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Fandom trash ficwriter. Should be sleeping. Or writing. Probably yelling about fictional people.
Morally questionable 2D men and menacing 2D women are my weaknesses.
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Anonymous duckling · 19d
Top 5 bsd characters and do u dislike anyone in bsd?
Measuring by my eagerness to write about them, my top 5 is:
1. Kunikida
2. by a small margin, Dazai
3. Ango
4. Oda
5: Tied between Alcott and Fukuzawa
Nowadays there are no characters I hate. The ones I used to HATE hate I'm now indifferent to. I'd rather not disclose.
Anonymous duckling · 19d
Drop one bsd take that may or may not get you cancelled
I have multiple, here are the more novelty ones.
1: there is a canon pairing in bsd (it's not knkdz). there might be more than one, but I'll have to look into them some more.
2: "Ango did nothing wrong" in the same tone of "Homura madokamagica did nothing wrong".
3: I totally understand and endorse the changes in artstyle for the anime.
4: Yosano is far more interesting to me if she's depressed, traumatized, somewhat irresponsible, bordering on alcoholism, and with shopping as an unhealthy coping strategy.
5: I don't mind the mildly sexual jokes in bsd. I'm an adult and this is a show for adults. Other anime out there have it FAR WORSE.
6: Asagiri isn't as averse to sprinkling romance here and there as people claim he is. What I think he meant when he said he "can't write romance" was he can't write a romance PLOT (or subplot), following the traditional stepping stones of what a romance arc is supposed to be.
Anonymous duckling · 19d
How did you get into knkzai?
I answered a similar question a while back, but tl;dr I wrote a knkdz fic once and they've been living in my brain rent-free since. I'm gonna link the other answer in the replies!
Anonymous duckling · 19d
Do you prefer writing fics in portuguese or eng?
Portuguese, no doubt. I have no emotional attachment to English as a language. It is a tool to me. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. I use it. If money wasn't a problem and I had a translator I could 100% trust, I'd pass on the task of translating my fics to someone else. I don't hate translating either. It simply is a chore.
Anonymous duckling · 19d
Which of your fics are you most proud of?
In terms of effort, that would be Age Fourteen, as it's long and time-consuming.
In terms of which one I like best, I have a lame answer: that's asking me to choose a favorite child. I'm always the most interested in the story I'm working on at that moment. I'm the type to simply not write premises I find uninteresting, so if I picked up an idea, I find it worth writing.
Anonymous duckling · 19d
Whats the best and worst fandom uve been in
The best in terms of my personal experience were Touhou Project and BSD itself. BSD fandom is much more tolerable if you stay out of the big ship spaces. People talk about other things and characters, with characterizations I agree more lmao. I didn't get to befriend people in the Touhou fandom, my enjoyment of it came from the loads upon loads of fanworks.
Worst was probably Naruto in its heyday? I think. Honorable mention to RWBY, which I wanted so badly to get into and the fandom's infamy deterred me from that.
Anonymous duckling · 1mo
What made u start shipping knz?
Paraphrasing my tumblr post from a while back:
Ironically enough, writing it made them take over my brain. I watched the show in late 2022 and had 1 (one) plot bunny one year later [What If I Stay?, my most-read BSD fic]. Despite shipping fictional pairings all my life, I didn't ship much of anything in bsd back then. I didn't pay "the popular bsd ships" any mind, looked at knkdz, and went, "yeah, they're haha funny, if I were to ship something it'd probably be this".
Writing that fic was only to get the idea out of my brain so that I could focus on other stories. It forced me into a deep dive in their dynamic. I was in-between fandom phases with other stuff at the time [MHA, Ace Attorney] and my newly found love for knkdz took over my life.
I've always been one to like "annoyer and annoyed" + "silly and serious" + "smart people who make each other stupid" + "undying trust despite the bickering". They check all boxes for things I've liked across the years, with the exception of being male/male.
Anonymous duckling · 1y
Do you like grapes or lemonade though? 🤔
yeah, do you happen to sell them? :3c
Anonymous duckling · 1y
You don't know how tempted I am to spam you with lyrics from the duck song
hold on, let me google something. (...) yeah this is funny. go ahead?
Cio · 1y
if you had to pick one, what's your favorite trope for kunikidazai? is it a trope you see used a lot in fanworks, or one you wish you saw more?
that's a difficult question. they're versatile in tropes they can pull off well thematically. I do like writing or thinking of them sharing a bed, where it's new and odd at first, then they grow used to it, then can't live without it. basic in terms of what romantic ships do, but it's a classic for a reason.
one thing I think they'd do, no matter the universe, is sobbing or having a mental breakdown in the other one's arms. this is part of moments they and only they get to see. like an inner world where only the two are allowed. it's new to them to have someone there when they're at their lowest. scary and oddly comforting. I can't tell if it's my actual favorite kndz trope, or if it's widespread, as I don't read a lot of fic these days.
I don't see a lot of talk, however, on kunikida getting the occasional scolding/behavior callout. this man is far from perfect and knows it. and it's actually good for him to have a rude awakening on occasion. at a first glance, it seems like dazai has no leg to stand on in regard to telling someone off. sometimes he is right, kuni is wrong, and dazai develops the guts and the intimacy to say so. this for sure I'd like to see addressed more often.