I used smoke signals. I assumed you were fluent.
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That video summarizes many things I think about love and "soul mates."
2. Generally, I don't share too many opinions on non-writing topics in this journal. I'm deviating from that now mostly because I'm going to continue writing some codas for the Arthur/Eames Popstar universe and I don't want any readers to go into the stories with expectations that won't be met by my writing. That is to say: I know that a lot of readers read fanfiction as an escape and as their happy place, and while Amuse-Bouche is generally happy universe filled with likable people (by my standards), that doesn't mean there won't be conflict or difficult choices or characters behaving in complicated ways. Most of my usual readers have come to expect such things from my other writing (which is chock full of conflict and complex characters and difficult situations), but this is a bit of a heads up to readers who might not be as familiar with my writing, or who may expect this universe to be different from the rest of my writing.
A) I do believe in love. True, romantic, abiding love. And to me, love is multi-faceted and contains all of the following: a feeling, a choice, a series of actions that back up those choices and feelings. A solid, healthy, romantic relationship contains recpirocity in those things between the people in the relationship. If any of those parts fall away (the feeling, the choices, the actions to back up the feelings) and partners don't address the issue, the relationship drifts out of the healthy territory into the unhealthy territory.
B) I do not believe in soul mates or destiny or fated couples. In a meta way, Arthur & Eames in the Amuse-Bouche universe are meant for each other because I have created a story universe in which they do marry each other and stay together (mostly) for the rest of their lives. However, within the context of their universe, neither Arthur nor Eames becomes suddenly unattractive to other people just because they're together, nor do they magically cease to be attracted to anyone else after they get together.
My codas will cover different periods in their relationship, and despite being in love with each other and in a committed, monogamous relationship, they still develop crushes on other people from time to time. For the most part, they deal with it with humor and openness, but there may come times when they fall down and don't handle it in the best manner. I will warn in community headers as appropriate, but this is an advance warning to readers who might be expecting nothing but smooth sailing in the rest of the stories I write in this universe: if pure fluff and happytimes are all you want, there may be codas you should skip reading.
C) Bottom line: Arthur and Eames aren't perfect, and neither is their relationship or their love. However, that lack of perfection and that intricacy is what makes it human and intriguing for me to write about. What I'm interested in exploring through these codas is the conflicts that arise even when a relationship is healthy and stable and happy. This may be of interest to some of my readers, and not so much to others. I post this simply so we can avoid having a situation where readers come in expecting one thing and leave unhappy because they got something else.
Click to viewThat video summarizes many things I think about love and "soul mates."
2. Generally, I don't share too many opinions on non-writing topics in this journal. I'm deviating from that now mostly because I'm going to continue writing some codas for the Arthur/Eames Popstar universe and I don't want any readers to go into the stories with expectations that won't be met by my writing. That is to say: I know that a lot of readers read fanfiction as an escape and as their happy place, and while Amuse-Bouche is generally happy universe filled with likable people (by my standards), that doesn't mean there won't be conflict or difficult choices or characters behaving in complicated ways. Most of my usual readers have come to expect such things from my other writing (which is chock full of conflict and complex characters and difficult situations), but this is a bit of a heads up to readers who might not be as familiar with my writing, or who may expect this universe to be different from the rest of my writing.
A) I do believe in love. True, romantic, abiding love. And to me, love is multi-faceted and contains all of the following: a feeling, a choice, a series of actions that back up those choices and feelings. A solid, healthy, romantic relationship contains recpirocity in those things between the people in the relationship. If any of those parts fall away (the feeling, the choices, the actions to back up the feelings) and partners don't address the issue, the relationship drifts out of the healthy territory into the unhealthy territory.
B) I do not believe in soul mates or destiny or fated couples. In a meta way, Arthur & Eames in the Amuse-Bouche universe are meant for each other because I have created a story universe in which they do marry each other and stay together (mostly) for the rest of their lives. However, within the context of their universe, neither Arthur nor Eames becomes suddenly unattractive to other people just because they're together, nor do they magically cease to be attracted to anyone else after they get together.
My codas will cover different periods in their relationship, and despite being in love with each other and in a committed, monogamous relationship, they still develop crushes on other people from time to time. For the most part, they deal with it with humor and openness, but there may come times when they fall down and don't handle it in the best manner. I will warn in community headers as appropriate, but this is an advance warning to readers who might be expecting nothing but smooth sailing in the rest of the stories I write in this universe: if pure fluff and happytimes are all you want, there may be codas you should skip reading.
C) Bottom line: Arthur and Eames aren't perfect, and neither is their relationship or their love. However, that lack of perfection and that intricacy is what makes it human and intriguing for me to write about. What I'm interested in exploring through these codas is the conflicts that arise even when a relationship is healthy and stable and happy. This may be of interest to some of my readers, and not so much to others. I post this simply so we can avoid having a situation where readers come in expecting one thing and leave unhappy because they got something else.