Fic Writer Questions!
Tagged by @mystics-and-chill ! Thanks Goldleaf I loved reading your answers <333
1) How many works do you have on AO3?
217 published on ao3, not counting the 80 fics I deleted in [redacted] fandom, and the 50 something AFI stories I orphaned, linked here. Also many of these are “short fic” collections consisting of like 5-30 standalone fics at 1k words or under. IN SHORT, too many!!
2) What's your total AO3 word count?
1,632,262. Skull and crossbones emogi.
3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?
Oh god, I’ve written in 51 and I can’t make myself list them it’s just so many!! My big ones are Cars (2006), Tolkien, The Man From Uncle, Star Wars, Supernatural, Star Trek, Merlin, Cobra Kai, and most recently, Stargate Atlantis.
4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
This list sort of blows my mind lol, it’s so random.
1. Careful of the Company You Keep- This is am angsty, fucked up slow burn TMFU fic. I wrote it ages ago but it remains one of the pairing standards I guess? It’s a good fic! But it’s not even my best or favorite Napollya fic I’ve written so its popularity is baffling to me!
2. Played: also TMFU, the first fic I ever wrote in the fandom. Its a cute formulaic 5 times fic. I didn’t have their voices down yet Imo so it’s another one I think is weird to be popular.
3. Surrender: This is my only posted FinnPoe story. I wrote it right after seeing the movie when there was that brief, hopeful boom in the Star Wars fandom, where we all thought the sequel trilogy was going to be good. I still like this story a lot.
4.Vanity: a TMFU PWP where Napoleon fucks Illya while making him watch them in a vanity mirror. It does what it says on the tin!
5. Dog Eared Page: I’m fucking DELIGHTED this story is on here??!! I thought it was under appreciated but I guess I was wrong. This is a Descendants/Jaylos slow burn fic largely about internalized homophobia. It’s like, dead serious given the fandom and a really beautiful little coming of age story and I love it.
5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?
I try my fucking hardest but I just checked and I currently have 1813 comments I haven’t replied to. When you have as much fic up as I do it’s genuinely hard to keep up with!! I get daunted, I’m trying to be better about it but it’s massive time suck, answering them all. THAT BEING SAID I LOVE ALL MY COMMENTS SO MUCH and it means so so so much to me when people leave them, I appreciate it sooo much.
6) What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?
Like @mystics-and-chill, I think all my Hannibal fic, by necessity, is pretty unhappy. Also almost all my AFI fic. If I had to choose one though probably “We prepared out graves.” It makes me sick to think about haha. It’s the most manipulatively sad thing I’ve ever written.
7) What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?
Almost all my fic has happy, or t least hopeful endings!!! I think the one with the biggest payoff is All Night Long, though. It’s a really long fic with a lot of angst and misunderstanding and the ending is such a “they lived happily ever after” moment and you're rooting for them so hard so I think it’s my most fairytale-esque fic!
8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you've written?
I don’t really, buy the only one I ever HAVE written is insane so I will mention it: I once wrote a Rent/Star Wars crossover (or maybe it’s just an AU?? I dunno) where Luke is a stripper on Tatooine and Han is a washed up old smuggler and they both have space aids and and a space heroin problem and It sounds like it’s crack but it’s like, such a somber serious grimdark fic lmao??? Anyway. Here it is: Before the suns set
9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?
I am unfortunately the sort of writer who always ends up being controversial even when I don’t mean to be, like I STILL get hate from fandoms I haven’t written in in years lol. I also write “problematic” ships and parings, so I routinely get hate just for like, shipping wincest or Sebaciel or whatever. But man the most aggressive hate Ive ever received was for relatively tame stuff, just in very conservative fandoms? Like I JUST recently got a hate anon from someone in the SGA fandom because they didn’t like my characterization. People are weird, I dunno, I generate a lot of hate!!! But I generate three times as much love so whatever.
10) Do you write smut? If so what kind?
yes!! I love smut. In terms of what kind, my sex scenes tend to be really carnal and corporeal and sensory and raw and messy and passionate. I tend to write it out in detail rather than wide, broad swaths, but I avoid play by play style if I can. I love writing about sweat, eating ass, and armpits. @skepticalfrog knows.
11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?
All the fucking time, I’ve literally given up on trying to keep psycho one direction fans from uploading my old deleted fic to Wattpad. Lost cause in that fandom.
12) Have you ever had a fic translated?
Many times! Usually to Russian or Chinese. I think all my Spies and Disguise fic is translated to both because it has HUGE fandoms in those countries!
13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?
My wife @sir-transcelot and I co write occasionally and once wrote a whole long hilarious AFI fic together when I was in college. We also co wrote an amazing 1d/TMFU crossover, it was SO good but never ended up seeing the light of day because we both left the fandom which is a shame, it’s fucking gold.
14) What's your all time favorite ship?
God this is so hard. There’s this dichotomy where many of my all time fave pairings I don’t write? Like Ruth/Debbie from Glow is really up there and Stan/Kyle from South Park is probably my most read pairing ever, but I don’t write much about either of those pairings because the fic I would write already exists. So my fave pairings to write are different than my favorite to read. OK BUT IF I HAVE TO CHOOSE, Kirk/Spock is my OTP probably, the most romantic ship in the world, my ride or die. But again you wouldn’t know because I hardly ever....write them??? I don’t even need to, they’re perfect as is haha. But my favorite to WRITE is probably Doc/Lightning. I invented that pairing and created nearly all the content and lore for it so it’s very dear to my heart as a pet project!!! They feel like original characters in some ways. Currently, McShep has wiped out everything else in my brain. I am a mess, I go through fandoms at a rapid, aggressive pace and accumulate pairings like a hoarding dragon tbh, and I love them allll.
15) What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?
OH GOD don’t talk to me about WIPs....I was trying to finish a bunch in July and then I started watching SGA and got violently derailed. I’m a never say never type of guy, but I think my most likely to be actually abandoned WIP is a holiday fic I started two christmases ago in the Spies and Disguise fandom. It’s so cute and has the potential to be great but I think if you fail two years in a row to finish something AND a traumatic event happens while you’re writing it, it’s probably safe to be like yeah, I can let this one go. Sorry Walter and Lance and the one bed I was gonna make you share.
16) What are your writing strengths?
I’m pretty good at making my readers feel stuff!! I’ve been told I’m an evocative writer, I get comments a lot from people who felt ill or cried while they read which is always a huge compliment. I also think I’m good at characterization/nailing characters voices, and sensory description that makes you feel like you’re there. Also I’m fantastic at 2nd person POV fic, which is a really tough thing to pull off well.
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
I’m way too controlled and not experimental enough, like I know what works and what I like and what Im good at and just....do it over and over and never branch out lol. I love when I read fic that messes with structure and expectation, like @nomercyonlytears blows my mind on that front, I’ll read her fic and be like “wow you can really do whatever the fuck you want and make it awesome,” it’s super inspiring!! I’d love to push boundaries more like that.
18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I have a little bit of Russian in my TMFU fics, and WITHOUT FAIL every time no matter how many times I looked it up or did my research, Russian readers would be like what the fuck this is so off lol so I try not to mess with languages I don’t speak.
19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?
AFI. I have been writing about those freaks since 2003. I will go YEARS without even thinking about them (or hating them) but I always circle back. I learned to write in that fandom, and they're my most enduring hyper fixation and just SO FUCKED UP. They continue to be weird, too, maybe if they stopped being weird about each other I would quit but nah, every time I check in on them they’re still being absolutely insane and I have something to say about it, inevitably, so. Here I am.
20) What's your favorite fic you've written?
I literally don’t know man, I love all my fic so much I’m a fucking megalomaniac. Mine and Apart and Sweet Morphine are my usual go to answers, but I’m also REALLY partial to my House of Durin series.
This was so fun! Tagging @ahufflepuffhobbit @fairytalefem @sir-transcelot @haztobegood @hazzabeeforlou @happy-princess @theresonlyzuul @bobakick @oliver-perks @venhedish @skepticalfrog @mimsyaf @thorniest-rose @freshbrainss @pohjanneito @deputychairman and @got2gh0st ! But if you see this and feel inspired and you’re a writer, please do it!!! And tag me, I love reading what other fic writers have to say!
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erina’s star wars fic promo
to celebrate 30 published star wars fics on ao3 I will promote all of them here^^ under cut after the role swap au
format is fic title, wip status, word count, rating, pairing(s), warnings/triggers, summary
edit: new works added december 17, 2023
jedi lando au
Let light not see my black and deep desires (complete, 16/16, 52,777, E, skyrissian, author chose not to use archive warnings, jedi lando/sith luke au)
“You’re a weird Jedi.”
“And you’re an odd Sith. So I guess we’re even.”
Lando Calrissian, a former student in the Jedi Temple, has been on the run for the vast majority of his life, but never before has he been pursued by anyone as stubborn as Darth Caelus. And they keep running into each other. All the time. To the point where they both just want it to be over.
After one fateful encounter the pair strikes a deal that might bring an end to their constant dance around each other.
But neither of them realizes that the Force itself has its hand at play until it's too late, and their fates are irrevocably intertwined. Forever.
role swap au
Another Kind of Hope (complete, 19,700, T, skyrissian, leia & ahsoka, lando & leia, no archive warnings apply, role swap au)
In a period of a galactic civil war, the brave Rebel Alliance has won their first victory against the Galactic Empire and stolen the plans of the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star.
When the starship of Prince Luke Organa, who is transporting the plans, falls under the Empire's attack, the future of the galaxy depends on two droids carrying the secret plans and their new owner, a farm girl named Leia Skywalker.
Clashes of the Blade and the Heart (complete, 26,222, T, skyrissian, leia & ahsoka, leia & luke, leia & obi-wan, pre-hanleia, no archive warnings apply, role swap au)
It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, the Rebel Alliance has established a new secret base on the remote planet of D'Qar.
The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding a mysterious Jedi Padawan he fought on the Death Star, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space....
the return of hope & appendices
The Return of Hope (complete, 25/25, 96,516, T, reyrose, finnpoe, skyrissian + others, no archive warnings apply)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
STAR WARS
Episode IX
The Return of Hope
After narrowly escaping from Crait with their lives, the remaining members of the brave RESISTANCE seek help on Bespin.
As the threat of the First Order rises with their new SUPREME LEADER, the fate of the galaxy lies with Rey and Finn.
To find what it takes to end the new tyrannical regime, the two friends must discover new things about their pasts....
Like a ray of sun burning through my darkest night (WIP, 3/5, 18,966, T, skyrissian, hanleia, no archive warnings apply)
As the Millennium Falcon makes her way to Cloud City, Lando Calrissian reminisces his relationship with Luke Skywalker: how they met, fell in love, got married, and had a daughter - and how all of that was taken away from them.
Prequel to The Return of Hope
Your eyes so full of wonder (complete, 1,266, G, skyrissian, lando & rey & luke, no archive warnings apply)
Parenting a thirteen-month-old is hard. Especially when said thirteen-month-old is Force sensitive.
A Cold (complete, 702, G, skyrissian, lando & rey & luke, no archive warnings apply)
“Daddy? Papa?” came a tiny voice from the doorway. “I don't feel so good.”
~..~
Rey gets sick in the middle of the night.
Stay (complete, 495, G, skyrissian, lando & rey & luke, no archive warnings apply)
Luke has a duty, but leaving his family is never easy.
Behind a closed door (complete, 1,100, M, skyrissian, reyrose, no archive warnings apply)
People keep having sex in the Falcon's cockpit, and for some reason Han just keeps walking in on them. Press F to pay respects for Han's poor corneas.
star wars pride
The most unexpected and wonderful things (complete, 3,322, T, skyrissian, hanleia, chewie/maz, no archive warnings apply)
Luke gets lost in his first Pride parade in years, but ends up running into the most gorgeous man he has ever met, Lando Calrissian - who incidentally is also the guy Han meant to set him up with.
We could be bigger and brighter than space (complete, 3,328, T, reyrose, skyrissian, finnpoe, no archive warnings apply)
30 years after the Pride Parade in which her fathers met, Rey is going to introduce her significant other, Rose, to the family.
What she didn't think of was how dramatic her family could get.
Things change (but some things never do) (complete, 3,093, T, skyrissian, reyrose, finnpoe, no archive warnings apply)
Rose inadvertedly helps Lando figure out things about himself that he has been wondering about for a good while.
babysitters au
Galaxy's best babysitters (complete, 1,327, G, ahsoka & rex, no archive warnings apply)
Ahsoka and Rex are being hunted.
Thankfully their pursuers are very small and not that dangerous... at least yet.
Trapped (complete, 2,807, G, obi-wan/rex, rex & skywalker twins & lando & han, no archive warnings apply)
Rex is alone on babysitting duty, when an unknown ship appears. With no time to make an escape, Rex devises the only plan he can think of.
Booby-trapping their ship.
calrissian-skywalker-djarin adventures
Fates Intertwined (complete, 3,940, T, mandoskyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
While on a quest to recover lost Jedi lore with his partner Lando Calrissian, Luke Skywalker senses a mysterious call from the planet Tython. Who is calling for him and why?
Something More to It (complete, 3,337, T, mandoskyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
It's not as if Lando and Luke agreed to be exclusive. And yet that doesn’t stop Lando from feeling a nasty twinge of jealousy every time he sees Luke with Din Djarin, the Mandalorian whose kid Luke is now training in the ways of the Force, or when Luke talks about him.
But is it jealousy after all though?
year of the skyrissian 2023 (can be read separately)
What happens in the Caribbean... (complete, 994, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
“Tell me, Luke,” he said, a coy smile playing on his lips, making a point of using the lad’s first name, “have you ever kissed a man?”
New Plans For Valentine's (complete, 457, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
“Lando,” Luke interrupted with a laugh, “if I kiss you, will you shut up?”
Forever (complete, 720, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando and Luke are hunting down an assassin, and they really have to have a serious talk after several years.
It's been a while since they've last been alone together.
A Peaceful(-ish) Morning (complete, 970, G, skyrissian, lando & luke & rey & kadara, no archive warnings apply)
There is finally peace everywhere in the galaxy… except for the Calrissian-Skywalker lake house where two five-year-old girls have decided to wake up their fathers at the crack of dawn.
stand-alone fics
Awake and Happy (complete, 596, G, finnpoe, no archive warnings apply)
Finn wakes up for the first time since the Starkiller and Poe is there with him - and something else besides the Force awakens too.
Three in the morning (complete, 192, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Luke is a shitposter at three in the morning, and Lando just wants to sleep.
Lando Calrissian's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (complete, 568, G, no pairings, no archive warnings apply but force choking appears)
What happened right before the Falcon arrived to Cloud City 3 ABY.
Good things come to those who wait (complete, 1,186, E, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando likes to take his time while bestowing pleasure. Luke would rather just get on with it, it's been too long since the last time.
Hold me 'til I explode, kiss me like it's too good to be true (complete, 2,533, T, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Three times Lando and Luke get together. The first and second time nothing happens. The third time... everything happens.
Like Sunshine (complete, 2,606, G, skyrissian, lando & rey & luke, no archive warnings apply)
After Luke's Jedi Temple is destroyed, he and Lando leave to research lost Jedi knowledge. For his surprise, Lando likes Ahch-To. The place is the polar opposite of Cloud City, and he's homesick, but it is peaceful. Lando and Luke fall into a daily routine of trying to decipher old Jedi texts, fishing, and trying to keep porgs from destroying their belongings.
... until one day their daily routine is interrupted by something neither of them could've expected even in their wildest dreams.
Of Motherhood and Rebellion (complete, 974, G, hera & padmé, no archive warnings apply)
Having just given birth, Hera Syndulla has a hard time figuring out how to balance motherhood and being a rebel general. Thankfully there is another mother running the rebellion.
A Closet Business (complete, 1,311, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply, prelude to my role swap au)
After the narrow escape from the Death Star, Luke needs a quiet moment and accidentally discovers Lando's cape closet.
And also something more.
Sleep dialing (complete, 819, T, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando is at a trade negotiation when Luke suddenly calls. It's... not what anyone would expect.
in the rain (complete, 473, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Sometimes a surprise rain brings in unexpected things.
Of Victories and Found Families (complete, 909, G, kanera, kalluzeb, ketbine, ghost family, no archive warnings apply)
Kanan and Hera return to Lothal to their family after the Battle of Endor.
The One with the Engagement Party (complete, 1,876, G, hanleia, skyrissian, qi’ra/sana, chewie & han, no archive warnings apply)
When having his engagement party that he didn't want to throw Han discovers that somehow all of his exes have got together with each other and this must be what a stroke feels like.
It is you (I have loved all along) (complete, 2,023, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Another thing Luke had a new-found respect for was some peace and quiet, and if he now started talking to anyone there would be no end to it. And he really wasn’t in the mood for any small-talk, even with his friends who were still up.
Except maybe one, but Luke hadn’t seen him anywhere for a while. And that friend went by the name of Lando Calrissian.
But touch my tears with your lips (complete, 2,330, G, hera/ahsoka, no archive warnings apply, canonical character death is mentioned)
Jacen is six months old when Ahsoka Tano returns to Hera’s life.
Falling for you tonight (complete, 1,586, E, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
It's the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Yavin and also the first time Lando and Luke have seen each other in a while and... things escalate.
The Epic Love Story of Lando Calrissian and Luke Skywalker (complete, 16,682, T, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando Calrissian volunteers to go on a diplomatic mission on behalf of the newly formed Senate of the New Republic. Luke Skywalker, in turn, volunteers to go as Lando's bodyguard.
Holonet is about to go wild.
because I trust you (complete, 1,147, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
“Luke, please tell me you’re not thinking about doing something that’s both incredibly heroic and extremely stupid.”
The Nearness of You (complete, 951, T, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
A power outage causes a citywide blackout in Cloud City, and effectively ruins Lando's plans for him and Luke for the night... or does it?
Slowly healing (complete, 644, G, lando/luke/bodhi, no archive warnings apply)
Bodhi has a nightmare.
Maybe it's luck (complete, 4,524, T, lando/luke/wedge, no archive warnings apply)
Lando Calrissian, Luke Skywalker, and Wedge Antilles take a mission on behalf of the New Republic in an attempt to meet with an old contact of Lando's and receive valuable intel. The mission, however, takes an unexpected turn.
Heroes As Seen By the Family (complete, 2,356, G, skyrissian, hanleia, lando & rey & luke, no archive warnings apply)
It was a truth universally acknowledged in the New Republic that Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and General Lando Calrissian were some of the biggest heroes the galaxy had ever seen.
Even so, there were people who, if asked about the pair, would tell entirely different stories about them…
Luke and Lando's Great Hustle (complete, 3/3, 13,784, E, skyrissian + background han/leia/chewie and anidala, no archive warnings apply)
Luke is tired of being set up with this guy or the next by his well-meaning but overly meddling family, so during one fateful call with Leia he finally snaps and tells her that he's dating none other than Lando Calrissian. Only they're not actually dating.
As such Luke and Lando agree to pretend to be dating for a week at Luke's parents' lake house on Naboo, with Luke's entire family there.
Hope this doesn't awaken anything in either of them.
Can I Have This Dance? (complete, 535, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando and Luke have to take dance lessons to attend an important banquet. Unfortunately Luke has two left feet.
One Last Time (complete, 816, E, cinta/vel, no archive warnings apply)
Cinta and Vel share one last night with each other before the mission.
Saving Commander Cody (complete, 4,127, T, cody/obi-wan/rex, pre-relationship, no archive warnings apply)
Rex and Obi-Wan land on Otava, a site of an Imperial training facility, in order to rescue an old friend.
Warmth in Winter (complete, 858, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando takes Luke to visit his family's vacation cabin during winter. Luke isn't exactly a winter person though, but Lando doesn't mind. He has a sauna to heat.
Life Day on the Ghost (complete, 1,430, G, ezra & jacen, ezra & kanan, ezra & ghost crew + background relationships, no archive warnings apply)
It's Life Day and everyone on the Ghost is busy. Ezra needs to finish wrapping up his present for Jacen, but it does not go as planned.
Moonglow (complete, 390, M, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
On their wedding night, Luke is suddenly afraid of his own power.
Thankfully, Lando is not.
Alive (complete, 351, G, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
Lando and Luke are reunited after the Battle of Endor.
Cocoa, whipped cream, and rainbow sprinkles (complete, 1,121, M, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
A rainy evening on a secluded island, and Luke is ready to just chill in peace.
Lando has other ideas.
And then Luke does too.
Kaeden and Ahsoka’s Bizarre Adventure (complete, 1,204, G, kaesoka, no archive warnings apply)
A crash landing takes Kaeden Larte and Ahsoka Tano to a strange planet with even stranger inhabitants.
The Party That Was Too Much (complete, 588, T, skyrissian, no archive warnings apply)
At an official party Luke realizes just how much he hates it when other people flirt with Lando.
Like come on people, the man is in a committed relationship, knock it off!
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