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belphegor1982 · 3 years

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@tinydooms tagged me for a fanfic questions thing a while ago - thank you :o)

How many works do you have on AO3?

55. But I have 66 on FFnet, including about 18 crossposted to AO3.

What’s your total AO3 word count?

472,530 😐

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

...at this juncture it would probably save time if I link to my “my fics” Tumblr page? If I go with just the finished stories and published WIPs, there’s Harry Potter, Great Mouse Detective, the Mummy films, Pirates of the Caribbean, Kung Fu Panda, Watchmen, Justice League/Justice League Unlimited (the DCAU), Discworld, White Collar, Hogan’s Heroes, Kaamelott, Ninja Turtles, the Don Camillo series, and Zorro.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Let’s see -

Villains (DCAU), 271 kudos

After the Sunset (The Mummy series), 127 kudos

Culture Shock (crossover, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Turtles Forever), 111 kudos

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I regularly forget, but I try, and often end up doing so very late. Sometimes it leads to complete conversations in the comments, which I love. Too bad FFnet forbade that kind of interaction years ago (authors used to respond to reviews in the body of the fic until FFnet introduced the “review reply” through the PMs).

The rest under a cut because I can’t shut up!!

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

Oh, that’s easy. If (Hogan’s Heroes), the AU of an episode opening where one of the gang gets shot lightly and another character is severely wounded. It’s less than 800 words of stunned shock angst with no reprieve at all.

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

I have! And I don’t know if it does qualify as “crazy”, but the most out there is probably the little conversation in some kind of afterlife that Sergeant Schultz (Hogan’s Heroes) and Sergeant García have in For Auld Lang Syne about the clever men who drove them crazy, shouldn’t have been their friends, but kind were nonetheless.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I don’t think so. In twenty years! Goes to show just how under the radar I’ve been for most of these two decades :D

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I do, have for a year and a half, and I still blush about it. 99% of the time it’ll be soft, warm, not necessarily loving but affectionate, at least, between characters who are fond of one another and like to spend time together. I have written one story in which the smut was a Bad Idea for the characters but they’re friendly and both decide that it was a Bad Idea with no hard feelings.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope! I have done translations, but never been translated. Although a while ago someone told me they wanted my permission to translate one of my Don Camillo fics into Italian, which I enthusiastically agreed to because holy crap YES!?? But I haven’t heard from them since so far.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I have written a fic in a collection of one-shots made into a story, Mothers of the Caribbean, about the mothers of the PotC characters, but it’s not the same, is it.

What’s your all time favourite ship?

The Surprise I don’t... really do ships? But if I really had to choose, based on the force of my feelings and the amount of content I’ve created for them, I’d say my Jon/Tommy/Elizabeth OT3 💜

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

So. Bloody. Many. For instance the Great Mouse Detective fic where a mouse who breeds cats (yes, cats) comes to see Basil because one of his animals went missing. I started writing this in French because I didn’t quite trust my English at the time (it was a looooong time ago) and I had plenty of ideas as to what happened next, but honestly I think the spark has gone out long ago.

What are your writing strengths?

Hmm. I don’t know, dialogue? Writing things for characters to say and exchange? Most of my fics’ dynamics are based on characters communicating in some way rather than plotty things (which I struggle at).

What are your writing weaknesses?

...see above :D Plotting things! Devising a puzzle that falls into place as you read! Not introducing OCs only to drop them later with next to no closure! Those are Things That Are Difficult 🙃

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

Love them when it makes sense. I’m not a fan of peppering dialogue in a language the characters are supposed to be speaking with random words in that language just to remind the reader that they’re supposed to be speaking that language. (I have done it, though, of course, sometime in the 20-odd years I’ve been writing. Writing evolves.) There are nuances, though, and you can have:

a whole sentence in [language the point of view character doesn’t speak] can (if the reader doesn’t understand the language either) show how the character is out of their depth. I will always put translations at the bottom of the chapter, in a footnote if I can;

a sentence or words in a foreign language the character does speak can show they’re comfortable with that language;

“[Character] heard the woman shout a few words in French” shows that Character doesn’t speak French and therefore doesn’t know what “the woman” just shouted;

“[Character] heard the man tell off his child in French” shows that Character understands French enough to know what the man said to his child exactly;

and then you’ve got the case of appellations for other characters (”mum”, “darling”, “mate”, etc.) that a character whose first language isn’t English can use without even thinking about it, or -

some words or expressions English just doesn’t have a direct equivalent for (or the character can’t find one at the moment - like LeBeau’s line to Major Hochstetter in The Mystery of the Exploding Bridges (Hogan’s Heroes), “Décidément, your pronunciation is atrocious.” “Décidément” doesn’t have a equivalent on its own, it’s just there to emphasize that yep, Hochstetter’s pronunciation really is terrible.)

So, yeah. If you’re reading something I wrote, unless the general context calls for another language, the characters are speaking English. If for some reason they switch to another language the text will mention it at some point.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Huh. Technically? Probably the Sherlock Hound plot what plot whump I wrote when I was about 12, loooong before I knew fanfiction and hurt/comfort was a thing.

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

That’s for me to ponder and for you to wonder ;o) no, seriously, I have no bloody idea

Tagging @rose-of-pollux, @thisstableground, @radarsteddybear and anyone who’d like to do it!

#about fanfiction #sometimes I write

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nat-20s · 5 years

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Please, tell me more about Donna’s “Wild Past Before Doctor” I, like you, can spend all my time discussing these two dumbasses til my dying breath

Listen LISTEN Donna was not a chaotic smart dumbass because she was friends with ten, she was friends with ten because she was ALREADY a chaotic smart dumbass. She snuck onto a train to Scotland at age SIX like what do you expect her to do? be boring? i have to laugh

Some things I personally think Donna did pre-doctor:

-got really into “urban exploring” (fancy trespassing) for like three months and thus has been to SO MANY haunted locations

-stole her mum’s car at age 13 to get some chicken nuggets

-glitter bombed a church and thus has been banned for life

-gotten about halfway through 3 different bachelors before getting bored and deciding this was not for her

-successfully hid a pet mouse in her dorm room for a year and a half

-once bought ducks from a farm off of craigs list and snuck them into a movie theater for the express purpose of getting a photo with the theme of “getting your ducks into a row”

-placed a brick in one of the back doors of a planetarium on a school trip so that she could later sneak into said planetarium after hours. got a stern talking to by a night security guard, but also got surprisingly far into playing with the controls before she got caught

-gone on SO MANY road trips

-Got her actual scuba diving certification only to immediately go underwater cave diving, which you need a separate set of classes for

-has not used the Buddy system on many occasions that she was supposed to use the buddy system

-such as underwater cave diving

-had 4 distinct near death experiences that she is aware of

-helped smuggle an incredibly tiny wiener dog into a birthday party at an amusement park

-was an employee of said amusement park

-had many brushes with aliens without knowing it, including a blind date. it was FAR from the worst first date she’s ever had

-gotten arrested for disturbing the peace at a bachelorette party

-been actually fired on 6 occasions: 4 times for mouthing off at the boss, 1 time due to genuinely fucking up the job, and once on a bet to see just how much she could get away with

-took a tourist trap tour of the usa, specifically hitting only the tackiest of locations. The kind of museums that cost 4 bucks to get into, ya know?

-spent an entire night with every book of spells she could find in the library trying to perform witchcraft because hey at least it was something to do

-had a temp job as a ghost tour host. told a group of teenagers about how she made up SOOOO much shit. Did meet one ghost during her stint, but it was during her commute rather than on the job

-got an entire bar on new year’s to sing auld lang syne, but instead of lyrics was just “blah blah blah blah BLAH blaaah blah blah”

- set off professional fireworks during a camping trip

-dumped rocket fuel into the camp fire on the same trip

-drowned a minivans engine trying to drive through three feet of water on the SAME TRIP

-entered a blood pact with Nerys such that if any of them try to actually end the contentious friendship it will result in mutually assured destruction

-acquired a fake ID at age 16 not to get drunk but instead to adopt a cat without her mum’s permission. She named it “Wilf 2″ :)

#lovely-little-bubbly-bitch #donna noble #replies #nat talks doctor who

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classicalliberalleague · 7 years

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@NAC you had a list of books on your old page of recommended readings...but I can't find it now. Could you repost it?

I assume you mean this one ( I have this list on my web page with links included for the public domain stuff I could find…I try to keep it updated as I think of new things or find new ones.)

Young adult/childrenThe Little Prince by Saint-ExuperyWhere the sidewalk ends by SilversteinElla Minnow Pea by DunnSophie’s World by GaarderThe Great Good Thing by TownleyThe Jungle Book by Kipling Bridge to Terabithia by DiamondThe Westing Game by RaskingLillies of the Field by BarrettFlowers for Algernon by KeyesThe Wrinkle in Time Series(Wrinkle In Time, Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet) by Madeleine L’EngleThe Dark is Rising Series by Susan CooperThe Tripod Trilogy by John ChristopherThe Hobbit by TolkienCoraline by Neil GaimanEyes of the Dragon by Stephen KingThe Original Shanara Trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong) and Landover (Magic Kingdom for Sale, SOLD!, The Black Unicorn, Wizard at Large, The Tangle Box) by Terry Brooks by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Witch of Blackbird PondAdventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain

Literature Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy & Frederika by Mark HelprinShakespeare (Especially Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V, sonnets) Iliad Odyssey by Homer (I like the Fagles translation)Sophocles–Oedipus Trilogy , , Philoctetes , Women of Trachis Orestia by Aeschylus Medea by Euripides Victor HugoLes Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dam by Hugo A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens To Kill A Mockingbird by LeeWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Complete works of Faulkner ( esp.The Sound and the Fury, Light in August) by FaulknerHoward’s End by Forster Diary of a Young Girl by FrankThe Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne Catch 22 by HellerGone with the Wind by MitchellFrankenstein by Shelley The Portrait of Dorian Gray , Importance of Being Earnest , An Ideal Husband by WildeThe Time Machine by Wells A Raisin in the Sun by HansberryNight by WieselThe Glass Menagerie by WilliamsThe Devil’s Disciple by ShawA Man for All Seasons by BoltCyrano de Bergerac by Ronstad (unless you speak French only the Hooker translation)Dracula by Stoker Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and LeeMagnificent Obsession by DouglasSilas Marner by George Eliot Decameron –Boccaccio A Modest Proposal—SwiftSelf-Reliance, The American Scholar, Experience—EmersonUp from Slavery—Booker T. Washington

PhilosophyA History of Knowledge by Van DorenThe Cave and the Light by HermanPlato (Euthyphro , Apology , Gorgias , Crito, Phaedo , Symposium , Republic )Aristotle (Metaphysics , Nicomachean Ethics , Eudemian Ethics , Politics , Rhetoric , Poetics )The History of Philosophy by CoplestonDiscourses on Livy by Machiavelli Ethical and Political Writings of St. Thomas AquinasAristotle for Everybody, 10 Philosophical Mistakes, The Great Ideas, How to Read A Book by AdlerCicero (On the Gods , On Duties , 1st and 2nd Philippics Superheroes and Philosophy edited by MorrisBuffy The Vampire Slayer and Philosophy edited by South

HistoryHistory of the Ancient World, Medieval World, Renaissance World by Susan Wise BauerThe Forgotten Man, Coolidge by ShlaesHistory of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides John Adams by McCulloughFrom Dawn to Decadence by BarzunPlutarch’s Lives Cicero, Augustus by EverittLetters of John and Abigail Adams Washington by Ron ChernowThe Glorious Cause by Robert MiddlekauffLost Enlightenment by StarrReagan’s War by SchweizerPatriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart and AllenThe closing of the Muslim Mind by ReillyThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Economics/PoliticsWho Really Cares and The Road to Freedom by Arthur BrooksThe World is Flat by Thomas FriedmanDave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by BarryDemocracy in America by de Tocqueville The Law by Bastiat The Upside of Down by McArdkeSpirit of the Laws The Federalist Papers Adam Smith (Theory of Moral Development , Wealth of Nations )My Journey by BlairThe Conscience of a Conservative by GoldwaterLocke (Second Treatise of Government , A Letter Concerning Tolerance )Parliament of Whores, Eat the Rich, On Wealth, Peace Kills by O’RourkeIn Defense of Globalization by BhagwatiNovus Ordo Seclorum by McDonaldBasic Economics, Civil Rights by SowellThe Next 100 Years by FriedmanThe Mystery of Capital by de SotoThe Road to Serfdom by HayekCapitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose by FriedmanNew Threats To Freedom edited by BellowA Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France by BurkeThe General Theory by KeynesThe Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Decay by FukuyamaBourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Equality, Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre McCloskeyCapital by Marx The Conservative Mind by Kirk

Other nonfictionPower of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Universe in a Nutshell by HawkingFreakanomics by Levitt & DubnerThe Art of War by Sun TzuScratch beginnings by ShepardThe Tao of Physics by CapraShadowplay by AsquithHuman Excellence by MuarryThe Better Angles of Our Nature by Pinker48 Laws of Power by GreeneThe Story of Western Science by Bauer

Pleasure readingMan in the High Castle by DickBeat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by ForesterThe Road to Gandolfo, Bourne Trilogy by LudlumBig Trouble by BarryEaters of the Dead, State of Fear by CrichtonRed Storm Rising by ClancyI, Claudius by GravesThe Walking Drum by L’AmourGates of Fire by PressfieldThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Ozcry It and The Green Mile by KingThe Agony and the Ecstasy by StonePillars of the Earth by FollettThe Historian by KostovaGrail Quest by CornwallThe Thirteenth Tale by StterfieldLamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Vampire Trilogy, The Stupidest Angel and Fool by Moore

Sci fi/Fantasy Mists of Avalon, The Forrest House by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (et. al)Dune Series by Frank Herbert (et. al)The Sword of Truth Series by Terry GoodkindWorks of Robert Heinlein (esp. Stranger in a Strange Land, Puppet Master, Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Double Star)Good Omens by Gaiman and PratchettWatership Down by AdamsEnder’s Game by CardAmerican Gods by GaimanAnthem, Atlas Shrugged by RandHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Adams1984 by George Orwell2001–Clarke

Spiritual The Robe by DouglasLost Horizon by HiltonGod Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita by YoganadaThe Second Coming of Christ by YoganandaThe Tao Te Ching (best to read at least two translations)The Alchemist, Veronica Decides to Die by CoelhoAutobiography of a Yogi by YoganandaEvidence of the Afterlife by LongA Course in MiraclesThe Messengers by IngramThe Celestine Prophecy by RedfieldLife before Life by TuckerJonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by BachSiddartha by HesseKoranThe Book of CertitudeHoly BibleBook of Mormon

PoetryThe Prophet, The Broken Wings, Song of Man by GibranLeaves of Grass by Whitman (esp. Preface, Song of Myself, I hear America Singing, Corinna’s Going A-Maying,When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, O Me! O Life!, O Captain! My Captain!)Works of Tennyson (especially The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, Charge of the Light Brigade, For I dipped into the Future, In Memoriam A.H.H., Crossing the Bar, Ulysses)Works of T.S. Eliot (especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland, Hollow Men, Preludes-, Four Quartets)Divine Comedy by Dante (I like the Mandelbaum translation) Metamorphoses by Ovid Hesperides and Nobel Numbers by Herrick (esp. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Argument of his book, Delight in Disorder, To His Conscience, Upon Julia’s ClothesFaust by Goethe Part I Part II Works of Sappho, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Tu Fu (best to read several translations)Tagore (esp. Gitanjali)Spencer– Amoretti (Sonnets 1,8, 10, 35, 37, 67,68, 70,75, 79)Sidney —Astrophil & Stella (Sonnets 1,6,9,15, 31,39,45,52,69,71,72,87,89,108)The Passionate Shepherd to His Love—MarloweThe Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd—RaleighShakespeare’s Sonnets (all them)Meditation 17, Holy Sonnet 10, The Bait—DonneTo a Mouse, To a Louse, Auld Lang Syne. A Red Red Rose–BurnsThe Lamb, The Tyger—BlakeRime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan—ColeridgeShe Walks in Beauty Like the Night, When We Two Parted, Darkness, We’ll Go No More A Roving, When A Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home—ByronA Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing—PopeThe Measure of a Man—UnknownInvictus–HenleyPrayer of St. Francis of Assisi—Unknown (but probably not St. Francis)Ozymandias, The Flight of Love, To—, —ShellyOde on a Grecian Urn, La Belle Dame Sans Merci—KeatsSea Fever–MasefieldMy Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister—BrowningSonnet 43—Barret BrowningRemember, Up-hill, Echo, Promises like Pie-Crust, Lord thou thyself art love,—C.G. RossettiSudden Light, The House of Life, Soul’s Beauty—D.G. RossettiThe New Colossus–LazarusSecond Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, When you are Old, Lake Island of Inishfree—YeatsDo Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night—ThomasWork—Angela MorganThe Highwayman–NoyesCasey at Bat—ThayerJabberwocy, Walrus and the Carpenter, The Hunting of the Snark–CarrollDream Deferred, I too sing America– HughesThe Road Not Taken, Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, Out, Out–Frost

Short StoriesWilde (The Carterville ghost , The model millionaire , The nightingale and the rose )Poe (Masque of the Red Death . Tell tale heart , Cask of Amontillado , Fall of the house if of usher , The Purloined Letter ,The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade , Pit and the Pendulum , Mertzengerstein , The Duc De L’omlette , The black cat , The Murders of the Rue Morgue , Van Kempelen and his discovery , Mesmeric revelation )Hawthorne (My Kinsman Major Molineux , Young Goodman Brown , Rappacini’s Daughter , Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment , The Snow Image , The Minister’s Black Veil , The Maypole of Merry Mount , The Celestial Railroad , Sister Years , The New Adam and Eve , The Artist of the Beautiful )O. Henry ( Lickpenny Lover , The Gift of the Magi ,After Twenty Years , The Last Leaf , The Cop and the Anthem , The Clarion Call , The Skylight Room , The Buyer from Cactus City , The Duplicity of the Hargraves , The Furnished Room , Witches loaves , The Third Ingredient , Spring time a la Carte , The Green Door , By Courier, The Romance of the Busy Broker, One Thousand Dollars, Tobin’s Palm)Lovecraft—(The Cats of Ultar , The Outsider , Beyond the wall of sleep , Hypnos , The call of Cuthulu , Dunwich horror , Dagon)EM Forrester (The Other side of the Hedge , The Machine Stops )Edith Wharton –The fullness of life Collins–Mr. Lismore and the Widow Bradbury—Exiles, Sound of thunderHans Christian Anderson –( In a thousand years , Little mermaid )Ambrose Bierce–Occurrence at owl creek bridgeConnell–The most dangerous game Thousand and One nights–Aladdin and his magic lamp The necklace by Maupassant Anthony Hope–The Philosophy in the Apple Orchard Doyle (The Red Headed League , Scandal in Bohemia)Gilman–The Yellow Wallpaper Harrison Bergeron by VonnegutThe story of an hour by Kate Chopin The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Rikki tiki tavi by KiplingThe ones who walk away from Omelas by Le Guin Bartley the scrivener by MelvilleThe lady or the tiger by Frank Stockton Abbot–FlatlandJericho Road by Henry van dyke Henlein– (The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, All you zombies, By his bootstraps, Waldo, Beyond this horizon)Philip K. Dick (We can remember it for you wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety, The Minority Report, The Golden Man, Variable Man)William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily, The Tall Men, Shingles for the Lord, Shall not Perish, Elly, Uncle Willy, That will be Fine, That Evening Sun, Red Leaves, A Justice, A Courtship, Lo!, Ad Astra, All the Dead Pilots, Wash, Mountain Victory, Beyond)Mark Twain (The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, Diary of Adam and Eve)Washington Irving (Sleepy Hollow, , The Devil and Tom Walker )Gelett Burgess–The number Thirteen , The MacDougal street affair Lord Dunsany– The bureau d’exchange de Maux , The Exiles club , The Sword of Walleran The mortal immortal byMary Shelly The Adventure of the Snowing Globe By F. AnsteyThe Sleeper and Spindle by GaimanMark Helprin (Katherine comes to yellow sky, Ellis island, Tamar)

PodcastsThe History of Rome, Revolutions

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