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And it is said that, sometimes, you can still hear the distant sound of the Fiddler, yet wandering the depths of the earth.
Markus’ breakfast
Look past his hands…..plz
20 Questions for Fic Writers
Thank you to @erisenyo for the tag! Some of these look tough, haha.
1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 47
2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 201,583
3. What fandoms do you write for? Quite a few! On ao3, I've got the most posted fics for Captain America and Stranger Things, but I've got a few more AtLA fic ideas that @erisenyo is great at encouraging me to return to and play around with a bit more every so often, and my current obsession is Saltburn. (If you dug into my fandom history there'd be even more fic - mostly on fanfiction.net, with a few more scattered across other, smaller sites and various fandom specific prompt memes - but you'll have to do that digging yourself if you want those answers :p)
4. What are your top five fics by kudos? 4/5 of these are for Stranger Things, which I think has more to do with: a) the popularity of the Stranger Things Harringrove fandom, and b) the fact that they were written in the earliest days of the Harringrove fandom right after S2 came out, and thus when there were already a ton of new fans but not many fics yet; for the popularity of those particular fics compared to others which I think were objectively better written.
Aftermath
2. In the Darkness (We are Free)
3. Acting Out
4. Bending, Breaking, and Backing Down
5. Overheating
5. Do you respond to comments? Yes! (Though occasionally it takes a few days, and I admit it falls off for comments on older works.)
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I wrote quite a few fics for the Hydra Trash Party back when that was big, so a lot of those had angsty endings, lol. Of those that got posted to ao3, Mirages of Matchstick Men might have the angstiest ending? Several of my Stranger Things fics have angsty endings, too, as do various other fics I've written. Apparently I'm fond of them, even though I prefer happy endings most of the time when reading other people's work, haha.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Somehow, in spite of how much I enjoy reading happy endings, only a surprisingly low percentage of my current ao3 fics have them.
My current Saltburn fic, Good Things Come (To Those Who Wait), will have a pretty happy ending (in fact, that ending is already largely written, and I'm just working on filling in the middle bits - which is happening, even if I've been busy this summer as well!). At the moment, however, the next chapter to be posted is a deep dive into the two main characters getting worse before they get better.
I Get High With a Little Help from My Friends is one of my few Captain America fics which is good for a bit of hurt/comfort and a nice, fluffy happy ending without too much hurt anywhere.
I think my AtLA fic, Acting Out, also counts as a pretty happy ending.
8. Do you get hate on fics? Not really? Especially not these days, though I did start fic writing on fanfiction.net back in the days when a lot of people would get hate comments just for writing any non-canon m/m fic. So, I probably got a nasty comment or two back then that I've chosen to forget about. I think I also got a nasty comment once for an HTP fic, but it was on the HTP dreamwidth meme and that thread got frozen pretty quick by the meme moderator, while plenty of other lovely people chimed in with positive comments.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yep, lol. I've written everything from extremely kinky and very explicit smut (in HTP and for a few other fandoms!) to pretty vanilla to only a tad more explicit than fade-to-black sex, depending on the story.
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Not generally. Occasionally I'll read them if they really catch my eye, but I'm not sure what the "craziest" one would be...
12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes: Mirages of Matchstick Men. It was a little Bucky-centric fic that I wrote for a weekly flashfic prompt challenge, and it was translated into Russian by Magdalena_sylar on ao3!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? I have not. It's an idea that interests me, but I can imagine it's an endeavor that could go south easily and would need a solid working relationship + good communication established in advance to have the best chance of going well.
14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? Ohhh, man. This is a tough one. I am a consumate multishipper who has played around in a lot of different fandoms, and I'm not sure I have a single all-time favorite at this point. Current favorite is Cattonquick from Saltburn, and I've had a very long-running love for Gigolas from LotR, ever since I first read the books as a kid (though I haven't ever written my own fic for that second one, funny enough!).
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Another difficult one! I get lots of ideas, but only a few of them wind up getting all the way to fully written fic stage. Possibly the AtLA prequel to a long fic I've discussed ideas for at length with @erisenyo, from which the longer fic might eventually get written but the prequel may not....
16. What are your writing strengths? I'm 100% the, "you are your own harshest critic," type of person, so this was both a difficult and probably overall a good question for me to try and answer, lol. For the actual storytelling aspect, I've often gotten good comments about my characterization, so I can probably count that as a strength. In general, I can say that I'm very good at the technical aspects of writing, and I am quite good at editing.
17. What are your writing weaknesses? Almost certainly: keeping my mind focused on one thing at a time/finishing one project before I let myself get distracted by another. I'm working on that one, though! (I will admit that writing a whole graduate thesis a few years back probably helped a lot on the self-discipline angle...)
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I generally don't try that one, in part because I don't trust myself not to mangle it horribly.
19. First fandom you wrote for? I've been writing fic for over half my life now (which still feels a bit crazy to think about!), and I'm not honestly 100% sure what fandom the very first fic I wrote was for. It was Harry Potter that first got me into fanfiction, though, and all the first fics I read were for Harry Potter.
20. Favourite fic you’ve written? Going to quote @erisenyo here and say - This is impossible to answer! I have some older fics that I'm very fond of for nostalgia, fics for small fandoms that I love as expressions of my love for said fandoms even if they don't get much notice, and newer fics that I think are really good examples of how much my writing has grown since I was a teenager.
If I had to pick one fic for now, I think I'd pick Acting Out. It's the second AtLA fic I wrote, and one that was inspired by having read a lot of the, "GAang finds out how Zuko got his scar," fics on ao3 and realizing that none of them quite hit what I was most looking for in that genre. I think that fic is one of my best - if not the best of my fics - both in prose style and in achieving what I set out to do with it.
And I will tag: @rhaegang, @nythtak, @sulkybender, anyone else who wants to do this!
So I'm bored and I feel like talking about Hunter the parenting theories so here's one for y'all to partake in if you want
How did big D get custody of Marcus and door.
I don't think I really seen anyone talk about this but it's never mentioned what happened to Marcus's and doors other parent as far as Im aware and I'm not sure if they have the same mom/dad but something had to have happened that got Big D full custody of the two
Marckus going on his own little Adventure
Happy late Halloween!!
hear me out door and boy are like the human versions of kratos and atreus. (i have not played god of war ragnarok so im going off what i have seen) both door and kratos are these some what big stoic man that you would think don´t care about anything but they do they both care deeply for there son. and both boy and atreus are these kids that have to fight danger at a young age and by the gods have so much trauma and ptsd
