#i'm reading this as 38&48 btw bc if it was 38 TO 48 ten questions is a little much for one reply lol

[gloriousmonsters]

can you answer 38-48 for the ask? thanks :)

38. Did any of your fics get surprisingly popular (whatever that means to you)? Which ones? Why do you think they were so successful?

you say jump i say how high is my most popular fic going off kudos and bookmarks, and I did NOT expect that at all. It's a Yuletide request fic, Billy/Stu, and I remember distinctly writing it in a blind haze of stress sitting in the kitchen with the dishwasher running because that was the only white noise that worked to write to at the moment. I feel like it actually turned out pretty great for how teeth-pulling writing it was (I stopped doing exchanges a while ago bc i am really bad at writing anything i'm not super inspired for) but not for it to be on the *checks* front page of billy/stu fics kudos-sorted after. Four years. I can only assume I did something right and/or I wrote it at a time the pairing was having a resurgence of popularity, but it still mystifies me a bit.

Also tbh, despite the relatively low amount of kudos/hits, allow the ground to find its brutal way to me feels surprisingly popular because i posted it with the feeling of 'maybe two people will want a sequel to the indulgent mind control porn i posted like 3 days ago' and it's been getting so many great comments as the chapters progress. I guess the benefit to writing something that feels like it won't have wide appeal means that the people who are into it tend to be very enthusiastic about it, lol.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

...no, because I was doing the thing of 'go through the tag with increasingly lowered standards' with a pairing so the last page of my history is. eh, but I'm obviously not going to call by name a fic I didn't like - that feels unnecessarily mean. Instead, scrolling back, I'm gonna say the last one I really enjoyed was Chainbreaker - I don't often read A/B/O, but when I'm looking for Ganondorf/Link noncon and a GORGEOUSLY written bitching fic is dropped on my lap I absolutely will. If you're at all into messed-up noncon, A/B/O, etc, check it out, because I meant it when I said it's fantastically written - very hot, genuinely beautiful prose, fantastic characterization, and the author's great about putting quite detailed content warnings in the notes if you need them.