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[takaraphoenix]

Fic Writer Review

Thanks to @light-miracles​ for tagging me! <3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

As of this week, 1004 fics! :D”

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

8,052,836 words and counting ;)

3. How many fandoms have you written for?

Gosh that depends on how you define “fandom”. Like, does the Rise of the Brave, Tangled Dragons fandom count as one, because the crossover makes it one fandom, or would you count the movies individually? Same goes to DC.

The way I would count it, I’d say 27. Counting all the DC properties under the DC umbrella as one, same for the crossover fandoms.

4. Top 5 fics by kudos?

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Marvel, Loki/Tony, 6245 kudos)

The Lion’s Pride (Voltron, Shiro/Keith/Lance, 5615 kudos)

Percy and the Ghost King of Summers High (PJatO, Nico/Percy, 4680 kudos)

Percy Jackson, Ambassador of Hades (PJatO, Nico/Percy, 3841 kudos)

My College Boyfriend (PJatO, Nico/Percy, 3613 kudos)

Deadass, this feels like a glitch. I have written seventy-nine multiple-chapter fics. By virtue of having multiple chapters, they tend to draw in a bigger crowd of people. And even if not, I could think of a dozen of more deserving oneshots off the top of my head, at least. I do not understand number 5 at all, it makes no sense, I have 1004 fics and by virtue of people clicking a button, this incredibly... mundane... not-even-3k-long fic is the fifth place for most-heart-button-clicks...? Like, it’s not a bad fic, it is just... impossibly boringly slice of life? Nothing happens in it? It’s not even one of the long oneshots where a lot of plot or feelings - or heck even insanely kinky smut I’d get - happens? I truly can not fathom what made this story so much more worthy of clicking the dumb heart-button than all of the hundreds of stories that have... so much more going on in it...? My brain genuinely can’t comprehend this.

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

Always. Because it feels like the polite thing to do. Sadly, receiving comments is not a given. Even when people like a fic - especially on AO3, with its cop-out “just click here to leave a heart” alternative, and yes I absolutely do think that that’s part of why many people don’t leave comments, because they are so conditioned through social media to think that a like-button is all it takes to communicate. So, in this comment-economy, I do think it’s worth to say thank you to those who do take the time and make the effort to leave actual feedback and truly let you know they enjoyed the story or what they enjoyed about the story.

6. A fic you've written with the angstiest ending.

That’d be a Beyblade oneshot from my German fandom days that was unrequited love ending in a suicide.

7. Do you write cross overs?

I used ot greatly dislike crossovers, because they only cater to a very specific group of people where those fandoms actually overlap for. But then I came across the whole Tangled/Brave/RotG/HttYD crossover fandom and it kind of took me by surprise. Opened my eyes to crossovers and since then, I’ve dipped into quite a couple different kinds of crossovers.

8. Ever received hate on a fic?

Were you really a fanfic author in the 2010 decade if you didn’t receive hate from the censorship and purity cult? Or, heck, in the beginning of that decade, from the homophobic “ew slash ships are evil and gross” crowd? :/

9. Do you write smut?

You could say that, yeah. *chuckles*

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

*ugly sobbing* I hate wattpad--

11. Ever had a fic translated?

I have been asked for permission more often than I can count, but I just... I just don’t like that? The thought of my fics on other people’s account, even when they do give credit to me as the original author.

And a bunch of the stolen fics on wattpad were, indeed, people who just decided to translate my fics and post them, all without my permission.

I did translate one fic myself though, because I wrote it when Germany passed the marriage equality law, so I wrote it in German and then figured I should also post it in English. ^^

12. Have you ever co written a fic?

Yes, I have! With the very lovely @kimmycup! ^-^

13. All time Fav ship.

ALL time. I think I have to go with Kaito/Shinichi from Detective Conan. It’s, by now, the ship that’s been with me the longest in an active way. I still get excited about them, I even wrote a fic for them just last month to celebrate my 1000th AO3 fic.

14. WIP you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

*looks shamefully at Animexx* Basically all my old Beyblade fics. I dropped out of that fandom too suddenly and it doesn’t help that they’re in German and I’ve stopped writing in German.

15. Writing strengths?

Writing speed and the ability to plan ahead; both, when I write a fic as well as planning my schedule ahead.

16. Writing weakness?

Endings? I really struggle with when to end a fic and how.

17. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

It’s stupid and unnecessary. Use italics and note what language they’re speaking in. Like, look, if it’s a language you actually speak, I can understand the temptation, but 90% of those include an A/N about how the author used Google translate for that and just... why.

And I straight-up hate when authors then don’t include the translation directly behind the spoken part but rather at the very end of the chapter... I don’t... I don’t want to scroll down to look at what I am just trying to read in the middle of the chapter and then have to find the place I was before? It completely breaks the reading flow.

I think that petnames, even some phrases, do make things more authentic, when you’re writing bilingual characters. But when it’s entire dialogues, that’s too much and should just be indicated that it is being said in another language.

18. First Fandom you wrote for?

Yu-Gi-Oh!

19. What's your fav fic you've written so far?

It always depends. I have a lot of fics I am very proud of, or that I think are incredibly well-done. But for me my favorite fic would be defined by the one I enjoy rereading the most. Within the last year or so, I’d say it’s probably The Lost Soulmarks, but there are a bunch I’m bouncing back and forth between and it’s also always up to what fandom or pairing I’m craving. There’s no one holy grail fic that I hold over all others, I guess.

Tagging @kimmycup, @fallenqueen2, @miazeklos, @donnas-troia, @justonemorechapternicercy

#About Me #Fanfiction

[callunavulgari]

fic tag meme

I guess I was kind of inadvertently tagged by @wildehacked because they said to do it if you wanted to, and well, I was bored and needed something to do while watching Watcher Weekly+ so!

Name: Heather! Otherwise known as callunavulgari on all platforms. Except fanfiction.net. I have not gone back there to even consider changing it.

Fandoms: I am currently only actively writing fic for Buzzfeed Unsolved and The Adventure Zone (because I have no self control and finished the finale today). That said, I’m pretty actively involved in The Untamed, Buzzfeed Unsolved, The Magnus Archives, Hades, and Persona 5. But I also delve back into old fandoms constantly, so it’s really hard to say. Tropes: Enemies to lovers is my absolute favorite trope in the entire world. In fact, I think the only thing I like MORE than your garden variety enemies to lovers is FRIENDS to enemies to lovers. Because like, you’ve got the UST but you’ve also got ANGST and YEARNING. I’m just weak to it. 

I also really like fusion AUs, soulmate AUs, and canon-adjacent AUs where everything is the same except one or both parties is some kind of monster. Creature? I love myself a creature feature. Bonus points if it’s got political intrigue and killer world building. I’m sure there are others, but eh.

Fic I spent most time on: Probably either Rubatosis or when the wild grasses weave. 

Rubatosis was a Percy Jackson fic where Percy and Annabeth fall in love with Nico, aka the personification of death. Also, Annabeth is a serial killer. It is single-handedly my favorite thing I’ve ever written and I wrote it in a handful of months for the 2014 PJO Big Bang.

where the wild grasses weave, on the other hand, was a Spirited Away/Kingdom Hearts fic that I wrote for the Kingdom Hearts Big Bang like half a decade ago. It was an idea that I’d been toying with for awhile and the Big Bang gave me an excuse to finally do it. It explores the darker themes of Spirited Away and honestly, I’ve been meaning to go back and tinker with it for awhile because there are definitely parts that could be shaped up better.

Fic I spent least time on: Probably all the really short prompt fics that I’ve posted between now and 2010.

Longest fic: Also when the wild grasses weave, which is almost 43k. And if you know me, that’s a full 30k longer than the usual things I go for.

Shortest fic: nowhere to run is an Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier fanfiction that I wrote about a year after First Class came out in 2012. It is FORTY words and was written for a tumblr three-sentence meme. It was definitely only three sentences, but somehow managed to get 25 kudos and 5 comments anyway.

Most hits/kudos/comments/bookmarks: Top kudos/bookmarks/hits: i don't believe in fairy tales (but i believe in you and me), which was written on September 5th 2014 and is just over 3k of Derek accidentally getting a glimpse of Stiles’ penis. On his phone. It is the dick pic fic and it has 5239 kudos, 712 bookmarks, and 81,838 hits. I feel like the fact that this is my most popular fic should be upsetting since it took me like an hour to write. Top comments: Que Sera, Sera, which was written on June 14th 2014 and is almost 4k. It’s the second part of my Teen Wolf/Addams Family fusion and has 146 comments (most of which are people and not me, because I don’t typically respond to comments, which is a horrible failing on my part).  Favorite fic you’ve written: I actually have an Author's Favorites list on ao3, which needs pared down horribly because it’s got a bunch of really old fic that has not aged particularly well. Rubatosis is probably my favorite? Again, it’s definitely the one I’m proudest of.  wake up in a city that never sleeps was another PJO ot3 fic that I wrote where Percy is Nico’s TA and is also pretty up there. I do genuinely love the Teen Wolf/Addams fusion.  take me to church is one of my favorite Teen Wolf fics, mostly because it’s the soft epilogue that I wanted out of the show.

and i'm always tired, but never of you is a Bright Sessions ot3 fic where Sam and Mark cross paths with Damien years later and I’m really attached to that one. I don’t know. I go back and read these things sometimes and I remember that my writing isn’t like pulling nails all the time. That sometimes it’s really very good.

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: A couple of the older Big Bang fics I would love to go back and rewrite just because when rereading I can tell where I was running out of time or where something should have been cut but wasn’t so I could pad the wordcount. I do eventually want to write at least one more part of the Teen Wolf/Addams series. And I kind of want to write a coda for that Bright Sessions ot3 that I mentioned.

Share a bit of a WIP:

Part of the Buzzfeed Unsolved tattoo AU that I’ve been working on since uh, Christmas. Whoops.

He’s getting ready to text the guy back to let him know that he’ll have to book another appointment when the bell sounds from the front of the door and someone spills through the doorway.

And look, Ryan had gone into this appointment with expectations. Four weeks ago, when the guy had first emailed inquiring about booking an appointment, Ryan had asked him what exactly he was looking for. He’d asked the usual questions, all pretty standard. Style, colors, if he had a preference when it came to the artist, if he had a hard limit on price. 

An hour later, Ryan found himself typing the sentence, ‘so when you say puppet…’ 

Ryan doesn’t really know what he’d expected. He’d done a couple marionettes. Faceless pinnochios. Skeletons dangling from razor wire. A character from Coraline. It was very ain’t no strings on me, complete with shadowy hands puppeting the faceless silhouettes. Creepy, but you know. Kind of cool. 

Precisely ten minutes after he hit send, the guy had ruined all of his expectations by typing back, ‘No, man. Like a muppet.’

He’d even included an attachment. So naturally, Ryan clicked on it.

The creature that looked back at him was monstrous, like a cross between Elmo and the Cookie Monster, its empty eyes dead and staring. It was wearing an outfit that made Ryan think of Indiana Jones, complete with a tiny hat and a miniature fanny pack. On anything else, the little outfit might be cute. 

As Ryan was pondering how to politely pass the job off to Mari, another email came through. This one, thankfully, did not include another attachment. The body of the email was blank. The subject line read simply: ‘He’s called The Professor.’

#heather says what #heather writes #have a thing because i'm bored #this backfired because now i want to write but don't have the time

[eliotquillon]

3, 4, 13, 14, 12 (enter passage/chapter/etc instead of episode lol), 24, 28.

3: Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

a/b/o but i feel like that’s a fairly common one so let me be controversial and say...high school au. look in my opinion all of the merits of a high school au are ALSO present in a college au and at least in a college au nobody is like. 14! plus i don’t understand why anybody would want to relive high school....willingly

4: How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

SO MANY. one is an alex rider tv russian doll au, another is my alex rider/hive crossover that. admittedly will maybe never see the light of day, and another is the “how raven blew up a dam in cuba with esteban” missing scene backstory. those are the ones i’m like. actively working on/thinking about but i have a bunch of others that are just permanently on the backburner

12: Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

for hive i am just. endlessly fascinated with the gap between aftershock and deadlock. it’s this six month long black hole that should be absolutely CHAOTIC (otto and raven tracking down the disciples, laura at the glasshouse, shelby and wing feeling isolated) and yet we really got nothing so i just love imagining what HAPPENED. alex rider tv i am obsessed with the kyra’s ambiguous episode 8 fate. oh and ohshc’s “hikaru and haruhi’s first date” episode is just a big 👁👁 for me as a kaoru/haruhi stan on main because HELLO! the whole premise of that episode is that haruhi agreed to go out with kaoru and they switched places! those r the main ones that make me go ham lol

13: What’s the best writing advice you’ve come across?

if you’re really stuck on part of a scene but know exactly what comes next, just put a placeholder sentence describing what you want to happen in and come back to it later. this may sound obvious but i think it genuinely changed my life LMAO

14: What’s the worst writing advice you’ve come across?

i think it’s a tie between jUsT wRiTe and “don’t just edit it, rewrite it completely”. the second one i think CAN be good advice but for me personally it led to a hell loop where i rewrote the same scene/chapter no less than 6 times trying to ‘perfect’ it. it was. a waste of effort and ultimately i think i would’ve been better off just moving on

24: Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?

yes but not in a LOOOONGGG time. i deleted the first ever fic i wrote at the tender age of 9/10 when i was 12 bc it was cringe and i REALLY regret that bc i’d love to look back on it. i also deleted a harry potter/percy jackson fic i wrote when i was 11 bc i got a mean review saying it had no plot which. was true. but i took it personally lmao because i was 11!! but everything else i’ve written is still up for better or for worse....sweats in 2016 hamilton fanfiction

28: Share three of your favourite fic writers and why you like them so much!

it’s so hard to narrow it down to just three!

you’re definitely one of them; i love your imagery and your use of the second person and basically just. all of your nerostasia stuff. reading your anastasia pov always makes me go DAMN ms furan is FUCKED UP!!! but like in a way that makes me think about her for hours afterwards.

i also adore @spocks-evil-godmother’s stuff!! mitch’s characterisation is so wonderful and i kinda wanna keep her shelby in a box to just poke at sometimes because she’s SO DELIGHTFULLY SHELBY!! also her “big hairy raven fic” (aka there are no comets seen) changed my life maybe and i’m a bit unhealthily obsessed w it.

and then picking a third one is beyond difficult so i’m just going to list some ao3 usernames: dollsome, ilgaksu, Silver_Queen_DoS, solitarydreaming, pistachio_cat, warfare, and afrai. they all make the cut across like 20 different fandoms bc reading their fics makes my chest ache in the most bittersweet way, and all of their writing is outstanding ! there’s definitely some i’ve forgotten and some of these are more recent discoveries than others but i cannot praise them highly enough !!!

#thank u for the asks vela :D !!

[gansey-just-gansey]

multiples of 7 for the book ask thing!

7. Do you borrow books from people??

Very rarely, if I don’t have a book I’ll usually find a copy on this app I use called Media365 Reader because I’m really bad at remembering to bring things back to people, I literally have a library fine right now whoops

14. Do you set yourself a readingchallenge every year??

This is actually the first year I’ve set one, I just got a Goodreads earlier this year and set a goal for 50 books through it

21. Do you write??

I do! I write some fanfiction and I’m actually writing a book right now

28.First book that comes to mind, tellus about it. Rant

Ok so there’s this book series called Covenant by Jennifer L. Armentrout and I love it so much, it’s like Percy Jackson meets Vampire Academy. It has like almost no fandom because the author isn’t very well known and those that do know her usually know her through her other book series “Lux”. I don’t really like sci fi so i haven’t read that one BUT the Covenant series is now one of my favorite series, I’m actually going to get one of the runes from the book tattooed on my hand next to my trc one as part of my sleeve. Seriously, everybody should read this series and scream about Aiden with me

35.Do you have a lot of bookmarks?? orjust a few??

I only have a couple because i actually don’t use them, I just remember the page number I’m on

42.How do people read in the bath??Please tell me, I’m scared of getting my book wet….

That’s a big mood, I only read books on my phone in the bath because I don’t need both hands for it

49.Worse book you’ve ever read??

Ok this is going to lose me some Literary Nerd points but I really fucking hated Slaughter House Five. I had to read it in high school and it’s actually probably the only book I actively hate

Thank you so much for asking! Let’s talk books and blogging guys!

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