Stolen from @augustmourn! Thanks for posting, this was fun!
How many works do you have on ao3?
52 connected to my account/pseuds, several anon'd
What’s your total ao3 word count?
344,041
What fandoms do you write for?
I bounce around fandoms a lot AND write for exchanges pretty frequently, so i'm not as much of a steady fandom person. You can go to my user page and expand fandoms to see just how true that is. Old standbys are probably Star Wars and Naruto, as insane as that sounds.
What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - 1,411 kudos. Venom movies Venom/Eddie/Reader cross-country roadtrip with some mild plot and lots of porn. I wrote this with my partner and a close friend and it may have taken us 5 years to finish but we had an immense amount of fun along the way.
General Organa's List of Things You May No Longer Do - 750 kudos. Short humor fill for a SW kinkmeme prompt from back in 2016. Writing-wise I don't think it's anything special but it was my first fic posted to AO3.
Artemisia in Snow - 402 kudos. Reylo hypothermia fic, simple as. Did a lot of research on hypothermia for this one. I think it ranks so highly in kudos simply because it's one of my few T-rated fics.
Vestal - 394 kudos. Short short short Kylo Ren character study. I wrote this one night and posted it immediately, but I'm still very fond of it. Lots of gender going on. I feel proud that it was so well-received and kicked off a long-term fandom friendship of mine.
Take a Slice - 310 kudos. Kirikacchako threesome fic, what more is there to say? Also written with two close friends in a round-robin format during an in-person visit. Very fun, if not all that complex.
These fics are all fun and great but ultimately overall they don't represent my best writing or my personal favorite fics that I've written.
Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
Deep sigh I wish I was better about this. I almost always respond to exceptionally long comments because they're SO important to me, but otherwise it can be hard. I have a huge backlog that I'll likely never get to if for no other reason than some of them are SO OLD.
What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Maybe Hard Cover. Obi-Wan/Qui-Gonn Bad Guys Made Them Do It noncon where they walk away with their relationship is kind of in tatters and, worse, we know that the river of canon will flow on. I find the idea of them not getting to resolve what happened before Qui-Gonn's death way more devastating than the death alone.
Caw, Caw, Koodle-Yah is also pretty angsty.
What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
I can't lie I'm a sucker for happy endings, so I think a lot of the fics I write have them? (Outside of all the noncon that makes up about 1/3 of my output.) Maybe the happiest to me is Come Calling in that it involves a nice getting together with the promise of a future. The ending is very rosy, but it came from the heart (and the hole).
Do you get hate on fics?
Once or twice. I had someone get MASSIVELY upset at me for choosing not to spoil a surprise in one of my fics in the tags. We had a short interaction in the comments that didn't satisfy them so they sent me an EMAIL complaining about it further and demanding that I "admit" I did it out of spite, which I definitely didn't.
Do you write smut?
HAHAHAHAHA. Yes. Prodigiously.
Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
I do not. I don't want to knock anyone who does but they've always seemed vaguely silly to me? I prefer canon-swap AUs to straight-up crossovers.
Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I know of.
Have you ever had a fic translated?
I think once or twice I've had someone request to translate a fic into Russian, but I'm not sure if they ever went through with it.
Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I don't speak another language, so I probably wouldn't go there unless I was close enough to someone who did that they could help. I sometimes find it a bit cheesy when people do this but ultimately it won't stop me from reading a fic.
Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yes, many! I love co-writing. Having someone to cheerlead you through the tough sections and share the load of writing is really nice. I enjoy the creative process of bouncing ideas off of each other and most of the time this outweighs the difficulty of making compromises.
What’s your all-time favorite ship?
Most of my favorite ships are ones that I don't write for, or even read for. Often they're ones where the text has everything I want. That said, it's probably Ashitaka/San from Princess Mononoke or Cam/Pal.
What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?
Probably the unpublished Arcane fic that's about Cait/Vi failing as a relationship and slowly breaking up disastrously because of their experiential differences. The idea of them just crumbling apart fascinates me but I haven't been able to find much momentum to really write the damn thing.
What are your writing strengths?
I think dialogue! I really like writing it, the process of tweaking it, AND it's my favorite part of a fic to read.
What are your writing weaknesses?
Eurgh....plot. Plot is so hard for me. I'm not a gardener or a pantser, but an architect with aphantasia. I'll have an idea but how to get there just makes me draw a blank. It takes a lot of effort to structure themes, ideas, and theses into actual stories, which is a bit embarrassing to admit. I still love to write, though.
First fandom you wrote for?
Naruto! I was about 12 I think and wrote an unfinished Sakura/Gaara fic based loosely on an existing fic that I really loved.
Favorite fic you’ve written?
Probably either Fires That Fence the World In or Steal the Blush.
Fires is my first Locked Tomb fic and a true labor of love. I put a lot of work, some actual research, and a great deal of elbow grease into that fic and feel a great, tender affection for it in my heart.
Steal the Blush was a gift for my partner where I had free reign to play with the Hannibal dolls in an omegaverse setting however I wanted, and I did exactly that. Omegaverse isn't a trope I'd ever write for myself (and squicks me out in many cases), but it was a fun challenge to make it work for myself. I also think I got the character voices JUST right.
Tagging anyone who wants to do this, feel free to tag me in your response!
man it never ceases to delight and amaze me how easy it is to make an absolutely banging tomato sauce on very short notice so long as you have the time/energy to chop stuff
the upside of having hospitalized myself for mental health (very briefly) (not inpatient) (ER visit only) is that i’m suddenly like. doing shit to help myself.
looking into a queer/trans specific PHP/IOP program that i probably have the sick time to accommodate, got a community acupuncture appointment set up for after christmas, changed my meds up again, AND went back to the doctor for this damn cough i’ve had for a month and a half after the last urgent care visit didn’t fix it. also i finally got my car back from the shop. im not gonna say “things are looking up” yet, but minor improvements. what more can we ask for.
5pm is like AWESOME YAY WORK IS OVER!!! but then you realize your gf is still out of town and you actually have to decide what to do with your evening :/
