#there! :D Also; I have everything I've shared about the Julia Burnsides AU and the Double Troubles AU under the tags

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9, 15, 20 for ao3 asks?

ao3 wrapped questions here!! <- send some in? :D

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

Romantic pairing? Blupjeans lol I think I wrote a lot more of them this year too than I did any other romantic pairing considering blupjeans week lol But like, other types of relationships, I think I've had the most fun this year writing Taako and Lup, Julia and Merle, and Julia and Taako

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

I'm taking Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore (a Julia survives Raven's Roost AU) and Double Troubles (an OC 8th bird AU) with me into next year and also the Kravitz origin story one lol That one isn't a chapter fic, but it is really really long lol I'm only two thirds through I think and it's a little over 10k words long

I'm also done with Here There Be Gerblins and Moonlighting for Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore, and I'm halfway through the scenes I want to do for the interlude between those arcs and Murder on the Rockport Limited, so I'm really excited about that and that it's getting moving again! lol

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

That's hard to say because I generally reread a work a lot right after I post it and as people are reblogging it/commenting on it/leaving kudos/interacting with it in general, and then I don't really come back to it except on occasion lol I think the ones though that I'm particularly fond of from this year that I still go back to read fairly often are A Witness of Corruption, Broken Trust, One Last Dance, No Aliens on the Moon, Strength All Spent, and The Man Who Became the Hunger

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27, 34 and/or 35 for the weird questions?👀

From this ask game here! <- Feel free to send some in!! :D

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

One Mrs. Julia Burnsides lmao Only because the only context I've written in her point of view is the Julia Survives Ravens Roost AU (I need to come up with a name for that eventually alskdhgslkh), and the reason that's been stressful is because I still don't have a clear idea of what I want her character arc to be. It's been easier writing short scenes that pop into my head bouncing all around the Balance campaign in general, but trying to sit down and write chapter one is really hard. Now that I think about it, it could also be because it's Here There Be Gerblins, and there's a lot more table talk than character banter and everything was very surface level and no one knew each other, but either way, it's been stressful, yo lmao I need to actually go back and figure stuff out though because I'm dying to be able to actually start sharing it sldkghdlgkh

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

You will not be able to rip the oxford comma away from my cold, dead hands. I will hold onto it with a grip of death even as I rot away underground. It is the only thing standing in the way of making a sentence unreadable, and I will rain down a thousand curses on people who try to take that away

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

You know, I'm not entirely sure of all the nit-picky prescriptivist bullshit rules I break on a daily basis, I just know of a few that I do try to follow most of the time, but oho boy do I apparently have a bone to pick with fucking grammarly

Long rant short, I don't use grammarly, but my mom does since she went back to school and actually started having to write papers again. At one point, she wanted to interview me, and I wrote down some answers through text which she typed directly into her word document, then when I came over a short time later, she asked me to reword it because I had basically just written down run-on sentence notes to her. She also wanted me to look over her paper in general. So I sit down and read her paper, and... I don't want to be too critical of my mom because she's already really self conscious about her writing abilities, but I feel comfortable saying this because apparently this is mostly grammarly's fault: They were all simple sentences. There was no variety what so ever; it read like something an AI would type out. There was no voice, there was no flair, and at first I was like, okay, whatever, she hasn't been writing for too long, and she's getting good grades, so this is understandable. But then I tried to edit my answers and grammarly kept saying that what I was typing was wrong and unreadable even though I was using rules I've learned since middle school. I should also mention, not to toot my own horn, but I've been writing for literally as long as I can remember, I went through all honors and AP classes and got really good grades in those classes, and I was an English major before I dropped out of college. I fucking know my shit. That shit was super readable, and if I had listened to this stupid fucking computer program, it would have had me cut everything down to fucking first grade level sentences that don't move of flow fucking anywhere, and when I brought this up to my mom, she said she writes how I write, but because she uses this fucking computer program, her papers end up like how she wrote everything in the rest of the essay. And she gets really good grades, so she didn't think that much more of it.

So I don't know what fucking bullshit rules grammarly says I'm breaking, but God damn if I won't do everything in my power to break that fucking program with my bare fucking hands. Sucks the soul out of fucking everything I hate hate hate it.

I just realized how intense most of this response is, and I'm sorry for that lol I'm just really passionate about the oxford comma and a computer program that I was in contact with for all of less than 20 minutes whom I now have a seething hatred for alsdghlgh