Cornea Love: #8 | Your Apartment and Mine: #3, 5, 11 | The Long Way Home: #2, 7, 8 | Winners Get Treehouses: #1, 6 9 | Winners Don't Always Get Lucky Breaks: #11, 12 | Waffle House: #4 | Everything That's Wrong With A Little Chaos: #3, 4, 5, 7 -- there, have it at it.
Cornea Love -8- Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
Yes! Kind of. For the last year of college I worked at an optometrist’s office and I definitely hated both working on Saturday morning (and my doc took Thursdays off so his wife could have “me time” and he took care of the kids) and also I hate having the glaucoma test. You’re Apartment and Mine -3- What's your favorite line of narration?
(I had to stop myself from putting the entire slug killing scene here.)“I’m a grown man. I don’t have nightmares about the Plague.”-5- What part was hardest to write? The hardest part of any ex married or exes fic is trying to figure out a good reason why they broke up, separated, got divorced so in this fic the hardest scene to write was the part where they voice the idea that they want to get back together because this was a quick, short fic I hadn’t really built that up at all over the little scenes. -11- What do you like best about this fic?the slug scene. i love that scene so much. bellamy falling asleep reading, the way he’s scared of a random bug, the fact that he acknowledges that clarke is so hot and badass killing it for him but he’s too terrified to really focus on that. Also the visual of Clarke storming in and then scaring him with the dead slug. I’ve probably talked about loving this part of the fic in more words than that part of the fic actually has.
The Long Way Home -2- What scene did you first put down?
I wrote the first scene first. The setup of them being told their show is probably going to be canceled. After that I think I wrote the setup for when they had sex because I really liked the idea of them fucking in the house and then the paint spilling.
-7- Where did the title come from?The Carly Rae Jepsen song, Let’s Get Lost. -8- Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?I mean...it’s an HGTV AU based on Love It Or List is so yes? Have I assumed David and Hilary have fucked? Yes, i have. But turns out they’re both happily married. To other people. But I’m still pretty sure they consider each other their work spouses.
Winners Get Treehouses -1- What inspired you to write the fic this way? I was so excited by the overwhelming reaction to the first Winners and it won the Bellarke Fic Award for best domestic one shot and was nominated like a lot? I can’t remember exactly. But I remember being just bowled over by the love the fic got. And I reallllly enjoyed writing the first one and I didn’t want to leave the universe. I still love this universe. So both the love it got and the love I had for it made me want to write more. -6- What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?I have a rule where I don’t do WIPs. I require that something is 80% done before I’ll publish it if I’m doing chapters. But this one I did as a WIP. I had it outlined and I had a rough plan. But I was nearing the end of my husband’s 10 month long deployment and I needed a goal to work towards. So I set the goal that I would update the fic weekly. I did it weekly for all but two chapters I think? It really helped the last few months of deployment fly by. -9- Were there any alternate versions of this fic? I spent a lot of time trying to decide who Finn would kidnap. My first thought was the girls but I immediately dismissed that because I hate when kids are plot points, plus I really can’t stomach the idea in media. (I HAVENT EVEN READ/SEEN ROOM BECAUSE I CANNOT HANDLE THE PREMISE) I thought about having Finn be so obsessed with Clarke that he kidnapped her. I even wondered if he’d kidnap Raven. In the end, I went with Bellamy but it was tricky trying to figure out HOW he’d do that.
Winners Don’t Always Get Lucky Breaks -11- What do you like best about this fic?I’m really happy with the way the political subplot turned out. I’d never really done a fic with more than just the romance so the political stuff on the side, I worked hard on that. And the timeline. I still have the timeline somewhere. I have dated for the kids’ birthdays and shit. Timeline from like when Clarke and Bellamy were teenagers all the way to their present day.-12- What do you like least about this fic?Sometimes the time within the fic is a little off. I keep meaning to go back and straighten it out because it will be like “three days from now” and then I had it be four days or two days. Little shit like that.
Waffle House -4- What's your favorite line of dialogue? Oh man, there’s a lot of dialogue I like in Waffle House. Have two bits. “You told me you fantasized about me with just one beer in you? Don’t let the government hire you, you’ll let all the state secrets go after a mimosa at Sunday brunch.” He said dryly. But her head snapped up. Cheeks very pink now.“I said sex dream, not a fantasy! You can’t control a sex dream, a fantasy makes it sound like I’ve been imagining you naked since that beach trip last year that you drove us all on.” Her finger was pointed at him like she was accusing him of something. He waited a beat and then it happened again. “Fuck!” she said before hiding behind her arm on the table again.and then
“I get it, the idea of your little baby sister that you protected her whole little life getting fucked like the girls you fuck in the backseat of your car bothers you. But why don’t you pull your fucking head out of your ass enough to see the inherent hypocrisy in that paradigm and shut up about it. Nobody has fucking time for your macho, alpha male bullshit.”It would have been very wrong to say anything about the fact that Bellamy wanted to hear Clarke say the word “fuck” about 16 more times. She would be really pissed. To be fair, she was already pissed so… “Can you repeat that?”She huffed frustrated, the action blew some hair out of her face. “Which part?”
“Never mind,” he said coming back to his senses.
Everything That’s Wrong With A Little Chaos -3- What's your favorite line of narration? Bellamy dropped out of college to support Octavia. He worked his way up from janitor picking up trash at the zoo to Tiger Guy. That was the name of the job, Tiger Guy. (It was a great job title for getting laid.) When he was recruited for the raptor program he thought it was something wild, fun even. Octavia was supporting herself, why not move to Costa Rica and train fucking dinosaurs? He had his answer now: dinosaurs occasionally ate people. And today he was a nearly lunch. -4- What's your favorite line of dialogue? this was so hard! I decided on this because we all know how i love to bash abby. “We could buy a house with a hot tub, get a dog. Have you even ever had a pet, I mean besides the dinosaurs here?”“My mom’s allergic,” she answered.“Oh right, to emotional attachment, I forgot,” Bellamy said.-5- What part was hardest to write? - Like I said before, in exes fic, it’s always figuring out a way to make it believable that they divorced, and then reasonable that they can overcome the thing to get back together. I went with kids on this one because that was a theme in Jurassic World. -7- Where did the title come from? Easy, it’s a play on Bellamy’s line “What’s wrong with a little chaos?” and it works so well since in Jurassic Park (the movie, not the book) Ian Malcolm won’t shut up about his chaos theory. OMG THAT WAS SO FUN. I know most other people won’t find this fun but I had too much fun doing it! Thanks for asking, Katelyn!
