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wolffyluna · 6 years

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fanfic ask meme!! im not really familiar with the fandoms u write for so u can pick whichever fic fits best and u can do multiple fics if u want, but 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 8?

Questions will be answered with the name of the fic at the begginning, because I couldn’t pick just one fic!

1. What inspired this fic?

Floriography: It was a combination of a couple of things. I remembered reading a @prokopetz post about how flower languages were often mutually incomprehensible, and I thought that was a funny and interesting idea, and filed it away for later. A little later, I was thinking that awkward+courtly courting between Cassandra and Josephine would be fun. And you know what goes great with awkward courtly courting? Flower based miscommunication. But that idea would have to go on the back burner until after the Chocolate Box Exchange--

--until the person I was matched with had a freakishly identical set of requests to me. (For a second there, I thought I’d been accidentally matched with myself!) And then I knew. It was time. I was going to write awkward courtly comedy of errors based around flowers.

2. Where did the title come from?

For most of my fics, you can divide their titles into two catergories: the nouns related to the story, and the quotes from the fic.

I realise that titles are important, and are what draw the reader in, but for me picking a ‘good’ title is too much pressure. I just try and pick a title, any title. I often don’t pick one until I’m uploading the fic, and I remember I need one.

For me picking either a notable object/concept from the story (eg Basil, Snaffle Bit, Floriography) or a line I particularly like (Terrible People Tea Party, Always Neater in Morality Plays) is a quick and low pressure way to get a reasonable title.

3.What part was most difficult?

Floriography: The ending, where Cass and Josie resolve their miscommunication and start mutually falling for each other. It was tricky for me to work out how to get them to actually talk to each other using their words while still fitting with the rest of the fic. And I had to make sure the progression for Josie felt right, so it didn’t feel like she’d suddenly changed her mind for no reason.

Terrible People Tea Party: Throwing out the original outline. It needed to be done, but it was a hard decision to come to. The original plot was something along the lines of ‘After being re-embodied, Celebrimbor decides that sometimes violence is the answer, and goes to punch Maedhros and Maeglin.’ ...and that didn’t work. It came across as forced and out of character, and it was just too similar to ‘Hammered’ by @imindhowwelayinjune (which is lovely and in character, and would only make my original plan look worse by comparison.) So I threw it out. It wasn’t working. But it was still hard coming to that decision.

4.What are you most proud of?

Floriography: Getting it done. It was larger than most of my other fics, and it was illustrated. Also, I had a deadline. I’m quite happy that it got finished, and that it was coherent.

Terrible People Tea Party: I realise that I’m very biased, but I like to think it is funny. I’m quite proud of that.

5.What do you like best about this fic?

Terrible People Tea Party: I really like this line:

Celebrimbor turned to Maedhros, and did his best impression of ‘steely’ “But we’re already fighting. No need to wait. So: How did you get out?”

“A foolhardy cousin, and a giant eagle, as I recall?” Maedhros said, feigning confusion.

Maedhros Feanorion: Deliberately missing the point since the First Age.

6.What do you like least about this fic?

Floriography: I have no idea whether I’ve got everyone in character, and it worries me.

7.What’s a reference you made no one has picked up on yet?

Salvation June: No one else seems to have called me on the unnecessary Australiana yet. (The thing about the flowers poisonous to cows but not sheep? Actual thing in a Australia! and Britain, I think? But it’s more of a problem in Australia.)

In most of my fics there’s a bit of Australiana. No one seems to have noticed the pattern yet, either.

8.What’s a bit that sums up your take on a character?

Terrible People Tea Party: “There were only so many reasons Celebrimbor would want to see a member of the family he disowned. None of them involved conversations Maedhros wanted to have. People, in their previous lives, had confused Celebrimbor leaving with some fundamental difference between him and the rest of Feanor’s line. This was false. Celebrimbor had the traits. That had been why he left. He had the creativity and the art, but also the stubbornness and firmness of his convictions. And of course, the Finwion tendency to pick fights he really shouldn’t pick. (Stopping him from picking fights with his only currently living family member was for his own good. Really. Maedhros had no horse in this race. Definitely.)“

While I am a fan of interpretations of Celebrimbor where he is a better person than the rest of his family, I don’t particularly like ones where he’s completely unlike them. I much prefer it when the reasons he is a better person/committed less murders is precisely because of the convinctions and traits her inherited from his family.

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