCat 11) definitely mango dripping, which is an arcane modern au where they went from one side of america to the next. i had a google maps tab open to keep track of the journey, what motels and restaurants they'd end up at (every place i chose was real, even if it was left unnamed in

@tunaclams tyty! 6) in bed, one specific playlist full of alt songs on, scrivener open after 10pm 18) kidfics... i think they're so fun to read they're a guilty pleasure of mine

@beforetimez 6 and 18 !!! welcome back hope you’ve been doing well :3c

@ydmnnn 10) if i'm writing multi chapter fics lately i'll try to map out everything i want to happen from beginning to end, but for one shots it's more go with the flow 13) being able to sit down and write every day 🫠 i write so slowly when i'm not locked in...

@beforetimez HAIII GOAT maybe 13 and 10.. 🤔?

@box_a_spinners 1) leftover faces - first uu fic i ever wrote and i still really like the way i worked thru what i wanted to while not straying too far from the og characters 2) when i'm listening to songs or reading novels 8) blackbird humming... one day i will finish it!

@beforetimez its timez time 1 & 2 & 8 :3c

uu spoilers / in love with the fact that parrot acknowledges how much pull lettuce has as a charismatic leader, even from prison under the castle

uu spoilers / there's something kind of sad about reina trying to hand out food after joining parrot to get revenge for her friend who starved to death just to be rebuffed and shunned

@box_a_spinners !!! congrats !!!

your girl just got a bachelor's degree :D

@tunaclams yes! it's fun. that's why i liked the moment in the first vid of his king's arc where he went down to talk to lettuce about not being able to get people to follow him

@beforetimez vulnerability arc for all protags True but also i rlly like the contrast between his need to be viewed as saviour/leader and the insecurity of being disapproved of and distrusted. im rlly liking the many povs we get of politics + war between protags

"lowkey wish parrot had a little bit more aura as king it feels like he's getting disrespected left n right" -> yeah but i'm also thinking it's purposeful. i've been turning over the idea that this arc is for the protags to be brought down to their lowest beforetime.straw.page

@midoltang yeah like they wouldn't really see the behind the scenes of him trying and failing to help people, just experience and feel the weight of large failures over smaller wins

@beforetimez civilians in terrible and destitute situations typically don't give a shit about bureaucracy and this is why people don't listen to what parrot's got to say. what's a guy who (assumedly) is unfathomably powerful and doesn't get any of their struggles going to say to fix it?

i need to get practice in but i like sharing my work too much to hoard my docs

if i ever wrote and posted some og short stories on my ao3 would you tap in?

@beforetimez now this. this is truly our torchflower polarity

if i think about uu!fluxarata angst my chest starts to hurt.