#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 am on too u Seed the banan guys after you

". . ."

[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.

[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 ;)

[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

[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]

Do you have refs of Caro and Johnny's tattoos? :D I love the designs of them but I'm not entirely sure where each tat is and what they look like in full!! :D

I do! I don’t have a body ref for John’s for some reason, never drawn that, but I’ve included some snippets of his tattoos in action. Their tattoos also vary on timeline, the sheet here is for the current timeline in my comic Mil-Liminal, the difference being John’s wrist has three stripes, in seemingly dark he only has two, the addition of the valentines hearts for both. John specifically will get more later but these are the ones we’ve seen in the storylines so far.

John’s tattoos: two or three black wristbands depending on the timeline, heart with Caro’s name on his inner bicep. Giant geometrical UFO piece on his upper arm, stick poke eye on his middle finger, and not pictured in the sheet, really badly done Angel wings he got in prison on his upper back/shoulder. I have drawn him with STAY GOLD knuckle tats but that would be future canon.

Caro’s tattoos: full back piece of mothman from their neck to the backs on their knees that reaches around their shoulders to the front and over their collar bones, full arm sleeve of the two headed galaxy snake, knuckle pronouns, large nessie on their outer thigh, jackalope on the opposite legs shin, and heart for John just below their pant line on their super lower belly.

[uhliyaaah]

Hands down you’re fucking gorgeous

thank you 🤎

[askchevymlp]

"I won't, I promise."

[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.

[big-idiot-wolf-boys]

Music Ask Game

How many liked songs do you have?

How many playlists do you have?

What is your most niche playlist called?

What is the most embarrassing song in your liked songs?

Do you organize your likes/playlists?

What's your favorite playlist?

Most listened genre?

Least listened genre?

List your last 5 liked songs

List your first 5 liked songs

What was the last song you listened to?

What's your current favorite band?

What's your current favorite song?

How often do you delete liked songs? (Weekly, monthly, never, etc)

What song do you like in a genre you normally don't like?

How often do you try new bands/genres out?

How long is your longest playlist?

Do you listen to any instrumental only music? (Not necessarily classical)

What's more important, music or lyrics?

Do you listen to music while working/studying?