#Ask me things!

[ekingston]

What do you think would be lena's courage gaunlet test

therapy

[seeminglydark]

So when Caro was Carrie did they ever break a bone doing cheer? Cause I was given a cute idea of John being all doting on Carrie if she did break one even though they insist they’re fine

WHAT? Noooo never. He’s a big tough guy. No way would he be seen with a purple sparkley backpack… or cheer Pom poms… or a letterman jacket. Definitely not a limited edition cherry pink heart shaped purse. He definitely wouldn’t carry their lunch tray, or sit with them at their games when they can’t cheer, or deliver messages to the rest of the team. He would never stoop so low as to go to their teachers and get their homework assignments while they were out, or swipe their fave snacks from the stop ‘n’ go corner store. Or help them freshen their manicure. Or hover more than usually asking every ten minutes if they are feeling ok or need anything.

Totally not at all.

[uhliyaaah]

I'm obsessed with you! I would dedicate my life to you 🥰🥰🥰

as you should ❤️

[askchevymlp]

"I won't, I promise."

[secretlytranced]

You’re gonna turn your best friend into a hypnoslut and let us control and degrade you both, aren’t you? After all, you’re a good girl and you know what good girls do.

i mean...

ok so a big fantasy of us boths is ...

to be subby to one dom/me and just two little sluts on our knees being controlled and used and made to fuck each other and our dom and yeah...

so... mayyybe? hehe

[sparklepocalypse]

🍋 because of course :)

Figured someone would ask me this one pretty quickly, LMAO. But I can’t possibly be limited to a single favorite spicy trope/kink to write because… *gestures at my assembled works*, so here are my three favorites!

3. Overstimulation. My smut tends to be pretty cerebral anyway — I get the technical/logistical bits out of the way first (whose hand goes where, who’s on top, obligatory descriptions of body parts, the requisite number of thrusts, etc.), and then fill in the gaps with the emotional/mental responses of the characters to what’s happening. Overstimulation kink feels like the logical conclusion of this process — it leans more heavily into the cerebral than the physical, and it’s really fun to dig into the characters’ psyches that way.

Slide, Crawl into the Shades of Light | E | Alex/Henry | 4.8k words

2. Monsterfucking. I mean, if it’s not obvious by my having commissioned some absolutely incredible, gorgeous, supremely hot art from @artofobsession, then I’m not sure how else to explain that octoHenry is my favorite version of Henry I’ve ever written in a non-canon-adjacent AU. But my fandom presence was forged in the time of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series, and human/non human pairings were the norm there, much more so than human/human pairings were. So yeah. Monsterfucking. You’ll probably see more cryptids in my works in the future, so buckle up!

If We’re Caught in a Wave (I Will Carry You Over) | E | Alex/Henry | 5.9k words

All the Ocean was Sleeping | E | Alex/Henry | 6.4K words

1. Identity Porn. I love, love love the “you’re not who I thought you were” concept as both a source of conflict and the trigger point for a romantic relationship in fic. @cha-melodius’ You’ve Got Mail AU, False Dichotomy, is an excellent example of this. The “talking to someone you thought was a stranger but it turns out they’re your [friend/enemy/neighbor/boss]” trope is just… yes. Excellent.

Amazed at How We Talk (Once, Successfully) | E | Alex/Henry | 8.7k words

Down On My Knees; Wanna Take You There | E | Alex/Henry | 7.7k words

Running on the Music and Night Highs | E | Alex/Anonymous (Henry) | 2k words

From the Fruit Emoji Meme for Fic Writers.

[diazsdimples]

Whos your favorite movie composer

Mahler, hands down. That man writes unbelievable symphonies. The first movement of his 5th and the final of his 2nd are incredible and I have maybe been known to cry listening to them. I thi know I'd ascend to heaven if I heard his 2nd one live. Incredible.

Here's the ending of his 2nd symphony to prove my case (it is half an hour long so if you want, fast forward to the final 4ish minutes. You'll never be the same again)

(Okay and after having read this properly I see that this says MOVIE composer and not just normal composer, but movie composer would be John Williams or Hanz Zimmer)

Ask me stuff about classical music!

[blarrghe]

Shop talk! I know you're currently doing the whole writing and posting thing differently than before - like the whole thing is written, you're just editing and posting once a week. So what do you think of that? Do you prefer it over how you worked previously? Does it depend on the fic??

And how much editing are we talking? Both in terms of words changed as well as time spent on it? Do you do editing the next chapter for a whole week? Are you constantly editing all upcoming chapters??

Thanks for the ask! I love talking about this stuff :) Sorry for the obscenely long answer.

So it's the first time I've done that, and now that I'm in the posting part I am liking it a lot. I like the structure, I look forward to Wednesdays, I feel like I gathered a little bit of an audience that is there weekly with me as well, which is nice for everyone. I don't know if it makes any difference to people in terms of engagement if they hear that its completed in advance or see it posting regularly, but idk if it was me as a reader I would appreciate the regularity so I hope people do. At least one person has told me they're waiting to read it until it's finished/waited to start until it was over half posted, idk if I'll suddenly get new readers when its up in full or what but I def understand that. But yeah! The posting weekly thing has been nice. It feels productive even if I actually don't do a ton of writing every week.

Actually writing the thing took like two years though, specifically because there was absolutely no gratification to it haha. I didn't really even post wip snippets or talk about it much, because I wanted to keep my secrets. I was writing either Matchsies or A Complicated Match still when I had the idea and started plotting, so part of it taking so long is also that I was dividing my attention, and devoting more of it to the ongoing stuff I was actually posting. But I started this fic with the intention of letting it be a slow side-burner project so that I could make it "really good" by the time it went up. And that was a good call, because I did a lot of re-writes and re-structuring to elements of it, especially some of the early chapters, when I got further into the plot. To be clear, it's had the same outline all along, but there were connecting details that didn't work, like logistical travel time things that would have been glaringly annoying if I'd posted the first drafts of the first few chapters before writing the later ones. Also I re-vamped Sylvanna's character really early on into a more major role. She wasn't originally a bodyguard! Or really a main element of the story at all. Absolution came out at some point and I got Ideas.

Anyway, a lot of the editing that went into the fic before I started posting was pretty major, but by the time I was ready to actually start posting everything was much more concrete. I tend to edit the next chapter in the days before it goes up, and right before posting, mainly just for little details. But I try to give myself some distance and not overdo the constant editing so that when I do look at it right before posting I have some fresher eyes, right now I haven't looked at the next chapter (lying, I read it last night, but not from an EDITOR standpoint) in a couple weeks and I plan to put on editor glasses tomorrow morning before I post it. A big part of the editing that is ongoing is for how the prose reads, like I might come up with some gorgeous metaphor or re-do how a scene is described but keep the content the same. You get better all the time as a writer, so it's just about getting the Good Copy as Good as I can before it goes up. Every now and then I have a genius thought and go stick it in where it fits. Every now and then I also delete stuff or have a genius thought that doesn't actually fit and stick it in "CUT CONTENT" on the bottom of the doc. There's some Taren-perspective Bher stuff in there that didn't work with how I structured Ch. 20, for example. I was thinking for a sec I'd re-write that whole chapter and do a flashback chapter for him but it did not suit the flow at all and I only got a couple paragraphs in and then just... added like two lines of Taren Thoughts to get the point across instead haha. I also cut a couple chapters in half but didn't change them (19 and 20 are an example, which is also why a ch. 20 rewrite did not work.)

The most major edits I've made have been to the last two chapters, mainly to add in a few new ideas I had or to tie up loose ends I realised I was still leaving. I haven't majorly changed any of what was going to happen, it's more just me trying to really nail those last chapters. I am also constantly re-reading it in full (sometimes making minor tweaks to names in the narration ;) and also boring stuff like punctuation). I'll post a chapter and immediately get excited for the next one and go read from that point to the end...

There's also a "secret" epilogue that I wrote, really liked, and then cannibalized and entirely re-wrote like, yesterday. I wasn't initially sure I'd even post it but now I definitely will. So stay tuned for that ;)

[ekingston]

DONT post morgana w/o warning!!! i will go FERAL

apologies anon but i’m not usually in charge of these things. case in point my current WIP:

clearly my brain is not done with her yet

[seeminglydark]

i genuinely forgot if you’ve shown how John lost his eye or if you did and I just blocked it out of my mind… either way you’re a wonderful storyteller and i wish your characters were real people so i can attempt to be their friends lol

TW abuse mention in the images and text

It’s alluded too a few times that his dad caused it with a pellet gun when he was around 13, he dances around the subject even though everyone knows that’s what happened, the only time he’s explicitly said so was to the hitchhiker way back in Seemingly Dark, so it’s really reasonable and understandable to forget or have blocked it out. Also I have a lot of people who like the characters that haven’t read Seemingly Dark or any of the comics so might not know that! In his younger years he wears a pirate-like eyepatch or sunglasses even indoors or at night to hide it. It made him feel gross when people give him pitying looks cuz they all knew what was going on but never actually helped him.

Also thank you so much for that! I wish I could be friends with them too, it’s kind of why I made them. I’m a very lonely person and have been my whole life, and I made my characters to be the people I’d wished I had. It’s really nice to know that other people connect with them or like them too.

(Old art alert!)

And here is the conversation between John and Ray, Maddie’s Stepdad in Creaky

Annnnd in Mil-Liminal

[uhliyaaah]

Hands down you’re fucking gorgeous

thank you 🤎

[askchevymlp]

I am on too u Seed the banan guys after you

". . ."

[ferretrade]

WIP game

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

thank you @merlyn-bane for the tag!!

What if Cody...

Cody with kids 5+1

messy codywan baby

codywan bodyguard fake marriage inheritance au

Ezra & Leia BFFs

codywan also act ii

Blyla yoga au & quinfox au plots (which is not written but full of plots and vibes)

the organas 5+1

No pressure tags!: @lttrsfrmlnrrgby @goddammitjim @whiskygoldwings @anaclastic-azurite @anxiousotters @happybean17 @frostbitebakery @biscuityskies

[secretlytranced]

15

15. Drooling or eyes fluttering?

... is there anything hotter than eyes fluttering?? i think not. just the batting of lashes... my eyes rolling up and down, desperate to focus but so lost and falling... so fucking perfect.

[wetdyke]

What’s been the kinkiest fantasy you’ve gotten off to? x

mm probably the one about my butch letting a group of butches and studs use me, showing them how best to edge me and hurt me the way I like it before making me cum over and over until they're all satisfied that they've used me properly 🥺

[sparklepocalypse]

🍍 because it’s my favorite and I love AUs!

Fair enough! I love a good two parter question.

What kind of AUs do you like?

I like writing most types of AU, as long as I have even a passing interest in the concept and I have the opportunity to do some world building along the way. My AU fics tend to get pretty beefy because I love world building so much: see for example:

Late Bloomer | E | Omegaverse AU | Omega!Alex/AlphaHenry | 22.7k words

Be Worthy Love, and Love Will Come | E | Canon-Divergent AU | Alex/Henry childhood friends-to-lovers | 30.8k words

And even the shorter of my favorite AUs are still not what I’d classify as ficlets:

So I Will Weather the Storm | E | Canon-Divergent AU | RAF Helicopter Rescue Pilot!Henry/Alex | 9.8k words

Creative Differences | E | Rock Band AU | Lead Singer!Alex/Keyboardist!Henry | 10.3k words

And of course I have a few AU WIPs in the works which will all be at minimum 20k words, but the Big Giant AU is approaching 80k.

Are there any AUs you hate or just generally have beef with?

I avoid high school AUs. This fandom is glutted with them, and I don’t think I have anything meaningful to contribute there. Also, high school was sort of the worst for me so I really don’t feel the need to revisit it.

I also find the back button pretty quickly on Omegaverse fics where the omega’s personality is hyperfeminized for the sake of fitting some sort of trope. Give me gender norm imploding Omegaverse any day of the week (hence Late Bloomer, lol), but don’t slap a name tag on an omega whose personality has almost no similarities to the character I want to read about, and try to convince me it’s them.

Also, kidfic AUs just… aren’t my thing. The story has to be incredibly compelling *and* the kid can’t be the primary character in order for me to be interested. I’m not in fandom to digest content about child OCs — they’re not what keep me here. So uh, sorry, kidfic writers?

From the Fruit Emoji Ask Game for Fic Writers.