#ven replies

[avengersnewb]

I'm not selling myself short for anything, I genuinely liked the ending and there's nothing wrong or lesser about us who did

I mean to each their own, and I didn't say you're lesser, you know selling yourself short is no really an insult.

so really if you enjoyed snippets of what could have been, by all means. Enjoy.

[itsillumi]

can a god die?

not even god could unstitch himself from the cross: death is inherited at birth & divinity dies when you forget that.

[venprea]

Sooo I’ve recently read your fics, and you’re truly brilliant, I love your style and how you manage to never bore or fall into ordinary in your chapters. I mean, I have to ask, how did you come up with Chlorine? That fic is so good, so so good, makes me wonder what kind of things inspire you and help you writing fics and if there’s something of yourself in the main characters that star in your stories

thank you so much! it's been such a long time since i've used tumblr, but coming back to these kinds of asks is such a treat. as for what inspires me, i think a lot of it comes from photography concepts and reading.

chlorine in specific was a way to get through writer's block. it wasn't actually meant to be as long as it wound up being - but! i do find that what kept it going & gave it a life of its own was chrollo. it was finding a character who i wanted to say so much about.

so to answer your last question, i definitely get away with some projection, but it genuinely does boil down to how complex you perceive a character :)

[vensigliere]

starter for sapiens-apparatus

Flyers. That was the idea one of her staff had offered as a way to increase customers for the store. A good enough idea in theory, but when he said that making the flyers was his contribution and her only other staff member was out sick, it resulted in her having to drag herself outside and hand out flyers in front of the shop entrance.

So far, only two people had taken flyers of their own volition, so her marketing strategies had slowly gotten more aggressive as time wore on. By the time the latest person had passed by the shop, she actively shoved a flyer into their hands.

“Hey come shop at the Book Den. We’ve got all kinds of books at good prices and stuff you won’t find elsewhere. Take a fucking flyer.” Her tone was less than jovial, but her exhaustion was obvious in the bags under her eyes and the dead coldness of her gaze. She didn’t care if this was overly forceful, she would have people take these damn flyers, or else.

@sapiens-apparatus

[avengersnewb]

oh no! what happened to your ao3?? 😨

Hey hey, thanks for checking in <33 it's just temporary, just trying to sort out something minor, no real issues :) I'll be back soon <333

[itsillumi]

You're wasted on krkr lmao i'd kill to see you write something for a decent pairing

kill at my altar then & i'll consider it

[avengersnewb]

i must ask, was the skinny ass comment inspired by this interview in your fic 'compliment chicken'? i saw this again and immediately thought of the fic 🤣🫶🏻

honestly it does ring a bell, I'd say it was a reference to this comment. It's been a hot second since I was in sambucky fandom and I'm an old lady with terrible memory these days so :)) I'm sure you're right :)))

if anyone's interested in this sambucky texting (and eventual sexting) fic:

Compliment Chicken (E, 2,7k) Bucky's therapist asks Bucky to do an exercise with Sam, in which they should compliment each other, so Bucky has to contact Sam after months of ignoring his texts. The communication brings on feelings and confessions - turns out there is so much they've been waiting to tell each other.

[avengersnewb]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this (or when you feel up to it!), reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love!

aww thank you sabre for the ask, you know how much I love self recs :uwu:

alright so at first I thought it would be hard to pick only my fave five but it was surprisingly easy? :))) I think I picked the ones that I still look back at and think wow, how did I come up with all of that?

Seeking Companionship is a 616 epistolary fic which I really hoped more people would read because it's just pure joy to read if I say so myself, it's funny and engaging and I really like how I've managed to get their tones in writing letters in 1980s, and there is some innuendo and some raw insecurities and self-worth issues and of course a happy ending, all told in letters. oh and ID porn of course! (Rated T, 4.2k words)

Restless Gravity is my first RBB, a sci-fi omegaverse arranged marriage fic with omega Tony and warlord Steve in space, an AU of X-Factor 231, where Steve is a scary humanoid who is known for hating humans. I just have no idea how I came up with many of those ideas and images, and I really love the part of the fic where Tony transitions from 'I have to live with this thing' to him deciding that 'he seems to be very decent and I think I'm falling for him'. I just love that universe, I always think if I ever turn any of my fics into an original this would be the perfect candidate :) oh it also has ID porn, and amnesia. super tropey :) (Rated M, 10k)

Love of Inconvenience is an MCU arranged marriage, omegaverse, historical AU from 1920 happening near where I live in Australia, in a place called Fort Nepean which was the place where the first shot fired by the British Empire in World War I. It has a quarantine station and a beach and as soon I set foot in it, I was like yes, a small immigrant Steve fic with gun installer Tony. I just love the world of this fic, and the way they're so breathtakingly gone for each other but each think there is no way the other wants them for real. I actually made the mutual pining so real that I was unable to actually fix it for like a year before I finally managed to write the ending to this little thing :) (Rated T, 4.8 k)

Unintended Side Effects an MCU medkink fic, with bottom Steve and young Dr. Stark, with and ID twist that left all the commenters in awe (I'm not making this up, you can go check the comments :)) ), written for your birthday. to this day, I can't really figure out how I put so many words together about a...well... about the thing that happened in the fic. but I did, and I'm so glad that it exists because it's a rather niche kink and by the steady stream of readers that check it out 3 years later, I guess our people are also happy that it exists. (Rated E, 9k)

Quarantined Together an MCU canon adjacent AU about Steve and Tony hooking up one night and being forced to quarantine together for 14 days, with lots and lots of porn and lots and lots of fluff, which was intended to be a soft escape from the terrible times it was being written in. I'm really proud of it, both because I wrote and finished a long fic, and also because of the crazy concepts I put into it and I think they mostly worked in context, like the way I love yous were said, or the double ID porn roleplay. (Rated E, 40k)

well looks like I really love all of my ID porn fics :D