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1 or 2 (you pick), 3, 9, 15. Or pick among them if that's too many! Thanks! <3

YAYYYY THANKS HIDDEN! Ok, I’m using this as hype to talk about my WIPs and the two things I’m sososo close to publishing! AAAAH!

1). Summarize the fic in 3-5 sentences.

Oh hmmm! 3-5 sentences is a lot for a short story! But, for some context: these are all for a show called Gargoyles, which was an action-adventure cartoon that Disney was airing in the mid-nineties. It’s also classified as urban fantasy, with strong Beauty and the Beast vibes for its main characters. It utilizes medieval Scottish history, as well as mythology and folklore from around the world, as a springboard for several of its plots, characters, and storytelling. Finally (and, most uniquely), it also includes characters and allusions to characters from a handful of plays by Shakespeare(!).

Mostly, my fanfic has been centered around one of those aspects: medieval Scottish history. There are MANY flashbacks in the series to 10th and 11th century Scotland, but there are a lot of gaps that fanfiction can play around in, particularly in fleshing out minor characters!! Shakespeare (or at least, Shakespearean tragedy) also comes into play because ✨The Character✨ that I’m obsessed with the most is a fictional representation of a *real* Scottish king that Shakespeare just so happened to write a play about. Yes, we’re talking about Macbeth, baybee!! In the Gargoyles universe, Macbeth and another character were coerced convinced to become allies by three witches via a pact sealed by magic. As a result, the two of them share each other’s pain. They’re also immortal, UNLESS one of them kills the other. This was a great for them for 17 years until a misunderstanding occurred, and now they’re two immortals who completely hate each others’ guts. He wants to die, she wants to live, so they’re at an stalemate, and every time they come to blows, they STILL feel the other’s pain. Oh yeah, and they’re both presented as villians. They’re soulmates (derogatory), disaster twins, and also the most divorced couple of all time. *CHEF’S KISS*

Anyway!!! Some fic descriptions:

“Dissonance:” A retelling of a certain episode (“High Noon”) from Macbeth’s POV. This episode is interesting (to me) because he and his magical-pact partner-turned-nemesis are working together to cause problems, and everyone’s like, “wha??” Turns out it’s only because they’ve been placed under another magic spell by a third party (SPOILER ALERT: it’s those darn witches again!), and neither of them are aware that this happened. TRAGIC!!!! They both realize Something Is Wrong and snap out of it at the last second… right before the witches whisk them away for purposes unknown (aka other machinations for another episode). So it’s a fic about realizing Something Is Wrong but not knowing what, gaining agency only to lose it again, and not being able to trust your own thoughts. It’s been VERY fun to write, because I like putting him in the torment nexus >:)

“Son of Life:” So! Macbeth had a wife and son back in 11th century Scotland! Who aged naturally while he did not! He had to walk away from them and his life as king for their own good because he was accused of witchcraft (and also, a witness saw him “die”). But ultimately, this self-imposed exile didn’t save either of the people he loved. Which SUCKS FOR HIM!!! SO BAD!!! :C So this fic is about him finding out about their deaths (which is loosely based on real historical information). I got to make up some OCs for this one, and I’m reasonably happy with them, even though they’re mostly just a vehicle for exposition.

“Woven Together in Friendship:” AKA the friendship bracelet fic! In the recent comic book series that serves as a prologue to the TV show, a human girl named Alesand and a gargoyle girl named Antiope (who is the sister of three of the main TV show characters) are introduced, and the two of them become friends. This fic is a snapshot of their lives a few years later: with a whole castle to explore and a royal wedding to look forward to, what sort of situations will a pair of inquisitive and enthusiastic best friends get up to? I’m writing this fic for my 12-year-old self, who always wanted to write stories about girls (I guess princesses?) in castles having adventures, but now I’m much more historically informed and, I daresay, a better storyteller :3

Ok, maybe 3-5 sentences was not actually enough, rotfl!

3). What was the inspiration behind this fic?

For “Dissonance,” my inspiration was that this episode is my FAVORITE EPISODE IN THE SERIES and I wanted to spend more time with it :)

For “Son of Life,” I’ve been toying with the idea of doing some historical snapshots of Macbeth’s life from 1057 CE to present, and this seemed like a logical place to start. Not sure if it’ll be a series yet, but it might!

For “WTiF,” I have been CRAVING more positive relationships between female characters in this show since FOREVER. I was over the moon when these two were introduced, and I immediately knew I had to think up more medieval adventures for them to go on together, rotfl. Also, I have been pondering gargoyle cultural questions and possible practices around clothes-making (which never comes up in the show), and needed a place to put those thoughts. Clothes-making and the people who do it (which, historically, has mostly been women) is HUGELY important to societies! I need it to not only be addressed, but respected in this universe!!

9). Was any particular scene extra fun to write?

I am having a lot of fun with first-person narration in “WTiF”! I think, not so much a scene, but introducing a character (Alesand) and her internal voice through the narrative trope of her writing down her memories as a story has been a really different approach to writing for me, and so far I’ve found this POV to be really enjoyable!

15). What element of the writing itself are you most proud of (e.g. dialogue, imagery, pacing, etc)?

Generally, I find myself proud of a lot of the imagery I came up with for these fics. “‘But…’ Iain continued, clearly determined to keep stirring the embers of the tale in an attempt to coax a happier ending from its ashes” is (I think) quite evocative.

Oh my goodness! I have done it! My Old copy of Love Comes Softly is now a hard cover! This is actually the fourth one I have bound however this is the first one that I really feel confident about my work.

@ahiddenpath I know it’s extremely late for the occasion, (sorry about that) but I had wanted to draw you something for your birthday. The project just ended up taking a lot longer than I expected. 😅 I hope you like them.

 Some drawings I did for @ahiddenpath when they answered a question of mine! (hope you feel better soon!) First we have a few more of Izzy and his partner Labramon! I think their relationship is very strange, but still nice and friendly. Even if Labramon tires Izzy out! I do have a few headcannons for this that I thought up while drawing, but they aren’t 100% for real without ahiddenpath’s say!

Labramon Izzy Partners HC.

-Labramon is  (Or identifies)  as a girl. We never had a male human with a female digimon yet.

-Labramon doesn't speak. This teaches Izzy to learn to watch body langue and facial expressions. As well as read the tone of a room.

-Labramon is very protective of her boy! She tried to not give him too much computer time. She gets him to bed when he doesn't take himself. She plays with him and gets him exercise. She’s a good digimon! Its should also be noted that when Tai and Izzy start to fight, like when Kari gets sick, Labramon is ready to duke it out with Tai in Izzy’s place!

-Labramon also plays a sort of therapy animal roll in Izzy’s life, helping with anxiety. They do have a good relationship as partners. It just takes longer to grow and Izzy soo tired with a dog in the house...

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Anywho!

We have a picture of Hackmon and Bearmon watching Tai and Matt fight. Bearmon shrugs and Hackmon is ready to balance the scales!

Then we have Sora. Who has a lion and a knife. - What? She defeated the dark masters all on her own already?! That was fast... One thing that bugged me about Sora was she went into Ikebana when she was so against it as a child. I know people grow and change, but I feel like Sora would have done better learning the way of the sword.

Hoo boy. Hoooooooo boy. Thank you soo much for asking me this, and including me, but, well. Ya dun caught me. 

First off, I’m so sorry that even this ask has taken me an age to reply to! It most definitely is not Friday anymore, and it wasn’t even Friday when I first read this. If there is one truism about my life right now it is that Stuff. Is. Happening., and it just...it just won’t stop, y’know? Anyway, that’s besides the point. And the point is...gosh, I’m a bad writer. I’m a bad, bad writer, because how can I claim to have a favourite fic when I have neglected my poor babies for so darned long!  I am very, acutely aware that a lot of people have probably marked my works down as abandoned. I won’t lie, I’ve had that moment of “...do I call it?” on a couple of them. But the truth is, I still love them, and I still tinker, and I came so close to getting into the rhythm enough to put out an update recently. I will come closer in future, and actually reach the point where I am no longer inactive in this fandom, I swear it.  As for which of my poor neglected loves is my favourite... Oh gosh. It’s hard. I have a soft spot for Metanoia because it’s so weird. I love Unforeseen Consequences because I actually managed to finish it, what a wild ride.  But realistically, I think the answer is Hope’s Fire. It was always going to be Hope’s Fire, my first and most enduring, and most wildly out of hand fic. Did you know that when I planned this thing, I initially ballparked the length at 50k, start to finish?  Guess who was hecking wrong! 

Hi! 

This is so funny and good timing because just yesterday I published to my FF account one of my fanfics that I think it’s truly my best fanfic: Do, the endless path of an art’s apprentice. It’s a story focused on Takenouchi Toshiko, my favorite secondary character. And I say that I published it to my account because I wrote it some years ago for a collection named  Como la mariposa que causó un huracán (Like the butterfly that caused a hurricane). This is a joint story written by the absolute best sorato writers in Spanish (@gossipchii, @ahornedgod, @takerusfedora, @cielocriss, @soratakenouchie, I don’t think the rest have tumblr) and myself. It’s the story of every member of the Takenouchi and Ishida/Takaishi family, from grandmother Kinu to the sorato children. And since my best fanfic is in that collection I decided to post it to my own account :)

But I guess “best” is not exactly “favorite”. For favorites I always go to those fanfics that I wrote in one sitting, because those are the ones in which the writing process feels to me like meditating, and that’s why I write. And I usually manage that when writing kenyako, so it would probably be this one:  Se llevó mis pronombres (”It” took my pronouns; Spanish doesn’t require the use of a pronoun in this sentence, so I wouldn’t translate it at He or She because then I would be giving away the plot haha), and maybe this tiny daikari: Fue (kind of “It was”, same thing with the pronouns, we don’t need to use them).

Funny that my favorite fanfics are the ones that I thought less about. With Do I did research for weeks and I even have drafts of it that I never used. For my favorites I just sat down and let it flowed.

Thank you for the ask!

My favorite fic is The Song of Love. I think it'll remain my favorite fic for a long time. It's not just because of how much effort I put on the writing, it's not just about how hard I worked on it. To be completely honest, the reason why I love this story so much is that I realized all of my Digimon Adventure dreams through it.