fisque🍠

yakuza dimitri singing karaoke tearfully as dedue and felix provide backup percussion

but he needs his bodyguards

Oh no 😂
She’s such a good fit for Glenn’s friend group! I just want Catherine, Glenn, Christophe and Miklan to hang. They’d be such a mess.

Love me some SPN, so sure! 😂 I want to keep working on Festive Flop, and have a few more cast members who could have a Gremlin. Big players who could drive it can be Catherine, Miklan, Jeritza, Christophe, or Matthias.

Leaning towards Catherine because they’re all so YELLOW!

I continue to assert that adult Dimitri wouldn’t actually use Lambert’s Stingray on the day-to-day. He’d drive his little blue Mitsubishi i-Miev that his friends say makes him look like he’s getting out of a clown car.

And if you’re wondering, Rodrigue has one of those too.
It went to Glenn, then was passed down to Felix after his death.

Felix hates that car and refuses to drive it. He’d rather ride a bicycle or walk.

(1964 Ford Zephyr Mk3)
(This one I want the matchbox car)

In 2021, I wrote a story about Dimilix doing things on Dimitri’s daddy’s car.

In 2025, that same car was featured in the Festive Flop fic (ch2).

For holidays, I’m asking my mother for a die-cast version of that damn car because apparently this is headcannon territory now.

(1960 corvette stingray)

What if I worked on one of my other 14 WIPs instead of the 2 I’m supposed to be doing with deadlines?

Can someone please wrestle my brain back into shape rn

It’s worth a shot!
I don’t think I’ve met anyone who writes and doesn’t kinda sorta hate their own stuff.

I have some trouble listening to American English text to speech because it sounds robotic. If you have the same issue, using British or Australian accents can be a good workaround.

And then I still won’t be able to engage with it for 6 months because I can’t stand looking at it and think it sucks 😂

say I did my best to produce quality content and tried my hardest.

adjustments to make things what I wanted, then run through a grammar checker. Then I’ll run text to speech for any small errors that stand out when read aloud/sentence flow and structure. Last, I hand it off to a beta reader to make sure the content is received well.

At the end of the day, I can

it’s just despair?

If you’re looking for an objective framework, I had a friend give me “Self Editing for Fiction Writers” by Dave King in middle school. I keep those standards in mind during editing phase. Having a rigorous editing routine is also nice. I personally do a read through and make

so it’s entirely believable it’s someone else’s, and 9/10 times I genuinely enjoy and get hooked by my own drivel.
It’s fascinating 😂

That aside, I think enjoying it is the point. Did you get to see the world you wanted to? Write some fun scenes that made you laugh? Feel something, even if

I think hating your writing or thinking your writing is low quality is inherent to being a writer or artist. It’s a dash of growth mindset (I can do better) and a sprig of imposter syndrome. I like to listen to mine via text-to-speech and pretend someone else wrote it. I listen to audiobooks a lot,

Oh no. I’ve had my ao3 since 2015.
I have 79 PAGES of history.

Can…can I run wrapped on all of it…?
I’m so curious now.

This whole exchange is inspiring 👀

Oh I feel this painfully.
Writer-me says smoothing things out is editing-me’s problem.
Editing -me hates writer-me’s guts.

A screenshot of the final page of a library book (“Fiend” by Peter Stenson) that provides checkout time, time spent reading, and predictions on how long it might take you to finish. Because the reader is a procrastinator, it was checked out 3 weeks ago and took 4.5hrs to read. At 100% complete and 1 minute reminding, it will take another 1hr and 6 mins to complete the book (rude).

I feel called out by Libby.
Ps it gives you stats!! Mean stats! It’s not my fault my reading time is also my writing time and I have deadlinesssss.

Shoutout to my book club for making me read things because dang this was a different writing style than I usually go for.

Also leaning Dimitri goalie because that’s too rich, but Syl would be a better center, I think. Felix’s leadership/char/lone wolfy means coordinating heck no. I’d err left or right winger, something primary offensive so he can stray out of formation to misbehave and get yelled at 😂

Neither here nor there but I desperately want one to be an ex-figure skater.
Is that how Dimitri loses his eye? Is this why Felix is all tight control and precision? 👀

Easy morale boost:
tts my own writing and pretend it’s someone else’s.

It makes me so happy. Like who is this person who wrote this cool thing I’m enjoying. They do good.

Me? Inconceivable. But it was (because that part needs edited) and now I’ll write some more because how does it endddddd

I’ll be holding onto my allowance until then 😂

It has been SO LONG since I dug into Slay The Princess, but just the horror elements of the Princess alone are so Dimitri it hurts.

Give the hero options a more Felixy flavor and you’re so good to go. I’d play it 👀

Now I have to pick between one of two projects that are on timelines and resist the urge to go outline old fics that I absolutely want to go dive face first into.

Not exactly what I was hoping for, but on a day to day, the progress has been solid.

Such a switch from June/July to Sep/Oct/Nov. I genuinely feel more…fed? Creatively, I guess?

I dunno man, but my cup is very full.

Oh no, he’s just like “can’t taste, but the texture is WOW”.

*vibrating with renewed need to watch Baccano*

I always meant to. But then 3H came out and 🤷‍♂️
Just fandom problems.

Post-Ketsu Shizuo maybe…but for the most part he’s very adverse to violence. Dimitri is too, but he’ll still use it when needed to a degree that Shizuo would never.

I think if we’re judging strength when they’re at their worst, Dimitri’s gonna win out for sure.

I would like to both thank and apologize in advance to my giftee because I am not good at brevity and this is already getting out of pocket. But I’m having sooooooo much fun with new concepts ❤️

I dunno man, he’s a quick little runt lol
Some of the flips and parkour he gets up to solidly make him trickster or swordmaster worthy. He wouldn’t stand much a chance against Felix, especially not if Felix had trained in reason and has some range.
But then the story would be over 😂 no fun!