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[jossujb]

For the WIP game, #4 :)

4 non-con/bongade jotain kinkkubingo (non-con/bondage something kink bingo)

This I wrote for a quite a while as a Niles/C.C. Babcock fic, it was meant to have a lot of rather disturbed scenes with like teenage molestation and stuff, but I started to feel really bothered that it was so messed up, and in my head I cancelled myself, so I took about half of it away.

Now it sits in WIP folder, not knowing what to do with it. Should I try to rewrite it, or would the guilty feelings persist.

Thank you for asking :)

[hawkland]

For the fic meme, K (what is the angstiest idea you've ever come up with)?

Hmm...there are some embarrassingly angsty fic ideas that will never leave my head (or go beyond drawerfic) that I’m not even going to confess to here, lol. But that I actually completed and posted? I think Only Time Will Tell is definitely up there. It’s a soulmate au where you only know for sure who your soulmate is after they die, because if so their spirit hangs around with you/as part of you. I’m pretty sure I made myself cry a few times writing it, and I hated myself for it. 

[hawkland]

Who wins a snark fight: Munch or Gordon Ramsay?

Ooooooh my god that’s like...no. I do not think the universe could handle the two of them in the same room together. No. Nope. 

Although, FUCK. Now I want NEED a fic where Tim, in an act of pure desperation to get them out of debt and drum up business, offers up The Waterfront to be on Kitchen Nightmares. And Gordon and Munch basically end up at each other’s throats until it does come down to a death-battle contest of insults, Billie Lou throws them both out, and then they storm off to have smoking hot sex somewhere.

[hawkland]

21, 22, 23

21) what do you think when you read over your older work?

Ah ha ha ha ha ha, oh God, my anxiety usually keeps me from re-reading my older work much at all (as in I always dread finding some typo or something stupid that will mortify me after all of this time.) Though occasionally I read it and I’m like, oh hey, that actually wasn’t that bad, was it? And sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised to rediscover the things that came out of my brain. 

22) are there any subjects that make you uncomfortable to write?

Hmm. There are kinks that I just don’t share or understand enough to comfortably write, and certain subjects that I would not touch, or want to present in anything other than an abhorrent light. “Uncomfortable” beyond that, mmm, generally anything related to pregnancy/giving birth/motherhood, for various personal reasons. 

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

Not sure how “obscure”, but I have often found inspiration from places I’ve travelled to — cities and islands and other similar unique places where the stories seem to come from the surroundings as much as the characters. And some of those, I don’t think I could have written with the same feeling without having been to those places in person. (Thinking of, say, the Pink Floyd fic I wrote set in Pompeii, Echoes.)

[rsadelle]

Thanks to @theorajones who tagged me in a "5 things I like about myself" meme.

1. I have a good ability to laugh at myself. This is especially helpful when I'm feeling less than great. I have frequently gotten myself out of a bad mood by noticing the dramatic turn to my internal monologue and laughing at it.

2. As a general rule, I try to be kind. It's something I chose a number of years ago, and I'm still making that a goal when it comes to interactions with other people. I'm human and I don't always succeed, and I work on being kind to myself on those occasions.

3. I'm a good baker. I have enough baking experience that I've developed good instincts for it. I also bake according to a method I refer to as "half-assed baking" and still end up with plenty of delicious things to eat.

4. I'm a good writer. I like my own writing. I'm proud of my fictional writing, my nonfiction writing, and my turn of phrase when it comes to one-off things like emails and tweets.

5. I can maintain long-term friendships. I have two friends I've been friends with for over thirty years, and a couple more I've been friends with for around twenty years.

This didn't come with instructions about how many people to tag, so I'll just choose a few of you who I know are around on Tumblr these days, with no obligation to participate: @alakeeffectgirl, @thisallegra, @castillon02, @disgruntledkittenface.

[rsadelle]

For the WIP meme: "cat"

Ooh, thank you for playing! From my genderswap university AU:

Harry keeps asking interested questions, and Zayn finds herself talking about her sisters, her parents, how she wants to have cats and dogs when she has a teaching job and a flat that allows them.

[hawkland]

For the fic meme: May?

may: a fic you have regretted posting?

Hah. Um. I feel kind of bad naming which fic it is, since it was written for an exchange. It’s for a ship that at the time I thought, “sure, I can write that”, even though I wasn’t really sold on the pairing. And I struggled so hard with it that I realized I just couldn’t see the ship at all, and in fact came to really loathe it later on.

And of course, it’s my most kudosed fic in the fandom, purely because it was the most popular (slash) ship at the time.

I probably should just orphan it at this point. I don’t think it’s an awful story, I just don’t feel like it reflects me as a writer very well and I sort of cringe every time I (still) get kudos notifications for it.