Anonymous Friend · 2y
hi lark! being argentinian and on the verge of a big career decision that may involve an international move, i have a lot of Thoughts and Feelings about your oikawa fic that are hard to put into words. i want to do so in a thougthful and wordy comment someday, but for now i just wanted to tell you that Andes (the red one specifically) is one of the most widely loved beers in argentina and my friend and i spent a good amount of time clowning oikawa's taste (and still do whenever we drink one together).+
+thank you for the care you put in researching and writing our country! it felt very authentic warm and homely and i appreciate it a lot. thank you for writing the fic as well. it's very important to me and i'm glad that it exists, for oikawa and for me
ahhhhhh oh my gosh thank you so much. I really can't tell you how much it means to hear from someone who has moved/is moving internationally that my Oikawa fic resonated with them, but it's truly extra meaningful when it comes from an Argentinian reader!
I am so so glad that this fic felt authentic, warm and homely for you. I owe any authenticity entirely to my well stocked local library and a patient friend who answered many of my questions. I am very much not from anywhere near Argentina, so I honestly grappled with a lot of uncertainty about whether I had captured it well, or whether I could even write something like this... but I think ultimately what I felt was that Oikawa wasn't from Argentina either, and my job was not to be slavishly accurate but to capture the wonder and strangeness of a new place, and I think that's something many of us intercontinental nomads have felt :')
also asjhkakj I don't know why I picked on Andes in my fic HAHA but I am delighted that it continues to provide you amusement!! Oikawa is always prime clowning material... I say this with all the love possible.
Thank you for sending me this message. It made my day. I wish you all the very best with your big career decision, no matter what you decide ♥♥♥
