#it's so hard not to cringe over my writing ajsdfk i swear i just want to nitpick everything

[giliath]

7, 8, 22 for that fic writer ask!!! ♥️

Thank you Rowan 🥺🥺 you have deliberately chosen hard ones for me I see

7. A fic of yours you think is underrated?

I vacillate between "SHIT, all my fics are underrated, I'm lucky if I get over 50 kudos and I worked hard on these things!" and "I get the amount of kudos I deserve because this stuff is slop" but one I do wish got a little more attention is "Softness of Another Kind" for probably very obvious reasons. I wouldn't even consider it my best! But there's a lot of symbolism in it and as you once (rather psychically if I'm being honest) pointed out, has a lot of personal emotions in it. I think about that comment all the time I'm ngl 😭🤍

8. What's the best summary you've come up with?

LOL I'm notoriously bad at summaries, but I have a soft spot for the one I wrote for "In Medias Res:"

In a hole in a wall there lived a wizard. (Or, the party encounters not one, but two new potential members, or "two istiks for the price of one" as Lae'zel might say).

22. Pick out a random line from a fic you're really proud of

Forcing me to read my own fics.... cruel and unusual punishment. Let me take a look

Okay okay I skimmed through a few and I do actually really like this one, from "Concessions." I'm not even a Bloodweave guy but I think it's a nice interaction (based on a popular fanon about Astarion's name)

“I don’t suppose,” he said, when the laughter trickled to a halt. “That I’ve ever told you the meaning of my name.” Gale arched an eyebrow. “You don’t need to,” he said. “‘Little star,’ I presume. The root being ‘star,’ as translated in the common tongue, and ‘ion,’ the diminutive modifier.” “Diminutive,” scoffed Astarion. “How fitting. Belittlement is all in the name, it seems.” “Or endearment,” said Gale, softly. “You were, it seems, someone’s little star once.”

...that's more than a line, that's a wholeass section lol but I think the context helps. I love words and double meanings and puns can you tell 👍