#its mermay i gotta do something with SBE

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ooh i ask 4, 5 (but all stories not just multi-chapter), 6, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30, 48, and 49!!

4) What is your favourite genre to write for?

Canon verse, followed very closely by fantasy. That’s why I love VLD so much, its a beautiful blend of sci-fi/fantasy but yet also modern and found family.

5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi chaptered stories, which would it be and why?

I think it still might be Frostbite. I think partly because it was born out of another person’s headcanons (who sadly isn’t on the site, or Ao3 anymore) and I just really enjoy playing in other people’s sandboxes (i mean, i write fanfic so that’s given) but I really like the challenge of taking all these set conditions and making them work together. It’s my favorite kind of prompt. Also it has a lot of elements that just worked really well together. There’s action, softness, enemies but kinda friends and wanting to be lovers, tension, teasing, I was just able to fit a lot of things I loved into it and it flowed really nicely. It didn’t feel incomplete, but was definitely a snapshot of a larger picture.

6) If you had to delete one of your stories and never speak of it again, which would it be and why?

How about that very first fic I ever wrote? The Pokemon/DBZ crossover? I’m not even going to link it. Although honestly I just laugh at it now.

17) Post a line from a WIP that you’re working on.

Pidge’s heart raced, and it wasn’t because she was in the heat of an intense pokemon battle. The last time she’d been this nervous before the doors of the Varadero City Gym, she’d been a bright-eyed ten-year-old challenging for her first badge.

18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?

This was a popular question! Hmm, I had a Yu-Gi-Oh OC that I wrote part of a fic for, and my intention was to seamlessly tie her into canon as sort of a background player in the original series and then a more active player in GX (she’s Atem’s little sis and doesn’t like the card game because I adore irony and I really enjoyed the Egyptian mystery around the show, she was to be to Jaden was Atem was to Yugi - which added a whole can of worms that I still find hilarious). I still love her story as a whole (even if its not as feasible as I once thought), but I fell out of interest to write it. I still read over the bits I wrote every now and then.

28) What is something you wished you’d known before you started posting fanfiction?

I wish I had known that the shorter fic, the drabbles and ficlets - the ones that start right at the good parts, those are great to share! I feel like I could have offered so much more in my college days if I had realized that not everything had to be a well fleshed out epic.

29) Do you have a story that you feel doesn’t get as much love as you’d like?

I kind of thought Between Rocks and a Hard Place would get more love when I first posted it. Its got canon verse Plance confession, couple in peril, Lance being all sacrificial, hurt Pidge. I totally thought it would be a hit.

I also thought SBE would be too, since its mermaid Pidge and pirate Lance. I thought the fandom was totally into the mermaid thing.

30) In contrast to 29 is there a story which gets lots of love which you kinda eye roll at?

Exsanguination was my first long Plance fic, and while I still enjoy it I look back and think ‘wow, this made sense to people’?

48) What’s your favourite trope to write?

Kidnapped. Enemies to Friends to Lovers. Established Relationship. I’ve managed to do all three at the same time in Crystal Clear. Frostbite is also that, just exchange Established Relationship with School Crush and same with Power Up!. Exsanguination is the soulmate version. Wrong Diamond is the gentleman thief version (with prequel of how they met). SBE also has 2/3 since they’ve only just met.

49) Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about?

It was a Gundam Wing fic. I can’t even remember the name but I still bust into giggles thinking about it. So there’s an episode where Duo (one of the pilots) is working in the salvage yard with his girlfriend (enemies to friends to lovers btw) and he says something about wanting a nice juicy steak when he’s done.

Well, he never gets the steak because he gets kidnapped a little later on to become a test pilot for the ZERO system. So this fic is post series and Duo is finally about to get his steak (he’d forgotten about it but Hilde is that amazing) except that all these ridiculous things keep happening that prevent him from eating it, the steak getting run over by a truck the least of them. I’m pretty sure everyone makes a cameo and I remember I just could not stop laughing.