#like shadowhunters and buffy mixed together

[maryamlewk]

Detective Verónica Guerra alias Parabellum Paranormal Investigator

[takaraphoenix]

8 / 29 for the writers asks lists?

Thanks for asking! ^-^

8. Favorite trope to write.

Found family/team as family. It’s the best damn thing. A group of misfit heroes who were thrown together to save the day growing close enough to actually be like a real familly. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Teen Wolf. Shadowhunters. In some rare cases they give me that in canon, in others it’s hinted at, sometimes it’s set up to have the potential but the writers are too untalented and unfocused to pull through with it (examples given in order *clears throat*). But oh that’s my favorite thing to work with! I love it. Friendships that run so deep, they mean more than any blood-relation, they make family. *^*

29. Who do you write for?

Mmmmh that depends, actually.

I gotta admit, with certain things I don’t write for myself. I do write with “What would my readers like?” in mind.

Other things are 100% completely, entirely self-indulgent where I know I’d reach like five people or so with that thing but who cares, this is entirely to make me happy (currently, for example, writing a Jagnus time travel pirate AU and like that really just is for me and I suppose also for @qofsass who wanted to read it when I first pitched it all those months ago. Well, not the time-travel. The time-travel is new xD).

In the greater scheme of things though, I think it’s a mix of both. Because, on the long run, my fanfiction have attracted people who do want to read what I want to write.

Then, often, I got at it from the angle of “What do my readers like to see the most?” and add “What am I most feeling like writing right now and how do I twist that into it?”, which is how most my multiple-chapter stories are born. Especially, and I’m not gonna lie, the PJO ones. The first time I wrote a high school AU, it was more to give that overused trope a spin myself. Now it’s kind of a “People seem to really dig this. Okay. So, what new interesting spin can I give it?” and you’d think after, what, four of those I’d grow tired of writing them, but I managed to give each an individual twist that is most exciting for me.

Welcome to Olympus High played with the gender roles and the jock-cheerleader dynamic and I got to play up all the classic high school AU tropes, The Dream of a Normal Life allowed me to twist the trope of dream-reality affecting the real world and exploring the dynamics there more by basically writing an AU within the framework of canon (granted, technically college AU... but... same difference), The Prince of Atlantis High let me lean heavier on the domestic abuse and Percy’s problems and play with the American stereotypes of outsiders and such, Life at Novus Olympus Academy gave me the opportunity to overhawl canon and play around with the what if of the gods handling their off-springs differently in a canon divergence which was a lot of fun, Percy and the Ghost King of Summers High is where I get to work with vampires and merpeople and other fantasy tropes and where I got to really go into world-building which is like my favorite thing - and the next fic I’m currently planning that’ll come once this one closes is going to feature aliens and space-travel while also being a high school AU.

That’s the most fun about it. Mixing it up. Taking elements I like, that I know my readers - or at least the majority of my readers - like and working off of that.

But mainly, I definitely write for the rarepair shippers. I do often discard fanfiction ideas, but if it’s an idea for a shiny rarepair, I always try to get around to writing it because I’m a rarepair shipper and every single fic matters there, really. *grins*

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[mercurialstephie]

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is like if American Horror Story Coven/Apocalypse, NBC’s Hannibal, Riverdale (obvi), Supernatural,Shadowhunters, Penny Dreadful, The Magicians, a teeny bit of the darker aspects of the Wizarding World (mostly the Fantastic Beasts’ darker aesthetic),  and Buffy all mixed together and had a freaking baby. It is brilliance. Like...if you needed so pick a show to summarize me as a human being it’d be this. The darkness, the camp, the weirdness, it’s ideas about religion and politics and civil rights ,  is just ugh. It’s perfection.  The fact that it’s acronym is caos (pronounced like chaos) is even better. Maybe it’s because I’m the great-granddaughter of a (supposed) witch...but yeah this is definately in my top favorite tv show of all time.