Ooh, 7 and 8 for the ask meme!
End of Year Fic-Writer || @cryysis
7. What’s your favourite piece of description or narration?
Runner up (because I gave one to a different question and I try to be fair) is this scene in an ode in six parts when the Capital Magicians are introduced:
Even when approaching as the first rays of dusk settled over the land, Kagome wished she could have missed this. The strange eyes were everywhere, abrasive magick roughly shoved at her hands, her feet, her skin, trying and trying to dig out something for it to play with.
Oh, she hated this. Hated how the Capital used magick and those that could carry it. Invasive and demanding and everything against the very nature of how the magick worked. Capital Magicians, as they called themselves, worked hard, rose fast to fame, and burned out even faster. Kaede had warned against the appeal of their plight long ago, teaching that if one didn’t learn to feed and nourish, one could only drain dry.
And once a spring was drained, they are never taught how to replenish what they took.
This was the second to last scene I wrote, but it set the tone for magick and how I could adjust things when I edited the story. I know that if this fic were ever expanded, this section would carry a lot of it.
8. Which fic this year was most fun to write?
Oh! That’s a neat one to think about! Enjoy the Show takes the cake for that one. While I had a lot of fun writing a lot of pieces in other fics, the fun-to-fic ratio is highest in this one.
It’s just smut. It’s ridiculous. It’s explicit. It’s completely self-indulgent. And because of that I didn’t have a plot hole to spiral down in. I could dig into highly specific fantasies that I thought would be neat to explore that I haven’t really found a lot of in this fandom and I really had a lot of fun with it.
Like, I didn’t have to care? I threw out realism and I had a blast writing it -- which really fucking works for me. I didn’t give a single damn about anything other than “Is this hot?” and honestly, after writing for Plot and Realism and Canon Accuracy and Highly Specific AU That Only Exists Because I Saw A Dress, I could just let go and write.
I’m glad you asked me this one. I forgot how fun this was. It gets little feedback/interaction in comparison to views (no surprise, that always happens with smut), so I tend to forget this one exists. But man, it was a ton of fun to write.