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Hey! Sorry, I must’ve missed this message yesterday.
😍 What is your favourite fic trope?
I’m a HOE for a secret relationship, as a general vibe. And I know it’s vague, but emotional hurt/comfort is… I need it to live.
For a TOG specific response, though, it’s gotta be Merrick fallout fics. Ohhhh I love that so much. I mean, obviously— almost every tog fic I’ve written is a merrick fallout fic 😅
👿 What trope do you hate / avoid at all costs?
Ummm. There are very few things that I won’t give a try in the hands of the right author or in a fandom that it makes sense for. But, for tog-specific shit, any time (and this is a trend I saw in the tags with infuriating regularity until I started blocking more liberally and blacklisting tags) people make a modern au and decide to make Nicky a flat earther, conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, or fundamentalist… that really gets me. Like, I can’t even talk about it, really, it makes me so angry. As a “parallel” for medieval Christian cultures, it’s just the most asinine comparison, and this is an episode of Aphrodite Gets Outlandishly Protective of Medieval People for another day.
Or probably never. Because I get so worked up lol. So tag your shit, people.
🤷 What thing that your fandom loves do you just not “get”?
LYKON. I say it with affection, I say it with a logical understanding that, yeah, he had potential, but I just… I feel zero connection to him.
🏆 What do you wish more authors in your fandom would write about?
Gah. I’m a big proponent of “be the writer you wish to see in your fandom”— if you want to see more of something, you should write it yourself. So, this is to be taken with the understanding that I’m not complaining, per se. This is the writing I do, and people should write what they want, not for me.
I’d like to see more of a return to canonverse. I really like a good au, but there’s something that so often gets lost in translation. Some of the magic of the characters gets a little diluted sometimes. And the canon of the film has SO MUCH you can dive into! Literally thousands of years of history!
This isn’t me saying “stop writing aus”, I just… I dunno. What other fandom has such fertile ground to plant in? Seems like a waste.
💡 Tell me a headcanon (and who you wish would write it)?
QUEER 👏 QUAR 👏 TET 👏👏👏 Joe and Nicky took about a hundred years to join the gals. In the meantime, they bounce around from place to place, cities and universities and tiny towns and camping under the stars. They find people to help where they can, and they spend the rest of the time being sickeningly in love, driving Quynh and Andy to drink with the dreams of them.
And then, the dreams change. Joe and Nicky are separated— they were trying to help, got caught up in the wrong fight, and Joe gets taken.
Nicky is absolutely unhinged with worry, but frighteningly competent about it. Still, taking on this mission as one person is absolutely insane. Good thing that, in the dream, Andy and Quynh recognize where Joe is being kept. Good thing, they’re barely two days ride from it— finally, a landmark to find their brothers. And just in time.
Most of the time in their dreaming, they’ve characterized Nicky as the meeker of the pair. He’s younger, he’s a bit quieter. They think that he really needs their help.
And then they finally find him, put their plan into action, and find out Nicky maybe didn’t need so much help after all. He is completely apeshit. Like… Damn dude. You got blood in your hair. And your… everywhere. By the time they find joe, Nicky is red from head to boot, and Andy and Quynh are both blinking at each other, nodding appreciatively. Quynh is grinning, because she knows now that there’s chaos under that shell for her to tease out (my murder buddies!!! Quynh really helps Nicky come out of his shell, I have so many headcanons).
Nicky didn’t need the help, but it did certainly make things easier. Especially since, once they’re back together, Nicky becomes far more focused on joe than he does on getting them back out.
WELL! There you have it, friend ❤️ thanks for this, it was fun!
