#Kylia Talks Her Fanfic

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Tagged by @okoriwadsworth Author Name: Kylia

Fandom You Write For: Right now? Arrowverse, Stargate, Fallout and Buffyverse. I’ve also written for several others and may return to some of them at various points.

Most Popular One-Shot: Let’s take a look, actually. On Fanfiction.net, going by reviews: The Iron Coin of The Jester, technically, though since it’s the first part of a larger series, arguably not. Hail Skydra if you discount the previous.

On Archive of Our Own, going by Kudos: Hail Skydra again On Twisting the Hellmouth, going by reviews: The Iron Coin of the Jester, again if you count things part of larger series. If you don’t, then The Spellbook

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story:  On Fanfiction.net, going by reviews: *Siiiigh* The Fourth Tale, my oldest posted (and worst ever posted by several country miles), one I only keep online because A) It was the first writing project I ever finished, and B) Because these days I’ve long since decided it’s almost never okay to delete fanfics, having been burned by authors deleting some of my faves for one reason or another.

On Archive of Our Own, going by Kudos: Enough Good Left After All (incidentally my 2nd most popular fic on FFN by reviews)

On Twisting the Hellmouth, going by reviews: Iron Coin Chronicles: Season 1

Favourite Story You Wrote: Not applicable.

Story You Were Nervous to Post: Punishment and Reward, the first (and so far only) dedicated smutfic I ever posted.

How Do You Choose Your Titles: I try to pick something that at least gives some sort of indication as to what the story is about, even if that indication only actually makes sense a few chapters in. The title has to be about the story, and we’ll often see a full on title drop. Titles will also sometimes be little jokes on canon in one way or another.

How Many of Your Stories Are: (Going off just ao3 for simplicity)

Complete: 53 out of 71, but on Ao3, a lot of oneshots are posted that got posted in collections elsewhere, if posted anywhere else at all.

In-Progress: 18 out of 71, though that includes two deliberately open-ended (if unlikely to be added to anytime soon) oneshot collections.

Coming Soon: I only have one fic I’d actually call ‘coming soon’, in terms of being definitively a thing that will happen and yet hasn’t yet, and that’s my Snowbarry AU of the Flash called Frostbite

Upcoming Story You’re Most Excited to Write: Well, I’ve only got the one, so...

Do You Accept Prompts: Not at this current point in time. I have before, and I may again, but I am not now.

Hmmm...

I Tag @raywritesthings @lordflausch @verynonyideas and @stargazerdaisy

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Fairywinkle + Cosma family trees (via GenoPro); click to enlarge

- Cosmo has distant von Strangle blood in his lineage in line with the episode “Cosmo Rules.”

- Cosmo’s uncle Harry and aunt Potter were revealed in the episode “The Fairy Beginning.” Although I consider that episode non-canon in my fanfics, I kept his aunt and uncle. He did live with them for a while and this will be discussed near the end of Frayed Knots.

- Wanda and Blonda are the product of an affair Big Daddy had on his honeymoon; their biological mother is a will o’ the wisp (Kylia). They were raised by their father’s wife, Serene Fairywinkle.

- No Schnozmo does not like it if you imply he named his daughter after his brother’s pet dragon.

- Blonda has taken a young celebrity, Westley, under her wing, though neither of them like talking about it publicly because... emotions.

- Someone who is biologically related to the Cosma family (but not emotionally connected with them) was not included on this tree because of mega spoilers.

- See also, Frayed Knots and/or “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pixies.”

Click HERE to view Anti-Cosmo’s and Anti-Wanda’s family trees.

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11 Questions x 3

I was tagged by @kyliafanfiction, @trinitea-fics, and @skyeward-otp forever ago, but there’s no way I can come up with 33 questions.  So I’ll answer the 33 and come up with a new 11.  Theoretically.  We’ll see.

From Kylia:

1.) Favorite Trope To Subvert?

One of my favorites that I (think I) pulled off was in Please Don’t Make Me! , where Skye is all whispering in Ward’s ear about them sneaking off and finding a way to ~entertain~ themselves, and it certainly seems like sexy times are about to happen.  And then...it’s Mario Kart.  I love twisting people’s expectations for the sake of comedy and fun.

2.) Favorite Trope to ‘Play Straight’, as it were?

Bedsharing.  I am weeeeeeak for bedsharing.  GImme gimme gimme.  I want those  punks to wake up spooning and entwined and then the awkward to set in, but actually push them to deal with their feelings.  Yes please I need it now.  

3.) What is that one character that, no matter how much you might like to be open minded about other fans having their own opinions and whatnot, when you see people defending them, you just cannot stop rolling your eyes and being at the very least somewhat angry, if not raging?

Melinda May and Phil Coulson....

4.) Favorite Thing To Put Ketchup On?

The garbage can.

Haha, just kidding.  I’m not a huge ketchup fan.  I prefer bbq sauce or ranch for most things you’d use with ketchup.  But ketchup on a burger or hot dog works well (if bbq sauce isn’t an option).  

5.) Cake or Death?

Cake.  

6.) Is there a Spoon?

47 of them to be precise.

7.) What is the Average Airborne Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow?

African or European?

8.) Did you get the references in questions 5, 6, and 7 without having to look them up?

5 sounds familiar, but no.  6, not even in the slightest.  7, my answer should explain that one.

9.) Silliest name you’ve ever heard for a person/thing/group?

Oh, oh, oh, I know I have some doozies of nicknames, but I’m drawing a complete blank right now.

10.) What is a book series that is nominally completed that you’d like to see more installments of?

I’m a big fan of the Jack Ryan books by Tom Clancy, but well, Clancy died a few years ago, and none of the co-writers can match his original style and quality (honestly, neither can his own later books).  So while that verse could easily accommodate more stories, and I could love them, it’s not going to happen with the quality I want, so I wouldn’t want people to try and subsequently fail.

11.) Song you both hate but sometimes can’t stop listening too?

There was an *Nsync song back in the day that I hated.  But I listened to it enough times that I ended up learning all the lyrics and singing along with.  That’s happened with a few others too.  There are some One Direction songs that I like and it pisses me off that I like them.  

From Trini:

1. A song you are listening to on loop right now

Actually no, I’m not this week.  Which honestly is kinda rare.  Then again, I’ve been listening to a couple of playlists with The War on it and that song always gets to me, so it’s back in my mind again.

2. What is a popular show/book/movie/podcast could you not get into/have no interest in?

I’ve never gotten into Supernatural.  Just never had that much interest, despite having a big fondness for Jensen Ackles.  

3. What is the last movie you watched?

Thor: Ragnarok

4. Opinion of Valentine’s Day?

It’s nice to have a day where you make an extra effort to show your love for others.  It’s just as lovely to do so with family and friends as it is with a romantic partner.  And I definitely prefer, low-key, thoughtful gifts/activities.

5. A show, book or movie that you consider “Your childhood”

Inspector Gadget was one of my absolutely faves when I was a kid.  Also, totally loved Ghostwriter and wanted to start my own crime-solving group.  Alas, we did not have a ghost to aid us.  Magic School Bus was also watched a lot and I can still remember the ending bit with all the kids making phone calls.

6. Favourite Youtuber/what you do watch on Youtube?

I mostly listen to music on YouTube.  I don’t follow any particular person.  I’ve been enjoying mashup videos lately.  Imagine Dragons are great for mashups.  (There.  Happy Megan?)

7. What do you need to buy?

A new battery for my laptop.  It would be nice to use it when it wasn’t plugged in.  After all, that’s a big part of the whole laptop thing.

8. What merch are you close to impulse buying?

At this moment, nothing really.  But I had strongly considered buying Chloe Bennet’s Fight Like A Girl shirt.  If I had had the money at the time, I probably would have.

9. What’s the weather outside?

Right at this moment, overcast, grey, cool (low 40s), but happily, not raining.  Typical late March weather in this area.

10. A thing that you recently accomplished that you are proud of?

@mframe and I spent a good chunk of a day (or was it a couple days?) and built a form within the test environment of our database.  Built it from the ground up, adding groups, creating custom fields, making them calculated fields, setting up a bunch of codes in order to make them calculate correctly, etc.  And it works really well.  I really like it.  Now if only the assholes that I work with would shut the f*** up and get on board, we could actually use it.

11. Movie/book/Tv show/podcast coming out soon that you’re excited for

I NEED TO BUY MY TICKETS FOR INFINITY WAR.  Also, The Incredibles 2.

From Gilly:

1. If you won $1,000,000 dollars, what’s the first thing you’d do?

Pay off debt.  

2. A movie/tv show that you always go back to whenever you’re bored or don’t know what to watch?

Friends, Community, Brooklyn Nine Nine are all great standbys for when I can’t decide on what I’m in the mood for.

3. Most meaningful book you’ve ever read.

That’s an excellent question.  To Kill A Mockingbird is one of those books that’s always stuck with me.  I need to re-read it again, in fact.

4. Have you ever gotten anyone to get hooked on a tv show? How did they feel about it?

HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH.  Yes.  I mean, nothing on the scale of Megan getting me hooked on AoS.  But I’ve convinced a couple friends to try Doctor Who, I got @evieoh to watch Community, and then she and I ganged up on @airaze-blog and made him watch all of Alias.  There was a lot of screaming.  We won’t talk about Orphan Black.

5. Has anyone ever gotten you hooked on a tv show? How did you feel about it?

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Yes.

As referenced above, Megan was the one that really pushed me to try AoS again.  (I’d watched the first 3 or 4 episodes when it first aired, but lost interest and was always having to watch it later b/c of committments those nights.) There was another friend of ours at work, who pushed along with her, and my bff watched it as well and encouraged me.  I was kind of hesitant, didn’t care a whole lot, but I was getting into the MCU as a whole, so I decided to give it a shot again.

Amazingly enough, while I knew Hydra comes out of the shadows and about Jiaying’s evil turn, Double Agent Ward wasn’t spoiled for me.  I was SHOCKED at that.  And I’m so glad, because it was SUCH A GOOD TWIST.  

But yeah.....that may have just slightly, dramatically changed the trajectory of my life.  I wouldn’t have had an Aussie live on my couch for the last 6 months and that would have truly been tragic.

6. Where’s your dream vacation?

Croatia.  I’ve been dying to go there for years and it gets more intense every day.

7. Favorite social media app/site.

Tumblr.  I get the most interaction and the widest range here.  

8. Dream job.

Stay at home mom would be my preferred occupation.  For a profession, lactation consultant is my dream.  We’ll see if I ever get there.

9. Favorite genre to read/write.

Uhhh.....in terms of fanfic genres/tropes, I love enemies to friends to lovers (on any scale).  

10. Favorite genre to watch.

I love spy shows.  Gimmes spies anyday.  

11. Favorite quote at the moment.

CHICKENS!  (just for you, Evie)

My questions - sorry dudes, only doing 11.

What is your favorite season?

What are your feeling on A.I. (the concept, not the movie)?

What is the oldest piece of technology in your home?  Do you use it?  Do you know how?

Hummus.  Thoughts?

Tell me about a favorite birthday or holiday present.

What pair of shoes do you wear the most?  Are they your favorite or just the most functional or something else?

What’s your dream fanfic?

How easy is it for you to unplug?

What is a hobby/activity/something that you have an absurd amount of supplies/tools for?

What is your guilty pleasure snack food?

Are you more a dialogue or song lyrics referencer?

I tag: @evieoh, @mframe, @agenthaywood, @airaze-blog, @helloimthedoctor, @agentsofsunnydale, @queermageddon, @livesindaydreams, @orlissa, @vesperass-anuna, and @in-the-moving-castle

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1, 3, 16, 18?

1. If you’re an author, how many WIPs do you currently have? (Be honest!)

Okay, let’s see. If you define WIP as ‘actively working on at this time’ I’ve got... 5, one of which is an original story that won’t be anywhere until it’s done. If you define WIP as ‘posted or partially in progress fic that I at least on some level hope to return to someday’ the number increases to theoretically 10? Not counting an unstarted sequel to a completed fic that I intend to write, but that doesn’t count as a WIP.

None of this counts abandoned fics, of course.

3. Do you prefer canonverse or AUs?

I prefer divergence AUs - where you start from canon and then something goes different and you follow the changed universe from that point. For Want Of A Nail, and all that.

16. Describe your WIP that currently has the highest word count.

Vigilantes’ Dawn, an Arrowverse divergence AU at 99,000-odd words. Lauriver alternate universe - in the most basic of terms, Laurel gets on the yacht instead of Sara (so no cheating) and more or less experiences what Sara experienced in canon (key there being more or less) but returns to Starling City with/at the same time as Oliver and becomes the Black Canary right from the start. Only halfway through Season 1 though.

18. Do you have a fic reading/writing routine?

for writing, yes - I try to work a chapter at a time, and in normal weeks, I try to do 500 words (that’s the target, sometimes I do more) during the weekdays so that on the weekend, I’m not starting from scratch. The weekend is my prime writing time, and I *suck* at getting going from the blank page, so by getting a little done during the week after work each day, I can make the weekend time work much better.

Fanfic Asks!