#ceruleanphoenix7

[andorshitdaily]

Since it's Mon Monday, my favourite shot is the same as my icon: Mon standing alone in the Embassy after Vel leaves, framed by the rigid Imperial architecture.

she's FINE, she's just staring at the steps wondering how they could make that place more accessible for droids and disabled folks, i swear!!

Tell me your favorite Andor quote or screenshot because I'm bored and I miss it!

[astromechs]

top 5 Cassian looks

omg, SO excited that i get to talk about my favorite rebel fashionista and his collection of many jackets 🥰 in roughly no particular order:

1. the ferrix look

i mean.... this goes without saying. not only is the jacket an icon, shaving the beard was a tragedy. this is my icon on here for a reason.

2. the rings of kafrene look

what a character introduction. what an entrance. rings of kafrene leather jacket, you will always be famous. the second-biggest tragedy is that the lighting was so goddamn dark in the movie most of the time he was wearing that.

3. the rix road look

couldn't really get a still image that captured the entire outfit but... the long coat? the fingerless gloves? work that miserable day of your life that only heralds many more miserable days to come, cassian.

4. the blue parka

i couldn't just not put this on the list! there's a reason why this became instantly iconic in december 2016 and why it's one of the images that first comes to mind for a lot of people when they think of cassian.

5. the rebel alliance field jacket

it's simple, it's classic. he works it. he came, he lived, he served cunt, he died. legends only.

ask me my top 5 anything!

[elialys]

So glad to see more people getting into Fringe again! Just wanted to pop in and say I still remember In Reverse fondly and how invested I was reading that fic. Your fics were always ones I was eager to read and I look up to you a lot as a fic writer, both then and now. Thank you for sharing your wonderful work with us <3

You are always such a sweetheart to me omg 😭 Thank you SO much for your lovely, lovely words❤️ In Reverse will always be my special baby (and that pun will always be terrible, yet will I ever stop using it?), it definitely was an experience that summer!!

TWELVE YEARS AGO

[jyndor]

Happy Birthday!! So glad to have found your blog and thank you for all the amazing content you bring to the Andor fandom! Hope you have an amazing birthday! 💜🎉

thank you so much!!! that is such a lovely thing to say!

[beautyofsorrow]

tagged by @zannolin in another poll which is an EVIL poll -> list your top 10 female characters and then let your followers pick 1

tagging @ceruleanphoenix7 @onmytallesttiptoesspinning @stardustcityhag @73chn1c0l0rr3v3l if you wanna play <3

[trillscienceofficer]

Best Left Raffi Musiker/Seven of Nine/B'Elanna Torres, 38.3k words, rated T

A road trip to Coppelius becomes very complicated for Raffi, once an old friend of Seven's shows up in mysterious circumstances.

She’s older now, and out of uniform, looking much worse for wear after what she just went through. But there had been a time more than twenty years prior when her face had been on every Federation newsfeed, along with the rest of the crew of the USS Voyager. “You know her?” Raffi turns to Soji, frozen in bemusement beside Emil. “I’ve never met her but yes, I know who she is,” Raffi says. “You two stay here and keep an eye on things. Seven needs to see this.”

—

Here it is, the fic I wrote in the Rare Pair Exchange 2023 for @ceruleanphoenix7, who requested a story about Raffi, Seven and B'Elanna going on adventures and getting out of tight situations together. Set post-Season 1, it has a plot (!), polyam romance, friendship, a bit of a reunion of the crew of La Sirena (Soji and Elnor play important parts), Raffi slowly figuring out whatever the hell is going on between Seven and B'Elanna, as well as what she wants for herself. Also, lots of references to DS9.

I hope you enjoy!

[faceofpoe]

I know we (collective "we" fandom "we") have discussed the progression from Nemik's "you sleep like a stone" to Cassian lying awake the night before the prison break scheme but have we discussed the broader arc from ep 4 and

"It's better to live. Better to eat, sleep, do you what you want" and not sleeping ahead of the prison break and "kill me or take me in" and then the logical follow-up question:

Will we no longer get squirrelly "Can I eat my food?" Cassian actually sitting down to eat in-script/on-screen in season 2?

This contemplation brought to you by trying to envision Kleya & Luthen's day to day Coruscant lives and how I simply cannot even picture either of them just eating a meal, and then sent into overthinking orbit by @ceruleanphoenix7 's observation a while back that, while we see Mon quite frequently in settings surrounded by food, we never actually see her eat any of it.

[chipthekeeper]

Are you fucking haunting me????

Only because i, too, am being haunted

@ceruleanphoenix7 @astromechs

[e-the-village-cryptid]

my first time doing one of these tag/ask games!

tagged by @animazi

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

oh dear ok i do not keep just one WIP folder they are scattered about several locations so I've gotta track them down and maybe miss some. only gonna do stories here not poems or songs or anything

originals:

The Curse of Etroa (plus some notes that are still in there as storythatneedsaname.docx lmao)

The Legend of Rassev

Rebels (...that's from when i was 14)

Shooting Star (...i think that one's even older)

something called Ideas.docx, last modified 7 years ago, that i don't remember writing and is password locked. hm.

man there's a lot of stuff in here but i think those are the only things in this folder that could honestly be called a WIP

fics:

Bix Auri crossover fic (!!!!! ani I just realized you are potentially another person (the only other being myself) who might actually enjoy such a fic!)

nightmare dream gorst stuff

hotel razor scene

The Violent Road

no pressure tags: @imogenkol @chipthekeeper @kleyamarki @a-flickering-soul @ceruleanphoenix7 @rebelandrichgirl @faceofpoe @frostbitepandaaaaa @ladydedlock

[andorshitdaily]

Got two more for you: I believe this one's in episode 9. When Mon and Tay are discussing how solve the issue of missing funds in the Embassy. The way they talk and lean close to each other. Their body language is SO LOUD.

From episode 10, the wide shot of Mon, Tay and Sculdun all sitting on that round couch. Mon in the center, and one of them on either side. The symmetry in that shot still transfixes me to this day. Was it intentional? A reflection of Mon being torn between tradition (Sculdun) and a new age (Tay) while building a rebellion perhaps? It's the one thing I would ask Tony Gilroy about if I could.

Mon also very well represented. i should not be surprised

i went a page too far in finding this one

and ended up with this, which amused me but is not what you said

but this one hell yeah!! (tony come on the podcast (we have not started the podcast))

Tell me your favorite Andor quote or screenshot because I'm bored and I miss it!

[astromechs]

10 Songs, 10 Mutuals

tagged by @paulmescal-s 💕

ok, using my spotify on repeat playlist for this:

dancing in the dark — bruce springsteen

go your own way — fleetwood mac

can't catch me now — olivia rodrigo

where is my mind — pixies

never let me go — florence + the machine

guerrilla radio — rage against the machine

ease my mind — hayley kiyoko

soul meets body — death cab for cutie

rocket man — elton john

the prophecy — taylor swift

tagging (no pressure!): @ceruleanphoenix7 , @bisexualwintermoon , @latrodectal , @batmurdock , @sigelfire , @lifelongblur , @hailperseusjackson , @grexigone , @liliaenbaggins , @inkforhumanhands

[elialys]

20 questions for fic writers

I was tagged by @ceruleanphoenix7. I'm tagging: @melusine0811 @lastbluetardis and @oliviassunrise. No obligation to complete this of course, only if you want to! I'm terrible at tagging, so anyone can do this really 😅

(These answers are a bit skewed because it doesn't take into account the ~90 fics I posted on ffnet since 2004, and there are a couple fics on AO3 I've 'hidden' in private collections)

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

61

2. What's your total A03 word count?

1,064,298 words

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Fringe (32)

Doctor Who (20)

Horizon Forbidden West (5)

The Newsreader (3)

The Last of Us (1)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

On the Wings of the Ten, Aloy/Kotallo, HFW (1,510 kudos)

Chasing the Aurora, Ten/Rose/Tentoo, DW (1,410 kudos)

Calluses, Tentoo/Rose, DW (1,341 kudos)

Across the Void, Ten/Rose, DW (933 kudos)

A Leap of Faith, Ten/Rose, DW (826 kudos)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Always, to the best of my ability. Sometimes I respond literally 6 months to a year later, but I try my best to always do it. I love exchanging with my readers ❤️

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

This one is tricky because I really try to end all of my stories on a hopeful note, if not a happy one. I'm going to go with In Reverse (Peter/Olivia, Fringe), though, because it's undoubtedly the saddest story I have ever written in 20 years, if only for the stillbirth in it. And although it doesn't end on a tragic note, it's extremely bittersweet.

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

Maybe Calluses? (Tentoo/Rose, DW) I feel this has the most blatant "they are so in love and hopeful for the future" ending in everything I've posted on AO3 😅

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have a few times through the years, people tearing down my writing style, accusing me of being too melodramatic (I wonder why 😂). Thankfully it's been very rare in two decades of fic writing. I did get a homophobic comment once because I wrote a minor female character having a wife.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do. I like to say the 'E' in my E rated stories stands for "Emotional Smut" 🤣 I'm strongly on the ace spectrum, so my smut is extremely vanilla, heavily focused on feelings, with just enough description to know what's going on. I write love making and that's about it 😅

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

I don't, although I remember being 15 and writing a Harry Potter and Buffy crossover in one of my notebooks xD

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, although I accidently discovered 'sequels' to some of my fics, with entire sections copied/pasted of the original stories in the new ones. Although I was credited for writing the 'prequel', it's very strange to see whole chunks of my writing mixed with someone else's without me knowing anything about it.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

A few times, including in Chinese and Russian! The strangest thing to me is when someone translates one of my stories in French, considering it's my native tongue, and back in the days when my English still sucked a lot, I spent many hours translating my own fics from French to English.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Once. It was an interesting experience!

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Peter and Olivia. Of all the ships I've written for, I've written for them the most, and the longest. Writing them again this summer after a 6 year break was the most wonderful feeling 😭 I just feel like I know those two by heart, and writing their characters is just...comforting.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have so many WIPs right now 😭 I don't think I'll *ever* NOT finish them, considering I finished Shivered Bones this year after a 7 year hiatus, as I knew I would eventually, so I want to believe I will finish those WIPs I really love. On top of my list of WIPs I absolutely want to finish someday: Chasing the Aurora, These Lines Etched in Sand, On the Wings of the Ten

16. What are your writing strengths?

Feelings? I've been told my writing is 'immersive', and that I'm good at putting my readers into the characters' headspace and making them feel what they're feeling. I love writing introspection and exploring characters' motivations and progression, and I know I'm pretty good at it! I can also write an 'imagery-heavy' kind of prose that people seem to enjoy.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptions of actual places 😂 Like, give me an emotion to describe or an abstract concept, and I will write 2,000 words without dialogue. But tell me "now you have to describe their PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS" and I will cry and have to be dragged by force to my keyboard.

I also find dialogue-heavy scenes to be the trickiest to write. Not the dialogue itself, that usually flows out fine, but everything around it. If it's just dialogue lines, it reads so fast and...flat. What do I write around the speech lines to control the pacing of it? How do I make this 'dynamic' even though the characters are, let's say, trapped in an elevator, having a heart-to-heart, or sitting around a table (not to mention the many 'let's talk about our feelings while lying together in bed' scenes I've written 😅). How do I convey body language and tone of voice without repeating myself 500 times? Tricky but also rewarding when I tackle it haha

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

If the character doesn't speak English in a fic written in English, absolutely? It's like watching a show/movie with characters in a non-english speaking country, yet everyone speaks English to each other in a thick accent, like, please don't 🥲

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I wrote my first fanfics at age 15, and it was all about Buffy and Spike 😅

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Asking me this is like asking me if I have a favorite child 😭

I think one I'm proudest of is The Horizon Hides in Vain (Ten/Rose, DW). I genuinely was in such a zone when I wrote it, and I think it's a nice example of my writing style, in terms of prose, characters and plot.

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20 questions for fic writers

I was tagged by @pinkytoothlesso11 Thank you! This is a long one, but very interesting well rounded questions for fic writers. I'll tag: @spicedrobot @skierunner @ashcroft-writes @kitepiper @calyxgold @ceruleanphoenix7 -- Not obligated to do this, just thought it may be fun!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

165

2. What's your total A03 word count?

664,619 words

3. What fandom's do you write for?

Star Wars (75+), Arcane (46), Original works (13), Avatar (12), Elden Ring (5), a couple "fairytale" fandoms (red riding hood retellings), and then a bunch of single works. I'm kinda spicy over the fact I have a single work in Hannibal, when it was me uploading a story a day for my first Nano. Ended up doing it all in one work to not have 30 stories, but I should have made a series. Many readers never made it to the end of that fic due to the absence of structure and--- I'm rambling.... (It should really say Hannibal (30))

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Fathers and Daughters

Never Too Late

Then the dreadful night shall break

Five is an awful number

While the world turns around

2 star wars fics, 2 arcane and 1 avatar? It's a good representation of my work!

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Always, unless they're turbo dumb and I'm at a loss for words... Or they somehow slip past me.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Eeeh, tough one! I like angst... There's an entire series I completed over the course of a month. The idea came from a redditor who made a collection for it : we had to kill the same character in a different manner every month. 12 death fics... For Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think the more gruesome one is Unhappy Landing. Mind the tags.

But I think it's on equal footing with the Arcane fic Whatever I Do, This Is Where We End which focused on a Silco/Vander timeloop, where Silco was the one in the loop, but Vander was the POV character the entire time. No happy ending and many, many deaths which grow increasingly meaningless.

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

I have a lot of those so not sure... But narrative wise, I think it's Never Too Late, which is reflected in its stats. It's about Obi-Wan reaching out to Dooku after QGJ's death. It's emotional and basically guarantees Anakin will have a bright future in better care. I have sooo many comments asking for more on it, almost as many as on my fallen Kenobi fic.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Sometimes... When some disease breaks down my immune defenses... It's not very good though. I'm the wrong kind of ace for it.

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

I have, as a gimmick, like Arcane characters in a Star Wars setting... But I never think of it, and I basically never read crossovers. They're not my thing.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of. It has happened to my art though.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, though nobody ever rode the length of the work with me ahah!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, multiple times! That's stuff I really enjoy! I've done a Thrawn/Cad Bane with Spicedrobot, and an infamously hated Codywan fic with CollisionTheory... both featuring smut! I also did projects like 3 writers doing different entries within an overarching story (when i tried to wrangle friends into the kill your darlings all year scheme). Collabs are very fun, I especially like working with artists. If you want to work on something hit me up!

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Vander/Silco, maybe, but Hannigram is breathing down my neck...

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh no... too many to count. I guess my first fic ever, The Tactician. I went on a never ending 'this is just a side thing because I'm in a rut' spiral, and now I have 165 fics. IIRC I have about 24 WIPs on AO3.

PLEASE DON'T HURT ME I'M TRYIN OKK??

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and banter.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Smut and romance, and also sometimes killing my darlings (not characters, but pieces of heavy lore my betas are trying to rip from my sticky fingers because they don't care).

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I have done it only in fake alien languages, never received any praise for it, don't plan on doing it again. Real life language... eeeh not unless I have a really good reason for it somehow.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Star Wars. Thrawn... the Original blue daddy!

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

It would have to be my magnum opus, Fathers and Daughters. Not just because I think it's the pinnacle of my worst brainrot ever, but also because I'm forever impressed with myself for holding on that long. Sometimes I re-read it and can't remember writing half of it. I've made myself snicker at my own jokes, so I think I've done a good job of it!

But in my heart of hearts, there's one chapter of that long series of Hannibal ficlet which somehow is one of the pieces of writing I'm smugest about. I just think it's so neat... It's called To Visit Her, it's 222 words, and depicts Hannibal's mind palace, and its innermost chamber. I genuinely think I peaked years ago with some of those ficlets x'D

[beautyofsorrow]

favorite fic game!

tagged by @zannolin <3

no option for "other" you MUST pick one of these. for my health. but you can tell me your other favs in the tags/replies if u want

all are up on my ao3. i tried to narrow it down but damn if i do not love the SNW stuff i've done these past 6 months

tagging @ceruleanphoenix7 and @onmytallesttiptoesspinning if u would like to join!

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@ceruleanphoenix7 has it right imo.

My process is 1: I'll give a shot to any of my friends' fics.

2: Browsing in the wild! I always apply filters, to have English fics, no crossover, and eliminate any of the ships or characters I don't want to see at all.

Then, is the summary interesting?

Is the grammar okay?

Are there any squicks in the tags?

If I'm looking for a ship: does it sound prominent enough or is this some epic fic with everyone in it?

If my basic criteria are met: I open the fic. I find out if it's good by reading it. If it's poorly written, poorly characterised or puts me to sleep, I back out and go to the next one.

Rinse and repeat.

IDK why I'd judge by ratio.

My most popular fic has 5,237 kudos, and my least popular has 5 (five lol no missing zero)

Yet I'm the same author. Not every fic in on par, but I can guarantee you nothing justifies a gap of this magnitude.

And yet my 5 kudos fic has a better ratio, since it has 81 hits!

The fic with 5,237 kudos has 183,762 hits. Math that one out!

Your method straight up doesn't work for multichapter fics.

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

[colleybri]

Tagged by @ceruleanphoenix7

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Right, so I have:

Vel/Cinta Sharing

I’ve done it before – angst and sex

Andor s1 Drabbles (boringly self-explanatory)

Americans / Andor (rebelcaptain AU) 

His Dark Materials /Cassian’s daemons

No pressure tags and I’m sorry if you’ve already been ‘done’: @vadercat @incognitajones, @staticwaffles, @castiellover77, @wistfulweaverwoman and anyone else who would like to join!