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Happy birthday @the-apocrypha !! ♥ I hope you have the best b-day!
I wanted to do something like this for you because you're giving us Christmasy magic in February with your lovely fic To Face Unafraid. I hope you like it ♥.
Original artwork by @designtheendless !
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"What, you're too good for a little ghost action?"
"Yeah, no." He holds a hand up about five feet above the ground, and angled so that his camera catches it; Cheng's gone back to swinging his Go Pro with wild abandon, and Gansey has wandered off to actually investigate. In any other profession that would be the responsible and productive course of action. In their profoundly stupid choice of career, it would have been more fruitful to dedicate time and resources to the bullshitting. "You must be this alive to ride Adam Parrish."
"Did you hear that, audience?" Cheng whips around to capture his scandalized expression. "You all have a shot with Parrish."
Make Me Write meme
3 and 18!
Do you prefer canonverse or AUs?
I think it might depend on the fandom in question. I always liked AUs but I think when I was primarily in episodic tv fandoms (Psych, Criminal Minds, Stars both Gate and Trek, etc) canonverse was the default and an AU was like a fun little treat? And in the last couple years I am noticing reading and writing both skewing much more heavily to AU, which maybe just says something about me, but I think 1. The 100 was hard for people to write canonverse because there wasn’t room in the story to write something, unless you wanted it to get Jossed next episode (or in my case, “before you could even finish writing it it already makes no sense”) 2. The Raven Cycle actually has a lot of areas you can play around in and lots of room to tell canonverse stories but my brain tends to treat it as like “this is one whole thing” and leans more toward wanting to go play somewhere else rather than playing in canon. Not a hard and fast absolute thing! But I think that’s why the trend toward more AU, lately.
Do you have a fic reading/writing routine?
Not anymore. I didn’t really have a writing routine in the before times, either, but I would often write on the bus during my commute, or at a coffee shop, bar, or library, but the extent of the routine was just “I am somewhere that is not my distraction-filled home.” Now it’s mostly “I am sitting at my desk instead of in the living room where I absolutely will stop writing immediately to watch what is on TV, even if I do not like what is on TV.”
My reading routine, then and now, is, unfortunately, “on my phone while I’m supposed to be doing other things” which means the other things don’t get done and also I am terrible about leaving comments. It’s under consideration to try doing...not that.
For Spotify Wrapped - numbers 13, 15, and 17?
13. Drunk Again, Reel Big Fish
15. All That You Are, Bear's Den
17. Australia, The Shins
J and/or T! Talk to me about tropes, baby ✌️
J: What’s your favorite fanfic trope? Have you written it?
Favorite is tough! At one point I might have said that my favorite was crossovers, but I'm not nearly as into those as I used to be. I think it would have to be Alternate Universe? That's such a broad trope, it feels like cheating. More specifically, I really love fusions? A good fusion lets you play with one set of characters and a different set of world-building and expand on both of them. I also go nuts for a good canon divergence AU.
I have apparently written three fusions. the endless push and pull of tides (Raven Cycle in Avatar: The Last Airbender) was the first one to come to mind, that's the one where I really dug into the world-building. I also did a Community/Buffy fusion and a Psych/Stargate: SG-1 fusion, but those were just short goofy pieces.
I've written canon divergence a couple times for Star Trek: DS9, although to be honest I don't really feel like where my heart can go a-journeying super counts, I wasn't so much investigating what the change to the timeline would really mean as I was just bending the timeline to so that I could make two characters who never co-exist in canon smooch.
In terms of really exploring how canon could have been different and what that would have looked like and how it would have impacted the characters, I once did a remix of someone else's Dax-centric DS9 AU, which was very fun to expand on even though the (galaxy brain level) idea was someone else's.
I am still extremely happy with my Middleman canon divergence, The Quintuple Convergence Alternatives, or, five ways Wendy Watson didn't meet the Middleman.
T: Any fanfic tropes you can’t stand?
I don't think there's any tropes where I have a hard and fast "nope" policy. There's ones where it's a matter of "only if I really like the writer, or at least, if I'm really desperate for a fandom/ship/character that doesn't have a lot of other content," but even then I wouldn't say I can't stand them. Mpreg and fake dating come to mind, but I have ended up reading a fair number of both of those because of the aforementioned situations, so clearly I can stand them!
I think the thing I dislike the least when I see in fanfic is conflicts where the characters actually agree on everything and everyone is completely in the right and no one is behaving badly at all, but the writer is making them fight? Let your characters have an actual disagreement, let them behave badly and fuck things up, if you want to write conflicts and arguments and fights! I don't know if that really counts as a trope, though.
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Putting the F-U-N in Funeral by apocryphal (T, 11k) "Hale & Daughters Funeral Home," Derek says dully. "Oh ho! And which daughter are you?" Derek casts his eyes up to the ceiling. It's going to be one of those calls. (In which Derek is a bored secretary, Stiles is a baker who may or may not have ulterior motives, and there are entirely too many macaroons.)
