Again for the fanfic writer ask game! 2, 3 and 7 (from "Grow as we go", "till i find that old love" and "no matter how bright a torch may burn")~
2. Has a comment someone left on a fic of yours ever made you cry?
It should be stated that I cry at... many things. Things that are objectively not cry-worthy. My comments are definitely cry-worthy (especially at that time of the month) but particularly comments I get on very emotionally draining and personal works - if i name it is a good example - usually leave me sobbing if I don't brace myself beforehand. Sometimes even then if it gets me. Seriously though, I cry a lot. Certified crybaby right here.
3. Have you ever made yourself laugh out loud or cry with a fic you wrote?
I have! I'm not great at humour, at least not when I'm trying to be funny, so often I only realise some time later I've managed something. My Merlin fic The Prince's Mistress has quite a few moments of Merlin swearing a blue streak that I giggled at when I reread recently.
It's harder to make yourself cry when you know what you've done already; generally I cry at people's reactions to my sad stuff, like I said above. Seeing how people interact with your stuff is both very humbling and very emotional (for me, anyway).
7. What is your favourite sentence/paragraph?
He should’ve gone and got the morning after pill and said it was for a girlfriend, should’ve realised that he wouldn’t exactly be a stickler for safe sex when he was out of his mind, should’ve counted the days and realised that something was wrong-
The truth is, he just didn’t want to think about it any more, and he certainly didn’t want to talk about it. And carrying on like everything was normal was- not easy, but it was certainly easier than confronting what might have happened in those two lost days. Dick has enough nightmares about the things he can remember to know that he doesn’t want to go looking for even more horrors.
til i find that old love:
Dick could be. He’s good at getting angry. But the only person he’s angry at is Bruce, for pushing his twelve-year-old son aside again, when Dick had been right there, ready and waiting to take him, and has been all along. He knows that being around Damian is... difficult, for Bruce, but Dick has long stopped thinking that was because of anything Damian himself has done. The truth is, Damian could be everything Bruce could ever want, and Bruce would still find something lacking. The truth is, Damian is his father’s son and Bruce hates that. He isn’t obvious about it, but Dick has seen the way he looks at Damian sometimes, like he’s seeing someone else entirely.
Maybe it’s because he reminds him of Talia, of Ra’s, but Dick thinks it might just be because Damian reminds him of himself.
He’ll never tell Damian this. Never. Dick is a firm believer that there are some things you should remain ignorant about in this world, and the fact that your father finds you hard to love is one of them.
no matter how bright a torch may burn:
“Cersei,” he says her name again, “did you ever love me?”
No, Sansa should say. Because she never has. But he is not asking her. He is asking his sister - his sister who did love him, who loved him as a part of herself, fiercely and totally and desperately.
“Yes,” she whispers, “but it was a mistake.”
Thank you so much again, I'm an ego maniac and I love talking about the one (1) skill I have 💕
