#this is a weird crossover i know but like it's probably tame for tumblr

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fuck *mlps my bsd ocs*

not very well drawn but like. i still like them and i haven't drawn mlp in YEARS already

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Tagged by @rainofaugustsith for the AO3/fic writer questions thing <3. Unsure who to tag to play next, so if you see this and want to play along, consider yourself tagged.

How many works do you have on AO3?

11, but one hardly counts because it’s a “collaboration” with @miss-spooky-eyes that I maybe wrote one sentence of but she still gave me coauthor credit because she’s too pure and too good. 

What’s your total AO3 word count?

47,599, apparently

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

On ao3, just two: swtor and kotor (at this point, most of my writing exists either here or just as WIPs that will never actually be finished)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

My works don’t really get a lot of kudos or comments, and I try not to get too hung up on that. I’d rather not list them by kudos, tbh, because my kudos-to-hit ratio makes me sad if I think about it for too long. (I write sort niche-interest pairings, I think, so I don’t really get a lot of engagement; I enjoy writing them, and I usually get the reaction I’m going for from the approximately three people who do engage with my writing, so it’s all good).

Do you respond to comments; why or why not?

I try to! I don’t always know what to say, but if someone took the time to leave a comment, I feel like it’s fair for me to respond and thank them.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

One that was actually only posted on tumblr, “it’s the way that you are and the way I’ll forever be,” (spoilers) the one about Tulia killing Zhorrid, probably. Or “a father’s love,” about how Zhorrid got her scars. I guess most of my Zhorrid stuff.

Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one you’ve written?

I don’t write crossovers.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not exactly. I’ve gotten… really odd commentary about why my characters do the things they do. And, bro, if you’re upset about my characters’ motivations, you have this cool ability called “creating your own OC and then making them do whatever you want,” so, I don’t know what the problem was.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do. In fact, probably most of what I’ve actually posted is smut. Relatively tame stuff, I suppose, lots of wlw, quite a bit of exploration of power dynamics, “forbidden” desires, that kind of thing.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don’t think so? I can’t imagine anyone would want to claim ownership of something I wrote though.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not to my knowledge.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

I don’t know that I have an “all-time” favorite. I’ve never gotten all that invested in many canon ships, and it feels weird to list any of my OCs and their LIs here. The one I’m currently fixated on is Eleison (non-canon compliant SI)/Dread Master Brontes.

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

God, what a callout. My biggest current WIP is “I can be your heartache, you can be my shame,” about Eleison attempting to break the bond between the Dread Masters by shielding them from the Phobis devices, but there are a lot of details that I still have to work out for it, so it’s mainly just a collection of disjointed ideas.

What are your writing strengths?

I guess maybe coming up with angsty ideas…

What are your writing weaknesses?

Never actually following through with my ideas and not being able to describe scenes the way they play out in my head.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it can be neat. Sometimes it’s distracting and done in such a way that it’s just uncomfortable and it’s clear the author doesn’t actually speak the language they’re peppering in, but it can be done very smoothly. I don’t know that I’ve ever done it well.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The X-Files. I did have some rather popular fics once upon a time, but I don’t think any of them were particularly good. Mercifully, I’m pretty sure they’ve been lost, even from the wayback machine.

What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

I am pretty proud of “brilliant and terrible thing” (mara!Shara angst-fest), and I would eventually like to write more in that universe that I was building.

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Incomplete list of weird crack nonsensical AUs I’ve made

Apollo Justice except Apollo has wings he has to hide from everyone.

Steven Universe except all the gems are horse racers except instead of horses they race gryphons and dragons and shit. Also Peridot was a sky acrobat for some reason.

Gravity Falls except half of the population are now human animal hybrids because the spoiler machine actually did cause the apocalypse. (Was an actual thing, apocalypsefalls on tumblr, before I seriously grew bored of it.)

Apollo Justice except Apollo is a pirate and Edgeworth is a DJ. I don’t know either, it’s just in my files...

Splatoon except Callie and Marie had a big falling out, Callie went on to be a shitty pirate who eventually went blind because of a physically abusive captain and Marie became time police. Eventually the two come together and they discuss how shitty their lives are.

A ton of Peridot AUs including: Peribot (she’s a robot preloaded with tetris), Tuxedot (fancypants Peri trying to fit in with elite society) and Gamer Peri (which I still get asks for.)

Taking a second to brag about the fact that I headcanoned Peridot’s weapon to be a blaster before it even happened in the show and my design was totally cooler

i know i’m not the only one but im still happy about it

MLP except there’s a secret underground mafia/speakeasy group led by Twilight Sparkle. I think I wrote a fic of this in between 7th and 8th grade.

WoW except time and space are co-governed by a group of people known as the Vaseili realmskippers that are able to cross into multiple dimensions of the same place. The skippers are meant to ensure the major events of the timeline remain consistent among realms. Literally my mind going “what if there’s an in universe reason for all the realms having the same story.”

LazyTown except they’re all furries. (this one was more of a joke that went too far)

Splatoon in which Callie and Marie are taken in as prisoners of war by the Octolings, who in turn show them how shitty life is in basically the slums of Inkopolis and convince them to help reach a peaceful agreement with the Inklings. Also war stories from a weirdly fleshed out OC named Cosmo.

Undertale except Sans has a gasterblaster dragon that he tames and takes care of.

PAW Patrol (thats right) except a realistic society in which dogs are taken advantage of and kept in a search and rescue/police facility in Alaska as expendable units, only interacted with by machines and pilots as they’re assigned to complete deadly missions no human wants to risk taking. Nothing they can do about it, they’re fucking dogs.

Another Splatoon AU (whoops) in which some race of sea dragon monsters takes over the overworld of Inkopolis and the Inklings AND Octolings are both cast away to the sewers where they need to work together to start rebuilding society and taking back the surface. Callie and Marie team up with two Octoling characters I forget the name of who are the equivalent of the squid sisters in the Octoling world to organize rescue operations to save inklings and octolings from the surface and deep within Octo Valley. Marie dies early on, and I actually had a few fanfics about this... Probably the most fleshed out one of anything here pardon Apocalypse Falls.

Neopets (actually this is more like a headcanon) except the user using the site is (ic anyway) one of the last remaining humans after the majority of Neopets have evolved more humanoid bodies and complex thinking far surpassing humans that once kept them as pets. Humans that sided with their movement for power were turned into Faeries, and only a few humans are left for historic reasons to care for pets that don’t have the humanoid adaptations. You are under close scrutiny by the Neopets Team and a step out of line can mean being “phased out” of the gracious historical opportunity for you to live.

ok i dont think there’s any more beyond me really really stretching far into my past, bleeding into crossover territory, or getting into AUs of my or my friends’ characters... I can probably pull up art of some of these from long ago if y’all’s interested??? not that anyone would be lmfao