#clem's corner

also significant is that you couldn't possibly bring a character like alec vasil into 2025 without getting cancelled so he'd either have to be rewritten or villainized and that would suck and already fuck up a core part of the undersiders..

i was tagged by @isnt-it-pretty! thank you for the tag!!! this looks so fun!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

currently 4 (but there's another on the way soon)

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

30,992 atm !!!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

i've posted my work for haikyuu!! and genshin, but i also write for mdzs/cql and honestly. whatever fandom gets my attention. (i have an inuyasha wip im working on, and some orv stuff too)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

i actually only have 4 works but:

follow the tide (with the monsters on your shoulder) for genshin

the world is simplified for kings (to them, all men are subjects) for haikyuu!! (yeah the title is really long but. i'm fond of it)

to touch the sun (and keep on soaring) for haikyuu!!

i will die facing the sun for haikyuu!!

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

as far as i know, i've responded to every comment i've received !!! i love engaging with my readers. it's also easier since i don't have any really popular fics.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i don't tend to write unhappy endings and i also only have 4 fics posted. but to touch the sun might have the angstiest ending in the sense that tooru's issues still aren't resolved by the end of the fic. my snf au (current wip) ends on a bittersweet note on account of the mcd inherent to the premise.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

my happiest ending so far is probably the world is simplified for kings, since the brazil fling get to have a nice time as they fall in love with volleyball. i will die facing the sun also has an optimistic ending, but it isn't guaranteed that oikawa will win at the olympics.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

i'm not well known enough for that LOL

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i haven't yet but it's in the cards !!!

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

i don't write crossovers for the most part. i write fusions/AUs and those can get pretty wild. the craziest is probably my wolf's rain au. i don't think i'll ever write a crossover but i wouldn't count it out!! i've read some good ones. maybe i can be convinced.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of. i don't think any of my writing has enough traction for that.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope but maybe ill translate some of my own work. and i'm open to it if anyone offers.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

none currently posted!!! but i do have a project i'm working on with a friend.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

all-time favorite is really hard bc ranking the strength of my hyperfixations against each other is just cruel. my all-time favorites (plural) are probably haikaveh, iwaoi, and levtsukki.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

ideally. follow the tide is not one of these. i have a lot planned out that i just haven't written or posted. the one that i probably will never finish is living tomorrow. it's an iwaoi relationship study that i really, really want to write but have lost my connection with. i need to find my thoughts on them again and recalibrate and rewrite my current draft if i'm ever going to finish it. but maybe i will!!

16. What are your writing strengths?

i'm not sure. i think i have a remarkable ability to commit to the bit with weird fusions and au's but i haven't really posted those. no matter how silly the idea, i can usually get pretty invested (like my wolf's rain au writing and fanart), and that doesn't really depend on how interested other people are in it. support is nice but not always necessary.

one of my main goals in writing is to get in a character's headspace. i'm a big fan of immersion and understanding who they are and how they think. i try to capture that in writing while adding lots of small personal details to help flesh out the character's life. based on some of the comments i've gotten, i haven't completely failed.

of course, if anyone has any ideas on what my writing strengths are, they're free to let me know <- blatant fishing for compliments

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

erm. well i have thousands of words in unpublished wips so. probably motivation. poor planning. a lot of it is inexperience. my imagery, repetitiveness, poor dialogue or description. those are all things to work on. if i were to look back at my published works, i'd probably cite a lot of the things i've improved on since then.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

oh no this one's controversial. well, i think that if you're writing dialogue in english (or whatever language the fic is in) and your characters are speaking another language. you have a few choices. if the characters say something in another language but you translate it, i would italicize that (ie. "Thank you," he said in Spanish.) if the characters are saying something in another language and it's written in that, i don't really mind whether it's italicized or not, BUT i think it has to be well executed. sometimes that depends on using the term properly, or also on. how in character it is for that character to do that. as a bilingual person, switching between languages/speaking other languages can get pretty complicated, so it really all depends on execution. i don't think that everything has to be translated in the text at that moment, but i think that everything should be translated eventually. footnotes are a good idea!!!! or it should be revealed later in the text, or in the author's notes. but i don't like it when it's never revealed or translated at all.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

warrior cats on ff.net but we dont talk about that. haikyuu on ao3. i wrote some inuyasha stuff in google docs in between but never finished or posted it.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

that i've posted? follow the tide. that i'm writing? ack. i really really like the snf au!!! but i like a lot of my other ideas too (daemon au my beloved). im very fond of my mdzs pacific rim au.

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

tagged by @lgbtlunaverse !!! thanks so much for the tag!

my wip folder is organized into categories by fandom and then by ship!! i'll just sort by fandom here

genshin:

howl's moving castle au

enter the castle

reincarnation au (kill me now)

inazuma spin-off

v5 snf au

snf collei one shot

5 shitty boyfriends kaveh has had + 1 that only kind of sucks

haikaveh daemon au

kaveh has a no good very bad absolutely terrible time

nation of wisdom (city of fools)

you are alhaitham

siblings au

as the sky embraces the land

childe on speed

i'm fine (period)

jean brain itch

man's delusion (majestic madness, your exclusion)

loving a god

patron of self-indulgence

reverse shovel talk

what'd you take (honey, look at me)

you are a sprite

ganyu <3

haikyuu!!:

birth of a star

yachi

kiyoko

lev has a gay crush and an enby awakening

we always looked up (but heaven still wasn't enough)

i've been looking at your face (it's dangerous)

jasmines in his hair (and roses on his face)

living tomorrow (where in the world will i be)

fem!tooru ed

mdzs/cql:

jin ling is a brat

jin ling...

that's all of them!!! or at least all of the ones i found worth putting in folders. most of these have at least a thousand words actually LOL. please please please send me an ask about any of them if you're interested!!! i love talking about these. don't feel limited to just one even if the tag game says it. don't feel obligated though!!!

tagged by @lgbtlunaverse

i used italics for the actual titles to help see them better!!

favorite color: orange!

last song: la rebelión by joe arroyo

last movie: wolfwalkers i think. i also watched the new netflix monkey king animated movie and i'll actually go to bat for that.

currently watching: the new sousou no frieren anime!!! i'm watching each episode as it comes out... it's so wonderful. also rewatching inuyasha.

currently reading: cuba: an american history by ada ferrer. the sousou no frieren manga. say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in northern ireland by patrick radden keefe.

currently working on: two history research papers (women in revolutionary cuba + irish revolutionary period) and an excess of fanfiction ideas LMAOOOOOO. the fic that's closest to being finished right now is my sousou no frieren haikaveh au which i am obsessed with. other ideas i'm working on are my haikaveh reincarnation au, genshin daemon au, and my mdzs pacific rim au which PLEASE ask me about that.

current obsession: genshin impact (especially haikaveh), sousou no frieren, and mdzs. haikyuu is not at the forefront but it is always present. mostly the first two. also very excited to discuss cuban history if anyone wants to. i am still learning so much about it.

tagging: anyone who wants to join in!!! i don't really have any specific mutuals in mind right now.