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Hello! I am… very sorry that it took me so long to get around to responding to your response to my ask directly. It’s been a pretty challenging past few weeks, so I just got around to even returning to the “forbidden” (see: self-imposed judgment) jthm stuff.
Of course, you may call my Maniacal!! I’m so thrilled that you are having such a great time interacting with me as I am with you! I honestly cannot recall another time where I’ve been greeted with such open arms by someone else in the fandom. A little ironic that it came after I left it, haha.
That is an excellent hard principle to have, honestly. I can guarantee that you’ve saved at least one artist/writer’s sanity, if not a plethora of them, by letting them know how you feel about their work. I also am so, so happy that I could make your Valentine’s enjoyable! One of my favorite things to do with my writing other than make people hurt is to make them smile, so yay!
Also, goodness, your compliments are really making me smile so huge over here. I often doubt my writing ability, so to know that I have any amount of skill and can actually make a cohesive plot and such is really, really reassuring.
It was hard to leave the fandom, but overall, it was for the best. I won’t lie and say I was always a saint when it came to being vocal about my dislikes, but I tried not to directly hassle anyone about it, but damn did I vague back in my day. It was not good, but I no longer do that. The jthm fandom has an easy way to get caught up in the cycle of being openly negative and just in general being a hostile environment.
I do love some softness, haha! It’s hard to always write the gore and the mental anguish of jthm. Again, don’t get me wrong, I love angst and I love psychological horror and I love writing the hard, gritty things, but damn do I like to take the edge off with a little fluff, a little hurt + comfort.
Oh, no worries my friend, I adore writing these two, but you are certainly the sole reason that I am going to be continuing this particular one, so you should feel like Queen of the World! Also thank you for the lack of pressure and telling me to take my time- I often struggle with that. It’s hard to just stare at that blinking cursor and just try to will myself to write ANYTHING because people are WAITING.
Pinning your answer is the only reason I found it, so thank you SO MUCH for that. Also, omg do not threaten me with a good time about my OC content. I could talk your ear off about that, and also it’s a little… strange. I’m shy haha.
Though… you (and a friend) may have also inspired me to put some work into an old jthm fic idea I had back in 2023. So… we’ll see about that after I’m done with the Vibes lmao.
YES!!! My spores!!! Filipino Edgar is spreading ehehehe. Thank you!
OMG!! Do not worry, I'm so happy to see your reply :D
It is me the one who has to apologize for taking long to reply, lol. I get you 100%, life can get very busy very fast, days can pass without realizing. At least that's what happens to me, hah. I got a quite complicated load of work these past weeks but it's finally over and I can get a break now.
Excellent! I will tag my answers to you as Maniacal so we can find them easily. And YES, I am certainly having the best of times talking with you! I might be repeating myself here a bit but yes, the fandom as a general entity can be sorta harsh if not just cold. Still, dare I say that it has gotten better with the pass of years? Or maybe that's my perception.
I do tend to isolate a lot, tho, I am trying to speak out more and reach out to more fans but I do stay in my lane most of the time. My advice is to just stick with the bunch of people chill enough to have a nice conversation with and to root for the artworks that we love :)
There will always be a lot of negativity around, we just must be wise to watch were we step and stay away from it. It's fandom, life is hard enough. I'm happy I could make you feel welcome ^^
And, haha, as a fellow writer I sympathize with the thrill of twisting people's feelings in all sort of ways with a good story. An honest reaction to one's work can feel so fulfilling. And yes, you did make my Valentines lovely, I will always think of that little fic on Valentine's now, I'm sure, hah, my brain works that way.
You can rest assured that I give you my compliments out of honesty and admiration, I do consider myself a rooter for the artists that I admire but first I do have to admire them. You have the skill! And it shows.
And well... we all have done our things that we're not proud of. I think it takes courage and wisdom to admit the part we play in our issues, and strength to quit bad habits. This fandom does love drama, less now than before (my hermit biased perception), but well... if anything, that only makes me wanna root more and rant less.
Did I READ..... psychological horror??? /shaking hard/
Hard, gritty, mental anguish and gore??? I. Need.
If you write those as you write comfort and softness, man, I do want to give a read to anything you have. And yeah, what's wrong with getting a little fluff? Life needs everything, even candy needs salt in order to taste good. How am I gonna enjoy watching these characters fall apart in sharp pieces if there isn't someone trying to catch each of them with shaky bloody hands and keep them together?
I'm a good listener! And the strange things are the sort of things I love the most. Would love to hear about your OC stuff if you ever feel like sharing ^^ Don't feel pressured to do anything you don't wanna, tho :D We're supposed to enjoy creating not beat ourselves over it. And yeah, that includes taking all time you need to create stuff, more so fandom stuff.
Yay! I hope your old JTHM fic idea sees the light. If it doesn't, for now, just give it time. I have had one for over 10 years and I just resurrected it lol!
The Filipino Edgar spores have taken another victim <3
I will keep on pinning my answers to you, I was not super active these weeks but I do have my streaks where I start reblogging like there's no tomorrow and I don't want them to get lost in the sea of random crap.
And well, I hope you have a wonderful weekend, Maniacal ^^! Or... day... or night, or whatever it is when you read this ;)
