#Or maybe this is part of the oc worldbuild HEHEHE

[tootditoot]

I am uhh... In a peculiar point in my drawings it would seem

[90sdiablo]

yee-haw!! another tag game!

just got tagged by the one and only @skin--slave, so let's goooo!!

20 writer questions

1: how many works do you have on ao3?

9. the other three are part of a collective fic series I work off and on called The Shifty Motel.

2: what my total ao3 wordcount?

17,470. I oughta keep writing and posting.

3: how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

somehow, all of them feature Manson. however, I crossed him over with Korn, Kittie, more OC stuff, etc.

4: what are my top five fics by kudos?

Fastest Route, Prayer Service, The New Era, A Warm Evening, and Love and Howl It Loud.

5: do i respond to comments, why or why not?

absolutely! it helps me know that the reader really enjoyed it! ^^

6: what’s the fic i’ve written with the angstiest ending?

uhhh, maybe Community's Choice? it has two chapters, so it's quite debatable. :/

7: what’s the fic i’ve written with the happiest ending?

the most recent fic I've just posted has a wholesome ending. I guess that counts as a "happy ending".

8: do i write crossovers? if so, what’s the craziest thing i’ve written?

yeah! most of them are the craziest since they are based on analog horror films I have watched on YouTube.

9: have i ever received hate on a fic?

ehh, maybe. if I did, the guys were probably too scared to say anything.

10: do i write smut? if so, what kind?

yes, and they are LGBTQ+ friendly. trans/enby characters probably don't have that much valid representation. but yeah, good gay/enby smut is good.

11: have i ever had a fic stolen?

nahh...

12: have i ever had a fic translated?

nope.

13: have i ever co-write a fic?

sorta. I usually provide a partner some free time to work as well as free time to get other things settled before doing so.

14: what’s my all time favourite ship?

Manson and Diablo. they both have a "best friend" kind of relationship and they go out and have various adventures that a best-friend duo would do in a world that tries to keep putting them down.

15: what’s a wip i want to finish but don’t think i ever will?

hehehe... I don't think my fics would be ever left behind. however, I'm currently working a BIG fic starring Manson and Diablo go concert touring and as said before, it'll have allegories so shhhh...

16: what’s my writing strengths?

around midway on writing something I really get into the scene. like, I even quote and act possible lines a character might say. an example would be if I were to write Diablo saying "yee-haw!" I do a hillbilly voice and emphasize the "yee-haw" as a reference to describe it.

17: what’s my writing weakness?

trying to shift gears when it comes to writing the beginning and end of a scene.

18: what’s my thought on writing dialogue in other languages in fic?

if I were to write foreign-language dialogue, it'll be something quick and simple. for example, I might use italics inside quotes. I dunno, I haven't written any characters that speak in a foreign language.

19: what was the first fandom i wrote for?

just as cliche as it sounds, it was Harry Potter. I was a dumb middle-schooler obsessed with magic and wizard stuff.

20: what’s my favourite fic i’ve written:

I guess right now, it's the Shifty collective project. it has alternate history and worldbuilding elements to it. sometimes, the characters appear as total badasses when the bad guys try to put them down, and sometimes the characters have crazy, daring, and sometimes dirty adventures.

so, I guess that's it for this tag game. if I spoiled any fics for you, I'm sorry. but other than that, I tag anyone! ^^

[child-of-hurin]

can you tell me more about le passe-miroir? what you like about it?

I need to write a disclaimer first that I don’t want to shoulder the responsibility of recommending these books to anyone (anymore… s/o Ellis and Nóra) lol. They have a bunch of structural problems and sometimes you just want to e-mail the editor/s about it idk. Some people have no problems with it but, pesonally, When I was reading the first half of the first book all I did was complain. I actually gave up at some point, and I don’t even know why I went back to it. So like, yeah, take that into account, and if you decide to read it and end up hating it please don’t put the responsibility on me :p

What I like about it tho!! I think it just goes into a bunch of topics I love: reconstruction of the self via the other, people learning how to talk to each other & creating a new mutual “grammar”, art x artist, agency and responsibility, bla bla bla… It’s funny because when you start reading this book, you can spot the tropes from a mile, and then you sit down and wait for happen, eyes ready to roll, and then… some of these tropes just…. don’t happen… it’s a weird feeling that I enjoyed hahaha

Like I was telling a friend, I think this happens because (IMO) the author’s greatest merit is that she really lets herself go, so the majority of this work feels very sincere and (esp the last two books) has a high symbolic value, which I’m not sure she was necessarily aiming to put there, but which really attracts me all the more because of that ;P I particularly like that the characters in general feel very “fleshy”… Two things that tire me out in fantasy is a) characters that are like, archetype armors held up by the author’s imagination cardboard equivalent, and b)  when the author suddenly swoops down and intervenes in order to produce a neater structure…. I don’t have the vocabulary to discuss this dbhnjmds but I’d say both of these things flow from the same source of like, an artist being too taken up with ‘idea’, or maybe, curating their production too carefully, to the point where it’s all ego and no id. If in art I have to choose between “neat” and “messy”, in terms of the relationship between the art and the artist, I do prefer “messy”. And these books are kinda messy lmao… That was probably a relief, as two fantasy books I read recently had a bit of those problems.

More direct:I also particularly like the main character, and I also know that… 8 years ago I would have hated some later plot points, which nowadays I just find really very interesting hehehe ;D Ah yes also! The worldbuilding attracts me, which is also very rare in fantasy :) And I also like the relationships between the characters and the worldbuilding… Like, this book (and Nóra’s gentle encouragement) actually motivated me to create OCs lmao. I can’t even remember the last this happened…

Anyway, without spoilers, I think that’s it! As a PS, I also want to say that I like the fandom, so far I haven’t seen a single sign of ship wars or anti posturing