#sailor cressy says

[sailor-cresselia]

I got a really good package today~!

So, for a Long time I’ve been reading @erinptah’s webcomics, especially including the ongoing @leifandthorn.

The 6th collected volume has finally come out, and my copy just got in!

And so did the original sketch of the cover art! :3c

Bonus pic of all the books and art cards together.

…I do mean All the books, lol. The second pin set (from this package) is destined to become a pair of needle minders, and best kitty Tiernan is gonna help me do my cross stitch!

Go read Leif And Thorn, its real good!

[sailor-cresselia]

Author Interview

Got tagged by @iris-14cheonsa​ and @narashikari​ last week, around when I mentioned I’m in a bit of a slump. So, thanks, ladies!

Name: Sammi, Sam, or sometimes Cressy. 

Fandoms: My writing is pretty much all Kamen Rider at the moment, but I want to get back to my Sailor Moon roots some time soon. I’ve never really written for Pokémon, but I’ve been a loyal fan since... oh. Uh. I feel old saying this, compared to a lot of the writers I talk to on here, but since 1999. So... uh. Yeah.

Where You Post: AO3 and FF.net. Some of my one-shots have gone up on here, too, as well as assorted sections that are probably going to get re-worked when I finally get to Zi-O in the ReUnited storyline. (Some of the one-shots have since been added to or turned into parts of stories - the first chapter of Try and Re-Build was originally a one-shot on here.)

Most Popular One-Shot: At the moment, ignoring my earlier dabbling in Miraculous Ladybug, as measured by hit count, it’s A Name You Can Call Your Own, a Kamen Rider Double fic. As measured by Kudos, however, it’s Event Flag XX, a Kamen Rider Ex-Aid fic. They each come in second to the other in the respective measurements, too, so that makes it pretty much a tie.

Interestingly, they’re both set over the course of the focus characters lives before and during their respective shows. Huh.

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: Try and Re-Build, no doubt. I mean, I’ve only really got the two, and Re-Build has a 4 chapter and three month lead on runner-up Press Start To Continue, so the chapter count probably boosts the hits by a lot.

Favorite Story that you wrote: oooooh, this is a hard one. Right now, I want to say Press Start. It’s a toss-up between that, Event Flag, and Re-Build, though, depending on my mood. Nowadays, I feel like the pacing of sentences was... somehow ‘off’ in Event Flag, but I still like what I did with it.

Story you were nervous to post: YES. All of them. I am always terrified of what the reaction is going to be. I’ve gotten used to the apparent fact that people seem to like my work, but I genuinely think some of the stories I have coming up are even more nerve-wracking in terms of potential reactions, once I move out of the characters I’ve ‘visibly’ been working with into ones I’ve been writing ‘on the back burner.’

How you choose your titles: Bold of you to assume I have any idea where I come up with these things. Like, four out of the seven fics currently in ReUnited are just. They’re practically just pseudo-puns about the source material, with most of my Ex-Aid ones just being references to video game mechanics. Let me put it this way: The title is the last part of each chapter of Re-Build that I come up with, and is prone to delaying the chapter by a day.

Do you outline?: I mean, kind of? I don’t really outline any specific story on it’s own - which I probably should, for some of the future ones - but I have more of an approximate outline for what stories go when with regards to what I’ve got planned for the overall Re-United universe.

Outlining would make it a lot harder for me to write, actually, since so much of my recent work has been via getting a sentence or five down at a time while I’m at work. Over the course of the week, this adds up, but I don’t have a specific story I’m working on at any one time, either.

Complete: Four of the seven stories in ReUnited are complete. “But wait,” you may say, “Only two of them are labeled incomplete!” Well, that’s true, but - spoiler alert - I’m working on turning Because we are here to stay into a multi-chapter affair. That second chapter’s not nearly in the ‘ready’ state, though.

Coming Soon/Not yet started: *ugly laughter, which quickly turns into frustrated sobbing*

Let’s see. There’s the oft-mentioned Takeru Fic, which is set after Re-Build. But, that now can’t be posted until after I get that second chapter of Here to stay up. There’s the Ankh Revival Fic, because Toei still hasn’t given us our birb. I’m still not sure if I want to merge my ‘Five times Eiji met Gou in an airport, and one time OOO met Mach’ wip into that, too, but that’s definitely going up eventually someday in the future.

Then there’s all the ‘whomst the heck knows when i’ll get this up’ stuff - the ‘getting Sento and Ryuuga together’ wip, the bodyswap fic for some lighthearted fare, the ReUnited versions of Another Ending and Zi-O, the potential Foundation X scenario, assorted ‘riders on vacation’ ideas for some more lighthearted fare...

Basically, I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire, and they’re all just begging for my attention at once, to say nothing of the other assorted ideas that just show up sometimes.

Do you accept prompts: No, oh dear Cosmos, no. I can’t afford to. I’ve got so much going on already, I can’t afford to adopt any more plot bunnies.

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: Honestly, I’m having a ball writing all of these. The thing I’m most excited for is to finally figure out what to title the Takeru Fic because it’s been bothering me for almost a year now.

I’m not tagging anyone, because... well, I don’t like the feeling of pressuring people into doing things. It’s why I don’t usually respond to being tagged in these type of things, too - I get too nervous.

Anyway. See ya!