#SCREAMS  #JULIA IS AWESOME  #!!!!!!!!!!!!  #AAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEE  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #music 

#drawings  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #clemence fitzgerald  #albus potter  #harry potter fanfiction  #people i KNOW follow this blog  #and i drew a SNOG  #IT'S NOT THE SAME AS AN ALMOST SNOG  #-head in hands-  #my life my choices crey  #BUT IT'S LIKE THE MOST COMPLICATED PEOPLE I'VE DRAWN  #AND ALL FOUR HANDS VISIBLE???  #clemence has a sassy butt idk  #she should be wearing tights but well  #too late. 

#hpff  #so this happened  #rolling  #etc. etc. (and life goes on) 

#7 & 8 are for the quirkers  #i was going to fit one more song on but it wouldn't upload :c  #happy update day!  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #hpff  #music 

#something that i've wanted to address b/c it comes up every so often  #clemence fitzgerald  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #;A; sorry guys i feel so baaaad  #sometimes I think back to chinese new year weekend and im like  #if I wrote that weekend could i have posted the week after ???  #because I dont think i wrote AT ALL after that  #things popping up like gophers  #this is a very long tag list  #ok lets shove it out to tumblr  #love  #does anyone actually go on that tag  #like 'lol'  #cynical  #that's a fun tag.  #lets put it on the lol tag anyway  #lol  #excellent. 

#etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #clemence fitzgerald  #AAAAND T-3 HOURS MIDTERM 2!  #I'M ALMOST IN THE CLEARRR  #valentine's day  #valentine's cards  #gifs and picspam 

#etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #dominique weasley  #rose weasley  #gifs and picspam  #next gen 

psa: do not be a first year in my stories #game play  #and capers ensue  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #* 

#questions  #apostrophe hyphen colon  #etc. etc. (and life goes on) 

Answer:

Eee, thank you! :3 I am totally undeserving being so sluggish and wallowy lately.

I answered a similar question on a thread on The Golden Snitches recently, about my character creation process, and generally, my stories ideas have formed around the main characters:

I realized that I don’t really know my characters until I write them for a good amount—which is why I’m really excited for OF, because then I don’t have to write serially! I have an idea of their personality, but not so much how they’ll react to a specific conflict until I actually get to writing it, if that makes sense. But also a lot of the initial inspiration comes from character types that I feel are underrepresented or misrepresented. From ‘Capers’, Bea started as ‘what if I put the token genki girl* (m) in the main role?’ and Anjali was ‘let’s put turn the sometimes-villain-anti-hero that’s usually a hot male who stars in tumblr gif sets into a female’ and Clemence was a product of my frustration over ice queens always having a heel-faced-turn* (m) change of heart/tragic backstory as justificiation.

Those bits about Bea and Clemence’s characterizations are a huge part of how both of those stories got started. Plots tend to be fairly malleable for me.

When I started writing Capers, I wanted to write something ‘like Ocean’s 11 and Inception with rappelling and anti-gravity hallway fights’, but it doesn’t end up having either rappelling or JGL defying physics. I’d seen it as a slick adventure fic with lots of bromance, and it became a derpy adventure fic with friendship and cupcakes, which has its own charms!

When I started writing etc., which wasn’t long after, I wanted to write something that was a guilty pleasure for myself. I write what I want to write at the moment, which can mean some diatribe on teenage social norms, hidden message involving fandom dynamics or, well, gratuitous snogging. So while Capers is the story I’d like to read, etc. is the story I like to write.

I often get comments on how different these two WIPs are—Capers is the homage to friendship and hope, while etc. is a shrine to cynicism—but to me, it’s like looking at the two sides of myself, a cynic and optimist, which I suppose cancel out to become a realist. In a sense, the fics are both about a similar war—hopefuls vs. apathetics—just told on different sides.

(bear with me, I’m terrible with paragraph transitions; anyone who’s graded my papers can tell you) I also owe a huge part of it to subconscious inspiration from the books I loved reading growing up, which I’ve been rereading lately. Mostly fantasy with pragmatic heroines, and I’m making a list but I’ll post it separately since this message is rambly enough.

I doodled one of them and was going to post it with this answer, but I’mma make it colored and shiny so it’ll get its own post. When I write my OF, I think the Tiffany Aching branch of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett are going to be a huge inspiration, because she’s quite like the heroine I want to write, and I’d like to be able to inject humor like Pratchett does, not to mention the world-building for Discworld in general is phenomenal. I suppose that’s why he was knighted for services to literature.

ANYWAY I am going to awkwardly cut off this answer right here, because again, terrible at transitions.

#questions  #and capers ensue  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #metawriting 

Answer:

Literally? D: I think I can get arrested for that. The next update will likely be early to mid-January, as story submissions are closed until the end of the year anyhow. 

Not derpy but flirty, and this is basically as cute as I’ll ever draw em because I’ve wanted to draw this stupid terrible complicated pose for awhile. STILL NO FEET, NOPE. Their legs just go off into the abyss.

#questions  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #clemence fitzgerald  #albus potter 

Answer:

Most surprising of all, I never expected anyone to find PTSD Draco cute xD Nor etc. Albus really. He’s many things but not particularly cute, though I suppose he gets a bit cheek-pinchy when he’s drunk.

ofc, if you want to stake your claim on Albus, join the club. No, really.

+bonus minecraft reference b/c the club is full of creepers geddit geddit?

#questions  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #apostrophe hyphen colon 

Answer:

I’ve gotten this question before, and it is still a resounding Potterpuff! He’s like a corgi whose purpose in life is to make friends and spread joy like a 365-day holiday, there is really no competition :D

I should also mention that I actually laugh at real-life broody guys like Mr. Engima Potter because I just can’t take them seriously. I liked one when I was younger and never again. They want to be ~mysterious and vague b/c they are a hot sparkly tortured soul~ and I just sit back and go O K GOOD FOR YOU you attention seeking drama king.

Now for a hint~

also for some reason, there are a lot of people who seem to think she’s going to get preggers and I’m highly amused. But it actually does get a wee bit addressed in the next chapter, so!

#questions  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)  #clemence fitzgerald  #albus potter 

#ok this'll be the last one  #because now i feel like writing again  #things i do on holiday  #logan lerman  #visual tales  #gifs and picspam  #albus potter  #etc. etc. (and life goes on) 

#i'm glad he turned out hot  #+ he's getting famoose  #which means more of this.  #logan lerman  #visual tales  #gifs and picspam  #albus potter  #etc. etc. (and life goes on)