#throwing all those tags in there huehuehue

[ultipoter]

Two commissions I’ve done for @hydrachea of her Genshin Impact OC Talya and Childe! These were an ABSOLUTE BLAST to draw, thank you for commissioning me ❤️

[bookenders]

11/11/11 Tag Game! Round... 4?

THANK YOU @quilloftheclouds! These are such fun questions! 

I have two of these in my drafts, so here comes a lot of info about yours truly. All the fun stuff is under the cut!

Bilbo Taggins: @floralandrogyny @leave-her-a-tome @penzag @cvrmillas @writingthatstory @dulcedewriteblr @bethkerring @writer-by-the-window @thewritingsofart @monstrouswrites @moonbeam-muse

(If you wanna do it and you’re not tagged, DO IT. If you see my questions and want to answer them, DO IT. 💜) 

(And I’m gonna tag @quilloftheclouds as my 12th because I want to know how they answer some of these weird questions. 😊)

MY QUESTIONS: (I’ve done so many of these, now I actually have to get creative...)

What would your WIP be called if it were a breakfast cereal? What does it taste like?

If your OCs were to be sponsored by any sort of product or item, what would it be? 

How do you take an idea from a concept to a story? What about an idea makes it story-worthy for you?

What’s the name of your OCs’ band? What kind of music do they play? Who plays what? Who’s the manager? What venues do they play? Are they any good?

What would your WIP look like as a romantic comedy (with the same characters, of course)? 

What about your writing are you most proud of?

What, in your opinion, is the coolest thing about your WIP?

What excites you about writing? 

Characters with brown hair gain the ability to pull chocolate bars out of their pockets at will. How does this change your WIP?

How do you like to end your stories? 

What’s your favorite word? What’s your least favorite word? 

1. Put yourself in your wip(s). Are you dead? Why or why not?

If I were in H2H, I’d probably be some sort of magical archivist. Not dead, hopefully. The world isn’t exactly “dangerous,” since it’s our world plus a little bit of pseudo-regulated magic that isn’t super duper potent yet. 

If I were in All Out Painted Colors, though? Deffo dead. If I had to cliff dive to stay in the tribe, I would just accept defeat and be exiled and die in a field somewhere. 

2. What is your favourite kind of scene to write?

Emotional scenes in the dark. I have at least one in every story. It’s a little ridiculous, but I love the implications and symbolism of someone not being able to see someone else and saying what they’ve been avoiding, or one character seeing another do something (in low lighting, of course) and dealing with the revelation that brings, however delayed. I love scenes where one character does a thing and someone else notices but they don’t say anything because they care about them. I can twist that one so many different ways, it’s so fun.

3. What genre is your favourite to write in?

I am a literary fiction dweeb at heart. Although I do enjoy writing some light fantasy every once in a while, I will always default to lit fic. It’s what I learned in school and it fits with the themes I tend to write about. And it’s less work world building. 😉

4. What genre do you want to/wish you could write in?

Freakin’ sci-fi. I’ve tried and it is NOT easy. Those writers are skilled. 

Also romance, because that stuff apparently makes bank.

5. Which of your ocs outfits would you consider wearing yourself?

Anything Gemma wears, because most of it is already in my own wardrobe. I like being cozy, I say, wearing a loose t-shirt, a soft old cardigan, and fuzzy socks. 

6. What’s the worst thing you’ve done to your ocs (out of context if spoilers)?

Any of my OCs? Well. I can be pretty vicious. [This is gonna get a little gory and morbid, so CW I suppose.]

I did a lot of really messed up stuff to my boys in my war story. One had a PTSD episode while in the middle of a firefight and shot an enemy soldier in the head while wrestling with him on the ground, but imagined the whole thing as chasing down a deer he shot back home and had to put out of its misery. Another guy was choking out an enemy soldier, hands wrapped around his throat, eyes bulging, and he saw his little sisters face in his hands. Took a best friend from my favorite dude because the story called for it and I still feel bad about that, but it worked too well for it to be anyone else. 

Less gory, I had one woman lose all faith in her religion and her father when he refused to get rid of the DNR on her mom, which might have saved her life, or at least given her a few more years, because of his own twisted faith. Killed a character with his favorite food one time. I tend to take the things they love and hold dear and twist them until they have to abandon them because they start hurting instead of helping. I’m evil. 

7. What’s the nicest thing you’ve done to your ocs?

Given them the happy endings they deserve. 

8. Does your writing style have any characteristic traits? What are they?

It do. I’ve been told my voice is very distinct, even when it changes. I do this thing with flashbacks that’s pretty unique, too, I guess. I call them “seamless flashback transitions,” but I don’t like calling them flashbacks because they’re kinda not, it’s more like a character remembers something in-scene and then it naturally flows into the past. I love doing that. 

9. What are three things you think you’re good at in writing? (NO SKIPPING OF THIS QUESTION ALLOWED)

NO SKIPPING, NO PROBLEM. 

I’m very good at saying a lot with few words

Character voices and making realistic people

Bookending! (hehehe) Things at the end reference things at the beginning and make them full of feelings and bring the story to a nice close. I’m really good at taking details that meant very little and infusing them with feels. Kind of like delayed decoding, but with feelings. 

10. Do you listen to music/white noise while writing? What kind?

Most of the time, yeah, I listen to music. I either play a single song on repeat until I can drown it out so it acts like white noise to me, or I put the story playlist on repeat until I want to throw it out the window. The songs gotta have the same feel as the story, though. It’s all for the #aesthetic.

11. Come up with joke titles for your wips. What are they?

You’re asking me for jokes? JOKES??

My time has come.

Heart to Heart, or:

Growing Closer  (p l a n t s)

Love Potion No.10

Thorny for Mystery

Calamitous Encounters of a Magical Kind  (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, bit of a stretch)

Double, Double Toil and Trouble; Blushes Burn and Beakers Bubble

All Our Painted Colors, or:

 Hear to Stay (which was the very punny working title that my teacher said did NOT fit, which, yeah) 

Weaponizing Finger Paints / War Paint and Finger Guns

Color Me Yours (there’s a pottery painting place near where I used to live called Color Me Mine. Regional puns!)

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Words Will Eradicate My Trust in Our Community

When Old Ladies Go Bad

So the Story Goes, or:

Satan: The Original Pan (triplicate pun, yay!)

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree

East of Eden and a Left at the Fork (cuz Satan huehuehue)