#buffintruda

I am going to pick one of these, and it will be 12, favorite character to write about this year, and that’s gonna be Ax.

river OF COURSE i want to, thank youuuu <333

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1. favorite fic you wrote this year

Not to toot my own horn so much, but...I really like all the fics I wrote this year!! I'm gonna split it into two categories :)

For longer fics: Maybe it's because that's where my head is right now, but "Roads Go On" takes the cake here! This fic is just so fun, and I see connections to it everywhere on tumblr, which is delightful.

For oneshots: Oof, this is hard, considering oneshots are the main thing I write... In the end I'm tied between two of them, and neither are Tolkien! I'm very proud of my Barricade Day 2018 fic, "A Witch's Gift" - I pretty much only write one Les Mis fic a year, even though Les Mis means a lot to me, and I think I achieved what I was going for and more with this fic. Also, I just love Musichetta!

The other one is frankly a surprise to me because I almost forgot I wrote it this year: "meant to be", a TAZ hurloane fic. That one didn't get a ton of response but I've had that concept in my head literally ever since I first listened to Petals to the Metal, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year

do you know how hard this is to answer?? do you know how little I remember from january 2018?? a whole fucking year ago??

okay, this is 100% cheating, cuz I didn't go back and reread any of my other fics to find That Perfect Line, but I'm just proud of my poetry in "The Lay of Maedhros", another fic that y'all slept on. my dudes, I wrote in Tolkien's Very Own Poetic Style for this!! my favorite scene from this fic is Sauron's conversation with Maedhros.

(Oh, I am also pretty damn pleased with the philosomancy blabbering that goes on in "Gravity" between Gandalf and Fili!)

10. shortest wip of the year

Okay, this fic started out as a oneshot but I couldn't keep it down... I swear i'm working on the final chapter, ok?? I am??

It's "Wedding Blues" my qp!Domadry fic for @buffintruda's birthday that was... uh... 6 months ago.... oops. It's 9.6k, which isn't nothing! But it's shorter than the other two WIPs I've got going, which are both in the 20k range.

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

i legit just listen to my spotify saved albums on repeat all year long with no particular soundtrack for writing... That being said, I've got a "Study Tunes" playlist on spotify that I use (on shuffle) for studying and sometimes writing! it's almost entirely instrumental with a focus on piano, and that really helps me get into The Zone while working!

15. something you learned this year

i swear i'm going to write a longer post on this later, but COMMENTING IS CREATING. this is something i've always believed, but i've been fleshing out the concept in my head and i believe it even more now.

Comments DIRECTLY influence the creation of more fic, and not only that, they are an integral part of the fic itself! Every time you or I leave a comment on a fic, you are creating fandom!

18. current number of wips

I try to keep myself to 2 long fics at a time, with oneshots here and there, but right now i'm at 3! "Roads Go On" + "Wedding Blues" i've already mentioned, but there's also my botfa fix-it "Moonlight" (that i will be turning my attention to asap, i promise!! it's only been uh... 5 months since the last update...yikes.)

19. any new fics to start next year

Honestly, I'll be astounded if I conclude "Roads Go On" and "Moonlight" this year. Especially now that I'm in college! So no, I'm not planning on it, except for oneshots (which I'm sure I will write several of).

Although if I can get around to it .... i have had a Legolas-as-Merida Brave AU floating around in my head since FOREVER... maybe I'll bust that out for Arospec Awareness Week...but probably not, oops.

27. favorite fanfic author of the year

@milesofkeeffe is the obvious answer! all your kiliel stuff is so so lovely :) but I also really enjoyed @waitineedaname's taz fics, and of course my homie @buffintruda always knocks it out of the park!

28. longest fic you read this year

it's got to be @milesofkeeffe‘s "Spring After Winter and Sun On the Leaves" coming in at 123k words! of course I've been reading that fic since it began in 2017, so for a fic that i read in its entirety in 2018... that would be this blupjeans fic, "The Last Days of the Legato Conservatory" by goldfishoflove. (warning: it gets nsfw) That one is only 10k words.... can you tell I prefer shorter fics? (Long fics intimidate me! so much time commitment!)

  30. favorite fandom to read fic from this year

probably TAZ! I mean, the past few weeks i've been drowning in Tolkien fic (esp Silm fic) but for the overall year I've got to go with TAZ, this fandom's got so many talented writers! 

solomon: he’s a romantic, really. catch him in the gardens making little bouquets to hand-deliver to his army of wives wives

“They're a huge pile of sass, and while she's a genius when it comes to gathering intel, working on robots and machines, and coding, he's otherwise sort of a dumbass; she has the least amount of common sense out of their siblings and friends, which is saying a lot.”

How I feel about this character: my sweet baby smart son whom I would die for

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: He Is A Child, I Ship Him With No One

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: god, him with any of the THB. I mean, Taako is an obvious choice, but Magnus thinking of him as a little brother is good shit and Merle begrudgingly adopting him as one of his dozen children is also good

My unpopular opinion about this character: idk if this counts as an unpopular opinion, it’s more of an observation, but no one knows how to draw a preteen lmao I’m not complaining, he’s adorable, but it seems like everyone heard “eleven year old” and went “oh, you mean a toddler? you mean an actual infant?”

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: him interacting with Kravitz would be... so choice. We’ve all agreed he’s one of Angus’s dads but idk if he’s interacted with him in canon and I would Like That A Lot

Favorite friendship for this character: isn’t... this the same as the non-romantic relationship... uh... Angus and Taako NO WAIT HIM AND THE FROST OGRE FROM THE LIVESHOW

(from book questions)

5. What book or book series would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

uhhh well of course les mis but we all know how that’s turned out so far so i’d say Don Quixote because can you IMAGINE a parks and rec style don quixote?? unstoppable

21. Have you ever read a book series because you were pressured?

@tictacboxes pressures me into reading books all the time but through my own faults the only one i’ve managed to fully read on her behalf was the raven cycle which i do not regret in the least.

36. What is a book you love that has a terrible trope? (Love triangle, etc)

everyone dies in les mis not a fan

40. What is the weirdest book you have read?

probably my first time reading discworld the color of magic but i mean that’s Good Weird 

49. What book has inspired you?

Grantaire's curse doesn't allow him to make a difference in his own life or in anyone else's, and it also doesn't allow him to die permanently, but after living for 347 years in misery, he's sick of it. He sets out to find the god that cursed him, but he is joined along the way by a teen with their own agenda, and both them and his curse will make it difficult for him to achieve his goal. Sequel to @buffintruda’s story "Echoes of the Past".

Look, I wrote a fic! You should totally read it!!! It’s about Grantaire and a curse and gods and an OC whom I love very much and I worked really hard on it!