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[adrianicsea]

5, 10, 11!

thank you so much for the ask!! :D

5. drink of choice? - normally, i love a matcha latte, but as the weather has gotten colder here recently and the mornings are so oppressively dark, i've gotten the coffee machine back out for some extra kick! there's some generic store brand cinnamon roll flavored coffee grounds i've been really jamming on lately, and i like to mix in some sweet cream-flavored oat creamer.

10. do you play/follow any sports? - i like to root for the philadelphia eagles when they do well/make it to the super bowl, but i don't seriously keep up with them during the actual season! that's about it for me and sports. i like baseball in theory but don't watch it or have a team or anything.

11 has been answered already!

[adrianicsea]

💌?

hi jackie!!!

i’m so glad we’ve stayed mutuals after all this time and through so many different fandoms 😄 it makes me really happy to see how you’ve grown as an artist and just as a person!! also your infinity train posting over the years has made me very fond of the show by proxy and interested in giving it a watch!

[adrianicsea]

5, 14 and 18 for the fic ask game!

thank you so much!! 😄

5. something you learned while researching for a fic— in trying to ensure that the year 2002 depicted in my saw fic Sleeping With Ghosts is as accurate as possible, i’ve learned a LOT about several different random things that released or were made public that year. for example, 2002 was when the first starbucks frappuccinos were rolled out (in three flavors, including strawberries and cream), and though a publicly-available model wouldn’t become available until the following summer, the first prototypes of bluetooth earpieces were developed in 02. i have only the haziest childhood memories of what life in the early 00s was like, so it’s been really fun and enlightening to learn more about these sorts of developments!!

14. what makes you happiest? new comments, kudos, bookmarks, user/story subs, or tumblr asks?— DEFINITELY comments and asks!! it’s not to say that i don’t appreciate kudos or subs or bookmarks; i do notice those things, and i appreciate them! but at the end of the day, i can’t really meaningfully interact or engage with those things. i LOVE to share and discuss my writing and thought processes, and i love to hear about the connections that people make with my work, or what their favorite elements of any given story are!! i always make my best effort to reply to EVERY comment i get on ao3 no matter what, because i think getting to talk about my writing and find out where it’s landing with people is just as fun and rewarding as the actual writing part is 🥹

18. how many wips do you have and how many do you expect to finish?— ah jeez. leaving out the unfinished fics i have definitively abandoned and put behind me, i would say i probably have between 10-20 wips at the moment. i’m not sure how many i expect to finish!! at the very least i want to finish Sleeping With Ghosts and wrap up a smaller series of saw Valentine’s fics i recently started, and then after that… who knows. i have a lot of saw wips that i think are compelling and off to strong starts, but i also don’t have as much fun engaging with the saw fandom as i did during my heyday there, so it’s a little tough to say if i’ll feel like coming back to those or not.

[violetgarlends]

3 and 10!

Thanks for the ask!

3. What are your top three most commonly used tags on Ao3?

My top most used is No beta but that's not fun to include. So here's the next most common:

Protective Mu Qing (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Post Canon

Hurt/Comfort

The runners up (have the same amount of use but are listed after) are PWP, Fluff and Angst, and Top Mu Qing/Bottom Feng Xin. I'm not surprised at all.

10. Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

I really want to write more about Jian Lan. She's so special to me but I haven't given her her time in the spotlight yet. I've got multiple wip ideas for her too! One's a genfic, and the other two are my extremely niche f/f rare pairs that'll be read by like three people tops.

[prosperdecay]

(Tags via @msbadatnamingthings​, on a “say if you think the person you reblogged this from is a big/intimidating blog” post)

first of all aaa I’m glad I made a good impression!! I felt very small-fish-big-pond over on the rhymin server lol but I’m so glad I wasn’t too awkward ahahaha you’re lovely and we should talk more!!!

Second of all I fucking what

w h a t

Hang on I’m going to go check

okay so it’s actually second but holy shit

When did this happen how did this happen what the absolute hell I had no idea I’m??? I’m???? Baffled oh my gosh??????

[crayolacolor]

are there any songs you associate with specific infinity train characters/relationships/episodes?

yes!! specifically book 3 because that is where my infinity train brainrot dart landed and is determined to stay lol.

honestly i have a lot of songs that i associate with grace and simon for,, no other reason than the vibes are vaguely right and i got into the song while hyperfixating on infinity train. a lot of those don't actually make a lot of sense to be associated with them lyrically though.

i'll give you a couple that i have like. actual reasons for though.

looking back is blinding - okay this one is actually an unused soundtrack from infinity train but someone in the comments said this:

and now i can't get the association with simon in particular out of my head.

hurt (johnny cash) - specifically the chorus and the second half i associate with grace and simon. bonus points to this one because i wasn't the only one to have that thought. this really cool amv definitely cemented that association in my head and you should check it out because it's great.

speaking of amvs!!

here’s a few songs that i associate with grace / simon / book 3 as a whole specifically because of an amv. (that last one i was already kind of associating with grace and simon before i happened upon the amv)

the epilogue (crosses) & the amv youth (daughter) & the amv cabo (ricky montgomery) & the amv

that’s not all of them tbh there’s a couple more i discovered through animations / amvs, but i think that’ll do for now!!

thank you so much for the question!

[oonanoodle]

Hey I just read "big heart rough start" and I'm loving it so far! I like how dorky and awkward they are yet there's still this comfortable feeling of being goofy with someone u grew up with, the abrupt ending def fits Ryan's character and im intrigued to see where u take this. Have a good night!

Omg thank you so much 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 your fics are a huge inspiration to me and that was one of my first attempts on writing them so I’m glad!!!

[adrianicsea]

💚💙💜 any wip you want!

thank you!! gonna talk about that elusive adam/oc gift fic....

💚 how long have you been working on it? — technically speaking, since may; my docs crashed and i lost like 3000 words of progress on it which crushed my spirits a little :( i’ve been plugging away at it here and there since then, though!

💙 how has the idea changed between starting it and now— honestly, not a lot! i outlined this one out fully before ever starting on it, so it’s pretty much the entity it’s always been planned to be

💜 where are you in the writing process — a combination of the “drafting” and “trying to regain my momentum” stages 😔