#gracieryder

[eddiediaaz]

Cowardddd.

oh yeah absolutely but if you heard me talk you'd agree i promise dfskjbfdskjdfs

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

I was tagged by @alliaskisthepossibilityoflove and I felt like some public masochism so here we are!

Edit: Holy fuck this got long, putting it under a read-more.

How many works do you have on ao3?

258 although I orphaned 100 works back in 2020.

What's your total Ao3 word count?

Why. Why would you ask me this. Why would you do this to me.

4,578,245 - although I shudder to think how much it will have gone up by the end of the year.

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly 9-1-1, but I took a nosedive into Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves last year and still have one more fic I'm writing for it. I tend to have quick little detours into other fandoms, which I think is overall a good thing since it helps me flex my writing muscles with different characters and settings. I'm currently working on a fic that is from a show where the main characters are all constantly sassing each other and bickering, and it's pushed me into being witty and sharp with the dialogue and humor in a way that I don't think I have been in quite some time.

Top 5 Fics by Kudos:

Even Steel Blades Need Fire - that's right, a WITCHER fic. HA. You all weren't expecting that!

Leading with the Left - yeah yeah we all knew this one was coming.

Drowning in Dreams (You're My Raft) - I'm constantly surprised this little oneshot I wrote post-tsunami is so popular.

Footprints are More Easily Seen in the Snow - my first Witcher fic I ever wrote and might still actually be my favorite.

Sometimes a Hammer, Sometimes a Lockpick - another Witcher fic! I had a lot of fun with this one.

Do you respond to comments?

I do! I try to respond to every comment I get. I know not everyone can but given the anxiety I know readers have around giving comments I try to show how much every comment is appreciated by me.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I do happy endings, overall, but every once in a while I decide to be evil, so it's a tie between the two fics that are about a character dying:

The Soft Goodbye - a Timeless fic that focuses on the idea that time travel, like being in space for a long time, wreaks havoc on your body.

Full Circle - a Doctor Who fic written years ago speculating about the Doctor gifting a dying Donna her memories back so they can say goodbye.

For those of you in the 9-1-1 fandom however, since I'm sure everyone's looking at those two fics going "wait what," the fic with the angstiest ending is:

I'm Not Breathing Unless I'm Giving You CPR - spoiler alert, but I end this fic on an angsty and purposefully ambiguous note. It's up to the reader to decide what sort of ending they get.

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

Uh. All of them, I'd say? With the exception of the two MCD fics above, I deliver happy endings. However based on reader feedback, I think I'll go with...

Your Love is an Oil Slick (It Glows Like Rainbows, It Stains My Soul) - the amount of angst in this fic, especially the Bobby and Buck relationship, seems to hit readers extra hard and so the happy ending, especially Buck's reunion with his father figure, is extra joyful and cathartic.

Do you get hate on fics?

I have once in a blue moon gotten "flames," as we used to say. Writing fanfic since I was thirteen, I don't think it's possible to fully avoid a few cranky people with nothing better to do than go around and shit on people's beds. But I've been extraordinarily lucky in the love and kindness I've gotten from my readers.

Do you write smut?

Baby, it's what I'm known for. Honestly sometimes to my chagrin - I hope people enjoy my worldbuilding, characterization, and plots as well - but overall I have a lot of fun writing smut and I love reducing people to slack-jawed water-chugging babbles.

Also someone had to bring the monsterfucking around here so by golly I'm reporting for duty.

Craziest crossover?

I don't do crossovers.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yup! Someone stole my Budde Porn Star AU and turned it into a Rooster/Hangman from TG:M fic. Someone kindly alerted me and I was able to report it to Ao3. Truly a surreal experience.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! Multiple times. It's deeply flattering and I really admire translators who put in the work to take something from one language and convey the same meanings, flow, and story in another. Translation is a genuine art form, if you ask me.

Have you co-written a fic before?

Yes! A few times, all with my beloved @extasiswings. We did one Timeless fic together whispers like poetry and we had such fun that when I started my first long, plot-ty Buddie fic I Hit the Accelerator (But the Car was in Reverse) and panicked, I roped her into finishing it with me.

We also co-wrote Carbon Date Me, Excavate Me because I was in a bad writing slump and she graciously made everything better, and then A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (But Love is Undefinable) because she uno reverse'd me.

All time favorite ship?

I've been shipping for so long it's incredibly hard to pick just one, but I think given the sheer depth of my insanity, I have to say Buddie. I haven't had a ship grip me like this in... ever, actually. Honestly after being burned hard on some previous ships in my time, names redacted to protect the guilty (me), I didn't think it was possible to love a ship this much, and yet here I am.

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

I plan to finish all of my WIPs. Once I start a fic I'm committed to finishing it. I do however have a couple fic ideas that I don't think I'll ever actually write.

What are your writing strengths?

Um. Smut, apparently. I also seem to do well with fusions; that is, taking one trope or setting and fusing it with another in a sort of plot mash-up. And people seem to really like my world building.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm a hyper-sexual person who is very casual about sexual relationships and so sometimes I think as a result I have characters think with their cocks a bit too much and jump too quickly into sex, and sometimes there's more smut than plot. Run-on sentences, my beloved (and my editor's beloathed). I tend to write out-of-order and so sometimes little plot details can contradict, not be followed up on, or get lost in the shuffle.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I don't really write dialogue in another language in most of my fandoms, but in a few it's come up and I've approached it in different ways.

In Timeless, the character Garcia Flynn's first language is Croatian, so I would have him sometimes speak in it. In my dragon!Jaskier series, I was able to bastardize some of the Draconic from D&D (mixed with some Germanic root languages) for when he was cursing or communicating with his draconic family. In both cases, the other language was limited to only a line or two of dialogue, or perhaps a single word, so I wrote the dialogue in that language, and then had a translation guide at the bottom of the fic.

This tends to be my modus operandi, an exception being Xenk speaking Thayan, because I couldn't find any actual Thayan for the life of me, so I just describe how the phrase sounds or allude to him muttering something/swearing/etc. Since Ed, a former spy, also speaks Thayan, he can then inform the reader through his thought-process what the Thayan meant.

Occasionally, I will have two characters speaking in another language and simply italicize their words and have a line of description saying "they switch to French" or something similar, since I don't want readers to have to scroll up and down to understand an entire conversation.

In my original novels, however - the Horsemen quartet specifically - the characters communicate about fifty percent of the time through sign language. It's become the lingua franca, because noise alerts zombies and ASL is a silent language. In the books, I write the dialogue as I would English, and simply have the dialogue tag "she signed" instead of "she said."

As someone who speaks other languages but for whom English is their first, I'm not sure I get to really speak on how and when one should use other languages in one's predominantly-English fic in a predominantly-English-speaking fandom and online space. All I can say is that I listen to what others say in regards to what is most respectful and comfortable, and I don't have any personal preference in how a writer handles the use of secondary languages in their writing.

First fandom you wrote in?

I'm not sure which came first since they were right on top of each other, but Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Favorite fic you've written?

Well that's just mean. How dare you. I don't have one favorite fic, that's like asking me to choose a favorite child.

I will say I am particularly fond of In the Gray You are Golden. I banged it out in a day in some kind of fugue state and I do think it's one of my best works.

Someday when I am filthy rich I will commission someone to draw it as a comic, especially the reunion scene between Buck, Eddie, and Christopher.

Tagging, with no pressure:

@princessfbi @buckttommy @extasiswings @kitkatpancakestack @gracieryder (once again I typed your fucking old url like five times...)

aaaaaaand @givemeunicorns.

[honestlydarkprincess]

🥺🥺🥺🥺 WAAAAAA ILY

[peridotglimmer]

💖💖💖

Jessss! <3

[theyarnmaidstale]

💖💖💖

MWAH!

send me a 💖

[tripleaxeldiaz]

I WILL FIGHT YOU IN THE STREET, LAUREN! MEET ME OUTSIDE!

YOU AND YOUR NASTY COOKIES CAN’T BEAT ME JESSICA

[sainteddie]

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVELYYY!!!

I HOPE IT'S WONDERFUL!!!

💃💃💃🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🥳🥳🥳

it is!! thank you so much 🥰🥰🤩🥰🤩

[tulipfromtheinternet]

I love how much you care about your friends. You're such a loving and kind person, and you deserve the world tbh.

😭😭😭

Friends like you make it easy mwah mwah ♥️

Reblog if you want your followers to anonymously tell you one thing they secretly like (or dislike) about you.

[fruitydiaz]

Happy Birthday! I hope it's wonderful! <333

thank you so much jess!! 🥰

[wantyoumore]

You are a magic smol bean! <3

☺️🤗 thank you jess 🫂💐

[mistchievous]

mistmarauder >>> gracieryder

This probably won't last because my last change lasted a whole like two weeks, but just fyi. 💀

Jsyk it's me:

@catdadeddie @extasiswings @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels @princessfbi @stagefoureddiediaz

@theladyyavilee @fireladybuckley @firemedicdiaz @buckttommy @bichimney

@queerbuckleys @gayhoediaz @captainofthefallen @jddryder @lucydonato

@like-the-rest-of-la @eddiediaaz @tulipfromtheinternet @leothil @honestlydarkprincess

@mellaithwen @sainteddie @lesbiankinard @tripleaxeldiaz @nymika-arts

@fleurdebeton @avacoleman @theyarnmaidstale @xxfiction-is-my-realityxx @bewilderedbuckley

[eddiediaaz]

You get me. 🥰

awww you love me i knew it!! of course i do 😌

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I hate you and @catdadeddie and @buckttommy and @tripleaxeldiaz and @nymika-arts and EVERYONE WHO HATES OATMEAL RAISIN.

YOU'RE ALL LOSERS.

Wow there are so many of us it's almost like you're an outlier or something and we possess the cold hard facts of life. :3

[honestlydarkprincess]

wholesome bean, chaos bean, confused bean, smol bean, silly bean, rainbow bean, (sweet bean, adorable bean, best bean) 🥰

🥺🥺🥺🥺 you're too sweet to me<33333 mwah

what bean am I?

[dorothygale]

from someone fairly new to 911 fandom what are some of your favorite tumblrs someone should follow???? i desperately need to add more 911 to my dash.

ok first of all the invaluable inimitable backbone of this fandom @911bts

and now here are my faves... i tried to get a lot but i'm sorry if i forgot anyone!!

@911onabc @biluck-buck @buckttommy @captain-hen @fruitydiaz

@harrowharkwife @lesbiankinard @lucydonato @messyhairdiaz @singlethread

@therapized-eddie @queerbuckleys @bisexualbuckleyy @blorbodiaz @butchdiaz

@catdadeddie @clusterbuck @gracieryder @hattalove @jddryder

@kitkatpancakestack @sainteddie @sibylsleaves @swiftiebuck @yramesoruniverse

[theyarnmaidstale]

They sleeby. <3

🥺🥺🥺🥺 they're so cute and fluffy, I'm gonna die. Tell them I say hi and that I love them.