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iamstartraveller776 · 6 months

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Snagged this from @curator-on-ao3!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?:

110. However, if I count the oneshots individually, it's actually 152. (This does not include 4 other stories that are archived on old Trek sites. This also does not include the 5 stories that I've moved to the Anonymous collection.)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?:

613,518

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Star Trek: TOS/AOS/Disc

Star Trek: Enterprise

Labyrinth (1986)

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Once Upon a Time

Shadow and Bone

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

(I also briefly dabbled with Tom Hiddleston and David Bowie RPF back in the day—the stuff that's in the Anonymous archive).

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Princess and the King (Labyrinth, Jareth and Sarah, T)

Text Alert (MCU, Loki/Jane Foster, T)

Intoxicated [Rewritten] (Star Trek, Sarek/Amanda Grayson, T)

Drunk Dial (Labyrinth, Jareth/Adult Sarh, T)

Touch (MCU, Loki/Jane Foster, T)

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

Yes. Sometimes it takes me a while to reply, but I always try to. I'm so grateful to anyone who takes the time to leave me a comment. (Also, I'm a 20 year fandom veteran, and back in the day it was considered the norm to reply to comments.)

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

I write a lot of oneshots, so there are quite a few with unhappy endings, lol. What comes to mind is Honor Above All Else (OUAT, Robin Hood/Regina Mills, G). OH WAIT. No, it's got to be Just a Dream (Labyrinth, Jareth/Adult Sarah, M).

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

Maybe Three Months on Vulcan (Star Trek ENT, Trip/T'Pol, T)?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Only once. Back in the day, there were some antis who were super offended when we kept shipping Regina and Robin Hood (OUAT) when his wife came back from the dead (which turned out not to be his wife). Someone left a review on a fic that I was supporting infidelity and I was a horrible person. I deleted the comment. Ain't nobody got time for trolls. ;)

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

I have very, very few M-rated stories. Usually I just pan to the sky, but when I don't, it's because I feel it serves the story somehow and it's generally more poetry and emotion than descriptions of the mechanics.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Only twice. The funnest one is When Fairy Tale Meets Mythology (OUAT/MCU, Loki/Jane Foster, Emma Swan/Killian Jones, T).

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of, but these days, I wouldn't be surprised.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I was asked a couple of times, but never got the links of the finished product. *shrug*

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

Oh, yeah. I've done round-robins, fandom Big Bangs, etc. Not recently though.

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

That's like asking me to pick a favorite child (and I happen to have six of those). You can't make me!

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Want to finish but probably won't? Maybe my unfinished Outlaw Queen stories?

16. What are your writing strengths?

Oneshots. I can short-story like a champ.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Finishing multi-chapter stories. Ugh.

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

I've done it, though I've tried to keep it to a minimum, making sure it serves a purpose. I also try to make it easy to guess the meaning with context and always, always include the translation in the end notes. OH. And if it's a real language (unlike Vulcan), I try to get the help of a native speaker rather than rely on Google Translate.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Star Trek: Enterprise.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

That's another hard one to pin down. Here, I'll give you my favorite fic for each fandom:

Through the Dark Mirror Series (ST:ENT, Trip/T'Pol, T)*

A New Perspective (ST:TOS/AOS/DISC, Sarek/Amanda, G)

Pertinacious Wills (Labyrinth, Jareth/Adult Sarah, T)*

Touch (MCU, Loki/Jane Foster, T)

Songs Beneath the Stars (OUAT, Emma/Killian, T)

The Worth of a Broken Soul (OUAT, Robin/Regina, T)*

That Which Blooms in Stillness (SAB, Aleksander/Alina, T)

We Are (TROP, Halbrand|Sauron/Galadriel, G)

*Yes, these stories are currently incomplete and on hiatus indefinitely, but that doesn't stop me from loving what I created. I hope to get back to them one day!

Tagging: EVERYONE! If you want to play, consider yourself tagged by me. I'd love to read your answers! ❤️

#fic writer questions #20 fic writer questions #come and play #about me #ask game

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thinkingisadangerouspastime · 2 years

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1, 3, and 25 👀

1) is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?

i always have wips theoretically in progress, yes 💀 let's go through a few:

a) part 2 of a symbiote by any other name, although that's primarily because i want to get all of the first fic out before i worry about plotting a sequel(s)

b) [redacted] fic bc i need some time to Sit Down and Brainstorm, i've barely got a piece of an idea

c) katara/song fic bc it's the kind of fic that should be a multichap but i can't. i can't 😭

d) part 4 of why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? (my flash-centric series) bc every outline i've made so far has had issues that i am yet to be able to work out. Pain

e) ladybug dies fic bc my ml inspiration waned during the semester, im hoping s5 dropping soon will bring it back

3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

CHRONOLOGICAL, any other way will kill me

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

apologies in advance for the length, today is self-care saturday and im copying and pasting a whole section from my fic if memories could fade away, a love letter to mj watson that i wrote for her birthday (which was yesterday!):

Ned sticks his tongue out at her, and MJ responds in turn before opening the door anyway, because he’s Ned and she’s MJ and it’s always been just them, the two of them, eight years going on eighteen.

“Damn, girl, you live like this?” Ned says as he enters, watching where he steps so he doesn’t trip over one of her many piles of everything—textbooks, clothes, journals, old CDs too scratched to use that will soon become the basis of MJ’s next art project: voices we no longer hear.

She remembers getting each CD, starting with Let Go on her tenth birthday, back when she lived in New Orleans and always kept her curly brown hair in symmetrical cornrows or cropped at the base of her neck because of the suffocating humidity. She remembers taking each CD and ripping the music to her computer so her dad could move it onto her tiny red MP3 player for the long, long ride to Queens that began the next day. She remembers two CDs breaking during the drive and one CD breaking when they arrived because she threw it at the wall of her empty new room, angry, so angry she’d been ripped from her home like music from a shiny silver disc and it wasn’t fair, it wasn’t fair—

“You see, guests usually stay downstairs,” MJ teases, pushing aside a pile of clothes so Ned has room to sit on her bed. She takes a seat at her desk, spinning the chair around to face her dearest friend. “If I’d known you were planning to invade my personal space, I might have considered making my living arrangements more presentable.”

Ned snickers. “Considered, and then not done a damn thing about them?”

MJ winks at him. “You know me so well.”

Ned has known her so long, known her messy room, known her impenetrable walls, known her since she was thrown into a new school in a new city expected to make new friends when Michelle knew even at ten that would never happen, not that year, because 5th graders had already chosen their loyal companions five, six, seven years ago and there was no room for a Black girl to fit into a white noise machine that already hummed along without her.

Her parents sent her to school anyway. She must not have been persuasive enough.

mj my beloved 💛

#amy answers #lady-tortilla-chip

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daggryet · 3 years

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I've seen theories where Tommy was trying to visit Dream and telling him not to resurrect Wilbur so that he would. What do you think? I know your initial theory wasn't that, but I was curious if you'd changed your mind.

i agree that the way c!tommy kept talking about him not wanting c!wilbur resurrected wasn't the smartest move, but he wasn't just adamant about it - he was desperate for c!wilbur to not get resurrected.

1) c!tommy promised c!dream that if he promised to not resurrect c!wilbur, they'd become friends again. c!tommy would leave everything, everything, that c!dream had done to him in the past, and be his friend. like in exile.

now you can say that he was bluffing or challenging him, but c!tommy was not in the state of mind where he would bluff about such a thing. to understand why; you need only rewatch the exile arc. being c!dream's 'friend' almost drove him to suicide and has left with him lasting trauma he still feels the effects of that very second (lava, c!dream in general). he was willing to sacrifice everything to prevent c!wilbur from getting resurrected: his life, control over said life, his friends, his hotel, probably his discs. and i really hope for c!tommy that he has more self preservation and want for life than to risk it by telling c!dream he'd be his friend again. especially when c!dream has made it clear what kind of relationship he thinks they have; a co-dependent relationship where one can't exist without the other.

2) from the conversation we got between c!wilbur and c!tommy, we can't deduce a lot other than it seemed calm. we can deduce that c!wilbur knows how c!tommy is triggered - and keeps talking about that subject, about them two are to blame for all problems on the server, how good it is that they're dead. he's telling a child, a 16 year old, how good it is that he's dead.

also c!wilbur saying “and you know why I’m glad, tommy, you know why i’m glad? because me and you were never good for that server. [...] you can look at the whole history of the server, and it all falls in our laps, the problems.” sounds an awful lot like something the c!wilbur we knew from pogtopia would say. "tommy, are we the bad guys?" and "let's be the bad guys" (one of c!tommy's current triggers) both sound similar to what c!wilbur said in the void. though it seems to come from a place of self hatred rather than paranoia, he is continuing the tradition of dragging c!tommy down with him - or at least saying they're the same. and they're not.

3) the stream also ended with c!dream being very clear he was going to resurrect c!wilbur; had it been c!tommy's plan all along, there would have been the slightest indication of him succeeding and being pleased at it. there wasn't. he seemed despondent, scared, not like his secret plan had succeeded.

4) it also just makes more sense with how c!tommy has reacted to any mention of c!wilbur the past few months. c!tommy has also split c!wilbur into two different people at the end: the Real Wilbur who he built l'manberg with, and the wilbur he was at the end when he blew everything up. there's obviously been unsolved trauma, and he was never sure of whether he wanted him back or not. and again, from the conversation we got: it didn't seem like it'd gotten better.

5) c!wilbur didn't want to get resurrected. not on the day of the disc saga finale, and not during the conversation they had in the afterlife during this stream. he wanted to be dead, he thought everything was better like this. all the plans c!tommy is talking about, c!wilbur could very well have been making some up to rile c!tommy up the way he did when he asked "how's l'manberg? how's l'manberg?" during the conversation on the day of the disc saga finale. they don't have to be true for c!tommy to have taken them as such, especially not in the mindset he was in.

of course: i know just as little as the next person about what's going to happen. but i don't think that c!tommy was trying to fool c!dream into resurrecting c!wilbur.

plus, this is obviously looking at it from c!tommy's perspective and his relationship to c!wilbur, as i've mentioned before we as the audience know the full story of c!wilbur's downfall; c!tommy does not. he knows more than most, but he feels betrayed, and he's been afraid of becoming like c!wilbur since he began to tempt c!tommy into being a bad guy.

#dream smp #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #ask #anon #abuse tw #suicide tw #i said i wasn't answering now but i simply lied so afshdjf hope you enjoy

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lovenotesuggestions · 5 years

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I guess this is KINDA an advice ask but mostly just, ugh my brain. So I've been with my bf for over a year now and (at least I think) we're still very happy. The only thing that bothers me sometimes (and I get mad at ME, not at him, cause it's not his fault at all) is that, because of my past I'm kinda hypersexual, and he was for a while but has his own stuff mentally going on so. We used to do a LOT of stuff on disc (ldr), but because of his own things (that again I don't blame him for) 1/? 🦎

(2/?) we just don’t do as much. The reason I get mad at me is I get really grumpy and irritable if I go too long. This is all kinda important to my main issue (which I plan to talk to him about, I just also need to vent to someone else ;w; ). So, main thing: For almost a year, I lost legit all attraction to anyone but him. I could admit that yeah someone was aesthetically nice, but I felt no attraction to anyone else. -🦎

(3/?) And I was p much okay with that. Like I know it’s normal and human to feel attraction elsewhere even in a healthy relationship, and I’d NEVER act on any kind of attraction, but I was okay NOT having that feeling too. Just not even thinking it. But sometime this last week I started getting this thought of “this singer might be the only other person in the world I’m attracted to” and tbh I did not want that thought, it made me uncomfortable. -🦎

(4/4) but unfortunately frustration’s just been building and I kept thinking about it, and also had a brief little attraction to a youtuber we both watch and I almost cried because it felt so wrong to me. Just, ugh, I know that it’s normal and natural and there’s nothing wrong because I’m 100% devoted to him but why are brains like this. It’s been bothering me so long and I hate it x.x Sorry this was like, obnoxiously long lol. -🦎

🦎 so little update im sure my rambling is queued if it went through, if none of it did then feel free to ignore this! lol, but i talked to him about it and idk it didn’t help i felt worse bc it made him upset (not AT me, just upset, hurt) and i kinda hate myself but i hope it all passes lol.

I’m sorry you’re going through this.

I don’t know how much it will help to hear this seeing as you already know it, but maybe hearing someone else validate your thoughts will be helpful to you:

You aren’t doing anything wrong. Attraction is a normal part of most people’s lives, even in relationships. Hell, my partner and I (totally monogamous, exclusive relationship) actively thirst over ppl together, talk about how hot celebrities are, etc. There is nothing wrong with you at all, and you aren’t doing anything wrong by your partner for having attraction to other people.

It might just be a matter of getting used to having those feelings for other people again - if you spent a long time not experiencing that kind of attraction, it makes sense that you might find it distressing or upsetting, but hopefully that feeling will pass, like you said - both for you and for him.

You also aren’t wrong for having sexual needs - you aren’t doing anything to pressure him or make him uncomfortable, so there’s nothing wrong with feeling frustrated when those needs aren’t met, and there might be compromises that can be made to make sure you’re able to meet your own needs if he’s not in the mood, like maybe him writing out some kind of steamy messages or sharing pictures (ofc provided they’re stored securely, you’re both of age, and trust one another 100% - I’m sure you know this but I ofc need to point out that ppl should always be v careful and responsible sharing pictures) or something like that that you can save and use when you need to let off some steam, so you can still have him ‘involved’ in some way, even if he’s not in the mood to participate. It’s worth having a conversation with him about things you might be able to work out to make sure both of your needs are met.

You aren’t a bad partner, and by the sounds of it, you’re doing everything right here, and it’s just an unfortunate situation outside of your control. You aren’t doing anything wrong by him.

I hope you feel better soon 💕

#advice #sex /#not a suggestion #negative /#rant #long post #i love queue #Anonymous #answered #lizard anon

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