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elderflowergin · 6 months

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Twenty Questions

@rosyfingered-moon and @drivingsideways thanks for the tag! :D

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 24

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 170,114, which feels quite unbelievable.

What fandoms do you write for? So far on ao3 it's been for various Kdramas.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the process of discovery (Extraordinary Attorney Woo) - I am glad this one resonated so well with readers.

buy cars, cut cards (Vincenzo) - this surprised me, because I wrote it the fastest and it's so short.

low in the weeds (Hyena) - my maiden effort!

or an excuse to stay on deck (Glory)

but I linger on, dear (Hyena)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I don't get many and I do try to reply to everyone (except occasionally @haraxvati's because I'm usually a puddle of goo when I'm done reading what she has to say). Someone once said they wanted to get a fic tattooed, which is a pretty amazing compliment!

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

None of my fics have angsty endings, though they traverse some pretty angsty paths.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I don't know how you'd measure "happiest"; all of them involve my faves finding their way to be together.

Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully no.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do, with great difficulty. I often end up with something different from what I intended at the start. Most recently with or an excuse to stay on deck, I like to say I wanted I Wanna Be Your Slave by Maneskin and ended up with I Wanna Be With You by Mandy Moore - 'twas ever thus.

I am trying to be more thoughtful and grounded about it these days.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I've borrowed characters, but I don't think I've ever written a proper crossover.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but I'd love that!

What's your all-time favorite ship?

I can't pick a favourite ship - they're all my messy children and I love them all pretty equally.

What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

There is a Vincenzo AU fic that I have seen in my mind's eye. It has Hong Cha-young being the agent of her own revenge. I know how it ends, I know how it goes. I know that it will be good. I cannot for the life of me write beyond the 20k words I already have.

I don't want to say I doubt I ever will finish it, because hope springs eternal!

I did post a mini excerpt for the Reborn Rich fandom which would have turned into a Jin Do-jun/Oh Se-hyeon fic (except I gender-swapped Jin Do-jun to be played by Jeon Yeo-been). I'm positive I will never finish that, but I think it would have been a good story.

What are your writing strengths?

I think I land a good one-liner from time to time.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Consistency, pacing, dialogue - I'll steal Pri's answer here and confess that my hope is to improve the more I write.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Many moons ago I wanted to do a fic for the Mani Rathnam movie Chekka Chivantha Vaanam. I considered Tamil dialogue for it between Jyothika and Vijay Sethupathy's characters that I would translate to English. I'm amused by this because so many of Mani Rathnam's characters speak like someone wrote their dialogues first in English and translated them into Tamil.

First fandom you wrote for?

Godfather in 2003 or 2004.

Favorite fic you've written?

I think the fic that has the most of me in it is metadata.

I will always have a soft spot for my Chief of Staff fics, especially this one. I'm not sure I'll have the bandwidth to do something like that again, but I'm proud of how I wrote that one.

tagging @cupofteaandstars @haraxvati @theinfinitedivides if you're interested!

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