hit me with it ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

I just finished reading your fic about Kaveh and his plushies and I must say that I'm smilling like craaaaaazy, that single-handedly healed my soul

awwwww thank you so much for sharing that with me! <3 i am glad your soul is doing better now lol

jay · 4mo

ily <3

hi jay lots of love <3 hope your summer's going well!

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

HELLO MISS RYSA!!! scale of 1 to 10, how are you doing today? eating enough, had water, slept well? 🫶
this is sooo random but. i think ur writing style is so captivating, and really enjoy going through your fics and giving them rereads :”)

if i may, a question -
we’re mutuals on Twitter (surprise! lame trumpet noises) and u seem so sweet ! but the question - you have such neat friendships w other writers, and it’s so fun to watch yalls twitter hijinks. how did you do it? find fandom friends, in that way? :o

thanks for reading and take care of urself!!!! <3

hello anon! i think i'm at like a 6/10 tbh, i'm doing alright and just got back from a run so feeling pretty rejuvenated and hydrated, but i have been rly unproductive these past few days and also it's day 2 of my period so i'm not rly thriving mentally or physically </3 thank you for this message, that's so sweet and makes me so happy!

i think i've been very lucky with my fandom friends in that i've kinda just been abducted into friend groups due to sheer luck! like being added to group chats or servers with people and then having fun conversations, etc. etc.. a lot of my friendships have just sprung up from infrequent DMs that became more frequent as we learned more about common interests and each other's lives! but honestly i'm not too great at making fandom friends myself either, and i am especially bad at taking initiative, so i have genuinely just been very lucky to be invited to smaller spaces where i got to know people better :) i'm really bad in big servers and scared of speaking up there tbh, but smaller spaces are where i'm able to feel a lot comfier. some of my closest fandom friends from my prev fandom i don't interact with as much anymore, but i have so many fond memories of us getting up to absolutely unhinged conversations at crazy times of the day during like march 2020 covid lockdown haha

take care of yourself too! <3

rysa · 4mo

ink! · 4mo

where did rysarium come from. what is it

i used to go by "rysa" because of a different username i used on ff.net, but then i didn't really vibe with it anymore but wanted to preserve the "rysa" part of it! so i switched to rysarium as a pun on the word rosarium (meaning rose garden) :) now it's the name of a very cool person hope that answers your question

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

what’s your favourite thing about haikaveh!!

i love everything about them tbh but at the core of it i think it's the concept of home being a person rather than a physical place. alhaitham being kaveh's home, kaveh being alhaitham's home, and everything that represents <3

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

hello i loved your fake dating au so much 😣 it had so much personality wahhhh im curious... what kinds of things do you get up to outside of genshin and writing? c:

hi! i am a suffering college student so most of the time i just procrastinate my school assignments/internships and scroll through instagram reels endlessly... but i also really love to dance! and i have a bunch of arts and crafts i try to do but never usually find time for (like crochet, friendship bracelet making, etc.). this summer, i've been cooking a lot, and i started running a week ago which has been super exciting since i'm a terrible runner!

rysa · 4mo

ink! · 4mo

hi anon here! thoughts on moonsteps? don’t you think she’s really cool? really awesome and funny? what’s your favorite joke moonsteps has said? ik it’ll be hard since she’s so fucking funny

hi anon! i'm not sure who this "moonsteps" you're referring to is. i haven't really heard of them before, sorry! hope you find someone who can answer your question for you <3

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

whats ur favorite food :3

noodles in all forms! i love instant ramen (but non-spicy ones bc i have bad spice tolerance), udon, carbonara, zhajiang noodles, biang biang noodles, cold sesame noodles... so many variants............ but my favorite might be when you eat noodles at the end of a hot pot meal and it soaks up all the delicious broth flavors

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

who are some of of your fav fanfic writers? :)

when i first got into genshin i was the biggest glassdrachma stan ever. like you have no idea. i was obsessed with their writing style and still am and i think their portrayal of characters like zhongli and hu tao are what make them my fave characters to this day.

i am actually so fortunate in that i've been able to befriend so many fic writers whose fics i adore — caniculeo, rire, smallghosts, bringingglory, luminvies, moonsteps, daycinthe, Intensely_Reading, just to name a few (there are so many more!!!). but i'm biased, obvs, so some other genshin writers i've really enjoyed are pyresque, relationshipcrimes, arsonide, izabellwit, yugto, and taiyakii!

this is just off of the top of my head — i have so much love for fic writers <3 i could truly give fic recs all day

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

what’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written!!!

honestly super easy answer... either rumors, fame, and reputation or no life to be found in barren stone! both happen to be the fics that received a lot of kudos and comments for which i am super super grateful <3 rumors, fame, and reputation is probably my favorite because it was so self-indulgent and fun to write and i really like a lot of the humor in it when i reread it. it also took SO long and i was so proud to be done at the end. but i was rereading no life to be found in barren stone recently (i miss that era when i read so much chili) and i really liked some of the descriptions and prose, and it felt like a very different writing style that i haven't played with in a long time! so right now, it's probably my second fave, but i am amazed by my past self for writing it :)

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

HII ! are u working on any fics rn ? :<

oh god yeah... my current wip is my camp nano project and it's mostly outlined so i just have to write it but it's a haikaveh summer modern au inspired by one of my favorite rom-com books! i really want to finish it this summer but we'll see...

other than that, i've also outlined a whole cynonari one-shot and started writing it earlier this year but for some reason i feel like it doesn't have any plot so it's on the backburner for now :') and i'm starting to brainstorm a haikaveh fic i hope to write by the end of the year for a gift exchange! i'm also participating in the hkvhthm gotcha for gaza but haven't gotten assigned a prompt yet so fingers crossed i get one soon 🤞

rysa · 4mo

friendly neighborhood anon · 4mo

HI RYSA!!! how are u doing c:

HI! i'm procrastinating both work and fic writing rn but otherwise doing good c: this was a very unproductive weekend but that's okay because it was a weekend (except i am actually really behind on a few things... oops)