wow my atention span is so bad i forgot i wanted to ask something literally months ago afjaiosjg , for your "as the red maples bask" fic (which i loved it made me so emotional) in one part gonta mentions "There was… a time when it not just Gonta, but he rather not talk about it right now if that's okay…" and wanted to ask what did he mean by this 👀
Hello my dear saturn!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the emotions!!! To answer your question, I do this thing in my writing a lot where I leave some details intentionally vague for you to fill in the blank, and this is one of them!
You can take that line so many different ways, and they're all fine by me! He's old now, he could mean someone he dated, or married, or took under his wing, or almost became someone close to - maybe they broke up, or they died, or they moved, went ballistically unhinged, I mean the possibilities here are endless! Whichever suits your fancy works just fine <3 I didn't have any one thing in mind other than Gonta not being completely alone his whole life!
66,656 (tbh that’s a lot more than I was expecting from my 8 little fics lol!)
how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?
on ao3, it’s only for Danganronpa v3
(but back on ff.net there was also Hetalia, Doctor Who / BBC Sherlock, and in high school I also wrote some fic for Harry Potter (there was a lot I didn’t publish, and some were deleted))
what are your top 5 fics by kudos?
1. Love Bites (uwu)
2. As Many Times As I Need To Say It
3. DRv3 Ch2: Bucketful of Posies
4. A Gift To Treasure
5. Please, I Want To See You
what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
easiest question on here, definitely DRv3 Ch2: Bucketful of Posies! ;D
what’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
now this is probably the hardest question... a couple fics don’t have endings, one doesn’t have one YET and it should be light, but all the others are happy endings because I like those best!
do you write crossovers? if so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?
I have before, in high school with Doctor Who and BBC Sherlock, but otherwise, I usually only DRAW them because I only get snippets of ideas and there are too many in my head, like my Kermit Unpigged album lol! I really love crossovers, there are LISTS of them in my phone for ideas I want to explore and get to one day!
For example, with Danganronpa v3 in mind, I have roles figured out for Bob’s Burgers, various musical songs and musical roles, Our Flag Means Death, etc...
do you write smut? if so, what kind?
nah, not my thing
do you respond to comments, why or why not?
I do!! they fill me with joy, and I know that as a commenter, I love it when the author takes time to respond back, too! More than anything, I love getting to see that someone SHOWS me that they took the time to read my words. MY words! Wild!!
have you ever received hate on a fic?
nah
have you ever had a fic stolen?
I don’t think so?
have you ever had a fic translated?
I also don’t think so, but if so... I would hope they’d tell me! (Like I’d also hope they wouldn’t steal it, either...)
have you ever co-written a fic before?
yeah! instead of paying attention in my high school AP U.S. History class, the worst class I have ever had to sit through in all my years of school, a friend and I had a shared google doc open and would write a Harry Potter fanfic with the Marauders when they were in school. It was a lot of fun!
as @quasiimodo mentioned, I also wanted to add that even though it’s not specifically a fic, I used to rp all the time in high school with various accounts on here (I think I still have the better ones linked), so collab writing was amazing fun! and I still do it with @bagumbo, where we write letters back and forth with our D&D characters on their adventures :D
what’s your all-time favorite ship?
not even a fair question. can’t answer it! (I’ve been notoriously bad at picking favorites all my life, and this question is no different haha there are just too many!)
what’s a wip that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
I never finished anything in high school, which does make me a bit sad... I wrote I Want To See You without labelling it as finished because I didn’t know if I ever would get ideas to continue (unlikely), but just in case...
And then, despite how long it’s taking, I WILL finish my tutoring fic for myself sometime, because!! Yes!! I personally want to keep writing it and want to see it finished!!!
what are your writing strengths?
details of important things. I think my dialogue is pretty realistic (I try so hard to make it that way, since sometimes ideas will come to me while I’m talking to myself in the car or something)... I enjoy writing poetry, and I love sprinkling it in sometimes, just for fun, which I think adds a unique layer? (it’s hard to compliment a hobby you don’t practice often heh)
what are your writing weaknesses?
hahahahahahaha summaries amiright?? I get impatient when I’m writing sometimes, and I’m not much a fan of writing action scenes, so I feel like I don’t give them enough for the reader to really sink their teeth into, and yet at the same time, I feel like they’re TOO wordy and don’t convey the speed of the scene well enough?
Also. I know that I write from a theatrical mindset, which is super annoying, because I have to remind myself that I’m not writing scripts, I’m writing fic. Flesh it out more, dude, come on...
also just... DOING the writing.
what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
:|
I make this face because I was so into Hetalia in high school and was learning how to approach this topic in so many ways that it’s still in my head as a good thing, but... not the way I did it haha... I’ve read books that have done it different ways, and there are good arguments on all sides.
1. I LIKE other languages in writing, always have.
2. If you do, you really should include a translation SOMEWHERE, either in the footnotes, the end of the chapter, the glossary in the back of the book, or explain it in a way that doesn’t take away from the scene but also doesn’t sound stupid in the dialogue? Don’t expect people to know what it means.
3. I cringe. One of the things I did was write out the way you’d speak the foreign words, so that if you were reading it, especially out loud, you would sort of say it right, instead of just gloss over the word or phrase the way it would be normally written, and not even the way you would write it when learning to break down the letters/characters. I would not recommend this, for the most part, unless you plan to act out your fic and read it aloud lol
(Are we waltzing? Adeen, dva, tree... chetirye, pyat, shest...)
(Ah, so we are... один, две, три... четыре, пять, шесть...)
what was the first fandom you wrote for?
probably Harry Potter? I’m sure I wrote some in my obsessive stage in elementary school, but I’m not sure...
what’s your favorite fic you’ve written?
hmm I’m particularly keen on my soft fics with Gonta, as you might expect, but again I’m not very good at picking favorites! I’m still really proud of myself for making a long 10 chapter fic, the first of its kind for me!
tagging: @havealittlebitofeverything @themoonwouldnotcooperate @carlitagt @jadeofblades and you, reading this! if you want to! :D
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Chapter 5?? I know it took a while but things have been super busy over the past few months, and this particular chapter didn’t have anything in the outline besides like one word of an idea... but here it is!!
oh, what ever do you mean there’s a recurring theme in my writing with Gonta where someone reminds him of his worth?? or speaks kindly of him behind his back?? if you were to read all of my fics in one go you’d be like “UGH ENOUGH OF THIS ALREADY’ except you wouldn’t because he deserves the world and that’s simply the end of that <3
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So sorry, I missed my update day! (I blame my killer headache that followed me home from work yesterday, but REGARDLESS) Are you ready? For more bugs??? HERE THEY COME :D
