74, 8, 24 for the writing ask game 👀
74. Do you have a fic you wish got a bit more love?
This is hard to judge honestly! A lot of my fics are for smaller fandoms so they don't get super huge view counts regardless. But relatively speaking...it would definitely be silly of me to say "the one I'm writing right now (the indomitable human soul)" because obviously it's a newer fic so less people have read it but ah! I've been having so much fun writing it, I would love more people to read it.
Other than that, maybe Ghost on the Shore. It's one of the more memorable fics I wrote. I just like the vibes of it a lot.
8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.
So I wasn't sure if this is a snippet from a wip or just a future thing that's gonna happen and since there's a different q asking for snippets, I'm gonna use the latter! So. Fic spoiler for the indomitable human soul ahead.
When Tenma is supposed to get sent back to prison, he's gonna get kidnapped instead :D
And one for my PLUTO ongoing fic (I will get back to her I prommy):
Gesicht gets infected by something adjacent to Glaze or Nightshade anti-AI software as a virus and it fucks up his internal recognition patterns <3
24. How do you choose whose POV to write in?
So it depends on the type of fic I'm writing! Generally I try to think about what voice will give me more mileage for the narrative. Usually this will either be the character that is more emotionally volatile - they have more to say, typically, and are more "interesting" to read the voice of - but sometimes other characters work better as the voice for a story if the concept behind the narrative is more affecting of them.
It also matters which character you're supposed to understand. For those who read my work, you'll notice that I usually describe character emotions through a third party. "He looked like he might be upset" rather than "he was upset". Generally your voice-character has a clearer set of emotions, and you can interpret their thoughts (because I will often reference memories) but it's these other characters who are left a little bit unknown. Sometimes it's important for me to keep either their emotions or their knowledge secret, so that character can't be the voice.
Alternatively the other way around, I want to switch perspectives so that you do get a certain character's thought processes! This is typically important for my longer fics, where there's a lot of buildup. I'll switch viewpoints when I've set something up one way so that a different character can kind of recontextualize or tear down what I've been saying. It's also a good way for me to drip feed new concepts that will start to matter later.
So a lot goes into my povs! Baseline is "character most invested in the plot" followed by whatever suits the storytelling.
And yeah also just who's more fun to write, that matters a bit.