Okay! Sorry it took so long!
Edit: holy shit I can’t believe I forgot to answer the first question.
1. Describe yourself how you would describe a character you’re introducing
You see one of your followers reblog a popular post on your dash. Looking at the op’s name, you see their screen name is kixaxstyx. Ugh. What a stupid name, you think to yourself, but you really know you have no room to judge, looking at your own screen name.
Still, you identify with the post, and realize that this user has a point. You decide to check out their blog, clicking it open in a new tab. Their theme is pretty cool, and you wonder if they have a selfie-tag. You type in the generic tag of #selfie, and then #selfies when that doesn’t give you results. Apparently they’re too cool for selfies, or just not into posting selfies. Whatever. It’s not that important to you.
You look to the sidebar of their blog and see stuff that link to writing accounts. You click the top one that reads “Kix’s Writing” and it redirects you to their blog with the tag of #kix’s writing. It’s filled with fanfiction and snippets. Still the third-person reference makes you wonder if that’s how they tag their selfies.
You type #kix’s selfies into the address bar, and are greeted with success. You are presented with a glimpse of the blogger behind the url, someone you’re presuming is a female (god, why don’t they put their preferred pronouns in their about?) who has long hair and is wearing what looks to be either a tubetop or a sleeveless dress in a picture with the caption: Phi Sigma Iota dinner tonight, with the lovely@methodoflogicalmadness as my date! You astoundingly do not care, seeing as you don’t know what Phi Sigma Iota even is.
You scroll down, looking next at a picture of the blogger with wavy hair, and then in a Christmas sweater (when it’s January, seriously are they one of those people?). You notice through some of the pictures that the blogger has an overbite they’re trying to hide, and get bored relatively quickly. Isn’t there anything problematic about this person?
You return to the homepage, wondering if you should follow them. It doesn’t look like they have any of your preferred content on their blog, but maybe. When you get to the homepage, you see an ask they’ve just answered. It was probably for one of the ask memes people always reblog, and you start to scroll through the answers. You stop immediately when you see that the first question isn’t answered. Laughing, you exit out of the tab, not interested in following.
God, you think to yourself. What an idiot.
3. What is your absolute favorite kind of fic to write?
I love writing fics about first meetings - both for relationships and in general! Just One Date, Bewitching Bouquets, Check Me Out, and Palmistry and Tarot Cards are some of my favorite Malec (Shadowhunters/The Mortal Instruments) first meeting stories I’ve written, I have Drunk on Love, which is a Chendy (Fairy Tail) first meeting, Red is a gen DGM first meeting/manga AU, and Incompetence is a YosanoxRanpo 5+1 fic that has a section for a quick first meeting for them!
I also have Preliminary Examinations that is in progress, which is my first Voltron fic, and that’s going to be a first meeting fic for all of the paladins!
(no lie I probably have like 20 fics between my fanfic and ao3 accounts that are first meetings between characters)
5. How many words can you write if you sit down and concentrate intensely for an hour?
Ahh, this is a good question! If I sit down and didn’t let myself get distracted and I had the proper inspiration and motivation, I could probably get at least 1k+ written if not a bit more!
7. Inspiration, time, or motivation. Choose two.
Ah, I’d have to go with inspiration and time, because if I’m inspired and I have time I always scrounge up a little motivation to at least write a summary of what I want to write whenever I actually do have a decent amount of motivation.
9. Do you ever have plans to write anything other than fic?
Yeah! I plan on seriously attempting NaNoWriMo this month with an original work and I’m planning on posting something for a poll to see if anyone wants to see one of the works in particular. I’m going to try and post it on Ao3 if I manage to get it finished.
11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?
I honestly don’t know? Ahh, maybe Seven Minutes of Olympian Heaven? It was a Helen BlackthornxClary Fray piece I wrote during the Olympics, which I think might be weird because a) 7 minutes in Heaven, and b) an extreme rarepair that most likely no one ships? Idk I can’t think of anything right now
13. Favorite fic from another author?
Ahh, I have so many favorites…
Your Body is a Weapon by @tastewithouttalent is spectacular - it’s a DurararaxSoul Eater crossover and I love it (all of their works are spectacular no lie)
A Cheap Imitation by spoontasti is a chilling Durarara fic themed from the Saw movies
If you like Trans!Izaya or just love Izaya @izanyas is spectacular with writing, and some of my faves are Some Required Effort and Manageable and Alongside (the hot single Dad Shizuo AU that nobody knew they wanted but did) and just. go follow @izanyas because the writing is on point
@wyntera is working on a spectacular Welcome to Nightvale Fic, Beakers and Bloodstones which words cannot describe how good it is.
IF YOU LIKE KINGDOM HEARTS YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT @besin-is-a-moogle‘s STORY THE MECHANIC YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT I PROMISE. RAREPAIRS! ALTERNATE REALITY! MYSTERY GALORE! CHECK IT OUT PLEASE.
and of course I have to mention @lemoninasin, @mothisland, and @itsnotloveifitsjust. all of them have amazing stories. some faves of theirs are The Language of Flowers - beautiful Shinzaya piece by Lemon, The Morning After (yes Moth pulling out the old stuff) - the first I read by mothisland, and Summer Holiday - beautiful Shizaya piece by Liz.
also PLEASE CHECK OUT THE MECHANIC YOU WON’T REGRET IT
15. Your guilty writing pleasure?
Definitely hurt/comfort fics. Like, I love first meeting fics, but I also love writing/reading hurt/comfort fics where one character is sick/hurt and another character/a group of characters take care of/help character one - especially when character one is the type of character who doesn’t normally get taken care of like they are in that situation.
17. Would you describe yourself as a fast writer?
Yes and no lol, if I’m super motivated I can get something written real fast - Bewitching Bouquets is 8k and I wrote that in 4 days, similar with Eating Habits, which is around 10k written over a similar time frame (EH was posted as multi-chapter, posted across about a week time frame while BB was posted all at once)
But at the same time if I’m not motivated or lose motivation it takes me forever to finish something. Stitches which I just posted for Bungou Stray Dogs I started back in July, and just finished like last week and it’s 1.5k, and Lily and the Necromancer, which is nearly 30k took me nearly a year to finish, and it took me that long because I kept losing motivation and had to motivate myself to finish it.
19. Why did you start writing?
I started writing because I discovered Fanfiction.net back in 2006 - my sister had been on it and I got interested - and I started reading some fanfics. After reading some, I thought “Hey, I can do that!” as well as “Hey, I can write better than some of these idiots!” and started writing. Was I better than some of those idiots? Some, but I also was one of those idiots too because I was a 12 year old writing so I didn’t have as much experience. By the time 2 years had passed though, I was writing better than a group of college students that had a Fanfic account and they were the ones asking me for writing advice - an eighth grader! Being asked for help by college students! Talk about a confidence booster!
Simply put, I started writing because of reading fanfiction, and because I thought I was better than some writers and wanted to prove it. And here I am, still writing, proving that not only am I a good writer, but I am better than some writers. (Which, of course, is all relative! There will always be someone better than you or I, and just because I’m a better writer than someone else in one fandom/genre doesn’t mean that they don’t beat me in a different fandom/genre!)