17 and 20 for the fanfic asks!
17. What fanfic tropes do you gravitate to writing for?
I think one trope I gravitate to writing for the most is friends to lovers. I'm a huge lover of pre-developed relationships, and this trope allows for the characters to have a certain amount of knowledge of one another before they dive head first into a relationship. I really like mutually requited pining too. There's something cruelly divine about two characters loving one another so much, but just not making it all the way for certain reasons, be it their own beliefs or distance or what have you.
20. What feedback makes you the happiest to hear?
The feedback that makes me happiest to hear is that what I write resonates with the reader or that it moved them in some way, especially when the story is sad. I love so much art - be it movies, books, fanfic, or paintings - because of the way it made me feel/makes me feel. Mitski's "First Love/ Late Spring" is one of my favorite songs because it guts me so wholly every time I listen to it. I love Inside Llewyn Davis, despite the fact that its such an incredibly miserable movie, because, at least to me, there's a lot of comfort to be found in knowing you're not the only person in the world who's felt this bad, and that it's also incredibly likely you'll make it out of it. I think being seen, especially in those ugly moments of life, is important.
I also really enjoy when someone tells me I've got the characterization of a character down. That makes me very happy to hear