Spotlight #20 - concentratedsmartass (Laya)
Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Lee, but when I used to go to the livestreams, I was known as Laya. I’m going to school and majoring in Secondary Education; my goal is to be a high school history teacher. I have 13 animals and I love Harry Potter, which basically sums up my personality in one sentence. I am decidedly Not Good at answering ‘tell us about yourself’ portions of things.
When did you get into the fandom and how did you stumble upon it? I don’t know, really. I think probably a couple years ago? I found it because I was going through my likes, and I found the First Comic, and I went to Orange’s blog wondering if anything ever came from it or if it was just a one off, and found SaM.
Who are your favorite characters/pairings? Natan, for sure. Lailix. Gabriel/Anthea (you would think I’d know the name for that). I also just love Zad in general. And Yup.
Favorite moment in the comic? Basically anytime Natalie gets hurt and Satan shows up just pissed and it’s like ‘ooh you done fucked up man’. I love it.
What is your biggest inspiration as far as your writing goes? Music, really. I’ll be listening to a song and out of nowhere it’s painting this story that I just have to write. I have a bad habit of starting these stories and then not finishing them, so I have way more WIPs than actual posted fics, but they almost all have a note at the beginning to remind me what song I was listening to when I started.
What would you say is your favorite piece that you’ve done so far? I would say probably Auld Lang Syne. I wrote that one on New Year’s Eve a year (or two?) ago, because I heard the song playing in another room, and I was just like ‘New Years kiss. You gotta.’ I just really love the idea of Luce becoming more soft and open and not even realizing that he’s doing it.
What would you say is one of your favorite things to write? Natan. Any form of Natan, really. I like doing it from Luce’s side more, because he has that whole ‘I’m angry and literally Satan and I refuse to care about this human’ thing going on, and it gives him like an entirely different feeling I guess? I don’t know, maybe I just relate more to the angry sarcastic character, but I just really love writing from his side.
What do you think influences your writing style? I think probably whatever I happen to be reading/watching most recently. It’s really easy for me to see something and decide I like it and just go with it, so my style ends up being made up of the styles of hundreds of different people.
What are some of your hobbies you enjoy? Basically any time I have free time, I’m most likely going to be watching Netflix on my laptop and playing some kind of puzzle game on my phone. I’m a student, so I don’t have that free time a lot, so I don’t really vary what I do.
Before joining SaM, what was a fandom you were part of and are there any fandoms you’re into outside of SaM? I used to be into fandom a lot a few years ago, and would write various fics for different fandoms, but it’s been kind of a dry spell for awhile. For the most part, I just sit back and enjoy content, and I don’t really add anything. SaM is the only recent thing that I’ve written for.
Is there anything else you’d like the fandom to know about you or anything you’d like to say to the fandom as a whole? I really don’t write that often. I get writer’s block really easily, and I never know how to finish anything. I do my best to finish things and put them out there, but my most recent fic was Auld Lang Syne, and that was awhile ago.
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