anon · 3mo
hiii!! first of all thank you for your incredible writing!! every single day i’m checking if you updated or not because both under a blanket of blue and hot like that have been keeping me going through the summer 🙇♀️ also binged all about love within a day and it was just so 🥹 i wanted to ask, what inspired you to write these specific aus?? for under a blanket of blue especially the 80s time set? hope you had a good week🫶
ahhh thank u!!! such a wonderful compliment, i'm so happy my writing has been such a big part of your summer <3
as for what inspired me to write these fics...
for all about love, i read bell hooks' book by the same name during a (long, long, LONG) time in my life when i felt unable to give/receive love. i guess i wanted to write about those feelings through the lens of my favorite character. that, and as a soon-to-be-therapist, i wanted to challenge myself, work through certain thoughts i've always had, and put my favorite character through therapy as a practice/exercise, but also myself at the same time(?) it sounds kinda insane writing that out, but that was the real inspo for all about love.
as for under a blanket of blue and hot like that, i ADORE writing stories featuring love between people who, for all intents and purposes, wouldn't usually work together IRL for various reasons. most of my writing before JJK fanfic was horror and i always wrote it through a very queer lens. usually between two people who don't really fit, but they also do fit because they've seen each other at their worst and they'd still do anything for each other in spite of that.
i guess i always wrote those things because it served as a reminder to myself that no matter how fucked up i might be/how bad of a past i've had/etc. there will always be someone that could love me regardless. obviously what i write for the JJK fandom and my past horror writings are different in a lot of ways, but that core message remains the same.
it isn't just for me, either. i hope that other people get that out of my stories, too. even if it doesn't feel like it, we're all lovable and we deserve love.
as for why i chose the 80s setting in under a blanket of blue, tbh it fit best with the story. i didn't want to do something too modern because i wanted megumi to feel trapped. that isn't to say that someone in his situation wouldn't be equally trapped nowadays, but there could have been more options for him if he had things like a cellphone/the internet. that, and i enjoy the 80s :-) such a fun decade to research and write about (i'm a stranger things girlie through and through)
anyway, that's a long ass explanation and probably way more words than you've asked for, but it's also all complex for me and i've (obviously) spent quite some time thinking about it.
