#soapy speaks

[the-toad-in-your-piano]

been writing like a madman for the past two weeks to prepare for febuwhump and so far i have done 22k words of work to produce 18k words of fic. i think i'm going to explode i keep sitting down intending to write 100 words how did i get here. what happened. what sort of trance is overtaking me every day when i sit down and type.

[akanook]

hello, im nook, and i write stuff ig

!multifandom!

my current obsessions

dead by daylight

genshin impact

apex legends

haikyuu

obsessions will change!

requests: open

slashers i write for:

billy lenz

billy and stu (poly or not)

michael myers

otis driftwood

charles lee ray (human)

bo sinclair

vincent sinclair

brahms heelshire

[claitea]

minor thing, but where the heck was the "mild blood, mild language and use of alcohol" in re:mind? it didn't happen?? did i get scared over nothing or was i just not paying enough attention

[cowgremlin]

Hey good omens fandom do you like my wip of Gabriel

[the-toad-in-your-piano]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better. (You can also just read my answers.  Or don’t.  Up to you!  Zero pressure).  Thank you @once-in-a-blue-moon-rising for the tag!  I’ll do my best to be at least marginally entertaining, but no promises.

Three ships: Ooh, this is a fun one.  I’ll do my OTP, my favourite ship I don’t actually write for, and one wild card.

OTP: Mystrade, of course!  Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade from BBC Sherlock.  I’ve posted about 250k words of Mystrade fic on AO3 and I’ve got somewhere around 50k more of works in progress sitting in my drive.

Favourite I don’t write for: Thomas Barrow/Guy Dexter from Downton Abbey.  Despite writing 255k for Sherlock and 0k for Downton, DA is my very favourite series in the entire universe.  I didn’t love the second film (Singin’ in the Rain did it better), but I adored Guy and think he and Thomas would be so sweet together. 

Wild Card: Claudine Pascal/Lizzie Wingfield from Hotel Portofino.  No, I have no evidence for this.  No, I will not elaborate.  I just think it would rule.  One of these days, I’ll get around to writing the second fic on AO3 for Portofino (the first one is also me, haha) and it’ll be these two.

First ever ship: I had to dig deep to think of this one.  I think it was Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans from High School Musical, hahaha.

Last song: “Steal Smoked Fish” by the Mountain Goats was the last song I listened to.  A quartet arrangement of “Sentimental Journey,” as made popular by Doris Day and Les Brown, was the last song I sang.

Last movie: I’m on a 1950s kick at the moment.  I just watched Shane for the third or so time and I watched Rebel Without a Cause last week.

Currently reading: I’m actually between books right now, but I just finished Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which is a fantastic piece of journalism from the 1960s.

Currently watching: I haven’t technically started it yet, but I’m about to boot up the first episode of The Muppets Mayhem.  Dr Teeth has always been my favorite Muppet (and I love the Muppets), so I’m very excited.

Currently consuming: A piece of gum.

Currently craving: Another half-piece of gum.  But only half a piece.  You know how sometimes one isn’t quite big enough, but two is far too much to chew without hurting your jaw?  Yeah.  That’s what I’m feeling just now.

Tagging (with no pressure at all!): @feralremains, @neverlet, @ivysplivy, @mon221b, @stellacartography, @boldlygowhereitsbiggerinside, @icatee, @bakerstreetbasilisk, @just-a-fixed-point-in-time

[the-toad-in-your-piano]

Fandom Trumps Hate 2023: her_ladyships_soap edition!

I’m signed up for FTH this year!  They’re supporting some amazing causes- check them out here.

I am offering one work in the 20-50k range (though I am open to going above that!) for either BBC Sherlock or Downton Abbey.  I know the Downton one is a long shot, but I figured I’d put it out there!  For Sherlock, I’m looking specifically to do Mystrade, but I’m alright with doing Johnlock as well.

You can check out my work on AO3 here and I have a tumblr masterpost to guide you through my fic collection here.

My FTH contributor page is here.

And all the contributors can be found here!

[the-toad-in-your-piano]

tripped n fell into a pirates au oh no

[the-toad-in-your-piano]

It’s May and I’ve hit 94,000 words written for the year!  I really tried to push it that last few to get to 100,000, just because that’s a fun number, but it didn’t end up happening and that’s alright.  Tracking my writing habits is my favourite thing.  

I modified a tracking spreadsheet I used for NaNoWriMo and track my daily, monthly, and yearly progress.  I just love data--- it’s so much fun looking at the days I wrote the most and trying to analyse why the numbers got so high there.  I am the worst on Fridays, unsurprisingly, and Sundays tend to be my most productive.  March was low for me---under 9,000---but that made sense as recovery after getting almost to 50,000 for Febuwhump!  I’m currently trying to figure out how to game-ify/prompt-ify my FTH projects so I can push that level of productivity again.