#hopefully this isn’t an omen of the coming year haha

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🤔 Are there any new characters you want to write about? 🦄 Is there a new POV you'd like to try writing? 🛏 Is there a new trope you'd like to write this year? 🪩 Do you have any "good" writing habits you want to cultivate? 🎉 How are you going to be kind to yourself if you don't meet your goals?

🤔 Are there any new characters you want to write about?

Our multiverse is like the ocean – 95% of it is unexplored, so there are definitely a lot of options to choose from and I’d like to dabble in as many as I can, ideally. The ones that come to mind right now that I haven’t written before are Siamak and Afarin, a.k.a Ghazan and Haya’s parents, since I really want to figure out what they were like. Among others, Shezan’s siblings could be fun in that big chaotic family way (they deserve a sitcom about them fr), and I hope we’ll FINALLY get around to properly creating Midori’s adopted kids. They’ve existed for a year, they need names at least, goddamnit!!

🦄 Is there a new POV you'd like to try writing?

I’m not sure if it counts as new if I already started writing the fic, but since I haven’t touched it a year and a half and will likely rewrite the existing 800 words from scratch… yeah, I’m gonna say it counts: I’m counting on the deadline I set for myself to drive me to continuing work on my Haya fic. Her psyche is such a convoluted place that I can already tell it’s going to be very, very interesting to write first her grief when she’s a 14yo girl who just lost her parents, and then how that grief twists into something much, much worse and how it shapes her actions and the justifications for them. I already have basically the entire first chapter plotted out in my head, I just need to write it down. March 1st is the planned publication date, though I hope that won’t be the first fic I publish this year lmao. Also, honourable mention goes to Sweet Baby Ehuang, who I also have a vague storyline thought out for, but we’ll see how it goes

🛏 Is there a new trope you'd like to write this year?

I don’t really know what counts as a trope, but going off of the TV Tropes page for fanfic tropes, I definitely want to try out a Modern AU, specifically one adjacent to @rokurookajima’s Metalbanders AU, because the world needs to see more of Modern Suiren’s Wednesday Addams Looking Ass and you cannot convince me otherwise. Also, in the same vein, a Rusreal AU because no, I will never stop shoving the fact that I’m russian into people’s faces, thank you for asking (finally.. a chance to spread my “Kuvira is Tatar, source: trust me bro” agenda…). But that probably will be more art based, though. And these definitely aren’t tropes, but I want to write more romance and more smut because I suck at it and want to get better (I’m aroace so literally cannot use any kind of personal emotion or experience as a basis. I might as well be shoving Barbie dolls together when I attempt to write anything of the sort, it feels unnatural and weird and I need lots of practice before that changes)

🪩 Do you have any "good" writing habits you want to cultivate?

Actually finishing projects I take on, writing and posting more frequently, not putting writing off until the very deadline and then crunching out 5000 words in a day leaving my brain fried, etc etc

🎉 How are you going to be kind to yourself if you don't meet your goals?

Trick question: I won’t

(Okay look, jokes aside, I can try to be kind to myself but I cannot control my unstable hysterical brain. If it decides we’re having a fit, we’re having a fit, nothing I can do about it. No amount of trying to talk myself out of it has ever worked. I’ll do my best to set writing aside when I feel that it’s not working out, but I can’t promise how effective avoidance is as a method :P)

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4, 5, 7 for the writing meme. Thanks!

(Writing meme)

Thank YOU for indulging me with these questions, and sorry for taking so long to answer! What is possibly my final finals season just about wrapped up, and I couldn’t think about anything else until it did (so fingers crossed it really has wrapped up lmao). So without further ado, here are some unnecessarily long answers!

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Ideas as in “I am actively working on this/making notes about it” or ideas as in “I have daydreamed about it at least once”? Because there’s…definitely way more of the second than the first lol.

But if we’re talking the former, then the thing that’s currently gripping my mind is a (hopefully) short post-true ending Undertale fic in which Undyne and Asgore catch up over tea and somehow get around to talking about the nature of human souls and what it what it takes to actually collect one (i.e. what it took to really, truly perma-kill a human). The problem is I don’t remember how much each character actually knows about the subject, so I’m rewatching a pacifist playthrough as “research” — and also falling back headfirst into the vast plethora of content that exists for the source material, predictably. It’s been a good few years since I was this fixated on it, which is great news for me because there is SO MUCH stuff to catch up on! (Tangentially, I guess it was kind of predictable, since I always seem to fall back into some kind of comfort video game around finals season, but usually it’s Ace Attorney, so this is new.)

In terms of the second, an idea that has been pretty solidly in daydream territory for a while is some kind of Stranger x Nobody Knows crossover fic in which (Senior) Inspector Han and (possibly former) Detective Cha cross paths for some reason. I have no idea what I’d want from it plot/content-wise, so I doubt it’ll ever be much more than a vaguely entertaining impression in my head, but I just think it’d be cool to see those two interact XD

Sadly neither of these things are the things I’m ACTUALLY supposed to be working on, so they probably (hopefully) won’t be done for a while.

5. Share one of your strengths.


Ah, one of my least favorite interview questions. Uh, I guess I have fun writing dialogue, and it definitely tends to come easier than other aspects of writing (like DESCRIPTION, blegh). Plus I have been told that it makes people laugh sometimes, which is usually my goal — or makes them feel Painful Feelings, which is my other goal that unfortunately rarely makes it to the publishing phase — so I will count that as a success! And therefore a strength of some sort.

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.


Oof, this is a hard one, haha. There is a subtle yet important difference between saying why you like something versus saying why you’re proud of something, but I shall try to veer more toward the latter since that’s the actual question.

As it turns out, being more comfortable with dialogue means that most of my stories end up being pretty dialogue-heavy, which I just discovered when flicking through fics to borrow a snippet from, but if we’re going with strictly prose, then this bit from a long-ish comedic Good Omens fic I still haven’t figured out all the plot points to was fun to write: 


In literature, funerals are often held in the pouring rain. This is because, in literature, authors can carefully describe how grief-stricken the attendees are, how their water-logged clothes, heavy and cold, cannot begin to compare to the weight of the sorrow that drags them down, how it pulls at their body, hangs from their shoulders and backs and legs and soul, begging them to join their loved ones in the ground. They can describe how the heavens themselves weep for the dead, that the earth, for once, pauses in its frantic flurry of activity, takes a moment to mourn what it has lost, and grieve for those who are left behind.

Of course, grief is complicated. Authors understand this. Sometimes the attendees are angry, and so the funerals are sunny, and the attendees are angry because the world dares to keep spinning on its axis even when theirs has ground to a halt. They are angry because the heavens won’t hide their tears for them, won’t admit they did something wrong, taking away someone who was so loved, so cherished, so good. They are angry because their heartache isn’t enough, doesn’t nearly encompass the gaping void torn in their reality, doesn’t do the dead justice. The earth and the skies and the seas ought to be mad with grief as well. Thunderstorms, gale-force winds, surging tides and shaking stone. How dare the world imply it’s no great loss?

Or maybe the funerals are held in the snow, because grief is cold and numbing and relentless, and no amount of warm soup or thick blankets or knitted mittens will make it better, fill the hollow misery the way one can fill a grave with soil and ice crystals. No one really wants to be there, socks soaked through and half-asleep from the chill, but sometimes you need to slog your way through those waist-deep banks of grief anyway, that frigid, dull, powder-white pain, focus only on how your teeth chatter and your fingertips turn blue and put all the rest of it aside for later, when it’s warm again. If it will ever be warm again.

Or perhaps the author just likes snow.

I get to ramble about some of my favorite kinds of weather for three paragraphs?? Count me IN

Anyways, I think it did a good job of keeping with the vaguely whimsical tone of the rest of the story, despite this being the opening to a (fake) funeral scene. And yeah, maybe it’s a bit excessive and heavy-handed, but it fits the context well enough and has some actual Imagery™, not to mention that it actually segues somewhat neatly into the next bit, so I think it did its job — which is all I can really ask for, so I’ll be proud of that! It’s a bit of a narrative reprieve from the dialogue-and-emotions heavy previous scene and the comedic shenanigans of the subsequent scene. Which would probably also be quite dialogue heavy, except for the part where I haven’t written it yet sjkdhfskf

[anciientboosh]

Tagged by @kateyboosh - Thank you so much!!

AO3 Name: QueenBoo

Fandom: Oh Boy a whole bunch! Only Published works are for Boosh, Good Omens and some YouTube RPF (I know) but I have WIPs for Sherlock, Detroit: Become Human, Merlin, and pretty much all Boosh Adjacent (Sweet/Barley etc) as well 

Number of Fics: 4 currently posted but there's 2 Boosh pieces coming (one for BBTB and the other TODAY hopefully!)

Fic I spent the most time on: Definitely Show Me What I Can't See - it's been a six month long journey of writing and planning and tweaking to get that bad boy right and I've been on it like a wet flannel for 8+ hours a day these past few days because I am desperate to get it out there and lets be honest I have nothing better to do.

Fic I spent the least amount of time on: In terms of Boosh I posted a drabble last night that literally just popped into my head and refused to leave, so I bashed it out in about an hour and posted it just so it would leave me alone haha!

Most hits/kudos/comment threads/bookmarks: That's one from another fandom. An AH/RT RPF I wrote back in 2014 (I was actual babie) and has remained quite popular since!

Highest word count: Show Me What I Can't See (it's coming guys, I promise, I know i keep going on about it) It's currently sitting at around 66k, and I still have a few last minute tweaks to make before I throw it into the void later!

Favourite Fic I wrote: I actually really liked the Good Omens piece I put out around this time last year (unfinished as it is) just because it was a bit of a turning point for me as a writer (If there’s any GO fans about feel free to check it out). But in terms of Boosh pieces I am SO excited about my BBTB piece, it was so much fun to write and I hope my giftee likes it!

Fic I want to rewrite or expand on: About a month ago a Noelian drabble fell out of my head (literally spilled out like underset jelly) and I resisted posting it because A) I've never written Noelian before and I'm hella terrified, and B) I feel like it's just not done. There's more to that story and maybe I'll look at it again once these two big pieces are posted!

Share a bit of WIP: From Show Me What I Can’t See (Have a bit of emotionally overwhelmed Vince to wet you palettes for the roller coaster to come!)

"It's like clothes," He starts, hoping the Shaman will be as good as Howard at deciphering his fashion metaphors. "Fancying someone is like an accessory, yeah? It's not really in your face. It adds to an outfit but it's not essential. Some people might not even notice it so it doesn't really matter if you remember to wear it. Point is - it's small, right? But this," His hands subconsciously rise to his chest, pluck at the fabric of his shirt right over his heart. "This. Howard. It's the whole outfit, I think. An ensemble - every little bit of it matters. There isn't a piece of it I can take off and I can't… I-"

Thank you so much for the tag, I apologise again for my tendency to ramble. I tag @edenismissingasnake @un1c0rntea and @richardnoelchris if you guys fancy it? <3

[survivor-rebelsvsroyals]

EPISODE 6:Sorry hosts and viewers but we're keeping the inactivish girl. -Ryan M

My new tribe kinda slaps? It’s just nice playing with people who have the fight to win. We fucking S L A Y E D Jeopardy. Ken Jennings who? It felt so good helping my tribe win. For this reward comp I’m a little worried because we have a good system but if someone doesn’t show up, we’ll all hit 5 and be screwed. Also poor Glo, she’s just out here doing her best. She’s cute, but I don’t want that to carry her to the end like it did in Mongolia.

Finally have my computer back, so I can start writing confessionals as I think about the game. It sucks that Chloe was voted out. She was definitely my #1 ally in the game, so seeing her leave just sucks. And now I am on a tribe with 4 Royals who would be happy to vote me out the second we get to tribal council. I doubt my social game will let me leave here alive if we go to tribal. Instead, I just have to make sure we don't go to tribal. I need to put in all my effort in the next immunity challenge lest I want to be in the VL watching the rest of this season.

* a little later*

I've been socially active with Seamus and Amanda today. I hope I can grow a tight bond with them in order to keep myself safe for tribals to come. Especially if I manage to get to merge with a tight three. I'm praying that things work out because I need this for my own sanity.

It’s truly like babysitting this tribe lmao Like I know this is reward but how fucking hard is it to post on time. I worked a 9 hour shift today and still posted on time when I said I would. We have the lead, like why squander it. Also, I’m hoping we win out to til merge because I really don’t want to go into a tribal at swap in the minority. I feel like I might be making myself a target bc I’m being a little aggressive with this comp BUT I regret nothing.

I feel like I’ve been too MIA I’m kind of just ready for a tribal so I can get a little blood on my hands! Sorry I am the most boring player ever I’ll post something juicy tomorrow

I'm glad that we won the reward challenge. It must be a good omen for the next one, but I have to put in twice as much effort! I'm not planning on being the next one booted, so this tribe needs to pull its weight and get to winning!

Well I don;t know if I am coming or going or who is with me and who is not. I was lost on reward challenge and posted few times but they all offered to help me lol So how is my game ok I guess but I feel lost in a wilderness cause I think lots of these players know each other very well and I am lost

I feel so bad for Chloe. I stopped talking to her after Seamus told me she was debating between voting for me or Amanda. I feel like we all felt like we liked Chloe but we've spent so much time together. And also maybe a pagoning or w/e would be a little fun!!!! She's so sweet I wish she started off a royal.

Well I just BOMBED that challenge.  I love to read but suddenly my mind went blank and I could only think of books with long titles! HAHA.  I majored in art in college for a year and suddenly I forgot every color in existence! Hopefully the other tribes blanked so we'll be safe. 0:-) If not... maybe the royals will stay together but no lie, I've been talking to John and Lachie more than Pippa and Ryan.

I'm happy two tribes are going to tribal. Because I really want to see them vote ugly people out!!! But also if we go to tribal nbd Raffy goes. He's completely okay! But I love Seamus and Amanda and I think I can also get Anabel to trust me come merge time. xo

I am praying to god all-mighty that we win

WE LITERALLY COULD'VE WON IF ANABEL DID EVEN HALF THE CHALLENGE!!!!! I was so down to get rid of Raffy... still could... I like Anabel. But... I already feel bad about voting out Chloe and this time it's like... obvi Ana deserves to be voted out... ugh 

I hope the 5 movies Glo could muster up in 60 seconds were all of the Twilight franchise movies

*Dan comes back ten minutes later*

Okay but real talk, 5 movies??? Glo you could only name 5 movies in 60 seconds? If she had done as well as Asya and gotten 28 we wouldn’t have gone to tribal. I really pray I can get Dane or Linus to team up with Asya and I. I mean if it comes down to it and I have to vote out Asya, I guess she better get those bags packed!

I am so pissed that we lost. We easily could have won this competition if Anabel had participated, but she's evidently bad at time management. If you knew you were going to be busy the next day, why wouldn't you do the challenge the night it was posted? I'm so over it! For once, I didn't want to have to go to tribal, but now I can't even have that. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure that I am the target since I am not a Royal which is utter bullshit. Hopefully my social game has paid off and I have bonded enough with these people, but I am not too sure about that. I'll just have to put it all my effort into saving myself, or my game is sunk. Pray for me.

* a little later*

I think I can get Seamus. He and I have talked a lot during the limited amount of time we've had together. I want to consider him an ally, but I'm not sure if he hasn't been doing this with everyone else. My target is going to be Anabel for three reasons: 1. She is a winner (literally won last season) which makes a threat going into merge 2. She singlehandedly lost us the challenge 3. I haven't personally talked to her a lot so she's the easiest to target for me I want to get everyone on board, but I need to not pester them. However, I cannot just let the vote casually go towards me either. I'm not going out without a fight

OK SO. glo sucks at challenges. like it’s real bad. which is good for me. cause linus is like he doesn’t have any allegiances or whatever to old arioi and just wants to succeed so like. let’s cut the dead weight. obviously dan is down and that’s all we need. i’d like to get dane on board too but it’s not necessary. like really, i just wanna keep my no vote streak. which means if dane and glo vote for a manahune, it’s dan and not me.

Seamus brought up Anabel's name to me which is a good sign. He also told me that I shouldn't worry about being the only Rebel, and he is open to keeping/working with me. I hope he's telling the truth. Apparently, he's only talked to me about the vote, so I am hoping that's a good sign. Now I need to approach Amanda and Ryan. If one just votes for Ryan, then I should be good.

*he talks a lot*

Amanda seems open, but reserved. She's acting noncommittal which is worrying for me. I have to speak with Ryan later and get him on board. Keeping this tribe together will help me going into a merge. I'm just hoping Amanda joins my side and not Anabel's, in the end. There is still time to save myself.

So tribal council is coming up soon and I legit have no idea what I'm doing. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get voted out tonight since I'm spreading myself too thin. I have a couple ideas going on through my head and I can't decipher which plan will be the best to project me moving forward. The first plan I have is to stay royal strong and vote out Asya. I have Glo and Linus as fellow Royals to make the majority. If I do successfully blindside Dan and Asya tonight then we have the majority going into the last pre-merge stage. However, Glo isn't the strongest in challenges and this could result in us going back to tribal council. If we do go back to tribal council then there is the chance that Dan can pull out an idol and take me out. If we don't even go to tribal then there's no chance of me rebuilding the burnt bridge with Dan prior to going to the merge, resulting in another person coming after me. Also continuing into merge, I imagine I'm at the bottom of the royals tribe. People can "like" me but that doesn't necessarily mean that they want to work with me. I'd be continuing this trend of saving people that don't want to work with me. The other plan in place is for Linus and I to team up with Dan and Asya to vote out Glo. If we are possibly merging after tonight then voting out Glo in my opinion is one of the smartest decisions. She is very well liked and she's a very loyal player, I don't think she will ever be targeted and it'll be an easy flow for her to get to the end of the game. Also, Linus was telling me that Anabel talks to Glo A LOT, and that lowkey just reinforces this idea that I created of an all-winners alliance existing. If we have another tribal stage I don't imagine that it will be a double trial again so getting rid of Glo (the weakest competitor on our tribe) might be the best decision for the tribe. Also with getting rid of Glo, this helps solidify some sort of allegiance with Dan + Asya. Going into the merge with Linus, Dan, Asya would open up so many doors. Dan and Asya are very close with the rest of the Rebels plus, Dan and Amanda are high school friends. I spoke to Dan and I think we'd possibly team up to take out Ryan M. Ryan M. always plays these games personally and votes out Dan, and now that him and I are not on great terms Ryan will target me. I explained that to Dan that neither of us would win with Ryan M. still in the game so we need to pull strength and get him out together. Plus we matched on Tinder one time so that'll help build some trust with Dan. Right now I think the benefits of voting out Glo outweighs voting out Asya so I think that's how we'll go. You can't predict the future but I can outweigh the pros and cons and keeping Dan + Asya on my side while pissing off the Royals majority might benefit me more than being a sheep led to slaughter

I lied to Raffy about not voting him... I mean he's not dumb he probably has a string inkling. I just feel bad . Like Anabel deserves to go home but I think she'll save me in the future. Plus she has beef with Lachie we can feed off of. I'm sorry Chloe and Im sorry Raffy. Sorry hosts and viewers but we're keeping the inactivish girl.

So Um the votes landed on Glo? Super easily? So I’m assuming I’m getting blindsided

I think I should be good for this tribal. Everyone has given me their word that they are voting Anabel, and Seamus seems trustworthy. I just hope my trust his well-placed.