#was listening to the Arcane ost and could only think of this

[cesarescabinet]

Honestly imagine if they incorporate 'Dear Friend Across the River' into the score during the low-point of Viktor and Jayce's storyline.

Catch me like this if the violins kick in when Jayce abandons Viktor or vice-versa;

[zannolin]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by @beautyofsorrow ty sis <3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

visibly? 64. including anon? 110. including orphaned ones, 113. BOY i've been busy.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

774,206 with another ~28k waiting to be posted :)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

actively right now, just narnia. previously in descending order, as best as i can remember because i've been doing this 15+ years at this point: stranger things, the karate kid/cobra kai, lockwood & co, beyonders, the copernicus legacy, fnaf, national treasure, the shazam! movies, superman & lois, ginger snaps, resident evil, arcane, the batman 2022, star wars (jedi apprentice era mostly), a fandom that shall not be named (iykyk), the penumbra podcast, the magnus archives, bnha, voltron, miraculous ladybug, moulin rouge, warrior cats, my little pony, doctor who, disney/dreamworks (rotbtfd and frozen specifically), h*rry p*tter when i was a kid unfortunately, maximum ride, the mcu, the 39 clues, and of course, lord of the rings.

as a bonus, ones i have written but never finished include the man from snowy river (1982), the IT movies, bendy and the ink machine, fablehaven, the lunar chronicles, five kingdoms, keeper of the lost cities, oz, and atla.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

only doing ones visible on my ao3 for this because i despise all the anon ones that are my top five: paper faces (fnaf), harm's way (stranger things), (dental) care (bnha), pyrrhic victory (shazam) and please don't hold me to it (stranger things).

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

i try to! i don't often end up responding to every single one because it takes a lot of energy on my part, but especially if someone leaves a nice one that points out something specific they appreciated or noticed i like to try to respond and elaborate on it a little for funsies :) i try to let people know their comments are appreciated because maybe the positive reinforcement will spread the practice of commenting even more.

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

probably still greek tragedy aka my batman 2022 fic where i just fuckin killed that guy (batman). i usually tend towards fixits so i think the only other fic that doesn't have any kind of hopeful hint at the end i wrote would be like. close encounters. but that's part of a fixit series? which is why i don't count good luck, babe! from the same series because it reveals the end of the first wasn't actually as much of a bummer as you thought even if the situation isn't resolved yet. you know.

WAIT i lied i also wrote a klance titanic au in high school which was SOOO funny like not even titanic the movie. titanic the historical event. and i killed those guys. high school me was so funny and for what.

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

most of them. again, i'm a fixer at heart. but i would say probably wild blue yonder, my narnia wing au, 'cause literally everybody wins in that one. writing it made me able to listen to the prince caspian ost without crying for a solid couple weeks because i was like yayyyy fixit :) that's how powerful it is.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

not really.

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

no because i am overcome with secondhand embarrassment and shame and i dislike 90% of the vocabulary involved but sometimes i'm overcome with hubris reading bad smut and going "i could do better than this." like where is the eroticism. where's the character study. where's the unhinged vulnerability and intimacy. it's all so bad.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the wildest one you’ve written?

not at the moment, but i used to write rise of the brave tangled frozen dragons fic, and once i had an au where elsa was shipwrecked and lost her memory and washed up in america and made friends with spirit. you know. the stallion of the cimarron. i was an interesting child.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

no but i've had people ask which is fine by me.

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

yeah i used to co-write warriors fics with my friend in high school, and then i was co-writing a horror au series (tho not specific fics) with some friends a few years ago, and tam and i never did end up finishing the coma au but we WERE co-writing it at the time. and i was also part of a collaborative story project for a vld zine back in the day.

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

um i don't really know if i have one. i don't tend to focus on ships over everything else, though i have some beloved ones i'll always hold dear, like aragorn and arwen, quitahl, brileygail, the works.

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

i mean there's still the penumbra anastasia au on my ao3 so that's the easy answer. i'm also unsure if i'll ever get up the energy to complete the byler tsr au, or my reverse dawn treader au. i don't know. we'll see.

16. What are your writing strengths?

i'm good with character voices and getting inside characters' heads + to the meat of their relationships i think. i can write a bangin' metaphor. i'm good at melding my own style with the source material's style to make it feel more authentic. i am very very good about consistency and accuracy in details. i understand canon very well.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

too wordy. often spend too much time on introspection which jams up the pacing. plot.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

i would like to be able to do it but i do not speak anything but english and a little spanish so i'm pretty sure i'll fuck it up lol.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

lord of the rings. i still have this fic. it's handwritten on tinkerbell notebook paper.

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

i fear i am never topping north of desire and the national treasure polyfic.

tagging @thescrapwitch @wyverningx @brionysea if y'all haven't done this and you wanna :)