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fanfic writer tag game

oh no, @every-lemon tagged me in this like two weeks ago and it’s been... a hellish two weeks. but we’re here now! thank you for the tag! 

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Pretty much any really solid paleship ( 🔸 ). For non-Homestucks, a paleship or moirallegiance is a platonic/non-sexual but intimate relationship involving one powerful-but-unstable member and one weak-but-stable member. The powerful one protects the weaker one while the weaker one keeps the powerful one from going crazy and destroying everything. (See: Cloud🔸Kunsel in Providence; Prompto🔸Gladio in What Stays and What Fades; ART🔸Murderbot (not always, but leaning in this direction in Network Effect); Tarrant🔸Damien in the Coldfire Trilogy; etc.) 

How many works do you have on AO3?

63, plus two unrevealed holiday exchange fics

What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,070,947, which is, uh. Mildly alarming 😅

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Providence,  Cross Cases,  What Stays And What Fades,  On the Care and Feeding of Sorcerers, and The Basis of Reality, in that order. (Huh, I’m really surprised On the Care and Feeding of Sorcerers is that high! When did that happen, I wonder oh wait probably it has to do with the Loki series coming out on Disney+) 

Do you reply to comments, why or why not?

Yes! I love getting comments and interacting with readers. I’ve had some great conversations with folks in the comments. And even for short or simple comments, I want to let the commenter know how much I appreciate them taking the time to comment. Comments are my writing fuel and if I’m stuck or frustrated I go back to reread them, so even the smallest comment is an amazing boost!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

To Close Your Eyes, which is a poetic little angst thing ending in a murder-suicide.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Hmm... The Basis of Reality has probably the most unequivocably happy ending I’ve written (I apparently lean toward slightly bittersweet and/or “the adventure continues” endings, whoops). TBoR is also, I think, the most hard-won happy ending (as opposed to the light fluff pieces with soft endings), which IMO makes it all the happier for how hard the chocobros had to fight for it. 

Do you write crossovers?

All the time, lol. They’re pretty much my stock in trade at this point. 

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Thankfully, no. The closest I ever got was a commenter who stopped reading after a particularly brutal cliffhanger, but even they were reasonably polite about it. 

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope!

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge! Hopefully it stays that way. 

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don’t think so? At least, there’s nothing in my Related Works that’s a translation. Though I feel like someone asked me about doing it once...? (It’s times like these that I wish AO3′s inbox had a search function.)

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not as such, though a significant part of Providence came from my beta and me bouncing increasingly silly and/or angsty scenarios back and forth until I accidentally’d a fic with them. 

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I have the first, oh, third-ish of a kidnapped-Noctis-and-Prompto fic that I’ve never been able to get further on (see below re: second acts). I also have the beginnings of a couple of Supernatural longfics that I wanted to finish before I fell out of love with the show. If I can ever get back into the fandom, it’d be fun to finish them, though. (One is, surprise surprise, a time-travel fic involving S11 Sam and S1 Sam swapping temporal places; the other is a Witch!Sam AU.) 

What are your writing strengths?

Action/fight scenes, crossovers, and maybe angst? 

What are your writing weaknesses?

Second acts my GOD, second acts 😭😭😭😭😭😭

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

IMO, while it can be effective in certain scenarios, most of the time it makes more sense to either lean on the translation convention (i.e., “Jane switched to French and added, ‘I can speak multiple languages too’”) or description (i.e., “They were speaking what sounded like French, though Jean couldn’t understand them”). Actually writing out dialogue in another language makes assumptions about your readers’ ability to speak (or not) that language, which are rarely universally true. 

That said, for the Bridge series, I used quotes in another language for chapter summaries, and even for two fic titles, since that was a crossover with a French-language animated series. I pulled from the actual series transcripts whenever possible to ensure they were accurate. I also used a handful of Old Norse insults in dialogue, though I’m not sure if I’d do that nowadays. 

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

That I posted to the Internet? An MCU / Wakfu crossover. That I actually put words on paper for? A Gundam Wing / Fushigi Yuugi / some other stuff I don’t remember anymore crossover I wrote in middle school. But really I’ve been making up fanfic in my head pretty much since I learned to read. 

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I have never been able to answer this question XD It’s like being asked to pick a favorite kid. At best I have the-ones-I-love and the-ones-I-like-well-enough. 

Tagging: @audreyskdramablog, @avianscribe, @autumnstwilight, @hitthebooksposts, and @ceescedasticity, if you want to! Or anyone else who wants to give it a go. ^_^ 

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