#im so fuckin egotistical oh my god i think im a genius

[lumiereswig]

Fanfic Writer 20 Questions!

thanks @lumiereandcogsworth!! i love talking about myself for 27 years

how many works do you have on ao3? honestly don’t know! but on my fic page i currently have 192 fics and that’s out of date, so I’m def past 200 by now :) [also that list lumps together multi-part fics so with those i have. uhh. way too many]

what’s your total ao3 word count? lmao i never pay attention to word counts. write what you wanna write you know?

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they? i’ve only ever written for beauty and the beast really. i didn’t do ‘fandoms’ as a kid [and thank god for that] so a lot of the stories i told that were directly tied to media just live in my head and don’t have a home on the internet. if i DID ever expand past batb i’d want to write doctor who like the nasty little geek i am, and for a hot second there i thought i’d write for the magicians (before it turned into a total dumpster fire)

what are your top five fics by kudos? the ones that always take off are matches, amnesiac adam, lit by the sun, the Haunted Halls of Villeneuve Castle (the bfu crossover), and the most beautiful people. really glad because i like all those fics and love seeing people appreciate them! there’s also been a ridiculous outpouring of love for belle says i love you before leaving which is hilarious because i wrote that in about .15 seconds in a passion of crack

do you respond to comments? YES i LOVE comments they are the whole reason for doing this!! (well no, but knowing someone liked it always gives the encouragement to write another one)

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? oh uhh good question. memoires was heading pretty bleak but rights itself (also btw @myfellowcandlesticks i JUST saw all your comments thank you SO FUCKING MUCH). the writing-desk has no happy ending; sleep and specters haunts; flicker in, flicker out is about as angst as lumiere gets. transformation is one of my best angst fics; laughing still holds plumette’s last moment; fire and feathers is full of angst (bad angst!) but doesn’t have a bad ending.

do you write crossovers? yes! always down for a good one. [send me some. no promises if i haven’t seen it]

have you ever received hate on a fic? no! gotten some kinda weird comments and suggestions but i think everyone knows they’d go down in a gunshot of candle smoke if they fuck w me lol

do you write smut? if so, what kind? not really but i’ve kind of wanted to try it

have you ever had a fic stolen? again. no. they’d have to deal w this bitch

have you ever had a fic translated? actually yes i did get an ask once asking if they could translate my work! i never heard back about that but it was such an honor. i don’t remember which language though? maybe french? (lol i hope they translated all of lumiere’s french into canadian)

have you ever co-written a fic before? yes! i’ve collaborated with @theteaisaddictive, @batbobsession, and once there was a massive fic that hauled in @sweetfayetanner @morgaine2005 @tinydooms and @naturepointstheway too. also @forr-everrmorre once collaborated on *writing this blog* in a weird instance of switching personalities (look. we’ve all seen some shit)

what’s your all-time favorite ship? plumiere <3

whats a wip that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? i don’t have any hope for ever finishing ‘kidnapped’ (ie baby’s first longform fic that was doomed for abandon) and the pirate one didn’t really take off, so i probably won’t finish it (even tho i still love it)

what are your writing strengths? i don’t think anyone really knows their strengths, but I’ve been told I’m very good at voices (I still hold the praise I got for writing Shane and Ryan’s banter very very close to my heart) and little turns of phrase and details that make it real. I try very hard to live in the characters’ voices, and I’m glad when that effort shows! (the dream is to always know exactly who’s talking, even if all the he said/she saids are removed.) I also have been told I’m good at writing home, and I’m good at writing grief—two things I love to write about, and know pretty damn well.

what are your writing weaknesses? i never know how to end the story, and it always kind of peters out to “the sun rising” or some shit like that. also i get too in my head and never finish long fics at all!

also (like lydia!) i’m genuinely uncomfortable writing real, honest fights. i didn’t grow up in a home that was healthy in the way it argued so i tend to go into flight mode when a fight comes up, which isn’t right—I know there are good ways to really get mad at someone and still love them, but that’s not known in my blood enough to come out truly in a fic. plumiere can never fight, only cuddle 💕

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in another language? i’m terrible at it but I CANNOT BE STOPPED

what was the first fandom you ever wrote for? oh shit. just remembered a novel-length fic i co-wrote with my best friend in middle school. it involved the beatles and star trek and 1950s movie stars and was, undoubtedly, iconic

what’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written? i love lit by the sun (linked above), but honestly i love so many of these that i will not stop once i start :) the BFU one is up there for me, memoires is definitely up there for me. belle’s amnesia fic is shockingly good, and i will NEVER stop loving the lumiere amnesia fic!

also the one where everyone falls in love with everyone else (the beautiful people one—linked above lol)

TAGGING PEOPLE! i tagged a bunch of writers above who i want to hear from, SO with that said let’s re-tag @myfellowcandlesticks @batbobsession @sweetfayetanner @morgaine2005 @tinydooms @naturepointstheway @theteaisaddictive