five past midnight

This was hands down the most research-intensive fic I've done in years... with barely 1.3k words to show for it HAHAHA research for this story took up 14 whole pages of my working doc, between video screenshots and other things.

Despite its length, I'm pretty pleased with how this story turned out. I first came up with the idea of writing a story about Nishinoya and the world last March, when he was revealed to us post-timeskip for the first time. Freedom is tied so intrinsically to Nishinoya, the ocean, and to Haikyuu as a story, and I wanted to pay it tribute here.

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here I am with yet another new fandom, and this time it's wildly different from all of my other fandoms... while still feeling like I've come full circle back to my kpop days. anyway, I got into i7 not expecting that I would want to *write* for it, but apparently... not... I should have known that I would tumble right back down rarepair lane since that's What I Do but I didn't expect to end up with a rarepair that would intrigue me so much even with barely any canon interaction... sighs... also of course the two of them are my favourites, so ending up shipping them was a natural progression. I guess.

at gloaming, featuring Izumi Mitsuki & Kujou Tenn!! Mitsutenn!! 

( mitsutenn manifesto (canon + fic spoilers within) ) 

ok. ok. okaay. this is gonna be a challenging reflection to write simply because this was so Much of a fic in itself. it's the only one of my miya twins fics that I wrote post-chapter 381, since I churned out crossroads and game point right before 381 was released. in a way, happiness is the purest cumulation of all the thoughts and feelings I have been having since I learnt how the twins' roads split.

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 wondering if i should make this fic nonchronological.. because it has past and present elements in it but it doesn't seem to quite fit my current layout

this update is so delayed, i've been ridiculously caught up with schoolwork (and will be for the next month) but I really wanted to write a bit about molten gold before everything slips out of my mind.

manga spoilers ahead, so I'm placing it under the cut.

( >> molten gold ) 

what in the world, it's june already.

I'm stuck in a writing hole again?! or rather, I don't know how to start... I haven't head-written anything in a very very very long time and I miss the feeling... (or rather, I headwrote stuff for reincarnation au but didn't write them down so I forgot what I headwrote, wth).

Hmm... some heavy stuff under the cut, cos I was thinking about stuff again.

[whining about stats and a little bit about fandom. please don't disown me, even tho I'm always whining about this.]

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I extended my internship! until the end of June, but technically it's just a 3-week extension cos I'll be going away for a week lmao.

in other news, I had one of the worst nights of sleep I've had in a long time... must have slept too much during the day thanks to the meds, because I woke up at least twice in the middle of the night with thoughts of Ennomiyafuta plaguing my mind -________-;;; I was so pissed off at the muse, because why couldn't you come bother me when I was awake?!  

so last night I couldn't write anything at all - I was really distracted by the Kuroyaku art that I'd discovered plus Futakuchi wasn't cooperating so I got a total of three lines in, which was frustrating because Futakuchi is actually one of the few characters I can write without much hassle orz

my current goal's to write lighter stories (with nothing in our hands-esque) (which I am very disappointed few people are reading because!!! that fic was so fun to write!!! and reading it also makes me smile stupidly!!! but I digress!!! I do understand why people didn't read/kudo it but anyway!!!) because every single one of my recent ones have been heavy, both in angst, plot and world-building. I need something... cheerier. maybe not so much giving up the mindless fluff and plots, but moreso in adopting a lighter tone.

WNIOH was an experimental fic for me and I was really pleased with how it turned out. it was surprisingly easy to write - too easy, actually, to the point where I had to take a one month break before I went back to my usual writing voice for the little bits and pieces (heck, even in bits and pieces you can tell that I'm not at 100% serious voice yet). 

I would have liked to continue writing in that style, but I was worried I would grow too used to writing that kind of tone, which would leave me with consistency problems when I went back to writing Timeless (a damn valid concern, and I'm glad I did it because I seriously struggled with writing Sunrise after that).

the dumbest part of last night came after I was already in bed.

( the dumb part )

speaking of, I track all mentions of Kuroyaku on Tweetdeck and recently there's been an influx of Kuroyaku-related tweets lol but it's all because of the light novel sketch. 

me: "Yeah y'all love Kuroyaku but do y'all read the Kuroyaku."

yes, me being petty.

in other news, I've been playing with the idea of organising a Kuroyaku week............ but time, muse and... well, time and muse. but I'm starved for content and since everyone loves Kuroyaku--

as ritzfics says, "there can never be too much kuroyaku, in fact, there's NOT ENOUGH KUROYAKU". 

I shall. um. keep playing with it first. and get more opinions.

spent the last 6 hours of the day swinging between panic (for my overseas course application which is due at noon tomorrow and I am only just done with it), excitement (because 99 and 100 have been posted!!) and full out flailing (reading aritzen's fic and the last show for engeki and twitter mutual screaming about Karasuno Revival's dvd), so it's been a pretty wild day.

Here's what I thought about when I wrote Timeless 2.5, now officially Back Home.

( Long rant about Timeless, Ages and Back Home in here. )  

writing out Timeless 2.5 on paper now (while Elly shoots me Nekoma feels and Kuroyaku and Yakunoya and Nationals feels - I can't believe she's making me choose between my ships even though I'm so obviously Kuroyaku-biased cos I'm still weak for Yakunoya), and it's... a practice in writing kisses physical interaction lmao *hides face*

I'm so bad (aka I cringe) at writing intimacy, so I'm gonna practice till it's better. though maybe I'll still cringe. reading is usually fine, but writing it... yells. then again, I was terrible at writing fluff (aka: had never written a fluff fic in ten years, and would cringe at writing it) until I wrote the Yakunoya fake dating AU, and since then I've... gone and gotten myself addicted to domestic fluff :v (very possibly due to all the domestic scenes in Ages...) but at least I know firsthand that practice makes perfect lmao so... technically... all I need to do is write more kissing.... but at the same time.... there could be so many other things to write...

was thinking about my 'fallback' option yesterday - what I instinctively write when faced with writer's block, or when starting a new original piece, or whatever - and it wasn't difficult to find at all: war. specifically, dystopian war.

two of my best ever original fiction pieces (written for creative writing class) were about dystopian wars; the favourite universe that I've written
for hq so far is a war+dystopian au (that I'm trying to combine with Runaways, which is also another war+dystopia au);  Runaways was written on a whim when I was asked to write a Kawashira fic; my Kawafuta 'crossfire' soulmate AU was also a war AU before it became a soulmate AU..... orz 

nts before I forget: kono machi de ikiteiru