#I say this as someone who loves thiayden

[clementinecalls]

The idea of thiayden is so funny to me because it implies that polyamory saved Liam and Hayden’s relationship

[chcrrysprite]

9, 12, 17 :))

thank you!!!

9.) what characters do you find most difficult to write? uh, right now, honestly? all of them. i’m having a rough go of it at the moment LMAO. okay, in general, probably theo. i’ve written him a million different times by now but he has so much depth that i haven’t even began to explore because it’s so much. he’s also SO hard to do justice, in my opinion...either i’m not portraying him in enough glory or i feel like i’m doing it wrong. writing theo interacting with other characters can be challenging because the man almost never smiles or laughs or anything...he is for the most part stoic and private, so i end up having to write a lot of his emotions through his internal monologue instead of his actions/dialogue. i also feel like it would be really hard to write malia for the same reasons...i haven’t really tried yet, but i’ll definitely need some practice.

12.) tell us about a work in progress you’re excited about right now i’m currently working on a ‘thiayden’ fic (theo/liam/hayden), which isn’t a very popular ship, but it’s one that i really love. it’s the first one that i’ve ever written and that’s all at the fault of @inabottlelikelightning, who went on a spiral with me about it like three weeks ago and is the reason i found myself speed-writing an outline for it. it’s really almost done but i’m having a super hard time on the ending at the moment (hence me being emo about ‘every character being hard to write’ up above), and i hope to have it out pretty soon. look out for ‘indentation in the shape of you.’

17.) a trope you’ll never, ever write for okay. i’ve never really thought about these, but i do have a couple. 

the first one i thought of was immediately r***/non-con; if it’s in there, it’s never explicit or graphic - you will never see graphic non-consensual sex between anyone in my fics. i have written fics with implications of some pretty serious topics, but i will never go past that important line - implications. and non-con is never something that i would ever write between the main pairing i’m writing for. i will never understand how someone can ship two characters as a couple and then devote their time and energy into writing thousands of words focused just on one of them traumatizing and ruining the other’s life. very very questionable and weird to me.

the second one i thought of was infidelity within the main pairing, which is not nearly as bad as non-con, but still one that i am highly unlikely to do. this isn’t to say that i haven’t written infidelity before, because i definitely have - see liam cheating on his manipulative fiance with theo in ‘protector’ - but i will probably never write theo cheating on liam or vice-versa. i like my ship. why would i want to break it up? i also would really never write one of them cheating on a spouse who hasn’t done anything wrong. the only way liam and theo ever get together due to infidelity is in situations where their current significant other is terrible or in some kind of arranged marriage. i feel too bad for my minor characters. i would feel so fucking bad if i made liam cheat on hayden when she hasn’t done anything wrong, for example. if she was like, hitting him? THEN i wouldn’t feel bad, but i definitely would if she was just a regular, loving spouse.

there are other little ones that aren’t as big as the first two, including break-ups that don’t end in make-ups or major character deaths that don’t get resolved in some way. i’ve written a couple MCDs before, but honestly, i really don’t like any of them and i don’t see myself writing one again, and like i said before, i like my ship, so i don’t want to break it up. no matter how angst-y my fics can get, i need them to have a happy or at least hopeful ending...that’s what i like reading, and it’s what i like writing, too.

thank you so much for the ask!! i know this was a long ass answer but i really loved writing it all out. it definitely made me think!