Hi! You can call me Arrow (or aroceu, if you so desire) and use whatever pronouns you’d like for me.
I’m Chinese-American, well over 18, a lesbian, and I have a very small dog who I love to pieces. When I’m not writing or making fun little coding projects for my own entertainment, I tend to be playing ranked Splatoon, watching video essays on Youtube, or thinking about reading books again. And working at my job, I guess.
As a writer, I view every story I create as a new challenge. I like being consistent in my inconsistency, though as of late I am trying to lean into the stuff I like to read rather than just what I like to write: playing tropes straight and writing longer works. I also like writing porn a lot. I’ve always been passionate about clarity and creativity with the English language, and I strive to explore and improve as much as I can with every new story I tell.
I write more seriously than I do anything else in this world, even when it’s writing fanfiction about two guys boning down. Storytelling is my true love, but prose is my chosen form and I’m always finding ways to improve it based on content, and in the same way improve my content based on my prose. In my early days of writing, it was hard for me to figure out an ending and tell a story to completion, besides a few short stories I had to write for class. Those days, I was more inclined to song- and poetry-writing, but prose-form storytelling was always in the back of my mind. I tried to write a “novel” once when I was 9 (it was 9k, which is still pretty impressive) before entering my poetry phase. After that when I was 12, I posted a 33k self-insert WIP and wrote a 45k novel that summer; wrote a 50k novel the following winter/spring; and then finished my first NaNo the same year at 80k. At that point—at the age of 14—I knew how quick I could be with writing when I actually had a plan for a story.
But you’ll still see me trying to bullshit stuff along the way every so often.
It’s my elementary school’s fault that I’m into RPF, really. Most of the creative writing assignments I had in school from when I was very young (~8, and learning that I loved storytelling) prompted us to write stories about ourselves and our classmates in a fictional way. It was common for all of our assignments to feature each other as characters if only by our names, and made those stories feel more intimate and interesting. From there I got into self-inserts, because my school had taught me how to think of telling a story about me; then from self-inserts I got into writing fanfiction about my personal life; and from there I got into writing fanfiction about my friends’ personal lives (particularly if they asked me to, which they often did)–and then, by the time I was 12, I got into RPF.
It all makes sense, you see. It only occurred to me to write fanfiction for existing fictional media afterward by that point (even though my first active fandom was still RPF, Super Junior), because I had always started from RPF in some way. Writing from the personal had been my initial way of thinking for so long, but that changed the more I read and the more I enjoyed things for what they were, not just because I related to them. And also because I quickly developed an obsession with yaoi.
I posted original fiction to the internet for a few years before fanfiction. My brain had been wired that way first, an intersection of original fiction and RPF. Once I realized the dopamine finishing a story gave me (not to mention the feedback and the speed at which I got it), I was like, alright, I guess we’re writing short stories now. All romance, mind you – I loved making my little two dimensional OCs kiss too. I had the writing brainrot before I had the fanfiction brainrot, but when it hit, it hit. As you can see by this website.
I write fanfiction primarily for fun but won’t deny that I love feedback and dialogue, so I’m always happy to hear other people’s thoughts. I believe that fandom itself is a conversational space, and fanworks are a form to start those conversations as well as contribute to them. I’m passionate about the existence of transformative work as an art form itself and believe that fanfiction is a culturally significant medium for the genre. And so much like I do with storytelling and writing itself, I approach fanfiction with the same seriousness, curiosity, indulgence, desire to improve, and need to be heard.
I have a few alpha/beta readers: L, my primary mutual beta reader-4-beta reader; static_abyss, who has also helped out with my fic on occasion for the past over-a-decade when our fandoms collide; and Christie, who’s been reading my stories since about 2009, and is always a reliable help for catching issues in my writing and being an overall cheerleader if I ask. Other pals I often riff with that serve as a lot of inspiration for my fic include Sani, Cathy, genisaurion, and my old college roommate ♥
Though I have not consumed the media for it, I have beta read fic for Yuri!!! on Ice and hockey RPF ;)
As anyone else, I love comments, even though I am not the greatest at replying to them. Regardless, I appreciate every piece of feedback I get and am always excited to hear your thoughts.
Further links:
Bad Buddy! It’s a Thai BL about enemies-to-lovers who are also childhood neighbors, but takes place while they’re in university. It used to be international to watch on YouTube, but now you need a VPN >:( So if you do have one feel free to watch, but if you want other ways to watch… feel free to hit me up 👀 The drama is 12 episodes long and I cannot recommend it enough—the main acting is fantastic, the editing is campy, and the story-telling is tight and fast paced that before you know it, it’ll be over 😭 Pat/Pran, the main couple, are essentially everything I like in most of my ships, except that they’re actually canon that I’ve watched the show probably a hundred times now and I can’t get enough of them.
So my life goal is to get everyone else into them too. And also to write a lot of porn for them.
This site hosts my fic, and will always be updated first. I’ve been writing and posting my stories on the internet since about 2008; however, this site will have stories from 2023 and on, with select fandoms and fics from beforehand also posted here. You can view a backlog of (a lot of, but not all of) my other fic on AO3.
You might also find some fics that never made it to AO3 here 😉
This site does not host any of my Harry Potter fanfiction.
There are also some hidden fics around, i.e. ones that don’t show up on the front page.
I have admittedly removed a lot of my fic from the internet for public consumption as I do not want them to be searchable. If there is an old story that has been removed that you would still like a copy of, though, you are welcome to ask for it—I keep copies of everything.
I still post to AO3 on occasion: for event fics, and chaptered fics that would be easier to subscribe to on AO3. However, regular standalones (which I write the most of) will primarily be posted here. While I am not against AO3, nor anyone using it—most of my friends do!—it is no longer the main place I personally would like for my stories to be archived.
If you’re interested in getting in touch with me for whatever reason, you can contact me via any of the methods listed on my main site! Thanks for stopping by ❤️
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