#i wrote a fic for it at some point but deleted it off ff.net and from my files but

[polterrrgeist]

Some things for an old friend's fic/AU? It was called Fatal Phantom, I don't remember the context for these but I think it was something along the lines of Fenton/Phantom being 2 separate people and Phantom not entirely being accepted by Jack and Maddie as a member of the family

[exhausted-eternally]

Fic Writer Interview

Saw Topsy did this and it looked like fun so now Imma pester y'all with one.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

35, currently, and only 1 is for a fandom other than The Lego Movie lmao

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

496,195 over the course of 6 years

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1- Reboot To be honest, I'm kind of baffled by this one. I started it just when covid was really starting to take off, lost where I was going with it before I was even halfway through writing it because I got SO swamped with work that writing was taken off the stove entirely for a while, and a lot of it was honestly just half-assed to get it finished but so many people LOVE it. I don't think I'll ever stop scratching my head about it, but at this point I've just accepted that it's my most popular fic ever. 2- Atonement Still ongoing and without a clear ending in mind yet. I had 2 ideas I was wanting to play with when I started it- wingfic, and house arrest. I've been having fun with it so far. 3- Prizes, Plunder, and Adventure This one was actually written based on a friend's doodles & half-finished ideas. I took them & ran with them as far as I could lol. I'm honestly happy that this one's in my top 5. 4- Hot Spring Another one that I'm kind of baffled by. It's a oneshot that's barely over 400 words. People like their coppernauts fluff, I guess lol 5- Time Travel Troubles This one was based on a prompt a friend gave me when I complained that I wanted so badly to write but had 0 ideas, lol. Of all my oneshots, I'm glad this one made it into my top 5.

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

Most of the time! Sometimes I can't think of a response though, and once I got overwhelmed with like 25 comments on one fic in one night from the same person so my brain kind of short-circuited lol. I definitely read and cherish every single one though.

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't really do angst tbh, so none of my fics really have angsty endings.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

That's a tough one to pick, I always write happy endings. XD; I guess I'll go with Starting Over Again.

7. Do you write crossovers?

Sort of; honestly I think they'd qualify more as AUs than proper crossovers, but sometimes I just get bit by a bug to write all my favorite characters in some other media settings for shits & giggles. Murphy's Law (Skyrim), Space Shenanigans (Star Wars), The Stranger (Myst), Octan Nights (1001/Arabian Nights), and Hollow Heart (Beauty and the Beast)

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yeah, when I first started posting Murphy's Law on ff.net. Honestly it just made me laugh, it was so obviously some kid doing a shit job of being a troll.

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

I tried once. It was SO awful that I ended up deleting it and swore off ever trying again.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. The fandom I'm in is pretty small so no one's bothered to translate any fics in it, at least as far as I know.

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

Oh, eons ago when I was still just a little baby birb. I wrote a pitiful attempt at an OoT fic with 2 of my cousins that never got far. All my works since have been solo.

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Coppernauts. C:

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Lord I have SO MANY. Think I'd pick Tech Support though (with a much better rewrite to boot, so no link for this one. If you want to read the atrocious original, you'll have to hunt it down yourself :P).

15. What are your writing strengths?

I'm told I'm pretty good with characterization. I'll choose to believe it. ;3

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Describing literally anything. I am terrible for just... not doing it. Which is something I REALLY need to work on if I really want to reach my 300k goal with The Umiran Amulet.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

There's only one language I can speak in any capacity, so I just stick with English. If it's something that's meant to be in another language, I just italicize it. Only every once in a blue moon will I use a word in another language, like if a character is swearing in their native tongue, and only if I'm absolutely 100% certain it's the right word.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Ocarina of Time. It was the fic I mentioned earlier that I wrote with my 2 cousins.

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

I don't really have any, at least at this time. I am very, VERY slow to move between fandoms & ships and am probably still going to be quite happily writing for TLM even when there's literally only 5 of us left lol.

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I'd have to say The Atlantis Expedition, which was my first ever fic for the TLM fandom, and the first one I'd ever finished period. I have others that I love just as much, but this one will always have a special place in my heart.

[shreedle]

Thank you for tagging me, @kimium! Haven't looked at my AO3 stats in awhile, so this was fun.

Total number of AO3 works: 151 as of April 30, 2025

Total AO3 word count: 504,008

Fandoms I've written for: Mega Man, Fire Emblem, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Touhou Project, Meet the Robinsons, Stravaganza, Boktai, Chrono Trigger, Witch Mountain, Mario, Shakespeare, Kirby, Final Fantasy, Undertale

All of these have at least one fic.

Top 5 fics by kudos:

Lucid Dreaming [Kirby]

Just a Facsimile [Fire Emblem Awakening/Fates]

Everything's Better with (Dark) Magic [Fire Emblem Awakening/Fates]

Bloodline [Fire Emblem Awakening/Fates]

Tinted Azure Skies [Fire Emblem Awakening]

My Fire Emblem fics have always been more popular than my Mega Man fics so I'm not too surprised about them, but to this day I have absolutely no idea why Lucid Dreaming took off like that.

Do I respond to comments?: Yes, I always try to reply to comments, even if I can't really say anything beyond a 'Thank you!'. People took the time to comment, especially if they enjoyed it, so I always try to acknowledge them.

What has my most angst-ridden ending?: I honestly think it's Haustorium. The situation at the end is just… bad news for everyone.

What has my happiest ending?: I thought long and hard about this one, and I would have to say my lone anime-verse Mega Man Star Force fic, Going Solo. It's the only fic I have where there is like... almost no hints that anything bad is going to happen afterwards, and Solo is shown to be alive instead of mysteriously gone.

Have I received hate?: Yes, I have, and I almost stopped writing completely as a result. When I was 13, I posted a few of my first fics online, including a Metroid fic based off of Super Metroid.

I eventually received two nasty comments on the Metroid fic about how I clearly never played the game and how bad the fic was. I took it to heart (I was 13) and deleted the fic, and ultimately took down seven of the first nine fics I ever wrote and posted online (including the Metroid one). I have no copies of those seven lost fics and even though they were clearly "baby's first fanfics", I regret deleting them.

The only thing that stopped me from deleting everything and not writing ever again was that I had a very dedicated fan that commented on a lot of my Mega Man stuff at the time. I do not know where this person is now, but I want to thank them for their nice comments.

Do I write smut? And what kind?: Yes, I do, but it's not for public consumption. Friends only. <3 And I'm not going into any details.

Do I write crossovers?: Rarely, but I have. There's a lot of crossovers between the different sections of the same series (like Mega Man Classic and Mega Man X, or Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates). The only actual true crossover I can think of that I wrote is Twin Suns, which is a crossover of Star Wars and Witch Mountain.

Have I ever gotten a fic stolen?: Yep, once, though technically it was a repost - they reposted a fic I had posted on FF.Net a long time ago on AO3 and then later informed me of the fact. I pointed out to them that a) I didn't appreciate them not asking me first, and b) I already had the fic on AO3, and thankfully they took it down.

Have I ever had a fic translated?: Sadly, nope! This is a dream for me! That someone wants to translate it!

Have I ever co-written a fic?: Yes, I've certainly tried with both @Shiennut and @Pardra, though some of these never made it off the ground and we didn't publish any others.

A WIP I'll never finish?: I'm starting to worry I'll never finish Such Are the Whims of Fate (unposted Fire Emblem Fates fic)… I love the concept and the ideas, but it's the largest single fic that I've ever written.

Writing strengths: I've been told that I do a good job with keeping things concise and not really padding it with purple prose or unnecessary details, and somehow making it so that a short fic has EVERYTHING a reader needs to enjoy it. I'll believe everyone that's told me this.

Writing weaknesses: Conversely, lengthening events without making them forcefully drawn out. This is why I struggle with multichapter fics, I usually just want to get to the point and not worry about tiny details.

Do I like foreign language dialogue?: I don't mind it, as long as there is a translation at the bottom!

First fandom I wrote for?: It's Pac-Man, based off of an old Pac-Man fangame called "Chompsters". Yes. On lined paper at school, but that is the earliest thing I can remember that was definitely fanfiction.

Favourite fic I've written?: To this day I'm still extremely pleased with how Tinted Azure Skies came out and can say that is definitely one of my favorite fics I've written.

Tagging: @afniel @waythroughtheice @nitkat360 @bruggle @shienisanut @tyrantchimera @pardra and anyone else I might've forgotten!

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

Fic Meme

Not sure if I've done this one before, but @chthonic-cassandra tagged me and I'm feeling contemplative this evening. Not remotely surprised that four out of the top five by kudos were ASOIAF fics, and the top one involved two of the biggest behemoth fandoms on AO3, which seems patently unfair.

1. How many works on AO3?

105

2. Total word count on AO3?

742,849. (good lord)

3. Top five fics by kudos?

A Spell of Deduction (Sherlock/HP, 2011-2016) - Casefic crossover between Sherlock and those wizard books. I've disowned the latter fandom but am reluctant to orphan or delete my fics, which I often used to work through issues I was having with the series at the time. Anyway, @bamfinacuddlyjumper and I are proud of having finished this one, and I do think it's a good standalone detective story. Kudos: 1,091.

Reap the Whirlwind (ASOIAF, 2014) - Apparently there are a lot of Stannis/Cersei shippers out there. Who knew? Kudos: 873

False Sorrow's Eye (ASOIAF, 2015) - The not-so-little femslash AU that could! Still proud of managing to finish this one while in the throes of first-trimester morning sickness, even if I flubbed the ending. Kudos: 814

Narcissa Through the Looking-Glass (ASOIAF/HP, 2014) - Apparently I was all about the crack AUs in 2014, including Narcissa Black becoming the resident drug dealer of Riverrun. Kudos: 508

The (Several) Lives of Balerion the Cat (ASOIAF, 2021) - In which I attempted an animal POV and it worked. Balerion is the goodest boi. Kudos: 379

As you can see, it's those giant fandoms again. ASOIAF is pretty big, but as soon as either Sherlock or the wizard books turn up, a lot of random people start reading.

4. What fandoms do you primarily write for?

ASOIAF is the biggest by far, (21) but it seems like an unfair comparison given the quantity of material to work with. The next is Shakespeare's Henry VI (15), which covers all three parts since my fics usually address more than one. But I also have a huge string of single-fic fandoms.

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try! I really do. I appreciate comments so much, and I do read and reread them.

6. Angstiest ending?

Um. I am one of those authors who will lure people in with comedy only to stab them in the last 3 sentences. But, in my defence, I do warn in the tags. If I had to pick the angstiest, though, probably either The Death of Kings (ASOIAF, 2014-16) where I said canon-compliant and I meant it*; or A Spy in the Courts of Love, the Yuletide fic I wrote for @shredsandpatches in 2013 where everyone was trolling Geoffrey Chaucer until they weren't. * If I manage to finish Dragon's Heart Wrapt in Woman's Hide, I'm aiming for high tragedy. This fic, for the record, includes the tag 'a rufull spectacle of blood and death', so I have definitely warned for it.

7. Fic with the happiest ending?

I have a number of fics that end with a Happy For Now (usually the canon goes off the rails at some point thereafter), but the unquestionable one I can think of is The New Galatea (My Fair Lady, 2023), where everybody gets a Happily Ever After, even Henry Higgins. Clearly I've become a sentimentalist in my age. (Now, one of my Current Projects involves expanding a fic into a romance novel that will have a 100% HEA, but the fic in question is about pining and is therefore angsty.)

8. Do you get hate?

I've had shitty comments, but I don't know that any of them quite crossed over into hate. I try to delete and/or ignore them.

9. Do you write smut?

Not yet, though I don't rule it out if the occasion calls for it.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Hahahahaha. I don't intend to but it keeps happening.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Yes, recently. Someone lifted an entire scene from The Death of Kings and dropped it, without context, into their time travel self-insert AU on FF.net, without even changing the point of view. The mind, she boggles.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, several times. I also had a few recorded as podfics, which is truly amazing, and @shalottpress recently did a fanbind of Erring Star (ASOIAF, 2019), which brings me such joy as both a fan author and an early book historian.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

@bamfinacuddlyjumper and I have that most special of relationships where we have co-authored both fic and academic publications. But I also want to point out my other long-standing co-author, rosamund, who is Not On Here but nonetheless partly responsible for inflicting this Doctor Who fic upon the world.

14. All time favorite ship?

I don't really have one? I'm a chronic multishipper, but if I was forced to choose, the one that got in there so early it's part of my very soul is Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot.

15. WiPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I truly want to finish all of my posted WIPs. Realistically, it's about writing time, and I just don't have as much as I used to.

16. Writing strengths?

Dialogue. Getting readers to forget they're reading a prequel, only to shock them with the ending they knew was coming. Accidentally teaching literature and/or history (I am still proud of having introduced @jaythenerdkid to carpe diem Virgil poetry c. 20 years ago).

17. Writing weaknesses?

Inability to write smut; long-windedness; tangents; sometimes I don't give enough physical descriptions of people; also I just write weird esoteric fic.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

I'll use it if the character voice calls for it.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

A crossover (see?) between The Scarlet Pimpernel and A Tale of Two Cities. And I'm back on my bullshit.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

It changes, to be honest, but I think at this moment, my favourite is Erring Star. I just really love the version of Shiera Seastar that I came up with and am sort of hoping to translate her into original fiction someday.

Tagging @bamfinacuddlyjumper, @bitchfromtheseventhhell, @shredsandpatches, @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly, @littlewolfbird, but only if you want to!

[batrogers]

Thank you for tagging me @irenkaferalkitty! Let's see....

1. How many works on AO3? 228 works on AO3 (...assuming it includes the ones that'll be revealed as mine tonight.) [ETA: LOL nope, 230 now]

2. Total AO3 Word Count? 1.2 million

3. Top 5 fics by Kudos: "One Last Try", a Sirius & Regulus Harry Potter fic. "The Moon When I'm Lost in Darkness," an "Old Guard" movie fanfic for the main gay ship. "Even Cold Wars Have Warm Days Sometimes," a Hetalia Russia/America ship fic. "Never Enter the Mansion" a Hetalia HetaOni game novelization/completion. "Let the Weak Be Strong, Let the Right Be Wrong," a Sirius & Bellatrix in Azkaban fic. (Most of these are 5-10 years old)

4. What fandoms do you write for? Currently Zelda predominantly, but I dabble in a lot and may be getting back into Tolkien again soon. Previously my works are mainly Hetalia and Harry Potter, with some original pieces for exchanges and some Locked Tomb art. I do a lot of pinch hits, so there's a bunch of one-offs.

5. Do you respond to comments? When I remember to! I didn't used to but it does make for some nice conversations.

6. Angstiest Ending? "Wait for Me to Come Around Again" probably. Just a straight-up, PWP BOTW bad ending fic although it's not very long. Second place would probably go to "Be Good For Me" which is a HW bad ending fic, but at least they're alive at the end of that one!

7. Fic with the Happiest Ending? I'll go with "A Candle in the Darkness" -- Ravio's POV of Link Between Worlds! I love the ending lines.

8. Do you get hate? Very occasionally. I tend to just delete the comments unless they're ambiguous.

9. Do you write smut? LOL by several definitions of the word.

10. Do you write crossovers? Not in a long time, but I have in the past!

11. Ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? I have one of my Hetalia ones ("Sex and Revolution", Prussia/France) that's been translated into (I think?) Mandarin! Which is extremely funny as a choice.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic? Several! Most recently with @triforce-of-mischief and @zarvasace on a few things.

14. All time favourite ship? I am resoundingly a multi-shipper, but at the moment I'll say Ganondorf/Link in most iterations because I do love a good villain ship.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will? "Blue Gem Earrings" -- My Ocarina of Time novelization. it's not out of the question, but novelizing games is something that is *incredibly* hard to do. I love what I got done so much, and I posted it knowing it likely wasn't going to move but. Still, perhaps one day.

16. Writing strengths? I get a lot of compliments on my world-building, which is something I do a lot of with my partner. (We also sort of co-write, but usually don't bother putting both of us down as it's much more in the brainstorming stage than prose.) The practice has clearly transferred, so you'll find a lot of my fics use similar worldbuilding and logic.

17. Writing Weaknesses? My discipline is not great LOL. Getting between scenes can be a trial for me, and I can get hung up on stuff because I just can't make a decision a lot.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue? It depends on how its used and what its for. The mix has to make sense for the character and be the way someone would actually use multiple languages not just for shock or play and the context should either explain it or the lack of understanding be the point. (eg. in Doll % Run the dense academic language is an easter egg for those who can understand, but I have the POV character not understanding it be explicitly deliberate in text.)

19. First fandom you wrote for? Fuck if I know. First posted fic was probably Harry Potter on FF.net, but I think much of my stuff either got deleted or lost along the way.

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written? I beg everyone to read "In the Shadow of Death" so lemme plug it again and make puppy eyes at everyone to please, pretty please give it a go LOL. Otherwise, tbh "One Last Try" is still a huge favourite of mine. It does so much with the Black family lore and the emotional beats of the two brothers, I see why it tops my kudos list.

Thanks again for the @, and who else should suffer.... @triforce-of-mischief and @zarvasace because y'all got shout outs already, uh @ketchupkio and anyone else who wants?

[raichett]

Hello! I have been asking ao3 authors how they joined and who else to ask!

@definitelynotshouting told me to ask you! :D

So how did you join ao3? And who else should I ask?

Heya :D @definitelynotshouting sent you my way, huh? Well, then, let me peel back the curtain on some Raichett Lore…

So this got long (I rambled 😅) so I’ve popped it under a cut.

First things first, I actually have two AO3 accounts! This one (Raichett | Airrec) is specifically for MCYT – and I guess general Minecraft content if I ever wrote for just the game, as well as any other RPF or RPF-adjacent fandom – whereas my other one is for all my other fandoms. Man, I really need to get back to that thing… (sweats nervously at thought of the fic sitting at 5/9 chapters completed and has done so since the beginning of 2022).

My first AO3 account (Other Fandoms) was started, according to my profile page, on 20th September 2015. That was ten years ago?? Holy shit. Anyway, I was definitely hanging around AO3 for a few months before that – a lot of people were making the move from FF.net to AO3 at the time, because of a bunch of recent Strikethroughs (in short: when fan content gets mass purged by the hosting website because it upsets advertisers – mostly queer content, smutfic, etc. AO3 does none of that because it is a non-profit run by fans for fans). I remember early glitches on AO3 that many won’t any more… Did you know that sometimes when you clicked on a relationship tag to filter through it, the link would sometimes take you to a Collection page that the fic whose link you used was in? They’ve fixed that bug now (thank goodness), but I remember it derailing me quite a few times before it would suddenly start working again lmao.

Venturing over into that other frightful place briefly, I can tell you that I joined FF.net on 9th May 2010. Again, I was definitely hanging around for a while before joining – this time multiple years because I was younger (exhibit A: my first fandom was Pokémon and this was still something I was actively watching on TV). I actually first encountered fanfiction on DeviantArt, if I recall correctly. Gosh, just saying that makes me feel old. I never had a DeviantArt account myself, but I think one day I was trying to find cool Pokémon art and stumbled across a fanfic? From there, I found FF.net, and there was no going back for me. If you want a short answer to Why join AO3, it was simply that fandom and engaging with fanfic especially has been a huge part of my life for, well, more than half my life!

All of this being said, I didn’t start posting fic for a while (I did post a couple of things on FF.net, most of which have since been deleted, but that petered out – I still wrote on and off but nothing that was posted, or even finished). To not put too fine a point on it, I was simply too depressed at the time, and it was really only late 2015/early 2016 that I really started to turn that around (by, uh, literally moving hundreds of miles away and pretty much starting afresh. Sometimes just physically leaving an environment is the only way to start to heal from it). I’m doing so much better now, so no one need be concerned, I promise 🥰

Anyway, it wasn’t until 2020 that I started to really write and post seriously, despite having been around fandom for well over 10 years at that point. When we all went into Covid-19 lockdown, I started having lots of free time and I also actually had the energy and willpower to not only write but post and start engaging with fandom more actively – not only on AO3, but I also founded my tumblr account at the same time, despite, as is the pattern, lurking for years without one. My Other Fandoms account has, according to my stats page, 371,183 words published across 41 fics, all of which is not including unpublished writing – not bad, if I do say so myself!

At the back end of 2021, I got deeply into MCYT. I’d been a fan of Hermitcraft since… technically 2018? When Grian joined in Season 6, I followed him because I was already someone who watched his videos on and off. I watched like 25-ish episodes of his S6 before got distracted with something else, I think? I didn’t really get deep into it at the time, but when Season 7 started in 2020 I committed myself to watching all of Grian’s S7 series, which is when I can more truthfully say I became a Hermitcraft fan. If you’ve never seen S7, then I truly cannot recommend it enough.

Ah, but I said I only got into MCYT in late 2021, didn’t I? Well, the truth is, I just didn’t much engage with the fandom aspect of MCYT (I had been, and still am, a fan of other MCYTs before the Hermits, and indeed had nosed in a little at fanfic of them out of curiosity a couple of times, but never deeply) before then. I was a little YouTube fan, watching the vid, enjoying it, and then going back to whatever fic I was reading for whatever fandom I was in because what I did on YouTube and what I did on AO3 were just completely separated in my head lol.

But get into it I did! I was also, perhaps understandably, kind of hesitant to start putting MCYT stuff on my, at the time, only AO3 account, because I feared judgement, and I had enough of a group of regular commentors, some Discord friends, and a bit of a reputation as a good writer that I was wary of losing it. Looking back, I don’t know if I would make a different choice, I admit. But that was the choice I made, and so I used an AO3 invite that I had on my account to send said invite to myself on a different email address and began having two AO3 accounts.

On 26th February 2022, my MCYT AO3 account was made, and after several months I split it into two pseuds – Raichett for Hermitcraft | Traffic Life and Airrec for DSMP, each with accompanying tumblr sideblogs. Raichett | Airrec currently has 358,839 words published across 108 fics, and if you’re asking why it has over twice the number of stories but still like 13k less words than Other Fandoms… well, I just got better at short form writing, and being confident in posting short fics that cram a lot into a small word count.

And now we’re here! That’s the overview of how, why, and when I joined AO3 - I hope you found it interesting 💜💜 As for who else you should ask… I’m sorry, I don’t really know who to direct you towards. I keep quite a small social circle, to be honest – I just got caught in @definitelynotshouting ‘s trademarked Laser Beam of Friendship, and that’s why we’re besties lmao (love you Tem!). Sorry to not be of much help there! Have a lovely day :D

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

Hello!!! :D Hope you've been having a nice day so far! 💖

For whe writers truth & dare ask game: 🍓🥤🦷🏜️🥐

hi!!!! you too!!!!! it's been pretty uneventful for me lol.

thanks for the ask!!

heres the ask game if anyone wants to see it.

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

It was elementary school. 5th grade or so, but I was deeply invested in TMNT 2012 with a few of my friends. We would all talk about it, and at one point I wrote a little story in my notebook by hand without knowing what it was called about the show (its long since lost in a flood that happened years ago rip) but I found ff.net months later because I had two infatuations. TMNT 2012 and the original teen titans. I even remember reading fanfic on deviantart. I was really big into April and Donnie and Beast Boy and Raven. I didn't start posting anything until my Wattpad days around 14-16. That was about bandom, Pitch Perfect, then Citrus (I have made bad choices and I meme on myself now but I was JUST THAT STARVED for wlw ships.) Anyway wattpad account got deleted and there was a whole thing where my email got hacked and everything just is gone. (its really soulcrushing to lose work like that). But yeah!! I got back into fanfic during 2020 and the pandemic because I had watched a movie and just decided to write for it. I don't recommend reading anything of that era because it's cringe and just... no.

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

SHOUT OUT TO MY FRIEND GHOST!!!! @localowlhousefanatic. THEIR WORK IS AWESOME AND THEY WRITE SOME AMAZING VEESHA STUFF. ALSO SHOUT OUT TO @witch128chick!!!

Can I give multiple fanfics I love though?? I can't add everyone due to time but I'll give a couple.

TOH:

1.) learning how to be (with you by my side) by uniqueusernamegenerator (<- THIS is my favorite toh fanfic) 2.) I’ll Catch You by Black_Cat_Autumn 3.) all i got is my heart (and my pride) 4.) warm coffee, summer blues by uniqueusernamegenerator 5.) "I love you," ain't that the worst thing you ever heard? by kfaerie 6.) The Rest is History by amityadmirer for Shannon_shannon_shannon 7.) No Tip Necessary by Rohad 8.) i want you to be here (but please don’t come near) by stongrays 9.) Tallmity and Petite Luz future au by the_Shan_yousee 10.) You're My Rainbow in the Dark (HAITUS) by Underw0rld

Arcane: 1.)the oldest game by thehaakun 2.) the heart is a bullet by thehaakun 3.) The World Ends, Or Doesn't by Misthios 4.) how big, how blue (how beautiful) by panglosian

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

Story sprints are a godsend. Also plotting helps alongside voice memos. I don't really have someone to bounce ideas off of but it helps me to verbalize what I'm thinking if I'm stuck so sometimes I talk through what I'm thinking aloud. Also making playlists or mood boards/collages of character outfits. Just giving you a more visual aspect of what you want to write.

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

Just genuine praise of my work feels nice. I don't get comments often. Sometimes they give me anxiety too. Maybe if you have any pointers of my fic to say something like that??

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

FOG HORN SOUND EFFECT. SORRY BUT IT CRACKS ME UP.

[radarsteddybear]

Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @rose-of-pollux. Thank you!

(I tag everyone and anyone who wants to do this!)

How many works do you have on AO3? 74

What's your total AO3 word count? 222,374 words

What fandoms do you write for? A lotta DuckTales (2017), a good deal of Hogan's Heroes, some Singin' in the Rain, and a smattering of other stuff. Though I'm not really writing DuckTales anymore (nor am I writing the smattering of other stuff).

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Ducktober 2017 (DuckTales 2017)

Numb (DuckTales 2017)

An Old Letter (DuckTales 2017)

A Phone Call and a Visit (DuckTales 2017)

It All Fades to Black (Encanto)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I try to reply to comments left on AO3. Since you have to respond to reviews on ff.net via PM, I find it a lot harder to keep track of which I've responded to and which I haven't, so I usually don't anymore.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Most of my angst comes with a happy ending, and on top of that, I don't have the greatest perspective of how angsty my angst is, but I'm going to go with Exchange (Scrooge has to pay a price to get Lena back from Magica).

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Jeez, I don't know. Most of them have happy endings. The two that come to mind are:

Things My Heart Used to Know (Louie has discovered who he is and not only found his family but also put it back together again)

Ashes (Cosmo gets to live out his happily-ever-after with the two loves of his life, Don Lockwood and Kathy Seldon)

Do you get hate on fics? Not quite hate, but I have gotten complete non sequiturs, people who don't seem to understand that I like to write scenes over full stories, and a couple of arguments over my chosen characterization of a character in one specific story (which I stand by).

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I've never written any, though that doesn't stop me from thinking about them. Lately I've been thinking about Captain Carter visiting the 4077th.

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

Have you ever had a fic translated? No.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? The closest I've ever come to co-writing a fic was when @eggs-arent-real wrote me a one-shot and I wrote her a sequel. We didn't post it, though.

What's your all-time favorite ship? Probably Cosmo/Don/Kathy from Singin' in the Rain. I'm also partial to Stucky and Aziraphale/Crowley.

What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? Good question. I've not given up on any of these, mind you, but my Darkwing Duck plot bunnies may fall into this category; it's just that I have to rewatch a significant portion of the show to pull them off, and I have no idea when that's going to happen.

What are your writing strengths? Back in high school, I was told by multiple people that I was really good with imagery. I also tend to like my dialogue, and I've had a lot of practice writing whump and hurt/comfort scenes, so I'd like to think I'm pretty good at those, too.

What are your writing weaknesses? Coming up with full plots (as opposed to random, out-of-context scenes). And also endings. And getting characters from point A to point B without any/much dialogue.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? If that's how a character speaks, then that's how a character speaks. Personally, I try to avoid it unless it's a canon piece of the character and/or it's plot relevant. I think I've only done it for Panchito and Jose of the Three Caballeros. And also Mark Beaks, who canonically peppers his speech with Spanish when talking to Fenton because he is awful.

First fandom you wrote for? Liberty's Kids. There's a good chance I still have it, too, though I'll never post it (I never finished it, anyway).

The first fandom I wrote for and posted was Iron Man: Armored Adventures, which is also the only fic I've ever deleted off the internet.

Favorite fic you've ever written? I've gotta go with these two:

Things My Heart Used to Know

“We’ll meet up in Duckburg,” he heard Scrooge say. “I’ve got a Bin there, and…” Another explosion, the biggest one yet, shook the Bin, and large chunks of plaster fell around them. “We have to go,” Donald said. Scrooge turned to Louie and pressed something small and solid and round into his hand. “Guard it well,” he told him before disappearing into the smoke. Or, Louie gives a new meaning to the nickname “Captain Lost.”

Ashes

Cosmo drinks his sorrows away after Kathy discovers that he and Don are more than just friends.

[alex-guerin]

Oh man...I went onto my ff.net author page for the first time in waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long and saw the first story I posted on there was in 2007. Except, it actually was waaaaaay earlier than that. Probably more like 2001/2002...maaaaaybe 2003, but I’m thinking more like 2001. I had forgotten until I realized one of the fics I distinctly remember finishing and being so fucking proud of and posting all the chapters of....only had a couple of chapters posted, then I remembered that at one point, due to bullies attacking my fics in another fandom, I got discouraged and pissed off and rage deleted every fic I had ever posted on there. There are SO. MANY. FICS. that I wrote as a teenager that are lost to the void and I’m actually devastated! I had so many Newsies fics and M*A*S*H fics I’d had posted that I know for a FACT I no longer have access to anywhere. So very sad...and so sad that I was able to export all of my fics on ff.net that were posted post-purge back in 2007, but I’ll probably never be able to post them to AO3 because I had to save them as PDF cuz for some reason I can’t get EPUB to work for my laptop.

[kedreeva]

What do you make of people who comment on a fic, but only to point out spelling or grammar mistakes? I had this happen today, got a comment from someone who's never commented before, on the 72nd chapter of a fic that's now 450k long, just to point out I'd used the wrong verb tense. I don't know what to make of that. How can people stay quiet for 14 months, silently consuming what I produce, but suddenly feel the need to speak up, just because I wrote 'lay' instead of 'laid'? Help me understand?

If I don't just outright delete their comment and never think of them again in my life, I attempt education on the matter and, failing that, make fools of them.

When I receive comments like this, I politely but firmly tell them I didn't ask for, and do not want, criticism on something I am doing for fun and that I either have or do not want a beta reader. I may link them to some of the posts I have made on the subject of commenting on fanfiction and how it's viewed. And then advise them that unless someone explicitly asks for help, it's best not to offer it on fanfiction because the majority of people are here doing this for fun, in their spare time, for love of the subject matter. Nitpicking can ruin that fun for a lot of people and cause them to not want to share anymore.

The ones that honestly just want to help swiftly apologize, often saying it wasn't their intention to cause harm. There are people who genuinely do think it makes writers happy to receive crit on fanfiction, without realizing that it's usually circumstantial to solicitation. Once they see another perspective, they will go forward trying to respect writers. We can still be friends, these people are excellent members of fandom, and we don't want to chase them away, which is why I try to be polite first. It's okay to not know etiquette! Etiquette can be learned. Etiquette also changes over time and between locations- sometimes people remember being on places like ff.net where the response area was labeled "review" and carried a different expectation- but honestly, no less harm was done then, which I think is part of why AO3's response section is called "comment" instead.

The ones that just wanted a power trip by showing off They Know Better Than You get super defensive and often nasty. You can handle that however you please. If they can't behave themselves in my spaces, I immediately stop being nice about it until I've made sure they understand I'm not prey worth their time. As a bonus, if I make the experience unpleasant enough, they may even think twice about doing it to anyone else, either.

[galaxythreads]

Uhm... hi! Lore for Stygian? It's like one of my top favorite fics and I have it downloaded on my kindle to read offline, I love it sm!

I’m glad you love it so much. :) 

I was working on this for two+ hours and then my internet crashed and deleted everything. Which. :/ Good and terrible. I do not want to restart. I’m exhausted. I need to sleep. Terrible because I worked so hard on it. 

Good because. Well. 

Moment of honesty here. As I was going through lore for this, I came to the realization that the reason I hate Stygian so much has less to do with the writing style and more with how deeply, deeply traumatizing this section of my life was when I was writing it. Reading over the chapters was actually greatly distressing. Love the story’s concept. Hate the story itself because of what was going on at the time. 

I have severe c-pstd. This story has unfortunately turned into a massive trigger and I had no idea until now. Reading through some of the thoughts or the scenes was really, really hard. I was skipping entire sections of the story in the lore collection TM to avoid this. I’m fine with discussing the story as a whole, but the moment we start to dissect this and read specific lines is when I start to fall apart emotionally. 

As for what this means for Death Must be Lonely Like I Am, fingers crossed it’s different enough to not trigger me as badly as this did. 

I apologize that I can’t give as much lore for this fic as I could the others. 

Here’s as much as I can think of in a bullet-pointed list in ten minutes and then I’m going to go to bed. 

The entire story was planned in a notebook by hand with colored pens 

There was no reason for Steve to be in the basement with Tony in chapter 3(?), tony just pulled him down there to get him out of guard duty

I did not know how to drive when I wrote the car chase

I researched washing machines for like an hour before writing the scene where Laura was asking advice from Clint 

I fully embraced the tropes of hte time because they were fun and I wanted to work with them

English being the common-tongue on Asgard is the shittest thing I’ve ever read my past self doing. 

i had a thing against all-speak when I wrote this

I want to formally apologize to Deaf people for how I portrayed Clint as a deaf person

Loki and Tony were always going to bond over the Void

Everyone had a meticulous character arc that I planned out with SO MUCH FREAKING DETAIL

The first chapter is not the actual first chapter, it’s an edited version from a year later

I did not originally intend for them to ever go back to Clint’s mental health hospital, it was a happy accident

Alexander Pierce was supposed to visit the Raft with them in chapter 1

the reason the Avengers get kidnapped and shipped in a van across the country is because I watched The Gifted 

The grand reveal of Loki’s scars was - no joke - originally going to happen because Clint would dump boiling water on Loki

I found the Avengers chilling in the kitchen to be very comforting 

I wrot ethe scene where Lila and Cooper find Steve and co by hand at first

I think I originally misspelled Lila’s name as Lilia, and if not in this fic it was another one

i was still using cats as a curse word, WHY is a story for another time and related to me getting bullied/harassed off of my first ff.net account

my memories of this are fuzzy, but i THINK that I uploaded a majority of Stygian all at once. Like chapters 1-10 were posted in a day. Or that was Append? I have no idea honestly. One of hte two. 

I had already started Stygian when I got my a03 account though

Yes, loki has his sight back at the end of the story

God the actual deity is in this

Lila’s cat obsession was based off of my younger sister

I wrote the chapter where they wake up on the Barton farm while co-watching a sherlock holmes tv series (not Elementary or BBC Sherlock. An older version I can’t remember the name of right now) 

The Avengers hunting each other through the Tower was inspired by not one but TWO separate fics where this happened 

No one visited Loki while he was in the cell. That’s why he still had the muzzle on. Everyone was too afraid of him to approach the cell

Bucky being there was one of the base ideas for this. He was always going to be in the fic. He has a bigger role in DMBLLIA. 

The narrative parallel of the Avengers saving Loki from the Raft and Loki saving them from HYDRA was built into the plan 

someone yelled at me recently (in comment form) about how Bruce not feeling guilty about hurting Loki in chapter 8 was proof he was a psychopath even though the conversation was about not taking guilt for things that aren’t your fault. this was kinda funny. 

I might add to this tomorrow, but who knows. I am going to bed. 

asks about any of the bullet points if you want more information should tentatively be okay? if they’re not I’ll let you know. 

[creacherkeeper]

writer ask game- tagged by @loved-the-stars-too-fondly !! thank you!!!

What’s your all-time favourite ship?

horrible question to start out with for me cause i dont think i really have one???? i tend to not be as ship-focused as many people in fandom, and also unfortunately am the type of person to get REALLY into things and then many times my feelings dont stay super strong over time. so some Honorary Mentions are shules from psych cause thats probably my oldest remaining ship, ineffable husbands from good omens cause that was my first gay ship, and clintasha from marvel because thats the oldest ship i still have waves of strong feelings about

How many works do you have on AO3?

95, 8 of those being more than 1 chapter/a collection. i also deleted a good handful of fics from older fandoms when i rejoined ao3 in 2015 (i was an early adopter but then left for a while), as well as having a decent amount of fics on ff.net and a fandom specific site from Back In The Day

What’s your total AO3 word count?

just with the fics on there now, 348k. total fics i've written across sites/before deleting was probably closer to 400k. if we're including original fiction / fully rewritten drafts of the same books, i'm definitely over a million

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

hello my old heart (3209 - she ra, touched starved catra 1)

wherever is your heart (1700 - she ra, touched starved catra 2)

you or your memory (1262 - she ra, catradora ptsd exploration)

the memories and scars (1115 - fullmetal alchemist, parental royai and elric brothers fluff)

time take us (773 - she ra, adora chronic pain au)

also shoutout to this untitled good omens ficlet that got 17.5k on tumblr but did not do nearly as well in the ao3 collection lmao

Do you reply to comments, why or why not?

yes, i always do!!! idk it makes me happy to acknowledge the kind things people say ;; and frequently they say stuff in their comments that i want to scream back about or give explanations/behind the scenes for. also i've made friends this way!!!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

im not super a person to leave off with angsty endings, so in recent memory probably this catra cuts her hair fic that takes place after save the cat. or maybe this fic that is almost entirely claudia thedragonprince whump cause i was really Going TF Through It at the time and had to take it out on someone

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

i tend to go hurt/comfort or bittersweet a lot, but probably the like. just absolute Happiest is heartlines on your hand which was the last in the touch starved catra series and was just. the sappiest sap to ever sap

Do you write crossovers?

the only crossover i've ever done was an agents of shield/air bud crack fic that we DONT talk about. i got fucking bullied into doing it okay

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not that much honestly? i got a few kind of mean comments on the touch starved catra #1 but also like. that fic got so popular there were bound to be a few. nothing else to my memory?? if there were a few on older stuff i probably just dont remember it at this point lmao

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i really dont lmao. besides not writing a ton of shippy stuff in general, i dont tend to write anything too Spicy. probably the closest i ever got was one short scene in this ineffable husbands 5 + 1 kissing fic that did not do as well as i thought it deserved tbh hahahaha

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of????? yall would tell me right lol

Have you ever had a fic translated?

i wrote a little ficlet about elena aos celebrating a colombian holiday with the team and a colombian friend translated it for their family! but i believe that is it. that ficlet isnt even on ao3 i tried to find it but was unable to. i dont believe anything has been translated for public consumption

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i don't think so? but i have gotten fanfic for my aos adoption au series!

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

i pretty much write things in one sitting or not at all lmao. i dont tend to take on a lot of series and stick to one shots as well. unless its over 8k i probably wrote it in one day. even the ones longer than that usually took less than a week from start to publication (for example, paladin!aelwyn fic is 15k and took 4 days of actual writing over less than a week to write, edit, and publish)

What are your writing strengths?

i feel like im best at dialogue and tend to get a lot of compliments on in-character voices. dialogue is my favorite to write lmao. i also think im good at describing spacing and movements, because i tend to think like. almost exclusively verbally and like?? physically?? if that makes sense?? when i write i picture almost nothing but i can "feel" what the character is doing. like i imagine making the gestures and everything but dont necessarily see anything as a picture in my head

(fun fact: for actual play fic i actually uh. picture the players acting it out, not the characters in the world. lmao whoops. like the first draft of it at least is 'what does this look/sound like at the table' and then i make it into a fic)

What are your writing weaknesses?

coming from the last question, definitely description, again because i picture almost nothing when i write. i have a VERY VERY hard time thinking with visuals. even when im coming up with description, i just THINK WORDS that would describe something, not picture it. so a lot of time i have to base my description on something or im just like. pulling descriptive words out of my ass with no basis. and the visual of it doesnt always make sense to other people. the other thing i struggle a lot with is action scenes, rip

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i think there's a time and a place and a right way to do it. i think with anything, it's not a "write what you know" but "know what you write". if youre writing someone multilingual, understand how multilingual people actually talk and use those languages. i think the closest i've gotten is "writing signs" for amaya from dragon prince. obviously thats not exactly the same, but for those fics i went back and forth between translating what she was saying, giving the exact signs without grammar, or just describing the movement of the signs. i dont know that i did it perfectly, but i did my best and learned from it. everything in those fics was knowledge i gained from my ASL classes in college (mostly taught by Deaf teachers)

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

technically digimon when i was like 7 years old lmao but first published fic was for avatar in 2007 on ff

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

it definitely changes depending on what i've written recently, but i'm really proud of paladin!aelwyn fic and am still really happy with the catradora ptsd exploration and this self-indulgent ineffable husbands mutual pining fic, but i also will say that writing humor is not always easy for me so whenever i feel like i pulled it off i am very proud of that hahaha

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tagging @agentcalliope @floralprintshark @beatricexbenedick @marshmallsy @frenchibi @rizguks @strangetorpedos @labelleofbelfastcity

[ruakichan]

Well, today I found out that a fanfic I wrote when I was younger (and since deleted) has pages at TVTropes and Fanlore, and someone externally bookmarked on AO3 its Wayback page with some particularly snide, entitled comments concerning its deletion (no, I'm not going to orphan 20 year old works I would like people to forget about, take a fucking hint) instead of just letting it fade into obscurity. Now I'm irritated. (The latter really set me off.)

The fanfic was not anything special or good--frankly, it's pretty embarrassing; it just had the infamy of supposedly being the first ff.net fic for this fandom or whatever. How groundbreaking.

I naively made the mistake of leaving it up, despite periodically purging my old fandoms I don't want to be bothered about, because it seemed important to some people. I turned off notifications for it and thought that would be fine. At first it wasn't a big deal, but I regret that so much now.

At some point word got around, and the story reached some kind of memetic status on that whole "first!" thing. I was getting messages about it throughout the years, some good, some bad; there are even posts on Twitter and Tumblr tagging me about it after all this time as new fans discovered the meme. I'm polite in my responses if I can't ignore the inquiries, but I haven't been in this fandom for two decades. I don't fucking care. Leave me alone.

I eventually and quietly purged everything off my ffn account, including that story.

It's a meme. Let it go. There's nothing "historical" about it and it has no value to most people as a story; they just want to boggle at the "first." It's a shitty fic riddled with kawaii-speak (as was the style at the time) and the possessive entitlement some people have for it cause it was "first" is bizarre to me. I wrote the fucking thing and I don't care that much.

I sometimes complain about the lack of content or fans in the small fandoms I enjoy now, but I'll take that any day, cause goddamn, I don't miss any of this shit.

[sargassostories]

Tagged by @handwrittenhello my beloved! I think I did this one a while ago but some of the answers have changed :)

How many works do you have on AO3? 60

What’s your total AO3 word count? 182,580

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

On AO3 I only have fics from The Witcher and Star Wars. But I'm old enough to have had some Pirates of the Caribbean smut deleted off ff.net, and old enough to have a few Buffy fics that died with individual servers or are lost to livejournal. That said: The Witcher is the fandom I've been most active in by far, ever.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

his sweet kiss, Dark-Eyed Salvation, Build Me Up Buttercup, The One-Eyed Monster, just quiet your mind, all of which are Geraskier fics :o

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I love responding to comments-- I've fallen way behind while I was on hiatus! I'm getting back to these now. I just love showing appreciation for comments, even if it's a quick "Thank you so much for reading!" and I love getting into discussions about characters.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

the sleeping language of my heart, my Yentriss fic. Also my fic with the fewest kudos, it seems!

Do you write crossovers? If so what’s the craziest one you’ve written? Not really.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? No.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Y'all know this is a smut blog so you probably already know what "kind" if you've read it.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Nope!

Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

Oh yikes wow geez aww this is really hard because I have a short attention span and love exploring lots of different dynamics. Right now I'm in a Merihart space, an old OT3 was Buffy x Spike x Angel (I love an ot3)... the ship with the depth, complexity, nuance, darkness, softness, and sheer variety that's kept me in its thrall is Yenralt. I think they may be my favorite, because I see little echoes of the kinds of small conflicts I've experienced in (romantic and non) relationships: the inherent tension in my need for independence, individuality, separation, and care vs my desire to collaborate and emotionally fuse with another person, care for them, and listen to them. It's in every relationship but I rarely see it in ships.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Oh jeezzzzzzzz my only wip is stay in my arms if you dare and I will come back to it, I just think I need to abandon my outline and follow my impulses.

What are your writing strengths?

Impulsiveness, which leads to surprise, variety, unexpected turns and reveals of character.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Stamina, fear.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I like it, especially if the point-of-view character doesn't understand the language so it isn't translated. I grew up moving around a lot, so I get a kind of nostalgic comfort being around people speaking in a language I don't understand. Also it's funny. If the point-of-view character does understand the language, we need to understand what's being said, unless that's the point of the story, too! To separate us from them a little.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

When I was eleven years old I read The Two Towers and was obsessed with Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, and I thought: why aren't there any girls here? So I wrote my first self-insert OC with her own epic backstory and learned a bunch of Sindarin I don't remember.

What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

the sleeping language of my heart. It's the bravest I've ever been, the sturdiest. It's really a fic I just had to write, and I dredged myself like someone searching a river for the body because the story deserved it.

tagging: @queerfantasycharacter, @meliteles-tits, @gingerlambert, @reinvent-and-believe, @inber, and anyone else who would like to!

[pebblysand]

20 Questions: Writer's Edition!

I haven't been tagged in this but I saw it on @femellerklem's blog and as I'm on holidays with nothing to do, here it is for everyone's enjoyment, haha.

How many works do you have on AO3?

19

What’s your total AO3 word count?

302,756 words. As I was telling @whizzfizz the other day, I need to get a life.

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

The Good Wife, HP, Spooks, Silk, House M.D., Peaky Blinders and Without a Trace. So, seven. Like Horcruxes, lol.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

That's an interesting question, let me check.

one: castles (hp) ; two: the wolf's just a puppy (and the door's double locked) (hp) ; three: truth (peaky blinders) ; four: slipped (and sad something sort of like your name) (hp) ; five: the things that will likes (the good wife)

I can't say I'm shocked that the Potter stuff is so high up, it's the most popular fandom I've ever written for so it makes sense, just in terms of a larger readership pool. I'm always however pleasantly surprised that Truth is up there. It's the only PB fic I've ever written (although I have plans for another one) and not a particularly popular ship, so it's always nice to get recognition for it. IIRC, it wasn't a hit when I put it out but it's been growing steadily ever since! It was also the first fic I wrote after a three-year writing slump, which makes me oddly proud of it. It's not perfect by any means and has obviously been contradicted by canon since then, but I like it.

Please, however, stop dropping kudos on the things that will likes. It's really not great. I do hope my writing has gotten better since 2012 and don't understand why people like this. I've considered deleting it so many times but it's got so many kudos, it make me feel bad for the people who do enjoy it.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Always on AO3, never on ff.net. I just find the PM-ing system clunky on ff. I'm not always as prompt answering as I'd like to be anymore, but I do make a commitment to always answer eventually. It's just that, if you've ever looked at it, you'll know that my comment section is something to behold. I tend to get a lot of "long" comments on my stuff, so I also leave very long responses in return, which take a while to get to/write. This being said, I love debating/chatting/commiserating with my readers and have made some fantastic friends through my AO3 comment section. I basically live for people's long comments lol. I just wish I had more time to get to them quicker haha.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't know, maybe my most recent one, I suppose? Or horses made of sticks? I tend to get very dark and angsty throughout my works, but always end on a brighter note. Those two are about death/loss though and there's a permanency to it that you can't really avoid.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

I mean, that fic's a 143-thousand-words journey but probably children. I like where it ends. It's a good place.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

Never have. I might one day but it just sounds like a lot of effort.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Everyone has I think. The best one though was someone on castles who wrote "first learn when spring season starts and ends before writing a story about it. what a joke." I'm still baffled by it cause, like, May's in spring, isn't it?

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Yes and no. I have written sex, yes, aspects of it at least. There are two sort-of explicit sex scenes in children, and one very explicit one. This being said, I mostly concentrate on one specific detail while writing sex, and blur out the rest. A bit like the scene in which Harry pulls off the condom after having sex with Mia in castles. The latest chapter of castles is also obviously very explicit, but it's not really writing "sex" as such. I write smut when it shows something, when it has a point. I don't write smut for the sake of smut but if explicit sex has a place/point in a story then I do write it.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of. Not that I have ever checked either though, lol.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. I'd love to though!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I've beta-ed but not co-written.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

It's funny cause I definitely write romance, but I don't consider myself a "shippy" person. I fluctuate, I'm mostly interested in storylines/characters, rather than ships themselves. A bit like sex, I think romance is an element of life. But, if I had to choose one and because I've written 143k words about them, I think I'll say Martha/Clive on silk.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

The TGW Will-lives AU. There's 20k words of it somewhere on my hard drive but honestly, doubt I'll ever write it.

What are your writing strengths?

I've been told I'm very character-based, whatever that means. I've been told I'm good with dialogue. Very "vivid". I honestly don't know but if there's something you really like about my style, by all means, tell me haha.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I could edit myself into the ground. I have to limit the number of editing runs I do on things or else after a while I start obsessing over each and every word and the quality actually goes down. I've been known to delete a lot of things and regret it afterwards. I think if I ever wrote a book you'd find me in bookshops picking it up and correcting the copies after it's been published haha.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Very tricky. I did it a bit in ce ne sont que des cailloux but only in a language I actually speak.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Without a Trace. A 2000s procedural lol.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

My fave is always my latest one so far lol. Which is a good thing I suppose 'cause it means I'm enjoying what I'm writing and getting better? So, right this minute, it's listening for that angel choir, but it'll be something else soon haha.

Tagging @copper-dust and @whizzfizz if you haven't done this yet - not sure!

[justanalto]

we love some good bingo

i was tagged by @aleksandrachaev and @lilolilyr for some fic bingo -- thanks, both of you! :)

i've seen people explaining why they did each square, so I'll also be explaining mine under the cut:

fixing canon:

but i need to tell you something (disco)

if you're gay, then you're gay (disco)

move on the path, but keep the flame (aos)

the whole thing was more “writing deleted scenes for canon” rather than actually fixing canon, but semantics -- technically, i’m fixing canon by adding things that should’ve been there 😂

i just want them to kiss:

almost every jola fic i’ve ever published i don’t make the rules

almost every simmorse fic i’ve ever published i still don’t make the rules

i just really want my ladies to kiss lmao

this idea won’t shut up until i write it:

you burn me up (and i love it) (disco)

intertwined and overrun (aos)

family traditions (aos)

every fic i have under “(all that i can hear) is a simple song”

sometimes...my brain does not shut up lmao

found a prompt list:

almost everything I wrote during july and august 2020, LOL. I found a prompt list and asked people to send me prompts!

saw the plot and needed it for my OTP:

it was more “i saw the trope and needed it for my OTP” tbh...

emergency contact (disco)

i would ruin myself (a million little times) (aos)

i was joking with my friend and then it happened:

if you're gay, then you're gay (disco)

beautiful stranger, there you are (aos)

yeah i literally think i was joking with someone when these two were birthed. ones of them was an absolute lifesaver, though. kat could probably tell you more i think

i woke up at 3am 5am with an idea:

i haven’t met the new me yet (but i will) (disco)

yes i changed the bingo square for this piece exactly. never again

this is going to be so HOT:

“BOOTS OR I MUTINY”*

*working title by kat

yeah that’s all I got but really that’s it

thought of a great scene: 

dancing is a dangerous game (may’s golden dragon/aos)

family traditions (aos)

(she) means everything to me (aos)

at this point all scenes that pop into my head are still wips rip

fuck this character in particular:

there’s a fic on ff.net where I wrote a chapter about grant ward getting bodily hit like a human baseball and then pitched off of avengers tower. man, did i hate him. 

but what happened BEFORE canon?:

another chapter in said fic where I write about clint and natasha getting together by going undercover at harvard because ivy league schools are hydra. (there was also some plot twisting i will say)

but what if they were gay?:

every simmorse fic i have ever written, except for the words we used to say. 

but also beautiful stranger, there you are because what IF they were gay???? the power. the fake dating power!!

thought of a great line:

may’s golden dragon (aos)

it’s so funny to think all of this started with me thinking about skye being quippy as a waitress at a chinese restaurant. and now we’re just in the depths of gay.

i just need them to suffer:

intertwined and overrun (aos)

i hope i was your favorite crime (aos)

sorry huntingbird i love you

gift fic:

i think mostly anything that’s been dedicated to someone on my ao3 has been a gift fic

i want this universe and those characters:

any and all of the aus i’ve written. i literally write nothing but aus send help

but also may’s golden dragon. 

i don’t even know:

intertwined and overrun (aos)

i hope i was your favorite crime (aos)

i haven’t met the new me yet (but i will) (disco)

but what happens AFTER canon?

looking back on a death wish (aos)

what do i do (with all this love for you) (aos)

just to see if i could:

cowardice is sugary (disco)

if you're gay, then you're gay (disco)

basically this was me trying to figure out if i could write disco lmao.

tagging: @the9muses @sad-tunes @maos2013 @libbyweasley @kitthekazoo @angry-slytherin @almostlikequake @genderfluid-and-confuzled @browneyedgenius​ and anyone else that wants to do this! my brain is fried i am so sorry