#doorsclosingslowly

[jackwolfes]

Have you written scenes (sex or otherwise) that actually made you feel uncomfortable, and how did you deal?

What nasty/evil/maladjusted character traits do you enjoy exploring in your little meow-meows?

What's your favourite way to emotionally destroy your favourite character?

[Q's] // ty darling!

1 Have you written scenes (sex or otherwise) that actually made you feel uncomfortable, and how did you deal?

mmm I am very frequently low level embarrassed writing smut which is like, Discomfort Lite (and fucking bonkers considering how much smut I've written over the years) but I think most discomfort has come from the first time I've tried new like, types of angst/whump? Like the first few times I wrote explicit sexual violence I was uncomfortable (which has increased incrementally as I like, write worse and worse SA each time) but that's kind of the point I guess. I just kinda carried on through it BC I don't think it's fun writing the same thing you're comfortable with over and over and over again

6 + 14 answered here

[skitter-kitter]

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to? and 🤩 favourite character to write

Ask game

What’s something that appears in your fics over and over again, even if you don’t mean to?

I love physical comfort so much that I create entire stories based around how they will end or have moments of comfort via a hand on the shoulder, a hug, or a longer embrace. That compels me

Favorite character to write?

Lear from pokémon masters ex. Hes single handedly brought me from writing max 8k fics to around 50k fics. Like I have a fic rn where his presence made it go from a 4k oneshot to a 25k oneshot that man INSPIRES ME

[desidarling123]

ao3 wrapped: 3 9 17 18 28?

THANK YOU ANTON sorry for responding to this 5 million years later but yk what life happens

What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

OF ALL TIME??? this is tough lol I have many that are near and dear to my heart for various reasons, but I'm going to break with my usual choice and say I enjoyed writing dark tides. I wasn't sure at the time of writing if I could commit to writing out what was essentially a poorly-concealed oedipal complex in a fucking MARVEL film but then I did and I'm glad I did.

Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

I promise I'm not shitting you but I fucking LOVED writing Kaz x Poppy earlier this year. I think Kaz x Nina is a close second, though.

Your favorite character to write this year?

Evelyn Wang from EEAAO! God, I identify with her... too much.

The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

Inej in jealous was a bit of a challenge. Fun, but not easy.

Favorite work you wrote this year?

I loved writing everything, everywhere, all at once. it was beautiful and cathartic and as a fellow repressed bitch, much-needed lol

[faorism]

@doorsclosingslowly suggested this post for wyllstarion and had to go for it

[berkinix]

Last Line Game

Tagged by the amazing @findswoman! Thank you so much for thinking of me, and I am so very sorry that it took me so long to reply and join in. I've been in hardcore lurker-mode lately.

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

He’d had a hunt to begin, after all, a vengeance to carry out.

Dun, dun, DUN!!! (For anyone who knows anything about my writing, yes, this pertains to Maul.)

A baker's dozen worth of words, or an even fourteen if I count that contraction as two words. Hm... I'm not sure I even know that many peeps on this site. Well, let me try compiling my list of usual suspects... @blackkatmagic, @its-not-a-pen, @doorsclosingslowly, @studiomkm, @indira-korr, @marvel-mistress-padawan, @loosingmoreletters, @ghostwriterofthemachine, @saricess, @sophronist, @sl-walker, @stealingpotatoes, @metataxy, @captainmazzic

(Yo, if you got tagged by me but have no clue as to who I am, just know that I have enjoyed your works on AO3 to the point that I have subscribed to your works and/or your username over on that site. I've probably left comments or kudos on your stuff. Y'all are great, and you inspire me.)

(And of course, that also includes @findswoman, who weaves such intricate, captivating stories and is a wonderful person overall!)

[sl-walker]

5 things you never get tired of writing

tagged by @doorsclosingslowly

rules: list five things you never get tired of writing. it can be tropes, themes, characters, phrases, whatever brings you joy. then tag five people!

1.) -points to icon- That guy. (I might have to take breaks, but never a permanent one.) 2.) Found family. 3.) Abuse recovery. 4.) Settings, scene-setting. 5.) The many, many facets of how people can love other people, well beyond the traditional.

Tagging: @shadowmaat, @b-radley66, @spicedrobot, @daraoakwise, @wandering-wolf23

[irenadel]

Writer Tag

Thanks for the tag @sehtoast and @blindmagdalena I always love to get tagged in these and rarely have the attention span to answer them, but please keep tagging me T_T

How many works do you have on AO3? Now this is embarrassing. Only 4.

What's your total AO3 word count? 25,672

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Let’s go by top 3 since I don’t have that many fics.

1. Pygmalion (The Boys)

2. Fear Leads the Way (Star Wars)

3. The First Part of All my Joy (The Boys)

Do you respond to comments? Yes! But like with everything else I take forever! Why or why not? You did me the courtesy of feeding me, I might as well feed you back.

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? I haven’t finished any of my long fics but I can already tell you they’re inching towards idealism because something something I believe in humanity’s inherent capacity for kindness and the lives of the characters I write about are canonically headed for disaster so I like giving them a bit of happiness in my works… BUT that said, my original fiction tends to be pretty ironically tragic and I’m currently working on an ASOIAF Aemond fic that I’m considering ending in true GRRM fashion.

What’s the fic you've written with the happiest ending? Can’t spoil xD everything is still ongoing. But as far as finished fic, I think Due to the Dead.

Do you write crossovers? I don’t particularly like crossovers but… once I’m bit by a bug I listen to no reason, so I’m not ruling it out.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? Nope, but I have a pretty small audience and have written few fics so it’s probably statistics.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? OF COURSE! I’ve done mostly het but like writing yaoi too (someone said AemondXLuke and I am INTRIGUED), I kinda really wanna try my hand at yuri and I tend to solve everything via threesome so… also, hi I’m Irene and I’m a monsterfucker.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes and no. So I am a fandom crone and my first fandom as far as fic writing goes was actually Saint Seiya. I had to translate my own fic for that. (Fun fact: I am an IRL translator)

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not yet but if I ever get down to ficifying my RPs with @hom3landr I might!

What's your all-time favorite ship? Ok let’s do fandoms!

The Boys: MadelynXHomelander because I am deeply horny for their dynamic.

Star Wars: AnakinXPadme because I’m a basic bitch.

Lackadaisy: MitziXMordecai …. Am the only one who ships this shit.

Bonus Fandom! ASOIAF: SansaXSandor

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will? I intend to finish all of ‘em but I think my most ambitious work is probably Pygmalion and the hardest to end.

What are your writing strengths? I think I can create some interesting descriptive images.

What are your writing weaknesses? I. DON’T. FINISH. MY. SHIT. Also I take forever to write.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? That most people don’t get how language or fucking bilingualism works. But I do like gratuitous French… and Valyrian. I also really like when one character explains to another that there’s no exact translation for a word or turn of phrase. Language reflects culture <3

What was the first fandom you wrote for? Already said it, long time ago, Saint Seiya.

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to? Once more I am intrigued by trying to make AemondXLuke work in spite of it all and just because I’m a contrary shit, try to make it wholesome. I also have like a thousand ideas for DinXLuke fics but am too much of a coward to write 'em

What's your favorite fic you've written? ….. I’m too attached to the AemondXReader fic I’m working on right now because it has a stealth OC I’ve been working on for years.

No pressure tags: @doorsclosingslowly @aftergloom @kratosfan6632466 @barbieaemond

[ze-life-ze-vibe]

Tag Game

I’ve been tagged by @laurie-ipsum to do this, and am so honoured people want to get to know me a little better!

1. Last song: it’s either Great War by Taylor Swift or Stick Season by Noah Kahan (basic, I know, but ngl my music taste is pretty basic)

2. Currently watching: the Percy Jackson TV show! Though my friend has gotten me watching The Bear, and I’m enjoying that a lot too

3. Three ships: polycrows, Firstprince, polycrows again 😂 I just love polycrows okay

4. favourite colour: red! The brighter the better

5. Currently consuming: a very mediocre chocolate cake (I don’t even like chocolate cake but this one is particularly not great)

6. First ship: probably Percabeth or Solangelo

7. Relationship status: single

8. Last movie: Deadpool 2! Saw it yesterday after seeing clips of Walker Scobell quoting it

9. Currently working on:

IRL:

my book

a few other shorter publications.

In fanfic land,

a Ninej polycrows modern AU fic that’s gonna be like a 20-25k chonker

a polycrows Kaz/Nina set in the same modern AU as the Ninej fic.

a few crackfics

a polycrows-Jesper centered one shot

Ninej fic will probs get published first, then the Jesper one-shot, then either the Kaz/Nina one shot or the crackfic, we’ll see. Who knows what inspiration will strike. And yes, I have ADHD 😂

Tag 9 people to do this, but I’m still new to the tumblr space so @rainstormdragon @doorsclosingslowly @demigodbeautiies @vermillionsketcher are the tumblrs I know off the top of my head! Would love to hear more!

[harbingerofwhump]

Tag game! Tag 9 people you want to get to know better (or don't; I'm not your father, boss, or someone interested in pressuring people to do things)

Tagged by @tinyarmedtrex 💜

3 ships: Kanej, Griddlehark, Nijiri/Ehiru (do they have a ship name?)

First ever ship: I can never actually remember for sure the answer to these types of questions but I *think* it was either Adelina/Enzo or Raffaele/Enzo from The Young Elites? I'm not much of a "shipper" in the stricter sense so 🤷

Last song: It's Alright by mother mother

Last movie: I... have no idea

Currently reading: The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin

Currently watching: .......that One Specific Scene in SaB where Kaz gets beat up..... on repeat.... Don't judge me I like one (1) bloody bruised boi

Currently consuming: nothing

Currently craving: Salt. All the salt

Tagging: @randomcat1832 @witherydithery @thatonecrowguy @endoftheworldhere @oneofthewednesdays @feelinglikecleopatra @patrocool @andromedaspace @doorsclosingslowly

[anonniemousefics]

WIP Ask Game

tagged by @doorsclosingslowly

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descript 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!

Pretty much everything in here is Six of Crows fanfic with the exception of one TFOTA fic (The Nine Terrifying Moons) which is on a hiatus of undetermined length (sorryyyy) 

So we’ve got: kanej music box, kanej smut for meta, dying tomorrow part deux, the trouble with wanting more, samples 2, karaoke night, lock the door, roadtrip hot tub, inej self-defense, cursed hands, zowa of sherwood, 70s newsroom au

Tagging: @feelinglikecleopatra, @rainstormdragon, @wylanvanfeck, @cameliawrites, @oneofthewednesdays, and anyone else who wants to!

[jackwolfes]

get 2 know: 8 14 26 36 63?

[?s] // thank you angel!

8: Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or end of a story?

i like writing all the angst and smut which usually comes in the middle for me 😅 but i do also like a nice tight ending and getting the payoff!

14: how do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?

i don't feel very emotionally literate most of the time, so i definitely do stray into "using fanfic to process difficult emotions"!! even if that's just, putting blorbos through horrible circumstances while i'm having a bad time for an unrelated reason just to like, catharsis my way through (which is what i did when i wrote "hours")

26: Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

yknow i do think i have to give this one to the clown college fic 😅 or possibly the volcra fic

36: How do you write kissing scenes?

UHH not very formulaicly??? lots of discussion of hands and lips and tongues, and possibly too much introspection 😅

63: Something you hate to see in smut.

whimpering has to be well used if it's going in a smut fic and so often with wylan it is not 😌

[skitter-kitter]

ao3 wrapped reader: 6 28 29 30?

reader asks

What's your absolute favorite works you read this year?

I have two!! They’re some of the only long fics I’ve read this year and they just blew me away. The first is Runner by Jessepinwheel. It’s a The LEGO Movie fanfic which is an AU where Good Cop lives instead of Bad Cop and then goes “what if he got sent back in time and had to try and save Bad Cop”. It’s a brilliant fic and really explores morality and the consequences of Good Cop’s actions both in the present and past. I read it during May and started sobbing during the climax so you know it’s good.

My other fic is from me to you by microcosmo. It’s a Pokemon Sword and Shield fic. It takes place in an au where Leon has been distant from his family for the last few years following becoming champion. This all changes however when their mother dies and Leon is given custody of Hop, forcing Hop to leave his life behind and move in with a brother who he never really knew. There’s a heavy exploration of their bonds and their relationship and how the title of champion impacts Leon and Hop in their daily life. Here’s a snippet of it that I adore:

He offers condolences instead, because it’s the very least he can do for a brother who was never really a brother, but someone he shared a mother with nonetheless.

Did any line/passage stick with you after you read it?

I would say the line I just put, but I’ll do something else lol

He's alive.

But soon, he won't be.

He takes a deep breath, counts to ten, lets it out.

He gets it now. He isn't meant to take the Piece of Resistance and stop the Kragle, after all.

He's meant to die.

The realization settles on him gently, and he takes it in, breath by breath. It feels like clarity.

This quote from Runner haunts me. I think about it once a month at LEAST.

“Wishful thinking,” Robotnik echoed. Stone had wished to be his friend? That was perhaps even more strange. He thought about that – about Stone wishing, and his old bitter certainty that nobody would ever have that wish. “I wish we had been friends too,” he said.

He felt the regret of a missed opportunity – and that angered him, because in his current form there should be no opportunity that he wasn’t able to take advantage of.

But of course being friends with this creature now was out of the question, given their disparate situations. “In this moment I think I almost wish I were human again,” he mused, “So that I could experience a friendship with you.”

This quote from Welcome To The New Age by LMT is what I think of every time I think of Stobotnik

Stone understood that he would no longer be property of the government once he was assigned to him. Instead, he would be Robotnik’s and Robotnik’s alone, no longer his own, yet nothing to Robotnik either. To the Doctor, he was an object to use and dispose of as he saw fit, and most days, even less.

LAST ONE I PROMISE. This quote from Total Apathy by @bread-bird-writes redefined how I thought of their relationship and I think about it Constantly

Do you have any works you think are required reading for (fandom)?

YES. Runner is most definitely the fic for The LEGO Movie, but I have a few others. You know, I won’t miss you when you’re gone by @leftofrevolution was the first fic I ever read for the fandom and it made me love the characters so much. Plus literally any SpellCleaver fic for the Star Wars fandom

Biggest surprise for you as a reader this year?

can I just say “read and loved The LEGO Movie fanfics” because I did NOT see that one coming

[desidarling123]

Tag nine people you want to get to know better

I was tagged by @capinejghafa thank youuu!! 🥰❤️

three ships - kaz x inej , kaz x nina, polycrows x alina (...don't ask it's a crackship/rarepair life for me forever. i famously wrote kaz x poppy once and yk what i stand by that one)

first ship - i wanna say like. sonny x chad from sonny with a chance lmaooo. or maybe like, rapunzel x eugene from tangled. idk.

last song - hayloft by mother mother (sped up version bc im like. feeling insane lately idk)

last movie - guardians of the galaxy vol III (i cried! it was so sweet and i don't even f with gotg like that)

currently reading - i just started reading 'this is how you lose the time war' by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone and it's gorgeously written. the epistolary style is always hard to pull off and i'm ofc nowhere near done yet, but it's been working for me thus far. also, as someone who generally prefers to write shorter pieces i'm heartened to see something that is novella length be so well-received.

currently watching - 'the great' on hulu, but ngl season 3 has been breaking my heart ;___; yk it's bad when ur full-on dreaming of ur fictional heartbreaks, like i spent 48 hours in SHOCK lmao

currently consuming - an iced decaf latte

currently craving - weirdly, nothing? my appetite has been very outta whack lately

tagging (zero pressure, i literally just skimmed my notifs for this): @feelinglikecleopatra @totchipanda @doorsclosingslowly @linearao3 @your-girl-is-lovely @malaiikka

[specializationisforinsects]

Thanks for the tag @carolinawrenn! Somehow I missed it the first time.

Rules: in a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

1. Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

2. Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival - Jude Watson

3. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

4. His Dark Materials- Phillip Pullman

5. Sabriel - Garth Nix

6. Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden

7. Among Warriors: A Woman Martial Artist in Tibet - Pamela Logan

8. Yojokun: Life Lessons from a Samurai - Kaibara Ekken

9. My Teacher is an Alien (etc) - Bruce Coville

10. Raptor Red - Robert Bakker

I could have put so many more, but these were really formative.

I forgot to copy the rules about tagging, so oh well. I think these people haven’t been tagged or haven’t answered yet…

@anonniemousefics

@femboykaz

@linearao3

@doorsclosingslowly

@feelinglikecleopatra

@trckstergods

@bereft-of-frogs

@darol

@bastetsbard

@freshwaterseas

@rainstormdragon

@genuineformality

And anyone who wants to!!

[berkinix]

WIP Tag Game

I was tagged in this Tumblr fanfic classic by one of the coolest peeps I know online: @findswoman! Seriously, she's such an amazing writer, and everyone should go check her stuff out immediately! You can find it here -> Findswoman - Works | Archive of Our Own

Rules: In a new post, list 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 of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Whoo, boy! Well, I have way too many WIPs to post on here, so, in order to save everyone the grief, I'm only going to list the ones in my Star Wars folder. That's the fandom I'm currently vibing with, and the only one whose stories I have posted on my AO3 at the moment. Here goes!

A Matter of Hearts

Blood in the Heavens*

Facing the Truth

Flawed Relics

Holiday Games

In Regard to Power

Nameless Fear

Of Spirits and Demons (And the Differences Between Them)

Place

Soul Stitcher

The Crimson Shadow

The Miseducation of Molulci Rossunto*

The Scholar

The Slow Change

Through Daimon Eyes

Touch

Undercover

Yavin 6

Yearning

*Currently in development and being posted on AO3!

Feel free to send asks! (Sorry that the list is so long. I have compiled it over many a year.) Also, um, I'm ashamed to say that I don't know as many fanfic writers on this hellsite as the number of unfinished stories I have, so, ah...

@thecoffeelorian @evanui27 @herbalinz-of-yesteryear @its-not-a-pen @sl-walker @sundewleafspeak @blackkatmagic @doorsclosingslowly @indira-korr @marvel-mistress-padawan @saricess @stealingpotatoes @xvlvxvr

Yes, I added my brother in there just to troll him. He's got more WIPs than I do, anyway. Do they count if they're drawings instead?

Anyhow, I hope anyone who comes across this game chooses to participate! Everyone is tagged! Even if you've already done it. Do it again! :D

[sl-walker]

Last Line Tag

Post the last line you wrote and then tag as many people as there are words (if you can, no pressure!) Repost your answers in a new post!

Tagged by: @tllgrrl (thanks!)

"I suppose we can test that theory after dinner, then."

Tagging: @shadowmaat @b-radley66 @daraoakwise @spicedrobot @merfilly @aces-to-apples @jayofolympus @wandering-wolf23 @wrennette @doorsclosingslowly