#uhhhhhhh i don't want to tag all these people

[psygull]

Roz I want #3 with all the guys you can stand. I NEED it. Thanks.

OHOHOHO THANK YOU FRIEND

#3 What is your OC's fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw?

Donovan Crane's is that he becomes obsessive over a single idea above all else. he gets so buried in his work that he starts forgoing sleep, food, social contact, etc to pursue it. he also has a bad habit of uprooting himself and disappearing when life is going badly for him. he is aware of both of these flaws, but does not feel he can do anything to prevent them

Astrid Lang is confident that she can fix people. she will get under their skins to figure out how they work and stick with bad relationships because she sees them as a project and a puzzle to be solved. she genuinely means well by this, but her methods are a bit invasive so they drive off a lot of people. she is not aware of this flaw

Paul Z. Bell is deeply afraid of commitment. he tries to smooth ruffled feathers as much as he can for fear of rejection and this leads to him vacillating on decisions all the time. making hard decisions for his own life and own benefit is not something he is inclined to do. he is very aware of this flaw

The Radio Ghost tends to form strong one-sided relationships with others who show them even the slightest amount of consideration extremely quickly. they are so starved for positive interaction they latch on and won't let go. i was going to say that they are not aware of this flaw but i believe deep down they are

Bruce Janacek is the kind of man who gets along with everyone but no one really knows him that well. he always has a smile or an anecdote for you but he keeps himself tucked away, hidden, making no connections. he is aware of this flaw

likewise, John "Shivers" Watson also refuses to let himself be known, just by making himself as abrasive as possible to drive others away. shivers is incredibly lonely, but this is to protect himself and to protect everyone else from getting too close and getting attached. he is aware of this flaw, and is doing it on purpose. he also has a massive ego lol

Stacey Brown firmly believes in the power of Niceness and Decency to conquer all. some of this may be naivete, or a willingness to cover over unpleasantness to maintain appearances, or just sheer teeth-gritting hope, but it's very important to her. she is not aware of this flaw yet

Eats Spiders When No One's Looking literally died when he poked his nose into somewhere he shouldn't have, so i'd say that's the most perfect definition of a fatal flaw there is. intense curiosity, combined with poor judgement, rashness, and inexperience is a bad combination. he is now aware of this flaw, but will he need to be reminded in the future?

for this ask game

[ex-vespidae]

the worst kind of gjinkas is when people take a fucking canonically ancient character and make them into the most bland looking anime teenager-looking person

hhh

[kiwiana-writes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

A big ol' fuck you to @rmd-writes for the tag xoxo

1. How many works do you have an AO3? Lol. Lmao even. 289.

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 914,620 on AO3, but that includes co-writes as well as things I've podficced where the fic and pod are in the same work. My actual personally-written wordcount, per my Batshit Spreadsheet, is 771,819.

3. What fandoms do you write for? Mostly RWRB these days, though most of my back catalogue is Schitt's Creek. Also The Pairing and various other things scattered about.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Kinda think that I might be his type aka Alex and Bea fake date coming in at the top spot, which will never not bewilder me. Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely fic!! But I am always surprised that it was a few hundred more kudos than:

With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest), the Much Ado actors AU. My magnum opus, my beloved.

We were supposed to find this - baby's first soulmate AU and my first RWRB fic. The brainrot really took hold with this one lmao.

All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers, in which Henry takes 'open mouth insert foot' to a whole new level.

Warm like the glow that you feel head to toe, the age gap fic with older Senator Alex and younger Prince Henry. This is probably the only one in my top five that really surprises me, considering age gaps are... divisive.

5. Do you respond to comments? Always always always.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I mean I did write that one MCD fic in Schitt's Creek, though I maintain the other five parts in that 5+1 are in fact angstier than the MCD ending.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Uhhhhhhh, the rest? The Doylist answer is any of my fics where the HEA is literally forever rather than 'till death do us part'; so, the Schitt's Creek afterlife AU and the RWRB zombie!Alex AU. (Is that all? Am I forgetting one?)

8. Do you get hate on fics? Yeah, sometimes. Weirdly, more through tumblr anons than on the fics themselves? A lot of them I just delete, sometimes I'll give them a bit of a public scolding etc. Frankly at this point if you come into my ask box to be a cunt on anon I'm going to assume you have a public humiliation kink and will indulge you accordingly.

9. Do you write smut? Who's to say.

10. Do you write crossovers? I'm more inclined towards a fusion than a crossover (love a good media fusion) but I did write a short RWRB/The Pairing crossover for VoiceTeam.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope. Someone did ask recently, so we'll see!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? HEAPS. @ships-to-sail is an ongoing collaborator, but I also did a bunch of "each write a chapter" type collabs in Schitt's Creek. Currently co-writing something truly fucking incredible with @indestructibleheart.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? IDK if it's a WIP by the strictest definition, but every day the likelihood of the SC kink!verse series being completed slips further away lol.

16. What are your writing strengths? Rae, you're the worst.

Smut, I guess? Giving people new kinks, apparently. Character voice. Also a very specific type of world-building where I explain nothing because the characters already live in that world and let y'all infer how it works, which came up a LOT on one of this year's Kinktober fics in particular and led to my spouse saying "okay so you're basically the Brennan Lee Mulligan of tree fucking", which is sure not a sentence I expected to ever be directed towards me, but here we are.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Anything original, apparently. Good thing I didn't quit my job to be a writer or anything OH WAIT.

(In all seriousness, though, I am genuinely shit at, like, plotting. And action sequences.)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? If it makes sense for the character, sure! I'm enlisting someone who speaks it for anything more complicated than, like, a pet name - I've seen what Google Translate tries to spit out for my second language and therefore don't trust it lmao.

19. First fandom you wrote for? terf queen mcgee's property.

20. Favourite fics you've written? The RWRB fic specifically based on the episode The Husbands of River Song from Doctor Who. Hands down the best thing I've ever written.

I also fucking LOVED the Much Ado actor AU. My love letter to Shakespeare and theatre and queer joy.

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Tagging @blueeyedgrlwrites @cactusdragon517 @cricketnationrise @firenati0n @getmehighonmagic

@hgejfmw-hgejhsf @indestructibleheart @inexplicablymine @notspecialbabe @orchidscript

@piratefalls @sherryvalli @sparklepocalypse @stereopticons @whimsymanaged and, as always, anyone who wants to play! 

[notfknapplicable]

I saw your tag about Sense8 on that post about how some 9-1-1 fans reacted to Buck and Tommy flirting and I just wanted to let you know it really tickled me (and also you're 100% right)

Oh hunny. The first time we see the heroic trans lesbian hacktivist character, she is receiving the strap from her Black lesbian girlfriend in the gayest place on earth. All to cure a headache that turns out to be much, much more. But some folks are clutching their pearls over a throwaway daddy kink joke made between two boyfriends eating dinner. I mean, we all know why they're in their feelings about it (because they want their own ship to be canon and are searching for any way to bash the Tommy character because he's been paired with one half of said ship) and they are absolutely showing their asses in the worst way.

I've been participating in fandoms and fan spaces for literal decades and I am no stranger to a ship war. But I've really never seen anything like this. I can only compare it to what happened with Arrow when they managed to bully the writers into getting rid of the Green Arrow's canon love interest in favor of a raging Mary Sue, and it made the show demonstrably worse. I really hope that they are not able to pull that off with 9-1-1 because I think they've struck gold with BuckTommy. It makes the most sense, and also let's keep it 100 here - Eddie is straight. The creators and the actor has said as much many, many times. Personally I try not to pay much attention to what creators and actors have to say because I feel like it poisons the well of fanworks and fandom, but some folks don't wanna accept that this shit walks and talks like a duck. Eddie is a heterosexual. It's on screen in the text and it's come down from the people actually creating the show.

I have only been watching this show since two Saturdays ago and I gotta say that the tinhats and BoBs here are WILD. The other day I saw a post suggesting that someone bomb the studio because of BuckTommy. Not to mention the posts claiming pain, suffering, and mental anguish over their ship not being canon after years of "campaigning." These folks either have no idea or don't want to accept that the industry simply doesn't work that way, not to mention HEY it's just a tv show you should NOT be letting it have THIS much power over you. If you're really slipping into depression over not seeing two fictional white men slappin' each other's meat, then there's something more at play here. I don't really wanna get into all of that, but I do wish those people healing.

Also, as a newbie, all of this drama and mudslinging has only made me more resolute in my decision to support the canon ships and canon queers of this program. Watching Buddie shippers get legit unhinged (bombing the studio? harassing actors on their personal social media? reviewing bombing?) over fictional people does not make me wanna break bread with them. I like plenty of non-canon queer ships (most of mine aren't canon, actually) and at one time I might have been down to get on board with that ship, but uhhhhhhh not now.

[jellydishes]

tagged by @broodsys, tagging @skeletonsgeorg and @neonhoneycomb and @diroxy

1. How many works do you have on AO3 uhhhhhhh hang on i gotta combine three different accounts lol. ANSWER: 209

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 383,402 + 194,512 + 6,876 = 584,790

3. What fandoms do you write for? Dragon age 2 and Transformers, mostly, but i randomly branch out on occasion

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? uhhh on my main account?

misfiled, a magnus archives fic, with 314 kudos

mama said there'd be days like this, a bojack horseman story with 246

the trick is not to look down, an avatar: the last airbender fic, with 227

two truths, a disco elysium nsfw story with 184

only our enemies leave roses, an umbrella academy fic, with 177

(bonus round, i won't be linking these bc it's my forbidden account, HOWEVER: 173, 124, 118, 114, and 111 kudos for the top five)

5. Do you respond to comments? i do! often very very late because of my social anxiety, but yes

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhhhhhhhhh OH! that would be one breath, two

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? offhand??? maybe bone meal

8. Do you get hate on fics? fairly regularly for my forbidden account, yes, i just got a nasty comment last week

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? every couple of months, yes. typically m/f or f/f in general, [REDACTED] for my forbidden account

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? very occasionally. i did a final fantasy seven/fire emblem or a while back, which fulfills both criteria

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? idk? probably, but i don't worry about it very much

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? not to my knowledge

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? yup! i worked together on a couple dragon age fic before, for instance, as well as on my second forbidden account lol, this one specifically for transformers

14. What's your all time favorite ship? uhhhhhhhh idk probably bethany hawke/literally anybody

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? the sequel fic for believe it's easier for you

16. What are your writing strengths? dialogue and characterization

17. What are your writing weaknesses? action scenes and plot

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i mean if i knew another language sure

19. First fandom you wrote for? uhhhh either yuyu hakusho or h*rry p*tter

20. Favorite fic you've written? idkkkk uhhh potentially silhouette, which is a hard fic to pitch to people but it's the fic that first saw me experiment with writing an nd protagonist back in the day, so i have a lot of affection for it

[tblueger]

15 people 15 questions

i was tagged by @girlfriendline and @babygirlboberrey THANK YOUUU

1. are you named after anyone?

no i just liked the name :3 ALTHOUGH. after i started using theo i watched teen wolf and the chilling adventures of sabrina, both of which feature a character called theo. but i had it FIRST. OKAY.

2. when was the last time you cried?

uhhhhhhh before christmas i think? but i can't remember when. or why. 👍

3. do you have kids?

IM kids. (23). no i do not and idk if i ever want to tbh

4. what sports do you play/have you played?

i used to play netball & a little bit of (field) hockey! also not sure it technically counts as a sport but i like to go ice skating :3

5. do you use sarcasm?

yes but in the bad, autistic way where no one seems to pick up on it and i have to explain it every time :/

6. what's the first thing you notice about people?

probably clothes ? i struggle with faces so even if i do look at that first, as soon as i stop looking at it it is completely blank. but also idk i don't. meet that many new people and whenever i do something where The Public is i try to avoid eye contact as much as possible.

7. what's your eye colour?

grey/green :3

8. scary movies or happy endings?

i'm a horror bitch forever and ever and ever. i want blood and tragedy and gore and destruction and that is why i am a fan of the minnesota wild. 🫶

9. any talents?

i hate this question bc what are we counting as a talent. um. every joint in my body cracks?

10. where were you born?

england ! big up yorkshire babyyyyyy

11. what are your hobbies?

i like writing and horror (resident evil and saw and texas chainsaw massacre and dead by daylight and friday the thirteenth an) and POKEMON and reading and ice skating. obviously hockey. i don't bake as much as i want to but i like baking as well ^_^

12. do you have any pets?

two!! two cats: spike (black and white tabby, incredibly clingy and anxious and floppy. my soppy silly baby) and tyla (fat and orange and So demanding and spoilt. he likes to be lifted into the sink so that he can drink out of the tap and insists on being escorted everywhere like a stupid little prince)

13. how tall are you?

5'9

14. favourite subject in school?

i was a little NERD. in school. i liked all of it. i have awards for further maths (like regular maths, but More) and chemistry so. maths and chemistry <3 except then i went and got a degree in chemistry which sucked and now i hate it. so.

15. dream job?

I Do Not Dream Of Labour. but author probably ... that's what i've wanted to do since i was like. 9 and read percy jackson LOL

and then i'm tagging. uh. i think everyone's already been tagged but im going to do it again. @timbitshockey @amandaleveille @masonshaws @girldewar @kittyjarry @wildaboutmnhockey @jasonzucker and? the girl reading this.

[mr-laveau]

20 Questions for Fic Writers Game

Tagged by a darling, @autisticempathydaemon! Thanks for the tag!

Tagging @agentplutonium because I wanna pull some SH style interrogative shenanigans/lh

1 - How many works do you have on AO3?

Seventeen, not a lot but it's to be expected somewhat I suppose since I'm busy writing NeXus.

2 - What's your total AO3 word count?

64,509-Oh look I beat Lexi/j/pos

3 - What fandoms do you write for?

Redacted mostly, I have some unreleased Castle Audios fics, an unfinished JJBA SDC fic to finish and a Scott Pilgrim fic to start.

4 - What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

#1 is an Ironpanther Marvel Fic of Avenger's Academy I have not touched in forever called "How Tony Stark landed a king and how T'Challa landed a genius". It was fun tho cuz my hc of T'Challa being demisexual was really well received to my knowledge. #2 is "Spitfire", which admittedly is a good FL/Damien fic and people should read it. #3 is "Ghost of the Past", my Sam/SH fic where they both used to be roommates in DUMP. #4 is "Friends...Am I right?" which was a really fun Darlin/Sam & BE+Fred fic. Finally, #5 is "Moments That Flash By" which is a really good Darlin/David fic for my soul.

5 - Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do respond when I remember...ADHD makes me do silly silly things like forget that stuff exists. I like comments and they let me know I'm doing s good job.

6 - What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Easy! "Shattered Glass Makes a Good Weapon" Gods, I love that fic so much. It was really fun for me to reach deep down and write Darlin and Quinn like that.

7 -What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

uhhhhhhh I dunno, probably a Marvel fic called "Crossing Buckies and Dotting Hawkeyes", I am a winterhawk girlie and I had fun writing that, others might think it's "Spitfire" or "Break time, Gorgeous" but subjectively, it's that fic.

8 - Do you get hate on fics?

If I have then I haven't seen it. I don't really engage much with fandom to care about hate comments because "haha, look at you getting mad over words about fictional characters kissing", like shut your goofy ass and move on.

9 - Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have but I'm not releasing it. I don't feel compelled to do it-mostly cuz it's for me and I like toying with the idea in my head and the people of my current fandom are not ready for the depravity I could unleash.

10 - Do you write crossovers?

No? I have ideated one but I'm still not sure if I want to do it.

11 - Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope.

12 - Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nuh uh.

13 - Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Uhhhh no but I have ideated with Lexi about one and I have been too busy to finish the first chapter.

14 - What's your all time favorite ship?

My redactedsona/redacted men What? who said that? It's Darlin/Sam/David/Angel/Damien/Asher/Baaabe/SH/Milo. It's my ship and yes, they're all poly, yes, they're a network and yes, I am happy with myself.

15 - What's a WIP that you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

"Platinum Portrait", It was an old JJBA fic with my OC/Jotaro and I really liked how it was going. Dunno, we'll see how it goes.

16 - What are your writing strengths?

I'm good at dialogue and characterization as well as pacing(?).

17 - What are your writing weaknesses?

Gore, writing long fics, Dead Dove Do Not Eats (I wanna do those at some point with Quinn or Hush OR Porter OR OR OR Imperium Vincent) I like dark shit, idk what to tell y'all and I wanna get better at exploring darker topics properly in my writing.

18 - Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Gods, I love doing it. If you've read "Break Time, Gorgeous" then I want you to know, I love you and it was fun as hell to write.

19 - First fandom you wrote for?

Marvel. Specifically it was my Ironpanther fic.

20 - Favorite fic you've written?

An unreleased Sam/Darlin smut fic where they fuck in an alleyway. I think it's fun.

[one-winged-dreams]

B-Word

ship: the reveries of my mind (adri x akingreaux), (pl: adri and mallory [oc]) source: original content word count: 947

uhhh UHHHHHHH

you know >_>;

Also introducing an old oc of mine, Mal. She's super goth, and a trans woman who changed her name to Mallory Practice because she's a badass that does burlesque and thought her stage name would be cool to have legally. Her gimmick is sexy nurse. I love her to pieces.

tag list: @dearly-beeloved @camellias-and-coriander @rebel-wolf13 @sunstar-of-the-north @mahitoslittlebird @goldenworldsabound @edencantstopfallininlove @sosoftandsweet @dorothys-wife @faerie-circle-ships @kylars-princess

"I'm gonna go take a smoke break, actually maybe watch the counter for me?"

Adri's head abruptly lifted from the surface of the checkout counter, unflatteringly disoriented.

"Wha? Oh shit, yeah okay, Mal."

Mallory regarded him behind raven-colored bangs, her ever-crimson lips pursing into a line.

Then she huffed.

"Not that it matters, your boyfriend has been chatting up the clientele the whole time you were dreaming about him."

The comment was brazen, and Adri's face went red.

"D-don't say that word, Mal!" he hiss-whispered.

He could FEEL Mallory's eyebrow raise despite being unable to see it.

"Say what? Boyfriend? That's like, what he is, right?"

Silence.

"Stop denying the boyfriend allegations. Doesn't he like, live with you? I told you how fucked that is, right? Because that's kinda fucked. You met him like what, a few weeks ago? A month tops?" Mallory's tone wasn't judgmental so much as blunt.

Technically, and he would never tell Mallory this, Akingraeux had moved in only a couple DAYS after they had met. Per their… Arrangement. But he couldn't exactly say, 'Hey, he's an old god that's starved for faith and I'm stupid and gay, so I said I'd give it to him.'

"Well he's… It wasn't in a gay way, he just needed a place to stay. He was… Inbetween homes? A-And he works from home, so how is he supposed to do his job if he's homeless!" Adri realized he had descended into frantic rambling, which was never a good look in Mal's eyes.

"Right," was all she said and this time, there WAS a tint of judgment to her words. Then she sighed, pulling out a box of menthols and shaking one out. "Well, if slash when he turns out to be a jackass, I'll totes drag him out of there by his hair if I need to. Though he kinda looks like the type of guy that'd like that."

"MAL!"

"ADRI!"

Adri's pout incited a Mallory smirk before she made her grand exit towards the back of the gallery. He made sure the clicking of her heels was out of hearing range before he came from behind the counter and made his way to the front of the shop.

Aki was there, his arms folded over his chest as the bell over the door rang, signifying that someone had just left.

"Stop scaring off the customers," Adri commented, crossing his own arms and craning his neck to look up at Aki as he stood beside him.

"I'm NOT! It's so hurtful that you would say that, have you considered people might actually want to come talk to me?" Aki mock-pouted, contrastingly wrapping an arm around Adri's shoulders and giving him a little shake as he was wont to do.

Adri couldn't help but crack a small smile, his cheeks heating up.

"Was that Kylar, then?"

"Del, actually. Birthday shopping and all that jazz."

Adri blinked.

"Oh shit, is Kylar's birthday coming up or something?"

Nodding, Aki screwed his mouth to the side thoughtfully.

"Yeah, wondering if we should get him something and/or what."

Adri mimicked the expression, finding himself leaning into Aki's side. He was always so warm. And he smelled nice. And-

"Uhhh, we could cut out the semantics and let him have first pick next market? No charge, obvs," he managed to keep himself from sounding flustered, though his face had reddened marginally.

"COOL, SO GLAD I ASKED YOU TO DO YOUR JOB, YOU'RE THE BEST, ADRI!" came Mal's voice from the back of the shop.

At the sudden scolding, Adri winced but smiled all the same.

"She's not being cruel, that's just her brand of affection. Buuut I'm sure you're acquainted enough to know that by now."

"Oh yeah, totally. You introduced me to your friends, biiig step. We'll be wed in no time," Aki squinted with an instigative grin, and Adri knew that he could feel the way his heart thumped wildly at the comment.

"N- Y- I-"

"Shhhh, don't talk. You're just so sexy when you speak eloquently to me," Aki mercilessly continued his onslaught of teasing.

"S-Stop it! You're so mean to me!" Adri ultimately pouted, ducking out from under his arm and standing with his back facing Aki.

Aki laughed, returning his arms to their position over his chest.

"Don't say that so loud, Mal might drag me out of here by my hair."

"She said she thinks you'd be into that."

"Oh, I am."

Checkmate, Adri's face burned again.

"I'm gonna goooo back to the gallery, I think some of the prints need restocked," he half-muttered.

"You want me to stay out of your way?" Aki inquired with a tilt of his head.

Silence.

"Ohhh, you want my company. How veeeerrry scandalous, being on the clock and all."

"D-Do whatever you want!" Adri whirled around now, biting his lower lip in embarrassment.

"Hah! What I want," Aki approached, his torturous advances continuing as he tilted Adri's head up, "is to spend a little quality time while you do what you love."

Adri hadn't expected something so romantic, his wide eyes blinking. He was unaware of how those eyelashes fluttering affected Aki, whose smirk widened further only slightly.

"O-Okay… Thanks," was all he could bring himself to say, turning his head to the side, as was the only way he could escape eye contact.

Aki let out another 'hah!', releasing Adri's chin to ruffle his hair.

"Of course," he replied, passing Adri as he began to make his way to the gallery. He paused, turning his head around enough that Adri could make out a pleased squint through a gap in his hair. "That's what boyfriends are for, right?"

[marmolita]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better:

I was tagged by @ivorydice , thanks!

3 Ships I like: Noctis/everyone, Seifer/Squall, Dean/Castiel

First Ship Ever: Before I knew what fanfic was a friend and I wrote a fic for The Dark is Rising sequence that was Will/Jane? But the first one I was super into and read and wrote for was Kim/Torres on Star Trek: Voyager.

Last Song You Heard: my kid was listening to some violin lullabies and one is stuck in my head now but idk what it's called

Favorite Childhood Book: uhhhhhhh man idk, I guess the dark is rising sequence tbh

Currently Reading: all the ffxv fic posted after summer 2019

Currently Watching: I'm kinda halfway through many rewatches but not done with any of them, and not actively watching anything. Instead I'm actively playing FFXV and its DLCs.

Currently Consuming: Nothing, I'm laying in bed lol

Currently Craving: any really good ffxv or ffviii fic that meets my exacting specifications and which I haven't already read

Tag 9 people: @mylittleredgirl @wildehacked @star54kar @chasingfigments @crosbyism and idk whoever else wants to do it? and no pressure if you don't want to obvs!

[hangmanbradshaw]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @urmomsonfire and I figured I should keep going with the writing questions today!!! (thanks kale, love u)

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 17

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 796,198 (do we think I can crack a million in close to a year we'll see)

3. What fandoms do you write for? I'm still living in Top Gun summer so I'll just be vibing here for a while

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

i want to brainwash you into loving me forever (nfl fake dating au)

baby, i'm howlin' for you (wolves & foxes au)

i can't stop you putting roots in my dreamland (rival princes au)

loose lips sink ships all the damn time (pirates au)

Love (Suite Love) (my travlor inspired AU lmao)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I try to!! I'm really behind right now because I get really sucked into writing (and life, been very busy with my social calendar at the moment) but eventually I'll go through and catch up. Writing like this is for community, ya know? Engagement? Making friends, being crazy together, it's the vibe. (Plus every time a comment notification dings, an idea angel gets its wings lmao it's my fave part- talking to people)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Unhappy ending? Don't know her. I guess you can make my wish come true just cuz it ends with them deciding to kidnap the president and cyclone being like oh my god

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? it's 2am and i'm cursing your name is pretty stupid sweet but also wanna be your left hand man/iwtby left off prettyyyyyyy sweet

8. Do you get hate on fics? Everyone's always been sooooo sweet.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? *glances at my work from the corner of my eye* yes. just yes.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? My mummy fic has actual mummy characters. But I've written a lot of like inspired ones? Some loose, some closer. One based off the Mummy, one that's a mummy/national treasure crossover LMAO, one off Jurassic Park, one off Twister, one off Beauty & the Beast kinda, one off princess & the frog, one kinda princess diaries 2/how to lose a guy BUT I actually have an insane idea I came up with recently that would be a uhhhhhhh crossover I guess........I'm giggling as I think about it

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? I don't think so? I hope not.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? some people have asked! So maybe soon.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? nope! but I love to riff with other writers. i'm way too particular about my own work to co-write probably tbh

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? Hangster currently! prev: buddie, destiel, sharpay/gabriella from hsm (leave me alone lmao).

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? if I post I am going to make myself finish but I have some I've never posted that I doubt I'll finish (one's a rivals fake dating destination wedding)

16. What are your writing strengths? I'd say melancholic fluffy humor and banter, others have told me world building and being lowkey emotional

17. What are your writing weaknesses? being concise and angst actually- I struggle with that sometimes

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? Amazing when people can do it, but I tend to avoid writing it since I'm not fluent.

19. First fandom you wrote for? High School Musical and then I took a massive break and started with Top Gun again.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? I love all my babies for different reasons but IWTBY & That Little Farm are currently my true loves

Tagging anyone who wants to do this, also @paulmezcal as a welcome to tumblr (no pressure you def don't have to do it haha)

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20 questions for fic writers

Thank you @rocketnebulas for tagging me!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

That would be 158!

2. What’s your total word count?

Uhhhhh 1,905,572. Ahah.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Recently and actively, Stranger Things and The Lost Boys. I've also been reasonably prolific for Gravity Falls and Rise of the Guardians.

4. Top 5 fics by kudos

This actually surprised me! Duskfall (a Bella/Tanya Twilight AU) is top of this list. And then the rest are more in line with what I expected: Raising Stakes (Gravity Falls vampire!Stan AU), Return, Rewind, Rewrite (Gravity Falls Transcendence AU), Reincarnation Blues (also Gravity Falls Transcendence AU), and A Semi-Normal Life (ditto).

5. Do you respond to comments?

Most of 'em, eventually.

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I think that's gotta go to this one, where everybody's dead but the main character, who thinks it's his fault. I don't write a lot of angsty non-ambiguous endings, but this one's pretty explicit that things Do Not Improve from here.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Uhhhhhhh. Hm.

Actually, it might be Hive! Which is a weird thing to say about a horror story, and yet.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully I haven't! Although I did once get a tumblr ask trying to gotcha me for writing Jack Frost/Pitch Black, which was extremely funny, because 1) that ship is between two several-hundred-year-old immortals who tried very hard to kill each other for the entire movie and this person was concerned because they thought there might be an age gap between them, and 2) I had written that ship exactly once, at least five years prior to receiving the ask, as a favour for a friend.

9. Do you write smut?

Verrrrrrry occasionally.

10. Do you write crossovers?

There's a reason my profile on AO3 includes the line "I was born with the gift of crossover femslash and I intend to make it everyone's problem."

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Only, as far as I know, by the usual AO3-scraping suspects. Although someone did once rewrite a fairly unique AU of mine from a different character's perspective, using almost all the same plot points, and didn't breathe a word that it had been inspired by my fic or that my fic even existed, which, like. Man, I'm glad you wrote that thing and felt good enough about it to share it, but also a little bit what the fuck.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

A few times! It's always an honour.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Exactly once. Wouldn't do it again unless the stars aligned absolutely perfectly.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

That's a trick question and one that I will not be answering at this time.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you will?

I am going to finish Something Borrowed, Something Blues, so I guess that doesn't count. Uhhhh it would have been nice to finish Imbalance, but I just didn't have as much of a plan for it as I thought I had, and the more time passes the poorer taste the plan I did have seems to be in.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Personally, I think that characterisation is the big one. I can pull together a plot that makes sense and has an emotionally satisfying conclusion. I'm very happy with the way I write suspense/tension. And I've had a couple people now tell me that I do a good job of being descriptive without the description getting in the way, which I'm very proud about.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Pacing! Action scenes! The Dreaded Middle! Not overusing italics!

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

I've done it, like, twice and I had to use Google Translate because I didn't speak the language and I felt so dirty. For anything more than a word or two, I'd personally either describe the character talking without actually writing out what they're saying (if the POV character doesn't understand what they're saying) or write out/paraphrase the dialogue in English (if the POV character is the speaker/if the POV character does understand what the speaking character is saying).

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Wrote for was probably Pokemon, wayyyyyyyyy back in elementary school. Posted was the Hugh Jackman-Kate Beckinsale fever dream Van Helsing. Thankfully I think that one is lost amongst the ruins of ff.net.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

It's still the road goes ever on. It's gonna be the road goes ever on for, like, a while.

I'm going to tag @gretchensinister, @tejoxys, @amethystunarmed, @seiya234, @marzipanandminutiae, @bixxelated, @daddygrandpaandthebeaver, @enquiringangel, @astriiformes, @scribefindegil, @mickeymagpie, and anybody else who'd like to give this a shot!

[wahbegan]

Tagged by @kittybunnyhugs thank youuuuu uwu okay five songs on repeat recently

Leonard Cohen-You Want it Darker

A million candles burning for the help that never came

I'm a little embarrassed to admit i first heard this song in a fucking Assassin's Creed trailer, but god i love this song. There's just something about religious artists at the end of their life wrestling with God and their own mortality ooh chef's kiss

The Smashing Pumpkins-Mayonaise

Fool enough to almost be it, cool enough to not quite see it

I know this song is a big fan-favorite for SP fans, but i only started getting into it recently. Wish I had gotten into it earlier, it's one of those songs where just the guitar work itself makes you emotional. Oh my God. Beautiful.

Various artists-The Parting Glass

Good night, and joy be with you all

Yeah, I know I know I'm an unstable sad boy and Eireaboo, but I have uh hold on...five versions of this song. Cara Dillon, Hozier, boygenius and Ye Vagabonds on their tribute to Sinead O'Connor, The Pogues, and the version in AC IV: Black Flag. It's a beautiful song, what can i say? I literally want it played at my funeral so like

Kelli Schaefer & Nathan Grigg-Fires of War

One burning candle, one wind-whipped flame I carry in my teeth like an animal, vengeance my strength

Yeah, another video game song, idk what it is with me recently but regardless, this song pumps me the FUCK up. It's a good song to have on repeat when you want to fuck some shit up, but like in an emotional kind of way.

The Walkmen-The Rat

When I used to go out I would know everyone that I saw, now I go out alone if I go out at all

And now for something completely different. I don't know, this is one of those alt sounds you hear for the first time and somehow it feels like you've known it since you were a teenager. Golden, I love it

That's about it for me who am i gonna tag uhhhhhhh first few people who come to mind @officerkisnotokay @immortalbeloved @maryreadings oh @adlibitur

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Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @extraordinarilyextreme, 谢谢

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

On my current account, 25! (not counting everything from my old account I deleted in 2020)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

On said current account, 53,972

What fandoms do you write for?

As of right now the brainrot has taken me to MLC, and if I ever get my motivation back, then also DMBJ

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. The War Is Over, And We Are Beginning - Jiang Cheng & Jin Ling, 7.6k, Post-Canon

2. all of this mess (is just my attempt) - Chengning, 2.6k, Cloud Recesses

3. hold the world to its best - Jiang Cheng, 859, Long After Canon

4. won't run away (we're here to stay) - Chengning, 3.5k, Post-Canon

5. welcome to the storm - Jiang Cheng, 1.6k, Fall of Lotus Pier

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to, but god help the ADHD. I read and cherish every one I get though, I promise!!

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

It's either didn't want us to burn out, which was canon timeline Chengxuan, or come back and haunt me, which was canon timeline Sangyu. I think I'll go with the latter. It had more tragedy about identity and memory, I think

(There's also one Hamlet fic I'm proud of, but that was a one-off I wrote. You can go find it if you want)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Oh boy, uhhhhhhh. Out of the stuff currently associated with me, it'll be one of the Chengning fics, I think, or my aro!Wei Wuxian Ningxian fic. Not gonna lie it's slim pickings for happy endings around here haha

Do you get hate on fics?

No, thank god. I was always too much of a small fic writer for that.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Hahaha, not really. I'll do handwavey and fade to black but that's about it. Might get there one day though!

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Nope, not a crossover person unfortunately unless you want to count the sins on my old laptop from my superwholock era (I don't)

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Ehhhhh..... as of recently, ideas yes but actual written fics, not that I'm aware of

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! A couple of my MDZS fics and one MCU fic back in the day got translated into Russian

What's your all-time favorite ship?

Bestie I live in multishipper hell you can't make me decide

What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Basically every DMBJ wip at this point in time, but particularly the one I'm furthest along on that I do not have a working title for other than 'horrible huaxie backstory'. My relationship with DMBJ has changed a LOT since getting into it this year and now my hyperfixation is somewhere else, so who knows what'll happen *shrugs*

What are your writing strengths?

I've been told my narration has a distinctive voice to it, and I think that's what people tend to compliment most? Dialogue is also something I've tried to consciously work on over the years, and I don't know that it stands out as a strength necessarily but it's almost something I find easy to write these days if I'm in the swing of it

What are your writing weaknesses?

Action and smut. Basically don't make me mentally choreograph complex stuff

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Now that my Mandarin has improved after two years of study, I think writing bilingual fic could be fun. There's definitely dialogue I've thought up in Mandarin for C-Drama characters that just won't have the same impact in English, and it's a shame I can't just casually drop it into a fic untranslated and be done with it

First fandom you wrote for?

First fics I ever wrote were for Star Wars and they were written longhand into a horrid little hipster notebook from Indigo. The first fics I posted on Ao3 were for the MCU though

Favorite fic you've written?

Nah I'm not choosing on this, I have no idea <3

Tagging @nutcasewithaknife, @eirenical, and @ilgaksu (only if you want to and apologies if you've already done this 😅)

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9 People You Would Like to Get to Know Better.

Thanks for the tag, @shootingstarpilot!! :))

Three ships: Hmmm. Codywan is obviously a big one for me haha, I'd say they're probably my main ship. The Star Wars brainrot is severe right now, but I'll also say Aziraphale/Crowley from Good Omens (hey, samesies, @shootingstarpilot :D haha) and Spirk (though I am becoming fond of McKirk in AOS specifically as well, after having dabbled in writing that dynamic myself).

First ever ship: Uhhhhhhh fuck. Um. I think??? It would be Magnus/Alec from the Shadowhunter books??? I think the first one I ever actually wrote for, myself, may have been Codywan though, since most of what I made when I first started out was OC and then reader fic. I had a lot of anxiety about trying to manage characterization back then and having one of the protags be a non-canon character felt like less pressure, I guess.

Last song: Holy by King Princess, I think. There's not enough unabashedly horny sapphic music that's by and for sapphic people.

Last movie: My short-term memory is garbage lol, but the last movie I remember watching right now is Hocus Pocus.

Currently reading: I haven't really had the spoons for anything published lately, but I'm currently rereading @fox-trot 's And I Fear Nothing again bc I saw some art they posted from it and it just gives me so many feelings.

Currently consuming: Sprite, and I had a croissant breakfast sandwich a few hours ago. Mourning that I don't think we ever actually took the dumdums we bought the other night out of my roommate's car.

Currently craving: A fucking nap, honestly. Maybe a day without a single item on my to-do list.

No pressure tags to @brigittttoo, @meebles, @dontbelasagnax, @ferretrade, @foreverchangingfandomsao3, @brokenphoenix99, @jonapoints, @all-the-nerdthings, @ladylucksrogue, and anyone else that wants to play:)

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@chans-room and @eureka-its-zico tagged me in a wip thing sooooooo

post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous they are. let people send you an ask with any titles most intriguing to them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

So I had to go give a bunch of names to approximately 6000 Untitled Documents...

ntm I don't want to (drbb)

ksm owrp

drbb club night

kjy solo - morning jealousy (drbb)

hb alone (drbb)

micona (drbb)

Robotwink 5000

drskz

Carrier - full

gd - tuesday (drbb)

dratz

drbb end

hidden talent - full

sleepless

crybaby 2.0

snapshots - full

digitalis - full

JAN - full

bad decisions - full

Chul POV (drbb)

T.O.P sections (drbb)

mv rain w/ zipyo (drbb)

in the US??? (drbb)

jackjoon

subjoon

FreakHo

A LOT of these are snippets for DRBB (marked as such) and there is no fucking way I can come up with over 20 people... uhhhhhhh idk if we're moots but I really wanna know what @leviackermanscleaningbuddy has in the vault lol uhhhh... and @honeyhotteoks too and uhhhh... (my adhd brain really said "no memories just vibes" huh?)

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Stuff in my WIPs Folder

Tagged by @foxyyaoguai, thank you!!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you asks with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

so, the thing is XD i have uhhhhhhh... multiple wip folders for organizational purposes and also because i'm just a mess. so i'll do a different set than i did last time!

a thousand ways to say i love you

niecest weekend 2023

halloween fic

[redacted] inspired thing

jadecest week 2023

lit the fuse and missed the candle

nhs thinks they're together, nmj doesn't

postcanon longfic

xisang week 2023

fic for the art

some are newer, some are older, some are almost done, and some aren't even close but this is the set i'll give you lol, it is but the tip of the iceberg. feel free to ask me about any of them if you'd like!

i'll tag a few people, but please don't feel obligated, it's just if you want to <3 @walkwithursus, @nova-appleade, @kaz3313, @ionshi-teiru, @snarkivistfic, @melodydrifts, @nomourningplease, @monroeknoxwrites, @rootingformephistopheles, @br-disaster