#why this season kinda feels like the happiest one

[kiwiana-writes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks @cha-melodius and @stereopticons for the tags! I know I’ve done this in the past, but it’s been a hot minute…

How many works do you have on ao3?

239!

What's your total ao3 word count?

822,937—but that’s a collaboration-boosted lie. Per my writing tracker, words that I have personally written and published on AO3 is 693,613

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly RWRB these days, but the majority of my back catalogue is Schitt’s Creek, with a few others sprinkled in for fun. The Pairing definitely made my brain whirr… we’ll see.

Top five fics by kudos:

With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest), RWRB, 65.5k, the Much Ado About Nothing stage actor AU

Kinda think that I might be his type, RWRB, 12.8k, Alex and Bea fake date and Alex gets a little distracted by Bea’s brother

We were supposed to find this, RWRB, 3.3k, soulmate AU

We always walked a very thin line, Happiest Season, 2.7k, Riley character study/alternate ending

All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers, RWRB, 5.8k, barista Henry repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth in front of his coworker crush

(This is how I learned Puck It has been knocked out of my top five 😭)

Do you respond to comments?

Yes! And absent a Schitt’s Creek resurgence of some kind that sees me absolutely inundated I don’t see that changing.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Five ways it could have ended (and one way it still could), Schitt’s Creek, 1.2k, for the love of god read the tags

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

Like… most of them? I love to end on a good HEA haha. For sheer joy, though, it’s probably With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest)

Do you get hate on fics?

From time to time. I’m very free with the delete button. Weirdly, it occasionally pops up in the AO3 comments but mostly seems to come to me via anons on tumblr??? I have no idea why.

Do you write smut?

It’s been known to happen, I guess 👀

Craziest crossover:

I haven’t written any AO3-era crossovers! A few fusions/media AUs, but no crossovers.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. I’ve only been asked once, and they wanted to post off AO3 which is a big heck nope for me (and my permissions statement has now been updated to reflect that)

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Heck yeah I have. I’ve done several anthology-type collaborations where we each wrote a chapter in a fic, and I’ve fully cowritten fics with @ships-to-sail several times. We have another collab coming up for @aroyallybigbangrwrb and I’m also cowriting The Big Secret AU with @indestructibleheart which is essentially us one-upping each other on emotionally devastating ideas until someone writes them down. Good system 😂

All time favorite ship?

Stop making pansexuals choose things.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Look, the chances of kinktober 2021 being finished at this point are slim 😂

Schitt’s Creek kinkverse… I don’t know. I have little snippets written of future fics and they’re great but… idk. Maybe I’ll write one vignette-y wrap up fic one day.

What are your writing strengths?

Narrative POV, dialogue that feels like the characters, epistolary bullshit, smut apparently.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Coming up with actual plot lmao. Visual descriptors — I’m not even remotely a visual person so I really really struggle with writing the sorts of things people can visualise. Also like… the passage of time? A scam.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Love it. I’ll shoulder tap a fluent speaker if I need an actual sentence/anything Google isn’t super reliable for. Forever heartbroken that there are no fics in my second language in AO3 and no reason for me to be able to sprinkle it into my own writing (though one of the subscriber shindig prompts might be about to change that 👀)

First fandom you wrote in?

HP

Favorite fic you've written?

Stop! Asking! Pansexuals! To! Choose! Things!

I don’t know there are 239 of the bloody things 😂 I’m far more interested in what other people’s favourites are than what my own is!

I have no sense of who’s done this already so apologies if this is a double up but tagging @agame-writes @affectionatelyrs @anincompletelist @cricketnationrise @getmehighonmagic

@happiness-of-the-pursuit @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @indestructibleheart @inexplicablymine @nontoxic-writes

@read-and-write- @rmd-writes @sparklepocalypse @welcometololaland @whimsymanaged and, as always, anyone who wants to play!

#20 questions for fic writers #kiwiana-writes

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every single hue

summary : in which she's part of the heartstopper cast and they all love her to death.

pairing : heartstopper cast x reader

warnings : language

author's note : love this so much!! heartstopper>>>> and heartstopper cast>>>> <3

tagged : @0oolookitsme @ellora-brekker @slut4benbarnes @ateliefloresdaprimavera

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this is probably off topic but like i was rereading sea glass gardens & i was just giggling at the fact that kamo (the good one ofc not the one who took back shots for the greater evil) is just…obsessed with getting this middle school delinquent approval & MEGUMI JUST NOT REMEMBERING HIS NAME???

like imagine dedicating your spare time to impress the adopted child of the strongest who is also the zenin’s heir (if gojo fucking goes crazy or kicks the bucket) who is also the ten shadows user, trying to compliment him, hyping up his skills by saying he has more potential than the current zenin head, only for him to not know your name 😭. & the fact he apologized for it? i’m cacklingggg. you truly embraced megumi’s silent menace tendencies. tbh i was so convinced that kamo had a crush on megumi & was just flirting with him for the whole exchange event 😭.

(also maki’s little story of her interaction with megumi in their childhood? i cried a little. like the fact megumi being a menace to naoya & the clan & taking mai away was like mai’s happiest memory? i really can’t wait to see mai’s appearance here)

also i can’t believe megumi is half dead & blind & he’s already known as “yuuta’s boy”. this is giving when you’re a high school senior & you just forcibly take a underclassmen under your wing & everyone just calls that underclassmen your school kid.

like imagine in a happier universe where shibuya didn’t happen & yuuta pops tf out & introduces himself to the first years. imagine the hilarity of nobara & yuuji trying to figure out how tf yuuta is able to cling onto megs, tease him, & knows little details about him without getting his head chewed off 😭.

honestly..yuuta’s unhealthy platonic feelings about megs makes me wonder gojo’s reaction bc i imagine him being so insufferable like he just assumes that “omg my distant relative have a crush on my emotional support child”

ANYWAYS I LOVE YOUR STORY !! i can’t wait for the next update, your writing is literally so beautiful that i have to re read it multiple times to take everything in (i’m kinda slow). it’s gotten to the point where i accepted your fic as canon 😭. i promise you in a few months your fic is gonna be known as THE JJK FIC. i’m manifesting it. <3

So I’m never gonna get there in the fic because sea glass gardens cuts off pre season 1, but I like to headcanon that Yuuta desperately wants yuuji to like him (he’s megumis friend and also Yuuta feels an obligation to look out for him because they were both sentenced to death) but yuuji is just NOT having it because he’s the one person in the world that yuuji feels almost seething jealousy for. He is not a jealous person. He has never been a jealous person. But Yuuta is living his perfect life, which is a fact that Yuuta would be surprised to learn, because he is not living anyone’s perfect life. From yuujis perspective, Yuuta is:

Inexplicably close to Megumi. Megumi is somehow his boy. Yuuji didn’t think Megumi would tolerate being anyone’s boy.

(He doesn’t tolerate it it’s somehow the best and worst kept secret in the school. Everyone knows Megumi is Yuuta’s boy except for Megumi himself. Megumi insists Yuuta’s like this with everyone while panda silently shakes his head where Megumi can’t see him.)

He’s got some kind of secret history with Megumi that no one will talk about (since I imagine that the second years would legitimately keep their word and not talk about what the Zenin did to him behind his back) but whatever it is it makes Megumi trust and rely on him more than anyone else??? How is the son of a bitch doing it???

He was also sentenced to death but got it suspended and like. Yeah. Yuuji would like to live that dream existence.

The fucking legally adopted child of Nanamin??? How?????

It’s a lot of

Yuuji, glaring at him angrily from across the room: he’s the perfect man

Nobara: why do you say that like you’re mad

Yuuji: why am I not him!!!

Yuuta’s just. Despondent. He wanted yuuji to like him so so bad.

Considering canon Megumi didn’t tell them he had an entire sister until they were at his old school and people were asking after her, I doubt that even waterboarding could get out of him “yeah so I met the second years when my bio family violated the no contact protocol that started because of how dangerously abusive they were and basically tortured me for a week, up to the point of my Actual Death. I was blind for a while. I guess okkotsu senpais protective of me because when we first met he Literally Had To Restart My Heart and Lungs. Also we held hands multiple times in the immediate aftermath.” So I think Yuuji and Nobara would be aware that there’s something weird about how Yuuta and Megumi met but have absolutely no idea what that weird thing is.

(Panda: look it’s really not weird how protective Yuuta is of Megumi considering all that Megumi was going through when they first met

Nobara: What was Megumi going through when they first met

Panda:

Nobara:

Panda: I’ve said too much.)

I have a serious reading of Kamo and a self indulgent reading of Kamo and a Kamo that’s somewhere in the middle.

The serious reading of Kamo is that Kamo was a kid who grew up in a bad situation with very little control over his own life and saw Megumi as the one who could possibly understand him. They both were born outside of their clans but their inherited technique had the ability to elevate them to clan heir. He persisted in trying to compliment him and form common grounds with him out of isolation and a desire for someone to understand his lot in life. Megumi, meanwhile, would see Kamo as exactly who he doesn’t want to become. Kamo has accepted his place in his clan; megumi is violently rejecting it. He doesn’t want to be the same as Kamo because he doesn’t want to be anywhere near the Zenin clan.

The thing is that out of all the characters, Kamo’s really the best one we have to kind of represent the more common views of the jujutsu world. like, he very consistently is shown to be able to make his own assessments about what judgment call the higher ups and the wider jujutsu elite are going to make or expect, and part of it is his desire to fulfill his role as kamo clan heir. And Kamo? Accepts out of hand that Megumi is going to be formally brought into the Zenin clan once he graduates.

Like, he's in the fight during the goodwill event, and he's just like "yeah so when we both graduate we'll both be working to support a major clan in the jujutsu world" and megumi's like "the hell are you talking about. i'm going to kill you with this elephant."

It is probably a common expectation that gojo keeping Megumi from the Zenin clan is not going to stretch into perpetuity. Like. Right now, megumi is a minor. Gojo very easily can control who has access to him. When he’s an adult working in the society, the same trick of preventing all contact isn’t gonna work. Those are his coworkers now. They’re going to get more and more opportunities to bring him back into the fold. The Zenin are just playing a waiting game to get Megumi back and everyone sort of has just accepted that fact.

Kamo is what the Zenin clan expect Megumi to one day be for them, and I think it puts Megumi a bit at odds with him. Megumi has no interest in living the way Kamo does, and a little internalized fear about it happening anyway. Refusing the Zenin clan is the only control he’s ever really exerted over his life and future. He never got to pick being a jujutsu sorcerer, but he chose not to go with them. All of kamos priorities and mindset remind Megumi of all the things he’s messed up about, and it sets them at odds.

The self indulgent reading is that Kamo had a huge crush on Megumi and spent the entire goodwill event trying to execute his four year long plan towards holding his hand only to be thwarted by the fact that Megumi was completely dazzled by a himbo he knew for less than two weeks three months ago.

And the reading above is just the serious reading with the added fact that Kamo also had a huge crush on Megumi.

The thing with Mai partially came from something that Gege apparently released as background lore. In the goodwill event, Mai says that she never told maki when she had her first love, and i was like "that's weirdly specific, I wonder who that is" and then I googled it, and the answer was apparently either Megumi or Maki herself, and I said, "Huh, I Don't Like That" and decided we weren't doing that.

Now, to be clear, I do get making that decision on a level as a writer. Like, the Zenin clan is enormously fucked up and explicitly practices intermarriage. That is the kind of thing where you may include it because it's so fucked up and perfectly exemplifies how fucked up it is. a clan that explicitly is practicing incest is going to heavily skew how relationships amongst family members develop and form and it's going to be a fucked up dynamic amongst closely related people.

But also I Don't Like It And We're Not Doing That.

I did like the idea of Megumi and Maki occupying a somewhat similar place in Mai's mind. Like, Maki is in a league of her own, there's too much history there for anyone to come close to her in a relationship, but Mai's fondest memories of Maki were specifically with Maki occupying a sort of companion and protector role. Maki was in the same "level" as mai. They were both vulnerable kids in a bad situation who were looked down on by their family. They were both fast tracked to be servants. But Maki was the brave one, the capable one, the one who guided her when she was afraid and promised to always be there, and that's where a lot of mai's complex emotions around maki come from: mai was afraid and maki was strong and maki was there to hold her hand, and then suddenly she wasn't anymore.

Once I put Megumi in the Zenin compound as a little kid (since it's unclear what contact Megumi had with his bio family pre-season 1 and how extensive it was), I knew that 1) the zenin would not be putting him anywhere near Mai and Maki, and 2) that I wanted them to have met anyway.

So I liked the idea of Maki and Megumi occupying similar spaces in mai's mind because they both had briefly been viewed by Mai as companions and protectors. Megumi's contact with Mai was way more limited than Maki's was, but Megumi sort of swept into her life at a time where Mai really did need it most.

Mai would have been right at the age where most kids get their technique, if they get any at all, and we can sort of assume that mai may have figured out what hers was late if Maki didn't know about it. She just failed to get the ten shadows technique, and was a freshly confirmed failure in terms of power. She was just feeling the sting of her family's rejection, and Megumi, meanwhile, was the one who was supposed to be the most special and blessed of them all.

And he was the only one who didn't reject her out of hand, other than her sister. He stuck his own neck out to protect her. They all played together. There's not a lot of good memories than any of the three of them have on the Zenin compound, but I think that all of them secretly thought of that day as one of the best they can remember from childhood.

And it sort of was a huge deal for Mai. Everyone was treating her like she was dirt under their heel, but there was Megumi, the presumptive heir to the clan, the Ten Shadows himself, and he played with her. He was her friend. I think that would have been kind of a landmark moment for little mai. not only is that the acceptance and kindness she desperately needed, but I think it was also sort of source of hope for her that she could have a place in the Zenin compound one day without it being utter garbage. Megumi was assumed to take over the entire clan one day, and he was kind to her. He was her friend. He didn't let Naoya treat her badly, when Naoya was the one who was likely going to be heir if Megumi hadn't inherited the ten shadows. Naoya was at the top of the food chain, but Megumi still stood up for her, even though her own parents wouldn't have. So maybe when he grew up and became clan head, he wouldn't let people mistreat her and maki anymore. They could all be happy together, and Mai couldn't imagine a future where she and maki got to be happy before. Even though the clan leadership cracked down pretty hard on them for that stunt, it didn't make a dent in how overwhelmingly happy it made her.

Megumi going no contact probably would have been a huge blow, especially considering her age. She lost her hope and her only friend who wasn't her sister in one fell swoop, and she really was too young to have the tools to understand just how much Megumi needed to be kept away from her family for his own safety.

Mai, back then, was living in such a warped life that she didn't really realize how bad her family was, especially to Megumi. and that's not so much a comment as to how bad it was for her there versus him, but more that she had very little context as to what his life there was like. she was never supposed to meet him. She mostly heard about him secondhand, and that's all being filtered through the zenin's unique. All she ever heard was about how the ten shadows had finally been reborn, and how the clan was blessed for it, and how upset they all were that they had to give him back to gojo. No one even wanted her. Megumi seemed like he was living a much better life than anyone at the zenin compound could expect, so what cause would gojo have to take him away?

She was just a little girl who didn't really have friends other than her sister and him. She wanted to play with him again. She didn't understand much outside of that.

Of course, she's had time to grow up and kind of put her memories of the past in a more reasoned context. Maki came to the conclusion that Megumi probably didn't have the best time there a while ago, and this incident has really put it into perspective for her that he must have cut off the zenin because they were dangerously abusive towards him. Like, she mostly never saw him, but she has a lot of memories of him 1) being hauled out of a training room unconscious 2) being on sixteen hour days at the age of six, and 3) being violently unhappy whenever he was in the compound. Mai, to a lesser extent, likely has a similar awareness that he didn't go no contact for shits and giggles, it was because her family's fucking bonkers and abused him badly enough for gojo to pull the plug. of course, how that's shaped mai's mindset towards megumi now is still yet to be seen.

I know what it is, of course. it is seen for me. you all have yet to see it.

Gojo can and will make his own existence everyone else's problem and yuuta is sooo right to not want him to know. like. he wouldn't kick yuuta's ass. but that doesn't mean he'd be good about it.

I'm so glad you like the story! thank you for your kind words!!!

#sea glass gardens #I have this entire self indulgent continuation that's just yuuta breathing into a paperbag in africa about what the fuck is going on #he keeps trying to confiscate the first years to africa with him #like mostly megumi #megumi is his boy #but he LOVES that megumi has friends like he WANTED megumi to find what he had in his class he adores nobara and yuuji #whoever the fuck they are #he doesn't want to take megumi from his friends so he will simply take all of them #look obviously the others tried their best but they failed and lost the privilege okay the first years just need to come to africa where he #can take care of them properly #yuuta was locked and fucking loaded to be the world's greatest senpai only to get kneecapped with a study abroad trip #the other second years have to play rock paper scissors to decide who has to tell yuuta that megumi fought fucking sukuna twice within two #weeks of the first day of school. /sukuna/. sukuna hasn't been a problem for a thousand years and megumi has fought him TWICE. #he was shirtless both times. literally no one wants to be the one to tell yuuta they are all so afraid. #all yuuji and nobara know about him is that everyone talks about him wistfully and he keeps trying to confiscate them to africa #Maki: look you have to understand that yuuta loves his boy #Panda: he fucking loves his boy #nobara: and we may have to... go to africa about that #maki: you very well may #yuuji tries to ask megumi why they call him yuuta's boy and inumaki jumps out a 3rd floor window to tackle him because he still doesn't kno #i have this crack au in my head where Yuuta figures out teleportation during the goodwill event bc he can't take waiting to find out #if everyone's alive. the first thing he does is save his friends the second he does is hug them the third he does is hit them very hard #yuuta: you promised me you would take care of him! #Panda: we did! #Yuuta: why are there ROOTS in him #Panda sweating: look the thing is--TODO was the one who punted him through a wall for not being an ass man #maki had to sit on inumaki to stop his homosexuality from telling yuuta about that one and she did it not out of love for todo but out of #her conviction that yuuta would murder todo and then feel guilty and then she'd have to /hear/ about it and that's too much effort #all that work gone to shit because panda needed someone to throw under the bus

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can I just start with how funny it is that blaine's personality changed from well blaine to darren? Like at first he's this smooth talker suave handsome guy and then he's just... a dude? I know it's talked about a lot but it is just THAT funny.

Rewatching season 5 rn and honest to god I didn't remember a single plot point from this season. And rightly so it's so chaotic (as is most glee) I know they stopped caring at this point lmao. Like what's up with artie doing 3 girls at once?? And blaine's jealous of kurt cause he's getting muscular?? And RACHEL LEAVES FUNNY GIRL??? Like what is even happening.

Also remembering things i forgot on my rewatch: the twerking episode has a plot. I totally forgot that I always thought of it as just the twerking epsiode and while i was watching it I was like "oh it actually has kinda good plot"

This is all I can remember rn, my memory's kinda bad. Would love to hear your stuff. Especially why you ship Quartie, i never even thought of it lol

Very true! Especially compared s2!blaine to s4!blaine, it’s like a whole ‘nother level. Even before in s2, there were hints there with his romantic gesture to the gap guy, but later on, he started to get less “classy” to say the least haha.

Season 5 is actually where I stopped. Exactly at the 20th ep. It’s very weird. And the stuff with Blaine, I feel like seeing Kurt in his footing made him insecure (not that he wasn’t already but you get it). While I don’t like how he handled it and the way he acted, I can relate to feeling insecure and being a little jealous of even the closest people around me.

And the Artie plot was so funny to watch. I did really like him with Kitty tho so rip to them.

Rachel leaving Funny Girl especially is ridiculous. Her whole arc was getting into Broadway and being a star. And then fast forward to season 6 and apparently she left for a goddamn tv show and is stuck in Lima like wtf. Anyways, S1 & S4 Rachel was superior all I’ve gotta say.

The twerking one was also so icky. Like no teacher in real life would be condoning this. Not to mention, last I checked, didn’t Schue twerk on those minors??? I can’t believe I’m actually siding with Sue here but…

As for why I ship Quartie, I actually didn’t ship them when I first watched but I loved their dynamic. Seeing @thomas-the-goat-of-satan and other tumblr users talking about them made me love Quartie more.

I just love how happy Quinn was around Artie. Probably the happiest she ever was around a man lmao. And I love how they both bond when Quinn was paralyzed and the way Artie seemed to challenge her.

Also I’m Still Standing totally fucks.

#answered #james 🪄 #glee #anti klaine #anti blaine #if #I think I am starting to warm up to blaine #kartie #rachel berry #anti will schuester #sue sylvester #quartie #I need to do a glee rewatch

[byler-alarmist]

since lucas was kinda hinted as bi, do you think byclair has a real chance in canon? what'd be your reaction if they went with byclair instead of byler after not developing lucas and will's bond that much for 4 seasons?

Hi, anon!!! First of all, thank you for the ask!

I really do think they are hinting at Lucas being bi, which makes me so very happy.

As for Byclair, I low-key ship it! They have a warm relationship and you can tell they both value and care about each other.

I especially love how Lucas is shown to be willing to take matters into his own hands where Will is concerned (S1 where he was determined to stop what he believed was the Party wasting time when they could be looking for Will the practical way, S3 where he went out of his way to talk to Will when they were alone and attempt to apologize for his AND Mike's bad behavior).

And the way he was so much like Jonathan when he was trying to bring Mike back to the (supposed) reality that Will was dead, even though there were tears in his eyes and you could tell it was breaking his heart to even acknowledge it out loud.

The way he says "then what was that in the water?" breaks my heart because you can hear and see his anguish....it's not that he doesn't want to believe Will is alive, but he's so hesitant to entertain foolish hopes and get heartbroken all over again.

That's the difference between Mike and Lucas' feelings to me. Lucas will do his best to move on without Will, but Mike's world literally shuts down without him. Time stops. A piece of him dies when Will is gone.

Of course, if they made it clear in S5 that Will was happiest with Lucas and their love was mutual and strong, I would be.*almost* content with a Byclair endgame.

Butttttttt......(and there is a big but here).......I think it would invalidate all the Byler buildup throughout the seasons.

It's been shown time and again that Mike is the one Will wants, and it doesn't look like he'll be getting over him anytime soon. And frankly, when I look back at all seasons of ST, I have trouble believing Mike could ever get over Will.

Besides that, even though Max is in a coma, she is still the one Lucas loves the most.

Honestly, the only way I could see a Byclair endgame is if Mike and Max both died and Lucas and Will found healing in each other.

That would be a very bittersweet ending, and while it would be nice to see Byclair sharing some tender moments, it would fall a bit flat to me knowing that all the crazy together, blue meets yellow in the west, paladin and cleric, etc was for nothing.

So to answer your question, I think a Byclair endgame would leave me feeling a little lost, like if this was somehow the twist ending they wanted us to see coming, why did they leave all the breadcrumbs leading to Byler? I wouldn't hate it, but I'd think less of the sbow's writing.

Slightly spicy headcanon to end this post: I could almost see Bywheelclair having a poly arrangement somewhere down the line where bi Lucas occasionally joins them for date night LMAO he's the only person I think Mike and Will would agree to share each other with, because c'mon, it's Lucas 😹 and bi Max would be cool with it because she and El would just have a date night of their own (Elumax canon)

#byclair #byclair rights #mike wheeler analysis #will byers analysis #lucas sinclair analysis #lucas sinclair appreciation #lucas sinclair #will byers #bywheelclair #byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #byler tumblr #got a bit too silly there at the end lololol #bi lucas sinclair #bisexual lucas sinclair

[cyborg-franky]

yaaaay!! \(:D)/

can i please request the chefs -Killer, Sanji, and Thatch- with a partner who likes to cook/bake for them? but it’s like… 85% cooked? slightly underdone? not hard, just slightly chewy?

those boys seem too kind to tell their partner they suck at cooking, so it takes someone out side of the relationship to tell them they suck at it. cue angry partner shouting full names across the boat at ask “have you really been eating undercooked pasta for me for months?”

the other day, my friend asked why i cook pasta “like that”. apparently it’s not all the way cooked and i just never knew that. i liked it :<

thank you in advance <3 #^^#

- tnt !!!

OMG I loved this so much, good request anon, you get a gold star and can always come again.

This kinda got REALLY long so Sanji kinda got left out, I am sorry <3

Thatch

You cooked for him often, you liked to give him a night off, show him you wanted to spoil him as much as he did everyone else.

He would smile brightly at you as he ate the food, you always missed the little grimace on his face as ate the undercooked food.

One day in the kitchen you were cooking for you and Thatch when Ace and Marco barged in. Ace was grabbing at things as Marco happily chatted to you like you hadn’t seen him an hour ago.

“ACE! Git!” you said, slapping the commander with a rolled-up dishrag as he stuffed a handful of pasta into his mouth, pulling a face and pushing Marco out the way so he could spit it out into a trash can.

“What the hell did you do to that? Respectfully.” Ace mumbled and grabbed a glass to get himself water.

“What was wrong with it?” you ask sadly.

“You always undercook food, I was going to warn Ace but he was faster than me yoi.” Marco said with a nod.

“Always?” Marco nodded again.

Thatch had been playing poker when he heard THATCHAL THATCHAMUS THATCHWARD NEWGATE you had no idea what his full name was but it still sent fear through him.

“You’ve been eating my undercooked food for months! Why didn’t you tell me?”

He sighed and rubbed his chin, playing with the beard before sighing in defeat.

“Your always happiest when you cook Pumpkin’ an’ I don’t wanna be the person that ruins that for you.” He said as he wrapped arms around you.

Killer

Oh lord, thank the fucking gods for his mask. He could just hide the food in the mask until later.

Just slurps up that undercooked under-seasoned spaghetti like a champ, and tries not to drown in the sauce as his mask fills up.

You smile at him, asking him how it is and he gives you the thumbs up while he dies inside the pasta prison of his own making.

It wasn’t until Killer was running late, busy helping with something that you decided to take the stress off of the dinner rush and started to make dinner.

Kid was the one that burst your bubble, the belief you were a good cook.

Opening his mouth and shoveling in a mouthful he pulled a face and opened his mouth letting the food fall out, everyone else doing something similar and you furrowed your brows.

“What the fucking shit is this?” Kid snapped and poked at the noodles with a fork as if the pasta was going to form into a rope and strangle him at any moment.

“What do you mean? Killer loves when I cook this for him..” you said feeling a little hurt.

“Bastards a lair, this is, I wouldn’t strangle my enemies with this, but it’s so tough I COULD.”

You realize all this time that Killer was being nice, saving your feelings.

He’s happily leaning against the railings when he hears the scream of ‘KILLER WHATEVER YOUR FULL NAME IS, I SWEAR’ and his soul leaves his body.

“Why have you been eating my bad food? Why didn’t you say anything?” you asked gripping his shirt and shaking him a little.

“I didn’t want to upset you or discourage you…” he said from behind his mask, brushing back your hair.

The gentle touch made you forget just how much you wanted to kick his ass.

#massacre soldier killer #massacre soldier killer x reader #one piece killer x reader #killer kid pirates x reader #killer x reader #killer one piece x reader #one piece x you #one piece reader insert #one piece x reader #sfw #gender neutral reader #thatch x reader #thatch #thatch one piece #thatch x you #thatch one piece x you #thatch x yn #thatch x y/n

[helix-studios117]

Top 5 Favorite Depictions of Master Chief

It seems odd that I made this a list since there aren't very many takes John that exist; at least not in the same way various takes on Batman exist. But here we go.

1.) Paramount's Master Chief portrayed by Pablo Schreiber. - People tend to forget that Master Chief's characterization is very minimal, so one can more or less expand on the character in any way they'd like and it wouldn't necessarily be out of character so long as they adhere to his core traits: He's a cool badass who shoots aleins and doesn't afraid of anything. While I do appreciate that season 2 made John a more reserved, almost big brotherly, if kinda strict, guy who just wants to help humanity and everyone is just getting in his way (moreso like the games); season 1 John was more interesting to me because he was more emotive, expressive and open as a person (not THAT open, he still had his own secrets). For me, the departure from the source-material is exactly WHY I love the show and this take on my favorite video-game character. In fact, Show!John (particularly 'season 1 John') is my main influence on my own take on the character in my AU. Besides, let's be a bit honest with ourselves here, Game!John would make a terrible TV protagonist. (I also really like the 'Chosen One' stuff with the Forerunner relics, it gives John a greater sense of importance in the grander story and it makes his connections to the Halo stronger; it's yet another element I took for my version of Chief).

2.) Nylund's Chief. - Halo: The Fall Of Reach and Halo: First Strike are among the first books published during the franchise's infancy. Eric Nylund's take on the character is basically just Game!John, but fleshed out enough for me to want to care about him in a context that's not in a video-game. He's a driven and ambitious übermensch (in the "transcends basic human limitations" variety) who is at his happiest when given an order and will do anything to win, but cares deeply for his fellow Spartans and the men and women under his command; I also like the added detail of him being a former schoolyard-bully who matured and learned to be LESS of a douchebag. Nylund's take on John allows me to look at Game!John and think: "Yeah, I can understand why he's like this!"

3.) Halo 4/5 Chief. - This is the most vulnerable we've ever seen John in any context and it was 343's first real attempt that cracking open Chief's shell to see the man underneath. Emotional-vulnerability aside, I really like how proactive Chief is in these two games; he's more involved in the plot and actually makes strategic plans throughout the course of both games (well, if not 5, at least 4). It puts emphasis on John's leadership skills and makes him more active in the stories he's in; not to knock against Bungie, but their Chief struck me more as a follower than a leader, and while Bungie!Chief gave his own advice from time-to-time, he didn't feel as involved as he should've been even if it was Bungie's intention to make him a slient-protagonist.

4.) Legends Chief. - I like that this is one of the few times, up until Halo 5, where we see John interacting with his fellow Spartans. With Spartan-1337 and Daisy-023 as characters, we get to see two sides of John: His deadpan straight-man aspect and his softer side. If you've seen Halo Legends, you'll probably know where I'm getting at. In "The Package," we also see John's strong coordination with Blue-Team and the others, and I really like that.

5.) Forward Unto Dawn Chief. - Sort of the least interesting version of Master Chief on this list. I only really put him on here because he's a surprisingly really good attempt at translating Game!John into a live-action setting, but there's a reason why we see this Chief for a short period of time: This would get boring after a while.

@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask, @makowrites, @mrtobenamedlater, @authortobenamedlater, @biomecharnotaurus, @killer-orca-cosplay.

#halo #master chief #john 117 #halo tv show #halo the series #halo tv series

[iamfandomcrazy]

Fic Tag Game!

I was tagged by @broken-everlark

How many works do you have on AO3?

300

What’s your AO3 word count?

1,444,802

What fandoms do you write for?

Currently just Wednesday. But I've written for Harry Potter, Breakfast Club, Home Improvement, Dawson's Creek, Full House, etc

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Hope Springs Eternal (Harry Potter)

In Which Lucy Despises Sunday's (Harry Potter)

The Brother They Mourn (Harry Potter)

Falling In Love Is So Bittersweet (This Love Is Strong, Why do I Feel Weak?)

One Big Happy Family (Harry Potter)

Do you respond to comments?

......No. Not really, anyway. I appreciate every one that I get, though

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Either The Brother They Mourn or It's So Quiet Here I Feel So Cold (That's a Wednesday one)

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I kinda wanna say Woe What A Fight because it's super sad for a while but then they overcome it and Wednesday learns to apologize and not be super selfish like she told him she's be

Do you get hate on fics?

Ehhh, not hate hate but I remember I wrote a Harry Potter fic where Harry kept walking in on couples making out and someone got annoyed with me only using straight couples (I used the pairings that I like)

edit to say I don't mind gay pairings but I didn't like any for Harry Potter

Do you write smut? What kind?

No. I can get kind of spicy but otherwise I don't. I'm not comfortable with it

Do you write cross-overs?

yep

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah, I've had a few

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I don't know if this counts but: @ablatheringblatherskite and I were talking about ideas for the body swap au. I'm writing it but using some of her ideas too. If that doesn't count then no

What WIP would you like to finish but doubt you ever will?

I wrote an Anne with An E fic If Loving You Is Wrong for Diana and Jerry back when I still kind of liked the show. But after that last season, I just fell out of love with it

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Honestly, Wyler! It's so cute

What are your writing strengths?

Idk. I mean, I think I'm decent with dialogue sometimes

What are your writing weaknesses?

DESCRIBING! I suck at it so much

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I could maybe do it but idk how good it would be

First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter

Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

The Little White Lie (where Wednesday gets Tyler back for volunteering her to be his father's elf in Sheriff Santa and His Not So Friendly Elf). I feel like that's my best attempt at a funny story

I'll tag @ablatheringblatherskite @justonemorewallflower and @gardenoblues

#wyler #tag game #fic tag game

[samanthaswishes]

Completely Random Agents of Shield Headcanons (Part 2)

Part 1

Daisy and Daniel's wedding anniversary is July 22nd. The day is the anniversary of Daniel's death in 1955. Daniel was actually the one who suggested that date. Daisy was very reluctant and confused, wondering why in the world he would want to choose his old death date, but Daniel convinced her with "You saved me that day." (Also it's the day 7x09 aired).

Despite the team not being in a formal work setting anymore (or very often), they all still pretty much call May, May, rather than Melinda. Phil is the only one who will call her that on a regular basis, and Mack and Elena will say it sometimes, but Fitzsimmons and Daisy still find it weird since they literally never called her Melinda before. In fact, there was a time when Daisy called her Melinda just to try it out. The two looked at each other, shook their heads, and laughed as they realized how weird it was, so she is just May, and May doesn't mind.

When really happy, Kora's body naturally emits warmth, and when she hugs people, they can feel this warmth radiate from her to them, and everyone pretty much loves it.

Also when Kora came back to 2019 with the team, she took 'Johnson' as her last name. Daisy was the one who suggested it given that Kora had said she actually didn't know what her last name was, so Daisy kinda just said, "You're my sister. Why shouldn't we have the same last name?"

Daisy visits Cal's veterinarian practice on a regular basis. He always has the biggest smile when she comes in, and everyone that works there knows her. Daisy always feels the sadness deep down within her, knowing that he doesn't truly remember their connection, but there are some moments that still make it feel like he's her father like when she first introduced Daniel to him. The happiest moment was when Daisy and Daniel decided it was time to finally adopt a dog, and they adopted a rescue from Cal's practice.

And the dog is either a golden retriever or a german shepherd (I might be biased towards german shepherds as my childhood dog was a german shepherd mix)

Each of the team members who have died at one point has their name on the Wall of Valor the number of times they had died during their seven years together. For example, May has gotten several students ask her, "Professor May, why is your name on the Wall of Valor twice?" This was Mack's idea.

Daisy will still sometimes use 'Skye' as a cover name for undercover work.

Polly Hinton invites May and Daisy to many of Robin's school functions (award ceremonies, holiday performances, festival nights, art shows, etc), and both of them make it a point to attend every single time. They even attend her high school graduation when that finally rolls around.

The team brought back their karaoke nights (it is canon that they had them in s2), and Mack made it a point to make "Don't You (Forget About Me)" a song they have to do every single time.

Alya's first word was 100% "Enoch", and Fitz is still pissed about it.

When/If the team starts having kids (excluding Alya), Mack and Elena are the first ones to have a kid (after already adopting Flint).

At some point, probably between seasons 1 and 2, Daisy got her GE Degree, and Coulson threw her a small party with the team and some of the new agents when she completed it.

This is more of a speculation than a headcanon, but what if Deke is not Alya's child? What if his mother is actually another daughter of Fitzsimmons? OR because the timeline changed, he may not even exist in the team's timeline at all anymore. Like Alya ends up pregnant and she actually has a girl, and Fitzsimmons are just like "Wait, what?" OR They have a son who has a son, and as the kid grows up, Fitzsimmons start to notice similarities and just go "Oh my god."

Coulson has taken all of the team's kids on joyrides in Lola at one point or another. Daniel nearly had a panic attack when he saw his and Daisy's tiny daughter in the passenger seat as Lola flew through the air.

Joey and Elena have lunch together very often. Mack and Flint tag along pretty often, and when she's free, Daisy is also invited as well and Daniel when he comes into the picture. They all also attend Joey and his boyfriend's wedding.

Daniel gets really into photography. After the typewriter, Daisy's next big gift is a polaroid camera. Eventually, he does own a more modern camera and he does have quite the portfolio on his smartphone, but he just loves his polaroid. He loves taking pictures of architecture and nature, but his favorite subject to photograph is, of course, Daisy. And once they have a kid, the kid is another favorite photography subject of his as they grow up.

One of the first things the team did after returning to 2019 after time traveling was going to a diner since their diner meal in s4 was cut short.

Alya and Davis' son actually become really good friends when they are older. (And if you think about it, Alya is actually older by like 2 or 3 years)

Every family takes turns hosting Christmas. After all the kids are born, May hosting and The Mackenzie-Rodriguez family hosting actually become the most anticipated Christmases

#agents of shield headcanons #aos headcanons #headcanons #agents of shield #aos #daisy johnson #kora #daniel sousa #melinda may #phil coulson #leo fitz #jemma simmons #alya fitzsimmons #robin hinton #alphonso mackenzie #dousy #mackelena #elena rodriguez

[lord-aldhelm]

Thank you @bagheerita for the tag! I only have one fic so far, and it is kinda still a WIP… so not sure how I can answer any of these without getting repetitive lol! :D I am also not really a writer; I am definitely an artist but just write for myself... But I will try my best.

How many works do you have on AO3?

Only one at the moment (Springtime in Saltwic)! I actually started writing it a year and a half ago, but made the decision to publish it a couple of months ago. It is technically done, but as I am releasing it one chapter at a time I am taking the chance to make some minor edits. I am planning on a second fic once this one is done, but it will probably be even longer than the current one so no timeline on that yet.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

At the moment, 94,685, but the finished fic will have probably closer to 115K (maybe more, I just added a chapter lol!)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

The Last Kingdom. I have never written a fanfic before, ever, in my entire life. I felt overwhelmingly compelled to write for this one though.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I just have the one, so...

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

YES and I LOVE comments! Even if it is only a few words, it makes me feel like it was worthwhile to publish my fic. I almost gave up at one point because I had no interaction on my fic, but I got one wonderful comment and it gave me the courage to continue posting chapters, so it really makes so much of a difference. I don't think readers really understand the impact that a single comment makes on your self-esteem.

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

Again, only the one so far, and it is not completely published yet so... no spoilers!

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

Same as above! :)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I haven't yet, and I hope I never do...

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

Um, not exclusively? I like to craft slow burn type stories, and I will include an intimate scene if it is indicated but that is not the main point of the story. I am not against it, I just don't like to write that kind of stuff.

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

I haven't and don't think I will since that kind of genre does not appeal to me personally.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I am aware of. Although I really doubt anyone would bother with mine tbh.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Again not that I am aware of. I mean, I haven't done so myself, but I know one of my readers does not speak English so they probably translated it for themselves (I would assume).

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Nope. Although that might be fun!

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

Aethelflaed x Aldhelm has consumed me; and is the only ship that has really inspired me to write. I have had other ships but not been into them enough to want to write anything.

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

The story I am currently publishing (Springtime in Saltwic) was torn apart and rearranged about 4-5 times, and the original story that I was planning on telling was dropped for the one I am writing now (it was a post Season 4 story). I like the one that I ended up writing, so I don't think I will ever publish the original version; not that there is really much left of it after it has been cannibalized by my current one.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I am not really sure, since I have not been doing this for very long. But I like writing character development and backstories, motivations, introspection, that kind of thing.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I hate writing conflict, even though I know it will resolve. When I got to that point in my story, I really had to power through it. I also am not so good at sensory descriptive writing. I know some people are so amazing at really bringing you into a scene with amazing visualizations, but I am more of a get to the point kind of person when it comes to writing, so I have to learn to try to include those.

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

I personally don't like it, and I would not do it unless there was no other way to say something. I hate how you have to get some kind of explanation or look u some word, and it takes you out of the story. Unless it is done elegantly, which is difficult.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I mean, again this is my first fic so...

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I guess the one I am writing now? I wrote it entirely for me, as a way to get the daydreams out of my head so they would stop driving me insane. Never really intended on writing a story in the first place, it just sort of happened!

No pressure tags: @thelettersfromnoone @mrsarnasdelicious @emilyhufflepufftlk @aethelreds @gemini-mama

#tag game #fanfic questions

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

20 questions for fic writers

i was tagged by @stevethehairington, thanks mack!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? only 10!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 149,243

3. What fandoms do you write for? mainly been stranger things and one little spn drabble here on tumblr and my st/spn crossover fic

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Several Notes of the Most Amiable Nature - aka secret admirer au (my first fic!) 2. A Recipe for Disaster - the princess diaries 2 au 3. (Reprise) - sequel to Several Notes 4. i'm outta my head over you - my mixtape fic 5. of sunshine and starlight - PWP 😏

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? i am so super behind, but yes!!!! and i appreciate them all so so much 🥺

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? definitely it's a date, my summer challenge fic (but i am working through a follow-up that makes it a happy ending i promise 😭)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? of all of them, i would probably say Several Notes; that one is the schmoopiest ending of them all, but next would def be outta my head.

(i don't want to count Recipe for Disaster since that's the same ending as the PD movie so... 😅)

8. Do you get hate on fics? i've been lucky to only get a little bit of screaming at me for it's a date, but not hate. they were all justifiably ASKLFAJLFASF at the plot twist, but it was all in good fun/still loved 🥰

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? yes!! my number 5 most liked fic is just PWP! and it's always been cute fluffy "real" smut so far, like the two being goofy with each other and super in love and shit lmao 10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? yeah! only the one though, my wip ST/SPN crossover fic You Will Never Walk Alone (You Can Always Reach Me); and to the previous question, my first smut was in chap 3 of this one and i am super proud of it still 😊

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? i really hope not???

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? not yet!

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

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? oh fuck...honestly? it's probably steddie. my OTP is destiel, like, they are the blueprint, they are the ones i have the most history with, but in complete honesty: in my head steddie is much more fluid/blorbo-y than destiel are. dean and cas are so fuckin' good in canon and kinda rare-er for me to find a good au with them that they still seem like themselves? if that makes sense?

with steddie, they are so moldable and fit into any spot you put them; i prefer canon adjacent but anything they do seems so correct, whereas dean and cas will always be a hunter and angel you know? that's how their story has been for so long, and all my fave fics of them are canon spn universe - a spell, a different timeline, a hunt, it's always them™

idk if that makes sense to anyone else, but maybe it's because destiel have been destiel for like 11 seasons and 15 years, and steddie have so little with only one season/summer that they are more moldable but... 🤷‍♀️

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? honestly, it's probably my hispanic!eddie au, but my casper!eddie has been falling off at an exponential rate and it's bumming me out tbh

16. What are your writing strengths? i think it's dialogue? i think that's the thing i've gotten the most comments about, the wit and snark of eddie and his internal voice, or just conversations in general. i like to think through how conversations will go in a fic first, like, how exactly they would realistically speak to each other or how an accent (wayne) would come through and how best to type it out so others can 'hear' it correctly 😊

17. What are your writing weaknesses? writing out action/feelings well. maybe it's cause i get super engrossed in what i'm writing and am looking at it too long, but a lot of the time it feels like i'm just writing "he did this 😐 and then he did this 😐 then said this."

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i do my best!!! like with the short drabble i did that started the hispanic!eddie au, i did best i could to translate the couple spanish phrases in it, but i don't speak spanish myself. my husband is hispanic and is fluent, but when i wrote that one i was much to embarrassed by why i would be asking him, that i didn't ask him to translate 😭

19. First fandom you wrote for? stranger things! the st/steddie fandom was so supportive with my secret admirer drabble that i made it my first full fic!!!

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? my fave that i've written is my mixtape fic i'm outta my head over you. i wrote so much for it in such a short amount of time for steddie week but it really came together and was all me!

i do also LOVE how my version of a princess diaries rewrite came out, but the plot is just a copy of the movie and isn't really mine you know?

not sure who all has been tagged already, but here are some no pressure tags!!: @thisapplepielife, @azrielgreen, @its-steddie-time, @strawberryspence, @sayesayes, @undreaming-fanfiction, @greatunironic, @fairyfried

#noelle writes #ask game

[kaijuscientists]

@feralrookie tagged me in this, thank you!

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

115

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

303,945

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now it's mostly Trigun. I have a few ideas I wanna do for Mob Psycho and JJK though, so i'll probably try to get those in between trigun fic.

But in the past i have mostly written for Good omens, the mandalorian, the old guard, the sandman and detroit become human.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

It's the Tenderness of it All (Good Omens)

Bloodfeather (Good Omens)

One Long Weekend (Final Fantasy XV)

Every so often, history repeats (The Sandman)

Bad Day (Overwatch)

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

In the past i have not been good a replying to comments, but that is something that I want to get better at! And i have been doing better!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Experimentation is a hurt no comfort old guard fic, and that's as close to an angsty ending as i'll ever get.

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

Most things i write end up with a happy ending tbh

8. Do you get hate on fic?

I’ve never gotten hate, per se. but I did once have someone copy my fic into a google doc, edit and change it to how they saw fit and then post a link to the gdoc in a comment on the fic.

9. Do you write smut?

A little bit!

10. Do you write crossovers?

I have written crossovers! I've got a lot of dincobb adjacent crossovers, and i have some good omens adajent as well, but that wasn't posted on my main.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

One of my Dincobb fics has been translated into Russian.

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

No, but depending on the story, ship and person, I could be open to collaborating on a fic.

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

This is such a hard question honestly. I think i've written the most of dincobb, but it's hard to say they are my ultimate favorite

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but probably won't?

I started writing this dincobb meetugly fic, where Din accidentally hits Cobb with his car and is the only one to visit him in the hospital and they become friends and fall in love. But I don’t know if I’ll ever finished it :( the last season of Mando kinda soured me on the show. It’s nearly 5k so maybe one day I’ll get back to it.

or i'll rewrite it for a different ship.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I feel like i'm good at writing dialogue and i'm pretty good at getting a characters voice right.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I am just not good at writing any kind of complicated plots, I’m also not great at writing anything that’s not centered around hurt/comfort. I also feel like i'm weak when it comes to writing action.

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

im indifferent.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I was writing digimon fanfiction before I even knew what fanfiction was.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

recently it's this one, written for whumtober

indulge me, just a little

it's short and sweet and i loved it a lot.

If you wanna do this, then go ahead!

#kaiju speaks

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Twenty Questions for Fic Writers

thank you @glasscushion this was really fun!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

two under various pseuds rn and 1? or 2? orphaned fics from years ago

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

19.6k!! not much but i’m proud of it <3

3. What fandoms do you write for?

hopefully f1 skdjskjd. ive got a ted lasso wip i reeeeally want to finish someday. and a newsies historically accurate magnum opus that may never see the light but that’s fine

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

i only have two non-orphaned fics published rn so:

five times colin cooks for his team (and one time his team cooks for him)

cute lil 5+1 ted lasso fic !! mildly colin/isaac but mostly colin & co being besties. written before season 3 came out

a look never hurt this much

tiny meat gang soulmates au (i refuse to be ashamed abt this). noel/cody lol

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

oh absolutely yes!! i treat comments like dms honestly i love giving a directors commentary type whatever in the comments

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

an orphaned fic in a to-remain unnamed fandom. unrequited love very very angsty stuff but more than a bit silly looking back on it (i was like 14 and really going through it). i tend to write very domestic-y stuff so not much i write has any lasting angst in it!

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

probably my tiny meat gang soulmates au mentioned above i won’t lie 😭 i haven’t read back through it since i wrote it so if it’s bad don’t blame me

8. Do you get hate on fics?

i’ve never gotten hate on fics thank god i would die

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

i’m trying to figure out how to write it lol (ask me about curly girl method lando and blowjobs). unfortunately (fortunately?) my draw to silly domestic stuff shines through so it’s not like molten hot smut, it’s kinda silly sex, i won’t lie

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

ive never published one bc i am occasionally a coward but i have many many notes on them/half written stuff. i like a lot of things and i like mashing those things together like barbie dolls! i think the craziest one i ever conceived of was newsies x music man tbh.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

who knows. as far as i know no

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope!

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

no but i would LOVE to omg i feel like there’s so much potential to balance out my weaknesses with other people’s

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

i am a multi shipper girlie i can be convinced of the appeal of ANYTHING. in terms of f1. lando/oscar maybe tho. won’t lie pierre/esteban kinda hitting…

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

hm i have some very grandiose far-reaching plots floating around rn (runners au and apartment/roommates au) that will be written and “completed,” but probably won’t ever fully get expanded to the point i’ve thought about them, if that makes sense

16. What are your writing strengths?

oh i like to think i’m very good at writing like. domestic intimacy/intimate friendships. feeling like home. comfort, and food! ppl tend to describe my writing as cozy and lived in, and i think that’s what i’m good at! (someone once said reading my fic was like eating comfort food and i literally cried)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

transitioning!! time passing!! i’m so bad at that! also smut as i’ve discovered lol. i tend to stay away from genres i feel like im bad at writing so that’s less of an issue (hence why i haven’t really written any real angst). writing on my own w no feedback is Hard i would die for someone to look over my stuff

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

if it’s like a random line/couple of lines in a different language then usually i’ll put it in english but in italics. if the entire fic is between people who would all be speaking the same (non english) language then i don’t bother. i don’t translate to that language tho bc i don’t trust translation sites and im VERY rusty on my languages (you will not get french or mandarin in a fic from me i would die of fear). throwing in random words in other languages also makes me cringe in my own writing for some reason? but it doesn’t bother me in others’ writing lol

19. First fandom you wrote for?

if we mean published fic, for either 5 seconds of summer (cringes) or the maze runner, i can’t remember. if we mean wrote in general, definitely harry potter when i was like 9 in a little notebook that i sincerely hope has been burned since then.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

probably the ted lasso fic! i love writing food, and comfort, and that’s like entirety of the fic, so. if i get runners au off the ground any time soon i would bet money on that becoming my fave tho

pretty much every single one of my mutuals has been tagged in this already so. if you see this and you wanna do it do it like i’ve tagged you!!!

#ask meme

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20 author questions

Tagged by @yourlocaldisneyvillain, thank youuuu

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

1, lol

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

6199 words

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Carterwood

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

well...

Of scars and fresh blood, with an enormous amount of 15 kudos!!!!

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

All of them. I don't like when I leave a comment and the author doesn't reply, so I reply. And that's why I have more comments than kudos.

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

Well... Of scars and fresh blood this is a hurt/hurt fanfiction, no comfort and major character death so. Yeah, kinda angsty?

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

I don't have a fic with a happy ending on AO3, I do however have some fics with happy endings on Tumblr, like Hide and Need, but they aren't good at all. You can check on my profile but I hate every single fic I wrote before my Carterwood one.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

nope. I mean, Gwen fandom used to be the kindest fandom, everything I wrote, even trashy, was welcomed with a lot of love. After some drama™ happened, I kinda decided to go because... Ugh. I don't like drama. And now I am in a dead fandom, with 2 people and a shoelace (I am the shoelace)

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

I try. The kind that isn't smut but more spicy romance.

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

nope, never and I usually don't like them.

11. Have you ever had a fiction stolen?

Lol, who would want to steal my fanfictions? My Gwen ones are terrible and my Carterwood one... has 15 kudos.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

well technically my first first first fanfictions were since I wrote them in French before translating them in English. Then I did translate (from English to French this time) the Path of Poisons (an abandonned multichapter Larissa/oc fic)

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

curently doing it! with the amazing @tanith-rhea, we're working on Agent Carter season 3 (the first chapter isn't finished yet so... it won't be there until a long time loool)

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

????? I don't know? I changed a lot my tastes about ships since... Well I'm still young™ so I didn't spend much time in communities, and the ones I was in before were... Straight ships I don't like now. BUT there is this one ship. About a French/Belgium comic no one knows about. That is very specific to two of the books in the series. Nastasia Wardynksa and Francis Blake. Of course I had to ship them. It's a middle school ship so yeah, it's straight, but I still love it. It's one of my comfort ships and there is 0 work about it, I have a whole story about it in my head but won't write it because... why doing it?

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

Oh! A LOT of them. Like... prolly all of them, I don't feel like writing these days (actually I want to write but I just don't manage to do it)

16. What are your writing strengths?

idk lol

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Dialogues? Characterisations? Descriptions?

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

UGH STOP WRITING IN FRENCH PLEASE!!!! Or at least ask some French speakers because sometimes it's just... I want to cry but it's cute and it can be great but most of the time it's terrible like... "ma chérie fille" as a translation of "my darling girl"... NO. Just NO. it'd be "ma fille chérie", and NO, because it's for your literal CHILD so NO.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Warrior Cats I was 10 and I had a note book I would FILL with a fanfiction and I wanted it to be an actual book

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

Of scars and fresh blood. The only acceptable one I have.

Idk who to tag so tagging anyone who wants to be.

#I'm very harsh on my own work I know #carterwood #dottie underwood #agent carter #peggy carter #larissa weems #agent carter season 3

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

tagged by @your-catfish-friend -- thank you!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

5 under this name on Ao3. 6 under a different name for a total of 11!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

27, 902 in total across both accounts. wow, never added the word counts together. that's a lot!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

911: Lone Star, The Old Guard. really want to dive into Red, White, and Royal Blue and maybe even Shadowhunters.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

hmm. i don't want to link to the other count, and since i only have 5 fics on red_shirt i'll just link to my works in one go: https://archiveofourown.org/users/red_shirt/works

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

I do. pretty much to all of them because people took the time to comment something really nice and i want to respect that by acknowledging it. also, as someone who comments on other people's fics, it's really cool to get that notification that a fic author has replied to your comment.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Angst is my forte lol. my favorite angsty one is this one about Carlos on the day he moved into the loft without TK. It's called peace. You can read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50451979

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

This dialogue-heavy one in between seasons 1 and 2. it's a phone conversation between Carlos and TK. COVID restrictions have just lifted so TK creates game night. It's called do you want to play a game? which i think is a title that sounds more sexy than what occurs in this fic, lol so sorry if that's a disappointment. Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50664451

8. Do you get hate on fics?

So far, I have not. Everyone's been really lovely. but i know it happens so im kinda waiting for it.

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

i do not

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

I have on my other account. I was always obsessed with the fact that David Borenaz joined Bones immediately after Angel ended and so I had started writing a fic where Booth is actually Angel after he's become human because of the Shanshu prophecy. The brain tumor in season 4 is that catalyst that unearths his memories as Angel.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

no but im super open to that if anyone wanted to translate one of my works. dm's are open!

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

no but i would love to collaborate with someone!!! dm's open

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

god i don't know. i feel like i go through phases of intensely loving a ship. i guess one that has stayed with me for a really long time is Magnus and Alec from Shadowhunters. but i love a lot of ships.

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

that previously mentioned Bones/Angel crossover, lol

16. What are your writing strengths?

i used to think it was dialogue -- at least when i was writing scripts a lot. but during this new wave of writing i've been doing i think it's been internal thought processes of characters. Mostly that carlos in the loft fic im super proud of, lol

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Staying in the correct tense! i feel like this shouldn't be an issue. just pick a tense and stay in it. you did 4 years of writing workshops in college, why are you still struggling with this!! (if anyone has any tips about this, please tell them to me lolll)

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

Oooh, good question. I wouldn't do it unless it was 100 percent correct. which means having someone who speaks the language look it over. otherwise i think the best course of action is to just write the dialogue in your native language and then in the description say it was a different language.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

First published work was Angel. but fun fact: i actually think my very first fan fic i wrote was a Twilight fan fic in middle school. middle school is when i first discovered fan fiction and also the time i was reading twilight. i think it was a story from Mike's perspective. i never published it because i could not figure out how to publish -- ff.net's story submission was not working for me for some reason so i gave up. the angel fic wasn't posted until 2015 so there was a large gap there.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

It's this Carlos fic about moving into the loft. I just think it's got a great haunted vibe but also my goal was to use more metaphors and poetry and i think i accomplished that.

no pressure tagging: @paperstorm @rmd-writes @welcometololaland @liminalmemories21 + open tags.

#fic writers #get to know me