Aw damn I got tagged in something! Thank you to the lovely @imsiriuslyreading <3
How many works do you have on AO3?
What's your total AO3 word count?
Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes:
Ignoring the non-Marauders stuff, my number one is For My Impertinence, a Wolfstar A/B/O Regency AU. 91k words - 2,355 kudos.
And my second to fifth are just all the fics in my Truly Two series lol. Also a Wolfstar A/B/O AU, wherein Sirius never went to Azkaban and is raising Harry with Remus. 45k words - 3,457 kudos altogether.
Do you respond to comments?
Always! Though sometimes it takes me a while. Years in some cases lol
The only time I won't is if you're one of those lovely people who comment on every single chapter (when the whole fic is complete). Then I'll usually just respond to the first and last.
What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?
I wrote unrequited love once. For my OTP at the time. Don't know what possessed me.
What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?
Nowadays they're all pretty sappy. At 32 I'm just about out of my emo teen phase, finally.
Nope. Generally find them cringe.
Have you ever received hate on a fic?
Not really. One anonymous comment back in like 2015. Then on FMI I had someone aggressively complaining about the background Jegulus because I hadn't explicitly tagged it (which is fair enough tbh), but they were complimentary otherwise. I don't think they're gonna like what I have in mind for the sequel heh
Oh yeah. Honestly the rest of the story is just foreplay.
Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Somebody told me (that you had a boyfriend) that one of my fics was on Wattpad (lol) once, but I couldn't see it myself without an account. Pissed me off though; I rallied the troops to harass them and apparently the person took it down. Again this was like 2013 lol
Have you ever had a fic translated?
People used to ask me all the time if they could, but very rarely would I receive the requested link to a finished work. Although, to be fair, I sometimes wouldn't reply until like four years later, so... who knows? I think there's a couple linked to my stuff on AO3; if there's any others, they are posted elsewhere.
Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Nope. I imagine I'd fall in love with the person I could do that with happily (I'm generally a control freak with my work)
What's your all-time favourite ship?
I can't say 'all-time' 'cause the times are always a-changin', know what I mean? Currently it's Wolfstar, but I have been equally obsessive about many other doomed gays.
What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?
I always think I'm never gonna finish anything. It's only when I'm literally in the last paragraph that I think maybe I'll have a chance this time lol. FMI was a huge fluke I think. Previously I always avoided doing chaptered fics because I was so certain I'd never finish them.
What are your writing strengths?
Uhhhhhh I guess I can do dialogue okay?
What are your writing weaknesses?
I overexplain. The 'show, don't tell' rule committed suicide because of me. Too many adverbs, too many commas, too much in general. I try reeeeally hard to be more subtle and succinct, but it's a constant process of reining myself in.
A fic is also never truly done with me. I'm still tweaking and formatting shit I posted like a decade ago.
What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I wouldn't do it unless I was confident in my ability to speak that language in that particular context in real life.
What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?
Jegulus as the focus (but I'll be trying my hand at that real soon, hoho!) Otherwise, Hannigram.
What's your favourite fic you've written?
Oh man there's this stupid little 4k smutty thing I wrote for bandom waaaay back in the day. And I like it mostly because I think I did really well at not being overexplain-y heh
This was really fun! Thanks again for thinking of me! I'll tag: @euripidestrousers, @theresthesnitch, @matildadaism ... I would do more but I don't know who writes and who doesn't lol BASICALLY if you want to do this consider yourself tagged!!!