#nevermind that enjolras is like fine with it lmao

[thevagueambition]

I was tagged by @rainhalydia​ to answer some fic writing questions

AO3 name: MagicalDragon

Fandoms: Les Misérables, Dragon Age and Harry Potter are probably the main ones but I’ve done fanwork for a wide variety of things tbh

Tropes: I like to write (and read!) hurt/comfort, very close friendships (what TV Tropes calls Heterosexual Life Partners or Platonic Life Partners), explorations of identity, mental health issues, etc and what I call Queer Eye For The Straight Show lmao (I watch something straight, I apply a queer reading and then that’s a fic). Don’t think I’ve ever written this as such, but I go wild for Found Family and like.... former villains now doing the morally questionable thing to protect their loved ones/similar. Also, Lovers to Enemies lmao.

Number of fics: 32 ones on AO3, a few more very old ones on FF.net (as in, written before my English was.... competent). We shall discount these from now on lol. 

Fic I spent the most time on: For sure my canon era Les Mis wip, On the Path to Elysium.

Fic I spent the least time on: Hmmm for sure one of the ones I wrote in a trance after coming home from the cinema... probably my Norse Myth Odin/Loki smut, if we discount the time I used translating it from Danish (it was vaguely inspired by the live action Valhalla movie). Otherwise probably the Dumbledore Being Angsty About Grindelwald one I wrote after Crimes of Grindelwald. 

Longest Fic: Again, by far On the Path to Elysium. 

Shortest Fic: My old Black Magician Trilogy Dannyl/Tayend fluff, Late Night at the Great Library. I just wanted to write Dan/Tay but I didn’t really have an idea for it so it’s... nothing to write home about. 2014 was like that lol. 

Most hits: Mr. Harry Potter, a fic about trans boy!Harry that started it’s life as a headcanon post on @bisexualharrypotter​ and honestly probably because people follow the link on that post or because trans!Harry fics were pretty rare when I posted that (I mean, I don’t think theyre common, still, but certainly somewhat more so). 

Most kudos: Practice, Brooklyn Nine-Nine fic with trans, bi!Jake. 

Most comment threads: On the Path to Elysium again, probably due to length/amount of chapters. Several people are lovely enough to comment each chapter. 

Most bookmarks: Handsome as ever, my fic where the Thirteenth Doctor meets Jack Harkness :D !! This one probably got a boost with Jack’s actual cameo in the new season (it was posted about a year ago).

Total word count: 156 239 lmao 

Favourite fic I wrote: I’m most proud of Just Like That, my Disco Elysium Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi fic (a lovely soul recently translated it into Chinese!!)

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: Hmm,,,, I’m dissatisfied with many of my pre-2018 fics but what I’m interested in writing-wise has changed enough that I’m not sure I’d want to work in the same space again... Perhaps reworking some of my Dragon Age: Inquisition snippets into an actual full thing? I also want to write more young(er), gay Dumbledore fic for the same verse as my other ones. Supppooosseeee some of the old FF.net ones don’t have bad premises so if I ever get back into writing Marauders Era Remus Angst maybe i’ll redo one lmao

Share a bit of a WIP or a story idea you’re planning on: have some depressed artist Grantaire from the upcoming Elysium chapter lol 

“I had heard you were once an artist’s student,” Enjolras said quietly. “But I did not know you still practiced the craft.”

Grantaire startled, shot Enjolras a look over his shoulder and went back to his sketch. 

“It is not in me to stop,” he answered, almost as quietly. “Though I ought to.”

Though Henri was keeping his head still as he’d been instructed to, his eyes went back and forth between Grantaire and Enjolras, as if trying to guess their conversation. 

“Whyever do you believe you ought to?” Enjolras asked. This time, Grantaire didn’t look up from his work. 

“All I can craft is this — half-finished pieces, half-formed ideas, impressions of what could be something great, if crafted by a more able hand…” Grantaire hesitated, but he’d never been able to curtail his mouth. “There is no point to keep creating what is doomed to always to be incomplete and incapable. I am deluding myself and cheating others of their francs… so yes, I ought to stop.”

God, he needed a drink. 

“It gladdens people, though. Your art. That boy, he will have a portrait of his friend because of you. And your erotica… “ Enjolras spread his hands in a vague gesture. “Well, it provides to those relegated to the shadows what others find out in the light, no?”

Grantaire stopped his sketching for a moment and looked properly at Enjolras.

“How do you know of my erotica?”

i tag @thebearmuse @teddy-stonehill @elvensemi @brilliantsnafu god who else writes fic that i know? ?? if you saw this and you write fic and you want to do it feel free to pretend i tagged you