#longest fic ever i'm so fucking proud of myself tbh

[andallthatmerrymishigas]

💗 Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love! 💗

I've been waiting for the opportunity to do this THANK YOU I'm excited to share about my favorite stories. Tbh choosing 5 is a struggle but I'll sacrifice for the game.

Metamorphosis This is an AU for Ruth and Harry of Spooks/MI-5 where I saw s1 of The Crown and was like wow what if this queen who was never born to be queen actually had a husband to support her? And Harry Pearce is such a simp for Ruth Evershed that he would very much be that supportive but grumpy prince for her. This is the longest story I've ever written and I am so immensely proud of it. Also you don't have to have seen Spooks to read it. There is nothing from the show that you would need to know but it does have fun easter eggs for those of us who do know the show and the characters.

The Proper Way of Things I wrote a pre-series story for Robert and Cora from Downton Abbey. I love it. I had so much fun with this. I am so proud of it. I am so grateful for the gift of this show and this ship and this story and all it brought me. My best friend had it printed into a book for me and it's 573 pages lmao. But I have it and I love it so so so so much and everyone should read it lol.

Hart All A Flutter This is a masterpiece if I do say so myself. Hart to Hart changed my life (as did the other two shows referenced above) and brought me the most incredibly wonderful group of friends who supported me and encouraged me and helped me through writing this. I also think this one could be read if you've never seen the show because it starts with the events of Jennifer and Jonathan's first meeting so there's no backstory you really need to know. It's a lot of fun, imho.

Forever In Your Arms The Doctor Blake Mysteries has a complicated place in my heart but it's a great show and gave us great characters. This show changed the way I write and this story, I think, is a perfect example. I wrote a vampire AU. And it's fucking hot dude. Highly recommend.

A Solution For Entropy Hannibal by Thomas Harris (sequel to Silence of the Lambs) is my favorite book of all time. It is everything to me. And there's a part in the book where we go from Clarice being drugged and going through intense trauma therapy and catharsis to an epilogue where life is very different and they live happily ever after. But we don't get HOW exactly that happened. So I wrote it. And this is the best quality writing I have ever produced in my life. I cannot say enough about how good this is and how proud I am that I DID IT. It's intense and deep and sexy and scary and everything that I love about this book and I adore this story.

[wetcatspellcaster]

20 Q's for Fic Writers

Thanks @redrocketpanda for tagging me ^_^

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

11! 9 completed, 2 WIPs.

2. What's your total Ao3 word count?

:)))))))) 831,063 :)))))))))) I don't wanna talk about it.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I am a fantasy videogames girlie, with a brief foray into Darklina sickness. I have written for BG3, Dragon Age, and Shadow and Bone.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 

Party Favours at 1,804

The Stars Don't Shine They Burn at 1,196

A Bleeding Heart at 1,133

Pieces Still Stuck in Your Teeth at 1,026

Eye of the Storm at 645

Before this year I had no fics over 1,000 kudos, so that was a cool development in 2023!

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to reply to everything, unless I am crippled by depression (or crippled by illness)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

That goes to!!! Sunblindness!!! The only time I've foregone 'I can fix him' for 'I can make him worse (and I deserve to, as a treat)'.

I was actually planning to end that fic with a major character death and then a close friend was like "jfc this is what people read for fun Emma, chill the fuck out"

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The happiest ending is probably Party Favours? But I also think Stars Don't Shine They Burn with the 'I can't fix him I can make him fix himself, but at my end, I can also make us immortal soulmates' tied up pretty neatly, and I was very proud of it at the time.

(Also shout out to A Man's Word is His Bond for being the final chapter I'm happiest with.)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nope, not yet! I've had some entitled comments and a few mansplainers, and if anyone sends a WRITE MOAR comment when I have 9 completed fics and over 800k for people to read if they want to, I'll likely become pissed. But no hate!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Queen of the Fade to Black, the moment anyone touches anything racier than a waist when I'm the one behind the keyboard I start blushing :')))))))))

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have written one whole crossover, my darklina Shadow and Bone/Stardust AU, and tbh it sent me pretty feral at the time.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes :-) twice I think. it's fine.

12. There was no question 12 so I'll make one up myself: What's the longest you've ever spent working on one fic? And the shortest?

Screaming, crying, throwing up. I remember the Emma who used to only post fics once they were fully drafted. I remember writing a Zevran/Warden fic in a week in the height of living alone in lockdown. I also remember writing A Bleeding Heart in a worryingly brief 3-week period.

Then I got hit with the crippling depression. The longest I've spent working on a fic is 19 months for Sunblindness when I got the Big Sads.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope! Not a group projects girlie. I'm here to cater to me and me alone.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Lol. Of the ones I've written for, it's a tie between Zevran/Surana and Astarion/Tav, as their dynamics were the funnest (seems rogue/mage is my jam). Of all time, it's Spike/Buffy - I have no need to write for them bc I am already well fed.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a Darklina Wintersmith AU that I have 2 out of 3 chapters down for and then BG3 full release happened. But the depressing answer to this question is 'original fiction projects' - I want to try and write something original but my confidence always fails me. I'm trying to transfer the things I enjoy about fic to original stuff to combat it but I'm not there yet!

16. What are your writing strengths?

Idk man, who could say? I think I'm good at dialogue/banter bc that's the compliment I receive most often in comments. I also think that if I've got a plot-twist in mind from the very beginning, I usually land it? The rest of the plot might be squiggly and messy as fuck, but if a scene was there when the fic was dreamt up (the ending of Sunblindness, the stag scene in my Stardust!AU, the agoraphobia reveal in A Bleeding Heart, the study scene in Pieces, etc.) then it usually ends up being received well and being exactly the way I pictured it in my head.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Can't write smut!!! It's the only thing holding me back!!!

(also if I have the choice between describing something in a sentence or in 3 paragraphs, I usually pick 3 paragraphs. Sometimes this is good, sometimes this is a fucking travesty. See answer to question 2!)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Amazing and encouraged but not something I can do, as I am bad at languages so it would just end up being a colonial hate crime facilitated by google translate.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Dragon Age: Inquisition!

20. Favourite fic you've written?

Despite the way that Full Access recontextualises it, my favourite fic is absolutely A Bleeding Heart. It was so much fun to write, it was my first time doing unreliable narration, and I was really proud of the plot twist in the final chapter. Also for someone who doesn't write smut, the fact that I got a friend to walk out of their house with the hair-pulling scene made me very smug tbh.

Tagging anyone who wants to do this!! I have made a bunch of new friends and mutuals lately, so if you're a writer and you want to answer these qus please do this so I can see your answers.

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

you know it’s totally crazy, out of all the fics on my AO3 account, most of them one-shots, I wrote one that was like 11k words and was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS INSANELY LONG bc most of my other fics fell somewhere between 1500 words and 4000 words.

And now I’ve got both BGSA, sitting at about 11000 words (including what’s not yet posted), and AYHWA which is somehow at fucking 19,500 words.  And all of those words in the last month and a half.

After years of writing, where I have written comparably so little and the most intense writing I’ve done in probably 7 or 8 years was a month in 2017 where I wrote an 11k word one-shot, all the sudden in the last month and a half I’ve written about 30k words and while I’ve slowed down a bit, I am showing no signs of actually stopping.

I’m fucking elated and blown away.  Holy shit, y’all.

[sehnsuchts-trunken]

Hey Mary, what is your favourite fic you've ever written?<3

ohhhhh this is such an interesting question and tbh, I can't really answer it. the thing is that I've written.... a shit ton of them. and I can't remember them all. but I'll tell you some of my favourites!

okay, so up there definitely has to be Dragon Sickness, because it's one of the only angsty oneshots I've ever written, plus one of the longest, and it's also one of the only ones that - spoiler - doesn't have a happy ending. But despite all that it shows so much hope and so much love and I feel like I wrote it pretty fucking well.

next (this is in no way ranked btw) I do believe I just have to add the I Am Light, I Am Power oneshot, because it pretty much defined this certain type of love I now hold very dear to my heart. The writing isn't the best, but it's certainly not bad, plus there's a second part (which there isn't for anything else I've ever written).

also I feel like Take A Bath has to go on here, simply because it's in such a different style. some of the "plot", which barely exists, makes me cringe every time, but the writing alone I really do love. additionally the person I have in mind as the reader looks really really hot (it's the first time I fucked with perspectives too and wrote something from the character's pov instead of the reader's)

and last but not least, this isn't really fanfic, but then again it is. I wrote it for this amazing piece of music and I'm still incredibly proud of it.

there are absolutely more wonderful fanfics on my blog if I do say so myself, I write for a hell ton of fandoms, and most of those drabbles are pretty okay too, but I do believe that these I've just listed are my favourites, perhaps because they're oneshots, idk. but have fun checking out my blog, I'm sure you'll find some other fancy pieces of writing there as well