#For all my obsession with discworld I have but this one (1) AU though it tears at me like the seam of a pair of pants

[nevertheless-moving]

unable to stop dwelling on the discworld trouser leg of time where, in the penultimate fight scene in Nightwatch, Carcer manages to kill teenage Sam Vimes.

Which means that the future that Duke Vimes came from can no longer exist, which means he can’t go home. Meanwhile you’ve got a bunch of history monks with stored up temporal energy, a prepared space outside of time, and the need to do some desperate damage control before the Auditors get involved. Death shows up, reality is unweaving, Sam is reading Carcer his discworld miranda rights because what else is he supposed to do.

and finally, with little other option, the monks de-age Sam so he fits the time period and send him back out into the fray.

(they didn't call it deageing of course. His memory is hazy, splintered during that terrible in between moment, They....took the time out of him? Sanded away the edges of his self for a terrible, workable fit? It...wasn't a good feeling.)

Just—damn. Sam Vimes having to live his whole crapsack life over again, but this time as his disillusioned-reillusioned, unwillingly-character-developed, noir-epic, Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes self. 

Younger (Older? He's never felt so Old, His steps so Childlike, reality twisting in his gut like one of Dibbler's pies) Sam Vimes walking around in a haze after the revolution. Desperate to go home, knowing he can’t. Wanting to drink. Knowing he can’t.

The whole precinct feels pity, he really took Keel’s death hard, hardly speaks except to do his job. Eventually he has to grit his teeth and start being present, because what else is there to do?

Resists the urge to drink until Colon takes the whole watch out to celebrate because -he’s going to be a father!

Come on Sammy, one drink won’t kill you— and after the first drink he’s cracking jokes and after the second hes smiling and after the third hes honestly the life of the party and sometime after that he’s crying about how he was going to be a father and my wife would be ashamed if she saw me drinking like this and— 

Oh shit, Did anyone else know he had a wife?? A PREGNANT wife??? What—aren’t you like 12—no you're 17 now aren't you but when did—

You guys n’ver met ’er—oh gods none if you ev’n know ‘er, is jus’ me...

What—when did you lose—

I lost her the same damn day I los’ ev’rythin else, whadya think...bleeding Carcer...the fuckin revolution...

So! That! Sam only vaguely remembers the night, but rumors travel faster than light on the disc, so by the next day the whole damn city knows about poor Sam brung low by the loss of his poor, tragic, pregnant wife, so young to be a widower, and the Seamstresses nod because they already knew, don’t ask them how, somethings you just have to know in that trade.

And his mother—I don’t know, sue me, I’m a time travel fiend but there’s something deeply intriguing about a man meeting his dead parent, who is somewhat younger than him, and stepping into the old relationship like a badly fitting thing that's supposed to fit well. She would know, right? How would she deal with her son’s impossible grief? Maybe she wouldn’t know—he spent most of the time out of the house, running with different street gangs, maybe he avoids her until she dies and lives with the guilt twice over. God, we don’t even know her name. There’s just so much narrative and emotional potential that I don’t even know where to start.

When he’s on duty, which is most time - it’s agonizing because at first he remembers cases, saves lives that would have been lost. But the more time passes, the hazier his memory because in the original timeline he was becoming an alcoholic. Fuck! A kid dies and he could have saved her if he hadn’t been such a drunk, if he had just remembered where the asshole lived, but it’s all a haze, and he wants to drown out his guilt, but that’s what caused this in the first place.

Good young Sammy, who spends his rare off-time in dusty libraries (and yes, the irony that he’s apparently Carrot now is not lost on him) reading gods-only-know.

It’s not like he can ask the wizards for help, cutthroat and vicious as they are now in the not-so-distant-past.

Good young Sam, who...talks to the Broken Drum’s pet Bouncer like he’s a real person and not a dumb rock? That’s a bit weird, but he’s a bit of a funny guy.

Good old Sam, who believed the testimony of the dwarf who said the humans were trying to rob him and let the dwarf go??

the PROBLEMS this man would cause, good grief. Can you imagine a moderately progressive middle aged man with some degree of begrudging diversity and equity training that he did, for all his sins, pay attention to, suddenly going back to like, 1990, going back just 30 years, and going...oh damn this is kind of fucked up, no man you can’t say that, holy shit.

Except Sam’s lived through even more rapidly shifting social moroes! There’s no seamstress guild, there’s no women allowed inside the university, there’s no black ribboner’s society. People hunted trolls for their teeth! But Sam can’t just unlearn everything, and he can’t shut up, and he has no real luck and anyway he would absolutely get himself (temporarily) fired.

FUCK. Sam has no idea what to do with that. None. Zero clue. Wanders around in a haze until that dwarf he saved from police brutality finds him and insists on repaying the debt. No, he insists, do you have any idea what debt means to a dwarf?

“Sort-of?” he replies hesitantly, and that honest admission of incomplete knowledge shows a hell of a lot more respect and understanding than any self proclaimed dwarf-expert ever did.

Gets a job as a surface man, hauling rocks into the city. It’s backbreaking work, but, in true Discworld fashion, it’s also one hell of a workout (again the irony of being Carrot is not lost him. he freezes for a minute while hauling a rock cart, when he remembers he's technically Lost Nobility too, in a strict sense, but someone curses at him in the street and he's comfortingly grounded)

And here is where this au slides into a SPECTACULAR romantic comedy, BEAR WITH ME. Because in his time on the Watch he’s already done noir, action adventure, war story, detective who dunnit, psychological horror, but guards guards only allowed him to be a romance protagonist in an extremely limited context.

Give me righteous, twenty-something-looking, can’t-say-he-doesn’t-have-style, young Sam Vimes, not an alcoholic,  being fed three square meals a day by his dwarven forced found family, hauling rocks. He is startled to find him bumping his head on a low hanging bar that he doesn’t think used to be there, eventually realizing that he’s an inch or two taller than he remembers. Huh. Guess all that bearhuggers really did stunt his growth.

Still doesn’t get what some of the looks from women he’s getting are about, sure, he’s dirty but so is everyone else. Fine, he took his shirt off, but it’s hot out, there’s far wrinklier than him hauling heavy loads, get a life. 

Happens to glance in the Ankh one day when it’s particularly slow and shiny and is startled to realize that he might be turning heads for a different reason. Oh. Right, not that he was ever a heartbreaker, but he did alright for himself... when he was a younger and his face hadn’t been broken so many times. Which...it isn't now.

Is mildly disturbed by the revelation.

Especially once things blow over at the precinct and what with high mortality rates, he ends up with getting hired again. The boys are delighted to have him back, nevermind that he’s an odd one, noone is ever quite in your corner like Vimsey, absence makes the heart fonder, no one else works that hard, and he’s not even competition for promotion. All around great guy, we should set him up with somebody and just, no.

It just keeps getting worse! He’s literate! He’s a feminist! He believes abuse victims! He’s got a tragic backstory! He’s unreasonably good in a fistfight! He’s kind to animals! Word gets around that there’s a good man on the watch and he’s just waiting for a good woman to come snap him up. The widower excuse doesn’t hold people off completely, and for some it’s its own sort-of appeal. 

Things REALLY become stressful after he rescues that carriage full of noblewoman.

What’s he supposed to do? Let them get robbed? Or worse? Chasing down and beating up 10 goons is as easy as beating up one, when they’re that stupid, getting separated like that, drunk and distracted, and he knows these streets better than anyone, really it’s nothing. And oh lord he’s Modest too.

I mean, they were genuinely greatful, as genuine as people like that are capable of being, the skill having grown rusty. And then there is something...magnetic about the man. An air of command.

So, soon enough you get Lady Marigold of Marigrave calling on Treckle Road for that gallant young officer who rescued them, she really needs to thank him. And Viscountess Elanor Thitzferal specifically requesting that he guard her at her next soiree. And Baroness Julieta van Shoeholten insisting that he come to her home while her husband’s away, for... manly protection.

Aaaah just zero sympathy from the guys. None. 'It’s become a competition, they’re just trying to see who can get me into bed first, it’s like I’m a piece of meat, you can’t send me sir, the Marquess greeted me in a nightee last time you made me go to—' and 'small gods Vimes are you even listening to yourself, shut the hell up'.

Simultaneous to this, (again this is several years into the timeline) swamp dragon accessories come into style. Which means abandoned swamp dragons scrounging on the street. Vimes takes one back to his apartment, blows his paycheck on dragon medicine, and eventually, heart in his chest, brings it to the Ramkin estate. The sunshine orphanage doesn’t even exist yet and he’s just standing outside the gates like an idiot, what is he thinking. Turns around, but her carriage is pulling up and—

well. they meet. it's cute. he's never felt so young. he's never felt so old, too old for her, too poor—

and certainly her thoughts linger too long on the awkward, kindly, handsome young commoner, but is it any wonder she doesn't quite connect it to the stern, dangerous, sexy young guard the ladies seem to be in some quiet, cuthroat competition over?

i have this gorgeous, absurd scene in my head in which Vimes is strong armed into standing guard at some high society soiree and one of the pushiest ladies insists he dance with here, or, if he prefers, if he's not confident about his skills, he can dance with her in-private at her home and he’s like [grinding teeth, looking for a way out, seeinf one] “I would be honored to dance with you.”

Steps right into some ultra-complex dance with multiple partner swaps (she never thought he'd pick this one, devilishly intimidating to one not strictly trained, and you barely spend anytime with your first partner).

But he does alright. Better than alright, for a common man, sometimes misstepping but his hands and feet always end up where they need to be. Raises several eyebrows part way into the song because he's throuwing in some slightly scandalous, no innovative, extra lifts and twirls that wouldn't become fashionable for another decade or two. Who even is that guy? Some out of towner? No, no he's in a guards uniform...how very strange.

Gets to Sybll and she's used to embarrassment during these dances, she tries to get out of them when she can... but can't always. Men awkwardly skipping the lifts, or worse, trying and failing. But him — oh it's him, the one who helped little Erold, and looked at her like—like—well like she was someone beautiful. And he's doing it again, and he's strong and there's a quiet moment where she's in the air, they lock eyes, and the rest of the room melts away.

And then the partners change again, the moment ended.

Just...living throught it all again. To the left, a dance he almost knows the steps to, throwing others off balance with erratic moves , honest mistakes, and delibrate stepping on toes. Improvising. Ruining. Improving. Getting far, far too much attention.

Hes almost excited when the first assassains start coming after him. It's like a hobby.

Everyone tells him he should get a hobby.

Interactions with young vetinari...I don't have the energy to write it all down, the slow circling in on each other, both burning with the need to fix the city, save it, their city.

needless to say he ends up fired again, life under real threat after offending some high lord.

Conveniently enough he has an employment opportunity- bodyguard to fucking Vetinari on his 'grand sneer.' The bastard knows vimes isn't what he seems, though sam is pretty sure that he doesnt know the exacts.

Vetinari hypothesis:(the ghost of keel? Keels son, with some hereditary curse? Or a larger spirit of justice possessing a string of unrelated souls? He knows things he shouldn't- mind reader? Fortune teller? Havelock once arranged for a wizard to bump into him on the street, the magical fool gave an odd double look and then muttered something about destiny looping in on itself giving him a headache. Destiny? Lost noble? And hes far too familiar with sybyl, one of the few bearable noblewomen in this city. And his thoughts on guilds, when havelock can trip him into speaking... Most of all, if hes reading him at all correctly (for all the mystery hes not that hard to read, unless thats a very clever cover) then it seems that behind those dark haunted eyes is Respect. Loyalty. For vetinari. What an interesting man. A puzzling asset. An intriguing threat. )

Did I mention the timeline is changing, healing slowly around the place where it was torn? Healing enough around scars to perhaps get some flexibility back, with some painful stretches and...massaging of said scar tissue?

And hes heading to unresting uberwald, a place where a werewolf pack still hunts humans and, truely unrelated but perhaps equally exhausting, an eldritch spirit of vengeance just might be looking to stretch its legs in a hapless vessel?

Opening drabble Vimes Vetinari Meta (Unwell)

#discworld #sam vimes #discworld au #nightwatch au #i literally drafted this post in December 2021 #and i know it was living in my head for years already at that point #i have more somewhere aging like cheese in the back of my mind #discworld fanfic #night watch #Let this be free from my mind #Perhaps someone else will write it #BE FREE ANCIENT AU OF MY SOUL #For all my obsession with discworld I have but this one (1) AU though it tears at me like the seam of a pair of pants #The songs I have permanently associated with this au are slightly bonkers by the way #My au #Seriously there's like two full novels worth of content up here. Sybyll running away from home and living as a commoner #To mirror Sam joining upper class in original timeline you see? #Some early discworld murder Wizard nonsense when they try to poke at the temporal anomaly and the universe goes brrrr #Eventually catching up with color of Magic city burning bs and vimes is mad as fuck #Weird year that never was protecting people during sourcery #And when we start catching up with where he left #Oh ho ho you can't to forward to something that doesn't exist but maybe you can go sideways to a place that's got a tear in it #A sam vimes shaped tear #And his pregnant wife from 30 years ago in the other trouser leg #AND that's not even mentioning how carcers trial got taken to a...higher court

[little-smartass]

20 Questions: Writer’s Edition

tagged by the wonderful @dotsayers

answers under the cut!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

29 if you combine both pseuds

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

oh god you are asking me to do maths at this time of the morning??? the total comes to 280,707 (holy shit)

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

I have written for the untamed, vampire chronicles, les mis, star trek, discworld and xmen on ao3, and on The Site Which Must Not Be Named I posted fic for the edge chronicles, harry potter, and teen titans. I also posted edge chronicles and teen titans and beyblade fics on dA and various forums back in the day.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

All In at 1636 kudos

Into The Open Air at 335 kudos

Where There's A Will, There's A Road at 249 kudos

The Slow Path at 207 kudos

Of the Gold-Clad Behinds of Patricians at 177

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't really do angsty endings, because I'm baby, but the les trekkables fic you have and always will be ends with R dying (though as it's a star trek crossover you know Enjolras will figure out how to bring him back), and Soulmate Words and Solemn Promises is pretty sad but I'd say more bittersweet than angsty?

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

oh boy, I'm gonna have to say All In - I am honestly very proud of the epilogue, sometimes I reread it when I want to be emotionally devastated in a good way l m a o

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I do! difficult to say the craziest, as I feel like that's a matter of opinion, but I've written the aforementioned les trekkables with @dotsayers, as well as our dearly beloved but never published wondrous les hogwables (les mis/harry potter). @xaviersass and I workshopped about a million crossover AUs, including but not limited to xmen/grease, xmen/mr&mrs smith, xmen/suits, xmen/austen, xmen/potc, xmen/frozen, xmen/titanic, xmen/love punch, xmen/RED, xmen/aristocats, xmen/friends, and last but certainly not least, xmen/scooby doo :)

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

uhhh no. I would maybe be open to writing it, but not on my own askjdldsjkg it is too easy to make me cringe I would simply wimp out.

9. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I only respond to comments if the commenter asks a specific question I feel needs answering. why? I guess because I don't really expect authors to respond to me when I leave comments, I see it as more like the tag system on tumblr - a sort of passive feedback-like interaction?

10. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

yes, but only from that one asshole troll who was surfing the vc side of ao3 for a while

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

uhhh not that I know of?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

mmm not that I can think of

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yep! I've co-written with @dotsayers on several les mis pieces, both published and not, as well as co-written with @xaviersass on some unpublished xmen stuff, and @spicyshimmy-blog on All In. I am currently co-writing with @ellethinthewoods on our MONSTER of an untamed AU. I really really enjoy co-writing!!!

14. What’s your all time favourite ship to write for?

oh man, uh... that's a tough one. I don't feel like I can really give a definitive answer, as whichever ship is my current obsession will always feel like my favourite haha! though kirk/spock was definitely good fun, and I really enjoyed writing nieyao in Where There's A Will, There's A Road

15. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

hmmm. there will always be a place in my heart for les hogwables ngl, as well as the fireman azazel AU, but I am legit gutted I never finished the human!loustat fic... maybe one day, when that hyperfixation inevitably rears its head again ;_;

16. What are your writing strengths?

I find dialogue very easy to churn out, and I have been told that I have a very cinematic style of describing scenes, but I think my biggest strength is my STUBBORNNESS when I decide I am going to finish a fic, and I am good at sticking to writing deadlines

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

oh boy, I would say action sequences, and also REMEMBERING TO DESCRIBE THE CHARACTER'S SURROUNDINGS. I tend to intensely focus on the characters and their interactions and that can often really bog the plot down... if there even is a plot...

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I've thrown in bits and pieces of french in VC fics, but I'm not really confident in any other languages to do full dialogue without a native speaker advising me

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

ahhhh BEYBLADE my beloved

20. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

oh hmmm, tough one. All In is definitely up there, as is The Slow Path, but honestly I will go back and reread One Week, Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day, and Balance all the time if I want cheering up. the as yet unnamed absolute sprawling behemoth of an untamed AU is absolutely gonna be my fave once it's done tho.

tagging @guqin-and-flute, @adorablecrab, @justkeeptrekkin, and @vraik + @goth-mabel, if they fancy doing this!

#irl #THANKS FOR THE TAG ROSIE <3 #this was fun #about me

[the-lincyclopedia]

Fic Questions

I’m pretending I got tagged by @doggernaut. Thanks for the open call!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 

132, babey. 

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 

338,778 words. 

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

According to FFN (I’ve been there a heck of a lot longer than I’ve been on AO3), I’ve written for 23 fandoms: Artemis Fowl, Hoot, Harry Potter, Maximum Ride, the Odyssey, Protector of the Small Quartet, Song of the Lioness, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Sherlock, Discworld, Downton Abbey, Legally Blonde, Pride and Prejudice, Carry On, Paper Towns, Turtles All the Way Down, Yuri!!! on Ice, Maleficent, Six of Crows, Trials of Apollo series, Good Omens, Check, Please!, and Chronicles of Narnia. 

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? 

Love in the Time of Influenza (Carry On)

Face the Future with You (Check Please)

Nightmares (Carry On)

The Aftermath of Angelic Assumptions (Good Omens)

Christmas Planning (Carry On)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? 

Yes, almost always. Less so if it’s just a smiley face or a single word, but almost always if it’s longer than that. 

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? 

I don’t think I’ve ever written an ending with zero hope, but I have a few ones on the grim side. It’s probably a tie between “A Few Things, Maybe Several Things,” a genderbent Check Please fic where Jacqueline Zimmermann is recovering from an eating disorder and fighting with her parents, and “You’ve Saved Me from Another World,” a Narnia fic about Susan not returning to Narnia. 

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the wildest one you’ve written?

So, my most popular fic ever was a crossover of Harry Potter and Sherlock in which Remus Lupin and John Watson were the same person. It’s called “The Jumper Chronicles” and it’s only on FFN. (Fair warnings: I wrote it in high school and then abandoned it, so it’s both awful and unfinished.) Other than that, I’ve got a Check Please/Lizzie Bennet Diaries crossover called “A Little Help” where Bitty and Lizzie meet at VidCon and become close friends, a Check Please/Carry On crossover called “Checking You Out” where Holster and Baz work on an econ project together and Holster encourages Baz to ask Simon out, and a Check Please/Harry Potter crossover called “You Won’t Grow Out of It; You Will Find Clothes That Fit” where Ginny and Lardo are roommates and both realize they’re nonbinary.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I once received 17 consecutive hate comments from the same person on one of my multi-chapters over the course of two days. It was awful. Like, I got pretty used to one-off flames and concrit when I was on FFN, and I rolled with that pretty well, but I have no idea why someone would read 17 chapters of a fic they hate and then tell the author how much they hate it 17 times. 

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? 

Not really. I’ve written a bit of grinding once or twice, but never actual sex. 

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen? 

Not to my knowledge. I can name at least three spinoffs of my fics, though. That’s always gratifying. 

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don’t think so. 

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before? 

Not officially, but I’ve had friends help me figure out what happens next in my fics and/or give me ideas and prompts, so there are definitely fics I couldn’t have written entirely independently. 

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship? 

All-time? Don’t put that kind of pressure on me! I feel like the ship I’m least likely to ever stop loving is Elizabeth Bennet/Darcy, but I’ve never been as obsessed with them as I’ve gotten with some of my other ships. 

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? 

I feel like there’s a decent chance I’ll finish the WIPs I’m invested in, or I’ll stop being invested in the ones I don’t finish. Although I do currently have a Nurseydex fic that might never see the light of day . . .

15. What are your writing strengths? 

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: perseverance. I’ve averaged a fic every two weeks for the past two years, and I also write original stuff. I don’t know that I’m particularly stellar at any individual aspect of writing, though I’m at least okay at several things. I really do think that my main strength is just that I keep writing. 

16. What are your writing weaknesses? 

Too few sensory details, too many logistical details, and no consistent ability to predict human behavior. Pretty sure all of this is my autism coming through. 

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? 

I try to avoid it, especially when I don’t speak the relevant languages. I used to do it and it didn’t work out well. I will say that I’ve tried writing entire fics in both Swedish and Spanish before. They were bad, partly because that was like eight years ago and partly because I’m not 100% fluent in either of those languages, but like. I have given it a shot. (I’d love to write more stuff about Louis being Swedish, one day, and that might involve some Swedish dialogue, but I’m pretty confident in my own translation abilities there.)

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for? 

So, I got an FFN account in 2011 and immediately posted stuff for Artemis Fowl, Hoot, Harry Potter, and Maximum Ride, but the first time I wrote fanfiction was back in fifth grade, when my teacher read us Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn and I was so unsatisfied with the ending that I decided to write a sequel. I worked on the sequel for over a year and it wound up being probably about 30k (typed, 1.5 spacing, 12-point font, it was like 90 pages). 

19. What’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written? 

Probably my 2020 Fandom Trumps Hate fic, “Man Oh Man, You’re My Best Friend.” It was my first (only?) attempt at the fake dating trope and I had a blast writing it, and I feel like I ticked my own boxes when it comes to insecure characters receiving love.

I tag @weneedtotalkaboutfic @ivecarvedawoodenheart @shitty-check-please-aus @birlcholtz @cricketnationrise @khashanakalashtar and anyone else who wants to play! (I can feel myself forgetting people and I’m pre-emptively sorry!)

#mine #my writing #about me #fanfiction #tag game

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Get to Know the Writer Tag

I'm still like a month behind with these tag games. If I was ever on time for anything, just assume I've been replaced with a doppelganger lol. @hklunethewriter tagged me in these and I love these questions so much! I'm not going to tag anyone in particular because I'm so crazy behind, but if anyone wants to do these, go ahead! Tag me back so I can read your answers. :D 1.) What AUs do you fantasize about the most? Not a specific kind of AU, but a "if this event had gone a different way, what would have happened instead?" I have so so many drafts of short stories started that are just based on characters making different decisions. One I turned into a finished short story ("Change of Choice" is on Wattpad) but the rest are in story-limbo. I may finish them someday or I might not. I think I just like to fantasize about what could have been. 2.) What’s most valuable in a beta reader? I'm not really sure because I haven't yet reached the point of needing a beta reader. I'm thinking it would be that they'd notice plot holes that I might have missed- I have a feeling I'll need that most lol. 3.) Which character is the most like you? I'd say I'm some weird cross between Adair and Etri. Like Etri has my social anxiety and introversion and is more like who I am now, but Adair has the cheerful naivety, see the best in everyone outlook I had when I was his age. I was also obsessed with food and cats and art back then and was way more outgoing and social. Honestly, now that I'm thinking about it, Adair's pretty dang similar to how I was at 18. (Now I'm wondering what Adair would be like in 16 years. I guess I’ll find out when I get around to writing the book that has his daughter as an MC!) 4.) What’s your WIP’s theme song? I have a few songs I tend to associate with book 1. In particular I'd say “One of Us” by New Politics, “The Lucky Ones” by Brendan James, and “Everything's Magic” by Angels and Airwaves. 5.) Describe your creative style in a word. Ridiculous. (I’m not insulting the question, my creative style is silly and ridiculous.) 6.) Is there a book whose pedigree you want to reach? ??? I guess this means is there a book that I'd want my books to be loved like? I'd probably say the Discworld series. (I know I won't be as popular, though, because my comedic fantasy series is so very lgbt+ and there’s going to be a large audience that isn’t cross-over. A lot of straight/cis dudes like Pratchett, basically, and that’s pretty much the opposite of my target audience.) 7.) Who do you think you write like? (You can put some text in iwl.me to see what you get. I’ve gotten Joyce and Shakespeare lol) Well, I was heavily influenced by Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Mystery Science Theater 3000, so those are probably in there somewhere. (That link gave me Stephen King who I've never read anything by, but I can probably safely say I write nothing like lol.) 8.) If you had to go through a publishing press, do you know which one it’d be? It can be small, indie, or big. I still have no idea how I'm going to publish. 9.) How many finished stories do you have? Is this counting short stories and novellas? I think I had about six or seven prior to my current dorks and since then I've written about 16. I've only finished one book to the end, though. 10.) What’s the hardest part about being a writer? Having all these ideas and not being able to write them fast enough! I think my process is starting to speed up, but it takes me the better part of a year to finish one draft.

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