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🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

oohh that's a tough one.... I'm gonna go with the "Well I didn't THINK I was into ship / trope / kink, but--" 😂 I adore knowing I helped someone find a new Thing.

..but, maybe, tied with the "!!! in character AND hot!!!!", because being told I nailed their personalities while they nailed each other is just. 😍😭😍 mission friggen accomplished

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ALRIGHT SO. (i’m grinning just thinking about this stupid au). This all started like nearly 2 years ago when my coworker invited me to go to a club with them. I’d never been to a club before (not my scene and with experience still isn’t). So I go home at a reasonable morning hour but I can’t get to sleep cause on the way back my brain is full of Eli/Cygni brainrot with the silliest idea that basically. what if Eli was undercover in a nightclub (because fanfic plot reasons). And Cygni was there. and then they flirt and hook up. and that was meant to be it. that was the plot. i just wanted random cute one-shot swantos.

and then my brain made angst happen by giving thrawn a bigger role and slapping in some one-sided thranto. so then the fic kept going and we have thrawn meeting eli in the hotel the next morning and being Concerned but also jealous and hurt. and so thrawn confesses he’s got feelings for Eli but eli basically has none of it cause he’s kinda fed up with the manipulation schtick. in this au Pryce and Thrawn never meet and thus never help one another and so eli is stuck as an ensign and we get a lot of thranto angst and possibly some very vindictive space cowboy. it was initally titled “nightclub au” for ages before I gave it the temp. name of “downfall”. I have a playlist for this au also. i just checked and there are 18k words i don’t remember writing all of :’) it’s really fun writing eli/cygni interactions with cygni being a lil snarky and eli getting riled up but also getting snarky right back at him. and also being soft n cute. and also thrawn just pining really hard. and also eli’s frustration at a stagnated career path.

uhhh select snippets under the cut?

(ahaha I didn't actually look at these before picking ones to send to you 😂)

⛰ Hardest fic to write?

Honestly, I think Use me (the Thranto consensual somnophilia one from Thrawn's POV) was one of the fics that was the hardest to write ever. The second chapter specifically. I still don't know what it was exactly, I knew what I wanted to write and everything, but damn I struggled to get that one down for some reason.

👽 Strangest fic you ever written?

Like you don't know it's the Thranto insect porn poetry butterfly!AU, aka Restless 🤣🦋 (I'm still incredibly proud of that one)

👀 What’s an idea you had for a fic that you never did anything with?

*digs through ancient Ideas Lists*

ahh well there was that in-universe arranged marriage AU idea I had where Eli is sent to marry a Chiss for Politics, and discovers he actually has to marry the Chiss and his brother. And then they eventually go from him sleeping with either of them at a time, to both of them together 😏

Now that you've seen Venom this may be relevant to your interests

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 indeed it is

11. What would you do if you inherited 1 million dollars tomorrow?

Get an electric or hybrid Toyota pickup sensible vehicle

Buy a cat scratching post for every single room of my house so the fuzzy little bastards will leave my mattress alone

Very responsibly find out what exactly I need to do with the rest that will let me retire comfortably in like 10 years or something

...okay and I'd absolutely buy a bunch more D&D minis from heroforge, who am I kidding 😆🤩

15. Where would you rather live – a big house in the suburbs or a tiny apartment in a great location in the city?

I really don't like true suburbs, so unless I can change that to a big house in the country, I'll take the city apartment. A great location would be up to my opinion, and in my opinion the greatest location in a city is near the edges of it 😂 (My partner can live in the one next door to me though, fuck sharing tiny apartments 💀 I'll install a cat passway through the wall somewhere)

16. If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?

Thrass, Krennic, and... ...Chewbacca.

6. go clothes shopping with, go to ikea with, go grocery shopping with

...................just fyi you are a monster in the best possible way 🤣 sjdfkjhd

okay

UM

...fuck 😂😂😂

alright alright I CAN DO THIS.

Clothes shopping with...

Chewie, because he'd probably have about the same opinion of the importance of fashion that I do, and I bet he'd know all the coolest belts-and-accessories places 💼

Ikea with...

Thrass, at the very least I reckon we'd have fun arguing about style (or more accurately, my lack thereof) the entire way through the showroom. (tangent: now I'm thinking about rev's Ikea AU and I can't remember what Thrass's role was in that but I remember the whole thing was just wild 😆)

Which leaves..

“I’m— I’m gonna—” Rodney managed, his grip tightening involuntarily in John’s hair, tugging his head back— John was looking up at him expectantly, mouth open and tongue stuck out— Sheppard was pumping him harder and mouthing at his neck hard enough to leave a mark—

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

There kind of was yeah! I mean for one thing, Eli and Nevil weren't really supposed to.. y'know, like, actually fall in love and stuff, but then they did and I wasn't gonna argue.

The biggest alt version though was the other version of the escape plan that I took some aspects from but scrapped the main idea. Instead of waiting to blow the charges while riding up in the elevator, they were going to blow up the smelting station and collapse the tunnels leading to it after taking out Angel & co. and the guards, impersonating the stormtroopers, and calling in the staged prisoner uprising. As though they were still suppressing it, right.

So the idea was the explosions would be meant to look like a failed prisoner revolt, with Asshole, I mean Angel, and his buddies having accidentally gotten caught in their own sabotage; the mines would have been evacuated; and stormtroopers!Thrawn & Nevil would have snagged Eli from the crowd on the way out and then gone forward with trying to get to the shuttle bay in all the confusion. With the added bonus that if they were discovered missing in the aftermath, they would probably have some wiggle room of a few days or more due to being assumed dead in the explosion or tunnels collapse.

I liked it for the action and excitement of it all, but it just... wasn't as good of a plan. Too many things could go wrong. They'd risk destabilizing the tunnels too much and killing more of the other prisoners, there would be no guarantee the Imps wouldn't just shut down the lifts and get them trapped down there during full on prisoner interrogations, I couldn't get myself believing they'd be able to just wander up to a shuttle and take off unnoticed and unchallenged if the entire complex was on emergency lockdown, etc. etc.