#ashdoesfandom

Oh this one is lovely!

Go to a wedding with:

Lance. My guy and I are drinking champagne and hitting on bridesmaids. Way too many cocktail weenies. And you cannot tell me my mans doesn't look damn good in a tux.

Go to a party with:

Yong. Kid MAKES FIREWORKS. This would be an incredible party. Not one we were invited to, mind you. We are crashing one.

Go to a museum with:

1. What’s your favorite character(s) to write for?

Some of you might think that my hyperfixation is Doctor Who. You would be wrong. It is Rose Tyler. I am only half joking. River's fun too but I'm so much newer to writing her that I spend twice as long agonizing over whether or not I've got her voice right.

Of my OCS it's definitely Minnie and Tess because they literally more or less came from "what if I had less existential dread?" and "what if I had MORE existential dread?" so they play off of each other in very interesting ways.

5. Do you listen to music when writing?

Yes!!! Silence breaks my focus, so I listen to instrumental music, when writing Doctor Who fics it tends to be one song from the soundtrack looped for however long I'm writing

24. Do you prefer AUs with the characters, or sticking to the original universe? 

Behold, the glory of our vast empire! *gestures at 23 fics on Ao3 (only 17 of which are completed, at least 4 of those being pwp oneshots) and like 6 brainstorming threads in the discord server, and a grand total of 5 people I can confidently say are interested in the ship*

hello ash, thank you for the ask! 💞

8) favorite genre to write

oooh since i exclusively write DW fic at the moment, i guess it all falls under sci-fi? definitely enjoying playing with the semi-structured-but-mostly-flexible universe. in subcategories/tropes of that, reunions and fix-its are addicting as all heck to me

14) do you make playlists for your current wips?

no, but i have started doing semi-songfics that are about songs in my generic timepetals playlist, and i swear eventually i'll do the Spotify Top 100 thingies that i've been letting rot in my ask box 😅

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

For TTS, anyone from the Brotherhood! I'd love to write Adira especially, but the Brotherhood can be a bit intense. I tend to do more witty humor with dark undertones. Writing a serious character is daunting for me.

(I do have some scenes in mind with her and our favorite alchemy boy for my Epithet Erased AU)

🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.

I have a soon to be finished TTS WIP, but I don't want to give it away...

So have something from our D&D game I'm writing out instead:

The sound shakes Cainan out of his stunned stupor, staring down the muzzle inches from his face. An all too familiar, large brown bear.

Cainan tries to dash around the bear and it lashes out with one of its massive paws. When the claws bash into the back of Cainan’s head, he hears a splitting crack before tumbling forward. The floating disk, which had been pulled along behind him, drops to the ground, the box making a heavy clang as it falls on top of it. His vision blacks before he hits the dirt. The light on his staff, now laying in the grass beside him, begins to flicker and dim.

Oh my god Im so glad you asked because I literally spend entire days wishing people would talk to me about this SO

Basically, my favorite movie of all time is Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 10/10 I adore it. But like...the sequel was obviously uh, Not Great. Probably one of the most hated Disney direct to vhs sequels out there. However imo the film like, does have some redeeming qualities? I really like Madellaine and Zephyr and there are some character moments that are good. And for the longest time, I would joke about how they deserved a better movie and how I could totally write a version of the movie that doesn’t suck...

You can see where this is going. One day I just decided to do it and I’m roughly 17k words in, have the entire plot outlined, have spent like...way too much time researching 1500′s France, and have rewatched the sequel and examined it in a level that probably isn’t healthy.

So yeah, it’s essentially my passion project. I actually do basically have the first chapter finished I just know if I post it before it’s done I’m gonna lose motivation, plus I’m kinda treating this as a way to teach myself how to write novels(since this thing is gonna be LONG) and want to actually finish it properly before I share it, so I can fix things without having cemented anything in place by posting it early.

It’s also titled “dumbest version” because I heard some writers say titling your rough draft that will help you take it less seriously so you can actually finish it, and also it’s all in comic sans for the same reason. But I’m also actually really proud of it so far and I do hope when it’s done people actually want to read it. Imo it’s some of the best stuff I’ve ever written and it’s nice to put a lot of work into something I really care about.