#anactorya

[wetsammywinchester]

How about 11 and 12? :)

Oh, thanks. These are good questions for me!

11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes in 2018?

Not necessarily new but I haven’t written many fluffy or humorous fics recently. Also, I would love to write some crazy crack fic like, where Sam is a mermaid and Dean is a dragon and they fall in love. Those always make me laugh and I’ve never tried that.

12. Will you change anything about the way you edit or rewrite in 2018?

Definitely. Writing anything under 5k in one sitting and one flow of consciousness. Trying to piece together a fic here and there ends up with me mixing different tones and ideas and then I’m stressed out trying to weave it together cohesively, so forget that. If I can’t write it all at once, I wait to write it.

Fanfic asks for the new year

[chokememrstark]

@anactorya replied to your post:

SAM IS NOT A TOP AND LUCIFER IS NOT A BOTTOM WHAT...

‘Scuse me butting in from the tag (*waves*), but ugh, this kind of shit is why I always write top!Sam. Sex positions are not character traits, kids.

Sex positions are not character traits

THIS. I can’t stress this out enough, seriously.

If you prefer writing a character as a top, you do that. If you prefer them as a bottom, you write them as a bottom. This is fanfiction guys, it’s what you want it to be. Want to turn the most badass Alpha into a needy bottom? DO IT! The submissive and shy girl in canon turns into a dominant beast in bed in your fic? GO FOR IT! It’s your fic, you have to like it first and foremost.

Different people have different preferences, there are no two people who see a character the exact same way. It’s idiotic to judge or bash on someone for preferring a different person to be the top or bottom. You know what, I personally don’t even mind who is who when it comes to Samifer! It all depends on the story, if it’s an au or not, on the situation, the surroundings ect.

I mean, come on. How does it affect you if I write top!Sam and bottom!Lucifer? Do I force you to read this? No. If I didn’t tag it specifically and you realize what happens, do you have to continue reading? No, nope the hell out of it, I don’t mind! It seriously takes more effort to take time out of your day to send someone a rude or hateful comment than just to stop reading something!

There will never be a time when everyone does everything exactly the way you want it to happen. Learn to accept that people have different tastes and live with it. There are as many different views on a ship and its characters as there are shippers, trust me.

[frozen-delight]

I sort of want to ask you all of them, too, but... 7, 11, and 12?

Thanks for asking! <3

7) Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*

Any mention of the word ‘family’. I’m practically allergic to it at this point.

And Swan Song.

11) Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

I adore Metatron, always have. I like that he was such an uncharismatic villain, and that he represented a more complex understanding of concepts like authorship. Plus, his love-hate relationship with God struck a chord with me. His outburst “God didn’t even know their name!” in the S9 finale is one of my favourite examples of that.

12) Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

The brother fighting in S9. It was an important step in the development of Sam and Dean’s relationship (speaking from a pre-S12 perspective, I should add). I loved the subtlety and psychological complexity that came along with it - how they confounded completely separate events and kept re-interpreting them until it all became such a dark, twisted mess that the original reason why they were fighting all but disappeared in the thick of it.

Anyone else interested? Here’s the meme.

[rocksaltevents-blog]

Evening everyone! We have an exciting announcement to make! We’re going to be holding a writing workshop at Lazarus Manchester, and prolific fanfic author @anactorya will be heading it! Anactoria is most known for her fanfiction in the SPN & Sherlock fandoms, with her most well known piece being the wonderful 'Clean Air'. She writes a for a variety of ships as well as writing gen fic. We're so happy to welcome her to Lazarus!

Check out her fic over her AO3 page:  https://archiveofourown.org/users/anactoria

[frownfrump]

8 questions, 8 tags, tagged by @havingbeenbreathedout

last movie watched: Possession (1981), creepy psychosexual horror. this one was difficult to watch. it’s a graphically disturbing look at a woman (anna) losing her mind when her misogynist husband refuses to leave her alone until she finally fractures into multiple “selves”. once she is able to get away, her doppelganger appears to act as the husband’s angel of the house. another one of her “selves/sisters” goes on a murder spree after a private investigator discovers a tentacled hominoid (???) in her bed. it is very shocking but, aside from the penultimate tunnel scene, which is truly terrifying, the scenes that shocked me most didn’t have any gore--the ballet class; when the husband tries to force anna to sit quietly with him on the couch.

last song listened to: “miniskirt” by braids 

last book read: i’m on book two of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

last thing eaten: a chocolate chip cookie 

if you could be anywhere right now, where would you be: a warm beach with friends and animals and music

a fictional character you would hang out with for the day: Lucy Snowe from Villette. i would like to be close to someone with that much inner strength. i would ask her how she kept going.

what fictional world/universe would you want to spend a week in: Margaret Cavendish’s cosmological scientific-utopian Blazing World with its various bird- and fish- and bear- and worm-men, with peaceful “Immaterial Spirits” who know everything about the universe, where if one atom “perishes” the whole of the natural world does too. also you can summon your earthly self via an umbilical-like passage between worlds, and souls can exist simultaneously in the same body.  

last video game played: one of my friends has talked to me a lot about mass effect. i’ll play tetris if i need something to do with my hands.

I tag the last eight people who have liked or reblogged things from me: i’m just gonna tag @fucklepug @radialarch @iampeevee @anactorya 

[cyclogenesis]

6 and 7 for the ask meme? 💜

6. What’s your favourite piece of dialogue you wrote this year?

Easily this, from Got a feeling that I'm going under:

That gets a smile out of him. “Well, I was the Winter Soldier most of the time. Can’t blame anyone for not wanting to cuddle the killing machine.”

Sam scoffs. “You kidding? That’s the perfect time. All docile and shit. ‘Soldier, you be the big spoon. Come here, Siberia is so cold.’”

I can just hear it perfectly in Sam's voice and I still think it's incredibly funny.

7. What’s your favourite piece of description or narration?

For description - from Just This Once, I like the little picture this paints of Madripoor:

“Thanks,” Bucky says, taking it as Sam joins him where he’s looking at the view through the floor-to-ceiling windows. It’s dizzying to stare at too long: all flashing neon signs competing for attention, lights bright through high-rise windows. The black water beyond is broken only by the golden strip of the bridge, the sequin glint of yachts offshore.

And for narration - from Missing Scene, I remember I had this mental image/feeling and I kept trying to coax it into sentence form until I finally got here. Ugh, Sam and Bucky just always brought out the best in me.

Sam wants the wings on, wants to take Bucky flying with him; he wants to be a Biblical angel, all holy light and a hundred open eyes so he can take in every inch of Bucky at once.

[cyclogenesis]

For the fic ask game: 4, 17, 24? 💜

4. Tell me about one of your abandoned WIPs. Why did you abandon it?

Pretty much every time I've abandoned something it's due to losing interest in the fandom. 😭I've lately been looking dreamily back at a Tom Holland/Zendaya fic I got almost 7k into but never finished. I think the problem there was that I was having trouble structuring the remainder of it (though looking again at what I have, I could have just written the sex scene and called it a day probably), but also that fandom burned bright and then flamed out pretty quickly. Man, the feelings were good while they lasted though.

17. What has been the proudest moment for you so far since you started writing?

I think any time I actually finish and post something it's a tiny beautiful miracle that I manifested something other people can enjoy out of brain pictures and the screen squiggles that make up language. But what sticks out is a meeting I had with a Creative Writing instructor in college where he was like, "This is what you're going to do, right?" with this expectant look - like oof, being believed in is a hell of a drug.

24. Which fic of yours do you wish people would ask about more? Why?

I'd be happy for anyone to ask about any of them, I love talking about the writing process!!!

[moirindeclermont]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

And it’s done! The Italian translation of that masterpiece that is The Rough by @anactorya is live. 

Thank you, Anactorya for trusting me to do justice to your amazing story.