#i wasn't gonna do anything w this wip but actually i think i might mess around w it for the content creation class i'm in

[mostlymaudlin]

Hi! For ao3 wrapped I’d love if you answered 5, 12, and 30 😊

5. What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

this SHOULDN'T have surprised me, but bangable was my first outright smut piece for aftg, and i laughed when i woke up the next morning and my inbox was POPPIN. i feel like aftg fandom is usually p quiet in the comment section (or im just spoiled by the richness of simon snow fandom), but people were SO READY to talk about this blowjob hahahha.

12. How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

oh man LOL. theres a short answer and a long answer and im gonna go for long bc maybe talking abt it all will hold me accountable for finishing stuff.

ok so like technically i have 1 million wips. jk. technically technically i have 41 aftg wips (and ENDLESS more simon snow wips), but most of those google docs are resting in peace in my "wip graveyard" folder. they may be resurrected one day but who knows.

so more accurately i am currently sitting on four wips! all aftg.

my hs au We Can Live Forever... which i actually completed the next chapter for! but i dont want to post it until i finish the one after bc i kind of leave it off on a mean note. i might post it anyway so that people get mad at me and motivate me to keep writing though...

what i have dubbed "slut au," in which our favorite resident ace neil explores sex. its sitting at 20k rn, about halfway thru the plot. very messy atm. about 60% smut.

my secret aftg winter exchange fic

my (NEW AS OF A FEW HOURS AGO) secret aftg mixtape exchange fic

im also p much always playing w flash fics, AAAAND i have been thinking abt revisiting this old au i was working on last spring where neil works at a froyo shop. i actually wrote an entire first draft for that -- i think its sitting at like 12k but its a complete mess. i think of her tho... the found family vibes were v good...

OH and i am seriously considering doing a magnum opus andrew POV fic. i need to move into my own apartment in order to accomplish this because i want to like. really go ham analyzing the books and scaffolding that plot bc if i do it im going to tell the same story but with a very different structure i think. and i cannot do this in my current living situation. so that would probs be my Fic of 2023 if true.

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

cheesy. but more than anything i think i've come to know myself as a fiction writer this year. ive always written fiction in bits and pieces, and ive done a shit ton of professional nonfiction writing. writing snowbaz last year felt good in that i was finally writing regularly, but switching fandoms upped my confidence because thats when i could finally prove to myself that i wasn't just copying rainbow rowell hahaha. WHICH LIKE she definitely continues to influence my writing but i think ive developed my style in a way where its more my own now -- i don't lean on the style of aftg the way i did for simon snow fics. and while andrew is undeniably NOT my character, ive done a lot of work around the way i write his POV that im proud of. and this makes me think that if i wanted to write original stories i could... even tho i havent rly come up with a story i want to tell on my own just yet!

from this ask meme!

#went off in this one LOL #my writing

[eijiroukiriot]

i think...there’s something simple and familiar and earth-shatteringly important in this. there’s a million ways that this could go but only one way that it ends 

#strangers to friends to lovers...CONTEMPT on either side to friends to lovers. mild stupid teenage contempt rooted in personas... #not to sound stupid pretentious but the fact that it starts with bkg being so up his ass that he doesn't care at all about his classmates #much less shitty hair over there and kirishima not liking bkg very much either. and it ends in love #god dammit it ends in LOVE!! it ends in LOVE!!!!!! #i hope it doesn't seem self centered that i'm saying all this abt a line from a random wip of mine i forgot abt btw #it just feels like such a part of the heart of krbk. i know i'm not the first person to type that #i wasn't gonna do anything w this wip but actually i think i might mess around w it for the content creation class i'm in #have i mentioned that here? i'm in this class this semester all abt internet prosumer communities #so we're talking abt flash animators and speedrunners and chiptune producers and ofc fic writers #not that i have a lot to say abt that right now but it's pretty cool and also kinda crazy #like we've been having class over discord these first few weeks and in my 4 years of college i've never been in a room of people #more open to admitting their potentially-embarrassing interests and hobbies #people are dropping their ao3 links and everything #i think i'm. still too scared to do that honestly i've just barely been able to admit i'm into bnha #forced once again to look at how closely i consider krbk a part of my life and identity to the point that i think if i let anyone know i #like it they'll automatically assume i mean i like it That much #which. i do. you guys know #in my defense they're extremely extremely good which you guys also know #the other thing that scares me abt admitting that i like krbk or even writing it as a part of our fic unit is bc if i have to face ship dram #a in a college course i will decompose piece by piece #i'll drop out of school months away from graduation #i didn't end up posting abt it bc i didn't think it was worth making a thing out of it but in my superhero class last term there was this #girl who also liked bnha so we talked abt it once or twice throughout the class #and she ended up writing abt b/kdk for her final and i had also mentioned that kirishima was my fav #and that was a situation where it was like. i am not going to have ship discourse with a student at College #so if saying who my favs are will lead to any sort of clash in that sense i am going to tread so lightly #i would make this its own post at this point but i don't really want to make a whole post abt this #but anyway i bring this up bc for our fic unit in this class we're gonna get split into groups based on general fandom interest #but bnha fandom is so rife w ship discourse (versus like supernatural) that having people peer reviewing each other's bnha fic is risky #business