@babblish Gifting a full example of two characters bantering who won't!! Be quiet!! And I love them for it haha

A sneak peek from an upcoming chapter in And so it is...

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Vit sat on a stump, then started to roll their arms, massaging the muscles here and there. Their head was aching, and their stomach kept grumbling.

“Aha, there’s that fresh face,” said Balor from the window of his wagon. “Hope the town is treating you well.”

“You know,” said Vit, while helping one had to wave with the other, “I’ve done a lot of things before… becoming a farmer…”

“I’m sure.”

“And not once did those things involve a pick axe.”

“Ah…” 

“And I’ve carried people who weighed less than 10 pieces of wood and 10 stone put together!”

“Pardon?”

Vit slumped a little, “nothing, I suppose I’m just… grumbling now.” Their hands twiddled, despite the growing tiredness seeping into their bones, Vit needed something to do with them. They patted themself for the tobacco pouch. “Don’t mind me…”

With a whole town full of people, it was interesting how Vit found how comfortable it was to talk to Balor. Perhaps he simply gave off the air of someone easy to talk to. And he’d smile, with that smile that didn’t reach his eyes, that was as multifaceted as gem caught in the light… and listen… and who knows what he’d do with the information he’d hear, and yet you couldn’t help but ramble.

Dangerous stuff. 

Vit stuck a filter between their lips while breaking the tobacco up. “I probably should have told Ryis to meet me somewhere instead of lugging it around searching for him.”

“That would have been wise,” said Balor, watching the filter bob between Vit’s lips.

“Want one?” Vit offered, while evenly spreading the tobacco on the thin paper with their thumb. 

“I…”

i forgot u said mage so i gave her a big sword

Hehe, okay, this was supposed to be a comic from the Demon!Barbara AU that you can... probably find in the art tag, and it was supposed to be a convo between Walter and Barbara, in which Strickler, that one principality who was once supposed to look over monks (the history recording ones), ask Barbara, the demon of progress, how she fell. Here is the script, called tentatively “The Walk-Out”.

6. Favorite character you ever created.

Her name’s Sofia.  She was created when I was 15 and has gone through quite a few versions since then.  A large part of her development was me attempting to explore asexuality (while having no idea that term even existed).  Later, I revamped her to be an out ace with a pretty good life while I was in college as a way of self-validation.  In some ways, she feels like an old companion, so I’ll probably always keep her around in some shape or form in my original writing.

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14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book?

For the Cruise Ship Story that never was, I spent a significant amount of time researching cruise ship layouts, routes, etc. to help me plot out where the ship would head during the narrative.  At one point I even managed to have diagrams and ship layouts (from an advertisement a family member got that they they gave to me).

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23. Single or multi POV, and why?

Multi.  I like being able to jump to different places in a story, to show what’s going on with different characters (and their perspectives on things).

One of the problems I think I had with writing Pale Lady was that I felt writing solely from Morgana’s perspective was extremely confining.  By comparison, I’ve loved jumping around in Pieces and seeing how the characters’ actions can affect each other. 

WIP Asks

Here’s your sentence :)

(also from ch. 7 of Pieces)

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Stuart could only watch as he picked out an old keyboard and unceremoniously shoved it in his mouth.

30. What inspires you to write?

I answered this one already a little bit here, but since I’ve already started a personal, rambly answer to the other question down below, I’ll add; pretty much everything.  I know that’s vague, but, since I was little, writing and stories have been my way of connecting to the world.  I was born with a syndrome (that I’m not, as of yet, comfortable revealing online) that caused me to have a speech impediment.  Thus, when I was little, no one could understand what I was saying most of the time (and various experiences with speech therapists taught me my way of doing things was just plain wrong).

I first turned to creating stories in my head as a way to entertain myself in a world that I struggled to communicate with.  My inspiration came from looking at the world as a kid, not understanding it, and trying to figure things out.

Then, when I got older, I sort of realized that, for all I was terrible at verbal communication, I was fairly good at this written word thing.  Thus, I used writing as a way to express myself, to say everything I stumbled with vocalizing.

Subsequently, I grew up with the notion that that writing is one of my strongest allies.  My inspiration for it comes from a desire to understand, express myself, and communicate (generally whatever I happen to be interested in during whatever stage of life I’m in at the time).

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50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?

I think I’ve mentioned a couple times that sharing my first Trollhunters fanfic was part of a New Year’s Resolution to share my writing again back in 2018, so I suppose I could expand on that.

Back when I was a teenager (and in early college) I wrote a lot, and shared almost all of it.  I loved creating worlds and talking about them.  Admittedly, the biggest reason I won’t post anything now to Fanfiction.net (or its sister site, Fictionpress.com) is because I was on both of them quite a lot back then.

I didn’t stop because people didn’t respond, so much as because of how they responded.  It was a well known fact among family and family friends that I wrote, so occasionally it would come up in conversation.  They’d express interest…and it just took me a while to realize that that interest was polite interest and they didn’t really want me to start going on and on about my stories.

(also known as that moment when you’re neurodivergent (except you don’t realize it until a couple years later) and are terrible at picking up on people’s social cues, so when they say they’re curious or interested about that thing your passionate about, you take them at face value.  You don’t realize, to them, it’s just a polite conversation and that they’re never going to follow through with reading what you give later (even if they tell you they will).  So, you get your hopes up and then get hurt when things don’t work out, over and over again, until you just stop reaching out.)

I stopped working on my stories altogether.  I didn’t see point in all the editing I was doing for things that would do nothing but sit around on my computer anyway.  That went on for a couple years (until I made my new year’s resolution to try again).

What Goes Bump In The Night was, honestly, one of two options I had at the time (the other was an original fic featuring a few of my OCs celebrating Chanukah).  I chose to share Bump because it was the one that would hurt less if things went badly.

I chose to do things differently too.  Post to AO3 instead of Fanfiction/Fictionpress (and under a new pseudonym too).  A few Trollhunters characters instead of my own.  Have more distance between myself and the writing.  

Worst case scenario, I figured, it would just be a failed attempt with characters I didn’t have the same emotional attachment to as my own.

I truly didn’t think things would go as well as they did.  I kept with it bc it started to feel good, really good.  I didn’t have to worry about people only reading to humor me.  I could be as weird as I wanted and that was seen as a good thing (like a joke about a troll husband was celebrated instead of passingly accepted).

A lot of my early writing in the toa fandom, tbh, was really me just figuring out that I could be weird here, pushing “but how weird can I be until the quiet rejection comes?”, and that rejection never really coming.

1. Favorite place to write.

Honestly?  There’s this one Starbucks I’ve known about since high school.  A part of me hates that I still go there, but I also really like it bc it’s big enough that I’m just another anonymous person at a table with a laptop no one’s paying attention to (or judging).  

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2. Favorite part of writing.

The moment when things start coming together and the world around me sort of falls away and I get lost in the story for an hour or two without realizing it.

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31. Hardest character to write.

Dictatious, he’s not one I can easily get into the mind of.

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32. Easiest character to write.

Barbara, she’s this perfect blend of developed enough in canon that there’s something to build off of but has enough left out that I can do my own character development for her without worrying about going ooc.