Empty meme for your own convenience. My answers below!
1. how many works do you have on ao3?
2. what’s your total ao3 word count?
3. what fandoms do you write for?
4. what are your top five fics by kudos?
5. do you respond to comments?
6. what’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
8. do you get hate on fics?
9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?
10. do you write crossovers? what’s the craziest one you’ve written?
11. have you ever had a fic stolen?
12. have you ever had a fic translated?
13. have you ever co-written a fic before?
14. what’s your all-time favorite ship?
15. what’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? T
16. what are your writing strengths?
17. what are your writing weaknesses?
18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
19. first fandom you wrote for?
20. favorite fic you’ve ever written?
1. how many works do you have on ao3?
48
2. what’s your total ao3 word count?
Hit 1.5 mil last year.
1,610,652
3. what fandoms do you write for?
On AO3: Dragon Age, Elden Ring, Pathfinder TTRPG, Pokemon, Dishonored, The Legend of Zelda. Older fandoms: Spirited Away, White Collar, Maximum Ride.
4. what are your top five fics by kudos?
Dead Pasts and Dread Futures (883): DA Time Travel Fix-It.
Hero of the Wild (784): Zelda BOTW Sequel Fic.
When the Wind Whispers (573): Zelda BOTW Novelization.
The Brave Guide (285): DA Time Travel Fix-It (Continuation).
Light in the Dark (190): Zelda BOTW Childhood Fic.
5. do you respond to comments?
I try to respond to 90% of them! Though sometimes I'm slow.
6. what’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Probably The Hope of Fen'Harel since that's Ixchel's young!Trespasser ending.
7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
the road seems too wild for mixing it with blues - Solavellan after-the-end happy ending for DPDF. :)
8. do you get hate on fics?
Yes. Quite a bit. Everyone hates Ixchel for being an SJW, and for being depressed. And for a long time, I got a lot of hate for writing some SA allusions in my Zelda fic. I delete all of them now.
9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?
Yeah, I write it, though I don't know how to describe what kind. I just write smut when I feel like writing smut. Loving smut, hatefucks, threesomes, possessive, fearful...
10. do you write crossovers? what’s the craziest one you’ve written?
Not really, no.
11. have you ever had a fic stolen?
I've had ideas that I made up wholecloth for my DA fics, stolen. I've had plot points that I took from my own life, stolen. I have had ideas, plot points, and headcanons, that I shared in DMs with trusted friends, stolen without permission or acknowledgment. This is different than the headcanons I share that my friends run with and we acknowledge where we inspire each other!! There are headcanons I came up with that other people go around saying "I'm so brilliant I feel so smart for coming up with this" but I have receipts that I'm the one who introduced them to the idea :))))))))) but I'm not here to beef :))))))))))
12. have you ever had a fic translated?
No! That would be so flattering.
13. have you ever co-written a fic before?
Several times!!! Many of my older fics were cowritten actually, it was such a fun pasttime with my friends ;-; i miss it.
14. what’s your all-time favorite ship?
Link/Zelda.
15. what’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?
I would love to write Ixchel's first life...but it would be sad, and I don't want to.
16. what are your writing strengths?
Lyrical prose, visceral emotions and especially eldritch horror, and conveying sentiments that others have felt personally.
17. what are your writing weaknesses?
Brevity.
18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
So, I stopped doing it in my DA fics because the Project Elvhen creator was a bigot and kind of awful actually, and everyone would whine about not being able to understand it and being too lazy to look it up. Now I just write the English but do it in [[italics and brackets]] to convey that it's Elvhen. I think conlangs are different than real life other languages.
But in other places I do things in Spanish, and I just. Leave it. People can and should look it up, or try to understand. Or my characters also don't understand it clearly, so this is a way to convey that feeling. And I think we should normalize just having dialogue in other languages, and leaving it to the reader to put in just a smidge of effort to get it--or not! I think there's importance to reading something without understanding that component but feeling the consequences of what was being said, and also, of reading something and looking it up to understand and get ADDED context.
19. first fandom you wrote for?
Maximum Ride. :)
20. favorite fic you’ve ever written?
Tie between When the Wind Whispers (BOTW) and It Ends, or It Doesn't (Dragon Age).
e lo zaino invicta e seven(che in termini di paragone era resistente quanto un Nokia 3310)
Usavo i ciucci colorati🥰,
compravo le figurine degli Sgorbions, masticavo le Big Babol all’uva e all’anguria, collezionavo le sorprese degli ovetti Kinder o del Mulino Bianco.
Vestivo jeans Energie, Levi’s 501, Bomber Gas e ho indossato zeppe Fornarina 🤦♀️.
Aspettavo il Festivalbar 🎶 e le classifiche di MTV quasi più del Natale 🎄
I testi delle canzoni li leggevo dal Tv sorrisi e Canzoni e li imparavo a memoria per poi cantarli sotto la doccia.
Avevo “la comitiva ”
formata da un numero imprecisato di ragazzini e non esistevano i bulli... Erano più rompicazzi sbandati, si passavano le giornate a giocare, ridere e scherzare o a chiacchierare sui muretti della città❤️
Sono cresciuta con Willy il principe di Bel Air🎶
Beverly Hills 90210,
rigorosamente innamorata del tenebroso Dylan,poi è arrivato Dawson's creek❤️ Friends,
Happy Days, Holly e Benji, Mila e Shiro, Georgie, Ken il guerriero, Lady Oscar, Jem e le Holograms, Magica Emi, Occhi di gatto, Piccoli problemi di cuore, Creamy ed Esplorando il corpo umano.
Collezionavo i poster del Cioè, avevo i Bon Bons di Malizia e le trousse della Pupa e le Bombolette deodorante Axe Africa.
Ho conosciuto la Cabina telefonica 📞 i gettoni di rame, facevo la collezione delle schede telefoniche con tiratura limitata ( altro che pokemon 😒),
i telefoni della nonna con la ruota ed i primi telefoni bianchi della Sip ☎️
Ho fatto milioni di squilli e sognato con la Christmas card 🥰🤩mentre masticavo le Brooklyn.
Erano gli anni della Lambada 💃🏻 e yo-yo, delle macchine fotografiche 📷 col rullino che non vedevi l’ora di sviluppare e che su 25 ne uscivano bene 3/4 foto al massimo. (col cacchio che fotografavo le foto dello spritz, a 15/20mila lire a sviluppo🤣)
In gita scolastica se eri fortunata ti compravano quella usa e getta e sul pullman eri una “criminale” se sedevi in fondo.😂
E mentre sfrecciavo con la Mountain Bike a cambio Shimano 🚵♀️ sgommando sulle discese dei garage, sognavo la mia massima tecnologia che era il Game boy con il Tetris o SuperMario.😍
Rimpiango tutt’oggi la Lira 💰perché con 10 Mila lire ci facevi serata, pizza bibita e ti restava pure qualcosa per il giorno dopo 🥺
Con questo post oggi è come se avessi preso una Bic e riavvolto il nastro di una vecchia cassetta 📼
Un tuffo nel passato ❤
Un sorriso ti si è stampato in faccia!! certamente sin dall'inizio della lettura!
#this reads like a paragraph from the intro to an american classic i would have read in 4th grade and missed the metaphor
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
A webcomic stands in its URL. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2022, is this young webcomic's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago it was given life, it is only today it will be given a name!
What will the name of this webcomic be?
Happy 4/13!
36 notes - Posted April 13, 2022
#4
hunting (casing a big box store, identifying security measures in place) and gathering (shoplifting)
46 notes - Posted December 8, 2022
#3
I had a dream the other night, and you know who I saw?
59 notes - Posted September 13, 2022
#2
gouger counter like a geiger counter but for gouger
#because a lot of what happened with moffat was that people would disagree with certain things he did (sometimes with merit sometimes not)
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Suren for character bingo
2 notes - Posted May 30, 2022
#4
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake & Avery Series - M. J. Carter
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: William Avery/Jeremiah Blake, Helen Larkbridge/Matty Horner, Henry Mayhew/Douglas Jerrold, Past William Avery/Helen Larkbridge
Characters: William Avery, Jeremiah Blake, Helen Larkbridge, Matty Horner, Henry Mayhew, Douglas Jerrold
Additional Tags: Anonymous Sex, Masks, First Time, First time with a man, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Getting Together
Summary:
Another rejection from Blake sends Avery to an anonymous club to drown his sorrows, and their relationship rather unravels from there.
3 notes - Posted May 23, 2022
#3
An Awful Fucking Time
So. I’ve been trying to write something for roughly three days at this point, and this is probably the best that I’m able to manage.
Things that happened over the past three days:
-My grandma got diagnosed with cancer
--Probably Ovarian (which potentially means that I’ll have to look into getting a hysterectomy semi-soon, not that that’s the most important thing at ALL)
--It’s probably spread. Which is... Not great.
-My Grandma had abnormal bloods this evening, which means that she’s been rushed to A&e to get an ecg.
I don’t really know how to convey my emotions beyond a bald recital of the facts. I’m still feeling a bit numb, because my emotions are all over the place. Basically the only bright spot at the moment is my husband, who has been an utter star. <333
I know that misery is the price we pay for happiness, sorrow the price we pay for joy, grief the price we pay for love. But if things could stop being So Much that would be really goddamn great.
5 notes - Posted November 1, 2022
#2
hey! Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your Malcolm/Ollie fic series. The Rise in particular is such a beautiful work.
First, the dialogue. It is quite possibly the most in-character dialogue I've read in this fandom. Honestly, your stories in some way feel like an extension of the series, a spin-off Iannucci and the team wrote, but for some reason decided not to film.
Second, the details. Glenn doing home renovations and complaining about life. Malcolm telling Jamie about his relationship with Ollie (and, of course, Jamie's reaction). Malcolm and Ollie discussing their safe words (bloody hilarious). All this stuff adds more depth to the story. And it's absolutely believable. It's something you'd expect of the characters.
Third, the character arcs. To me, this is probably the most beautiful part of the story. It's always a hard task for writers, making characters canonic and yet allowing them to change. Not to mention making this change believable.
We're used to thinking of Ollie as someone rather spineless. For a larger part of the series, Ollie sort of adapts and mimics, and most attempts to voice his dissatisfaction with how he is treated fail. This is not a ground to build a healthy relationship on. I mean, how can you build a healthy relationship with someone who threatens to dismember you and then sends you on a cheese run at 5am?
But in your story, Ollie is finally shown as someone who can set boundaries. Even though he has a lot of doubts and fears. Even though the very act of setting boundaries is still sometimes so hard for him. And somehow, in my view, this brings more honesty to his relationship with Malcolm. Because being able to stand up for yourself and being able to show your vulnerability are two interconnected things, I guess. If you are able to protect yourself, you know that being vulnerable will not destroy you.
(btw, that fantastic scene after Malcolm and Ollie finally have sex for the first time in five years. You're so great at creating conflict in dialogue. That was some Marriage Story-level stuff)
Malcolm's arc is also extremely interesting. I mean, it would probably come across as obvious, Malcolm using his typical behaviour to protect himself. If he bullies people into submission, he doesn't have to express his feelings, doesn't have to acknowledge his vulnerability, let alone show it. He can simply pretend he doesn't have it.
And it's so exciting to finally see Malcolm trying to deal with it. He learns to be open with Ollie, to trust him, and this brings their relationship to a completely different level.
The ending was simply brilliant. I was really curious about how they were going to navigate the impending public scandal. And not only did I find this absolutely believable as a journalist, it was also very canonic. It was a clever move not to make them admit to everything. Ollie's press conference scene seemed like a great culmination. And it also showed the readers how much he had changed as a person.
Sorry for that behemoth of a comment. I really enjoyed reading your fics and would be very happy to read more.
Wishing you lots of inspiration :)
Oh my god this was the loveliest thing to receive in my inbox ever. ;; I have been having an absolutely awful time that does not look likely to resolve any time soon, and this absolutely made my day. I'm so, so glad that you liked it! Especially the character development. But also especially the scene after they have sex for the first time in a while (I LOVED writing them screaming at each other). But also ESPECIALLY the ending (I was a little worried about pulling that off, because it is very sleight of hand, but I hoped it was in keeping with the tone of canon and I'm SO glad that you thought it worked). Just... This was so lovely in general. Thank you so, so much! <33
(883) What a beautiful reimagining or maybe more true to the creators original imagining of the original Pokémon games. It loses some of the creepiness I liked just because it's so colorful now but its a wonderful remake and if you prefer the original versions they still exist. Maybe I need to stop playing Pokémon for a little while.
Sono figlia delle Spice Girls e degli 883 😍😍 e li ascoltavo con il Walkman 📻
mi batteva forte il cuore quando al juke-box ascoltavo Always di Bon Jovi o Like a Virgin di Madonna 💘
A scuola ci andavo con le tute di flanella 😭😭
il diario Smemoranda 📔
e l'Invicta e seven🎒 (che in termini di paragone era resistente quanto un Nokia 3310)
Usavo i ciucci colorati🥰🥰,
compravo le figurine degli Sgorbions, masticavo le Big Babol all’uva e all’anguria, collezionavo le sorprese degli ovetti Kinder o del Mulino Bianco.
Vestivo jeans Energie, Levi’s 501, Bomber Gas e felpe oversize, ho indossato zeppe Fornarina 🤦♀️.
Aspettavo il Festivalbar 🎶 e le classifiche di MTV quasi più del Natale 🎄
I testi delle canzoni li leggevo dal Tv sorrisi e Canzoni e li imparavo a memoria per poi cantarli sotto la doccia.
Avevo “la comitiva ” 👫🏻👬👭
formata da un numero imprecisato di ragazzini e non esistevano i bulli... Erano più rompicazzi sbandati e non ci si interagiva, si passavano le giornate a giocare, ridere e scherzare o a chiacchierare sui muretti della città❤️❤️
❤
Sono cresciuta con Willy il principe di Bel Air🎶🎧🤴
Beverly Hills 90210,
rigorosamente innamorata del tenebroso Dylan,poi è arrivato Dawson's creek❤️❤️❤️
Happy Days, Beautiful e Dallas, Holly e Benji, Mila e Shiro, Georgie, Ken il guerriero, Lady Oscar, Jem e le Holograms, Magica Emi, Occhi di gatto, Creamy ed Esplorando il corpo umano.
Collezionavo i poster del Cioè, avevo i Bon Bons di Malizia e le trousse della Pupa e le Bombolette deodorante Axe Africa.
Ho conosciuto la Cabina telefonica 📞 i gettoni di rame, facevo la collezione delle schede telefoniche con tiratura limitata ( altro che pokemon 😒),
i telefoni della nonna con la ruota ed i primi telefoni bianchi della Sip ☎️
Ho fatto milioni di squilli e sognato con la Christmas card 🥰🥰🤩🤩mentre masticavo le Brooklyn.
La sera a casa guardavamo la Corrida, Giochi senza frontiere e Scommettiamo che, ridevamo con Paperissima e la sai L’Ultima e tutto il bagaglino con Pippo Franco...
Tremavo di paura 😰 ma aspettavo con ansia le puntate di Twin Peaks e X-Files.
Erano gli anni della Lambada 💃🏻 e degli yo-yo, delle macchine fotografiche 📷 col rullino che non vedevi l’ora di sviluppare e che su 25 ne uscivano bene 3/4 foto al massimo. (col cacchio che fotografavo le foto dello spritz, a 15/20mila lire a sviluppo🤣)
In gita scolastica se eri fortunata ti compravano quella usa e getta e sul pullman eri una “criminale” se sedevi in fondo.😂😂
E mentre sfrecciavo con la Mountain Bike a cambio Shimano 🚵♀️ sgommando sulle discese dei garage, sognavo la mia massima tecnologia che era il Game boy con il Tetris o SuperMario.😍😍
Rimpiango tutt’oggi la Lira 💸💰perché con 10 Mila lire ci facevi serata 💰, pizza bibita e ti restava pure qualcosa per il giorno dopo 🥺🥺🥺
Con questo post oggi è come se avessi preso una Bic e riavvolto il nastro di una vecchia cassetta 📼
Unlike the other Galar fossil combinations, the Fossilized “Dino” (plesiosaur) and Fish actually have similar enough color schemes that the end result, Arctovish, almost looks like it could be an animal that actually existed. Almost... but not quite. (Especially since Cara Liss put the head on upside down! You were this close to looking vaguely credible, Cara.)
Cara’s belief that Arctovish was a real prehistoric Pokemon has lead her to come to the conclusion that it “went extinct” due to breathing problems.... even though it could function just fine as an aquatic species, all things considered. (Yes, even the upside down head. Heck, if it has lungs and a functioning trachea it could actually help it get access to air!) However, the dex points out something that could actually be a real problem with the poor thing... because of the location of its mouth, it has trouble eating! (And presumably hunting as well!)