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[galvanizedfriend]

5, 16, 40

Hi, frieeeeend ✨ You a,ways coming to my inbox to keep me from dying without an ask asdhasjdgas 🫶

5: Which book did you last re-read? I'm not one to re-read books much. I mostly read it once and then if I really like it, I'll sometimes re-read passages, but never the whole book. There are a few I've read more than once, but not many. I think the last one might have been A Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh lol It's a really silly Christmas rom-com book but it was so sweet and I always get in the mood for Holiday rom-com but it's so hard to find a good one! I think I read it in 2023 or early 2024 and then read it again last December lol

16: If you could bring three books to a deserted island which would you bring and why? In all truth I'd probably bring three books that have been in my TBR forever rather than three books I have already read 😂 I just don't like re-reading books. Three that I've had on my shelves for yeaaaaaars: The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North, Ruby by Cynthia Hand and The Vegetarian by Han Kang (to name a few……….).

40: Name one of your favorite books from your teenage years As most people in my generation, the books I was most obsessed about when I was a teenager is that series that we shall not name because the author is a fucking terf. I wasn't that big a book reader, was mostly reading mangás like an insane person, and that series was a big part of why I started reading more books. On top of everything else, I will also always hate her for ruining that for me. My favorite mangás series was probably Fruits Basket 🫶 Still love it. It made me cry so many times 🥲 But in terms of books, I also really liked Nick Hornby's books. I think maybe A Long Way Down was my favorite, but also really liked About a Boy.

[galvanizedfriend]

Arranged Marriage too please 😇

I also told you all about this one (like I don't immediately tell you when I'm being stupid and coming up with something else I'll plan from start to finish and then never write 🥲).

It's one where Bill is a crook who ends up blackmailing the Mikaelsons into a marriage that would benefit him because he's an asshole and a social climber and Caroline ends up engaged to Klaus. She doesn't know they are being blackmailed, but Klaus (and Elijah) never plan to actually take the wedding forward because they just want to turn things around and get back at Bill. But then Caroline moves into the Mikaelson mansion with the family and obviously Klaus ends up obsessed with her. But then so does Elijah because ofc. 👀 That sums it up, I think 😂

[galvanizedfriend]

Uhh interview with the vampire?? What the fuck? Why have I not been informed? 😭

This is so old! From before the show came out 😂 It's actually a different version of Wishing each sigh might be the last, I think I told you my original idea was to make that into a sort of IWTV au, but then I realized I was never gonna write that whole story, so I stopped. 😂

[galvanizedfriend]

14, 19 (though give me the context hehe) and 28 🙏❤️

Write and share the first sentence of a new fic. Just that.

When Elizabeth Forbes passed away at only 49 years of age, all she left her only daughter with was a modest two-bedrooms in Mystic Falls, a small but well-established guided tours company specialized in exploring the vast supernatural history of their town and a broken heart.

(This is such a crappy opening line, I'm pretty sure I'd change it if I ever got to writing this seriously 😂)

Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it.

Bear in mind this hasn't been edited and it's probably crap. 🥲 It's from TW4x01.

"Mom!" Caroline immediately puts down her pen, sits up straight. Alarm bells ring madly inside her head as every single one of her acutely developed fight instincts kicks in, all at once, at the sound of her daughter's voice. The slightest bit of disturbance these days is enough to get Caroline's fangs out, ready to strike. It's not that the last five years have made her paranoid. A bit jittery, more distrustful and cagey, sure. But not paranoid. It's not paranoia if the threat is real. It takes her a long beat to assess that Eve didn't sound scared or distressed. Caroline has, unfortunately, heard those screams before; the sound of Eve's fear has been seared onto her brain. No, this was her excited voice. The mom she uses when a squirrel or a dear shows up in the front yard, or when she's just managed to crack a spell she had been trying to get right for ages, or when she finds one of Caroline's favorite movies on TV and wants them to watch it together for the millionth time - it's either The Notebook or It's a Wonderful Life. In this case, however, Caroline quickly realizes it's a fourth - and slightly more worrisome - option: they have a visitor. She hears the approaching car. Not exactly at the house yet, but close enough that she can recognize it. Caroline's shoulders drop with a long sigh, but the relief is short-lived. It's not a threat, but her chest tightens with apprehension when she remembers what the visitor is supposed to be bringing her. After five long years, today could finally - finally - be the day Caroline gets her life back.

Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing?

I'm such a mess, friend 😂 I have no useful writing advices. I just write whatever comes to me, whenever it comes to me, and hope that it turns out to be readable later. 😂

Thank you for the asks, friend! ❤️

[galvanizedfriend]

12, 22 and 30!

12. What fic was the most difficult to write? Did you finish it?

The Wolf 3 🥲 I still haven't finished lol And it's been so hard to get in the groove of that one. But I think everything I posted last year was super hard, because those were all fics I had been working on for years.

22. Share an excerpt from your favorite scene

This is like peak angst in Pendulum, but I really like it cause I'm a masochist 🥲 Also, after the rewriting, I think this whole middle part of the story became my favorite.

"It's two in the morning, Klaus." Her tone grew sharper, less amicable and more impatient. "I have to work in a few hours, and you should stop talking right now. Drink some water, pop an aspirin and go to bed." Her words slashed through him. He was begging her to love him, and she still couldn't see it. Her eyes, always so open, so warm, were a mask of steel. The loneliness that crept up on him was the same as the first time Caroline died. She was being taken away from him all over again, only this time it was by her own choice. "Will there ever be a lifetime where you won't break my heart?"

30. What’s something that you want to write in 2024?

The Wolf 🫠 I have other things I want to write this year, but BY GOD do I want to be done with this story. Please, just be over already. Thank you for your asks, friend 🥺✨ If anyone else want to play, send me a number from this Fic Writer ask list.

[galvanizedfriend]

Arranged Marriage?? Throuple??? I’ve already messaged you asking about all of the WIPs but please let me know more about these 😭❤️

Friend, I'm pretty sure I've already told you all about them at some point because you hear all about my dumb ideas. 🥲 But I actually started this arranged marriage one last week, so maybe I didn't share. ✨ Arranged Marriage is basically what it says on the tin. lol I was reading this romance book that had a trope like this and then started coming up with a KC version, EXCEPT. Because I'm me, I got Elijah in the middle of it. 😙 So it's like Caroline's father is a crook who blackmails the Mikaelsons into marrying his daughter because he's obsessed with getting power and influence (I don't think I've ever written a single story where Bill isn't a dick) and they are the closest thing to royalty you have in New York's high society (think Gilded Age, but it's the 2000s). And she ends up engaged to Klaus while they come up with a way to neutralize the threat and destroy the enemy (the enemy being her father), except she doesn't know anything. So there's a bit of an enemies-to-lovers vibe, but there's also Elijah starting to fall for her, and then there's jealous Klaus, and the situation where she eventually finds out the truth. Honestly, it's just a trope fest. Sounds insane because it is, but I promise there's context. 😂

And throuple (lol amazing title) is the Kleferoline one 😗 Where Klaus and Stefan are crime lords and also lovers (Klaus is a crime kingpin and Stefan is right hand man) and Caroline gets in with them, tries to leave, gets caught in the middle of a war (against Mikael and the other side of the Mikaelson clan), her life is in peril, etc, etc. Threesomes ensue. Have to say Kleferoline has been calling out to me so much lately.

[galvanizedfriend]

Director's cut on The Witch Queen (forever my most beloved 🥺), pleaase!!

I love you for not letting my ask games flop by sending me thingd, friend 🥺 You are such a friend 💖

The Witch Queen! I was in such a mood when I wrote that one. I had been listening to Old Gods podcast nonstop and it had such a brilliant dark vibe it made me want to write something in that similar setting.

Since I only seem to write romcom-style stuff these days, it's probably not obvious that I love a darker setting. I really wanted to write Klaus as this encarnation of the devil, taunting Caroline into joining him. It's basically an allegory for what I wished had happened on the show tbh. Caroline had so much wasted potential. It's not even about her turning evil, necessarily, but just about the fact that she has an inherent ruthlessness about her that she's in complete control of. She can be brutal, but she is also fair, and that's a balance that Klaus, the ~~spirit of the forest, totally lacks.

It's also about the challenge, and how he's completely entertained by that chase, and the fact she's not scared of him. He's the devil, he's after blood and sacrifice, and ends up getting something much greater, which is an equal (in will, if nothing else).

It was the first time I tried to write something that has a fairy tale kind of atmosphere (which is something you do so well!) and I was honestly unsure whether I'd be able to accomplish it, because it's very much not my style. Every once in a blue moon I decide to try something new and see whether I can do it, and I feel like this one was ok. I wish I could keep doing that kind of thing, and write more stories with that same vibe.

The Witch Queen is probably one of my favorite things I ever wrote, one of those nobody really paid attention I wish more people would read. 😂

Thanks for the ask, friend! 💖

[galvanizedfriend]

Welcome back, friend! I LOVE that it's 'praising Yokan' hours ✨. Have I told you lately how much I love your writing and how much I admire you and how inspired I am by your stories? 🤧❤️ Because in case you need remiding that's very much true. Your stories are masterpieces and you're a genius ✨

wtf 😭😭😭 stop it, i suck, but you're awesome and just the most patient and kindest person in the universe when it comes to my wriring 🥺

all these messages have made me feel so warm and fuzzy, i don't deserve this 😭❤️ thank you ❤️