#I can't believe my first fic is a Red Son pov. Like idk who I thought it would be but I'm surprised it's Red Son

[imminent-danger-came]

Here's a clip comp of all the times MK repeats the things the people around him say! Or at least all of the times I've noticed!

[themagichour]

1, 11, and 16!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS thank you my darlin

1.

Who is your favorite character to write for and is this the character you find easiest to write for?

I am not answering with just one character, because I don't have just one, and because I can never stop talking. (Just came back to this sentence to add I went through my entire fanfic history.)

This is hard to answer, because beyond my SpongeBob fic where his pineapple was haunted not in an R.L. Stine way, but in a Shining way, my first real foray into fanfic was............... Radiohead RPF. It was 2005, and I was sixteen.

I'm............................. so conflicted over RPF, and admitting to writing Radiohead fanfic is..... UUUHHHMMMM.

So, for over a decade, my favorite character to write was an obviously heavily-fictionalized version of a real person, Thom Yorke. :| My idea of him was very easy to write. This. I. It's-- I am. Uh. This is a painful confession.

All my RH fic is lost to a Power Mac G4 Cube, time, and the eventual expiration of a 2000s archive. We were a small group, and we called it "cheesecake". I almost exclusively wrote Thom/Jonny, but the only surviving fic is a novel-length collab between myself and a friend. I.......... did not want to write Thom Yorke/Michael Stipe. It's ultimately Thom/Jonny, but. Yo. I had an unbalanced relationship with my friend, and I didn't want to write about Michael Stipe, and it wasn't a great time in my life. It's the only collab I've ever done, and I wasn't very happy doing that. I typically find reading collabs jarring, and I find writing under those circumstances more jarring.

Still, I'm proud of it. It's good writing, and we did a lot of research. Everything that sounds like the prose of someone tripped and burnt out on Red Bull while working at a pumpkin patch in Culver City is written by me. Here it is shruggy guy emoji shruggy guy emoji shruggy guy emoji I can't believe I wrote fucking Thom Yorke/Michael Stipe smut.

What else. I remember that as a young teen I wrote Mulder/Scully and Han/Leia fic that I never published because I was fourteen and I'm p. sure fanfiction.net existed but all I can think is, what, angelfire????? I wrote one House/Wilson fic that I published to livejournal. Someone copied it and posted it elsewhere and claimed it as their own. Flattered!!!!!

Then there was like.......... one Sherlock fic that never saw the light of day. I was nineteen. Forgive me. Fuk Sherlock.

Uh so BEYOND THAT, I really didn't write fic again till Hannibal. I found Will very easy to write, and I found Hannibal easy to write through Will's POV. Which I felt worked, considering his supernatural empathy. It put enough of Hannibal's mindset into it. It almost feels to me that Hannibal doesn't have an inner monologue. But in terms of understanding him as a character, here is EVIDENCE!!!!:

I swear to FUCKING GOD this is real. When the episode in which Bedelia asks Hannibal what he sees in Will aired, I said aloud, to a college friend who was watching with me live, "An opportunity for friendship." And then Hannibal fucking said, word for word, "An opportunity for friendship." It sounds like I am bullshitting beyond belief, but I swear on my favorite cat's grave. I wish I knew where that college friend is now, so they could corroborate this. They're probably married with a baby and a great career.

I have an abandoned WIP and two short fics or something, idk, but I like this one. This was before S3 and before we knew who was playing Molly. I based her upon the character in Red Dragon, and in my mind she was played by Rose Byrne. And their son was named Willy in the book, so he's named Willy there.

Then I FUCKIN committed the RPF crime again with this lil' romantic friendship Buzzfeed Unsolved fic. It got popular! I feel like I can write Shane really well. End me. anyway

MASH!

I can't believe I've barely written MASH fic. I feel Hawkeye so much, but it's very difficult for me to do his POV for some reason. Which really doesn't make sense. My headcanon is that Hawk is bipolar, and I'm bipolar II, but I just can't get into his head. I can observe him well as an outsider through BJ. This is pretty much the only complete thing I've written. Though I did write a Hawk childhood fic from his mother's point of view, which I quite like. Oh and there was that time I accidentally made either Potter or Mildred eat ass when I meant cunnilingus.

NOW......... now, my friends. My most recent and most favorite character to write is Tom Wambsgans. He's so easy to write, and I don't know what this GODDAMN says about me. But this is what I'm working on.

11.

What perspective do you write from most and/or least and why? (1st, 3rd limited, 3rd omniscient, deep pov, etc)

I write exclusively from third limited POV. I don't think I've ever written first person. I've never really thought about it before, but I think I don't write first person because I approach writing cinematically, if that makes sense? And while I empathize very much with characters, it doesn't feel at all natural to me to approach them in an "I" sense.

I write third limited because I naturally gravitate towards it, but because it also allows for an outsider's/audience's POV and for a deeply unreliable narrator, which I love. And if I'm goin REAL DEEP, I think I'm not even comfortable enough with writing a personal diary to write anyone else going "HEY I'M SAD AND/OR HORNY and here is why in poetry"

16.

Do you have a method for getting characters to sound/feel in character?

Too much empathy and a lifelong experience of being autistic and studying people in order to understand and act like them. I also find people FASCINATING. In terms of "skill", that's what it is. But what drives the desire to use that skill is becoming obsessed with the characters and having fun with them, especially with friends! I know many find obsession with any subject that doesn't result in a successful career unhealthy -- lord knows many in my life have told me my fixations are just that -- but that's how I'm wired. And I like it. And it makes me creative, happy, and social. I met my best friends and my sister through Radiohead nearly twenty years ago. So I think fandom and fanfiction's great.