#and gods i hope the sheer amount of links doesn't bork the ask skjhdkj

[whatacartouchebag]

For the fic ask! Are there any fics you reread regularly, your own or others? Annnd what's something you've learned doing research for a fic? :D

(clicking the button to send an ask and seeing "kaibaman demands a sacrifice" has me cackling btw)

I'm... actually pretty bad about rereading other people's fics unless there's a specific itch I need scratching OTL Feel like I spend a lot more time rereading my own, but then again I'm such a horrible stickler for editing and proofreading. For longer fics, like Reason or Thistles, I'll tend to have nearly up to two chapters in written in reserve before posting a current chapter, because I'm going over them so often and want to catch any continuity issues or little things before they do go up.

As for research... kind of a mixed bag! I have a background in veterinary nursing and horticulture, so being able to adapt and apply that into writing helps a lot (ie, any medical or biology things that have popped up in Reason or other fics, or any of the herbology bits in Thistles).

I know when I wrote the scene with Pietro discussing Qrow's ring in Reason, I did have to do a bit of digging into metal conductivity to find out if silver was non corrosive to the point of being used in electronics lmao. Otherwise it's usually fact checking simple things, like getting a proper recipe for the drink in Broken Seeds, or looking up symptoms of a centipede bite in Clouded, or what kind of metal polish and leather conditioning treatment can be used on weapons for a chapter of Crystalline.

So yeah! Hope that helps answer both of those :D