For the fic meme, if I'm allowed to be greedy: 1, 3, 6, 19!
1) Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?
never gonna say I’m sorry - This is Amara/Tyreen Borderlands nonsense, and the goal is to be as ridiculous and melodramatic as the canon itself! I love ridiculous set-ups where the villain ends up palling around with the heroes, so add some smooching and enemies to lovers and I’m all over that like catnip. I just have to write it. :’)
lost - Weird and emotional Asterius/Theseus fic for Hades! It’s pre-canon, and I was thinking about what if Theseus’ over the top pomposity is just a mask for his own deep insecurities and the realization that the legend that made him wouldn’t exist without the Minotaur? So it’s mildly angsty with Theseus coming to the realization that whether hero or monster, they’re both god-touched, and they’ve both escaped (or been trapped) in their own ways. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and finally wrote an entire messy first draft in one sitting today!
3) What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)
LOOK I’m sure that I’ve ranted about this before on this blog, but it’s the ridiculous and silly ‘Piper gets lovingly gangbanged by all my favorite companions’ fic that’s hanging out in my outlines!
The set-up: Piper’s been writing lurid friendfic of everyone under a pseudonym, greatly embarrassing them! Everyone’s trying to find out the identity of this mystery writer, and Piper’s evading capture (and raking in the caps)! And because it’s silly and porny, once everyone finds out, it just becomes: “Well, Piper! Why didn’t you just tell us that you felt this way!” and she orgasms herself silly. :’)
6) What character do you have the most fun writing?
I’ve come to realize that the characters I love the most are the ones who let me have absolutely indulgent descriptions, with deeply felt emotions that they want to espouse in the purplest of prose! Or at least ones who are smart-asses and willing to slam their hand on the self-destruct button in interesting ways.
I’ve been enough of a multifandom mess that I might not consistently write a given ship or character, but in general? I like writing Isabela and Merrill, and am coming to realize how much I enjoy writing villainous POV for Tyreen.
19) Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)
I keep returning to imagery involving food, or pain and the body. I find them visceral and emotionally resonant, so I will often try to include specifics of what kind of tea the characters are drinking, or processing emotions as a punch in the gut or a fist around their throat.
Thank you for the ask, I had fun answering! :D
(Questions are from this ask game!)
