King Shit of Cringe Mountain

I mostly blog about Osi Sobeck and Moralo Eval, and Phindians in general. My other interests include Jar Jar, Gungan culture, bounty hunters, and Vario from Shadow Lord. There may be a smattering of other fandoms, like Routine (2025), Redline, Trava Fist Planet, and Resident Evil.

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(๑˘︶˘๑) : do you write with or without music playing in the background? if you do, which artists / songs do you recommend?

I can't write to music that has lyrics, the same way I have to physically be alone in a room and can't talk to or text with anyone when I write. BUT I can (and will) listen to EDM and dubstep (I like old style Skrillex and Bassnectar). That's my locking-the-fuck-in music lmao. Or ambient noise.

(ノ*°▽°*) : how do you go about characterization? any advice on how you go about character analysis and interpretation is appreciated!

Characterization comes to me over time. I actually write for some of these ask games as exercises on my own, if I want to dig into a character. I also just see things (videos, posts, experiences) and go "That's so Character". And slowly it builds this profile in my mind of their minutia, their preferences and personality. It takes some time. Sometimes I have a strong sense of who a character is right out the gate, but usually it's just a defining trait or two and a general shape of their temperament.

I don't know if I'm qualified to give advice from an analytical perspective. I would say always assume the author did that thing, whatever it is, on purpose. I think the "curtains are blue" argument is vastly overused and oversimplified, but there IS always a reason for everything. It's not always relevant or critical to your understanding of the character or narrative. But it was made with intent.

(☆ω☆) : what's the word count of your longest fic to date? how long did it take to write that fic, and would you write another piece of that length (or longer)?

hmmmm nothing I have is done, so take it with a grain of salt because this both not a complete draft and also pre-edit, but my master draft of Less Than Nothing is currently at 14,448. Which is a lot, for me. I'm a short story writer, not a novelist. But this is only maybe half done, so I'm looking at a goal of 25-30k words when it's complete.

I've been working on this for five and a half years (evidently I created the first file in December 2020), but that's not how long it took to write. The actual writing time is much, much less than the time spent "sitting around belaboring the language" and "thinking about writing and getting stuck in inertia."

I think this is actually an unwieldy length and complexity for the story I need to tell, so I would only write another story as long as this with immense care.

o( ❛ᴗ❛ )o : is there a trope / au you'd like to write more for?

Not a popular trope, but a personal AU where Astrid goes the assassin route much earlier than in her prime timeline. She gets more or less groomed by your OC lmao and that stunts her emotional development in some areas, while opening her up in others. I think it's an interesting divergence, but you and I are probably the only ones on earth who would care.

As far as tropes, I would love to write "came back wrong" and make it work. I'm looking forward to producing more "unhappy ending/hurt no comfort" content. I'm not really up on tropes, there are probably ones I write unconsciously.

┐(￣∀￣)┌ : what are 1-3 kinks that never fail to arouse you? what are some that you wish were used more in fics?

Maaaaannnn how dare you make me talk about my kinks? HASHTAG MYKINKS? That I keep behind 5 emotional walls? They're probably more transparent than I want because I'm not that hard to read (not an invitation to get me by guessing), but I like to think it's like opening a door and there's another door behind it, over and over over.

ok ok, one because it's fairly obvious. Primal-slash-predator/prey-slash-chase, whatever you want to call it. Get hunted, idiot. Get trapped. Get subjugated. May in fact be appearing in an upcoming Embo/Astrid fic, if I ever write it. It also comes up sidelong with all the biting I write, especially throat-biting. Especially in relation to Astrid's maw. I really do have a fixation on the vulnerability of holding someone's throat in your teeth.

I don't know if there are any I want to see more, I just wish looking for kinkfic felt less gross, because so few people get it the way I want to, which is why I have to write my own. Operating under untold levels of repression over here.

Vario awoke instantly a second before the door to the tanker actually clunked open. Some preternatural sense, maybe. A remnant of his Aleena nature. He had hardly slept in days. That prey part of his brain was always on edge, listening for a subtle noise, a shift in the air, stirring him awake for any reason. Still, he pushed himself to his feet slowly. On one hand, the hunger and exhaustion were starting to wear down all his usual edges. And on the other hand, if they needed him that badly, they could wait.

A place he likes to frequent replaces a staircase with a steeper staircase and it pisses him off so much he hires an entire call center to place day and night calls about it as "concerned and affected citizens" to the business owner, local inspectors, safety commissions, local committee offices, etc. And it gets replaced with a ramp. Benefits everyone--but mostly Vario.