Rain Tag - Blog Posts
tell everyone one fact about you, one unpopular opinion you have and your top song on your on repeat playlist and then spread this to five followers you love ❤️
oh hi rae 🥺🥺 omg thank you this is so sweet 💕 also received one from @madefortherain, thank you very much 💕💕
one fact about me: i’m a college student majoring in women & gender studies with minors in legal studies and history!
one unpopular opinion i have: THIS WAS HARD AKDKABDKJA hmmmm um. avocados are disgusting. sooo gross. hate em. also eggs (eggs in things is fine, i mean just straight eggs. like an omelette or something).
top song on repeat:
this is from the lotf playlist and it’s a song i really love in general so this is not surprising!
hiii ✈️ & 🎧 pls!
hello! :)
✈️ favorite place you’ve traveled
i honestly haven’t travelled to a ton of places i don’t think? idk not that many compared to some people at least. but i really really enjoyed Hawaii! i feel sort of guilty about having gone there now that i know about the huge issues tourism is causing for native residents but i didn’t know at the time, and i wouldn’t have been able to stop my family anyways. ok im rambling a bit now lmao but i can’t think of another place i loved even close to that much, even with the weird guilt mixed in
🎧 last song you listened to
this oneee
hi nini! jasmine & aloe vera for the asks pls? <3
hiii! <3
jasmine: do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?
aside from the obvious i’m gonna go with any of the heartstopper books for this, and i could not for the life of me tell you why. i just. don’t feel like i need to reread them? they’re cute and sweet and i love them but i feel very finish it and i’m done.
aloe vera: what’s something (mundane) you really want to experience in life?
this was so hard to think of for some reason…i think a bonfire (suddenly second guessing if this counts as mundane???? 😭) it’s possible i may have done one as a kid that im forgetting but i don’t THINK so? and it sounds so nice…cozy, warm, surrounded by friends…….yes.
ask game here!
hii :) for the ask game 🥺 & 🛒 pls <3
hello! sorry it’s taken me so long to get to this <3
ask game here if you’d like to ask me something!
🥺 - Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?
yes, definitely, and i think it’s a lot of the same things that get me as a reader too. caretaking, especially when it’s remus’s chronic illness. accommodating each other’s needs like it’s second nature because they know each other so well, whether that’s something major like helping with mental illness or disability symptoms or something minor like grabbing their favorite snack at the grocery store. remus blushing and hiding and sirius trying to coax him out of hiding. all sappy things really lmao
🛒- What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.
ummm i will once again mention remus blushing HAHA and just getting flustered/being pathetic generally. not so much in brtc but in lotf and my other wips. obviously disabled/chronically ill remus. usually i write fluff so i will say it’s a common theme, but not always. hmm this is hard. i don’t think about this stuff much to be honest! i fear this may be a boring answer but hopefully you still enjoy it haha
thanks for the asks xx
hello hello ask game!!! i’m greedily asking for three of them i’m sorry ahdjfndjd
3, 4, & 11 if i may :3
okay hello i am finally answering this! sorry it’s taken me so long, i posted the ask game and then my life immediately fell apart lmao. this ended up being really long so answers below the cut :)
if you’d like to submit an ask i’d still love to answer more! ask list here.
3. What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
Rather predictably, it’s this one: “‘Your gender is about you, not what other people think.’” It’s just…something that I struggle with myself, and that I’ve seen a lot of other trans people talk about struggling with too. Transition is complicated but I think doing it for yourself is so important.
4. What’s your favorite line of narration?
This isn’t a single line (how do people pick out single lines??? Impossible) but! This one: “It’s that Sirius accepts, and loves, the parts of him that make him trans. It’s that he helps remind Remus that […] it’s a part of his identity, one that he’s allowed to be proud of. Sirius loved Remus as a girlfriend and loves him equally as a boyfriend; and he loves Remus now not just as his boyfriend, but as his trans boyfriend.” This sort of gets at the same concept as the one above—I have so many thoughts and feelings about concepts of transition and passing and stealth and they’re all such complicated, nuanced topics that are different for everyone, but something that’s a big deal for me is trans pride and nonconformity. I don’t want to assimilate into cis ideals; I don’t want to pass as cis. Part of this is probably since I’m nonbinary so there aren’t really cis ideals for me, but I know binary trans people who feel similarly.
11. What do you like best about this fic?
The truth is the trans rep. You know this since I talked to you about it but I was really, really nervous about the trans rep in this fic. It feels the most truthful to my own experience, but it doesn’t fit with the popular cookie cutter narrative, the narrative that’s most easily digestible and understandable to cis people. And of course there’s nothing wrong with that experience but it’s not the only one. And it’s been so lovely to get comments from other trans/non-cis people saying that they relate to the rep in this fic too.
Aside from that, because I feel like I’ve talked an awful lot about the trans rep in this post, it’s just the way they love each other. It’s so soft and gentle and it was lovely to write and fun to revisit to pick out my favorite lines.
working on my next fic…it’s going well i think :D
shoutout to @madefortherain for lurking on my doc <3
helloooooo :)
🐌, ✨ & 🥳 for the ask game pls <3
hello!! thanks for the asks!
🐌 What is one of your smallest writing goals? To be honest I’m not sure that any of my goals count as small? I guess small is a bit subjective haha but probably my smallest is to finish writing + posting BRTC! It’s smallest in terms of difficulty/anxiety inducement at least lol but also not a huge amount of writing I think! Probably three more chapters max? This could change though.
✨What's one area of your writing that you think needs the least amount of improvement? This one’s a struggle honestly, not because I’m being mean to myself but because I just don’t…think about it? I don’t analyze the specific flaws and strengths of my own writing I don’t know. My go-to answer is usually grammar but that feels like cheating so, hmm…looking back at my doc I think I quite like how I put concepts like certain trans feelings and disability feelings into words. I always thought it would be hard to explain these things, and it is a bit, but I’m usually pretty happy with how I end up doing it :)
🥳 How are you going to celebrate when you achieve one of your writing goals? This is…another hard one LMAO because truthfully I don’t usually do any sort of major celebrations. So my answer for this is a bit unexciting but probably some combination of screaming in your DMs, eating chocolate/cookies, and/or buying something inexpensive but still ill-advised
if you haven’t read ddtk you are missing out
hi :3 may i…. may i offer you… new wolfstar fic?? *hides*