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jaybirdswriting · 9 months

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Character Names With Meanings: Nature Related 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

A: Aurora (This traditionally feminine name with Latin origin means dawn. Nicknames that could come from this name are Rory or Aura.)

B: Wren (This androgynous name with English origin means small bird. Nicknames that could come from this name are Little Bird or Birdie.)

C: Oliver (This traditionally masculine name with Latin origin means olive tree. Nicknames that could come from this name are Oli or Olive.)

D: Juniper (This androgynous name with Latin origin means young evergreen. Nicknames that could come from this name are Juni or Piper.)

E: Sparrow (This androgynous name with English origin means small; chirpy. Nicknames that could come from this name are Sparry and Spar.)

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F: Cordelia (This traditionally feminine name with unknown origin means heart, daughter of the sea. Nicknames that could come from this name are Cora or Cory.)

G: Keziah (This traditionally feminine name of Hebrew origin means cassia tree. Nicknames that could come from this name are Kez or Kezi.)

H: Ivo (This traditionally masculine name of German origin means yew; archer. Nicknames that could come from this name confound me due to the names shortness.)

I: Onyx (This androgynous name of German origin means claw, and is also the name of a black gemstone. Nicknames that could come from this name are Oni or Ox.)

J: Tempest (This androgynous name of English origin means stormy. Nicknames that could come from this name are Tempy or Temi.)

K: Maren (This traditionally feminine name of Latin origin means star of the sea. Nicknames that could come from this name are Mari or Ren.)

L: Fraser (This traditionally masculine name of Scottish and Norman origin means of the forest men or strawberry. Nicknames that could come from this name are Fraz or Frazie.)

M: Ash (This androgynous name of Hebrew origin means of the ash tree. Nicknames that could come from this name are Ashy or Asher.)

N: Sylvia (This traditionally feminine name of Latin origin means spirit of the woods. Nicknames that could come from this name are Sylv or Vi.)

O: Lorne (This androgynous name of Scottish origin means fox. Nicknames that could come from this name are Fox and Foxy.)

P: Oisin (This traditionally masculine name of Irish origin means fawn or little deer. Nicknames that could come from this name are Ois and Osh.)

Q: Sirius (This traditionally masculine name of Greek origin means burning, but it's also the name of the brightest star in the sky. Nicknames that could come from this name are Star Light or Si.)

R: Circe (This traditionally feminine name of Greek origin means bird. Nicknames that could come from this name are Ci and Cece.)

S: Oberon (This traditionally masculine name of German origin means noble and bear like. Nicknames for this name are Obie or Bear.)

T: Cedar (This traditionally masculine name of Latin origin means cedar tree. Nicknames for this name are Dar or Cedar Tree.)

U: Perry (This traditionally masculine name of Welsh origin means one who dwells by the pear tree. Nicknames for this name are Pez or Peri.)

V: Florence (This androgynous name of French origin means blossoming, flourishing. Nicknames for this name are Flora or Flo.)

W: Rain (This androgynous name of British origin means abundant blessings from above, but it's also a weather related name. Some nicknames that could come from this name as Rainy or Raindrop.)

X: Aveline (This traditionally feminine name of French origin means hazelnut. Some nicknames that could come from this name are Avi or Hazel.)

Y: Rasia (This traditionally feminine name of Russian origin means rose. Some nicknames that could come from this name are Rais or Raisie.)

Z: Diantha (This traditionally feminine name with Greek origin means divine flower. Some nicknames that could come from this name are Diane and Ana.)

#writeblr #writing #prompts #writing prompts #oc prompts #character names

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alwaysalreadyangry · 6 years

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anyway, a thought about the buddy breathing scene which i am sure someone else has written about before:

a little bit before that scene (at the end of part 1), and just after fraser has freed ray from the handcuffs, we get this dialogue:

RAY: This is why we’re getting stale. Communication. We’re not doing it. FRASER I thought we did rather well considering you were underwater with a bucket over your head. RAY Yeah, well… It should be like an instinct. Like breathing

right, so. and then... we get the buddy breathing. which is fraser, breathing into ray’s mouth. or at least blowing a lot of air into ray’s mouth, so that he can breathe.

it’s an act of faith on ray’s end to accept what’s being given, and it’s an act of love on fraser’s end. ray asks for an explanation later, but at the time he accepts it. on instinct; like breathing. it’s a key moment in their relationship being fixed.

and of course there are many other ways to read it: subtext coming much closer to the surface, a frisson of attraction, a forbidden kiss, or a kiss with plausible deniability...

but there is definitely something there about like, communication that is so close that nothing has to be said. just passed from mouth to mouth.

and, yes. the transmission of life with a kiss.

ALSO AN IMPORTANT NOTE: apparently an earlier draft of the script had fraser refer to this as “INTIMATE BUDDY BREATHING”. u r welcome.

#due south #it's romance son #fraser x ray k

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fangirling-and-lovin-it · 5 years

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Made for kinktober, posted late but enjoy (hopefully) !

#kirk x spock prime #kirk x spock #fanvid #mcdanno #spirk #fraser/ray k #due south #mckirk #multifandom video #slash #star trek #hawaii five 0 #kinktober

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optimismrpt · 4 years

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SCI FI FC MASTERLIST

below the cut is a masterlist of sci fi fcs with a focus on alien and robot fcs. It’s not quite finished since I still have some to add but I’ve got a good start going! If there are any you can think of that I missed please tell me (especially in regards to star trek characters as i have never seen the show)! if you are looking for a masterlist of high fantasy fcs click here!

MCU

Nebula - Karen Gillan (gif icons!)

Gamora - Zoe Saldana (gif hunt!)

Mantis - Pom Klementieff

Ronan - Lee Pace

Thanos - Josh Brolin

Laufey - Colm Feore

Red Skull - Hugo Weaving

Korg - Taika Waititi

Korath the Pursuer - Djimon Hounsou

Taneleer Tivan - Benicio del Toro

Malekith - Christopher Eccleston

Ebony Maw - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Corvus Glaive - Michael Shaw

Proxima Midnight - Carrie Coon

Minn-Erva - Gemma Chan

Talos - Ben Mendelsohn

Rockett Raccoon - Bradley Cooper

Groot - Vin Deisel

Drax - Dave Bautista

Yondu - Michael Rooker

Ayesha - Elizabeth Debecki

X-MEN

Mystique - Rebecca Romijn

Nightcrawler - Alan Cumming & Cody Schmidt McPhee

Blink - Jamie Chung & Fan Bingbing

Azazel - Jason Flemyng

THE MANDALORIAN

IG-11 - Taika Waititi

Kuiil - Nick Nolte

Xi’an - Natalia Tena

Burg - Clancy Brown

Qin - Ismael Cruz Córdova

Q9-0 - Richard Ayoade

STAR WARS

K2SO - Alan Tudyk

Chewbacca - Peter Mayhew

R2D2 - Kenny Baker

C3PO - Anthony Daniels

Yoda - Frank Oz

Darth Maul - Ray Park

HELLBOY

Hellboy - Ron Perllman & David Harbour

Abe Sapien - Doug Jones (gif pack!)

Prince Nuada - Luke Goss

Princess Nuala - Anna Walton

Johann Kross - John Alexander

DCEU

Killer Croc - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

DC’S DOOM PATROL

Cliff Steele - Brendan Fraser

I, ROBOT

Sonny

I AM MOTHER

Mother - Rose Bryne

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY

Airiam - Hannah Cheesman (gif pack!)

Saru - Doug Jones

Po - Yadira Guevara-Prip

STAR TREK

Jaylah - Sofia Boutella

Keenser - Deep Roy

Nero - Eric Bana

EX MACHINA

Ava - Alicia Vikander

THE MACHINE

Ava - Caity Lotz

CLOUD ALTAS

Meronym - Halle Berry

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL

Alita - Rosa Salazar

LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS

K-VRC (gif pack!)

X BOT 400

SCYFY DEFIANCE

Stahma Tarr - Jaime Murray

Datak Tarr - Tony Curran

Irisa - Stephanie Leonidas

TRON: LEGACY

Castor - Michael Sheen

Gem - Beau Garrett

AVATAR

Jake Sully - Sam Worthington

Grace Augustine - Sigourney Weaver

Neytiri - Zoe Saldana

RED DWARF

Cat - Danny John-Jules

TERMINATOR

Marcus Wright - Sam Worthington

The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger

JUPITER ASCENDING

Caine - Channing Tatum

#rpt #rpc #fc masterlist #nonhuman fc #underused fc

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wtf-triassic · 4 years

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Atopodentatus unicus

By Scott Reid

Etymology: Peculiar Teeth

First Described By: Cheng et al., 2014

Classification: Biota, Archaea, Proteoarchaeota, Asgardarchaeota, Eukaryota, Neokaryota, Scotokaryota Opimoda, Podiata, Amorphea, Obazoa, Opisthokonta, Holozoa, Filozoa, Choanozoa, Animalia, Eumetazoa, Parahoxozoa, Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Deuterostomia, Chordata, Olfactores, Vertebrata, Craniata, Gnathostomata, Eugnathostomata, Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii, Rhipidistia, Tetrapodomorpha, Eotetrapodiformes, Elpistostegalia, Stegocephalia, Tetrapoda, Reptiliomorpha, Amniota, Sauropsida, Eureptilia, Romeriida, Disapsida, Neodiapsida, Sauria, Pantestudines, Sauropterygia

Referred Species: A. unicus

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: Sometime between 245 and 243 million years ago, in the Anisian of the Middle Triassic

Atopodentatus is known from the Upper member of the Guanling Formation, in Yunnan, China

Physical Description: Atopodentatus is one of those Triassic weirdos that you just have to look at multiple times to understand what the heck is actually going on. It was a long and slender animal, reaching up to 3 meters in body length, with a noticeable tail and sleek torso. It had four long, paddle-like limbs, that were still noticeably arm and leg like as opposed to actual fins. It didn’t have much of a neck, which is striking since the rest of its body is so elongated; the neck ends in a proportionately fairly small head. It was so robust, it decidedly was an aquatic animal, and used this sleek body to maneuver through the water. The toes on the feet were probably covered with some sort of webbing or skin to help it paddle better through the water. Now, the weirdest part of Atopodentatus is decidedly its mouth - rather than having a normal mouth that ends in a normal shape like a normal animal, Atopodentatus has a weirdly wide mouth, sort of like a hammer-shape, with a bunch of chisel-shaped teeth in the front. In some ways, you could even call this a duck bill, but a very weird and comb like one. Honestly I have no descriptive words. You just have to look at it. As a marine reptile, it would have been covered in smooth scales, generally designed to help it move through the water.

Diet: Atopodentatus was an herbivore, but a filter feeding one! It would forage along the bottom of the seas and oceans, gathering up plant material into its mouth and using its teeth to filter out unwanted material and filter in the much needed weeds and greenery. It would manage to, then, stick to greenery such as algae and weeds and other aquatic plants, without eating hard stones or hard-shelled animals that wouldn’t have gone over well into its stomach. The wide mouth allowed it to gather in as much plant material as it could while it foraged along the sea floor.

Behavior: As a filter feeder, Atopodentatus would have spent much of its time grazing, sticking to shallow waters where the floor was filled with green plants and other food that it could eat. It probably would have moved its body from side to side, using its limbs to help move itself forward more forcefully and twisting its body to make turns. The tail would have also been helpful in moving, though we do not know to what extent and some marine reptiles would forgo the use of tails in underwater locomotion altogether. It probably didn’t go on land at all - not even to lay eggs - since it seems that turtles are the weirdos in terms of marine reptiles. Only turtles (and some other living marine reptiles) return to land to lay eggs; no other marine reptile seems to show this behavior, and most gave birth to live young - Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and Plesiosaurs. Atopodentatus does not seem to have adaptations for going back up onto land - it seems very highly adapted for aquatic life, and probably also gave birth to live young, though there isn’t much evidence either way in this regard. It is uncertain if it lived in groups, and it might have been a solitary grazer, rather than a family-oriented animal.

Ecosystem: Atopodentatus lived on the shores of the early Tethys Sea, as it began to grow during the Triassic as Pangea shifted from its former position. These habitats were mostly shallow water, where Atopodentatus could eat plants still able to grow with light from the sun such as algae and early sea weed like plants. It may have stayed close to the shore, then, to get more food, though that is just speculation. Many other marine reptiles and other Triassic animals are known from this general environment that lived alongside Atopodentatus. There were other Sauropterygians such as the Nothosaurs Dianopachysaurus and Lariosaurus; the Saurosphargids Sinosaurosphargis and Largocephalosaurus; and the mystery Sauropterygians Dianmeisaurus, Diandongosaurus and Panzhousaurus. There were also many Ichthyosauromorphs such as Mixosaurus, Xinminosaurus, Barracudasaurus, and Phalarodon. There was also Wumengosaurus, a weird marine reptile that could have been EITHER a Sauropterygian or an Ichthyosauromorph - or a bridge between the two? Fish were in abundance here as well. There were ray-finned fish such as the famed Saurichthys, Diadongperleidus, Luopingperleidus, Gymnoichthys, Yelangichthys, and Luoxiongichthys. Coelacanths were also represented by Yunnancoelacanthus and Luopingcoelacanthus. There were plenty of arthropods as well, including isopods like Protamphisopus, and zooplankton like Yunnanocopia. In short, a very diverse and active ecosystem, pumping out many new animals in the wake of the end-Permian extinction and showcasing the early diversification of marine reptiles.

Other: For a while, we thought Atopodentatus was weird in a different way - rather than having a duck-hammer-head, it was thought to have a head where the lower jaw curved into the upper jaw, which sloped downward, with many thin needle-like teeth packed together extremely tightly in the mouth. However, it turns out that the original skull was crushed, and the actual shape of the head is as we now know. Luckily, the rest of the body seems to have been fairly decently preserved, so the general body shape of Atopodentatus has not changed - just its ridiculous head.

The general sleek body with preliminary limbs adapted for aquatic life helps to place Atopodentatus in a group with other early marine reptiles, however this analysis is very basic and requires more support to firmly place this reptile in with other early marine reptiles of the Triassic. The Sauropterygians are a group of fairly mysterious creatures that include most of the famous marine reptiles that appeared in the Triassic; they may or may not have been closely related to turtles. As such, Atopodentatus would have been a fantastic early cousin of later weirdos like Plesiosaurus and Liopleurodon, though they wouldn’t stick with the shovel-filter-feeding mouth idea that Atopodentatus tried out. Still, it’s possible that the similarities found are just convergent evolution as many types of reptiles evolved to go back into the ocean and take advantage of new niches (jobs in the ecosystem) after the mass extinction; more work on the relationship of Atopodentatus to other early Triassic reptiles is, thus, needed.

Atopodentatus is the earliest known herbivorous marine reptile, preceding the next one in the fossil record by 8 million years - making its weirdness even more unique as the first experiment in plant eating in marine reptiles we know about!

~ By Meig Dickson

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#Atopodentatus #Atopodentatus unicus #Marine Reptile #Sauropterygian #Triassic #Palaeoblr #Reptile #Prehistoric Life #Prehistory #Paleontology #Triassic Madness #Triassic March Madness

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fand0mfancies · 4 years

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Came across this on Tumblr a few days ago, it amused me for a couple of hours or more, filling it in, while watching QI.

Fandom Questions

1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?

Star Trek: Voyager, I suppose at least for reading. Started writing with Stargate SG-1.

2. What is your latest fandom?

I dip in and out of lots of fandoms on and off, the most recent ‘pick up’ is Ballam from Eastenders, I don’t watch soaps, but Robron and Ballam both appear a good bit on my tumblr, so I eventually gave in to checking them out via fic and youtube – thank god for youtube, lol! I still don’t watch soaps, but I watch those storylines!

3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?

Gosh, that’s... actually no that’s really easy. Primeval. For anyone not familiar, it’s a ‘silly little dinosaur show’ produced in the UK. It had 4 short seasons, with a somewhat revolving main cast – although they managed to keep 3 of them through all 4 seasons – but the fandom was/is amazing. I made life long friends through the fandom and even though I don’t write much any more I still read some and still talk with those people.

4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?

I would say no. I can’t say every fandom has always been amazing – ship wars anyone! – but mostly fandom has been a very positive experience in my life.

5. Which fandoms have your written fanfiction for?

How long have you got... in genuinely no particular order (basically as they came to me) Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voy, Ent & Reboot Movies), Marvel, Kingsman, Person of Interest, Due South, Quantum Leap, Firefly, Buffy/Angel verse, Harry Potter, The Sentinel, Torchwood(/Doctor Who), Hawaii Five-0, Shadowhunters, Sherlock, Primeval, Emmerdale (Robron), NCIS, CSI (Vegas, NY & Miami), White Collar, Empire Records, Bull, Diagnosis Murder, MacGyver (the original), 1-800-Missing, CHAOS, Without a Trace, M*A*S*H, Charmed, Queer as Folk (US), Will & Grace, Bring it On, Nash Bridges, Magnificent 7 (TV series), House, Babylon 5 – I think I got them all... a few of those were one time only deals, but a lot of them have more (anywhere from 2-52 (or more still!) ranging from 100 word drabbles, to thousands of words – hey I’ve been writing fic for 21 years... you tend to amass a lot of fandoms...

6. List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

Oh geez, here we go, lol! Okay...

Stargate SG-1: Jack O’Neill/Daniel Jackson

Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

Star Trek: Elim Garak/Julian Bashir, Chakotay/Tom Paris, Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed, James Kirk/Spock – I don’t particularly have an ‘otp’ in TNG, the couple I’ve written were Picard/Data, I’ve also dabbled reading Data/Gordi)

Marvel: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Kingsman: Harry Hart/Eggsy Unwin

Person of Interest: Harold Finch/John Reese

Due South: Benton Fraser/Ray K

Quantum Leap: Sam/Al

Firefly: Malcolm Reynolds/Simon Tam

Buffy/Angel Verse: Buffy/Giles, Angel/Spike, Xander/Spike, Willow/Tara

Harry Potter: Harry/Draco, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Hermione/Draco

The Sentinel: Jim/Blair

Torchwood: Jack/Ianto

Hawaii Five-O: Steve/Danno

Shadowhunters: Magnus/Alec

Sherlock: Sherlock/John, Mycroft/Lestrade

Primeval: Nick Cutter/Stephen Hart, James Lester/Hilary Becker Emmerdale: Robert Sugden/Aaron Dingle

NCIS: Gibbs/DiNozzo CSI: Nick Stokes/David Hodges, Mac/Danny, Horatio/Speed White Collar: Neal/Peter/Elizabeth

Empire Records: Joe/Lucas

Bull: Benny/Jason

Diagnosis Murder: Steve/Jesse

I’ve left a few out where I don’t have particular OTPs

7. List your NoTPs from each fandom you’ve been in.

Here we go again... lol!

Stargate SG-1: Jack/Sam, I just... no. I’ve read a few where it’s a background or secondary pairing, but it always makes me wince a bit. I’ve read a few with Sam/Daniel as a secondary pairing that didn’t make me react that way and I’ve read Sam with other characters, but Jack/Sam just is a nope for me.

Stargate Atlantis: McKay/Keller – no, just no. that was horrible. She treated him like... awfully, trying to change him to suit her, just... no.

Marvel: Contentious, but Tony/Pepper, also Peter Parker/Tony Stark. Maybe because I saw the movies before I ever looked at the comics, but meh.

Due South: Benton Fraser/Ray V – again, contentious, but honestly I think Ray V was kind of a shit friend to Fraser.

Firefly: Anything with Jayne. No really, I just can not stand the character. I spent most of the series wanting to punch him in the face and sometimes you get characters you love to hate, but I just hated him.

Buffy/Angel Verse: Buffy/Spike, Willow/Kennedy

Harry Potter: Ron/Hermione, Ron/Harry, Harry/Ginny... basically, Ron and Ginny should just be loveless hermits who live by themselves. Ok, no, that isn’t fair... but as much as Ron was Harry’s first friend, he was selfish and bitter and Ginny/Harry just... never sat right with me. Ron literally says she spent ‘all summer talking about’ Harry, when she’d met him for all of three seconds. She didn’t know him. It always felt like she fell more in love with the *idea* of Harry Potter, than Harry Potter himself.

Sherlock: Sherlock/Molly, he’d eat her for breakfast. Serious, she’d never survive him.

Primeval: Oliver Leek and anyway. Arg. Creepy little dude is creepy and evil.

NCIS: Ziva/DiNozzo – ugh, just no.

Again, I’ve left out ones where I don’t have particular NoTPs

8. How did you get involved in your latest fandom?

Tumblr, god damned bitches posting gifs of pretty boys falling in love, roped me in!

9. What are the best things about your current fandom?

I dabble in several fandoms at once... but if we go by ‘most recently picked up’ as ‘current’ we’re talking Ballum, which hey, it’s always fun to have an actual canon pairing be my OTP, that’s rare for me, lol.

10. Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?

Well (so far) I haven’t written any Ballum. (I say so far, because I’m a realist, lol). I rarely read in fandoms and not end up writing in them at some point. Although I have probably dabbled in a few I’ve not written for, but if I read it with any sort of consistency, I mostly end up writing it. I am weak!

Ship Questions for your Current Fandom

11. Who is your current OTP?

Okay, so that list above, just basically go with that. While I do drop in and hour of fandoms and some I certainly read in more than others, I do tend to go back to fandoms... If we were talking about what I’m mostly focused on writing atm... Steve/Tony, Mycroft/Lestrade, Harry/Draco and Robron are ones I’m currently working on most.

12. Who is your current OT3?

I’m not currently writing anything that’s OT3 with any real focus. I have a couple of Neal/Peter/Elizabeth WiPs that I will at some point finish, but they aren’t a big focus just now. I did recently read a fabulous Neal/Peter/Elizabeth fic that’s been on my tbr list for ages.

13. Any NoTPs?

Just... see above, lol!

14. Go on, who are your BroTPs?

Harry Hart/Merlin, those two are Bro’s until the end and I will fight you on this. Also, Eggsy/Roxy! OMG they are such a BroTP! And Tony/Pepper/Rhodey – I may no like Tony/Pepper as a pairing, but I love them as best friends and of course, our Rhodes, because again, I will fight you on this, they are awesome and Tony needs his best friends!

15. Is there an obscure ship which you love?

I’m not sure there is. I suppose I’ve read a few fics for some random pairings over the years, but nothing that’s made me really ship-ship them. I like Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes, after seeing it as a secondary pairing in a Steve/Tony fic, but I’ve seen that pop up a few times since, so maybe it won’t stay obscure for long!

16. Are their any popular ships in your fandom which you dislike?

Jack/Sam, Tony/Pepper, Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny, Buffy/Spike – they all seem to be het pairings, oops. But I am mostly a slash fic reader/writer, so I suppose that’s not too surprising.

17. Who was your first OTP and are they still your favourite?

Jack/Daniel from Stargate SG-1. I still love them. I still read them, although it has been a while since I’ve written them on their own (I have got some SG-1/SGA x-overs where they feature)

18. What ship have you written the most about?

I’m genuinely not sure... without going and counting (and I’m not going any counting!) I’d guess Jack/Daniel, McKay/Sheppard, Jack/Ianto and Steve/Danno.

19. Is there a ship which you wished you could get behind, but you just don’t feel them?

No, not that I can think off. I either like it or not. I do occasionally feel bad for not reading a fic if it’s an author I really like, but I don’t read that fandom or pairing, but nothing specific.

20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?

Robron and Ballum, lol. I do not do soaps!

Author Questions

21. What was the first fanfic you ever wrote?

Stargate SG-1, Jack/Daniel, a story called The Dare, The Disaster, The Almost Happy Ending, And The Very Happy Ending – it was awful. Don’t go looking, lol!

22. Is there anything you regret writing?

Don’t we all? No, I wouldn’t specifically say so. There are certainly fics, especially older ones, I wish I could have written better, but nothing I’d go, ugh I should never have done that.

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

Uh... honestly that’s really hard. I... um... yeah, I don’t know, really. I wrote a nice little flower one in POI that I felt worked rather beautifully. The Language of Flowers. An I wrote an SGA fic for NaNo a few years ago, called A Different Life, but it’s not online, because I didn’t finish it yet and I knew I wasn’t going to finish it any time soon, so I didn’t feel it was fair to leave it up unfinished (there is a reason I don’t read WiP fics and I don’t post them either, because I know how much I hate unfinished WiPs) Edit: After writing this I reminded myself of a POI fic I wrote called Hours of Separation – It’s a Harold/John break up story that I always intended to write a sequel too where I ‘fixed’ them, but I just couldn’t do it. I broke them a little too well. But I really love it actually.

24. What fic do you desperately need to rewrite or edit?

The afore mentioned A Different Life needs to be edited and finished, lol! Also a Primeval fic with the working title Crypt Keeper (don’t ask) that I worked myself into a bit of a corner on and I figure out how to fix it, but I haven’t done it yet, so it’s still needs fixing and finishing, lol!

25. What’s your most popular fanfic?

I haven’t the foggiest.

26. How do you come up with your fanfic titles?

Sometimes, really easily, a quote, a line from the fic, a song title... other times it’s like pulling teeth, hence working titles on things like ‘crypt keeper’ which is a reference to one scene near the very start and has no actual hint of the plot, lol!

27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

Oh the titles. Summaries you can just copy a few lines from the fic if you are desperate, if you had to post ‘untitled mcshep fic #67’ people would get cranky, lol, hell I’d get cranky!

28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of?

Oh... I... huh. I mean who wouldn’t love fanart for their stories? Any of them honestly! But if I had to choose just one... I guess something in my Animal Instinct verse, which is Primeval (although I always intended to write other fandoms in the verse) where some people transform into animals, based on their ‘spirit animal’ and some art of the characters with their spirit animal form would be awesome.

29. Do you have a beta reader? Why/Why not?

Sometimes, look if you’ve read this far, you know I write in a lot of fandoms, lol. In some fandoms it’s easier than others to find beta readers. Also, sometimes if it’s just something short, I won’t bother. But I do try for my longer fics.

30. What inspires you to write?

That old adage, if you want to read it, sometimes you just have to write it? Spite? Boredom? Honestly sometimes I just have ideas I have to get out of my brain and it’s write or go mad(der)

31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

That it inspired them to write something.

32. Do you listen to music when you write or does music inspire you? If so, which band or genre of music does it for you?

Sometimes, sometimes I find it distracting when writing because I end up singing along and forgetting what I’m writing, lol! I do sometimes get inspiration from songs, I guess mostly from the lyrics, but no particular band or genre – although I listen to a lot of country music!

33. Do you write oneshots, multi-chapter fics or huuuuuge epics?

Little from column a, little from column b... littler still from column c...

34. What’s the word count on your longest fic?

Around 60k, I think.

35. Do you write drabbles? If so, what do you normally write them about?

I have. Primeval had/has a week drabble challenge, mostly when I’ve written drabbles it’s been for a challenge, with a specific prompt.

36. What’s your favourite genre to write?

Uh... I mean, my fandoms really span the genres, but I guess sci-fi or crime are probably my favourites.

37. First person or third person - what do you write in and why?

Third mostly, I have occasionally written in first person, if it felt like the fic needed it.

38. Do you use established canon characters or do you create OCs?

Little from column a, little from column b... it depends on the fandom and the story. Sometimes you just need more characters, mostly they are minor roles, I don’t tend to write much established character/oc fic

39. What is your greatest strength as a writer?

Ability to convince myself people will want to read it, lol! No actually to be honest, I love to know people read and like my stuff, but I gave up a long time ago on trying to ‘please’ people with what I write. I write what I want to read.

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

Focus. The problem with 21 years of fandom history, is well... 21 years of fandom history. A lot of fandoms, a lot of pairings and as I say, I never really ‘leave’ a fandom, I just drop in and out and sometimes that means I’ll write on something consistently for weeks or months and then end up getting distracted by another fandom again and not touch it for weeks or months again. Hence, I don’t post WiP fics, because I know I’m easily distracted and don’t want anyone to suffer my lack of focus but me.

Fanfiction Questions

41. List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

I don’t read WiP fics, so yeah... but 5 I’ve recently read in different fandoms that I’ve really enjoyed

Turns Out, I Have a Rose Garden by betheflame (Steve Rogers/Tony Stark)

Lucky by china_shop (Neal Caffery/Peter Burke/Elizabeth Burke)

Colors by Quesarasara (Sherlock/John)

Betrayal by Blackghost7 (Gibbs/DiNozzo)

Matchmaker (Part 1 of the Marmalade Series) by HastaLux, Mottlemoth (Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade)

42. List and link to 5 fanfiction authors who are amazing:

See now this is hard, because... ahh so many...

FredBassett – Primeval author, her Stephen/Ryan series is epic and brilliant and endless

https://archiveofourown.org/users/fredbassett/pseuds/fredbassett

Keira Marcos – I know other people will have said her, I don’t care. I love all her stuff, across all the fandoms she writes in

http://keiramarcos.com/

theapplepielifestyle – her Steve/Tony is amazing. Hands down some of the best I’ve ever read. I will fight you on this.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/theappleppielifestyle/pseuds/theappleppielifestyle

JillyJames – her Tony DiNozzo is a real life grown up... exactly as he should be considered given he’s a goddamn federal agent!

https://jillyjames.com/

missbecky – I’ve read pretty much all her Steve/Tony and Harry/Eggsy and it’s awesome.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/missbecky

Honestly, I could have listed so many more, but, I’m being good!

43. Is there anyone in your fandom who really inspires you?

Everyone. The thing is, fandom at it’s best is like crack, the more you get, the more you want. The writing, the gifs, the art... it feeds you and makes you want to make more of it, because more of it needs to exist and if that means you need to do it yourself, so be it!

44. What ship do you feel needs more attention?

ALL OF THEM!

45. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

Oh hell no, not even, I can not. It took me an hour to narrow down 5 authors, I can not narrow down one fanfic!

46. If someone was to read one of your fanfics, which fic would you recommend to them and why?

I mean, it depends on what they like... probably the Hour of Separation I mentioned above, if they like the fandom/pairing, or my Animal Instinct stuff.

47. Archive Of Our Own, Fanfiction.net or Tumblr - where do you prefer to post and why?

Archive of our Own. I haven’t touched ff.net in *years* since they started getting super restrictive about what you could post. I do occasionally post stuff to tumblr, but mostly I now post to AO3. I did have my own site and I’ve yet to upload a lot of stuff to AO3 – one of these... months... that will be a project – but it’s amazing. Seriously, having been in fandom 20+ years, going from having to search all over a million different places and now it’s all in one place, where we’re honestly, spoiled and protected. The kids now have no idea how crazy impossible that once seemed.

48. Do you leave reviews when you read fanfiction? Why/Why not?

Yes, but not as often as I should. I love AO3s kudos button, so I can sort of say ‘hey I enjoyed this’ without having to comment, because I sort of hate leaving comments just going ‘hey I enjoyed this’ because I always feel like I should say more, like, oh I enjoyed this specific thing, which yes is an unnecessary hang-up, but there ya go.

49. Do you care if people comment/reblog your writing? Why/why not?

Of course it’s nice to get comments, kudos, reblogs etc. I’m not as attached to them now as I was when I was younger, because I learned along the way that it was more important that I like what I’m writing than that other people do, but it’s still nice to know that something I’ve created is enjoyed.

50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?

I went looking for Star Trek Voyager stuff online, pics etc, waaaaaaay back when! And I came across fanfiction entirely by accident... and I read some – het stuff mostly, then I started watching Stargate SG-1, went looking for fanfiction for that, but was not on board with Jack/Sam, found Jack/Daniel went ‘huh really? That’s weird’ read it... and yeah... 21 years later... lol!

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

Ship Wars. No seriously, just don’t. Like, who the actual fuck cares. I like my ship, you like your ship. I don’t care if it’s canon or not. I don’t care if it’s popular or not. I don’t read my NoTPs, but I’d never dream of telling someone else not too. Yes I think they are terrible, bad, no good pairings, but that’s *my* opinion. Don’t try to change my mind and I won’t try to change yours. I avoid them like the actual plague. If someone starts that shit around me, I will shut it right down. You are a dick. Go to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200.

#fandom life #fandom

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It’s fun to stay at the…!

C: What character do you identify with most?

This is a good question, in that it is not something I think about all that much in most fandoms. I tend to prefer to write from the point of view of the less emotionally articulate character in a pairing, but I think that’s more because I’m interested in fic in which the narrating character can’t or won’t express everything that’s happening, even to themselves. I like reading and writing between the lines of things. Subtext in the subtext, I guess.

But it actually is something I’ve thought about specifically in relation to Good Omens, partly because I was fascinated by how many people in fandom have talked about identifying with Crowley, which I don’t, particularly. Which I suppose means I recognise more of Aziraphale. The desire for a quiet life that doesn’t mean putting too much on the line; a lack of interest in keeping up with any kind of fashion at the expense of things I actually like; a natural disposition to play by the rules, unless very convincingly persuaded that breaking them won’t mean getting into trouble. But also, obviously, we’re all a bit like both of them, in that we’re human.

H: How would you describe your style?

I honestly have no idea if I have one. Not consciously, anyway. In fact, one of the things I most enjoy about writing fic is the technical challenge of trying to emulate someone else’s style or voice that the reader will recognise, though I guess this is more obviously the case for book fandoms— Jonathan Strange, Raffles, etc. I suppose that for TV and film fandoms, that technical challenge is more about getting character voices right, and then the style of a fic will be very heavily influenced by the voice of the point-of-view character, and the way in which they express their thoughts to themselves.

The two writers whose prose I find most consistently enjoyable on a micro level are Pat Barker, whose writing can be spare and sparse to the point of brutality, and Michael Chabon, who can build a whole city out of a single spiralling sentence. In trying to write a bit like both of them, I expect I come out somewhere in the middle, and so neither influence is probably very visible.

Q: Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?

I mean, I have a WIP folder on my hard drive that contains 63 Word documents, and at a quick count, around 10 of those have any likelihood of ever progressing to the ’completed’ folder. The oldest of the remaining 53 date back to 2007, and are password-protected, because I created them on a shared family computer in the kitchen. (And if we hadn’t had a bad hard drive crash around that time, there would be more, dating back to 2004-ish, probably.)

I’m still in an early enough flush of Good Omens optimism to genuinely believe I’m going to finish all the WIPs I currently have in that fandom, but a random sample of more definitively discarded stories includes:

A would-be comic Randall & Hopkirk Deceased-inspired due South fic, in which Fraser dies and comes back to continue working with Ray K as a ghost, but which turned out to be inescapably depressing because Ray was too sad about it;

What appears to be some Monty Python RPF about everyone fighting over who loves Michael Palin the most;

An X-Men First Class Big Gay Mutant Road Trip story (classic) about Charles desperately trying not to read Erik’s mind while they’re holed up in cars and bars and motels together, but being unable to avoid picking up on his increasing sexual frustration, and yet not managing to realise it might be anything to do with him;

A Merlin fic that @the-omnishambles and I regularly proclaim to each other is the best idea we’ve ever had, and which we wrote 17,000 words of in 2008-9, about Merlin and Arthur waking up in 2008 London while Colin Morgan and Bradley James wake up in the actual world of the TV show Merlin. Colin and Bradley have to navigate the fact that Colin can now do real magic, and that Bradley keeps being expected to fight people. Merlin and Arthur have to navigate a Tesco self-checkout machine, specifically, for some reason. The end of the story (spoilers!) reveals that this swap was the doing of the actual immortal wizard, Merlin, because he was disappointed by the inaccuracies of Merlin, the TV show, and wanted to express his displeasure.

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Answered here!

#memes #fic #replies

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