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12. How does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you?

Honestly, it has a HUGE impact on me. Each kudos I get gives me the strongest boost of dopamine and motivation to go on. And each comment on my fics is literally like a diamond 🥹 So yea… I really, really appreciate and am deeply grateful for any feedback 🫶🏼

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

At the moment I have a couple of ideas for Anquetil/Poulidor fics and several Jout wips patiently waiting in my drafts.

The most leitmotif idea for now is kind of a time travelling AU where several years after Jacques Anquetil’s death some mysterious person reaches out to Raymond Poulidor and offers him a possibility to turn back in time and try to save and prolong Jacques’ life. But the condition is that in that case Raymond would never be able to become a cyclist in that alternate reality. Raymond accepts the offer, and the next thing he sees is a hospital where he wakes up and realises that he got back to times of his military service in mid-50s and that he got seriously injured. That injury is the reason why there’s no chance for him to become a cyclist in this new reality. But, not having physical health, he has smth else to arrange his life. He remembers everything abt his previous version of life and realises soon that all the events are happening just the same way as they did the previous time. So he becomes a prophet, and it’s not hard for him to get interest and trust from the side of suspicious and believing in supernatural Anquetil. And Raymond needs to live through this life without cycling and with hope that it will help to prolong the life of his beloved one.

This idea came to me randomly and suddenly but got me really hard. I’ve always loved everything related to time travelling thing and changing the past thing so yea. I even know how I would name the fic 🥹 But by now I don’t even think abt starting to write it cuz it’s sooo massive and I already have another massive fic in process 🥲 So maybe some time, somehow, in the future…

22. Are there certain types of writing you won’t do? (style, pov, genre, tropes, etc)

Well, I think I would barely ever touch such things as omegavers and mpreg cuz I know nothing abt them and they are just not my cup of tea tbh. As for anything else, everything is possible :)