#Did you know if you read 1 fanfic a day you'd need 200 years to read all the good omens fanfiction on ao3?

[avoicebehindthestars]

Sometimes I feel like I'm in "Being John Malkovitch".

I mean, "right, I finished reading about rockstar Crowley and headmaster Aziraphale, so while I'm waiting to see what Crowley's going to do with the Aziraphale-coded cat, how figure skaters Crowley and Aziraphale are going to react to having to share the ice rink, and where the night heat is going to take the lighthouse keeper Crowley and the ornitologist Aziraphale, I can find out what the time-travelling Crowley is up to with his angel. And after that, I'm going to get back to the hungover Crowley and Aziraphale in the California wine country, and when I finish that one (probably with some breaks for the time-travellers and maybe the astronomers), perhaps I could look for 19th century ghosts with the demon Crowley and angel Aziraphale :D"

See what I'm talking about?

[isyguess]

Fanfic writer interview

I saw two different versions of this floating around, so I decided to combine the two and pick out the questions that seemed most interesting to me that I wanted to answer. :D

If you'd like to get to know me, here you go! 😊

What fandoms do you write in?

At the time, mostly Genshin. I am absolutely in gacha game hell, so there might be some works for other gacha games (ZZZ, Arknights, Star Rail) in the works. ;)

I will also write for animes or other games, if they manage to catch my interest, though.

When did you start writing?

I've been writing fanfic since I was around 16, and all my first stories have (thankfully) never been posted anywhere. I die of shame from the fact alone that I let my friends read what my brain came up with back then. But of course, everybody has to start somewhere, and I kept writing short stories and drabbles (the actual exactly 100 words drabbles) for years, mostly for Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Bleach and Samurai Warriors 3. Never posted any of those either.

The first one I did post was "Sorry", a Genesis x Reader (FFVII), which I posted on wattpad, because I didn't yet dare to put anything on AO3 because I felt the quality of works on there was so incredibly high. Thankfully I got more confident after this first fic.

How many works do you have on AO3?

13, most of them shorter ones, but I also have three longer works!

11 of them are completed, one is my current WIP and one is abandoned and will never see the light of day again.

Ever since I've abandoned that one, I've decided that I will only post works that I am confident I can finish. I know the frustration of finding a fic you love, only for it to be abandoned, so from then on I decided that I would try my absolute best to finish every single fic I start.

(Maybe that's also just the kind of person I am, I can't start anything new without having the previous thing finished.)

Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes?

I had to look this up because I had no idea, and I'm actually surprised by the ranking. I don't look at stats, ever. I literally don't care (and it helps that my brain seems to not like numbers in general, haha). I love every single kudos and comment I get, but I don't count them. :)

My top 5 stories are:

1. Turbulences (Kaeya x Reader)

Turbulences - guess_isy - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

2. Droplets on Heliotropes (Wanderer x Reader)

Droplets On Heliotropes - Chapter 1 - guess_isy - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

3. Cinderella Story (Wriothesley x Reader)

Cinderella Story - Chapter 1 - guess_isy - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

4. Paradoxon (Kaeya x Reader)

Paradoxon - Chapter 1 - guess_isy - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

5. Lithe (Zhongli x Reader)

Lithe - Chapter 1 - guess_isy - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

(Which does NOT represent how good and how popular they are at all, in my opinion xD)

What's your total AO3 word count?

Almost 200 k.

Pretty proud of that, especially since my chapters finally got longer with my last works. :)

When you write, are you influenced by what others might enjoy reading, or do you write purely for yourself, or a mix of both?

And this answer explains why I don't look at stats. I write mostly (95%) for myself. I tried writing for others, but I've since found out that it is extremely hard for me, that I need to force myself and that the result just won't be as good. Everything I write is 100% self-indulgent. I also can't choose what I want to write, my writing brain has a will of its own and will attach itself to a character, then hold me hostage and make me write down whatever scenarios it comes up with (I do, however, enjoy this :P)

Of course, the best thing that can happen is that readers like what I write, which will motivate me to no ends to continue my fics! 🥰

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, always. Even if it takes me a couple of days. If a reader cares so much about my story that they take the time to let me know, they deserve the world (and at the very least my reply to let them know how much I appreciate them ♥️).

Can you tell me a bit about your writing space?

I bought a PC and a very nice, very LOUD keyboard (just the way I like it). It's in a bright room and surrounded by figures of half-naked men (which are ironically not mine but my bf's - he's a huge Dragon Ball fan xD).

I need absolute silence to write, no music, no talking, nothing (except the loud typing).

Which is kind of funny, because I can do my work stuff with a jackhammer next to me, I wouldn't care, haha!

What's your most effective way to muster up a muse?

A long night of sleep, and sleeping in in the morning - as in, lying in bed for hours, half-awake and dreaming up scenarios. At one point, I will start writing them down on my phones, and then I won't stop for the next 8 hours (if my schedule allows it!)

Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you?

My stories are all emotional as fuck, with one or more characters having to overcome something. I want my fics to have a meaning, to tell a story where something changes (even if it's just porn).

If I include sex, there will most probably be some kind of BDSM involved, as I love exploring the trust and emotions that go into sex where one person allows the other to have power over them.

(I also only write reader inserts!)

What is your reason for writing?

Telling a story, and soothing my writing brain before it explodes, haha.

And, obviously, the love, support, comments and kudos I get from my readers! Even though I write for myself, I probably wouldn't have the determination to finish my stories and the love for the craft that I do without the feedback I get from my readers.

Honestly, I just love, love, love getting comments! ♥️

How do you feel about your own writing?

I'm proud of it before I post it. Then, after I posted it and have had time to think about what I did, I hate it and think it's the worst thing I've written so far and I need to forget about it. Around a year later, when I don't exactly remember my writing, I read it again and think, "Damn, this shit is amazing! Did I really write this??"

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Oh, that's easy. It's "Farewell", a Nyx Ulrich x Reader one-shot, where the reader discovers that Nyx (canonically) died.

Farewell - guess_isy - Final Fantasy XV [Archive of Our Own]

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

Okay, this is HARD. All my other stories have happy endings xD

I think it might be "Cinderella Story", just because, compared to others I've written about, Wriothesley is a character that is easy to get along with and that will probably be the most drama-free in a relationship, hahaha.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes. I've even gotten death threats (that I sadly don't have anymore, because wattpad deleted private messages) because how DARE I put poor Wanderer through such hardships?

I totally took those as a compliment, though, since I managed to get a person so emotional that they went out of their way to tell me in very much detail and quite often that they'd kill me. :DD

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, there's one that I know of. Somebody asked me to translate "Lithe" into Chinese to post on a Chinese forum.

I was really flattered :)

What's your favorite fic you've written?

That has to be "Cinderella Story", because of the huge amount of love that I got for that one and because of a specific situation that involved one of my besties ♥️