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icypantherwrites Interview

Before we start do you mind introducing yourself (you can use whatever name you are comfortable using/ your readers know you by) and telling us a little about yourself?

Hello ♥ My name is IcyPanther, Icy for short. Icy in a nutshell: short, blind without her glasses, clinging to my last couple months before I hit thirty, sings (belts) in the shower and while driving, cuddles and loves on her dog (a Rotti Bernie Spaniel mix named Inara ♥) far too much, hasn’t burned her house down cooking yet, can’t work on projects when things are messy, will beat you to death with kindness, very vulgar sailor mouth that has gotten worse working for the police, and dream job would be writing all day followed by napping. Ta da!

Onto the interview!

Q1: What kind of fan fiction do you write? And, what made you gravitate towards this/these particular fandom(s)?

A1: I tend to specialize in whump and hurt/comfort with plenty of angst to go alongside it ♥ My only current fandom right now is Voltron: Legendary Defender but I got into writing fanfiction with a number of animes and was pretty into the Harry Potter (Dramione ♥) sphere for a long while and prior to my revival in 2017 with VLD that was what I was best known for.

I write only in fandoms that I enjoy but am most motivated when I have a deep connection to a character(s).

Q2: Why did you begin writing fan fiction?

A2: Because the show I was watching at the time (Rurouni Kenshin) did not have enough whump and angst for my favorite character and that needed fixing ;p I’m a pretty cheerful personality but I love darker things and a lot of shows won’t go that far or if they do it tends to toe the line most of the time (not all, and God, Rurouni Kenshin has plenty of delicious dark moments and backstories, don’t get me wrong) but it needed more. And thus enter my first super shitty, super awful piece that I keep alive online to remind myself of where I’ve come from.

Q3: Were you scared to begin posting it online?

A3: Nope! Now, being found out in high school to be writing it? Heck yeah xD Like I said, I have a very cheerful, innocent personality on the outside and I’d have been mortified for anyone (outside of my sister who was all for this xD) to find out what kind of dark shit I was writing but posting online under a penname? No big deal.

Q4: Do you ever want to published in a professional capacity one day?

A4: I technically am published with a crazy ton of news and feature stories from my days as a journalist and editor. Some of those pieces I’m very proud of and one in particular cast a spotlight on an amazing man who performed tattoo coverups for sex trafficking victims and old gang members and my story got picked up by some of the big news stations and he got so much good attention and press and, most importantly, donations and funding ♥ I loved being able to make a difference like that.

But I’m thinking this is leaning more towards fiction and the answer to that is yes, most definitely. I have dreams (as all authors do) of writing a bestseller and have finally found the courage and drive to start pursuing my own novel ♥

Q5: Has writing fan fiction taught you anything? About writing? Reading? Yourself?

A5: Most definitely. One thing I’m going to highlight here is I’m old by fanfiction standards. I’m not a high school kid anymore or even a college student. I’m a full grown adult and I’ve seen and been through a lot and seen my writing change and grow over the about fifteen years I’ve actively been writing. So its hard to say “yes, fanfiction has taught me ____” because there’s so much more to it then that.

I will say though that fanfiction is what gave me the drive to write more and more as posting for an engaged audience and hearing positive feedback told me that hey, I can write and people want to read it. It definitely solidified my career path in college although, cough, I am wishing a bit I’d gone the more marketing/communications route. She says as she works an overnight desk job xD

Q6: Do you write anything outside of the realm of fan fiction?

A6: See above for old jouranlism job and currently working on my novel, a young adult fantasy ♥

Q7: Do you notice any stigma surrounding fan fiction or fan fiction writers?

A7: When I first started doing this fifteen years ago? Yes. Most definitely. It was considered a lower art form (which makes me laugh as fanart was never put into the same category) and “weak” writing and to this day I remember when I was talking to my creative writing teacher in high school about it and she laughed and said that fanfiction is not original and is just plagiarizing another work. I never forgot that but I also never believed it. Fanfiction, I feel, is honestly one of the most difficult mediums to write. You have to work within a set world, using established characters, plots and backstory and then make it your own all while adhering to those parameters. It’s hard. It’s very hard.

Today though I think a lot of people respect that and I no longer see the discourse I used to on the subject (I still won’t tell anyone outside of my anime con friends though that I write it ;p). And I’m glad. It’s a much safer, inclusive environment for young writers venturing out to get into. I will also preface though that I don’t engage much with the drama (and God does my fandom right now have a lot of it) and just post and go about my day and I credit a lot of that to my age. But from someone who started back in 2003… it’s changed, most definitely.

Q8: If so, how do you feel about this stigma?

A8: See above ;)

Q9: What’s something you’ve never been asked but want to be?

A9: Um… Nothing is coming to mind in any category of this nature. Sorry.

Q10: Is Tumblr the site you prefer to post fan fic on? If so, why?

A10: Oh heck no. No no no no no. Tumblr is… is awful for posting text on. AWFUL. I use it as an engagement tool to interact with readers and to promote my works. I started off on fanfiction.net and when I rebooted in 2017 I crossposted between it and Archive of Our Own. Just about a month ago I made the decision to post solely on AO3 as the editing features are very, very nice and the traffic there is better ♥

Q11: What’s your favorite piece of fan fiction you’ve ever written? Why?

A11: So many fics to choose from, you want me to pick one? ;p I love all of my pieces, from the horrid ones in 2003 to 2010 years to my more recent VLD ones starting in 2017. All hold a special place in my heart.

But the fic I am most proud of would be my long boi As Color Fades Away, or Color for short. It’s a 430k+ fic that was my first foray into the VLD fandom and my first real fic after nearly seven years of not writing anything. I saw myself grow so much as a writer in that fic (although that history is erased now as given its popularity and my love of it I have recently re-written the first 35 chapters completely with edits in others as well) and it has everything I crave in a story: whump and angst and hurt/comfort and family and friendship and so much heart and love. It was a fic that touched a lot of people (myself included) and it’s my magnum opus now and forever of fanfiction.

Find icy’s fics here and her Tumblr page here.

Reblogging this since I’ve gained a few followers since I posted this 🙂. Thank you all for the amazing support so far, I am honestly overwhelmed with how welcoming this community has been. I still have many, many posts to queue up. Once I finish with my one shots, I will create a master list and then may consider crossposting some or all of my fics.

Feel free to follow me on Wattpad and AO3 where I am also FarFromSuga.

So, Uh, Hi, Tumblr

Hi Tumblr! I’m FarFromSuga, but you can call me Alyce. I’ve been a long time reader on Tumblr but tended to post my fic over on Wattpad. However, I’ve decided to start cross posting my imagines/one shots and probably eventually my fics.

I’m still working out exactly how Tumblr works (dividers and all that) so things will be a bit rough. A master list will eventually be created and I will likely have the help of my friend @moonchezz. So hang in there! My blog will eventually be navigable.

In the mean time, I’ll hopefully queue up some more posts later. In the meantime, go follow my fanfic recommendations blog, @alycereads. I’ve also opened up asks! Feel free to ask me pretty much anything and I’ll answer on my blog so y’all can get to know me.

You can find out my basic info below. However, let me answer a couple questions first. 1). I’m not currently taking requests. I’m a 40 hour a week working adult and only have time to write what I want. I may open up requests and am always open to hearing ideas, I just cannot guarantee they will ever happen. 2). I won’t answer super private questions. Otherwise, fair game!

A little about Alyce:

I’m 23. Born in 1997 and just barely 2 months older than Jungkook lol

My pronouns are She/Her

I have a degree in Creative Writing

I’ve been writing BTS fan fic for 3 years, but have been actively writing for 10 years now

I wrote 1D fanfic back in the day 🤭

I’m an INFP.

My big three of astrology are: Cancer Sun, Aries Moon, Scorpio Rising

I’m a Ravenclaw

My bias is Min Yoongi. But I’m pretty much OT7

I do stan other Kpop groups. The main ones being: GOT7, EXID, (G)-Idle, Twice, and Mamamoo. I also like soloists: Sunmi (my Queen), Chungha, Jessi, Eric Nam.

I currently only write for BTS. However, you may see other idols appear occasionally 🙂

You can find me on Wattpad and AO3 as FarFromSuga and on Instagram as farfromsuga_

All right that about sums me up. Feel free to ask anything you’re curious about and look out for more of my one shots to be published soon. Thank you to everyone who loved Lock & Key (seriously, I did not expect the one with an obvious typo Tumblr won’t let me fix to get the most notes).

That’s all. For now.

Sincerely,

Alyce

So like I don’t know if I actually like have any followers let alone if anybody actually like looks at my posts but I’m going to write an Eddie Munson X reader and I’m going to post it. This is heavily self indulgent as is everything else I am going to write and post on this account. All the other fix that I’ve seen for him are either making reader a cheerleader, making reader a normal person that denies any part of their weirdness, not privy to any of the canon going-ons, or Steve’s exe, and honestly I think A. Steve has been though enough with his girlfriends leaving him for someone else, and B. Eddie has been through enough with cheerleaders, so like Thanos said I’ll do it myself. Also this might get pretty niche and kinda specific. Like I said this is self indulgent.

I feel a little dumb right now. So I have the concept of a high fantasy AU for Stranger Things in my head and essentially it’s the way the show already is but like in an actual fantasy setting I just think it would be really funny, but that’s not the point. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out which class Eddie would be and at first my brain went to paladin and then wizard. I’ve been sitting here for like 20 minutes and it just hit me, Eddie is a fucking BARD.

The way I’m doing it in my head is I’m basing it off of what the characters do in the actual show and due to the fact that Eddie is the DM for the club he has to spin stories for the campaigns and then there’s the fact that he plays guitar and is in a band. He’s a bard and I don’t know why I thought anything else first. And I fully realize this idea of a Stranger Things high fantasy AU isn’t anything too ground breaking considering it would just be them living out their campaign irl no I’m not talking about LARPing. I just think the idea is interesting.

Imagine you’re dating Eddie before all of you know what happens and one day offhandedly he ask you “hey how come you never straighten your hair” just out of pure curiosity and you’re like “I’ll tell you what, I’ll straighten my hair when you with graduate or die” as a joke, but then the upside down and everything else happens and you wear your hair straightened to his funeral and you’re crying the entire time, but he’s not dead. He’s a vampire now, but he’s not dead and he’s watching all this go down from a distance and he’s just like oh shit she actually did it I didn’t want it under these circumstances but she did it on top of you know the regular feelings for their holding a funeral for me and my girlfriend is crying for me and did the thing that she said she would do for my funeral so yeah you can imagine he’s torn up as hell.

Just a stupid little thought that I just had while drawing that’s all.

Imagine like a slow burn enemies to lovers type of romance with Eddie and it’s getting to the point where the tension has built and built and built and built to the point where it should snap and boil over into you and him having very aggressive hate sex right, but instead he just says some real heinous shit that goes just a little too far and you just stop and walk away from him entirely and you’re like walking out and as you’re walking out Steven, Robin, and Nancy all come in and they’re like hey what’s wrong and you just push past them and just fucking leave. Like you know that one scene in season two of Euphoria where Cassie is just getting straight up disrespected? I imagine that whatever he says to you does that kind of damage to you like I did to her I’ll add in the TikTok that gave me the idea too just for clarification

Y’know how people write stranger things AUs where Reader is from the real world and gets sucked into Stranger Things?? How about that trope but in reverse where the kids and Eddie and Steve and Robin all get sucked into our world with Y/N. Maybe reader is like a shifter and shifted to Stranger Things and then one day when they’re going back to the reality everybody gets sucked back in with them. Maybe they straight up can travel through dimensions like with actual magic and one day when they’re picking a new dimension to go to the gang all latch onto them and get sucked in for the ride back to our dimension. Maybe El somehow opened a portal to our world through Reader’s laptop while they were watching Stranger Things. I don’t know I just think it would be a good idea somebody should write this, somebody should probably be me. 

Introduction into my Kingdom

MINORS, PROSHIPPERS, ANTI-SHIFTERS DNI

(aka the intro to my page. bear with me, i've never done this before so forgive me if it's long winded and/or choppy)

Hello! First of all my name is Bloo (belle, jay, moon, berry... you get the point), Siren also work and I will answer to it <3 I'm 20 years old, pan-demi-NB (they/them or she/her), I'm an autistic ADHD haver and I'm black (i know, so groundbreaking /j)

I write, draw (mostly digital, but it's traditional sometimes too), and talk entirely too much (as you'll see soon). I like fashion, video games, anime/manga/manhwa/manhua, fandom culture (sometimes), shifting/witchcraft, and Vocaloids. I'll eventually start actually writing fics at some point.

Here are all the fandoms that I'll be writing for....

Demon Slayer

Twisted Wonderland

Stranger Things

Bleach

Castlevania (regular & nocturne, but only for the anime)

Legend of Zelda (botw & totk specifically)

Genshin Impact

Star Rail

Hunter x Hunter

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (all the parts, but steel ball run bc i haven't finished reading them yet)

One Piece (i refuse to write for Doflamingo specifically though. he knows what he did)

Jujutsu Kaisen (also refuse to write for Kenjaku & Mahito

My Hero Academia

Records of Ragnorok

Baki

Dungeon Meshi

Magi

Seraph of the End

Sk8: The Infinity

Bucchigiri

Stardew Valley

Omniyoji (the anime on Netflix, not the game)

And a shit ton more, but Tumblr has a character limit that I will reach if I keep going. Please work under the assumption that if/when I write NSFW/smut that every character I write about is over the age of 18. I'll mention it in every fic I write too, I just felt it was important to mention it NOW too. I do not condone pedophilia.

Here's all the things that I WILL NOT write about....

Anything that's about real celebrities

incest

pedophilia

watersports/scat

necrophilia

nothing that supports racism

Here's all the things I WILL write about....

smut/nsfw/18+

Fluff & wholesomeness

Childcare

Gore (?????)

hurt/comfort

hurt/ no comfort (suffer /j)

witchcraft/shifting

My general random thought and random feral-ness

With all said and everything in order, I hope we can all get along and that y'all enjoy you time spent here ^^

also feel free to ask me things about shifting or witchcraft, I'll answer them

Also my asks don't ever really closes, so if you ask me something and I don't answer for a while I'm just having a mental illness /hj

Please also use tone tags when you ask me things though as I have a hard time telling tone when people talk to me sometimes, thank you <3 <3 <3