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top 5 costumes in anything ever

you asked me this ages ago and i have been thinking about it and im here with my wrong answers. i have forgotten every costume ever but in like no particular order here is what my brain came up with over the last month:

dishonored. it’s about the number of layers everyone has on (mindy blanchard not included). also love how geometric the designs got in dh2 and the gold, blues and purples. and the way npcs are dressed in karnaca specifically because yes i love karnaca. maybe it’s the waistcoasts and vests everyone has on 

whatever the hell is going on in the mirrorverse. this could be about any of the star treks but im thinking of tos. they literally just put on a sparkly sash around their waists and wow. groundbreaking. getting those guns and abs out too. magnificent 

split between the cell/the fall movies. eiko ishioka was a legend. 

honest to god don’t remember much about the scarlet empress (1934) besides the fact that i loved looking at it which could be because the cinematography was noice but was most probably the fucking dresses they put marlene dietrich in. and this pirate-aligned thing

i can’t think of anything else rn besides black sails lol idek how historically accurate the costuming was but i love pirate fashion and also. what a fucking icon

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8. Favourite television soundtrack?

halt and catch fire maybe? im trying not to say hannibal or mindhunter rn. black sails and also the expanse have some solid soundtracks

16. A show that you hate to love?

arrested development 😔

38. What’s your favourite universe?

only because we were just talking about it but i rly like the american gods concept. i always answer this question with pacific rim because really all i want is Big Robot 

94. The worst acting you’ve ever seen in a movie?

i dont wanna say something easy like birdemic or that dr caligari remake. like maybe the most recent thing without saying nic cage doing nic cage in color out of space.. was cameron diaz in gangs of new york? it’s not the WORST but i can’t think of anything that was so bad. outside of man of steel i feel like i am otherwise watching henry cavill say lines 

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6 & 8? :D

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

 I really loved this exchange between Steph, Bruce and Damian from  to brighten up even your darkest knight  after Steph has discovered a momento from her childhood filed away in the Batcave:

 Damian noticed the smile, too. “Father, Brown appears to have broken you. Is it evil string?”

“It’s a friendship bracelet,” Steph explained.

“It’s unmarked evidence,” Damian said. “Likely it was a crime against good taste.”

“Stephanie gave it to me,” Bruce said, reaching out and taking the bag. “Ten years ago?”

“I was seven, so more like twelve, old man,” Steph said. “Memory’s the first thing to go, you know.”

Damian’s brow furrowed. “Brown wasn’t involved in vigilante activity as a child.”

“Not from this end of it, anyway,” Steph said.

Damian blinked at her.

“Your dad busted into my house and punched my dad in the face. It was awesome,” she said.

Bruce looked briefly heavenward. “I didn’t realize there was a child on the premises.”

“It was a school night and I was a second grader,” Steph pointed out. “Where would I have been, out clubbing?” She turned back to Damian. “He broke a bunch of stuff and clearly felt bad so he did my homework with me.”

The small smile returned. “You were a good reader at that age, as I recall.”

I was also really proud of the conversation about parenthood between Bruce and Stephanie in The Unseen Garden. 

8. Which fic from this year was the most fun to write? 

That is an incredibly hard question, since I had a lot of fics this year that were an absolute blast to write. Going full force into writing Batfam fic this year was an excellent decision. I think though that it has to be either Let The Rumors Fly, The Sexy Mug Prank, or In This Town of Halloween.  I spent just as much time giggling over the scenarios of those fics as I did actually writing them, and each of them just flowed effortlessly.

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18 & 20? Good Luck with nano! :)

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

all my writing is a ball of loosely connected AUs until I actually sit down and glue them together, but not drastically different - just the same characters, scenes, conversations, etc all playing out in slightly different ways until I pick one and commit to it. but there’s not, like, an AU where Mal and Jayani are baristas and the Masters of the Citadel are the assistant managers from hell and Aye-Aye is an extremely temperamental blender. 

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

oh man... I truly do not know if it’s as deep as all that, it’s just a story about how loving the people that societal powers deems unlovable is like the most radical thing you can do. and also about how dragons in space are cool as hell!

although I GUESS if we’re gonna talk about relationship development then UGH watching Mal and Jayani’s friendship develop over like a decade and how they become a cohesive unit who are, like, freakishly in sync with each other and insanely ride or die and just a really perfectly cohesive unit. 

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5, 18, 35, & 43? :)

5. What fanfic of yours should everyone have read?

All of them?? (lol clearly a joke, i’ve written so many different fandoms/characters/pairings that literally no one on earth but me would care about them all.)

So for DC, I think the most important ones to read are Where the Asphalt Flowers Grow, because that shows exactly how I view young!Stephanie’s life. those wild charms for you or don’t be suspicious, because everyone should love Jason/Steph.  The Unseen Garden or to brighten up even the darkest knight, because of the soft Bruce and Steph interactions.

Our Lips Are Sealed, a B99/MCU crossover, is one of my favorite fics I’ve written. I have a secret love of crossovers and had so much fun with this one. 

MCU I definitely think the Prank War series, this has been a public service announcement. They’re my most popular fics in that fandom, I think for good reason -- I wrote the light-hearted fun between superheroes I wanted to see and wasn’t getting.

For Teen Wolf, definitely In Desperate Times. I can still reread that fic and it makes me laugh. (By the hit count on it I feel like the entire fandom has already read Every Step You Take, so even though I’m proud of that one I hesitate to ever rec it.) 

18. What is your favorite writing prompt?

TROPES. Any and all tropes. I love taking a ridiculous concept and trying to make it work, or just trying to give it my own spin or make it funny in a brand new way.  I prefer writing trope fic to AUs or angst any day of the week. 

35. What is your favorite review?

 I’ve been really blessed with receiving comments, and I’ve been writing fic for a long time now, so I’ve received a lot of fantastic comments.  Like, in general, the ones that make me happiest are: long detailed comments that pull out specific passages or talk about specific things that the reader loved (these are SO HELPFUL); comments from readers who yell at me like we’re best friends (if you’re commenting on my fic we BASICALLY ARE); comments on older fic saying stuff like ‘reread this for nostalgia reasons and still love it’ or that it improved their day to reread it or that they remembered it from years ago and sought it out (once i got a comment like this on my birthday and it was a most excellent gift); comments that admit they aren’t a fan of the character or scenario but still loved the story; basically ALL comments.  

Honestly though my favorite comments are the ones that end up sparking a friendship. ♥

(If I don’t reply to a comment on a fic, it’s not that I didn’t love and appreciate it, it’s just that I don’t have unlimited time to do fannish things and sometimes prioritize writing new things over replying, and when I get time, feel like it’s been too long to reply.)

43. Guilty pleasure tropes and scenarios?

I’m going to be honest, when it comes to fandom I feel zero guilt about my pleasures. I feel that if you’re not indulging in whatever makes you happiest, you’re not living your fannish life to its fullest. But when it comes to tropes… I love them so much? I am a huge sucker for fake dating, for arranged marriage or undercover  or magic spells or basically any trope that takes two characters and forces them to spend time together and learn about each other and become closer and closer. Especially if they’re antagonistic at the beginning. I’m a sucker for an accidental baby acquisition, too, for much the same reasons. Oh, and secret identity reveals! Just secret identity shenanigans in general.

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since you asked for asks about your writing PLEASE say this is a jessie/traceuse enemies-to-lovers hero/villain set up where they team up to keep the local scoundrels in check while publically remaining enemies? and i love the sibling relationship between them and jonas. tell us more about them? also I KNOW it's been years but i still remember reading your fairytale novel, any updates on jack (i think??) and the prince whose name has escaped by memory rn?

also i loved the way you wrote the poverty/financial struggle of jessie and jonas bc it was hashtag relatable and felt very Real lived experience

I’m going to answer these in reverse order and probably decreasing brevity.

thank you, that’s because Jessie and Jonas’ childhood poverty and the way it’s followed Jessie into adulthood are Very Much Based On My Own Life. I was lucky enough not to have the very unhealthy parental situation J&J had (and boy, will we be hearing more about their parents), but there is very much some overlap between us. write what you know, etc!

oh MAN my fantasy novel. boy, I really would still like to write it one day when I can calm down and untangle some thoughts and figure out what the fuck it’s supposed to actually be about. it’s still important to me, I just need some better planning skills and a little more confidence in my writing. but rest assured, the whole cast is still living in my head absolutely rent free, particularly Jack and Cadmus who are still extremely in love and bickering like an old married couple even though they’re only about 23.

mayhaps you will have to keep reading to see what Jessie/Traceuse (...Jessceuse? Tressie? Frostceuse?) situation is? 👀 we’ll be learning shortly that Jessie has certainly Gotten Around the local cape scene, and there’s not telling who could be next. she’s a wily one!

we’ll also be getting into the relationship between J&J and Traceuse a lot more, namely what the fuck their arrangement is that Traceuse knows their home addresses and real names and isn’t using that information to, you know, arrest them for their many crimes. I’m always really charmed by comic book superheroes who have spent so long fighting certain enemies that those enemies have become more like weird confidants and emergency allies, and that’s very much what Traceuse currently has with the siblings. she definitely considers them the most reasonable of her rogues gallery, Jonas respects her as an opponent, and for the time being Jessie sincerely thinks of Traceuse as sort-of a friend, because she has a slightly skewed perception of what a friend is. 

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@deadtedkord replied to your post “Can someone explain to me why coming up with a title and summary is...”

who cares as long as the songs popping

the important part is: N E W F I C !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do 1960s motown hits count as popping? But yeah! Putting the finishing touches on a fun little Jason/Steph fic.  (My last two fics were angsty, had to veer wildly back into the realm of ridiculous nonsense.)