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thanks for the tag @zoingfandom and @donttouchtheneednoggle <3

How many works do you have on AO3?

i have 22 works on ao3, with the first posted in may 2020

What’s your total AO3 word count?

maths my unbeloved...my total word count is 262,549. i think. i don’t want to have to double-check that so i’m going with it.

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

on ao3, it’s just merlin. i am still on another site (though now basically inactive) where i wrote a lot of marvel fics, a few harry potter ones and the odd simon snow/carry on fic with a little of shadowhunters. oh, and a httyd one. but that was before merlin once again got its wonderful claws in me.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

exile (190)

open wounds (157)

surprise attack (140)

the hearts of men (111)

forget-me-nots (92)

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

i do try to respond to comments! even if it is just to thank someone for taking the time to read and talk about the fic. and sometimes if they’ve picked something out that they liked i usually take that as an indicator to continue talking about the fic :D

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

ooohh! most of them have an ambiguous ending or semi-happy because i need the comfort but i do distinctly remember being yelled at in the comments for the ending of marigolds so i would say that one! i’d also say that don’t stay in my sleep is less hopeful than most of my other fics...

Do you write crossovers? if so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

i have not written any crossovers and i probably won’t. i don’t have any planned, at least. do have many aus though!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

i don’t think so? i did get a comment saying that one fic felt unrealistic in places and didn’t quite flow well, but i think that’s been the extent of it

Do you write smut? if so what kind?

i do not write smut. i make a lot of dick jokes and sex references, but i’ve never gone all the way when writing it (and even when i’ve thought i have, i have been informed that i have, in fact, not). i’m not sure if i ever will, mainly because i much prefer writing hugs and casual touches outside of a smut setting

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge, no

Have you ever had a fic translated?

i have not

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i have co-written a harry potter one before but, in terms of merlin, only this one with neednoggle and the knife thrower elyan/pirate gwaine au (the piercings are an integral part of that fic you can absolutely claim co-authorship 🤣). a lot of fics have been inspired heavily by some of my mutuals, though, so i don’t know if that counts as co-writing...?

What’s your all time favorite ship?

i mean, i can’t have my pfp and not say merwaincelot, can i?

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

*opens google docs* man, this is a graveyard and a half. i have a perelyainecelotlin wip from april that has barely been touched, so i would probably say that one. i’ll probably absorb some of the ideas for other fics, but i might have to pen a different fic for that ship...

What are your writing strengths?

i’d probably say description and the imagery used in that? i just like similes, okay?

What are your writing weaknesses?

action. in terms of devising a plot, too, but mainly actually writing action like combat scenes and stuff. it feels very wooden a lot of the time, which is something i did struggle with in mortality clings to butterfly wings (though staying up very late to finish the chapter probably did not help self-belief lol) but i’m trying to get better with it

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing that! especially in the merlin fandom, where a lot of the spells are not in modern english

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

time of posting: how to train your dragon. time of writing: harry potter.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

i know i don’t shut up about it, but mortality clings to butterfly wings. i just really enjoyed exploring the dynamics and camelot itself after camlann and had so much fun messing with the symbolism of each chapter title and scattering small details throughout the fic and mergwen rights and throwing in aithusa and letting characters deal with their trauma and yeah. also actually writing plot! i do still want to write a partner fic for it, which might be a summer project, but we’ll see...

tagging (if you want) @sirwilliamofdeira @tcs-main and @oncefutureemrys

Ask game that @bbcfandomsuniverse recently did (hope you don’t mind me jumping in 😊)

Their post is over here in the larger font like above with the questions if they are easier for you to see! But from here on the text will be in the standard regular font, Thank you!

How many works do you have on AO3?

-Nine? And far too many WIPs that are like two paragraphs from being finished

What’s your total AO3 word count?

-92,277

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

-On AO3, 4 but In my little book of things and my docs a lot more…

BBC Merlin, Mortal instruments fandom, Durarara, The Umbrella Academy (*ones not posted* Penny dreadful, Robin of sherwood, BBC Atlantis… And other horribly written things for many many anime and manga series)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

• Rain Before The Rainbow- 146

• Snow and Powdered Sugar- 49

• Broken Raven- 39

• The Ingenuous- 21

• I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You- 20

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! I always try to respond to comments and continue what whatever they talked about or just give my thanks.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

It’s not currently posted but it’s another one of my fics that is almost finished and pretty much is a retelling of the Diamond of the day of BBC Merlin if events had gone differently with saving a bunch of characters including mordred, daegal, kara, sefa, Gilli among many others and it’s very angsty. Like tears and sobbing angsty…

Do you write crossovers? if so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I actually wrote ONE crossover that I never posted and it was a disaster… I will never mention it again.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I wouldn’t call it hate but it was simply someone voicing their opinion on the fic which yeah… Kinda you know hurtful to me but i’m just a stranger to them that’s writing fanfiction so…

Do you write smut? if so what kind?

Nope no nopitty no

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

To my knowledge no. And also who ever does steal my fics you picked the most worst person to do it from XD. (But in all seriousness if someone ever finds one of my fics posted anywhere else or under a different user name please message me here on Tumblr 😊)

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but again I’m completely open to it and would love for my fics to branch out to all of the non-english speaking audiences.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I would love to work with another writer on a fic! I actually really want to but have no clue how to even go about it.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

Oooo, I’m gonna go back to my beginning fandom roots and say a platonic relationship I love is from an anime called Princess TuTu and it’s Fakir & Muto… I watched the anime along with another one called Sugar Sugar Rune when I was like 4 and they will always hold a special place in my heart along with the Original Fruits basket and the Manga…

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Probably one of my Umbrella Academy fics that I had started to write. Mostly because when a lot of stuff happened with the very strong opinions in certain comments it made me loose inspiration and hope in writing for the fandom in a way. But it was my favourite idea and now I can barely look at it anymore…

What are your writing strengths?

Figurative language my beloved… I mold and bend works like clay to my will and abuse them for the sake of art. I sometimes place words that have no correlation besides each other but with their surrounding pears have all the meaning of everything I mean for them to say. My teachers all throughout school loved and hated my writing all the same but i always counted it as one of my strengths.

What are your writing weaknesses?

That I get distracted in words and go off on off topic tangents. I always do this and I have to stop myself. And like I’ve said before this just end up a old tangled yarn ball of metaphors that in another persons hands, the knots are yanked at and pulled so impossibly there’s no chance to get it undone. But in mine, the twist and turns of yarn become limp and fall so incredibly loose between my fingers. So I want to make my writing able to be untangle without too much of a yank or tug.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I’ve done it myself with Raphael Santiago from Mortal instruments in Spanish and Small dialogue bits I’m okay with. But if it’s like a full speech I’m not too keen on it even if I understand the language.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Wait funny story real quick, I recently found my old notebook I used to write fanfiction in when I was like 8 and it’s atrocious. But if I remember correctly the first fanfic in their is with Magi (another anime and manga series very dear to my heart) but if i’m correct the first piece of actual fanfic I wrote was a bit earlier and it was Pandora Hearts maybe? Or even around the time that shows like Avatar and Teen Titans aired…

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I have to go with “The Ingenuous” mostly because I remember many years ago thinking those two would be good friends but completely abandoned the idea because it was like 2015 and I thought the fandom was dead… And also because these two don’t have a canon relationship I have taken free will with it and halfway through writing it I realized their relationship has elements of practically me and one of my friends I’ve known my whole life. And that person is very near and dear to me and I’ve always held them close to my heart… So really that fic just has everything of me and I’ve given my all into that fic.

I’m tagging

@zoingfandom and @ohanahoku-ao3 and thats It because I feel awkward tagging other people I know are Ao3 writers XD

Zoing & Ohana please save me from my awkwardness and tag more people please, I beg of you. But also Anyone else if free to join in!