Congrats to this fic for finally getting me off my ass to write reviews for fics? Ugh. This story made me so mad. I’ll own up to having some… biases. Especially towards Derek. I love the guy, ok? I generally think it’s kind of shitty that he has a reputation for being a failwolf. That being said… This fic totally takes the ‘Stiles knows how to run a pack and what it means to be a good alpha’ to it’s extreme but logical conclusion....

If I’m allowed to toot my own horn, I’d have to say that one of the key aspects of my stories is trope inversion or subversion. Being irritated with a commone fandom trope is most often what motivates a particular story. Not all of them, sure, but a lot—possibly even most. On some tumblr post about romance novels and why they’re Totally Valid, someone mentioned a frequent aspect is someting called ’the grovel’: wherein the love interest expresses sincere remorse over a harm done....

Man, I don’t think I could dig up all the tutorials I used (but I found this tutorial on giphy to be the most useful – which given that it’s giphy, I’m not surprised). I don’t mind talking about it but… my process might not be for you since I don’t use photoshop (even though I do have it). However… all the apps/programs I use are 100% free and open source, so there’s that....