#queerbird

[sweepy-stringbean]

Hi there! I really loved your werewolf and werecat piece for ronancetober, especially the pic of Robin half-transformed. I was wondering if I could have your permission to use it as a Halloween icon? I would obviously credit you in my blog description. Thanks either way! <3

I was actually cleaning up Robin a tad when you asked.

You can totally use either for a Halloween icon w/ credit in your blog description. Thank you for asking, I greatly appreciate that. 💜

[monkleya]

Hi there! I was wondering how you made the penguin classics covers for your fics? They're always so pretty and fun <3

hey there! and don't worry it's super easy! i use this website for the penguin covers, and it'll take you from there!

[eskawrites]

Do you think any of the Erathia crew ever appeared on Law & Order or SVU?

lmao i love when y'all ask me about things that 100% existed in the original notes for this fic. the answer is yes! robin talks a few times about guest TV spots in the mid-90s. one of those instances was going to specifically be a role on Law & Order--it was somewhere around the time when steve was filming in spain. i cut it out kind of last minute just because throwing a real tv show in there seemed a little bit jarring and unnecessary, but that's definitely what it is lol

also this wasn't in the original outline, and i don't think i ever mention max and dustin working on anything that isn't theater, but they've definitely had guest appearances too! law and order tends to cast a lot of broadway people bc they're filming in new york and it's convenient. i think dustin and max probably pick up tv episodes like that every once in a while when they want a change of pace (i like the idea of them getting cast in a like 3-episode arc together in the early 90s, before they reunited with steve and robin)

[monstrous-femme]

For the fic ask game, can you do 6, 57, and 72?

6. Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process?

Short fics, usually no. For long fics, I'd say I'm about 50:50. The editing work feels different without a beta-- with In Her Hips, I would finish a chapter, do my own proofread, and then send it off. With SNF, I'm definitely doing more phases of editing, and even then I come across and occasional time mistake because I'm juggling so much information. I'd say SNF is a fic that could definitely use a beta, but seems to be going okay in spite of not having one.

57. Do you prefer editing as you write, or waiting until it’s finished? 

In fanfiction, I usually write a chapter and go through phases of editing even if the completed story isn't finished. For SNF, I'm doing this in chunks-- several chapters, then reading them as a group and making sure they make sense together as part of the editing process. Often this means rearranging some events as well.

In original works, I do my best to complete the whole first draft before doing any major edits-- I find that it makes the writing process a lot faster and helps me not work myself into knots trying to be perfect.

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

When I start a story, I usually have a few scenes very clearly in my head, so I start at the beginning, go as far as I can stand, then jump around to work on those scenes. The in-between gets fleshed in around them, and I start thinking about what needs to happen to get from point A to point B. In In Her Hips, the alleyway head scene was one of the first i conceptualized, and a lot of the fic ripples out from that scene in both directions.

For SNF, it's been a little more complicated, because the story told chronologically as Nancy experiences it is not chronological in terms of time, so I've actually written this more "in order" than I would most things. That said, there are a couple of later scenes I'd written early on that I'm finally getting to in my current draft.

[youngbloodbuzz]

I feel like every single ronance fic that covers the girls getting ready before Pennhurst has Nancy just whip off her clothes, which is certainly good to spur a gay aneurysm in Robin lol, but I really feel like Nancy wouldn't just do that. Like she did take off her shirt in the car with Barb but I could see that being the product of years of close friendship, I think that generally Nancy would have more of that white USAmerican christian mindset of nudity being shameful/embarrassing and would at least turn her back lol. This ask has no purpose, just wanted to put that opinion out there :P

gotta be honest i've only read like two (2) ronance fics, neither of which depicted this lmaoo but I Agree.

[iredreamer]

Sometimes I have to stop watching Las Estrellas clips because I'm too in love with Jaz and it makes me upset alsdghalksdgaklsdhg

I totally get you! She’s so beautiful and so charming and so cute and sexy and just so caring when it comes to Flor that you just look at her and fall in love, you just fall in love that’s all you can do…

[ukulelekatie]

For the wip guessing game, how about press?

I use this word a lot apparently! But I’m only going to share one sentence

“Carmilla leaned forward until her lips pressed against Laura’s.”

[fiddleabout]

Kara competing as an olympic skeleton athlete is 10000% the kind of headcanon I'm here for

in a world where kara danvers was human, kara danvers would absolutely unequivocally think that the most outrageously stupid dangerous sports are the most fun, and that pretty much leaves you to anything that equates to go as fast as possible without brakes