36. Are there any fics or fandoms you’re embarrassed to have written or been part of?
i know why you sent me this and i abstain from answering. for the sake of my pride. but Yes
43. Talk about a positive experience with fanfiction or the fanfiction community that you will always remember.
i don’t write or participate much in the se fandom anymore (it’s pretty much all i wrote for like, three? years?) but the friends i made because of it are some of my closest in the world. and i think if it wasn’t for that i’d be a lot lonelier (and sadder!). and i mean. i also met my boyfriend through resbang so.... thank you resbang. i hope to be one of your success stories
AMA Transcript: Found It Once, You’ll Find It Again
Next up, @silly-twin-stars and @sojustifiable stopped by to answer questions about their Resbang, Found It Once, You’ll Find It Again! Here’s some of what went down:
Q: Okay I personally wanna know more about the adorable town u based this off of, bc your bang is DRENCHED in nostalgic love for this place.
Silly: Aw yeah!!! So this town is based off a real town in Maine that I go to every summer where my grandmother lives! It's a tiny beach town and honestly I changed very few details about it, to the point where sahdah actually messaged me and said "is this [name of town]?" and it WAS. It's the only place I've come back to every summer of my life, and I love it so much.
Q: What inspired you to make Soul a mechanic rather than a musician?
Silly: Hmmmmm! Well I've seen a few people do the 'Soul's a mechanic' approach and I wanted to try my hand at it! And I wanted the Old Mercedes Fan Club to be a bonding point for him and Nana so I wanted him to really know what he was talking about. Plus it will give them a few reasons... to be alone... later.... :eyes: u kno. Plot Devices.gif.
Q: I know this wasn't your original idea for resbang?? What made you decide that this was the thing you wanted to do?
Silly: HOO boy yeah this Resbang was not my usual approach at ALL. [For] every other Resbang I had pounds and pounds of notes and research and stuff months in advance, and I had planned to do that again, but the idea just got too BIG and I got overwhelmed like a week before claims. So I shouted into my server like SOMEONE HELP and I hopped in a discord call with madi and guac out of the blue, and they just sort of let me talk through other WIPs and concepts I had bouncing around up there. I'd toyed with new england restaurant AU for a while and this just ended up being the right time!
Q: What was your favorite scene to write?
Silly: I think my fave scene is the ouija board scene. It's got taped together french fries, trying to contact John Cena and secondhand embarrassment, all of my fave things.
Q: Amanda, how'd you decide what you wanted to do for art?
Amanda: When I saw the summary and saw whale watching I immediately had an image in mind for the underwater whale thing. And then for my other piece idk, the whole New England AU vibe gave such a sense of aesthetic that I knew I wanted to do more of a scenery thing than a character thing, also to challenge myself with doing a big background and architecture and stuff. I thought about trying to do a townscape but then the description of the garden for nana's house was just really vivid.
Q: Did you draw on ur own nana for her, sil? Or what inspired her? She quickly became my fav side character.
Silly: I DID draw on my grandma. She's sass incarnate and I took some of her -isms (she actually has a mug that says 'everyone's entitled to my opinion') but I also wanted Nana to have a little more of Maka's kindness and stubbornness and not putting up with bullshit-ness haha. I loved writing her. I loved being able to branch out and do whatever characterization I wanted without being tied down.
Q: What inspired all the John Cena in the fic?
Silly: HAHAH okay so. I DIDN'T… INTEND… but. So I decided when I was gonna be introducting everyone by nametag that I wanted b*'s to be illegible. And I was like [it should be an] autograph, duh. But then I was like, but how can I explain that? Who could he be modeling his autograph after? And the first name that popped into my head was John Cena, for whatever reason.
And then i was like "well let's look up his autograph, "and sure enough: https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Photo-Autograph-Glossy/dp/B00RIIJS3M IT LOOKED LIKE A STAR.
Q: What do you think was the hardest scene to write?
Silly: All of them? Hahahah. Like literally everyone else, I had a tough time getting Resbang written this year. I guess if i really think about it, I think the scene where they talk about Spirit was a little tougher, I'm not great at ~emotions~
Q: Are there any tunes that helped you get in the writing groove?
Q: Did you outline? Did anything change when you got it down on paper? Tell me about the Resbang grind.
Silly: Yeeeee i am a proud plantser. I always outline and then veer totally off course of said outline, and then I somehow always make it back on by the end lol. And this year I did Nanowrimo which was awesome so I got a ton of Resbang written during Nano, though it was like... [of] questionable quality haha.
Q: What was your favorite line?
Silly: Favorite line oh jeeeeez. Okay i'll do this one since we were just talking about it and i felt very clever when i thought of it:
“Okay,” Blake begins, eyes shut. “First, I call upon the spirit of John Cena, penman of the world’s most excellent autograph--”
“John Cena’s not dead, you dumbass!” Soul exclaims. “You can’t communicate with people who aren’t dead!”
Q: I personally love that my boys ben and jerry got shout outs. What is your ben and jerry's flavor of choice?
Silly: I really liked writing that scene too, the one where Soul and Wes are bantering in the car. Chocolate peanut buttery swirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I die.
Q: Will there be a part 2 to this resbang? :eyes:
Silly: There will!!!! sometime!!!!! Lol. But for now i've definitely got my sights set on other stuff haha.
Q: Can we ask what's next or is it [next year’s resbang]?
Silly: Next is [more] In Plain Sight! And possibly Hybrid Theory, if I can punch my own face enough to make it happen. But yeah, IPS is for sure happening and we will see about the rest hehe.
Q: I know the typical resbang response is "everything," but if there was one thing you could go back and change…
Silly: So I would really like to just flesh out the side characters even more. Like I think Nana was p good but I'd like to explore more with Wes's motivations and Liz and Kid and even B*. But there's also just like, no time. U kno how it is.
sojustifiable replied to your post: like i hate facebook and i’ll never use it just...
so i put people i didn’t want seeing my posts on a special list and then when i post stuff i set it so everyone but that list can see it so they don’t even know i’m posting anything but we’re still fb friends
yeah but if my mom can see it and she mentions it to my dad that i’ve posted and then he realizes he can’t see it he will come crying to me and i just........... i cant handle that sort of grief from him
