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eldritch-elrics · 3 years

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fic writer meme

thanks @gusu-emilu for the tag! i’m so late to this but i didn’t forget :3

@the-golden-ghost i know i’ve sent you so many of these lmao but just in case you want to do another one! also @candygothjester , @wolffyluna , @cloudheaded if you like??

How many works do you have on AO3?

81! (that’s the reverse of your number emilu lol)

What’s your total AO3 word count?

540,039 ...... this is over ~6 years but still WOW that number is big

continued under the cut because Long

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

according to my ao3 page, approx. 25. much of the variety comes from crossovers (steven universe, mob psycho 100, and uzumaki are all on there just because i crossed them over with the magnus archives) and also because i used to write fic for a shit ton of different shakespeare plays lmao

i won’t list all the fandoms on my page, but the top 5 are mdzs/cql, the magnus archives, homestuck, hamlet, and kirby. technically star trek should be there too but i never put any of my star trek fic on ao3

(i’m quite liking the range of the top 5... especially since i’ve got a novel/tv show, podcast, multimedia webcomic, play, and video game series!)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

spacetime, sexuality, and other complex conundrums (547 kudos) - a very long homestuck canon divergence au in which one character is thrown back in time and forced to repeat a very long and very boring portion of canon. except it isn’t boring in this fic, because it’s full of awkward teenage love triangles, which eventually result in polyamory. this is still the longest single thing i’ve written lol

greatest warriors (318) - kirby fic! it’s an enemies-to-lovers fic with meta knight and galacta knight, and it’s also about meta knight dealing with his post-mind-control trauma (sometimes pretty poorly). there’s homoerotic swordfighting and lots of lore speculation. i have made so many friends through this fic it’s insane (and really cool!)

closed eyes and open arms (296) - fun fluffy get-together fic for ed and ling from fmab, set during a time period that canon skips over. i don’t think this is my most unique or creative fic but it’s sweet! and it was fun to write

too hard a knot for me to untie (248) - another homestuck one. fairly generic first kiss/get-together fic (though with shakespeare references, which was fun)

nothing beside remains (244) - mdzs! my “xue yang sacrifices himself to bring back xiao xingchen” fic! i’m so glad this is up here because i’m very proud of it :D

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

most of them! i always love when authors respond to my comments, so i try to do the same

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

almost certainly stand at the pit’s mouth, which ends with mo xuanyu’s (canon) death after he’s just spent 9k words panicking about whether or not he wants to die after all. fun fact: my mom read this and told me it was so devastating she was thinking about it for days and days afterward, so... success?

Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

yes! i’ve been writing crossovers ever since i’ve been writing fic. i think the two fandoms i’ve crossed stuff over with most are star trek and the magnus archives. especially memorable are the star trek + shakespeare’s tempest one i wrote (for a school project!), magnus archives + steven universe, and, my personal favorite, this one that’s tagged with “the adventure zone” and “philosophy rpf.”

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not HATE per se, but i’ve gotten a couple comments along the lines of “this is a cool fic; here’s a list of things i like and a list of things i didn’t like.” which feels kind of rude to comment on a fic lol, even if it is sometimes cool to see people’s honest opinion. like.. some of it was good constructive criticism, but it’s not the best practice to offer concrit out of the blue

Do you write smut? if so what kind?

yeah......

oh god the tones of all my smutty works are VASTLY different, but i guess i could say that a throughline is that most of it involves characters who aren’t really romantically involved? either they’re friends, enemies, or somewhere straddling the line... i just like using smut to complicate relationship dynamics!

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge..

Have you ever had a fic translated?

not yet, but i recently got a comment from someone asking if they could translate one of my ningxian fics into russian!

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i wrote a couple star trek/star wars crossovers with a friend once in middle school lmao... idk i probably still have those lying around somewhere

What’s your all time favorite ship?

i cannot possibly choose an “all time favorite” because i switch between a lot pretty rapidly (and my tastes change over time!) but rn i’m really feeling xuexiao :3 it’s about the COMPLEXITY

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

gonna limit myself to just things that are on ao3 but - a cross-country guide to diplomacy and babysitting, which is a fmab post-canon road trip fic! i had like a whole plot and everything... maybe if i ever go back to fmab fic (and i’m sure i will) i’ll finish it but hmmm we shall see

What are your writing strengths?

i’m pretty good at angst! making people feel devastated! but sometimes in like a cathartic way? also i’d like to think i’ve been steadily improving at incorporating humor into my fics but i have yet to receive feedback on that

also i’m good at wacky surreal shit hehe

What are your writing weaknesses?

this is probably something all writers feel about their own work, but sometimes i feel like my prose can get very same-y and everything i write sounds the same lmao

also, longer plots where there’s tension beyond just misunderstandings & interpersonal (/psychological) drama - those are tricky. i go for a very specific type of conflict in my fics usually!

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

not sure about dialogue, but in cdrama/cnovel fic i like when authors use the chinese titles!

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

star trek!

...well i did write angry birds fanfic once for a school project when i was about 8 but that’s beside the point

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

again, impossible to say, but i do love stand at the pit’s mouth

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imaginaryelle · 4 years

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Author Interview

Thanks to @dafan7711 for the tag!

Name: Alex (they/them)

Fandoms: MDZS & The Untamed, Marvel Avengers (comics), Good Omens, Dragon Age & Mass Effect, Star Wars & SWTOR, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes; the list goes on but these are the main ones.

Where You Post: Tumblr and AO3.

Complete: 72 works on AO3; a few (less than 10?) oneshots are only on tumblr.

Incomplete: Posted? I think the closest is these two snippets from my Wangxian Modern Musician AU (1 | 2). Unposted? The well is bottomless.

Coming (hopefully) Soon:

1. Wangxian Modern Musician AU: Wei Wuxian has been out of the live music scene for more than a decade and just happens to land a traveling show with his ex as his first get-back-in-gear gig (thank you, Nie Huaisang). Features include hand massages, yearning in taxis, getting-back-together uncertainties, publicity angst and comfort softness alongside traveling show hi-jinks.

2. MDZS/Abhorsen Fusion: What if. Just stay with me for a second. What if. Lan Wangji was the Clayr-raised Abhorsen who was chosen for the role over any of the Lotus Pier disciples and Wei Wuxian was an Abhorsen-raised free magic necromancer who became more of a free magic creature instead of falling properly into Death? Possibly he can also turn into a rabbit I’m still working on details here but I am. Excite! Thank you for your time; @suspiciouspopsicle and I have a lot of ideas we like to play with for this AU.

3. So Many Wangxian Things Okay, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Canon Divergent A-Yuan!kidfic, Everything; Also Some Juniors Friendship Things; Possibly Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian Reconciliation While Night Hunting.

Do You Accept Prompts?

Absolutely, though I tend to be focused on one fandom at a time for actually answering them (I try to note what fandom’s at the top of my mind in my tumblr sidebar). Currently, that’s MDZS & The Untamed (shippy stuff-not just wangxian, sibling or family relationships, hurt/comfort, whatever). Also, kissing, hurt/comfort and domestic moment prompts are always likely to be answered fastest. I cannot resist them and am unlikely to build an entire world and accompanying plot and thus get lost for weeks on end.

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write:

Wangxian Modern Musician AU! Which is, as a point, from an anon prompt that I got a bit carried away with.

Favorite Story You Wrote:

What, ever? Hm. I’m going to go with Practical Exercises in Free Will (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley) today. It’s a choose-your-path fic, which was both challenging and enjoyable to put together. I should definitely do more of those.