ok omg it took me so much courage to post this i tried rly hard but i feel like i made this look so silly THIS IS FANART FOR A FIC THAT I READ AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE /////blushes
its such a good fic, i NEVER EVER thought pacific rim and haikyuu crossover could work but its SO WELL DONE so please give it a chance as well and go read it! its written so nicely and it made me laugh and cry so much and if you know me at all you know how picky of a reader i can be ////
note that the fic is also pretty long (dang i love this) and currently unfinished tho;;;
Daichi and Suga are so drift compatible I want to cry. They’re practically ghost drifting in canon.
Speaking of which!! A lot of what went into this came from an awesome Haikyuu x Pacific Rim AU fic but for me, there is a storm. Please check it out if you haven’t yet, it’s excellent.
Oh my god, I’ve seen this so much recently and it’s killing me. Posts that talk about how extreme shows of emotion don’t happen constantly, how fight scenes should never take more than a minute, how nobody notices the exact color of someone’s eyes the first time they meet. And yes, while true irl, you don’t have to write “realistically” if you don’t want to. Not only is expecting this form of realism stifling to a lot of writing styles and genres, but, um, hello we are making art, people! Art! Where exaggeration and aesthetic are at their best and often greatly add to whatever you’re creating.
You want your characters to throw themselves to the ground and sob? To leap and clap their hands from joy and excitement? Do it!!!! Fight scenes that take pages and involve the most ridiculous, outlandish weapons, and have the characters twirl and spin and leap and call out witty banter? Fucking go for it, my guy! You want your character to observe “the gorgeous, ever changing, shifting green hues” of their love interest’s eyes the first time they meet? Hell yeah, baby!
Look, all I’m saying, is that if realism takes away from your writing, if it feels confining and suffocating, then don’t do it! Nothing has to be realistic if you don’t want it to be. Again, we’re talking about art here. Go all out! Be ridiculous and outlandish! Don’t let other’s demand for realism destroy the story you’ve crafted
This.
Look, it’s fun sometimes to take apart the tropes and “mythbuster” your way through them, but that is itself a form of entertainment. It’s not meant to be instructive about how to create art.
For god’s sake, the reason we tell stories is so we can engage the imagination. It’s so we can fantasize and romanticize and theorize and wonder for a little while just what it would be like if the world worked a certain way.
