Hi Queen Luv You, For The Fic Writer Questions, If You're Still Answerin' 24, 26, 65

hi queen luv you, for the fic writer questions, if you're still answerin' 😈 24, 26, 65

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24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

My ELA teacher in middle school encouraged creative writing, but actively and vocally discouraged her students from reading and writing fanfiction, which is unfortunately pretty common :/ Listen. Were the One Direction imagines I consumed particularly well-crafted literature? I wouldn’t say so. But those in combination with the published books I was reading gave me a sense that writing was an approachable hobby as a beginner—and that was enough to get me started. Hopefully she has since adopted the attitude of most people in the literary world of “Heavily policing the ‘quality’ of what kids read is bad, actually.”

26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

Probably sanguine/decathect if only because I used to be a very passive fic poster and not be super involved in fandom spaces, but everyone has been SO nice about those that I was encouraged to make friends & connections and be more active on tumblr! I also never thought I’d write for a fandom exchange so that was a super cool thing to be a part of (thanks in no small part to u MWAH)

65. Tell us about what you're most looking forward to writing - in your current project, or a future project

as u know quite well I have been ah… chewing on the idea of writing a winter olympics hockey player/figure skater bloodweave au… which I think is so delicious but I’m putting it off until I finish the perfumer au which I promise I haven’t forgotten exists ahahah… I’m gonna get that last chapter out if it kills me. and it might

After his first time accompanying Gale to a reunion of the enormous and overwhelming Dekarios family, Astarion is rewarded. Sort of.

A Gale that still wears his earring by the end of his adventure. Touches it sometimes, when he’s thinking too hard. Runs his thumb along the grooves and pushes hard on one of the points until the pain grounds him. He remembers how it had felt to get it—to grin at himself in the mirror afterward, tilting his jaw to watch the silver catch orange-golden sunlight through the bedroom window. He remembers how it felt to race down the stairs to show his mum, and how she’d kissed his forehead and told him he looked dashing.

So it’s a part of him, now, as much as anything.

A Gale that keeps the statuette of Mystra on his desk when he comes home. It’s because he doesn’t want to look at it, to deal with it. Long were the nights he spent studying with a cramped hand and a tense jaw, and easy was the relief of looking upon her and remembering for whom he was doing it.

Those nights are a part of him, too. So the statuette stays.

A Gale whose eyes still linger on her altar when he passes on his walk about the city. She is more beautiful than any statue makes her out to be, limited as they are by the static of stone. They cannot smile at him as she did when making him her Chosen.

He cannot bring himself to watch the boys who bruise their knees kneeling for her.

It’s curious that Gale’s “best” ending, the one where he becomes a Blackstaff professor, is the one that least exempts him from Mystra’s influence.

A school founded and headmastered by two more of her most renowned Chosen. Where the apprentices openly worship her, call upon her, reference her—the ones who don’t know of Gale’s past nonchalantly wish him her blessings on their way out of his office hours, and the ones who do know whisper former Chosen to each other in the stairwells.

Not to mention the memories he has of his own time as a student there, honing the talent and ambition that caught her attention, visiting her altar in the dead of night. Now, to pass it on his way to teach each day—how could his stomach not churn at each reminder of how things have changed?

Hi, I hope you’re doing well! I was wondering if you ever wrote part 2 of the Chris/dustin fic? It’s honestly my fave. I think about it all the time haha

omg omg… thank u so much for this ask. honestly like half of that is written and has been for a couple years now. not gonna lie I totally considered shelving it bc I convinced myself that no one wanted to read it BUT I did revisit it earlier this year and tack 1k onto it just for fun and laughs. you know what anon. i’ll give it another look just for you

"Do you like this character?🥺?" I want to see him sobbing and writhing in a ditch. Leave me alone