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[liebesbeweise]

I tried another one

@madsteacup

[suntosirius]

From your writers choice ask: 7 and 10 😁

7. Which fic do you believe you took the most creative liberty with and why? 

Honestly, any AU fics. I love feeling comfortable enough in a fandom to be able to write AUs with characters people will inherently recognize anyway.

10. Which of your fics do you wish more people would talk to you/ask questions about and why? Be honest!

Equinimity XD I felt that it was one that we planned so cleverly and did so well with and so few people read it because it was a crossover and part of a small fandom.

[ask me some things!]

[questionablygourmet]

madsteacup replied to your post “I’m duolingo-ing German pretty hardcore lately, and when I got to the...”

I’m doing duolingo German too and I had the same thought w/tier! �� Also w Georgia madchen (mädchen=girl) and Lydia and Roman fell (fell=hide) so interesting!!

Yeah!!  I’d had the thought about Georgia, too, though I think I have actually seen “Madchen” used as a surname IRL (while I have not seen “Tier” as a name).  Didn’t know about “Fell” yet; that’s neat!

[suntosirius]

From your fanfic ask: 1, 15, and 25 😁

1. My favourite fic I wrote this year

I only started writing fic again in July (I think?) and since I’ve written so much and am so happy I have TT_TT of my own fics, I think it’s Escapists, just because I’m so proud that I managed to write it, post it, edit it and plan it well enough to be interesting and strange and new.

15. Something I learned this year

Well I started writing for genres and things that I’ve never written for before, mostly with the brilliant @stratumgermanitivum and I love that I’ve been able to expand my range! Daddy kink? ABO? Okay, I do that now.

25. A fic I read this year that I would recommend to everyone

Oh man, this is where I’m gonna feel guilty for not being able to link every single one XD there are so many! But I think for me, it was Tell Me About Your Father, by yoingle and ishipthemsogoddamnhard. But it’s also a very specific kinda kink so I will also add Rhythm O by @lovetincture (honestly everything she has written or will ever write but that would be a long link post XD)

[ask me some stuff!]

[suntosirius]

⭐️ from your directors commentary fanfic ask 😁

Eeee :D thank youuuuu X3

Alrighty, so right now I’m working on The Escapists like a man possessed and it’s led me to some seriously fun places.

For instance, I spent most of yesterday buried knee deep in a website that lists laws by crime, severity, definition, and length of conviction. I’m fairly certain that if I were in the States I’d be on the FBI watchlist by now. Considering I was looking at arson, grand theft, breaking and entering, securities fraud, tax evasion, identity theft, and forgery... I think I know more about American conviction now than I do about my own country.

I’m a writer I swear.

Want a director’s commentary on a fic? Hit me up!

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[hhannigram]

22 for your Spotify ask 🙂

<3

[questionablygourmet]

From your book ask: 2, 15, and 17 please 😊📖

2. top 5 books of all time?

Oh, that one's hard. Let's go with...

One of the Wayward Children novels, by Seanan McGuire. I'm not sure which one, but I've read Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Come Tumbling Down the most.

Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey

Daughter of the Empire, by Janny Wurts and Raymond Feist

The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss

and for a nonfiction.... I'm choosing between a few here, but probably The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt. I was annoyed at my mother for how she recommended it (she seemed convinced it would utterly blow my mind and change my worldview, which it really did not), but it was still a very, very good book with a lot of useful information and concepts that I still find myself referencing.

15. recommend and review a book.

I spent a lot of time on this one on the personal blog, so I'll copy from there, with an additional note that it gave me nontrivial Hannibal vibes -

I just finished The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley, and I would be delighted to recommend it. It is the story of a British government clerk whose life is saved by a mysterious pocketwatch that was left in his flat one day, and the Japanese watchmaker who made it.

It is a little slow to get into (which is why I didn’t read it when I received it as a gift in 2016; I was finishing grad school then and did not have much mental energy to spare); while clearly there is Something Weird going on with Mr. Mori, the watchmaker, it’s hard to believe he’s the person who actually made the bomb that his watch saved Thaniel from, despite another expert’s assertion that the remains of the bomb trigger mechanism bear the hallmarks of his work.

If you don’t know ahead of time - though I’m about to tell you! which will hopefully convince more people to read it (there is a tiny fandom with some good fic and it could use some more!) - the fact that it’s actually a romance really sneaks up on you. I went into it without knowing anything except that my dad had given it to me after he read and loved The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern) on my recommendation, and said that this book had made him feel a similar sort of wonder.

This made me sure it couldn’t possibly be queer despite the neon signposts in that direction for quite a while. xP (My dad, while generally on the progressive side for a rich, cishet white male boomer… does not voluntarily read a lot of queer fiction.) So I got a very pleasant surprise! But I don’t think one loses anything from knowing it’s a queer romance going into it; it’s absolutely delightful to watch it unfold in its meandering, quietly lyrical sort of way.

The story is set in a fictionalized 19th century, with clockwork that can do things it really shouldn’t, and a few other supernatural elements; I think I’d classify it as “steampunk-esque,” but not really steampunk. It’s more that it sits adjacent to that aesthetic category. There’s some exploration of themes of nationalism and cultural shifts (and British cultural hegemony), but they’re secondary to the development of relationships between the characters, and may be a bit too… British in perspective… for some readers. (Clan na Gael/Clann na nGael, a historical Irish republican group, plays the role of something of a bogeyman; they are the architects of some major bombings around London during the course of the story, and the way the story pokes at Japanese cultural shifts was interesting to me but felt a bit under-resolved.)

At any rate, if you like understated, slow-burn romance (with a side of found family and trauma-processing), it’s very worth a read!

17. top 5 children’s books?

Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems - ack, I don't seem to still have a copy, but I'm glad I was able to find the title. I've always loved poetry and these are just. So much fun. I can still recite one of the longer story-poems from it from memory.

The Magic Well, by Maida Silverman - Basically Tam Lin, except with a mother and daughter, where the daughter becomes the ward of the Queen of Fairies. Gorgeous art, and I read it so many times.

Dinotopia, by James Gurney - an absolute fucking classic.

The Paper Bag Princess, by Robert Munsch - more of a young-kid sort of book, but so good. I used to "read" it to my little brother before I actually could read, because I had it memorized.

The Lorax, by Doctor Seuss - I fucking adored all of Doctor Seuss's stuff growing up, but The Lorax was my favorite. My dad did the best voices with that one.