Har! Two things!! First of all, here are a few of my favourite fics from 2021:
I've loved so many things that you've written this year, but Hear Ye, Hear Ye and take a piece of me away are two of my favourites!!
Devil Made Me Do It by @your-void-senpai
thinking of you (sweet surrender) by sunsetmoons\
Literally everything @flightspathfic wrote this year but particularly Fall Back and Lethe, the Memory Eater
rascals and scoundrels, villains and knaves by @toast-the-unknowing
licking honey off a thorn by deathlessaphrodite
The Waters and the Wild and Talk to Me by @cheeeryos
cry wolf, cry mercy by @flitwickslittlebrotha
Second of all: Thank you for being so hilarious, amazing and wonderful this year! You're a gift to the fandom and I'm so grateful to have you as a friend!! Love you!!! 💕
Aaaaah this is seriously such an incredible list 😭 and seeing renfest fic included on here dhdhdbbdbd thank you!! But seriously to everyone who hasn't yet read any of these, go go go!!
And also!!! I love you too!!!! Thank you for chatting with me and coming up with some of the most ridiculous headcanons and ideas with me over the year (Gansey's green mohawk.....) And just being my friend!!! You're amazing and I'm so privileged to know you! 🥺💕
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omg i couldn’t find a single smile or smirk or grin or laugh or anything. why am i only writing sad things. anyway i humbly offer you this bit containing happy (but it’s not a happy bit 🙃) that i just wrote half an hour ago
Sure, I can forget it happened. Is it going to happen again? Shouldn’t you be, like, happier?
I'm sorry about your emergency root canal! That sounds awful, I hope you're feeling better soon! I reread A piece of a dream the other day, a fic that I absolutely adore: the tension, the misunderstandings, the setting of it, which feel so real that it's like I'm actually in the cafe! Also, that bit where Blue rings Adam, and Ronan has to answer his phone for him absolutely cracks me up!! I don't really have anything to ask, I just wanted to show that fic some love!!
Hi! Thanks. One more sesh and I can forget I have that tooth LOL. This is how my dentist looked while he operated on me. It was very X-Files meets kink dungeon.
Speaking of kink, thanks for the shout out about my beloved kink-less coffeeshop AU! It’s become surprisingly important to me, so I’m really glad the setting felt real. I also adore the Fox Way ladies! And I’m glad the tension and misunderstandings stood up to a reread \o/.
I’ve been enjoying drafting the scenes for the sequel, with all the misunderstandings fleshed out from Ronan’s POV. It’s going to be rated M, so a bit juicier - because of the Barns date.
Thank you for this absolutely lovely message. It made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside to know that my T-rated non-kink work hits the spot. It made me feel ridiculously good as a writer.
for the alternate fmks: Number 6 with Maura, Calla and Persephone!💕
alternative FMKs :))
go clothes shopping with Maura- mostly bc my mom was always a little picky with what I could and couldn’t wear (like in the “no bikinis or spaghetti straps” way but also in a “no wearing skirts with jeans, no shorts with leggings, no emo fishnet gloves” way), and it’s clear Maura doesn’t try to police what her daughter wears so I feel like 15-year-old me would have loved to go with Maura and just being able to pick absolutely anything
go to ikea with Calla- I’ve never been to ikea but it sounds really surreal and ilke, I can barely handle bed bath and beyond without losing my mind so I think Calla’s zero-tolerance for bullshit would be good for sanity reasons, also her snark/constant low-boil rage would probably very amusing
go grocery shopping with Persephone- I feel like she’d turn it into an odd but insightful experience, like she might make some observation about my soul/aura/something metaphysical that’s so unnervingly accurate I’ll probably start crying in the meat alternatives section. which doesn’t exactly sound fun but I just feel like it could be such a vibe
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Ooh okay, this is a hard one. Honestly, I think I have to name two because I’m proud of them for different reasons.
The first fic I ever wrote/started was A Place to Belong and while yes, I haven’t finished it yet, I’m still extremely proud of it. I didn’t know anyone who wrote fic when I started it and it was the first real writing project I’d taken on pretty much *ever*. I spent three months drafting it and while I’m still editing and revising, just the nostalgia of it and the amount of work I had to put in and how much time I spent thinking about it and planning and exploring my own creative limits... it holds a very special place in my heart.
On the other hand, another one of my fics, to take the plunge (is no small feat), was another sort of challenge for me. That one was prompted by someone for a gift exchange and it was the first platonic/not strictly romantic or sexual relationship I wrote. I spent about a month thinking about it and trying to figure out how I wanted to go about it and I wrote it in three grueling sessions. I’m really happy with how it turned out stylistically and I appreciate being pushed out of my comfort zone, especially since I think I succeeded in creating a fic I could be proud of. It’s also representative of some of my own complex feelings regarding romance that I still haven’t figured out and it’s signficant to me because of it.
12 - Tell us about a WIP you’re excited about
Okay so this isn’t exactly a WIP it’s more like a concept, but I still think it counts. Basically, a couple months ago I wrote my first Ronsey fic called Winter and it was just a short fluffy drabble/oneshot. A couple weeks ago, I ended up writing another cute Ronsey fic (it’s done I just haven’t posted it yet) and that got me thinking about starting a soft Ronsey series. I have a soft Rovinsky series titled Night, and I’m really tempted to do a Ronsey one too. In the beginning, Gansey wasn’t one of my favorite characters, but over time I grew curious and wanted to explore his character more and while I’m doing this in a very *interesting* (but oddly effective) way through the NSFW Gansey/K series, I want to check out the softer side of him through his relationship with Ronan. It’s also something I’m curious about because I feel like they would straddle the line between romantic and platonic and as previously mentioned I’ve been interested in playing around with that. So... new series? Probably? I’ll try and put up the second one soon but yeah, just need to come up with some more ideas and I’ll get started on churning out a couple more :)
33 - Is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing process?
I’ve definitely mentioned this several times before, but that I often surprise myself. Particularly with multi-chapter fics, I have starting and ending points and a few key events in the middle, but for the most part, I just go and see where it takes me. Frequently, there are moments where I’m freaking out because of how something is turning out and how the story is twisting in a direction I never even considered and honestly, that’s why it’s so fun. Until I’m in the moment and writing, I have no idea what’s going to happen or where the characters will take me. I always follow the flow of what seems right and where the characters seem to be trying to go and sometimes that results in turns I never expected and that’s my favorite part of writing.
from the college experience prompts... “i accidentally flooded the laundry room and you really needed to do laundry” au 💕
SOPHIE! This one was so fun, it kind of got away from me, just a little. I actually....really like this one! It's sort of tempting to post it on AO3! I hope you enjoy! Thank you! 🥰
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“Shit.”
Ronan walks down the empty hall, a plastic hamper filled to the brim in hand. It’s been weeks since he’s seen the laundry room, a little too long, really, but he hates having to sit in there for hours when he could be doing literally anything else.
“Shit, fuck —”
He pauses at the propped open, metal door, listening to a nice-sounding voice raise a fuss without peeking inside.
“Oh, my God, what the fuck am I going to do?” The frustration in the stranger’s tone has just about doubled, edging into something like a whine. “Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck, there’s — there’s so much water, what the fuck?”
It’s this last bit that makes Ronan step forward, glancing in to see something he probably should have expected but, somehow, isn’t prepared for at all. Rows of old, white Maytags appear fine, except for one in particular spewing out a mixture of soapy bubbles and water. Next to it is a boy, probably a freshman like Ronan from the looks of him, disheveled and panic spread across his ethereally gaunt features.
The boy runs long fingers through already messed up hair, sighing loudly. “I should call maintenance...no, what if they try charging me for this?”
Ronan’s light eyes flick down to the floor, where at least an inch of sudsy water pools around thin, canvas sneakers. His frustration grows as he realizes this means it’s unlikely he’ll be able to do his own laundry, not with the current state of the room, but ebbs away as Ronan hears the boy going over the potential cost of replacing a 1988 Maytag washer out loud, how he’s putting an awful lot of thought into something that, to Ronan, seems so, so simple.
Oh, well, it isn’t too bad if he just flips a pair of boxers inside out to re-wear, right?
He makes a show of dropping his heavy hamper in the hallway, smacking loudly on the wet pavement. The boy jumps, head jerking up to stare at Ronan with a widened gaze, his sun-kissed, freckled face turning more and more red as seconds pass between them, stuck in an awkward silence.
Ronan opens his mouth to speak, shuts it in a grimace that stretches up to his dark eyebrows, and tries again. “You gonna waste all that good soap?” He asks, sarcastic, pointing at the bubble bath still collecting on the floor at the boy’s feet.
“Am I — What?”
“The flooding, you’re wasting precious laundry soap, man.”
“I,” the boy seems just as baffled as he is embarrassed now. “I’m not doing it on purpose. The machine...broke.”
Ronan smirks, a sharper look than he intends to give but it happens naturally, without any thought. “Uh huh, that’s what they all say, especially when they’ve definitely done something bad.”
His attempts at humor seem to be falling flat, although Ronan thinks it’s more his company’s fault for lacking good taste and being uptight than his jokes being bad. The boy’s flush darkens but he seems almost pissed. “I didn’t break it. All I did was start a load, and this happened. You can’t prove I did anything wrong.”
“No, I can’t,” Ronan looks towards a random corner, letting his eyes linger as if there is something of interest there even though he sees nothing but ugly, off-yellow paint over concrete walls. “But that can.”
The boy snaps his attention to the spot. “That?” He repeats, “I don’t see anything. Is something supposed to be there?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know.”
“I...Okay, you’re fucking with me, aren’t you?”
Ronan snorts, crossing his arms against his chest. He leans on the door frame to stare at the boy, trying not to let his gaze wander too much, although it’s impossible to stop himself from taking in a wiry frame underneath loose clothing, and a strange face that could either belong to a couture model, or some 19th century soldier lost to both war and time.
“No shit,” he says after a moment, tilting his head. “Had to cheer myself up somehow after realizing I’m gonna have to wear yesterday’s dirty drawers and you seem like the kind of guy who’s easy to get riled up.”
Just like how Ronan had been doing moments prior, the boy’s blue eyes shift along his form, lingering on a few spots before finally finding it’s way back to his face. “And you seem like an asshole,” he says, no heat to the words, like he’s stating a fact instead of insulting Ronan. “You get off on messing with people who are already freaking out?”
He pushes off of the frame with a shrug, stomping into the flooded room without a care towards getting his leather boots wet. “You don’t look like you’re freaking out,” Ronan replies and stops a short ways off, close enough to see the water is still spilling out like a goddamn waterfall. “Not anymore, at least.”
Now it’s the boy’s turn to open his mouth, about to protest but he stops. It takes another couple of seconds but then, all of a sudden, he’s got this dorky sort of smile. “Shit, you’re right. Did you do that on purpose?”
“Not really,” Ronan edges closer, closer, until he thinks any further would be encroaching on the boy’s personal space. “Need some help with that?”
“You know how to stop it?”
“Nope. Figured we could fish your clothes out and head over to the east wing, try our luck there.”
“And just leave it like this?”
“Yeah, why the hell not? You got a better idea?” Ronan reaches in, grabbing the first piece of clothing he can find, pretending he doesn’t realize it’s a pair of boxer-briefs he’s now got in his hand. “You gonna call maintenance so late on their day off? Pissing them off is a surefire way to get charged for the goods.”
When the boy doesn’t say anything right away, Ronan tosses the underwear at his face, laughing when it hits with a plop and an oof. He peels it away, frowning, and tosses it right back so it smacks Ronan’s face. “Okay, fine,” he says, trying to sound exasperated but failing. “Help me out and I’ll let you use my soap. I’m Adam, by the way. Adam Parrish.”
“Ronan,” he replies, grabbing more sopping wet clothing to throw at Adam, who huffs in an amused sort of way. “Ronan Lynch. Let’s get outta here before someone catches us.”
“Would be a lot quicker if you weren’t shucking my clothes at me, y’know,” Adam points out as he removes another pair of underwear from on top of dusty, light brown locks.
“I’m helping,” Ronan answers, casual, doing it again. “Not my fault you're shit at catching.”
Adam gives him a withering look. It shouldn’t be exciting, to be glared at in such a way, but something about impressing a difficult person is more satisfying than all the ones who just fawn over Ronan because of his good looks. “Do a better job at tossing, then, asshole.”
Ronan smirks, wide and toothy. A night that had seemed like it was going to be filled with nothing but boring laundry has somehow become much, much more interesting than Ronan could have hoped.
Adam! For the ask game (if no one has asked you about him yet!!)
LET'S GOOOO!!!
How I feel about this character? Adam Parrish? Adam Parrish, you say? Listen, I am going to be real, he wasn't my favorite character at first. I hate admitting it, really, I do. It took a bit for him to grow on me but when he did, and I reread TRC, I feel like I really saw Adam. He's messy, he's stubborn, he's neurotic and got a lot to work through, which means he had probably the BEST character development through the series, imo. I loved seeing him go from being Mr Unknowable to realizing it's okay for his friends to understand him, that they actually DO get him, and that it's not such a cool thing to be all secretive to the people who care. I love how he's equal parts down bad, bitchy, and tender.
All the people I ship romantically with this character? Ronan, Ronan, Ronan!!!! I am sorry I just!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They make my heart go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH and I cannot stop!
My non-romantic OTP for this character? HMMM Declan because they're very alike and I want to see them interact more. I want Adam to say something bitchy to his future brother-in-law and Declan to be like Okay? At least I'm not a creepy little fuck!
My unpopular opinion about this character? He didn't murder anyone. What happened with Whelk was self-defense, at the worst. Making Adam out to be some stone-cold killer is horrible mischaracterization. He's got self-perseverance, there is a difference!
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon? I want to see Adam practicing more magic! I want to see him doing things that he otherwise wouldn't in an effort to protect those he loves! I want to see him tell the Crying Club the truth and have them accept him for it!!!!
