Meta: Sambiya's methods

( Cut because I felt like a creep writing this )

The idea is to use the first set of steps to structure Sambiya's interactions with Tsuya, Meilen, and Agioren, with varying degrees of success.

Why I Write

I write because I can. I write because I don’t see the things I want to see in media. I don’t see enough complicated relationships – actual relationships that are complicated, not ‘love triangle/quadrangle/pentagon/whatever oh noes’ – and I don’t see enough characters to whom I can relate. I want characters who are proud, and angry, and marginalized. I want characters who are alone. I want to read about people who love each other without being in love; I want to read about people who are so alien that they have difficulty relating to other characters, and I want the reader to understand why they feel so alienated. I want to read about people to whom I don’t relate at all: I want to read about warriors who are afraid to fight, I want to read about someone cheating on their spouse and why they do it; I want to understand them. I want to read about found families and polyamorous relationships and romantic friendships and platonic marriages and people who take care of each other even though neither of them are qualified because they're the only people who will. I want to read about people who find themselves in impossible positions, who don’t wait to be rescued by a knight in shining armor of a scantily-clad woman in impractical clothing, who dig their way out of prison even when the tunnel is shoddy and starts to collapse around them because they were too impatient to shore it up properly. I want to read about characters who are neither male, nor white, nor straight, nor upper-class, whose distance from the norm is neither vilified nor fetishized, for whom all of these things that they are not are just one more part of a character who is ultimately well-rounded and human and flawed, and not their reason for being. I want stories where canon is bent, warped, twisted, and wrapped around, where it switches genders and orientations and plots and timelines and settings because readers love it that much.

And if I can’t find these things that I want to read, then I will write them.

(This is how I write poetry. This is the only way I know how where I don't feel ridiculous doing so.)