#here have an angsty child 🤲

[canisalbus]

I was showing a friend some of your art bc she's a biiiig ole furry (and she showed one of HER friends which is cool) I was trying to show her those drawings of Machete dying his fur black in his Rebellious Phase, but tumblr search is utterly useless. Does anyone have the link to them? 👀 Supplimenting my request with boundless positivity for your art. God I love those two.

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[eilinelsghost]

Hello!! Sorry to hear ur fic is giving you trouble. Have u considered. beating up finrod about it? (worked for me 😂)

Would u pls do 👀 💞 🧠 🤲 🎉 😈 ?

Thanks for the asks, @actual-bill-potts! And yes, I have indeed considered that strategy! He is getting quite emotionally bruised here, don't you worry. 😉

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please! One that I am looking forward to is Balan's arrival in Nargothrond. It's going to really settle in on him that he pretty much abandoned his sons with very little notice and he will also be navigating how to interact with Nóm-as-Finrod, who seems nearly a stranger to him in this completely overwhelming and foreign setting. So he will have a lot of grief to navigate, as well as wondering whether he's having second thoughts.

💞 Who’s your comfort character? lmao as if you even need to ask 😆 Findaráto Ingoldo Artafindë Finrod Angolodh Firindil Nóm Atandil Felagund Edennil...pick which name you prefer. He's the one.

🧠 Pick a character, and I’ll tell you my favorite headcanon for them. You've said Finrod, so YAY! Ok, so one of my favorites lately is that he was a very shy child (this shows up a bit in A Heady Fragrance of Honey). And one of the ways he grew into being friends with everyone was through his childhood admiration of/friendship with Nerdanel. I talked about this a bit in this post and really want to explore this in a fic at some point.

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip? This one is extremely difficult because there are so many little snippets I'd like to put here since you're my fellow Balan/Finrod enthusiast and I love sharing my obsession, haha. So I'll indulge and allow myself two snippets - one snarky and one angsty (these are both from later installments, not the upcoming one).

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1. The first is from when Belen visits Nargothrond about a year after Balan and Finrod depart Estolad:

“They mostly call you Dar Bëor now.”

Balan snorted. “Lord Vassal,” he translated in an aside to Finrod, then grinned at his son. “I scent your aunt’s humor in that.”

“Nay.” Belen looked chagrined and turned to fiddle with the parchment, avoiding his father's eye.

“Ah. I see.”

“He doesn’t mean anything by it,” Belen said quickly, then blanched at the obvious untruth. “Or rather, he does but…What I mean is his anger is only for the moment. It won’t last.”

“Your brother is as stubborn as I am, Bel. It will not pass in a hurry.” Then his tired smile turned contrarian and he leaned back in his chair. “Nay rather, tell him not to leave off. I’ll not scorn a name once given. Instead, bring my greetings to Baran Balanion, first lord of the House of Bëor.” He lifted his glass pointedly and sipped. “Sama’nd sá.”

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2. And the second is your bit of weekend angst:

“Too bright are the eyes of the Sun, too scorching her heat.” His lips were nearly against Balan’s, dizzy with the the nearness of him, the touch of him. Almost the taste of him. “It would consume us, Anarinya.”

“And scorching too are the stars, are they not? They too were woven of such light. But should not Light treat with Light, Elenya, and find itself only brighter in the mingling?”

“Or bring a double fire, burning all that dared near it.”

“Take me then,” Balan said, “and if I burn, I burn.”

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success? I would like this answer to be something other than "if the comments restore my self-confidence once I hit the post-publishing conviction that it's all trash," but sadly that's usually what does it. But more generally, I think if I can go back and read it a few weeks after and have that surprise of actually enjoying it as a reader, that is a success.

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers? Ha! Oh absolutely the ending of A Heady Fragrance of Honey. That was deliberately mean and I enjoyed every moment of it - and every comment that vented about it. 😂

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Thanks so much for the asks!

[wesperbrekkered]

For the ask game!

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

🎙️which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

Thank you!! ♡

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

I feel like my style is CONSTANTLY changing. Like, if you compare one of my oldest fics Jesper Fahey Couldn't Sleep with one of my newest Little Stolen Moments , the difference in the writing is huge (to me at least...) I don't think its necessarily a bad thing, but yeah. My style is constantly shifting and changing

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

Firstly, I appreciate ALL my comments, even if it's just a tiny lil heart cos I do understand that some ppl can be anxious about interacting with writers. But I have to say, my favorite kind of comments are either the ones where the reader is threatening bodily harm on me (cos I wrote something angsty) or where they are engaging and talking about the story because YES! LET ME BRAINROT ABOUT THE BLORBOS REAL QUICK.

🎙️which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?

I would actually lie down and die if someone made a pod-fic out of Of Lies and Rash Decisions. Like, my job here is done. This is my child. Wow.

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

SO MUCH! I get to meet fabulous writers and readers online, I get to pour all the little thoughts of my head into some sense of coherency, I get to scream about my favourite little gay people to people who will scream back, I get to escape the real world for a little....

Writing means SO MUCH to me I could go on forever!