honestly i don’t know!! from the past until now i’ve just posted my content (art/writing/shitposts) and waited for people to come talk to me lol. sometimes i reply to people i follow or mutuals of mutuals, but i don’t really carry the expectation of befriending them. i find that the more you seek to make friends the harder it can be (you might get nervous/trip up and the other party feels nervous due to feeling pressured), and friendship is something that’s easiest when it comes naturally… i know it sounds cliche but that has been my experience after over a decade in fandom! good luck to u, keep living your truth and talking about your interests and i’m sure something good will happen!

hi anon!! in general, i love receiving long comments that point out specific parts of my writing or quote specific lines because these make me feel very 'seen,' especially if those happen to be my favourite parts too. writing is a lot of work and involves a lot of being very vulnerable, and that's why those types of comments mean a lot to me.

i have quite a terrible memory so i can't remember exactly which comments and what they are word for word, but i definitely have a handful of comments i have received that have shaped me as a writer. i remember one comment i received on a sheith fic from ages ago where the commenter wrote that i am a 'compassionate storyteller.' that line really stuck with me because that's what i strive to do with my fics. my writing tends to be character-driven and i love being able to take different characters with different traits and backgrounds and traumas, and tell their story in an empathetic way, and maybe help people who see themselves in those characters find compassion for themselves through an outside lens. even if it sounds like a bit of a grand aspiration for someone who primarily writes about gay sex lol.

i also received a comment from a dear friend of mine where they wrote that my fic felt like a 'fistful of fireworks.' idk why exactly, but that line has stuck with me to this day. i think any comment where i can feel how much emotional resonance my work has had on others really makes me feel very happy and grateful that i get to share my writing with others.

CHILDE BDAY YIPEEEEEEE 💙💙💙 well obviously my favourite is his slutty patch of skin but here are some honourable mentions
- his ahoge (i yank on it when i’m balls deep inside him)
- his cute dead eyes with their cute lil lashes
- his freckles (they exist, hoyoverse are just cowards)
- his scars (these also exist, i have a few scars mapped out on his body and i have headcanons for how he got each one because i am insane)
- his heart cutout gloves
- his grabbable waist
- his thigh strap
- his slutty slutty hole

and don’t worry i didn’t forget the second part of your question… i may be a slutty childe stan but i am also a Deep Character Analysis Stan… i love his passion, his determination to live life his own way, his heartwarming love for his family especially his little siblings, his loyalty to the tsaritsa and subsequent distrust of the harbingers with their own agenda… i love his fighting spirit, his love of fishing, his love of cooking, his love of life (how can one boy who’s been through so much live life with so much zest? the answer: he legitimately doesn’t even think he’s been through that much because all of his traumas are just Training Arcs to him)… i love how friendly he is, and how easily he trusts people like zhongli and the traveller… i love how he connects with kids and genuinely adores them and wants to protect them… i love how he seems to have given up on wanting to be a hero, admits he’s kind of a bad guy, but will fight the all-devouring narwhal for a whole month to save a foreign country and say it was just to hone his strength, and he might even believe it, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still a hero in his own way… sobs i could go on forever really i just LOVE ALL OF HIM

hehe thank u😳 omg i just answered an avenpaz related headcanon (about topaz convincing aven to name the cat cakes) but i will try to think of a few more

• aven and topaz love to follow celebrity gossip together (theyre both kpop fans) topaz pretends like she doesnt care but as soon as her ult group is involved in a dating scandal shes like HUUUHHHHHHUUAGHH anyways she and aven probably have the equivalent of a conspiracy board on who’s dating who
• they like to have sleepovers tgt even before they start going out, they’ll do each other’s makeup and paint each other’s nails and topaz will commiserate about the latest in a string of bad hinge dates (whatever the hsr equivalent of hinge is) while aven pretends he doesn’t wish he was dating her instead
• topaz cries when she first finds out about aven’s past and aven has to comfort her and she feels bad bc she should be the one comforting him. so she cries even more (shes me im a little crybaby…..) but it’s just endearing to aven bc he never imagined someone would care so much about him, and also feel sympathetic for him rather than blaming him for everything that happened (since he’s been blaming himself all along)
• i imagine they have a lot of common ground with having a rough childhood and no longer being on their home planet, but aven’s story probably inspires topaz to take a bit of time off and visit home, which in turn inspires aven to try to learn a bit more about his culture since he’s the only one left after all
• also at any given time im always thinking about trans aven or trans topaz or both. t4t so true. theyre bi4bi too but if you follow me you already knew that

i was gonna say trans aventurine but that’s canon actually i work at hoyoverse so i know <333 other headcanons:

• aventurine loves kpop especially 4th/5th gen girl groups i actually have a playlist of kpop songs i think he listens to while he works. maybe i’ll post it if people are interested
  
• aventurine probably has a kids show that he secretly really likes and collects merch of. and no one knows about it not even the few people who have been to his house because he keeps it in a separate room. hes the epitome of working adult with secret fandom hobby. (this is totally not inspired by miles edgeworth steel samurai fan)
• aventurine didn’t want the cat cakes at first and refused to give them names (he would just call them snack #1 or snack #2 or something).. because he doesn’t want to get attached because he doesn’t think he’s qualified to take care of a living thing. he works all the time and besides he hasn’t had family in so long, he doesn’t remember how to care for someone else (or so he thinks). topaz is probably the one who convinces him to name them because she’s very adamant about pets having names. after he names them he begins to grow attached
• (cw disordered eating) this kinda has its basis in canon but aventurine has a weird relationship w food where he’ll either overeat or not eat anything at all.. like even though he’s so rich he probably trains himself to finishing everything on his plate if he’s at a dinner gathering or something because he can’t get rid of the mindset of not wasting food. on the contrary if no one makes him eat he’ll also just forget to eat and he’s good at ignoring the feeling of hunger too. topaz or ratio has to drag him out for a meal

ok i guess these ended up being somewhat related to canon after all LOL

thank you!!! 🥺 KAVENTURINE.. i think about them all the time... i think they would be really good friends tbh! they're both naturally friendly people (well. aventurine puts effort into it but also makes it look mostly effortless at first glance) and aventurine doesn't have many friends so i think he would try hard to befriend kaveh and kaveh would respond in kind. also kaveh is a sucker for sob stories so if he finds out about aventurine's tragic past (not that aventurine would volunteer this information, it would probably come out slowly over many drinks together) he would feel even more attached to aventurine and feel like he needs to take care of him :') which is new because aventurine is very used to being the one pursuing friendship and giving his gifts/time/services to others, and now suddenly there's someone buying him things and making sure he sleeps and eats well!!!! i feel like kaveh would almost be like a big brother in that sense. well that is my platonic hc! and my romantic hc is that they should kiss and have sex :)

i also have this elaborate brainworm with ratiorine/haikaveh where the ipc visits teyvat to assess whether it's worth buying or not and aventurine comes along with ratio, alhaitham (who is pining for kaveh) has a drunken one-night stand with aventurine, finds out kaveh is close with aventurine, gets suspicious of aventurine (overhears him talking to ratio about assessing teyvat's assets or something), tries to warn kaveh, kaveh is like "you're just jealous that i like hanging out with someone other than you/tighnari/cyno" but then kaveh finds out alhaitham and aventurine slept together and it's HIS turn to be jealous!!!! where does ratio fit in. well he's also jealous of alhaitham when he finds out. anyways it all ends happily when they confess and then there's a bonus foursome <3

i really like top aven!!! specifically for aventio and avenpaz as those r my main ships though i think they switch. for aventio i am very fond of the small top big bottom thing.. i’ll bet aven probably feels powerful when he looks at ratio in his hunking perfection and is like “yeah i can top That.” personally my hc is that he’s maybe a bit jealous of ratio’s appearance (not in an evil way just in an admiring way) because he probably to some extent ties his own sexual trauma to his appearance. like “maybe if i didn’t look small/skinny/pretty/traditionally ‘feminine’ etc” … he knows it’s pointless but lowkey topping ratio probably heals that part of himself. plus he admires ratio’s intelligence so much and thinks he’s so reliable and probably prides himself on being able to take care of someone so capable :3c bonus points if ratio’s never bottomed for anyone before aven

ANON YOUR BRAIN 🥹😭 this is exactly how i see him too… he’s acclimated to it for Survival and to Get what he Wants. if he knows he’s going to be sexualized anyway, might as well do it on his own terms. but at the same time his inner child never quite healed from what happened to him😭😭😭 ok not to bg3 all the time but there is a scene in the game where if you romance astarion and have a (consensual!) foursome with him and the two drows, he dissociates during the sex, because even though he was excited about it and wanted it, he ended up unwittingly reliving the trauma he had been through 😭 and that scene really bothered me because as the player you never get a chance to talk to astarion about it. but i can see the same thing happening for aventurine whether it’s like. experimenting with a new kink or trying poly or something like that where he kind of… goes out of it for a bit. BUT his partner would notice and would comfort him and help him heal….!!