#*taps top of andalite* this baby can fit so much gender

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13, 14 & 29!!

THANK YOU IDA I ADORE YOU

13. What’s your longest work of the year?

Ahahaha at a cool 176,906 words, that would be wanna fly away! even if you count it as half since it's co-written, it'd still be my longest!

14. What’s your shortest work of the year?

take it slow, hold me close is only 1,666 words (Good Number) but I think it packs a real punch. It's also one of my only canon-compliant fics in this fandom! Something possessed me after the fish kiss scene, I swear. Listen to the podfic instead of reading it, please, it's absolutely a better experience and a great way to spend 14 minutes!!

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

OH THIS IS DIFFICULT but I'm going to have to pull from WFA, because it's. Special. Putting it below a cut in case you haven't read it and want to go in completely unspoiled, but. I really love this bit. It's from the prologue to chapter 14.

I am an Andalite. I am a human. I am both, and neither, and something in between. I am greater than the sum of my parts, than the flesh that encases me, no matter its form. My body is me, and yet—I am so much more than it, so much more than the things I have been told it should be. So for now, I am figuring out who I am and who I want to be. I am, as Frenchie says, keeping my options open. One day, I may make a more permanent choice. But for now, the fight continues.  Ed says it is okay to want things. I tell him it’s okay to not know what you want, and to seek it anyway.  The relationship I have with myself and who I know myself to be is more important than what I can do with my body, although I honor it for its power, for the ways it can protect this planet I’ve chosen and the people I love—for the way it can feel, the way it can grow, the way it can love. It is a great privilege to have the power to change my body, to shape it into something else, and to remain, underneath it all, myself, whoever that is. I still don’t quite know. And that, I think, is beautiful.