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bahbahhh · 7 months

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20 Questions For Fic Writers

Tagged by @novantinuum and @marimbles. thanks friends! <3 I loved reading your responses.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

ten!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

108,441

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Legend of Zelda. I like what I like. I have dabbled with FFX, too.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the killing moon

begin again

desire path

like someone would

windows

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

I try to! Honestly, it means so much that people take time out of their day to let me know their thoughts/reactions to my stuff. I love the interaction, and I've shared this story before, but it was @embyrinitalics outreaching to let me know she enjoyed the killing moon (which had been on hiatus for YEARS) that help spring-boarded me into creativity again. A lot of these comments keep me motivated and energized, so I want to let people know I pay attention and care.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

LOL this is hard. Angst is my jam.

I'm tempted to say the Killing Moon but probably almost beautiful? It's the death memory from botw and it's a oneshot without any resolution whatsoever.

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

This is a tie between begin again and desire path.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I've gotten some coldish comments, but not direct hate. I don't understand it. If you don't like something, just move on by? It's free content. It literally takes so much more of your previous energy to generate hate. Put it somewhere else. Find something else you actually like and pour love into that. Or as my kid's favorite book right bow Teeth are not for biting (send help) says "Try this instead: take a break, drink a cold drink, take a rest, get a hug!"

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

I have written ONE smut fit. I was possessed by an idea. It is not my wheelhouse for sure. It was porn with plotish and I had more fun with the dialogue between the side characters than the actual sexy stuff. And I'm me, so it was sexy yet depressing LOL

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

I wrote a FFX x BotW oneshot a few years ago that I actually took off my ao3.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I am aware of!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I am aware of!

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

No, but I feel like this would be fun with the right idea. I really like doing collabs for events.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Zelink!

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I'm a little worried about currents. I love the idea in my head, but its very VERY specific writing and of course I started it right before linktober and now my brain is all about the depths au. It's hard for me to switch gears.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I love a good turn of phrase, man.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I get BIG ideas and a lot of them and a lot of the time, I get lost in them. This happened in The Killing Moon. Of course, it was my first stab at fanfiction and I decided to write a massive multichapter monster, and perhaps, that is evidence enough for you, but I had so many ideas for the story/conflict/direction and I didn't spend enough time organizing it and weeding out what I don't need. I think it translated okay because of the mystery leading up to TotK and the fact I was working with characters that were trying to make sense of lost, incomplete, and inconsistently reported history over 10,000 but

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I think the most important question a writer can ask themselves when doing this in a fic is "why am I doing this?" And then close follow up to that is "how can I do this correctly and respectfully?"

19. First fandom you wrote for?

LoZ

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

I really, really love like someone would. I love the complex characterization of Link and have carried it forward into other pieces. It's one big love letter to botw side quests and zelink and was also written in tribute to two of my favorite fanfiction pieces by others.

tagging: @embyrinitalics @fioreofthemarch @zeldaelmo @flutefemme

#ask game

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only-by-the-stars · 2 months

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for the Choose Violence ask game:

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

*deep breath*

REVALI ISN'T DEEPER OR BETTER WRITTEN THAN THE OTHER CHAMPIONS, EVERYONE JUST THINKS HE IS BECAUSE HE'S MALE AND RUDE

like. please. please. everyone is so quick to dismiss Mipha as "her story is only about Link", but what is Revali's story about? that's right, a ton of his focus is his rivalry with Link. even in AOC we don't meet any of his friends or family, anyone with a personal tie to him in his own era. and when he's not focused on dissing Link, he spends most of the rest of his dialogue spouting arrogance and that "I need to be the BEST!!!" stuff you can see in countless animes. he's not as unique as people think, and there's little to suggest any of the vulnerability his fans ascribe to him. even in his diary, where you'd think he'd open up more, he acts arrogant and makes a snide remark referring to Zelda as "talentless".

but. you know. he's a guy. so of course he has more potential than the Champion who has family and friends and a whole community that we meet, who gets Zora Monuments and diary entries talking about stuff to do with things other than Link (like her reactions to Vah Ruta, her birth, the moment when Dorephan agreed to let her pilot Ruta, her ghost speaking to her loved ones after her death), who was both a healer and a warrior and thus has that duality in her, who wants to see her father one last time as she stands atop Ruta after being freed, who got some really nice scenes with her family in AOC, because you know. she's a girl, and she fell in love with her childhood friend, and she's kind to people. so boring!

I actually would argue that she is the best-written Champion, because of all that. they're all underwritten, but Mipha gets more depth to her than the others, I think, because of the reasons mentioned above. we don't get any direct connections for any of the others. but because she's a girl and she had romantic feelings for Link, she's dismissed, and the snide arrogant guy gets touted as the one with the most potential. fucking typical of fandom, to fawn over the underwritten man and lavish fanon on him while dismissing the woman as not worthy of the same. I know I'm swinging a bat at a hornet's nest with this, but I'm just so tired of this happening across fandoms and so tired of it happening to my beloved Mipha, specifically. fandoms PLEASE care about fictional women. this is not a request.

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

see above: Revali. I came out of his portion of SoaC with more of an interest in him because I enjoyed doing my own interpretation, but it's still a fucking Struggle when I see his more obnoxious fans being Like That.

ditto BOTW/TOTK Zelda. like. there are legit criticisms to be made about her writing, such as how her arc in BOTW would've greatly benefited from a deeper exploration of certain beats, a linear storyline, and please I hate how her interest in science is treated as just a silly quirk that serves no purpose and Rhoam Might've Been Right About It, but either way amounts to nothing as she just needed to fall in love and BAM! powers! and I hate how a lot of the people who dislike her will accept all this uncritically and criticize this interest of hers and hold her solely accountable for the Calamity, and I really hate how TotK not only flattens her into the Perfect Princess who does everything well and everyone is disturbingly blindly loyal to, but again doesn't let her do anything but sacrifice herself, with her interest in science again being relegated to a minor quirk.

(AOC I love you for making her love of science actually matter to the plot. I am kissing you on the mouth for this and so much else, you don't deserve all the hate that's directed your way just because people wanted a grimdark rehash of BOTW's backstory.)

but. also. her fans are so weird and annoying about her??? and they try to have it both ways??? like according to them she's THE MOST NUANCED CHARACTER EVER for being awful to Link, but also she did nothing wrong and she only yelled at him ONE TIME, YOU GUYS, there was nothing shitty about the rest of her behavior and couldn't have made him that miserable or put him in danger of royal reprisal if one of her attempts at ditching him went badly (like it very nearly DID in the Yiga cutscene). and also you're a misogynist if you don't think she's the bestest ever and ship her with Link, but it's okay if they make hateful comments about Mipha, or other female characters in the series that people DARE to ship with various Links. only z*link allowed!!!

... as you can see, it is a Struggle for me with her too. I don't hate her, I see her (sadly wasted) potential and hate how she was treated in TotK, I enjoyed her a lot in AOC and have had fun writing her in certain AUs of mine, but also. the fans. eugh.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

this... soulmates/fated lovers thing that z*link shippers live for? a hard no from me, buds. hard no. it basically robs the characters involved of their agency and turns each version of them into puppets who will inevitably fall in love with the same person in every lifetime (and this doesn't even make sense because Zelda's not a reincarnation??? she's a DESCENDANT of the other Zeldas and Hylia???), and that... is horrifying to me. that's a curse IMO, and not romantic at all. The Good Place remains the only take on the soulmates concept I'll accept:

"If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship."

#arkon-z #thanks for the ask!#yes i am a hater sometimes but it also can stem from love #i contain multitudes

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piers-official · 10 months

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Legend of Zelda AU, any game.

Sorry if this is too fandom specific my brain is hyperfixating on Zelda rn.

//OOC: No don't apologize at all! LOZ is one of my favorite game series, You're fine nonnie!

Now I'm not sure if this is an AU where Piers replaces Link or if he's just a side characters in the game, so I'll do both.

Piers as the chosen hero and the triforce of courage, would be a lot different than the Link we know, albeit they are both quiet, but kind individuals. Honestly, I don't see Piers as a swordsman, for some reason I'm thinking archery, but if the master sword is still a sword in this AU he could probably learn (or does wielding the master sword automatically make you a talented swordsman? Do you magically become a swordsman when wielding it? So many questions). However, I think he would mainly be an archer and have some magic/witchcraft under his belt as well.

As for who the triforce of Wisdom and Power would be? I feel like since Rose is the villain in SWSH, he would absolutely be the Ganondorf in this AU and therefor have the triforce of power. It's also thematic since he wanted to bring more power into Galar and nearly brought about the darkest day, which could also tie in to the LOZ AU. The Triforce of wisdom however? I don't know why but I feel like Leon would have that. Like sure he's gullible and made mistakes but Rose also tried to use him to GAIN power, which is something Ganondorf would do to/with Princess Zelda.

Back to Piers: He would be one of those anti-heroes I feel like, he fights for the people and uses his abilities to protect Galar, but he doesn't do it for the King (which I guess would be Leon's father? idk), he does it because it's his duty and was appointed by Leon himself, to become a knight for the people.

Doesn't necessarily have to be a ship between Leon and Piers (DnNz I think?) but it can be interpreted however, (this is just an idea I'm making up as I go along. No coherence, we die a rambling mess) But they probably are friends in this AU. Even if Piers doesn't necessarily like the King and his ruling, Piers is appointed as Leon's knight and he respects Leon as a person and a fellow triforce chosen.

Now as an NPC, he would absolutely be a bard type character (I know REAL original). Ya know the great faeries in TOTK? Yea I feel like he would have a connection to them somehow, maybe a bard who plays music for the faeries and helps them rejuvenate their magic in times of need? I'm just spitballin' here.

#ooc answer #answered asks #pkmn irl #pkmn rp #leon irl #rose irl #//this is so messy im sorry #//i hope this sounds okay??#//feel free to add on your thoughts if you'd like #piers rp

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