#what is going on in the trolls fandom rn i leave for 2 SECONDS-

[thecheeseoracle]

May I offer some (Trad) Goth Poppy x Rock Branch in these trying times? (～￣▽￣) I tried experimenting with the colors a lil bit but nothing felt right so I decided to keep it plain black!

I apologize if the style is off, I'm not as well versed in gothic clothing as I am in the music :P (GOTH TROLLS FANS RISE UP! (≧∀≦)ゞ)

Also, I gave Branch snakebites bc his face just felt empty without them lol. I might be projecting a lil-

[ninjakittenarmy]

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? Five, with plans for more.

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? Atm it's 366,713.

3. What fandoms do you write for? So far I've done Ib, Mad Father, Misao (RPGMaker Horror Games from the 2000s), Undertale, and Attack on Titan.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? 5 is the amount I have published so far lol.

1. Redemption and Revolution-It’s done, after all these years, monster kind can finally be free of their prison in the underground. But not all is well. A specter from the past haunts Frisk, and only by learning to move on from the past that never was can they both find peace. Meanwhile, another specter haunts the world. A war is brewing once again between the ways of old, and the way of the future. Dreams of world revolution and a classless society reignite, and soon the world will be divided between those who wish for a brighter future, and those who cling desperately to their own past that never was. Soon, the recently emerged monsters will need to choose what role they will play in this conflict, and what their place will be in the world. 2. Prismatic Rose- When Ib finds herself unable to burn Mary's painting, the trio decide to find a solution to their dilemma that makes everyone happy. 3. A Second Chance- Death is the end, for most people at least. Sometimes the dead return, tormented by their past. In many stories of such events, the only happy ending for these tortured souls is to move peacefully into the afterlife. This is not that type of story. A story about my take on the events of classic RPG Maker Horror Mad Father, with a notable divergence during the story. 4. Great Heathen Army- After the Titan Shifters' raid left her stranded outside Wall Rose, our friend made a great journey beyond the walls. Resigned to her fate she elected to venture further beyond the walls, taking down as many titans as she could. Rather than going down in a blaze of glory she expected, she would wind up discovering secrets of the world beyond that would change the course of history.

5. The Vengeful Dead (this one just started)- Over a century after the haunting of Drevis Mannor, in a world that has diverged quite a bit from our own into a world of magic and horror, the Drevis Family must face demons from their past as another vengeful spirit lays siege to a highschool in Tokyo, threatening the lives of countless innocents. Meanwhile, Aki Narukami must navigate the countless horrors threatening her and her fellow students to discover the truth behind the disappearance and death of her friend Misao, and the reason for her return from the grave to haunt the living.

5. Do you respond to comments? I do, as quickly as I can once I see they're there! I love comments! More comments!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Only two of them are actually done rn and both have happy endings lol.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? - Probably Prismatic Rose. A Second Chance comes in second but it's open ended for the sequel.

8. Do you get hate on fics? I got someone posting troll comments like twice but none other than that.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? God no. I'm sex repulsed af. Not really into writing porn.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? It's in the cards but I haven't yet.

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

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not yet. Prismatic Rose was based on another story though. It's gifted to the author.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? CronaXMaka from Soul Eater

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I am too stubborn to leave my work unfinished.

16. What are your writing strengths? Action scenes, dialogue, and worldbuilding I'd say are my strongpoints.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? My dialogue tends to get really long and I need to get better at breaking it up with actions. Also need to get better at finding the exact word I'm looking for.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I'd like to. Closest I've come is words and phrases. I need to learn more Russian lol.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Mad Father, classic RPGMaker Horror Game.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? That's a toughie. Rn it's a tie between A Second Chance and Redemption and Revolution.

@dreviscore @esli-art @aishutoon

Anyone else can join in. Those are just the people I know on tumblr who write fanfiction.

20 Questions for Fic Writers

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 49. I have a few options for #50…

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 299,440. Ok, I hadn’t realized I was that close. Now, my answer to #1 might be “a new 560-word drabble.”

3. What fandoms do you write for? I’m nearly exclusively writing for Avatar: Legend of Korra, with a little bit of Last Airbender, where it fits in.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

1. Rainstorm - Su is there for Lin, for once. 2. The Well of Need - My first long-form story, with Lin taking care of Kya. 3. This is My Anchor - A mid-sized Kyalin story where Lin doesn’t make Kya take care of her. 4. I’m Sorry I Need You - An angsty one-shot that fits with a couple others in the “marriage is hard” domain. 5. Walk With Me - A longer-than-intended one-shot variant on a Tumblr joke.

5. Do you respond to comments? I do, as soon as I can. Sometimes, that means getting off work. Sometimes, that means giving a response as meaningful as the comment was to me. 

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? For complete stand-alone stories, that is likely Something Changed, where the last words are usually joyous. I can’t find the link for the worst-worst ending I have, so just pretend that never happened.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? The happiest ending? I like my happy endings, so this is tough. But I think I’ll go for Elemental Changes, because that launched my collaboration with @slowdissolve on Red Jade.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not hate, exactly. One reader informed me that I had ‘let them down’ on a follow-up story because I didn’t write the story that was in their head. 

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I’ve done a little, but it hasn’t been a focus for me. And, aside from the polyamory aspect, it’s all as vanilla as it comes.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Not unless you count LOK + ATLA a crossover, which I don’t.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to date.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? @slowdissolve and I wrote Moonsigns together, and we published two versions. One is told in first-person language and color coded, on Tumblr. We then followed it up with a more traditional third-person version that does not rely on color, on AO3.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? Kyalin is where everything opened up for me. 

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I’m taking quite the long view of all of this. I haven’t added to Their Sacred Year in a while, but have the outline for the next installment, so I don’t consider it abandoned.

16. What are your writing strengths? Folks seem to like my dialogue and plotting.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I struggle with the final rising action / climax / falling action, to keep the pacing appropriate to the story.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I don’t plan on it, given I am uneducated in the languages appropriate to this setting. 

19. First fandom you wrote for? Legend of Korra.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? Saving the hardest for last. Naming the favorite child. Ok, fine. In that case, I’ll have to choose <wrestles with self> Elemental Changes (see #7), mostly because it’s a completely off-the-wall idea that I was able to see through and complete. And to have Slowdissolve illustrate the ending was an absolute capstone.

So I get to thank both @krastbannert and @wishingforatypewriter for their invitations!

Now, it's time to throw the floor open to folks like @yell0wsalt, @dont-blame-it-on-the-kids, @linguini17, @frogblast-the-ventcore, @badlucksav, @cdlunee, and of course,

you.