Thank you @unicornfairycat for tagging me! I finally remembered that tumblr existed so here I am, answering!
Rules: answer and tag six people you want to know better
Favourite Colour: all shades of purple!
Last Song: I have to say, I'm not that into music overall (gaaaasp! how dare?!). I appreciate it in the background of shows as a soundtrack, but I don't go actively seek out music by itself. Still, the last song I listened to when I was on a walk was "Miracle" from the RWBY soundtrack.
Currently Reading: I've been binge-reading a fantastic crossover fic of BNHA and JJK titled "Singularity" on AO3. It's about the JJK characters at the end of JJK canon dying with regrets and reincarnating into the My Hero world, only some of the curses from JJK reincarnated as quirked humans, too.
Currently Watching: I'm finally catching up on Dandadan season 2!
Currently Craving: My dinner was a bit too salty, so now I want something sweet to balance it out. I'm thinking ice cream, maybe dulce de leche? I'm tempted to get a whole pint of that and finish it off. (I know it's supposed to be winter, but I live in Northern California, so the cold isn't... cold.)
Coffee or Tea: I drink both for the caffeine (whatever level of it I need), but in terms of taste, I generally prefer tea! Coffee tastes good to me with the right amount of things added (milk/cream and maybe a touch of vanilla syrup or another flavor), but vile by itself XD
Tagging @hybridanafrost @vilandel @kalolasfantasyworld @f-oighear @just-a-little-fan-1793 @princey-poetry and whoever else wants to join!
Thanks for responding to my witch headcannons! And I really just wanted to reach out cause you mentioned the idea of “magical tree baby Vanessa” and I was like “THATS WHAT I THOUGHT”
My own headcannon is Dorothy and Vanessa are her direct daughters(and my oc Emily Unsworth), and I should’ve been more clear that not ALL witches are the witch queens children directly , just magically linked through witch whatever
(Yes I believe there’s countless generations of witches and some that probably are clover citizens that have no idea)
Haha, you're welcome! I'm glad someone else agrees with me about Magic Tree Baby Vanessa. It's got so much potential!
For my fanon, Vanessa is the only direct daughter of the Queen, while Dorothy is a forest-born witch. But it's pretty cool to imagine Vanessa and Dorothy as sisters for sure (plus any OCs that come along), so I'd love to see your take :D The more chaos, the better, I say.
And yeah no worries, my response was a whole rambling soup of words too. I think I did read from your original post (that not all witches are the WQ's children directly) and I kind of added that point in agreement, but by the end of my ramble, I'd forgotten what was and wasn't mentioned in your post, ha.
Yes, I bet there are a bunch of Clover citizens with witchy blood flowing through their veins. A few of my friends and I all ended up deciding that witches tend not to conceive sons thanks to the interference of the WQ's magic flowing through them, but it does happen from time to time, and if it happens to a witch who wants to remain a witch, then the son will probably be raised by their father or in a church.
On a somewhat related note, I also decided that witches are a "no men" type of culture rather than "women only", meaning that there are nonbinary witches out there. I can see some NB witches deciding they don't want to be a witch, but it's not a problem if they want to stay a witch. In terms of gender identity, I bet the WQ sees the soul and not the physical body to determine who should and shouldn't be in her forest.
Thank you @unicornfairycat for the tag ✨ her post is here
How much did you write this fall?
I joined Novel November, and I completed 55,680 words within the last 30 days! I didn't write in October, and I think I wrote a few thousand words in September? So a little under 60k in total.
What is one writing-related thing you’re proud of from the last three months?
For some context, I used to participate in NaNoWriMo from 2017 to 2020 (four-year win streak! T_T) before I took a writing break. I started writing again in 2024, but didn't do any challenges last year. This year, I was hesitant to try out another 50k challenge (not NaNo because they'd gone to shit last year and this year they are gone!). But I'm super proud that I dared myself to go through with it, and that I made it!
What is one non-writing-related thing you’re proud of from the last three months?
I've been tidying up my apartment! There are some piles lying around (organized chaos, you know the drill XD) that I'd been putting off sorting for months, if not years. But they are now being conquered, slowly but surely!
What is one writing-related goal you have for the rest of 2025?
I'd like to finish a second draft of my Zora and Cyrus story, Fraxinus fraternitas. My first draft is about 80% complete, since I still have a few sections left that I started but haven't finished. But that's a pretty high goal since the fic is looking to be at least 60k words (RIP to me), so if I can get through the first three chapters (out of seven total), I'll be happy with that.
What is one non-writing-related goal you have for the rest of 2025?
Finish conquering ALL the remaining doom-piles in my apartment! Including donating or recycling anything I don't need anymore, plus some major reorg. I've got some clear containers from IKEA waiting to be filled so that I can actually find things in the future!
Do you have a favorite writing thing (or other creative endeavor) you worked on this fall?
I love Fraxinus fraternitas so much. I planned it initially because I just wanted to flesh out Cyrus and Zora's friendship separately from the main fic within the Scarlet Cross AU. And I was worried that the story would end up being bare bones, but as I got further into the planning (and later the writing), more ideas sprang up! I love how it's turning out now that I'm close to finishing the full first draft. The side plots actually tie in nicely with the main fic, imo.
Tagging: @vilandel @kalolasfantasyworld @f-oighear @artistic-endchamber @hybridanafrost @gear65 if any of you want to share! And if anyone else wants to join, please do! :D
Thanks for the tag, @vilandel :D I'm going to post this separately because it's getting pretty long!
I am so, so jealous of your Black Clover DVDs. Maybe I should trade you something in exchange. Or I'll borrow them for a time in exchange for a few scoops from my extensive tea collection!
What would you take from my apartment?
Electric kettle that lets me select the exact temperature to heat up the water
A chonky IKEA cushion shaped like a bunny (their name is Potato!)
Cordless vacuum
About a dozen succulents and one cactus, all different species
ATLA "traveling posters" created and sold by a fanartist
An array of loose leaf tea at the back of my cupboard
Essential oil diffuser
Voting ended onOct 2, 2024
I'll tag @gear65 @lilyaceofdiamonds @kinoglowworm @rubickk7 @rabulousfandom @peacocktalk and anyone else who wants to play!
For the ask game, how about 2, 6, 12, 15, 23, 27, 31, 33 and 47? Sorry that it's a lot of numbers^^'
Fanfic Couples*/Relationships Ask Game
HELLO VIL! :D
NEVER BE SORRY about asking a lot of numbers because I will go on (and on and on) and I’ll be very pleased about it all. And well, since Scarlet Cross is my first Black Clover series, I might be pulling some answers from my past fics for Sense8 and The Magicians.
But don’t worry, you don’t need to know those to enjoy the sheer chaos of my answers. And I’ll put most of this post under a cut line for those who prefers to scroll through the Sas ramble!
(Sas from the future is coming back here to say: thanks for the ask! This was so fun!)
2 Of the ones you've written, what's your slowest slowburn? How slow is it?
My slowest of slowburns will have to be my very first fic, Veracity, for the Sense8 fandom. It was a 330k behemoth of a fic, during which one couple met in chapter 1, and had a kiss in chapter 38 (a one-sided one, where the Dani gave Felix a kiss at the airport and then winked and said “byeeeee” and left him questioning his life), and finally had a fully-reciprocated, legit kiss—in chapter 40, while fireworks were going off because this was New Year’s Eve! Needless to say, it was a long wait. And so many of their friends stepped in to nudge them together.
To quote one of my favorite comments of all time (a very unique format of commenting where @kinoglowworm and my tumblr mom @gear65 chatted with each other while they read my last chapter at the same time, then copy pasted the chat log as a comment so I got their “live reaction”):
gear65: UGHHHH
The slow burn
Kino: The teamwork
this has required as much patience and coordination as breaking into bpo did
(For context, “breaking into BPO” was literally the main conflict/major climax of the whole fic. I resolved THAT like, 3 chapters before I resolved this ship, and I’m not sorry.
6 Have you ever started to write a relationship and had it develop differently than you expected? How so?
My brain doesn’t really plan in a chronological manner, so I don’t often find this happening, because I can “envision” the end goal pretty early on before my mind takes me back to “how it begins” and I’ll just build the path that gets them to said end goal.
That said, for Black Clover, I did once plan a canon divergence AU from the Spade Arc onward, but I ended up with a lot of worldbuilding and not a lot of plot. So while I technically didn’t start writing them, I certainly had different plans for how Astelle will unfold in that fic. But while I was stuck, I got the idea for a genderbend universe, and I rolled with the punches.
Now my “Astelle” is a sweet little F/F ship (same energy as Regular Astelle except gay!). I suppose this counts in some ways, because I’m adapting a vast majority of my worldbuilding from the fic-that-never was into this Scarlet Cross AU. But even if Noelle and Talia have the same core personalities as they do in canon, their dynamic does change as a result of girl!Asta being a different gender, because the gender changes also trigger some butterfly effects in this AU with long-lasting consequences!
12 [Couple] has just found an interdimensional portal, and one of them just walked in! Does the other go after them?
Hmm. To see their counterparts in other AU-verses (like, the OCs in my world visiting your world and their counterparts in there?) Or to explore other worlds? Anyway, the answer is definitely yes, for all the pairings that I ship in all my fandoms (including the OCs), just to make sure they actually get their person BACK at the end of the day, ha!
But the ones with more brain cells like Yuno will tie a rope to his waist and nail the rope to his own world first, or something, if the portal doesn’t shut itself and will stay open. That way Yuno can find his way back (and drag back his Cyrus, who had definitely wandered in because he smelled some plants that their world didn’t have, so he MUST get a sample).
15 Are there any relationship dynamics/tropes you would never write?
I’m open to nearly everything! Dynamic-wise I’ve done it all, M/F, F/F, M/M, even trios (Penny/Kady/Julia from The Magicians). And same for non-romantic dynamics: love a good friendship/found family/mentor and mentee type of bond. But I’m also down for family drama and the less wholesome side of those & tags on AO3. (Silva Family Drama = yesssss, bring it on.) Trope-wise, I tend to prefer serendipitous tropes, like chance encounters that unfold into unexpected relationships (Zora & Cyrus’ friendship or Mereo & Talia+Yuno in Scarlet Cross, for example).
Which means I’m not likely to write a Soulmate AU. Ha, I finally answered the question! I’d have a hard time describing an “inexplicable pull” towards someone, because the ships in my setups tend to come across as very accidental (both romantic and platonic ones). So! I’m leaving Soulmate AUs to the authors out there who can pull them off (@f-oighear comes to mind because her AU is such a fandom classic at this point, but I know you and @kalolasfantasyworld got some soulmate AUs too, right?) while I lurk in my own little corner of chaos and “happy accidents” (as Bob Ross would say).
23 Do you think you idealize relationships in fiction, or are your depictions grounded in reality? How often do your characters make mistakes?
My characters make nearly as many mistakes as I do! …But in different ways than I do. Some put their foot in their mouth and some will dig their little hole of denial and bury themselves there until their loved ones bring out a proverbial shovel to help dig them out. And some will be so clueless until the truth hits them in the face like a rake that they step on during a comedy skit. Some do all of the above. Heh.
I’m also a big fan of multiple third-person POVs where I get inside the character’s head and show all the biases in their thinking, so my style makes the characters sound even less perfect. Because my poor characters can’t keep their thoughts private when this annoying author is around, exposing exactly how much they don’t understand (or how secretly or openly mean they are)! I’m spilling all the tea, like how Noelle has zero tact both her head and out loud, and Talia ditches her train of thought halfway when it becomes “too much thinking” and she’s confused. So on and so forth.
27 Do you have any characters who are hopeless romantics? How do they interact with the story?
Surprisingly, Talia is the most “hopeless romantic” one to me in my current WIP! She’s romantically dense and oblivious like canon Asta, but she’s very loud and clear about wanting to marry Sister Lily. And she fantasizes about riding back to Hage on a white horse and a billowing cloak and all that romantic jazz. Except, unlike canon!Asta, Talia stops proposing out loud after a while (and hell, we’re all thankful for that).
Since I’m pairing Talia up with Noelle, that means Talia will come to realize that how she feels about Sister Lily is different from how she feels about Noelle. And how she feels about Noelle is different from how she feels about other friends she’ll make, like Leopold or Cyrus. So eventually Talia will become less hopeless and more straight-up romantic (but never STRAIGHT! ha, sapphic pun).
But Noelia will off as friends. Here, Talia will be Noelle’s first “girl her age who’s a friend” instead of Kahono. So Talia has a more “organic” attraction to Noelle that grows over time the more they bond, and that helps her get clarity on what real romance feels like, and how “hopeless romanticism” differs from real feelings she’s come to have for someone she’s truly compatible with. Eventually. Maybe. We can only hope. (They will, but they’ll take a WHILE, and that’s why we need wholesome Yuno and Cyrus being wholesome in the meantime in comparison, right?!)
31 Are there any songs that remind you of [couple]? Are there any songs that remind them of each other?
I admittedly don’t listen to a lot of music (GASP! I KNOW!) because I’m the type of writer who gets 100% distracted if I try to listen to anything with lyrics while I write. That said, occasionally I’ll check out a song and the lyrics will give me the right vibes.
So I can’t think of any songs that remind a couple of each other, for the second half of the question. But! For the first half! When I was writing for The Magicians fandom, the song Bad Liar by Imagine Dragons reminded me of the storyline I had for Margo x Fen in my AU titled Come See About Me.
Context from that fic: Margo had a really rough few years, romantically and otherwise, before she traveled to a different world and met Fen in a small village in the middle of the woods. At the start, Margo had a really low opinion of herself (due to her past) and believes she ruins the lives of anyone who is kind to her. But as her relationship develops with Fen, Margo finds the courage to try and be better (and not make the mistakes she once made with her ex-girlfriend Alice). And she also learns to forgive herself. So the lyrics from Bad Liar give me that vibe.
If you’re curious about the specifics, the last few paragraphs of chapter 23 exemplify this song the most for me! Just start with the line that says “I don’t know.” Fen sighs. “But I never want this to end.”
33 Are there any canon romantic couples, in any media, that you just can't stand?
I do see a lot of “forced” romantic couples in popular media, especially M/F ships! I can’t think of specific ships that I actively dislike (I’m sure I’ve had some in the past, but the names have slipped my mind). So I don’t have any big NoTPs for now, but a lot of ships I see aren’t convincing to me so they’re just “meh”, because it feels too obvious that the writers are *trying* to make them “a thing”. Maybe being a writer myself plays into that in some way, like “oh I see what they’re going for, but meh, I’d have set it up differently”.
47 What's the most self-indulgent relationship you've written? Are there any particular moments/scenes that you wrote just for you?
I would say the most self-indulgent ship I have in the works is Icarus (Yuno/Cyrus) from Scarlet Cross. I can’t even “see” regular Yunosa in canon given how little screentime they’ve spent together (and Mimosa’s crush on Asta to boot!). But Yunosa fanart? Absolutely adorable. And I love a height difference and a “stoic one falls for the soft one” dynamic.
They’re also a great contrast to the sheer chaos of Noelia (Noelle/Talia). So I could’ve shipped Yuno and Cyrus/Mimosa with anyone—they’re some of the most shippable characters in BC, imo (with xCanon and xOC!)—but nope, gonna put them together to complete that cute little aesthetic with two and two, an F/F and an M/M, perfectly balanced because I can :P. All for the vibes.
For moments/scenes that I wrote just for me, I once wrote another Magicians AU titled When the World’s Unkind (also with Margo x Fen as the main ship) where Fen gets turned into a bunny due to aa magical mishap, and Margo has to hold Fen in her hands while they travel. Eventually she gets indoors to a safe place and puts Fen on her lap, and after some awkward silence (and bunny snuggles), Margo blurts out her feelings. Animals have that therapeutic effect, huh! That scene was purely self-indulgent and I had a blast—especially because I wrote it from Fen’s perspective while she’s stuck as a bunny.
And welp, I just realized some of these questions are not the greatest when I’m a “one single behemoth of a WIP” kind of person, because I spent the whole of 2025 chipping away at Scarlet Cross. Heh. So I’ll talk about what parts of the one and only fic meant the most to me instead of “what fic”.
2025 in review
9. What fic meant the most to you to write?
Chapter 11 was the part that convinced me about the whole plot and put me on the path to get it written, back when this fic was simply a "what if” exercise in my mind for shits and giggles. It’s the Magic Knights Entrance Exam chapter, and it has two of the biggest canon divergence points to date—Yuno chooses the Black Bulls, and Talia chooses the Crimson Lions!
I think it meant the most to me because it was the scene I looked forward to writing the most, up until that point. And it was the place where the full potential of this whole AU spiraled from. So yeah, pretty big milestone!
12. What fic was the most challenging to work on?
I had a lot of trouble with a scene in chapter 9 where I wrote from Liebe’s POV. And at this point, he’s living inside Talia’s grimoire and sensing their surroundings through her eyes, and he’s also the hidden driving force behind the whole anti-magic thing. (Which involves him deciding when to toss out the big sword. That was fun.)
It is, of course, entirely my own fault for putting myself through this, but I have no regrets. Still, as it turns out, it’s pretty difficult to write from the perspective of someone who has independent thoughts but sees through the eyes of another person but still has their own extension to that other person’s senses, and can notice things that that other person cannot. What a mouthful. Who would’ve thought that would’ve been difficult, right? (Sarcasm voice.)
Hell, I am not looking forward to writing Patry’s POV in the future. Writing from the mind of a man stuck inside another man. A step up from the mind of a man stuck inside a book XD
Hey there, anon! Late reply, I forgot tumblr existed for a few days, but here it is now.
ASK GAME
🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?
How they act when no one is around to see them. Both morally speaking (will they do the right thing if no one is watching), and in a silly way (like what shenanigans they get up to in their living room with the curtains shut if they live alone).
🏳️🌈 Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community?
Yes, I am asexual and possibly panromantic. But the romantic part is unclear because I haven’t felt a huge urge to date anyone, either? I’m just not specifically attracted to men. So for all I know, I might be aro and just really queerplatonically love my friends.
💙 Relationship status?
Single! (The answer above also provides the “why”.)
💄 Do you wear makeup?
I’ve worn makeup like, maybe twenty times in my life, three times of which was for graduation ceremonies. I’m pretty out of practice when it comes to makeup, although I played around with it a bit back when I was like 13 before I found a shiny new hobby. I know how it should theoretically look on my face, but it will take me forever to do it because it’s not part of my daily routine. Also, it’s a sensory nightmare for me most of the time, so I just use that extra time to stay in bed a little longer in the morning!
I love both, but if I had to choose one to live without, then cheese will have to go. I have a sweet tooth. CHOCOLATE FTW.
💛 Do you have any piercings?
Answered here!
🌼 What’s the last thing you said out loud?
(I'm assuming it's this question, but the emojis are slightly different somehow. Mimosa must have worked her magic! Anyway.) This is actually hard to remember! I live alone and I work remotely, and we don't normally have meetings on Fridays, so it might've been a while since I'd spoken out loud. But I believe I blurted out "what the fuck" after I woke up from my nap this afternoon, because I intended to nap for an hour or maybe two, but I ended up sleeping for four.
🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl?
I'm actually not 100% sure! I say "night owl" because that's what my sleep schedule veers into when I'm on vacation, but I think that might be more due to the fact that I have ADHD, and it always takes longer after I wake up for my brain to click into gear. It also means I have a harder time getting my shit together to get into bed at a reasonable hour, so that pushes back my wake-up time. On weekends, I notice myself waking up around 8AM, though, even if I go back to sleep again after that, so maybe I'm naturally supposed to be somewhere in the middle.
🧸 Favorite place to nap?
My usual bed. But I do also have a smaller bed in my living room that functions as a couch-substitute (or a spare bed for overnight guests), so that's my secondary nap location if I ever need one.
🧡 A color you can’t stand?
I'd say orange. I don't think there's a color I avoid 100% of the time, but I own the least amount of things in orange. Fashion-wise, there is no shade of orange that works for me. And for objects, I tend to pick other color options unless they only come in orange.
🎤 Is there a song you know all the lyrics to?
It's been years since I full-on memorized any lyrics, but I think I remember all the lyrics to my favorite songs from the RWBY soundtrack, like This Life is Mine, or Red Like Roses. Or Nevermore.
