#i'm braver and more sexy than madeline miller and all her copycats put TOGETHER.

[stellerssong]

Number 8 for the fic writer asks?

8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it?

this is a fantastic question that i wish i had a more interesting answer to than "uhhhh i think i already did it actually." (it's the heians. i'm talking about the heians. please for the love of god read the heians.) honestly last year and change were pretty significant for the fic bucket list—i did heians (which is no joke something i've been wanting to do but fearing my lack of specialist knowledge about for over ten years), i did multichap (even if i kinda cheated my way into it with vignette style), i did [REDACTED] (2017 did irreparable damage to my psyche but it can't take MERMAIDS from me, babey!!), i did annoyingly pointed spitefic about people not unpacking their racist priors in fandom (lol)............

this is kind of the answer to a different question on the list, but i think the thing that i would like to do one of these days is finish the minotaurpheus fic the way i think it deserves to end. and i do know how it ends—it's just figuring out the middle, which is somewhat difficult because it does involve both fantasy geopolitics and the two main characters sitting in a cave not knowing anything about the fantasy geopolitics going on about a hundred feet up that are going to start affecting them quite a lot as soon as someone comes down into the cave to tell them what the fuck is happening. so, yeah, maybe this is not going to be the year, but wouldn't it be nice if it were?