Just an undercover fanfic writer, mostly for SasuNaru (though there may be some Homestuck soon). If you find out my usual internet identity keep it on the down-low, hear? But feel free to message me or whatever. In fact, feel free to message me regardless!
Time to rant about the latest Naruto chapter(s)! There’s gonna be spoilers (and also it’s a really long post… now imagine getting one of these on a regular basis and you know what it feels like to be my beta) so I’m putting this under a cut. As a writer I just really wanted to do a bit of analysis on the story and what I think is working or not working, mostly involving Sasuke.
j45to7 asked: Hi! About that "put the title in your askbox" thing... This Is Home?
Sorry I left this for ages!
Little known fact about This Is Home: Sasuke hates living with Naruto’s disorganization and his lack of hygiene and his snoring and his complaints and his ramen and his hyperactivity. But not once does he ever regret his decision.
HERE IT IS GUYS thanks for waiting so long have nearly 10k words ok bye /sleeps forever
Anonymous asked: heeey r+f! do you have any fanfiction pet peeves??
DO I. I don’t read fanfiction much (my fanfiction consumption has been picking up lately, but it’s all been Homestuck), but I used to devour it pretty much without discrimination. This was a bad move on my part. I ended up reading a lot of bad fics which have affected my character headcanons in bad ways. It’s part of why I still struggle to write Sasuke and Naruto in character - my idea of IC for them is much broader than I’d normally consider for other characters. I’ve been told I still do pretty well, but mistakes tend to scar me. Okay, that sounds a lot more dramatic than it really is. But every time I think back on my old fics, including Two Face, I just ask myself how I could ever have thought that was IC. Even now I write Sasuke too caring, Naruto too smart. I have to fight it and a lot of the time I just don’t want to. Sasuke’s a horribly flawed and selfish person in a way that makes him hard to write sympathetically. (Ironically I seem to be angering my readers more regarding Naruto in L.U.S.T., though.)
But anyway. Despite all that, OOC characters really bug me, which I guess would be hypocritical except that a] I’m aware of my own failings and b] I’m always working to fix them. Another pet peeve is bad spelling and grammar. Awkward sex scenes can be pretty bad too, though that is entirely a personal preference and is a bit of a wild card - I couldn’t say exactly what makes a scene good or bad in my eyes, but I’m very picky about it. I’m really picky about fic in general, to be honest. If I’m not captivated, more likely than not I’ll just close the tab.
I know a fic is good when I’ve been reading for ages and can’t stop, and then when I do I feel strange pulling out of the world in which I’ve become immersed. When the fic starts tinting the way I see the world for the next day or two. When the vocabulary of my head voice and sometimes even my out-loud voice starts to shift towards the vocabulary of the fic, of the narrator. I’ve read a couple of Homestuck fics lately that have gotten me saying motherfucker and “coddammit” a lot.
Anonymous asked: I was wondering, why do you ship sasunaru? You write them so perfectly btw<3
If you’re asking about the history of why I ship SasuNaru, you won’t find it. It’s been lost to the ages by way of my horribly selective memory. I may have shipped it before I knew what shipping was. It may be surprising to hear that I’ve always found the joke kiss at the beginning of the story really kind of awful and cringey. Playing the kiss for humour actually ruins the ship a bit - oh, haha, they’re not gay and they kissed it’s so disgusting look at them suffer.
Why did I just go on that tangent? Anyway, I’ve already answered this sort of question before, and I’d do it again but I’m really busy right now but I still want to answer you anyway! So I shall direct you to this post as well as my 30days tag where you can see all sorts of musings I’ve had about SasuNaru. And if you still have questions that those posts don’t answer, feel free to send me another ask! I’ll get to them sometime after my deadline tomorrow.
So yesterday at uni someone was looking for animation reference of people getting punched in the face, so someone else brought up a video of the Sasuke/Naruto fight at the valley of the end
and
i
SQUEALED.
Good to know my OTP is still intact… My fandom priorities have kind of switched over to Homestuck lately, but watching that video, I could hardly contain myself. Tumblr’s broken something deep inside me that stopped me from going berserk at the slightest feels.
And now back to your regularly scheduled dashboard.
Summary: Sometimes he’s rough. SasuNaru.
Words: 1663
Warnings: abuse, probably dubcon, borderline explicit sex, somewhat graphic violence or description thereof, lots of injuries and generally negative feelings. A lot of suffering. Definitely not a happy ending. I don’t know how to do warnings.
Part one of the chapter summaries! Note that these are notes written for myself more than anything else, based on how much I know and what I think is important for me to remember for my redux. These notes are not really a synopsis of any sort; for example, if you’ve never read Two Face, you’ll probably have no idea what’s going on, but there will still be spoilers. Ultimately these are for my own use, but you’re free to read them if you’d like.
I’ve written the first 10.1% of chapter summaries for Two Face. They’re really utilitarian and basically just pick out the key points of each chapter in terms of events as well as a few notes on setup/foreshadowing/etc. I’m not yet including a lot of stuff about what I’m going to change in the original redux, since that will come later. But especially the beginning of Two Face is really simple and doesn’t have a lot to it.
In any case, does anyone want to read them? I could document them here in tumblr posts every time I get another 11 chapters done.
I’m only just now starting to feel like I’m getting the hang of chapter 28, and even then I’m not sure I’ve hit all the points I need to. I keep writing and editing and rewriting it and it’s just not doing what I want it to. Due to this, there are an awful lot of outtakes, little snippets of writing I almost certainly won’t use in the chapter. I’ll post them here for you, but know that these are technicallyMASSIVE SPOILERS THAT YOU SHOULD NOT READ UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY SURE YOU WANT TO.I guess you could call it a “sneak peek” but it’s going to be really spoilery stuff and also is not what actually happens in the story, so don’t get confused or anything.
You’ve been warned. Outtakes under the cut; “takes” are separated by long dashes. Stuff in square brackets is added for context.
I just realized that when I’m stuck on writing L.U.S.T. I end up having absolutely nothing to write.
Send me some angsty/fluffy/sexy/feelsy SasuNaru (or other team seven pairings) prompts to write! I want inspiration to whip up some quick blurbs. I hereby challenge you to send me a prompt with as much intense emotion as possible. Make me feel the pain or the love or the hatred so that I can channel it into my writing.
Just a quick scribble before bed, a couple hundred words of Sasuke <3< Naruto Ninjastuck. Blackrom is hard to write. This is nothing stellar; I just needed to get it out of my system.
Be warned: this is xenoporn. Bulges and nooks abound. Do not click “read more” unless you’re okay with tentacles and alien hate sex.