Ship that you didn’t expect to ship but now do: 💓

I believe there was also no Primordial?? Plenty of Celestial, which is WORRISOME imo.

that’s the best goddamn question anyone ever asked…i feel like tony nese very VERY reluctantly wears thermal sweaters 24/7 constantly during winter because it’s fouckin cold otherwise and he might be the coolest man on earth but even he is not immune to freezing to death. this is as close as he can get to showing off in the winter :( or OH god like, he could have a sheer cutout where his abs are. its still very very VERY cold but there are some sacrifices you have to make and it doesn’t matter that much bc tony avoids going outside in winter as much as he can

i feel like drew has one of those dweeby looking earflap hats and he wears it all the time in the winter. you know the ones? a…..trapper hat? is what they might be called? he has one of those and a big dumb parka over his suit and it’s the dorkiest thing you’ve ever seen but at least he isn’t freezing. he might have his pants tucked into his socks but he’s warm so who’s the REAL dweeb here, ariya,

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

the only project i’m allowed to think about right now is the queliot friends to enemies to lovers...

i’ve been writing it in a very piecemeal way, jotting down parts of scenes as they come to me, so a lot of the time when i come up with a part that i’m excited to write then i just do it. but it’s a story told in two parts, three years of high school followed by quentin and eliot reuniting at brakebills five years later, and i’ve only written tiny bits of the brakebills part since it will be so heavily informed by whatever i come up with for the high school part. so i’m looking forward to writing that, because it’s where the enemies to lovers bit happens, and if all goes well it will be deliciously messy.

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

still really fond of this bit from solutions:

She wishes this were a Groundhog Day scenario, where she could just keep trying over and over again until she figures out the exact series of events that will make Josh Chan fall head over heels for her and then they can spontaneously buy a house together. Which strikes Rebecca as weird, now that she thinks of it, because Andie MacDowell had only known Bill Murray for like, a day and a half? Not that Rebecca can really throw stones. Which is not a great metaphor, currently.

i was born on this terrible earth to write this sentence! the inspo for this came from the episode of @serpentcast where they talked about groundhog day, and one of the topics of discussion was the inherent imbalance of a time loop romance, where the person looping establishes a depth and breadth of knowledge about the other person that the non-looper can never achieve. despite the truly unconscionable number of times i’ve watched groundhog day, i hadn’t thought about it in that way until freya pointed it out! and, to me, it seemed like something rebecca, with her love of romance tropes but also the high value she places on consent, would notice and comment on. this was also one of those train-of-thought-y type sentences that just flowed very easily from my brain to the page and required basically no editing, which is always both welcome and exciting.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

ugh neither of the fics that would most apply to this are actually... things anyone can read...

i’ve talked before about the kiss symbolism in solutions but i will use this opportunity to bring it up again because it delights me.

there’s a direct reference to @notbang‘s wildfire quarantine fic in in hopes that the glare... i don’t think anyone ever called me on my bullshit for that.

as far as my wips, for whatever reason i decided it would be a great and fun idea to write high school aus for both cxgf and the magicians, which is interesting because i’ve had to dial back these characters into versions that we either very briefly get to see or don’t get to see at all! i’ve had to think very hard about characteristics and mannerisms that each character has in canon and consider when they might’ve developed that trait. honestly i feel like camp canyon grove au is a bit muppet babies in that the characters are mostly similar to their canon versions except with everything turned up to 11 because they’re teens. the queliot au is a whole other story because we know, canonically, that eliot is Like That because of his own conscious choices once he got out of his father’s house, so i get to dial him back all the way and then slowly construct him over time. on top of that i get to write a version of quentin who is contending with all the bullshit inherent in having brain problems but doesn’t have a formal diagnosis or understanding of any of it yet. it’s been fun, and weird, and challenging.

yep, it is. it’s wild how last week, i was all like “…this is the end, isn’t it?” and then it wasn’t, and this week i was like “we’re 100% in the clear now” and then…that.

It’s a three-point stance! It’s the pose everyone makes when they line up before the next play starts.