Reever's there because I like him and but I believe also he's there for bleach related plot reasons-- I wanted a doctor around so someone could join the 12th division. plus I had a good concept for what his bleach weapon set/abilities would be

the fic is set at least 60 years before bleach's main plot kicks off, but many of the problems that ichigo Would face in the main timeline are already very present in Kanda's time.

thanks for reading my ffxiv fics!

So Blooming from the Mud was strongly inspired by Kanda's characterization in Metisket's Hard Living, so my immediat jump after reading that was like, putting Kanda into a new life after death situation to contrast with the way he'd been dealing with aging and being in love.

Which immediately put me in mind for bleach, and since I love bleach and figuring out how new characters would slot into its setting things fell into place after that.

oh yeah a ton of them. generally though when i sense something would be too big to be worthwhile i just make about a page of notes on it and am like well my imagination is beautiful isnt it. and then move on to something else

lets see. i have a bunch of fate/stay night cross over ideas that i do not write because it would require me to write out a full grail war, which i do not want to do.

other than that.. i sketched out a one piece time travel fic and then immediately considered scale and was like no . you cant fool me. i wont do it. sad though bc i liked the concept. my big problem with one piece time travel fics is that the crew comes back too op and gets back together too fast so it would have been by necessity even by my own standards a long slow story covering an immense time

sorry i never turned on the boop feature < 3 but thank you so much.

this is kind of a long arc to go through but basically i had a ffxiv oc concept that i tried to port into worm and by the end of it the only remaining aspect of the original concept was her name. i didnt even keep the powerset. but bc the original concept was "a healer in brockton bay who can tell the future", themes of that stayed even as i redid everything to properly suit worm.

the other big inspiration for Andante was naturally the fact that i really love the ballet Giselle.

'andante' means 'moderately slow' and is used as part of the titling of one of my favorite music pieces in the second act.

i really like writing it! thanks for reading

Script preview of something im working on!

A recursive function is a function that solves a problem by solving smaller instances of the same problem. A recursive fiction, then, is a story that reaches its solution by solving smaller replications of its original problem--

A skilled recursive fiction, however, conceals the original problem until the very end. You’ll never quite see that all you were doing was solving the same problem over and over until you reach the “original” function and see that everything was just an echo of the original, re-imagined and replayed so that you could understand that overarching, so big it’s almost invisible, problem.

There are many ways of doing this. Gintama asks that the student behead the teacher and that the villain who yearns for emptiness learn that there is no escape from sorrow. Gintoki must do this in every arc that is serious and in some arcs that are comedic, but there’s no escaping it-- just as time does not truly pass in Gintama until the death of the Shogun, neither can he leave the cycle that demands he kill the mentor. 

It’s because he failed to do it right. This is a classic time loop maneuver, refusing to move forward until the main character can correct his fundamental failure. 

It’s not about killing, it’s about who you are when you kill someone: it’s not about dying, it’s about who you are at the moment of your death. 

It’s not about the cycle, it’s about who you are when you break it.

This is one way of thinking about it.

It is not the way that isekai stories typically treat it.

as requested!