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nebulousjay_ · 2mo
Hiiiiii!
Usually I'd ask how you've been but I fear your priv dn says it all 😭
So instead, what's a scene that you wrote that you feel went underappreciated or that got overshadowed?
hmmmm honestly? the confrontation dinner scene in snapdragons. it got a very lukewarm response at the time (and kind of ignored since there wasn't sex that chapter), but i really loved the character development and it took a lot of tweaking for me to be happy with the dialogue and the tension. but, non-explosive arguments aren't the most thrilling things i suppose, so it got glossed over and this fic is still known for bagel breakfast lmao
anon · 2mo
hi ess you’re awesome and amazing and I love your writing and snapdragons is actually what got me into dnf :3
anon · 2mo
Have you ever watched Arcane?
anon · 4mo
haii ess i was going through my bookmarks and was wondering if you're still continuing to write snapdragons? i love that fic sm
anon · 6mo
What type of clothes was SD! Dream wearing to the grocery store? And were the sandwiches in a fridge freezer-like case or one of those cylindrical half-sized freezer cases?
well this is an incredibly specific series of questions, but i have some answers. for clothing, the practical answer would be just like a good, chunky sweater/jeans and a down jacket to mid-thigh at the least because it's just that fucking cold, but a classy wool coat could always be an option in the fictional world - down to creative choice, really! i had absolutely nothing specific in mind beyond "would i wear this in the dead of the chicago winter" lol. as for the freezer aisle: fridge-style ones
anon · 6mo
not a question but i thought it was a funny coincidence - right after the new chapter of snapdragons came out, i found only one snapdragon flower in my greenhouse! it was the only one and i haven't had any before or since then. ''twas very interesting to me lol
anon · 6mo
Do you have more canon details about sd g&d ? Like d wearing Italian cut suits
oof it's been AGES since i did that. i'll try and float a few
- the first shitty, used car that dream got in high school was the most horrific shade of brownish-yellow that he's ever seen and his friends DID absolutely drag him for it, so every single car he's gotten since has been a painfully boring gray to compensate for that trauma
- dream is genuinely afraid of dogs, despite his deep desire to not be. he pet his neighbor's pomeranian when he first moved in and it's just about the bravest thing he's done in a while
- (this will mean nothing if you've never been to chicago but this one is for me only) one of george's coworkers dragged him all the way out to kasia's immediately after he moved in, and he has been veritably obsessed with pierogis ever since. he makes the hour-long hike every other month to stock his freezer because he SWEARS the prepackaged ones they sell in the local grocery stores don't taste the same
- cat has this dumb neon yellow collar with bows all over it that george bought as a joke, but it's been two years and he's starting to think it's not a joke anymore
- dream isn't the most outdoorsy guy, but he got dragged into camping in the eastern sierra nevadas with some of his friends in college and it immediately became one of his favorite places on earth
- george had hamsters growing up, and absolutely lost his seven-year-old mind when the first one died. there's still a little single-brick tombstone in the family home's back garden, even though the text george had painted on it has long since worn off from exposure to the sun and the rain
- on george's second time staying over at dream's, he snored incredibly loudly for a solid hour, and dream has just chosen to never, ever bring this up. it hasn't happened again since
- down the line (meaning: when they're together), they try to buy a bigger cat tree and spend about three weeks viciously bickering about it before simply not buying one because it turns out that patches is now enamored with an old hat box that dream picked up at a flea market one saturday
- george has, in fact, picked up all of dream's streaming passwords since they started their arrangement. during their period of separation, dream would occasionally check george's profiles to see what he was watching. it was all nature shows, for some reason (this is about me sobbing over albatrosses while rewatching Planet Earth after my first break up)
- finally, a correction: the italian cut hc was from before dream face revealed and turns out that his shoulders are too broad for that to be the best cut on him i fear. i'm not gonna let that man look like andrew tate with his sausage-casing suits so i revoke it i'm so sorry to break it to you like this. he wears british cuts instead because that gives some breathing room in shaping while still giving him a grabble waist. i hope that is consolation enough
anon · 6mo
I’m always bad at coming up with questions so just a long time lurker saying hi <3
anon · 6mo
I don't really have any questions but I just wanted to tell you I love Snapdragons so much and I'm so happy you gave us another chapter! Thank you!
anon · 6mo
what made you want to start writing fics?
it's been so long at this point that i hardly remember the details of what truly came first motivation-wise haha. but, writing's always been a way for me to express myself, and 11/12-year-old me had a lot of things to work through and express at the time, unfortunately. rather than writing angsty bullshit in a diary i could never hide well enough, though, it made a lot more sense to try and actually contribute to communities that i found some solace in, and i think that was ultimately the root of it. even now, while i'm in a very different place, most of the stuff i publish has a lot of me and my life experience still in it, and i get to entertain other people at the same time :) best of both worlds
anon · 6mo
Do you think SD!Dream sleeps with a million blankets + a heated one in the winter and turns his room into a furnace, or do you think he opens the window a bit to get some cool air flow and then bundles himself (and George) under the covers all cosy
hmmmm i think he would absolutely pull that shit in the fall/early spring, but nighttime temps in that city are way too cold in the winter and he's not risking freezing the pipes in his old apartment (this is me talking about my old ass apartment when i lived there, if you couldn't tell haha). what he WOULD do, however, is keep his heat at like 62 degrees at night, necessitating the heavy bundling under the covers - with george, of course, who falls for it every single time without complaint
anon · 6mo
Is snapdragons going to have a happy ending?
anon · 7mo
can't wait for sd12! it's crazy to think that i was in hs when i first started reading and now i'm in uni lol
anon · 7mo
hey i’ve been reading snapdragons since it first came out! so excited for ch12 yaaasss
anon · 7mo
anon who left the fandom, back after reading your answer. just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to explain your perspective & i empathize with you a lot on the darkness that followed all of that - our experiences sound similar, tbf. i had a hard time trusting people for a long time. i completely reevaluated my relationship with the internet and ended up at a job that inadvertently taught me to trust people again. it sounds like you also reevaluated your relationship with the space and found peace by carving out a space within it where you feel comfortable, which i completely respect. despite the allegations that originally led me to leave the fandom being false, i personally believe for a lot of other reasons that dteam aren’t good people - but i sometimes forget that the fandom was and is so much more than them. this is probably way longer than necessary as well but :). nothing but love for you & your beautiful stories ess, truly.
hey! thanks for such an even-keeled response to all of that mess i wrote (i'm used to very different reactions from people very dedicated to yelling at me, hence why i don't talk about it much haha). i definitely understand where you're coming from and, even if our paths diverged in the end and we ultimately disagreed, i also respect your own conclusions and understand how you got to them. this is my first time being in a fandom built around real human beings, and it's been...a learning experience, to say the least. i appreciate you taking the time to read everything that i put down, and thank you for your kind reply :) nothing but love to you, as well!