RotE Kinktober, the good, the yummy and the freaky~
This is it! RotE Kinktober, first of its name, is officially over and the collection is closed. The fandom is now made richer with more than 18 works celebrating kink, horniness, pleasure, and sensuality from many angles, be they the pretty, the dark, the joyful, the complex... Not to forget a good amount of romance!
I would like to highlight two participants who really gave it their all, @marsskaterboii and @tragediegh, who wrote no less than five (5!) fanfictions each!
In particular, @tragediegh impressively managed to fit all 31 of the prompts in those five works, for a staggering final count of 43 048 words!! Let's give the stage to the author herself for a little Q&A, shall we? :)
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°Was there a prompt that particularly excited you?°
There were several that caught my eye on the prompts list (it was an amazing list, by the way!) but I think the one that really stood out for me was narratophilia. It lent itself so incredibly to several situations I was hoping to write, and particularly to the characters I was wanting to focus on (Fitzloved and narratophila is a legendary combination!)
°Which of your fics turned out to be your favourite, and why?°
I think Golden Tales From A Honeyed Tongue wins this one, and for the most predictable of reasons - I absolutely adore a generous sprinkling of tenderness in my smut! I have such love for all my kinktober fics, but something about really diving into the fraught, tense vulnerability of Fitz and Beloved’s conversation in GTFAHT tugged at my heartstrings as I wrote, and I was deeply pleased with how their banter and chemistry came out for the fic. I’m super proud of it (and them, for kind of using their words for once lmfao!)
°Do you have a writing ritual, something to get you in the flow?°
In an ideal world, I’d make a nice hot cup of tea, curl up on the sofa under low light and listen to some ambient white noise as inspiration washes through me… But tbh, my writing process is more often than not me hunched over my phone frantically typing into my notes app like I'm possessed, usually for 2-5 hours at a shot, depending on how aggressively an idea has sunk its hooks into me. There’s usually still tea involved in that, though. Gotta hydrate!! And that being said, water is also a key component for my writing process as well. Consuming it, walking or sitting by it, listening to it, being near it in general. Something about water really stirs up my creativity! Sometimes I even take a mid-writing brainstorming shower just to really narrow my focus. Works like a charm every time.
°Who are your writing inspirations?°
I’d be remiss not to shout out the incredible author who makes all the playing around in this fictional universe possible to begin with, Robin Hobb herself. I have learned so much about writing as a craft simply from reading her work. I also take quite a bit of inspiration from the late, great Ursula Le Guin and from a personal favorite storyteller of mine, Dr. Martin Shaw, who has been an integral part of my journey into storytelling as an art form! I highly recommend checking his stuff out, if you've not already.
°Is there something you wish you'd written but didn't?°
My ever elusive Fitz/Laudwine fic! Initially, it was my intention to publish it on week four, but it grew quite a bit of plot and ran away from me (and the kink prompt list, haha!) and I ended up putting it on hold until I could more fully flesh it out. But it ended up being a happy turn of events, because in its place I was able to do a quick turn around with Smoke and Mirrors, and that was an absolute blast to write!
°What's the meaning behind your Tumblr and AO3 handles?°
Tragediegh came about the way 90% of the posts I make do - because I thought I was being really really funny 💀it kinda stuck in a major way, though, I'm glad it's what I went with, bc I hate change and I'll probably keep it forever lmfaoooo
ellipsis_truther has a bit more of an actual (ROTE specific!) story behind it - some of my earliest fics revolve around what I like to affectionately call “The Ellipses” - the “So I did,” tent moment, Fitz’s “I have never felt like less of a man that I did so,” justification and the “I tumbled into sleep” Fool’s Quest sweetsleep chapter ending, to be exact. It started out (and remains!) a bit of a lighthearted nod to a few bits of canon that really got my creative juices flowing from imagining all the what ifs that could be crammed into those demure little sentences, and hence, ellipsis_truther was born!
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We also got amazing art from @kaetor and @prophetandcatalyst that hasn't been added to the AO3 collection, but you can see it on their blogs here and here!
Thank you all for your participation! And do check out the AO3 collection if you haven't yet, for all the diverse sexiness that people have contributed, and to give them some love.
May we never be wise.
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