#about my fic

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Why?? Why would anyone think this is an ok comment to send to a fic author?!!! I don’t get it!!

I’m terribly sorry random person who felt the need to leave this comment on one of my fics, but your dislike for people not naming chapters is not my problem - it’s a you problem!! So sorry I was more interested in writing the actual fic rather than coming up with titles for the 40+ chapters of said fic!

Most actual authors don’t name the chapters of their books and if that is what is taking away from your reading experience then sorry my fic wasn’t engaging enough for you.

You don’t have to post every random thought of this type you have directly to an author - post on your own sm page without referencing the work it’s about if you feel the need to share - a post on tumblr or Twitter stating you ‘hate fics where the author doesn’t use chapter titles’ is fine - it’s your opinion but you don’t need to put someone down to do so.

I love people who take the time to leave comments on my fics, it’s super rewarding and lovely and means so much to me. I love comments from people who engage with the story or want to leave constructive criticism- but this is not constructive - it’s just straight up criticism based on your own biases on a piece of work I created in my own time because I was inspired and chose to share it with fandom. I have no obligation to use chapter titles - in fact my personal preference is to not have them but I’m not gonna go around commenting on any fic where the author chooses to use them!

I just needed to get that off my chest! Big love to people who leave lovely and constructive comments on fics and thank you for reading!

[anawrites3]

Alright, to sum up what I have for the sugar daddy au so far:

very stressed Dick who moved away from Bruce short time ago

Joey and Dick being college friends

Dick dissapearing one day (because Slade took him on vacation to some exotic place)

Dick being a sugar baby only because he needs money first, then discovering that he in fact likes it very much

Slade pretending he doesn’t have feelings for Dick

Dick in pretty and expensive clothes Slade bought him with jewelry to match

Dick in sexy underwear and/or bathing suit

Dick in a slutty dress

Dick’s friends assuming that he’s in danger/Slade is dangerous

I’m already very excited! It’s going to be so fun and it’s going to be the most smutty thing I’ve ever written but oh well. If you have any ideas you still want add to the pool then feel free to leave a comment or an ask!

[curiouselleth]

For the wip ask game, can you tell me more about Feanor!Curufin pls 👀👀👀

hello @camille-lachenille! I actually started this one on my flight home from the trip, so I'll share a bit of what I've wrote, then I'll ramble!

This bit is the very beginning of the fic;

“Surely exile, the task of righting what wrongs I have done, of facing the consequences head on and bearing them is a better, or at the very least more entertaining punishment than having me to eternally wander this lonely hall where no others are?” He paced, gesturing with his hands a bit. As much as one without a physical form could, at least.  “I grant! There is poetry in that, I who wished so much not to be left as I was, I who, in my every action only served to push them away yet hold them closer as a chain.” He grimaces. He had too much time for self reflection, though perhaps they would appreciate him talking about his flaws and not particularly enjoying it… “I know, the irony is simply perfect, but still, it has been uncountable years that I have faced this, literally, because there is no way to track time here, and even the pain dulls as it thuds through my missing bones and echos in this empty hall, again and again, unceasing.”

Now some rambling:

Feanor was begging to be sent back to Beleriand. All his time in the halls, he had been alone. Solitary confinement. He didn't even know whether or not Amrod survived his burns from the ships. Finally, the Valar agree. With conditions. But they do not tell him the conditions, and before he can ask, he is sent back.

He finds himself in the midst of a furious battle in a great stone hall, and he sees a figure about to stab Caranthir. Feanor strikes, the figure falls, and Caranthir is saved. But he is too late to save Celegorm, who was just struck down by another sinda. He says goodbye to Celegorm, and Celegorm dies. He was too late to save Amras too. I won't go into detail about Celegorm or Amras's deaths, like who the sinda who killed Celegorm is, I don't want to give too many spoilers.

It's at about this point that Feanor's brain catches up, and he realizes that Caranthir isn't freaking out that his dad is back from the dead. Then he sees his reflection. It takes him a moment before he realizes, it's not him. He is in Curufin's body, and he has a concerning about of blood on his clothes.

Feanor was sent back, into Curufin's body, at the moment of Curufin's death. All wounds were healed when Feanor returned. Feanor is shell shocked, for a time. He does not speak until they are all leaving Doriath - without the silmaril. He tries to tell his sons, to tell someone, anyone, but he can't. He tries, but he cannot form the words, or they come out all wrong as something else entirely. Perhaps if Celegorm or Celebrimbor were there, they would notice, But they're not.

From here, Feanor struggles to tell them, to make them see that he is Feanor, not Curufin. He also tries to stop them from pursuing the oath, and he tries to right his wrongs during the rebellion, in Beleriand, and his wrongs against his family.

[cha-melodius]

2023 Fic Year in Review

I've been doing these for three years now, and they always grow each year as I get tagged in other year-end posts that make the rounds. Feel free you grab it if you want to do your own review! And I’d like to add a hearty thank you to each and every person who’s read my fics over the years, y'all continue to make this a joy!

2020 Review | 2021 Review | 2022 Review

AO3 Username: chamel  My Page: Link  Active Fandoms:  Red, White & Royal Blue: 20 works The Man from UNCLE (2015): 8 works Loki: 5 works New Fandoms: None thank GOD Total Number Of Completed Works/Word Count  This Year: 33 works, 278k words  All Time: 113 works, 1.27 million words

This year a little movie that came out in August absolutely destroyed these stats lmaoooo. Most Popular One Shot (by kudos): This Year: Always Where I Need To Be (RWRB, Alex/Henry, T, 5.5k) All Time: Class(room) Warfare (RWRB, Alex/Henry, T, 7.8k words)

Most Popular Completed Multi-Chapter (by kudos):  This Year & All Time: Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood  (RWRB, Alex/Henry, E, 20k words)

Events/Challenges: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Gift Exchange 2023, The Brownstone Anniversary Fic Exchange, Halloween Huh?

More reflections, stats, and planned fics below the cut!

Additional Random AO3 Stats

By number of fics: 85% one shots, 15% multi-chaps

By word count: 52% mult-chaps, 48% one shots

Ratings by number of fics: 48% T-rated, 33% E-rated, 15% M-rated

Musical artists contributing highest number of titles: Jeff Tweedy (Tweedy/Wilco) & The New Pornographers, tied at 3 each

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?  Somehow I topped my word count from last year by 10k, which I was not expecting. That said, this year was right about average.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?  God this is a hard question this year because I wrote a lot of fics I really really love. For one single fic I'll go with Nova, Baby, because I love the story and I've got a lot of lovely feelings about it.

Did you complete your writing goals from last year?  The Goal: I want to complete a few large multichapter fics, which will probably mean my one-shot production goes down. I completed one long mulitchap, and then a few mid-length (~20k) multichaps. I think I wrote more of those than I have any other year. Surprisingly, my one-shot production wasn't super significantly decreased.

Do you have any writing goals for the New Year? Ok, I gotta come up with something. My goal is to have a similar mix of fics as least year, and also to write my first collaboration with @cricketnationrise, which will be a long multichap.

Did you take any writing risks this year? Wrote on a topic outside my wheelhouse (therapy 😬) and also posted a fic in a fandom where there weren't a lot of fics in similar genres (action/spies). Now that's no longer true, but at the time it was really freaking nerve-wracking.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Every fic I write in a fandom that's not RWRB? 😅 It's hard to complain too much, especially considering what happened to my numbers this year.

Most fun story to write: All the Old Showstoppers, Will You Brie Mine?, You're the Perfect Gift for Me. Silly RWRB boys being silly, basically.

Biggest disappointment: Again, I feel like it's hard to complain when I have a fic that's closing in on 4k kudos. The goalposts keep moving, don't they, though? I still live in fear of pouring my heart into a multichap and having what will count as "lukewarm" reception, when before this year I didn't have a single fic above 1k kudos.

Biggest surprise: Most definitely Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood. Like I figured it would do pretty well (I hoped, since I put so much into it), but holy shit?? I still can't really believe it's on page 2 of the tag by kudos? And honestly also Always Where I Need To Be, this little one-shot about David stealing glasses.

Coming soon/planned for 2024:

False Dichotomy (RWRB You've Got Mail AU)

Kissed Out (RWRB pro-pool players AU)

RWRB 1940s noir AU

RWRB conductor/piano soloist AU

RWRB hockey AU (with cricket)

A shitload of prompts from my fandom fest

Extremely delinquent MTH fics

TMFU art thief/gallery owner AU

Thank you for the tags on your end-of-the-year fic reviews @loki-is-my-kink-awakening, @kiwiana-writes, @rmd-writes, @lizzie-bennetdarcy, @indestructibleheart, and @welcometololaland!

[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Hi. So this is a rather creepy stalkerish silent reader(but please don't compare me with that Snake Manohar Jha tho) this side. I have become a fan of your writing although haven't even completed reading all of your writings rather just started with one of your FF - There's more to her.

Actually I had a question regarding a line you wrote in Chapter 9.

"......She had seen fate play on someone’s goodness, it was surprising to see someone’s goodness move fate......"

This line was for Payal, I mean, she was thinking this. So, the first part of the sentence, was she thinking about Garima taking in Khushi as her daughter and how she got a sister like Khushi for her lifetime because of 'Garima's goodness' ? Is it this or something else? Please do tell...

Thank you so much for this and for all the stories and overall content that you have been creating for all these years...

Lots of love from India...

And also Happy Mahashivaratri and a very happy international women's day to you. Hope you are doing fine now...

Hello hello,

Thank you so much for loving my stories!

The first line of means that she had seen fate 'play' - as in take advantage - of someone's goodness. Be it her failed wedding, the dowry hassle, Khushi's pictures going live - just everything that went bad that can be blamed to nothing except fate.

Khushi was naive. Shashi only hoped for a good proposal. Payal tried to to be happy.

Yet fate preyed on everyone's goodness. Played with everyone's goodness for just no apparent reason.

Yet with Akash's small gesture, Payal is truly moved. Akash did not give the dupatta to Khushi out of a greater play of fate. He had no idea that it was Payal's birthday right until the very end.

He was just being kind, just being soft.

And the dupatta is so important in their relationship because it plays a key role in Payal developing a positive image of Akash. Payal has never had the fate of wishing something quietly and having it happen to her - that's what has happened with the dupatta and Akash.

She's a cynic. Much like Arnav.

So if Akash hadn't felt kind, hadn't felt generous, she might've simply not fallen for him and their fates wouldn't have been this intertwined.

Lots of love to you too,

Best,

Jalebi

[ginneke]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

This took some thinking! In the end I managed to whittle it down to these...

5. The Hands of Angels, Homestuck/Doctor Who (Gen)

Eridan Ampora is a class A jerk, and for that reason I wanted to put him up against the Weeping Angels. Enough said.

4. Melody of Promises, YGO 5Ds (Pairing: Yuusei/Bruno|Antinomy)

I thought I was being really clever with this one. A story of two sides of a heart at war with itself, told in quasi-drabbles. (Each section is 100 words. The 'end' of a section flows into the 'start' of the next.)

Bruno/Antinomy will always be one of my favourite YGO characters, and this story is apparently one that can make @heleentje cry.

3. Accelerando, Breath of the Wild (Pairing: Revalink)

Written in a feverish burst of inspiration after some incredible revalink art by @acetier crossed my dash. Has a couple of minor flaws, but I'm still incredibly proud of the story I told. (Title choice was because everything would be rushing towards that natural end point; I wound up striking gold with it, not least because the story's pacing grew faster the more emotionally connected they became.)

2. Corrigendum, Breath of the Wild (Pairing: Revalink)

Along with its two 'predecessor parts', Memento and Lacuna, this has some of my best writing in it. Maybe it got lower engagement than some of my other fics* due to a) the length (11k+ is hefty going for a oneshot), b) the 'internalised ableism' tag, c) Gin playing coy about certain characters' dead-or-alive status until 2/3rds through the fic, but tbh I would still make those choices again a second time around.

* (this was published just 3 days before 'What a fool you have made me', which has two and a bit times the kudos of Corrigendum and had the advantage of being a slightly-cracky, rom-com-ish mess. Corrigendum is absolutely my favourite of the two, hands down.)

1. A Seed of Song, Breath of the Wild (Pairing: Revalink; guest star: The Chick.)

...While this is on pause for now, the thoughts are buzzing and I'm hopeful to get back to it soon. This story ballooned past all expectations and I'm determined to see it through to the end. (And then probably beyond the end as well -- I have AUs a-knocking...)

[saynomorefic]

20 Questions For Fic Writers

thank you @darktwistedgenderplural <3 so sweet of you to tag me hehe

How many works do you have on Ao3?

15 - 5 YR and 10 one direction that I wrote like 10 years ago lol

What's your total Ao3 word count?

81,454 :0

What fandoms do you write for?

Young Royals, that's it <3

Top five fics by kudos: (I'm doing my top 3 young royals fics because I reaally don't want people re-reading my old 1d fic lol)(It is in the [public] archives)

Falling for you

All the rules to this game I bend

You Kill Me & Like birds do, I need to fly south (tied)

Do you respond to comments?

YES always!! I tend to have pretty long responses bc I love learning what people like and having a conversation <3

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I'd say I won't treat you like you're oh so typical. However, this is a WIP and so I'm just going off of where I left things.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Hmm most of them have happy endings! My fluffiest fic is Like birds do, beginning to end.

Do you get hate on fics?

No

Do you write smut?

Yes I do! Not all my fics have smut though. I will say I prefer writing my characters talk about sex, and exploring their sexuality as a major theme, to writing actual smut, not because I don't enjoy it but because it's hard!! I sometimes struggle to be creative.

Craziest crossover:

None

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No although I'd love to

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I've gifted works, but never co-written anything. That would be so fun!

All time favourite ship?

Wilmon ofc <3

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

That one's hard. I hesitate to say because sometimes I get inspired by old ideas. I had one that is Wille as a new cat dad with a rascal of a cat who keeps breaking things, and Simon is called as a cat whisperer. The catch: Simon's methods are unique and involve him spending three days 24/7 at Wille's apartment. I just am not capable of this level of fluff lol

What are your writing strengths?

I think I develop really elaborate ideas and worlds in my head, and I do try to make them as convincing as possible. I only write AUs, so I think this is a big part of that. I like writing descriptively bc of my liberal arts degree, and I also try to work in as many life experiences and make things feel relevant to the world around us, aka writing from a critical perspective even if it's fictional. I hope I'm achieving this even slightly!

What are your writing weaknesses?

Oh god lol. I get writing exhaustion pretty hard because of idea overload, and I look back at the page and feel like I've lost my voice or style completely. I think I struggle with varying the sentence structure so things feel natural. I'm also working on incorporating metaphors and symbolism effectively - I've been writing papers for so long in college that metaphors don't come as easily anymore.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I think it's great, although sometimes I won't do it because google translate is unreliable and I don't have a beta reader currently. However, I like throwing in phrases here and there we see on YR a lot :-)

First fandom you wrote in?

One direction

Favourite fic you've written?

It would have to be You Kill Me, although it's not done. I put so much into their world and have so much more to show!! I'm proud of directly tackling a lot of the power dynamics and their intimate effects (on Simon especially) that I feel weren't addressed fully in the show, albeit in another universe. (Also yay for Felice and Simon's friendship and talking about racial issues together <3) The recent love for it has been so amazing and inspired me to keep going.

I tag: @nothingadoaboutnothing @youngroyalsforeversposts <3

thank you so much! <3

[hypermoyashi]

These are all for Trigun fics!

I am still working on the Demon AU as my main project and my ace week fics as my current side project, but I'm trying to decide what I should work on as my next side project.

Let me know if anyone has any thoughts! Castle in the Sky AU, Timeloop, and SWAP AU are all at least started, while the Mecha AU is just in my ideas doc so far.

[psychedeliclulu]

This morning I woke up a little before the alarm went off and continued to lie in bed, waiting for it...in those minutes I had an epiphany :

This scene definitely needs to be moved to the next Adachi's chapter

I can proceed with the final part😳😳😳📝📝📝🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨

[solarianvoidthearoace]

I want my partners like I want my cocktails. “Stronger than they look but actually sweet?” Actually sweet is a great point but I rather meant I want them to be unapologetically fruity.

[abed-with-a-knife]

call rick gallium the way he’s melting in bp’s hands

[cocoawithmarshmallows]

"sanctuary" (rise!future au fic)

"And yet, Leo kept all the frayed leads and speculations. Every hint, every miniscule bit of information that was scrapped, he kept. Leo wrote them down on any paper he could find, gluing and threading the pieces together in a jargoned puzzle. He sorted them out the best he could, trying to create somewhat of a timeline of events, or a map of some sorts.

(Leo couldn’t read a map for his life, but he managed to make it work.)

Three months later, he’d come up with a half baked travel guide and a pipe dream.

He was going to find Junior’s father." -excerpt from chapter one

Set ten years from the initial Kraang invasion, sanctuary follows Leo as he embarks on a cross-country journey West to find the father of an abandoned baby boy, aptly named Junior. With him follows Mayfly, a refugee (and close friend) with a shrouded past of her own.

As these two venture out to find what they seek, the world around them begins to crumble.

aka: the vile love child of a found family fic who got knocked up by a friends to lovers trope who thought the friends to lovers trope was the baby daddy but it turns out that slow burn was the true father all along-

now then, some things to know about my fic:

> i update chapters bimonthly (usually at the beginning and end of the month)

> my fic is 16+ (gore, body horror, slight s3xual content [will be reserved for future fics mostly])

> i enjoy putting motifs in my writing! each fic in the sanctuaryverse has its own. sanctuary's motif is stars/space (my logic was that people have been using stars as a guide for centuries and they're on a journey...trying to find someone, so... :|)

> It is also part of a, wait for it...series!! yippee!! a sequel for sanctuary is my drafts that will likely be released sometime next year.

so...yea, i'm currently working on sanctuary and have been since July of 2023. It has taken me three google docs and 10+ months worth of planning to put this story together (my drive space is crying rn).

idk how to write summaries, but I think it might be a good read! or not you can keep scrolling ig-

but if you are interested, here's a cookie! :D 🍪 and this is where you can read the first chapter:

if you have any curiosities, you can always ask me abt them! the tags on ao3 might help explain the fic a bit better lol. i just didn't want to spoil too much!! :D

(i also enjoy making my ocs kiss so beware 👁️👁️)

thx for reading ily k byeeeeee <3

[anawrites3]

"I'll post the whole finished thing tomorrow on ao3" I said like a liar about my omega Dick story but in my defense it was meant to be like 1K words long and its over 3K words now and Dick is only now starting to get the heat so yeah

I'm considering whether to write smut at all or cockblock you guys again too hmmm

[curiouselleth]

Oooh, tell me what are your plans for the Gil-Galad is Eluréd please!!!!

Hi @camille-lachenille!!

Thanks for the ask, this fic is spiraling into something possibly longgg, so I'll talk about the events I want to hit with this fic, and certain things I want to write with it. Also sorry this got long lol

I am avoiding big spoilers in this, I am going to be adding a lot of things but I'm staying relatively close to canon so going over what this is going to cover in this way is not very spoiler-y I think.

Well my pl*n (ahem, lol) is for this fragment I posted a while ago to be at the end of the next chapter. From there, Elured will be trying to figure out what to do from there, because he's been crowned king of the Noldor and his pl*n to see if Elwing was alive and live as a happy family flew out the window.

From there, he will try to get in contact with Elurin again. I won't say how that goes, for good or bad because I don't want to give major spoilers, but, well... you know how much angst I write 😂 (take from that what you will lol)

From there - however that goes - we will see more of Elured as High King. I will spend some time on him getting into the job, finding his feet and learning, and in a way finding his identity outside of being Elurin's twin, as someone independent and with such a different kind of power, and his struggle with all this.

And I want to spend some time on the 3rd kinslaying, and the War or Wrath.

The 3rd Kinslaying -

I want to show his point of view from Balar of the leadup, his interactions with Elwing in this time as he tries to protect her and advise her, but she likely pushes away because of how she has been infantized and treated as lesser by some of her advisors and lords and such. I think there would be a few more visits between Elured and Elwing, him meeting Earendil, possibly him at their wedding, meeting Elrond and Elros... some good things for a time.

Then I want his POV as he gets the news. As he rushes to try to help... I'm not departing from canon too much, I am placing Elured into canon as a different character. There will be differences. New things. But I want to explore it like that, without departing too much. We know so few details from that time so it's also exploring that time and what it was like.

Then I want to show him after, what he tries to do, his public acceptance of his sinda heritage, something he likely didn't advertise much beforehand.

From there I would start heading towards the war of wrath, and with Elrond and Elros leaving Maedhros and Maglor and coming to him. I want him to meet and know his nephews, some of his last family, I want him to teach them about their maiar powers... I want them to be a happy not quite family for a little bit. He won't tell them who he truly is of course.

Then the War of Wrath.

I want to cover things getting worse and worse, possibly in small bits with a lot of jumps. What I am particularly excited to write is the unlooked-for arrival of the hosts of the Valar and Finarfin.

I want to write the tension of it, yes, they are here to help but they expect the people of middle earth to stand down and let them handle it, and that will not go over well. I want the tension of them trying to reconcile two kings of the Noldor, them trying to treat Gil-galad as someone young, inexperienced and naive. They think he is going to step down, give his power away, give way to Finarfin's authority. Hell no. Then I want to see him show them who's boss and how they have no idea what they're doing and for them to teach the hosts how this place works, how to truly fight... then of course for the hosts of Valinor to gain some respect for the peoples of middle earth, maybe a Galadriel and Finarfin reunion, and a proper, respectful alliance lol.

(I have Thoughts about the hosts of Valinor finishing the war without the peoples of Beleriand lol)

From there it would be summary or jumping to the end of the war. I'm not sure if I will continue this to the second age, I prefer the first and third ages and know much more about them. But we'll see!

...okay this got a little long and rambly 😂 well I suppose that's always what happens when I talk about my fics lol

This fic, or theory I should say, actually started as part of another fic, but that fic has become a white whale and this one has branched off. This theory will be used in that fic, and this will be part of the universe that fic is in, if I ever get any in post-able form lol

Thanks again for the ask!!!

[prince-of-elsinore]

Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

How many works do you have on ao3?

32. (Three are orphaned, all old fic; one spn fic is under anon)

What's your total ao3 word count?

627,118 words (I assume the anon fic is included in ao3 stats, and I added the orphans manually.) That's more than I expected, but it does stretch back to fic I started writing in 2011!

What fandoms do you write for?

Under my current pseud, Supernatural and The Outsiders. I have WIPs underway for both! I also have a languishing WIP for M*A*S*H* :( In the past I have written for the MCU, The Walking Dead, Hetalia, Teen Wolf, and The New Adventures of Old Christine.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Ephemeron (MCU, Starker), 1,393 kudos; 2. With A Bit Of Spit And Luck (SPN, Wincest), 401 kudos; 3. Is It Tomorrow (Or Just the End of Time) (SPN, Wincest), 304 kudos; 4. Closing Night (SPN, Wincest), 222 kudos; 5. Baton Rouge (SPN, Wincest), 205 kudos It's no surprise to me that my one MCU fic and the only multi-chapter fic on this list, though forever unfinished, has far and away the most kudos, and that all top 5 fics are rated E. If we knock Ephemeron off the top spot and just look at fics under my current pseud, then 5th place would go to Some Starless Night (Love May Come an' Tap You on the Shoulder) (SPN, Wincest), 184 kudos (and rated M!)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! I haven't always in the past, though I always liked engaging with readers, but ever since I returned to fic in 2020 when I started writing for spn I've made sure to on principal. Not always quickly, but eventually. I'm really so grateful to the small fraction of readers who leave comments so I want to express my gratitude that they took the time! I also love giving thoughtful responses to thoughtful comments. Sometimes readers have unique insights into my work!

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

A lot of my fics have fairly bleak or bittersweet/mixed state endings (my favorite type!); of my current pseud fics, I'd say the bleakest is either Plano: Some Town Halfway In Between (SPN, John/Dean) or Road Risk (SPN, Wincest). If we're looking at all-time fics, the angst gets--uh, angstier: Ludovicus Caecus (APH, Germancest), based on Oedipus Rex, ends with Ludwig killing Gilbert, gouging out his own eyes, and carrying his brother's severed head around in a bag; and When the Dead Do Not Rest (APH, Germancest) ends with Ludwig keeping Gilbert's severed head in a chest. Although in that case he's sort of happy with the situation so maybe it doesn't count...

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Baton Rouge (SPN, Wincest) and Like They Talk About In Books (The Outsiders, Ponypop) are pretty equally happy, with both ending on a hopeful note for the new relationship and the characters finding a sense of belonging in each other's arms <3

Do you get hate on fics?

Not outright! The worst I've gotten have been a couple rude, entitled comments along the lines of "why don't you write what I want you to write." I soundly told them off.

Do you write smut?

Yes :) I'm very thankful to various spn fandom smut events (Salt Burn Porn, Bro-Bang, and more) for helping me get my freak back on.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Not generally. I like to stay close to canon, for the most part. The only one I ever tried was my Teen Wolf/The Internship crossover Colors That Are Real, which used the fact that both starred Dylan O'Brien as the flimsy excuse for a twincest ship, lol

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Maybe more than one, I can't remember. I've definitely gotten several requests to translate, but idk how many of those people went through with it. The one I know of for sure is Ephemeron, which was translated at least partially into Chinese, and fully into Russian. I was actually really touched by what a robust following it had in Russian fandom. I used to go on the site and use google translate to read people's comments :)

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

gotta go with the one, the only, the ultimate, Wincest.

What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

That M*A*S*H* fic I mentioned. It's post-canon Beejhawk. I've considered posting the two chapters I have; they sort of work on their own.

What are your writing strengths?

Rhythm and tempo! Creating an atmosphere. Dialogue. Pacing. Voice.

What are your writing weaknesses?

For spn, I really rely on good betas to check my characterization. Canon is so sprawling and the characters change so much and are so essentially complex and contradictory; it really helps to have a trusted second set of eyes to say 'hmm I don't think Sam would do that in that way at this point in canon' or 'this sounds a little like early seasons Dean more than late seasons.' They also point out where language can sound more specific to the character, which doesn't always come easy with spn's lingo and references. But honestly my biggest weakness is consistency of output/motivation :(

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

To be avoided at all costs. And if it must be done, you better know what you're doing or at least do your damn homework and try to get a native speaker to check it over.

First fandom you wrote for?

Hetalia (APH) 😅

Favorite fic you've written?

Damn that's so hard haha. I think I'd have to go with Baton Rouge, but Plano: Some Town Halfway In Between is a close second. I'm also happy to report that my current WIPs, for spn and The Outsiders, may well become my new faves. I'm very excited about both projects!

Tagged by @buddyaldridges--Thank you for the tag! This was a fun restrospective! Tagging @nigeltde-fic, @flownwrong, @zmediaoutlet, @balefully, @nevergettingoverwincest and anyone who wants to do it!