wow this is my favorite question ::,,,)) thank you

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you? MPREG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer? omegaverse you. why did u make me say this............... gd hubris 16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)? i want more stuff where their jobs feel very high-stakes but are overall pointless. i love when something is enormous to whoever is inside of it and from the outside so nothing. a failing paper company perhaps (NOT A CROSSOVER) 30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter? ya w you with most of the tropes. soulmates i hated and couldn't understand, breeding kink i couldn't understand, writing those made me be like. Oh. and that was a very nice experience. i think getting used to feeling like what i was making was so beyond stupid has helped me continue to make more beyond stupid things taken very seriously by me and that's nice.

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.” 50. Can you share a little about the thinking/theming/specific choices behind the mixtape collection?

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.” tei's sangservi which does and does well everything i like in fic. interesting and different but really simple concept (vampires real and so mundane there is an uber eats esque app to find people to suck on), great characterization, pulls off both the immediate chemistry and a slower draw into each other all in under 10k

50. Can you share a little about the thinking/theming/specific choices behind the mixtape collection? honestly we just wanted to make each other mixtapes ::))):):)::)

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?) either the catfish fic or small storrie bc they're both accurately kind of weird and not that likeable and crass and a little callous but also blown out over the top weak-kneed romantic, all the things i think are most mine

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics? i think i am often doing a lot of trying to go home. also the idea that love changes you which is both fascinating and reprehensible to me - not that it makes you better or complete but gives you the room to be more. and that change is uncomfortable and visceral, it hurts. no clean neat happy endings, things are hard but sometimes you have someone there to do the hard with and that makes the hard not easier but worthwhile. mundane seeming miraculous. being loved doesn't save you but loving could.

4. What detail in decadent stress chamber are you really proud of? you guys might remember my penchant for complete accidents organic discovery as part of process. so the timeline with the frog was i wanted ilya to have a pet bc i'd already talked a lot about glass and animals and also i just think he really would > narrowly settled on frog mostly because i don't like the word turtle > named him predator because i wanted it to be funny/related to the overall theme of eating/hierarchy/feral ritual etc.

after this i did finally watch the movie predator and was thrilled to find out that arnold hides from the callous creature hunting him solely for fun by covering himself in mud :,) i couldn't not put in a heavy ass lampshade in ch 4 as callback to the ch 1 mudwrestling too

this alignment was just kismet perfect (also no one cares except for me) but i do think the thing with metaphors is you can make anything anything. a tree can be deep-rooted or invasive, heroes can be haloed or exhausted, ice cubes are the relief of fresh melt down the back of your shirt in hopeless summer or a tongue-numbing, clacking at the back of your molars sort of loneliness. i really love writing for this ability to show the way hmmm we're likely to radiate our own meaning into the objects nearby and reveal ourselves in them more than anything else.

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [fic]? Answer it now! i'm so sorry this one is too hard for me :,) i can't think of an open-ended enough moment. i like though that this means i hopefully am saying what i mean and putting it down pretty plainly hehe. if u guys have a question i will answer though

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason? yes one comment on the first fic i ever wrote? which derailed into sort of this accusatory love letter about the commenter's ex, and another personal one in frat which was about ch 6 i think and the stowaway feeling of being young and snugly safe within a strict confine in a relationship that doesn't really work outside of that. i will think about these forever :,) by far my favorite comments are when something in the fic reminds a reader of anything personal or true in their lives and i feel always really honored when i get to hear about it

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it! i'm starting to believe in eleadore's theory that posting the wip can curse it and i do think what i'm in on is a little too amniotic to pull from rn.

in life i do get asked if i'm serious a lot because i either over or under enunciate but it's funny that this translates online....... ya i would never joke about a ship.

as i read that back i see that it kind of does read sarcastic but no it is the plain truth