A pair of drabbles (Ranma 1/2, Akane, Ryoga)

Title: Untitled
Fandom: Ranma 1/2
Characters: Akane, Ryoga
Content notes: canon-style violence toward animals, ableism
Word count: 200
Summary: I can't write Akane/Ryoga (even in an OT4) unless this happens. (Yes, I know. I ship Azula with...people. Still.)

( drabble pair )

 

Writing, Joy, etc.

An expanded comment I left at writethisfanfic:

As a kid I wrote stories to make myself happy. Then in my first year of high school, my first English paper was 10 pages about how you could see Sigmund Frued's descriptions of neurosis in the characters from Willa Cather's novel O! Pioneers!, and how those traits helped them survive. My teacher (who never countered my argument, but asked questions in the margins and expanded on it) nevertheless took a grade letter off because "most incoming freshmen write three-page essays." Then I spent four years learning to write the Five-Paragraph Essay, which was the only allowable way to write anything and was very stifling for me.

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