#it's NOT a true crime doc actually i don't like these lmao

[keirahknightley]

"17 κλωστές" (17 threads in english) is THE greek tv mini series that should be available internationally via netflix or any other platform

[vroombeams]

FIC WRITER INTERVIEW

tagged on main by @boonbeenblade i hope you don't mind if i answer over here where i'm more active 💖

How many works do you have on AO3?

21!

What's your total AO3 word count?

72,196

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

like you do (1,011)

delicate topographies (666) (nice)

hot in it (637)

a place to rest your arms (478)

mile why club (408)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i do! as often as i can i try to respond to comments because i really appreciate them all and it really really really keeps me going. but it's been a bit of a contentious thing lately i think in fandom at large, the way that there've been a few people saying that they straight up won't comment if they see the author doesn't respond etc etc. for me personally i have pretty severe chronic fatigue and just a whole cornucopia of bad brain things that make it difficult sometimes to go through and drop what is essentially a copy-pasted thank you note in the replies to each comment. i'm not at all against responding and especially if there's a question or something to engage with it always makes me really happy to do so, but it does push into burnout territory faster. so usually i'll just write more fic and hope that that's enough!

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

free for all or decathect probably! actually intermediate was pretty bad too in that capacity. forgot about that one. but i mean most of those also are semi-ambiguous i guess, like it's sad and continues to be sad and it may or may not continue to be sad after? but yes those three. if the bloodborne au ever gets finished that will ~snatch the crown~ tho. also i was filling this out before i finished kinktober and probably the cnc fic is pretty up there now

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

like you do? a place to rest your arms? the happy they're-going-to-get-together endings i guess?? for me also i would personally put rear 32 in this category. to me it's like, there's a sweet-warm-good vibe to the end of it and in my head and i guess sometimes on tumblr there is some extremely warm aftercare that follows that makes Me, Personally, very happy

Do you write crossovers?

liiiike. i guess you could qualify a really distinctive au as a crossover if you really wanted to. the crime au could be considered a gta crossover. paleblood is, you know, bloodborne but with landoscar in it. but i guess to me a true crossover would involve characters meeting other characters from that other universe??? and the answer to if i've written those is also yes, but not for f1 (yet)

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

oh yes in the dark days of ffnet there was a great deal of flaming all the time, the etiquette wasn't quite what it is today lmaO. to be fair i deserved a lot of the hate i got. i sucked pretty bad. and then a couple of fandoms ago i got a pretty cruel guest comment on a fic that i ended up deleting, but that's a whole other story lol

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

gestures vaguely at the kinktober archive

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i'm aware of! i don't think i'm big enough to have been stolen from. but one can always hope (jk)

Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes!! someone in a previous video game fandom i was in translated one of my fics to mandarin. very cool!!!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yesss a few times! all in previous fandoms. there were a couple of people i used to write with pretty regularly in that way, like popping a bunch of junk in a doc and then letting each other run wild and smoothing out the rough edges at the end. super rewarding and super fun and a really interesting exercise in making different styles flow together

What's your all-time favorite ship?

all-time is a rough one to answer LOL. in f1, currently, probably jondo. as far as ships that i still will actively go back to and enjoy just as much... maybe adam/ronan (raven cycle) or altair/malik (assassin's creed)? zack/cloud from ff7 lives within me also. and will till i die

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

the water takes it back for sure. between that one and i guess the long-distance relationship landoscar fic. i like them both a lot conceptually but they're both pretty raw to write, like, achy in ways that feel too personal maybe? i'll probably continue to pick at them but i don't know if i could ever finish/post them just because they are a Lot in a Lot Of Ways. then again i'm also in a bit of space rn so. ask me again in a few weeks

What are your writing strengths?

maybe knowing what i want from a piece? like the goal of a thing or the vibe i want to achieve. but also sometimes i do just be flinging myself into a doc and hoping something happens so it's maybe not that specific lmaO. but yeah, i guess the vision is a strength, when i do have a vision it's usually a pretty strong and solid one!

What are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue the beloathed! i hate it i always feel like it comes out clunky and makes the rest of the piece clunky by extension

also getting caught up in like. a lot of minute details and plot threads? this is obviously not an issue in all of the stuff i've been posting for the last month because. duh. but in larger projects i definitely find myself creating too many threads or not tying off threads correctly or not having enough threads, god forbid. this is of course why there's no multichap posted on this account lol. it's something that i'm specifically working on right now! trying to be better at you know... organization and clarity? by the end of november we will know if i've achieved that lol

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

oh interesting question. i don't think it's like... super necessary? to include? like unless a pov character has some familiarity with a second language that they don't actively speak, i don't think there's a ton of reason to write out like idk a whole bit of dialogue in french or italian or whatever. mainly because if you don't speak a language At All you're likely not going to be catching complete sentences/words anyway, so taking the pov character into consideration is important for this?? as far as a bi-or-morelingual character goes, i think doing a dialogue tag in english and saying 'they said, in (language)' after makes more sense from a reading perspective. if that makes sense. that's just my personal take on it!

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

yugioh lol. way back on ffnet. i think my first ao3 fandom was... mmm. we will just say [redacted] bandom i guess

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

ohhh. like is it a cop-out to say indycar because i'd love to mess about with some pato ships in the near future??

What's your favorite fic you've written?

rude question to end on THANKS

i don't know man. as it stands everything i've posted isn't like a favourite?? anymore?? my go-to answer has always been free for all or pouffe. but there are a couple of the kinktober fills that i'm really really fond of now like the oscarmark breeding kink? the oscarmark cnc is like also important to me in a lot of ways. i think i'm also in the post kinktober headspace where i want to tear everything i've ever done to absolute pieces and then maybe set it on fire??? anyway yeah those ones 😭 otherwise probably there's stuff in my docs that i've not posted that i prefer but that's neither here nor there atp

i know this one is fuckin huge so extremely no pressure tagging @glasscushion @freeuselandonorris @monacotrophywife @piastriachios @bright-and-burning to at your leisure if at all 💖

[foxgloveinspace]

hi hi hi!!

i feel like it’s been so long since i’ve stopped by

i am here to share that i have been blessed with the stupidest possible dreams with the sleepy t boys lately

1) glad to have them back in my brain like this it’s always fun and 2) wtf brain could we not do the dumbest situations?

the first one was from today and omg. so i dreamt that i went home to visit my dad and his family was down because it was christmas? guess i’m looking forward to the holidays lol. anyways my dad somehow found a documentary on sleep token on tv and put it on because “hey my kid likes them” and for some reason it was filmed/presented like a true crime doc? and straight up exposed all the boys. names, faces, interviews. and my whole family made fun of me the whole time because i tried so hard to not have their identities spoiled even with this stupid documentary on 😂 and i succeeded! somehow! although i do remember this- iv’s accent was so fucking bizarre i’m not sure i could ever tell you where my brain pulled it from. and someone was named nat but i have no idea who lmaooo

the other dream was that the band for some reason came to my city? (idk why, this place is ass and we have no venue big enough for them) and for some reason i was tasked with like, showing them around and helping them acclimate to the city. so what’s the first thing dream-exie does? take them to buy weed and go to their favourite local bar for a show 😂 we got absolutely blitzed outside the bar and then went in and had an absolute rager to some local bands. and now i want that to be real so bad… (and also shotgunning the joint with iii🙈… iii was a menace and dream me was all too willing to encourage. lmao i feel so weird admitting that my brain made that up because it feels too horny lmao)

anyways. that’s what my head has been up to! other than aura migraines lmao. i hope you’ve been well!!! 🩶🩶🩶

Exie!!! I thought I answered this, I'm sorry!! Thank you for telling me about these dreams, they are so great, lol. I really haven't even had any memorable dreams, much less sleep token ones. Would love to have a sleep token dream again. I wonder if your one with the documentary was inspired by the recent Instagram vids lmao, those crack me up??? found footage sleep token, lmao. I also love that you got to show them around to your favorite places. (no comment on the shotgunning besides like, what I would be like irl, which is a big thumbs up, lmao)

This next bit got... long. Sorry for my ADHD fingers and ramblings about migraines, I only realized I've had them my whole life last May, so. I give all my tips lol.

Sorry to hear about your migraines, I actually had one when you sent me this ask off. I read your post about it, I've only had mine completely block my vision once, but it was because of some bad smells. I completely lost my vision, but it was still purple, not all black??? My visual impairments/visual aura's are splotches of neon purple and green, moving in my vision like waves. sometimes they can be gold and black, but it's usually the green and purple.

I find fast acting/extra strength Tylenol works really good for migraines. I also keep liquid IV in my bag, cause that helps too (if you have a migraine you want to avoid artificial sweeteners, and liquid IV has cane sugar in it, while most other electrolyte drink mixes do not.)

I find that using a wet washcloth on my forehead/point of pain works way better then an ice pack cause you can keep flipping the washcloth over and the side not against your skin will keep cooling off, where an ice pack will melt.

I have seen some videos/read about putting your feet in hot water when you have one, and that supposedly helps??? I have yet to try it, but it sounds soothing.

Sorry this became me info dumping about migraine stuff. Just don't want you too be in pain/I have tips. Mine have been pretty bad this year, tbh. I had one for 2 weeks back in March, and I probably should have gone to the doctor, but I realized I just.... can't binge video games anymore after it was gone, oof.

[im-fruity-and-bored]

Pop star-Chemist/ballerina- I actually stuck with it as what I wanted for several years- although I think I dropped the ballerina thing after a year or 2.

I later added gymnast and I believe I wanted to be a doctor at some point??? I remember having a sketchbook full of ‘diagnoses’ and a few fake doctor tools that I loved using on my great-grandfather (he had heart problems and diabetes so I often watched my great-grandma take his blood pressure and blood sugar, and watched my mom help change his bandages from his heart surgery. Wish I still had the notebook- I also loved Doc McStuffins- but keep in mind this was a passion I was less serious about than the main 3 💀) I also took Karate and think I wanted to be a ninja at the time?? And possibly a cop at some point??? (I watched an unhealthy amount of crime shows- Law and Order, NCIS, Criminal Minds- made me paranoid as a kid. Once my mom left me in a shopping cart a few inches away from her for FIVE SECONDS to grab something from the freezer, and I started screaming and wailing “MOMMY COME BACK THEY’RE GONNA GET ME DON’T LET THEM GET MEEE-” when she asked who I responded with “I DON’T KNOW BUT THEY’RE GONNA GET ME- DON’T LET THEM TAKE ME AWAY MOMMY-” she simply said “Maybe you don't need to watch criminal minds with Nanny- my great-grandma- anymore,” which I then proceeded to whine and complain about and say I was fine but was still terrified of getting snatched up by some unnamed force 💀 I was around 4 or 5- Explains my love of true crime. Now I've added lifetime documentaries and research/hour-long YouTube videos on murder cases- I can't remember if I actually wanted to be a cop, or if I just wanted to be like Spencer Reid lmao)

I mainly remember the main 3 because it made career day… interesting- I wore a sparkly black dress, I think maaaybe my ballet flats at some point, and a lab coat that my mom puffy painted the atom onto. I kept a Chuck E Cheese microphone in the pocket.

Basically I was a weird kid- this is kinda more than the prompt asked for but I love talking about my childhood 😅

Currently I'm obsessed with 9-1-1 and want to be an EMT- I also had mild interest in being a detective- and between there being a FORENSIC SCIENCE CLASS at my high school (I am DYING to take that class,) and my plans to finally get around to watching Sherlock, I get the feeling my interest in that may grow.

TLDR; I was a weird kid that wanted to be a lot of things- mainly pop star-ballerina chemist, but was also obsessed with true crime and medical drama and that may actually get me somewhere lmao

if we lived in a world where u had to do the career u were first interested in as a child what would u be doing, id be a firefighter

[ralbeleren]

IT'S MIDNIGHT ON THE EAST COAST BABES LETS FUCKING GO!

1. stressfully watching because i might get interrupted due to having to work through the weekend because sales couldn't be fucked to put everything necessary in the god damn contract docs so i'm stuck on-fucking-call trying to get someone else to do their jobs.

2. can't hit next before for whatever reason part 1 and part 2 are out of order in this playlist.

3. this is the ohm-centric episode.

4. "Is everyone here?" "Not Ohm but honestly who cares lets keep going." < This really cracks me up they're literally like "i think he's already in bed so lets just have this discussion without him.

"I want to know what you all think of the Gifted Program"

Namtarn: Magic

Claire: You dumb fucking nerd

Namtarn: What do you think it is?

Claire: There's no such thing as magic!

Pang and Korn just >_>;

5. Random aside but I love? The twins? Have AJ and JJ been in anything that's bad? I don't think so.

(Wait, one of them was in Friend Zone... so one bad thing.)

6. Claire: Aren't you going to say anything?

Wave:

7. I wish we'd gotten more Wave & Punn interactions; I feel like they'd be good frenemies. (We might actually and just my swiss cheese brain doesn't remember.)

8. Supot: It's possible the student is listening in on us.

Pom: How Dare You??

9. Supot: If I'm not wrong you're with your friends

Wave:

10. This is seriously one of the funniest things to me like...

PLEASE tell me what environmental factor would lead to the SKULL TREE. I have to know.

11. He's literally so adorable.

12. Namtarn: Mr. Pom, what's your potential?

Pom: I don't remember.

Namtarn: Oh. I'm sorry.

Pom: No, wait--

13. Pom: Who here knows what their potential is?

Korn and Pang: >_>;;; (pt. 2)

14. Punn does sink that trash ball into the wastebasket but as a basketball fan that's terrible form to drain a three pointer.

15. Claire calling Namtarn's potential "nosy bitch" potential and Pom shushing her just fucking cracks me up. I cannot. It's like legit the substitute teacher level of school discipline. "I tried therefore no one can criticize me".

16. Wave doesn't even get out of his seat lmao.

17. Ohm: I have the potential to make everyone laugh!

18. I don't know why... but this fucking kills me. Ohm, don't be a bitch!

19. Pang seeing Nac. :( :( :( :( (Although now that I read some of the other analysis [I can't remember whose and i can't find the post now], I don't feel as bad for Nac. NOT THAT HE DESERVED WHAT PANG DID, but it really is true that he was fine being Pang's friend when Pang was "lesser" than him, but he turned into a big bitch once Pang was gifted and 'better' than him.)

20. I know Pang/Namtarn is supposed to be a thing but Ohm/Namtarn makes way more sense and he definitely seems more interested than her than Pang does. (Especially the sort of LOOK he gives Pang when Namtarn lends him a pen.)

21. I really like how Ohm tries to dismiss the thing with the pen and tells he'll just buy a new one and she won't know the difference. MOSTLY because Pang's reaction I think is a good insight into his character in a more subtle way. Where he tells Ohm that it's taking the easy way out, then points out he's forgetful. (Actually, honestly, you can kind of get why Pang is the leader.)

22. Then Folk comes and ruins the happy, normal interaction by committing school crimes and trying to make Ohm pay for it.

23. Pang: Turn it in and say someone dropped it.

Ohm: No, she'll find me suspicious!

(Said while they two of them act HELLA suspiciously)

24. The scene feels overly dramatic but the first time watching it it was legit tense.

25. The nosebleed and then Ohm looking at his HAND I think he realizes.

26. Pang is shook.

((on to part two sometime!))

[dailyoyo]

okay so the rough idea of this came from jokingly tossing around the concept of adult yoyo going to law school and becoming a corrupt lawyer (no i dont remember where it came from). and it somehow turned into a general joke of a terrible au where theyre all adults and none of them were ever rudies, never meeting each other and many of them ending up either miserable, worse people, or both. evil-ass au

(art by mod pseud. i hate looking at it) as previously stated yoyo becomes a lawyer. who is, like, evil on purpose. like he saw the "slimy lawyer" stereotype and was like "I WANNA DO THAT FOR REAL". if he was in ace attorney his name would be a play on perjury probably. he might be actually competent as a lawyer but he is definitely cheating non-fucking-stop

since this is based on paradox canon beat is gouji's kid. and well realistically speaking if beat never runs away he just grows up to continue the vicious cycle. but as much as i like writing cycles of abuse that kind of just makes beat Less Interesting Gouji. so for the sake of this we decided he fatally pushed gouji down the stairs as a teen and inherited teh company way too young. and grew up into a deranged rich failson who kiiiind of still has good intentions and recognizes that rokkaku group is corrupt (AND POSSIBLY STILL LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE?), but doesn't know how to meaningfully change it so he just goofs off and does dumb shit instead. possibly at some point in time he burns the rokkaku hq down on purpose and lawyer yoyo defends him in court about it. and yoyo is trying to be chill but he hates beat for being annoying and wants to wring his neck

mew is, unfortunately, a cutesy true crime vlogger. i'm so sorry. it would be funny i think if she ended up making vids on the rokkaku arson case

corn gets the gifted kid crash and burn syndrome. he works in IT at rokkaku group and he hates it there. he fantasizes about becoming a hacktivist and leaking gov docs and shit like that but hasn't the time or resources for it. probably makes obscure open source software that does really niche shit in his free time for fun. stable enough income to have his own apartment.

gum doesn't have a permanent residence, makes use of her childhood friend status to crash on corn's couch. drifting in and out of jobs, never able to hold one for long, getting fucked up at bars and parties in her free time. might have a complex about being a "burden" to her best friend though she doesn't admit it's eating away at her.

i guess cube and combo never end up going to japan and just continue whatever they were doing in america. at least coin survives! (unless he comedically dies for some unrelated reason. struck by lightning or a falling piano)

maybe garam actually successfully becomes an entomologist. it'd be nice to give SOMEONE something actually cool here LMAO. but tbh i feel like he'd be more likely to drop out of college partway (unmedicated adhd kicking his ass.) and just vibes getting by on a retail job and doing his own thing posting really sludgy splatoon-ass music on soundcloud and posting pics online of cool bugs he saw.

i don't know why i feel this way but i think soda just slowly becomes a shut-in :(

boogie is established in paradox to like, have an apartment and a mediocre mundane job already, but she feels like one of the hardest ones to imagine wtf she's doing in her free time if she's not a rudie? (maybe it's just because i havent dedicated enough thought to her. i need to fix that though maybe in a better context than this one.) like if she's not doing graffiti and skating i feel like she'd STILL be doing stunts and shit? like idk parkour and dangerous tiktok challenges and stuff?

i HAVE NO IDEA for clutch. robs a bank and fucking dies idk man

jazz funnily enough in paradox is stated to have JUST been a regular speed skater until the death ball incident, after which she was just so done with this shit that she was like "whatever. im doing graffiti crimes now". maybe in this au shes the ONLY one whos actually a rudie

the robots probably just dont even get made.........

also almost none of these guys would even end up knowing each other, MUCH less be friends. also their names would be different bc they arent going by street names but im not giving every single one of htem legal names XD i dont even know when some of the guys i hc as trans would have transitioned in this timeline??

This evil-ass au sucks. Sorry.

i need to talk about the evil cursed-ass None Of The GGs Become Rudies au at some point i keep thinking about it. its so funny awful