for fanfic writer asks: 3 4 9 11 16 17 25 28 34? sorry if thats too many lmao,,
context for anyone else reading this: they texted me after to let me know to answer anchor and/or beholden for all of these
3. Do you have a favorite scene you’ve written from [Fanfic Name] story/chapter?
anchor: im... fond of the image of Jon and Tim sitting together under a shock blanket at the start of this fic after the Prentiss attack........... its not even particularly compelling i just think about their Last Moments As Friends and i get really fucked up
beholden: TIM FUNERAL MONOLOGUE FROM CHAPTER 7
4. Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of [Fanfic Name]?
anchor: i wanted to do more with Tim’s guilt about not being able to save the original Sasha from the Distortion’s hallways, but i think i forgot and then there wasnt really a good place to put it in. Martin kind of talks about it, but eh.
beholden: in my original plan for the prentiss attack Sasha was supposed to get separated from the crew and find Gertrude’s body instead of Martin (whihc was honestly meant partly to bully the readers/jon into being worried abt her running off on her own during the attack, and partly bc shes the only one who actually met gertrude). that didnt end up happening then, i didnt have a good reason to get her in the tunnels
9. If you had to assign a theme song to [Fanfic Name], which would you assign?
beholden: this fic has a shit ton of songs attached to it already... inexplicable - the correspondents is maybe my favorite choice tho
anchor: hmmmm. im digging thru my 800 song playlist and i think im gonna say well-dressed - hop along OR i told you - civilian
11. How would you describe your style? (Character/emotion/action-driven, etc)
hmm... i think character driven? mostly bc i read this and thought “isnt all writing character driven?” which i guess answers that, huh
16. What fanfic tropes do you avoid writing for?
uhhh i mean. i dont write or read anything ns/fw bc of being ace/sex-repulsed so probably anything along those lines
17. What fanfic tropes do you gravitate to writing for?
ive posted... lemme count here... 5 fics which include a plotline about either someone being replaced by a fake OR concern about someone being replaced by a fake, and i can think of, off the top of my head, two more id like to write if i had the chance. so like. that.
25. What scene in [Fanfic Name] took the longest to write? What was difficult about it?
i wrote anchor in one sitting so im just answering beholden for this one and.... for whatever godamn reason the answer is peter lukas’s introduction. i dont know why!!! i got stuck here for a month!!!! i still dont even like it much!!! peter fucking lukas cursed me and i hate him so much
28. Is there a part of [Fanfic Name] you’re surprised no one has picked up on yet?
anchor: i wrote this so that it would repeat and parallel itself so much that reading it literally felt like circling / spiraling and i know people noticed this but i think this is mostly bc i told this to every single person i could. if anyone noticed this on their own they did not manage to tell me before i, very proud of it, said as much
beholden: there are some jokes in beholden no one caught for the longest fucking time and i think theyve all been picked up on by now but personally i think s1 Tim-or-Sasha (dont remember which) saying “you could injure [Jon’s] hand with a particularly strong handshake” is up there for funniest shit ive ever written and i was SO MAD no one noticed
34. Have you felt emotional while writing a scene before? What scene was it?
again i would like to say if youre not getting emotional writing your scenes i dont know what youre writing for i make myself emotional all the time
still, hmmm. a fun fact about beholden is any time Jon gets emotional in his internal monologue abt missing his dead friends it is because i, personally, got emotional writing about Tim and Sasha (usually) and then immediately threw those emotions at Jon
