#tumblr also closed this post. a second goddamn time before i finished i am begging them to fix this app

[callixton]

writing ask: 10, 25, 28 !

god tumblr deleted a mostly finished response, but still - thank you!!

10. Has a piece of writing ever "haunted" you?Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

constantly, yeah. lines, themes, concepts that get caught in my head and won’t leave. siken is a particular offender when it comes to specific lines. for my own, there’s plenty that i would say “haunts” me, though part of it is probably down to the many unfinished ghosts of stories i have drifting around my head.

for fanfic, copse immediately comes to mind. the one really did a number on me, and i hope that some day i can return to finish it out but. it’s one of the few things where i know almost everything that happens and i can see it when i close my eyes. i also think it’s special for letting me articulate the kind of attraction i experience and relationships i want before i knew it myself — the way the character’s talk about it is something i return to often. one of my first queer original works, he of wood, also effects me in a similar way. i don’t know when/if it’ll ever be the right time to come back and finish it, but it lives with me all of the time.

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

oh my god, too many to count. i have a bad habit of focusing too much on these and not enough on the story, actually, but i’m trying to break it. it’s also hard to know what will end up being irrelevant before the story is done. but! i know that frey from my guardian angel story named himself after his favorite video game character as a pre-teen and i don’t imagine the details of that will ever be relevant

28. Who is the most delightful character you've ever written? Why?

ooh, delightful. that’s not how i usually think about my characters, that’s very fun framing. probably harry, from a project working-ly just titled ��weird,’ which i’d love to return to sometime bc i haven’t actually done that much on it yet. she’s a rare animal courier in a story mostly created so i can play around with worldbuilding and more experimental fantasy, and they’re a wonderfully strange & intense kid who befriends a ghost